That's indeed an impressive achievement for such a small coin.

That's true, advertising can bring serious additional income when they'll be running on a large scale. As for the second part, I think they should have enough reserve from the ICO to live of in the first months and build a large scale casino.

Well, they will probably be making some money through their tokens which they expect to grow in price. And if not all games will have 0% house edge, it probably can be sustainable.
In any case, 0% house edge sounds attractive so it can bring many people in. I think it's an interesting project worth following.

It's hard to say which coin is more futuristic, because all coins (I mean all that are not crap and actually bring something new) are focused on different things, so each of them is futuristic in their own way. There are coins with smart contracts, DAG based coins, privacy oriented coins... you just have to choose the functionality you need

The whole crypto market is being manupulated at all times. Not only small coins on Cryptopia, all of it. Just take it as it is or don't enter the muddy waters if you're not ok with it
But of course the small coins are much more easily manipulated as the trading volume is very low, so anybody with 10 BTC can move the price as they want.

Week 5 (Jan 12th - Jan 18th) report

Avatar & Signature Campaign posts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2726393.msg28051873#msg28051873
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2744924.msg28052414#msg28052414
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2747158.msg28129869#msg28129869
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1608859.msg28247884#msg28247884
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2765615.msg28248208#msg28248208
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2772426.msg28348938#msg28348938

Actually if you check the charts, Bitcoins experiences quite big dip at the beginning of the year all the time. The was dip at the beginning of the year since ever. Hard to say why this happens, but the pattern keeps repeating. So, I wouldn't worry so much. It will stabilize again and we'll be back to ATH in summer. Just be patient and HODL

This reminds me of the epic "I'M HODLING" thread
Anyways, I agree with you that everybody who sells now is just losing money. I will never sell at a dip, because it's just stupid. It's actually a good opportunity to buy more and then wait until the situation stabilizes.
Altcoins are falling even more than Bitcoin right now, so it might be also a good idea to change some BTC for alts now.

There is a new news article about Byteball on Coinidol: https://coinidol.com/designed-to-succeed-iota-raiblocks-and-byteball/

It basically says that Byteball will soon follow the success of IOTA and Raiblocks. I personally think that Byteball is the best one of them, so it seems quite likely that it will happen. At least I don't see any reason why Raiblocks and IOTA should spike and Byteball should stay somewhere at the bottom when it has even more features.

There are always new coins and tokens which can make 100x or even 1000x gain. Most of the new ones are scams or will fail quickly though, so you'll need to do a proper research and make the right choice, select wisely which ones of them are worth investing in.
For example, my bet would be DeepOnion if you believe that anonymity / privacy oriented coins will be successfull in 2018. Technologically DO is similar to Verge. But Verge has a market cap of about $2 bil. right now, whereas DO only $60 mil., so huge space to grow.

No country can actually ban Bitcoin. It is a global decentralized network, so no country can stop it.
However, they can make buying/selling Bitcoin with fiat money and accepting it by merchants illegal, which will make it very difficult and dangerous (you might go to jail for example) to trade crypto vs. fiat and use Bitcoin to buy stuff. This wouldn't destroy the Bitcoin network, but probobaly would have a great impact on its price as most people will probably not risk jail in order to trade and use crypto.

I'm not sure if following McAfee is the best way... when he announces some coin, you'll be already buying into a pump, which is rather dangerous.
It's always best to research a coin and check if they have good and active developers, a supportive community and a good roadmap (and if they did follow the roadmap in the past). If all this looks good, there's a very high chance that the coin will moon sooner or later.

Mods, why are the BTT campaign stats not actualized in the bounty table as all the other campaigns?
I just want to make sure that everything is OK also with this campaign and it counts...
Thanks

Week 4 (Jan 5th - Jan 11th) report

Avatar & Signature Campaign posts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2700304.msg27605826#msg27605826
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2701374.msg27618258#msg27618258
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2704598.msg27657503#msg27657503
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2023054.msg27730071#msg27730071
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2650617.msg27731910#msg27731910
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2719765.msg27827570#msg27827570

That would be nice indeed, but do you have some source, or more information about this? Is it going to be PoW? Which algo? Or PoS? Will it be somehow utilized in the Telegram messenger, or is it going to be a stand-alone project?

It's actually a very nice idea. If you have lot of Bitcoins let's say, you don't want to sell but need some cash for couple of months, this seems to be a good solution. It might turn out to be a genius business idea, especially now after most coins raised a lot and some people maybe have more money in crypto than in fiat

I really like the concept of OmiseGo. It's nice that they want to give opportunity to people without an access to a bank account to somehow joint the financial universe. On top of it, it also looks like a very good business idea. If OMG gets a lot of people on board, all hodlers will profit big time.

I think that with all the new regulations (KYC etc.) the classical exchanges have to comply with not to get closed, we will probably see a boom of decentralized exchanges (DEX). They don't have to comply with anything as they are decentralized and thus can't be regulated by some stupid bureaucratic nonsense.
Some of them are already up and running, so I expect that people who don't want to send their ID scan to every exchange they use will switch to DEX massively in 2018.

Of course it can't go like this forever. But until more and more people and businesses are getting in, it will go on. For at least a next couple of years I believe.
Some abandoned and useless projects can pump & dump, but they will die eventually. But the useful and leading ones will continue to grow, with some corrections from time to time of course.

It is true that bounties usually pay off better than airdrops, so it is good to try to rank up and join bounties.
But there are also some exceptions. For example Byteball and DeepOnion were (and still are) distributed via airdrop and the early participants probably earned very good money from that. You just have to do some research if the project is worth your time... but it's quite difficult, because even doing the research takes a lot of time