If you study marketing or advertising in general you will learn that data is vital for their targeting. I suggest some of you guys read the filter bubble. Every time someone uses a "free" app or game related to or not to Facebook you give up rights to use it.
For example,
you download FB on your phone. In return you get to use the app but you give up tons of your data to use the messenger app. That data can many times also be requested by 3rd party apps or games. Those apps may not have highly secure data centers as opposed to FB. Even if they did, data is being sold all over the world for fractions of cents for each persons records.  Probably not the best case but regardless if your info is online just assume it's being sold unless you use highly secure stuff. Which there probably is ways like vpn's not being signed into facebook or google etc. while browsing the web.

Anyhow, it is a good reminder of why privacy crypto is the future. At least that little buckets of information won't be tracked or sold on the market like credit card transactions are at the moment to  other  credit card vendors.  Just look at the opt in or opt out forms you get when getting a credit card. You can only opt out of so much...

FB screwed up pretty bad.

I'm young so I go 50 50 with stocks and crytpo. Excluding pension and 401k monthly reductions from my paycheck. Risky but well worth it. Will only know down the road if it's good or bad.

Agree with the idea of not lending money to family or best friends if the use of lending money is to make money. Often times you feel bad, or you'll forgive them resulting in you losing money or friendship. Choose wisely it's a risky thing to do.

Honestly, it may happen at some point in time. Not to be a conspiracy theorist but have you heard of the new world order? Having a single currency is included in that theory. Is it BTC?? Who knows but it can certainly fill that gap for many countries.

I think bitcoin will be taken out of the lead in 5 years. Will it be ETH??? I doubt it but there is no way bitcoin will stay king in my opinion. It's got to be a faster coin, maybe litecoin or some sort of privacy coin that will be more widely accepted.

I believe there are few other coins that are aiming similar ideas. There is a trucking one I read about a while back. It was mainly for trucking driving delivery though. Can't recall the name but it had an ICO recently.

Update: it's been about a month of staking and I'm up about 1M embercoin with initial 3M. Time will tell if it's legitimate but so far it's been staking great in the stake pool. Even with the cost, much easier than leaving my laptop on.

I don't know if it's a scam or not but I would stay away until you hear back from other users or at least other sources that it's legitimate. What's the mining rate anyhow?

I thought we'd be closer to this point.  However, since Trump has unfortunately been deregulating many industries in the US. I think it's being stalled for years to come unless Europe somehow changes their mind as well. After watching the VW scandal on  Netflix,  it's hard to believe Germany will  change any laws. Each countries best interest is their citizens and economy.

I've read of folks making cars run on water. Those engineers are hired by car manufacturers and then never commercial anything because there is no money to be made. Business mainly see revenue for change.

I've been staking in a pool since 1/24. As of this moment I've staked 405k with a 3M starting balance. That's roughly 13.5 % percent in a week and a half.  Maybe it's a waste of time but maybe it'll pay off in the future since I can't sell them anywhere anyhow in the mean time.

Just pray it'll be alright. None the less, it was a really risky investment. Just wait it out and thinks will hopefully be better.

I think 30 k is a moderate value. Regrdless it is going to hit higher than it's ATH though. Maybe in a few months it'll hit 30k. Bitcoin needs more attention and investors before it breaks 20k though.

Any currency can lead to corruption.  The media is going to show it as a corruption currency when in fact USD is widely used in corruption all around the world because it holds it's value relatively well compared to other fiat. I wouldn't avoid BTC for that reason if that is your original thinking.

The way the market is shaping up I would try to keep buying bitcoin. At the moment is well below the ALH. Bitcoin is like gold, its the most popular and accepted crypto. Gold was widely excepted in the ancient days. Keep just a little in case to hedge against risk when trading alt coins.

I wouldn't bet too much though, I think there are a few coins that are more efficient and etc.

Certainly you can be a specialist without say a degree. I've seen in the past that some of the coders that are being hired don't even graduate from University's. As long as they are able to code well they can get very high paying jobs. Lots of these guys/girls are self taught through parents/youtube/online forums/etc. Other jobs can be done with the correct self training as well.

This is the new age of education.

I usually get the price from coin market cap. Keep in mind prices are different in different exchanges which is why it's possible to make arbitrage trades in this market at the moment. The difficult part is being able to have an account to sell or buy at another exchange with a large price difference.

Being happy with your life. Being healthy is key. Having enough money to live you don't have to be rich to be happy. Did you make a change in  anyone's life? If you haven't then that's probably not success.

Active activity daily - some type of sport
Eat- Chicken, Broccoli, and rice
Drinkl lots of  water

Of course they are afraid. Look up patents by the banking and financial institutions. They are trying to patent ideas as fast as possible to help keep skin in the game.

Actually I've held on to these for quite a while.  I like the idea of Chartis once this coins get burned. I've actually gotten at least a few 10x returns since I started trading so I won't say this is a shit coin yet. If I put $500 into 10 pots and 3 give me 10x I'm stoked. IF the others only give me 4 or 5X and the other 2 or 3 I lose completely it doesn't matter.

But thanks for the advice I figured it out.