I assume this is off-topic so I'm posting here. Just wanted to say congrats to those who have held for many, many years. It takes a hell of a lot of conviction to ride the crazy wave that is BTC. Now that governments are adopting (even talking about HODL'ing) crypto it's crazy to see how far this has come. Many of us predicted that 1 satoshi may ultimately be worth 1 penny. This means that a single bitcoin would be worth $1 million (with a total market cap of 21 trillion). I'm not sure who will have the strength to hold on for that long but given all the momentum there's a real possibility this can happen. If it does *future bitcoiners* I wish you all the best of luck.

what did they do to try to hack it? I was notified someone tried to reset my password, but they didn't get through to my email account so no harm done.

May jump back into this. Seeing a bit of excitement. Where can you find the latest miner / wallet for BTE (bytecoin)? Btw, did we end up changing the name? Someone suggest OBC (original bytecoin). I'm kind of more partial to just calling it "BYTE". Maybe the detailed version is "the original bytecoin, and we all know a byte is better than a bit".

I'm curious how many held their "bags" and are now retired, and living the high life vs. those that sold (*cough*) and still slogging through the workfroce.

Anyone find any good options for cryptocurrency insurance? Sadly the exchanges don't seem to offer it (at least the big ones). It would beneficial for folks that have a couple $1k of crypto to insure it for $10/year.

I've spent some time looking into this coin. I like the concept, I like their website but it lacks many important features: 

- No way to password encrypt your wallet
- Plots are linked to your wallet so if it gets compromised you have to redirect transactions
- It's unclear what security audits they did on their nodes. Are they susceptible to buffer overflow attacks or something else?
- The GUI itself is nice and modern, but lacks basic features like ability to stop/pause a plotting node (no resume). It also lacks any ability to predict plot time and any decent HT support. The CLI is basic, just like most cryptos but also lacks any of this.

The complexity has gone through the roof in just 1.5 months. Currently at 1.5 EiB and growing 10% every couple days. With 20 plots (2TB) it will take you 6 months to win anything. In a couple weeks that will be a couple years.
Plots themselves are very compute intensive. Not sure why they'd ever say this is green. A decent gaming system could do 10 plots/day. Unless you have a server with 32+ cores, enterprise NVMe SSD (or a huge parallel raid setup) you're not going to plot fast enough to catch-up with the increased complexity.

Now all of these are concerns and in some cases showstoppers for small-time miners. The real showstopper, however. The one that completely breaks this is that for whatever reason Bram and his cohort decided to premine 21 million coins. Whereas right now there is <500k coins out for CHIA miners to win. It's estimated over 25 years CHIA miners can win 21 million coins. These coins cost *nothing* for the chia corporation to create, yet they are going to instantaneously have these coins. Now their business whitepaper says they'll have a board that will decide when/if to sell the coins. 90 days notice will be given to everyone when it happens etc.... This is what the chia community says to justify this huge slice of chia pie given to the developers. This really doesn't fly well and beckons back to the early days of altcoins when developers would allocate 90% of the coins for themselves and a mere 10% for the community. Then instant dump when they get the chance. Chia can put this under the banner of a corporation if they want but it's astounding that they, and the chia miners themselves think this is even a close to fair idea.

So a 98% early premine, complexity pushing through the roof, and questionable miner support. This is an interesting coin to experiment with but I'd pass for now.

Now these folks have a DIGau coin? Seems DIGG is used for another rebase coin of some time. There's even a website!

https://dignitygold.com/

I would stay far away from these people.

I'm curious about this coin myself. Doing some research it's unclear how viable it is. They show Roger Ver as being one of the advisors for this coin but nothing else on the website. The website itself is quite well done, the tech seems interesting but it's hard to tell what kind of traction they are truly making with this coin.

As you said the "pump" aspect of it is a bit concerning. Does anyone have more details on this coin?

So with HOT can you just transfer it to a regular ETH wallet? Curious about getting into this.

Hi folks,

Are there any reliable altcoin review websites out there that list all the available altcoins, and review based on # developers, ownership level, technology, etc...?

Most of the sites I see these days seem to be scammer/ad-affiliated and trying to sell their own coin (like bitdegree.org)

thanks

What makes you think this is a scam?

Honestly - I see red flags on wozx. In the interview with Woz he didn't seem to understand much behind it (just kept quoting blockchain is great, blockchain will solve everything). Until real tech details come out I'll continue to be skeptical.

Interesting thread. Think I'd summarize it that I'm an early experimenter with mining and the like. However, I got annoyed sometime in '14 with the scammers, and gov't confusion and decided to bail from crypto for a while.
Then re-engaged a bit after 2018. More from a technical interest standpoint. Seems like with stock any crypto I used to have I was great at selling very low and buying high

It's cool this PoP concept took off. Remember I couple years ago I proposed a Proof of Human idea w/ similar mechanisms. Hopefully this goes somewhere.

I can confirm that Goldario is very likely a scam coin. They have a huge telegram following (50k+ members). Posted some questions about Goldario and was instantly banned from posting further on that channel. I would stay far away from this altcoin.

They have a strong marketing, and community presence. The one-click masternode is pretty nifty, and support is great on telegram.

Cool - some of the tech here is quite novel.

It certainly is an interesting one. Btw, POS has different connotations . I'd call it one of the best proof of stake + proof of masternode + lottery blockchain out there.

Anyone else from bitcointalk tracking DIVI? Curious about the background and where it's going to go. As a POS stands seems really interesting, and easy for mass adoption.

what do you mean? This one seems to have a really great community (via telegram). Quite impressed at how this is being driven from a technology and public communication standpoint. I'm going to closely follow this