Thanks a whole bunch; i will surely contact you about writing to him, if its not too much trouble, once i lookup his channel.

hmm; i wonder if there's actually no one around here from Georgia & nobody have had any experiences there.
bump.

so ive been having a sort of a decentralized mining operation past few years. a few asics & a full node here; a few there. been thinking of setting up sth like this in Georgia, for obvious reasons. ive been hearing about it as a bitcoin friendly nation for about 3 years now. all comments are welcomed.
in particular looking to see if anyone here has any local experience & cares to share.

so many replies! thanks everyone for engaging!! & honestly i've already learned quite some!
it seems, in general, enthusiasts, (sample size is small of course; i'm only referring to the who read & posted on this tread) are more interested in ethereum;
&, at the very least, xrp seems to be battling uphill for the popularity! (whether xrp cares for that or whether their market is affected by that is another topic!!)

i see quite a number of replies pointing out xrp's centralization & are not totally for it!

concidering this:

& this:

this is quite an interesting topic on its own: whether decentralization is a key factor in defining a cryptocurrency!

nevertheless one thing is obvious & that is, the majority of the posts are bullish in general about the cryptocurrency market, as a whole; which is, again, interesting in its own rights!

& about the above! i've been thinking the same thing; last year icos were the movers & shakers of the market but that's so 2017, per se!
now a days anywhere you look, whatever moves the market is the news of regulation & institutional money!
i not sure how i like that; but well!

as of this minute: 11:18 gmt, sep 30 18; coin market cap says xrp $24.29b m.cap eth 24.18b m.cap!
xrp hanging by the skin of teeth as the 2nd biggest crypto!
(this reply is only for reference purposes! admin feel free to remove without notice!)

Recently, Ripple's been pushing hard for the title of the second crypto!

i've been checking coinmarketcap 50 times a day past few months! & in the past couple of weeks -as of writing of this post- this is exactly the 3rd time Ripple has become the 2nd biggest crypto!

Every time it's been the same: Ripple surges, Ether follows in a few hours to prove dominance; Ripple wave breaks, Ether is back in its position but its market feels semi-stagnant & bored, the Ripple market stays excited & the process repeats!

I can read articles but i'm not much technically inclined!
technologically speaking, does ripple have any actual advantage over ethereum -for ripple to take over ether for good- to settle in the 2nd place?!
Or in terms of technology, they each have their own niches & their market value is mostly derived from their application & outside investment in their application; in that case, which of these two technologies you think are better developed & better marketed? which one you think would be better suited to invest in?

Now i'm curious about this because i do have a policy to save my extra pennies in the form of 3 biggest cryptos every month & would prefer to adjust the percentage of my pennies going into different cryptos less speculatively or emotionally & more scientifically! I don't have the science though; but i'm positive there are a large number of people here who do!!! (also great number of ppl with ulterior motives! i know that too!)
So u knw; give anyone who's interested in this topic your expert opinion or suggest reads or just battle it out! thanks for your participation in advance!

(yes i knw, old acc haven't posted in ages! how come now? whats with that? been transferred?! nope! just long ass family problem that is now resolved & spare time being spent productively, hopefully!)
(title, Tekken pun intended!)

sorry for the long post! 

so... did anything happen to the rest of the story of this company you were talking about?! i'm curious! but i'm not much hopeful for a reply tho!

well they're back on but all altcoin withdraws are disabled! sooo, dat!

now there's this on their homepage!


google translate:

Thanks; read on the same thread that the email is apparently not working!


Might try contacting freeworm; hardly doubt it'll get me anywhere!

i wasn't really using it either;
way back when i had this thing that i'd put a pocketful of coins in different exchanges just lookin' up how they worked & all!
completely forgot i had any in bter; up until yesterday!
checked on them & decided to pull them out to their respective wallet;
then this happened; before i got the chance to make the withdraw!

Sooo... how come no one here's discussing the website being down!
It was suppose to be back on 8:00"am" Beijing time!
its 9:15"pm"! what is happening?!

Bter.com's been down since yesterday;
there was announcements on the homepage about server upgrades & such!
they where updating the info page with the news of how their upgrades are going up until a few hours ago.
now its just "503 Service Unavailable!"

is there an official thread here?
does anyone have news of what's going on with them?
they were suppose to come back online about 4hours ago 2:30pm Beijing time!
they're not back up yet!

(sorry if am on the wrong board or the thread is redundant!)
(did search, couldn't find anything!)

Haven't been to Bleutrade in ages but i do believe there's some dust in my wallets there;
Just tried to log in to see what's what and...
First i got error 521 then the page loaded but kept saying "Captcha error! (not match)."
Now its back to error 521!
Does anyone know what's going on there? (Their official account here has never been active!)

Great!!! Getting much better results with this compared to genoil's or nheq's.
Good job as usual op! much appreciated.

will be waiting for the vouch to roll out; then i'm in!

your calculations are not right!
your ROI is the difference in the price you paid for the hardware & the hardware's resale value!
so if you paid $2000 for your hardware & you can sell them for, idk, $1500, your ROI is $500!
if you have fairly priced electricity you'll most probably roi & will make some profit; don't be much stressed about it!

since august 4th i've moved all my trading activities (which is not much) to Bter.
haven't had any significant issues with them ever since!
all deposits, withdrawals, & trades have gone through properly; no probs!
the only thing is, i don't like the charts on the trading page; they're too simplistic & uncostumizeable!!

do note though, i'm not a vigorous trader by any means!
i mostly receive altcoin mining pool deposites in my wallets there, exchange for btc & whitdrawl.
they do have a BTC0.0106 withdraw ceiling which is fine by me!

i mostly mine & barely ever trade (only fiddling around as a hobby with pocketful worth of fiat!) i'm not eligible;
i'm curious tho, op if you don't mind, care to share this "very popular facebook group dedicated to crypto currencies" for all of us to enjoy the content, as well?
if these interviews ever happen, i'll be interested in reading them too, js, good luck!

its not like whenever you buy an asset it's bound to go up in value!
if trading was that simple everyone would just be buying things, selling them at a higher price & be done with it!
it requires knowledge, skill, experience & an understanding of the underlying events forming the value of the market you're trying to involve yourself in!

for a start drop by investopedia.com, the site has an entire section dedicated to trading;
there are numerous amazing, informative & free articles there about the mechanics, fundamentals of trading & everything else markets;
(the articles are not directly related to cryptocurrencies but the principal is universal!)

good lol readin' all that;
not sure i agree with op about etc going up "like there's no stopping"...
etc's no magic, just another alt, is already a bumpy ride & in every market whatever goes up comes down because gravity if nth else!!!
all that's irrelevant, i guess! shouldn't this be in altcoin forum?!