In some of the bounty programs that I've followed, decreasing the rank to the newbie had no effect on the signature campaign that was running and would still get the stake in accordance with the shelf when we registered. But to join the new signature campaign it wouldn't be possible.

At first I also felt desperate to get merit because I felt it is impossible or very difficult. But I tried to review my post and the result turned out that my 180+ posts were junk / spam that came from an airdrop program that required constructive post, report bounty and low quality comments. I am trying to read a good thread, follow the discussion on some threads and learn from it.

The point I want to tell you, the new rules that are made are very good, so that this forum has added value for all members. The problems with "difficult" to get merit is not because this forum makes it difficult for us. Try to review your own posts first, is it good enough to get some merit?

Nowadays there are so many ICOs SCAM, how do you decide that ICO is a SCAM? and How do you determine that ICO is good?
If you can, let me know step by step how you choose a good ICO. Thanks

I have heard a lot of people crying that cryptos will die or go to zero one day,

But I don't believe them. Ask your self this simple question? Why is that big institutions are investing millions of dollars in cryptos?

Cryptos is a long term investment, Just take a moment and think about cryptos in five years time to come?


I want to hear from the community members, What actually Gives you confidence about cryptos at the moment?

Share your thoughts so that we can motivate other members.

Many people who entered the crypto ecosystem within last year ending thought it was a 'get-rich-quick' venture and so they didn't understand the true meaning of what they joined. I don't believe crypto was made mainly for investments to give back 100%,500%,1000% and so on within some few days. Every coin has its unique purpose far more than just trading or investments...
Those who've been in crypto for long years do understand this technology better and they seem to still encourage us to hold on. I think we should follow suit and appreciate the crypto ecosystem in totality. Anyways, sorry to everyone who's lost money by investing blindly, but what we must know is that, crypto is far more than an investment platform. Let's keep on promoting projects and spreading the good news to others. The future will be bright.

Please choose one that you feel is the best solution when you have lost substantial value on your investments (or add another strategy to help out the community):

#1 Realize that you don't actually lose anything until you actually sell at a loss.  So you go outside, ride a bike, read a book, resist the urge to check coinmarketcap and just hodl.

#2 Come onto bitcointalk and whine and cry and find out what to do with your life.  When no one gives you clarity or direction, panic sell and lose your life savings.

#3 Start hedging your bets.  Put more money into similar projects or move things around to balance your portfolio out.

#4 Buy more into the coin you are losing money on while the price is low to reduce your overall cost per coin/token.  Thus making it easier to make back what you lost.

#5 Join a pump and dump group because those work 100% of the time with no losses whatsoever *rolls eyes*

Personally, when I first started out, I honestly did #2.  After I learned my lesson I just decided to hodl.  Now, I am making a more proactive stance on my investments and am doing #4 to much benefit.  Nothing melts stress away quite like actual results and making smart investment moves is always better than just passively sitting back and waiting for things to change.

ETH, Dash and Ripple which to invest in,
Which has more potential and make a good profit?

Many people say that the prices of the alternate cryptocurrencies are reducing because of the reduction of BTC prices. Bitcoin is know as the first crypto currency but other alternative currencies such as Eth, Ripple, Lite works as individual platforms. Therefore how the other crypto currencies depend on BTCs?

Facebook announced that it will now allow cryptocurrency advertisements. Bjt they place a strict compliance on ads that are allowed

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The company says it will allow ads and related content from “pre-approved advisers,” but will still not allow ads promoting binary options and initial coin offerings.
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It mentioned that it has to apply first before they can be allowed to afvertise. And they have strict limitation on the applications in order to avoid facebook from being used by scam projects.

I hope this is true, here's the link to the report.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/26/facebook-reverses-its-crypto-ad-ban/

Sad Day: Hope it comes back over 6K!

So many predictions around, so many reasons why bitcoin and altcoins price went so low from December 2017.

What do u think are the real reasons why?

When topic or talks of how cryptocurrency can change people's life come on board, people tend to only think about the investment and profit taking side and keep a blind eye to the technology. Cryptocurrency through the blockchain technology has brought lots of improvements and solutions to problems we thought we'd live with forever. It has also brought fairness and transparency to loads of niches that we thought was off-limit. I think investment and profit taking is only secondary. The tech and use  should be the primary major thing for us. Guys need to more focused on the tech and it shouldn't only be about profit making and taking.
What do you think?

For me, I don't think that Ethereum can beat Bitcoin as the Number One in the crypto market, it's because Bitcoin is getting more and more bigger each day because there are more investors coming every time and Ethereum still has a lot to improve in their blockchain and their security features.

Hey guys, I don’t have a lot of time but I really love to take part in bounties, so I would like to know which type of bounty campaign is more profitable? Is it better to make videos and posts on Bitcointalk, or it is more profitable to take part in Twitter and Facebook campaigns?

At least 1 in every 5 ICOs is a scam!  How to avoid the fraud?

>>>Recently The Wall Street Journal has made a research with anxious results. Experts have checked 1450 different ICO project to make a conclusion that 271 of them have all the signs of scam. So, ICOs remain very risky type of investments.

>>>The method that WSJ utilized for analyzing these ICOs was focused on finding duplicate whitepapers, weird promises like complete return guarantees, or listing fake executive staff who are not related to cryptocurrency or have no relation with ICO that has listed them as a team member. The study has also found that many ICO team pages featured pictures from stock photos. The most striking example is perhaps Premium Trade, whose five-member executive team purportedly appeared on 500 other unrelated websites, according to a Google reverse image search performed by WSJ.
 
>>>For one, you should double-check all claims made by the company before trusting the marketing content blindly. It also helps to run extensive background checks on their team members to make sure their credentials are indeed legitimate.
 
>>>It is also always a good idea to read the white paper, and see if it defines a clear product idea, including the technical details (remember to check for plagiarism).
 
>>>And if you spot any overtly bullish claims like “registration with the SEC,” lavish “celebrity endorsements,”  or “a billion dollar solution” – you should avoid such investment “opportunities”

How long do you think will the cryptocurrency be popular? Does she substitution the usual fiat money? How many years will pass before this?

I'm wondering, who are the bounty hunters and earn big profits for a long time from many rankings. They donate to bitcointalk to maintain the development of forums, communities and crypto markets. Because if Japan is the cradle of bitcoin formation, bitcointals are the source of nutrients to maintain and protection of bitcoin.

At present the market is very chaotic, many coin has nothing value but the price is high. This will change after about 2 years as the time in most altcoin's roadmap is after 2 years of product launch, then the Altcoin will actually return to real value. The Altcoin is really valuable at that price will go to moon. Do you think so?

Blockchain is what is trending right now despite the fact that Government is giving us ash moment but believe me that next more years to come Blockchain will take over everything, industries oil companies and many more, but right now everything seems hard..

I started to do bounties since last April and for me I got a great experience and a knowledge about the crypto world and how does a company do their ICOs with the help of bounties. As well as I was able to get more knowledge about the blockchain, token exchanges and currency market and how it works.
I would like to know what are the experience and benefits you got through bounties other than money.

Does participating in airdrop helps much to newbies like me?