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Re: At what price will you buy Bitcoin? New Poll - September 15th
by
bigtee
on 16/09/2017, 01:26:37 UTC
I have probably made the decision not to but until the 30th September, said so on here a few times today. But I am starting to think that bitcoin has handled the recent few days of bad news along with a steep rise this past few months very well.

I am going to stick to my guns and wait, but I am starting to have a few second thoughts, as I type it has risen $300 plus per coin, will keep my eye on the charts, but getting tempted. I am starting to feel the more dark forces try to destroy bitcoin they end up doing the opposite.

My advice, wait. I am sure it will fall to 3000 USD again. It is too crasy to invest now. Anything can happen the next two weeks. I will also wait until September 30th to make a decision. I will invest for sure again!

Super reasonable thing to do. On the other hand, it could very well be at $4k to stay by the end of the month. You never know if we are in the middle of a crash and there is still the bottom to find, or if we are on our way up, never to see such cheap prices again. Tough calls.
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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: Will Altcoins Explode After Going Down For So Long?
by
bigtee
on 10/09/2017, 18:41:28 UTC
yes most will go Kaboom. Market is flooded with coins. Some must drown. Unless you are a fire ant.

Correct, we are in a huge speculation phase. Most coins outside the top 10 in market cap (and honestly, even a handful inside as well) are pure speculation plays, and don't currently offer any huge value propositions.

What we will see in the future - maybe soon - is a small group of coins break away and gain even more market share, while the majority of these multi-hundred million dollar market cap coins fall back into the "penny stock" valuations where they really should be. I think there is still money to be made by selecting a decent top ~100 coin, waiting for a pump and then dumping your coins. But unless it's BTC/ETH/XMR and maybe one or two others, I'm not holding for the long term.
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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: Will Altcoins Explode After Going Down For So Long?
by
bigtee
on 10/09/2017, 18:32:36 UTC
Hey,

Simple question.

Will Altcoins BOOM after going down for so long?
A lot of altcoins have hit their bottom several times.

I'm in XBC right now.

What do you mean being down? Pull up coinmarketcap, and look at coin returns over the last 1m/3m/6m. Almost every coin is up 10s or 100s or 1000s of percentage points in just the last few months.

Now, maybe you put some money into an alt (or shit) coin at an ATM, and now you are down. But on the whole, the entire crypto market is super inflated. Lots of speculative money flying into every new coin. Huge market caps for many, many coins.
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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
by
bigtee
on 10/09/2017, 06:21:41 UTC
Anyone notice how lately the XMR price as listed on www.monero.how has been notably higher on the two smallest exchanges...

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USD/XMR EXCHANGES
Price 24hr Volume (XMR)
Bitfinex 115.35 29,000
Bittrex 115.03 2,870
Kraken 116.58 2,544
Livecoin 121.81 261
Exmo 120.70 232

...usually these kind of arbitrage opportunities don't last more than a few minutes: this seems to have been persistent a few days since I noticed it.

Anyone lately try to arb from Livecoin/Exmo to Bittrex/Kraken, or what's the deal here? What's the catch? Some kind of hidden fee or something?


Counterparty risk. How much money are you going to trust with Livecoin or Exmo?

And 1/10th to 1/100th of the volume. Hard to know if you'd even be able to make a large enough trade to make any money on those exchanges.
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin as salary for a regular job?
by
bigtee
on 10/09/2017, 06:14:37 UTC
My question, to anyone who has knowledge of getting paid directly in BTC - do you negotiate your salary directly in BTC/year, or in some USD of BTC per year?

For the former, let's say you negotiate a salary of 100 BTC/year. If you negotiated this in January 2016 it would have been close to $100,000 per year. But now you'd be making over $400,000 per year. The upside would be tremendous. But obviously the downside would be huge, large enough that if Bitcoin crashed you might just quit your job.

On the other hand, if you said pay me $100,000 worth of BTC per year, it's not clear what the upside of that would be. It'd be safer, but it wouldn't be fundamentally different from just getting paid USD directly.
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][MTRX][ICO] MATREXA - INNOVATIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM
by
bigtee
on 10/09/2017, 04:35:59 UTC
Any prooves of your partnership with those platforms?

Exactly... need more info.
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][ICO] POMPEI 🌋 ONLY 99 COINS 🌋 TODAY'S BONUS: 100% 🌋 SOON ON CRYPTOPIA
by
bigtee
on 10/09/2017, 01:07:08 UTC
> 1 POM = 1 ETH

Can you please explain how you decided on this initial pricing?

> Long term predication: 1 POM = 5 to 10 ETH

And this, as well? It's unclear to me how you decided that one POM could be worth $3000+. I'm sure there was some rigorous market analysis - I would be interested to read if you can share.

Also, what tech makes this coin unique? Is it just the number of total coins, or is there something that this coin can offer that others can not?

the price was calculated on the basis of the total number of currencies and on the analysis of other currencies having the same characteristics. I invite you to consult these results on here: https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

A link to view all coins on coinmarketcap? You gotta do better than that... You're trying to scam people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars - at least put some effort into it!
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][ICO] POMPEI 🌋 ONLY 99 COINS 🌋 TODAY'S BONUS: 100% 🌋 SOON ON CRYPTOPIA
by
bigtee
on 09/09/2017, 18:50:26 UTC
> 1 POM = 1 ETH

Can you please explain how you decided on this initial pricing?

> Long term predication: 1 POM = 5 to 10 ETH

And this, as well? It's unclear to me how you decided that one POM could be worth $3000+. I'm sure there was some rigorous market analysis - I would be interested to read if you can share.

Also, what tech makes this coin unique? Is it just the number of total coins, or is there something that this coin can offer that others can not?
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Board Tokens (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] HOWL | Mobile Social Application | No ICO | AIRDROP
by
bigtee
on 08/09/2017, 05:20:32 UTC
If you make this airdrop limited to minimum member than it will go more nice. This distribution will be based on forum ranking or all members will get equal token from this airdrop. I will keep in touch with thread to get my stake from this airdrop.

Please no, I’m sick of users like this trying to restrict these airdrops to “member rank” which they have a high rank so they’ll get more, airdrop via ETH amounts is fair and good to see

There is a reason why limiting Airdrop projects to member rank were always suggested, because from past experience most Newbies account abuse the process, just look at DeepOnion Airdrop, Newbies were accepted at the begining but later removed because the process were abused by them. You will understand with time, all of us were ones Newbie on this forum

So on one hand, this totally makes sense. You for sure do not want someone making a ton of new accounts and getting many airdrops of the same coin. On the other hand, some of the conditions - such as "make 5 posts a week" - lead to a lot of forum noise. See 90% of the "emailed, thanks" responses in this thread.
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Board Tokens (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] HOWL | Mobile Social Application | No ICO | AIRDROP
by
bigtee
on 08/09/2017, 04:27:14 UTC
emailed - looking forward to hearing more
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: What happen to mining profitability?
by
bigtee
on 06/09/2017, 23:28:38 UTC
From my POV why would someone spend $200k for a property only to lease it out at $900 or $1000 a month rent(crossing fingers nothing breaks AND crossing fingers tenant doesn't stick you) vs spending $30k on mining hardware (which BTW is deductible along with the electricity) to make a steady $3k-4k a month mining? I chose the latter. My only regret is that I didn't spent $200k on mining.

There are for sure arguments for both sides. In a lot of industries a 6 or even 12 month ROI is fantastic. But there are risks in mining. If it was a steady 10% return on your initial investment in perpetuity then, duh, choose that. But you have to worry about hardware breaking, hardware becoming antiquated, mining of profitable coins being optimized, or even the coin(s) that you store your profits in tanking.

It's a very complicated equation.

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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: 11 Antminer L3+ What is more profitable, Nicehash or Solo Mining?
by
bigtee
on 06/09/2017, 23:10:08 UTC
I already knew that website. When calculating profitability, does it also include the probability of finding blocks and their reward?

Thank's

For sure, that's the point of the site.

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the estimated 24 hour rewards are averaged out based on your chance of finding a block. In reality, you might find one block in a year a solo mining, so for 364 days you will make 0 BTC, and in 1 day you will make 12.5 BTC. This averages out to about 0.034 BTC per day, of course, but that's the risk in solo mining that isn't always super clear when looking at these sites.

Nicehash takes away that risk and does provide you some amount of return per day, but does so at a fee. You should do more research into the expected time to find a block for each of the cryptos you listed with your expected hashrate. Then based on your tolerance to wait to find blocks solo mining, you can decide if you'd rather use Nicehash.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: What happen to mining profitability?
by
bigtee
on 06/09/2017, 23:02:26 UTC
Everyone and their Grandmother is mining in Asia with GPUs. And you wanna know the crazy part? They're OK with 1 year ROI! I'm not even joking. I had a friend ask me about GPU mining and I told him expect ROI in 6 month + and he went out and bout 200 P106-100.

So hey, I guess Darwinism at its best. If people are willing to work for little to no pay then why the hell not?

If you think the price of the coin will rise, it is OK with one year ROI.

Ahh, but here you have almost stumbled upon the most obvious question. If you think the coin will rise, why not just buy the coin?

I really do not see the point in this "I am ok with a 12 or even 18 month ROI period" mentality when investing so much into mining hardware, especially since everything is so overpriced. As I have said many times, in all cases you are pinning your hopes of profits on one simple fact, that the coin(s) you plan to mine will continue to increase in value. This means market prices must continue keeping up with or exceeding mining supply (which can basically be equated with the network hashrate and difficulty), thus making mining profitable.

So again, if your belief is that the coin(s) you are interested in mining are going to continue to go up in value, after all that is why you are willing to invest $1,000's of dollars in hardware that might in maybe 1 year break even, why not instead invest $1,000's directly into the coin(s) and in 1 year be in profit, not just at break even?

There are certain times in the crypto-lifecylce where mining makes sense and you can often net average your coins for far less than you could by purchasing them outright. However, for most current coins that ship has long sailed and only those with hardware already paid for, or who have super low or free electricity would be better off at this point buying hardware versus just buying the coin outright.

All fantastic points. I think a lot of it is looked at like "free money", even though obviously you do need to buy equipment, spend time setting up hardware and software, and spend money on electricity. It's very tempting from a psychological level - as opposed to just buying outright, where you are making a very concerted and quantifiable bet on a crypto.

But obviously I'm not expert in all that, just sort of a guess as to why so many flock to mining. It's also fun, sort of an interesting science experiment.
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: PoSToken Airdrop
by
bigtee
on 06/09/2017, 20:54:27 UTC
It is actually very nice that this is open to newbie. Thanks dev

It is super nice! My account is a little to new, sadly. But will be keeping an eye on this project.