This is perhaps the most interesting theory. We have all seen the graphs - when BTC falls, alts fall with it, often magnified many times in regard to price and market cap because of the relative lack of confidence in altcoins. What is even more interesting to look at is what coins do not follow BTC when it falls.

Example: Two days ago, I was watching BTC fall between 3-6% and all the altcoins 24hour%change go with it. I was scrolling down coin market cap and saw something interesting - ARK was posting a -2% 24 hour change, but the graph was steady, even increasing a little bit. All the rest of the altcoin graphs had the same dip BTC had, except ARK. The question of "why?" then has a couple possible answers:

1. The ARK community is following a signal that overcomes the overall depression of the market caused by falling BTC price;
2. Exchanges are manipulating the price;
3. Some other party is manipulating the price, or buying significant amounts because they know something the rest of the market does not, and/or;
4. ARK does not follow the musings of BTC price.

Out of all four of these theories, #4 is the least likely to be true. Therefore, the price is going up for a reason, and is very possible depressed artificially because of people who are selling and DON'T follow signals others are following. If this behavior persists beyond the BTC depression on the market, what is the actual rate of increase we should expect from ARK in a positive market? Well, we have that answer.

During September 9th, Bitcoin fell considerably. ARK, however, posted a ~3% increase after all was said and done. BTC dropped 7%. But when the day of the 10th begins is where it gets interesting - BTC was fluctuating between a low of $4120 USD and a high of $4364. Up until this point in time, BTC has been bouncing around this range (@ 4219 as I look at it). As soon as BTC had an upturn, ARK started a steady climb. From the 10th till now, ARK has had an ~24% price increase.

BTC posts -7%, ARK does +3%.
BTC posts +2% gain, ARK does +24%.

This is what I find to be most fun about Crypto - finding the weird signals that go against the goliath which is BTC. Why? Who the fuck knows.

Price went from 3.51 to 13.05 USD - Market Cap from ~144.6 MM to 538.2 MM USD around 3:10 AM UTC.

Volume on exchanges was low. What just happened? Did someone fat-finger something?

Link to coinmarketcap - https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/populous/

Where in the hell do you get the "90% of all ETH ICOs are pure scam" statistic from? Granted, many of them are unoriginal but I would argue that a minority are actual scams.  Furthermore, it will take A LOT of major fuck ups within the ETH community to completely divert people to NEO or other Chinese-backed currencies. Remember, we are talking about a government which controls all aspects of every industry within, and many outside, of its traditional borders. People talk about fear of SEC regulation, but at least the process to that regulation is fairly transparent. The "Party's" regulation process is one you won't know about till it reams you from behind.
Long term, there is no way investors with legitimate concern for where their money is being held or who it is being held by will invest in an organization backed by an opaque regulatory organization.

NEO, Walton, HShares, Binance Coin off the top of my head.

I'm a firm HODLer when it comes to whitepapers originally written in my first language. For NEO, I did +120% then sold because I honestly didn't understand the crypto regulation ecosystem in China and I still don't. After the first news of the ban on Monday we get this list from Caixan of ICOs that are banned, but it's all in fucking Chinese. The time it takes for me to hear news from China is after the majority of stakeholders in these Chinese Cryptos have already begun to react, which makes me uncomfortable.

Why am I late? Do you think SYS lacks potential for growth in the long term? I've +70% on initial investment, considering today's dump.
Also, the team is appx eight people now (asked about updated team info on Slack).


This is my exact train of thought. I've put my Sys into the wallet and it's going to stay there.

What are everyone's thoughts on SysCoin? I bought in 3 weeks ago because

• Partnership with Azure (I know I'm a dirty signaller).
• Team's LinkedIn profiles looked good, especially for a coin with Marketplace (lead dev is a UI dev, and a seemingly good one at that).
• Slack answers were straightforward and I got quick responses about a variety of questions.
• Already implemented SegWit

With the marketplace release in 5 days I don't plan on letting go of SYS anytime soon, but what are everyone's thoughts after that?

Thanks