it's a sad fact, but until we have nuclear/green power world wide, crypto mining usage is bad for the environment. pow, its greatest strength is its greatest flaw. you guys should have seen the writing on the wall a long time ago that this was inevitable. I still love bitcoin but it is what it is. the good news is, bitcoin is far from done.

you missed a key part of my post: "self-organized ponzi scheme" this is not a traditional ponzi-scheme, where there is intent to defraud from the creator. this is a self-organized ponzi, which if you don't understand what self-organization is, you should google it. self organization is not criminal, nor is there anything criminal about a self organized ponzi scheme. but the fact remains, the bag holders will lose here when the hype dissappears and the money pulls out. this is exactly what happened with GME, and that was the entire point of my post. if it happens with doge, which is the likely conclusion, then we will see renewed calls to ban self organization, which will be a massive loss to average joe traders and a win for the big guys.

this post is utter nonsense! the only person who is shocked by this are those who are lying as you are, or those who are very naive. everyone else sees this for what it is: a simple pump and dump.

this is a naive view of trading strategy, or the common mans trading strategy. the wise man buys dips and holds always, because the value of the commodity will increase according to inflation, thus maintaining and even growing in value relative to the investment. if i am gaining interest on 2,000 in the bank, my money loses value due to inflation. but if i place 2,000 in a strong stock or crypto, in a year it may be worth $2,400 , maintaining its purchasing power despite inflation, and thus the real value of my investment is maintained.

its a ponzi scheme, all the bag holders will lose big

dogecoin price pumping on the fuel of speculation? Really tempted to FOMO in but honestly struggling with the economics of this coin. we know scarcity isn't a thing, so volatility at meme prices is unsustainable. i'm hoping to be able to BTD mid week.

he'll be on SNL Saturday, May 8th. i am expecting a pump

You're nuts if you think American won't slap facebook. Facebook was fined 5 billion dollars earlier this week for privacy violations.

Facebook's LIBRA will be fully centralized, atleast for the first 5 years, at which they claim they will "transition" to a permissionless node system. So guess what, the only people who will run nodes are facebook and its partners which i've listed below:

Payments: Mastercard, Mercado Pago, PayPal, PayU (Naspers’ fintech arm), Stripe, Visa
Technology and marketplaces: Booking Holdings, eBay, Facebook/Calibra, Farfetch, Lyft, Spotify AB, Uber Technologies, Inc.
Telecommunications: Iliad, Vodafone Group
Blockchain: Anchorage, Bison Trails, Coinbase, Inc., Xapo Holdings Limited
Venture Capital: Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Initiatives, Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, Union Square Ventures
Nonprofit and multilateral organizations, and academic institutions: Creative Destruction Lab, Kiva, Mercy Corps, Women’s World Banking

Crypto people should be very firmly against LIBRA, as this will basically be all of the aforementioned companies getting rich by doing all the mining. any users buying into this system are only making the rich even richer, by trading their real FIAT in exchange for Vapor tokens from Facebook and its cronies.

bumping another old thread to say hi! 

BCX (Bitcoin EXpress) was a legendary member of the bitcoin community for many years. He was famous for finding scammers/scam coins and destroying the coin by performing consensus attacks on their networks.

Link to his profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=29445

this sounds shady af, op is looking for a patsy he can frame for hacking

so whatever happened to this, Spoetnik? Who really hacked cryptsy?

ethereum, like bitcoin, cannot possibly scale. ethereum is far to slow to be of practical value, especially in a world where we want it now, not 10 seconds from now. ethereum is too slow. its a novelty that doesn't work in practice.

no problem, but i did notice from the source that this page is simply pulling a static json file. is this tool still in active development, and do you plan on pulling live data with it?

just a heads up, the link you shared to the tool you developed is down. it might benefit you to fix that real quick so that people can see what you have to offer in terms of skill level.

bump

details plz, i may be interested. it'd have to be good for me to leave my job though, otherwise i'd only be available part time.

i didn't say bitcoin was a joke, its a very good idea with very real flaws. i don't buy the viability of lightning network, and i know that the ledger is very slow. bitcoin has a scale problem, and that is no joking matter, especially with the number of billions of dollars invested in it. your comment is a strawman argument which attempts to put words in my mouth that weren't there. bitcoin may be present in the present tense, but that doesn't mean it can't fail, and be gone tomorrow, so to speak. nothing in technology is too big to fail.

as someone who was around when all of the coins mentioned in the OP were launched, i can tell you something about each of these coins that is probably not known by most of the current coin community:

Peercoin - legit, this is the only coin in your list that has technical merit and real benefit to users. the guy who made it, i can't remember his name, he also made Primecoin. His coins are novel, but show a devotion to creating useful features instead of creating coins to pump and dump. the idea of staking, such a lasting accomplishment. If i were investing in old coins, this would be one of them.

Feathercoin - started out as a pump and dump scjeme, which was very common back in those "wild west days" of crypto. i'm surprised to know this coin is still alive, probably kept alive by the bagholders in hope they will one day ROI. no one truly believes in this coin, and it is completely unremarkable in every regard. the algorithm used is not a feature, its just a novelty, like other countless alts.

Unobtanium - was made by an employee of the University of Idaho, i think he was an IT guy. He made the original guide for creating altcoins, his username is shakezula. He's a really good dude, but this coin was created for no real reason other than a chance for the dev to mine lots of coins and then sell them for profit. knowing him, he probably still actively trades the coin and supports it. IIRC, its feature was scarcity, an idea which was directly ripped off from the ancient coin that preceded it, called Bitbars. i understand if you support this coin. scarcity is perhaps a good feature,and perhaps it could lend in making the market stable, since the quantity is low and grows very slowly.

Terracoin - is also an altcoin, but it was not made with the intention of scamming. I've had some squabbles with the dev in the past, but overall he's a good person. The coin has questionable use, but the guy who made it didn't do any shady stuff, was never a scammer, was always saw as someone of high ethical standards, and last i checked he was quite active in keeping the market alive for the coin. if you want to support this coin, its cool, but its novel. it didn't add any new features.