So I participated in some airdrops and they're okay for the level of effort involved.

I also came across other ways to get coins which are the Bounty methods and Signature Campaigns. I want to know a few things

* Is there a sticky explaining the differences of airdrops vs bounties vs signature campaigns?
* Do they favor my status (Jr Member I think I am) ... I know that higher statuses earn more at this point
* Can you participate in more than one?
* If you post here everyday as a habit, what's the level of extra effort involved in participating in bounties and signature campaigns?

My goal is to just try the stuff out at first and then evaluate whether it's a decent long term method going forward

I don't understand this. Why are people all of a sudden able to predict $50k EOY when they weren't even able to predict the $20k ATH in the first place?

I have some funds in BTC and I also hope that BTC does well. But this is all so unrealistic at this point in time. You have to take a strategic investment approach in this and not go in with blind faith.

Seems like this coin has been put on hold for now. From the telegram group:

Technical analysis is not a silver bullet ... Same can be said with fundamental analysis

The real problem that there is no standards body or certified advisors when it comes to technical analysis and fundamental analysis in the crypto world. What then happens is that the people you tend to follow slip up or don't make sense which causes losses.

Yes it is possible, this is one way you can do it:

* Find a paper trader (i think tradingview offers one for free) to practice trading
* Participate in airdrops/bounties to build up some capital ... will take a while to build up something substantial but the paper trader will keep you occupied
* Use this capital in order to trade

Paper trading gives you the ability to trade without consequence, although that in itself is a disadvantage because you will take more risks than you would with your real money

It depends on your level of risk and how much insider information you acquire.

For example, I think that there's a killing to be made on pro wrestling betting because it's really easy to get insider information on it.

1% for a day isn't that hard

Getting 1% consistently everyday is extremely hard because of the volatility of the market.

Also consider whether 1% daily is better than one 30% a month or 3 10% trades a month?

I think that these are 2 topics. Adding to trading forum because this is why I use 2FA.

I want to get myself a new phone (android if that's applicable) and I currently use Google Authenticator for my 2FA needs. Is there a way to migrate all the codes/keys to the new phone or is it better to back up the codes/keys with another app instead?

The situation that I am trying to avoid is needing to use my old phone solely for 2FA.

Any updates on the coin for this month?

So I was looking at Electroneum's blockchain explorer, which is a derivative off of Monero's blockchain. I'm not sure whether this is Cryptonite's properties or a Monero feature but the characteristic of this blockchain explorer is that you cannot view any of your wallet addresses from the blockchain explorer. This is by design and I have no problem with this, even though it's a pain to prove externally that your paper wallet actually has a balance in this scheme.

So given this bit of information, how do you do damage control of a 51% attack on the network? I assume that it's easy to view a 51% attack on the blockchain by looking at the transactions (could be wrong about this). But when your blockchain does not allow you to see addresses, how do you approach damage control on this blockchain style? Here you won't know who the attackers are and it's not easy to track how much was "stolen"

Contrast this to XVG where you can actually see the addresses "responsible" their 51% problem and maybe do something or at least monitor those addresses.

Any thoughts on this?

You guys probably want to investigate the previous coin to this.

The predecessor coin, Aerium, was a skunkhash algo coin but more importantly it had hyperinflation properties (500%, 12500% APR on some block ranges and is probably sitting at 1000% APR ... think B3 coin)

Sooo what I'm saying is that before you decide to invest in this coin, consider the previous coin and it's effect on this coin. I feel that it's very skewed towards original Aerium holders

I like to read 4chan's /biz page and tend to see alot of coins being mentioned. I normally resort to DYOR but always wanted to know whether that community has any influence on the price of crypto? Or they had an influence?

Basically if anyone can give me a history lesson please

I see the problem as that you're in it for a quick profit. If you look at it in retrospect, generally everyone that has been successful had done so because they were patient. You should read up on instant gratification and see if this applies to you.

If you're struggling, then think about new avenues and strategies to go into to bring in them coins.

There's nothing wrong in quitting or taking a break in crypto either. In life you have to make decisions I guess.

So I want to have a site that sells stuff for either bitcoin or some form of altcoin.

Is there a general purpose framework that can accomplish this or do they become specific per coin?

If I did this myself, I'd just have a wallet on the server (sounds horrible though) and then interact with it's cli while processing server requests?

I've used the telegram wallet/functionality and I must say that it's pretty great. The reason is that you don't need to remember the complex wallet address's, rather you can send DEAL to each other via your username. This is something that 99% of coins DON'T HAVE. Not even the mighty DOGE can do this.

I think POS is only advanced with respect to its "greener approach" to mining

With respect to a coin, there just aren't proper POS (and MN) models that work as well as POW models. If you browse the altcoin announcements the few kind of POS models that show up:

* Fully POS, you need to buy the coin with btc/fiat in order to be able to "mine". So you're basically asked to invest money in order to get a higher stake probability. What people don't tell you is that you can very easily be out-invested in this model because of the increasing coin supply over time (you own less coins vs total coins) AND the amount of "big spenders" that tend to increase for staking. This means that you sit with the problem of your network weight decreasing over time.
* Hybrid POW/POS, only rewards the initial POW contributors tbh. But because of the nature of POS, their POW shares gives them such a vast control over the coin during it's lifetime that it will be very hard to compete unless you buy their shares out. And in this case, these POW contributors can choke the supply if they wanted to, which is a form of centralization
* Masternodes I have mixed feelings about. They seem to be a fair approach so far and the coin yields seems to be distributed evenly over the number of MN's in the network. I suppose that this way, the only way to yield more coins is to buy more MNs which seems to be a reasonable ask. For me the key balance here is the collateral required for a MN. Too low and then everybody is a MN. Too high and then there's only a few MN which rewards the early adopters

To me, POS are very weighted towards its whale buyers. MN can be done in a manner that's fair. My main thought principal is that cryptocurrency was always meant for everybody, so some layman with a scrappy old machine would always get the opportunity to mine and gain coins. Yes, there are centralization attempts like mining farms and ASICs (nothing wrong with these btw); but it's not like your old machine vs an ASIC, you can join a pool and still get rewards. And when a coin gets popular, it's increasingly harder to get centralization over it via mining (unless you're XVG LOL); making it more fair than POS.

While I appreciate POS's green concept, it's just that the current currency/financial models feel very biased towards big spenders, which I feel causes centralization.

I think the only fair POS approach I found in a coin, and I am not sure I can even call it POS is with NEO. There, you get GAS from holding NEO even if it's just 1 NEO. And that is something that's guaranteed unlike a POS network which has your rewards as a variable.

Also, an important part of the community is that they're not toxic at all. I can list a bunch of groups where you get this toxicity going on the entire time.

Anything and everything $Deal is encouraged there. That's an amazing thing to be able to pull off

The network hash for this coin has been increasing the past few days though

There's a section with the old threads in the OP. It's not like OP is intentionally hiding anything. Just saying.

There's a 'Show unread posts since last visit' link that's on top. When I click on it, then it shows me a bunch of new posts from all the sub forums.

Is there any way to limit the sub forum that it watches?

If not, then is there a way to make proper use of it? I assume that since it's up top it's kinda important

If not, then is there any point to the link?