They have constantly updated us that the mainnet would be ready in about 2 more months from now, April timeframe or so.  May I'd expect at latest now.  UTN will ride on that native network.  UNTP will be allowed to be exchanged back for UTN as well, 1:1 ratio. 

UNTP (the Ethereum token) is starting to get added too exchanges; nothing great yet but Cobinhood, HitBTC, and surely more will pick it up in time.  It will be in the next Binance vote as well and if adds to that should see a healthy rise in interest.

Agree though, definitely the best team, under rated project for this year.  Tokens like Cardano have a huge value and only a white paper to show for it.  Universa has a strong team, will have a full operating blockchain soon, and has made some big deals and partnerships - a weekly update shows that.

Gate.io needs no ID or anything, was super easy and quick.  I cashed out SuperBTC on that site yesterday.

I think we are a while from 15K, lets just hope to stay in the 14K range over the weekend at minimum. 

It is just pissy that this "complete ban" in SK has been rebunked, but news articles from BBC and other sources are still freshly releasing with sensational "South Korean Bans All Crypto" headlines!  GRRRRR....

None of my stop losses got his in this last big dip,  hopefully things move up again.  Those were still going to provide enough gains to be life changing but now I'll keep them and let things move up for more :-)

So do we expect any action on/around Jan 26th when the first January futures contracts expire?  Opinion?

Picked some more up at $13550, seems like a bargain.

Well Jan 15th is primarily Wall street firms bonus day for the year, and some others on Jan 31, Feb 15th.  Expectation is to see big spikes from bonus spending on Bitcoin since average WS bonus is expected to be ~$150K this year....

Feeling bullish and agree that this occurs, but BTC is bleeding out slowly again right now.  Can see XRP recovering some, pumping, etc.  Altcoins are recovering again, and will hit waves of up and down.  Each sharp downturn will net gains inn BTC though again so probably temporary, through the weekend is likely though I'd say.  I think the next big pumps for Bitcion will be if some institutional money does  finally start to invest - i.e. some ETFs, more futures somewhat, etc.  That may be 3+ months off at least though.

Stupid ripple :-/

not really, the only one that seems good at $150 ish per coin is SuperBitcoin.  Syncing that wallet now and imported private keys into the QT wallet (for a wallet that is clean/empty now on the BTC network, but had coins back on Dec 15th in it).  Should net enough for a small car or nice vacation one day hehe so worth few hours of effort.

Ripple does seem to be slowing down.  Tron which is silly is still shooting up, huge supply, like 25 cents now.  Made a little off playing with that a couple days ago.

But, overall it seems these altcoins get pumped by a limited group, and then a still limited number of people are willing to risk investment in them, thus their incoming funds is starting to top out.  And without that their growth slows, a little profits get taken, noobies start to worry, etc.  I wouldn't be surprise if Ripple starts to drop now, move into another alt perhaps, or just back to BTC (and fiat since those markets exist).  We'll see if others want to then go back into other alts or just like many, start going back into a more dependable 9 year old Bitcoin...

We've been in this cycle of slowly ticking up to 15K, OR even almost 16K over hours and days - but then dropping back down to 14K/15K or lower in just minutes... then repeating.  Yawn.   Meanwhile those crazy alts are just shooting up under speculation.  On twitter they read like crazy immature millennial investors in a market cap race mainly.  Very odd to see this.

Yeah, the fact that RippleLabs is like one of the top 5-10 companies in the world explains that XRP is a bit of a speculative bubble at best or at minimum overvalued now.  It is a social media phenomenon though being pumped like crazy.  Isn't even THAT easy to buy yet so it may have a ways to go but needs a good correction or two soon.

This seems to be news for current run up:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiels-founders-fund-makes-big-bet-on-bitcoin-1514917433

I think we need to formally adopt the hashtag, #ThanksDennisG as we see double digit+ growth this year ;-)

Ha, just had to share this, someone did recently on Twitter:

http://txhighway.com/#

Just make sure you do your homework.  15% isn't the top capital gains bracket, 20% is.  Also NIIT of 3.8% is taxed on it.  Also state/local tax and your income rate.  Also AMT applies if knocks your income up higher.

Can't stress that enough.  Actual rate we will pay on gains from Illinois USA here is 20% + 3.8% + 4.975% + AMT = ~29%+  (more if you live in states with higher income taxes even)

Same here on the taxes, and probably a larger one next year.

Remember if in the USA, you'll get hit with the gains tax 20%+, the NIIT tax (Obamacare) 3.8% on top of that, your state/local taxes on top of that, and you'll probably have to pay a lot more and loose all your deductions as you'll pay AMT taxes instead of regular.

UG!!!!!

I put a stop loss below the bottom but never sold, WHEW!  :-)

Morning.  Waking up to a nice $700 ongoing pop right now (yawn).  Preview action of those anticipating January 1st activity and buyback maybe?

Well still very bullish but man I’m tired!  Placed a stop loss order that will still be wonderful if filled, but hopefully it never needs to execute.

Can relax now and ignore the price say until Feb+. 😬