Current Market Conditions - General Discussion

Up a bit again ( well Bitcoin is anyways).
I think we can expect volatility such as this in the run-up to the forthcoming forks of Bitcoin Gold (Oct 25) and Seqwit2X (mid-november).

BTC back up to its highs again ($5,700). Oh ye of little faith !

Never a dull day in Bitcoin.

JaCrispy wrote: »

Big drops rights across the board.....the top 20 are a showing a sea of red. Even crypto poster boy BTC is falling back towards the $5k mark. Doing a bit of reading around but no general consensus.

Some reasons?

• People cashing in on profits?

• Chief of Ripple Japanese exchange getting arrested for fraud?

• Brazil Central Bank Chief Compares Bitcoin to Pyramid Scheme?

• Just the general rollercoaster ride that is crypto?

If altcoins are your thing, I think NEO, XMR and OMG look very tempting.

Agree. Increased my holdings on the three above plus Ark in the last week.

ZeroThreat wrote: »

Bought into vertcoin at $1 so happy right now.

Anyone have any views on substratum?

Looks like a good move. Vertcoin is bucking the trend on Altcoins at the moment.

ZeroThreat wrote: »

Bitcoin's dominance is reaching ridiculous levels now, it's nearly 60% of the total market cap.

I'm surprised at the lack of performance in litecoin though, it's very similar to vertcoin in most ways, except that vert can be mined with a normal gpu.

Compared to dominance of over 80% earlier in the year it doesn't look that ridiculous to me, I'm more surprised that it lost so much of it's share to altcoins since then.

Up and up the Vertcoin goes, where it stops, nobody knows! (or maybe Mr. Satoshi does)

It's price is in steady decline. I would be surprised if this ever lifts back.

And I don't see any real-world success use for the token or system itself -- people get tiny micro-payments for watching advertising? Yeah, right.

Like 99% of ICO's, this was a money-grab from the get-go, in my view. And those who were advantaged enough to buy in pre-launch at a discount very quickly dumped their allocation for a profit when trading went live. The bag-holders are left with losses that sadly I think won't ever be recovered.

It's up to each person to do as they see fit, but I stay away from all these useless ICO's and the trash-coins that are released on a daily basis. I put my faith (and money) in Bitcoin alone.

unkel wrote: »

It's hardly BTC or nothing, everything else is a trash-coin, surely?

For me, it is !

Coming to Bitcoin will be Lightning Network, Rootstock, Level II solutions, increased scaling capability, cross-chain integration, etc etc. Who needs altcoins?
Bitcoin has network effect; it's protocol is secured by massive hashpower that alts can only dream of. Bitcoin is widely accepted as THE cryptocurrency by business leaders, the media and users. Bitcoin core has a 200-strong tea of developers comprised of the sharpest minds on the planets rather than the many alts individual one-man "development" team operating out of their Mam's basement.
These alts really have no use or usage in the real world. They are primarily speculative and vehicles for pump-n-dump schemes. People buy into them thru' FOMO on the "next Bitcoin". Here's news for those people -- Bitcoin IS the next Bitcoin.

So yeah, Bitcoin will do for me. It's been good for me since I first bought in 2013. Most other coins have crashed and burned in the interim, and are now dead coins. I'll stick with Bitcoin exclusively until I see concrete evidence that it is a failure.

What's your view on ETH?

ETH price was tearing up in the first half of the year based on people's perception of its potential. The price is largely stagnant, however, for the past three months and even dropping comparatively to BTC because investors have not seen that potential filled. We are still waiting for the rush to smart contracts usage. Maybe it will come, but I have a fear that large companies might well enable their own intra-company blockchains for this rather than go with a public blockchain like Ethereum. I dunno; the jury is out. By all means, buy into ETH if you are prepared to gamble on future potential. But Gambling is not Investing.

Yea ive made some money with BAT nothing to crazy

no limit coin was a huge winner for me bought in june at 190 sats and sold at 12550 sat.
Ive bought into a few ico's with profits and energy sector powerledger, mybit, ong social was another

When its in the red buy is my theory anyways.

Do you guys follow any people on youtube

machiavellianme wrote: »

Everything red today. Anyone know what's going on?

Altcoins in the red for a while now with people converting to Bitcoin for the fork, Bitcoin could be in the red as some people bought not for btg but they predicted the pump and selling to cash in
Edit: wonder if the altcoins finally start to move after fork, a lot of people think they will

The One Doctor wrote: »

FECKING. HOUR? Annoyingly, Coinbase won't let me buy more than €500 a week until I've spent $1000.

Now is not the best time to buy Bitcoin.

Well, there does seem a strong support line around the $5,600 level, so maybe hold onto your €500 worth. The $5,600 level might hold steady -- then again, there might be a further drop. Who knows, if we did we would be millionaires.
BTC would be expected to rise in the run-up to the big Segwit2X fork in mid-November (Nov 13th?), before it drops again post-Segwit2X You might consider buying another €500 worth if you are of a mind that the price will go up in this pre-Segwit2X period if you are of a mind to do so.
Hwever, the problem is that we will see a lot of this volatiity. It's a matter of calling it correctly. Worse still, there is -- and will be -- a lot of network instability what with Replay Protection attacks. Be aware that there is a distinct possibility that some people might lose their coins through sloppiness and non-familiarity with the system. Running any transactions at the moment carries some risk. For that reason, I personally have pulled down the shutters and am not conducting any transactions whatsoever until a week or so after Nov 13th.

Is now a good time to get onto ripple... And is kraken the best place to purchase...

JaCrispy wrote: »

Kraken is generally regarded as the exchange with the lowest fees. I'd say do a bit of reading about upcoming Ripple events and developments. Their long awaited Swell conference actually seemed to have a negative impact on their price.

If you wanted to hop on Ripple I'd do it sooner rather than later, it's still in recovery mode after the BTC fork so I think there's still gains to be made, in the short term anyway.

Did you mean, cripple

Seriously, i never fud or shill any coin, but please don't send more of your money to cripple.