haha! you sound like me circa 2014!

its 2017 and https://coinmarketcap.com tabs are always open on any machine i work on!

i even wrote an app that tells me what my stash is worth in a sexy female voice if i double click an icon on my windows system tray!

im still coin crazyy!!!!

Edit: The app for windows! https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6ik2tw/serious_thats_it_im_leaving_cryptos_for_a_month/dj78qf2/

I just published an app that ranks 500+ cryptocurrencies in real-time and lets you quickly check how Ethereum is stacking up against the rest of the field. I made it because I wanted to see the real-time ranking of every coin and nothing like this existed. It surprised me when the best I could find were apps/websites that only updated the price. CryptoLadder (my app) is a truly real-time feed meaning that you can watch as coins move up and down the ladder live. In addition to rank/positioning, also price, mkt cap, and mkt share change in real-time. The whole point is to give everyday traders quick and easy access to real-time information so that they can make better decisions. My hope is that tools like this will empower the average person and level the playing field from the really big dogs trading out there. It seems to me like that's what this sub (and Ethereum) is all about. Anyways, here are the links:

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cryptoladder-real-time-cryptocurrency-rankings/id1273585612?mt=8

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.willchristman.cryptoladder

The app is free and I literally made it for you guys. I would love any feedback/criticism so that I can improve it for all of us.

Wow. I really like their token use case & model!

> Our journey towards decentralisation will include at its core a new token to incentivise liquidity and reward loyal customers of Ethfinex. These loyalty tokens are similar to loyalty points, and will never be sold in a crowdsale, but are instead given for free to token market makers in proportion to the volume of trades they participate in on the exchange. > Owners of the tokens will be able to use them to claim loyalty rewards from the exchange, and advise on the future governance of Ethfinex. Initially the tokens will be majority owned by Ethfinex, but gradually as more tokens are issued the ownership of them will therefore become decentralised so that our customers will have a stake in Ethfinex.

No ICO cash grab. Rather continuous issuance rewarding loyalty and getting a stake in the usage of the platform.

I know that bear sentiment in general is very unpopular since it's frequently people trying to FUD for their short sells, but there's a lot of people in here that keep talking about their ETH price projections and ETH movement without any discussion of the crypto market as a whole.

 

Take a look at the total market cap. We have a very clear, very obvious halt to the incredible growth we had over the course of the year until now, with an overall downward trend at the moment.

 

I think most of us understand that the long-term prospects for both ETH and a lot of other projects are strong, so this isn't an absurd sky-is-falling call - but this overall downward trend presents a clear opportunity for both market traders who sometimes short, and also long-term hodlers that like to choose selectively when to buy in. If you're in these groups, keep an eye on that general market chart to get a feel for when sentiment in general might be turning back to bullish.

 

Why is the market in general halted and trending downward, with so much good news coming our way for cryptos in general? I'm not smarter than the market, but my guess is people are sidelining in fiat on exchanges to see how Bitcoin handles their concerns in regards to the August 1st UASF / unknown-date SegWit2x hard fork. I'm predicting the general market sentiment will return to bullish after those concerns have been cleared, and that between now and August 1st, you will see some great buying and shorting opportunities for crypto in general. Even if you think prices are going to skyrocket, keep in mind to check the general market when making your plans.

Over half of bitcoin addresses have lower balances than the current average transaction fee, so they're effectively unspendable.

There's a service now to pay your bitcoin fees with VISA and get your transaction pushed through faster.

Maybe it's time we get serious about Ethereum as a payment network.

There's a psychological component to it - humans feel losses more heavily than gains. Therefore losing 7.5% on your holdings feels much worse than gaining, say 12.5% makes you feel good. On the days of those massive gains, there is as much moontalk as there is FUD on days like today.

If you're interested in more, there's an amazing book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, which discusses this topic among many others. It even brings out trading and a trader's mindset.

From the whitepaper > Because Status Network Token holders will ultimately be using SNT to govern the direction of Status' development, along with its daily use within Status, achieving a fair distribution of tokens is a goal we need to work towards. To achieve this we aim to encourage many smaller participants while discouraging larger participants from taking up the majority of supply.

Right

Go look at the Ethereum price chart on Coinmarketcap, and take special note of July 2016 - November 2016: the price oscillated from between $11 and $13 for FIVE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS. I don't know how some of you whiny bitches would have survived...

Quick TipJar update:

In about a week, changes will be pushed live to allow users to tip in popular fiat currencies (e.g. USD, euro, GBP,..) as well as values like "a coffee" or "a beer". Ultimately these values will be converted to, and sent as, ether.

Shouldn't be more than a couple weeks after that to support all the popular ERC20 tokens.

Are there any features that you guys are really eager to have after that? I have a roadmap, but no strong preferences on what is implemented next.

EDIT: Thank you for the gold!! <3

looks like a proper bull flag breakout out on the 4H, korea trading over $900 already, GDAX hitting an ATH as I type

I actually think targets should be moved to $1200 now, rather than $1k

> I wonder if despite this, Bitcoin still has a place, as a store of value.

Realistically? No.

Why? Because there are now far better instruments under development that aim to be precisely that -- a stable, actual store of value.

Every time I hear someone ask about Bitcoin being a "store of value", I know they are late to the BTC game.

Why? Because Bitcoin was not even designed to be that. The title of the white paper is: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer <strong>Electronic Cash System</strong>.

Please point me to the language in there that details the goal of becoming a "store of value".

The whole "store of value" / "digital gold" schtick is the latest pivot attempt from BTC people trying to rationalize a situation that is frankly, pretty grim.

Ya, the DAO would be a $2.5 Billion theft in today's Ethereum dollars, or like maybe 90% of the actively traded Eth at the time. Vitalik also mentioned during the DAO, the attackers couldn't profit (ignoring ETC), but these attackers have likely already profited (moved the funds), thus rolling ETH back would actually create a double spend situation, though I want to emphasize I feel sorry for any losses sustained here.

Regarding the bit about learning and adjusted to appropriately well placed criticism, I suggest you all take a look at this Steem post I made regarding a major issue that should be fixed before Metropolis.

From that, I made the following Ethereum Pricing Guide, which can be used to calculate the appropriate price stability point for Ethereum, given a stable amount of demand. It also provides the best monthly Profit and Loss statement for Ethereum I have seen to date.

For those curious (while I normally hate to do this), I am a Certified Public Accountant, own a CPA Firm, and manage the finances of several businesses. The analysis you will find is first rate, as done from a block chain enthusiast with substantial economic understanding.

The Ethereum pricing guide I linked to can be used to understand the appropriate value of any block chain asset, with just a touch of tweaking. Contained within is absolutely critical information, I hope you each get a chance to use for your own intellectual and economic benefits. It's a topsy turvy world, good luck out there ;)

really don't understand the nervous nellies in here today.

ETH has been doing great over the last 24 hours, much stronger than BTC. we're currently in a distinctly low volume pullback. that's a good thing btw. global 24H volume in ETH is exceeding that of BTC. and we had our highest ever volumes like 12 days ago, long after the ATHs of the bull market, so we know big volume is still out there.

what, you think people are gonna try cash out and leave crypto once they get their hands on their BCH?

don't you think the whales and the people who moved ETH --> BTC for "free money" are gonna want to get in on ~.078 ratio when the 2nd biggest crypto is at 50% ATH while BTC is near 95% ATH?

I know the ethtrader motto is buy high sell low, but trust me that's not what the whales do.

I love it: https://www.amazon.com/Token-Economy-Blockchains-Contracts-Revolutionize/dp/3982103827/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=token+economy+shermin&amp;qid=1564816048&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=token+e&amp;sr=8-1

Somebody needs to ground me again. I am so bullish while reading this book. Give it a try. I thought that I already read a lot and knew how to explain the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain in general. I was wrong. This book is awesome. Easy to understand, great read, all general topics covered with many references and links for a further deep dive in the topic. I could convince monkeys to buy Ether after this read.

About the Author

Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. In the past, she was a curator of "The DAO", and advisor to various startups like Jolocom, Wunder and the Estonian E-residency program. In addition to her studies at the Vienna University of Economics, she studied film and drama in Madrid. Her past work experience ranges from Internet startups, research & art. She is Austrian, with Iranian roots, and lives between Vienna and Berlin.

TED Talk with her: https://youtu.be/JPGNvKy6DTA

I bought a bidet today. Before Ethereum, I'd be sitting there, using toilet paper all the time, just mashing shit into my ass. Having been a HODLer, and seeing the Robinhood news, for the first time in my life I don't have a sense of anxiety over paying $250 to have a robot wash my asshole for me.

Obviously I wasn't a rich man, and I'm still not. But holding ETH has given me a level of security, even with volatility, that I didn't have before. And ETH plays a significant role in that.

Just had to share, since washing my ass feels a lot different than 4 years ago.

*https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074MLZR3Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

"Pursuant to the recent report of investigation issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bitfinex is taking the proactive step of barring U.S. customers from trading certain digital tokens that may be deemed securities in the eyes of the SEC.

The restriction will generally apply to ERC20 tokens issued through "ICOs" and will go into effect at noon UTC on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. No trading of these tokens will be allowed for U.S. customers. At the time of this post, the tokens active on Bitfinex that will be subject to this restriction are EOS (EOS) and Santiment (SAN)."

https://www.bitfinex.com/posts

Happy birthday shorters.

Worth a watch, from CredibleCrypto: https://www.loom.com/share/698283e98db544b486a78f2ab3c183f7

TL;DW:

ETHUSD could bounce here and resume the parabolic move to $450 or so. Otherwise, range here for a bit or dip down to $190 to $210 before such a move, with a wick to $180 possible (which is vital support).

If ETH goes below $160, it's bad news for ETH, and most likely for the entire market. It would mean we have not been in a new bull market. If that happened, however unlikely, it would likely also NotBeGoodForBitcoinTM.

Haven't seen the sell side this thin since pre-bull 2017. Doesn't mean shit will happen. It could even be bearish since it implies that a small minority of bears think the market will go up and the rest are selling at market rate. But its interesting nonetheless. I'll cover my bull case and bear case below.

BULL:

I'm watching the Status.im light client written in Nim(edited): https://github.com/status-im/nimbus closely. A reasonably featured sharded light client is kind of the holy grail in the blockchain space if you weren't already aware. It would change some fundamental assumptions that we have around who and where can run a secure node on the network. Light nodes would also drive the creation of more full nodes as markets popup around serving them. Furthermore, I've kept up with a lot of the code Status puts out and they're the real deal hackers you want leading the charge on this. Their ui/ux chops are a bit weak but the code they write is fantastic. This leads me to believe there's is an opportunity for info arbitrage regarding a breakthrough release in the light client space.

Another awesome and little known fact: Status is now working directly with the core developers of Nim to get things right on Nimbus. Source from the Nim team. https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/08/07/nim-partners-with-status.html. Notice that's not a gimmicky medium "partnership". It's from the core developers of a up and coming programming language.

BEAR:

I'm wrong and the light client sucks ass and sharding is never finished and this whole thing goes to zero in a pile of flames.

Have a lovely weekend, ethtraders.

Definitely not a dogecoin. Backed by big public contributors (https://steemit.com/ethereum/@antz/ex-google-deepmind-and-apple-software-engineers-chaos-theory-physicist-and-funding-by-uvc-everything-you-need-to-know-about), and feel free to read the whitepaper (https://numer.ai/whitepaper.pdf) to understand it better. Team includes a forbes 30 under 30 (similar to what vitalik won), apple, and google engineer. No public ICO and on exchanges for only around 24h so it's basically similar to being in ICO mode, it's cheap and will go up to the value that people think the coin is worth.

honestly what u/dirtybitsxxx said is true, why are you margin trading at all? I suggest you stop margin trading as you seem like an emotional trader. Sorry if that offended you, but I don't want you to lose your money. I also suggest you read a book called "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham.

PSA: Ripple is not decentralized. Ripple is centralized which is why people make jokes about them increasing the price by running one of their SQL statements. People in these threads are calling XRP a decentralized currency. It is not.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/40448/is-ripple-centralized-or-decentralized

EDIT: It's also basically just a private chain which is why it can be filtered out on coinmarketcap by selecting 'mineable' coins:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/views/filter-non-mineable/

For IOTA shills:

Apparently, the partnership with Microsoft was actually a big lie.

As an informal student of the human condition and economics, investing in crypto and watching what happens on Reddit / Twitter has taught me more about how the human psyche economically responds to emotions like anticipation, elation, greed, envy, anger, and despair. I've felt them all here, even if I don't want to admit it. And ~~most~~ all of you have as well.

I honestly couldn't imagine a better laboratory / classroom for this subject. Someone should write a PhD Economics thesis on this topic. In the process, I've learned more about myself, and humanity. There is nothing quite like tying money, and in many cases, hopes and dreams, to those emotions. It's been an eye-opening journey.

And it's a reminder of how emotions often translate into suboptimal investment decisions. If you haven't already, I recommend reading this book: Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life-Changing Science of Behavioral Economics. I plan to re-read it myself in the coming weeks. I feel as though I'll be reading it with fresh eyes this time around.

According to https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ Ethereum has 24 Volume of $700 Million.

Of that, $8 Million is an 'at market' sell of Ethereum, daily, for block chain security.

It takes about 1% of the daily market volume by any single actor to move the price of a currency, I speculate about 10%. I think that is a fairly appropriate velocity adjustment.

This will get cut in half, thus likely having an immediate uptick of 5%, IMO. However, there will be $4 Million less ETH sold daily. In an isolated context there is no way to interpret that as something that could do anything but increase the price immediately, and long term.

The driver is that the price of ETH has risen 10x over the last 6 months (or more). Block chain security is not relative to the cost of computers, but the market cap of the currency. Therefore, as the market cap increases, so should the % paid toward security decrease, as the cost of computers has not changed in proportion.

ETH could possibly maintain security at 2% Market Cap, though it would be disruptive to the market overall. It would significantly reduce the advantages that Dash, Tezos, and ANS (Neo) are using to challenge ETH investments.

It's still very, very early days for the tech, so unfortunately the user experience is a lot more convoluted than many would like it to be. Your best bet is to install the Metamask extension for Chrome/Firefox/Brave, purchase a small amount of ETH using the 'Buy' button, and then head to the CryptoKitty website and sort by 'cheapest.'

There's a bit of a learning curve to all of this, but I think the payout would be worth it in the long run. Many of us around here believe that cryptocurrencies like Ethereum will become the foundation of Web 3.0!

Everyone who is not currently in on REQ and would like to buy some: this coin is still very cheap, and you are not missing out on anything. Your best bet to buy will be through [binance]<https://www.binance.com/trade.html?symbol=REQ_ETH>. You should start by depositing eth, and then buying REQ through the ETH/REQ pair.

Request Network will be a homerun, and an unstoppable train in 2018. It is still only barely over ICO price, and has a great [roadmap]<https://request.network/#/> planned, in which the team is actually ahead of schedule. A testnet launch is expected very soon, and this coin is primed for takeoff. :D

Bitmex Quarterly Futures on ETHBTC are on their way to 0.05.

Volume seems to be growing and we're all expecting - with good reasons - that this is the beginning of our next rally.

Now, the last time we've start a rally after a long consolidation (actually, it was a bear market, not really a consolidation period), the crypto space has way less people and way less money. Still, the FOMO was notorious and the rally lasted for almost 4 months.

Markets go up and down. There will be periods of consolidation and of correction. But that's something that we shouldn't be thinking about much now. Nobody knows very well where or when they'll happen.

Shout out to all the Ethtraders who have been buying upto now and shout out to the newcomers that are now learning and trying to understand this amazing new world we follow up and discuss daily.

Big shout out to all the Gentlemen. You know who you are and how important you are for our community to prosper and maintain some resemblance of sanity.

See you above $400.

The moment BFX opens for withdrawals I am going to withdraw my 17k free ETC and dump this shit on polo for ETH, not all at once that would be a little mistake....might take some hours...after that i'll take all my ETH out of BFX and Polo, stuff it in a cold wallet and keep watching the price while I own the keys... do some research on decentralized exchanges and maybe trade again.....done with this exchange/scammer/amateur security/inside job shit. Never owned 1 satoshi and still got a 36% shave.... And yes I did my due-dilligence as a small investor. the internet WAS my friend... as of today the BFX website: https://www.bitfinex.com/security_policy

I rest my case......

I'm now anxiously waiting for the global market cap to reach $30 billion for the first time in history.

Would be a new milestone for our little crypto eco-system.

$29.56 billion at the moment

Also check your email on this link: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (SAFE) It is a database of security breachs on 200+ sites. Please be careful about re-using passwords, or choosing low entropy passwords.

I recommend making a wallet on https://myetherwallet.com, downloading the keystore file onto a usb encrypted with Veracrypt. It's like a cheap but somewhat secure version of a hard wallet.

Makes it clear that "no fork" really is not an option here. Also makes it clear that a hard fork that returns the money quickly is likely necessary. Note, the SEC is watching this closely: http://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-official-says-ethereum-hack-illustrates-blockchain-concerns-1466459986 We do not want to give them more reason to feel the need to regulate ethereum. And, yes, the SEC is only part of the US Gov't, but its reach is far and wide around the world.

No paywall version (not sure if identical): https://steemit.com/security/@vladislav/sec-official-says-ethereum-hack-illustrates-blockchain-concerns

so basically you are looking for another exchange that lets you trade OMG?

Protip:

1. go to https://coinmarketcap.com/
2. choose a coin
3. next to the chart tab there is a tab for markets.
4. click that to see where that coin is traded

edit: wrong link

So this is interesting > The Kraken adds USDtUSD

https://cryptowat.ch/kraken/usdtusd

Seems like this will be a more protracted problem than initially thought, it won't just balance itself out if there are trading pairs against the value it is meant to be a store of, gonna be some divergence

Not sure how it should effect the markets, all I can say is GTFO of USDt and take your funds off exchanges where the price is going wonky; incl Polo; suddenly deciding to pull a load of trading pairs over night smells funny

https://coinmarketcap.com/

I see alot of people confused, probably just looking at ETH going down not seeing that almost all of them are down alot today. You shouldnt be too worried unless there is bad news or changed fundamentals.

If you bought high and are losing money thinking of selling, ask yourself what your plan was when you first bought.

Every so often a coin in the top 40 gets hit by the Polo Pump Bat. You get showered with Bitcoins and life is grand.

Unfortunately, and unpredictably (although usually when Eth or Btc start pumping), the Polo Pump Bat can quickly turn into the Polo Dump Bat. This bat goes straight for your nuts and hurts like hell.

Any cryptocurrencies with over 75% of their trading volume on Polo are susceptible to these two conditions.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stratis/#markets

https://www.fool.com/taxes/2012/10/02/capital-loss-carryovers-can-cut-your-tax-bill-for-.aspx

Actually you can deduct up to $3000 losses per year from your taxes. And if you lost big then the remainder carries over for the next year in perpetuity until you've deducted it all. The more you know!

I know this sub is for making money, but I HIGHLY recommend donating to the dev team. Today's 'hiccup' could have been a lot more disastrous. Any donation > 2.014 ETH gets you a Unicorn token:

https://www.ethereum.org/donate

Also looking for an address to donate to the Parity devs, but haven't found one yet...

> Counterfeit currency

On spotting fake U.S. bills, this guide from the Secret Service might help. You could also invest in one of those $5 counterfeit bill markers that retailers use.

If you're making the trade inside a bank branch, you can ask a teller to verify the banknotes for you.

> Buyer assaulting seller on their way home after transaction has occurred and escrow released - this can occur even if actual transfer occurs in a safe place

Choose to meet in a safe public place in daylight, with lots of people and cameras. For extra security, pick an international airport, a bank, or a high-end hotel/casino. Bring a friend, opt to leave by car rather than walking or public transport, and be aware of your surroundings.

> Seller being identified as a person with significant amounts of cash and crypto and targeted later

I don't think this risk is unique to trading. It's more about your everyday security precautions.

> Does Local Ethereum have a set of best practices for cash transactions?

We don't, but this is a good idea. We'll publish a guide soon!

Up 18% in 2 hours of trading:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/etheroll/

I love the fact that Etheroll and the DICE token are immune to the market downturns, all theese Red days we are so used to see by now never seem to affect the value of DICE, the first stable token out there? :)

During some downtime I've created an Amazon Alexa skill so I can monitor the prices and percentage changes of the top 200 coins hands free, it's been good fun!

"Ethereum has increased by 10% in the last day".

Me: :-D

Adoption

Edit: if anyone in the US wants a try, please do. Multi-region version coming soon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CQMHRGD?ie=UTF8&amp;ref-suffix=ss_rw

I mentioned last week about an Amazon Alexa skill I have written to retrieve cryptocurrency prices. It's now available in more countries (UK, US, CA, AU, IN) and has a new 'top x coins' intent to allow you to hear the top 5 / 10 / whatever coins by market-cap.

I promise not to spam it any more, but if anyone is interested....

US users:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CQMHRGD?ie=UTF8&amp;ref-suffix=ss_rw

UK users:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CQMHRGD?ie=UTF8&amp;ref-suffix=ss_rw

I can't get direct links to the other countries versions, but search Amazon -> Alexa Skills -> Education and Reference -> "Crypto Prices".

Things you can try:

"Alexa, ask Crypto Prices to give me the price of {coin}"

"Alexa,  ask Crypto Prices  how much has {coin} changed over the past {Time Period} (hour, day, week)

"Alexa, ask Crypto Prices for the top {number} coins"

If you're wondering why I bothered, I get a free echo dot if 100 people use it in the first month, so I thought 'why not'!

If you guys need some mental strength to strengthen your holding hands I suggest Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Very wise roman emperor that wrote verses to himself so that he could go back and read them in times of trouble. His thesis is that our minds are a fortress and we can be strong in times of trouble. He never intended them to be released but they were saved and distributed after his death.

Let me tell you a story:

December 2015. I just read Dave Ramsey's book "The Total Money Makeover". I decided I would finally crack down on my student debt.

Found 2k presale ETH that I had set aside for the future. "Is this thing finally available for trading?" I says to myself. Sure enough, after a quick google search: it is. And what luck! It's trading at about $.90 each. Score on profit!

Well I look at the platform, and I look at Kraken and Poloniex and to get the big picture. Volume is low...super low...like 1.5k low. As I debate whether to sell my potentially valuable crypto asset to kick my debt payoff into high gear, I think to myself, "Well...maybe best to get rid of it now. After all, there's such low volume--it might be difficult to move all of it at a later date."

So I decide to sell. My final justification: "Well I'll just buy back the 2k ETH in a few months when I'm debt free." I got ~$1800 for my 2,000 ETH. Then I watched in horror when, in January, it jumped to $2...then $4...then $6...then $10?! $12?! $15?! Best case scenario: I could've traded that ETH to close to a $100k right now. Worst case? I'd be sitting pretty on $22k right now...from my $550 investment.

The moral of the story is this: the last time volume was this low was about 2.5 weeks before the biggest price inflation in ETH history.

So no, you should not start worrying if it does not pick up till the end of the week. You should be using this time to accumulate.

> "After Q2 we will publish the smart contract showing all the burned ICN tokens. This smart contract will not have any options to withdraw ICN, which means the tokens are locked forever. You can not move tokens out of a “black hole” smart contract as there is no send function, and the contract has no proxy method to deploy a new contract. We originally thought about using 0x000000 address, but this could mean burning would be temporary due to EIP 156 (you can read more about that here https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156)."

https://steemit.com/iconomi/@jomeszaros/iconomi-financial-report-q1-2017-incl-burn-rate

Dead cat bounce. This where the difference between "trading" and "investing" comes in. If you're an investor, you hold through this and you don't care. If you're a trader - i.e someone who makes short-medium term trades expecting to make more profit, then it's without a doubt that you should have sold by now and might have even entered a short position.

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@icrushdreams/ethereum-could-plunge-right-through-the-200s

super roughly as fuck, go here:

https://cryptowat.ch/gemini/ethusd/4h

in the top right if it says 15min, change it to 4hr

click the settings gear in the top right and check/enable "MFI"

OKAY.... so now at the bottom of the screen notice how there's a line representing MFI. Notice how when that line went to the top and turned white (indicating over bought), ETH crashed down from 420. Notice again how when the line goes to the bottom and turns white (over sold), the price jumps from 210 to 320.

This is super rough because there's lots of indicators you can use to measure when to buy into a market, but at least in your case, if you had looked at MFI on a 4 hour scale, then it would have told you that you were buying in when the market was the most over bought (which indicates price might drop), and sold when it was most over sold (which indicates price might rise).

What you can do in the future, assuming you plan on holding, is wait for MFI to go down low again to indicate that it's over sold, buy in there, *and then sell once you hit a profit goal or the MFI goes to the top and turns white again indicating that it's over bought.

On ETH inflation:

I'm not a huge fan of that argument when it comes to the reason of the bear market and why it can't recover. We're adding ~32,000 ETH a day right now, or $250k at current price. Let's stretch that over 30d and even get more conservative and put us at a $10 price point and that's $9,600,000 in new ETH generated every month.

Looking at CMC we can see that the 30d ETH volume is $240,000,000. So even if we assume every single miner is dumping their ETH and we're at $10, we're only at 4% of total volume coming from new coins, or simply put, a blip on the radar. And again, miners aren't dumping 100% of their ETH.

So, there are absolutely some reasons ETH is going down right now (BTC pump, dapps lacking a bit, and overall FUD about the network) but inflation simply isn't one of them.

Woosh, you totally missed the joke. Read the paper, anyone can call themselves CEO of Bitcoin cash. He's making the point that we all have the same say:

https://www.bitcoincash.org/letter-from-the-ceo.pdf

the development on ETC is a contract where the purpose is to help crowdfund for other developments. Isn't this just the solidity code on ethereum.org?? https://www.ethereum.org/crowdsale

Unless I am wrong, but based on what you said, that is not development that is just forking ethereum's crowdfunding tutorial page.

Anyone who is wasting, or who is thinking about wasting their money on the dash bubble should read this article:

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@thedashguy/warning-why-i-don-t-trust-the-price-of-dash-nor-the-community-be-careful-folks-invest-wisely-diversify

It also speaks to the dangers of on-chain governance. It is good that Vitalik is being cautious/skeptical with any on-chain governance schemes. How does Tezos avoid this fate? Or Dfinity?

I interpreted this as a reference to the well known the Peter Thiel book on startups called Zero to One. The focus of the book is how you launch a v1 for a totally new company or idea. Getting to v1 is the hardest part of launching a startup. You have to strip out all the extraneous stuff and focus only on the things that matter. Going from 1 to N is making incremental improvements upon the basic BAT framework and browser interaction, but you can't get there without having a working proof of concept, and that's easiest to accomplish with Brave.

> I'm sure it'll always stick around

Of course it will.

Even the worst of the worst are still hanging around when it comes to crypto.

BTC will be no different.

I dare someone to look at this chart and tell me they think "this is good for BTC"! LOL

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage

That's what you call the mother of all dead cat bounces.

If you're a BTC holder, ignore that chart at your own peril.

My little overview of the market:

• 1) BTC/fiat 1D charts show a topped out Stoch RSI and a RSI around 80, calling for further correction in the next few days. 4H BTC/fiat shows some space for a little more upside in the next candles, but most likely not enough to hit a new ATH.

• 2) ETH/fiat 1D charts show a Stoch RSI more relaxed and currently still trending down. Witht the downward movements of yesterday, the RSI has started to leave the high oversold territory. 4H charts show that the likelihood of the beginning of a trend shift (towards downward trends) in the next periods should be taken into consideration.

• 3) As everybody has noticed, the market is being led by BTC for months now. If BTC corrects hard again, ETH will likely follow down. The good news is that we're closer to the lower trendline on the ETHBTC ratio, so there's some good possibility of a change in the winds in the few days, allowing the ETHBTC ratio to bounce back up.

• 4) The contrarian view on the ETHBTC ratio is the current sentiment on the ETHBTC Futures Markets which is now closer to the spot prices than its been in the past few weeks, which means there's some loss of confidence that ETH will outperform BTC in the coming days. A shift in the Futures trend may allow for a swifter shift on the ETHBTC current trend which is still down.

I advise caution on opening long margin positions at this point in any of the pairs (BTC or ETH). I believe we're witnessing a good opportunity to accumulate a little bit more at these and lower levels.

Again, this is hardly a reliable metric, but it's something I keen an eye on at times.

https://shapeshift.io/#/coins

Most popular trade over 24 hours: BTC --> ETH.

Haven't seen that in a while.

Okay so paste in here where you see this info?

First of all Golem is on 2 exchanges so far in its first 9 days of existance. Second that picture from Bittrex Bill is taken from? Bittrex Slack? Third Golem can not restrict any exchange from listing tokens. Fourth if Bittrex Billy wasnt such a lazy ass he would not ask for Golem to contact him on his own Bittrex Slack, no he would go maybe to their website and email them? Am i wrong https://golem.network/ Or he could come over and ask a bloody question on Golems Slack

When i want something i dont tweet to my firends telling them i want Bittrex to contact me, No i would tweet to Bittrex

Bittrex Bill would want to get off his high horse and make contact, Bittrex will be the ones making trading fees not the bloody Golem Devs

And your 1 quote from Julian sums up nothing, you took 1 sentance of what he said and wrote a story about it. Read the bloody rest of his comments

Ur spewing shite, there are 820,000,000 GNT tokens out there and any exchange that wishes to list then can do so

If you ppl want to confirm the selling pressure on ether just check the pump attempt on Bithumb about 10 hours ago (see here: https://cryptowat.ch/bithumb/ethkrw).

The green candle is barely noticeable in all the other exchanges. For the ppl that dont know many ether price jumps started in bithumb, the south korea biggest exchange. They have BIG and concentrated buy power, and back in may when ether started pumping many of the pumps were started in bithumb.

Nowadays it takes a lot of effort to move ether price across the other exchanges.

It even seems to me that sometimes they abort the pump cause of no reaction. Also they started investing heavy in bitcoin cash and it is much easier for them to mive its price...

Damn IOTA ICO ROI is 236934% and now this....

[Forwarded From Wolf Crypto News Telegram]

Microsoft and IOTA launch first cryptocurrency market for the Internet of Things

IOTA has partnered with Microsoft, Fujitsu, and twenty more companies to launch the first publicly accessible data marketplace for the Internet of Things.

*Sources: * https://blog.iota.org/iota-data-marketplace-cb6be463ac7f https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2017/11/28/iota-microsoft-data-marketplace-cryptocurrency/

FunFair August update is the most professional crypto update I've seen to date. When you are invested in a project, this is the type of quality and detail you should expect from your projects. They are leading by example.

/u/Mr_Yukon_C/ should be pleased!

https://ethereumclothing.com/products/hard-fork-cafe

I made a post recently about all of Vitalik's shirts if you want to see more

So I'm keeping an eye on the BT1 (Core) / BT2 (Segwit2x) fork that is upcoming. Interesting to see that futures trading heavily favors the Core coin. The ratio is roughly 7:1.

Honestly, I find this surprising. I thought the split would be much closer, or even give an edge to BT2. Still, things could change after the fork.

If Core coin remains the "main" BTC chain, I am not honestly sure I ever want to own any BTC again (I currently don't hold any). The Core team and supporters come across to me as zealots / borderline lunatics when discussing their fervent devotion to 1MB block sizes. What future could this coin possibly have?

A lot of these tickers are pulling from coinmarketcap.com, which is a weighted average of all the known markets. The Korean exchanges are currently over $100.

Hi guys!

I built an app to check the price of Ethereum in Chile! So if you are Chilean you can use this to see the price. Any suggestion is welcome! (If you are not Chilean I doubt this will be useful)

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/etherchile/id1264308895?ls=1&amp;mt=8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etherchile

> ...a better store of value than Bitcoin, whose sole intention is to do just that.

What? LOL Please...

Bitcoin: <strong>A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System</strong>

Could you please point me to the "store of value" language in the Bitcoin white paper? Thanks.

BCH will require centralized mining eventually. It's not what youre looking for. https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@penguinpablo/bitcoin-cash-is-not-decentralised-92-of-the-blocks-are-mined-by-only-2-miners

And the larger the sizes get the more it will be impossible for smaller miners to accomplish anything. If you want something that will be hijacked by a government and controlled at some point than go BCH otherwise Go BTC, Monero, Dash. I say dash just because it has a really cool idea of decentralized everything, and I like that.

HOLY schmoly https://cryptowat.ch/markets/bitfinex/bch/usd

Droppppp on BCHUSD Finex. Wow

edit: Looks like Bitfinex halted trading....maybe? that pair rekt

I can imagine a tweet: "system maintenance"

EDIT: I knew it....lol. https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/1063113051463921665

I have learned of two ways to import 'live' market prices into a google sheets for a personal portfolio I'm in the process of creating, they are:

With the CRYPTOFINANCE addon: '=CRYPTOFINANCE("ETHCAD","price")'

The second is to use '=IMPORTXML("https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum","//span[@class='text-large']")'

-The importxml options seems to be more 'live' and the rate for lower altcoins is more accurate, I would prefer to use that one, but it comes out in USD. Does anybody know of how to modify it to output in CAD? I guess I could also modify it to multiply the value to the exchange rate but that just gives more possible problems.

-Also, is it possible to just pull the info from Quadriga? As that's where I'd withdraw from, and it's naturally CAD, I rather use that but haven't found a link that correctly pulls using importxml.

Correction: To get to $100 is very simple.

If we see anything near a flippening, the market liquidity will be so low for Bitcoiners to switch over, that the price could easily hit 4 digits.

Bitcoin hardforks and that is the end of Bitcoin for awhile.

https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2017.03.17-Hard-Fork/

Meanwhile, Ethereum as a technology moves on strong towards POS and scaling.

Talk about trade of a lifetime.

I'm looking at the beautiful bull flag on the 3-day and 1-week charts on Cryptowatch. For the week chart especially, there's a clear correspondence between volume and price action. The last time we saw volume as low as we've seen recently, we were in the "lost month" of April, when the price consolidated in the $40-50 range. I suspect we'll bounce around $285-320 with (possible tests around $260-350) until the BTC fork. Then we continue our upward trend. If you need some encouragement, take a look: https://cryptowat.ch/gemini/ethusd/1w

I just noticed that Yunbi has knocked Polo ETH/GNT from the second spot in trading volume, and it's Chinese Yuan buying direct. So hard cash is flowing into GNT: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/golem-network-tokens/#markets

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/?markets=main#markets

Fiat x ETH market starting to catch up with the ETH x BTC dominance of Poloniex. Thnaks to Gemini and GDAX! Anti-ETH Shorters manipulation is hopefully over.

Well its a slow day so I've made a straw poll to get a general idea of what everyones EOY price sentiment is now that we are starting to build some confidence again. https://www.strawpoll.me/15549139

https://cryptowat.ch/markets/bitfinex/eth/usd/1h
Those 100k volume aren't new longs. That's actual ETH being traded. Shorts are actually increasing way stronger, so if that bursts, it'll get another push.
https://datamish.com/d/000000011/ethusd?refresh=30s&amp;orgId=1

so anyone who still says that when BTC falls we fall harder can take a hike. looks like shorters at .05 capitulated, there was a high volume bounce up from that little wobble. I think we're seeing bigger players accumulating ETH on the ratio pair.

I'm hoping we see an ETH ATH in the near future, once this all rebounds.

ETHBTC Futures reaching for 0.06 (roughly 10% above spot price of 0.054x).

Confidence that Ethereum is the best asset to be in at the moment is still on the rise.

If you mean long vs short positions you can use bfxdata to see current open margin positions. If you only want to see the ratio, use Cryptowat.ch

Their innovation is truly extraordinary and impressive. I lost ETH during the theft. I made that and much more back by converting my BFX tokens to equity. I now feel lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. When it first happened I did not feel this way at all. What they did to compensate me was truly impressive. They have a smart, dedicated and fair minded team. Bitfinex and Ethfinex now have my loyalty forever! Here is a good explanation of how they accomplished this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoxDg_dX4l8

Here is a referral code if anyone would like one: https://www.bitfinex.com/?refcode=38BhvnEDSD

seems to be a lot of posts by young accounts saying they're moving from ETH to BTC.

not casting aspersions or whatever. my personal experience has been that moving into anything so close to an ATH is a bad idea. and look at this 1D.

maybe BFX will pump past 5800 in another burst of irrational exuberance and it'll crack $6k. or maybe we're about to see a whole lot of new money getting rekt. no-one knows.

Not sure why the market likes PoS so much? I assume that's part of the reason why INSANE (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/insanecoin/) went up over 3000% in 7 days? Makes me wonder how PoS will impact the price of ETH...

https://player.fm/series/analysis-in-chains-linking-opportunities-in-blockchain-bitcoin-ethereum-and-other-cryptocurrencies/20-interview-with-sergey-nazarov-ceo-of-smartcontractcom

I always like me some info. This is 3 days old already, but seems like people haven't listened to it yet.

Awesome. Brave v1.0 which should be coming this fall (it's a rewrite of the browser) will have total Chrome extension coverage, so you'll be good to go then (assuming you're talking about an Evernote extension)! https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

For those looking to invest in the Storj ICO tomorrow: https://steemit.com/storj/@noos/thoughts-on-storjx-sale-tomorrow-a-warning-tale

I would highly recommend an alternative investment in Sia: http://sia.tech/

Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor - Chapter 8 - I review this several times per year. Here it is with some discussion included.

https://vancouvervalueinvesting.net/2013/12/13/tii-chapter-8/

50-Word Recap

Do not try to time the market. Instead, focus on acquiring high-quality securities at reasonable prices. Quantitative criteria can be used to aid investors in determining what constitutes a “reasonable price”, but this is far from an exact science. Investors should be comfortable waiting for such prices to present themselves.

Price ≠ Value

Speculation ≠ Investment

DigixDAO (DGD)'s market cap is now $20 million below the price of Ether it holds in the DAO smart contract. Lolwut.

$133 mil market cap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/digixdao/#markets $156 mil in Ether: https://etherscan.io/address/0xf0160428a8552ac9bb7e050d90eeade4ddd52843

He'll probably meet with Bo Shen on the trip, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bo-shen/7/104/83b - a major Chinese crypto 2.0 investor (incl Ethereum and Augur) and evangelist. Bo helped BitShares gain the significant support of the Chinese community leading to most trade volume coming from Chinese exchanges, even today. Maybe he'll do the same for ethereum.

According to CoinMarketCap 833,032,000 GNT are in circulation out of a total of 1,000,000,000. Your information is wrong if you think they're holding 95%. It's more like less than 17%.

EOS is, and always has been, a fraud:

Research: EOS is not a blockchain, it’s a glorified cloud computing service

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/11/01/eos-blockchain-benchmark/

Amazing how well this guy called a potential black swan on BTC with shifting mining power. At least part of his predictions have already come true: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@belerophon/the-black-swan-that-could-turn-bitcoin-upside-down

I posted about this in the main but want to make sure everybody knows, if you're in the US and on Bitfinex, they just gave until Nov. 9 to withdraw your funds. Trading and withdrawals for US customers end on that day. https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/227

I don't understand all these comments saying "this is too fast" and worrying about everything tanking. a pullback is normal but looking at e.g. the 2H it's hardly explosive growth. did you see what bitcoin did for the past 3 months?

1 Week Charts for BTC: https://cryptowat.ch/bitfinex/btcusd/1w

1 Week Chart for ETH: https://cryptowat.ch/bitfinex/ethusd/1w

Has there been anything like this in the history of anything? Seriously, this is insane.

At what point does the mind of the market say this has gone parabolic and "correct"? There are 2 sides to Blockchain right now, the innovators working on the technology and the speculators.

Despite the advancement of blockchain technology from the innovators, at some point, people WILL have to say "wow, this is too expensive" and the buying will slow down as speculators wait and the new guys on the sidelines turn away seeing how it is too expensive for them now. The last true correction was mid September and we are hitting some really long green candles for BTC.

This could be good for ETH as BTC profits turn to ETH for the next Bitcoin that goes crazy. Another part of me says there are bigger Bitcoin forces to prevent that from happening but as time goes on, they will not be able to control the markets anymore.

Just food for thought. Never say never, but looking at that 1W BTC chart, its starting to look like the peak of the 2013 Bitcoin bubble burst with the long green candles and parabolic curve.

Before you buy in, note that the OP obviously has financial stakes in this, and cherry picks favorable facts.

Know that Etheroll has almost no volume, which is a classic symptom of pump and dump. https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/etheroll/#markets

Someone with just a small 10k investment can move Etheroll's price significantly.

More likely answer: encouraging investment in and hinting at ROI on Ether totes legal lines with the SEC that Ethereum would be better suited to not deal with.

I'm not a lawyer but from what I've heard (this is a good start: https://player.fm/series/the-third-web/the-third-web-1-re-examining-the-legality-of-icos), a staff member hinting at a percent return on their crypto asset can be enough to qualify it as an unregistered security.

So... No definitive news on China, but here's a taste of what we might see pretty soon:

Tencent

HuaWei

Deloitte

IBM China

JP Morgan

Wanxiang Group

They just recently finished the EEA china address, so it may take an hour or two to hear who they announced.

Edit: Why the downvotes? My source is pretty legitimate, as someone actually in attendance: https://steemit.com/china/@justinhsiao/global-blockchain-conference-chengdu-2017

ETH getting some love from the front page of eToro.

https://www.etoro.com/discover/markets

The ETH caption (next to BTC,Snapchat, and Nintendo) says

> Ether now available for trading!

> Wish you've known Bitcoin since it was only worth a few dollars? Here's your chance with Ethereum, second-largest crypto currency.

ETH has been getting a ton of attention there.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/#markets

Looks like the FIAT pairs are increasing their share of the trading volume over BTC. Last I checked Polo was always in the 2x range for ETH/BTC.

Amusingly the number one use case for Bitcoin seems to be buying ETH.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets

I'm looking at the btc dominance trend on coinmarketcap and feel like we are going to enter into a plateau phase in terms of bitcoin dominance, hover around where we are now at 86-87%, before the next big alt rally where it goes sub 70%. timeline: 2-4 months

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#btc-percentage

Just looked this up because I was curious. This page from Ethereum's official site says, "The current branding guidelines will be updated to reflect a policy that all current Ethereum logos are under Creative Commons attribution 3.0."

Here is the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 information, which says you are free to, "remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially."

**LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS ALREADY DOING THIS. I'll back off for now. :) **

Ok if there is interest I will get an order of golf shirts printed. I have a good supplier for my record label to get shirts made and have dabbled in the merch business before.

I think some nice dark grey collared golf shirts with the logo on it and Ethereum underneath would look snazzy.

Exactly like this: https://www.ethereum.org/assets

I can do a mockup soon.

How many people are interested? This would be on a pre-order basis but it would have to be FIAT or Ethereum only.

Also, I would have to include shipping as part of the cost as I would get them shipped to me and then distribute from there.

Also considering doing a nice batch of ethereum diamond stickers and sending out a sticker with each order.

Potentially have this on the back but that would increase costs as another screen printing setup would be required: http://media.coindesk.com/2016/02/Screen-Shot-2016-02-24-at-10.42.13-AM-728x369.png

RSIs look they're bout ready to flip. Crypto fear index at one of the ATLs with a value of 9. Capitulation like formation at 4am last night.

I think we might be ready to go.