Sorry, but your math is way off. You've used different prices. The initial buy is on 8 Aug 2015 and the data we have from LC closes on 12 May 2015.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ tells me that the price of ETH was above 1 USD for virtually the entire day getting only as low as 0.7. Best case scenario here is that Vicki buys in at 0.7 and gets about 1429 ETH. Holding this translates to $125 752 if we hold until 12 May 2017 (closing price was about $88).
$125 752 is smaller than $689 393.
I'm not suggesting that the bot is flawless or gospel, LC's own data suggests that only 40% of the trades are profitable. I'm just defending that it outperformed holding. Which it did.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/#markets
Looks like there is a USD/ETH premium. Edit: Looked more and there is a USD premium on a few other coins as well.
CNY on Huboi and OkCoin is going into LTC.
KRW on bithumb and Coinone is going into XRP.
Can anyone tell me the last time there was a ETH/USD premium?
What are you guys all using for transferring ETH? Ledger, MEW, something else?
The workflow that I'm leaning to adopt is firing up my bootable usb drive containing Tails (linux distro popular in Darknet sub - https://tails.boum.org/), connecting to myetherwallet, then disconnecting from the internet after the site has loaded up in the browser. I would use the files from github locally but Tails makes them render wonky for some reason, guessing it's some security feature or some browser thing.
Tails is amnesic in that it resets to a fresh state every time it shutdowns down. In the event that my operating system was compromised in the short time that I was online, I should still have a clean slate once I shutdown. As long as I don't reconnect back to the internet before then, no data should be transmitted back.
A photo circulated a couple of months ago of Vitalik with his laptop. It had a very prominent "OmiseGO" sticker on the front (https://steemit.com/dogecoin/@isbkch/coin-stickers-on-vitalik-buterin-s-laptop)
Regarding Tezos, fell upon this article while doing some research on the couple of founders:
https://steemit.com/ico/@eeks/beta-ing-the-tezos-experience-red-flags-for-the-ico-and-open-questions
In particular this sentence : "Note: their obsession with Ethereum runs deep. They named their language Michelson, after the Michelson-Morley experiment that proved "aether" doesn't exist... :/ "
Hint: I'm investing in people I find both sympathetic and smart. And lots of smart money seems to be doing the same.
Personal rules I try to follow : Don't be consumed by greed, that's the best way to lose money. Follow your principles, be honest with yourself and keep your integrity, that's the best way to not be unhappy.
So BCH has put in the bottom at $190. I believe the current risk reward now favors BCH. Watch the hashrate for BCH https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20cash-hashrate.html If it continues to uptick BCH is going higher. Look at the markets already covering it https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets This coin is not going away. Now if it can prove to be more progressive than bct (which does not take much) we could have a flippening her also.....
Your reading me wrong I like Pivx. I have held for months. I wrote the Intellisys Capital research report on PIVX. I'm saying it's a joke that the mkt values doge over PIVX. The utility value of PIVX is much greater than DOGE.
https://steemit.com/pivx/@laughncow/pivx-research-by-intellisys-capital-llc
Just some thought regarding the fiat / crypto volumes:
Although the BTC / JPY volumes are significant and comparable to USD, one can see that the ETH/JPY volume is pretty much nonexistent (mainly KRW/USD/BTC/CNY/EUR in that order). https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/btc/analysis/USD and https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/eth/analysis/BTC
Don't really know whether it is because very few people in Japan actually speak English properly (and amongst that pool, find people who are interested to make a change in the society. Tips: conformity is the rule over there) or because of any other reason.
But considering the amount of sleeping capital in Japan, I can't imagine ETH would be in a bubble until JPY volumes start picking up.
Short-term, I kinda believe ETH might be overvalued if we stick to its fundamentals and actual progress. Long-term, and especially relatively to BTC, it is probably undervalued.
First I thought EA announcement for sure , because I thought VB and Andrew Keys was speaking. Then I thought no EA announcement when i realize they are not going....then after seeing the schedule for tomorrow, I think must be some EA CHINA announcement, not the big 80+ company that we were expectating though.
https://steemit.com/china/@justinhsiao/global-blockchain-conference-chengdu-2017
The Nectar Token
>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.
The application is containerized , which means all the parts are compartmentalized. The only real requirement for you to download is docker . If you follow the instructions to install that on your computer, that will be the best place to start. After you've got that, to run my app it is just a simple command to get the entire system running.
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance) Hardcover – January 1, 1999 by John J. Murphy (Author) The Bible of the religion of the triangles. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735200661/ This is the old testament, the one before Fibonacci technical analysis, don't remember which Fib book is the new testament.
read this book is the best advice I can give you...it goes against logic at first but its correct.