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BITCOIN Discussion v. 8 Coins on an Old Computer

The mining gear has two purposes: mining and video rendering. It's ungodly difficult to find now and I'm glad I got it all before everyone got "Mining" fever. Nvidia is talking about a card refresh come April or so that will make this generation less profitable, so now is a bad time to buy hardware for a number of reasons.
 
White Rose over here just sittin on 203111.8500 USD in BTC while also accumulating 22,960usd in BTC/year.

There goes my hero..

Coinbase is infuriating for a new comer. Not in terms of usage but by the weekly invest limits until you hit a total investment total. It will take me almost two months before I have the ability to invest as I see fit. I would have bought more LTC if the site allowed it and converted half of it in to BTC and half that in Monero. I dont like the policy. I can understand if you are buying with a credit card but I am purchasing using USD froma US bank account.
 
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The market is finally recovering. :) Bitcoin flew past $10k finally yesterday and is almost to $11k now. Strap in guys, the fun part is about to start again.
 
I will soon need to reinstall windows as it's started to do some flaky stuff recently and I want to make sure that I will still be able to access my humble bitcoin holdings. I'm using Electrum and I would appreciate any advice. I have located my wallet file and copied it to another folder on the hard drive and I have my seed and password. Is there anything else I should do before I proceed?
 
So I am officially in the crypto game lol. $1500 is a solid starting number I think. Mostly Litecoin. BTC gotta keep some. Getting into the alts more. Monero Id like to keep separate from all my other crypto as much as possible. This is a really fascinating time.

Not looking for lambos or mansions. Maybe a down payment on a WRX
 
It's a very interesting time to be sure. We're in the infancy of crypto still, widespread adoption has not happened but there are projects that are working to create it in various areas. IMO, the alts are where you have a chance to actually still get in something at the ground floor. I really like QLINK (QLC), a very interesting project with a lot of promise, a great team, they're meeting all their roadmap goals, and the founder is also the founder of China's largest mobile carrier (so a logical means to widespread adoption). The project is using blockchain to basically allow people to buy and sell unused portions of their mobile plans/data/etc. Also the market cap is super low at $50M and the project is very young. I've got about 2000 of them now (at like 20 cents a piece or a little over) and I'm planning to keep adding when I can. If it even hits $1B in market cap it'll be 20x my investment.

Anyway I've invested almost 3 grand over the time I've been in the crypto space, so far. I've diversified into 9 different projects and I have my eye on a couple more. At this point they're all long-term projects, I'm looking 2, 3, 4, 5 years down the road. The next few years will be fascinating. So far the entire crypto trade has been almost entirely speculative and driven on hype. Hype will remain a huge factor in short-term trading, but it's beginning to move far past simple digital currency. The safest goal, IMO, is to identify projects you believe will push the technology forward and fill real-world use cases. It can be hard to see past the hype, most coins are nothing more than pump and dump scams and have no substance. I've done countless hours of research at this point and I feel good about the direction things are going.

But yeah do your own research. I used to stick to the main cryptos but at this point I'm trying to be invested in things that will become the future.
 
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Litecoin has been moving sideways for a while, Monero is back to where it was when XBT was $19k. If you're on exchanges, the taxman is watching. In the U.S., every like-for-like trade is a taxable event so you need to keep track of each transaction within the crypto ecosystem because they all count towards the capital gains tax that will be owed when you finally take profit.

I still advocate sticking purely to p2p and claiming whatever profit you take as "investment income". The taxman doesn't need to know you're dealing specifically with cryptocurrency but if they do then there's much greater a chance of being audited.
 
For me, bitcoin is still new territory, but statistic shows that it is possible to make money with crypto, and many people have done that. I read about how to make money with bitcoin and some of these ways seems to be very promising. I'm thinking about Bitcoin mining, its the classic way to make money off bitcoin and intrinsic to how the whole system works. I think it's one of the most reliable ways and I believe in beginner's luck.
 
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Good luck mining bitcoin, to be competitive you have to have a LOT of processing power, there are industrial mining operations that do most of the mining because the bitcoin network has gotten so intensely bogged down/bloated that it takes a tremendous amount of power to run. You're better off mining other cryptos.

Honestly right now the market is intense. We're still in a correction and maybe haven't seen the bottom. It's a good time to invest if you're trying to invest for years before pulling out... it's probably gonna go down some more but anything now is going to be way cheap compared to in a few years, in any projects that don't become obsolete during that time. The bubble where you could easily make lots of money has popped though and we're hopefully getting back to a more modest, healthy rate of growth. We're still well above where we were before November/December when the crazy spike happened. For a lot of people it sucks at the moment, myself included, because I bought in during that spike and I'm down almost 50% right now on my total investment. But I'm holding good projects I believe will pan out, and I am adding more to my positions as I can while prices are low, and I think it's likely that in a few years I'll be really happy I held through this.

I think honestly it's pretty hard to make money mining these days, the GPUs cost so much more than they used to due to demand, and the power costs are high for pretty modest returns.
 
No that's not true. There's plenty left to mine in Bitcoin alone, the rewards get less and less as it gets closer to the max supply so it slows down more and more. Also lots to mine in other major cryptos. Also there are constantly new coins being created and many of them are mineable. The only way that mining will end is if, one day down the line, the only cryptos people use are not mineable but instead their networks operate on different models such as proof of stake (PoS) or proof of work (PoW) or something else which may not even be invented yet.

With crypto you can't believe anything you read. I mean some stuff you read is true but you have to do your own research because basically the entire market is being manipulated at a very high level with cycles of articles and even mainstream "news" alternating between causing fear, uncertainty and doubt, which gets people to sell, bringing the price down. Then the people with massive amounts of money who are doing the manipulating will buy a lot of it at a low price, which spikes the price up. Then you'll see articles about how "you have to buy this or that before it's too late, DON'T MISS OUT!!1!!1", and that coupled with the sudden price spiking gets people to buy, and then once the price spikes up to a certain point the price manipulators sell it all for a tidy profit and the people who bought on the spike lose out.

Crypto is in its really early stages, it hasn't even been adopted into our technology much at all yet. People are working on that though. Right now it's still an unregulated market so there is nothing stopping massive price manipulation which is basically stalling the market out right now and scaring more and more investors off. As much as I like the idea of an unregulated market, I think market regulations are necessary to stabilize things and make crypto seem like something legitimate to the wider world and business investors. Also, once the technology is developed to the point that it gets adopted widely into processes that are integral to our societies, we'll realize that even though we're in a crypto bubble at the moment, years from now it will be much bigger than it has ever been so far, and the utility of the technology will be self-evident (right now, although there are great cryptos with working products that go far beyond currency applications, the market is driven almost entirely by speculation). It's just like the dot com bubble... many companies didn't do anything and a lot of people made tons of money because of the hype of this new technology, the Internet. Lots of people said it wasn't going to last. But of course now we realize how much the Internet has fundamentally changed so much, and though the bubble burst, from it emerged some of the biggest companies in the world, like Amazon, Google, and so on. And the people who held on through the bubble bursting, who bought Amazon or Google stocks, have seen a tremendous growth from their investment, even well beyond what it was at the height of the bubble.

I bought in like half of my investment basically at the height of the price spike in late December, which sucks because I'm well in the negative now. But looking back years from now, this will just be a bump. Or so I believe.
 
I have a question, not sure if i missed it, but.. say i want to buy something for 100$ and i purchase 100$ of bit coin, will i have to worry about the market fluctuating, going up or down? Can i just buy 100$ without it moving?

***I posted this in another thread, i think it was in the wrong spot***
 
You buy whatever amount of bitcoin that is worth $100 at that moment. It fluctuates gradually all the time, every second technically. If you buy some and then a few hours later spend it I wouldn't worry, but even a week of holding it can make it vary in value. Even a day sometimes, although lately it's been fairly stable.
 
^ Dont forget about fees Xorkoth! Gotta pay to play the game.

If you buy $100 worth of Bitcoin, you've already "lost" money without factoring in market fluctuations.
 
Crypto is doing something exciting again finally! I have quite a collection, I'm way in the red in total but damn if I haven't gotten about 40% of the way back to green in 2 days. :)

Yesterday I heard about a scam a guy set up, he created a wallet with like $4000 of some coin on it, but no gas in there. Then he "let slip" the private key on Twitter and such. People who think, hey, I'm gonna steal this guy's money, are sending small amounts of their ETH to cover the gas cost, thinking they'll then transfer the whole lump to their wallet, but the guy has a script in place that sends any money transferred in to a different wallet. Apparently he's making like $15 a minute some minutes, scamming would-be thieves out of small bits of their money. =D Isn't the world crazy? Kinda disturbing that there are so many people willing to anonymously steal thousands of someone's dollars though.

^ Dont forget about fees Xorkoth! Gotta pay to play the game.

If you buy $100 worth of Bitcoin, you've already "lost" money without factoring in market fluctuations.

Well, you don't have to use coinbase or buy with a credit card, you can join Gemini or if you have coinbase you can use GDAX. Both are actual exchanges that will hold your USD in addition to your crypto. You link up a bank account and you can buy with very little or no fees and then your USD are on the exchange and you can buy BTC or ETH or some others too in the case of GDAX.
 
Crypto is doing something exciting again finally! I have quite a collection, I'm way in the red in total but damn if I haven't gotten about 40% of the way back to green in 2 days. :)

I'm still in the red but i'm about 20% from breaking even, which is a huge turnaround from the last couple of months. I still haven't bought more since November. I had a limit of $3,000 to invest.. as hard as it is to see coins so cheap, I know it's better for me to just let this play out. The coins I have money in have a lot of recent news and partnerships that are slowly sending the value back up. It's just a matter of making sure I don't lose my keys in the years to come. :)
 
Yeah I have been in the red since January, I did buy more at the bottom though. The last week has been good. :) But yeah, let it play out. Some big investor money recently went in, and institutional money isn't far behind. The SEC seems favorable about crypto and that is going to mean a lot. Finally exciting times again!
 
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