Topic: Alt shilling increase when Bitcoin is under attack (Read 1824 times)

The only correlation that is CLEAR is that bitcoin has lost a TON of crypto market share in 2017. The reason is obvious - long confirmation times caused by a full blockchain and bloated mempool.

Several altcoins are showing promise technically as well. For example, Monero and Dash have better anonymity than Bitcoin. The markets have shown their support for this with higher prices. Bitcoin is going downhill technically - Segwit arguments against reality have been a waste of time and there is still no blocksize increase. The community deadlock has pushed the money elsewhere.

Once ETH miners will earn more $$$ than BTC miners they will start thinkng about changes.
Now BTC:ETH is like 1: 0.8 in $ earnings (month ago was 1: 0.7) so new 1$ to BTC 0.7 to ETH
When ETH will go to POS or super-node POS it will have 2x-10x BTC market cap easy with low inflation like 1%


over time BTC will lose market because BTC can't rise like 10x in year anymore but those small P&D can but
you can with shitcoin go into action like SDC:
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/shadowcash/
delisted from Polo and from 6$ pump went into 0.28$ in month
GUYS THIS IS -95% IN MONTH

Nothing more like Roger that many others like to dump on followers their coin:
Bitcoin Jesus promote his alts. People give to MUCH credibility to those ALT pumpers.
Now slowly we will see urn back to BTC period.
That guy will have nice profits while others will fill BAGs forever.

Agree. Those who're knowledgeable don't get caught up in those scamcoins. They are quite a few good alts. Some are simple and don't bring anything new to the table but they have decent communities. Those which do attract communities of knowledgeable people bring added value to their networks by virtue of their community's contributions.

They lack the volume of Bitcoin though. If they had the same amount of spam they'd have delayed transactions too.

Quite a handful of them claim to have faster transactions than bitcoin and a more developed core which makes them more secure but their problem is that they always were trying to catch up to bitcoin and they didn’t make an effort on promoting them in some sites so can people can actually spend the coins that they earn.

You are right,this speculation greatly benefit altcoins especially those in the top 10,people thought that bitcoin will go down and another altcoin is poised to take over which are just wishful thinking..

I see this differently.  Bitcoin has the merit of being the first mover, but has also the oldest block chain tech.  It contains several fundamental "flaws" or "features" if you want, which make that bitcoin cannot be what it is propagandized to be.  It is/was a worthy proposal, and its current success shows how valuable these initial ideas were.  

The oldest alt coins devs saw some of these problems almost immediately: litecoin saw the danger of ASICS and industrial mining (even though its Scrypt algorithm didn't survive either ASICS - but at least one understood this flaw in bitcoin).  Peercoin realized the fundamental problems with PoW all together.  It is amazing how well peercoin is designed as compared with bitcoin, btw even though it gave up on decentralized ultimate consensus.   DASH realized the problem with transparent ledgers and the need for fungibility and privacy, but this wasn't really solved until cryptonote came out, originally with bytecoin, and which is right now done with Monero, who also solved the limited block size issue and the fee instability issue in a certain way.  
Ethereum brought crypto to a whole other level, by allowing whole applications to run on top of it.

None of these coins are problem-free themselves, but they are all superior to bitcoin's system, individually.  Some are damaged for ever by economic scams, but that doesn't mean that their technologies didn't all tackle serious flaws in bitcoin's system: PoW, asic mining, slow difficulty adaption, block reward halvings, limited blocks, transparent chain and traceable transaction history, ...

Bitcoin is what it is, with all of its design errors, but with its brand name of first mover.  Bitcoin is designed to protect itself from change.  This is something it does amazingly well, but this is also due to the uniqueness of its brand name, and the religious devotion that its users have towards this brand - somewhat like Apple customers.  This is its most important value proposition: its brand name.  

Core wanted to abuse an obvious design error, the block limit to 1 MB, to leverage it into a radical change: segwit.  They didn't want to solve an easy issue (lifting the block limit or bringing it to a high value), in order to force bitcoin's community to accept a radical transformation of bitcoin.  Bitcoin's immutability mechanism responded by introducing sufficient variants to that idea so that consensus over this radical change could not be found.   As such, Core lost its centralized power over bitcoin by overplaying its hand.

this is a very good point and i have been saying the same thing for ages

the thing to remember is that all these coins have been around for a long time, some of them even for many years and absolutely nothing has changed about them. even one bit. then in all this time you never hear anything about any of them, not even a single comment.

then their pump starts.

after that you keep hearing how good they are! if they were good, they were good all this time, why nobody said anything then.

then to complete the cycle of the pumping, after the dump happens and they are satisfied with their profit, you again don't hear anything about any of the coins again up until the next pump!!!

Core offered their solution for bitcoin's problem, we can blame miners - not community for not accepting it (number of nodes speak for itself).
BU proposal linked to emergent consensus is nothing more than opening gate for future manipulation.

People who turned their heads away from the bitcoin are nothing more that whimsical kids looking for distraction and fast money hungry speculators.
 

What really happens will remain a secret, its normal traders left bitcoin, dump their bitcoins and join the pump over others altcoins, isnt a secret if price of bitcoin drops it means usually some altcoin is being pumped, or some bad news that made investors to give a try into others altcoins. Whales does like the bumps and much more the dumps since they able to make money on the two sides.

If you are too dumb to capitalize on this phenomenon, you should not be into Crypto currencies. I do not only invest in Bitcoin, but rather into Crypto currencies. If I see the hype wave growing, I start buying and I ride it till it lost all power. I have made a lot of money watching this phenomenon and timing it perfectly.

There will always be a bunch of people who will run to Alt coins, when Bitcoin is in trouble and you will need to watch the market and be invested in these Alt coins to collect when it is raining money. ^smile^

this is funny, that you think users have installed any altcoin wallet.
people who are complaining about sync time and the storage problem to run a bitcoin wallet (full node) are not going to run a wallet (full node) of an altcoin which they plan on dumping.
why do you think when exchanges like cryptsy go down they take a lot of victims and lots of altcoins lost.

people keep altcoins on exchanges to be able to dump them as fast as they bought them.

What this BU vs. Core fuckup did was cause many users which had never installed an altcoin wallet to do so.

BU opened the floodgates to altcoin dominance. Now once these guys get a taste of the freedom-of-choice and higher ROI from altcoins, they won't be coming back. They'll be converting more and more BTC to alts over time.

BU slayed Bitcoin. Or Core did. Depending who you want to blame for the Scalepocalypse.

Well I think Bitcoin will come back up and still $2000+ eventually, but the long-term outlook for Bitcoin has become less certain.

Correct there is always profit to be made in diversifying the basket when their is turbulence in Bitcoin or shorting Bitcoin in the period.
The reason alts rise during insecurity is simply put because their are people who want to hedge and the demand rises irrationally until price correction sets in again.
Whenever we see volatility of course that leads to more shilling as money is to be made attracting people to one coin over another 
Just like the Reddit mod for Bitcoin the other day on his ethereum hedge etc. 

Not everyone who is trading Alt coins is creating the attack but how about a certain few whales who wanted to make some major profit ,yes the news we hear can be speculated only after a drop and no one could predict the exact reason for any drop and if a whale wanted to create a fud scene he can very well create the illusion that there are major sell offs which could trigger a sell off ,if you look at yesterday,the coins name bitcoinplus and bitcoindark had a huge rally ,it is an example what OP is saying,fud news about the split and all the coins named bit is going up as .

Yeah because the % of the total crypto marketcap in Bitcoin dropped precipitously from the 80s to the 60s.

Although it will bounce back somewhat if the Scalepocalypse crisis is ever resolved (and it won't be any time soon!), this poll will tell you (and even explain to you why if you bother to read it) that something has fundamentally changed.

You Bitcoin maximalists are going to become minority owners of the crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Lol.  

I don't think there is any "global conspiracy"  . Whales make money off of impacting the market with buy/sell walls, what you're described is decentralized and done by unsophisticated groups of pumpers and dumpers taking advantage of the current situation.

Ok, so which precious few are solid? Come on...let's add some detail to this conversation.


Oh and to Kprawn...just saw this news: Bitcoin price dives after SEC rejects plans for ETF! Another behind-the-scenes scheme for someone leveraged heavily on some alt coin?

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-dives-after-sec-rejects-plans-for-etf-2017-3

Most of them. A lot of them bring nothing new or interesting to the table and exist solely to make their creators a quick buck.