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Quote from: K128kevin2 on March 26, 2017, 11:38:57 AM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on March 26, 2017, 11:20:36 AM

Monero looks decent. Only problem is I don't see a good wallet for it. You have to run a full node which i don't really want to do, or use a web wallet (out of the question).

Yeah Monero seems interesting. The web wallet (mymonero) doesn't store private keys or anything as far as I can see, but you're still trusting them to serve you JavaScript that isn't backdoored which they can change at any time.

ah ok. i suppose it could be used offline then. thx.

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on March 26, 2017, 11:20:36 AM

Monero looks decent. Only problem is I don't see a good wallet for it. You have to run a full node which i don't really want to do, or use a web wallet (out of the question).

Yeah Monero seems interesting. The web wallet (mymonero) doesn't store private keys or anything as far as I can see, but you're still trusting them to serve you JavaScript that isn't backdoored which they can change at any time.

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Quote from: cellard on March 26, 2017, 11:29:39 AM

Best to stay in Bitcoin. No other coin comes close. Some have some interesting ideas... that's all. Fundamentally not worth it.

Now that BUg is lossing traction and segwit is gaining it, price is recovering. We will come out of this stronger.

PS: Beware of people selling their altcoin as the next big thing in periods of bitcoin weakness.

dozens of other threads for the scaling debate

Lets try to keep this one clean.

I agree with you -- one way or another we will come out of this stronger.

Even though Bitcoin is the best, I still think we should stay vigilant and try
to bring back the utility of fast confirmations and low fees ASAP. Don't you?

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Best to stay in Bitcoin. No other coin comes close. Some have some interesting ideas... that's all. Fundamentally not worth it.

Now that BUg is lossing traction and segwit is gaining it, price is recovering. We will come out of this stronger.

PS: Beware of people selling their altcoin as the next big thing in periods of bitcoin weakness.

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I've thought about trying to jump on one of the pump & dump alt trains a number of times but just never been fully convinced &/or missed good entry points.

You can make great profits with some of the alts but none of them are long term investments. You need to get in & out quickly, ideally sell so you can increase your bitcoin stash.

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Quote from: Alexis on March 26, 2017, 11:11:46 AM

What about Monero or Litecoin.

I also want to store monero but with my internet conenction and my space I cannot run a wallet it will take weeks before I can download the whole blockchain,I will store monero too when I got a new computer.

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Quote from: AngryDwarf on March 26, 2017, 11:26:13 AM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on March 26, 2017, 11:20:36 AM

Quote from: Alexis on March 26, 2017, 11:11:46 AM

What about Monero or Litecoin.

Monero looks decent. Only problem is I don't see a good wallet for it. You have to run a full node which i don't really want to do, or use a web wallet (out of the question).

Litecoin wasn't even on my mind but why not?

Litecoin - simple bitcoin clone with no innovation whatsover, unless you call a few parameter tweaks and a different PoW algorithm as serious innovation. It's only going one way in the crypto rankings, presumably the fact that it is 'lite' means it has not sunk as fast as PPC and NMC.

Monero has a gui in beta stage, but it does require running a full node as far as I am aware. Don't know if there are any third party SPV wallets.

like I said -- no great alternatives right now.

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on March 26, 2017, 11:20:36 AM

Quote from: Alexis on March 26, 2017, 11:11:46 AM

What about Monero or Litecoin.

Monero looks decent. Only problem is I don't see a good wallet for it. You have to run a full node which i don't really want to do, or use a web wallet (out of the question).

Litecoin wasn't even on my mind but why not?

Litecoin - simple bitcoin clone with no innovation whatsover, unless you call a few parameter tweaks and a different PoW algorithm as serious innovation. It's only going one way in the crypto rankings, presumably the fact that it is 'lite' means it has not sunk as fast as PPC and NMC.

Monero has a gui in beta stage, but it does require running a full node as far as I am aware. Don't know if there are any third party SPV wallets.

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Quote from: Alexis on March 26, 2017, 11:11:46 AM

What about Monero or Litecoin.

Monero looks decent. Only problem is I don't see a good wallet for it. You have to run a full node which i don't really want to do, or use a web wallet (out of the question).

Litecoin wasn't even on my mind but why not?

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on March 26, 2017, 11:07:28 AM

I have been seriously considering hedging a portion of my Bitcoin
holdings in other cryptocurrencies.

But so far, upon researching, they all seemed to be plagued
with one issue or another.

Ethereum? Gaining huge traction right now but one
look at the inflation curve compared to Bitcoin and
there's just no way i'm going for that.

Zcash? I read that the reason why its so anonymous
is that the funds are internally mixed using a super
secret key 'corporate team key' that 6 people have access to.
yikes.

Ripple? Not even a cryptocurrency. No...just, no.

Dash? huge instamine (claimed by accident) and 10% of
the rewards go to a treasury account, and some algo
("DGBB") gets to decide how to spend the money. red flags.

decred is good, it was done by oen of the core team tht now is working on his own project called decred, raised by more than 250% today, i would invest there if bitcoin see trouble

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What about Monero or Litecoin.

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I have been seriously considering hedging a portion of my Bitcoin
holdings in other cryptocurrencies.

But so far, upon researching, they all seemed to be plagued
with one issue or another.

Ethereum? Gaining huge traction right now but one
look at the inflation curve compared to Bitcoin and
there's just no way i'm going for that.

Zcash? I read that the reason why its so anonymous
is that the funds are internally mixed using a super
secret key 'corporate team key' that 6 people have access to.
yikes.

Ripple? Not even a cryptocurrency. No...just, no.

Dash? huge instamine (claimed by accident) and 10% of
the rewards go to a treasury account, and some algo
("DGBB") gets to decide how to spend the money. red flags.

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