Topic: VOTE - POLL How many of us are here for a cryptocoin other than Bitcoin? - page 5. (Read 3237 times)

The bitcoin ship has sailed entirely, there's really no money to be made off them; save market speculation.  Even that's pointless unless you have a LOT of capital, which no one pursuing cryptocurrencies really has: we're all after the fountain of youth.

I sit around and watch the boards and look for new coins coming out and look for hype, news, and allocate my measly 650 k/hash (7950 & cpu) accordingly.  mined 500k dogecoins before the difficulty and popularity sky rocketed, now I watch the market for them very closely.  I bought a million of them at 26 satoshis, so I'm up quite a bit at the moment.

besides all that I recently purchased the intelligent investor and  security analysis and I am learning everything I can about stocks, options, and futures.  I have a 1,000 dollar stock portfolio which I monitor daily and I've seen some success with my tiny amount of capital.

I think capitalism is a beautiful thing.  All of us have the opportunity to make all the money in the world, all we need is a little bit of capital.  Armed with nothing but knowledge, moderation, and restraint 1,000 can become 10,000 dollars, or even 100,000 dollars.  I would advise everyone to never be intimidated by anything and search out the profit and the money of the economy.  That's what got me into real finance and that's also what got me into cryptocurrencies.

Interesting, so far only 12.8% of new members are here exclusively for Bitcoin.

ROFL that's a fun way to look at it.

Bitcoin is the world leader or the dollar. Litecoin is like Euros, ProtoShares would be Yen and Tenebrix would be the Zimbabwean dollar.

other coin only.
i view bitcoin as usd, as alt coins to other world currencies

That seems like a recurring theme. People would like to be here for Bitcoin only but they feel that the cost of entry is too high for them. The community needs to solve that problem if they want more widespread use. Maybe it is time to spread the concept of mBTC or some other sub-whole-coin system.

I started with DogeCoin as my first cryptocoin.  I'm having fun mining various coins on my lowly ATI 7750 card (~140 kh/s).  So far I'm up to 0.3 BTC after mining DogeCoin, CatCoin, MoonCoin, and now CoinyeCoin.  I wish I could get into actual Bitcoin mining but the cost of entry is so high with returns that are so low.

I'll think about it. 

What about 'pump and dump crapcoin'?

Silk Road 2.0 is up and running.

I have an interest in a lot of them, but right now (besides BTC itself, of course) I have been mostly interested in PTS (protoshares) and XRP (ripples).

I am well aware (having been on this forum long before registering) that XRP generates hostility from most (ok, well, many, anyway) of the people here, but I think it has potential. Yes, I know that it is almost the polar opposite of BTC. But, I like both -- what can I tell you.

bitcoins is quite hard to mine now and I don't have the resources for that so it's better to look for alternatives that will be promising in the future

Did Silk Road reopen?

I mines the precious, aparts from whens I mines shitcoins which the stupid hobbitses trades for precious.

Think its too hard to mine Bitcoins so alternatives might be better.
CGWatcher also says some are way more profitable then BC.

Thanks for the suggestion but I think I'll leave out, "what's you're favorite pump n dump shitcoin". lol

You might want to consider investing small amounts in buying btc or ltc instead of mining. Eventually they will appreciate in value and you will make money. When you mine there are so many things to consider that you may end up losing money no matter what you do.

I dunno; it's a hard poll to create. Maybe a 'any/all cryptocurrencies' option. A lot of people just jump on pump and dumps until they're unprofitable to mine, so maybe 'pump and dump shitcoin' option  .

thank you for replying.
no i can invest in mining, but i dont have too much money.
yeah as i am minin protoshares, prime and as well coinyewest, so i will exchange them for btc later.
the issue is that they are mining very slowly because of pc mining.

You want to mine something without buying any new equipment, correct? Bitcoin needs special equipment to mine at this point but most of the scrypt coins don't. I would look at the coins with a favorable exchange rate to btc. The economy in Bitcoin is more mature than the altcoin economies (meaning - you can buy more stuff with Bitcoin). It might be a good option for you to mine something else and exchange for Bitcoin so you can buy stuff.

Help me change the poll. What option would you add without adding every altcoin in existence (the poll would be too long and always incomplete).