Pages:
Author

Topic: Why is Maxcoin doing so well? (Read 3317 times)

sr. member
Activity: 396
Merit: 250
full member
Activity: 140
Merit: 100
February 20, 2014, 04:20:03 PM
#41
Understatement.  It's still new though.
full member
Activity: 259
Merit: 100
February 20, 2014, 04:02:41 PM
#40

Maxcoin has lost a lot of value recently.
hero member
Activity: 532
Merit: 500
February 14, 2014, 09:30:11 PM
#39
Maxcoin is just the next big thing until someone bigger and more well known comes along. He's taking advantage of a niche market. Nothing more. As soon as someone more famous comes along and puts their name to an altcoin, Maxcoin will plummet. I'd put money on it.
member
Activity: 112
Merit: 10
February 14, 2014, 09:25:55 PM
#38
The coin is doing well because Max keiser is advertising the coin obviously on the keiser report and his other media channels, but whether Max can lift the coin on his own to the level of DOGE or even litecoin, I doubt it. but if he manages to create media attention outside of his own media channels it could. But I doubt mainstream media will pay much attention to Maxcoin, why would they, it is just another altcoin afterall and there are more then a hundred of them. It is not like Maxcoin got some special features that make it stand out so much that MSM would pay attention to it because of newsworthiness.
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
February 14, 2014, 09:14:59 PM
#37
Maxcoin- Bad launch
Worldcoin- Stole 500+ BTC from people using the Scharmbeck and WDC foundation scam.


Maxcoin doesn't really look that bad in retrospect. It is going to be a player whether you like it or not, I would hold or buy, way too much support and volume at this point.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
February 14, 2014, 08:31:19 PM
#36
tons of idiots buying it because they think max will pump it, when they realize hes just a broke shill they will panic sell

I don't think anyone who owns 100,000 bitcoins is a broke shill.
full member
Activity: 259
Merit: 100
February 14, 2014, 04:28:49 PM
#35
And people said Bitcoin was too expensive at $5 as well.
hero member
Activity: 487
Merit: 500
February 14, 2014, 04:02:37 PM
#34
With it's current price it is far too risky for me to buy.
I hoped for a reasonable price, and have some profits from the beginning.
This is insane. About 4USD for one MAX Tongue
member
Activity: 73
Merit: 10
February 14, 2014, 03:41:23 PM
#33
Will it still rise?Should us buy some?
sr. member
Activity: 311
Merit: 250
February 14, 2014, 03:32:27 PM
#32
lol so much heat
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
February 14, 2014, 02:57:09 PM
#31
Reasons:
1. It's most profitable to mine @ current price
2. It's most energy-efficient to mine than DOGE, VTC & so on. GPUs are way cooler & quieter.
3. It has the most hypes and hence may become the only ALT to, if not replacement of, bitcoin
full member
Activity: 259
Merit: 100
February 14, 2014, 02:47:56 PM
#30

Doge and Nxt have settled near the top of Coinmarketcap, while other coins have risen (although not necessarily this far) and then fallen.

Which camp will Maxcoin fall into?
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1000
February 14, 2014, 02:28:47 PM
#29
There is no way, imo, that 1 maxcoin can be more valuable than 1 vertcoin.

For starters, there will be a total of 250 million maxcoins compared to just 84 million vertcoins.  



While I hold a lot of Vertcoins and love the technology, the name is just terrible. I can imagine the mainstream person saying "What, BERTcoin? What is that?!"
member
Activity: 103
Merit: 10
February 14, 2014, 11:51:32 AM
#28
There is no way, imo, that 1 maxcoin can be more valuable than 1 vertcoin.

For starters, there will be a total of 250 million maxcoins compared to just 84 million vertcoins.  

member
Activity: 64
Merit: 10
February 14, 2014, 11:45:16 AM
#27
Yeah I started mining Maxcoin at launch, until I realized what a fiasco it was. I mean c'mon apart from the delays, that rubbish was harder to set up mining than just about any other coin yet. Plus console only. And all that being a coin supposedly designed to have a fair launch accessible to crypto-newbies? Very newb-friendly, I must say. Perfect for a great first impression of cryptos.
Anything else that is new, sets it apart from other coins, makes it more than a clone? No, not that I can see. Please do correct me if I am wrong. Oh and the Max Kaiser publicity stunt is not a valid asset, even thought it may be the only thing this coin has.

I don't want to spoil anything for anybody, but I am not touching coins that are popular only because of marketing hype, publicity and pumping, having no other value. Apart from moral aspects, I simply find it to risky. But seemingly many people think differently. "Hype? Pump? Publicity? Stop right there, count me in!"  Roll Eyes
sr. member
Activity: 840
Merit: 255
SportsIcon - Connect With Your Sports Heroes
February 14, 2014, 11:39:58 AM
#26
^^^
Guys, thanks for the divergent views on LTC, I must think this over.
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1000
February 14, 2014, 11:36:43 AM
#25
Why is it successful?

Because the general public likes it and like Max Keiser and know that for his faults he has been fighting for crypto for years now. End of story.

95% of people do not give one crap that a few miners with expensive equipment had to wait a day or two to get their wallets and software in working order and may have lost out on a little profit, to hell with you guys, you go around multipooling coins and dumping them at low prices leaving everyone else a bag holder and move on to the next like a bad STD. I know we need miners to make crypto function but the world doesn't revolve around your schizophrenic Coinwarz behavior either.
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1011
FUD Philanthropist™
February 14, 2014, 11:25:38 AM
#24
A while back I started to realise that even bad publicity is good publicity in BTC/ALTC world.

snip..

All IMO of course!  Smiley
Yes, but not everyone looks at the speculation angle. For example, the ones that see Cyprus bail-ins and IMF peregrine ideas. I rather store to LTC (which I can use to buy real stuff here and there), then on volatile and totally virtual MAX or Doge

I'm not sure about that. If I were fleeing from a fiat I would probably put 1/3 in a 'good' CPU coin (maybe like frozen), and 2/3rds in a couple of scrypt coins that have some further innovation over BTC (more than simply using scrypt). Maybe vertcoin and HoboNickels.

LTC seems to be on a downward track in the short/medium term - where are the fiat gateways, the mobile wallets and the merchant services?

LTC is a horrible crypto community imo. How can you let a coin get to a 750 million $ market cap, effectively making many coin holders and devs rich, and then not develop infrastructure that coins 1/20th its size are almost finished with?

I agree with you though, I split my portfolio up into scrypts and CPU-minable except I emphasizes the CPU coins. They are the most ASIC resistant - essentially taking Vert's sole innovation - and sometimes have other cool features. I chose Quark to make up all of my CPU portfolio portion, and several scrypts for that side.

It has more to offer than 99% of all other cryptos and has real world value and is in place and used all over the world..
All these clone devs / copy catters wish they had the position and services LTC does..
For example does The Pirate Bay have a Quark address on every page ? ..nope..
You are utterly insane lol

portfolio ? with alts ? let me now how that works out for ya lol
Since we all know they have such a bright future ahhaha
wanna buy some Nibble for your "portfolio" ?

I can sell you some Quark too if ya want ? since it's CPU coin
well uhhh i guess it's not but YOU seem to think it is so ..what ever then .. wanna buy some ?
sr. member
Activity: 565
Merit: 316
February 14, 2014, 11:22:34 AM
#23

LTC is a horrible crypto community imo. How can you let a coin get to a 750 million $ market cap, effectively making many coin holders and devs rich, and then not develop infrastructure that coins 1/20th its size are almost finished with?

I agree with you though, I split my portfolio up into scrypts and CPU-minable except I emphasizes the CPU coins. They are the most ASIC resistant - essentially taking Vert's sole innovation - and sometimes have other cool features. I chose Quark to make up all of my CPU portfolio portion, and several scrypts for that side.

My sentiments exactly! It is almost baffling how the (rich) LTC stakeholders did not invest in new innovation when the price jumped from 2$ to 20$.
Pages:
Jump to: