what's the spread generally? Is it active enough to get in and out easily?

Just p!ssed of at myself for not buying 1.000 of them 5 years ago.....


Seemed like a IT nerdy thing to do at the time. 

Now the IT nerds buy all the Banksy's  

Yeah and those damn tulips are everywhere now

This thread is a fun read!

And btw whoever thinks JPM is somehow cornering the market is smoking dope. The entire value of every ETH out there is $27bn. Big number, but for JPM it's no more than a rounding error, even if they somehow bought every unit out there (which would immediately render it worthless, ironically).

By comparison they have 600bn of real dollars on their balance sheet of 2.5 trillion dollars.

I have Neo,OMG, Ten x, civic, Ark, Litecoin and Ether.

I have a trezor which works fine, no experience with a Ledger tho. Ledger seems to be being more actively developed for altcoins.

Same here, Trezor,i trust it but Ledger seem to works very fine too

This is entirely false - volatility does not affect the ability of a medium to act as a value transfer system.

It does increase the cost of carry - not the same thing.

Thanks for being the counterparty to my shorts

I'll be around for a little while today - if you want to ask some questions I'm happy to answer just don't expect me to be anything but brutally honest.

It's basically just a glorified fund raising platform, most of the funds raised are illegal due to securities law. Literally every day another country comes out and says they are investigating or banning ICO fundraising. The hammer is coming down and when it does ETH will get rekt so hard it won't be funny.

The code itself is a rats nest of security vulnerabilities, the architecture built around ETH is sub par and not adequately tested, the cost of actually running a lot of the Dapps on the network is prohibitive to most of the projects that have launched on it.

The marketing behind it has drawn so many noobs in it's mind blowing - all those people are dumb money and the market maker will rape them for their naivety. When you see the amount of people who bought ETH and its ICO's with out putting a dollar into bitcoin you should be scared s**tless at holding ETH.

Does anyone have an opinion on XRP? An opinion on Lumens?

BTC is the best tested protocol, doesn't mean there aren't still bugs people haven't found yet though.

LTC is well tested also.

XRP - it's not a decentralised protocol, doesn't matter much if they have bugs cos ripple can just wipe it and reboot.

The biggest difference between Eth and almost all other chains is the complexity of the protocol, complexity increases the attack surface. Bitcoins core devs actively try to reduce the attack surface of the protocol, ETH just yolo it up.