The clear technical winner of the crypto race is....

Pekelo · Dec 24, 2017

SunTrader said:
+ 1

Everyone loves to hate a winner. They prefer weiners aka also-rans instead.
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You have to put forward an actual argument in this thread. As long as you fail to do so, your ponzi is a failed currency...

traider · Feb 1, 2018

MarkBrown said:
Actually BitCoin has won the race, it had a child called futures. With the ability to get in and out both long and short, all that's needed for it to profit is movement. Which it has enormous amounts of thankfully.

Now ask yourself are you an investor or you a trader.
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Sir are you trading bitcoin? You mentioned that you prefer to concentrate on an ultra liquid mkt. May I Know which one you are specialised in? I have chosen EURUSD and USDJPY.

traderjo · Feb 1, 2018

Pekelo said:
...Monero (XMR)!!!! (so far)

Note: This thread is discussing the TECHNICAL aspects of cryptos, NOT price. Features and usability, not price.

Hey guys, remember 5-6 years ago when Bitcoin was touted as:

1. decentralized
2. anonymus
3. quick confirmation
4. small fee for even small payments
5. scalable
6. deflationary
7. crypto currency
8. store of value

In 7 short years, out of these 8 features, 6 proved to be not true. I know, success has its downside. The only 2 things that are still true: BTC is still decentralized and a good store of value. The rest went out of the window, when too many people's self interest was against change and improvement. Adoption is also going negative, retailers refusing the accept it anymore due to high fees.

But let's forget about the old, and obsolete, and discuss the new and improved. Monero is everything what Bitcoin used to claim to be and MORE. It is actually fungible, meaning that a coin can not be traced what it was used for. (almost like a bank note without serial numbers)

Some other coins have also better features than BTC, but fail short compared to Monero, but let's list them:

ETH: Ethereum is actually different since it is a computing platform really and not a crypto currency, although it can be used as such.

LTC: Faster, cheaper and better than BTC. For general payment, this is the one should be used. Its tx limit is 56 tx/s, beating BTC's 8 (4 in real life) and BCH's 32.

BCH: The forked bastard child of Bitcoin, also faster and better with higher tx ability than Bitcoin. But lower than LTC, so one must wonder, why bother if you can't even make it as good as an existing crypto?

Feel free to chime in, there are so many cryptos we have to learn about new features. The bottom line is though:

XMR, ETH and LTC have all better features than either BTC or BCH. Now when will the market notice this is not part of this discussion.

The King is dead, long live the new King(s)!!!
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"..and a good store of value." Pekelo are you saying this? how? please educate

Pekelo · Feb 1, 2018

traderjo said:
"..and a good store of value." Pekelo are you saying this? how? please educate
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Look at the date of the first post. Then look at the chart.

Since then one more original claim was taken out, that is it.

traderjo · Feb 1, 2018

Pekelo said:
Look at the date of the first post. Then look at the chart.

Since then one more original claim was taken out, that is it.
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Yes 7 gone out of 8....

traderjo · Feb 1, 2018

a side note: CME/ CBOE got in to this game to make money that is clear ( like any exchange it will list a product if they think people will trade and the exchange does not have risk) but the underlying itself on CME can change the BRR index, what of one of the exchange in that index goes belly up! do you know

SunTrader · Feb 2, 2018

A year ago till today which is higher - price or percentage basis: Bitcoin or the original "good store of value" Gold.

Exactly.