If you missed Bitcoin and Ethereum, here is your chance with Ripple XRP

I agree. ETH looks good.

Dash on the other hand is in free fall.

But most haven't heard about Stratis. Low volumes at the moment, but a future winner in my opinion.

There are a couple of other cryptocurrencies I'm looking at.

LTC about to switch to SegWit

load up

dude what s going on with xrp ?!?...should we stick with it or dump ? ;)))

Hold! It's long term!

Ripple is a 100% pre-mined coin. The value is determined by the morons that run it. There are some coins that may do something interesting, but Ripple is not one of them.

If you really want some interesting insight, the Dash, Ethereum, and Ethereum classic tips are good, possibly even NXT and LSK. The SEC seems to be more interested in Ethereum's ETF's (exchange traded fund proposition) than even Bitcoin.

Can you purchase any of these Crypto Currencies with PayPal?

I was just on kraken site & you must deposit cash with bank account. So can you use a credit card or paypal account?

Uh, no, OP. Do NOT push that Ripple shit... it sucks. Stick with BTC, ETH, XMR, ZEC, LTC.

yes, but arent purchases not really secure? like what happened to those who bought bitcoin and when exchanges in other countries were broken into people lost their bircoins?

Xrp is popping tonight. I also have btc, eth, Ltc, dash, xmr, and zec. I have a Coinbase account. They only provide the ability to buy btc and eth. You have to set up a direct connection to your bank. Once u initiate a purchase, it takes a week for ur coin to show up. Keep in mind coinbase is really an exchange not a wallet

I also have an account with kracken where I can buy alt coins other than btc and eth

Once you purchase your coin you should move it to a wallet. I use cryptonator and myetherwallet. I used jaxx for a bit but you can't send mining payouts to jaxx. I don't have a good wallet for xrp yet so mine is still sitting at the exchange

I recently bought a ledger nano s so I will be transferring all my coins to a hard wallet and I won't have to worry about storing them in someone else's wallet or exchange

When you do send coins back and forth between wallets, it can take up to a half hour. It depends on the number of confirmations received by the block. You can look up your confirmations on any blockchain explorer

I've also bought some coins from ico's - matchpool, humaniq, and the next one starting may 2 is tokencard

Hope this helps

If you are interested in cloud mining look at genesis mining. I bought a zec contract when it was in a bubble so i won't make a profit but I did buy some contracts for ltc dash and xmr. Looks like I'll make a profit on those purchases if the price stays positive

Just to add to this thread:

Today XRP (Ripple) is up over 30 percent. Not sure about this one, but it has some legs over the past few days.

Last week there were I think two days when it was down 10 percent each day. today and yesterday up about 20 percent or more.

just fyi.

here is a good chart that shows the market capitalization of all of the crypto-currencies. XRP is the third by market capitalization.

[link to coinmarketcap.com]

here's some news regarding XRP.

[link to ripple.com (secure)]

This is from their website. The most recent post is dated 4/26.

Note, I'm not advocating buying it. Just posting news and info.

"Can I buy with PayPal"?

I am not sure... but if you look at this page:

[link to exchangewar.info (secure)]

...there are a couple exchanges that say they take paypal.

Also... if you want raw growth at the moment, look at ETC which is Ethereum Classic. See here:

[link to coinmarketcap.com (secure)]

Ethereum is a favorite of mine as well.

But just buying bitcoin is not going to hurt one bit if the SEC ETF is approved, or even looked upon favorably.

why would you buy btc up here at a bubble valuation and dying development interest?

ETH all the way. BUY ALL heavy dips

ETH or ETC?
What's the difference
Thanks

Ethereum had an epic... seriously amazing ICO (initial coin offering) that raised over $150M USD for development of the exchange. During the ICO, the exchange was hacked! Lol.

Despite the hack and potential loss of 30% of the investment money, confidence was mostly maintained, and a significant part of the community argued that the 30% loss should be dealt with by smart thinking and clever tactics. Alas, $30M was on the table and the larger and more ambitious group decided that more active intervention was needed.

The hack was dealt with by violating one of the most fundamental philosophical principles of Ethereum: the immutable block chain. The idea that the blockchain will never change.

So, they (the majority vote) split the chain to a new one in which the hacker had not stolen 30%.

But.... hahaha... almost serendipitously, many miners continued to mine on the old block chain. Probably by accident... maybe by pure philosophical stubbornness, who knows.

So there became two chains. One that was in fact unchanged... which was thought to disappear, and the one that had been changed to revert the hack.

As a bizarre but amazing result, the ICO buyers now had coins in *both* chains and even the hacker still had 30% of the investment in the unchanged chain.

This unchanged chain is now called Ethereum Classic (note to ETC, please, please change the name) and the "main" but possibly philosophically corrupted fork is called Ethereum.

Personally I prefer Etehreum, but agree with the ETC devs that the blockchain should not have be messed with.

Ethereum Classic is more like bitcoin in that it now has a hard cap in ether production. I actually think this is a bad idea as well for various reasons.

Ethereum on the other hand has a quasi-unlimited supply... but not really.

Anyway.

As it stands, ETH and ETC are two separate and functional coins. I wish I could say that ETC has a stronger future based on philosophical resilience, but to be honest, I think it has (since the split) made some dumb decisions and that overall it lacks the crazy vision that made (is making) Ethereum amazing.

Short term investments in ETC? Yes, very strong. Long term? Not really. Ethereum will pull ahead.

Thanks for that very thorough explanation..

Yes indeed. Great read

Buy Teslacoin.

Yes indeed. Great read

Now it's at $80!!!!!

Is there a good site to create an online wallet ?

Gatehub.net

Does Gatehub accept credit card or paypal for purchasing ripple ?

Ripple tards we ride!

Now it's at $90.77 !!!!!

[link to coinmarketcap.com (secure)]

XRP now = 14 cents

22 cent-suisses


100$ next week