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Pump&Dumpers are slowly loosing their BTS to long term holders. Just look at the long term charts.

The prices of all the altcoins are currently falling, probably due to the upcoming August segwit2x user activated soft fork. Many people are pulling out their money.

Thank you for your answer.
I agree with you about BitShares and hoping after some up and down it will get a bigger share of the market.

Hey there Dutch,
Can you please help me out in understanding the segwit2x better :)?
I read a post in bitcoin-magazine or something like that about this and that bitcoin would be implementing this in august and therefore the price would drop.
What I'm trying to understand is: does this only effect Bitcoin or does it effect altcoins as well? - I'm still trying to wrap my brain around block-chain technology so I'm having a hard time with this :s.

For example, I bought some Litecoin(LTC), Golem(GNT), Ripple(XRP) and Digibyte.

  • Are these also activating the soft fork? Am I likely to loose any of my coins? Can I prevent it?
  • If these coins are not activating the soft fork, do you know which ones? Should I stay away from said coins?

Anything, anyone, please help and advise me. You and your help/advice will be so much appreciated !!!

segwit2x is update for bitcon
so your other coins wount be affected.

simply explanation: segwit2x update meant to increase the number of transaction that bitcoin can make.

the fear is that segwit2x upgrade will cause many problems(to miners and ex.) that will lead to price drop.

hope you got it :)
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Superior technology often wins in the long game. ie. Bitcoin

I like it has PoW but dont like it has ASICs...

Not exactly In the early days the superior betamax lost out to VHS .

But then magnetic video tape lost out to digital. I guess its a type of ebb and flow when it comes to innovation. Or at the least that's the way it was, maybe it will be different in the future.

Only time will tell.

What makes you think BTC is superior? It has inferior TPS and is based on largely obsolete tech at this point. We have seen several iterations of improvement in blockchain tech, currently culminating in Graphene.

yeah, the only thing bitcoin has is that it came first but technically lots of coins are better than BTC

and the 5 million ph/s securing it and most likely the most experienced blockchain dev team.