RE: What Would You Buy? Funcoin or Stellar Lumens?
You are so right!! I have been going to https://coinmarketcap.com/ and looking through the top 100 coins. Price of the coin obviously makes a difference on whether I can purchase or not (interest), but when I want more info, I go on each individual coin's website.
From my research today, I chose to invest some money into Stellar Lumens - XLM. Looking at their About page https://www.stellar.org/developers/ I see some BIG names. CEO of Stripe, Founder of Wordpress, Founder of AngelList along with IBM. These are some big(ger) tech companies that already have a head start.
What really got me interested was their message of "access to low-cost financial services to fight poverty and maximize individual potential" with helping poor countries be able to have a stable way to conduct business in order to buy and sell goods.
These are great read about Stellar.
Cellulant – Banking the Unbanked Across Africa
https://www.stellar.org/blog/financial-inclusion-africa-cellulant/
Why Stellar could be the next big ICO platform
https://hackernoon.com/why-stellar-could-be-the-next-big-ico-platform-f48fc3cb9a6c
I also invested into Decentraland - MANA. https://decentraland.org/
"Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications." Talk about online VR shopping malls, VR gambling through the blockchain, Carnivals, etc etc.
I read through their blogs, their twitter posts, research their history. Take a few things into account. World of Warcraft is HUGE as is in-game buying. So I figure these guys are way ahead of the curve, so I want to support them.
As far as funcoin, as soon as I logged in it said:
"We’ve detected, that you are entering funcoin.io from the US IP address or you hold the US passport. Unfortunately, the FunCoin.io network does not support the US users. " That automatically would deter me. Obviously there could be a possibility with this coin/company, but as someone has mentioned, with the legality of gambling, and so many other questions about them succeeding, I would not invest in Funcoin.
Great luck to you! We are living in a wild and amazing timeline! So many cool blockchain innovations happening.
1st. you got a new follower. Nice to meet you.
2nd, I love Stellar too and have some and think you are right about picking them over fun. You make some great points and I've read a lot of what you mentioned.
I am interested in decentraland. Where did you buy? I wrote a steemit blog about them 4 months ago and have been watching their progress. I just found it too complicated to get their coins. Where did you buy?
I apologize for taking so long to respond!
I bought them on the exchange https://bittrex.com/
Thank you so much for your kind words, and the follow.
Decentraland is definitely going places, lots of partnerships and cool things happening. I have an account with Coinbase which is tied to my checkings bank account, so I bought some btc and ltc and transferred them to the exchange to buy MANA.