Ask HN: What’s the state of Bitcoin/Alt coins?

by aerialcombaton 11/29/2018, 5:34:43 AM with 5 comments
  • by electicon 11/29/2018, 5:51:10 AM

    This is probably a hostile forum to ask such a question to be honest. The HN crowd is pretty negative on the whole concept from past experience. Which is fine, everyone has a right to a view.

    I do have some resources you can dive into where there are people talking about this very topic:

    Market at glance:

    https://blockmodo.com/

    News from the entire space:

    https://blockmodo.com/markets/latest_news

    Community posts from over 2,500 sub-reddits that deal with bitcoin and alt-coins:

    https://blockmodo.com/markets/latest_community

    You can also get this all segmented by coin as well. For example, if you just want Bitcoin you can go:

    https://blockmodo.com/quotes/BTC

    Some other blogs that I like are:

    1. https://coindesk.com

    2. https://cointelegraph.com

    Hope this helps.

  • by bsvalleyon 11/29/2018, 10:56:49 AM

    The answer is the same as the one 3-5 years ago. The only main difference today is that almost everybody knows about cryptocurrencies now. More adoption, more regulations, more projects, etc.

    Really, nothing as changed in terms of the future and potential of crypto, just a lot of positive things happened inbetween.

    Oh, prices haves gone up and down too, but who cares.

  • by quickthrower2on 11/30/2018, 8:50:27 AM

    I own some crypto but not sure I want them to succeed given global warming. Maybe something like IOTA can be energy efficient as it claims no mining is required.

  • by ezekgon 11/29/2018, 9:27:40 PM

    I'm bullish on a few alt coins (namely Nano), but I do not see a real use case for BTC yet.

  • by SirLJon 11/29/2018, 3:08:35 PM

    a solution looking for a problem...