Holding a large balance not used for day trading on any crypto exchange is playing with fire, get a wallet you control, there are a ton of options for this. Particularly for exchanges other than Coinbase (that resides in the US and is FDIC insured) I'd be very leery of storing any quantity with them.

You can fund Bittrex with USD I think though I've never tried it. GDAX I assume too since that's owned by Coinbase.

As far as I know you can't really buy most crypto directly with dollars no matter what exchange you are on, they almost all require the funds to be in BTC, ETH, or LTC first, so you'll still have a couple steps of conversion before you get to the crypto fringe.

Coinbase dispels rumors of adding Ripple (XRP) and Ripple drops 20%.

Co-founder and chairman of Ripple Chris Larsen currently worth 118 Billion (on paper).

Bingo. I try to only buy coins I can offload to a hardware wallet. I already have a Trezor for BTC, BCH, ERC-20 Tokens, ETH, BTG and LTC. I just ordered a Ledger for XRP. Ledger is supposed to support BAT soon, so I can pull that off the exchange as well.

Bittrex killed sign ups about 2 weeks ago, so no go there.

Your best bet is USD -> ETH through CoinBase and then send that to another exchange. Be aware that my ETH out from CoinBase took almost 20 hours to go through yesterday. It wasn't a network issue, but a CoinBase issue.

That means it's on sale then, right.

Multiple Bitcoin debit card providers suspend service under orders of Visa - https://tnw.to/2Cvzarz

At first that looked scary, until I saw this part right from Visa they just posted in an update:

"Visa has other approved card programmes that use fiat funds converted from cryptocurrency in a number of jurisdictions. The termination of WaveCrest’s Visa membership does not affect these other products."

It looks like the issuer wasn't following the rules.

They said for now which could mean anything I suppose. If they were adding it they certainly wouldn’t say just yet anyways. Really no telling. At least if and when ripple is added the price will be down.

Has anyone used Etherdelta? I have my eye on a coin, but it's not listed on any of the exchanges. It only shows up there...

Tron, The $14 Billion Whitepaper With No Product - http://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/05/tron-14-billion-whitepaper-no-product

"It is a nice idea, but its implementation in a truly decentralized manner while having the speed and convenience of centralized services is very difficult, if at all possible, to achieve at this stage. Which might perhaps be why Tron doesn’t even offer an alpha, as far as we are aware, let alone a full on product, for us to see just how it all works."

i am constantly oscilating between "oh man i'm missing out on all these alt coins blowing up..." and "man i'm glad i'm not a part of this alt-coin nonsense".

Buy TRON before tomorrow morning. Whether this means anything seems irrelevant. Beer company stocks surge when they simply mention cryptocurrency.
https://www.slashgear.com/tron-coin-price-trx-btc-and-why-its-surging-05513791/

I bought on Bleutrade HTML . Bought 650,000 coins at .0000003. It is now at .000030
Also have Ripple bought 2000 coins at .46c

So you're telling us you turned 19.5 cents into $19.50?

You're probably right (about an overnight gain) but long term Tron looks like a suckers bet...all hype and no product.

But I have 650k coins. This happened in 4 days

But I have 650k coins. This happened in 4 days

I don’t think that is $19.5
It is much less. It is not even 1c a coin yet. It is .003 of1c .
New to this.

I have been playing around with ripple for a couple of months now. Nothing big, money wise, as I'm just seeing how things go and don't really have a lot of spare money at the moment.
Definitely wont get rich anytime soon but I'm having a bit of fun and learning a little as i go.

Yeah tron will jump large tonight after announcement but hard to say how long it will last. Definately keep a close eye next 24-36 hours and be ready to sell. Will it go back down after all the excitement and where will it settle I wonder.

I’m very curious if cb is denying ripple rumors just to drive price down before they add it? With no regulation in crypt anything is possible.

I think Etherdelta is an exchange where anyone can create a crypto currency and upload it there on the exchange. Atleast, it sounds familiar when I was watching a YouTube video on creating and listing my own crypto currency >> Toastercoin

They probably read this:
https://cryptoyoda1338.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/the-truth-about-ripple/

They probably want a bigger cut of the pie...

Your original post is saying it is up 9,900%....maybe you should have thrown in 10 bucks instead of 20 cents?

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20180104-makerbots-thingiverse-3d-printing-library-targeted-in-cryptocurrency-mining-attack.html

I have already wondered what would happen if the ripple founders just up and cashed out the 60b coins. I totally would. Just walk away with billions of dollars from an unregulated market with little to no fear of repercussions.

I am fully aware crypt is dangerous and some people are going to get hurt really bad in the near future. I’m just gambling a few bucks I can afford. Personally I don’t even buy into the whole bitcoin as currency thing anyways.

Going to be very interesting to look back in history one day and see where this all got us.

25% lost in 24h.
The more the CEO is teasing, the lower the price goes. He looks like an ass anyway

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I think Disney should sue him.

So when's that announcement coming? 1PM EST?

It looks like this made $2505 Not bad for some penny coins.

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I created an account and sent $20 over there yesterday. This morning I can login but it keeps erroring out like it can't handle the 1,100 users.

That site seems to be very slow with only 1600 people on.

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"You ain't made shit until you've got it in USD and your taxes are paid." -- Abraham Lincoln

So how much of this is
1-pure speculation
2-actually buying currency thinking it may become the currency of the future
3-buying various coins as if it were stock in one of the many applications of blockchain? Let's say one of these application really takes off, how does that reflect on the value of the coin itself - can a parallel be made with actual stock in a company?

I got in at #1/2 and am mostly gambling on it, but with all these different, very specific applications (DentaCoin, po.et, etc.) it's starting to look more like #3 than #2.

For me it's all #1. Crypto might be the future of anonymous wealth transfer but it's still "Gold Rush California" times - too much cowboy bullshit.

I'm still up despite the various drops but I don't have much invested and can afford to lose it if it all goes belly up. I'd be more concerned by those not just playing around and are investing large amounts.

At the moment the real crypto challenge is to withdraw the money.
Just try it.
Every exchange is experiencing problem due to an overwhelming demand. The reality is that they put 90% of their staff on approving new members and deposits. Withdrawals are the last thing they're working on.
It's the same reason why coinbase didn't add Ripple yet even if it's the 3rd biggest crypto; they're swamped. They run a 200 billions volume with low effectif.
That's the scary part

Ive got a bitpay Visa card with thousands of US dollars on it all from mining over the last two months. It couldn’t have been easier to set up and it’s been paying for all my groceries and meals out and general shopping.

I have had zero issues withdrawing from exchanges.

I'm waiting for weeks on a 6 digits withdrawal. Maybe it needs a different set up.

Is this the Visa card you are referring to pezpunk? Is your's still active?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/01/05/visa-locks-bitcoin-payment-cards-crackdown-card-issuer/

Same card, but it seems the US market is currently unaffected:
https://twitter.com/BitPay/status/949186646091751424

People have had money stolen from them using a compromised EtherDelta site:
http://mashable.com/2017/12/21/etherdelta-hacked/

The recommendation I've seen is to download the ED code from GitHub and host it on your own webserver. Here's a thread from Reddit where people discuss how to do it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherDelta/comments/723mzq/how_to_run_a_local_etherdelta_copy/

Ethereum on the move...above $1200 right now.

Yeah ether been breaking records. Somewhere safe to put money in between dips

Yeah my card still works fine — the problem was with a European issuer not following regulations.

Dammit, I've been converting my monero into bitcoin and now monero is taking off while bitcoin is falling.

This whole speculation thing is hard!

I wouldn't sweat it...when Monero dips Bitcoin will rise.

If the Lightning network ever gets fully implemented then Bitcoin would really takeoff and Bitcoin Cash would crash...Litecoin might also.

If it's on the hood of a race car, it's gotta be legit right?

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It's called timing the market. And that is impossible with any class.

The fun part is I'm also mining monero, which is like I'm printing stocks. That offsets the corrections quite a bit.

Get your Venezuelan Crypto backed by Govt Oil!!!!!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-cryptocurrencies-getting-smoked-monday-184500706.html

More power to you guys, the "action" is certainly attractive and addictive.

Anybody willing to short Bitcoin for short stretches?

TRX taking a beating and I’m getting Fing annoyed

Yeah the whole announcement but not really thing kinda blew it for them. Hopefully bounce back if the announce alibaba partnership.

Last week money going into verge then everyone dumped when no wraith. Then all money went into tron but no real announcement and everyone hating. Now verge back up as wraith released. Next week tron back up lol