Ok, I guess I was off by a day

BAT ICO,

They're valuing your Eth @ 155, which was where it was a few days ago..seems pretty scummy to not take the Market Price at time of ICO or even few hours out of it. Not going anywhere near that one until it's more clear what they're actually bringing to market...

I really think most of these ICO's are NOT worth the price at all. They seem like a lot of straight gamble in my eyes. Do any of us really need even more volatility? Personally, I'm holding ETH only and no other tokens for now. I expect ETH ratio to continue climbing against BTC (as it has for months, and will continue). I still think we finish this year >>>>$350, especially with Metropolis coming in August. At some point a lot of BTC money later this year will pour into ETH for an additional bump (once again my opinion) so you're much better off holding ETH than speculating on some of these ICO's. They're all so early still.. If I was to buy, I'd rather pay somewhat of a premium in the future for a more developed/more flushed out concept that's being used/roadmap is more proven (possibly say Augur or something, down the road). BTW, Gnosis is so overvalued, I hope no one is in that one.

If I wanted to convert ~$5k BTC into ETH, is opening a coinbase account the quickest/easiest way to do this?

^^ I feel the same way about the ICOs. The risk/reward seems bad vs just holding the ETH.

Whatever exchange you're already on is the quickest. Otherwise yeah, just get verified on whatever one (Coinbase is fine) and go from there.

OKCoin to add ETH on June 1st. This is it.

Is it unwise / costly to use shapeshift.io?

For nominal amount I've never had a problem pre 2017 before I was using a full fledge exchange. I did some calculations at the time and the prices you were getting quoted on were within 0.25% of the actual exchange rate


But an exchange gives you far greater control.

Strap in boys

Thoughts on Golem and Augur? Golem brass update incoming and coinbase possibly supporting both in near future, could be some nice returns. I know they are very long term projects though.

Trying to figure out if it's priced in already and the reason for the large run up over the past 2 weeks. I hope not.

poloniex will likely give you the best rate

https://icostats.com/vs-eth

not much is up relative to eth

I have a couple hundred dollars in REP. I bought it because I'm planning on using it when it comes out since I can't bet on predictit where I'm from.

GNT on the other hand is a big fat joke. Computer power is a commodity these days with razor thin margins. Short term, they are only trying to disrupt the 3D rendering market (which is like 200 million in sales) and I don't see any medium or big sized company trying this cloud computing thing when their data won't be crypted and the only upside for them is to save a few bucks.

OTOH, I like RLC (iExec). They are french with an academic background from Normale Sup. Normale Sup (ENS) is the french MIT. They regularly sprout Fields medals. The guys have been in cloud computing for ever and they have connections to China. Their vision is to make apps to run more complicated code off the main blockchain but still in a trustless way. Right now, a lot of apps cannot be run cost effectively on the blockchain because of the gas cost every time a function runs on the network. Despite that, I feel the risk / reward is still not nearly as a good as simply investing in ETH.

I purchased ETH on coinbase a couple of days ago and it's currently pending.

If I click on the transaction it says "Received ETH +4.0" "+585.80"

But in the notes section of the transaction it says "Bought 4.0000 ETH for $649.07 USD."

Any idea what the difference between the two USD amounts is? Thanks.

ETH seems so absurdly bubbly to me at $210. I get that it's tech is superior to btc in a pretty much every way, but is anyone actually using ETH for anything? I can use BTC to purchase a great many things, make a deposit on many sites, place bets and every exchange supports BTC while the same cannot be said for ETH. Most people are buying BTC in order to buy ETH. Another doubling would cause it to surpass BTC in market cap, but I mean ETH is pretty much worthless in terms of real world usefulness right now. It's market cap should not be > BTC at this point in time or in the upcoming months IMO.

From BAT slack

oh ****. We really are decoupling from BTC now. Could the flippening really happen in a few days?
ETH:


BTC:

Yeah this has been the biggest news to me.

Hell I think I even asked in one of the 3 coin threads why every alt correlates to BTC... Except ether now apparently.

Also was able to get 3x more ETH than my previous position @160 a couple of days ago. And the GF got a small amount @140.... She already wants to quit her job.. LOL

Huobi too.

Well you know, sometimes people buy the hype.

But yeah I agree that currently Bitcoin is more versatile and literally better when it comes to a value store. But we'll see how that works out especially with BIP 148 happening on August 1st. Who knows after that really.

$224 now! If I have a lot of exposure would you recommend selling a smallish % in case of another 25-35% slide?

There are some major event happening. Huobi starting trading tomorrow, Okcoin on Thursday and then in two weeks is the large EEA, Vitalik, Chinese banks etc conference in China. So I can see some nice purchases coming from Asia in the coming weeks.

Thank you