Those articles are incoherent to those of us who are not familiar with Ethereum.

Cryptic indeed. Just say what you mean.

How do you guys see a possible regulatory crackdown on ICOs play out? These valuations are insane for what is essentially a nice website and a <insert color> paper. Would it affect current companies valuation? What about Ether? How would they even go at regulating these things? I don't see a way for the government to regulate ICOs and only ICOs, they would most likely attack exchanges which would be a disaster for everyone.

There will be decentralized exchanges soon enough. Really they only thing the govts may be able to regulate is fiat/crypto exchanges. Even then, for something like bitcoin, there is nothing wrong with it. It's not a security and securities regulators would not regulate it in the same way they may regulate ico platforms and even ethereum.

so worst case, they heavily regulate all crypto except bitcoin. fiat/crypto exchanges then only offer fiat<->bitcoin pairs to stay on board with any possible regulatory issues.

People are still able to easily get bitcoin or easily cash out bitcoin to fiat. In between they can use their bitcoin on decentralized exchanges to buy any other crypto, including ico tokens.

There already are decentralized exchanges.

yes there are, but they will be become better and more mainstream.

If this happens I would be stunned. Not saying it can't but that would be really impressive.

It's getting closer and closer to happening. Eth is 35% of bitcoins market cap(high of 37% earlier this week) and was in the low 20% just a few months ago. People are slowly starting to realize that bitcoin doesn't really have much of a future unless they can make changes within. Their unconfirmed transactions and fees get higher and higher as time goes on, while eth has a roadmap for the next year at least.

The main thing going for bitcoin right now is that is the main entry into the crypto world, it has the name. It's the only real way to invest in any other cryptocurrency...by buying bitcoin and then going from there.

Heard on a podcast today that ethereum network is more secure now as there is more hash power securing it. I want to double check that.

Ethereum definitely doesn't have more hash power. In terms of miner rewards, Ethereum is paying more $ per unit time than Bitcoin is (parity is around .0583)

That makes more sense. Didn't think it was accurate.

They have different hashing algorithms, one is designed to be ASIC resistant the other isn't. They have about the same inflation measured in dollars and mining expenses will gravitate towards an equilibrium near the inflation.

This week is going to be insane. Man, I had missed gambling. I'm fairly leveraged right now and loving every second of it. The greed is real.

All i have to say is i bought 1000 ethereum when it was $10. Sometimes risk pays off. Haven't sold any yet

Then it hasn't paid off yet.

http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/05/21...taking-bitcoin

he has increased his net worth by $130,000. i consider that 'paid off' whatever that expression means.

It seems the paid activity on the ethereum network is increasing pretty rapidly:
https://etherscan.io/chart/gasused

Up 6x this year, 3x last 1.5months.

Assume the majority of that is from ICOs. If ethereum accomplishes nothing other than disrupting venture capitalism and providing an easier way to purchase and transact shares, then that is a huge success.

Of course I expect it to disrupt many other areas.

heh, i just assume he means i should continue holding because eth has alot more gains to make

Yeah I know what they're referring to. This article is wrong and all the reddit threads about this are wrong. This is the sort of stuff that people are putting out just because it's very fitting to the hype and ongoing narrative. Great for my portfolio but very frustrating to see how clueless people are.

The Köppelmann Constant is a silly concept. If we equate "the most profitable to mine" the same as most secure, then why not call Zcash the most secure coin, as it is even more profitable to mine than Ethereum.

“The ETHBTC rate where Ether PoW mining yields the same value as Bitcoin mining. Also, it is the ETHBTC rate where Ether PoW expends more economic resources on PoW than Bitcoin.”
Great. That just means ETH miners are currently overpaid based on the ongoing price rally + ****ty emission curve + ice age delay that Vitalik singlehandedly decided on. Somehow that's been translated to mean Ethereum is the most secure blockchain.

My tone is a bit harsh, but that's just frustration at how little some of these people writing these articles actually know.

The Köppelmann Constant has nothing to do with profitability, more with how much revenue miners would generate in an equilibrium situation. It gives an indication how expensive a 51% attack would be, which is one possible threat.

i assume he means you still only have eth, and not actual cash money. so until you cashout, you have 0 to show for it.

I get what he means but that's a poor way to look at it. Why value cash money and not other assets?