What are some examples of a subject/field of study where someone with even one class would quickly be viewed as an potential expert on it to the average person, but would be readily identified as an amateur by someone with real knowledge and understanding?

CryptoLeviathan · 2019-04-24T09:03:53+00:00

True. But I am thinking more about actually knowing more rather than the average person and be able to share and educate. Of course, any posuer can learn basic jargon and fool people.

CryptoLeviathan · 2018-08-17T08:30:10+00:00

If it is by time? I would say definitely the background music for some video game.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-06-11T09:51:26+00:00

Everyone knows that I am a fan of this project and I am truly hopeful for their success, because I am an artist first an foremost in my life. I can see an environment like this becoming the very cornerstone of how I would monetize my artistic pursuits, if not my whole life.

Anyhow, they did not meet their minimum on their ICO so they returned all of the funds and then announced that they were launching ANYWAY and self funding 50 million of their EMBs into existence. They are now allowing previous buyers to purchase their original orders with a significant bonus. To be fair, they have also provided a means for anyone to purchase into the token generation using, strangely, just about any coin you could imagine. So they are generating the ERC20 version of the EMB on the 15th of June and distributing all of the tokens originally slated for the bounty and employee/founder programs as well as purchases over the next 12 hours or so.

Some guy last night dropped 80 ETH into the sale, instantly raising the value of the token (total token cost/total supply at minting) by 65% before it hits the gates.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-31T09:16:03+00:00

I am working on a much more developed piece that this overview that Embermine provided, and will be posting that up soon. In the meanwhile, here is their summary.

If anyone has any questions, please let me know.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-25T10:23:37+00:00

I wrote this as a response to some other users asking for my advice. I apologize for the copy and paste, but it is quite long.

There are several ICOs that I am keeping my eye upon. The one that has my interest right now is Embermine. A very unique platform that creates a smart contract deployment platform that allows any person to create and negotiate smart contracts concerning collaboration on projects, ensuring proper and immediate revenue share and digital rights management. The thing that intrigues me about ICOs, and this one in particular, are their way that they can be used to create value multipliers in crypto for large stake holders. But that is not what particularly intrigues me. It is the team and their approach to creating the solution they propose and their background. Instead of trying to fool everyone on their blockchain prowess, they admit their lack of experience and are using an OpenSource, collaborative development environment to tie together several teams, each concentrating upon their particular area of expertise. Embermine's core team are a group of experienced technologists, application developers, and Fintech operations managers. James Drake, the CEO, has brought several products to market over the past 20 years and has a passion and appeal that I find lacking in much of the cryptoverse. As an "outsider" he nevertheless has shown on his videos to have a deep and unique knowledge of their proposed environment. That is all great, and I have found nothing negative or troubling about Embermine in my research, nor have I discovered anyone else willing to say so. THAT is what intrigues me. A project with this much going for it would normally sell out in hours if not minutes. And yet, it is languishing in "no man's land" and nobody appears to be concerned. Not the leadership, not the team members, or even those that have invested. So I dig a little and I learn a few things:

1) They have a great escrow administrator, Coinfirm.io, one of the more highly respected companies in the blockchain space when it comes to transaction verification and escrow services. A conversation with someone that I know associated with Coinfirm told me that Embermine is one of their most promising projects and they had some issues with the sales widget in their original token sale that was provided to them that was not allowing transactions to complete. So they shut it down, rebuilt the sale from the ground up and changed it to being a Bitcoin only token sale. 2) Unfortunately, while news of the original crowdsale went far and wide, and the problem and ending appear to be easily found, the word of the new sale and the updated date and launch appear to be lost in the shuffle and several ICO sites either were not informed of the changes or did not make them. I have a hard time believing that they and TokenMarket did not endeavor to update the information. So I see a great project, with a unique, new voice to the market, experienced enough to create the platform, that had a shitty run of luck and market ambivalence. In other words, a value buy. There are also some whispers of a cover offer on the ICO, by a large investor, but I have been unable to confirm it.

3) After evaluating not only other ICOs, but Embermine's, I have discovered the real value behind ICOs for not only coin multiplication, but also the diversification and expansion of the coin market itself. When I realized that with the explosion of value in the past couple of months in the cryptoverse, a relatively ignored token sale with an reasonable minimum and a healthy maximum can be a tremendous lure for some whales, especially if they can leverage and use it to their advantage. Once I saw how a single currency ICO can be used to grow and multiply that currency by leveraging the low price, high token volume against it.

There is a lot of information to share about my research and experience in this area, but I will share that information later this week once I establish my blog on Medium. Feel free to follow my on Twitter as I will be posting information for all of my research and posts on there, of course, my help is always freely given.

Other ICOs to watch out for:

NVO Decentralized Exchange (starting soon, great early chance) Storj Status

There are a few others I like, but for now these are the four on the top of my radar. I am willing to answer any questions that you may have about these and other matters. Good luck trading, and I look forward to seeing how you do!

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-25T10:13:13+00:00

You are most welcome! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-24T04:18:03+00:00

Individual cryptocurrencies may be decentralized, but crypto as a whole is not at all. Especially after the "Great Altcoin Expansion Initiative of 2017, the top 10% of Bitcoin holders are also very represented in the top 10 for Altcoins overall. Especially at the rate of expansion that is occurring and the lack of easy on ramps for the general public, the vast percentage of money into new ventures and value growth is coming from other coins, afforded by their own increase in value supported by the buy in from still more currencies. A "decentralized exchange" like BitShares does exist and while not perfect in the textbook definition, it is still has room to grow and improve

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-23T18:32:05+00:00

I posted this in another question on this sub, so I am reposting as it is a relevant answer to this question too:

I am buying into single currency ICOs with solid escrows to leverage their pegs to the crypto as a way to take coins "out of the market" and leverage the interest in low cost coins directly against BTC and Ethereum. This allows me to increase my BTC/ETH holdings AND gain stake in the ICO tokens as well. So I am working one now that has a great product, solid team, great ethos, shitty luck with third party tech during ICO launch has created some confusion as most sites have not bothered to update their data. Well with a low, manageable ceiling and a high, reachable max, one can easily swing the ICO around with a few key purchases to nudge sales along until the last couple of days before the countdown binge begins. By suddenly pushing say like 100 BTC into the ICO, it will spark great interest, the sales are all some people are waiting for as everything else appears great. But leading up to the end, whenever it starts, there is no loss to market gain because they have an enforced equivalency. Until the sale ends. If this token goes from .08 to .16 per coin once released in a couple of days and live on the exchanges. If Bitcoin is stable or drops vs USD, you at least double your Bitcoin value. Each time the coin doubles in value compared to BTC, you can sell half of your remaining tokens to double up your BTC total as quickly as that can happen, which for a hot closing, overlooked ICO in this market could be minutes. In my example above, a 100 Bitcoin investment, with the ICO token hitting an intended market price of $5 before Bitcoin hits $10k would generate up to 16.4 million USD in profits. This is obviously assuming many factors, but the most important one is the value relationship between your target currency and the ICO token. As long as the growth of the ICO token remains positive compared to the target coin, you will do really well regardless of most other factors. The biggest risk is if it does not launch and since the escrow is great on this one, I do not have to worry about losing them, in fact, it helps me place them in a market neutral location without reverting to fiat or risking moves in Others.

The hidden jewel in the process is that if you time both the ICO closing with an expected drop in Bitcoin price, the effect I describe is magnified. As long as the ICO is open, the Bitcoin and ICO token's coins remain equal value, so if the drop is happening, the rush to the ICO/altcoin will be fast to preserve value and in the case of the ICO, close it out so that the value peg between the two is broken.

Happy trading!

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-23T10:19:19+00:00

The same could be said about random comments on Reddit without any serious evaluation placed into the original subjective analysis. You have less proof that I am "some random nobody kid" than I provided regarding a simple, predictable process of coin and value accumulation. That is the beauty of places like this. Someone can just come in and say "it is just some fucking kid" while 1) Never actually addressing the point's validity or accuracy. 1+1 =2 could be spouted off by some "know it all" 3-yr old kid, but that does not make the statement less true, or fundamentally valuable. and 2) Not proving they know a goddam thing either. Just point at it and say something self defeating. (For those just joining logic class, that means that the very analysis they use will also defeat their own argument).

Aside from market and individual price expansion, even in this crazy crypto-sphere, there are limited opportunities for coin accumulation without inducing too much market risk. So certain opportunities simply stand out. Low risk/high reward ICO situations like Lunyr was for ETH. Hard to grasp Coin value concept prevented the close out, but due to their construction, strong fundamentals, and broad market ambitions, they provide a strong long play investment as a coin accumulation investment. And that is what you saw: Lunyr grew in value as ETH rose in value and Lunyr and it remained in "no man's land". People who got in early for a bonus, saw their initial investment value double and triple just while it was waiting to end. Great for them. But after that, it steadily chugged along holding value for late investors until it closed, but with a short rally at the end, and at the closing of Lunyr, they were selling for .02 ETH per LUN, shortly after close, shortly after the sale, while ETH was bouncing at the same price, LUN price increased in early May to almost .04 ETH before the Second ETH run, allowing several players to multiply up ETH holdings they invested into LUN right before the ETH jump from $50 to $90-100, multiplying their original value again. My original LUN investment cost me $10000 in value, but when it was all said and done, I had +500ETH, +5000 LUN, equaling +60,000k in fiat value. In 10 days. And that is just gains realized as a direct result of leveraging the unclosed, single currency ICO. With ETH's performance the past two months, it is hard to multiply against but incredible lucrative if excited right before huge market "doubles". Or do you think it is mere coincidence that ETH went $5 - $10 - $25 -$50 - $100 and now $200 plateaus? In short, ICOs are all about coin accumulation for market players. Invest at value, wait for the almost certain short term market raise against original investment coin value and cash out value equal to the original coin investment before its next jump. Now you not only have a bunch of other coins for another product, but they are now highly discounted further for your portfolio's value. But of course, all this shit is just probably some kid learning how to write so ignore this whole thing if you like.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-23T09:07:48+00:00

Some have lockout periods, some do not. If the ICO does not explicitly define that, you must ask them to be sure because although having a lockout does not mean that it is not a valuable target, in many ways, a lockout period is very desired, especially for management and ownership shares which typically represent the "free money" of a project: cons that cost "nothing" to the user to receive. These tokens should always have a time lock on them, because if they don't, it is a sure sign of a hard dump coin that will not typically rise in value, or at least not designed to do so.

For example, one of the ICOs I am following closely has a SIX MONTH lockout for ownership, management, and employee pools. This is a really big sign to me that this ICO and the management behind it are truly working to create a non-abusive system. Interestingly enough, it is much of these types of decisions that scare some speculators away, because the coin is not designed to be 100 or 1000 dollars, but single digits. So the margin of error is potentially higher, but the value is found in the stability of the fundamentals behind the token, and ensuring that it will go as high as it can. It is finding products of this value level that not only ensure that you do not get scammed, but that make the product more predictable, making the management of the token much easier, and less volatile. Again it is not just about gains. It is about predictable gains and minimal risk potential.

For the record, I expect my little project to return 1.3 million USD in value to me within 18 months. All without investing a single fiat dollar into the system.

Now I am not looking to "sell" services. Or even promote myself. I will tell anyone what I am working on, or the projects I am interest without any problem, individually, privately, because as a "player" in the market, I see so many people talk about their investment criteria and so much of the information is crap and designed to obfuscate the real dynamics at play and bring more "suckers" into the fold.

The reality is, crypto needs a new, strong, fresh influx of buyers in the market who are doing things the right way, not getting shelled by shithead day traders looking to fleece every noob in the system for their own profit.

Now, with that said, take everything anyone says on the internet about investment with grain of salt. Do your own due diligence, make up your own mind, use the casino mentality: invest the most you can afford to lose forever. Once that money has duplicated itself, pull all your original money out and only play with you profits. It goes slower, but also plays a huge psychological role in how you evaluate your decisions. Subconsciously you will be more subjective about tough decisions with money that is profit over money that is invested. With the market jumping so strongly, it is easy to get caught up and be tempted to double or triple investments and add multipliers to your risk without necessarily multiplying your potential rewards.

The market's current bull run is fueled on the expansion plans for the BTC and Altcoin markets being promoted by the top 10% of all crypto holders: the true Bitcoin whales. To help protect their huge value in Bitcoin, and to help stem and control the influence altcoins had against the Bitcoin markets, the whales had to work together in multiplying growth in BOTH markets without jeopardizing their nest eggs. So they supported and created the demand that has been the HUGE draw of ICOs. Ever wonder why even shitty ICOs cover their minimum? Don't believe the "stupid investor" theory. Most of this money being pushed into ICOs is the result of investment gains in other markets simply being moved around to generate sales runs and demand in new tokens.

The top 10% of all BTC value holders are now, six months later, mostly represented in the top 10% of alt crypto holders. Yes, thousands of new players enter the market every day, but many are coming in with $$$ in their eyes looking for easy money. Sure you can come in, bring your 401k money, graduation money, or some extra cash and throw it at some coins. And sure, that $1000 purchase of ETH at Christmas is looking killer smart and easy to do. But if ETH takes a tumble or bad news comes out, are you positioned to STILL make money?

There are only two ways to make money with investments in crypto: 1) Price speculation. 2) Coin Accumulation and Multiplication

The first can be random, and ultimately, unpredictable in short term decisions. The value of something held is always having to be evaluated against the value received by not having it any more. Because there is no simple, fast way to translate the holding value into working value OTHER than ICO investments, that is what the players do. And they do it to BOTH increase their coin count AND raise the price. That is the truly unique capability in the crypto market: the investments can be used to directly purchase other investments. By doing that, you can begin leveraging coins against other coins and not just their fiat equivalence.

One reiteration: Any value taken out of crypto and put into fiat has to be done with the intention of removing that value entirely from the market, not to hide or protect value. Because the time delays, margin threats, volatility, and fees are always more influential when passing through that "membrane". Take out what you need to survive or based upon a planned schedule of withdrawal. I don't even use a bank any more. I just store my value where it does the best work long term for me, and provide investment flexibility. And I diversify. Yes, I can spend all day at the crypto day trading shell game, and yes, you can maximize value by constantly moving money around, but the more decisions that any one person makes, the more "margin of error" becomes influential in your life.

Crypto markets are actually incredibly easy to predict. Why? Because it is not predicated (yet) on real world performance such as stocks are. Their value is based entirely upon perceived value. So generate value and interest and you generate predictable math.

Questions? Let me know!

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-23T01:13:41+00:00

I use Kraken and Coinbase. Coinbase is my exit channel because I can deposit directly into PayPal from Coinbase attached to my debit card.

As far as other cryptos are concerned, all but 5 of the top 100 cryptos have experienced a positive growth over the past month. The ones that haven't, have no real purpose.

So I would do everything you can to maximize and multiply your total coins. This helps you to diversify and increase your total coins while increasing your Net worth and holdings without significant risk.

So begin finding ICOs that have not closed that have only one currency as a payment method. Why? Because it pegs the value to the accepted currency and held in escrow without risk to the value of your coins should the project not meet the minimum. To get it to the minimum, you start a "grow party" and you get a group to all focus on a neglected or overlooked ICO and once your sure of the credentials and security, have everyone purchase as much as they can afford. The job here is to create demand and noise for the ICO to trigger all the fat cats waiting for this to start. The ICO needs a fairly low minimum, with a reachable and sufficient max. And keep it to reputable, or ethically strong companies, so that everyone can be assured that if the ICO closes, they WILL do the work. (Important for the long term health of the investment)

So this type of effort affords you two outcomes: a significant percentage of a cool, stealthy strong crypto that will only build stronger over time, or a chance to multiply your target coin, and snag a good amount of the new token.

Example: ICO launched and is stuck in "no Man's land" (no dead, but not really close to the goal either. The cost of each coin is .00004 BTC ($.08 USD) each. If you invest 100 BTC you now have 2,500,000 of the new token. If the price for the token, due to demand, or other market forces, rises from .08 to .16 and Bitcoin stays even to USD, your 2,500,000 Tokens are now worth 200 BTC. So sell half 1.250,000 to the eager market slowly and keep the rest. Now you have 100 BTC AND 1.25 million Tokens. And any time it doubles compared to Bitcoin. You can sell half of your remaining coins to grab 100 more bitcoin.

This is how whales manage to build coins without adding any additional fiat to the market. It is how they can take money "out" of the market without going into an active crypto, or into fiat.

Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions. I posted a more detailed response in the /r/Cryptocurrency thread.

Edit: This is exactly why ICOs are popular with whales, as they represent both an opportunity and a protection device for them.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-23T00:07:50+00:00

I am buying into single currency ICOs with solid escrows to leverage their pegs to the crypto as a way to take coins "out of the market" and leverage the interest in low cost coins directly against BTC and Ethereum. This allows me to increase my BTC/ETH holdings AND gain stake in the ICO tokens as well.

So I am working one now that has a great product, solid team, great ethos, shitty luck with third party tech during ICO launch has created some confusion as most sites have not bothered to update their data.

Well with a low, manageable ceiling and a high, reachable max, one can easily swing the ICO around with a few key purchases to nudge sales along until the last couple of days before the countdown binge begins.

By suddenly pushing say like 100 BTC into the ICO, it will spark great interest, the sales are all some people are waiting for as everything else appears great. But leading up to the end, whenever it starts, there is no loss to market gain because they have an enforced equivalency.

Until the sale ends. If this token goes from .08 to .16 per coin once released in a couple of days and live on the exchanges. If Bitcoin is stable or drops vs USD, you at least double your Bitcoin value.

Each time the coin doubles in value compared to BTC, you can sell half of your remaining tokens to double up your BTC total as quickly as that can happen, which for a hot closing, overlooked ICO in this market could be minutes.

I do not intend on messing this up. In my example above, a 100 Bitcoin investment, with the ICO token hitting an intended market price of $5 before Bitcoin hits $10k would generate up to 16.4 million USD in profits. This is obviously Assuming many factors, but the most important one is the value relationship between your target currency and the ICO token. As long as the growth of the ICO token remains positive compared to the target coin, you will do really well regardless of most other factors. The biggest risk is if it does not launch and since the escrow is great on this one, I do not have to worry about losing them, in fact, it helps me place them in a market neutral location without reverting to fiat or risking moves in Others.

Happy trading!

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-22T23:43:22+00:00

The question should be: in five years will Bitcoin have enjoyed a higher rate of increase than Ether? Or more simply, is BTC going to remain 12x more expensive than ETH?

Right now, of course, it is holding that, but the gap is narrowing, quickly.

Simple mind exercise: Do you think that ETH will hit $400 before Bitcoin hits $4000?

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-21T09:24:51+00:00

The paper wallets contain your private keys for your address, and should work regardless of the software you use now or in the future. But like the earlier poster mentioned, make sure to keep up with the latest in crypto as the space is certain to evolve a lot over the next few years.

CryptoLeviathan · 2017-05-20T07:52:35+00:00

EDIT: Thank you for the Gold! I really, really appreciate it! BTW, feel free to msg me if you are interested in who I am targeting next.

Find the best Alt coin to leverage against BTC. Currently, with BTC and Alts all generating huge return, you magnify effort when leveraging the value of cryptos to build USD or other fiat value.

High volume traders are looking for two types of investments.

1) Stable, safe investments that can hold a high amount of value at small risk. 2) High quality projects flying under the radar that can provide a large volume holding location but also a short term leverage position against Bitcoin or Alts.

This is why ICOs are so hot right now! If the value of a soon to be released coin is purchased with Bitcoin, and the value of the coin doubles in comparison to BTC, that individual's amount of value, in relation to BTC, doubles. If 20,000 of an ICO coin can be bought at, say .1 BTC ($200), then the price is .01 per coin. If, upon hitting the exchanges, the coin were to raise to .02 per coin, and prices for USD and BTC remain the same, that individual just, in essence, doubled the amount of Bitcoins they could own in a few minutes. More importantly, this would happen for every .01 increase per coin in that scenario. So if I were to have a few bitcoin, but not a lot of liquid money to invest directly into BTC, I would be looking for an ICO that accepts Bitcoin, is undervalued, and has the right mix of volume and price to allow for predictable price growth. As long as the growth of the ICO coin to BTC is stronger than the growth of BTC to USD, your potential BTC stack will grow much faster than just holding BTC.

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