@g-dubs - Seems like this is the future of bitcoin for the next year or so. Like the early 90's bitcoin seems to be the Yahoo! of finance. In relation to the internet, what happens next is the search engine wars (the proliferation of altcoins). Eventually one of these will likely become the next Google of finance.
I don't keep my coins on an exchange and hope everyone eventually drops this habit. It violates the decentralization principles of Satoshi Nakamoto and provides an entry way for state sponsored attacks.
I agree w that... I heard someone say recently they thought the entire crypto space could 10x in the next couple of years AND 80% of projects completely fail. The key is to find those Amazons of crypto.
It'll be interesting to see too BTC's role. Some say a few years from now it'll be 90% of the crypto market cap, others less than 1%. (A good reason to stay diversified)
I've got several alts as well. Hoping Steem does well.
I'm bullish on Steem w HF 20 and smart tokens coming.
Wondering... Steem is the only alt I have that isn't on a hardware wallet, so if following Andreas Antonopoulos's rules "your keys, your coins, not your keys, not your coins" technically my Steem on Steemit isn't mine. However, since it's powered up, the time delay of 13 weeks provides some protection against bad actors (state sponsored or otherwise).
Well you do have your private key w Steem. SteemPower is the way to own Steem. I'm not concerned not have Steem on a hardware wallet.