If you haven't extensively tested a strategy on a demo account then going to a micro account will just be a slower haemorrhage of your account than if it was a standard account.
No but 95% of the shitcoins will disappear which is a much needed cull in the space. For those that offer real utility I see it as a chance to load up my bags with risk capital for cheap.
Indeed perhaps that is what Ethereum was angling for as a bi-product of moving over the POS as well as the obvious other benefits of leaving POW behind.
Have to check that book out, thanks for that! Yes I think I've seen it referred to as being the prime mover in an industry and soaking up the sales/business.
It might make transactions quicker which would be better but I think the utility of other blockchains will help them surpass Bitcoin...
I wonder if it is a purely psychological thing with investors that side with Bitcoin as it is the oldest of a risky asset class and therefore seen as more trusted and that others that take that model and expand on it are discarded by comparison purely on the crime of being "newer".
Agreed, it's not to say that moves can't win outside of certain times of day but they certainly move quicker in the first few hours of London and NY opens.
For me in the UK I like to trade EURUSD and GBPUSD as I can trade both the London and NY sessions and I find these pairs work well for those periods of the day.