RE: Introducing Myself: Tales of an Expat Code Slinging Crypto-Enthusiast (Part 2)
I feel kind of bad for Slock.it too. As a software developer myself I know it's pretty much impossible to write completely bug free code. You need to plan for bugs and have a strategy for stamping them out when they surface. Although normally they don't end up costing millions of dollars. But it has been known to happen. At my firm, just a few years ago someone made a 1 line error, setting some bit of configuration to a wrong value, which ended up costing the bank $1 million in a bad trade. Can't imagine how horrible that guy must have felt.
I'm not too interested in AMP. Since I'm already invested in Steemit I'd rather invest in an unrelated technology so I'm more diversified overall. AMP might present some good short term trading opportunities though. I was just reading the SingularDTV whitepaper. That does look quite promising; I'm planning to invest about 5% of my ETH holdings in their token sale. I also like the LBRY project, been slowly cost-averaging into a position in LBC. BTS has good potential long-term, I think it's rather undervalued and has received some positive attention lately with the Peerplays share drop happening this month.
You're right, it's those few and far between home runs that have resulted in the most portfolio growth for me so far.