For the most part I don't understand super technical abilities of a coin, and for the most part the only advancement I need is super fast and cheap confirmations.  However I do understand the basic concepts of contract coins like ether and security coins like zcash.  Do you care how advanced a coin is aside from transaction speed?  Do you feel additional security features of coins make them more appealing? Should more coins offer contract creation ability? 

This might seem like a strange question, but I'll try to explain what I mean.  Some of the features of new coins sound like the designers are thinking fifty years from now, not just a coin for right now.  This can be everything from how many of them are available, to transaction speeds, and other design features.  If roughly 7% of all internet accounts own crypto currency, some of these coins feel like they were designed for 70% adaptation.  So what do you think, where alt coins invented for the future? 

So if your only goal is to increase a currency, and not the dollar, do you prefer trading your coin versus US or other fiat, or versus another coin, like ether, litecoin, etc.  If you trade coins versus each other, do you find the mechanics different, like stability and volatility, versus trading against the dollar?  I generally just do it through the dollar, never really looked at trading them against each other.

I've been ignoring bitcoin for a while now, I had bad experience with fees, and in the beginning lost a chunk because I was sending with high fees accidentally.  I put the rest, about $30 into dogecoins, and it rose to over $200 and I sold it.  After that I fell in love with alts.  I've been so spoiled with alts, if I have to wait longer than five minutes for confirmation, I'm a little edgy, I'm glad locked up bitcoin transactions are a thing of the past for me now, since I don't send bitcoin anymore.  Do you choose alts over bitcoin purely out of fees/long transacton times?

To be honest I love when the prices for coins are falling, everyone is panicking, the transaction speeds are fast and cheap.  The only strategies I know for falling market is to buy as much as possible, and wait till the price jumps.  Anyone has interesting falling market strategies they are willing to share?

Read full article, below are main points from the article.
https://cointelegraph.com/explained/blockchain-s-impact-on-food-and-farming-explained
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Is it possible to track where food comes from?
Several companies have launched services allowing shoppers to see a product’s journey from farm to fork, but they often depend on retailers agreeing to be transparent.
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Food safety scares! Remind me?
There have been several in recent years… how long have you got?
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How would that work? Any examples?
Smart agriculture solutions — which boost productivity and address food demand — are thriving, and it is predicted that this industry could be worth up to $26.76 billion by 2020.
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Food safety’s great, but what about food prices? They’re constantly rising.
Blockchain could eliminate paper-based processes and cut costs, with these savings passed on to you.
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But wouldn’t farmers be out of pocket from lower prices?
On the contrary, smart contracts could ensure they are paid fairly for their hard work without delay — and smaller farms would have a larger market for selling their fresh produce.
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Is there any way to get fresh food on store shelves faster?
Inefficiencies in the supply chain can often mean delays before produce is ready for sale, but automated processes through blockchain could speed things along nicely.

Shortly after bitcoin came out, I thought to myself wouldn't it be cool to have cash on the blockchain.  After all bitcoin got popular because it cannot be faked easily.  Also some people don't like banks, or simply cannot trust them in their country, well tether can be held in online wallet, no need to keep cash under a pillow.  Now tether itself seems a little bit expensive to send, place where I tried asked 2$ transaction fee, but I'm sure someone could create a dollar pegged coin cheaper to send.