Looking at the order books of various exchanges, I can't see any massive sale orders around $40,000 as well. This means that unlike the case with what happened in 2013 and 2017, this time most of the investors are in for the long term. They are not satisfied with 50% or 60% profits. They do have confidence that Bitcoin can reach a level much higher than $35,000 or $40,000 per coin.

For me, it is a combination of all three options. Right now I am a part of the Stake.com signature campaign, and in the future I had participated in signature campaigns for other gambling sites. In the past I have gambled with my signature earnings, sent some of it to my personal wallet for HODL, and I have converted a part of the earnings to either fiat cash or online gift cards. Now the exact proportion is not fixed. I gamble when I feel there is a good chance of getting a win. It is not pre-planned.

Buying a bank will be of very little use and it can be a very expensive option. I would suggest purchasing a country. I am not joking about it. In some of the African countries, you can bribe the dictatorships and do whatever you want. Also, there are some countries with limited international recognition, such as Western Sahara and Somaliland. These states would be more open to proposals from Bitcoiners. 

I would like to remind a few things. Most of the posters consider Bitcoin to be volatile, because it's exchange rate versus the US Dollar is not very stable. In the past 3 months, the exchange rate has increased by almost 250% (no one is going to complain about that though). But now we are making the comparison with USD and the question is whether the USD is a stable asset or not? IMO, it is not. Especially after the multi-trillion stimulus program, its value (i.e the purchasing power) has gone down. So in order to have a stable exchange rate against the USD, Bitcoin needs to devalue its purchasing power.

LOL.. so they are pricing it at $89.99 per PPV buy? It looks quite overpriced for me. The match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather in 2015 was available for almost the same rates. I don't know whether they will get 3 million buys this time, as they are expecting. But I have already made the decision, and I am neither going to watch it, or make a bet on any of the boxers.

Pakistan getting completely destroyed by Kyle Jamieson at Christchurch. They are trailing by 223 runs, with just three more wickets in hand. Another innings defeat looks very likely. Jamieson has so far taken 10 wickets in this test match, and his test bowling average now stands at an unbelievable 13.34 (35 wickets from 6 matches). And remember that Pakistan is in such a horrible position, although New Zealand is missing key bowlers such as Neil Wagner and Lockie Ferguson.

There were rumors back in 2018 that the Winklevii has suffered huge losses, after Ethereum plummeted to less than $100 per coin. I am not sure whether the twins sold any of their coin holdings at that rate or not, but they were in a difficult position. IMO, they should have just kept BTC in their portfolio. I don't think that any other coin has given the sort of returns that Bitcoin brought to them. 

Well... you can check the vaccine contracts page from Bloomberg and see how many vaccine doses each country has booked for its citizens:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/#dvz-section-purchasing

The richer countries have booked many times their requirement, while the poorer countries have covered only a small fraction of theirs. For example, Canada has ordered 228 million doses of the vaccines, which is enough to vaccinate 114 million people. But their population is only 37 million. On the other hand, Bangladesh has ordered only 16.6 million doses, which is enough to vaccinate just 5% of their population.

Some of the posters have already pointed out that apart from a couple of Chinese nationals, most of the scamsters were Indian nationals. So I don't think that there is any point in highlighting the "Chinese" link. The Indian media want to sensationalize the news and may resort to such cheap tactics. I hope the authorities will not get carried away by it. The primary concern should be to help those who got victimized as a result of this scam.

Well.. then we may get a new ATH in the next few days. Congratulations to all those who held on to Ethereum. At least now those who purchased their coins at ATH levels in 2018 can relax and plan their next steps. But the spike in 2018 was supported by solid fundamentals. The ICO boom helped ETH in a big way. But this time the spike is almost solely coming due to the impact from Bitcoin rally.

Any altcoin without unique real life usage is not going to thrive for long, and this is applicable for Polkadot as well. Eventually, Polkdot will lose most of its value and end up where Cardano is at right now. Overtaking Ethereum is never going to be easy, as they still have a huge monopoly in the smart contract platform sector. If the claim is just for hyping Polkadot, then I am fine with that.

Is purchasing a luxury car using Bitcoin a very good idea right now? All of us know that there is a very good chance that the Bitcoin prices may jump by a lot during 2021-22. If you spend all of your coin holdings for such luxury items, then you may regret after a couple of years. For cars, the net worth depreciates with time, which is exactly opposite to the case we have with Bitcoin.

As ranochigo pointed out, the fee reward represents only 5%-10% of the mining reward, as most of the remainder is made up of block reward (BTC6.25 at this point). So I don't think that the miners are that much adversely impacted. It may be an issue after a decade or so, when the block reward drops below BTC1.00. But right now I don't think that anyone needs to lose their sleep over it.

I wasn't much interested in this match, but I read about the controversy surrounding the scorecard, after Ryan Garcia won the match by TKO. It is really bizarre when two of the judges (Mark Lyson and Glenn Feldmann) have a 10-8 score, and the other judge (Rey Danseco) has the round at 9-10. If Danseco was the sole judge, then Luke Campbell would have won the match. Incidents such as this one gets fans disappointed with boxing.

Well.. here in India also we have similar sayings. If someone wants to give up smoking, then that decision should be purely voluntary. There could be financial and health benefits if someone decides to give up his smoking habit, but then again it is open to interpretation. And the outcome can vary from person to person. And obviously we need to remember that investing in Bitcoin do have its own risk factors.

Kane Williamson is slowly closing on his double hundred against Pakistan, and New Zealand is approaching a total of 500 (right now they are at 487/5). I was expecting a better performance from the Pakistani bowlers, after their good showing with the bat. But they look out of sorts and incapable of taking the wickets (even with supportive ground conditions). It is going to be an innings defeat for Pakistan.

Wow!! Just four weeks have passed, and you are already having more than BTC0.01 in your wallet. Just imagine what could have happened, if you had started this in 2018, or even in 2019. But then, it is never too late to invest in cryptocurrency. If the prices remain constant, then you may end up with BTC0.12-BTC0.13 by the end of this year. And more importantly, your health situation is going to improve.

What is going on with Ethereum? It has went up by 30% during the last 24 hours. Now ETH is well past the historic resistance level of BTC0.03 per coin. Most of the other altcoins are up by anywhere from 15% to 25%, including Litecoin, Polkadot, Bitcoin Cash and Cardano. And the Bitcoin dominance has decreased from 72% to 69% in a matter of few hours. Are these trends going to hold?

That sounds fair to me. If someone is refusing to take the vaccine, he is putting himself at an increased risk of getting infected with COVID 19, and at the same time he is increasing the risk for others as well. So the government may not allow the entry of such people in to crowded places such as supermarkets, cinema theatres, sports events.etc. I don't think that there is much to complain about this.

NorthEast United FC is in very poor form this season and the absence of some of their main players seems to have affected their performance. Bartholomew Ogbeche was their backbone until 2019, when he decided to leave for Kerala Blasters (now he is a part of the Mumbai City FC). Some of the other players, such as Seiminlen Doungel, Redeem Tlang, Rowllin Borges and Reagan Singh have also moved to other teams.