I agree and I think the word of caution against DeFi projects is very reasonable. It's obviously crucial that even if the buzz word 'DeFi' is being thrown around and dropped in many projects you still have to be cautious with your investments. Just because its DeFi doesn't mean it won't be a scam or fail.

So yh, best to keep these things in mind. And the analogy to bounty/ICOs is a good example where things have gone wrong when people didn't pay much attention to the details.

I'm glad to see that this was received well and with little skepticism.

As from my experience when I try to tell people about it I get 2 kinds of people, people who look the other way and remain stubborn at their own ignorance and the other people who genuinely look interested and want to learn, some which even consider buying.

I'm always pleased when people are open to learning new concepts and embrace knowledge generally! Glad you had such a positive experience.

You're saying this as if Satoshi has already been involved in stopping it. That's just WRONG!!!
For what we know Satoshi might just be an alias either for an individual or a group and even if this referred to a group then as a group of individuals they won't be able to stop BTC.

The highest effect this may lead to might be strong market positioning but not much other than that because the network has grown so much that the influence and power doesn't lie with anybody but the consortium made up of every major BTC holder.

So far the much raised attention to the sloppiness of the ANN thread is fully permeable throughout, at least so far.
What I found interesting was that so far just like @panjul07 says no OP has attempted to clarify any of the questions asked. Altogether, this little attention to details makes one wonder if this is really a casino we should even consider given the 'outstanding' engagement we've seen so far. My mind is already made up. You can't have so many games and put so much effort into it and disregard marketing - makes no sense...

 I think for a start we need to be patient. If we consider how the market behaved fro the past few weeks we should see progress, perhaps not as much as we'd like to see but nonetheless progress. BTC is currently holding against 11.5k and I think it is only a matter of time before we see the bull run, and I'm quite confident we don't have to wait until next year to see signs of it!

I think as an overall prediction of what the future might look like for the blockchain technology is bright. I agree with your prediction that the future is leaning towards centralised platforms and smart contracts. Also, digital currency becoming a larger proportion of the monetised circulation. However, one thing to point out is that these might all be taking some unpredicted amount of time before they become noticeable

This makes sense as DeFi is still relatively new. Regarding which DeFI projects are on the radar on this week's list I must include Open Predict or or OPT , this has only been launched ~ 5-6 days ago and the liquidity is crazy. The price on the other hand seems to have started high indicating this might be going big.  In anyway reading the whitepaper there's scope for this token fo sure.

I understand the scepticism some people have this time round about BTC reaching ATH but all I can say is that history tends to repeat itself. It already seems that the market is reaching a stabilisation point at ~ <11k but I can't discard the possibility of it going far beyond that.

This just goes to show that if you know what you're doing you could play a long waiting game and still ensure profitability. The whale could potentially have waited longer and got higher rewards but I suppose everybody has to draw a line while calculating their risks. The reason I'm saying this is that by the end of the year one would predict a higher price than 12k. In any case, cryptocurrencies provides us all with new opportunities just like back in the day cheap housing was an opportunity for the last 2/3 generations of out time.

Unfortunately, as alluring as this casino sounds it does not deliver. There are so many reviews written about this site that as soon as you Google their name you get the banner 'do not join'. Here, as an example, on trustpilot.

In a way it makes sense that DeFi does yet stand a chance against traditional banks, even with their lending platform services. However, one thing I'd like to help you maybe change your idea of DeFi is to think that this is still in its early stages and who knows from now with so many alts being developed one day you might be able to buy anything you want through DeFi. This is of course, extrapolated but not completely unfeasible given how quickly this new finance system has spread.

Thanks for sharing with us some of your trading practices. From what you're telling. me your practice of checking the market every morning and every day, as often as you can sounds a little too much - make sure you don't push yourself into disappear or worse get under a lot of stress.

If you get stressed out often about your investments not going so well, try maybe a stop-loss of give yourself a deadline until you'll either leave the market to its own devices and check after a few days or just consider a change of mindset that if the market is going down it will probably end up going back up again. 

If unsatisfied by this then judge and plan for an exit strategy where you get out at the min. profit/loss you'll be happy to live with. These are all practices not to get too wrapped up in all these investments and saving time, plus reducing stress.

Hmm, Coinbase can be a pain sometimes. From own experience, I can recommend 3 such exchange platforms. First, you can use bestchange to compare the rates between different platforms - this is always useful for me when interconverting between coins; second up is Kraken they do have KYC but what I've experienced wasn't too long ~ several hours but they're usually quite good + speedy. Finally, Poloniex is also one to look into, I like how easy it is to use and can buy quick also.

If I were you though, for future purchases I'd clear the verification steps for a few of the big exchange platforms. That way when you're ready to buy you're sorted 

Spot on mate. This mad bull crap about BTC addition. FB, Instagram and such is probably where this should be targeted towards, not towards something that actually improves future finance and helps millions of people escape the centralized system.

I just can't be more upset to see that people would even go to such lengths only to attempt to slander crypto. These people should be ashamed from trying to stop progress.

I almost smell the same thing here, this might just be an non-authorization from the inside, as how else will the hacker get access to the passwords and stuff?  I even fear to think that the CryptoTrader didn't consider online attacks and got little security in place like firewall etc. This is why this is likely an attack with inside help/insight. The obvious conclusion is clear: CryptoTrader has now got some recovery to do both on clients part as well as  their own reputation

These methods of staking, lending etc to get modest interest rates are unlikely to be ending any time soon as these are relatively new and are analogous to interest rates from banks, except here the returns are higher but it's fine because it balances out the higher risks.

Mining as you say requires investment first, here, the simplicity of staking and lending all together is that all you do is taking a higher risk but don't expend on infrastructure so the returns unlike mining aren't delayed. Now, when one looks at the two options it becomes obvious which one to take, even if one believes is a short-term option...

Hey, are you trying to promote this casino or you're genuinely interested to see if other people have hear of this or tried it out 
If it's the former then this is not the way to do it! However, if it is the latter then I suggest you not to risk exploring new casinos, specially ones which don't even have a proper website, when there are plenty of casinos out there that people have used for years. If I were you I'd stick to the norm, no point in risking your money for what it may be a potentially unreliable site.

I agree, its all to do with the jurisdictions from different states. And although it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, it doesn't have to be, as since did any regulations (with them differing so drastically) made any sense? In this case, many people would go either in the states where these laws aren't that ridiculous or use exchanges. Exchanges are partially becoming the norm nowadays anyway, so this law does't really stop people from entering/gaining access to cryptocurrency - it only makes it harder but not impossible.

I agree the name matters little. It doesn't matter what you call BTC since it represents both a cryptocurrency which in turn is a type of digital asset. In fact I think very little will change from the regulatory point of view as this new era of cryptocurrencies is rival to fiat and governments won't go easy on it, specially when there's so much growing concern about anonymous and fraudulent activities.

The way I understand it what you're asking for is an interconversion strategy between the stable coin USDT and BTC, in which case other than looking at the candles and seeing how the bullish run progresses there's isn't much to say.

Stop-loss is important but give yourself a reasonable window on either up/down trend end. I'd say this though, things are looking greenish and if anything I'd buy BTC now and when the volatility increases convert it back to USDT - an idea