I don't think that accepting crypto as a method of payment would impact a business in a major way, but it would certainly gain quite a bit in sales and will acquire a kind of advantage over the competition aka Netflix and HBO Go.

Obviously is in all our best interest that more and more companies adopt BTC and cryptocurrencies, but I think the catalyst will be the Bakkt consumer appvina and Stsrbucks partnership.

You've gotta change your mindset man. Time is the most valuable resource of the universe, not money.. You're looking from the wrong perspective, you can always get more money. Just find a job even at McDonalds, work at two jobs, hustle at least until you pay down the debt. Gambling is not a way to make money, but a way to lose it. It is STATISTICALLY proven because the house has an edge over you. Don't get down just because you have loans and be depressed about it. That should motivate you to get your ass up and work hard. Ultimately be grateful for the gift of life. The odds to be a human are 400 trillion to 1!

You'd think that the privacy-focused coins out there are most used in the deep/dark web. XMR, Dash, ZCash, BEAM, etc. are the ones that come to my mind, but I think people are changing those coins to BTC as fast as possible just due to the fact they are shitcoins.. Or they might be just using BTC in combination with mixing services.

Poker is in a big percent skill-based, that's why you see some people constantly winning at Poker. Talent and learning strategies & risk management principles are a must in Poker pretty much like in trading. If I would be skilled and confident on me at that specific game I would certainly join the table as I usually don't back up from any challenges.

If it would be an ideal world and the planet's resources would be used at the maximum potential then a universal basic income would be viable (free money) - that would cover all the basic needs of a person like shelter and food. Then if a person wants to achieve higher levels of life quality or social presence he/she should go and pursue a career, etc. With all these I still think that there should be some requirements for getting the UBI specific to different zones on our planet like having to go through education and not drop out, etc.

I think the AI technology will only free our time from all those mundane, repetitive tasks so we can focus on more creative things. Humans are not robots - we are creative and can create wonderful things. Through AI traders basically automate trading strategies and/or find new ones. Of course that will have some repercussions on the market behaviour, but still the same rules apply - buy low, sell high to make a profit.

India is renown for its agricultural power and like it or not - the cheap work force. As I've always stated blockchain is a technology that can disrupt pretty much all the industries out there and I want to salute the CBoI for taking the leap and implement the tech. Hopefully the results will be compelling enough to lead by example and influence other companies and countries. I love coffee and if you combine it with blockchain and maybe even cryptocurrencies soon - then you'll make an excelent combination

People in the crypto communities I am in are mostly hodling and more likely to spend fiat instead of Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency they have. The thing is people are looking at BTC like at a store-of-value and long term investment and not looking to make payments with it.

Certainly not from trading. Don't look for fast gains in trading because without proper risk management and greed you'll end up losing all you have not even talking about the time that could have been spent elsewhere..
It sounds that you're a beginner in trading and most of them need at least 4-6 months to learn the basics of technical analysis.

If it was easy everybody would be making $50ks haha

Seriously? That's an obvious observation, I don't know why a CEO should be even thinking at publicly stating that.. It has been discussed so many times in this forum, but now the CEO comes and states it publicly and boom! - he makes the news. There are thousands of cryptos out there that have grown solely based on hype and marketing techniques. A very small amount have a base value from the ecosystem created from a business model(economy).

It's quite a paradox that communists which are supposed to be more outdated and more conservative(against new technologies) are investing more and more into blockchain tech while I don't hear much hype from the USA or great Europe countries like Germany or France.. They'd better step up their game or China will take the lead if it is not already leading.. Blockchain is just a more efficient way of doing things that also adds transparency, immutability, etc. to the process. Blockchain doens't mean cryptocurrency though.

They have an advantage over the USA and the more powerful states in the world as most of the farms are running operations in their country. I don't think they want to just dump this leverage. If they do that farms will surely move their business to another place incorporing economic benefits for the respective country.

The world is slowly moving towards alternative energy sources. Hydro, termal, solar, wind, etc. are all natural regenerable sources of energy and as far as I know there are some farms in Iceland powered by such sources. Of course that a lot more are powered by solar in the world so I think we're not looking at this "problem" from the right angle. Electricity is not a scarce resource on this Earth and is between the few ones which we can practically generate for infinity. Everything around us is ENERGY!

I'm still amazed that AC Milan is doing so bad in the championship. I'm not really aware of their team situation, can anybody enlighten me what happened with them? Maybe just a bad form?
Anyway Juventus won the last 8 matches against Milan, BUT Cristiano Ronaldo is probably not playing tonight because of a knee injury and Chiellini won't be on the pitch. I'm a little bit afraid to play for Juve's victory tonight at a 1.45 odds even if there is a big difference in the standings between the two teams so I'm going for a HF OR FT X. I expect an equal game with not more than 2-3 goals so I'm taking a little bit of risk here by parlaying it with an under 2.5 goals event.

Alright so first of all your betting almost all your initial balance on each bet.. That's not good risk management thus this is pure gambling. Moreover you only have statistics for 1 week? I wouldn't name that an algorithm but just a series of bets. I acknowledge the fact that we're in the gambling section and most surely people in here are more inclined with risking money for winning a lot in short term, but again gambling is not for making money, but for having fun so feel free to follow this guy's algorithm if you're looking for fun, but I personally I would never pay any money for it.

I have just found out about this project. Had a quick read of the OP and while I do think there is space in the background music niche I am not sure if I'd like other people to put music in a bar or terrace. Maybe they only like  a style or they come with a large group of people so they can democratize the music played in there. Night clubs have certain themes and sometimes live DJs who manage the music played there. That's why the patrons pay them so we don't have to think about it..

To date I haven't been in a venue where I've really disliked the music so that I'd have to leave..

I wouldn't be so sure.. We had the gold standard back in the days and here is what google says about why the model failed: "Because the global gold supply grows only slowly, being on the gold standard would theoretically hold government overspending and inflation in check. ... The country effectively abandoned the gold standard in 1933, and completely severed the link between the dollar and gold in 1971."

I think the true reason was the inability of the government/authorities to control the economy. So if each 1 US dollar is pegged to a number of gold, then they could have easily denominate them. People underestimate the power of adding or cutting a decimal. haha

The signs keep popping up in more and more places. Be part of the opportunity or let it fast forward in front of your eyes. It is your sole decision if you want to embark on it or not.

I really respect Twitter's CEO initiative to take from his time to listen to what the public wants from the social mefia platform. TWTR needs to come with something big in order to keep the pace with FB and Instagram which had massive worldwide success besides Twitter which is only popular in USA.

When you get gains evaluated at over 100x your account equity in a short time you must have a big problem with your risk management strategy. In other words you are gambling. Options are a derivative instrument that let traders sell/buy the right to buy/sell an asset at a specified price and time. Some traders use it as a risk management tool by using time to manage their position.

But again.. 100x gains is unrealistic and IMO just a marketing technique to attract the "gambler" style of traders.

This is the type of mentality I'm talking about. Faucets aren't free money. I don't know how you define "work", but you still have to spend time in front of your screen and make all those clicks. That's WORK and you're getting very little $$ for that time and clicks.