Of course, but I guess it's a responsibility for all of us and that should not be demanded to some nicer interface.
Bitcoin investors may not recognise its true power, but the impulse behind this computer-generated wonder is revolutionary: to take the production and control of money away from the government. This has tremendous implications for anybody's wealth preservation.
Again, it's not only like making that technology easy and usable for the masses rather combining that to a meaningful SO WHAT? Why should I use bitcoin? Why bitcoin matters in my life? What am I able to do with that?
I am going OT and I stop here but I believe many share my opinions.

If I count the days in which I was lucky when playing dice, they certainly outnumber the bad ones; the problem is that it takes a single powerful losing streak to annihilate pretty much all those lucky days. Try your luck but remember that as long as you stretch it, the closer you get to lose big. It makes sense, otherwise, we wouldn't have casinos but rather charities. 

The point is that the majority does not care about being a bank, they probably couldn't care less if bitcoin is here for one reason or the other. They see it as a fashionable asset now, a must-have for a modern portfolio. Coinbase could be run by me, by you, by the state, by everyone else and they wouldn't care. Retail and institutional investors see bitcoin for its price only, let's face it.

I second that. It's a massive concern for me too and your DAO example triggered several warnings in my head. Honestly, we can all see the custodian market journey has just started and it is clearly paving the way to some holdings centralisation. This is what institutional money implies and we should have known that already.

The genie is out of the bottle.

Ok cool! Anyway, I didn't say that I am going to pick exactly your results but I'd rather select those with my own judgement and if I feel that they are right I could bet on them. So, I guess I should register on sportsbet too. thanks

You nailed it here because that is the ultimate problem regarding custodial wallets. Again, that is inevitable: average users will always prefer convenience over complication as we all know that storing, securing and using bitcoin is hard at an experienced level. I can't see those million Coinbase users having their own wallets.

According to a recent report by LongHash, public companies in the U.S. now own $10 billion worth of Bitcoin – something that can be accredited to increased investment as well as the cryptocurrency’s rise in price over the month of October.
While the general consensus regarding more institutions getting interested in Bitcoin is fairly positive, the report noted that, “In the short to medium term, the positives far outweigh the negatives. But in the next decade or so, if Bitcoin eventually evolves into a global currency atop a store of value, it then could pose certain security risks.”

More here https://eng.ambcrypto.com/is-it-all-good-news-when-institutions-invest-in-bitcoin/

LongHash report here https://shorturl.at/dxST3

That's a fairly good setup. As for storing all your coins in one wallet, I don't see it as a bad thing as long as you are an experienced user who knows how to make the best of coin control features. Under strict coin control, you can store everything in a single wallet but of course having a multi-level set up is better for security reasons. Single wallet management is much harder.

I don't know why I have never looked better at this thread but I will do from now on. I can actually select what I feel are the best 5/6 picks coming from your consensus and place a bet slip on my own. In case of a winning bet, I will fund your cause with a donation.
By the way, how does one enter this group? Do I need to sign up at sportsbet?

Exciting and full of twists as only the matches between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich can be. The Der Klassiker rewards BM that now conquers the first place in Bundesliga! Everything but a boring game. Crazy rhythms, solid defenses, spaces to attack in the open field. Alaba, Lewandowski and Sané made BM day. Such a great match!

Great service, man! As I am actively seeking a career change this list comes in very handy! Thanks a lot. In case I might find something I will send you a small donation  Keep up the good work and be our radar!

Exactly. They will probably go after those who moved more than a certain sum from the exchange to their bank account (without reporting them for tax purposes). Don't forget the others will stay monitored in the background for future raids. Once they have the data, it's done, unfortunately.

JJG, yet another word sniper! Point 1) I will refrain to comment on anything less than 20k (i did that already in 2017) where we are inevitably going
Point 2) Of course, what else! I was referring to our ORANGE friend. Maybe Peter Schiff abducted me while posting about it. Conspiracy solved.

I didn't say that: I'll try to explain myself in a clearer way. It's not about the interface, it's about the tool: no matter how beautiful/usable a tool is if it is seen as a bad thing to conceal the origin of your coins, whatever effort one could make to present the tool nicely, what it actually does it's what matters. And if the nice guys don't like it, there's no UI to beat it.
For the above reasons, I wrote it would have been much better having those tools embedded from the start already.
Was I clear enough now?

I have mixed feelings about this: even with the best UX/UI, interface, wallet available there would be still the mixing/tumbling/money laundering stigma regarding using those privacy tools. It's about the narrative, not the marketing gimmicks of a fancy and sleek UI/UX.
I wish those tools were built-in into the protocol from the start: those should have been already a feature and not an option.
It would be interesting to know how do you guys feel about it.

I am a fan of the 50% theory too. I remember when I had a losing streak of 15 while betting at ~70%: one might think that's impossible while it actually is, otherwise, casinos would be already bankrupted. Also, I lost several 97% chance bets so most of the time it really feels like it's either you win or you lose regardless of the chance. Every bet result, under provably fair conditions, is sort of unique.

I hope to be able to join the Betnomi Poker series freeroll on Sunday: it's a long time I don't play poker and I might perform very bad but I would love to play again. If free, I will try to connect! And, by the way, good move betnomi 

Before it closed I did a withdrawal from luckygames.io that went through without any problem (this was in May 2020). I did that when I read the various scam accusations posted here on bitcointalk. I agree with OP, the guy showed some integrity at last.

The hunt for a hedge is on.
With the Federal Reserve keeping its benchmark interest rate near zero on Thursday and more fiscal stimulus on the horizon as a final presidential election outcome draws near, there’s a lot for investors to consider when buying into certain asset classes, one trader said.
“You still have the S&P 500 trading under recent highs. The 10-year yield, more or less, has been sideways,” JC O’Hara, chief market technician at MKM Partners, told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Thursday.
“I’m actually looking at another asset class that I think will work tremendously well within this current environment, and that’s bitcoin,” he said. “What I like about bitcoin is it’s actually breaking out.”
Cryptocurrencies tend to act well going into and coming out of elections on the whole, but bitcoin’s technicals are particularly strong this time around, O’Hara said.
“When we looked at a chart of bitcoin, we could see a very strong technical setup here that we believe is setting up for further upside,” he said.

More here https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/bitcoin-gold-trading-low-interest-rates-and-a-friendly-fed.html

As we said many times everywhere on the forum, now every trader in town is trying to find its luck trading bitcoin. The difference for me is that I don't think Bitcoin will go up because of some TA but more because of what it can offer as a protocol and store of value.