I like that question also (on are your prepared for loss and recovery if devices all stolen) and I've asked myself and others a few times in the past.

1. Most people would probably not be able to recover a lot of things, browser accounts, email accounts, much less a Bitcoin wallet. I know I could recover several of those at least from memory alone.

2. This for me is also the weak point, that most people use 2FA on a device, exposing them to at least the Password axis you mentioned. Myself I use a Google Authenticator for 2FA, as an extension only linked to 1 browser account. Browser and extension are uninstalled quickly after use. And means I could recover all my online accounts quickly from a new device with 2FA and change passwords. I expect this method opens me up to other vulnerabilities... anyone care to share?

Look at the short history of that chart. The last time it reached 4 consecutive months, it dipped, before taking over supposedly 25% of volume against exchanges, and then the decline from which it's now climbing. Nowhere to go but up if it's so far down, kind of like how meaningful/meaningless 6 consecutive weeks of Bitcoin price increase means to interest.

It's a sign sure, but almost as useful as Bitcoin dominance, IMO. Also, a fifth of trading volume is institutional? Doesn't that seem suspect?

Well done to the 5 of us predicting a Spurs upset! Trofo's still way in front though and with only only 11 games left, the equivalent of 1 week of games, I don't think anyone can catch you buddy!

I put in 2-0, strange no one tried for 1-0 actually, but I suppose on the evidence of the night's performance (if not the scoreline), this was a game City threw away. Son scores first CL goal at new stadium. Loris saves a penalty. I won my parlay so I'm not complaining at all!


Thanks Trofo=p You should use every minute of it, and there is really no better feeling I agree. These days especially my days are really long and I don't have my friends around me, so it's really relaxing to watch football. Even if there is some frustration if we lose, being Liverpool, am pretty much immune to heartbreak

I also bought a subscription a month plus back, but am in a foreign country so I get the game now but I don't understand the commentary very much. Most of my life spent listening to English or my native tongue so still feels different. To get the English channel would need me to actually get a whole different package with a new provider and while I could probably afford it, it's not even espn but Fox, which I don't like so much. As long as I get to see the game in crisp quality!

Courtesy of Champions League and the women's international friendly tourney in Spain, just recorded the most successful day in this season, with total nett winnings of 1,629.11 units (winning over 18/1 on 2 bets). I suspect we actually recorded much more but that was on a single underdog bet. Couldn't have asked for more really, the Kiwis winning by the only goal scored in 5th minute, and England defending really well to maintain the 2-1 lead till the end. But what about Spurs showing some steel eh?

Fantastic night for football and we also take our bankroll to above 5000 units, that's over 50% profit from 7 months of betting only 1% of the original stake!

Let's not get carried away. Ajax and United had amazing runs but it surely ends tonight. Barca and Juve to win comfortably:

Game 1: Ajax Amsterdam vs Juventus. Juve WIN @2.31. Betcoin: 2.28
Game 2: Man Utd vs Barcelona. Barca WIN @1.98. Betcoin: 1.98
100 units at Bitcoinrush @4.5747. Betcoin parlay: 4.5144

Odds advantage: 1.34%
Units advantage: 6.03

Well I got a simple parlay backing my Reds and Spurs to get some feel-good factor from the new stadium (I saw a snippet of their opening ceremony during the Liverpool/Saints halftime break, it was weird heh) and grab the win against Citeh, so I hope you're right tokes.

My man LFC is probably readying to go to the match now with an early dinner. My sadness is that I have to try and watch this from mobile as I'm gonna be in a bus or train for most of the match. Yes, I know, sadness and despair, but I'll probably end up watching the game on replay tomorrow morning if we win, which we will. My mantra.

Good luck, gentlemen.

Even if this strategy could be implemented (it's not really mindblowing btw, lots of small time forex scalpers swear by this) with a huge ass bankroll, I don't think you'd find an exchange willing to take those orders. Can't remember the term but forex brokers call it a direct hedge. Banned by most brokers back then, surely Bitmex would have limited it, especially on margin.

Course it works, until it doesn't.

I think volume is the simple and single biggest "problem". I have seen DEXs with far greater UI than CEX... or even speed. Even the Waves lite DEX in 2017 was way better than most CEXs today, for example. I'm on a slightly aging laptop and even Binance on an order page takes a lot longer to load than most DEXs I've used. I'm not even going to talk about the lesser CEXs and the 2-minute page load. But because we all go where the volume is (sure, and price), then we use whichever platform doesn't scam us, doesn't have too shitty customer support, and fills our orders;)

OP, I do respect your decision but there are some things to note here and it is probably not a clearcut case of principles if you analyse the decision properly.

As LeGaulois points out, people who gamble are generally well aware of what they're getting themselves into. I don't think any reasonable gambler is under any illusion that gambling could be in any way a guarantee of profit.

This is actually the opposite case with trading. Most people sign up and deposit money at an online broker with very unrealistic expectations. And the ads are misleading too, and there is very little that exchanges do to promote better understanding of facilities like loans and margin trading, which have caugt out many an amateur trader.

I don't think 91% of losing depositors at casinos are unexpected. But 80% of losing depositors at online brokers? Now that's probably a figure not many people are aware of.

I see courses teaching people to trade for a living, people are being misled to think they could easily learn to trade as a career.

Don't want to pour water on anyone but would that still hold true if we used any of the days to calculate? Purely out of curiosity, but I was almost certain w had a week of losses before the 5k spike.


When did we ever start listening to Tom Lee? Someone forgot to tell me, I'm still on the McAfee bandwidth. Was thinking to switch allegiance to Changpeng for a while until he started with that FOMO comment. Pompliano's already taken out the champagne it seems, if his busy Twitter's anything to go by. Why I even know this isn't sad, right?

I've actually read Cointelligence reports in the past and they weren't too bad but this headline doesn't start it off in a good way at all.

What it is suggesting in the lead is that those who pay higher fees are likely people who want to hide their txs? But isn't this a self-contradictory statement? I mean, what better way to call attention to yourself than to pay a fee abnormally higher than the average?

It's deliberate behaviour, sure, but why does this automaticaly qualify the attempts as laundering? The article in no way seems to validate this.

P.S. So this is the start or AML organizations in crypto?

So much for following another tipster re Chelsea, but the good news is our fighting Scotland girls went all out against Brazil, exactly as their captain said they would pre match. 1 out of 3 underdogs ain't a bad return at all.

There are a lot more women's tonight and I smell a lot of opportunities, but I'll add them later. For now, 3 English teams play in Champions League and I'm backing the Reds and the ones for whom to dare is to do... so come on, Spurs!

Game 1: Liverpool vs Porto. Liverpool WIN @1.29. Betcoin: 1.3
Game 2: Tottenham Hotspurs vs Manchester City. Spurs WIN @4.25. Betcoin: 4.1
100 units at Bitcoinrush @5.4783. Betcoin parlay: 5.33

A women's parlay:
Game 1: New Zealand vs Norway. NZ WIN @5.72
Game 2: England vs Spain. England WIN @2.24
100 units at Betcoin @12.8128
No odds comparisons

Odds advantage: 2.71%
Units advantage: 14.83

Yeah, as much as I'm unconvinced that this winter is over (I think 2020 post halving is the earliest it could happen), I'll still remember that in mid-2017, no one except the wildest-eyed ones would ever dare speak of 5-figures. Of course, once 10k was breached, that crazy climb to 20k was on everyone's lips, but the point is, no point really saying what's possible because nothing isn't. No rules and different sets of realistic when it comes to Bitcoin.

I'm not sure about least resistance though. The supposedly tough technical 4400 didn't even have time to evaporate...

I probably went through a period in 2017 where I had really high hopes for a DEX to be developed... non-custodial, distributed servers, open-source software, along with cross-chain atomic swaps. That would be some ideal piece of place to be to exchange! And the fact that there were scores of DEXs being developed, plus that some were already useable, gave a lot of hope. I used Waves and Counterparty and thought, wow in a year or two it could get way better!

It's not that I haven't given up on these things. I still believe that maybe even several ecosystems of DEXs, each with their own strengths, could work together. Maybe even on second layers like LN to amalgate. I don't know if that's even possible.

But yeah, for now, what works and what's practical is p2p, and to varying degrees of centralisation... think Localbitcoins on one end and Bisq on the other.

So I guess this project's in public beta?

Might as well take a look at the business plan, surely it would include the very basic information as above and actually more.

You know what would surprise me for once in a crypto business plan? An actual budget, cashflow projection and even expenditure forecast. I've seen perhaps a handful of BPs with so much as a skeleton budget (it's crazy to me how people expect to get interest in a business but have no idea how to do a simple costing exercise). If the detailed BP's too much to share, even a topline one-pager summarising, for example, market analyis, good enough.

Despite the differences pointed out, I can't help but agree that there are certain concepts that almost qualify Bitcoin as a huge ass, decentralised, trustless VC. We are all the trustees, and what better way to ensure we are all complicit in its success than to ensure no entity controls it (being able to exert control over it, from some powerful entities is arguable though)?

P.S. Why is "high price" ever considered a factor for disliking Bitcoin? You can buy 1 dollar or 1 thousand dollars worth. Imagine trying to get a dollar of gold or a dollar's worth of Apple shares.

The domain name does somewhat limit the ideas and audience (moon and overdose anyway).

I suppose while waiting for the offers to come in, you could just put a sign on your 3 doors telling people where they should go if they want to learn about Bitcoin. This forum would be a great place to point to (not that Google wouldn't have helped them already). Or if you want to attract some attention, then to have the landing page point to several other sites you think are really good. If they see enough incoming traffic, it might perk some ears. Maybe I'm not familiar with some terminology but unsure if dose and overdose would get any searches directed your way.

So our hedge won, but abject, abject performance from the bleeding Gunners. Only 1 other team in the top 4 leagues in England has conceded on every away game. You got 4 more matches on the road, Arsenal. It's sad but I don't think they'll make it in Top 4.

We go for single underdog games today. Chelsea should win this against the Hammers, and I actually disagreed with this tip from Cloudbet but with Hazard looking unsettled, Sarri getting even more negative than usual (is that possible?) and cracks widening, and the odds jumping for West Ham to over 11/1, I thought why the hell not?

100 units at Fairlay for West Ham to WIN at Chelsea @11.375. BCR odds: 10.12
Odds advantage: 13.23%
Units advantage: 124.5

And then women's international friendlies, plenty of underdogs, lots of great odds:
100 units on Scotland to WIN vs Brazil @8.28
100 units on Denmark to WIN vs France @10.09.

No odds comparison so no odds advantage

Hush now, don't let the people hear/see/smell/feel you. I think Mr Binance CEO probably jumped the gun when he used that F-word, he seems like the new McAfee in some ways, the way people seem to play tag with his catchwords. Gotta say, the numbers are all there, and so are the fundamentals. But it still feels like too soon. I know it's FOMO when some of the supposed ex-supporters change their mind again. That could be around the corner, could take a year still. Waiting for that 1 tipping point.

Yup. Bitstamp for me, but I don't even really care so much except I need a standard for *some* clients to refer to reliably, but in general everyone just accepts that we'll be off several dollars or so, and sometimes I win, sometimes they do. I even trade quite a bit p2p (all selling though) and if I need a quickie I just "btc to usd" on Google, same as any currency I'd check. I suppose once BTC goes back to 5-digit USD valuations, all these slight variations will matter a bit more than usual.

Friday afternoon/late evening was my best trading day in recent memory on LBC (my regular scheduled sell-btc-pay-bills period). Put up a significant sell offer, just a nick below market rates, and I got a flurry of offers emptying me out to escrow in under a minute. I was even delayed on a couple of orders just because I had to reply to the first ones first.

So I don't know about bad market condition, it was really nice to close all trades and everything out in 10 minutes what normally takes me a couple of days on a "good" market.

So yeah, guess people are all thinking now, no better time to buy cheap Bitcoin. They shoulda got it off me a week ago though;)