First I thought you were referring to casino gambling. In sports betting you definitely make this work, but you gotta know your teams and have a skill for this. Why not try the challenge with 2.00 odd parlays? Why wait so long as I'm sure you can find enough acceptable matches is beyond my reach.

Over the time I found that low odds matches are more riskier as the risk/reward ratio is much lower than with playing higher odds. However I wish you luck in your challenge and I will be watching this thread.

Well.. I think that trading Spot is great too haha On a more serious note options are great especially for hedging, but I know traders that only trade options because it is much more convenient and they can't sleep at night peacefully. But IMO the real masters of trading are able to combine spot trading with derivatives. This way they develop multilaterally and can exponentially increase their gains.  Deribit offers options as well and I have recently heard that CME also offers a similar product.

Be careful though and don't trade options until you don't understand them completely. They can liquidate your account just as easy as trading spot on leverage.

Can you use the strategy on lower timeframes? It looks like it is a long term trend following strategy using bollinger bands as primary indicator. If it is working so well I'm curious about your reasons for sharing it on the forum.

Personally I haven't used the hotbit exchange, not even heard of it, but it is probably one of those shady
 exchanges that one should not even use. I guess this is the risk you're taking when holding crypto on platforms. Be aware that there is no regulation that limits these exchanges so act accordingly.

Try dbet.io sportsbook. It is the closest I could find to directbet.eu. No need for KYC and you don't even need to have an account. Just choose the event, pick and send the btc. If you have a winner then your gains will be sent directly to your address. The interface is easy to use.. don't have much to complain about.

I disagree with you. More exchanges means more exposure to the market, more liquidity & more volume. Bitforex is widely used by the asian crypto traders so I wouldn't jump the gun on this one calling it a washtrading exchange. GOLD is a stablecoin so I don't mind it being listed on as many exchange as possible, be it decentralized, centralized or shady. After all it is a cryptocurrency that traders can do whatever they want with.

Quantum computing is a powerful and threatening thing, but it is still far away from actual use. I've talked with a tech guy recently and he said that quantum computing is years or if not decades away from us. Also there are anti-quantum options that can be implemented through consensus by the miners. I'm sure that the more specialized ( + those that have more skin in the game sort to say) are doing extensive research on this. Personally I don't think this technology is a reason for worry.

Transaction fees are part of the cost of doing business on an exchange. As a trader you've got to factor in all the costs associated with your trades to come up with the real PnL. I don't think that a 0.10%/side fee is an enormous amount but it could be lower of course. As far as I know they do offer fees discounts to volum traders up to 0.05% ( if I am wrong please correct me). As any company they need to make their profits from somewhere. Where do you think they get the funds to launch so many different products ..

It's about your beliefs and what you know. For example I know that is impossible to win on the long term in gambling. As a matter of fact I tell myself that more rounds played = less chances to win. So this is why I always play for fun and not for anything else & I always know my spending limit. Btw that is called budgeting, not risk management. I allocate for example a percentage of my wage to gambling activities each way if I feel the need to and then I stay in that limit because it is for fun.

Actually Sportsbet is the main sponsor partner of Watford FC. They are a big online bitcoin sportsbook for those of you who haven't heard about it. Pretty swift move and they are also spreading awareness about Bitcoin literally for free(for the community). Just think of the number of people who are watching Watford matches on TV. Millions of eye balls on the Bitcoin logo each week. Pretty mind-blowing if you think about it

If you are a bitcoin enthusiast like I am you should always have this in the back of your head: holding fiat currencies is like bleeding your finances to death, but by hodling Bitcoin you expose yourself most probably to the deflationary currency of our future. Of course there are other investments out there where you can diversify your portfolio, but this is not an investing lesson. We are talking about BTC - a beast that can triple fold in 1 year. As many of the forum comrades said the fundamentals are on BTC's part.

Until Bitcoin becomes a more stable currency I think the best solution for companies is to use a payment processor that instantly exchanges the Bitcoin they receive for the products or services they provide. As Bitcoin raises in value and become more stable and the adoption raises companies could start doing all their day-to-day transactions denominated in BTC just as they do now with fiat. It has been proven that higher liquidity in the market correlates with lower volatility. To achieve that we need more institutional investors in the market and I am confident that slowly we will acquire that.

China banning Bitcoin would definitely have an impact on the cryptocurrency industry, not just because a big part of the mining farms are located there, but because the majority of world's population is located there. Mining farms will probably just sell the rigs to farms in the nordic countries or simply relocate. I think using alternative sources like geotermal, solar and wind energy are the way to go in crypto mining. Also it is much more efficient to set up a farm in a cold place like Finland or what about Greenland? - there is no one there so could be a viable place to build up a powerful farm.

I don't believe that the HTC approach to cryptocurrencies will make any actual waves. I'd buy the phone maybe on lack of other hardware to run a bitcoin full node, but rather than that I don't see why would I use it instead of a regular smartphone with more powerful specifications like iPhone or Samsung..

I don't like how the match started at all. Minute 35' and still no goal from either side. As you can see above in the thread my bet is over 2.5 goals in the game. Need more than 1 goal in the first half.. keeping my fingers tied. Fiorentina was a great team some time, let's see if they can still show off like they were back in the times.

The simplest and most effective way of doing this is by making sure that people do their own diligence regarding each project they invest in. An investor who cares about his money and he has earned that money from hard-work will be very 'picky' sort to say with where he puts his funds in. However we need to think about the newbies in this space as well, so the best would for someone trustworthy to create a blog or a trustworthy source of information and rating company like ICOBench, but I've noticed that their reviews are not so helpful.

Yeah, man.. The thing is that professional traders rarely use more than 2x leverage, while the retail traders are crazy about using 25x, 50x or even 100x leverage. Leverage is a powerful, two-edged weapon especially in the financial industry. It can bring abundance or it can tear you apart. That's why I always recommend people to first trade without leverage and be sure they understand all the mechanics of margin trading before getting into it.

The LED case looks AMAZING @crowetic! Hopefully you can put a button to turn the lightning off and on. I'd like to mark down my interest and support for this project. I haven't made my purchase decision yet, but most probably I'll end up buying it because it is such an amazing deal. I'm not sure on the shipping and custom taxes, though as they could really mark up the price.

I have a few questions though. What will happen with the future hardware models? Will the minters have to buy them to continue minting or how will this process work? How long does it take to become a minter on the blockchain?

Thank you very much and I admire all your hard work to create a possible world changing device!