Bitcoin and gold are in two separate categories, sure they are both stores of value, but one is digital and one is physical. They both have their own space, and both will continue to be used. Obviously Gold is no longer used as a payment method due to the difficulty in moving it around, and verifying its value.  If you are asking if bitcoin will replace gold, it already has, what you should be asking is when/if ever will it replace fiat.

I don't think wars on big countries against small ones will have much of an effect on bitcoin price, though I do imagine that if the US and Russia goes to all out war, then both the Russian Ruble and US Dollar will fluctuate in price, depending on who seems likely to win the war, particularly if this war results in conquest of the others territory.

What makes you think that most coins are going to reach their highest price soon? Because most coins have increased by about 10-20% in the last couple of days? Nearly all coins would have to see at least a 200% value increase to even begin to approach their ATH.

Just because a project is managed by a trustworthy manager, doesn't mean that project will not turn out to be a scam. You should be looking if the ICO itself is run by a trusthworthy, publicly visible team. If not, then this should set alarm bells ringing, as there would be no accountability if they scam. I however think that few ICOs are straight up scams, most are just too ambitious with their funding caps, and fail.

If the top 6 coins are worth a trillion, then bitcoin will see the least growth, as that's only about 8x its current market cap, whereas EOS which occupies the 6th position will increase from $7B -> $1T, that's around a 140x growth. So if this is your prediction, it is most logical to begin your investment with EOS, as you'll turn $10,000 into around $1.4M

This is definitely good news for Bitcoin, it shows that people at least trust crypto enough to believe it has a future enough worth investing in, even if not directly investing in crypto itself. Over time the UK will adopt a more direct approach and see investing in crypto directly as a suitable mode of financial growth.

I'd love to catch a shy fish at a table, in poker this is pretty much a guaranteed felt scenario. The simple facts are, if you're shy don't play face-to-face games as you will get completely dominated. Your shyness will likely make you the weakest hand at the table, and will get you in situations you don't want to be in.

Seems like the author of Game of Thrones could make some serious cash by simply creating an outlandish series finale and betting on it in advance. I wonder if there would be any recourse if he did this? I suspect the gambling websites probably have some clause in their terms and conditions that specifically forbid this type of scenario, as it could be considered rigging. Does anybody know anything about this?

The fact that he says the best thing about cryptocurrencies is their anonymity shows just how ignorant he is on the subject.

Obviously the best features of modern cryptocurrencies is the low fee, near instantaneous transactions, whilst smart contracts open up a whole new industry of digital potential. Mined cryptocurrency might be a bad thing however, unless we can find a way to reduce the energy burden.

I really hope it happens a lot sooner than that as I'll already be quite old in 2022, I would like some time to actually enjoy my money whilst I am still young.

That being said, 2022 does seem like an optimistic estimate to reach $250,000. I was thinking more along the lines of $100,000 or so, definitely still a great number, but not exactly life changing unless you have over a dozen BTC.

Reserving this slot in case some idiot fails to complete the objectives for arguably the best campaign on the forum.

I'll be looking to fill his boots lickety split!

Support aren't there to help mediate account transfers, I highly doubt they have anything in the operating manual that would allow them to participate in something like this.

Odds are, like most online accounts it will be easily recoverable by the owner (you). That is, unless you can transfer the mining power to someone else's account temporarily.

I'm not certain exactly how the system works with hashflare.

I guess it's no wonder he was able to withstand the beast that is Golovkin for 12 rounds, I mean Canelo's physique was seriously ripped for the fight which would have been suspicious if he wasn't an elite level fighter. Just goes to show what a complete monster Golovkin is, he was fighting (and arguably beating) the second best fighter in his weight category, a man 10 years his junior, a man who used performance enhancing drugs, and STILL beat/drew with him. Barring the score card fiasco (I really hope that judge isn't working for boxing anymore, outrageous), he clearly won the fight in terms of shots landed and heaviest hits. That being said Canelo is still a great fighter, just sucks that he had to stoop to this level against Golovkin.

This is obviously invalid collateral, once you have provided your mining accounts to the lender, you could quite easily contact hashflare, claim your accounts were stolen and have them restored back to you.

It is highly unlikely that anybody is going to take these accounts as collateral, and you should be wary of anybody that offers, as they are probably looking to steal your accounts. Not that it matters much as they are easily retrievable.

True, most of the merited posts are in the meta section. I think it would just be simpler to just create subforum specific restrictions for merit, e.g. cannot merit in the meta or off-topic sections.

Right now, the meta section is the go to source for merit farming, just post a few high profile comments there that are likely to be viewed by merit sources, check back in a few hours and you'll probably have 2-3 merit. The same quality of post in another section of the forum would almost certainly attract no merit. Obviously adding a section dedicated to merit is just pointless, as that undermines the entire system. You shouldn't be posting just to earn merit, you should be earning merit just for posting, if you don't earn merit then your posts aren't worthy.

TLDR: Remove merit from the meta section.

Of course, everybody has the same feelings, after a loss comes a period of doubt, whilst after a big win comes a period of joy and hope. So long as you are managing your bank roll correctly, winning more than you are losing (on average), and have your gambling controlled to an acceptable level, then it's not a big deal.

Gambling is definitely difficult for most people to effectively manage, a lot of people tend to try to double up when they lose, and often they lose the double up too, meaning they have now lost 3x more than they would have initially lost if they had stopped the first time. This is where you need to stick to your strategy, understand the true odds of winning, and use this to formulate a plan that will lead to you recovering your initial loss.

Remember, you don't always have to chase big wins to be successful in gambling, a large number of small wins that are easily obtained, can be more profitable than a single big win that is very difficult to obtain.

Good luck soldier, remember, play responsibly, and never more than you can afford to lose.

If they do release such a coin, then it will probably be huge. Assuming it is subject to the same price volatility as current cryptocurrencies, which would allow explosive growth and adoption. If they simply tether the price to the EUR, then I don't see why anybody would get excited. Either way, we should avoid a government controlled cryptocurrency, this isn't what we want.

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There is no chance that bounty managers are going to go through your posts every two days, it's just simply impractical. Most bounty managers will still award stakes even if your posts have been deleted, they are not idiots (usually). Just make sure they're aware of what has happened. Simply filling in the forms or submitting your weekly reports is usually enough to ensure you get stakes, they're not usually trying to skimp on the stakes as it really makes no difference to them or the ICO in the end.

I would suggest invest in a high potential upcoming ICO such as NEX or NEKO, you can also invest in some highly undervalued coins such as Zcash, NEO and Monero which are almost certain to gain faster than Ethereum.

Lastly, if you want some small gains you could do margin lending on poloniex.