I don't understand. What token do we get by participating in the airdrop and also the liquidity on your DEX is little to non-existent. Overall your OP is kind of sketchy, you should make it a little more elaborate.

I have to disagree with that. 1 BTC is higher now, but in the future could be much higher than your imagination. People need to convince themselves that you don't need to own an entire Bitcoin.. That is the sole reason why Satoshi Nakamoto created the sub-decimals. Recently I have given the following example on another thread in this forum: it is a fact that there are over 36 million millionaires in the world. If each one of them would want to buy 1 Bitcoin and hold it what would be the price of 1 BTC? Obviously at least $1M. But what if some of them want more Bitcoin and not just one, and take into consideration that 4M BTCs are lost. That would put us at a 17 million supply in circulation. What if countries around the world decide to add Bitcoin to the national reserves?

Hopefully you can see the potential in my model.

You already have more bitcoin than 99% of the planet's population. That's definitely not a small amount. Remember that 0.01 BTC worths 0.01 BTC. In the future 1 BTC might be worth $1,000,000, that means your "measly" 0.01 value in USD will be: $10,000!

Now regarding your concern - you can participate in bounties and faucets but you will earn very small amounts unless you have good content creation skills. I recommend just getting yourself a real job and allocate a part of your wage to investing into cryptocurrencies. I'm not a financial advisor so you don't have or should listen to my advice.

According to the CoinTelegraph article 5200 Keplerk tobacco shops will start accepting bitcoin payments in form of coupons. I think they not only accept bitcoin payments but also enable customers to buy bitcoin coupons that I think are redeemable but their partner Bitmedia or maybe they are only usable withing their shop network. If anyone here is from France and can share his experience with this I would appreciate.

5200 locations accepting BTC as a payment adoption is huge in my opinion, not only that but it is mentioned in the article that giants like Decathlon and Sephora will start accepting BTC by 2020. What do you think is the quickest way to adoption? Big retailers or small local tobacco or coffee shops which people go to on a daily basis?

People leaving from the market means lower liquidity and lower volume in the order books. That makes so much easier for the price to jump up in a very short amount of time if one investor decides to pump a considerable amount of funds into STRAT. For example with less than $50k someone can pump the STRAT price with 10-12%. The daily volume is ~$200k/day. I miss the old days when volume used to be over $10M if I remember good. I think the exchanges miss those days as well haha

There definitely are machine-learning trading bots in the market, but that doesn't mean they work perfectly and the profit is guaranteed. The market is in a constant changing condition. You won't find a moment when there are the same traders in the market as they were yesterday for example. Through an AI bot a trader can automatize his strategies and the AI bot will optimize the strategy by collecting information about the market behaviour in different scenarios.  Again, AI bots shouldn't be viewed as get rich schemes because they are NOT.

The interest in bitcoin is low in my city. I don't really see the young generation attracted to it. Maybe that's because it is not so convenient to make payments in bitcoin. Actually I don't know any offline local shop that accepts bitcoin or any cryptocurrency as a method of payment. On the other hand in ecommerce stores bitcoin starts to spread out. I guess we still don't have the infrastructure for physical shops or maybe the experts to implement it. I agree with you that regular meet-ups are the way to build a group that spreads awareness about BTC.

First of all a true professional trader should be able to trade in any kind of market environment. Cryptocurrencies offer you much more volatility then forex, but in forex you can use crazy high leverage if you are a professional trader/not a retail trader. Basically it is up to you what market you like more. Personally I am more excited by the cryptos because they trend more, but forex is good for scalping.

If you are experimented in trading you can trade both, why not. Or maybe scalp forex and play swing trades on Bitcoin for example. Everyone has different trading styles so you need to do what works best for you.

Well.. the bitcoin in the exchange wallets are still theoretically users' money so they should be able to move them around. In my view it is a great time to HODL bitcoin as it is looking good on the longer timeframes. If you know a little bit of technical analysis it is obvious that the price action is above all moving averages which is a very bullish thing. On the fundamental part the halving is coming in May 2020 and the infrastructure of Bitcoin continues to be built, best example is Bakkt and CMEs. The Bitwise ETF got rejected, but that's no big thing. We don't need ETFs to moon 

Again.. Stratis is the only cryptocurrency I know besides Ethereum that it's actively being developed, on a consistent basis, with monthly reports and many events. In my view this is how a successful project should look like and I'm looking to see bright things coming from the C# developers that are building on the Stratis Platform/products.

Maybe I'm a little bit biased as I was a supporter of STRAT since its inception, but I don't mind to be biased 

Amazing move by UNICEF! I see more and more giant organisations and companies starting to accept cryptocurrencies which brings a lot of awareness and increase adoption like crazy. Think of all the people with stacks of Bitcoins and Ethers. Of course they want to help people in need( not all of them obviously), and what other way to pave their way then to open a gateway for Bitcoin and Ethereum - the two most popular cryptocurrencies?

BIG THUMBS UP FOR UNICEF! 

Back in 2014 when I wanted to start making some money online on the side, I have knew literally nothing about cryptocurrency. A friend of mine introduced me to, at that time, CEX.IO cloud mining contracts and some faucets. That's when I got a burning passion for Bitcoin and the blockchain technology which literally has the power to change the world for the better. I have a lot of regrets for not discovering Bitcoin when I could mine it with dimes, but I guess I hadn't enough exposure to what is happening in the world. This is a good lesson to always look for the next big thing!

Sincerelly, I haven't heard about this exchange until now. The rebates are tempting indeed especially for market-makers and scalpers, but again I don't know anything about it. Maybe you could do some smarter marketing campaigns to build credibility. At the first glimpse your website is moving kind of slow, which is a big drawdown for an exchange. We, as traders, need fast interfaces and execution times. No space for lagging especially when scalping and want to be in and out of positions as fast as possible.

To be quite frankly the volume on Bakkt is not at all convincing, but anyway it is good that we have the infrastructure set in place for the institutional investors to pour their money into the markets in a regulated framework. From another point of view we are at a very important pivot in the market right now so depending if we break this level to the upside or not will set the trend for the next few months in my opinion

Hopefully Bitcoin has the power to break upside and give us all a nice Christmas! 

I actually like EDM music to play whenever I watch charts. They keep me in an alerted mode so I can watch the markets for a long time. Coffee + EDM is a great combination btw. One of my favourite artists is deadmau5 and De Hofnar.

On the other hand when Bitcoin is dumping I play the classic "Liquidation" by Lil Bubble. I recommend checking it out haha

When you have a drink or two it is usually more fun when you have more people around you especially girls 

If you sometimes have social anxiety it might not be the best place for you to gamble. This can affect your gambling decisions and you could leave the casino with no money in your pocket if you wanna impress the people in there. It is all part of casinos' strategies to make people play. Remember, the house edge will reveal itself on a bigger number of iterations. So they want as many "rolls" on the dice or roullete as possible.

Well, those statistics are true in big part. Depending on who they have questioned they will usually get results that around 1-10% of the traders are profitable in the long term. Trading is one of the hardest things in the world, because it takes a special dedication and mental work that not everyone are capable of doing. Day trading is profitable if you know a little bit of technical analysis, how to manage risk & control your emotions.

Most people take on the trading challenge because they aspire the lifestyle of a trader, but soon they'll find themselves failing and get frustrated and quit. Remember that many big profitable traders have lost their whole account at least once 

This is certainly not an ideal place to look for venture capital funding. My advice to you is to google for venture funds lists and reach out to them by e-mail or other contact forms. I have a short database of funds, I can give it to you for free if you PM me. Good luck in your endeavour!

This is a very hot topic and should interest all the people in the crypto community. As I know all the bitcoins will be mined by 2140. Until then the price of Bitcoin should increase considerably in order for miners to still make a profit as the block rewards will drop significantly. This is a very bullish fundamental factor if you ask me.

After all the bitcoins will be mined I think we should be at a level where Bitcoin is already pretty much adopted and is massively used for day-to-day transactions. Many transactions translates in more fees for miners that will hopefully compensate for no block rewards.

Indeed I strongly believe that cryptocurrencies are the next evolution of your monetary system. It is just a matter of time. If I'd go more in depth with this topic, my long term vision is bitcoin to become the worldwide mainstream currency and eventually the currency of exchange in our galaxy. Maybe you think I watched too many SF movies, but Mars colonization and human-compatible ecosystem creation is closer than the majority of people would think.