Many people imagined that, in fact 100k was expected to happen this year. Ih ave to agree that by the time betting closed here, a lot less people considered 100k to be possible, but even in that case there were 400+ bets made on 80k to 100k betting, it is a very low chance and the odds were 87+ for it so it is clear that a lot less people thought about it by the time betting ended. However, a few months ago if you asked people, especially during October pump, they would say that it reached 68k+ again and 100k+ by the end of the year was possible.

In the end, we are not goign to see it for sure and third biggest paid bet looks like it is going to win it all. Not a shock, but not the favorites neither, people ended up not realizing what could happen. First one being 52k+ is the proof that not many of us really know what we are talking about when predicting.

Swaps could only work within the confines of crypto world if you are already in it, if you want to get in with your fiat then swaps will not work at all. This is why I feel like there is a good case to be made about the KYC situation for places like coinbase or binance or whatever where you send your fiat in and take crypto out. After that you are right you could deal with swaps and do not have to give your KYC because there is no centralized organization to take your KYC in those situations, but to get there you have to share it.

The only people who never have to share are the people who earn crypto and never take it out to fiat, just keep it at crypto. Eventually they will have to obviously, or they may end up buying something with it I suppose?

Good point. Even if you should diversify your investment, there is still risk, because all of them are not going to be successful, not to talk of when you have just invested in one. The thing is that we never get to hear the stories of those who lose in the market, the only stories that we get to hear are of those who are lucky and made millions and billions of dollars and turn motivational speakers the next day.

So that way people who have not had any single experience starts thinking that it is quite easy, while the truth is that it is not. Borrowing money is a huge, but if you’re sure about what you’re doing and you know you would benefit from it, then it’s up to you, you can decide to go ahead.

Before you asked this, it seemed this was a hot topic on google search and in cricket world (when you type Rahul Dravid on google search you will get suggestions for "why Rahul Dravid played for Scotland") and I found this article to explain you all the details you might be looking for: https://www.sabguru.com/en/why-rahul-dravid-played-for-scotland.

Even I do watch cricket keenly, I did not come to know about this Rahul Dravid's contract with Scotland cricket. It is really a different news for a day.

But, when you are watching how Kohli batted and then how got out at the on-going test, you may not blame his skills but only his lack of patience (similarly Pujara's wicket also highly misfortune one) hence I am not seeing any problem for Kohli's place in India test team as of now. As long as his batting average stays good, he might remain in playing eleven as expecting him to score at least one century on every series may not be an appropriate one IMO even he used to do so some few years back.

Before Kohli, India should rest Rahane and Pujara first or at least give chance either one and should apply rotating policy to give room for new talents.

I do not call that sideways market is the hardest part of bitcoin market for both traders and investors. Because, traders might love the range bound markets to buy and sell at same kind of levels to profits on daily basis whereas for investors who have been holding bitcoin for years definitely might have seen similar situations where bitcoin usually launch its bullish rally after a sideways market.

This is the reason always spot trading must be a good one for any trader. I have seen many cons of leveraged market and this time that is not a good to go with even for sideways market as well.

Even I do plan to make use of year long bearish market of bitcoin, I am not comfortable to sell my bitcoin; honestly I am little afraid to take any such hard decision by deviating my initial plans of bitcoin investments. Moreover, if I would have sold 1 bitcoin by the times of late December 2017 when bitcoin was trading above $15k levels then I would have got chances to multiply my one bitcoin into at least 3 bitcoins by buying back by 2018 December when bitcoin was trading below $5k price levels.

When we are not sure about what is going to happen next and where will be bottom to be met, I guess all long term holders must be hesitating to disturb their plans of long term holding.

I guess only less than 1% of people are bothering about explaining the real potential of adopting bitcoin by showing the real time example from their own life. Bitcoin is not directly getting us any benefits for making a new person to adopt bitcoin, which must be the only reason why people are rarely doing so.

If it will be too good if you mind to share about your working process as it might help many people on where to start and how to start. I am must be one of them who wish to spread words on bitcoin but due to various reasons I keep on delaying that.

Also gold is a bit of controlled by the government as well. Most of the gold owners are the nations and not retail people, when you look at how nations care and value their gold, you will realize that they are the ones that make it valuable so much since they care about it. The day governments of the world come out and say they are selling their gold because it doesn't mean anything to them anymore, we would see a huge crash and that is the main reason why it is still risky.

Not saying that they will do it, but the fact that they "might" is good enough for me to say gold is not valuable at all. This is why we should be focusing on decentralization a lot more than how we care about it right now.

I have to say bounties section here is as godo as any if you really want to earn something meaningful. Most of them already have a pre-sale coming up or already past their presale stage, so you need to look at that. If you are getting free airdrop there is a 99.99% chance that it will be something worthless whereas if you are investing into a new project then the bounty section here is filled with them.

I am not saying that you need to work for them, you could do that if you want to and earn something, but you could also check when their presale is and when their release date is and their whole roadmap and whitepaper and all of that will be there. So, you will find something you can invest and brand new.

This is quite true, it is definitely something that attracts people out of crypto world as well. Considering how Stake has partnerships with Watford and UFC, I am pretty sure there are tons of people who didn't even know it was a crypto casino and wanted to check and they googled it probably. When they first came in here, the first thing they see is a million dollars giveaway, in fact it is 2+ million total but still it is a lot of money. Sure they will see it is crypto and if they want to leave they will leave but at the same time it may cause some people to get into crypto as well.

So, I agree that Stake is doing something not just great for them but great for the whole crypto world. All those people who get involved could spend more than 2+ million dollars all over crypto world, invest, trade, stake and even gamble obviously. So, it is definitely a great thing for all of us and not just stake.

Yeah, we could not ask more from India on outside Asian conditions in test matches. I just wonder that India did not play any warm up matches still they have adopted the new conditions and showed that they were the runner up of recently concluded test championship. I guess the toss favored India and they made the most out of winning the toss.

I am sure about India bowlers to perform well in South Africa and if my prediction is right then there will be no more obstacles for India to take the lead after this test match (I know its too early to call the result in favor of India but India batted well like a hots hence which must be more than enough for deciding the result for them in the end regardless of how South Africa will bat).

This is the situation most of us are in right now but if "I do not want to pay my taxes because I believe my government is corrupt" would be an acceptable reason to not pay taxes, then nobody in the world would ever pay taxes, even if they believe it is not corrupt, they will just say it is corrupt and they will avoid it. What you should do when you believe that your government is corrupt is not stop paying taxes but start being more active in the world of politics.

I did that once upon a time 2+ years ago, I joined a party and both gave feedback on how to get better and how to root out corruption within my own party but also showed resistance towards ruling party and basically worked on trying to end corruption. Obviously me alone is not enough, but if ALL good people around the world got into politics all at once suddenly, we would have a lot less worrisome corruption. That's how you stop corruption, not by stop paying taxes.

Another thing is that most times when you look at a situation like this, you wouldn’t eve know what to do about it. Having Bitcoin is good, but it is also a volatile investment and you wouldn’t know if it will go down anytime soon or not after you have invested in it.

And for that reason you cannot invest all your money in bitcoin, except part of it. Then after you have invested that little part of your money in bitcoin, the next question is what you do with the rest of it? You’re still going to keep them in your savings, and then hope to make  big profit from the little you have invested in bitcoin?

I would say it’s best to develop a business that would be very profitable, because that’s the one thing that can keep you going no matter whatever it is.

I thought you were in jail! Lol jk, good username though. The truth is that "metaverse" is not one thing and people keep forgetting that. Sure sandbox is doing fine, and I am sure decentraland will do fine as well but these are projects and not the whole metaverse. There are too many people who imagine that they could "invest into metaverse" and there is no such thing.

It is like saying "I invest into crypto", well that's good but which coin? You could keep holding btc, eth, bnb, ltc, sol and so forth whereas you could also be holding 1324th biggest coin and lose money as well. It is like saying "I bought NFT", well that's great but what was it, cryptopunks? Or just some knock off that worths 50 bucks at the very best? So, it is really not meaning anything to say you invest into metaverse, it is important to state which project you invest into in order to make a profit.

As someone who had a near-death with an inlaw myself, I understand the pain you went through a bit better this year compared to any other year. We are not done yet and everyday is still at the hospital and I keep working every single day at hospital while taking care of my in-law's needs (my wife stays with them while I just go running around dealing with paperwork stuff) so it has been a terrible year for us as well.

I at least managed to leap over that death situation and even though we are at hospital "nearly" everyday, at least she is alive and well and that's what matters. In fact we had another one where my wife's aunt had a terrible situation as well but that was over like in 10-15 days I think thankfully, and my father-inlaw got covid as well but thankfully he just had some fever and then felt better after a week.

So, this year has been all a year of "nearly died" for most of my in-laws. I can't feel the exact pain you are feeling, but I can understand it more than I used to and I am terribly sorry. Been a terrible year for the world, everyone talks about how "thousands" died but nobody realizes that the stats actually represent someone's mom, dad, brother, sister, wife, husband and even child.

100K point is still 100k satoshi so there is no change in that. If you are looking to make money via affiliates only, it still gives the same return as well and there is nothing that changed with it. I would suggest doing the same things that you did back in the day and you will get a lot better results nowadays. Sure the free faucet thing is not giving as much satoshi but it is also still giving the same amount in fiat as well.

So, absolutely nothing got worse, in fact many things got even better in the past 6-7 years, with addition of even making money while doing nothing with the interest rate. They literally give you money just for keeping your money there which not that many places even do. If you haven't been around for a while, stick around and check things out and I guarantee you that you will find a lot more ways to make profit than back in the day.

I am not able to find any internal exchanging feature with primedice and stake anymore. Do I miss anything regarding this? I am aware of their ranking system like higher end features are accessible/visible to only VIP gamblers but I remember I was able to use exchanging features but not right now.

If it is confirmed that primedice and stake are no more supporting the exchange feature then I guess OP might need an update to reflect the latest. Thank you.

I am not sure how true practically this statement is. For example, we need to consider South Africa; they were able to produce quality players among many such incidents. Racism is not a new problem in all Europe countries hence I am not seeing such incident will bother the new talents at their interest levels.

Could you please elaborate more on this statements so that we could get more enlightenment on your point. Do you mean Netherlands will not bother even if they lose players for the reason of racism? I do not think any developed country will take such a stand in this modern days.

Not all the coins are recovering; for example, I have been holding tron since 2018 with average buying prices around 700 satoshi and I am still into lose with respect to current price of 165 satoshi. I do stake and I got good returns from Tron and when comparing in USD prices then I could have been into profits still I calculate my profit/losses only in BTC value hence I cannot agree that each and every coin is performing well.

Another coin must be waves which is still trading below 50k satoshi whereas my buying prices were around 70k satoshi. I am satisfied only with the performance of bitcoin in 2021 and most of altcoins in my stash so far gave me only big disappointments only.