We are animals after all, and it has ben scientifically proven that we always search for the next high that will make us feel good. This new high comes in all kinds of shapes and forms. Some like gambling, and other like other drugs. Everyone has his addictions, and as long as you can control it its not that bad.

My favorite thing to gamble at is fights, because it's only two persons and it's way easier to predict than an entire team (for example football or NBA).

I have made a decent amount of money in boxing and MMA gambles.

My biggest win was the Mayweather - Pacman fight. I made my money go x10. I went all in trusting in Mayweather's legendary skills to avoid getting punched while scoring points.
I have made so much money with Mayweather win bets but that was the best one ever.

What are the fighting bets that delivered the most money for you?

Ah really cool I will try some slot machines later. Lucky that is for casino, since im not good at poker and couldn't use the bonus.

i lost money this week from gambling, i was celebrating a birthday of a friend and we went to vegas. I haven't gambled in a physical casino for ages so I said hell, why the hell not? And I lost 100 bucks in the vegas casino in the slot machines. I was up 500 and went all the way to 0.
So no, i am far from rich.

I have been considering a long term position in this project but im scared that they get stuck and aren't able to deliver what they promised.

When will they have the final Safecoin token instead of the temporal MaidSafeCoin token? And when will they solve the ongoing technical problems?

I love this project but im not sure if I can buy and hold.

Somebody knows a way to do this? I want to monitor several crypto coins at once, and i only want to have the price displaying on the firefox tab, because if i have several tabs opened with the charts, my computer starts slowing down. Too much data to handle, I need the ticket only.

Looks like OP was right. Monero pumpers seem to be moving into ETC now. I wonder how much this pump will last. If its just a flash pump and dump or we are going to test the ATH again.

The developers will get their act together, they are working really hard and they are making progress. We will soon have segwit with version 0.13.1, then next year, the long awaited sidechains kick in.

And like you said, once cash is removed, all the cash underground economy will move into bitcoin.

You cannot have mass adoption without huge prince increase. The marketcap is currently less than what, 10 billion dollars? that is nothing, a company like uber is several times bigger. Once Bitcoin goes mainstream, the price will be in the literal moon.

It's actually the only realistic way that all those poor countries can ever join the world economy. Banks will never find profit in banking the more than 4 billion people that is outside the global market. Here is where bitcoin will shine the most and the marketcap will go x1000.

Do you really think bitsquare is a solid Poloniex alternative? It is not, even if it was a crypto only exchange, it's still too slow. I don't think it will be viable until we have payment channels and someone smart enough to pull it.

Also by mentioning bitfinex i mentioned fiat implicitly. If we dont solve the fiat problem, we will be having bitfinex-mtgox incidents for life.

What masses? Bitcoin is still tiny and only pioneers see the value in it yet. The average joe is an idiot that is why doesn't own any BTC yet, so there is no masses to dump bitcoin. People that understand bitcoin will not sell for a digital version of fiat since that is pointless.

We don't really need average joes buying coffee with Bitcoin to reach 6 figures per coin. All we need is big fiat/gold/stocks whales realizing Bitcoin is the best way to keep your money at safe from government's insane policies to push the price to 6 figures. This is why we need to keep the network as decentralized as possible, and that includes nodes being decentralized, which means big block size goes against this end.

If datacenters are running nodes, all governments need to do is to take control over those datacenters, this will keep potential investors away from Bitcoin.

There is obviously a demand to keep money outside of governments as we have seen with leaked papers from several tax havens. Once those people realize Bitcoin is the best way to keep your wealth safe from tax hell, they will move, and the move will be brutally high, specially when governments ban physical cash, then the average joes will join too because most people avoid taxes thanks to physical cash.

The sum of all that money will be trillions of dollars moving within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Ahh good old Litecoin. It's holding pretty well the 4 USD peak, I thought it would collapse in a flash dump after we hit 4 USD. But god knows right? This may be a slow downtrend back to stagnating in the 1 USD range, or maybe we will see an higher price. It's a gamble and my winners right now are in ETC and XMR to pump.

Of course they get... otherwise why the coin is still alive? Every time the coin goes up in price, the hash rate goes up in price too. The hash rate follows the price, and not the opposite. Miners will mine whatever coin is going up.

I think we would have been at 3-4k easily by the end of 2017 if the bitfinex disaster happen. Thanks to those god forsaken bastards we have gone backwards a couple of months, so I don't know now how much it will take.


The pump will be fast and we will go up several thousand dollars in a matter of days so we never know.

Im not including third/second world because I think eventually people that don't have access to banks will naturally see Bitcoin as the solution, but as of right now, the average person in a first world country in a regular situation, if they learn about Bitcoin they will threat it as something that is worth holding long term, like gold, but not something that's worth paying groceries for with, or anything ordinary. I mean, why would anyone pay something you can buy with fiat already, without having to change your fiat to BTC, losing money in the conversion?

This is why we need an incentive, such as cheaper prices. Purse.io is the only reason I know of why I would want to pay with BTC. Other than that, I see no reason and I value my BTC too much to spend on "stuff".

Therefore it is established that we need to incentive people to use it.

If we can't find any ways to do so, Bitcoin will remain as a new form of electronic gold with special features, maybe until "Government Coin" is launched and millions of people start looking for alternatives (since with "Government Coin" it will mean physical cash, that is paper and metal coins, will be removed from circulation, this may be the point where Bitcoin goes to 100k+ per coin, since the entire underground economy will not simply stop existing, but it will find its way for alternatives, and Bitcoin will be the best alternative)

But until then, like I said before, I don't see real reasons of why the average joe is going to pay with BTC, specially when they don't get paid in BTC, because if you get paid directly in BTC you are more prone to spend it, since you don't need to do the stupid fiat->BTC->buy conversion.

You can already buy a ton of stuff with bitcoin, and the good part is thanks to purse.io you can find a real incentive to keep buying in BTC, which is what we need. We can't expect people to use BTC in the first world unless you give them a real incentive to do so.

The volume is healthy and it looks like we bottomed at 21. Uptrend will eventually consolidate and people that missed all this cheap ETC will miss the next pump and cry on their sleep.

I would keep holding. The only way im selling s if I get 1 million dollars of non-inflation adjusted dollars (the current purchasing power of one million) and after taxes and after only selling half of my BTC; so I need at least 100k per BTC, which will happen in 5 years.