I don't think this is a good idea to be honest. All those iris, fingertip, voice... all those biometric type of security solutions aren't real solutions to me.

Like let's say you get a fingerprint based password for your brain wallet seed pass phrase. And you someday have an accident, like you burn your hand while cooking or some shit. This would result in a fingertip that is no longer what is stored to decipher the password. And now you are stuck with a wallet that cannot be recovered and 6 months of rehabilitation to heal your finger.

Almost all gambling has the same odds. You may have higher odds to win in other games, but you need to risk more money to get the same gains you would need by buying a lottery ticket.

So it's always a balance of risk/reward, you need the x factor and that x factor is called luck.

That is right, in fact the only smart way to gamble is not to gamble, but like you said before, we are human and some of us are too eager for some adrenaline and gambling is a great way to get that fix. Of course, within gambling itself, if you stay cautious and know when to stop, that could be said to be a way to stay smart when gambling.

Both Messi and Ronaldo look good for the next champions league. Also Neymar is looking good on the Olympics, even tho the Olympics is a lower level competition I think he is very motivated and Barca has serious chances to win this year. I think finals will be Barca and Real, they are clearly the best teams in the planet right now.

In my opinion this fight was the definition of a tie!

I think both deserved the win and a third match, but I guess Dana White wanted a 1-1 and not a 1-tie to go for the last fight to end this trilogy.

Anyway I think McGregor will win next time since they will fight at McGregors preferred weight.

I feel like Bitcoin is never going to properly go to the next level until we fix the problem of centralized exchanges. I feel everytime a great improvement is made that makes the price go up, it gets ruined thanks to some idiot in charge of a big volume exchange getting "hacked".

We were on a good uptrend thanks to good job made by Core devs with up and coming segwit and so on, plus the halving also had a really solid uptrend. This got destroyed thanks to the Bitfinex disaster. Im sure we would be at 700+ as a new floor right now if the Bitfinex disaster didn't happen.

We must then put lot of effort into coming up with a solution to avoid this from happening again. The question is if this is even possible. How to create a decentralized equivalent of Poloniex (note, not a marketplace like bitsquare.io but a proper exchange with a broker where you can make fast trading operations, have liquidity available and hold long positions without fear of getting Goxed)

Can lightning and sidechain allow for this? Maybe through payment channels or something so no one has to hold all the funds in a single point of failure? I don't know, I can't code I just feel like whoever comes up with a solution will be an hero.

The advice to keep most of them is honestly the most sound so far. We don't know for how long signature campaings will exist, hopefully forever, but we don't know, we certainly don't know if there will be higher paying ones. Right now all of them don't pay enough except the one im at right now which pays good.

In any case, in the future maybe signatures that pay lower like Bitmixer with 0.0007 per post rate, are seen as a really lucky opportunity to be able to made that by posting.

Once Bitcoin reaches 5000 dollars per coin, the people in signature campaigns now will be considered lucky.

Im still yet to understand what the point of integrating blockchain technology into the banking industry really solves at all. The point of the blockchain is to decentralized the accounting of the ledger (the blockchain is ultimately a ledger, so somebody tell me how in hell this is of any use at all without the decentralized consensus + token to incentivize powering said decentralization).

The best way to deal with this is by become an agnostic so you admit that you don't really know if religions are real or some stupid fairy tale that people in middle ages believed due ignorance (most likely the second option is the case)

USA won the spain women medal as well, they are the best in basketball. Spain is the 2nd best in the world in basketball, they won the silver medal.

Spain men also deserved silver but had bad luck to face USA. I think it's a safe bet to go for a Spain win for bronze medal.

I have been hearing this for a while but nothing has happened yet. I think they are just experimenting, it does not mean that they will actually accept Litecoin and Doge, but I hope they do, but being realistic, chances are they will only accept BTC, at least in the beginning.

Damn, why did they hard fork specifically? If it was for a good reason, like a technical upgrade, then is justified. Hard fork is in theory ok as long as is not for a stupid reason (like ETH did). But of course, its dangerous, and you have to pull it off perfectly, or bad things can happen.

This is why we cannot expect common usage of bitcoin to buy goods and services until people gets paid in bitcoin as a common phenomena, otherwise its inconvenient having to change to another currency to buy the same as you can buy with the currency you are at by default, since there are no incentives to do so except in special occasions.

Until then bitcoin will remain a better gold.

Revolutionary technology is often caught in the ironic position of solving a problem that is not really percieved by the masses. This is the case with Bitcoin.

Similarly, back in the day no one understood why the internet was huge, of course, except the smart people which where the small group of technical people/geeks/hackers that saw the potential since day one.

Sooner or later, Bitcoin will shine, be glad that you even know it exists today.

Sometimes experts can't help you and you have to help yourself, there is no other way to do it but to do it yourself, otherwise you never make a real change. You cant depend from external input, it has to come from within to make a real permanent change.

USA will probably win, I agree with a silver for spain but im not sure about serbia vs france, both teams are good and have decent chances for third place. Also spain has also realistic chances to actually win, but USA has the higher odds.

Limits are key, you must know when to stop or you will suffer the consequences of addiction.

It's the same for gamblin, you must set stop losses in case your stock goes to shit, so set a reasonable stop loss to where you guess to be the floor just a bit lower, this is the basic strategy.

This is good advice, but remember to not look at the comments of the torrent. If you use piratebay for example, do not look at the comments or you will most likely find someone talking about the guy that lost or won.

Are there any recommended trackers?  I only know piratebay and im not sure if they will have it ready next day.

Its a sin only if you consider it a sin. Things by itself are not a sing, this is religious delusion. You must choose if you want to gamble or not. Personally I have never had a problem with gambling and there are worse things to do.

I don't know why you say Coinbase doesn't charge fees when they just raised their fees recently, correct me if im wrong.

Every online wallet ever charges a fee, and they make money from the traffic which may click on advertisements or may buy premium services, it's the standard online business model really.