I think the question should be can bitcoin affect the banks? I mean in the end the play here is not to destroy banks but to show them what we really need and what we can really do with blockchain technology. If they could use the same system that bitcoin uses we could surpass many of the problems we have with our current banking system.

Just recently our country changed laws in a way that it would affect the working class but help the companies (mainly banks because it helps super rich companies and not small business and lets be honest most super rich companies are banks) which would mean what helps the banks also destroys the people which is in a way considering how laws and politicians works the banks can't sustain this forever and blockchain will eventually stop them and change the way they work.

This is the type of quarter we need to keep having, if the Q2 somehow ends with something good like this than we can definitely get to see bitcoin really high again. I know it will take time but when you end a week with profits that is good, if you end a month in profits that is better but if you end a whole quarter in profit that is life changing and it could help increase the prices a lot. In order to keep this up we have two options, either we are going to need more buyers with higher volumes or we are going to need sellers not sell a lot of coins at these prices and lift the pressure.

If we can achieve either of those things than there is nothing in our way that could somehow stop us, that is how we are going to go back to high prices and the all time high 20 thousand dollars again.

There is still a lot of time to go for that to happen, is it on the same path? Yeah for sure, but it is not the same just yet, in order for it to keep going we need to keep pushing it and without that its just on the same path but not on the same distance traveled.

We should stop with the talks of "oh it was the same on 2014 and same happened on 2015 and oh look its 2017 all over again" and all that, we should definitely try to create our own history and make 2019 unique compared to all other years, if we keep having the same things over and over again than we are making ourselves vulnerable towards the manipulators who will keep on making the price move up and down constantly like previously and make us believe same things will happen while they make the money.

I think stake has just a video poker and unfortunately their next ask at hand could be a sportsbook not a poker website, I know they are gonna open a poker website one day but it looks like its not going to be any time soon. They are now providing a video poker where you can win or lose but the house edge is still there and you are probably not gonna make much money from it which is really a shame considering people who play poker want to play against other people not against a house edge which makes sure you lose in the end.

After the sportsbook deal than they will focus on poker but considering that will take years for now we are not gonna see any poker games from them for a long long time. Meanwhile SwC is still improving their position as the best place until there is a rival for them.

I think nobody really needs to be hardcore defenders of their signatures, I mean you can like it or you can do it for money but in the end when you tell something it doesn't have to relate to your signature, for example I can wear the signature of X today and support X but tomorrow I can move to wearing Y as signature and keep on supporting X, so what I say doesn't have to be because I wear a signature.

I believe stake is an amazing and awesome website and everyone who gambles on crypto should at least give it a test with faucet once before they move to any other place. I do play on other places constantly but that doesn't mean just because I gambled in other places I should also say bad things about stake, I can like stake and not play there at the same time.

It is always the first tickets that is hard for any lottery, I mean you are building something that has over a billion dollars in many countries so do not be really shocked by the fact that the market is sutured and you are gonna have hard time making people believe in this project and get customers.

The problem is, if you have 1000 people buying tickets than you are not gonna have hard time than finding more people on top of that, but finding that first 1000 customers gonna be the biggest challenge, if you could establish yourself as a lottery and get your name heard and everyone knows you than it will become super easy to continue the operation, just focus on that first customers that will buy the tickets and than promoting their wins and after that it is gonna be easy.

I think we need more firepower if we want to go back to all time high prices. This is a good increase and we are moving further and further away from the bottom price which is amazing news, we have been so close to bottom for so long that we got scared of what it could become however the only way to go back to all time high is to have a very further away bottom as well.

If we do not really focus on getting sellers remove their orders and increase the prices we are going to just stay here and that doesn't help anyone, bulls do not have the high prices they want and bears do not have the low prices they want, so basically this price right here doesn't help anyone out.

Bitcoin and altcoin prices needs to go up much more than this, I suggest if they all go 2x from here than we gonna have a big party once again.

Bears are not back at all, altcoins are trying to catch up with bitcoin but bitcoin is still on a bull run. For those of you who never watched bitcoin before the 2017 peak, when bitcoin went up all coins went down (as early as 2017 summer when bitcoin cash was coming up) so when you actually think about it this is not new, things were like this for a long time.

Moreover, on 2017 peak when bitcoin went up everything went up with it, for some reason they all increased together so all the new people afterwards started thinking when bitcoin goes up it means everything goes up but it wasn't the case back in the day. So I see this as not bears coming around but as bitcoin/altcoin relations going back to what once it was and one goes up the others go down.

Yeah this was the first topic came to my mind when I saw the price going up, just to make it clear, do you think we will stay at around the same price before we test another increase in 1.5 times or we will go back down and comeback here for the test ? I meant like are we gonna be around 5k and than try to go to 7k+ or are we gonna fall back to 3840 levels first and than test the 7k+ levels in 1.5 month time ?

Because, if it is the first one I am just gonna keep on waiting but if it is the second one than I am going to sell here and rebuy at 3800 levels and than wait for the increase again. I do not have the biggest of faiths in the price at this level because usually after an increase if price stops for too long it has a correction down before trying to go up again.

This huge bull run thingy people have been waiting doesn't really happen all at once, people have forgot all about the 2017 peak, we didn't reach to 20 thousand dollars in day one, hell there was a whole week we stayed at 9 thousand dollars and debated if we will ever reach 10k and than we broke it a week later. I am not saying it will happen again or we are on path to 20 thousand dollars again but even if we are than we gotta wait, it can take about a full 2 months before we reach those levels even if we are in a bull run.

We may very well be just staying here and not going anywhere up or down as well so we don't know but just in any case we know everything will be slower than people expect. Some people just want to see 20 thousand dollars like tomorrow and that is not gonna happen.

Manipulation in the sense of pricing always happens in bitcoin but the difference is I have seen movements like this before where the price held his own and didn't move that much. We have always seen these type of manipulations during the increases where we hit 4200 for example, you think when price was about 3600 and moved to 4200 there was absolutely no manipulation at all? There was plenty but the price didn't budge from that 4200 max for a long time.

This time there was manipulation again but this time around there was no push back so the manipulation actually worked and the other side didn't bothered and now we are all here. So do not think that this was thanks to manipulation, it always happens but this time it was thanks to people who didn't stopped the manipulation.

I guess I would totally "borrow" crypto currency but who would lend me crypto that is the question. There used to be places where people could borrow money and others lend them money but people are smart they increased their trust ratings by getting money and repaying countless times and than after a while increasing the amount making it suspicious and yet paid those back to and eventually after a while they just decided not to pay back if the number gets big enough.

That is the level of shady business goes on in bitcoin world when lending is mentioned and there is a lending page here on bitcointalk where you can see people lose money lending others more than they make money so it makes no sense to lend anyone crypto. That is why "borrowing" is quite easy to answer but lending is impossible.

Yes, it is very safe to invest in binance ICO, we all know that binance is a very popular company that has gained trust and reputation over time and I don't think they are ready to lose that just making away with some amount of dollars that they can make within a week or more. Binance is one of the most trusted exchange in existence and will not want to tarnish what they have built over time and let another company take over their position, so I can advise to invest in them for now because you are very much safe.

Still, people do say always, what future holds for us is always a mystery hence deal with binance or any other exchange with extreme cautious so that you will never disappointed. Invest with them only the affordable amount and risk with only one IEO at a time. Act with consciousness and responsibilities always.

Bitcoin is referred to as the digital gold of the physical gold we have, Bitcoin would even be more valuable than gold because unlike gold, bitcoin can also be used as a means of transaction at any point in time but gold would have to sold for fiat because no one will want to every collect gold as a means of payment for any goods and services.

Traders of golds are already buying into Bitcoin and we would even see much more traders buying Bitcoin because they know it would be worth more than gold in the future.

I think it is also benefit of the nation as well, these countries do not like the way England is talking about brexit and how it could benefit them, if you are going to argue for the fact that it is British government that is not acting on the best interest of the country than you could be right, they had a proper president that basically resigned for right reasons because he believed what he thinks and what the people think are different and that is why he shouldn't be there but the new government is not like that.

Nonetheless, if you are talking about France, Spain and Belgium than those people are sick off Britians talks about how "brexit could be better for Britain" and those type of talks made the Europeans hate British people since they feel like "why the hell you think you would be better without us" and it just feels wrong so it is great that those countries are ready for a hard exit, Britain might as well leave now because they will not get any love from rest of the Europe.

Adoption? Sure. Price increase? Not decided yet. Just because bitcoin gets more adopted in the near future doesn't mean the price will go up as well, the more people get into bitcoin the more volume there will be and the more volume there is the more whales have a chance to sell their bitcoins without breaking the market but at the same time stopping it from going high.

That is why I think in the end we will go up but not until we get all these bitcoin rich people out of the way first, all the Craigs and Jihan Wus and so forth that have a ton of bitcoin needs to be stopped and cash out in order for all of us to actually see a decent increase, anytime the price hits to a level of amazing value they come out and do something horrible and kill all the price increases.

Oh jesus christ you guys are right, I forgot about that part of bull run... Now that we are up a bit there will be a TON OF people on TV saying bitcoin will go down again and all will be like a unison of sounds telling same thing on every TV show they go out.

Until of course bitcoin goes up even more and even more at which point TV shows will get other people who support bitcoin and even bitcoin famous people like Erik Vorhees to talk about how awesome bitcoin is at which point you can understand bitcoin reached its peak again and we will have a possibility of going down, whenever bitcoin increases way too much you will start to see actually smart people on TV.

Hopefully, these negative ones will be small to minimum because it is getting more boring every single time they do the same thing and we prove them wrong every single time.

Tom Lee used to say that as well before we went down to 3 thousand dollars, check out his predictions just before Craig Wright and Bitcoin Cash Hash War thingy happened on November 15th, he was specifically saying we will go from 6 thousands to 14 thousand dollars, it of course went down from something unpredictable by any market research because it was just one guy saying "screw this" and selling his coins but in the end he was wrong all the same.

Now that we are up to 5k range again he is not making a new prediction, he is just saying that 14k prediction will happen all the same just with a hiccup in the middle and that's all. There is two possibilities, either we will go down and we can pinpoint the person who jynx bitcoins prices or we will eventually hit 14k anyway, there is no way bitcoin NEVER hits 14k again, so given enough time he will be right.

It depends on the adviser, I mean if you are going to have a decent adviser team than yeah it would be amazing but if you are going to just fill it in with your friends than whats the point ?

So, check out the advisers and search their names on google, most of the time it will show their linkedin page which should be what you are looking for, after that just check where they have worked so far and at what position, if that satisfies you than it means the advisers were needed because it gave a plus but if you can't even find them or found them but didn't find it impressive than it was totally unnecessary.

Those are small things that help the ICO reach to a level but its so tiny that unless you have like Erik Vorhees on your advisers list than you don't have to share it.

Same thing I am saying, we are rejoicing because of IEO and how it is now working for the crypto community, but we have forgot that the ICO market was once like this until a set of people came to corrupt the market because they discovered that the crypto market is a free market and anyone can do whatever they like in the market without being queried by any body or organization, same is going to happen in the IEO market in time to come and we would begin to see a lot of scam exchanges that are going to plan a very good exist by launching an IEO just to get the funds of crypto investors.

Just due to the reason of changing the platform from bitcointalk to exchanges, this does not mean that we do not need to have our own due diligence. We must still need that. Moreover, we need to do our researches in more depth as now ICOs are coming with one extra layer of attractions but we need to be more careful as usual.