What really makes cryptocurrency different from every other currency is not only for its digital payment alone but because of its anonymity nature, so any project that is really working with the blockchain technology should have an anonymous coin which was part of why Bitcoin was even created in the first instance.

But for me, when I talk of anonymity, the one I am not comfortable with is that of the team members, I don’t see reason why the team members should be anonymous when raising funds, and any project that is not transparent enough with their team identity, I do not participate in them no matter the picture they put on their whitepaper.

Raptors managed to show the world two things for sure. First of all warriors are no longer "definitely going to win again" team without Durant, if warriors lose Durant then it means their reign might be over very soon, this off season if Durant leaves then there is a 90%+ chance another team becomes champions next year.

On the other hand raptors showed that Draymond is no longer that defender everyone remembers him to be, he is still alright but Siakam literally destroyed him, if Draymond faces a team with no good PF then he can help his team out which makes him a good defender because he helps everyone out but if he is facing with a good PF then he is unable to even guard his own man. So, without Durant and a bad Draymond all warriors will have left is curry and klay and I doubt that will be enough. I don't care who wins the ring this year, the decision Durant will have is the biggest deal in a long time.

You are wrong if you talk about binance IEO but for other smaller exchanges IEO, you may be a bit correct. Binance has none of those bad intentions you listed here and yes they are capable of protecting hunters in the sense that they will never register a project that doesn’t have integrity because those ICO that doesn’t not pay hunters after campaign lacks integrity, but since an exchange would have certified whatever project they are promoting, if such company had conducted bounty campaign before like harmony, then it is obvious that they will pay their hunters.

Another ripple in the making, probably government must have even directly contacted him to create such coin since he has the largest user database when it comes to social media to be able to have control over the cryptocurrency, if not, what would make them suddenly revert their policy after they have locked out most bounty campaigns from their site.

People are still complaining of binance of monopolizing the crypto currency industry, they should wait and watch, these are the real players that will do that and I hope that they don’t end up changing satoshi’sintention for creating crypto with these partnership they have with government.

I believe the crashing predictions are just there so there is an healthy amount of suspicion of this increase. You can't just expect EVERYONE to think bitcoin to go up, some people will eventually think it will go down, the higher we go the more people will start talking about how its close to getting down eventually. The price is at a decent level right now, it may go up or it may go down and we will never know.

However, if price were to increase to 20 thousand dollars in June then there would be much more people thinking bitcoin will
eventually go down, you can't expect bitcoin to only go up, that is insane, it will eventually go down for sure. The question is, will it go down now or will it go down after it hits x dollars, it may continue to go up more, it may continue to break the all time high price but that doesn't mean one day eventually it will go down.

I guess you mean what is cursing the rebound or the surge again, well, we expected it, the market has been sable on $8000 for too long and some big investors have probably been holding on to see if the market will dump from that value based on the speculation of some analyst that there will be a very big corrections, which is why bitcoin might has failed most of the time it tried braking more barriers.

Now that they have gotten a clear signal that the market is not going to dump again, the biggest investor may have taken the move to first invest his own capital which I expect many other investors to also follow from here, so this increase may continue as it is till $11500.

This has always been my view too until someone really confirmed that we have IEO bounties which he has even listed and I also see in another forum where the user also gave link to it, so in other to confirm if it’s true, I traced the project to IEO and I really confirmed that it was indeed an IEO project.

This makes me wonder why they still carry out IEO when the marketing tools the exchanges has put in place  to  promote their projects works wonder. Probably they are beginning to know too that a time will come that the hype of IEO will die down and no longer be enough to push for hard cap that easy again.

For newbies, I think they have no choice now than to look for personal fund from their traditional bank savings to invest in quality projects if they really want to partake in cryptocurrency investment because it will be very difficult for them to get any campaign that will give them money for investment again.

For already existing investors, I think they just need to be using the profit they get from their already existing projects to be doing turn over as they also cannot get much bounty reward that will be enough for them to be able to make any major investment or trade.

Well whatever economy challengethey are having or any trade between them that makes them see bitcoin has solution or way out of some of the circumstance will surely favor bitcoin in a big way, but for now, I don’t really see people of china, especially the influential ones use bitcoin as solution to any of their problems yet.

They still have some doubts about the system and until the air is cleared about it and bitcoin is generally supported in china before they can even consider it as an option, but if it’s to move money without them being traced, I am sure some of the elite may think of bitcoin.

Except you are a full time crypto traders or crypto business person that you will have time to be checking news about all your tokens from time to time. Just like me, I have so many tokens that I don’t even have update on them for the past 8 months, I don’t even know if they have been delisted or not because my intention of keeping them is for future.

How will it be possible for me to be checking over 200 coins that I have from time to time with other heavy jobs that I am doing, I found out that only the popular ones is what I have been checking on most, which is why op advise us to just limit ones investment to few top coins rather than having a handful of coins you will eventually forget about.

Yea, ethereum is a good coin and I also have faith in the future development of ethereum, but for now, I would rather focus on bitcoin because most of the pump these altcoins are getting now are still because of bitcoin pump and not because of the adoption or usage of their product, that is why majority of them also reduces when bitcoin drops in value too.

Until we are near the altcoins season before I can invest in projects like ethereum and some of the top altcoins in the coinmarket because prior to that time, I am sure majority of them will still dump first.

It is true that the money is quite small, but we are using the total market capitalization to judge its effect, yea, it won’t cause any FOMO value in the total marketcap, but if they look for some small market capitalization projects to invest in, it will be a major breakthrough for such coin.

Imagine a particular coin with a market cap of $10 million, and someone coming to suddenly add $50million dollar to it at once, don’t you think the small cap coin will get a big boost? It will, and from there, FOMO might help do the rest of such project. But like you said, banks will only crate their own coin which will be more of stable coin and may not have any significant effect on the market.

It is not only you that sometimes do not have much control over this, even those that are advising against it are the most greedy ones when it comes to trading, how many of them would see opportunity to take big profit and not risk it, sometimes when we risk it works and sometimes it fails.

One of the reasons why many people are also greedy is because they lack the capital that will attract big profit even with a small push. I can be greedy sometimes too when I think of how big my expenses are, I think the best way to just control greed is to completely stay pout of short term trade and be a holdler.

That's it and I'm really hoping that it reaches $8.4k cause that's the next resistance level. If it gets to that we can then hope for the next which will be $8.9k I guess. The month of May is already coming to the end so that's not going to happen this May. And this shows how unreliable these analysts /experts are.

I don't know why they are fond of giving predictions that are so wrong and still claiming that it is right and is going to happen when they know that they can't even predict anything. Some people are really funny like seriously. Let's wait till June cause I really hope that it doesn't crash again.

Yes been extra careful is very important in gambling, especially because of the consistent origination of new casino sites with the intention of scamming gamblers and this is to all online sites but it doesn’t meant that Crypto is risky like you mentioned.

 Cryptocurrency on the other hand is actually the safest investment you can think of if we take sentiment apart and if all crypto gamblers can be honest enough they would attest to the fact that crypto gambling is far safer and more convenient than any other gambling type you can think of.

The OP has taken out his time to list out some step to follow to avoid been scammed and I will add by saying that if we can just to be less greedy in gambling, then we would avoid so many of these mistakes.

Very good point indeed. I like the angle to which you came in, yes KYC is for a reason but the good reason is definitely not in favor of the player. So of what benefit is it for a player to risk his personal information to a site that there is no guarantee that it will not be hacked. Or how can a gambler be so sure that there is no other reason for this requirement aside the one they have made us to understand.

Truth be told, KYC implementation might be very useful in other platforms but I do not see the necessity of having it on a gambling site. I will never fill the form on any site, rather I would look out for other gambling sites that will give me freedom to play games without intruding on my privacy.

This is the easiest thing you are looking for, that is why we have local exchanges that would do that for you, especially the ones that are directly operating in your country over the counter, where you can walk to and make your order.

If you use the online local exchanges, bank may still trace their deposit because whatever accounts those ones will use to transfer will be the one opened for cryptocurrency which may definitely have element of cryptocurrency in their registration. Over the counter, you can just request for cash which I am sure they will attend to such request.

Yea it is better to have little than not to have at all and I van fully understand how much expenses that keeps coming ones way on a daily basis, but one thing about this investment of a thing is that one really needs to be very discipline because of our future and future of our children.

We can’t because of daily expenses not make some heavy investment and just close ones eyes to it even if one will suffer it for a while. I usually do this too before until one of my brother asked me one question, he said how would I answer my children when they ask me in future where I was when everyone was making investment and holding it. Would I tell them I couldn’t meet p because of expenses?

But I don’t see it as good news in the main time, if they ban miners, they are indirectly banning BTC then, which is not too good for us, miners can always come from region and what is exactly the population of miners in China for us to start jubilating their ban, China is a big country with rich people, we need them to fully adopt cryptocurrency so that we can have more populations that will invest in it or make use of it as a utility token.

Anyway, we still cannot fully speculate that the Ban will have any effect on BTC, let us see how it goes this period and see if truly, their ban has any influence in the current market supply.

He wouldn't be asking such a question if the price of Bitcoin only goes up. Let's assume that the price keeps going up and never goes down, you wouldn't like to have it locked in place (particular rate) because you would like to make profit. Bitcoin is determined by the selling and buying. How much that comes in or goes out at that moment will determine where the price is heading to.

Exchanges are not even the ones who can say what the price is going to be. Buying cryptocurrency is the same like when you're buying stocks, you don't expect their price to be fixed. If you feel like you're going to lose money due to the price that is volatile, all you can do is to pull your money to real money. There are exchanges that can let you switch to a different currency right on their platform if you'd like to keep your money.