If a law is idiotic you were given a brain to think for your own and question it. If you believe that wearing a mask made of a piece of cloth will protect you from the virus you must be nuts.

Ever thought that it's not people who are infecting you, but you can simply catch it from touching a product in a store. The virus can survive for a few days on surfaces, so wearing a mask does nothing but give you a false sense of safety.

Whole world will get the virus sooner or later. You can live like normal if you want or stay at home and delay the inevitable.

I have a friend who bought after mtgox collapse in 2013 for 700 dollars and held for a year until Bitcoin reached the lows of 200 USD. Then he lost all hope and sold thinking it's all over fort BTC. You can imagine how he felt the next year when it went back to 1000. He lost his savings by this one stupid mistake and the saddest part is that he held for over a year before selling at a low.

If OP's friend held for the last 3 years when the price was at 5000 and lower why would he panic sell now at 9 when he's still at a loss?

He went through atll this because being down 80% on your investment must feel bad and kept his coins and held. Tell him to be strong the worst part is over.

Binance and coinbase are for sure not the most trusted Bitcoin companies!

I don't understand why you point them out and then say you don't recommend them. So are they trusted or not?

I'd trust Trezor and Ledger. Their products can be trusted and there were no signs of ill will from them. Using them is probably the second safest way of storing your coins right next to an offline cold wallet.

If they are buying they must be doing it in a very low quantity because the price isn't moving like it would if institutions were moving in.

You should understand that 100 million dollars for a country is like nothing. They can snap a finger and buy that in bulk right now but we don't see 100 million purchases often.

Maybe they are doing it over a long period of time but why would they play around like this if it's such small money for them?

Maybe it has not affected the price as much as you think!

Bitcoin has been struggling to break 10 thousand and there's been a recent double top that signals a short term reversal. The price is just looking for a support from which it can continue upwards.

It was debunked many times already that those were not Satoshi's coins! Satoshi was not the only person in the world who mined in 2009.

It just did go down a bit today.

OP if you bought BTC without understanding it just because you wanted to sell it for more fiat after the halving you're going to be disappointed.

I expect the price to gow down to 8000 or something and all those halving buyers who thought we're going to be at 10 thousand next month just because the halving had happened will sell at a loss.

Bitcoin will go up in the long run but you weak hands won't be here to see it.

Look who's talking!

In 2018 an analysis of exchanges volume showed that Huobi was faking it with only 26% of real volume!
At the same time Binance was cleared with 100% real volume.

https://bitcoinist.com/binance-bitfinex-not-fake-volume/


Binance isn't the safest exchange out there but if you're criticizing others at least play fair yourself!

Please explain to me how they'd know my ID by knowing my computer's serial number.
The only thing that is tied to my ISP is the IP address, but how does that reveal my identity through the blockchain?

Bitcoin is as anonymous as you make it.


The US agencies have no jurisdiction in my country.

If it's a game where people can gamble with each other using a game currency it might not require licenses. Many games have skins and items that people gamble with and it's a kind of hidden gambling.

If you want people to wager cryptocurrency you will have to check your local laws. Many casinos opperate without licenses. It depends on the country where you register.

It is happening but we have to think about whether this is bad.

The market has its own rules and when there's demand somebody will make sure there's a supply.

People have the right to choose their own fate. If they want to gamble because they're not afraid of the virus we should let them.

I don't get why people interested in BTC like OP can still say such naive things like "bitcoin is taking a big hit"

The sky is falling! Bitcoin went down from 9800 to 9400 time to short and it doesn't matter that it was lower than 9400 just 5 days ago! Let's make a big thing out of it and keep saying that it's a big price hit because nobody will remember that this month we were trading for 8500

If we measure the normal win rate of 49% wagering more will not give you more profit.

If you take into account the small chance of winning a jackpot it's better but still not great.

Add that playing more gets you income from other sources like competitions, referrals, rakeback and it can be profitable to play more but you have to be smart about it.

This I have to agree with, although I have long accepted that I cannot decide where the taxes go and how they are spendt so it's fine.

Are you trying to say that taxes are the only way of financing research?
What about donations, fundraising and all that stuff?

Does that mean state-owned research facilities are the only ones in existence?
What about private institutes, private universities.

The government has money from many sources not only from taxation. Many countries make most of their money from trading natural resources and tourism.

So a US agency made a payment system available for every person around the world so that it can trace and tax them?

Even if they only cared about US citizens they gave other people around the world a way to transact without the involvement of banks and hide their savings.
Was it a trojan horse for the rest of the world?

What about the people who mined their coins and then transacted with other Bitcoin users? Their identities are not linked to their wallets. Did the NSA forget that the system doesn't work when the ID of a user cannot be associated with a wallet?

That's the problem with those free tournaments. So many people join them and it makes your chance of beating them and winning something pretty low.

Even small entry fee improves your chances because it cuts the number of players by half while still being very affordable even for beginners. The prizes are of course much better too. A few dollars is not a high price to pay for that.

There's also this thing, if you have a spare $100
https://www.charitypoker.io/

That's right. If it was like the original microsoft version your chances of success would be much higher and they cannot do that so the casino minesweepers always give you some information and then you have to take a 50% guess.

In the end it's like a coin toss game.

There are easier games but those aren't the safest. The safest are games where yoyu can use yoyr skill but to play them you need to learn first. Games like slots are where the most people lose money but they don't care because it's cheap to play.

It's working out great for me, OP. I bought Bitcoin for much less than its price today with a hope of at least being able to get the same value out of it in a few years and avoid inflation. I got like 3 times more value as a bonus from this perfect asset that just keeps on giving.

How about you? You were negative before the halving and did not buy - price went up from 6000 to 10000. Then it went down to 8000 to give all those late for the party a chance to reconsider. You didn't buy and boom it went back up to 10000. How do you feel when life changing opportunities come and go while you watch?

Bitcoin is really standing strong.

I'd say we're going up from the low in March and had a nice bullish breakout in April followed by a small crash that was stopped when traders were saing that it's the end of this pre-halving bullish phase.

We did not come back like a dead cat bounce. It looked more like the strong demand brought us back where we were suposed to be which is above 9000 dollars.

I doin't get why OP is looking at 4h. Most people look at 1d and that's still looking good.

OP thinks that bounty hunters are better because they put in work while investors put in money. It's different.

If bounty hunters had money they'd probably choose money but they don't. Bounty hunters are poor investors who have to work to be able to invest in a project.

Investors have enough capital to make money by moving it around. They don't have to get into bounty programs.

You can always switch from bounties into signature campaigns. Who knows maybe it's not the problem of bounties but altcoins or they way they're promoted. It's always aggressive marketing, referrals, a lot of promises and then the coin doesn't even get listed or is listed on some shit exchange with no liquidity.

Bounty programs are still a good way of advertising just like signatures. It's possible you guys will be advertising bitcoin businesses instead of wasting time on shitcoins. The market will show where the demand is.