I see cryptos as a really interesting investment opportunity where it is really still possible to make a x100 of your investment within a couple of days. I don't know any other financial product where you can achieve such high returns in such a short amount of time. On the other hand an investment into crypto is also extremely risky. It is very much possible that you lose 100% of your funds because of a rugpull or some other reason. So the first and most important rule should always be to never invest more than you can afford to lose.

I don't know but i just don't believe that most of the points that you have listed as a reason are really true or based on facts. For example the statement that athletes are more prone to become addicted to gambling because they have a high IQ. I am pretty sure that this statement is true in 2 ways. First i would say that people with a high IQ are not as prone to become gambling addicts as people with a low IQ. Secondly i don't think that atletes have a higher than average IQ.

I agree sith most of your points but i am not so sure about the whole polkadot thing. The project and their whole eco system was extremely hot a few weeks ago but at the moment there are other blockchains that are more in the Focus of the people at the moment, like Solana, avax and cardano. Also i think the fact that the supply of dots is unlimited scares of a lot of potential Investors. There are just other coins out there that have way better token economics and mechanics.

I could not watch the qualifying today but i was very happy when i heard that verstappen managed to get the pole position for the race tomorrow. I also read that the mercedes has some problems with that steap curve that is pretty special and as far as i know there is only one more turn like that during the whole year, in the US grand prix. I hope that verstappen manages to win the race tomorrow so that the championship is completely open again.

I agree with you that knowledge and especially discipline are both very important factors but i also want to add that in my opinion the most important factor is still luck. I invested in some projects recently that have, at least in my opinion a great usecase a good Team and a well thought through roadmap with achieveable and realistic goals. Yet some of this projects are still below their presale price while other projects with zero usecase make 100x and more.

It is always weird when countries introduce laws which only have the goal to change the way that adults spend their free time because i don't think that any country has the right to do that. Everyone that has reached the legal age can do whatever he wants in his free time and with his money, if this activity is legal of course.
That being said, a gambling addiction hits in most cases those people that are already poor and also easier to manipulate. Therefore it can make sense, from a certain point of view, to forbid that sports stars and other celebrities are advertising for sports betting. I doubt though that i will have any effect.

I don't own any Solana myself and i am also pretty sad about that to be honest considering the fact i was subscribed to their newsletter way before their token got listed on the exchanges but somehow i lost track of it and now everyone that invested early into that project made a huge amount of money. I personally would not invest now though, as you already said yourself Solana already did a x144 and i think at the moment the price for Solana is just too high and i think we will see a correction pretty soon. If we see a new altcoin season in the next months i am sure that solana can also reach 200$ and more but i think other altcoins will definitely see bigger gains then.

I doubt that there are games out there where you can earn real money that are completely skill based because i don't think that would work out pretty well for the casinos. I think that in the end even those so called skill based games are still purely luck based. Maybe you could call poker a little bit skill based because there it is also very important that you can read the body languages of your opponents even if they try to hide their feelings and of course you need to be able to hide your emotions from the other players. This of course is also only true for real life poker and not for online poker. My advice would be to gamble because you have fun doing it and to get excited whenever you win something but don't go in with the strict plan that you are now consistently need to make money from gambling.

There are many reasons why a project can die. The first one would be that the project was always designed form the start to just be a quick cash grab for the team, so they just hopped on the current hype that is happening at the moment like Defi, NFT or play-to-earn games then they quickly created a website imagined a roadmap that is based on nothing and just launch the project on Uniswap or pancake swap and hope that they find a few poor fellas that ape in. After a few weeks it will be probably become obvious that the team is not delivering what they promise and the project will die.
To one of your other questions: I don't think that a project that is currently in the top 10 or 20 can really completely disappear anymore because those are all multi-million-dollar projects already so the only way that they would disappear would be a epic scam or a massive event like a hack or a critical error in the blockchain code or something.

So russel now moves to mercedes. I guess hamilton is not very happy about that as he now may have a serious opponent in his own team again, that is something he didn't have after rosberg retired after the 2016 season. Kimi retires and Bottas will take his seat in the alfa romeo team, this also means that Mick Schumacher will have to stay at haas for at least another year. The only thing that i haven't read about yet is, who will fill up Russels seat at williams after he moves to mercedes.

I am definitely ready for a new altcoin bullrun as my portfolio consists mainly of pretty new projects that i purchased within the last half year or so by participating in their pre-sales via a launchpad. Those projects suffered massively during the dip that occured from the beginning of may until august and my portfolio lost more than 90% compared to it's ATH back in May. I hope we see another altcoin bull somehwere during this or next year because then some of my coins are also free of tax because i hodled them for more than 1 year.

I am surprised that tsitsipas used such a dirty trick to win a match, i mean so far he is or was probably one of the most popular players of the circuit and basically got cheered on wherever he has played. Djokovic is knowing for taking "tactical pauses" whenever he feels like it, for example calling for the doctor even though he is not really injured, just to break the momentum of the opponent. The problem is, you can't really tell right there on the court if he really is injured or not because a pain in the ankle or something can not be diagnosed that way.
I also think a bath break should take not longer than 5 minutes at max. and if you are not back by then you should get a punishment.

Yeah the sudden price increase of Ethereum that happened yesterday came pretty much out of nowhere, at least for me. I still don't know what was the reason for that increase. Maybe some big investor or financial institute invested heavily into Ethereum, because most other projects did not increase in price yesterday so this was just a investment spike in ethereum. It is true though that a raising price of ethereum can signal, that other and smaller altcoins are also beginning to rise pretty soon, at least that is how it was in the past. First BTC was rising then ETH and other big altcoins and then a few weeks after that the small cap coins also rised.

To be honest i don't really think that this law that china recently introduced is that bad. There are a lot of kids, and also very small kids, that are basically spending every free minute of their day in front of the smart phone or some other device to play some stupid mobile games that have zero value in terms of learning of increasing your general knowledge or stuff like that. Back in my childhood days we played at least warcraft 2 or diablo 2 on the PC  .
It is something different though to introduce a law that limits the time that you are allowed to gamble, because gambling is only allowed for adults and i don't think any country would introduce a law that basically says adults how to spend their free time.

I also think that it is definitely possible that messi will have some problems to adapt as he always seemed to be a guy that really enjoyed to be around people that he knows. He never seemed to have wanted to go to another league to learn a new language, a new culture and stuff like that. Now he basically had to go to Paris in order to continue to play football on a high Level. As far as i know he does not speak french nor english so he definitely will have some problems to communicate at the beginning.

The whole Uefa 5 year ranking has lost a lot of excitement and importance with the changes that have been made a few years ago. Before that changes only the 3rd place had 4 spots for the champions league (2 teams qualified directly and 2 teams have a chance through the qualifiers). Back then it was a pretty close battle between germany and italy most of the time. Now that the 4 top clubs all get the same amount of spots for the european competitions it is pretty boring, at least in the upper ranks. The difference between Germany and Portugal is extremely high and i doubt that Portugal can come close within the next few years.

I am sorry but this just sounds like a pretty desperate attempt to shill the coin that you have probably the most of. I also disagree with your statement, that XRP's popularity is increasing every day. XRP is a pretty old project at least within the crypto space and if you look at the charts it is one of those old projects that didn't even come close to it's own ATH that it reached backed in the bullrun of 2018. So i would say that the popularity of XRP has decreased since then, even though the cryptomarket as a whole has grown since then. That is not a good sign for XRP if you ask me. One reason for that is the centralization of XRP, which is why a lot of crypto enthusiasts dislike XRP.

It really surprises me, that Gladbach has now only 1 point after 3 matchdays given the fact, that they made their point in the very first match against bayern munich. So i expected them to do very well in the next games after they managed to achieve a draw against the strongest Team of the League. So far they seemed to not have adopted yet to their new coach just like eintracht frankfurt. Gladbach plays against Bielefeld and Augsburg next and they should really win this 2 games.

I have never heard the term Baby coin before so i am not really sure what you mean with that. If you mean new projects then i would say that not all new projects are bad and you need stay away from, because there are still new projects coming out every week, but of course there are also a lot of bad projects coming out each and every day. So you need to choose the right one. If you mean meme coins then i totally agree with you on that. I also stay away from projects like that.

The dota 2 ESL one fall Finals where great to watch and i am very happy for Tundra that they really managed to pull it off and even beat PSG.LGD in the grand final. What a shame that we will not see Tundra in this years TI, because they are very fun to watch with their unorthodox drafting, like the position 5 monkey King. PSG.LGD also did extremely well given the fact that they had to replace their normal mid Player with their Coach. They seemed to have a lot of fun and that they could have won the tournament with a little more seriousness.