There are now 30+ bitcoins going for the presidential race and interestingly it is 1.8 vs 1.9 between them which is really weird considering usually when one option is about 1.8 the other one is more like 3.5 and not 1.9 back to it. Probably they are both high together "against" other options given which is why we do not see these odds.

I am not going to lie, if you want to wager on the presidential race, because of the parimutual situation, I would say check another place if you want to, in any other game parimutual is better but for this one only it is not really giving you the best odds. If one thing is low odds the other should be a bit more higher, both odds being low together, under 2.00 together, is not really that common and shouldn't have happened no matter what.

Bitcoin has crashed only for like a week before it recovered. Stock markets and everything else is coming together maybe a bit, not even fully corrected, whereas bitcoin is double of what we were at the start of the year. How many stocks, or gold prices or anything else moved  DOUBLE PROFIT in this year?

While everything else was down, bitcoin was down too and I agree with that, but the price started at $7k and we peaked at around $14k right now, so the fall could happen and I understand it but recovering is not even a question for bitcoin, while everything else is trying to recover bitcoin is way beyond that and doubling your profit year to date. This is why the traditional markets are wrong and this is why classic financial theory is wrong, because bitcoin is above all of them.

Everyone considers to be something huge and think that this is going to change too much for either Iran or even crypto but the reality is there has been sanctions by USA for a very long time towards Iran and they have managed to survive this much by going around those sanctions anyway, this is just another step and I think it is not going to be a huge one neither, so there is really no need to hype about crypto getting more use in Iran.

They were always a country that used crypto and you can see that their peak was as high as 27k during 2017 peak times for example, being closed down to other nations do make them a bit more volatile in crypto prices as well. So, this was already something Iranians did but they just didn't do it legally, now its legal and not much will change.

What this pandemic period showed the world is that we could totally move into a more digital world that is possible and we haven't done that for way too long. The year is 2020, there is very little you can't do at your home anymore and that is why the tech should be catching up to people instead of people trying to downplay the improvements of technology. Think of all the people who go to work, or do anything else, most of them are doing that because it used to be "required" for them to do that right?

Now think about how hundreds of millions of jobs could switch to homes, that is just business side of things. So, digital age is coming and people realize that if you see digital age coming maybe digital money is coming with it so they increased their investments on digital currencies as well.

One of the biggest reasons why I find defi risky is not because defi itself could ever be risky (it is just a term) but more about how people see it and how they react to it. For example it has made a lot of money for a lot of people and that is why it is seen as something great as of right now, people think it is such an awesome technology that they could potentially make 10x with all the defi they invest into and all the yield farming they make income from.

However what I fear is exactly this; because people think like this, there are fake defi where project team tells everything you want to hear about a good defi project, get your money and leave with it without doing anything at all. I do not know a true real good defi project versus a bad scam one, since I can't see the difference I also do not know what to do with it neither.

It is not going to stop because scamming is easy when you offer people free money for their work. It is even easy when you steals others money, you could literally ask people for money in return of something and not give that and keep the money and scam them, this happens constantly in the world and unfortunately it hasn't stopped, been a thing for centuries.

So, to actually not even ask for money, but just to tell people work for money, they will obviously keep working and ask for money and you could just not pay them and get away with it, it is not going to stop at anytime at all. However what people can do is focus on retribution, for example there is a project that failed to pay you? Just start a topic here, and get together with others who got scammed and just write EVERYWHERE you can find online about how you got scammed by this project. That should hurt them enough to never become successful.

What people do not realize and how important it is in this one article alone is the fact that fintech sector and finance sector are not always eye to eye when it comes to working together.

Fintech is a business based on coding and software which means they are mainly a tech company and not a finance company, sure they are building stuff for finance world but they could have easily used their talents to make a computer game as well, they have more in common with computer game developers than a regular trade analysis at a wall street firm, computer game makers and fintech software makers are both coders and software developers whereas finance people are just finance. It means you can build the greatest tech they could find but that dude has been buying and selling stocks all his life, he wouldn't know the difference between java and javascript.

I would say the biggest change I would make from those pickings would be Lukaku, do not get me wrong he is a good player as well but when I have the option of picking Lewa I will always go with him, dude is just way too technical to give up, I would say remove lukaku and pick lewa and since Bayern is doing great and on a good form he will probably find a goal as well.

Secondly I love mbappe and messi there, they are definitely looking like they are going to be great, I wouldn't change them, if neymar was around I would have add neymar instead of Ansu but I guess neymar won't be around for a bit more while with injury, which means Ansu could be decent, Coman could be great too but you said you do not want full Bayern squad and I already suggested Lewa so if you do not want Coman I think Ansu is fine.

Interestingly there is still 28.31 odds for Bernie Sanders to win . I mean not because people think its possible right now, because we all know it is impossible for that to happen anymore (well technically possible but come on) but because he was seen as the sure fire thing just a year ago, before all of this covid things started and he lost big on super Tuesday primaries, dude was seen as guaranteed next president for a while with so many more supporters and so many more donators, yet when it came down being able to have supporters in everywhere, dude failed because he had more numbers but they were all in the same place which gained him few places and made him lose more places whereas Biden won because he may not have the numbers but his numbers come from all around the USA.

We should also not forget that there is a bit of passive income that is truly passive and doesn't require you to do anything, like staking that needs to be shout louder every single day. I understand that people like to put money into crypto and not look at it and when it increases call it an passive income but that is just investment, not every investment profit like index funds and all could be called passive, it is just your money becoming bigger via value increase but not passive.

Passive income is like banks savings account interests, or proof of stake coins rewards for staking, those are truly passive income and would truly make it zero effort required (except maybe at first to build a stake node). I believe those are our future, people do not want to do anything to earn money anymore.

When the technology behind bitcoin improves along with the adoption of bitcoin increases (with paypal news) it was bound for a big increase, nobody could deny that this was totally expected whenever these type of things happen. First it was defi that showed the world what it can do, that made it go up, but after that paypal also showed the world how adoption could help and these combined allowed us to go from 10k to 13k+ levels.

What seems to be a mystery right now is to see what is going to happen in the near future, we already did the tech improvement and paypal already said they have done it, now what? I do not really know what is going to happen next, only thing in my mind that could be is amazon accepting crypto, that would make it go 20k+ very quickly.

When you are dealing with something as severely risky as trading, you do not really need anything but luck because without luck you can't achieve anything. A coin could have charts that read profit and could show all the indicators, all the details, everything looks 100% perfect for a big jump and it could dump 50% by a huge whale who just wanted to get out right at the moment you buy.

That is why luck is the thing you need most in crypto trading, of course luck is the thing you need in real life as well, not like crypto is not real life but I meant the physical world. Which is why I highly suggest that if you could do all the study, all the research and all the data collection you could possibly do and still end up losing, do not be worried, it is trading and those things happen.

I couldn't get how adoption of cryptos by paypal will drive the crypto market down in any means? I am seeing it is a kind of big news like how Japan's legalization of bitcoin worked. Recent halving and world wide slow economic conditions due to pandemic are already pushing bitcoin toward $20k or toward a new ATH and paypal's adoption must be working as another catalyst which may help prices to jump at any time.

Always institutional funds are key on triggering the trend and then traders and investors' FOMO will follow. Above all, we must consider unemployment scenario of most people world wide like they may prefer gold and bitcoin but definitely only after ensuring their food and convenient life. So, this may be a right time to buy more but definitely not with leverage.

People who saw this topic at first had bitcoin around 10-11k range and having 12-14k wasn't really that conservative at all, it was something ambitious because we are in crypto world and you never know if it will go up or down which is why saying up was a big deal to begin with, doesn't matter how much it goes up, if you knew it would go up that was a correct call.

However bitcoin already peaked over 13k, so it is already on that level that you guys guessed, I said 14k to 16k one and I am still behind it as well, I think it will go that level before the year ends and maybe even more but 14-16k range sounds reasonable. Price could have gone from 10.5k levels to 8k as well, nobody could have guaranteed this hype, paypal helped with that a bit as well, so we are all right as long as we said it would go up.

I didn't know about the withdrawal issue, I researched and paypal has a page that specifically states that you have to cash it to fiat in order to withdraw your money, you can't withdraw bitcoin directly. That is actually a big deal if you ask me, why would I want to cash out when I have bitcoin?

If my bitcoins are mine, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, including taking it to some place else, why force people to use fiat if they do not want to? At the end of the day this is still an addition, paypal wasn't involved at all and now it is involved, that alone itself is a big deal and I feel like we could totally see this as a positive sign, from zero to bad is still an improvement and I believe it will move bigger and better in the years to come as well.

Yeah, when I checked he had something like that, it was mostly 10 bitcoins or under but checking it again dude gambled a lot after that too. However I still think he is not going to gamble as much as he did for a while, not saying he won't gamble at all but not as much as he used to. This dude made over 120 bitcoins in profit and that is just something else, I do not remember all that many people who have managed to gamble for this long and still come up with this much profit, it really looks like it is going to be something special if he keeps this up.

What do you guys think, will he lose all of his money the way he continues to gamble it away? Or will he just be smart about it and just try to recover the small losses and add tiny ones on top for a good long period to peak over hundreds of btc profit?

ETH 2.0 is not a new coin, it is just eth, we are calling it 2.0 because there is going to be a big upgrade to eth itself, which is going to challenge a lot of problems eth is facing right now. Plus we are going to have a proof of stake instead of proof of work as well which will make a ton of miners useless and a lot of rich people even richer, you won't need equipment, you just need money to buy eth and you will be ready.

So, I would say best way to go with expecting 2.0 would be to understand what you are waiting, if you are waiting for something that doesn't really exist outside of your mind, that means you can't get what is coming in reality neither. Read and learn what 2.0 is all about and I am sure you will love it too, it is good for everyone except miners.

It is quite obvious they would have been a scam anyway. It looks like one of those places that would "look like finance" design from the website itself, there is really no need to go for websites like that when you could potentially just focus on real deals and actually exchanging yourself. Do not forget the reason number one why bitcoin exists ; to have the control of our own money over banks.

If you wanted to work with places like this, we would have stayed with banks and made them richer, switching from banks to places like these banks would only allow them to get bigger and bigger, which is why it would be the same thing in the end. I would rather keep my bitcoins same without doing anything and purely hodl instead of using places like these that pray on the weak.

Nobody "needs" dex's, they are totally useless in the sense that you do not need them to stay alive for example, they are not water and they are not bread, but that is not how you approach to any new invention. Everything that is created creates its own need as well, hence why I believe it is quite important that we give the space dex deserves to dex in order for it to prosper and be its own thing, however I believe it is not going to be anything substantial and won't grow to be too big.

I understand that it is hyped right now and people are using it and there is billions of dollars involved but that is something that won't be too long and until it is few months or even a year we won't know how long this will go on. At the end of the day only time will tell how much dex's are "needed" by the people that uses it.

Just because it looks pretty doesn't mean that it will be pretty, it is not about how it looks from the outside, it all depends on how it makes you feel from inside, that is why I do not really believe that people should be getting involved without really knowing more about the teams than the actual written contracts.

You look at a project and it looks amazing but you get into telegram or discord or whatever they are using and you meet with first smaller staff, like mods of telegram channel or similar things and in the end that ends up with people seeing that project not being great if that staff is not doing a good job, or even if they end up doing decent then there is the deal with higher ups having to explain and network very well, I would say look at the team before anything else.