It's not that hard to do on exchanges with high liquidity like Coinbase, Binance, Bitstamp, and safer than meeting with someone and waiting for them to wire money to your account while you both wait for a confirmation on the blockchain.

What large sums are you talking about? 500 thousand? 1 million dollars? 2 million? It you're talking about 100 BTC or less don't overthink it. Exchanges are used to this and you'll just dump it into a wall. If you have more than 1000 you're best trading OTC or splitting it into small parts and selling on more than 1 exchange.

For me it's always a better idea to spend fiat and hold Bitcoin but I also see the point in spending bitcoin to increase adoption. Spending Bitcoin to raise awareness is a bit like charity work.

Allowing people to rent cars for bitcoin is a great choice because it allows people who want to travel with bitcoin to have more freedom. It also has some cons because you have to leave a deposit and this usually gets returned to you when you bring the car back undamaged so this forces the rental company to have 2 transactions for each client. Waiting for 2 transactions to confirm for each client could be a pain without lightning payments.

For mne it's easy. I gamble occasionally so it will not be difficult to stop.

If they accuse me I will be honest about it. I'm not ashamed of gambling and I've never endangered my wealkt and my family with it. It's like smoking weed. Most people did it once or twice to see how it works. It's not such a big deal if somebody accuses you of being a gambler as long as you don't lie that you've never done it.

Not hitting the ATH is completely normal at this point. A little more than a year ago we were in a bear market with price sitting well below 4000 dollars and some doom analysts predicting 1000. Now we are jumping between 9 and 10. Bitcoin is still recovering after that massive 80% loss of value. We won't go back to ATH just like that.

Bull aren't realistic but it's the same with bears. Do you think that 1000 dollars was a reasonable bottom? Or 3000 by Tone Vays?

It doesn't matter what is sold for Bitcoin it has nothing to do with its image. Do you think that all kinds of illegal goods are not solf for Euros, Pounds, Dollars?
Of course they are and it doesn't have any negative effect on the currency.

How can porn have a negative effect on Bitcoin? It's a big industry that makes billions off dollars every year worldwide which means the demand is enormous. Let's stop bullshitting ourselves that porn is for perverts or addicts. Such high demand doesn't come from a niche. It's mainstream.

BTC is of course undervalued. Probably the most undervalued coin out there if you compare how many people around the world have it and use it compared to other high market cap coins. They don't even come close to BTC's adoption.

When it comes to altcoins privacy coins could use some more value. Steem and Waves have potential too. They shouldn't be so low on CMC. There's so many coins that are higher for no reason, especially scam coins like BSV.

It's not important who is selling the coins and that he is trackable because all you can track is that he used to have a privacy coin from an unknown source and then sold it. You're removing the source from the process so if you want to hide that your coins come from a casino or fom a black market trade you can do it with Monero and other similar coins.

They are not there to hide everything but they succeed in hiding some of the path your money took.

Craig is attracting more criticizm because he's lately become even more agressive and vulgar. I heard a few of his speeches and he always gets angry when asked or contradicted and quickly moves to attacking his opponents instead of their arguments. In a conversation he's like a football player who can't hit the ball so he kicks other players.

After he realized he's losing the Kleiman case he got even more controversial. Who cares?

They still do condemn it. It depends on the group of people you're dealing with but to many people a gambler is a weak addict and to another group he's a lazy bastard who doesn't want to work but instead relies on making money from the misfortune of others.

The world is not a nice place where people try to understand and respect one another.

Some people also have this attitude towards stocks and the forex market that it's not an investment but gambling. There are traditional investors who think that investing is buying a real share in a property like when you buy a share in a restaurant or a factory and you can decide what it does how it's run. That if you buy a small packet of something in the Internet it's not a real investment even if that packet represents 0.1% of a real company.

Gambling and investing were never the same and are not the same that's why we have different words for them.

Craig is raising money. He's going to need a few millions to start paying Kleiman, or he'll need a few millions to make the case drag on for another few years.

Or he needs a few million for his exit scam. He must know that this lie of his is not going to last forever.

Yes it's funny because that virus was probably developed in China and escaped from the lab.

The Chinese media are trying to make it look like it was used by the US to destroy them.

Some sources say that that it was intentionally released by the Chinese to control population because the virus doesn't kill young people and the greatest number of deaths is amongthe old generation.

The virus shouldn't worry you because it's nothing but a stronger flu.

Does it make sense that the virus attacks in February/March when flu often attacks every year? To me it does.

Does it make sense that although the virus was engineered and spread near a laboratory in Wuhan China and the media are not making a big deal out of it but instead try to scare people into making supplies at home and buying face masks? To me it doesn't

Since every previous bear market was a bit different we shouldn't try to make the bull markets match. Look at bear markets - they are getting longer every time. That last bear market took more than 2 long years and was the longest bear market in history. What makes you think that the bull market will be exactly the same?

 Is there a rule that says bitcoin has to go through these steps to grow? The future is uncertain!

These are not lies because many people got rich with Bitcoin and we can expect that many still will. I'm not rich but I multiplied my investment in the last 4 years so in a way Bitcoin made me richer. Why should I keep it to myself and not tell others about this opportunity that lies before them?
If they're afraid they can always invest just a small amount of money and put it aside.

Bitcoin won't be at 8 or 9 thousand that's one thing we can all be sure of.
In 10 years it will be at 100 thousand or it will be at 100.
It's an all or nothing game.

The only correlation is between the virus and s&p500 which took a dive because there was a fear of Chinese market s shutting down. Most of the products we use in our houses are made in China so it's a problem for big companies with production in China. Almost all electronic appliances are made there.

Bitcoin reacted to that fear as well because it's a currency. If normal stores shut down those that offer their products for Bitcoins will too.

Of course because honest managers will reject scam offers and will not work for free. THese are 2 major factors that define shit campaigns. They want you to work for worthless tokens and offer the same tokens to their managers and the projecs look like scam.

If a project doesn't have a few thousand dollars for promotion it means they are broke, greedy, or both.

It's funny that according to our OP if you believe in yourself are positive and follow your gut you will get lucky

I dare you OP to go to a dice site with a very positive and cheerful attitude, wait until the gut tells you that it's the right date and time to do it, put it all in a single bet and roll.
If you don't get lucky, does it mean the system doesn't work?

Please make a video of your attempt, but it doesn't count unless the money is decent. Anybody can roll 0.001 BTC and win. Not all of us can do the same with 0.1 BTC Positive attitude and your gut suddenly become unimportant when the risk is big.

There's probably a guy named marco sitting alone in his room and making all these announcements and acting like he's the head dev, admin, social media promoter, front end programmer, he's all of it. I saw projects like that where 1 or 2 guys do it all and pose as a "team of crypto enthusiasts backed by angel investors"

Nobody will give you anyuthing of value for free. If they're saying you can buy BTC 50% cheaper from them it's a scam. Later they'll probably say that the bitcoin was 50% cheaper compared to halving so after halving it's going to be at 17 thousand USD so now they'll sell you at 8.5 - and you got it for half the price.

Noone saw it coming because it's an engineered strain that escaped from a research lab in Wuhan.

If some computer virus damages nuclear launch control and one day you'll wake up to a nuclear explosion in a nearby town it will also be unexpected

The panic is completely fake and the media are manipulating the public to see how far they can take it. Stupid people are stacking up food and buying face masks when the mortality rate of the virus is below 2% and basically 0 if you're a young person. There's no danger!