You can choose any index, even the price of property and possibly the best would be a commodities index. They all tell the same story: while growth is stagnant and there has been a massive real economic impact from COVID, the cannons wielded by the central banks are sprouting all the printed money and that goes to either paying debts, buying goods, saving or - most commonly - into stocks investments 401k's and the like. With the massive amount of index investing, this graph is only natural.

Bitcoin is perfectly useful for tax evasion, as it is the US dollar, diamonds and many other stuff that has value. Tax evasion is not as much about choosing the vehicle as it is about actually willing to take the risk of doing it. The relation with bitcoin is that people who made a decent fortune with bitcoin may decide that they do not wish to pay taxes to a government that somehow did not put any into it and only gets the rewards. In that case, crypto is useful because it allows you to be pseudo anonymous and perhaps changing your fiscal residency before cashing out.

Kind of the arguments that are used to diminish bitcoin are actually counter arguments. Example: bitcoin is just a string of numbers. Sure, and gold is just a metal with not that many applications other than looking good and making great electrical contacts. The problem is that we are so used to certain things such as the money and gold that people even believe that these actually have any intrinsic value on themselves other than the one that comes from adoption, supply and demand. It takes a mental leap to break from that and not everyone is able to take it.

I do not think much about state issues cryptos. At the end of the day these are no more than the already existing electronic cash in the sense that it can be printed and miraculously multiplied by the banking system. It may carry also a loss of privacy and the main positive effect might be for the unbanked that could possible get an account on a central bank rather than having to go through intermediaries that always take their cut.

The digital Euro, Yuan or USD do not make much of a difference in my strategy with crypto nor outside.

Currently all the market is looking at Omicron variant. This may have a strong effect in the price of oil if it is effectively confirmed to be a variant of concern for OCDE economies and for China. If that is the case, the oil will go down, not severely due to the already not that good supply lines, but probably enough to pinch the bubble. In any other case or scenario, the price is set to be even higher during at least 1 and perhaps up to 2 years while production and energy mixes adjust themselves to the new situation.

There are several studies out there that will tell you that players tend to value very positively any freebie that allows them to play for longer rather than other types of deposit or recharge bonuses. There are other elements that are absolutely necessary such as building trust and having a good promotion project. Even the best cannot do much unless they let themselves be known. Other than these two, the more crypto you accept and the more coins they can use, the better for your project as you are expanding your user base at a not too high cost.  

Perhaps the thing about old games is that most people want them to actually look like them the way they are. However you are right, there is a new generation of gamers that is used to more sophistication in entertainment and media and that use mobile devices all the time and those could be the cornerstones to build a more interesting slots game. You can either go "retro" and try to mimic the original machinery feeling of the old slots or embrace digital and create plenty of 3D and metauniverses facebook style.

Hi, I am missing here Playbetr.com, a crypto based site with a number of slot games. I think that is particularly suited for those who like to play exclusively in crypto and do not want to get into platforms that make the process too complex and also like big sign-in bonuses in the form of free-spins. It supports 15 cryptos, including those supporting privacy oriented protocols and the site was renovated in July to include around 400 games. For those into sportsbooks, that is there too.

And they should be taking every opportunity as they cannot really afford to leave out there the points that need to be taken not just from the very weakest of the rivals, but also from mid-table rivals such as the recent Athletic de Bilbao or even some more serious contender like Seville that may very well mark the difference between achieving the title of getting to the point in which you need to win the last three games and hope for someone else to fail. As of now, there seems to be a clear performance line, is just a question of keeping up and resisting.

When the bad economics match the bad results it is not that much of a shock for the fans of New Castle. There are moments in which the clubs can only be as good as the underlying economy supporting them and this seems to be case. It does no only affect their ability to produce results by buying the players they need, but rather also the general morale of the team, that, in football is critical as well. This calls for a strong turnaround that may see the manager go.

I am afraid these companies are just on the business of filling patents around blockchain "just in case" and probably to prevent others from using it in the future. None of these proposals really adds anything nor justifies the use of blockchain. e.g.


This is stupid. A webpage and a normal database serves exactly the same purposes. The disbursement is never going to be fully automated and the speed in claim processing is not improved by using blockchain - it would be much more improved having the right laws into place. All this is a bag of crap.

A million project out there link blockchain and tokens to the most bizarre projects, normally led by teams of guy in their 30's living in their parent's basements that would not stand a chance of finding financing even in the most generous venture capital subsidies led incubator.

Among the thousand things you need to ask yourself about any project, one of the first is "how does blockchain or crypto make this project better". Example, I am going to implement a solar energy charger for AI driven electric cars with a token". How the heck does blockchain help any of those technologies in a way that money does not do better? The answer is most of the times none.

Which has a very simple answer, the one taking the money is not the same as the one that has to pay the debt. In essence it is illegitimate debt that tyrants use to get the funds and send them to their accounts in tax havens while the country is left to pay the debt. China know this perfectly well and their Gov. is super-happy to use to their advantage the corruption and disarray of others to their own advantage. And i think it is not legit, but a country that is corrupted at large has no defence against this.

I can tell you just about a few of them:

San Francisco was able to create a hub of technology and a go-to place for innovation as a first mover. Many other cities have tried to replicate this, but is just not possible - it has to grow organically from a certain economic, political and cultural environment.

London has an abnormally oversized financial sector and two of the world class universities nearby. Money, talent and fintech grow well together. Needless to say that Londoners have an insatiable appetite for the next gadget or service out there that can either make their life better or make them look better.

Miami and Florida in general have the University of Central Florida and other educational centres that may not be the firsts you would hear about but are certainly doing their job in creating high-paying ready individuals and feeding the accelerators and incubators, second only to California.

That could be a factor, but the fact that most stocks in Nasdaq and SP500 drop means that it is probably not strongly correlated to the bitcoin specific futures dates. It is worth mentioning that, contrary to other occasions, the indexes have not recovered significantly like it sometimes happens, but rather stood lower than the previous day. My understanding is that hospitality dependant companies are certainly going to be affected.

My diagnose for bitcoin, quick drop for maybe a week?

The best thing about adoption by Paypal is that it generates a need for other competitors to address the market. Visa, Mastercard, Amex they all need to jump into the ship forcibly or risk the competitors gain a prevailing market quota position that may be impossible or very expensive to address and win later on if one stablishes itself as the category leader and the go-to brand for it.

And what is more, most large companies out there that are into the payments arena are new and growing so they would address this need with even greater impulse and the same strategic need. I am talking Amazon Payments, Google Pay and any other that wishes to be an payments processor.

In light of the detection and unusual nervousness caused in the market by the new COVID variant that seem to be coming from Africa, there are two scenarios that may arise: a quick recovery of prices upon vaccines being effective and the variant not that lethal which may point to an ATH in December or the opposite, restrictions to travel, health issues and lethality that will yield the opposite effect. What seems clear is that the market is not going to be stable in a while and it may be worth for those who are heavily invested to hedge with derivatives.

Oh, that was it. Well, that is not that different from any other start-up and normally does not fall into the passive earning category but rather quite the contrary, something you would need to put a lot of money and effort into and would only become profitable (if ever) in a long time.

I think people are getting crazy about the whole financial freedom and passive earnings thing. The people that have been into that for decades are called "dividend investors" and they tend to buy dividend yielding companies at low or reasonable prices and build their passive over time, rather than trying to get into dire situations investing in untested chains or wild projects.

I am observing today something similar to what happened in 2020 but at a micro-scale. The announcement of a new COVID variant that may be resistant to current vaccines has sent the Dow and the S&P down the drain, particularly airlines and other travel hospitality linked business. Zoom stocks are up, mining and raw materials down,... It looks like a repetition also in bitcoin price with a plunge that may be ongoing.

For those of you that are newer on hodling, just calm down, this is nothing new, bitcoin will be there tomorrow and, likely, rebounding after the initial collapse caused by the stop-loss orders triggering of the first days.

I do not think they believe in crypto in the same terms as a hodler would be, like a future investment and a store of value, but I do think that they see the merit of many cryptos being anonymous or pseudo-anonymous and that is obviously a tool of any shady trade. The fact that they may get paid in bitcoin without having to carry around money is clearly on the wish list of any dealer of banned or restricted stuff but that does not mean that they cannot convert quickly to fiat as needed - they are using crypto for convenience not for true understanding.