I wouldn't really say that banks would want bitcoin to fail, mainly because banks are getting involved as well. Think of it this way, if they try to make it go down, they will have to work hard on it, and since governments are already taxing and allowing bitcoin, that kind of means we are not really in a bad situation neither in public usage, so it would be a very big task for banks to stop it.

However if banks decide that instead of fighting it, if they decide to use it and make more money with it, they could use it in a bad sense. Obviously banks main purpose is to make money, and how can they make money? They could simply just buy bitcoin and wait? They will not do that, they will definitely do a whole "buy bitcoin" thing and you buy bitcoin from them, but then they will package a 1000 bitcoin deal together and sell that too, and then have 100 packages of the 1000 packages and sell that too, basically they will make money from bitcoin going up or down, doesn't matter.

That is about what I thought as well. Schalke already got their first win, I doubt they would be capable of actually pulling off another one so close, they could very well have multiple wins by the end of the season but not back to back because if they were a team that could get back to back wins, they would have done that already and wouldn't be this bad.

On the other hand Frankfurt is a team at the top half of the league so they should win easily, Frankfurt is not a great team but they are definitely not bad neither, it is a middle type of level.

Hopefully we will see a win there. Between few games I have this week, Frankfurt win would top it all off very nicely. Leverkusen versus Union Berlin is probably the best one to watch this week, they are very close and both are very good teams, it should be very entertaining game for all bundesliga fans.

I am sure if players like Ramos and Marcelo leaves, Real Madrid will not be going just "hmmm our players are gone, let's put my uncle in there", this is Real Madrid we are talking about, maybe they will not find a player that good, maybe they will find someone even better we do not know, but they are going to find players who are great by world standards for sure.

They had marvelous players 10-15 years ago when Ramos started, we all remember the Los Galacticos period, and then they moved into the benzema ronaldo ramos period after that, well ronaldo is already gone but when marcelo and benzema and ramos type of players are gone, they are going to find another great generation and pay whatever they have to to keep it going. So I do not believe Mbappe will be nothing, he will be the cornerstone of the next generation of greatness for the team.

Apart from that of Square and Microstrategy, I am just getting to know about the other institutions you have mentioned here; Tudor, Ruffer, Mass Mutual, and One River are still new to me. I have seen someone create a list like this and I don’t remember seeing them mention any of these ones that you have mentioned, so that shows that there are more to this.

I think you should do more research, there are still a lot of other companies that are investing in Bitcoin this year. Although I’ve never really liked the idea of these institutions because I prefer that Bitcoin is being by more individuals than institutions holding it in buck.

I have seen this news on Bloomberg and I think it’s about four days ago that Elon musk became the world’s richest man. But, yesterday I saw another news on Forbes that he has dropped from the first position after losing about 14 billion dollars value; this is what I saw on Forbes and I know whether this is true or not, but we all know very well that Forbes is the source that most people relies on for information like this.

Anyway, this isn’t really a type of news that I like to follow, I really don’t have the time to care about who is the richest and who is the poorest man in the world, it really doesn’t make any sense to me lol.

Yes, it is not the smartest idea to enter into the market at a all time high but with Bitcoins it might not be the worst decision because the price always exceeds expectations, at least that is what we have seen in the past couple of years. Investors stopped when the price was around $25k but now sitting at a much higher value we can easily say that investing at $25k wasn't a bad idea.

You may want to wait for a dip or a small bear run to occur but it might never happen given the popularity bitcoins have gained over the years and after the recent adoption by PayPal it is even more popular and easier to accumulate than before.

Positively speaking, 100k might be reached although it still looks hard because the market cap of Bitcoin is so huge that it takes massive investments to double it up and yeah we have seen a continuous bull run so far but at some point it has to stop realistically speaking which then might be followed by a correction and even a dip.

I am not expecting too much but all I wish is that the price doesn't drop too much if at all because when a bear run starts it creates unease despite knowing that it is temporary it still feels terrible. I would rather have a 40k fixed than having reached 80k but a drop to 35k. Lets see how it goes moving forward but guys don't panic if a small dip/correction happens anytime soon.

Nah, I have never been happy about it, because I have been seeing how these companies are buying up lots of bitcoins with their huge money and I don’t really like it. What you said here is what I have always wanted, I want Bitcoin to be more distributed to individuals and not even companies.

Although some are happy because they only care about how much the price will increase as companies continues to invest their money in this market. But will these companies hold their assets forever? They definitely would not, because they will want to sell at some point, and since they a huge position, it will affect the market seriously.

That’s quite a lot, I think there are things that you have to put into consideration before you talk about selling such an amount and withdrawing it to your bank account. First is that you have to know what your bank account can take, and sometimes I have seen people withdraw too much and have their accounts suspected and frozen and they have to answer questions for it. So you have to put hat into consideration. Then that aside, there are some exchanges that will ask you for KYC verification once the amount you want to sell passes 1000 or 2000 dollars, unless you have plans to make use of DEX, but you have to be very careful. Though I have seen someone sell a close amount with P2P exchange or you can sell it bit by bit.

I do not think there should be any regrets because its not like you lost your entire salary of the job into gambling, it is just some extra dollars you earned which you then spent on gambling and even if you saved them you would have not done something too big with those funds. Its more like regretting about spending your pocket money as a student on something useless.

So the question is are you able to actually earn something with sports betting? I have been a long time thinker that sports betting is easy but when I actually got into sports betting I realized how difficult it is to actually predict outcomes and play against a massive house edge.

I used to bet on such events when lockdown was implemented and there were no sports apart from some table tennis games and some e-soccer leagues which both were terrible so I used to bet on these events on cricket and tennis SRL but frankly speaking these events have no resemblance to original events and anything can happen like Djokovic might be defeated by number 100 ranked player in SRL and there is nothing you can do.

I used to believe that there are certain players who do well against specific players but these SRL does not take into account those things it seems, similarly players who had a terrible IPL are making tons of runs in these SRL matches so no similarity and it feels like a big house edge based casino to bet on these matches.

Trading has a few advantages over investing but it also requires you to have a keen eye and sharp reflexes specially in the crypto market where the market can swing in any direction within moments.  Trading is better because you can earn recurring profits while in investing you have to wait long periods before you get the expected profits, but that said there are risks in trading if you are inexperienced while if you invest, all you have to do is to wait and believe in the product.

Both have their own advantages and drawbacks but personally I love trading and in times like now when the bull run is going on, you can easily make profits even when you are not so good at trading.

XRP has been like this ever since it was created, there is absolutely nothing shocking about people still investing into XRP, I guess there are tons of people who have a tons of XRP that keeps it up, considering Ripple worked with banks and other big financial companies, I assume they bribed them with a ton of XRP as well, since it was premined as a whole and Ripple can have as much XRP as they want, they could always give like 1 million XRP as a 'gift' to some Bank CEO during the deal process.

I assume those powerful people might be more interested and keep it up, that is just a guess though, I don't know what is really going on. However for the past 5 years, XRP has been top while Ripple keeps ripping people off, no idea why investors are fine with it, no idea why people like a centralized coin that takes advantage of the users, but I know that this new increase wasn't a shock to anyone who has seen what happened in the past 5 years.

Honestly lockdown is kind of very important when you are dealing with coronavirus so I can't say I agree with you guys. However prevention is the second stage as well so you are right on that part.

We should had just one big lockdown, like maybe 4 months of it, the governments should have given companies and people enough money to survive that period, made the very basic places like groceries or so working so people would get their needs, and after that we would have seen very low numbers. I support "that" lockdown.

However after that, we should enforce very harsh mask rules, anyone who doesn't wear a mask should be charged with involuntary manslaughter, that way we would be saying people that if you are not wearing a mask, you are involuntarily killing others, at least in the law book it should be that way, and we should provide health and masks and disinfectants to everywhere and everyone for free, government gets out taxes for this purpose so we should be getting it back.

While every country is suffering from it and yeah the damage done is different for each country but actually I am surprised how China came out so clean despite being the first victim, they never had the worst numbers in terms of deaths and cases.

These times actually helped political parties to hide their horrible economic situations behind the corona virus because the damage done by virus is being enlarged and shown to us while the actual damage is not as much. Now they are forcing the vaccine to their people despite knowing that not everyone can afford it, neither the virus is as deadly as it was a few months before.

When stock markets are not performing well, investors do not have big other options except gold and cryptos kind of "alternative investment opportunities". So, pandemic is having its own consequences on crypto space as well.

I can 100% guarantee you, whoever gave these awards (no idea what bitedge even is, worths zero to get these awards) they have no idea what they are talking about. The live betting winner, is not even runner up on sportsbook? Those guys are literally the best sportsbook you can find online, and I am not talking about just crypto. AND they won the best casino instead of stake, and stake won sportsbook instead of them, like they switched places.

It is almost guaranteed that stake is a better casino place, whereas they are better sportsbook place, the awards should literally be exchanged. Nitrogen as the runner up of best dice website? Really? Like come on man how the hell do you put nitrogen as the runner up for best dice website? At the end of the day, whoever judged this from bitedge, probably never gambled in his life, otherwise he would have known he is wrong in at least half of these awards.

If you do not have a huge sum, having a cold storage makes no sense at all. I personally do not have any hard wallets or anything, I just put it on my local exchange and metamask, you know why? Because it doesn't really warrant any cold storage at all, I have very little amount. This is why I personally feel like anyone who has under 10k dollars should keep their money on a trusted third party which would be a lot more secure and financially viable.

Let's assume you found one for 100 dollars, but you have 300 dollars in bitcoin, what are you going to do buy one and have 200 dollars in bitcoin? Or keep the 300 dollars bitcoin and pay fiat? I would rather have 400 dollars worth bitcoin instead. Basically all I am saying is, if we do not have a huge sum that makes it sensible to buy a cold storage, there is no reason to worry about having your money in binance.

Stop loss when going down, but also maybe profit trailing when going up as well. That way you would know when to sell in a stop loss situation, but you would know when to buy when it starts to go back up. Just to give a simple example, let's say price is 40k, and it dropped to 37k right? You could have a stop loss at 39 (for example of course nobody puts a stop loss that thin) but it reached 37k, so you should buy buy at 38 to make a profit again.

These numbers are all made up of course, I do not trade that thinly for example, my current stop loss is at 28k for example, which means it has to be a huuuuuge fall for me to get out, but I would also have a 24k and 20k big buy back after that. So you have to realize where you are going, plus I would have one at 30k in case it goes back up right away too. Stop loss is important but what you do afterwards is equally important.

That means Uniswap is the highest listed one, not the one that is going to be the best, it just means most used right now. I feel like in 2 years there could be a new one, but I think Uniswap has a good chance as well. Probably I would go with either Uniswap or maybe a new one instead, that is what I am thinking.

Uniswap made their listing that high by giving away a ton of money to people, they didn't even decided that price because they just said "it should worth this much" and people agreed, which happens very very rarely but apparently they did such a great marketing that price peaked over 8 dollars for a while. Which is why I think it is going to be awesome for Uniswap in the future no doubt, it will be either best one, or at the top levels for sure. However at the end of the day I still think just like how Uniswap suddenly became big, there could be something that comes along and beats everything.

It didn't really "recovered" all that well. Let me put it this way, XRP was 22 cents at the start of 2020, and right now it is 32 cents, which is an increase for sure. However ETH was 130 dollars and now it is over a thousand dollars, about 1.25k right now for example. You can check all the big ones and you will see that type of increase in all of them, BNB went up a lot, Ltc went up a lot, tron did a bit, eos did, many others did, almost all crypto went up at least x3 and some of them did 10x increase like ETH did.

So, increasing just 50% in a huge bull season is not really a big increase, it is not even recovery, it is just common logic and that's it. Of course XRP got hurt, SEC came down hard on Ripple because they were using a fake made up currency of their own creation to move money around, that's a big no no in the playbook.