Positive predictions are always important, actually almost all predictions are very important unless they are wacky weird ones. When someone comes out and says bitcoin will be dead or it will be $3k or $1k and what not that is not that important, when they say it will be $50k, $100k, $250k or whatever that is not important neither.

However, when someone comes up and says bitcoin will be $6k or $9k or anything closer to it that is realistic and everyone thinks "that sounds possible" those predictions are important.

Remember bitcoin has no regulations on which direction it will go and anyone can sell 30 thousand bitcoins right now or buy 30 thousand bitcoins right now, there is nothing stopping people (except money of course) so when you make predictions you are influencing the traders and investors.

I am already holding bitcoin right now (and some altcoins) and I see them as my retirement money, I would like to retire early so it would be awesome if bitcoin skyrockets one day but until that day I save a bit of money every month and keep a bit of money on bitcoin.

So, I will continue to do that as long as bitcoin is around at these prices or goes down, when it goes down I buy even more bitcoins because it is cheaper so spending same fiat gives you more bitcoin. However, if it goes up, like too much up then I might sell and wait for it to drop back, for example having a $50k bitcoin price would make me sell right now, I won't sell at $20k like I did last time (lucky) because I think this time if it goes up it would go up a lot so I would wait for $50k.

I have checked the names of the people who made this weird claims and most of them are not even that important anymore. Bitcoin managed to create one thing that doesn't exist in any other coin, true decentralization. You think ethereum is decentralized? Why does vitalik have so much power on what ethereums direction will be? You think xrp is decentralized? You are kidding yourself.

ALL of the altcoins in the world are centralized either by coding or if not then according to communities that support a leader of that coin. Not bitcoin, right now satoshi nakomoto could come out and prove he is in fact satoshi nakomoto and he will not be listened too much. He could come out and say bitcoin will be 50k and nobody would buy just because he said so. That is why none of these people making outrages predictions matter anymore.

Depends on what you want the outcome to be. If you want to be known as a good trader and you want that to be heard tean you should talk about your gains, it is definitely a way of getting your name heard, you should not only talk about it but prove it and showcase it to people so that you would be considered a good trader.

If you are actually a good trader and prove people that you are making profits, they would want to pay you to teach them or even give you their money. Most of those end up being a fail. On the other hand if you do not want people to bother you, you could just hide it however if you were a person who doesn't want to be bothered why would you come here asking what could happen if you showcase your wins, so I assume you are not part of that group.

UFC has two decisions to make here, either they go for the short term or the long term. If they end up giving Conor another chance against Khabib after this fight (which we don't even know if it will be a win) that means they want money now. Lets be honest with each other here, no reason to lie, if Khabib and Conor fights once more people would watch that, it would make millions of dollars for everyone involved and it would be super profitable for them too.

So, there is actually a decent reason to make Conor and Khabib fight. However if you help conor get that fight that means UFC doesn't care about who wins or who loses or who deserves what, that would mean UFC only cares about money and that would result with many new crazy weird fighters who have an "outside the box" character and all the respectful decent fighters would be boring and not get a shot even if they are at least equally good if not even better.

I do not go to work anymore and work as a freelancer now and obviously I do trade while at home doing my freelance work as well however back when I was going to work and was in an office I did more than just trading, I was a bit comfortable because I had my own room (normally a whole teams office but they moved their office somewhere better so I got stuck all alone in a huge space) so I was capable of trading, gambling, watching movies, even downloaded games to my computer with the help of IT (computer wasn't allowing, he bypassed the admin rights lol). That is actually the biggest reason why I have been involved with bitcoin for many years since the early days of bitcoin, I was so bored at work that one day I saw something about bitcoin going up and ever since that day I have been involved.

There will always be "famous" crypto people who will tell the same stuff, just recently someone said bitcoin will be $20-$25k as well but now another person is saying it will be $5k, it is quite chaotic when you go into what the "famous" people say. I am saying "famous" instead of famous because these people have no other connection to real world aside from crypto world, they are not know by 99%+ of the people in the world so what they say doesn't carry any weight if you ask me.

Tone could be bearish, he could be bullish and it wouldn't matter, just because he said something doesn't mean it is a good prediction. Could what he said turn out to be true? It could be but it won't happen because he knew it beforehand, he just made up a prediction and could happen to be right this time.

Is this some sort of manipulation made by the banks towards S&P 500 itself, because people can invest into sp 500 directly as well and looking at the price of it there isn't much change, there is a bit of change but it is not big enough to call it a manipulation.

I am not going to go into the route of "prove it" to you but a whole another direction still against OP that basically says, "where is the manipulation?" since I am checking the stocks and the general movements right now and I don't see anything major going on. I feel like the last couple of days have been on the increase and that might be "manipulation" by some people but looking at how it was there before and american economy has been doing decent recently I feel like going back up to where it was is reasonable.

These people do not realize the damages they do these altcoins and that is the saddest part.

After a pump and dump that coin never really fully recovers because the people behind it lose all hope towards their coins after a pump and dump realizing they won't ever be big enough to not be bothered. They always live in the constant fear of getting their coin moved however a bunch of people who are greedy enough to destroy them wants.

I think these people need to at least once have a coin on their portfolio that gets a pump and dump and feel the aftermath of the said deed in order to fully understand what they have done wrong. Even in that case they might not understand it. I personally would never do something like this because I respect the teams and community behind altcoins a lot.

If you go to website deadcoins.com you will see that there are many coins that are scam coins that ended up being just a way for the owners to take ICO and leave. So, I doubt that we can have a "favorite" scam coin, there are thousands of them and I think they all suck equally since they all scammed people. However the favorites are quite marginally different in peoples eyes depending on what you consider "altcoin".

For example, if we are allowed to pick ethereum then I am picking ethereum, it is second biggest coin and it has an insane value and utility to use so I feel like it will never die so I support it, however some people don't consider ethereum as altcoin anymore since it became so mainstream, thats why my new favorite is EOS which is going on ethereums steps following it.

The hype itself is not over but technology caught up with the optimum efficiency. So, in the past 2 years developers coded the most important aspects of blockchain and what could be done with it and there was a huge hype about it, nowadays unfortunately there are not that many innovations in blockchain world, there are small tiny ones but people don't see that as important so right now people are not hyped about things that are not important.

If one day something major happens about blockchain and a new thing comes up that nobody has managed before, we could potentially have a huge hype once again. Plus, crypto is still loved by many which is provable by the huge transaction numbers we have in many altcoins, people are still using it, we just don't talk about it as much.

I don't get it, I read the full article as well and I still don't really understand what blockchain has to do with shoes. From what I understand you will be getting a sort of "token" that will be attached to your shoe, however how would people know if I will sell that shoe or not? Maybe I will buy it early and sell it for higher price and keep the tokens with it?

There is nothing that prevents people from buying the shoe from a second hand store without the token with it. So all this is helping is the sneaker heads who buy tons of shoes all the time and store them at home and they will be able to do the same digitally now where they will have tokens representing the shoes they bought and they can showcase it online about how they have a lot of shoes.

At its peak BNB managed to see 38 dollars, that wasn't because the price of BNB increased versus bitcoin that much but the trick was bitcoin going super high while all altcoins going down in bitcoin value except BNB, people managed to keep BNB at the same bitcoin price or close while bitcoin value in dollar increased, so it peaked at 38 thanks to basically "not moving" a bit.

Now, 23 dollars is not really that high, right now BNB is close to 14-15 and right now bitcoin price is pretty low as well, it became $14k this year and now its half that, if we can get bitcoin price moving once again and reach to a new high while keeping the BNB price versus bitcoin now moving, that would equal once again BNB increasing in dollar value easily, it is quite possible to do so.

One of the main reasons why bitcoin and DIJA have such a huge difference is that people don't talk directly about DIJA that much, they talk about the stocks they talk about commodities whatever they talk about that is directly investing but they don't talk about DIJA directly.

In order to compare apples and apples we might take a look at "crypto currencies" instead of bitcoin itself because lets face it there has been more interest towards bitcoin than any other crypto and there is even less interest to talk about crypto currencies in general. So, I would say this is not a proper comparison since Dow Jones is not really something that is talked about by people that much, things inside Dow Jones is the things people talk about all the time and a whole sector works around it.

Banks could be both decentralized and not decentralized. It all depends on what you think a bank is and how you can name it.

For example, is blockchain.com a bank? I mean you can put your money in there and you can take your money out of there so you can store your money when you are not using it, that is one way people can use banks. But, if you need a way to spend it then there is coinsbank type of places that gives you debit cards that you can use when you have bitcoin, so you store it and you spend it, does that make them a bank?

As far as I know there is no place that gives bitcoin loans so far so is a bank still a bank without loans and interests? Basically, it all depends on your description of what a bank is, if you can flex the description a bit we do have banks in crypto world right now.

This is literally what a pump/dump is, it has been done for about 5+ years now, I remember doing it back in 2013 or 2014 if I am not wrong. It is not anything new, it is not something major, the people who get in early will make money and people who are late will lose money, it has always been like that for years.

There has been nothing new that changed this for years, there were attempts but eventually all of them failed. Back in the day during 2017 peak there was a telegram group that managed to decentralized this and make it more equal for everyone and didn't give the owners a first to know rights, it had 10 or so coins as options and closest block on certain time of litecoins last digit would be the coin that is picked that day, so nobody knew which coin it will be until it came out and that gave everyone equal chances.

Bull rally will probably happen AFTER the halving, people keep forgetting that, everyone is expecting a big rally before the halving because halving will create some sort of lack of resources and that will reflect on the price before the halving but the reality is that it won't create that scarcity until the halving so there is no reason why it should happen beforehand.

I understand that people may buy beforehand to increase the price to those levels to be prepared but that doesn't "have to" happen, it is a good to have but not a must so I think the best case possibility here is the halving causing the increase afterwards not beforehand. I am not an expert so I can be wrong but I would wait until end of summer for an increase which requires a bit of patience for everyone involved.

Probably marketing? I mean if you can build a website from ground up, you don't really need much, you can be a website with just dice in it and nothing else, as long as you have a good design and provably fair and a legit place, people will come play at your place as long as you do marketing properly.

It is not easy to build that website I am not going to lie but if you CAN build it and have tons of money for marketing and also a brain for it because just throwing cash at screen won't work, you need to have a good marketing as well, then you will definitely get as many people as you can without questions. So, everything else is definitely important details but marketing is the killer when it comes to bitcoin casinos, probably all casinos, it is really insanely important.

I still don't understand how sportsbooks do give odds for such miss universe things, I mean I get that there were leaks about who would be the winner and chances (not always right) but isn't beauty subjective? So, we are all thinking about what the judges of this competition will see as beautiful and try to guess that.

There are like 5-10 people as judges and those people may think beauty in women could be being blonde, being tall, being short, being skinny, being curvy, there could be millions of things, literally millions of things, that shape one persons beauty understanding and the odds basically are saying "judges understanding of beauty is this woman" which is something insane to think about.

I also don't think the winner is the most beautiful of them all, she would be top 10 easily but not the winner if you asked me so I could have never guessed who could win and bet on such a game.

I don't really even know what could altcoins with no volume could do, like if we want decentralization then do we want the team to be involved too much on the token or the coin? I mean if you are an investor, you want your coin you invested to be more decentralized and you want the team to take their hands out of your coin after a while.

I could invest and help fund a coin but then I want the team to build something amazing and leave it be, if the team doesn't leave it be then whats the point of a coin that constantly gets new builds from a team that basically could change the coin however they want? Think about bitcoin that way, what if satoshi kept on changing bitcoin constantly? Do you think people would like that? So, when a coin has no volume at all, maybe its time for it to die slowly instead of hoping the team to do something about it.