You are not trained to play pro so it is okay, my advice is not to go all in when you get a good card, try to bet little by little to bait the other players into thinking that you are bluffing, when you get that kind of card, it is always worth it to lose your money. You can watch pro players held a high hand and bait others into playing all the way.

Exactly, in my opinion both parties involved is at fault in the story, Paypal being the biggest participant in the problem. I do not know the full story but shouldn't the user knew that in the first place, there should be a clause there that says that they can't treat the platform as a trading platform and if there is none that can help deter users to do trading then the fault is all in Paypal's hands. In the defense I guess of Paypal, I think that they are just preventing possibilities of money laundering.

If we can't fight the apocalypse scenario energy wise, do you think that we can defeat it by breaking through the computing plateau, one promising future technology is quantum computing. Having a faster computing speed means that blocks are mined faster.

So what you are saying is that no matter how affordable the energy for mining is, it will not affect the cost of mining. I do agree with you regarding the difficulty of mining as the blocks gets more hard to mine and we are also reaching a computing plateau.

It is not that they lack knowledge, it is because most articles about bitcoin that cater the public are all about the bad side of the thing which the masses buy in because they love the negativity in the news, teaching people about the good things is difficult but it is a good thing to do because it becomes a chain reaction that will slowly encompass the masses while drowning the media that tries to paint bitcoin in a bad way. If we can cure the masses ignorance then we can discuss a proper argument about the good and bad sides of bitcoin. Other reasons include, con artists see bitcoin as a lucrative and novel way to scam people, with few things not yet that public of a knowledge, they are going to abuse that to milk as much as they can at the short period of time. Maybe investors doing their part could solve this problem of bitcoin being an alien idea for many people.

It is possible somewhat, the cost overtime of power production is decreasing thanks to the revolutionary renewable energy sources and a more safe nuclear energy, I think that the power generated annually will not overtake everything that we do. With renewable energy, I think that the price of mining will go down, not to mention that the mines are getting closer to the sources which drastically change the amount of money spent on power. The only reason that it becomes possible scenario is that each blocks gets progressively harder to mine which could be solved via quantum computing.

I wanted to disagree but given that bitcoin is decentralized, I think that it is fair to say that the analogy answers the question. There is only one problem that I can see here, is that the given analogy is not businesses which means that a competition will not be applied and we could be oversaturated with exchanges that the users will have a hard time choosing which one is to use, I am not saying that it is bad, it is in fact more beneficial because as more exchanges pops up, the better for the customers because they have options and exchanges will do anything to keep their customers.

It is a mixture of yes and no to be honest. Yes, because it can be used as a payment in blockchain network which is an advantage because we do not need an intermediary for our products which lessens the amount you need to pay, not to mention that bitcoin is an appreciating asset which could net you profit if you buy at the right time. No, because it is volatile unlike conventional currency which has a far more stable market value.

Ignorance could have been prevented if there was an introduction by a friend to you about cryptocurrency, knowledge by far is the easiest of them all, a simple Google search and the eat all you can buffet of knowledge is at the tip of your fingers. It is natural for people not to adopt early technologies so I do not blame that they were late in the hype, they only have themselves to blame but that should not distract them from the fact that it will be alright to join the hype.

She has disappeared in the face of the Earth, Dr. Ruja aka "Crypto Queen" has been speculated to have gone rogue via plastic surgery and booked different flights to deter international chase, many were also speculating that she was kidnapped and the money that she stole was in the hands of the kidnappers. This is what a con artist can do if they have a background in education that supports them and they also know what product they are selling.

Well most players knew this tactic as well, it kind of signifies that the player staring is unsure on his/her cards. It can be done with strangers to be honest but that requires training yourself about body language and observing their way of entering the table. This is not applicable in online poker though because there is no human interaction happening, although pseudo tensions can build up online when there is only 2 players left on the table aiming for the pot.

May chance na ireplicate ng market yung valley noong 2017 pero baka ngayon ay mas magtatala na ng bagong ATH ang bitcoin market, agreed ako na magkakacorrection in January pero tingin ko magbabounce back pa ulit ng isang beses sabay bagsak all the way na. Spekulasyon ko lang naman iyon pero the chance na hindi ireplicate yung valley is the same as replicating it.

You might experiencing something in the realm of Sudden Wealth Syndrome, it isn't exactly the same but the nerves that are getting you is similar in a way. I think a good training to steel your nerves is what is best for you, constant exposure to high stakes game and playing in the is an expensive yet effective training, meditation by far is the best you can do if you want to acquire a steel nerve.

Learned this tip from my friends who trade, it is helpful although our government does not care that much about cryptocurrency.

Regarding the confiscation, I think that it is fair for the institution to sell it to use it for their payment for their services, if it were confiscated without a ground that the person holding it is doing something illegal then I guess it is unethical and corrupt at best but if it is the other way around then I think that it is justifiable.

Blockchain is the peer to peer network and bitcoin is one of the many currency that is being traded in it. I advise to other late investors to assess their risk tolerance as the valley from 2017 could be replicated, and if you think you can handle loss then go for it because the market is volatile, otherwise go for a swim and wait for the prices to plummet and buy at that moment.

Recovery of the prices is the biggest take in my opinion, many believed that the bubble will burst but here we are at the top. The big lesson here is not believe the hype, yes bitcoin was fueled by hype but by that time it was going down which means you are late to the party.

What drives the prices is not just the scarcity of bitcoin, if the circulation is also constricted then the prices will drive up because there is abundance in bitcoin but there is no trade happening. It does benefit the long time hodlers but the people that just joining in the hype are late to the party, what they will witness is another price crash and in turn they will sell it at losing value.

1. I do not think that they will ever do that, they benefit from it and most countries have central so that will be far from happening, crypto will set people free from banking institutions but governments will try their best to get a piece of the pie.
2. Tax collection is already happening for most people, buying items and equipments already has a tax in it. Internal Revenue have their way to crackdown on tax evaders and they know that they can't be messed with.
3. If a person who does not pay taxes gets a lot of properties or assets in general, it will raise suspicions, and most people who gets a lot of money are not expert in tax evasion so most of the time, they will be caught, it is only a matter of time besides people will not become corrupt if they know that fucking the government will only lead to them getting bled dry from penalties for tax evasions.

The price of bitcoin in my country is relative with the USD equivalent of bitcoin. I think that in Africa the reason that it is popular is because it is more expensive to use their currency to buy necessities, and the equivalent of bitcoin in those countries are higher, if I am right, the price of bitcoin is relative to dollar in some African countries too.

To be more safe, practice playing with your friends so you have a control to what happens, the people that I have played with are okay with just enjoying the game without the problem of money, we have some casino chips laying around and we distributed those equally and played the game, most of the time Chinese poker is what we play but poker is enjoyable.