People who lose on poker will always claim that there was something else going around because poker is not a provably fair game.

On dice games or plinko or any other technical stuff there is always a provably fair system that casinos can show to gamblers that they don't scam them because they don't have to scam them thanks to house edge since they will win anyway, with sportsbook the teams play, if the teams sell the game themselves (like how there was issue with Serie A about 10 years ago or so where Juventus and all dropped leagues) that is something no sportsbook could ever deal with, that is individual issues with the teams, which means there is no way any sportsbook could scam customers on sportsbook as well.

But, when we talk about poker, there is literally hundred ways people can claim a foul play and that is why poker websites do not work well on crypto world.

I have been able to achieve a lot of things by using Bitcoin. When I started Bitcoin in 2013 there is a huge difference compared to now, I wasn’t even expecting it to have gone this far, it really surprised me with how far it has been able to go.

I discovered Bitcoin as a freelancer. I was working on a project and the contractor asked me whether I accept Bitcoin, before then I have came across it because I have done other online jobs like Paid to Clicks and some of them mentioned Bitcoin as one of their payment method but I never used it till then. Fast-forward to when the contractor asked me about it, I told him that I accept Bitcoin. And he told me to get address when I’m ready, I rushed and did some research on it and got the best wallet as recommended then which is Coinbase. That’s how I got into Bitcoin.

Bitcoin feed me and helped me to lead a normal life like most other people in my city. Before adopting bitcoins, I was in debit but now I have some savings in bitcoins. I guess the improvements in my financial status could not become possible if I would have ignored to accept/adopt bitcoins.

You have quite a really good idea for convincing people and I might be trying that out someday. Though most people I have met, the problem is not that they think Bitcoin is a scam, the problem is mainly that they are afraid that the money they put into Bitcoin they might lose it.

There is one of my colleagues that likes Bitcoin but the fear of losing his money keeps discouraging him from buying Bitcoin. He’s always afraid, and the worst part is that sometimes the price of Bitcoin would go up and he would start regretting why he never invested, and then within a short while it drop and his fears will come up again and he’d start he’s lucky for not investing lol. I stopped talking to him about it because I understood he doesn’t have enough money so there isn’t money to risk.

I guess it has been always a jackpot hunter type of website and that is why there is always a low number of turnout on any given moment and most of them are just there for the jackpot. They have never been one of the places that actually does anything for the players who do not care about the jackpot, like the regular people who do not play the jackpot but just the crash part like in the bustabit people, they do not really come here, this is not the place for that, this place is only viable and entertaining if you want to play the jackpot game and that number is very low.

In the end, they only know themselves if they are happy or not, if they are not happy with the number or the profits, they know what they can change, if happy then they can continue what they are doing.

Yeah, the technicality involved with going further would both increase the cost and also sometimes doesn't worth it neither. I would prefer coinbase as well if I was in USA, thankfully there is better options here in my nation, yet that doesn't change the fact that even tho Coinbase has a steep cost, it is still making things incredibly easy for you as well.

You send money via bank transfer, have the money in your coinbase account, buy bitcoin with it, do whatever you want in between, then when you want to sell your bitcoins and get dollars on your coinbase account, transfer it back to your bank account and everything will be there. This may sound easy but it is insanely difficult to build a business like that, so their costs justify the expense for the users.

If countries can increase the UBI system to a level where it works (right now there are unemployment benefits in some countries) there won't be a need to have a nation with workers, we can literally have a whole nation with absolutely zero workers and still make a profit at the same time.

All they have to do is sell the information they have and that would be enough, for example if one nation has a patent for the greatest car ever built, they could rent that patent to another nation and they will manufacture it and sell it and make money while the other one collects rent for the patent. I am not saying that makes sense or doable but it is literally possible. A whole nation of academics would still survive theoretically yet it is not practical and would eventually fail in the current system.

Honestly, I don't really mind that kind of trading if you really needed the money. Bitcoin should not be something that stands in between of you and your needs, it should be something that supports you for your needs, so cashing out to pay for something is actually the perfect reason to not care about the bitcoins you have, an even more perfect version would have been spending bitcoins directly but I suppose we still have few years until that happens.

If you want to increase the amount of bitcoins you have and keep working on your portfolio, you should do that in between times but when it comes to paying your bills or paying for something else, I do not see a reason not to cash out, don't care about the satoshi value or altcoins, just cash out and live a better life.

If you think you can find that "right" altcoin, it is always the right time to invest for it, yet it is really hard to find that right coin.

The trouble is not the time for altcoins but the option of which altcoins. Historically speaking, on every single day there is one coin that has the most profitable one that increases insanely high, even one horrible days there are ones that make 20%+ profits, which means it is always the time to invest into altcoins as long as you find the correct one that will make that jump that day.

I personally feel like right now is a great time for accumulation and not going all in, I would buy small by small every week on the coins I personally like, which goes to show maybe it will go up or down but I would increase my numbers slowly.

All time high is just way too much, I am not denying that it looks like ethereum will reach a new high for the year and maybe beat the past 2 years records and definitely reach above the 500 dollar threshold which will be amazing, yet that doesn't change the fact that all time high is 1500 dollars or so which is really not easy to achieve at all.

Definitely, there is a chance it can break that as well, it is finances and I am sure the world would be ready for a new all time high for ethereum after their hard fork but do not be shocked if it can't reach there neither, in fact be prepared for it to not reach since that would be the unlikely option here. I hope your wager with your friend wasn't for too much . You should be getting good odds for such a wager with him/her.

Yeah that is very true, keeping the price over $9k is worth to us more than getting a huge increase. This means that we are in a bull run and going up constantly and not stopping with the possibility of not knowing when it will fall, that is good if you are a holder but not good if you are a trader.

The other however (the situation we have now) means that price is actually taking good strides but also keeping the bottom higher and higher while price sometimes having corrections and stagnant moments and in between of those moments the increases that suggest we are still in the bull run of the year. I hope we will continue to increase like this and not go down or even go up insanely high because both of them would be very risky, going up slowly and making sure to stay up is a lot more valuable.

And I am not really against it as long as they do it right. The difference between central exchanges and banks is the fact that banks do not have the money they claim they do, whereas central exchanges all have that money, sure they are making a profit from just holding your coins, yet that doesn't change the fact that they still have it on their cold storage or on hot wallets just so they can withdraw.

The biggest example here could be the fact that every single person can withdraw all of their money from binance and even tho it may take some time to withdraw, they will be capable of doing it, if every single person wants to withdraw their fiat from the banks, banks won't be able to give that kind of money to people since they actually don't posses it on their vaults.

Edit: Sorry accidentally deleted but re-posted.

As you can see from other peoples response, it is in a gray area right now, they are not "supporting" it in way or shape but they are also not attacking it like some other countries do neither. So, if you want to open a "business" it will be different than just dealing with crypto, normally if you want to just buy and sell crypto and be a trader things are easier there, it would be easy to withdraw or deposit from exchanges however if you want to build a whole business, and if it ever becomes successful than it means a lot of money via crypto which would be stuck at tax problems.

When taxing is not really in the law and there is no examples to look from, the government agencies don't really know what to do about it, which is why business is harder than being a trader.

There are two scenarios that people are standing on, and those also have branches to it as well. One is virus is as serious as conspiracy theorists claim it is (which I doubt is the reality) and the other is it is nothing to make a deal about. Now just as we imagine, it will turn out to be another virus that we always have, and it will be nothing major very soon.

However, if it is actually serious and all countries start to back away from China, that has two potential possibilities. China will have trouble getting money and debt from all over the world which would hurt them the most and countries who depend on Chinese manufacturing could actually try to establish stuff on their own nation which would make things cost more but also help them earn more as a nation as well instead of paying to Chinese, which could turn out to be great. Or it would just bankrupt companies and would be awful for the whole nation.

Plus, Manny was a politician last I checked, I don't know if he still is or not but it really was an important reason why he had that Mayweather fight as well, dude used all that money to get bigger and bigger in politics.

So, I am sure this fight will not probably happen but if they do have this fight I am sure the money reason would be for politics and not anything else, he probably has enough investments and savings to cover all the smaller expenses like salary and car washes and everything, those are easy stuff to pay for, when it comes to politics tho, paying your way in (bribing) always requires more and more money, the more you spend will result with more you further your career as a politician, which means he kinda "needs" money but not in the way you think.

I wonder why there wasn't that much interest towards Super Bowl this year, maybe last years interest was doubled down by Rams going to finals for the first time in a long period and Los Angeles is a huge city that attracts that kind of viewership probably and add the Patriots which is a football city that is one of the most successful franchises in the whole world, there was much more interest and much more talk about it, and I am even sure there was a bigger amount wagered in total as well.

This year it is both a bit boring and also last years 13-3 stayed in peoples minds so maybe this year it may get less and less views, plus NFL is getting a lot of heat for the management they have been showing as well so I suppose maybe this could literally be start of the end for them as well.

More people should be sharing how they made money, the previous success can't be replicated that easily so people seeing how you made money is not really a problem, everyone should share how they did it so far. We see people who lose money all the time, if you go on bitcointalk and see other people, you will mainly see people complaining about how they lost money or how they missed a chance or at worst how bitcoin will be 1 trillion dollars per coin or something silly like that.

You don't see people who actually make money and make a difference anymore, back in the day many people did these and they kept journals here and shared it with other people, that helped many people to follow and actually try to learn and be better, if you wrote here that means you were in front of everyone's minds and that kinda resulted with you trying to be better as well.

There are few problems with the notion that "bitcoin has been doing better, you should come back to trading", I mean for starters you should be buying when everything is looking horrible and selling when it is like today, not the other way around, if people come in after the 26%+ increase, that kinda means that they are buying at high and what is the next advice? Selling at low?

If they have stayed out for so long, they should keep staying out a little while longer and wait for a drop, my understanding has always been to buy or get in at the moment when it looks like reaching the furthest down it will reach in recent memory.

Plus it wasn't doing that bad neither, it didn't suddenly started to do this well, we were around $7k to $9k for 6 months and we are literally there once again, so its not really shocking.

If you are trading for your safety and still pick coins like XRP and BCH, I have a very bad news for you .
Those coins are literally made by one person (or a team) to make themselves rich and not for everyone else use.

BCH was first created because bitcoin moved towards segwit and other stuff in order to not pay too much transaction fee and make it faster and cheaper to send and receive bitcoins, miners of the world (Jihan Wu and Roger Ver as the lead) said that it would drop their profits and they will make less money because of it so they literally decided to have a hard fork of their own version where they would make more money whereas people who send and receive money would have to pay more than they are paying on segwit.

I don't even have to explain XRP, those guys have been around for years and they have been stealing money from the public all those years, if you still believe in them, not much I can say would change your perspective.

Everyone knows the fact that IEO will be basically listed easily versus ICO trying hard to get their coins listed but I also feel like
there is a decentralized issue at play here as well. When you do ICO there is an "owner" of that coin which is horrible, nobody wants to have some coin that basically has one guy at the top doing all the thinking and making all the decisions, that is basically fiat, look at all the ICO's and you will realize that there is at least one team if not one guy who gets all the funding and makes all the decisions.

IEO is kinda like that as well in logic but they are giving away as much of the money as possible to get funding yet let the coin be what it can be because they basically sell all their coins on the exchange and leave the coin be to community.

I hope they will comeback soon enough when they realize Libra may actually still work, the other possibility scares me. Think about it, one company is trying to build a stablecoin and the government is against it, and this is a company that is as big as Facebook yet they are not letting it be, meanwhile people are using USDT or USDC or whatever like nothing is going on.

If you think they are not allowing Libra to exist and work properly, do you really think they allowed tether to exist at the same time?

If they didn't allowed Libra that means they are not allowing Tether neither yet people do not realize this and use Tether like its something very legit and works according to law, that is not the deal here at all, they are very illegal and very against the law.