I think none of the two is going to happen. Bitcoin will probably not hit $100k before the halving because that's pretty far from where the price is at the moment and we are not that far from the halving event now.
About the JP Morgan statement, though it sounds absurd but I wouldn't call it that because I know anything could happen and we have seen it in the previous bull runs where Bitcoin used to drop more than 40% right before the halving and then it used to recover back to hit a new all-time high post-halving.
So, I believe it's going to be between $60k to $80k, might hit $80k if the current bullish momentum stays, but there is a high chance that it will dip at some point.
The whole crypto space is very positive these days. But we should not be highly confident that bitcoin will not drop its price drastically as we have seen it already happened before. It’s better if we can prepare for it as earlier as now. Now, if price will continue to rise, that would be much better to expect. But we should still stay realistic, $100k might be possible for bitcoin but with a month left for bitcoin halving, the chances to get there is quite slim. So I have to agree with you, $80k-$85k is more realistic than that. |
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Technically bitcoin is not an investment at all. I think it's important that people remember or understand that first and foremost bitcoin is a currency. It's a digital currency, which is unlike any other we've seen before, and it's become an investment just like trading of fiat currencies, which is common place, but I think it's an important reminder that first and foremost it's a means of transferring money in a better way.
There are a lot of things that aren't investments in this world but are used as one. Do you think lands are for investments? No, they are to be bought and used for personal housing and stuff, but people use them as investments because they are volatile. So, anything in the world that can lose and gain value over time is considered an investment opportunity, so Bitcoin is no exception in this. Gold is a precious metal that is used to make jewelry and other stuff, but it is used as an investment by a lot of people, they buy and store gold so that they can sell it when it becomes more valuable and it does. So it's not about what something is created for, it's about whether it has a stable value or its value keeps changing, and if it keeps changing, it eventually becomes an investment asset as along with its other use cases. Bitcoin is now considered as both, as a digital currency and an investment. While majority of the countries are still not adopting bitcoin as a currency, then let the people who are aware about bitcoin and its value use them as an investment. In fact, having it as an investment gives the highest ROI than any other investment, so it proves to say that it could stay as a profitable investment as long as people wanted to. However, we should also not forget to spend it since it’s a currency. People may be greedy and will only chose to hold more than spend them, but sticking to that will only defeat the purpose how bitcoin is designed first. |
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Education system is crooked which I agree but we also can't deny that it gives a minimum guarantee that when you got a degree you can join get a job and lead a very normal life so those who aren't privileged to take risk in their steps has to go through all this to start investing because we can't expect everyone to start with a capital, it comes only if we earn and there are steps we have to pass to become investor.
Education should never be underrated because without education, we won’t be knowledgeable enough and become highly motivated to invest in bitcoin. Admit it or not, those who are successful in bitcoin are mostly those professionals who have gained a college degree. So it comes to say that being educated should be the first goal, and afterwards the goal of investment comes. And being educated means you can manage to get a more decent job, compared to those who chose not to finish their schooling and just focus on investing goals. However, when it comes to high profitability, investment is only capable of that. |
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For long have been around here seems like people who belongs to this world think much of investment than savings while the real world focuses more on savings but if I could recall correctly, any money in savings doesn't yield and add to the account while investment is what gives us money or profits at every end of the day week or month irrespective of how little it could be it's better to have investment than savings.
What do you think?
I don't want to discredit a teacher with a minimal salary and an uncertain retirement. Because the problem is not that they don't invest, but that the government's guarantees for teachers and honorariums are not paid attention to. Teachers deserve large allowances because their services to education are very important. At my place, honorary teachers really experience serious problems and it is worrying that their monthly salary is only around $15/month. Imagine with that little money they don't have anything to consider investing. Even living expenses alone will never be enough. So this is not to encourage them to invest, but rather to guarantee that their salary must first be stabilized and adjusted because after everyone can meet their needs, I am sure there will be additional options to expand their income, whether doing business, saving or investing. Not just for teachers but also all those minimal income earners. I believe majority have the urge and passion to invest but because their funds are insufficient, it’s hard for them to take an extra mile and finally invest when all of their salary just go directly to sustain their basic needs. How can we expect to see them investing when even saving a portion of their salary seems like impossible for them. Many people would say that everything depends on individual mindset and how they manage their finances. But when you’re actually the breadwinner, you certainly have all the plans to save and invest, but the topmost priority for survival should always comes first. |
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If you are a student you must trade carefully to trade $500. Before trading you must acquire enough knowledge about the trade.
That’s the first thing which the OP should know, if you want to start trading, you have to acquire enough knowledge first or you might end up losing all your $500, which am sure you are going to be pained if after suffering to accumulate that amount of money, then you lose everything, so when you accumulating your knowledge, you have to put everything into practice, and in the process of doing that, you shouldn’t use all your money to do that, just allocate just small amount from the $500, and start with it, if you are learning how to trade, their is high chances that you are going to lose almost all the money which you started with, but gradually your losses will be reducing. Before you invest in trading, invest in yourself first. Trading has certainly its own process and learning it may take months or even a year before you can say you can be a good trader. I suggest go first with a demo trading account, that way you will be more familiar with how trading scenario is. Note that what you have learned from demo trading is still quite different when it comes to live trading. So enhance your knowledge and skills so that you when you start trading with real funds, you can at least minimize your losses and start making some gains, until you can be a reliable trader in the process. |
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I am surprised that Donald Trump odd is lower than Joe Biden odd. Joe Biden is the present US president. I am not good in this type of betting and I will not just bet it. If I should take someone to win, Joe Biden. If I should wish someone to win, I will take Donald Trump. But I am not going for anyone than to stick with my football and casino games.
That would probably mean that Trump will win in the election. Last time Trump won was when he was a heavy underdog, no one expected him to win but he won anymore. Loss on his 2nd term, and now trying to go back to presidency. This was the last election's betting odds, and Biden was heavily favored. Currently, Biden is a -180 favorite while Trump is a +160 underdog, with BetOnline reporting that just under 70% of the handle has come in on Trump. While the money is backing a Trump repeat, Biden holds slight edge at 54% of total wagers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackjones/2020/10/31/2020-presidential-election-odds--senate-race-predictions-70-of-money-bet-backs-trump-over-biden/?sh=2fe6010bbd5bI'm not a fan of these two but based on my analysis, this odds now is favoriing Trump to win, so I might probably bet on him. |
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Tnt is not much stronger compare as before but they still have a shot to compete. But its undeniable that SMB teams are much stronger that's why the result is somehow predictable.
During the prime Jason Castro, this team is a championship caliber team. However, the current status of the team is compose of young players, only Castro and Williams are the veterans here and these young players have still haven't proven anything yet. If only they have Mikey Williams in the line up, this could be a very competitive team and I believe they have a shot at winning a championship. What I like to see is those what they called farm team will step up and atmosphere will be change then they became competitive since if they could able to retain their stars and compete then go to playoffs or finals for sure the landscape will be change and fans might get interested to watch them live. Until monopoly in PBA will not stop we can still see SMB teams will dominate the league.
Farm teams are created for the purpose, and that is only to farm potential player that will eventually be traded to the strong teams. They might have started strong like what we've seen so far, but I doubt they'll be in the championship since no "farm team" has reach a championship yet. |
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This is the thing that bettors hate the most when they don't really believe in their intuition and choose to cash out, but not long after, their intuition turned out to be right and it was very unlucky that they didn't get what they should have gotten. But this is gambling, anything can happen, sometimes we are too sure about something but lose, or conversely we are not too sure but win in the end - it's all luck, so when that happens there's no need to regret it too much.
I'm telling you! The story would have been the reverse of the case if he had lost and failed to cash out at the time he did. Gambling is a game of luck and their isn't a better way to go about it. If your instinct works for you at this time and you've won, that's good enough but it's not to say it will always work that way. A friend gave me a sure bet that I refused playing because my instinct didn't subscribe to it, it later turned out that the game played and I had to facey reality cause that's what it is. We can actually win or lose in gambling, but the question we should ask ourselves, how are we doing on long term? Sometimes we just want to trick our mind as there are times we felt so confident and we won, with that kind of feeling, we are so overwhelm making us overconfident next time. But the law of average will come to play, eventually we will lose in the long run. So here's the truth, enjoy gambling, limit your stake to what you can afford only, and everything will be fine since anytime you can stop and resume gambling. It's very simple as that, you don't need to be emotionally attach in every result of your bet, consider it as a daily occurence where losing and winning are possible. |
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There are gamblers who have great instincts and can forecast games that may end up winning the bet. But they are scared that they may lose. They dont trust their own betting predictions so they would rather go to a gambling prediction site to some daily betting tips.
So i want to know as a gambler that you are, do you feel following those betting predictions from those sites would favour us in gambling more than our own predictions? For me i trust my predictions and i have won more when i predict for myself than letting someone predict for me.
There's no fun in copying the prediction of the other people, and besides, their prediction does not guarantee a win, otherwise they will not gonan share it. Trust yourself, if you want to achieve success by winning consistency, then you have to follow your own stratrategy, learn from your mistakes to develop your strategy. it's a long term journey, no gambler succeed in short journey, because at the end of the day we are still not gonna be satisfied with our wins, we want to constantly win, or at least be profitable in a certain period of time, therefore we should work hard on our own and not rely on other "so called experts". |
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... will be taking a parlay on the moneyline.
Unfortunately Phoenix fall short int he last quarter. You can see the rust in the game since they are outscored in the first quarter, slowly they made an adjustment until the 4th quarter but still fall by 4 points. Parlay is dead, you need to come back in the 2nd game, double or nothing?  I think It will be Ginebra winning the 2nd game, they are -5.5 now, hopefully they'll dominate for an easy win. I might just wait for the live betting here, it's hard to trust nowadays, you know it's PBA, nothing is impossible, even bad teams could look good. This could be the way Ginebra choses this season as we all know, the league is being questioned about manipulation of the game, and that’s why even the strongest team suffers a shocking loss. Well, politics in PBA is still there and we might not be able to witness the greatness of PBA again, so be sure if you are going to bet with PBA know its risk and be ready for a possible different outcome. We can't remove that fact anymore, manipulation is not by far, as there are two major franchise companies who really dominates the league, but it's too early for that as even manipulation can be done if there's no bettors they can't do anything, they need to pretend first so fans and gamblers will still be there to bets for their picks, but I agree to you gamblers needs to accept the high risk that they'll going to take,. So far, both SMB and Ginebra are the teams that have the capabilities to dominate, I don't see any chance from MVP's squad, unless big trades happened and shuffle their players to form another competitive squads. Hopefully the TNT, but unfortunately they don't have a players that could match the SMB and Ginebra in the competiton particularly in the playoffs. The big 3 teams now are all from SMB, if I may ranked, this will be my ranking. 1- SMB 2- Ginebra 3 - Magnolia. You can only choose one of these 3 to become a champion this season, it's all Filipino and they have bigs to dominate. As of now, SMB hasn't played yet as they are given a long rest, their debut will be this friday against the Rain or Shine, this should be an easy win. |
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I think what triggered it was not the IP change because I often use VPN without any problems making withdrawals, although there may be some sites whose rules are quite strict as you think, where maybe their site has tightened the rules regarding VPN, I'm sure that's what triggered it because the amount of the bet, so far what I have seen is that users who bet big bets and often make large deposits always ask their users for KYC and that is different from users who often bet smaller bets.
To be honest, I'm a small gambler so far I've never had a problem where I play gambling sites asking for KYC on my account, because I only gamble with smaller bets so I've never had a problem with that, so far for me it's probably what triggers users to be asked for KYC because it could be from the amount of deposits or bets because there could be money laundering there so that makes casinos emphasize big gamblers, but maybe there are also sites that require users to complete KYC for users in certain countries or indeed users who apply VPN at the beginning of their registration in the country which is prohibited.
Do you frequently use VPN of different country when you login without undergoing KYC? Yeah sure the amount of bet is usually the common factor to trigger KYC but changing IP frequently especially if you are using different country will make your account flagged by the security system for faking your location. That's how VPN does, it will change your current location but if a casino allowed that, it will not be flagged as faking your location. And I don't think there's such a problem with changing your location as that's your way to protect your privacy. Well, since you already comply with the KYC, then there's no more privacy on that matter, a casino will only flag your account if you change your location for security purposes, but once you confirm that it's you, all should be good. I’m not sure how small gambler you are but your account will be very suspicious to them soon and you might encounter problem once you win and initiate withdrawal. Also gambling small amount is not only the basis now since some casino like Roobet have a mandatory KYC to all users. What casino do you frequently play with constant use of VPN?
Money laundering refers about money being washed, it means it came from illegal activities, so betting a small amount, just your normal range should not trigger the alarm of a casino. With their thousands of users, your account should not be suspected if you are not doing something out of the ordinary. |
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Personally, I do limit my gambling a lot, monitor every move and budget, making sure that the money I'm using is just the money that I can afford to lose, and it is not going to be more than 5-10% of my enough so that even if I lose this money I could easily recover from it, I mostly just do sportbetting because this is where I have higher chance of winning and I really like NBA and basketball sports since I already like watching NBA its can easily be a good entertainment for me, plus gambling on it adds more fun on it. I only do around 10$ every bet and the winning could be around x2 or x2.5 which I think is already worth the risk so far I'm able to win a reasonable amount. Im able to grow my money to more than 400$ even though I only started on around 50$, I think that is a pretty good source of income and entertainment for me.
If you were able to achieve that in a slow process then I would say that you have a good future in sports betting. Discipline is very important and achieve in a slow process showed how discipline you are and patience in following your game plan. Most of sports bettors losses in the long run because they are not discipline, they want an instant or quick return of money hence it would result to not following the right bankroll management. Having fun is important, and I'm glad you get that from gambling. Maybe try to be more ambitious, be consistent with sports betting until you become a pro. When you become a pro, you might end up quitting your job if you have any to focus on sports betting alone, personally that's my goal too so I'm happy to see if there are people making it. |
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Today I was watching some tiktok videos and one video showed up and I think everyone has to watch this video: www.tiktok.com/@fightmma.hype/video/7344412706214038816To spoil you, this video shows how Tyson Fury was struggling against Ngannou and then comes the video of how Joshua was playing with Ngannou like the cat plays with a mouse. I still can't believe what I watched. At first I watched the fight where Ngannou won against Tyson Fury and then, months later, I watch a fight where Joshua simply destroys Ngannou. Now Tyson Fury is making excuses and says that he was shit when he was fighting Ngannou and if he and Jushua fights, Joshue will face absolutely different Fury.
Lots of money will be made if they fight and it will be a hella interesting.Maybe he was telling the truth as it was a different Ngannou that we saw vs Joshua. Clearly he was mismatch, and we can't say that he wasn't training hard since he came from a loss and wanted to prove himself that he belonged to the league of the big boys and could dominated. I believe a lot of us believe that Ngannou would be a threat to AJ, although he might not beat AJ but at least would give him a tough fight, but turns out it was just a easy peasy for AJ as he does not need to sweat it out to win. |
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... will be taking a parlay on the moneyline.
Unfortunately Phoenix fall short int he last quarter. You can see the rust in the game since they are outscored in the first quarter, slowly they made an adjustment until the 4th quarter but still fall by 4 points. Parlay is dead, you need to come back in the 2nd game, double or nothing? I think It will be Ginebra winning the 2nd game, they are -5.5 now, hopefully they'll dominate for an easy win. I might just wait for the live betting here, it's hard to trust nowadays, you know it's PBA, nothing is impossible, even bad teams could look good. This could be the way Ginebra choses this season as we all know, the league is being questioned about manipulation of the game, and that’s why even the strongest team suffers a shocking loss. Well, politics in PBA is still there and we might not be able to witness the greatness of PBA again, so be sure if you are going to bet with PBA know its risk and be ready for a possible different outcome. That manipulation rumors has been here for a while, it will never disappear as there are some bettors who don't like the outcome of the game they are betting. Actually, only bettors think of manipulation or rigging games, pure fans are just probably enjoying the game. Anyway, let's go back to the game, the first game is over and Meralco loss, no Newsome, that's the reason why... On the 2nd game, it will be between Ginebra and Phoenix, I have already risk my money on Phoenix to win, and have some specials for bigger odds, Phoenix to win by 6-10, and 11+... Either one of the bets will hit, I'm still in profit, so hopefully Ginebra will lose. |
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If what its going to require from us to at least have a beginning in making investment in bitcoin is to start by the pattern of DCA, then its fine and good and we should not got ourselves discouraged in that because it is more better starting such way than doing nothing at all, many people already have procrastinated their investment from years back to this present days and never concluded on making determination to invest and stop the procrastination they have been used to over time.
People who keep on missing bitcoin opportunities are probably not aware about DCA. Or they really are aware but the fear to take the risk is high because they have no substantial amount of knowledge in the first place. I have been fearing bitcoin investment way back then and so I end up procrastinating most often, but I realized I won’t achieve something if I keep doing the same thing and keep the same attitude. Thankful to have learned about DCA. That idea lessen my fear and started taking small steps in bitcoin investment. Now, from a humble beginning, I can say that I am hodling a good amount of bitcoin already. DCA is the key, and of course having a good mindset and a positive attitude towards bitcoin is also a great factor for success. |
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My Bitcoin Investment I thanks God I am back to continue the knowledge of bitcoin and it Blockchain, within this period which I was absent from the forum, I have learn more and I have also taught many people and some of them also invested in bitcoin some times I used some of the good quality posts for reference, I have not stopped my learning. And today I am a good investor. So far so good I have invested 0.05494075 BTC. This is wonderful and I will say congratulations. I am always happy when I see people take action about Bitcoin investment and not just speak words with no result. With this bold step, you are all set to reap the benefits of investing in a reliable asset like Bitcoin. It is even better you are already into Bitcoin investment while continuing to gain more knowledge of Bitcoin, this confirms that one does not need complex knowledge to start investing in Bitcoin but just the key knowledge to get started. The learning process of Bitcoin is a continuous one just like it is in every other profession. We are lucky to be in a forum where all the information we need are available and accessible free of charge. Those who take the materials and resources available here seriously will never make mistakes in their Bitcoin career. All we need here is just consistency in learning the crypto market from the forum and apply them into action. Everyone started from a scratch but with good motivation to acquire limitless information from the forum, everything will end up into positive results, and having your first bitcoin investment OP is already a big achievement to consider. Just continue what you’re doing and keep your motivation to learn burning. Knowledge becomes our basic foundation in everything that we do, most especially when we are dealing with highly volatile investment like crypto particularly bitcoin. |
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We don't sell when we have profit but when we lose our capital we expect to sell our coins when our capital comes back. When in profit we should sell and wait for next trade. Whenever we expect extra profit we lose our money instead of profit. Excessive greed never brings desired results for an investor or a trader. Setting a specific target first is very important in business. If we have planned in advance what amount of capital and what amount of profit we will sell, then if we get that amount of profit, we can sell our coins at that time without being extra greedy. It is better to be satisfied with a relatively small amount of profit than to lose all the profit by being overly greedy. Those who are content with small profits are seen to make good profits overall.
In trading, regardless of the amount of profits, as long as you are seeing profits, the best action would be to sell your coins. You could sell even just a small portion of your whole storage, the important thing is you take time to sell and make decent amount of profits. While others continue to hold to satisfy their greed, but hodling will never make you profitable, but selling is. Know when to trade and make profits and know when to hold continuously your coins. If you have specific plans on when to sell and when to hold, you will definitely make a positive outcome from your investment. Long term planning and good preparation prior to investing will really help you to achieve your goal in the end. |
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While in the second game, there's no problem with the favorite, RoS can't handle the hot hands of Malonzo, No scottie, no problem as Gin kings manage to take their first game with a win.
Malonzo took his revenge in the game he loved. He was hurt when he was drunk, but now he is back and having a great start of the season. Meanwhile, let's move on to the games today, all two games has been concluded, the first game is quite interesting as TNT won by 3 points only against the DYIP. The 2nd game is not entertaining, as it was a blowout win by NLEX. Maybe I'm a bit bias here since I bet on the Converge live when they are down, thinking they'll come back with a strong run but they failed to amaze me, not a profitable night for me. NLEX had finally found a true leader of this team, for another game, Bollick led the team for this big win and now he gets even better with 46 points from 17-26 shooting... That's very accurate, you can ask where's the defense, looks like they don't know him, he is a bomb and anytime could explode. And with that win, NLEX move to the rank 3 with 3-1, win-loss record. |
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Timberwolves versus the Cavaliers was also a fun game. Rudy Gobert made a big mistake of getting a technical foul after he was fouled out of the game. I can see the frustration but they had the 1-point lead and he didn't even think about it. The Cavs tied the game to make it to overtime and that was where they defeated the Timberwolves.
Gobert should learn from this mistake and I bet he regrets what he did. They could've won that game in regulation.
Emotions run high for Rudy Gobert, it was also a great battle between him and Allen as well in the middle. I think he made a block on Allen but then Allen come back with his dunk and so it's a very close game. But the home team has more sauce in the OT, Garland becoming the Donovan Mitchell, as him and Allen had 30+ points. Next up for them is against the Nets who have lost to the Pistons. And if they win again here, they will solidify themselves at the second spot position behind the dominating Boston Celtics. Something that the management needs to work more out from this big man, an almost a win game for them but they let that emotion and cause them losing the game in OT, though I can't judge that as he's also a human being who thinks that there's a mistake but as a professional maybe they needed to discuss this to avoid happening it again, they need all the win that they can get while KAT is not around, West side composed of full-packs heavy favorites, they are sitting on the 2nd spot but the question is until when? as playoffs is nearing all teams are really trying to win and have that good position to reach the next round. Without the technical they could have bag the W. But Gobert man, he's acting immature again not undertanding what is stake in that game. he can't do that, letting his emotion out of control is just giving the game to their opponent. It would be okay if they were leading by a comfortable margin but they were only leading by 1 point that time and with 1 made Tech FT Cavaliers were able to tie the game. Wolves still are capable of winning despite losing KAT but they need to learn and improve their maturity in the game. |
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One of the most trading strategy I can easily tell you is patient, not being greedy, focus, and learn more and know how to take the risk is not just about ending or losing you don’t have to be comfortable if you’re losing any sometimes you just have to know the reason why you are even ending and the reason why you are even losing most times are usually believe that following news, consigning, coins and bitcoin it’s really really important because bitcoin affect 90% of the coins.
Having the right amount of patience will make you achieve far with trading. But do not forget to learn also the basics in trading and develop your skills and strategies that suit your trading style. Experience is a must as well, if you don’t have good amount of experience in the market, you will end up at a losing trade. Greed is also what makes everyone lose in trading. There are those traders who even use leverage just to achieve bigger size of their income, but we all know using leverage without expertise in the market will make us more prone to losses instead. Just trade without greed and trade on what you can only afford of losing. |
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