I won’t really say that it is being helpful in our daily lives, because most of us here don’t make use of bitcoin for our daily needs, mostly what we are making use of is the fiat and nothing more than that. And if we decide to make use of bitcoin in making a purchase it is going to be something that we do once in a while and not on a steady basis. But as for merchants accepting Bitcoin, you can find lots of them online if you search for them.

For example there is Overstock, although I think they mostly deal on Homesgoods, especially furniture. Then there is purse.io that people uses for making different purchase. There might be less of them, but they are available.

It depends on the exchange, but what kind of information are they requesting for that you don’t really like , is it the submitting of ID? Every exchange I know does that, except the decentralized exchanges.

When you register on some of the centralized exchanges at first, they wouldn’t ask for anything but they will try limit most of the things you can do on the exchange, that way you will be forced to do KYC, and the KYC has different stages , the first one they will require you to give your name, address’s, phone number and other basic details. Then the next stage of the KYC is to submit your ID to verify yourself. Then there are those that will even ask for you to take a selfie holding your ID card lol.

There is really no such thing as low risk, it all comes down to how you play your game, like one of the things you have to do to reduce your risk is to be trading with small amount that won’t affect your pocket in case things should go wrong, and then you have to be making use of stop loss, although sometimes it can cause you to miss out when the market suddenly goes up again after a dip, that’s why you have to be focused on your trade.

Then you can try Hodl, but you have to be careful of which coins you’re Hodl’ing, and you also have to understand that the market does not go up all the time and also it can take years for another bull run to happen, just like the current bull run, we had to wait for years and some people even gave up. So if you choose to just Hodl, buy at the right time and be ready to hold for a long time.

Coinbase is a good one, but if you’re going to be using it for trading it is best that you make use of the Coinbase trading platform which is CoinbasePro because with that you’re going to be saving up from fees than when you’re making use of the wallet in trading.Apart from the fees that might be high for you, Coinbase is a good and secure platform to mask use of.

In terms of popularity, there are other exchanges that are very popular too such Kraken, Binance, Huobi, Poloniex and so many of them. Binance is the choice for most people and it is the most popular and is even bigger than Coinbase when you check their daily volume, and they have less fees than when you’re making use of Coinbase. You should try them two out and compare to know which is best for you.

This community and its lessons are always marvelous but it seems no gambler is learning from this kind of threads but they do their level of "irresponsible gambling" and then coming up with another such topic. Do gamble with care or responsible is not a new advice here but people like you are more keen to bring up here your own stories.

I am not finding this as a valid reason. You will able to deviate your focus if you are good in self-control. I have seen many addicted gamblers who are into regular job for years. Moreover, if you are into any job then you can easily get loans which will again help you to ruin your finance more problematic.

Even though I believe that Nets are not a proper "team" yet even though they have amazing players, I also think that this one game is not indication of how they will be like. Lakers is still the previous champions and even without AD and Lebron they are still a great team, but normally Nets should have won this game easily, but just because they lost it and lost it with 25 points, doesn't mean that they are a horrible team neither. They are a great team who had a bad game, that is the only thing we could take away from this game.

At the end of the day we are talking about Nets here, with irving, harden, durant and that three alone is great and enough, with the help of their other players they will be good. I just do not believe that they are "team" enough to win this year, but maybe next year when everyone is perfectly healthy and pandemic is not as much of a problem, they could become a serious threat.

Do not get trapped by investing into random and crap things. Honestly I never come across any of these except blocknet and XRP. XRP is a centralized shit which is currently facing hard time due to SEC of USA.

It would be much better if you stay within bitcoin and if you are ready to risk lesser (up to 20% of your portfolio) then go investing with eth/ltc.
If you want to risk little more (up to 40% of your portfolio) then go for investing into exchange coins/tokens.

Never have invested in altcoin with more than 50-60% of your portfolio. Always have more than 50% of your investments in bitcoins.

Hey, there is nothing about Bitcoin that will make it the same as casinos. Yes they are all under probability, which is the same thing with other businesses. Your normal day to day business can be an example, it is not every day that you go to your shop that you’re going to be seeing buyers of the products that you’re selling.

Having more buyers who demand for your products on a steady which is an increase in demand means that your business is going to be growing . That’s the same thing with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, yes it relies on demands and supply ,and of course trading it is under probability. Let’s assume that you can accurately predict where it is heading to, then what sense does it make??

It is good to have such news of Miami allowing employees to accept their payment in bitcoin, as I have seen past news that they have plans of doing such a thing, but I don’t know how they solve all legal hassles to do so this quicker.

It’s quite a good plan, employees should be allowed to pick their payment method of choice. I work for a media company and the job is remote, we are allowed to make a choice of payment methods, which is either bank, PayPal, or bitcoin. And I have been making use of bitcoin for receiving payment starting since last year. And that’s the best decision for me, since it made things to be a lot more easy, and they also handle the fees for the transactions.

The amount of money we are talking about here is basically getting close to some nations stock market, even surpassed some low economy nations, so we are basically talking about something that would be insanely high. And it happened in a year, last year we were nowhere near this level, this year we have reached all time high in the total market cap, and that is the power of bitcoin.

If we keep this up and continue to basically kick ass, we are going to have a lot more power as well and the price will be higher too. Bitcoin is being accepted everywhere and being legal and taxed and considered a currency will be the key to success. I believe we are going to end up going to 1 bitcoin 1 million dollars levels in the future, not saying that will happen today, but it will happen in the future, maybe in 10 years but it will get there eventually.

I was going to mention that Greyscale too, because that company has really invested a lot of money in bitcoin although I do know that it is not a money that belongs to the company, but rather it belongs to their clients and that’s why I believe that they are going to keep it coming since they are not going to be having just only one client, they are steady going to be having more and more clients who they will be managing their investments, which are worth millions of dollars and even above that, for on the cryptocurrency market.

And when these rich guys see how profitable it is, that’s going to make them to keep on investing more and more money in the market and that’s going to help the market to keep on growing.

I think when it’s ALTCOIN season bitcoin is going to rest and would stop being heavily bullish I guess, and the price can even go for a correction as altcoins continues to be bullish, and when its price is at that low it is going to become stable.

The reason why I said this is because when altcoins starts pumping a lot of altcoins investors who have been holding bitcoin because of the bull run will now start selling the coins they are holding and will be using it to invest back into altcoins and that’s going to cause a fall in price for bitcoin as altcoins continues to pump.

Are you sure about this list? Because I'm not seeing most of the coins are good project or I never come across such projects. Komodo/dentkyber kind of only very few coins/tokens that I have come across but most other things are completely new to me. If I remember correctly kyber is something came into this crypto space through binance launchpad not from proper announcement by the forum for ICO.

If you have any list which are including the coins/tokens of the projects which had ICO/bounties on this forum. Because, only such type of coins/tokens I might have collected and might be holding till now. Unfortunately I'm not holding any of the coins/tokens from the list.

As I am into ethereum mining, let me put my perspective this way: ETH mining will end one day, it will be proof of stake and we know that miners will move to something else, it could be ETC, it could be something else, but every miner will turn to something else, and maybe, and this is just a maybe, maybe someone will make a profit from starting now and when all other miners come into play and start mining that one, the price of that coin will go up?

In that case I believe someone who starts now and holds until that moments come, could make a lot of profit. If I mine x amount of coin and hold it, the worth will be 10x of it when all miners move here, that is probably the idea they have.

The fact is that investing could be done by rich and could be done by poor people are very different things. When a rich person makes an investment he does it so that his wealth doesn't drop too much in order to lose the purchasing power, your 300 million dollars will be a lot of money in 10 years as well and it would still make you a rich person even though that 300 million dollars wouldn't have as much purchasing power as it used to be.

However regular person makes an investment because they are poor and they see it as a way to get out, a regular person doesn't have even enough money to live a good life most of the time we have enough money to barely live and we barely make enough money, without investing we will get poorer and poorer and eventually reach to a point where we can't make enough money. This is why its two very different things.

Well you’re right in the one of decrease in productivity, but that’s not going to happen when a few retire after they have made money through bitcoin. If you’re working in the office and you retire because you got rich through bitcoin, there is not going to be a decrease in productivity and that’s because there are already lots of people outside that are waiting to fill up that your position in the office, and once you leave that position your office management is quickly going to replace you with another talent, so it doesn’t stop the productivity, the only thing is that in some cases it might take time for them to find the right replacement, but they will definitely do that.

That must be a basic responsibility of every bitcoiners like they must educate other family members about bitcoins which includes how and where to transact and how to protect bitcoin securely. At the same time, I'm not ready to agree this alone could be the valid reason that we need to go beyond bitcoin investments for diversification purposes. Still, diversification is good but personally I will be preferring to have bitcoins more than 90% in my portfolio.

This was how my family members reacted when bitcoin peaked in 2017. I argued with them and tried to convince by explaining the real potential of bitcoin but they were not ready to accept me until they were seeing the another round of bitcoin bull run in late 2020.

Into anything you are involving for long time, definitely you will get depressed at some point of time; there could be no exception like gambling/trading etc. But, people love to do something for long-term when it remains profitable but unfortunately both trading and gambling may not remain profitable if you are over engaging with that. This must be the another reason why I am seeing both online gambling and day-trading are very much similar to each other.

To end your day profitable, you must gamble or trade only for limited period of time. But, you can prepare yourself in all other times but the actual part of trading or gambling should be only in limited period of time. This is how we can manage trading/gambling profitable regardless of it will be turning lucrative over the time.

On first look, this is sounding like someone is trying to drive traffic to their youtube contents. Most probably I might be wrong still practically if I am innovating such a trading method then definitely I might be busy on executing that method on real trading along with my small capital because even small capital will be enough as I'm having a highly profitable method to make it multiplying over the time.

Yeah, this is the simple reason why most strategists are not working in long run. If you notice if you're innovating some strategy then it will work for some time and then may get failing frequently over the time.

It means, your strategy will find some coins which are going to be pumped in near future? It makes sense. I will bookmark your sheet and I will visit it frequently. Do you have any plan to give free copy to reputed forum members so that they will test your strategy and give honest opinion?

Funny thing is that I saw someone who was complaining about holding like this since 2018 and only gaining nothing more than $70 dollars this year, while there are so many other coins that he could have invested in which would have gotten him a lot of profit than that he’s getting now. Well, that doesn’t mean anyone can’t be lucky, the possibilities of most of these coins becoming the next ethereum or bitcoin is tiny.

I do know that there can be a few among that can become successful at any day, but you can’t really predict the one its going to be, you’re just going to be relying on your luck and hoping that you have invested in the right assets.