I have been investing into stocks for over 9 years now and I have plenty of different stocks ( I am not rich so they are all little but I like to put equal shares among many stocks for less risk). Anytime I buy a stock I look at one thing, does it have dividends and if so how much dividends does it have.

Because, if there is no dividends at all then I do not buy but if there is too much dividends then the company can't grow too big. That is why I try to make sure the company makes enough profit to grow itself but also gives a bit of cash to me to buy some more of the same stock, I have literally grown one of my stocks from 500 of them to 1500 of them in 8 years without spending a dime (except that first 500) and I will keep doing the same. So, in crypto if the rewards are too huge I won't get in but if there is none then it could be a problem (except bitcoin and ethereum).

I don't care who visa/mastercard/uber supports really, even if the topic is crypto then I wouldn't care. Take a look at the companies, one is facebook which is under investigation for watching over us like big brother and giving valuable info to companies that would affect the elections by sending advertisements to undecided voters about the topics they like, literally shaping the political sphere of the whole world.

The others are visa and mastercard who are always under investigation about transactions not properly done in many countries and using the funds they have for making more profits without asking permission first and the last is Uber which literally has no ethical responsibility at all and has been under scrutiny for discrimination as well. I am sorry but these are all horrible companies.

But I think to be a successful trader you need to first see what doesn't work. Which is why you should first be a newbie and a bad trader. Without being a bad trader you will never know what a good trader is and how to be one, so you first be a bad trader and do horrible trades and lose money and learn from your mistakes eliminating the wrongs and slowly become a better one as well.

That is how you become a good trader, just pure determination and focus and studying, you can't ever start as a good trader, even a great trader can teach you everything he knows and you will still be a bad one, however if you work hard and first lose and than learn why you lost than you can get better slowly. That is at least what I did, maybe I am wrong and you can find a better way but this one is quite common and accepted.

The corrections I would have advised you for around $8000 + has already come and gone, and before we can get another deep now might be when the price of Bitcoin is trying to surge to break $10k barrier.

I think now that Bitcoin is still around this present value, it will still not be too late for you to buy some coins to hold, what you can do since everything we speculate is full of uncertainties, you can just split your fund into two, use first part to invest now, and keep holding the second part until you get clear direction if there will be another correction or not, so it seems to me now that we have used two stones to kill two birds.

Money is not something you should commit suicide over. People who commit suicide is beyond my understanding anyway, if I were to ever commit suicide which I doubt I would ever do, it would probably for a reason far my happiness related and not money related, like if I see my life going bad and not going to be good in anyway or shape and I can't fix it then I may consider it but I have to be homeless on a street corner not knowing what I will eat and can't fix that situation or so, even then I would try to wait and do my best before I even consider it. What could worse happen when you lose 2000 bitcoins?

You lost it because you had it think of it that way, maybe you can't get it all back but since you did it before maybe you can do it again? Hell you don't even need to do it again and you can just continue your life without bitcoin, if it is someone else's money then you may go to jail but eventually you will get out. Jail is a place where you can better yourself if you really focus, like reading more books or working out etc etc.

I believe they have lost many peoples deposits over the years. They have been working in the industry for years and I have seen (mostly on reddit to be honest with you) that they have lost their money. Just go to reddit website, go to bitcoin subreddit and sort if from top of all time and you will see that there are many people who complain about coinbase not giving them their money back or freezing their account or not acknowledging the deposits of either bitcoin or fiat.

Basically, they are doing whatever they can to steal your money but they are not doing it to everyone, they are doing it to very few people because they do not want to get caught since that would be the end of their business, you can't do that frequently or people will suspect something is off.

I think I am not even fully trusting the decentralized places on that investment part. Eosbet for example is a decentralized place and the owners are not controlling the website itself, it is purely running of its own and even to make any profit the owners basically created a bet token that they have 30% of all of them while giving away the other 70% as well to people who wager on the website as an incentive.

Yet, I still believe that there could be something going on behind it, I mean I am not saying there is something wrong but I am saying if there was any then we wouldn't know about it. That is why I honestly think that you have to just trust a place if you really want to invest and there is no way you can find out if they are scamming you or not since that is not possible.

I think the promotions should be divided into smaller but more frequent stuff instead of these big ones once in a while.
For example, instead of paying 200% which probably won't be claimed that much since it would be difficult to roll it over that many times, why not make it like smaller many other things. For example, there is a website I will not name to make it like an advertisement on another casino but that casino makes signature campaigns all over bitcointalk and that is how they got super famous.

If you guys could just spend a small amount of money on marketing than you may make that money back as well, if you do marketing that way efficiently than you can spend 100 and make 200 which you can reinvest to marketing so forth so forth. I suggest checking the signature campaigns because of it.

I think if you are playing on a house edge game there is no way you can be successful.

How can a person be a successful gambler? I know one person who won a lot from sportsbetting if that counts and sportsbetting is not pvp like poker or something so it should count. Dude played on 3 games that all seemed impossible, like he played on 3 teams that were destined to lose those games for sure and he bet on them anyway (I think this was on the world cup before the last one, so not the one France won but previous one) and not only he bet that the worse team will win but he bet something like draw on first half as well (I think it was either draw or better team ahead on first half).

So, it was even more impossible yet he won those games, I remember watching the first two games, me and my friends were playing fifa and didn't care about him because it was obvious he would lose but all of us stopped and watched the last game like crazy.

He bet like 10 bucks and made more than 5 thousand as far as I remember (amount could be different it wasn't dollars so I am exchanging from my mind how much dollar worth at that time).

Shouldn't it depend on the money? I mean we all know we are talking about a potential ICO here with the information given with the funding and in return we are getting a certain amount of money most likely not enough to worth it. However if we are going to just assume any amount then I am sure we can find a right amount.

Some people would be willing to give their information for 1000 dollars, some people would be willing to do it for 50 thousand dollars, some may request a lot more, maybe we need a monthly thing or maybe we need one time big thing.

Basically I am sure you can find people that will accept it for a certain amount, its just the question of how much. I am sure if this idea turned out to be real and you did it for 50 thousand dollars per person you can find thousands of people sending their ID easily. However, if you ask them they will say no while if you offer them they will say yes.

Honestly the main reason is not to have a federal bank that will ruin it by doing something silly that will help the rich and screw the poor.

So far in all worlds economy whenever something bad happens they save the rich people first with the idea that poor people all have money in the bank and if a bank collapses then the economy will as well but whenever they give the money the banks do not use it to help recover the people but help themselves with bonuses and so forth whereas people keep getting screwed and getting their houses and cars taken from them.

In 2008 if the newly printed 800 billion dollars were used to pay everyone's debt so that nobody would have debt and banks would get the money then we would still have banks recovering and also people at ease with no debt but they paid it to banks to recover whereas people also had to pay their debts to banks as well, most of which couldn't so banks got paid twice both by the government plus people who could pay or give their houses and what not. Decentralized economy stops all of this discrimination against the poor.

We are sort of a professional trading team. I mean its not a professional one in the sense that we have a legal name and pay taxes and built an office and what not. It is just me and bunch of others on telegram chat dealing with some small time coins and rule that coin over for a while on the market until we can actually profit but at least we work together.

We have increased one coin for over 300%+ once and made out with a lot of profits which helped me a lot, I am in no means rich but when all of our money combined together it turns out to be a lot of money, that is why I personally like what we are doing since none of us are getting super rich millionaires or ruining a whole coin but individually it is small enough that it matters to us.

I made 350 dollars on my last one for example and that probably didn't matter in the grand scheme of things but that is a decent amount for me personally.

I think the uphill battles are always a thing in bitcoin when going up, do you really think that the previous going ups were easy?
Suddenly it became harder? I think whenever we want to go up it will require a lot of time and a big battle just to keep it going up for a short time breaking the resistance points.

Remember we were less than 4.2k just couple months ago and now we are double that price right now, during all that 100% increase it was simply just couple people buying couple bitcoins? We recently seen a 25 thousand bitcoins sold and the price only went from 9 thousand to 8 thousand and that is dropping which is easy, that means it required us probably buying at least 40-50 thousand bitcoins (40k-50k more than we sold not total) and that is why it has always been an uphill task.

I don't know what scalping is but trading between support line and resistance line has been the best case of trading for anyone in a long time. You can check what the support line is and what the resistance line is from the charts and also the buy orders and sell orders on big trading exchanges and when you figure that part out you just have to sell at resistance level (a bit lower) and buy at the support level (a bit higher). That has been my favorite in a long time.

Plus, if you have enough bitcoins to your name and if you can gather couple of your friends with you pump and dump is not that hard on low volume coins, all you have to do is find one that has just enough community and volume and get in it and then start to buy some slowly, then claim you did it and will do more and keep doing it, everyone will start to buy to join you and not miss out and then you can sell.

I think the problem is the moment we reach a new high the technology can't keep up with it and afterwards we go down very quickly and when the technology does something it goes unnoticed.

For example, in 2017 December we reached peak numbers and then the core team started working on segwit and many people started to accept it and whatever, in the end it was about making it easier for people to send and receive money for less fee. Yet when the technology was done the price was going down and people weren't really sending money that frequently.

After a year later we are now once again at peak numbers more than the 2017 peak numbers but we are not paying the same amounts yet nobody realizes contributions of segwit and lightning network on this. The day exchanges and casinos and whatever else starts to use lightning network as standard we will be capable of doing x10 times this size of transactions and will not pay too much.

I think usdc will be the clear best choice very soon. It is supported by Circle and that is why it is so strong. Circle has investments from Goldman Sachs and that firm is not one that will lose money in any way or sense because they have politicians in their pockets and keep bribing them meaning if there is any hit on the stable coin world because of a SEC rule or something then USDC will not be affected by it.

So, the supporters are Poloniex which is owned by Circle which is owned by Goldman Sachs, what type of power could you ever ask from a coin above this one? Maybe Winklevoss twins GUSD will be fine but for me USDC will be the new norm when this USDT thing blows over. Even binance has USDC now and that is saying much more about USDC than USDT while they are competing.

Scams will happen anywhere in the world, hell some casinos are scams itself so at least we have a windice that is literally the kindest and most hard working out there. Yeah some chat people will tell you some scammy shady stuff but with the admins and chat moderators involved it will probably be fixed very soon.

The good thing about windice is you are never too far away from someone with authority and power, not like owners or something but people who are support helpers, moderators, promoters, developers and whatever and you can always reach out and talk with them about your issue and they will listen, that is how windice suddenly got so big out of nowhere because people first asked for something and then windice did it and this repeated couple of times and that resulted with many people coming here to play.

You are welcome.

The game has pros and cons very obvious ways. I mean normally you would argue about a casinos good parts and bad parts but this ones good and bad parts are very open and public. The good part is you get to play casino games on telegram which is a lot better than website and has insane amount of ease of use which is great of it and it gives you 1000 satoshi to test which is a lot of money and the withdrawal is getting to 0.001 soon as it seems which means it will be a lot better difference for the withdrawal and faucet gap.

However, the bad part is the games are not as fun as the website ones and they are a lot slower on telegram because on websites you can play thousands of hands in a minute where as you can max play 50 hands at most with this.

These methods are easier in regular gambling casinos because you go there and actually have fun. However, during online gambling you are not doing that much fun since you are literally on your computer playing thousands of hands per hour and that is not the same as regular casinos.

There you can pay 100 bucks for an hour of games and you would have insane amount of fun whereas you can play with 5 bucks for 5 hours in online gambling and it would still not worth it most of the time (depends on the casino you play). That is why I personally like sportsbooks a lot, its almost always the same since the betting is not the fun part there, you watch the games with more pleasure knowing you have something on the line.

Well, the June is almost at half way but we are nowhere near 11.5k even though we believed we would be. That is the power of whales in this market and its a bit scary, if you are a rich person and see that bitcoin has moved from 3.2k to 9k and want to sell you can sell bunch of coins and drop the price changing the way bitcoin is going all by yourself.

The price was believed to be going to 9k (it did) and then higher and higher which we all believed and invested accordingly and then just one guy came up and sold bunch of coins and now we are not so sure it will go to 11.5k even though it was something quite possible couple weeks ago. I still think we will reach those prices but I think it may take a bit longer, probably around july or even early august if it happens.