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3861  Economy / Economics / Re: Can Libra Disrupt The Financial/Economic System? on: September 21, 2019, 10:12:35 AM
I don't think libra will ever be launch  because the last I watch their presentation it seems to me that it will scale the US assembly though am still yet to get latest information about the said project. But am very sure that the project will not have any serious significant effect on the financial/economic system.
if it ever got launch it will be trimmed to lesser than we expect, organisation that were interested are distancing themselves from the project recently. Now they will know it is not about the name.
Libra has not launched yet, but if it will get approval from the government, I don't think they will still distance themselves, if they play that game, they are just staying away from the money they will create in this market that is getting bigger and bigger.

Facebook knows the opportunity here that's why they plan on launching Libra a stable coin and I think despite of the hardships they will face and maybe are facing now, this will be successfully launch in the future.

Today we have some new news about Libra.
https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-dollar-main-currency-170905224.html
3862  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Ask The Bounty Team before joining on: September 20, 2019, 07:34:27 AM
If the bounty manager isn't one member of the team (which is the case for most bounty campaigns actually), even asking him such questions wouldn't help the hunters, since he is just a hired worker and don't know if the campaign will be extended or not, and even some of them don't know if the project itself is legitimate or not.
Most of bounty manager on altcoin bounty only looking to get paid, they don't even care whether the site or ICO or project is scam or not, but there are also few managers who checked the site and anything else (are they legit or not) before take the job (ex yahoo62278).
We should have more of that kind of bounty manager, bad manager are also one of the main reason why there's a lot of scams in the market.
As a bounty manager, he has a clear communication to the team than the participants, so he should make a research before accepting the job.

Bounty manager should work like an exchange in the IEO set up where they evaluate the project first before they will accept listing for IEO in their site.
3863  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: My Own Version Of Martingale Your Opinion on: September 17, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
It is a failing strategy and you don’t even need a long time before failing,anyone can lose five bets pretty easily in today games.For fun or not martingale is proven to not work during many years as it is one of the oldest gambling strategies.

But I guess the most of us used that strategy in the beginning. Just let the beginners learn it and they will find out it is one of the worst strategies.  Roll Eyes

Experimenting is part of the entertainment we will get in gambling because this way we will be able to explore new method that we think would help us to win, especially this method but then it's just later when we realize that it's not working anymore as a long term strategy.

For me, we can call this betting strategy as part of the bankroll management as well since everytime we bet, we risk our money and this ins't really gonna work for long term, what's important to win in gambling is to ensure that we have more wins than our loses so we will end up on the profit side.
3864  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: CHANGE, the only thing that's Constant on: September 17, 2019, 10:04:02 AM
I always hope for a positive change but I'm always ready if worse will come because that's our life here as an investor.
For a year now, the current market situation is bad, though bitcoin is recovering but we wanted to see altcoins market to be progressive again.
It's been a struggle for now especially for the low volume coins as their price will easily dump when there's a significant movement in the market.

until bitcoin is not moving uptrend yet, we might continue to see the struggle of the whole market, but like you said, nothing is permanent except change, therefore let's expect that good things is about to come.
3865  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Season on: September 17, 2019, 07:36:08 AM
Right, they still have Been and Curry combination and then some players that can really make a break out performance for them this year. We will definitely see the old Curry since KD is gone and carry the team again. They may have lost Iggy or the likes of Livingston, but they are still a team to reckon this season.

It's a Curry and Thompson combination, expect that both of them will average at least 20 points PPG in the coming season.
Thompson is well motivated now as he got a max contract for the team and I'm pretty sure that their consistent 3 point shooting will help them win more games again. They were the splash brothers who gave success to the team even before Durant, so I think people have to remember that.
3866  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: LiteCoin or ETHEREUM? Best Investment option. on: September 17, 2019, 07:23:01 AM
~snip~

Aside from that, the number of crypto users who are actually using them - eth and litecoin.
Ltc has been an old institution already in crypto but where do we really use ltc for?
Whereas, eth can be explored to many industries and basically everything under the sun, developers are using the eth network to create their respective smart contracts.

Indeed, that's why it grows a lot during the last bull run, and though there are a lot of projects that are scam under ICO using ETH platform, it's still not enough to bring ETH at this value. For me, the legit project that are still now in the market using smart contract are still big enough to help ETH's demand to rise again.



~snip
like me, After LTC failed to maintain the price of $ 100, I put my hopes in ETH. although it is still in development together, I might choose ETH over LTC because of the development of ETH 2.0 which will occur in 2020, and supported by halving of bitcoin, it might be able to repeat the things that happened in 2016.

however, I did not underestimate the investment in LTC, only I had another reason, namely, I had already collected more ETH than the others. so, right now I only focus on bitcoin, and eth in terms of investment.

Great decision, we have to consider the potential of other coins that's why we have to diversify, we can have a top 3, which is no. 1 BTC, 2, ETH, 3 coin of our choice which we will put a decent amount, the rest are just a small percentage of our total portfolio.
3867  Economy / Gambling / Re: Dbet.io -anonymous bitcoin sportbook, No account needed, No deposit is necessary on: September 17, 2019, 05:26:33 AM
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3868  Economy / Gambling / Re: BSpin.io | Bitcoin Casino | Instant deposits | Slots, Games and Lottery on: September 17, 2019, 05:06:08 AM
I'm okay with the minimum withdrawal, it's not that much, I've withdrawn BTC0.005 last time and I think I wasn't charge any withdrawal fee, so that is good and there's a lot games that we can enjoy playing here, it's like a one stop shop that already has everything.
3869  Economy / Economics / Re: Can Libra Disrupt The Financial/Economic System? on: September 17, 2019, 04:42:19 AM
If Libra gets good acceptability in countries other than the United States, then it can have negative consequences for the local economies. Libra is essentially a digital form of the United States Dollar. Most of the assets that back up Libra are denominated in the USD. So if Libra gets widespread usage in a country such as Zimbabwe, then the national currency may get negatively impacted. Why should anyone use the inflation-plagued Zimbabwe Dollar, when they have the option of using the much better United States Dollar?



If that's the possible risk, then I'm sure their government will make a way to avoid or ban Libra, and they might ban facebook in their country, which is bad for the facebook business. Libra for me is more like a payment system I guess, if people will invest, they can also do that in other stable coin but I think the threat is not that big since majority of the people will still use the local currency.

Overall, I think Libra would be a great help, for countries whose inflation is high, they can us Libra which later the government will realize to issue their own
cryptocurrency like what happen to venezuela where they already have their petro coin.
3870  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: In what way bitcoin gets increased usage? on: September 16, 2019, 11:56:23 PM
Since getting to know cryptocurrency a few years ago, the most prominent and most widely used is as an alternative payment, commodity trading, and investment. Cryptocurrency provides many conveniences and opportunities to improve these three aspects. If we want to earn money in the digital age by utilizing technological developments, of course cryptocurrency is the best alternative, not to be missed.
Crypto currency or crypto market in general is a big market, and unfortunately, only a small number of altcoins are legit as most of the coins coming from ICO generation in the past are now scam coins and other are gone already. If we want to invest, we need to focus on legit project in altcoins and of course the most popular and dominant coin which is bitcoin. If this market will grow, that's because of bitcoin's demand since currently the dominant rate of BTC is so high.

Therefore, we should hold more BTC than altcoins and continue to support by using this coin in our online transaction, if you are gambler, you will surely enjoy using bitcoin for your online betting as it gives more convenient over fiat use in gambling.
3871  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: LiteCoin or ETHEREUM? Best Investment option. on: September 16, 2019, 11:42:51 PM
I would choose ETHEREUM because it has better development compared to Litecoin.
Don't focus about the supply one, it's just a small factor to consider, think more on how the project is develop and when ETH 2.0 will be release, it's another major changes for ETH which is expected to draw positive reaction in the market and which will eventually help to increase its price.
3872  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Season on: September 16, 2019, 11:20:06 PM
Found this really interesting- invest in a athletes contract

NBA Player Spencer Dinwiddie to Tokenize $34M Contract

Following a three-year $34 million NBA contract extension, Dinwiddie is reportedly going to sell digital tokens tied to the contract, wherein investors in the offering would receive principal and interest, Fox Business reported on Sept. 14.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-nba-player-spencer-dinwiddie-to-tokenize-34m-contract

That's a good plan on helping the adoption of crypto, but he needs to ensure that he will not break any legalities of his plan so he will not be fined by the SEC like what happen to Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled  who are just promoting a project that they didn't invest in.

This guy invested in crypto and he is very open about it, so he could be a great help to influence the NBA organization on adopting crypto.
3873  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: We are only rich on spreadsheets on: September 16, 2019, 10:15:13 AM
It's gradually becoming a huge problem with projects and bounty manager's these days. Bounties are not as it used to be anymore, we all get to see big rewards only on spreadsheet's, but distribution becomes a major problem. We need better regulations on bounty programs on this platform
Regulation in bounty seems not gonna happen, this isn't like a job that we are paid a fix amount in fiat value.
Bounty hunting has no risk at all or maybe if there is, but it's just a small risk, it's only our time will be wasted once the project fail.

When it comes to bounty, there is no assurance that we will receive it or not, but a good project will always pay what they promise as it will destroy their reputation if they will scam the bounty hunters, so if you encounter or experience a bounty campaign that doesn't pay, just don't bother to claim the reward as for sure the team already know that their coin will eventually become a shit coin which will give them a hard time finding a decent exchange that will list them.
3874  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 on: September 16, 2019, 09:39:47 AM
I was cheering for Argentina, loved them but Spain just has a "winner mentality" and obviously deserved the trophy. Tournament with many surprises and upsets, now cant wait for the Olympics!
But Argentina did their best also but they cannot just win against a powerhouse Spain with lots of NBA players which are tall and can score.
Argentina is also successful in this tournament as people were not expecting they will reach in the Finals, but they wrong us to be wrong..
Expect that they will improve next time as they will learn from their mistakes, they need to invest in players with size and the athleticism so they will be able to compete well with the Spain if they were lucky to be in the Finals again.

Olympics is a different story, it's more prestigious I guess, so I think USA will try to protect their streak of winning the championship.
They have already won 3 consecutive championship in the follower years.

2016 Rio , 2012 London and 2008 Beijing. http://www.iweblists.com/sports/olympics/summer/MensBasketball.html
3875  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 on: September 15, 2019, 11:13:59 PM
Congratulations on people winning their FIBA finals bets. I'm kind of dissapointed. Argentina lost in what I thought would be a close game. Right from the start old Scola was already handled. The Spaniards defense were superb. The rebounding gap made a huge difference. No country scored 80 or above on Spain. Great team.

Spain showed more competent basketball than Argentina which is the key for them to win especially in rebounding department. The match up also make a difference which the Spain has an upper edge against the Argentinians.


That's were the factor that Argentina is missing, Spain have dominated inside and they dominated the rebounding department because based on the stats there's a big disparity. It's 47 rebounds from the Champ while only 27 for the Argentina, and it's pretty evidence that Argentina struggles to score inside as the Spain has 8 blocks in total.

Argentina's best played Luís Scola struggled a lot in the game, ended up only with 8 which most points are earn in the FT, his shooting is this game is only 1/10 FG ( 1/5 2pts & 0/5 3pts), that's really worst and Spain did a great job on him.
3876  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Season on: September 15, 2019, 10:46:29 PM
I am now worried about the future of cousins as he has been so prone to injury, after his contract with the Lakers, I think it might be the end of his career.

The way I see it, it's likely to happen, because he suffered a serious injury, and he is out indefinitely according to:

https://www.nba.com/article/2019/08/15/report-demarcus-cousins-suffers-possible-knee-injury

Even how good a player is but when he is already prone to injury, his market will value also drop and he is not also getting any younger.
If ever he will be able to come back and play again, he will be almost 30 years old and for me, that's not young anymore, his future is not looking good anymore.

30 isn't really that old considering how in shape athletes are today.  Federer is still dominating and Vince Carter has been able to keep up in his 40s.  Its not the same deterrent it was before with how advanced conditioning and technology is.

Maybe you are right, but with the injuries he continued to suffer, that will be hard for him as the way I see it, Cousin's have already slowed down, he wasn't as dominant as he was before when still playing with the Sacramento Kings.

If you still remember, Greg Oden, he was the number 1 overall pick back then, played with the Blazers, had a good start but was injured, and that ended his career, he played with the Heat last 2013-2014 after like more than 3 years of rest, but he wasn't effective, now he is completely out in the NBA.
3877  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 NBA Season on: September 15, 2019, 11:32:27 AM
I am now worried about the future of cousins as he has been so prone to injury, after his contract with the Lakers, I think it might be the end of his career.

The way I see it, it's likely to happen, because he suffered a serious injury, and he is out indefinitely according to:

https://www.nba.com/article/2019/08/15/report-demarcus-cousins-suffers-possible-knee-injury

Even how good a player is but when he is already prone to injury, his market will value also drop and he is not also getting any younger.
If ever he will be able to come back and play again, he will be almost 30 years old and for me, that's not young anymore, his future is not looking good anymore.
3878  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling as a profession: there's people who live out of gambling? on: September 15, 2019, 11:02:33 AM
there won't be many people who depend on income from gambling, especially if gambling can be done as a profession to be able to make money. I think only people who are lazy to work or do not have other jobs that make playing gambling a profession to make money instantly

What are you saying? The reason it is called a profession means that people are earning through it as a source of income. That is like when parents are telling their children that they can't earn anything from playing online games and now million and million of money are being priced to these games and now being called esports.

He clearly does not understand what is gambling and what is making money in gambling.

Calling it lazy is alright, in fact I think that a gambler making money in gambling is a smart person, he doesn't need to work hard, he just have to play it smart. Whatever our strategy or our way is, our main purpose why we work is to make money, gambling can be a profession also, and it could be the highest paying job if you are successful in this venture, I'm telling you it's true, most gamblers aim to win consistently, but only few have the skills to do it.
3879  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What is or are the contribution of Crypto gambling sites to Crypto Currency on: September 14, 2019, 11:16:04 PM
They must have contributed really big in the market already, when I came here, I don't have in mind investing with crypto but I came here just to experience gambling using bitcoin, and I love it as it gives me great experience compared to fiat gambling.

As what I'm seeing now, the market is growing and its the proof that people are loving to gamble here and with that, it will create more demand as more and more people will gamble, the more they will spend more money. IMO, crypto gambling is the biggest contributor in the market, if they will ban it or regulate, I'm afraid the demand will drop as people came here to enjoy gambling anonymously.
3880  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Tokens (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Pundi X - Any store can buy, sell and accept Cryptocurrency on: September 14, 2019, 11:07:34 PM
Quite agree with you there right now the price is too low to sell at. Even the volume on NPXS is slowly coming down, IMO team needs to come up with some new partnerships.

They had so many partnerships and announcements for products in the past. It is tiring to read and view all their promotional releases on their Telegram.

Nothing is helping the price go up.

True they have had partnerships before but right now they need a major mainstream partnership because small partnerships are not cutting it in this market conditions. Plus they need to hire a proper marketing guy.

You know what, when we are worried like this, it will not also help us, we've seen that they are giving up good updates, which means they are really working to develop the project, the public if we based on the price has not appreciated yet, but as long as they continue what they are doing, that's already a great guarantee that price will eventually rise.

Dump more, I like that, even at 1 sat, I will not panic as this is a long term investment, and like people who are saying in the past, they believe on this project but slowly losing their faith due to what is happening with the price, I tell you, instead of leaving, the best thing to do is to keep accumulating.
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