I have a permanent bag that I just do not touch, this will probably be used by my grandchildren unless I just happen to be dying of hunger. And then I have the fun bit, which is what I use to trade. However, I only trade when I see optimal conditions and with limited amounts, is not something I do everyday.

Actually, by buying the NFT the owner is not buying any enforceable property right. He is just buying a blockchain registered proof that he purchased a digitally autographed tweet.

It is a very doubtful investment isn't it?

As many of you know, carbon emissions are nowadays tradeable. This means that he allocation of CO2 emissions given to a country or central institution can be bought or sold by those who emit CO2 and greenhouse gasses so that a market of permissions is created.

This market can be clearly be made efficient by the use o blockchain, yet not completely decentralised I recon. Certification, rights of emission, participants proof of identity and exchanges are all a default in the blockchain world. This could save millions?

Buena pregunta. Me temo q la respuesta es la que ya han dado miles de veces en el foro, tendras q hacer una investigacion propia bastante larga y compleja q no vale la pena salvo q vayas a meter cantidades grandes en el proyecto. Es la pescadilla q se muerde la cola: si voy a invertir poco no me compensa el tiempo invertido y por ello es posible q acabe invirtiendo en algun proyecto irrelevante.

Como respuesta mas directa, los proyectos q tienen codigo abieto suelen tener un repositorio en GitHub. Si estas familiarizado con la programacion y el lenguaje q usen podras hacer al menos algunas comprobaciones.

Absolutely, this game is all about passion and rivalry and is a must see, even if it was not as much as a display of great play, but I guess Spanish futbol is, in a way, a show of the people who attend: not much planning, plenty of effort and, sometimes, a fair result.

In case any of the "bitcoinaires" that populate this forum are interested, the iconic casino "The Venetian" is being sold. The owner group Vegas Sands is going to concentrate on the Asian casinos as they think the winds are not good for navigating in the old Strip.

Even if not mentioned, this cannot be unrelated to the hardship in finances from COVID that is driving betting to a 10 year jump ahead into the online options.

Ya hace algunas semanas q se habla que el banco JP Morgan, q gestiona fondos mayores q muchos PIBs de paises de Europa esta intentando negar la realidad o haciendo como q no existe. Dicen q la "demanda de bitcoin por parte de sus clientes es minima".

Yo suelo interpretar lo q dicen en publico los bancos de inversion en segunda derivada: ejemplos:

 "Esta accion estara estable" - traduccion: "No te voy a decir q entres hasta que yo construya mi posicion. Para hacer "frontrunning" ya estoy yo.

"Hay q mantener la posicion en la accion XYZ" - traduccion: "Estoy deshaciendo mi posicion, espera q acabe q me bajas el precio".

"Esta accion ABC lo va petar, compra todo precio objetivo 1000" - traduccion: "Ya tengo mi posicion construida, ahora vas y compras para q suba el precio y yo pueda decir a mis clientes q su inversion ha subido".

Con lo q si me quedo es con el hecho de q hablan de ello, y eso significa q algo andan haciendo.

Pues nada, luego me explicas q es para ti una cita. Mientras tanto, ahi va otra cita (o no cita, segun):

«Nunca interrumpas a tu enemigo mientras está cometiendo un error.» - Napoleon

Aunque no es un personaje especialmente querido, tampoco se discute q tuviera un don para la tactica, sobre todo en situaciones en las q hay q dirigir miles de personas en un corto plazo y el resultado va a ser determinante para el futuro. Saber ver el error es un talento, aunque con todo el positivismo q hay en el mundo parece q ver errores, decir q no y punto y ser un poco cabron cuando es necesario no se puede llevar a los libros de autoayuda.

En general hay vientos en contra de todo lo que sea manejar el dinero fisicamente. Los cajeros pueden aportar algo precisamente cuando uno quiere intercambiar de forma anonima porque con las carteras cripto y el pago contactless con moviles o las tarjetas con saldo en cripto se hace innecesario pasar por el dinero fisico. Sin embargo es justamente el rembolso fisico lo q va a verse bajo el ataque del regulador.

Para mi, una curiosiad q existan y mi prediccion es que tanto los cajeros BTC y los demas van mas a decrecer q a crecer en general.

Casi un clickbait eh? Es para picar la curiosidad, luego ya explico q no es conveniente pensar así.

Just go to a hospital. You will see low-risk in action by yourself and you can stress-test your own "mucus" theory. A cat like you should be able to sneak by the back door.

Bien visto. A ver, es una subasta, supongo q la cifra habra ido subiendo, incluso si el nivel es ya francamente absurdo    El debate de fondo es hasta q punto los pujadores son visionarios o simplemente tienen mas dinero del q una persona puede gestionar sin tender a hacer el g*lipoy**


Lo cual me lleva a q los modelos de negocio exitosos en este campo consisten en crear la ocasion mas extravangante posible para gastar el dinero, sin q por ello el receptor obtenga valor ninguno.

Que nadie se ofenda por el titulo, simplemente he pensado q era mas divertido asi  

Para demostrarlo, la primera cita: "Never think someone is better than you and certainly never say it!!!" - Deborah Meaden.

"Nunca pienses que alguien es mejor q tu y desde luego no lo digas nunca"

Deborah Meaden es una muy conocida empresaria en Reino Unido y participa en un show en el cual los emprendedores hacen "pitches" para obtener el dinero e influencia de los asi llamados "dragones". El show se llama "The Dragons Den".

Hi, I am surprised that this question raised so many questions, but I guess I did not make it clear, so

No it is no a broker, it is a service that will make bet on your behalf when they think that the odds are very much in your favour.
No, it is not betting for fun, it is betting for profit, so houses do not like it. They will ban your account if they find out.
Yes these services exists although I am not going to link the one I know because I think betting should be fair. I do not use it.

I am just interested in knowing how widespread this is, and for the answers it seems that not a lot. Which is good.


Just like that. If they think your bets are on a pattern and not casual they ban the account and user.

There are some countries and some sports in which you can give corruption and rigging for granted. For example, boxing during 90's in the USA was clearly a politics questions. The sums involved were so high and it is so easy to make a loose look real that it is kind of inevitable. This of course aligned with the massive control of a few hands.

Other sports are more difficult to rig, because there are more players involved, it is more difficult to fake and the power is more distributed.

I really hope it doesn't. As a centralised project, it has been drawing energy and money from the community and dumping it into a the companies own marketing and product strategy that offers nothing to the holders of the coin. Ripple is everything that is wrong with crypto, with the only merit of being early on the race.

I really hope that they give way to truly value-adding projects.

None. You are just not getting the point of investing (long term) in any crypto. It is not about attributes, it is about the people and talent that are committed to it and the community that is backing it. And I am not talking about a team of part-timers that do not believe in what they are doing of a community that has been bought by incentivising telegram groups. This is what matters:

a) A good idea that really adds value to a world saturated with shitcoins.
b) Backed up by respectable organisations, preferably old and big guys.
c) A committed team that shows constant development, versions, bug fixing and a kick-ass GitHub repository.
d) A community that has something to gain from the project, is large enough and is aware.

This is why it is so difficult to actually build a good project.

Full agreement on the diagnose of this three main points, and I think that these can be summed up as simple unreadiness. if you are ready, you will have a plan, if your are thinking and working the opportunity will meet you prepared and if things go south, you will be able to resist on your strength. There are also a number of good advices that could be built on top, but these remind me of a few well know advices from exceedingly  successful people of different trades:

1) Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso

2) If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. - Warren Buffet

3) “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca (yep, the Roman guy)

4) "The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

5) “Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

I am a bit ashamed of asking this from a Hero rank, but I just want to make sure that I have read all applicable rules and understood these correctly. I would like to use my signature to link to a few books, crypto related, in a on-line sales service. This is a legit service and I would be acting just as a lead generator.

Is this allowed? Any restrictions or limits?

I am not a great fan of Robert Kiyosaky, who many people will know for his best-seller "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", particularly when it comes to his continuous boostering of Real State as an investment and his simplistic approach to "good debt" and "bad debt", ignoring leverage and risks. However there is something to be said about the basic principles of poverty and "richness" that are the background of his discourse.

I recon that, at first, when I listened to his audios, a million years ago, me and my usual cynism just could not take it seriously at fist: it was yet another book about becoming "rich" (LOL), but at that time I had many hours of travelling per day and podcasts had not been invented, so I listened, just as I could be watching Star Wars Episode IV.

It soon became apparent this book was not about becoming rich, but rather about not being poor forever. For someone like me who has roots on a culture is (used to be?) conservative in the spending and risk averse, he was just stating the obvious: Do not spend more than you earn and f*kin* save a bit for the future. For gods' shake, you do not need 500 pages for that do you?

No, you just need a few lines:

a) Do not spend more than you earn.
b) If you are breaking (a) rule, do not use debt to finance stuff that you do not need and goes down in value. Yes, that's your car unless you use it for work and is adequately sized, that is you 54 inch TV and the subscription to Netflix.
c) If you get into debt, use it to finance you roof, not your swimming pool.

Please, add at will but this is pretty much it.

Oh, I think that I should add Warren Buffet's advice: use compound interest to your favour, not against you (see (b) & (c)).