BTC has set the price for the entire cryptocurrency market and this has been since the day it emerged back in 2009. BTC has transformed the way we think about technology and finance today and has paved the way to blockchain technology now the biggest disrupter ever - thought to be even more so than the internet of things. These are a few of my thoughts how BTC and the crypto industry has come together and transformed our everyday lives. And as mentioned above it provides a chance for people to better themselves financially as well as culturally.

For sure the exchanges listed in the article are rigged as you suggest (above) but there seems to also be some minimal truth to it. For instance, while I disagree with most of the listed exchanges, Binance is at least one that holds most trust. I haven't even bothered using any of the other ones listed but there's simply no need given their unique, let's say, reputation.

I can say that I mostly agree with the topic of this thread, timing is the essence, especially when it comes to crypto or trading since both of these are still in their infantile stages and there's a lot more progress to be made. So our crypto buying choices now can determine our future - at least for those long-term investors anyway.

Arrogance and pride often tend to be qualities we like others to portray us with but I think most individuals know at least that much about themselves. So as long as one can remain true to themselves then bad trading or any other experiences we might encounter serve as a platform for improvement - at least that's how i personally look at things. If something doesn't go the right way at least a learning lesson should emerge which leads us toward bettering ourselves!

If you're serious about making money then isn't $200 on the low end? And what avenues you can explore are totally dependent on your skill set and whether you're willing to learn. As such, it is possible that what ideas you might get from this forum may not all be applicable to you.

Anyone can suggest what works for them but in the end it is for you to decide. For example, if you're good at writing then why not try that you could be an assistant to a copy writer or something, depending on your knowledge of the crypto industry you could also get involved with social media management like community moderator and such. These opportunities tend to emerge form projects. Also check you the services section of this forum too.

For me one important thing I can't take for granted is the timing. I can't think of anything else that I'd go by and follow blindly. For me timing i.e. when to buying/selling is a make or break type decision. This decision has made me lose so much, that I can't even trust myself (sigh) at times and I'm still learning so much about market reaction, follow up trends, discussion etc.

And at the end of the day it doesn't matter how much you learn from analysis what's important is when to act.

This sounds like a great adventure game,  but is the exchange rate of satoshi even worth adding to your btc wallet? Presumably since this is competitive gaming the conversion doesn't matter so much especially since you can stump over your opponent and stake some of their satoshi.
Certainly something I'll give a go to...

The momentum of BTC market has been so positive in the last few weeks, it seems that BTC is trying really hard to go past the 10k mark but there still are some resistance points. And all of this movement is despite the reduced market cap, given this I think it wouldn't be surprising to see BTC near 12k by the end of the month. The downtrend is closing in even right this second - BTC will succeed eventually

I think the $50BTC deposit bonus is a good incentive and it is also a great way to rump up traffic onto the platform. However, the specifics will need to be clearly stated like the bonus becomes available once you played x amount of games and or won x%, rather than being available straight away which is what most people would probably assume and then get disappointed - clear communication is key!

Low fees, good security, good reputation and liquidity. These are some of the factors in my opinion are good to apply when judging what a good exchange looks like. So just to put some of these into context, undoubtedly, in the mind of many security sits at the top of the list but low fees is also just as important as while your money is all safe when trading, moving money from one place to another or withdrawing you don't want to incur loss of half of that in the process.

It also then depends on the type of action you want to make. A few good ones are kraken, binance, primeXBT, bybit and among these giants there're other less popular one but still growing and hitting all the points as above, one of them I've had a great experience with is bestchange.

These are just the few ones I've had experience with but I'm sure other people would recommend similar ones also.

That's the problem here, because many people think that most altcoins have had early ATH that it may not happen again and that puts off these people from further investment. However, I think that now is the time to both buy in altcoins and Hodl for as long as possible as I expect that the crypto currency has yet reached its peak yet.

I don't necessarily agree with you that it is all probability, there are clearly events that influence and the market, and there are frequently repeating patterns that can be used to your advantage.

You could definitely beat the odds with knowledge while trading, which is definitely not possible if it was all based on odds. Remember, more than half of retail traders lose money, while experts can win in nearly any market—that doesn't sound like it's probabilistic to me.

I agree with the above comment that although having bought in last year would have been better today is still not late to put some cash + brain to work whilst trading. Altcoins have had some highs but the pumping of BTC will see their market prices soar any moment now. So in short, it does seem that today's market conditions are favourable for traders or even long term holders, so entering this space is in fact encouraged!

I think only in the long term and then only if crypto including BTC gets mass adoption that the huge amounts of electricity to mine these coins can offset the direct negative effects BTC and blockchain based cryptocurrencies due to less financial infrastructures, handling etc. However, as it is at the moment the effect BTC and others have on the environment are by not any means positive but with time and more adoption this can turn right around.

Well, you're asking people who have no idea about the industry whether they believe Bitcoin has value. On the other hand, they're basically professionals in the video game you play, hence they'll have a better understand of supply and demand and the value of the in-game currency. Asking them whether Bitcoin has value is the same as asking a tribesman what the value of the euro is—he'll have no idea because he isn't experienced with it.

Rather than asking questions like this and helping them build on their ignorance, you should first educate people, and then ask your questions. At least that way they can form a more reasonable opinion on the subject, rather than pulling their opinion out of thing air.

Stay away from signals groups for the most part, the vast majority of these are actually covert pump and dump groups that try to drive up interest in markets they have positions in so they can dump their coins/tokens on you later. Even the premium signals groups can have this ulterior motive.

best thing to do is just rely on the technical indicators and momentum indicators available on platforms like TradingView and NewsCrypto etc, you can use this information as the basis of your trading decisions, but you should also rely on the overall trend. Follow the trend and you'll be fine.

To be honest, Binance is so large and there are so many employees involved in these things that it's very difficult to stop insider tracking.

But either way, it's not illegal since they're not dealing with securities. Technically they can trade before announcement as much as they want and there will be no repurcussions—other than the knock to their reputation.

It would be extremely difficult to prove it wasn't just some pump/dump group though.

Any reason why your deposits take literally 10x longer than any other exchange I've used, even for small amounts?

Seems to take around an hour for you to process withdrawals, whereas Binance, Kraken, PrimeXBT etc all process them within minutes....

Anything I can do on my end to speed this up?

I suppose there's some truth in that both Primedice and Stake haven't been doing their best in terms of being more engaged with the community particularly on the level or promotion/marketing. And it may just be that until now they were content with being the top gambling places to go to but I think there's a very important lesson emerging here and that is that you can't be too complacent when it comes to online visibility and such a dynamic industry as even if you may have the spotlight for the moment that will not last forever.

It should appear evident though that more will need to be done soon before other more engaging platforms start taking over and I'm sure this is something that this community has been battling for a while but I do agree that in order to maintain the high traffic and getting the new customer more action needs to be taken now...

One of my most painful lesson I learnt from investments is to be patient and less reactive to small market changes. On so many occasions I had to pull out from my investment because of market dump and only later realising that if I HADN'T acted I would have been much better off. Another one big mistake I made was putting a lot of money into different projects but using the same platform, some of you may know what I'm talking about if you'd dealt or still dealing with Lendy.

I guess the bottom line of both my lessons are diversification of project within the same platform isn't enough as the platform itself could collapse, and lastly if you intend to go for long-term investment just forget about it, this is probably the best way to not be so reactive or get flustered with every single time the market changes.