For the esports side, I don't think there are any for CS:GO at all, even for platforms that just accept fiat currencies; there used to be a number of popular sites where you could earn money from 1v1ing other people and winning, but those platforms have largely lost popularity from a large number of people using 'legit' cheats to game the system and a general lack of rewards as well. Cheats are probably the major reason why there's very few or no platforms for skill-based gambling as a whole. There's a few private services like ESEA that have anti-cheating protections good enough for a sort of gambling platform like this, but they don't seem interested in gambling at the moment.

The testnet version of Bitmex is fine if you're trying to learn the site's interface which is a very good idea if you plan on using the main site in the future for leveraged trades, but there's relatively little activity and volume on the testnet site and I've found that you typically get a better experience on something like TradingView, where you're able to use all the tools available on the site and the many pairs as well.

I also typically don't recommend newer traders to use leverage, because the majority of people new to leverage end up overleveraging and getting liquidated very quickly, though it does seem like most of the sites offering demo accounts are also leveraged trading sites.

There's obviously games like roulette and dice where no skill's involved and it's purely luck-based whether or not you win, but with games such as poker where there's some level of skill and thus creative potential involved, skill's actually a pretty large factor of whether or not you win. Luck's still obviously involved and you're more likely to lose money in the short term thanks to variance, but this variance gets smaller and smaller as you work towards a higher timeframe.

Luck's still a major factor in my eyes nonetheless.

One momentum-based indicator I like to use when the market's not ranging around or isn't moving strongly sideways is the parabolic SAR- it gives a pretty clear indicator of what the prevailing trend is during periods of volatility, and it's extremely simple to use as well. You'll notice dots above and under candles if you use the indicator, and dots below means a bullish trend and dot above means a bearish trend, while the dots starting to converge closer and closer to the candles means that the trend might be flipping.

This indicator also works decently well on almost any timeframe, though you're most likely going to get the best results on higher timeframes with it.

From what I've been reading, the Stellar foundation's burned off 55 billion of the XLM it previously held and has in effect decreased the total supply of XLM to just 50 billion instead of the 105 billion supply previously. I don't see this having much direct effect on companies or services that use Stellar much at all considering this doesn't affect anything like transaction speed or anything similar, but it's definitely a good sign for traders and holders that have been accumulating the token for the last few months.

I like that Huobi's trying to keep some sort of relevance in the American crypto markets by offering an alternative, but it's likely not going to be a success for the short term as trading volume seems to be extremely low on the site and people seeking alternatives are likely going to opt for other already well-established exchanges in the U.S like potentially Coinbase Pro or maybe Gemini. I'm still interested in the developments on this exchange nevertheless.

Probably not a good idea to try to push Sexcoin in particular for anything other than the adult entertainment industry as the name alone isn't something that companies and people would like to associate with most things, but if the coin's sendable just like any other cryptocurrency out there and it's got fast transaction times, there might be a few other viable uses for the coin, though I don't think there's much potential for it besides the adult entertainment industry because it's built so specifically for one thing.

I also agree that the site's much too plain- the theme's like something you might find on a random blog on the internet, and though I do like the TradingView charts at the bottom of the site's homepage, it does seem a bit excessive to me given the site's mostly focused on gambling, and most people likely only care about the current price of Bitcoin or any other crypto and not so much about a fully-featured chart with tools for drawing lines and indicators and all.

Some blog posts related to gambling on your site might also boost traffic and interest in the site overall. It's just a portal with referral links to other casinos at the end of the day, but some more material and relevant references to gambling would make the site better.


That's not needed because the site simply redirects people to other sites that offer games. People click links here to go to other sites where they register and/or login to their accounts elsewhere.

A large amount of people just aren't interested in cryptocurrency at all after getting burned buying near the top or just buying high and ending up selling much lower than their entries, though in the last run Bitcoin had up to $13.8K, there was another smaller wave of interest in crypto, and it does seem to me there's some sort of resurgence of interest in crypto investments recently. I've personally noticed a large number of people have switched over to mainly buying higher marketcap coins instead of the popular 2017 method of buying lower cap coins and waiting for them to rise. Hasn't been going extremely well since many alts have been slowly declining in price for the last few weeks, but I expect alts are likely going to start rising again after Bitcoin's continuing to range around and perhaps preparing for another move upwards.

Not surprised considering Ripple keeps dumping XRP onto the markets and it doesn't seem like there's enough buying to keep the price sustained higher. Most alts also haven't done too well in the last few weeks with some of the major alts including ETH and LTC peaking around June and declining since as well, so that's something else that hasn't been helping XRP along. I expect most alts are going to rally again once Bitcoin continues its way up again and once it breaks its previous high around $13.8K as well and once crypto hype returns either way.

Many exchanges also use Tether so they don't have to deal with plain fiat currency and thus also so they don't have to mess with AML/KYC which is implemented on most major fiat cryptocurrency exchanges. Makes things more simple for both the exchange, and might also potentially attract customers who want to stay somewhat anonymous while still trading with a reliable token that doesn't easily change value.

I also absolutely agree that you shouldn't be holding Tether or really any other stablecoin for extended periods of time. If you're not actively trading that money, it makes much more sense to just convert it over to plain fiat and keep your money there. There's most definitely risk associated with Tether and even other stablecoins that are considered to be more reputable, and given one main advantage of these coins is easier transfer between exchanges, if you're just holding the stablecoin that's now eliminated.

I used to, but I rarely do anymore because it's extremely difficult to stop someone who's already dug themselves into a hole to stop; most people I've observed in a situation like the one described in OP think they'll somehow earn back the lost money 'till they're completely out of funds, and most people also aren't willing to just cut losses because of this no matter how things might actually be. If that person's actively in the event of losing money, that person's likely just going to get mad if you intervene. It's the sad truth, but just let it happen. There really isn't much you can do initially.

Fortunately, a large majority of the people I do know who have gone through events like this have largely stopped gambling or gambling in this way after getting burned once. Some people end up doing this over and over again, unfortunately.

Good trade, it's almost impossible to short the exact top or long the exact bottom so this is the next best thing. I assume you would've closed out your trade if XBTUSD went through or slightly above the line of resistance you've drawn on the chart in your screenshot? Fakeouts do sometimes occur so that's something you'll want to watch out for, but in this case that never happened and things went your way.

Yep, a ton of coins just used the word 'blockchain' as a buzzword to make people invest in whatever token they had, while many of them really didn't benefit much from using the blockchain in the first place or even operated less efficiently compared to centralized solutions in many cases. Unfortunately, that's still the case for some newer coins and it's likely that will be the case for a long time, but generalizing all projects on CMC as only for speculation is also inappropriate, though the majority of projects are. Most of these unoriginal projects end up fizzling out early and never take off, while some projects that end up genuinely solving a problem or creating a new service do take off.

That's certainly true, but at the same time there's plenty of people even with large balances that don't know a ton about gambling and end up rolling high amounts even on places like Yobit. The site's indeed shady, but they've got plenty of presence around these forums and elsewhere as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's truly large players using the site.

One thing that makes me very suspicious about this is that these people are supposedly gambling so much coin on a dice site that isn't even provably fair. Doesn't make a lot of sense to gamble on YoBit if there's a potential they could be rigging rolls. At the end of the day, there's really no way to know for sure. I certainly won't be touching YoBit anytime soon either way.

If you're ever interested in what the minimum wager requirement is for a particular bonus on a site, there's usually small text around the page where the site's promoting the bonus and you should be able to view the requirement somewhere there. I almost never use bonuses on sites either as the minimum requirement's usually extremely high to prevent people from withdrawing their winnings and profiting, but if you're just interested in increasing the amount of money you can gamble, go for it.

Some legit sites also offer pretty high deposit bonuses too. Not the most reliable way to tell if a site's legit, but if the site's multiplying your deposit by an oddly high amount, there's something wrong.

You're also able to set a minimum number of trades for members to trade with you on Paxful last time I checked, so this should at least help filter out a few of the more obvious new scammer accounts. You're also able to cancel trades at any time as a seller if you find certain things about a member to be suspicious, such as only transacting with one or two people to boost their successful trade number and maybe being inactive for an extended period of time before transacting with you.

Some sellers on Paxful also ask for ID to weed out scammers. As a buy I'd rather not have to send my personal information to a random person on the internet in exchange for anything, but if you're trying to filter people hard this is one way you can do it.

I too see DEXes likely becoming more popular in the future as regulations around crypto as a whole increases and more and more exchanges start to require more and more extensive KYC in the future. It might not be this year that we see 'em becoming bigger even if another major bull run comes around as a few major exchanges like Binance still allow users who don't submit KYC to trade, but I expect even Binance might start to ask all users for KYC sometime in the future.

There's a ton of work involved in either type of trading, though I have observed that most beginner traders and newer traders tend to have better luck trading on longer timeframes because there's much less noise in larger timeframes, and it's also usually pretty easy to discern what the trend is when you zoom out a bit. The problem is knowing when to stop going in one direction and when to potentially start to trade in the other way, but with daytrading you've generally got more things to worry about and watch. No matter what style of trading you choose, though, make sure you've got a risk management plan in mind! Make sure the risk to reward ratio of each trade you make is appropriate, or don't make the trade.

Binance's annualized interest for lending's currently at just 0.78% for Bitcoin, and just 0.86% for BNB which comes out to just 0.0076BTC/year for BTC which is almost nothing per coin, not to mention they've got some sort of daily quota system implemented where they only accept so many people daily to lend (300BTC daily at the moment), but if you're willing to take that reward for the risk of keeping your coins on the site, go for it.  

I also agree with everyone else here and I'd suggest you just use a traditional exchange to swap coins. Most of the 'instant swap'-type sites out there are indeed pretty sketchy, and the ones that don't require KYC are generally pretty small and new as well.