I don't believe in blind cycles. I believe in cause and consequence. Bitcoin was doing pretty well by last year and probably would still be on the last ATH's price range (or even above), if it wasn't for the raisement in interest rates by FED in US. On the moment the speculation about the new interest rates started, bitcoin stagnated and declined slowly from that moment on, until the rates stopped being a speculation and became reality, so bitcoin crashed to the levels we saw on the past weeks. Anyway, bitcoin doesn't depend on a cycle to recover itself. All the market needs are "causes" or "triggers" that will awake positive consequenecs for bitcoin.

And frankly, the more traditional markets and fiat currencies lose value and credibility, the more bitcoin will be benefited. It's a dilemma we live, because at same time we are being prejudiced as country and society, bitcoin is prone to gain value.

Congratulations to Portugal. They seem to have discovered the receipt to attract new investors and more funds to their country for the own good of their economy and life standards of their people. If this stance towards bitcoin is kept, they are going to become a very popular destiny for crypto enthusiasts who will be harassed by regulators on their native countries, as new laws are being created and introduced to restrain and difficult the usage of crypto.
That Portugal may become a safe and friendly harbor for crypto adopters. Signs are pointing this way since the Madeira region's authority declared he believes in the future and believes in bitcoin. After that, lots of news appeared saying bitcoin was going legal tender at archipelago of Madeira, although the idea was discarded and even considered unecessary by enthusiasts, since bitcoin is already considered "legal" there (informally speaking).

Maybe he expressed himself wrongly and probably meant bitcoin doesn't lose value on long run, different from altcoins which lose volume, influence and adoption as the market evolves or when their hypes are gone. So far bitcoin has been immune to crashes on long term, always surprising investors and enthusiasts positively when looking the bigger picture. Furthermore, I believe OP is already aware bitcoin is the dominant currency on this market, in every directions: upside or downside. It's bitcoin which launches the bullish and bearish seasons, while the rest of the market's currencies just follow its fluctuations. So it makes total sense to concentrate the investment in BTC, that could be considered the "cause" and altcoins the "consequences" or "effects".

Criminals will adapt themselves to any reality and regulations imposed to them. It's worthless to discuss a flawless system, because it doesn't exist and isn't applicable to this world. After all, we can't blame fiat or crypto for actions executed by humans. Therefore, there is no reason to criminalize or heavily regulate currencies like the mainstream society tries to do with bitcoin and altcoins in a point it's going to be insuportable to use them at some point, since enthusiasts will have to pay large profit percentages to their local authorities, completely give up their privacy and fulfill bureaucratic requirements which aims collecting more money from the average citizen's pockets to the government and its partners.

• Crypto market heavily regulated benefits big corporations, governments (politicians) and oligarchies;
• Crypto market lightly regulated benefits the society as a whole;
• No regulations benefit nobody.

Thanks to internet and cryptocurrency this kind of middleman service isn't necessary anymore. Gamblers have direct access to betting platforms with safety, legitimacy and can place bets in real time, checking the odds and every other informations by themselves. However, talking about lower leagues which aren't disponible in popular betting sites, I think it's not worth anyway, because these are the ones where fixed matches are prone to happen.with more frequency. Since gamblers are able to bet on main leagues, with assurance they aren't going to be scammed, why would they still go for the lower ones?

You should try to avoid such situations for your good, at least to not have headaches... Of course you won't be condemned or considered guilt of any wrongdoings, since you aren't involved in criminal actions, but you may have some issues during a possible initial investigation, because authorities will want to know what is your relationship with the BTC seller and if you are somehow deeper involved with him and his practices.

So better to not be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Just deal with trustworthy people. You can do this by checking for references before trading.

A fork from a priceless token is still a priceless fork... It makes no sense to invest in LUNA for this reason. It's like adding 0 + 0 and expecting something above 0 as final result.

On the other hand, if I were a LUNA investor who lost 99% of the investment value due to the recent crash, I would keep holding the coins to see what happens. That would be an extreme and desperate strategy, though. Nevertheless, there wouldn't be much to do anyway. To sell every coins and recover less than 1% of the initial investment seems even worse.

In this case, I really hope speculators help pumping this currency once again, so initial adopters can recover a larger percentage of their portfolio, but I think it's unlikely to happen.

Palmeiras is going to take first position, followed by Corinthians and in third there is the underdog Coritiba. The performances of top clubs in this championship are really close of each other and that is being highlighted on every news reporting Brasileirão. Some journalists and spectators are surprised regards this fact. As we can see the teams are very balanced and playing from equal to equal.

Another surprise is Flamengo poor performance. Before the beginning of the championship, they were expected to be among the top 4 clubs for the title, but barely hold themselves at 14º position. On the other hand, it was also given as certain Palmeiras, Corinthians, São Paulo and Atlético-MG were heavy candidates for ruling the competition, and actually, all of them still have chances of doing so, so this prediction has been pretty accurate so far.

In the future the potential of the few satoshis you earn today through micro earnings is unimaginable. Of course it's not so good like years ago, because currently offers are really scarce, less profitable, not simplified and even confusing. But about 6 or 7 years ago it was possible to earn 0,40$ daily (0,001BTC), just by doing one faucet run, ignoring the low paying ones which can be claimed more frequently and using only faucets which paid every 3, 6, 8, 12, 24 hours (consequently the rewards were better). The whole process didn't take more than an hour.

Moreover, sometimes faucets with big rewards were launched and lasted for few days, until the manager concluded rewards should be calibrated. So it was like a profitable beta test for users during the initial stage of the faucet.

Now the best part: those 0,40$ daily held until the last ATH, would represent a daily income of 69$ only by using faucets!

Psychologically it will be a hard game for Scotland, as most people want ukrainian national team to raise the morale of their country and their people.winning this match towards Wolrld Cup. And considering how brave ukrainians are, their players will do the best they can and fight with all their strength and energy in order to make not only their nation, but also the world, proud of their performance and effort.

Moreover, Scotland is missing key defender player Kieran Tierney from Arsenal, who can be replaced by Nathan Patterson from Everton, although he hasn't featured since April due to ankle surgery, being this strategy unassured for Scotland. That is a weak defensive point Ukraine may want to explore in game.

Try Cointiply. You can earn small amounts of coins on this site by doing different activities, which are converted to satoshis when you ask for a withdrawal. Most common and rentable method is to earn with surveys and I say that because you get paid even if the survey isn't disponible for your region. Just by trying to open the survey you already receive a reward (of course the reward is much better if the survey is disponible).

From all micro earnings sites this is the top one in the world right now. They also pay interest to users who have balances above 30,000 coins, although I think it's not a good idea, since the balance is in "coins" and not BTC, what means the more valuable bitcoin gets, less satoshis you will acquire when exchanging coins into btc.

But the site is great and launches many promotional codes on their twitter very often distributing extra rewards.

I'm not taking this speculation for real, because it seems FUD in order to lead investors to sell their coins right now with the promise they will buy again, hypothetically when bitcoin hits 8,000$, what may in fact never happen. Then we have a scenario where many investors gave up their held bitcoins for an empty promise spread by FUDsters who are going to buy those bitcoins cheaper, of course, but not at 8,000$'s price range.

The safest strategy is to just keep holding, doesn't matter how deep the price is going to crash. Every investors should feel proud of themselves for holding some portions of satoshis, doesn't matter if they have many or few. Investors should keep in mind that is something they have already conquered and there is no reason to risk it for acquiring more. There are another ways to accumulate more bitcoins without selling your currently holdings.

Promises and words uttered by social medias' managers mean nothing, because they are constantly changing their policies and terms of service. It's common to login into twitter or facebook accounts and have yourself freezed into a new agreement page where you have to say you accept the new terms imposed to you, as a platform's user. From months to months a new agreement is imposed by those platforms and I don't doubt between those little repetitive words there is something like "I agree you sell my personal data to whoever you want", although they are never going to defend a position like that publicly, so they need to play the good guys now saying they are very commited with the privacy of their users and wouldn't sell their data anymore.

That is ridiculous and revolting. The minimum twitter should do were to say to who they have sold data, for how much and provide a mechanism for every users to check if they had informations sold. Moreover, give the money they were paid to the people who had data leaked.

It's easy to earn something which has no value... It has been like this since a long time ago in crypto universe with ICOs and their priceless products, the shitcoins, and now the same phenomenon is happening with NFTs. The saying "there isn't free lunch" also applies to these cases where offers seem too good to be true. NFTs have a bright future ahead in gaming industry and only when the industry achieves success with a popular and sustainable online mmorpg I believe it will be a profitable activity for common people and investors like most of us, instead of being profitable only for a small group on the top of the pyramid which profits from speculation, scam schemes and money laundering through NFTs.

15,000$ would be a great enter point, but it's preferable to guarantee the investment at the currently bitcoin rates, because it's not assured that prediction is accurate enough. Investors who wait for the perfect dip tend to lose the opportunities the market is offering at the present moment. After all, they end not buying a single satoshi, as they justify the price is never cheap enough and can always dump a little more.

Big investors know rounded cheap prices like 15,000$ are the moment many investors feel incentivized and confident to start investing large sums of money in bitcoin, so before the price hits that mark, they inject heavy money in bitcoin (let's say at 20,000$,16,000$ price range). This way they guarantee cheap coins for themselves, nuke the concurrency and centralize more coins on their hands.

I don't have exactly a mantra, instead I just keep mentalizing the result I'm expecting from the game. I intensively imagine the result I would like to see and try to transfer it to the reality. Some time ago, I had the habit of crossing my fingers as well, because that is a symbol of luck and that things are going to work as the person wishes, but there is a long time already since I don't do this anymore.
I believe positive thoughts in general are good to bring luck, confidence and enjoyment to a gambling session, as in every other aspects of your personal life. Mantras do work, unfortunatelly most people tend to stick with the negative ones...

Financial advisors are economists who attend the demands and orders of the local establishment. Many of those guys live from income they make lecturing at big events sponsored by big businessmen, oligarchs and monopolists, which put them in evidence to be called by TV news to make appearances, what consequently also boost the sales of their books and works in general.

If these experts go against the interests of those who pay them, that is, to introduce common citizens to bitcoin as an acceptable and possible investment option, they will totally lose the financial support, reputation and status, being replaced right after for an expert else who accepts playing the establishment's game.

It's like being part of a club or of a group of friends for long decades, and suddenly turn against everything this group wants you to say and to believe.

I also remember it was mentioned somewhere in the website they had some btc mining operations, but looking at their FAQ and EARN BTC tabs now I haven't found this information anymore...

There were/are faucets which use your computer processing power to mine crypto while you are accessing them. It was announced as a passive earning method, but I fear it can lead to prejudice and damage to the desktop components or invasion of the system by malicious virus and hackers. It really doesn't sound good...

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Just keep in mind the balance displayed by the faucet doesn't mean those bitcoins really exist. That is only a demonstration. I've already used faucets which showed me a personal balance of 0.1BTC or more, while in fact I had nothing, since the sites were scam. The bitcoins only exist in a wallet when you can confirm it by checking the address on the blockchain by yourself. Officially, realistically and proven there will never be more than 21 million bitcoins. That is an immutable fact.

There are many casinos where gamblers can enjoy their time with excellent customer service, in a way it will be hard for them to choose which one they should go for. Among the top alternatives, and with similar promotions from all sides, I believe the gambler will play at the casino which most pleases him visually speaking. Not only the brand is the important in this case, but also the site's layout, colors and disposition of the items on the page.
During a moment of indecision, a nice or pretty brand can be the slight differential which will enable the gambler make his choice, but of course, every other aspects and features players expect from a legit and professional casino must be there as well.

What do you think about these winning probabilities?


World Cup 2022 odds: England to face USA

For me it's surprising to see England side by side with France in second place, both ranking 15% winning chance, ahead of Argentina and Germany, which by the way ranks only 10% and 8%, respectively. I also think Brazil is always overestimated, since they are at the same level of argentinian soccer, but score 18%, almost the double of Argentina's winning chances.