Most ICOs you're actually funding the development of a company, however rather than getting shares in the company as per an IPO, you only receive a fraction of the total supply of the ICO, which for the most part are hoped to increase in value. I don't know of any cases where you can actually directly invest ETH into the company itself, like a cash injection, though I have seen some game providers offering something slightly similar.

If you think about it, most e-sports bettors are probably in their late teens or early 20s, whereas I suspect the demographic surrounding cryptocurrency is more like late 20s and early 30s, so there isn't too much of a demographic overlap for it to reach a wide audience. I doubt it would be profitable for even the largest sports betting websites to implement regular e-sports betting.

Tron have just bought their way to the front, they're not really a viable alternative to other smart contracting platforms. If you really think about it, you don't need any other cryptocurrencies other than Ethereum, yes there are a few that offer some modifications to the consensus algorithm that make transactions faster, or increases the network capacity by some irrelevant figure.

I think Vitalik is right, though technically they're not an outright scam, they are providing false representations of what their platform is capable of, and have proven very little of it. Ethereum came around, and has demonstrably changed the industry for the better, all these pretenders coming along are just one fork away from being obsolete, sharding, off-chain, side-chains none of it matters, as all can be integrated into the ETH protocol if necessary.

The fluctuation in Bitcoin value is neither positive nor negative, in the grand scheme of things, whether Bitcoin is $1,000 or $100,000 doesn't really matter, what truly matters is the trade volume. So long as the trade volume stays at least stable, and doesn't decrease significantly (which it already has) then we know that Bitcoin is doing fine, if you manage to achieve the same trade volume, whilst the value of Bitcoin has dropped, then this means that more bitcoin units are being moved around, hence the absolute number of transactions may be increasing (or perhaps just size of each transaction).

We really need to focus on increasing the TPS of the Bitcoin network, and promoting the uptake of blockchain technology by companies that could benefit from it. Until we see a genuine need to see an improvement in value, we won't see a big pump.

Hmm...Where to begin? - God does not exist.

There is nu supreme being that created the universe or us, its simply science that did. There is plenty of scientific evidence supporting my statement but there is no proof of God's existence. The bible is no proof, as it was written by smart humans who wanted to subjugate the rest of the 'not so smart' humans which was necessary back in the day, but in the current era its almost shameful that there still is a large number of people not looking at the FACTS and think that GOD exists which is a drawback to society.

Religion altogether is a monopoly, to control people and at the same time a business, but many are oblivious even when the evidence is staring right at them! Its infuriating to see so many people waste their life on false beliefs which were passed down the generations, no evidence whatsoever, and waiting for the ever promised eternity. Live your life now, conquer it now because there is no afterlife, and STOP relying on some being that does not exist, instead rely on YOURSELF.

Why would you be able to gamble with little investment? You do understand that gambling is the wagering of money at particular odds to win more money? If you don't have money to wager then you simply cannot enter the system. However, you can practice for free at many casinos, as they'll often have play money, and a lot of game providers have a free mode so you can learn how the game works before playing with real cash.

Most of these companies are based on the Ethereum blockchain, which means the network processing their transactions is in fact decentralised. It doesn't matter if the origin of the tokens is centralised, so long as over time, the tokens because well enough distributed to make a monopolisation attempt futile. All things have centralised beginnings, even mined cryptocurrencies start with just a single miner, and eventually expand to a huge distributed network that cannot be easily subverted.

The easiest way to avoid a scam is to simply play at reputable establishments. Usually new scam sites will offer extraordinary, or suspiciously high welcome bonuses, or new player offers that just don't make sense. For example, they might give you a 0.1 BTC free bet with no major wagering requirements, or will offer you particularly bonuses for retaining your funds within the casino, so the they can eventually pull an exit scam.

Stick with the big, well known players, sure they're not necessary the most lucrative, but your money will be safe, and they tend to have the best support and games available. When it comes to your money, playing it safe is often a smart move.

If this fight was about 5 years ago, then I would have said Daniel would have won, but he's getting old now, and his last defeat was crushing. Miocic has just about every advantage over Cormier that you can imagine:

1. He's much bigger, like a 40lbs weight advantage which is significant for submissions
2. He's several years younger, with a much longer reach
3. He's more aggressive, I notice Cormier tends to shy away in aggressive fights, even though he usually tends to win anyway.

I'm more interested in the Ngannou fight however, though his hype his significantly died down since he's been whooped twice in 13 fights lol. Looks like that world record punching power isn't worth mentioned when you're on the floor.

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Creating a token is not the hardest part. What's hard is how to plan so you create a market for your coin, particularly placing emphasis on what's so different about your coin and what are the benefits its users will get by using it.

You can even find people on the marketplace that will create you an ERC-20 token for about $100, however it certainly won't vary too much from any currently existing coin, and almost certainly will offer nothing unique to make it stand out from the crowd.

That being said, there are full coin development solutions that will build you something from the ground up, just search "ERC token creation" on Google.

I agree. Banks and governments hold the same position and that's to oppose cryptocurrency exchanges because these are steering their monopoly and control of people away from them so they'd so anything they can to stop that sleeping from them.

However, I wouldn't necessary say that they're trying to completely destroy Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, more like they are trying to integrate with the technology, so it never becomes an US or THEM scenario, but more like a WE scenario where banks benefit from the advances of blockchain tech, without necessarily needing to compete head to head.

A lot of banks are starting to look at the benefits of hyper ledger in their platform, so I think it's just a matter of time before one takes a big leap.

In my opinion, the safest and monetarily cheap is to choose a good bounty with high success rate and do that as even if it fails at least you do not have your stakes in it but a loss on your time which keeps slipping anyways. So if you aren't going to do anything productive then doing bounty is the safest.

I think everyone puts themselves at risk for one reason or another. In a burglar's case this reason may be poverty or desperation or just stupidity in some cases. The violent part may come from either being too scared or mental issues. In any case, I don't think its right to kill a violent burglar because this person is just in need of help and we should try to be more understanding even if circumstances sometimes pressure us into taking tough decisions.

That as well as the fact that it was the first coin to emerge on the market and so people have strong sentiments associated with BTC.

People only want to fork from something successful, you wouldn't want to take an absolute trash coin, and then fork it into another slightly less trash coin? You would inherit all of the negative stigma associated with it, and be left with nothing but a deformed clone.

Strength, user base and utility are the major criteria, there are clones of a few other protocols, like LTC (itself a clone of BTC), and thousands of ETH clones if you count the ERC-20 tokens. However, these can vary significantly in their implementation, or even the standard they use, e.g. ERC-20 or ERC-721 (non-fungible) types.

Here's a good article about ERC-standards, just for some light reading 

https://medium.com/wepower/erc-standards-to-move-ethereum-forward-erc-20-erc-223-erc-721-e1712456449d

These are in order of preference; first goes BTC followed by ETH simply because they both seem to be amongst the first ones if not the actual ones to change the world of crypto. I also like LTC, IOTA and DASH as they seem to be following a healthy trend.

Same. I started investing again in December last year as well and given how the market is at the moment I'm not too stressed out as I'm still in a small profit.

Previously I have realised a small amount of profit from surges in previous years also, but this isn't something I carried forwards into the bulk of my BTC purchase, which is probably a good thing, as I would have been left holding a big bag otherwise.

I actually invested quite a significant amount (to me anyway) in early December, when the price was about $15-16,000 which as you can tell I've suffered a hefty loss since then  - However, I'm so bullish on its long term value, that these fluctuations, be they 70% of 5% are nothing compared to the long term projected value of crypto in general.

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The raising stakes one is definitely one a lot of people fall victim to. I have even been a victim myself numerous times over the year, e.g. I'll just keep doubling up until eventually I win.... Until I get an unlucky streak and lose a lot of money. People need to understand statistics, they assume that they are the only score that matters, when in reality they are part of a cohort of people which constitutes the average. Just because extraordinary events seem unlikely to a single person, across a cohort it is quite possible, and the more times you double up, the more chance you're going to get screwed.

I really think that Satoshis vision for Bitcoin was not as big as Bitcoin is now. He could not have known what a success his creation would be. Sure, in the back of his mind he probably thought that his project has the capacity to overthrow fiat currency once and for all, but I doubt he actually believed it would happen as it is happening now.

Everybody has ideas that they truly believe could revolutionize the world, but few people actually believe that this idea will be fully realized, especially in the way that Satoshi's was. That being said, I don't think it has come anywhere close to realizing its maximum potential.