But compared to the gambling sites that are using bitcoin, the gambling sites you've mentioned comprises only a small portion of the overall crypto gambling industry. What we have to determine now is the estimated transaction of bitcoin for crypto gambling, which I don't think we can get a reliable data about it since gambling sites are not all license and they are not sharing their operational data to the public.

Lakers won because they dominated in every angle, I just looked at the stats and was amazed by their 3 point shooting, in this game they have 15-30 which is 50% shooting while the Warriors were only 21.2%.. If the Lakers will be able to consistently do it in the regular season, I am gonna say they are a team which is hard to beat. Also, they dominated the rebounding in this game, 46-34/..

I think this one is the biggest. An alleged cryptocurrency exit scam swindled $2.9B, but main suspects still on the run

bitconnect is reportedly to have scammed 2.6 billion usd only (https://totalcrypto.io/bitconnect-scam/)

This people are really desperate of hacking forum accounts.. the only fake forum I encountered that I almost put my log in credentials is "bitcointalk.to" but it seems like this forum is already down now. Anyway, let's just be careful with this type of scams and we should stake our address so we can recover our account in case we will be victim of hack.

I think prior to this, there has been a lot of speculation already but we never heard a single word about mayweather that he is interested of the rematch.
Until we hear that words from him, I think all these speculation are just created by some desperate fans to hype the possible fight and makes mayweather change his mind.

What can you say about the new import of NLEX? He also played in the NBA and he is the replacement of Ashaolu.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/10/14/19/pba-nlex-taps-manny-harris-as-ashaolus-replacement
https://sports.inquirer.net/369838/legit-nba-talent-manny-harris-as-nlex-import-too-hard-to-pass-up-for-guiao

news pertaining to the import.

I don't know how big the crypto gambling industry is, but I doubt it's a billion dollar industry already.
If it did not reach at least 1 billion that means it's just a small portion of the total daily volume of bitcoin and it doesn't affect much the price movement of BTC. Personally, I have never heard any news about crypto gambling that brings hype in the space, usually it's the news that would benefit all the audience in the space, like the Bakkt launch which did not even result to improvement of BTC price.

By the volume itself, you can tell there's only few, I think of most us who owns this token are just holding it for long term.
In my side, I have no choice but just to hold since I don't hold a lot and the price now is way very low compared to its ICO price.
I don't know if it could still recover but who cares, I am holding it...

That's why on the total number of traders, only few are really doing day trading, for the reason that its really hard.
However, if you are really competitive and you aim to be successful, you won't give up easily, you will be inspired by the truth that there are people who are making money in day trading, hence that means its possible to be successful.

Actually if you think deeper you are not losing money compared to those who have invested.

When we joined in bounty campaign and we know the market situation is not good, we can already expect the price if the coins will be listed in exchange.
90% of more, the coins will drop below its IEO or ICO price and therefore we should decide whether we will sell it or not and of course we can do it if we think that the price somehow satisfy us, as the payment of our effort promoting the project.

Nobody knows the price in the future, he bought during that time because he thought the price will continue to rise.
Let's just say he was one of the victims of FOMO that time but we cannot conclude that he already loss his money, he will only loss if he will sell.
The word that is very popular, which is  "HODL" is what should be applied here because eventually bitcoin will again make a new ATH.

We will only have a problem if that amount we risk is not good for long term investment.

Not in general because the market is still surviving despite the fact that the price falls so hard.
There's a little hope in this project as it reached to 1 usd now, (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/suretly/#charts)
The volume has also increase a bit and if they will just continue to have great announcement, this will survive and make grow in the future.

How would this help the crypto market to grow? Actually IMO, we don't more more stable coin and what we really need are coins that will provide new innovation helpful to improve this market. Maybe this kind of news that big companies stopped accepting bitcoin even through 3rd party is what entice the facebook to launch its libra coin, but it's facing some problems now, so I think no stable coin that would generate massive adoption.

First, you should be aware of all the possibilities that BTC will dump as it happened in the past already and its not new to investors.
You bought at a higher price compared to the current price and its down more than 50%, I don't think its not wise toughing it for other investment as you are likely surrendering crypto to risk with other investment which you are also not guaranteed to be profitable.

That's how you think if you are looking at the future of bitcoin, it will be value higher thats ATH in the future and there's no way that it will crash.
I may not discover and invested earlier than you do but I still believe its still early at the time now to buy bitcoin and take the opportunity to earn in the long run.

No one would thought BTC would reach $20,000 at a short period of time during the last bull run, but it did happen, therefore we have to believe its future and will not underestimate it at the current status now.

This game's winners are those people who are willing to hold longer, that's what I see it.

OP is still active, let's hear some words from him if he benefited from his decision.

I check the history of the price at that time, price was around the same level at the current price, but if OP was really smart and aim to sell even at a low profit, he might have sold it this year already as ETH rise over $300 Last July.

Though I haven't sent my donation yet, but I would like to suggest on the next activity.

I suggest "Feeding The Homeless".. they are the people who really needs help as they are living in the street and in the Philippines there is no program by the government that wold help them find a shelter, with documentation like pictures on the event, I think it would touched everyone's heart.

This is being investigated and in fact bitconnect founder was already arrested and in jail now.
https://bitcoindata.org/bitconnect-coin-owner-gets-arrested/

it's the job of the investigators now on how to trace the money, but I am sure these scammers are also smart, they have a back up plan for everything.
The founder is in jail now but he is not doing it alone, there are people behind him or part of the team who are enjoy some of the money now.

This is the reason why the market is so volatile, with rampant manipulation in the market we cannot expect a stable market.
It will pump and dump as normal but there's nothing we can do to change it since we are not whales and we are no control of the whales.
they have the power to move this market for them to profit, so we should be aware of that to ensure we will not fall for their game.

it's not a warning because Curry is already known a scorer and we know without Durant and Thompson he needs to make more effort to deliver the scoring.
The final score is 123-143, Warriors winning with 20 points, and that was an easy cover of the -3 line for the Warriors.

Curry was still deadly in the 3 point line, tonight he has 6-8 shooting and it looks so easy for him.