The transparency aspect is actually a very good way to start when it comes to new businesses utilizing the blockchain technology. At least for one thing, blockchain allows the secure sharing of business processes within companies and partners, which can be related to business activities, contracts, records, and so on.

All these things make sense for a business trying to bring the future quickly into the present and I believe it would go a very long way for the development and growth of such business in a short time. nevertheless, we should still not forget that all these depends on how well the team is ready to work as blockchain technology itself will not just be some magic wand to make businesses successful out of nothing.

Giving is usually not the problem, but being careful who you give it to or where you share it to; is actually what you should be more considered about.

Yes, there have been quite a good number of projects that required KYC and these days a lot of exchanges as well require KYC, and in that case, the only thing you can do is to be very careful you have done a lot of research to know if this is a reputable place to be doing a KYC verification or not. No one can be trusted when it comes to online matters, even Facebook Inc. ended up selling people's data, so in a digital space, anything kind of goes.

The fact remains that no one knows anything and people are simply just looking for a way to predict the market movement in their favor and hoping it would be that way. I wonder when people will always get the picture that in a market, the trend will always be your friend and trying to predict the trend is actually going to get your hopes high too much. This is the reason why it is better to trade or invest what you see and not what you feel about the market.

1000% is not a reasonable prediction. Come on guys, this is not like every year; a bull run should always be expected. There is certainly movement to every market and the market acting accordingly in that way, while so far, all we have in our hands is a bear market. Now, how this market is going to act out before the end of the year, or possibly by 2019 is only known with time, as there is absolutely no way to know something in the future until it happens.

The truth is that very little at this moment are selling but one thing for sure is that the market tend to drift the way it pleases based on demand and even if we keep telling ourselves how much the market is manipulated, in the case of a real demand and a very strong one for that matter based on real life usage and not just some speculation, irrespective of the manipulations, it would definitely reflect on the market.

Will bitcoin reach $25k by the end of the year, no one knows but I do not think so unless we get to see some very strong news that could bring in some crazy level of adoption but sorry if I am a bit pessimistic, but I do not see that happening this year. Experts or whatever they call themselves, will always predict whatever they want to predict, but in reality, whatever is meant to happen will happen anyway.

It is even appalling and disrespectful to other experts when some of these guys keep making some horrific and unrealistic predictions. No one knows what the market will be like even in the next few seconds, so someone trying to predict the future is more like trying to deceive him or herself. It could happen as they said, but it would really just be a coincidence from a guess game as far as I am concerned and even if it does not happen, they will always find something to say to cover it up.

Rather than worrying about satoshi dumping his coin, worry more about how much you can accumulate for the future before we start seeing a huge demand and growth in the market. Apparently, I am sure satoshi; either a group or one person will not be dumping on the market and then using his own hands to destroy what he has built over time.

The market has not matured to an extent where the volume is huge and such a dump on the market will not make a very huge impact, but I am sure even with all exchanges put together at the moment; the price will drive down so fast. Let's say this is even done OTC, it would still increase the huge supply in the market at this stage.

Depends on the ICO to be honest. Just because you can pay more eth with less dollars to invest doesn't mean the ICO will be good and the tokens will worthy anything. You can still select a horrible coin and it can go to shit and price could drop insanely, just because eth dropped this doesn't change. But if you want a good news most ICO's are dropping their entry barrier and their fund goals because the market is low and eth is getting low and people are investing less which means they need to drop so they can get proper investment. You can invest 1 eth and get a bigger portion of the pie compared to what it used to be.

I have noticed this many times. When markets are not with new blood, mostly no pumping are happening also most people stop their projects abruptly and absconded too. A healthier market always boost all other things within its environments in most cases and exceptions too applicable.

It is certainly a very strange issue I must say and there is no way his transaction would have stalled without him doing something wrong. This would be hard to tell since he certainly did not share many details anyway and all he told us was that he made a transaction. At this stage, I really would not expect so much congestion of the network and I made a token transaction yesterday which was very fast. Sharing his transaction details will suffice and help us know what could have actually occurred to have experienced that.

The only reason you will make a transaction and it did not go through is either you gas was too low to allow the transaction go through which in most cases will be reversed in the long run anyway or if there is a mix up on your part somewhere. It would be hard to tell, unless you share with us your transaction hash to really see what exactly is going on with your transaction before knowing what to even suggest appropriately.

A well explained post indeed, I must say. I have argued with certain people in the past about things like this and how long streak of losses can hit your game and then you are left with nothing, this certainly is a mathematical representation of what happens with just only 20 streaks which is something that can easily be seen and a lot of people tend to discard. At 20 streaks of losses, such individual is already at a loss of a total of 1048575sats, over pursuing 1 satoshi. That is like taking a lot of risk over something insubstantial.

I do see many gambler here are sharing about their 30+ losing streaks also. Still, I am not seeing any possibilities for such things to happen in real life but more frequently happening with online environments. I mean where is the actual problem is occurring ? Concluding this mathematical formula as not suitable will ignore the basics of probabilities and permutation ?

Mathematical things will never react based on environments. But unfortunately, by keeping the full faith on those gambling houses, we do get ready to call one mathematical formula as a pure shit. Ridiculous gamblers .

Really amusing! I have heard mad stories of gambling for a while now, but this one seems to hit me strongly considering the fact that a woman could go that length when it comes to gambling and got affected to the point of hitting the prostitution phase, for someone with kids. It is such a pity. I would not say I feel pity for her, but I really feel pity for the kids she has.

I can imagine how that would even affect them growing up. Most of those who end up becoming an addict to gamble usually end up affecting all those who are close to them in a way. What a crazy world!

This topic has been around for over a month now and we have seen nothing new from starbucks about bitcoin at all.
I mean I understand that in the business world things go a little slower than usual and specially when compared to fast pace movements of bitcoin and crypto the corporations takes actions quite slowly however I would have at least expected some sort of press release or something.

This silence and indifference towards the topic from starbucks makes me start to think maybe they were not interested in it at all, maybe this was all just a news media making stuff up to sell few more papers ? I do not know but I am losing hope every day.

I would certainly connect this more to investment regret than a trading regret. Investing in scam ICOs and then realizing when you get scooped of your hard earned money is all part of ignorance.

A lot of people in this space are ignorant of where to invest, how to invest, what they should check out before investing and before they know, they have ended up wasting time and resources on nothing at all. As long as you are knowledgeable in any part of the world, be it investment or trading, then you will always tend to get the best.

My regret in my early days was not learning enough about trading before hitting the market and I really got punished for that. But over the years, I learned my lessons, did the needful and I have made more than I lost. So at this point, I would not really consider it as regret but a lesson, which in reality can be applicable to any other thing.

That is usually the idea of the manipulation anyway.
The whales see it as an advantage to make profit off the weak hands and the ignorant traders that occupy the space.

Panicking is all part of the process the whales count on and a lot of people who usually end up panicking and making the wrong market decisions based on the little or no knowledge they have are always the ones who usually end up the victim of manipulation. Day trading most especially requires a lot of experience and you really want to be sure you have that before proceeding.

It will be a big disappointment only to those who want to see it as a big disappointment. Apparently, they did not take into effect that the market is extremely volatile and some could have bought at the overbought FOMO price just because they want to get rich quickly and now suffering from the retrace. Those who are so focused on the long term situation of things will prefer it to come down so they can buy more and that to me is an opportunity for smart investors.

You need to be a God to predict the exact future of bitcoin. Did you predict this fall of bitcoin well before the start of this year ? I believe not just you, no one was able to predict similarly you cannot say "unlikely", there must be "anything may happen" that alone most appropriate one.

Not just bull trap, if you notice even bears are also getting trapped in this high volatile markets. But overall, it is a range bounded one and may break into upper side as per the past.

Yes right. This is the reason why a lot of people actually think that news so far is not really something that is working with the market as they expect that some positive news would simply just pop into the market and then we will just get to see some huge level of growth as the case may be.

But like you said, we are in a bear market and market is bound to move downwards, and even news act as a catalyst in the short term, it does not mean the bears are out, as there would still always be a time to strike. It is just to understand the movement of trends, and how the market is reacting at certain levels that counts.

One of the reasons I usually do not pay much attention to price movement in correlation with news anyway and only trade what I see.

This is quite interesting piece to go through and I believe this is just the start of what is to come in the long run.
It is a good way for some people to understand this is the way to go for the future when it comes to building on skills related to the blockchain world as this would be the most seriously needed areas as time goes on.

The good thing is that it cuts across board, so not necessarily for programmers alone, even though they will tend to have a great pay as a result of that, but in reality, it is for everyone who one way or the other is able to find a way to build something for themselves, or use their skills to do something relevant to earn.

This needs to consider the fact that people who save also have enough money to go a month without spending all of their money.

In the world, there are people who do not have enough money to even live, pay bills and even eat properly. When you tell people to put money aside and retire early you are forgetting one key element that there are billions of people like me who spend very carefully and still have nothing left to show after certain days. If you are making enough and can save money that is amazing news!

Because you are one of the rich people in the world, people think the "rich" consists only of the wall street CEO types but no, if you are making 400k a year that makes you %1 richest person alive.

Is that last part supposed to be sarcasm as I could not see how genuine such a post is ?
Anyway, what is important for the OP is to try as much as possible to learn and know how he can be a part of anything. You cannot be a part of something if you do not know how to be a part of it and it is as simple as that.

Lots of people have rushed into investing, trading and all sorts with no knowledge and experience, and even at that, they just are too lazy to learn. There is no shortcut to success, and you just have to work for it, whichever way you want to start.

Hence in that vein, even though it is an old topic, the OP or anyone in his shoes can just start learning from the beginners thread.

Gambling and trading can only have resemblance if you are trading without a strategy and that is not just resemblance because trading without a strategy means you are gambling. As long as you are knowledgeable, you know what to always do at every point in time, then, you are better off as a trader than a gambler.

The mistake people make is that they tend to assume trading is just about buying and selling, but there are other decisions such as stopping loss, and managing your funds as a professional trader. Campaign is an easy area for anyone, but with trading you need to learn.

Mining requires huge fund, reliable and cheap electricity, so it is simply not for everyone, whereas gambling should not even be considered as any way to increase profit in the first place.

Because all of the entire crypto-currency market is dropping.

Eth maybe dropping a bit faster but in general we are in a bear market for altcoins and none of them went up in price for a loooong time. Which means eth is not special or privileged or something because eth will drop as well when the market drops, eth has nothing more that would make it special and rise while all other coins are dropping in price.

It will keep going down as long as all other coins go down as well, bear market affects all altcoins and whether you believe it or not ethereum is still an altcoin and nothing bigger than that. We will see it go up in price soon when the bull comes back.

Easy there, this is not a large scale dump at all, we were right here just last week or so, it is not a surprise that we went up to $7.2k and went down here, we did this couple of times already and we must get used to it, this is the max we can get without getting a bigger bull run, the price difference between $6.4k and $7.2k is the profit you can use in your favor but when you are stuck at the other side and bought it at $7.2k and now see the price low don't go out and sell your bitcoin right away, wait a bit, in a week or two bitcoin will be $7k+ once again and than you can sell it. Bitcoin price is quite volatile specially in that 10% range.

In all kind of market situations too, these manipulations are happening but we do not give them any big attention as it is rarely influencing the bitcoin market. When eth was bumped to $1+k price levels bitcoin market remained calm but overall market movements are based on people's psychology and no one could understand them.