Thanks for your response, and sometimes I wish I didn't get so deep into this forum, get offended and all that:) I think you're right, we're all seasoning our comments with personal preferences that sometimes we forget is not necessarily how the majority of the world sees it.

I do agree with you that being conservative in crypto can be a negative aspect and that's a lot of the reason why people think Bitcoin is a slow mover and will lose 1st mover advantage, lessons of tech tell us this doesn't last long. This I agree with you on some level.

BUT I think Bitcoin is right to be conservative and ETH too (after a period where it wasn't) -- as it seems to have fulfilled its desired objective, whereas progressive concepts that claim to "bank the unbanked" or "finance for the masses" actually have really only served to benefit more of the same few. And made life worse for those it is supposed to help (with liquidity drains, rugpulls, etc, which are not issues with Bitcoin).

Pretty much every alt is waiting on BTC now. ETH did a slow burn rally I was worried a little it wouldn't catch up but then it managed to get itself back above $2k so in this case, most defi coins are also safe (at least those sitting on ETH-based DEXs).

Cardano will have to do something pretty special to overcome all the DOT hype going on right now though.

They will have to go about it the way El Salvador did. Get the buy in from the government, so pass the laws properly through parliament, lower then upper house, then the bank has no choice but to accept. Pretty sure the people are angry about a lot of other things though to even they might shoot down anything the existing govt proposes until actual democratic change is brought about.

We'll have to wait and see for this, but if they can keep up the goal-defending form they displayed in the last few matches, I think they will just about do it.

Meanwhile I'm counting on yet another Argentina-Peru final, but Brazil is for sure the team to beat at this stage. If Messi wins it, he'll probably be so fired up for La Liga.

OK, then obviously we are going into technical differences here but dude, I know 1inch is not a DEX but a DEX aggregator but there you go, you are saying they (and everyone else in the DEX industry including educators) are all using the wrong term.

For me, if they call it a DEX it has evolved. They are already articles talking about DEX using orderbooks (which is what you are thinking of) and DEX using liquidity pools like Uni.

It is a big difference, but they are merely different mechanisms, both are DEX.

An exchange can have as many pairs as they make available. If an exchange only has BTC-fiat, it is still an exchange. Your "token swap" example is just the same in BTC-USD market you can ONLY exchange BTC for USD. All the exchanges talk about trading pairs. And all the "token swaps" talk about swap pairs. I think you will be surprised to learn now "token swaps" have much more capacity to swap between networks (which is why I ask you to look at 1inch) but as you say not for BTC (again to my knowledge) but of course, you can use a regular exchange for interchain assets and even fiat but this is because none of this interaction is on chain. You even have Yobit exchanging with assets that don't even exist, anything is possible offchain:)

I'm sorry, I really think your posts are very good and I enjoyed them a lot here but on this case I think sometimes Bitcoiners like to argue semantics when the rest of the world using those things has moved on and accepted that "token swaps" are also exchanges, with the difference that every exchange (swap) happens on chain in liquidity pools (as opposed to off chain orderbooks), which makes it difficult, but not impossible these days, to manage inter-chain swaps.

P.S. I totally hate defi it's the most toxic and scammy world but we were talking about use case for smart contracts and I see it and accept it even if I don't like it.

So we're going to have another 12 months of this bull cycle? Sounds good for me:) I mean. I thought it would be over end of this year at best case scenario (and actually I have been lately thinking we might even have to accept that it will only be a few more months, maybe a new ATH or two and that's it). 6 more months of bull is great though. Can't wait to buy the big winter dip after lol.

Like I said, just not trading isn't just about recovery but preventing the need for recovery and if you only trade (or invest) money that you consider to have lost (put money in, and just assume it is lost and don't expect profit) then you'll have no expectations and that burden of worry is gone. No stress.

Just try it, seriously. The worst that can happen is Bitcoin dies and you lose disposable cash:)

Well, I've no choice but to back Spain, supporting them since whenever, and although they're not the same golden team I loved I think they finally clicked after 2 initially terrible group games. Switzerland will be on a high but I think that was a little bit of a France bad performance that helped them.

So same as you except:
Spain
Italy
Czech
England

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Yes, bitcoin is like the starter of the market. If it's doing well, then the other cryptos will also end up having the same good day. We've seen it many times that whenever bitcoin is in bull run.
Then, it's making the same as the altcoins too to. Their season is coming after bitcoin's bull run and usually they're also going with bitcoin's season altogether.
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Time and again indeed. I myself follow Litecoin and Monero markets, only because I have them, and as much as we do see them breakout on their own at times (XMR especially) we can't deny that if BTC does well, everyone else does too. There's simply no denying every cycle of bull and bear and trace that against alts? Same lines MORE or LESS.

I find it weird I'm starting to defend ETH a lot these days but I've personally been convinced that they offer the right solutions at an approach that is conservative enough. Very similar people argue Segwit and LN were not real solutions to scalability problems (but they were!).

I think ETH is ultimately wrong do go POS but I'm happy they did and we can find out if that really is viable for security.

I think fixing problems as they come is a privilege for bit networks:)

Not sure what to think at this point. I thought ETH was pretty crap for a long time just because of the DAO decisions but I managed to change my mind. BNB is not quite the same thing, highly centralized and heavy marketing behind it and not even really the real technical expertise (I believe) behind it.

But demand is demand.

Yeah i know that but he was asking whether libra is still alive or it already gone due to the legal problem with the US regulators. the creation of diem coin got inspired by how fast the growth of the stable coin in the cryptocurrency and diem already offered its service for some banks. We can't deny that if this potentially helping the adoption of crypto just like when paypal was adopting crypto
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I suppose as long as something that already has tons of users like Paypal adopts Bitcoin AND it is because of demand (in which case it was) then yeah, it's a good thing.

I think we can forgive that these are centralized and that they don't even have real Bitcoin but its as you say. Recognition for the asset and the technology.

Like Cobra said, all the more reason to prove why Bitcoin is needed. I can't believe that clown is still forcing himself upon the community. Worse, I can't believe he actually has droves of supporters still crazy enough to fall for him.

Then again, I've seen enough of this world to know I should believe all that is happening.

Messi two goals, so he keeps on creating new records, happy for him. But yeah teammates, could you please just go and win it for him finally? I mean, he's carried you for so long, time to return the favor and let him touch the trophy man.

No surprises, just again once more we have the two tournament favorites topping the Group tables.

I was talking about decentralized exchanges though (Sorry if I should say CEX and DEX but I thought smart contract automatically means DEX). You should check out 1inch for example, it does use a smart contract for limit orders on ETH DEX like Uniswap. Those smart contracts were built on as far as I know, Ethereum, or copies from Ethereum.

2. I don't argue that Bitcoin blockchain is better and more secure but I beg to say that it is NOT easier. You can today ask a regular gambler to use a betting smart contract on ETH and he doesn't even need to know blockchain, he just needs to know how to place a bet. I do not think there is an easier way for Bitcoin or LN. The lack of demand sort of proves this.

Now, I am not a Bitcoin hater, it is my where my main beliefs are. I am not even an ETH lover, I only bought it in 2019 after finally admitting that yes, ok they got some things right finally.

Two teams coming back from behind 3-1 against some of the world's best teams. I think Switzerland would never have seen themselves coming so far in this tournament but here they are beating FRANCE.

I think the giant killing spree is not going to be over, what do you guys think? Mbappe loses market value after not being able to score the entire 4 games?

Man guys I wish the games didn't start so late. I should have stayed up and taken a day off work but Monday gave me a hell lot of work to do.

Looks like it was a push, but does anybody have the stats?

I'm trying to look at Google stats at full time (before ET) and I see:
Goals: 6 points from 3-3 full time score
Yellows: 5 cards
Corners: 6+4 = 10

Seems like it was 21:P

Yesterday's market move proves these charts don't mean much in short/not so short terms after all. Now a breakout should be happening this week.


Exactly. Might even decide to skip 2 or 3 marks in each 10k bracket: 38/39/40 then 45/46/47 then 50/51/52 and so on and so forth. The higher price goes the more the extreme rallies will get and the more spots we are likely to skip

Your comment is one of the shortest here and yet actually probably one of the most useful. Stop trading, no strategy is going to work, and no amount of checking your wallets is going to change anything.

Maybe buy the top losers (but also they should be actually good projects) in the hope they recover. Take ETH for example when it crashed to below $100!