This is a change of market trend, that's why bitcoin and the crypto market is known to be unpredictable.
Before, it's easy to guess because when BTC rises, altcoins followed, but now, until to date, altcoins are still not moving based on our expectations.

During the time of a bull run last 2017, I believe a lot of investors also bought altcoins as it's undeniably more profitable than bitcoin that time.
But then, when the correction strikes, things changes, what was a profitable investment have sink a lot losing more 80% or more of its value from its highest price.

It's not 3 years yet, the ATH of BTC was achieved last Dec 2017 so after this year, it will a 2 years anniversary for that success.
We like to see a new ATH this year because that's very helpful for the entire market to recover, but we can't force people to invest to dictate the price to go up, we need some real good news that would consistently help bitcoin to rise again.

The highest we have this year was around $13K, so we only less than 100% increase from that price this year and knowing how hype bitcoin is, we can easily break to a new ATH if there's a FOMO going to happen this year.

The worse team in the bracket is Philippines and Angola, so I'm excited when they meet in their 3rd game.
I don't know which team is the better team but let's see what the betting odds will be when they face each other.

September 4 will be the schedule of Serbia against Italy, I think this is a good game, Serbia will be favorites for sure, but Italy is also a good team.
I am thinking of putting my bet on Italy against Serbia, this should be a great game, taking the moneyline so I could have great payout if lucky.

If Melo will be able to play along with KD and Irving and accept a lessor role, he might get compensated with a championship as whoever team Durant is playing has a chance to be an NBA champion. I believe Melo already know his current status now, he is not a star anymore, he struggle to get sign so it's already a blessing for him if he will be able to play with 2 of the greatest NBA players in the NBA, and those two players were once NBA champions.

ICO might be dead soon, I don't know really the accurate current status of ICO now, but based on my observation, I haven't seen ICOs that are successful, most of the success are from IEO and I would agree with you that they are the next wave of successful tokens, some are maybe still hopeful about recovery of ICO but it's hard for them to recover when there's another platform that are already successful.

I'm thinking that with the success of IEO, this will improve and increase the number of exchanges to operate in the market, and that's a big growth in the industry.

BNB is expected to rise because people uses the exchange on a daily basis, other projects have different platform that takes time to develop or with less exposure in the market.

The old altcoin market is a better market, it was able to bring down the dominant rate of BTC because people trust them along wit bitcoin of course, but now, it's quite different because the last time (last bull run) they were overvalued, lots of investors bought at peak and was disappointed with the long correction happen in 2018 and until now maybe, so it takes time for investors to trust altcoins market in general again.

Of course, no exchange could beat Binance now, though Binance is not number 1 in ranking (https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/)
But I believe that Binance are telling the real volume, other exchanges are faking their volume so they get a good ranking and I know traders know that, that's why they have more trust on Binance over other exchanges.

Definitely they would say it's profitable because the you have more opportunity to trade due to market volatility but it doesn't matter everyone will be profitable, it is still depends on the skills in trading, if you have skills, you will likely become profitable.

People has to understand that day trading and long term trading both have risk, but comparing the two in terms of profitability, day trading is of course more profitable since you can maximize your income if you have the skills.

I guess the rules will not be chance anytime soon, they have that rules in place now and if that will be reviewed, it might take years because they'll change it. Just support the Philippines team with their current line up now.

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Unfortunately they don't have as they have limited players, they are sending their best players from the PBA which the recent conference just ended this month. Their lack of preparation could be one of the factors that will make them loss in this biggest teams in FIBA, but as long as they fight to win, that will already make Filipinos proud as they already understand they have a very slim chances to win against any team in their bracket.

To be professional, you need to treat trading as your profession, when you are treating it as your profession, you have all your time focus on it.

This is your job actually, you consider it as a long term job for your long term journey where you develop your trading skills to be consistent and to be successful in the long run. I like this kind of job actually but I know my limitation, trading is not for everyone, it's only for those who have the passion and the skills to be successful and of course one should be a risk taker to consider this as a profession.

These are smart people and therefore they are clever, they would not be billionaires if they aren't .
What they are saying in public could be different on what they are really doing, so I won't fully trust what I heard from them in interviews in TV, I believe most of them if not all are investing in bitcoin silently.

I think there a lot of popular personalities that are publicly criticizing bitcoin but later they were found investing with bitcoin.
It's just their way of confusing the public so they can continue to accumulate at the cheaper price.

They can't have both and the team chooses blatche over clarkson as they need a center who can dominate.
Philippines have 7 footers as well, but they are slow unlike Blatche who is an almost all around player, he knows how to dribble, drive, and even shoot 3's,  local centers are more like post up players.

I think without clarkson, there are other players that will step up as every FIBA tournament  they have new players added in their squad, so let's see if the new players will be able to contribute in this game. 

Bitcoin has never stopped dominating the market, probably its dominant rate has drop during the bull run or altcoins season but it remains the most dominant coin in the market. Some are saying that the dominant rate written in https://coinmarketcap.com/ is lower compared to the actual dominant rate, and I will agree with that since we have more OTC transactions of bitcoins that are not listed in the site above.

As bitcoin is not yet showings signs of bullish movement, we can expect that BTC dominant rate will continue to rise as people are also afraid of putting their money in altcoins now.

What particular games you like? Maybe you can ask them to add it or maybe post it here so we can help you find a sportsbook.
Sportsbet is a good site actually, I'm happy using it because all the games I like is available in this sportsbook.

Try cloudbet, they have variety of games and I think they also don't require KYC like sportsbet, also I like to add nitrogensports.

Both are hype actually, but BNB gets more hype as they have more investors compared to Houbi AFAIK.
It's normal to see this hype since IEO is not yet spread in big number of exchanges, only few exchanges including the 2 are gaining the trust of the people, if we compare this with ICO, this is the early stage of ICO and IEO is expected to rise as more exchanges will gain the trust of the investors.

You don't have to be sorry with that, no one knows what the future will be, you should be thankful your are finally here as although the price is not anymore at the range you mentioned, there' still more room to grow in the future.

If you are bullish about the future, just search some articles that says about the future prediction of experts, some even predict the price will hit $1 million per BTC and I think that's realistic given BTC is limited in supply and the demand will eventually increase.

That success your are talking is only temporary, they are still scammers and they have no future in crypto.

Our basis in crypto on why we invest in a certain project is because they have a reputation and next only is the potential, so if they will cheat the bounty hunters, it's like they are destroying their reputation, don't believe in this project because they are just out to scam people and who knows the amount raise is not really the real amount raise, it could be a fake one.

You are right, it's hard to expect that KD will can still play like his old self because according to experts, that injury is a serious one and the fact that he was  our for the entire next season, that means his injury requires him a lot of time to recovery.

That guy seems to be gaining followers, maybe I'll start following him also to see if my name is leaked in his tweet, but the way info is posted, it seems like he has more data to show publicly.

How do you think Binance suppose to play with the hacker? Is it right that Binance will just pay the hacker? I think that would not solve the problem, though this is just a piece of information and no money involve, Binance reputation are well affected here, those who sees there names displayed will surely not gonna use the service again.

In life there is no such thing as easy if we want to achieve something, yes, it's hard but as long as it's possible to be profitable in gambling, those who aim for success should not easily give up if they believe in their selves than they can be a successful gambler.

As for me, I have already give up that dream a long time ago, I still think that I can make money sometimes but since I learn my lessons, I know how to handle myself in gambling, I'm more on focus on the fun than the aim to be consistent as I'm not gifted like the other gamblers.