I agree with you, especially for beginners I would recommend investing themself. With staking you just rely on someone else while with investing you have to do all the research yourself. It's much more work but you are learning so much more than when just staking. Risk is involved in both types and you have to pay a fee for staking. The most I learned about crypto currencies was when I started investing with my own money.

Apparently there is no permanent immunity from Covid-19, even if you had the corona virus once you can get infected again. This makes a big problem for vaccines because it will be likely that we also can't get a permanent immunity from the vaccine and would need to get vaccine on a regular basis. This sounds pretty much like the flu we are facing every year, where high risk patients and elderly people have to get a vaccine every year.

Anyone here played Hearts of Iron 4? It's an awesome strategy game for PC. The graphics are not that great but there are so many possibilities. I watched a few youtube videos and started to play it myself lately. Very cool game and tons of positive reviews on steam.

I am glad to read that our many replies actually helped to change your mind. 15 is not so bad, in a few years you can gamble and can actually see a casino from the inside. I still remember going the first time to casino in a suit, losing a bunch of money but still an awesome experience for a night out. Great food and wine. But overall you are not missing out on much. Also it's better to just save your crypto coins for now until your are 18.

At the moment I am back to using a cheap IKEA chair. After moving into my new apartment I couldn't take all my stuff with my. So I had to rebuy some furniture and to save money I went for one of the cheapest options. My plan is for next year to buy a proper gaming chair again.

In my opinion opening the economy even further right now will just increase the corona cases very fast. The problem we are facing right now is the second wave of the pandemic. In Europe for example every country is reporting rising corona cases and we can't really open the economy anymore. On the otherside we also can't have another lockdown this year. All the countries here are experiencing negative growth in GDP. We just can't afford another closing down of the economy. It's very hard to balance off human lifes vs the economy, but we need to find a mix.

I would recommend to not blindly trust other people here on the forum. Better to do at least a little bit of your own research, it is always hard to do own research as a beginner, but that is also the way you learn a lot here.

Personally, I would recommend you to split your money up across multiple coins. As a good start I would put 50% in Bitcoins, and spread out the other 50% across alt coins such as ETH and LTC. These are all established coins where the risk of losing your money is fairly small. You can just buy and hold them.

I agree with you, it's not a problem for newcomers to this forum to have their own project, but they need to work with experienced members on this forum. If there is no trustworthy member involved from this forum, I think the prospects are not that great and a lot of people will skip out on this forum. Personally, I give a lot of value on this forum. A project manager with many years of track record on this forum can make or break a new project.

Glückwunsch an xxjumperxx.

Bin leider immer zu spät bei den Gewinnspielen hier, aber dass Unterforum ist schon klasse dass man sich gegenseitig informiert. Wie sieht es denn diese Woche mit Gewinnspielen aus?

Schöne Woche und bleibt gesund.

This is exactly what was I afraid of. Unfortunately we still don't know these things through a lot of cases tested by scientists. But it seems that the immunity of corona is fading away  after a few months. Which makes a possible vaccine even harder to find. In the worst case we would need to get a Covid-19 vaccine every year (or maybe even twice a year) to refresh our immunity.

When looking at Europe at the moment, it seems that second wave is much more severe than the first. The first corona wave had a very sudden rise and dropped off quickly too. But now with the second wave it seems like it's much more gradient and spread out. I am afraid how the winter is going to be this year.

I can second that. Try avoiding industrial made sweets, maybe switch to fruits if you still grave for sugar. Or just skip it at once.

Good luck with pressing charges against a casino for removing you from their casino. It's a private proverty, their place, they make up the rules. You have no chance against it. When playing their games you agree to their rules. I don't see any chances of winning against a big casino. Also they have plenty of lawyers ready for such issues, while you will have to hire one yourself and pay for it. Not sure if that is such good idea afterall.

Black Jack is a profitable game for casino, I don't think they wan't to remove it. And with more advanced shuffling systems around it's getting harder for us to exploit the system. Afterall card counting is helping us to shift the odds in our favor. We shouldn't pressure casinos into removing the game.

Have you guys tried out GGPoker? There software is pretty cool.



Wow nice one Globbo. You really have a good gameplay and patience if you keep finishing so high in these tournaments.



That would be cool, especially now with the winter and the bad weather coming I think I will be playing more poker and watch Twitch.

Good luck for this weekend.

I was running so good in black jack in the last few months. I kept always breaking even or finish with a nice profit. But now after 2 weeks of gambling a bit more, I am down over $180, which is really frustrating. I kept trusting my strategy and believed in the skill aspect of the game. After running hot for so long I kept forgetting about the luck factor more and more. The rest of my bankroll is for my poker games so now I need to take a break from black jack until November. The last weeks just made me realise that luck is still a big part of gambling.

One concept which is very important in trading is probably also very important for betting in sports fames, it's called "noise". When there is a particular information published in the newspaper and everyone reads it, some people might think its very useful information. But because everyone knows it the information is already reflected in the prices and odds. So it might be the case when we know a lot we that we think all of it is news, when in fact its not that useful. In this regard its definitely possible we know too much. Too much noise might cloud our decision making. Sometimes it's just better to take a step back and reevaluate what we do know instead of trying to find more and more information.

To be fully honest, I don't read the TOS on most casino websites. Only in around 15 - 20% of the cases I actually look at the TOS. In the other cases I rely on reviews from other people. Usually I play on casinow who have been around for some time and have a positive track record. My first check is always this forum if anyone had some issues before and raises some red flags.

I think how most of the leagues managed this year was alright. It could have been better, but also much worse. I really enjoyed in the first weeks of the lockdown to watch some of the old games on TV. Also they tried to resume the games as fast as possible. Playing games without viewers in the stadium seems like a good trade off in the beginning and now letting at least some fans back in the stadiums is good. If they had cancelled all the leagues this year it would have been horrible.

I don't think bitcoins can replace an actual commodity so easily. In my mind bitcoin is more of a currency than a commodity. Because you cant use bitcoins to fuel your car and plane. Same for gold, as long as we are using gold for jewellery there will be people paying a lot of money for it.  These two commodities have been used by humans for a long time. They can't just disappear.

What is more likely that we will see bitcoins as the main international currency, so all these commodities would be quoted in bitcoins rather than USD.

Oh boy, that is a lot of beer. I usually don't drink more than 1-2 beers a night for years. The last time I got really drunk on beer was during university. You must be very dehydrated today. Good job buddy 

Same fore me, CSGO are the most interesting games to watch. I used to play a lot a few years ago but now I just watch and sometimes bet. Dota and LOL is also cool from time to time to watch.

Anyone has a good bet for the Grand Final of IEM New York on Sunday? Should get pretty interesting with Liquid and EG, probably my two favourites.