The NBA futures seems to started, I don't know when but I found it on "basketball-usa-nba" section under outright.
Right now, the biggest favorites are Clippers with 4.1 and Lakers are 4.95 right behind them and rockets seems to be 8.30 right now.

Now, I am not going to lie I love those odds, yeah clippers could be the favorites but Lakers are definitely not the favorites in my mind, I feel like they could definitely drop further down the list and probably not even make the western conference finals. Rockets on the other hand with the addition of Westbrook over Chris Paul seem to be doing much better and that is really an important improvement, I feel like they could rival anyone at this point and that is why I would have given them the Lakers spot and switch them around. So Rockets at 4.95 and Lakers at 8.30 would be better, however since it works out for us You don't have to change at all .

Gambling generally has a natural spirit to make gamblers an addict and it takes a very strong person to overcome being an addict and still continue to gamble. I remember when they first came out with an adventure game called candy crush, the moment I started playing candy crush was when I became addicted to it.

I became addicted to the extent that I stay awake all through the night to play it, when I am inside the bus I play it, I look for opportunity in the office to play it and was already affecting me mentally, and I was even no longer paying attention to my girlfriend again, and  the only way I could overcome it was to totally delete the application from my phone, and then stop using android phone for a while so that I don’t end up being tempted to install it again, so o feel the only way to overcome addiction is just to stop gambling which was what I  did.

That is actually true, I think long term investors can still make use of this tool too, I have not seen much reason for a long term investor to trigger the tool till I saw your explanation, I just remembered now that I have a trade already on Binance, and knowing what the potential of bitcoin would be in the next ATH, for the record first, I am a diehard fan of long term holding, so I have already set my bitcoin investment to take profit at $28000, which is a value that I believe bitcoin will get to and above in the next bull run, why I had set my stop loss at $20k, so that I don’t make the same mistake that many of us made in the mast bull run, when we loss so much with the sudden sharp decrease in the value of bitcoin when it was on its way to bear market, so stop loss is also a useful tool for a long term investors too.

Since I do not do much of BTC payment for on what I spend my currency on, I think I would look at the current value of the BTC IS USD, because whatever gain that I make will still be converted to fiat, and to me, it is when I see how heavy the fiat is that I will really know that I have made enough gain from whatever investment that I have.

The only time to consider quantity in btc and in altcoins, is when we are in bear market, and you know that the more the altcoins or BTC we have, the higher chances that we get of it increasing in future, it means more fiat will be gotten in future wen the value of bitcoin increases. It is a good thing that you are still holding half of the coin, the time you will appreciate your decision not to sell everything off is when the market of altcoins starts on bull run.

Which I think would be the right thing for him to do, because if he fails to manage the wealth very well, it would just fly away and would be wondering what he did with 2 million dollars, the best way to successfully manage it is just to lock it, but the aspect of locking, I would really advise him to just use it as investment instead.

Since he has another part that is 1 million dollars, he can still use part of it to reinvest in cryptocurrency, then maybe spend the rest on whatever makes him happy but he needs to still guide the remaining half jealously in case something happens along the line that made him not to manage the other half well, and moreover, he needs to save for the future, if he locks it in the bank, anything could happen to currency and render the money useless, so best bet. Investment all the way.

Man, you know when a competition is actually working on marketing wise if even the people who are not in top 3 come in here and talk about it and find so many things to discuss about it and follow the leaders around. If people here know hdf and abba and whoever else and follow whales like who will take it like its some sort of race then you know your marketing is actually working and each single satoshi you pay for this deserves it.

I feel like maybe they can increase the frequency instead of the length? Like give smaller rewards but do shorter periods but do it more frequently, that way we can have more races with smaller rewards and could maybe affect the individual contest wagered amounts but the total combined could be higher and would allow the small timers to get in too?

The first couple of races were really entertaining because we had to test how much we can do and there was this 10 thousand user type of race (forgot if it was here or stake) and that was awesome because I was lucky enough to get in but lately it has been harder and harder and requires more and more btc to get in and races are like Ussain bolt vs tortoise when it comes to whales vs me so it gets sad a bit to enter .

I rather keep playing the normal way I always do and not look at the race part because I know in the end I will be sad to see I am not even close to other people who are gambling. There are some seriously big whales that play insane amounts of bitcoins and they end up winning too sometimes and I just feel too much envy towards them and that is not healthy .

I would really love Luno so do something like this because this the best an only local exchange that is available in my country and they have been extremely effective ever since I have been using them, Luno would do better because they are in several countries, but what is still strange to me is how these people would be able to establish an ATM machine in a country that is not cryptocurrency user friendly, like China and US because the ATM machine that I know is a physical gadget which would be install in a physical location, would the government not see it and probably jail the person in charge for operating such. Imagine India too that is very strict with their cryptocurrency policy, how would they be able to establish such system there, except maybe they deal more in user friendly countries.

I bet someone is looking for a very big trouble from china, how do you expect weechat to come up with a blockchain program when you know their stand as regards cryptocurrency, you know that china do not fully support cryptocurrency, and the only thing that could make china bow now to cryptocurrency is when 70 percent of the whole world have adopted it, and most especially, the giant countries.

Wee chat already has its payment system which government has full control of its operation, and the transactions that foes on within, and you know that they have powerful technology they could use to control things which they have always liked, and they would never give a chance to any application that they cannot control, or would take money out of their country, you know that they like taking in more than giving out.

It is really not a "race" is it the higher ups are so up that it is not even possible to reach those levels as a regular gambler, I mean I would love to have the courage as well, not like I can't because even with just 0.1 you can play on high odds with 0.01 multiple times and can get to a high level if you are lucky before your money runs out but who has the courage to do something like that? Not me That is why I think the people who wager that much either has a lot of money they can burn through or they are super brave about what they are doing and want to make sure they will be ev+ when it ends with the rewards they will be getting, if your losses comes less than the reward you are actually not losing and I am sure they are betting on something like that to happen.

For me, I would still prefer large rewards with small value, because those are the type of coin that people pump money into more if they see that the project is a viable ones, reason being that a project with low value will be easy for investors after pre ICO will see it as a cheap value for them to accumulate and will buy as much as they can to keep for the future, but of the value is already high, first thing that will come to their mind is that they have been pumped, which will limit the number of participation that you see in such project, and this will not make the value to grow further, and as a bounty campaign, you need the value to grow for you to really get enough gain from the token received. Some of these low value coins too are the ones that has the tendency to increase by 1000x during the bull run, while the high ones struggles between 5x and 30x.

Does he even think it is so easy to gather crowd to do that when we all have our own different interest, another person’s food could be another man’s poison and vice versa. Out of millions of people in the world who would be exposed to cryptocurrency through Facebook, it is certain that 30 percent of them would at least pick interest and make use of Facebook product against all odds, and does not care if they stand for bitcoin purpose or not, so he just have to drop that idea of thinking we can destroy them before arrival, that would be absolutely impossible.

Facebook presently is too large not to have people of interest in its product. And like you said, having read their whitepaper extract, Libra will really have a working product that will be of interest to me and so many people out there, but that still would not make them to ever have any negative effect on bitcoin, and so long they don’t affect bitcoin in anyway, nothing to  worry about to me.

That is one of the problem we have now with new investors or even the existing ones, how many of them would pick the whitepaper to really review it and see if their project is still in line according to what was promised, and the level they had gone in making such project a reality, but most of them only use their exchange value to judge.

Once they see that the project value is low, they tend to judge that the product is not performing well, and when they see that the value is high, they conclude that it is a great project, forgetting that the increase could also be as a result of pump by whales which makes it prone to dumping and eventually turning to shitcoins. I don’t know much about this project though, and except I do a research on them, I would not know if they are delivering on their promises.

I have been gambling on stake for a long time now and I have never faced any bugs ever, literally zero. I can understand other casinos trying to make stake look bad because stake right now is literally enemy of all other casinos by being the best one out there so if you can take out stake at least all others can rival with each other so they are just collectively trying to sabotage the greatness of stake in order to remove it from number one spot and many newbie or low level accounts are created in order to give these type of messages but nobody would bite these type of allegations.

Stake has no bugs, stake has no issues, nobody having any issues in stake, just accept that and try to make your casino better because if you insist on not improving your own casino and try to bring others down then you will lose.

Most of the Predictions we see, especially in cryptocurrency is just like a game of luck in gambling game, and no one can really predict any price of crypto accurately, we can only have little clue to assist in predicting something within the range which is usually the technical analysis, and maybe some fundamental analysis.

I usually get amazed when I hear that there are group of people that gives signals on cryptocurrency, and I wonder if they are using anything diabolical for vision because I don’t see it so easy to predict, and not even the greatest analyst we have. I have even seem so many predictions form some of these top celebrities who are also financial analyst, and you could so much vouch for them, but later, bitcoin virtually does the opposite of whatever they predict.

It would not be bad ideas if you lock some of it inside my bank account LOL, just kidding. If I say you should lock it in a cryptocurrency, it would be a wrong advice, because no matter how much I believe in cryptocurrency, anything could still change within that time frame of 5 years, and it would be disastrous losing such amount of money.

I can only advise that you invest the money in a real estate, since it will always appreciate, the property would have appreciated when you are ready to make use of the money, or alternatively, you can lock it in gold, gold has been in existence for years and it is still very much used, so that will be another way to lock it. Honestly mate, the best for now would still be real estate for a 5 years savings, I am sure by that 5 years, you would have also had an increase of 10.

Let experience be their teacher, because no matter how much you talk and shout, we will still have people that will see a sense in the senseless idea that the op has, artificial pump is what has eventually destroyed some altcoins, and this has been their practice. For a project that has quality project, and one that has a very intelligent, passionate and active team with solid marketing strategy, I don’t think they need to pump a coin before they get sustainable value for their project.

The project product itself will speak for it, and people will generally announce projects that really have a working product for them to continue to get massive adoption for their product and their cryptocurrency. So I don’t see any sense why people would pay attention to such group.

I think buy back wouldn't make more money to shareholders, they need to build new games and they need to drop the house edge down to 1% and they need to do signature campaigns and they need to put advertisements everywhere they can including google and youtube and if they can get the word out then people would play here not only for dividends but for just entertainment like all other places.

People bet on stake like billion times, same with primedice, windice is a new place and even they get millions of bets everyday, so long story short there is no need to put dividends as a reason to play here, people play on places they have no return whatsoever and they still do it, so why not find a reason to gamble on eosbet that doesn't involve bet token as well, its doable but will require a lot of marketing budget and effort.

I clearly do not get that aspect too, because any credit card issuer also do so to make profit from its operation, and any credit card who would even take the risk of allowing payment of cryptocurrency would slam high charge on user for doing so against the government permission, and moreover, I am not sure any financial institution offering credit card services under government would ever allow cryptocurrency payment.

Most of the ones we can use are third party related companies with high fees, and if we consider the fee and lots of fees we will still have to pay for cryptocurrency usage, we will see that it is really not worth it to engage credit card services in our little purchase, otherwise, we might have useless the value of what we are purchasing.

Why would you be interested in a project that has since had history of scam before, and this is not even a hidden one, this is a scam that its owner was even arrested, and jailed of the act, jut that I stopped following up and don’t know if he has been released.

If you insist in trying your luck, check the team but first, then ensure that it is not the same team that scammed people then before they went off grid, if it is the same team, I will implore you not to pay attention to them, there are better projects that you can still research on and participate in their bounty program or buy their token directly from reputable exchanges if you wished to just be an investor. There is still no guarantee that bit connect would still not have the intention of scamming people the second time.