I am feeling much better now, I was scared for a while that once we hit over 9 thousand again we would drop again, we recently hit above 9 thousand once but then we went down, now we are going up again and this time around it didn't went back down which made me feel a lot more comfortable. Now, we need to find the new top, we know right now buying bitcoin may not be a good idea or it could be a great idea but selling it makes no sense for sure, you can have questions about when to buy but I am 99% sure you should not sell right now.

Considering that fact I think we need to figure out the big resistance and where it is, I can see 11.5k is a bit tough and all but doesn't seem like it would be the biggest challenge, maybe 12.6k could create a problem since its too soon after 11.5k? I don't know.

I don't like simulation, why don't they do it on the actual 90 seconds of a game where people can bet and the NBA will have like a commercial break for a minute or two where people either can bet on casinos and what not but mainly also on the computer via some website as well. That way the last 90 seconds will be open to betting thanks to giving us some time with the time out but at the same time still real life and not a simulation.

On simulation I would never know how they did it, like in 2k you can make your guys go 99 overall and I wouldn't know about it so what if the simulation is like that and Charlotte comes back from 20 points and beats warriors in the last 90 seconds? Who knows what will go around in those things, that is why I would rather not risk my money into it.

Bol Bol is not as tall as his father but even with that fact he is a tall guy with a good shot, the problem seems to be his medicals. Normally he was seen around as a lottery pick but the medicals came out bad. Not like just now bad but as in its a lifelong thing bad where when someone is too tall and their legs rub against each other their knees get too weak eventually crack which for example what took Yao Ming out so early in his career, Yao could have played another 5 years if he was healthy.

So, any team that actually wants to have Bol Bol will have few good years with him for sure but dude will be at most 10 season player if not less. That is why nobody really wanted to pick him even though he is a good player. Denver seems to have a great medical team so they will do their best but suns has the best medical team I am sure they could have max his potential.

I am not really that big on privacy depending on how much privacy we are talking about. If you mean getting my name and my id and my photo and all that than it could be risky, I have given literally all my KYC information to exchanges to be able to withdraw my money anyway whereas these facebook stuff will take "what is his hobby" type of data from me, they can get instagram type of photos as well which I do not use but still they can do it but the most important one is your national ID, as long as that is still a secret you are fine and I am pretty happy with giving away my name and photos, those are useless stuff.

However, the sad thing is we are not getting anything in return, you have to pay for libra, so if you use libra you are spending a fee that is your privacy without getting anything in return.

It is not even out yet and people are already shilling for it. I don't understand how a new stablecoin backed by the biggest privacy breacher in the world will be capable of becoming the king. There is literally no one that believes this aside from people who have missed their chances with bitcoin and want to get rich with Libra but now that its a stablecoin and it will not make you crazy rich because it is literally one to one ratio and will not make you any profit at all.

However, it could be the "king of stablecoins" which is still a big deal for it since its not even out yet and we are discussing it but that is not because Libra is awesome but more because our current stablecoins sucks and have no good backing by big companies so Libra with facebook could take that spot.

It is all about the utility if you ask me. ERC20 has the metamask and mew and what not all looking like they have been around for a long time whereas others do not have that. So, if you join an ICO and get your coins back on your metamask that will be just chrome extension and will be right under your hand very easily and will be capable of using it whenever you want and however you want knowing full on well it is a good wallet.

However, there is a new contender which is binance chain, it allows your coins to be stored on binance itself lately and that means its a good competitor, its not as good as metamask and now as easy to use but it is a good competition which we all need, good competition makes these companies work to be better and that helps us all.

I think unintentional is the right term for it, I mean we still can't prove it with data, its not something we can just calculate and put it on a database and show people like "this is how bitcoin protects fiat money" so these are all assumptions and not a provable point.

Moreover, even if we could have provide proof for it and showed people that bitcoin protected fiat, it still wouldn't be direct and would most probably be more like indirect ways of protecting it without actually working towards it. You can't just blame bitcoin for what people do with it, people use dollars or euros to do bad things as well and dollar is not blamed for that person doing something bad with it, bitcoin should not be blamed for protecting fiat because it is not trying to do that but people may use it for that.

I don't think its non-discriminate, it all depends on how you use. However, if you look at the first idea of satoshi and why he created it and even look at the code itself and see the rules that is mostly a leftist idea. It is in fact leftist not because its against any conservative idea or anything or even not against capitalism since its a currency itself and revolves around financial markets and all however it was created against banks and the idea of banks scamming people legally.

It is a bit of right idea and not left because bankers are usually defended by the right leaning political parties and usually disliked by the left leaning parties. However, the coin itself and many other coins do not have a specific agenda against the political parties, its just parties having their own agenda against the coin.

Honestly, everyone has their own reasons but the most common one comes down to just one thing ; being bored. If people are bored there is no limit to what they can do.

Playing on a casino is the most stupid thing anyone can do yet we all do it anyway, there is a place literally saying we will be taking your money and we are doing it legally with our house edge and telling you upfront that we have more advantage to win than you and will take your money mathematically speaking and people still play there, we are all willing to accept the fact that mathematically speaking the odds are against us and we will be losing money yet we still do it.

All that is because we are bored and we want to do something that is fun and gambling even if you lose is super fun.

I couldn't even keep track of who went there last night, %60+ of all picks have been traded last night, I knew that this draft was more like couple players and rest are trash but I didn't know what could be the reason why everyone traded it for something better in the future, I can understand the teams that didn't want to draft now and get a pick later but I do not understand teams that took those picks.

The only good trade last night was Atlanta and new Orleans where pelicans sent Solomon hill which had a 12+ million contract and gave number 4 pick for it which created a great gap for them in the small forward spot. From a team with just Jrue and AD they turned it into a team with Jrue-Lonzo-Ingram-Randle-hart- and now Zion. They have an amazing future ahead, I hope they will be capable of getting Dangelo Russel and show Lakers what they have missed with that team.

I must say that your story is the most interesting one I’ve read on BF today and I am truly impressed. It has changed my perception of spider bets and giving me a better understanding of the game.

From what I have learnt, this is more of a fun game than money and I can only imagine the good times players had at that time. It’s quite unfortunate that it has been illegalized like you said nut thank God for better online games and I am sure you wouldn’t miss that so much. I hope to watch a video clips of this spider bet and see exactly how it’s been played since I have never been privileged to watch it but I have heard that its an interesting game.

Any projects that can be courageous enough to list on IEO platform are really not start u projects. Do you know how much these exchanges demand to list them on their platform? That fee alone is more than enough to start up a mini project in a mini village and feed the whole community for years.

Most start up projects usually start with zero fund which is why you see them go on ICO that requires no commitment, this is the reason why I do respect any project that has not conducted ICO before and could boldly register on IEO, it means that they mean business and it is certain that they will have a good package to deliver to their investors.

I really don’t see STO seeing the light of the day for now, STO may be quite new which I agree, but they have still been around for some months now which virtually existing investor knows about them, but there has been little attention paid to them.

Look at when IEO first came out, it really dint take IEO more than a week to get all the hype and support needed from every angle, but STO cam virtually the same time IEO came too but still look at their development stage, very slow and I am sure it is because it indirectly involved government and the offer is quite too low for any investor to make money through it.

I think Libra could be a killer though, people think it can't be but it can very well be a big time killer. However, it would not be killer of ethereum + ripple + eos + tron, it would be killer of usdt + usdc + gusd because Libra is a stable coin and we do need a stable coin that is backed by a big company.

Look at what these are backed by, usdt is backed by bitfinex and another company they partnered with which has its banking operations in a shady Caribbean bank and do not even have 100% backing, usdc is backed by circle which owns poloniex which is backed by big bank but that is too much "backed by" to be worthy, gusd is backed by the winklevoss twins and their company if I am not wrong and they are decent people but not as big as facebook (winklevoss and mark now both gonna have stable coin lol). So, Libra could be better than all of them.

Facebook decided to make a test and create their own crypto currency to see what the fuss is about crypto going on as an experiment and all of a sudden whole crypto world is focused on libra. There are hundreds of coins printing out everyday and we have over two thousand crypto currencies listed on coinmarketcap and you are focused on libra?

Why would it kill any of the coins you listed, there is no competition between libra and all those coins. Libra will be libra and create its own path and own market instead of getting into our market and take money out of it to itself, that is why I think ethereum, ripple, eos and tron is fine because the investors on those things and the teams behind those coins are still going to be there even after years go by with libra creating its own market and support somewhere else.

It is definitely a good way using it in government and there is a bad way of using it. For example, if Russia decides to interrupt a countries economy and want to ruin it they will be capable of buying crypto with Russian fiat money (no idea what its called) and get bitcoin with it from the people of Russia who wants to sell theirs and make them bitcoin rich or Russian fiat money rich, whereas they can cash out in some other country they want to ruin while taking their national money from them and bring it back to Russia and sell it for Russian money making that countries money weaker against Russian money.

So, as you can see blockchain at the hands of a bad person or a government can still be bad, it all depends on how you want to use it and why you want to use it.

I think the good part about bitcoin is that the ways to use it never cease to stop. I mean you can use it to pay for stuff, you can use it to earn as a salary, you can use it to gamble, you can use it to exchange with other coins, you can use it to buy and sell to make more fiat, you can use it to purchase gaming stuff or even play games.

These are the stuff that comes to my mind right now, there must be hundreds more but I do not want to look up and write them all here, basically speaking you are getting a ton of return for just having bitcoin and using it however you want, you want to use it as medium of exchange? you sure can, you want to use it to just buy and put on a paper wallet and store it for 50 years so your child can have a good college education? You sure can. Choose your own path.

I think it depends on how long a company has been operational. The ICO's are VERY overpriced because we are talking about something that is on idea stage and some of them are even just technical without any execution, tell me how many coins we have seen so far that basically told you an idea, got funded and then created a coin with the technological background and that was it, nothing more was done, maybe developers developed the coin a bit more but that is it, you couldn't even use it anywhere. That is why ICO's are of course a lot more overpriced than the lyfts and ubers of this world because those things actually got funding from people on their series a-b-c-d or whatever levels and then they went fully operational to a Goliath in a business which afterwards they had an IPO, they were already big when the IPO happened.

What recent downturn? I do not understand, bitcoin literally went from 3.2k to 9.1k+ right now and you are talking about bitcoin recent downturn. If you mean from 20k to 3k then you might be right but even that is now just a 50% drop and if you were smart enough to buy while going down you must have a lot less dollar cost average than just 20k, you can have bought under 4k and that would have dropped your average down a lot or you could have bought anywhere under 9k and your averages would have been lower.

All you have to do right now is take a look at the limits of bitcoin and where it can reach to understand that there is no reason to consider any drop as downturn since it would recover in no time if you use your money wisely to drop the averages down to a lower number.

I think the best case right now is keep going. Look at the price, from 7800 dollars to 9100 dollars it went up small by small and not all in one move which tells you more than the price. If the price moved from 7800 to 9100 all in one day or at most 2 days that would have mean that there was a pump and you could be scared about another dump that would have made someone rich but most people poorer.

However, right now we are seeing the price go up small by small which means there are people who are still willing to pay these prices for bitcoin whereas not as many people willing to sell to these prices, that is why the price will keep continue to go up until the amount of bitcoin people willing to buy equals to amount of bitcoin people are willing to sell for the same price. That doesn't seem to be happening any time soon.