For a certain period, yes. But not forever. Things change with the world. Maybe one day crypto will be a large percentage of total trading volume comparable to stocks and commodities.

I think you are mistaking a few things here. Margin trading is available to crypto as well including spot trading. So if you wish to do a leverage you can very well do it with bitmex, deribit. You dont necessarily need to wait for huge market movements just protect your position from getting liquidated.

Well that happens with crypto, and we cant blame anybody for that other than users who are holding it. Forex is pretty liquid, provided it has been here for a longer period of time than crypto.

Because 99% of ICOs and IEOs failed to do anything substantial you are thus seeing a higher number of people claiming scam than some few who are not complaining. Those few who are not complaining may also been scammed but dont want to tell it yet.

Anyway adjustment is the wrong term here. Bounty hunters need to stop doing bounties because they are wasting their time now. The ICO craze is gone now and its just worthless tokens in your wallet.

Would it not seem reasonable to learn something new and develop some skills during this time than waste it on bounties whose tokens might very well be worthless after getting listed?

Nope, most of it propaganda and taking data from the wrong sources and wrong target population. Cost cuts happen in many places but that does not imply that the entire country is doing bad. Recession has been brought up several times just to poke doubt into people's minds and make them sell their assets so the market becomes more liquid for the whales to buy and allow banks to take over.

Companies lay off employees for a reason. They will never lay off the top level cream because that would hurt the company's condition. The fact is that the ones who are laid off know very well why they got laid off but they always tend to brush it under the table and play victim. Bottom line is that one needs to work up the ladder and take care of their own self, making sure to earn and keep good relations with every employee to be in a company.

That much volatility can be ruled out in bets smaller than 10btc. You have to understand that the market though labelled as "very volatile" by many people, its not the correct term to use. There is less than 5% change in market price of bitcoin these last few months except this 1k USD crash and rise this week. So your dollar value of the bet is more or less same even if prices tank or rise.

But this is an inherent risk with the cryptocurrencies. You cannot avoid it. It does not mean that fiat has the advantage of being completely stable. Both has its pros and cons and fiat will not provide the anonymity that crypto provides.

However the Xaurum team had come up with the idea of tokenisation of gold. But that gold needed to be stored somewhere too. It is safe no doubt unless a big robbery takes place.

In fact if you are looking to keep gold just buy it yourself. This is good for giving as gift and for inheritance. This is not the gold you should trade though. For that an ETF would be a better option to go for.

Whether we see more asset backed coins is speculation but it can be good for those who are not willing to directly buy the asset but hold some of it in the form of tokens. I dont think governments will nag into this unless they become suspicious, provided nobody is using them for illegal purpose. But we have seen some idiots try to do illegal stuff with crypto too and hence the crackdowns.

I am one of those people who advice people againt bounties but your point is wrong here. The bounty manager is often at the mercy of the project owners too. So they cant reveal much info to the hunters being a middleman and having to watch both sides. But few people will actually understand this.

I doubt you have participated in any bounty as of now. I wont suggest you do though.
It is what they signed up for. No use complaining after accepting the terms and conditions.

You all should be happy that this forum is so lenient about altcoin projects and allowing them to run. They could have stopped bounties long back but they have not.

Not a big issue? If you are having several signups you need to keep several passwords - which itself is a risk if less tech-aware people are doing by using same password on many exchanges.

Speaking of which, you did see what happened with IDAX? They exit scammed and stole a huge number of assets and are selling them off. Whether they will get caught or not is not worth discussing but the point is that users lost their money - specially bounty hunters who create huge sell walls and leave them open for months.

Dice is an EV- game. If you are playing it you have to make sure not to stop at one point. Once you get a green streak dont let that rush make you continue betting. Stop at a profit and withdraw it. Of course the failure to do this is the reason why people lose too much. Again its not possible to reach any sort of profit by just stopping at a green streak or hitting a big multiplier.

There needs to be a balance between the two.

I think I should also post a flag that was made against me some time back and it has zero credibility from the reference.
However feel free to support or oppose it whichever you feel is right based on what has been linked.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=878630;page=iflags

Nice of you to note that I am wearing their signature.

There is a difference between what is legit and what is a scam. A project may be both or none or either of the two.

There is no such yardstick.

The above two statements explain clearly how scammers attempt to gain confidence of newbies and gain trust. MLMs are built in a way that the new investor's money is used to pay the old investor. Gradually this cycle will stop and the site will exit scam. Its not possible to predict which one is scam but the signs are there.

Read the post made by o_e_l_e_o, if you still believe it is not a scam then I cant help you clear your confusion.

OP is actually promoting his own blog traffic by posting here.

If you ask me, I manage my portfolio myself and I dont trust some line of code to run my money. Moreover there are risks associated with closed source bots, but open source ones are safer.

Just for those who are reading this topic, know that a bot only automates your trade. It does not give automatic profit. If you do TA on your own and Fundamental analysis, you should place trades yourself and that too with a long term goal. Day trading is never recommended which is what these bots mainly aim at.

Ahh calm down kiddo.

See you may be posting a project without knowing about it but I highly suspect that. But someone has to take the initiative and mark it to be a suspicious one and possible scam. Now these MLMs are confidence scams done by snowballing. The only way for people to stop them is to mark the people promoting them as scammers. You may not like it but you chose to promote it so the burden remains on you.

Now haru may very well be a scam. I wont talk about Nexo or celsius, because these lending platforms are often manipulating loans by creating them and making it seem like the platform is legit. What is actually done with the money is still not clear unless you have insider job.

Get a job.

Desperation is what makes people take wrong moves. Dont be that person.

You answered your own question.

Develop some skills and use them to provide some sort of service. Complete your education and get a day job. Keep crypto as a side earning and you might be able to straighten out things in life in a better way.

A "serious" gambler can mean both an addicted money-burner or a diligent gambler who takes care of the bankroll management and plays accordingly. What you describe is the first one.

Although its debatable the second group of gamblers also exist. They would be calm and composed to not waste more than 10% of their bankroll and stop when they lose it without trying to chase the loss. This might seem difficult and it essentially is because one has to master their emotions to be able to do this. Moreover one who can do so would not be a gambler anymore.

This question does not have a simple one word answer. It depends on what a person started with initially and how they learnt trading on that sector. One may be very profitable in stocks or crypto or both. Its not inherent that one market is more/less profitable. Here though, since majority of member comes for discussing about cryptocurrencies, it will be the answer of choice - which is obviously a biased answer because of the wrong selection of target population.

But I hope you have understand what I tried to mean.

Crypto is not a means to make profit. Trading is, understood the subtle difference? Now there are other speculative markets to involve yourself in but before that make sure you have a proper job to give some stable income to survive. Then you can look into precious metals, commodities and the more risky ones like leverage trading.

Coinmarketcap is an aggregator of coins and their statistics.

If they would start removing coins because they got delisted then there would no way for investors who bought those coins to keep track of them. A dead coin may get revived which is the dream of main failed investors.

Also removing coins is a radical steps which will bring in a lot of backlash on the site from the communities and this will lead to its downfall. After all sites like CMC and others depend on user views, donations and traffic to keep the site running. There are already some sites attempting to predate on its downfalls. Get my point?

It can be and it is in majority of the pre-minnenial era.

Thats interesting. Are they allowing users to take loans using gold as collateral?

Too much diversification is again discouraged. We can classify these assets as crypto and non-crypto. The stablecoins come under crypto and thus increase the crypto part of the portfolio. I would not recommend that. Keeping the crypto portfolio to the only few coins that are worthy for long term should be the holders goal.

Gold is even more volatile. But do people care? No. Because of the long term value of gold and its acceptance anywhere in the world.

Then why are you making a thread here to advertise? Make your own lending site and promote that on the internet.

You are looking to scam people by stealing their collateral. Nobody trusts you like that unless you offer to use an escrow to hold the collateral. Comparing to banks they store collateral in vaults.

Anybody attempting to do business with the OP will be at risk of getting scammed of their collateral.

I would not recommend Youtube here. Because youtube is filled with shills promoting their altcoins and pumping their shitcoins so they can sell. If you want to use Youtube to learn trading you are taking the wrong approach specifically to crypto. There are some methods to workaround this:

1. Make yourself immune to shilling and brainwashing attempts. Listen to them with a grain of salt and be objective when learning.
2. You can also go for stock market tutorials for learning fundamentals and technical analysis. That way you wont get exposed to altcoin shilling.
3. There are books available too but the practical approach of dummy trading is often helpful.

It would be better to buy gold with fiat at this price dont you think? Save up bitcoin, dont spend it now that the price is low. Its the time to buy bitcoin as well.

Hedging the bitcoin for gold? I would suggest that but not 100% conversion though. You would want to keep some bitcoin in hand and convert the rest to gold for future. Other precious metals are also good to look into if you have time.

You could get a vault at your bank. I know its one of the downsides of a physical asset being of value, but it is important to keep gold because it is the thing that you would give to your next generation for inheritance apart from fiat money and if it permits, bitcoin.