Although there is a lot of positive news specially about blockchain adoption, it doesn't mean that it will result to some big movement in the price. Companies are still experimenting about this technology and what it can bring to them. Those are private firms so I doubt that they are going to accept or even invest on crypto.

What we really need to see is some big retail companies started to accept bitcoin as means of payment. This could really boost the adoption and it could really set a precedence to even mid level merchants to try and offer crypto payment options because otherwise they will be left out.

This news has dominated the market scene in the last week or so.

And yes, I agree that it would really create a lot of positive publicity and awareness to BTC. Although is is growing by the day, this kind of promotion will really take BTC on the next level.

There are other sports personalities as well that said they want their salary to be in crypto, those guys are forward thinkers, because they know that in the next coming years, the price could really go up and it's going to be a win-win for them.

Here is a good explanation from OKEx

https://medium.com/okex-blog/ieo-vs-ico-what-are-the-differences-f0a700bb9a5c

It's good though that we have this kind of business model, I mean a lot of investors are complaining about scam ICO in the crypto-verse and it's about time that at least we can minimised them by the introduction of IEO which is being run by trusted exchange.

However, it doesn't mean that scammers are not going to evolved and get themselves into IEO. There are some projects you might take advantage of this new trend and run a scam specially hiding behind from not so trusted exchanges. So we still need to be very careful and do due diligence.

Exactly, it didn't put any weight whether that project would be successful as well. It's good marketing ploy, but you can't take away the fact that the people behind are willing to pay celebrity endorser more money because the returns could be 10 folds, like in the case of Floyd endorsing Centra that time.

Although Manny Pacquiao is popular, if I"m not mistaken this is not the first time he endorses such token and I"m not sure what happened. So just be careful, you still need to look at the people behind.

You are in a crypto environment and you are asking about stocks?

You already said that you have been practicing it for months, I guess that's not enough and you really need to educate and learn more from day trading but it's not at easy as it sounds.

So go and continue to day trade and at least learn from your past mistakes. If you have the chance to record everything then good, at least you have something to look at if something goes wrong. No one can teach you here how to day trade because every individual has is very different specially talking about risk.

I would agree with you that the there won't be a sudden surge on the price of ETH with 2.0.

It will take months or years before we can finally see the benefit of that upgrade. Similar to bitcoin, we all know that the halving is the catalyst, but if you look at the history of block halving, it takes years before bitcoin reaches new all time high.

So this might be the case for 2.0 here, the price won't grow in weeks or months. It will take years of accumulation and will finally culminated in a new all time high probably one or two years after.

Yeah, that's the reality, so I don't know what happened to those people here specially during the boom of 2017 to just say that they are going to quit because they are going to focus on trading as a living. I mean how can you support your family and bring food in the table if the market is very volatile.

This should be an eye opener for those who wanted to earn big bucks in day trading. It's going to be difficult and it takes years to be successful at least because of the unpredictability of the market.

Fiat based online games will still exist eventhough that crypto based online sites will boom in the next five years. And perhaps those fiat based games will not fold, on the contrary they might open their own crypto based games just to stay with the competition.

Just like we witnessed in the bank vs crypto today, banking system won't simply die because everyone is moving to crypto. And I still think that majority of fiat based players are not comfortable with crypto as well.

Of course, why would we complain? We have seen the lowest price at $3200 last December 2018 and ending up at the $10k range would be great right?

But the thing is, we could end up more than $10k or suffered another dramatic spiral to $3k, so we really don't know what's going to happen at the end of the year. Better yet, not to expect something great so that we won't be disappointment.

You really need to check out your trading history.

No one can give you the exact every minute of the price since you are the one who made the trade.

So log in to that exchange and try to see if in your trading book if the history are still there. I don't know if exchanges removes trading history as far as one year, but you can give it a try.

Sept 26 is the big day for Bakkt, so let's see how it goes.

As far as ETF"s, it could be delayed again or no approval after all so I don't see it as something that we can depend if we are going to expect a bull run.

The only event that can really push and be the catalyst is next's year halving. But it's not something that can affect the price overnight. We have to wait for months and see the real impact on the market.

Exit plan?

I don't have any, but in cases that I already won and won big, I easily exited and quit and I don't want to stretch my luck for that day. So my only exit plan is to have control, and not push yourself and of course, don't be greedy.

Really hard to say, and even if I'm in a losing streak, I would just stay out for a couple of day, just sort of cooling off period. Of course I wanted to quit at some point, but it is going to be difficult. I have periods wherein I quit gambling for years when I don't have a stable income. But when things are going right on my end, I will continue to play to have some fun.

I'm looking at TRX and it seems it's still down 90% from it's previous all time high.

30 days, - 9.5%, 60 days, -25%, and one year -19%. So I know what you are feeling right now based on that stats alone. However, it's possible that it can reach another all time high but the question is when, it could take another year again just to be able to at least manager a +50%.

So it's hard to give you advise mate, whether to sell today and cut the loss or continue to HODL and have patience.

Let's say I will be positive on the last three months.

I know that there is no such thing as event's repeated itself here, but last year eventhough we are in the bearish market entering December, the price took a spread in the last two weeks of that month and at least push the price higher as expected.

But don't expect something similar to happen, so it's still a 50/50 call unless we hear some positive news in October about bitcoin ETF approval to propel the market in a mini bull run again at the end of the year.

But there will be a Binance USA if I'm not mistaken? Unless I was not aware that they are not going to push through with the plan.

Coinbase is a good alternative as well, specially regarding this news, Updated: Coinbase UK Agrees to Return 80 BTC to Victim of Email Phishing Attack.

There are other alternatives out there, but I guess people are going through Binance because of the man behind that exchange. He is getting bigger by the day and could be consider as major influencer at today's standard.

Not a single penny.

We all know how shady the people behind this exchanges, so why are you guys plunging and enriching them? Personally, I don't understand the sentiments of people around, the communities consensus is against Roger and his cohorts so I guess it's slowly swaying about because he has open an exchange and using bitcoin's name on the side. Lol.

Correct, it was really a nasty injury and we never thought that he can came back from that injury and developed himself in the GSW uniform. Some NBA analyst think he is done already, but he proved him wrong.

If I'm not mistaken, I said that if no one will hire him this season, he will seriously consider retirement. But he has a good NBA career winning multiple championships with the then GSW dynasty. So it's just about time to call it quit and focus more on his personal life. Good decision.

Good points.

Content is still the king and this really bring viewers to your channel specially in Youtube. But to evolved yourself by giving incentives to your viewers is now the new trend. Not just in crypto but all form of ads in Youtube. Even those who do unboxing reviews do give incentive to their viewers. So it make sense if you are an influencer in this market specially if you have tactics of giving your viewers free tokens.

Everyone here is hoping that we will survived this long bearish market. No one really expects that it will take this long though. Bitcoin has survived its scare, from $3200 - $10k, but majority of the altcoin still suffer as this point and some of them have died already.

This is a testament that market is very unpredictable, and there are cycles here that is beyond our control.  It will take months and years to wait, but when the time comes that the bull run is imminent, no one can stop it. So it is tit-for-tat, survival of the fittest here. If you don't have that kind of personality to wait and have the patience, then it's either you get out or learn how to cope with it.

Litecoin is what we call the guinea pig or silver to gold's bitcoin. It is like a testing bed for bitcoin, like halving, scaling etc. I'm not sure about Bitcoin Cash though, just a fork coin of bitcoin and then claim themselves as the true bitcoin, very shady tactic.

Bitcoin and Litecoin as very close and tight. I disagree about being not finished tough, I mean they are already complete and what we are seeing are just enhancements and for scalability, like LN for bitcoin.