There is really no need for any bad blood between crypto-users and bankers. It is possible for Banks and crypto to co-exist and under such a scenario, both the sides are going to benefit. Look at the stock market. The banks are closely involved and this in turn has proved beneficial for both of them. Same strategy can be adopted for crypto.

He has lost the respect of the crypto users and by now his reputation is permanently tarnished. Even if he proves that he has something to do with Satoshi (which looks highly unlikely), I don't think that he'll be able to clear his name. Anyway, I have a feeling that we should ignore this loser. Why we should give him any publicity?

It won't be easy this time. Because the mainstream media has painted Bitcoin as a "bubble" after it lost 85% of the value in 2018. Even if another bull run occurs, people will always keep the previous correction in mind, and may be reluctant to put their money in to crypto. A lot of convincing may be needed to encourage the common people to put their faith into BTC again.

Amazon is going to be least concerned about the exchange rate of Bitcoin. If that was the case, then they could have accepted BTC when the exchange rates peaked in 2017. The truth is that they have such a monopoly right now in the online shopping sector, and they feel no need to attract new users. I would say that their user-base has almost saturated.

This is going to be good for us. If the banks charge us for storing fiat currency in our savings accounts, then more and more people will try not to use fiat currency. When the inflation is in positive figures, then the negative bank interests can never work. The option is to store as low amounts of fiat as possible, and to increase the proportion of assets such as Bitcoin and bullion.

I have heard a lot of criticism against Ripple. I agree with your argument that it is fundamentally different from the other cryptos. I never had XRP in my portfolio, because it looks a lot over-priced. And on top of that there are doubts about the total supply and circulating supply. Don't know much about EOS. Actually surprised to hear that it is similar to XRP. 

Steyn is on fire!!!! And CSK is struggling against his firepower. They lost two very important wickets (Shane Watson and Suresh Raina) in the first over. Just proves that the RCB strategy of continuing with the under-performing bowlers was wrong. They should have replaced Mohammed Siraj and Umesh Yadav much earlier. Now it is too late for them to qualify.

India is dominating the rankings due to their dominance in all the departments - batting, spin and pace. Their best performances occurred in South Asia, where the conditions are more conductive to spin bowling. But as you said, none of the current test playing teams (12 in total?) are unbeatable, and that is applicable to India as well.

I still hold a lot of alts and BTC in my wallets and I need to check the news every now and then to be knowledgeable about the future prospects of these assets. But it is tough to manage both the full time job and holding cryptos. And this was definitely one of the reasons why I converted many of my altcoins to BTC last year.

I am not a frequent user of the darkmarkets, so I don't know much about the anonymous coins. That said, I have heard a lot about Zcash and Monero. There was a time when these coins were regarded as the successors to Bitcoin. But they lost a lot of value in 2018, and nowadays hardly anyone talks about them. Another interesting coin was Deep Onion. I purchased some Onion from Cryptopia and later sold them at a small profit (in 2018).

I have also participated in dozens of airdrop campaigns and none of them gave me good rewards. The only campaign that I found somewhat good was the RepMe airdrop. The tokens that I received from this campaign are worth close to $10 (which is still a very small amount). Either I was terribly unlucky, or I was late to the scene.

I have heard similar stories here, but I don't know why I was so unlucky with my bounty campaigns. Tell us a bit more about this campaign. Did you converted your tokens to Ethereum or Bitcoin immediately after you received them? Also when did this campaign started, and for how long was it active here in Bitcointalk?

To tell the truth, I get most of the information regarding the alts from this forum. If something goes wrong with the project, then the users are quick to point that out. This information may be difficult to find in crypto news sites, because some of them have a habit of not publishing important news, in case that is detrimental to their interests.

Let me ask you one thing. Let's say you are holding 100 different tokens. Is it possible for you to check the news regarding all these coins on a daily basis? This is one of the difficulties that I faced earlier. And in case you are not tracking the latest developments, then you may miss out on opportunities for profit booking or to limit losses.

That's true. I used to participate in too many bounties (mostly using my Facebook account) and in the end I ended up with dozens of different tokens. It was tedious to manage all of them and to exchange them to BTC or ETH.

If the transaction fee goes above a certain threshold, then there is a chance that both BTC and BCH may increase the block size through hard forks. BCH has done that once and I don't think that they'll be having any issues in doing that again.

I mostly participated in social media bounties and very few of them actually paid any significant reward. Mozo (a Korean project) paid me around $60 worth of tokens for my work, but most of the others paid like $1 or $5.

I have more experience here when compared to you, and I would advice you to sell some of your alts at the right time. I have been collecting alts for the last 2-3 years. And the majority of the alts (i.e more than 50%) that I got in 2017 are dormant now. Cash them out when you have the chance to do so.

DEX is a good option for those users who don't want to undergo KYC. But from what I have seen, the prices (in terms of ETH) is normally at least 20% lower in DEX when compared to the other exchanges. And not all of the tokens can be traded in DEX sites.

Thanks for the poll. Voted for Arsenal, and I hope that the final will be between Arsenal and Chelsea. I am familiar with the other three teams, but the fact that Eintracht Frankfurt was able to advance so far really surprises me. I can see that they defeated strong teams such as Benfica and Inter Milan. Getting very tempted to bet for them against Chelsea... Bet365 is offering 2.75, while Betway have them at 2.8. Should I go for the bet? Or Chelsea (2.5 in Bet365)?