Strange selection.

The design fundamentals for Ethereum & Dash are pretty terrible, it's amazing they've survived this long (Dash probably only because there's so little transaction activity to abuse).

Litecoin is going to lose any small utility is has on a far shorter timeframe once Lightning becomes more developed & popular.

Ripple doesn't really have much of a use case; it's essentially a SWIFT/ACH competitor, but any problems in SWIFT or ACH-like networks will cause fiat to become less stable, making Bitcoin compare far more attractively (people have mostly heard of Bitcoin, however unsure they are of it, you can't say that for Ripple).

And Monero's not on the list? Strange list (never looked at Cardano, anyone know something about it?)

Nah. Most people using Ethereum right now are noobs and airdrop chasers -- they will pay the high fees because the rewards are much higher than that. Only when the fees become so high that they eat up all their rewards people will start to ignore it. Altcoins went down because there was no reason for them to increase anyway. It was Bitcoin's time to shine and altcoins are nothing more than parasites thriving on its prey. They don't deserve to increase in value because there haven't been any positive developments. Ethereum in my book is still extremely overvalued. I can't wait for EOS to suck life out of Ethereum....

To me, there is really no point in following mainstream media regarding speculation anymore. There are always going to be individuals that are trying to make outrageous predictions that will very obviously not come true by any means.


]This part just made absolutely no sense.

Notice that most predictions that these people make have absolutely no basis whatsoever. I really am starting to think that these predictions are solely for the purpose of sensationalist headlines, self promotion and nothing else. With the current bearish sentiment, and the fact that there is virtually 0 momentum upwards, there is virtually no chance that we'll see an all time high this year.

It's quite possible that every government will start doing that.

If we ignore all the circus going on in the media, governments just hate each other, period. They however love doing business with countries as long as it is beneficial for themselves, but how can you trust a transfer of value between one country's financial system and the other? They at any time can rig the shit out of each other, but that's practically impossible with Bitcoin. It creates a trusted layer where value swaps algorithmically will be secured and transferred between the involved parties.

There is no face behind Bitcoin; who will you extort or whatever to force them to fork? This is no Ethereum where Vitalik openly admits to fork if he's forced to do so.

We are basically in the very early stage already with atomic swaps. I strongly believe that this will gain an incredible amount of momentum in the forthcoming years.

Bitcoin's decentralized consensus is the most powerful aspect of it. No other coin has it or will it ever have.

Thanks for the feedback, and do update here if you find any Bitcoin props for GoT. I'm OK with Nitro, I have an account there but I'm trying to consolidate all my prop betting onto one sportsbook.

Haha, yes, I suppose Tolkien can be difficult to begin, I actually had a very difficult time reading it for the first time, but I thoroughly enjoyed it on my latter readings. In between I read quite a bit of fantasy in my teens... Dragonlance writers, Raymond Feist, of course, RR Martin and Stephen King also have writing that's very accessible (and they both wrote a lot of tv scripts for Twilight Zone type sci-fi, so due recognition there).

I actually thought Dragonlance would get its TV series, but maybe the fanbase is too old now. Hope Amazon does more justice to Tolkien. The Tolkien estate probably learnt its lesson from the past. I think material is always dumbed down for audiences but GoT proved that audiences are actually a lot more intelligent than previously thought.

Hehehe, wouldn't it be nice to see them fight again not just for the glory but for all the money that both of them are going to make.  . It would be bigger than Floyd vs Connor and definitely can topple the PPV records of their first fight.

I am actually happy that China isn't taking advantage of the crypto craze. If Japan remains the main player in crypto terms, it has all the potential to become a superpower in the next few decades. I however still think that China will return to the crypto space after they have figured out how to properly deal with it legally. If they wanted to get rid of everything related to crypto they would have taken care of the miners there as well. It may be that Bitmain has some power there to delay the process or completely be free to operate there for ever. We shouldn't underestimate how powerful they are politically....

I thought that Pacquiao was only fighting for money and he would be knocked out before the 6th round. But I never expected him beating Matthysse, and that too in such a comprehensive manner. My respect for Pacquiao has increased by a hundred times after watching the match.

well to be fair you were posting "doomsday stories" back then, at least most of the times.
an example: bitcoin should be worth $20
talking about price dropping to $900

so i'd say the reaction you received was perfectly justified.

and today's news that you call bullish is just as bad in my opinion. they are all exaggerated