I know this melo thing will be a question in everyone's minds until season starts but we are talking about melo here, yes he definitely doesn't deserve 27 mil but wouldn't you get a player like melo for 2.5 million a year when you just lost trevor ariza ?

I think rockets did a great move there. Also he still has some game to actually give it a change to rockets offense. They missed 27 threes in a row last season while playing against warriors, worst case melo misses some shots, best case , he prevents them from going 27 in a row. So there is really not much to lose for rockets.

Honestly I have been asking this question to myself as well. Gambling on sports betting is still incredibly fun because I get to watch a game and have extra reasoning to favor one team or get more goals scored or whatever the bet was. I also like poker or something when I am gambling against other people which still gives me the chills whenever I do some crazy move. Yet, I feel like the fun of gambling against the house even though knowing house always wins seems not so much fun anymore.

Accepting gambling only for fun from the beginning may get you bored over time. But, accepting the losses and then convincing yourself for the losses as gambling is here for entertaining you, will be more fulfilled in my experience. I mean first target the profits and when you fail, search for fun among losses. That's it .

Not a chance, even if you are afraid of the fact that bitcoin can be seen something like risky according to the governments, you can still make sure that your bitcoin can't be traced back to you with the mixers. There is no way something as anon as bitcoin to be public knowledge and traced without your will. Even if you just get your money, deposit it on casino and withdraw to the exchange, exchange to another coin, withdraw to your local place and so forth than no one can trace it back to you.

People may keep them anonymous along with enjoying the benefits of bitcoin advantages. But, no one could eliminate the risks of bitcoin market risks. If you will be ready to accept both of these risks only, you may become a bitcoiner. But, I believe in coming years, more government will follow Japan for legalizing bitcoins. Still, we will have the risks of market fluctuations. I guess, after adopting bitcoins, no one is bothering that much compared to government related issues.

I believe hardest is to get it bigger from the small increments of percentage you are getting. You can have 50% increase on a 20 dollar investment yet you will have 10 dollars. However when you have $100k and get 1% increase that is 1000 dollars.

Hence, it is easier to get your money worth something when you have a bigger capital. However when you have small capital than you can invest riskier considering what you lose is not life changing amounts, so you can invest on something that may go zero or may go x1000 soon, riskier the investment is the higher the reward can be.

Oh this is sooo sweet. I love the look of it, I always wondered how much was going on in what country, this is sooo perfect.
I really love to see my own country in that map as well. There are a lot of countries but also there are a lot of countries that do not exist on the map with detail so at least we are in there .

It is great to actually see it because I initially tought USA would have been biggest yet I would have never thought seychelles to be number one on list, must be some off shore thing going down there.

I think it is great that people think they can just start a new exchange and actually make money from it. This means crypto world is getting bigger so I am not against it, even tho most of those exchanges have not passed from the hacking scenario that most other good exchanges had to put up against so they still have a lot to prove. The more websites and jobs about crypto out there means the bigger the crypto world is getting, not all websites take away customers from each other, they also create new customers as well which is great for all of us.

In my view, one exchange may get saturated whereas exchange industry will never get sutured as there are lots of new coins/tokens are being announced everyday which means we need more exchanges in coming days to cope up against the ever growing crypto adopters.

But I trade with an automated bot, I have purchased a bot which is not coded by me, it is now doing great because of the bull market and the tether trading with bitcoin is providing with decent returns however it wasn't doing so well back during January and February months because bitcoin dropped steeply and every other coin followed, I don't mean bot is bad but honestly during bad months it is worthless since everything is falling anyway, however when everything is going up, it catches all trades and makes great returns, also they have amazing support I got response on anything I asked and any time I asked it.

When crypto market trend is fluctuating heavily, I do suggest always to stay calm rather than trying out day-trading. When we are not sure about the trend, we must give markets some time. Fishing on clear tide is easier and risk-free unless otherwise we had gone such experience previously and too successfully.

You may not expect a record higher price by this year end. But, there are plenty of chances for a new all time higher prices before this year end but which may not hold for while like what we have experienced in the fourth quarter of last year.

At points like this, anyone who is even considering on selling what they have been holding all these while is making a silly mistake and would even set such a person into a deeper level of emotion in the long run if the market even decides to pick up in the short term. What anyone should be looking forward to now, is to at least be buying more which would make them even more relaxed considering that when the market eventually picks up, they will really be swimming in huge profits.

It is quite possible. It has stayed here at the $8k levels for a while which means it did not correct itself and dropped back, so this is not a pump in the price. Yet we are still forgetting how shorts work. People who bought bitcoin and collected the at the low amounts until it reached the $8k now holds bunch of bitcoin. They can suddenly sell all their coins and collect shorts as many as they can afford which will once again drop the price of bitcoin and they will have higher profits than waiting on bitcoin price to go to $10k.

$10,000 must be still a psychological barrier and breaking it might needs some external help. I mean if bitcoin get some very big positive news then we can easily see prices moving forward to next resistance level which is expected to be around $12,800 levels.

People are thinking going into a trillions of dollar worth of market looks easy. It is not, it will take a long time before we can see a bitcoin ETF however the reason why the investors get into bitcoin is not the ETF.

Do you really believe that these huge whales with millions of dollars can't see the ETF will get rejected but we can see it ?

Rich people are not stupid they know what they are doing, especially those rich people who got rich with financial methods. They knew it would be rejected yet bought anyway. So don't expect a bear market that quickly if ETF gets rejected.

Even though, yet one more time bitcoin etf by Winklevoss twins got rejected, I am confident about the news and awareness they have created along their two etf attempts will be enough for bringing new people into bitcoin ecosystem. Including myself, people are expecting someone on someday to get etf approved and due to that how high bitcoin prices will fly. When this kind of expectations on bitcoin remains alive, how we can expect bear market to dominate all the times ?

I am married, I have a job, I go out with my friends yet I have been gambling for years. I just do not have many hobbies that is my main reason. If I spend 50 to 100 dollars a month on my "hobby" that sounds fine to me. Gambling from loneliness sounds definitely possible but it can not be the only reason to gamble, or dissatisfaction sounds like a proper reason yet still we can't call it only reason. Both can be a reason for some people but people with satisfaction and family and friends in their life can still gamble.

Moreover, gamblers do not consider any factor which are soothing them but they in search of some reasons which will lead them into gambling. Those reasons are loneliness and dissatisfaction. Here, they are sounding similar to drunk addict but practically all addicted people do behave similarly as far as I have observed.

We all mocked how melo is not who he used to be and how he declines to come off the bench and even in rockets he is talking about how "he knows the game and won't come off the bench" and so forth but we are forgetting he is now getting paid min salary in rockets.

OKC sent melo away and atlanta paid him off to play somewhere else yet if you offer carmelo anthony to any team  on the league for minimum salary, everyone would take him, he worths a lot more than the min salary, he doesn't worth 27 mil a year but he doesn't worth min neither.

OKC has 4 decent  players brodie-pg13-adams-roberson, if okc got an offer for min salary melo they could have gotten him, it was the 27 mil that made him unwanted.

Yeah the ICO world is a sharks world, you are either the shark or you are the shark bait. I really hope everyone does their own research before they go invest into something. No one should invest a penny into any ICO without checking out the team behind it, the whitepaper, the community, what problem it is promising to solve and the investments made into it already. Without these data to collect, you are just rolling a dice and hoping for the best.

All the time we cannot expect a successful campaign which will be paying us some good rewards. Because, the success for an ICO, will be depending on lots of factor hence we must accept the risk while enrolling into any bounty program. When you will be having enough experience on choosing a right ICO by filtering out normal to scammy projects then probably you can hit the bull eye easily. Still, you cannot be right all the times hence you must accept the risk which is an expected one in bounty hunting space.

Well this obviously is not true We have seen bitcoin going up so high yet alts went down not because they lost value but because bitcoin gained value against the alts. However if the bitcoin price stays up than when the new money coming in the old money will move to alts, which will keep the bitcoin price steady for a while yet increase the altcoin prices compared to it. We just need time with no money leaving the market, if the money doesn't leave the market than it will move on to other coins.

Not all the rest of markets are interconnected with bitcoin and its market. Only for valuation they are being valued in bitcoins and other than this, they should gain their own value based on their applications on real world. But when a new investor enters into cryto world, he would prefer diversifying hence we will invest in both bitcoins and altcoins. So, entire market will move up as OP is expecting.

Still, it is not about hackers becoming smarter. It is about bitcoin price going really high compared to once what it used to be and in return it attracted more hackers, smart ones as well. So, we now have a lot of really smart hackers checking out what this bitcoin thing is and see that if they hack proper places they can really profit from it. Back in the day it wasn't this way because bitcoin didn't worth much for them, however now their hacks are really paying off.

We cannot stay calm even we are having highly secured systems are in act. Because, when a weakness being discovered, hackers will get ready to exploit that to the maximum and we cannot be sure that they cannot discover something all the times.

It is on a great roller coaster deal lately. It went down to $5.8k levels at first than it went up to $6.6k levels, when it dropped to 6.3k levels or so people started to ask if it is going down to $4k levels (some people even said $2k and $3k levels) and than it went up to 7k levels and stayed there a bit and now its at $8k.

It is moving like crazy and we are really scared that we may never know what the next move will be. Will it be $10k ? Will it go down to $6k ? Whats going to happen, we may never know until it happens. Even after bitcoin etf proposal was rejected once again, today bitcoin is showing its strength by bouncing back from $7.8k levels to current $8.2k levels. Bitcoin is into up trend as of now and we may expect this to continue until, we see prices to test $10k levels. If $10k will be holding then we may see prices advancing toward $12k in coming weeks.

When investing with bitcoin is being considered as highly secured, we never need to worry given that we are ready to hold positions for infinite time frame. Bitcoin seems already started this year quota of rally even today it faced some down fall.

I didn't "buy" bitcoin in last December however I was working and selling stuff and I have made enough money to live 3-4 months without working a single day. That made me feel like I was doing something amazing. However with the bull market following that and the business drying up I was left alone with almost nothing back than. Thankfully it went on to be a bit better after that yet than the next bear came in and it was bad again. These swings makes a person really depressed I am telling you.

But, it is way beyond the place right now. It has insane bitcoin dominance in the market right now and it needs to be really lower than this. I hope the correction comes to lower altcoins so that bitcoin doesn't drop. Eventually the bitcoin dominance will drop but we rather get btc staying up but alts reaching that instead of bitcoin dropping to reach the alts. It kinda really depends on how long bitcoin will stay up, if it stays up a bit more than alts will eventually reach.

In near future, there could be plenty of chances for success for many new altcoins like eth and ltc. It means the dominance by bitcoin in crypto world may get diluted more. I am afraid that may fall below 10% also in coming years as we are coming only one coin with other 1000s of coins. Maybe these calculations of comparisons are right still the dominance and the top positions are no more having any meaning, imho.

A good gambler will actually not even expect anything such as winning at all from gambling unless he just ends up the luckiest in the world at that moment in time. Not expecting anything serious except fun from gambling will definitely help anyone not to even get to the point of having to control themselves since they already have limit and all they are after anyway is having some fun. In that way, it is more like gambling for the fun reasons and not for the getting rich reasons.

You must be wrong like most other people here. There are thousands of gamblers here who never bother about winning still they all could be considered a step ahead like best gambler. Yes, how you manage your gambling life alone will be deciding ether you are a good or bad gambler and not just your winning counts.

Lol people talk yet not vote, right now raptors seems to be the highest voted with one.
I bet warriors wins this year too, as long as they do not beat themselves, no one else will beat them so this year if they play like they always play there will be no reason for them to be beaten.

I was surprised with the rockets series since it was easily beatable for a team like gsw yet they failed to finish quickly, I know harden and cp3 is good and all but this is gsw we are talking about. I feel like this year will be easier.