I am afraid NBA may not come back in a month like we assumed when it was postponed. The disease looks a lot more serious than it looked just a week ago and there is a lot more prevention nowadays.

I doubt we can really get rid of it in a month, this "heat will kill it" thing turned out semi-wrong as well, it does help with having a lot better immune system so I doubt we can actually call it wrong but it also doesn't instantly kill it neither, you just get it and survive it easier and it makes it not as deadly and when you have it once and get better its harder to get it again, so heat does help a bit but its not the cure right away. Plus there is no medicine/drug we know of yet, so we are going to probably have to wait a lot longer than just one month break.
 

The thing about leverage part is, when it is closer to maximum bet the results are like this ; one big whale bets a big amount, ends up winning, leveraged investor loses all he has, has nothing left, whale eventually loses, but the leveraged person is all out so he can't take advantage of it.

So, as you can see when you invest regularly you take advantage of everything, you never go to full on zero and you still make a profit, however when you are leveraged there is really no way of making profit if the whale first wins and loses only afterwards. I know why they do it tho, they want to leverage it because they imagine if whale ends up losing first and winning later, they could actually make a decent profit, they could x10 their entry and that would be more than great, so they risk it.

I guess the whole point of marketing is to create more users. Why would stake or any other place would show everyone "here is a dude who won 20 bitcoins, but he also lost 30 as well until he got this", that makes no sense. Not that every person who has won so far has lost more, sometimes people do actually win more than they gambled in the short term, that type of thing happens.

However, the more common version is people gambling and losing all their winnings in the end, that is a known thing if you keep gambling all the time. So, you have to assume that part when you see someone winning a lot. Doesn't matter if it is competition, or race, or promotion, or just regular old gambling, you will see people with big wins but most people end up losing.

The test is not a small one meehn  4 days back the price was around $7000 and I’m surprised that I checked today to be seeing $4.9k! Bruuh like seriously?! That’s over 50% decrease in the price in the last one week of time.

The test is not a small one. I’m even more surprised because I saw news recently after Bitcoin was declared legal in India and some economists were saying that people shouldn’t be too excited about that because the price is going to drop. I thought it was another hate talk and I never knew it’s going to be accurate this time. I hope the Halving changes this.

There is nothing like the best, everything works. This question is just like asking what career is best – whether it’s engineering or doctor, when you know that there are successful doctors and engineers as well. Just go for what you like and the area you believe it’s going to work out for you.

You might say think that freelancing is difficult but trading carries more difficulties and risks than you will see in freelancing, at least there is nothing like risks in freelancing. Whatever you choose, you just have to put in more hard work to be successful. I have seen a lot of people that started trading and it worked for them and they got into it full-time. And I have also seen a lot of freelancers that became successful and started working from their home full-time. So choose what you like.

Those people might be regretting for purchasing various coins at the peak. Minority of those people might think that those coins would bounce back again and they should hold for the time to occur. Majority of those might even sell at loss just to get their hands on some other coins which they might think may hit the peak soon.

But at the end, their calculations would go wrong and they would even face loss in those coins by not keeping patience. Patience is the key to success. You should always wait for the coins to revert back before you could sell them in loss. Most of the people feel uncomfortable once they see the price running in the opposite direction and this makes them land up in loss. You should try to control your emotions in trading.

What I believe is that our trading strategies can be kept to ourselves only. It takes a lot of efforts in developing those strategies and it might not really be worth to just share the strategies with hundreds and thousands of people for no benefits.

It would be like working hard in tough atmospheric conditions just to donate some money to the people who would never like to take any efforts to earn that money. Each and every one of us must make his/her own analysis rather than trusting with anyone else's strategies. We might surely use other's opinions to recheck our strategy but entirely depending on those might not be something which would land you up in profits.

Added to that using hardware wallets can always help because even if your computer is infected with virus and compromised then also you cannot be hacked by hackers.

I believe people must use mobile as 2FA if they use web-wallets because there are phishing links often and you end up giving your password to them so at least they cannot login until you also give them the OTP. Moreover, if you are wise and aware enough then there is no way someone can get your coins at their will, yes a few hackers might do brute forcing and other tricks to get access but if you use hardware wallets even those are eliminated.

Yeah, I agree that not everyone can save for themselves, I have been trying to save for a long time, glad fully I have some saved aside thanks to some bounty bonus I did that turned out to be a good amount and it is totally saved aside but I fail at monthly saves.

I can't just spend the money I earn and keep some of it aside, hell I can't even cover that every month so I have to spend some of my investments time to time, thankfully that is rare but it happens as well. So, how could one person who fails to even pay for monthly expense manage to put some money aside. I will keep trying to do it but I just fail at it.

Now, I have about 25k saved somewhere (gold, crypto, interest etc etc) but I don't even know a proper passive income that would make sense and be not so risky neither.

@coupable
Yes, my guesswork based on my observation on how many people are pumping their camp. management offering topics. It is all about a perspective thinking about what is probably missing.

@yahoo62278
My understanding is, sending a PM once to anyone (and maximum 1 or 2 PMs to different people per day) is not prohibited by rules. Thanks a lot for enlightening.

@joniboini
Must be a good suggestion but not sure how many people will be ready to unveil their business secrets. That is the simple reason why new people are struggling to get their first project.

@Findingnemo
Convincing devs are happening for every marketing aspect. You must be wrong. Simply ask the people who ANN services or ICOs.

Yeah, the fall really did made sure to get gamblers real self out very quickly if you ask me. Not today but I remember in 2018 there was a ton of people who gambled stupidly just to make their dollars back since bitcoin was down. Instead of waiting of just selling to cut the losses, these idiots actually gambled more and more to make that money back, guess what happened to their money? .

Maybe a rare one or two got away with it but I doubt it was that easy in general. The others, the ones who gamble just for fun and not for money, realize that it is getting riskier to gamble with how little they already have left, will probably just give a break to gambling and gamble when they get bitcoin price back above 9k levels so they could profit and gamble yet again.

I guess there was some exception about when the new miners will come to market and who would be the first and it looks like this will be the first one. Technology constantly evolves and we can't expect every machine to always be relevant, the first gigs we have built are no longer profitable and even if you are running on a free electricity place it is not making any money because the machines broke down before they can ever make a profit as well so basically you have to improve all the time to keep up with the times.

This is just the next logical step when it comes to litecoin mining however do not be mistaken that this will be the last one, in few years these will be old ones and there will be new ones as well, by 2025 this machine will not make a profit, always keep that in mind when you are buying them.

In contrast, I guess there must be more number of people are offering themselves for managing campaigns than the total number of currently running campaigns (with BTC payments). What is exactly missing here?

I guess simply opening a topic in services section for mentioning about experience on various activities of this forum along with  available time zone and contact methods with high graphics may not land them into managing a campaign always. I am afraid most manager-aspirants are stopping and waiting with a topic. I believe one more step is definitely missing out there. Let us discuss on that.

How few veteran managers are able to launch campaigns consistently?
1. I guess they must be contacting new devs and business people through one of possible means (PM of this forum,^{(as per inputs from Yahooo. Big thanks too)} support email from their site, DM in twitter, Telegarm and discord and etc).

2. They must be taking time to convince devs and business people about the importance of having campaigns or at least emphasizing to try a trail campaign to study the leads originated from this forum.

3. They must be frequently contacting back to the OLD such business people about re-launching campaigns.

4. They must have flex rates for every business types and projects.

5. They must be having good marketing skills before setting up themselves as an experienced manager on this forum.

Now, let me summarize the need of this discussion:
1. If you want to be a campaign manager and you are already having a topic but still looking for your first campaign then you must sharpen your marketing skills and must find time to spend for convincing devs and business people for a campaign.

2. I guess being a spam free manager and community friendly manager is just a 50% of actual business. The remaining 50% which is important for your success is about how efficient you are in convincing people for a campaign.

Honestly from the looks of the screenshots and how little mintdice has been promoting themselves I am pretty sure that they are keeping themselves under the radar until the new 2.0 comes into play. Why waste time and money on v1.0 when the new version is just around the corner and with this bit.rocket we might have actually seen the new direction they are taking as well.

The game was added mainly so we do not get bored and see that they are working on some stuff I suppose, otherwise they could have just kept it until 2.0 as well but didn't want us to think they are doing nothing. I trust you guys a lot and I know you have been working on 2.0 a lot and I am 100% sure you will do an amazing job and will do marketing like crazy when 2.0 comes out to get more attention.

I guess people were half expecting there would be valuable 2000+ coins and tokens around in the market but they were pretty wrong about all of that. I mean we have some good ones, I still think the top 50 list is not a bad one, we can remove some shitty centralized ones like xpr, bch, bsv and others from the top 50 and add some others into the list and have 50 coins that are quite good.

However when it comes down to "most" coins, they are made just to be made, it is SO easy to make a coin that you can literally create one in 24 hours even if you have zero developing skills, there are ready made ones where you fill out like logos and texts and stuff and you get to actually have your own coin.

Rest is simply just marketing, if you spend 10k on a website+socialmedia+bounty+campaign type of stuff, you will end up with 100k+ in return of that and you can basically not do anything, just give away ALL the coins to people and let them deal with it.

This your question is just like asking whether another cryptocurrency is going to be able to overtake Bitcoin, which is something that seems quite impossible. So, if you’re going to be asking whether another Blockchain that’s focused on smart contracts is going to take over the original Blockchain that came up with the idea of smart contracts I don’t think that’s going to be possible anytime soon.

It’s going to be possible only if it’s coming from a platform that’s already very popular. Take for example, Facebook is a very popular platform and they had plans to create their own cryptocurrency, imagine it was a success, it would be able to put up some competition because it’s a popular platform and is also backed up by other big brands.

Well, it is officially under 200 dollars now but it had to go down SO MUCH to go there that I do not believe it will go down too much more.

I mean if it was 205 and then went down I would say there was a chance ethereum would go down even more but we are talking about a huge bitcoin drop in price recently which caused ethereum to drop in dollar price as well even though it was hanging in there in bitcoin prices but couldn't handle bitcoins fall.

It has reached as high as 280 dollars as far as I can see and that means price has already fallen a lot as it is right now, from 280 dollars to 195 dollars which means I am 90% sure that price of ethereum can't go down too much more, 190 dollars should be bottom and it should go higher after that but of course we may never know until it happens.

When you see people like that who make a huge difference to the second person, I feel like that person wasn't really going for the prize of daily at all, he was simply just gambling for gambling sake and happen to be the first one because he gambled a lot. If the whole purpose was to be the first one, he could have stopped above 5 btc and he would have still be the first anyway, which means dude didn't cared about being first but only wanted to gamble.

Obviously, maybe I am wrong and he wanted to simply make sure he is the first by putting a healthy margin of victory so he didn't get beaten at the last second but I doubt that was the case, it looks more like a whale gambling however he pleases and nobody else having the same amount of money to compete with him.

By that logic I still could only think of if you need Visa to go to UK where you live, that's an expense, the fair from your house to your airport will probably cost something, and when you get back to your own city from airport to your house as the same.

Those are literally the only things I can think of as "will have to pay" stuff like totally have to pay those things type of level, otherwise like I said there is literally no bounds to what you can do, you can literally buy anything or go around do anything you want and spend ton of money if you want but for the poorer people like me this is literally a reward that says "you will spend less than 100 bucks and have a roundtrip fun to UK and back" which could very well be superbly insane to consider how we can probably never get that ever again.

I am not entirely sure if they overreacted or not. I mean sure this is a bad thing and sure Rudy Gobert getting corona tested positive is bad as well but we are talking about a guy who is basically a physically beast 20's something dude, he has absolutely no risk at all. I hope everyone in Utah gets tested after this and gets a relief that they don't have it but they need to get tested nevertheless.

I think suspension makes sense but I still think there could be something done about this in the following weeks to make it come back as well, you can postpone the games and restart the league from where it was left of, or you can basically just go straight to playoffs since there wasn't really all that much left but whatever they do, I hope they do end up finishing the 2020 season somehow.