I really had no idea gambling made up so much of taxation in this continent, thank you for the read. I wonder if 7.7% of gambling tax is worth legalization, though, when you also see that tax money has gone towards gambling rehabilitation and development in poorer areas where addiction is also a problem. It would seem to me the 7% would become even less (but I do not know since I don't have the stats). As Hydrogen says, there is also a social and cultural impact, which could be important to research even as they have economic values.

Now I know it's too soon to think the bull is finally here, but after a week of poor price, I can see Bitcoin now picking up some momentum to head upwards. Will it breach $7k? I think a big yes is almost on my mind. Will it stay there? I'm 50/50. I think the temptation to take quick 10% gains from this week for people who bought in at $6100 will be to great.

In other words, buy now if you haven't already, before 7k is taken.

There is only one benefit with centralized as far as I'm concerned and that is liquidity. This is simply the only reason everyone used Polo, Bittrex, Bitfinex, and now moving to Binance and Huobi and all the new centralized ones. But as soon as we can find a decentralized exchange that beats these guys in liquidity, we're all going to move there.

Security: trustless.
Fees: lower.
Manipulation: less risk.

What other excuse do we need?

Why is this a mistake? You got an airdrop and you sold it for something. That sounds like a profit to me. Profits are never mistakes. I will say however that you made the error of participating in airdrops and selling off tokens - the big reason behind why there is such a saturated market of tokens with almost no value other than speculating prices. If you keep doing this, you'll help bring crypto down to its knees.

I don't know why but I'm not getting any excitement from the games as before in World Cup. Everything seems to make me a bit down now. The theme song. The teams. The players. Even the world cup babes aren't getting me excited

Maybe it's just the group stage beginning. Maybe I'm getting older.

Maybe I just need to bet big on a group stage game.

P.S. come join FIFA and bitcointalk's group pool: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4130568.0

I'm doing badly there.

Bountyhive discussions have formed a lot of thread topics over the past several months. Like all bounty managers, they have had their fair share of scams, but few of them really can be attributed to the ability or the reputation of the platform itself. Just like bitcointalk, you can't hold them responsible for scams operating under their platform.

I see a few mods now holding bountyhive signatures, so if you ask me, there's no better approval rating.

I think what a lot of newbies don't realize is how quickly streaks can come, especially when those who only played fiat before come to crypto gambling. I remember I could spend hours at a online casino and still spend only $30 dollars in total (or lose, whatever haha). Every hand, every roll, took time. Maybe minutes per outcome.

Then I discovered crypto (dice is the culprit) and you had sites that let you bet 10 times/rolls in one click. You have autobet that lets you leave your PC running and claim thousands of rolls in an hour... then for sure you'll see streaks all the time.

15x on double streaks? every hour. Easy.

What, really? If I had paid attention to that stats I might not have bet on such a high scoring Germany game. I thought Germany -1.5 to win was a pretty safe bet, and I thought Brazil -2 was also safe. When the Coutinho goal went it, I thought it was all going so well. I think we have to salute the Swiss players, they had far fewer shots, and the man of the match for me was the keeper. Esp near the end.

Corrections aren't good or bad for the market, they are just a natural order of things. For them not to happen is not natural. Sort of like when people say "getting sick is good for you, it builds your immunity". But getting sick is natural.

What I will say though, is that the market "correcting" is probably better to just stay like this for a long time. This is stabilization in my view. The longer it stays at this levels or even lower, the better for long term health.

FACT: You cannot base any market performance future based on its past. This is true for every single market, fiat, crypto, stocks, commodities, anything. Manipulated or not, patterns are there for the people who believe in strategy and hope, and in crypto, people actually believe they can game the system.

Fact: If you truly believe people could game the system, they already are, and they're not coming into this forum or any online place to tell others. They're doing it and moving the market to their desired direction.

In essence, if you believe manipulation exists, then you also understand that there's nothing you can do about it.

Then again, all these reasons have been given after the fact. I think it's time most people realize here that Bitcoin can and will move in any direction it chooses, regardless of what developments are going on behind the scene. I do personally believe price is being manipulated by exchanges, and then we just fill in the blacks on why. Trust me, when the bulls return (yes, when), we'll be surrounded by the same FUD but headlines will ignore them.

I don't hold any NEO but now that you put it like this, I got to agree that it sounds absolutely like a good buy, for purely speculative purposes that is. I thought ETH at $500 and BTC at $6500 and Litecoin at $95 were super value but $38 from $150 is even more incredible. Then again, are we really going to believe NEO will climb back up to ATH levels? All the same, hard to ignore this type of floor price.

Not sure the SEC news had any impact, I did notice that price jumped about 10% as soon as CNBC published the decision, but then prices went right back down to below $500 again. I suppose the problem is that ICOs will still mainly be judged as securities, and 90% of them currently are ERC20 tokens sitting on Ethereum, so that probably dampened the positivity surrounding ETH. Wait for Casper and sharding to properly kick in, I guess.

If the bull comes back the way everyone is hoping for, then yeah, $300 will even be the "small" value it can hope for, since every huge bull tends to run over old ATH prices. As a Litecoin holder, I will hold Charlie Lee to his promise of staying with the development until it reaches at least old ATH, so I have little concern. Of course, I'm not foolish enough to think Lee won't abandon LTC when he wants to, but I'm also confident of Bitcoin at least reaching the old ATH in time to come. And when that happens, good old Litecoin will be one of the first to benefit.

The problem about libraries like these is that they get less and less useful the bigger they get. What you could do to be really helpful is to curate further these articles, trimming away what is less useful and keeping them even shorter and tighter. Or dividing them into categories for basic, advanced and further learning.

I especially think you should trim away opinion pieces like "why this could be good news" or market analysis like "this could be that or go this way up or down" because newcomers can get even more confused. Crypto is already very confusing!

Just my opinion. I think these initiatives are great but they get so saturated.

Everything looks like everything when it comes to charts, today and the past few months also look like the pre-ATH charts of years gone buy. Not sure if anyone buying near the 20k mark are left holding (except those of us who anyway buy as we can whenever we can).

I think a lot of so-called old hands are also begining to fear. I see people supposedly experienced now asking around if the market is shaky. Guess this scenario truly separates the wannabes.

Morocco played a lot of attacking moves in the opening minutes and gained majority possession but as you can see from the stats, Iran wasn't exactly playing defensive football either, just typical stay back, hit on the counter and they made just as many attempt as Morocco did, just with equally bad finishing, lucky own goal, some say but you make your luck. Morocco can still win this, if they play Portugal to their strengths, and hope for a draw on Spain. Iran might be the lucky 2nd though.

Price manipulation? That's really strange, 68% answered? Very suspicious to me. Maybe what we should be concerned about in crypto statistics is manipulation of statistics like in this one. Ask users of cryptocurrencies and they will be concerned about use. Ask bitcointalk users and of course they think about volatility and manipulation.

Seek out things scientifically. Tell us your sample size, tell us your methodology. This is what, poll? And you expect to base stablecoin on this?

There were a lot of discussions about all the bounty participants in this forum from third world countries, and it is very good to see that most of the owners/mods insist that this is good, I can remember reading that. It is just what Bitcoin was meant to do, to help spread the wealth more equally, to provide more opportunities. Even $5 bounties are like a boon in some countries and even I know how much I can earn from signature campaigns is worth a lot of money back home.

But yes, with that, must come education. People must realize that they must also give back to the technology that benefited them. It really saddens me to see so many people from my part of the world just spam and shill with no knowledge, and I hope this Afghan initiative moves further, not just to teach how to earn bounties, but also to help them make good contributions to crypto. To me, even teaching them to use crypto (spend it too!) is helping adoption.

You're probably right... but then Net Neutrality was already culled a long time ago in the US, and I didn't see these coins gaining any use. That's the painful truth about altcoins, isn't it? Even with the need, even with the obvious real use cases, people still aren't using them for their intended purposes, just speculative trading on the exchanges. And what if Net Neutrality is repealed? Will these coins lose value?