You always have to be careful with these alternative coins. But this one looks solid so far.
Well, I am always looking for "insider" opinions on Cardano. It is hard to believe everything we read about the project.

I have already scratched a lot on Google to know more but it is sometimes difficult to ponder the good and the less good, the true and the fake, token of the future or shitcoin? Who knows... But one thing that many agree with is that this project is very complex. And due to this complexity, it is also possible IMO that Cardano will stick to the implementation of DApps for very critical systems only (aeronautics, space, etc.). So other small decentralized applications may find it more interesting to go through a less complex blockchain (for instance Lisk or EOS).

This is a very human behavior actually But the thing I love about my favorite players is that I know them very well, because I support them. Another player I usually know when he will lose is Kei Nishikori, of course I am not right every time but I seem to know him so well because he is one my favorites.

Back on topic, if you are looking for odds @ 1.30 for tomorrow on the Challenger tour, go for this one > https://www.tennisexplorer.com/match-detail/?id=1762101

The Polish player is by far the better player here and should win comfortably, he had a very successful season 2018 and he will progress even more in 2019.

Well actually the odds are important. If you think you have 10% chance to win the wager, but the odds will give you a return of 12 times your initial stake, then it is worth it. Too many people forget about this, but this is the right way to consider a wager, in my opinion.


This, is of course not good martingale, can be good to win money short term but dangerous if you use this strategy too many times.

Big Rafa Nadal fan here but money is money, I will bet against him at the Australian Open, he will not go deep in my opinion.

Otherwise, for tomorrow, I love the odds of Diego Schwartzmann @ 1.73 to beat Guillermo Garcia Lopez. The latter is pretty much done as a player, in relative terms, the reason of those odds is probably the fact that the Spaniard has played several matches this season, while Diego Schw. has played none so far. Also, the Argentinean can be inconsistent when he is short of energy (his game requires a lot of energy!) but at these odds 1.73 no brainer for me, I'll play it and hope it hits tomorrow.

Original article here > https://journalducoin.com/altcoins/attaque-51-sur-ethereum-classic-11-million-de-dollars-derobes/ Translation by myself with the help of Google translate:

Another news that we wish we were not publishing: the blockchain Ethereum Classic (ETC) suffered a 51% attack over the weekend, leading to several reorganizations of the blockchain, the latter allowing various double-spending. The most pessimistic mention circa 29,500 stolen ETCs, more than 1 million dollars at the time of the attack.

"Paper mache" safety from Ethereum Classic (ETC)

Securing a blockchain is not easy. To overcome this concern, most cryptocurrencies operate on a Proof-of-Work (PoW) system. To validate a block, miners must make a complex "mathematical puzzle", requiring a high computing power (hashrate).
It is this necessity that guarantees the security of a network, to the extent that taking control requires a computing power greater than 50% of the total.

If this system performs its role well for cryptocurrencies where the miners are numerous - and therefore the hashrate high enough to be dissuasive - this is not necessarily the case for currencies with a more modest capitalization. It is estimated - for example - that it would take more than $ 1.4 billion to only consider a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network (BTC), when some altcoins do not require more than a few thousand dollars for the same result . In this case, attacking Ethereum Classic costs just over $ 4,500 per hour. One can also appreciate the "plug & play" of an attack on ETC, since it would be enough to rent servers on NiceHash.

Attack of 51% on ETC

Let's get back to the heart of the matter, with the latest case of 51% attack, whose victim is ... Ethereum Classic (ETC).

One of the first mentions of this attack was made by CoinNess, this Sunday (January 6th). The media reported that a Chinese cybersecurity firm specializing in blockchains - SlowMist - had sent them an ETC alert. According to them, the cryptocurrency was currently under attack by 51%, and deep reorganizations of the blockchain had been identified.

Very quickly, the Ethereum Classic team commented on the case on Twitter. At this point, the attack is considered a "rumor".

A handful of hours later, and it's the jerk of battle. The official ETC Twitter request to all exchanges and mining pool dealing with the currency to increase at most the confirmation times for ETC withdrawals and deposits.

According to various reports, it is between 400 000 and 1.1 million dollars in ETC which were diverted, Coinbase mentions for example 290 500 ETC, which would have been stolen during about twenty deep reorganizations of the blockchain allowing duplicates expenses.

Here are several technical terms that can scare the neophytes, but do not panic! The Journal du Coin recently released a lexicon that will allow you to speak crypto-language fluently.

Thank you Coinbase!

As usual, each new event of its kind brings a lot of drama into the cryptoworld. This time we find regulars of this kind of shoots, I named Coinbase!

Indeed, in an article about this attack, the team claims to have detected a reorganization of the blockchain on Saturday, January 5, almost 24 hours before the first alerts. Far from them the idea of ​​keeping anyone informed, they simply suspended ETC deposits and withdrawals without further ado. The ETC team commented on Twitter about this.

"Regarding the account of the recent events of Coinbase: they allegedly detected double expenses, but unfortunately did not contact the ETC team regarding the attack."

For now, interactions with ETC are disabled on most exchanges. It will take a little more patience to measure the damage amplitude, but this attack is a new lesson. Many altcoins are easy prey, and any ill-intentioned and well-prepared individual can wreak havoc on the cryptos at the bottom of the board. Note that Elythereum Classic is ranked 18th in the ranking of the largest caps. This gives you an idea of the size of the "bottom of the table". If it is not individual CTOs stolen here, the attack has had a definite impact on the price, and all investors are thus hurt.

If you are still online on this forum, I would like to ask you which website did you use to check about races in Australia.

The biggest website (Attheraces.com) ignore races in Australia, even though I was saying your strategy is dangerous (but all are, right?) I am still curious to get some more informations about the races (Maiden, Handicap, etc.). And if you come back I will be interested to keep an eye on your next strategy.  
And very well done by the way, it is rare to see someone leaving after a profit. Most people always come back and end up losing eventually. So kudos!

The thing is, in the UK betting on anything is possible because it is cultural. It is the same in Las Vegas (obviously), for some reason betting is much more popular in Greece than in Italy (not sure why), there are differences in Europe that I fail to explain.

In other cultures it is a sin to gamble (Israel I think, please correct me if I am wrong). So if I take the example of the UK, I think people who bet there have a lot of money, they do it for fun, just casual betting. In Asian countries however, people prefer to go to Casinos, but it is often illegal, most do it underground.

In this part of the forum > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=250.0 there is no advertising there so you will not see any spamming, it's a nice place to post about different subjects and receive real constructive opinions. Like I said earlier, just avoid the busiest parts of the forum (Bitcoin Discussion, and Alternative coins) and you will be fine.

Kraken denounces US harassment with 315 legal assignments.

Original article here > https://journalducoin.com/exchanges/kraken-denonce-un-harcelement-americain-avec-315-assignations-juridiques/

Translation in English:

Jesse Powell, co-founder and CEO of the Kraken Exchange, did not appreciate the inquisitorial questionnaire of the New York Attorney General. But given the number of sticks in the wheels that seem to put the US administrations to crypto-exchanges - and more particularly to Kraken - we understand better this enmity.

Kraken drowned under US assignments

In a very informative infographic (see below), carried out by them, Kraken denounces the tremendous increase in assignments and requests for compliance with laws. There were 475 requests in 2018, 3 times more than in 2017!

The top of the top is undeniably in the United States with 315 requests alone in 2018. The other countries that have issued more than 10 requests are:

the United Kingdom: 61
Germany: 34
France: 20

We can even see a clear increase during the year, with systematically more than 35 requests received per month since this summer.



The HSI - Homeland Security Investigations - and the FBI are the two most questioning US entities with 158 queries to their credit. The SEC and the CFTC, well known in the cryptoworld, have issued respectively 19 and 10 requests for investigation.

Kraken denounces an unjustified barrier to entry

According to Kraken, this increasing number of legal inquiries becomes a real barrier to entry for the operation of a crypto-exchange in the United States (Kraken is based in San Francisco), because of the huge legal costs to respond to it. . These summons require at least a production of documents, and sometimes a request to appear in court.

The cost of legal compliance is, according to the exchange, one of the main reasons why many companies choose to deny US users.

This new case tends to explain why Jesse Powell, CEO of Kraken, is so fiery about US regulators, he also refused to answer the questionnaire of the Attorney General of New York and said about BitLicense:

"[This is] a creature so fetid, so cruel that even Kraken has neither the courage nor the strength to cope with his sharp, big and nasty teeth".

 

In many countries you get paid once a month, where I live I get paid on the 3rd or 4th day of each month. All the work I did from January 2 to today January 7 will not be paid until 4 weeks from now. People are used to it.
Now if a casino delays payments on purpose for some reason, it is important to ask why. If they do this to all customers or you only. If the situation is unfair then of course you have the right to complain.
You can always send an email to their license (if they have one).

I have a question to you jjjfff. Don't get me wrong I wholeheartedly agree with you about the debt and the consequence on the US dollar, however my question is: how do you imagine that Bitcoin will not collapse if the US dollar does?

Unfortunately I still think Bitcoin is much more fragile than a fiat currency such as USD. This would be insanely good news for some of us here if Bitcoin remained strong in such scenario, but I cannot see happening.

Curious to hear your thoughts.

Well, 114 to 102, just to good, well done.
Expected better but Milwaukee was indeed on fire last night.

Raptors -14.5 @ 1.95 is my pick on the incoming games. A lot of depth in this team. Should prevail very easily.

If you've never done any trading before, I strongly recommend not to invest real money at first, or try with a very little investment, but the best is to test different strategies by placing "blank" money and see how it goes.

Huge difficulty in this field is to control your emotions. There are thousands of reasons why even the most experienced traders will take bad decisions because they did not comply with strict money management rules.

Lucas Pouille is now working with Amelie Mauresmo, not sure how it will work out, she should be a good coach and the effects of the teaming won't become apparent straight away anyway, but yes he's been a massive disappointment last twelve months. Cannot believe he made it to the top 10 for a few weeks, taking advantage of weak fields in small events.

Hope Andrey Rublev will deliver this season, even though his game is really one dimensional at the moment.

Frances Tiafoe lost (was a break up in the deciding set twice!).

However, it was a value bet, Pinnacle closing odds were 2.33:



To follow today, I am curious to watch Alex De Minaur versus Reilly Opelka, the two players are polar opposites. Reilly Opelka will try to go to the net the most often he can, but the Aussie is a fantastic defender and still a firm favorite (odds: 1.38). I was a little disappointed with him though last week, thought he could be good enough to counter an old version of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He has great defense no doubt but needs to get more weapons. I am still convinced he will win at least an ATP title this season.  

Cannot deny it was a bad bet. Unfortunately I tend to lose objectivity when Ryan Harrison is in the draw, because I am a fan of him.

I started rooting for Ryan back in 2009 during his close match at the US Open, lost to Sergyi Stakhovsky. It is funny because he lost the match, and since then he keeps losing. Of course not all the time, but he loses a lot of them. Yesterday I won $500 on a parlay where I included high odds (Joao Sousa included), so I thought I would bet $30 to support my guy. Of course it is not the right to bet, but we are humans. I just thought Ryan would put more effort into the match.

I got the autograph of Ryan Harrison when he played in Taipei (I think it was 2014 or 2015). He is a nice guy. In that tournament, he beat a local player very comfortably but then pulled out due to injury. The story of his career.
When I saw him live, his serve did not look that big but that's probably because Sam Groth was playing earlier on.

in Brisbane, even though Ryan lost, I noticed he went for his backhand more. I thought this shot could make the difference against the Patty Schnyder of the mens tour yesterday, but it was a poor day for him. I hope we will see more big wins from Ryan, just like he did in Acapulco a few years ago. He is still very young, I am confident he has a bright future ahead of him. He is an incredible player who can hit the ball with a lot of pace and precision.


I am quoting this because Pinnacle odds are now 2.46. We will see if I can beat Pinnacle closing line.

Remember that beating Pinnacle closing line is key to long term success.

"safe" is a stretch here. Utah is 6-1-1 ATS in last 8 games playing on one day of rest, and Milwaukee 0-4 ATS in last 4 games against West Conference foes (ok this stat is not the most meaningful but I'll take it into account).
I like Utah + 5.5 points. So we can both win here, perhaps a win from Milwaukee 103-100 or similar.

Hi folks.
Some users here mentioning this coin. I must confess I am curious it, yet cannot find much opinions.
Here is the market cap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/yeed/





So this is a fresh new coins, born in October last year.

Any opinions about it?

Hi. Tough to say.
In the short term I was recommending to buy some ETH for a possible profit in the next seven days. I am not backing ETH in the long term (personal opinion). In the middle and long term, I like Ripple a lot, and I also like Cardano.

I like Ripple because of a strong support in Japan by banks, this is quite reassuring when you invest into a project.

But I honestly think the whole market of Altcoins is not going strong in 2019, apart from the few coins I mentioned. My 2 cents. 

I can see where you are coming from, but believe me it is not easy. For instance in November we have seen a massive drop from circa $6K to $4.2k. At this stage, many would have thought it was time to buy. I did this mistake. It went back to almost $3k very quickly (if my memory is correct), now we struggle to get past $4.2k again.

Thanks Mikey for a solid thread, not many of these threads around here.
I personally go for -1 / +2 or -1 / +2.5 (I lack discipline once in a while ) because I am more comfortable with this strategy and it works better for me.