Lorenzo Sonego played better tennis and won a match easily against Djokovic and it is not because Djokovic was less motivated but he had an off day and lost the game fair and square  . I did not expect this to happen and Lorenzo Sonego was rightly a heavy underdog and i bet no one placed a bet on him to win the match.

Ripple is a good centralized coins without much volatility and there will be investors who might like those and we might see more centralized cryptocurrencies in the coming years as more companies are planning to come up with their cryptocurreny including Facebook and PayPal.
No coin can replace the reputation of bitcoin but since the core is struggling with scaling and if any of the fork coins comes up with a good solution then i wont be surprised if people starts using them.

Now with all the setbacks people know that it is risky enough to lock funds in anon accounts, we have seen many scams in a short period of time where developers run away one day and then return the next and it is funny to see these but then it is hard for the investors and will move the rest of the investors away from the market.

If you are looking to invest in real business with real products you need to look elsewhere away from the cryptocurrency space .

PayPal is accepting cryptocurrencies but you cannot withdraw those coins as per the users who used them and the PayPal team has not answered to the queries whether they will be allowing them to withdraw in the future. When you purchase cryptocurrencies in their platform you can only hold them or sell them.

We might see a correction before the big rally and i can only tell by the way in which the market reacted the last two times after halving, months of struggles breaking the resistance and then having corrections many times and then the market just skyrockets as if there is no resistance at all. This was the experience in the past but i am not expecting similar moves but still a rally is around the corner.

 

I have mentioned this earlier in this thread itself, the market confidence of well known traders is not beyond doubt, if you ask anyone they will not trust USDT as a stable coin that you can trust in the long run, we know the issues they faced in the past and if reports comes out that they are having issues with the amount pledged as collateral then the entire things comes down. I am not telling it will happen but you need to understand the risk and the possibilities too.

If there is a golden year for the entire market in all aspects, we saw much bigger scams during that period and no one should forget those, including ICO scams where millions of dollars are duped and then there were the ponzi coins who had much support from some sections of the community. If you are expecting another golden year expect the scams popping up left and right and we are seeing those signs with DeFi scams.

It is not a Pandora box to understand the basic of a stable coin, they keep the equivalent amount as collateral either in fiat or other asset and there you have a stable coin but demanding those as bounty you are not going to get especially if you are joining any token projects bounty as they want to promote their project rather than giving you a stable coin .

The bitcoin market is on a bull for a few months and that is nothing new. I am expecting minor corrections along the way and you cannot predict how the global economic situation will be in the next few months and not every country is free from the pandemic, so anything is possible and if you invested when the market gave the opportunity then having the patience to hold for a year will not hurt.

If you are using a free shady VPN then you have a point that they could have a backdoor and steal things, never install anything that is shady because it is free. When it comes to trading there is no point in using a VPN when you are submitting all your credentials to an exchange if you are trading with them. Even when you are trying to trade from a banned country most of the exchanges will not allow you to trade as you will never pass their KYC.

If you are able to make a good profit during the pandemic then you are awesome, i am yet to jump into the recent hype until i am able to grab the consequences and i did not make any investment during this period but as a long time investor and miner in some of the altcoins i have my stack and waiting for the big rally in the alt coin market to book the profit after a long time.

I was a victim of this fraudulent activities in the past when multiple entries under my username enrolled in a campaign and even though i was reporting it to the campaign manager at that time they did not take any action for the longest part and i was fed up and stopped participating in campaigns altogether but now they are asking for proof of authentication in the campaigns i enrolled and that is the only way to counter these scammers.

The boxing contracts are really weird, Wilder had a mandatory rematch clause in the contract and so is the reason he invoked that immediately. As a fan i am not too keen on watching the trilogy now but it is what it is as the big ego of Wilder will not let it go and in my opinion he needs to fight other talents and then return because a loss against Fury once again will bury his career forever.

As you mentioned this is an experience anyone who gambled will have in their story. When the cryptocurrency gambling sites started to emerge 5 years ago i too spend my time in the space and the confidence booster in the recover process stems from the fact that you were able to rake in a huge profit during the initial phase and when you end up loosing you will have the confidence to recover everything  .

I have busted and recovered in the past and with a dozen experiences i came to a realization that you cannot chase the loss and now i will never chase any of my loss, if i am having a good time i will reap the profit and most of the time i spend my time in sports book.

I am gambling online for a decade and i never checked about the license they are running but whenever i choose a site i always look for reputation and the longevity and whether they had any scam accusations and what are they things you need to be careful in order to gamble smoothly. All of the fiat based sites have mandatory KYC but the issue i see with crypto based gambling sites is that they will only lock your account if you keep on winning and they will try to find a way to block your winnings and i have seen many complaints regarding that but fortunately i never had those experience and i have verified my KYC in some of the casinos.

1. Which one do you prefer, Casino gambling or online gambling?

My Answer: It depends upon my budget, if i am having a good budget and company i would prefer a real casino to gamble, but since the pandemic and well before that i have not being to any casino.

2. How much money are you willing to spend on gambling?
My Answer: It depends on my budget at that particular time, when i am gambling online i will start with a minimum of $10.

3. How do you manage your lose streak or win streak?
My Answer: I will not chase my losses and if i am winning i usually withdraw my winnings.

4. If you will have $1000, what game in the casino you are going to play?
My Answer: Dice when online or Roulette and slots in real casino.

5. What is the best advice that you can give to a gambler?
My Answer: Do it for fun.
 

These kind of sheer luck happened for me in the past, in dice when i was rolling 9900x and when i was about to bust everything i ended up hitting the valuation which i never expected and in jackpot slots when i least expect i end up winning $400 to $700 and it is nothing big but these are lucky rolls which i never expected because i was trying out new games.

It is strange to hear that people will be investing in projects that are listed in CMC, how can anyone start investing blindly and expect them to make profit and this is the dumbest concept if anyone followed those, either way if new investors were foolish enough to follow that path then it is high time to think about those strategy as there are legit projects out there to invest that are proven.

All these speculation of a valuation of $100k comes from the fact that the price of bitcoin rallied in the past in the same principle and that is the same percentage what some are expecting this time around, how it can follow the same percentage is still a puzzle for me but crossing the all time high valuation is not a big deal when the market rallies and that is the least expected value we should expect by next year.

These are scare tactics by the authorities so that the mixers that are running the mixers should close their doors and move on, if not they will be coming after that and it is a clear warning they are giving by fining the owner $60 million and no one would want to risk that much to run a mixing service when the authorities are after them.