You don't have to trade with hard cash to learn the dos and don'ts of trading. You can formulate strategies on paper and then see how they pan out. That way you will also learn that deviating from your strategy will often result in a crash, thus you will learn that lesson without wasting money.
There are enough "safe" investments that you can park your money in before jumping into the deep waters.

While I do agree with most that you've said, it's patently false that the best way to invest is by just holding BTC. A better strategy would be to keep a majority stake in BTC and then spread a portion of the invested sum over promising projects. That will not only help the ecosystem and some genuinely good projects, but also create more profit in the long run with a comparatively low or no chance whatsoever to lose without BTC losing value.
Sufficient due diligence is required of course, but simply buying one piece of whatever financial instrument is never the right way to go, regardless of whether you are in crypto, in stocks or anywhere else.

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My recommendation would be to park some in AiCoin. They already have a live-trading bot, which is based on Machine Learning algorithms (the stuff that makes cars drive on their own etc.). The trading bot will place trades on the top-performing coins and re-invest parts of the profits into an Investment Pool, from which investments into seed stage start-ups or ICOs in the fields of Blockchain and/or Machine Learning will be made. The latter are longer term investments with potentially massive gains.

This coin is the easiest way to invest in trading and equity without requiring any expertise in finance, mathematics or programming yourself.

I highly recommend that you read through their Whitepaper yourself though, and decide whether or not that investment is for you. Never trust anybody on this forum!

AiCoin and Blocklancer are the most promising ICOs that I could identify currently. Surely there'll be some more, but these two are my favorites right now.

AiCoin is almost guaranteed to succeed and Blocklancer doesn't require any miracles to pop off either.

ICO fever is just on halt in my opinion. I don't think that ICOs will be stopping anytime soon. A lot of scam or just unsuccessful projects will burn a lot of inexperienced and lazy people, sure. But in the long run ICOs will be the easiest way to gather funds for any kind of venture. They will become more sophisticated, rather than disappearing.

As long as you are the only person with access to the private keys you're fine.

You may want to think about whether or not you want to pull your Bitcoins out (e.g. transfer into Fiat or Alt) or if you want to keep them in though.

It is unclear whether the price of Bitcoin will drop, remain constant or start climbing. There's a chance that BTC+BTCC combined could drop below the current value of BTC. Similarly there is a chance that the combined value of both coins will stay the same or go up after the fork. Most people seem to be "HODL" on the real BTC and dump on the BTCC and if their sentiments are true (and not market manipulation), then the price of BTC would remain stable, while the price of BTCC would quickly drop into oblivion.

I would thus recommend doing your own research on potential price movements and then decide on your own which route you'd like to go.

Generally speaking you are fine as long as you and only you have access to your private keys to your Bitcoin holding wallet though.

This is true, however there are some exception.

AiCoin would be one of them, since the value of the Token is directly tethered to the value of its trading portfolio. Only a fool would sell their coins well beneath the actual value, since the founders will use parts of the proceeds to repurchase a fixed amount of tokens every month at something like 5-15% under the current price. They also have a running product (which outperforms all bots that anybody who is not an expert in ML/Big Data has access to) and have a rigorous legal framework that protects both the company and the token holder.

I am not religious whatsoever. However, there is a lot that can be learned from scriptures such as the Bible regardless, as long as you don't take them literally. If you keep in mind the times during which the scriptures were written and consider them as a collection of allegories, you will find a lot of similarities to Philosophy and Science, both ancient and modern alike.
You can find valuable lessons in just about anything if you pay enough attention. And if you don't pay attention, you won't find valuable lessons even in the most rigorously conducted scientific studies.

In my experience, everybody is trying to express the same thing when it comes to "the nature of existence", however, everybody uses a different set of language to convey their ideas. This is largely due to difference in culture, society, politics, education and general upbringing and life experiences.

There is a literally infinite amount of ways in which you can convey one and the same message. In some of these ways you will not even realize that the same message is being conveyed unless you pay very close attention to the fine nuances and understand the background of the writer/speaker.

A female companion very well passes on genes though. And in most myths God created man, thus God would be beyond the concepts of masculinity and femininity or embodies both simultaneously. Breaking the singularity is what would create male and female, or ying and yang from that perspective. If you think about it, without at least an illusion of duality, God wouldn't be able to experience anything other than God.

I'm not sure if this has been suggested yet and the thread is too long to check.

But have you considered studying abroad? In Germany the living cost is lower than in the US, and the tuition fees are less than $200 per semester. The education is generally better than what you would get at a US college as well. When I talked to friends who study MINT subjects at US Colleges I was quite shocked to find out how much time they waste on very basic garbage (several semesters) that we take out in around a week or less.

Depending on your field of study I would either go abroad for a degree or forfeit a US-based degree entirely. A lot of tech jobs can be reached by doing Nano-degrees on sites such as Udacity. Those are far cheaper and far better preparations for jobs in the tech industry.


The ideal route would be a degree abroad, supplemented with one or more Nanodegrees. US colleges are definitely overpriced and offer very little value in terms of teaching. Unless money is literally a no-brainer for you, avoid the US at all cost regardless of field of study.

The markets don't really follow any rhythm. Even the slightest change in policy, technology or whatever else can have a huge impact on the markets and throw all your predictions out of the window. That's why it's important to learn how to create a portfolio that won't burn you even if large chunks of it go up in flames.

He was obviously illustrating how taxation is criminal and not actually condoning rape... He's saying that taxation without consent is the same as rape and can not be justified by good actions later on.

You should spend little time executing trades. But you can not possibly spend too much time researching and studying trading and trading opportunities. While there is money to be made in short-term trades, that is best left to trading bots.
If you spend more time researching and studying than actually trading, you will be making more profit in the long-term for sure. Your learned skills will also be useful for the rest of your life! So it's better to learn more than to spend too much time trading manually.

If you live in Germany or something like that you have almost no chance of GPU mining profitably. You would need to run in the range of 100 miners to get good enough electricity prices, which would cost you around 250-300k Euros in hardware alone. Then you would need to rent out a large enough space, and also need to consider insurance in case your hardware breaks down or gets stolen.

Check out things like BurstCoin, SiaCoin, etc. and calculate if those could make you profit. Electricity is pretty much irrelevant with HDD coins, as already mentioned. But I'm not sure how profitable those currently are. The last time I checked it could take well over a year to get your money back.

I would definitely check out other stores as well. However, there's a chance that high wattage PSUs are unavailable or on back-order still, since there was a massive spike in demand during May and June. The dust is slowly settling since the market has been crashing, but it could still take some time until PSUs are easily available again.

I guess that's true. I forgot to consider that most people don't have $10,000 lying around to drop into a bankroll without worrying about it, and even that wouldn't make gigantic returns in absolute numbers, although the interest would be enough to live off in some places.

That's exactly what I said. That type of analysis increases your chances of winning over time. There is nothing in the world that will ever guarantee you that you will win every time you play and that isn't needed for making profits either. You just need to win more money than you lose over large numbers of games and you're good to go.

Only way to earn Bitcoin through gambling reliably is by investing in a Casino's bankroll. The ROI is pretty good as well, since you gain off of the bankroll and the increase in BTC value simultaneously.
Gambling is still a damn lot of fun though, which is also why all the vanity shops in online games make use of random crates. Humans are just wired to love chance games.

I would happily donate tax/money if I knew it was used for good causes, such as keeping the city safe and clean, research of all kinds, education that isn't dreadfully bad and doing more harm than good, etc.
That said, since tax money is being blown for nonsense I'm completely against it in its current state. In my country you end up giving away around 60% of your income (VAT, Corporate and Income tax) if you are self-employed, which is just downright criminal.
I really hope that the Blockchain will create a shadow-economy that will force governments to comply with the wishes of its citizens. Governments could do so much good, but they just don't out of greed. The dumbest part about this whole shitshow is that if governments did actual good, they would be ending up with much more prosperity themselves. But nope, people keep supporting short-sighted morons.

Getting money "easily" doesn't mean you'll blow it. It just so happens that most people who hope to make a fortune from gambling also hope that everything will easy-sailing on its own without them expending any effort. That is the type of person that will fall face-down into the dirt no matter how much fortune rains down on them.
On the other hand, a person that always looks for small ways to improve themselves will likely be fine even if a stranger walked up to them and handed a few millions over.

The biggest issue is, that nobody is ever taught what money is and how to manage it and only very few people actually go out and learn about this themselves. That is why there is a 1% and a 99%.