What people do not understand about sanctions and to try and rule other nations as well with it is the fact that every nation has their own rights to put up sanctions against another nation, if you need them it is your own problem. For example if USA puts up sanctions against China and china sees this as a bad thing but Americans don't care, that means it is a problem for china not for USA.

Same goes for Philippines as well, if you ever think that EU putting up sanctions against you is a way for them to control you, that means you are not strong enough to live yourself and you need EU to continue, which is by nature is wrong and you should fix that. Nobody should be forced to deal with other nations to be good to begin with, you should be good without them as well, you should be nation that people want to trade, not threaten you with it.

Poker is a totally different thing, every single hand is legit equal between all the gamblers there and it is all based on how talented you are to actually end up winning that one, if you are really good you could actually make it work however that is something all equal to everyone, house doesn't get involved at all you can take all the money other person has and as long as you are a good player there is nothing stopping you from doing that.

Regular luck based is not like that, it is based on house edge which means when you win you get 99 but when you lose you lose 100 and that 1 difference is literally the reason why you can't continue to gamble forever and still make a profit, obviously you can get lucky in few bets but it is not sustainable forever as an income. Streamers are different because they do spend money on gambling but make it back and more from streaming income.

Back in the day there was a part on the website that showed how much you could make if you had 10k bet tokens, that way people could explore how much they could make in the future if they bought, or how much they would have made if they invested before, but they removed that part. Obviously some people didn't liked the returns, few years to get it all back and that was not flying in the crypto world for some reason but I found it good.

You got to have bet tokens and in the end you would have as much bet tokens in 3 years as well, so doubling your money every 3 years, that was something I was very much in love with. Now they are not showing the dividends at all if you are not an investor and even then they only show yours, the "dividends per 10k bet token" is no longer a thing and it is really sad, I hope they bring it back.

I never understood the relevance between banks and crypto. Crypto wasn't created to be against banks in the sense that banks should not be used, it was created against fiat and how fiat is used and I get that banks are the number one place that uses fiat wrong way and that is why it looks like we are against them but as long as banks use it properly there is nothing wrong with them.

Kraken is now starting their own crypto bank for example and people think that is a great idea and very happy about it, which means as long as it is right way of banking people do not hate banks. So, banks being dumped by buffet doesn't really mean great for bitcoin because they are not related stuff, never been related. Obviously bitcoin could go up, that is not what I am saying, but I just think if it goes up the reason won't be banks.

First of all I do not believe that these two things were somehow connected, I don't know if you think that way or not but the main topic name suggests it without saying it directly. Bitcoin went up because bitcoin went up, mainly because people really believed that bitcoin didn't fall under 10k so that means it is not on a bear run so why not buy some because if it is not bear, that means bulls are still around which caused the price to go up.

Obviously not many people knew what federal reserves were aiming at, it wasn't news that created a big noise all around the world, it is something I am hearing here first and I probably wouldn't heard it neither if OP didn't made a topic about it, thanks for letting us know. However that also means millions of people didn't know while bitcoin was going up as well.

There is really nothing that big from just one game, let's remember Clippers were 3-1 ahead when Denver pulled together and won that series, they did that on the first round as well, this team is not a team that starts very well but it is a team that finishes very well so you have to realize what is going on and you have to wait for it, Lakers can't get snobby now because if they think they have this in the bag and start to slag off, even after 3-1, Denver will beat them 3 times in a row.

This is why I believe the first game means nothing. Lakers however did showed a great outing, as long as they can get great contribution from the bench unit like Howard and Rondo they could totally get this in the bag, as long as bench provides, they are miles ahead in talent and experience than Denver.

I can testify for the affiliate deal here, it is one of the best there is, we are talking about people using free rolls, as in spend zero and still get money and you get money from their free roll as well, it is unheard of anywhere else. Plus the gambling part is great as well because you are getting from all wagers, including the ones they win as well.

This is really a place where you can advertise all over the internet and get a ton of people and there are few who stay behind (most leave after a while) and they literally make you rich by just continue to get free rolls and that is something they do not have to stop, since they do not spend any money on it, they can continue forever compared to other places where you only get money when they end up gambling their deposit.

I think this is a great improvement on the inflation side of things, there was too many tokens that are on the market that was sold that dropped the price the moment it hit the first exchange obviously, now it is not doing as well as it used to but the price actually managed to come to a place where people are willing to spend because there is dividends (and other ways to make money) so that means we found a perfect spot.

Now that the inflation (or getting brand new coins basically) dropping so hardly, the price will probably go up a lot, plus this could cause people to gamble even more to get more and sell more. At the end of the day I love the first two things but the third one doesn't sound great, it should be all public and not %5 saved for other stuff, if you want that, do it from your own portion.

This could have been a thing back in the day of high peak pandemic time but right now the whole world is used to it. I get that US dollar is very valuable all around the world but let's be honest they are not as strong as they used to be and pandemic and devaluing dollar will not make as much noise as people think it will make.

This is why I highly suggest people to take a look at the Euro side of things as well, it is still strong, not as strong as it used to be before pandemic but recovered a lot better and even with that bitcoin still went up recently. Plus to think that dollar devaluing makes bitcoin go up, that has to be mean that dollar gained value when bitcoin dropped as well but nowhere in any recent time dollar gained value yet bitcoin did went down a lot.

The extra purchase really rubbed it in right now. I knew that microstrategy was fond of crypto and I really knew that with grayscale they were highest leaders in the corporations that buy bitcoin, however they are really kicking up the gear nowadays. I feel like the number of companies like these two will go up soon, depends on what the returns will be like for them and how they pay up their customers, they will definitely do something major.

Considering all of these together I also feel like crypto prices will go up as well, if a lot of companies end up buying bitcoin because these two small (comparatively) companies managed to do it, I feel like that would basically be a call for major ones and when they start to buy a ton of it, we will end up with 20k+ once again.

The only way that we can actually utilize bitcoin would be to actually help each other in a barter sort of way using bitcoin as payment option instead of fiat. How? There are parts of the world who have one thing and not the other, another part of the world has the thing other missing but not the thing they have, they will exchange it, regular economy at its finest right?

Well, if you think about it as large companies, you can be sure that this is done anyway, nations send their companies products to other nations and this has been done for decades (and even centuries with breaks) uninterrupted.

However you do not have small one person talent bartering anymore, which bitcoin could be very helpful. With the one person talent bartering, you could actually help each other out a lot.

Obviously Biden fans will say Biden and Trump fans will say Trump but they do not serve for different lords. They are both fan of big corporations and they will both do everything in their power to actually make it their business for these corporations to make as much profit as they can. Wall street numbers matter to them more than unemployment numbers and both will try to cut tax on corporations and put heavy burdens on the regular public.

The only difference I see between them is not economical but social, Biden was VP for the first ever black president whereas Trumps make America great again is literally a slogan from white racists back in the day. So if Biden becomes president USA will be a "little" better for blacks (not too much) and if Trump stays president he would still hurt blacks most. For whites no difference will happen honestly.

Kraken was always way too professional for my taste anyway and it makes super sense that they would be the first bank, I would have expected coinbase to be in the play as well, since California is a super progressive state they would probably look at crypto currencies as something like "stick it to the man" type of situation and would allow them to make the first bank and have a huge business there but kraken makes sense as well.

Wyoming is another shock, I would have expected from California, Seattle, new york a bit more developed states to actually do it for the first time, not Wyoming but I guess that is my prejudice. At the end of the day this is just an experiment, let's see how it does and if they do well it would help us, if they do horrible it would hurt us.

Another big deal about this is the fact that they said they now have 1 to 1 ratio once again, I am not sure how much we should believe them considering they are a company based on Bahamas because they want to be away from the law of USA and that means they must be doing something wrong for sure, but they were honest enough to say that it dropped under 75% for a while and they didn't had to do that, they told the truth during that period and now they said they are back to 1 to 1 ratio once more.

Now if we were to believe everything they say, we went from having about 4 billion backing on a 5 billion thing to suddenly over 10 billion backed for over 10 billion which is a lot of money in the crypto world right now and means a lot to the market itself during trading.

There is a whooooole big difference between a scam project and a failed project but it doesn't change the fact that one of them is bad and the other is still just as bad. Scam ones are the ones we know, they just take your money and leave and do nothing they promised and they are basically leaving you with something you do not want but took your money.

On the other hand the results of failed ones are eerily similar, they do promise you stuff, take your money but also fail to deliver anything so you end up with something you do not want and your money gone. ETC is a big failed project, nothing small neither because it was super high at one moment, they got 51% attack multiple times in a row and right now we can easily say that they are a failed one, same result as scam but not bad people, just failed ones.

That is "day trader" and not just trading, which means obviously this would help day traders but newbies should not be day traders, it is a lot harder than long term trading and for a newbie to start everything with a regular day trading would be very difficult.

I would highly suggest newbie traders to first check out a bit more longer term, it doesn't have to be years, it doesn't have to turn into long term investment type of situation, but not to have any open position at the end of the day means they have to accept losses and close positions sometimes and they should not do that, they should be basically closing all profitable positions and keep all the losing ones until they profit from them as well. If they do this, they will end up with both talent but also patience.

I agree that if you noob in crypto trading, staking is a lot better way to go. Right now I am on the other end of the spectrum, I have traded a lot, I have also invested a lot, but now I am trying to stake and picked myself couple of stuff that I would like to stake and invested into them and basically getting passive income from them.

It is not big and it will not change anything in my life yet, however the more I learn and the more I earn I will keep reinvesting it and eventually my aim is to have enough passive income to never work again. Surely I will work no matter what, but not because I have to but because I want to, that would be life changing. Staking your coins would allow you to have a big freedom from hidden poverty which is having to work or starve.

I believe that if you get too lucky with the virtual one you might get cocky and end up doing something wrong, it is not really suggestive that you should do virtual trading and think that results there could be the end results with your real trading as well.

When you do real trading things could be very very similar to virtual trading in almost every aspect of it, but one time getting lucky in real or virtual trading could lead you think you are awesome and do more, always be careful about that. The hurtful part about virtual one is the fact that if you get lucky there and go out and do real trading and lose, you won fake money but lost real money, if you go into real trading and got lucky once and then lost, you earned real money but lost real money as well, so that is why always try to remember it is virtual and not real.

I would say that 2.0 has been a "topic" of discussion for a lot of months now, I feel like it was a thing way before the pandemic situation, so it must be somewhere close to one year now. Don't get me wrong I am not one to judge because I know coders and coding could be very very tough, you could build everything in a month but then have like one mistake and take another 2 weeks to fix that, things are not easy, you might need weeks to just find why something happens and what causes it, or one thing working perfectly in all operation systems while having trouble with windows xp or whatever. So, I do understand but one year is very very long period of time and maybe we could have been very very close if not already over by this time if you ask me.

The thing about the religious people keep saying "why don't you steal or kill if you do not believe in god" makes me really scared of where we are living. We live in a world that has people who actually do not kill only because they are afraid of an imaginary being they have created in their minds. I mean is god the only thing that made you not kill a person? If the reason why you do not kill anyone is either god or even the law, you are really screwed and you are not a good person.

For example the reason why I don't kill anyone is the fact that... I do not, and I can't stress this enough I DO NOT want to kill anyone, isn't that a better reason? This could be applied to anything that is morally wrong and that is the place where people miss out, if it is legal and if it is religiously accepted, they can do something morally wrong.