I never fully understood all the Lakers hate, I get that they have been champions for many times and as far as I know the only team that has more championships is Celtics with their very very early days of NBA dominance and they haven't had too much after that neither, so Lakers have been dominant for far longer which could cause people to not like them. However isn't that what all teams aspire to be? Win titles in every decade if you can? That is what I think every team wants to achieve so you can't blame Lakers for doing what other teams wanting to do in the first place.

For some reason wherever I check NBA related I see people supporting Blazers like crazy and hoping they would beat Lakers, well Lakers are first seed and blazers are 8th and they managed that on last day, so I think it is quite possible that Lakers could sweep Blazers let alone beat them.

I would say fixed amount, infinite coins do not make any sense at all. If you think that it would never be used for payments you are quite wrong, people do not even have as much as printed, most of it is either frozen like you said or they are lost or even some other people froze it or even saved aside like you guessed. This means that there is still a ton of bitcoin left but not as much as 18 million which was mined.

Even with that little amount people are still trading it, using it and all around send and receive, because bitcoin is not something like gold, it is something like fiat but digital and more trustworthy. Bitcoin is not a commodity, it is a high tech currency and currency is there to use and spend it. However gold was used as well until fiat was discovered, gold coins were means to transactions, so I can't really guarantee my opinion neither.

I feel like China could get stronger from this pandemic war thing and afterwards. They had the first one and they have worked towards getting better and according to everything they are saying they basically beat it by record speed because they closed it down and build a hospital there from simple stuff and just recovered everyone and let the country get back to how it was before anything could happen.

I am saying that if they are right and they really get rid of it without anything bad happening, that means they should basically be stronger by a mile right now, look at USA and other countries they had it during spring and they still do have it in summer a bit but getting better and even with that economy went down but right now recovering, China had it in autumn, by winter it was almost over, they must be doing MUCH better thanks to timing of it.

There are lots of factors which affects the position on coinmarketcap hence comparing 2 coins with respect to coinmarketcap ranking is not making the exact sense hence you will always see unequal competition alone.

Both TRON and Ethereum got active dev team hence the competition will keep continuing and I guess that must be leading to a healthy environment within this crypto space. So far, I have never considered investing into TRX because it is just another small contract based coin but now it seems due to their active development team, I guess it will be worth the risk to keep it in my portfolio.

Moreover I'm not a big bag holder of ethereum but I am considering it to be having in my portfolio for longer duration and for the similar plans, I guess TRX is another good candidate to be considered as well. Ethereum is 15k times bigger than TRX in terms of BTC values which means I can buy 15k times more number of TRX for same level of capital and profits can be similar if TRX team keeps their effort ticking in coming futures as well.

I would say it is a good promotional stuff for the new coins that come up and starting but do not have the community outreach they would like to have. This way coinmarketcap is giving a chance for their users to make money, people who use it have a chance to profit from it and the coins that are working with cmc is also getting those new users (even though not all of them stays) so at the end of the day it is a rare win-win-win situation that I feel like could work out for everyone.

I personally never used it so far, I don't know if it pays enough to actually worth the time you put into it but I just assumed it would have been a bit interesting considering you do not spend any money and just your time to make money which a lot of people are fine doing it all over the world.

The price is definitely at around close to $12k right now and that is actually quite good as well because that small drop to around $11.4k levels scared some people off but seeing that the world of crypto is still standing strong and still pushing $12k like it is the great resistance point it is, I feel like it is definitely going to change a lot of things.

Finally correction happened and people are still bullish about it, I feel like it will definitely do something bigger in the near future, hopefully that would be soon but if it is not soon it will be in 2020 for sure, could be late November or early December before we reach above $15k and even $20k levels finally. That is all my prediction via the fact that people didn't allow bitcoin to fall with the correction.

When the price is volatile and goes up and down, whales take advantage of it during trading and not investment, however if the price goes up and continues to go up whales know that they can put in a lot more money.

Just to give an example, let's say there is few huge corporations in wall street that does bitcoin investment and trading, not as a whole but has a group of people under their employees who does that, those people could trade with few millions to make money, and if they somehow profit that is great, yet if they want to invest, that changes things because at that point they could invest tens of millions of dollars instead of just few millions to trade. That moment will be the moment we will see the "real" increase in the bitcoin world where price goes above $20k.

When you have a huge website like freebitco.in you are probably used to having people trying to hack you, consider how much money there must be if you could steal ALL the money in here, I am sure most of it is locked in cold storages so even if you can manage to hack them you would only be able to get to the hot wallet, but keeping that in mind even stealing all the money in the hot wallet would be a good money for the hackers efforts. Hence, I believe wetsuit must be working overtime during the early days to make the security iron clad and probably still improves it whenever he finds a better way, this is his baby and he wouldn't want to see it get hurt with a hack. He will not stop defending but hackers will not stop attacking, it is a constant battle with every single big website.

I think the max bet option will eventually be back, I think the reason why it is not there right now is not a marketing or anything development related decision, they are not saying that they will never use it, I think the only reason why it is not there is the fact that they are developing something, which I don't know if it is true or not that is something I just predict and assume. Because if they removed it to not put it back again ever, that is not really a good decision, I would say it is actually a horrible decision.

What could stake gain from people trying and trying until they find the correct max amount? That is neither helping stake because they are making customers furious which is not something a casino wants, nor helps the customer because they get furious about it.

I am pretty great at making stuff up on the fly, I have done that in one of my presentations before, a teacher asked us to pick something that is embedded in american culture, and I picked NFL or american football in general, and that is what I did, however I forgot about it until the morning of it, so on the morning class I didn't listen to the class itself and just made my presentation on powerpoint right there in 50 minutes, after the break when we came back I did the presentation and got A- from it.

So, if I can just make stuff up for American football which I am not that much interested in except maybe super bowl, I can definitely do crypto without anything beforehand, I can just get up and talk half an hour without any stopping and can even do a Q and A about it with the whole class as well.

In this case, if USA is bothered by the fact that TikTok is stealing information of USA citizens and gives it to China, could other nations also ban Facebook?

I mean it is an american company that is basically giving politicians and other bad people information on people that allows them to actually steal those information and use it to better themselves either in power or in money, facebook and tiktok literally has zero difference when it comes to actually stealing information. So, if USA is so bothered about tiktok, why shouldn't other nations be bothered by facebook?

I think it is only fair that facebook should be banned overseas as well. Don't get me wrong I hate china as much as the next guy and I am very very glad that tiktok is banned there, it should be banned everywhere around the world, but also should facebook and instagram as well.

In some nations even punishments are tied to your earnings did you know that? So for example let's say you are a regular person who makes minimum wage, you do something mildly illegal, not enough to put you in jail, but enough that you pay a fine, like let's say driving through red light but not hitting anyone, so they pull you over and charge you and give you a fine, if you are minimum wage person you get let's say 50 bucks, but if you are mark Zuckerberg you get like a million dollars fine instead.

All because if you are richer and you do something like that you should contribute to the public a lot more than someone who earns a minimum wage. I think that would be a great way to start in all nations, fine people according to how much they make not according to law they break.

Yeah, but Maldini never had to have a 3 month break from football at age 40 and come back like nothing happened, hence why I too think it is really not all that easy to bring those old bodies to a regular level once again when they didn't play football for such a long time.

There is also the fact that if you are older, you are "usually" wiser as well, so if you go into a break you do not just sit at home and eat cheetos all day, you are a professional player and you end up practicing a lot more at home, do cardio a lot harder, work out 8 hours a day with breaks and work every part of your body, while young ones are trying to break the social distance barrier and have a little fun because they are not usually too serious and just come back a lot less in shape.

I do not think so. Places like binance offers a lot more than just freedom or centralization, they are providing you with a system that works so well and such a high volume that people would have hard time moving to another place until it has a huge volume as well but since they are not moving until they see it, others do the same and that causes the DEX to not have that much of a volume and that is why people keep not moving there.

Certainly DEX could be bigger than what they are right now, that is a total possibility because they are going to get better and better, however at the same time more money will go into crypto meaning there would be an increase in DEX but there will be an even bigger increase in the CEX as well. That is why I think CEX will always stay as the kings.

I do not agree that forex could be any worse than crypto, after all they are both stuff that are very volatile, however the forex one is so dangerous and so slow to move that you have to use a high leverage in order to make any meaningful profit, take a look at dollar and euro parity, you will see that there is such a slow movement that you can't just buy euro as an American and hope to make a profit (or dollar for a European) straight up, you have to leverage it to high levels in order to profit from it and that means if you are wrong you are going to lose your money very quickly.

On contrary to that in crypto if you do invest into it directly and buy bitcoins and hold, you could double your money, even triple it. However if you were to leverage bitcoin that would have been same risk as well.

Holding is definitely better, in the long run if you are holding you are going to profit, obviously I am talking about bitcoin here and not some small coin, that could go down and never come back, but bitcoin will always go high in the end, even if it goes low in between, for example I believe it will be over $20k once again eventually as well.

So, I would say hold, hold like your life is depending on it because in some cases it actually might, I had some bitcoin way before 2017 and during those peak times I had some hard times and my family went through something not so nice and I had to pay for it, now I could have taken out a debt and pay them that way and pay the debt back slowly, but you know what I did?

Sold at the peak (lucky for me, people thought it was going even higher) and never had to have a debt. So hold until you absolutely need to, it worths it.

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^^ I agree that there is a specific collectibles on blockchain could be valuable and this is a quite big step to do marvel stuff and so forth in the future, however what I learned from cryptokitties is that they tell you it is going to be limited so you better buy it and after that they just keep printing more and more new stuff, and they defend themselves by saying "they are not printing the old ones, they were limited, these are different new stuff" but that still drops the price.

I would say blockchain collectible situation could only be proper without a centralized organization, any organization that can print new things whenever they want would ruining the whole idea and that is why I am not in favor of investing into them anymore, back in the day I was interested for a while but all of my cats lost value when they printed new stuff.

Well, I would say picking 200k over lambo makes sense a lot, plus there is a 4% yearly interest rate there as well as long as you keep your money in there. Speaking of which, why doesn't stake have that? Plus stake could literally have proof of stake coins that could allow people to deposit to stake and also stake their coins, would be perfect for the name as well.

I am sure there are tons of people who would like to both gamble here, stake their coins here, also get interest for their bitcoins here all at the same time, stake as a huge company should be able to pull off something like that, it would help them get a lot more people to not just gamble but also deposit as well, if one place can do it stake should be able to do it as well with how big they are and how much money they make.

Halving does effect bitcoin price a bit but people are overreacting on how much it does, by the looks of it miners didn't cared about the fall of their rewards because they could just spike up the transaction costs. Many places now charges you about 5-10 bucks just to withdraw your money because the miners are charging the same amount of bitcoin they used to while bitcoin price goes up and they even charge more to make it very quick as well.

So, basically they are not worried about "lack of income" from the halving, because they found another method they could make their money hence why halving didn't change the price like we all imagined it would. In any case we should be looking at somewhere between $15k-$20k if you ask me, I am not expecting something huge.