LTC price halving and BTC price halvings are totally different stuff from each other, I totally can see both of them fail but that doesn't make them both the same thing. Not all halvings are same, some are good and some are not so good and not all of them have to be because of the same reason. LTC is still low in price and could have gone up and wouldn't require all that much at all and could have easily changed the whole sphere of it.

However, looking at bitcoin, even after halving it requires BILLIONS of dollars to take it to all time high, and that is not something halving could achieve all by itself, could it potentially happen by sellers removing their orders instead of just buyers buying? Sure that could work but that doesn't mean there is a possibility of going down let alone going up or staying still.

It is easy to criticize them when you are not the one offered money but I am 99% sure that everybody here who gets an offer of like lets say 1 bitcoin for being the bounty manager of a project, would accept even if they knew that the project would be good or not.

Of course, if they are obvious scam they would stay away because promoting a scam knowingly would mean not only you are hurting other people which should be the sole reason not to do it but even if you are a greedy and shady person, why would you promote a scam project when you know in the end you will never be hired and you would be hated by the public? Even if the only person you care about is yourself no one would promote a known scam to keep their reputation higher.

However, there are limits, look at yobit for example, that was seen as a scam website yet hundreds of people had their signature, so lets not go too much on the bounty managers that promote bad projects.

In stock markets there is at least some sort of regulations that makes sure the prices are not really played with all that much. I am sure there are still some insider trading going on and from the ones that we see that gets caught we know that it happens but I am sure there are ton more that doesn't get caught as well. In the end chart reading could work very well for stock markets because of the regulations and rules of stock market trading.

However, in crypto there are no regulations that can stop you since bitcoin is decentralized and you can buy 1 billion dollar worth of bitcoin today and nobody can stop you, you can also sell 1 billion worth of it and nobody can stop you from that neither. If you are in a country with laws regarding profits or losses, you will have to pay taxes or explain where you found the money and so forth but you can not be stopped, if you are not in a country like that, nobody will even notice it.

The trick with copy trading is to find a trader that is good in the long run and not just couple weeks. You may see someone who has made a lot of money in the past week or past month even but that person could be not so well in the longer term like one year.

Copy trading is still something quite new so I still suggest many people to sit out and wait and see who is actually good in the longer term and if one person can manage to have a great month after month that means you may actually spend money on copying their trades. Copy trading is actually a lot less scarier than bot trading if you ask me, bot trading is a lot riskier because you let some computer do the trading for you, here at least there is a human counterpart to what you are doing and know that humans can change gears when needed.

Well, I understand why USA presidential topic could be so important because that does reflect to other nations as well. Look at world political movement turning more right after Trump got elected and you will see that not only whole of USA changes which does impact the world but also the world politics changes as well.

Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders looks like he might be not getting any nomination once again because on super Tuesday the young voters didn't go out to vote, I understand that there was HUGE lines and some people literally stood there for 8 hours to be able to vote and that is one of the reasons why establishment always wins but if you put Joe Biden at the nomination Trump will literally destroy him with a record breaking electoral vote to become president again. If I had to wager NOW, I would put Trump (unfortunately) again as the 2020 president.

I agree that mistakes has always been talked about but success stories are all different and that is pretty much the difficulty of trading. When you look at everyone who has failed you will see the common stuff, there are few ways you could fail and everyone who has failed has done some sort of ways of it, either it is just dealing with emotions or not researching enough or basically stuff that are derivatives of that.

However, when you check out people who made a lot of money by trading you will see that all of them have their own systems and ways which is why it is very hard to copy them since what they have done could work at that moment but could be a fail at any other time as well. I was there was 5 things every crypto trader should do instead of mistakes that should avoid.

That is what happens when you try to find a way to trade what is not to be traded.

Normally, bitcoin is not something we should be focusing on profiting when it is going down, that is stuff that financial world is doing with stocks and so forth and we should have been better but we didn't and now some people are paying the prices of that.

I really wish there was no shorting ever in bitcoin world but since there is no regulation there is also no way of stopping those people as well.

Anyone with enough power could simply sell all of their bitcoin and drop the price of bitcoin meanwhile still shorting bitcoin and can make money that way. It is hard to buy millions of dollars worth of bitcoin all at once but there are tons of early birds who have thousands of bitcoins to sell to make it happen.

To be honest I do understand those people because lets face it, if you wake up every morning, go to work, come back home and watch some tv and sleep and repeat that the simple fact is you will probably not get rich. You have to do something different to stand out and make some extra because the world is designed to keep the working class keep being working class and unless you risk something you will not make any money and will be poor until you die.

However, the way to get out is not to risk the money you do not have but more like risk the money you worked hard to save. Some people literally wake up at 6 am, study a bit about their startup, go to work at 8 am, come back at 5 pm, start working on their startups at 6 pm and work until 2 am to make their dreams work, that is how you get richer, not by taking a loan and trading with it.

In any other sense of the word, ethereum is totally different than a fiat currency. There is literally not even a single parallels of ethereum and fiat aside from both of them being a currency that you can use to buy stuff, literally the ONLY common thing they have. However if you want to talk about which currency is more like fiat in all of crypto world that could be a whole another discussion.

All of them are crypto and all of them are different than fiat but if you want to make sure just one of them that are closest to fiat currency in many ways (and removing stablecoins obviously) that would probably be more ripple and not the others, even though I hate ripple, at least it has a regular life utility that banks are using which could be compared somehow.

Can someone explain to me the details of what happened afterwards? I am not really great with blockchain takeovers and now there are places who are saying they are removing their "votes" and so forth, what does that really mean? Plus isn't it somehow illegal for exchanges to use their customers money to do something?

Just simply imagined, freebitco.in offers 4% for all bitcoins staying on their website for example, what happens if an exchange decides to keep their "cold storage" as just freebitco.in savings account and get more money from them? I know that is unsustainable but the idea stands, no exchange should be allowed to touch customers assets without their permission if you ask me. No matter what the reason is or no matter what the result will be.

Another point of view that we are not considering is the fact that these type of entertainments do help the public forget about what is going on out there and how it is scary outside. Definitely you can still ban the games to have visitors until this is solved but at least until that moment you can make sure players are safely playing games and airing that live on television to make the public forget about these things for at least 90 minutes, at least for some fans.

The public is what make sure these players are paid this much and that is basically the reason why the game is so expensive nowadays, players basically owe the public to keep them occupied during such a bad time. However we can't ignore what players want neither, if they do not want to play we can't force them at all.

This sounds like the problem of people who are ready to gamble everywhere they do see but not for the gamblers who are caring while choosing their reputed gambling houses.

Gambling at random places definitely will be a problem. We must take time to due diligence on where we are going to risk our hard earned money for ever reasons like it could be for entertainment or for multiplying it. But, we should start only after reading lots of reviews and opinions from real time experiences of trusted users.

Personally I never gambled at a random place just after the first glance. Moreover I do gamble only at crypto based gambling houses only and not even think about trying at fiat based gambling places due to various security reasons. This must be the simple reason why I just gamble with full peace of mind all the times.

I do see the maximum age restrictions is 23 in Greece but I do believe around the globe it should be at least 30 so that both men and women will feel their life's responsibilities so that they will gamble accordingly. I am not seeing any possibilities for such world wide standard for gambling restrictions age wise.

I guess we do have standardized restrictions for porn and drug consumption but gambling also should be treated similar to those things so that people will enter into gambling only after with matured mindset which must be very basic requirement for avoiding gambling problems.

I doubt anyone is hiding anything or I doubt it is as big as people make it out to be. Think about it, there are countless diseases in the world right now and none gets this much attention, even common flu kills more people so there is really no need to overreact and there is nothing to hide about it neither.

There are sometimes some diseases that breaks out in the world and whatever reason that happens, it doesn't really kill as many people as we overreact and for some reason everyone keeps talking about it on news channels all the time. Just calm down, wait for it to be over and meanwhile buy stuff when its cheap and when this is gone and forgotten the prices will be higher and you will be in big profit.

I think ethereum and eos will be the favorites this year for me and for many people depending on how developments go. Eos had a huge year in 2019 but they got clogged in the blockchain transactions for that many movements and I can see how that could be a trouble while also being good (after all it was used too much to get clogged) but in the end they will probably fix it and not going to get that trouble next time there are so many transactions.

Ethereum will also have many good commits as well and combine them both it will be a great year for those two coins. More importantly I am basically excited about what they can do and that is the good part, if a coin makes you excited about its future, that means it is a good one.

Now, Ripple owners are saying that because of the lawsuits they are getting the XRP market could collapse because when they are ordered by the courts to pay up those law suits they will be forced to sell the XRP (millions of it they printed for themselves for free which is epitome of bad crypto moves) will be sold on the market and that will result with the price to go down. Ripple company will be fine because they will simply print more for the future but the people who wold XRP will be screwed for the punishments of the company.

When we are talking about a company and a currency like that, I do not understand how people are still rooting for it to go up. It will not go up, it will go down and in the future it will be a shitcoin like it supposed to be already.

Flash loan trading is more common in forex and not in crypto, it is already quite frankly risky for the exchanges to do margin trading and leverage trading and they get insurance for something that will be heavily favored and happens compared to regular crypto trading, they can't afford to do flash loan trading at all and can't force people to pay up when the time comes considering we are all over the world.

However, if you are doing forex trading with flash loans you are most probably in the same nation as the place you work with which allows them to take your KYC basically and if you fail to pay up then they will put a claim on your loan and simply sue you to pay up, we don't have that kind of thing in crypto.

If you are a newbie the best option is probably "investing" because then you could wait longer when you end up in negative. When you buy bitcoin at $10k but it goes down you could wait for it to go back up over $10k once again, it may take a year for you to make a profit again but at least you could make a profit from it. That's how the starting should be but I would suggest the more you invest the closer you get to trading because you will have more and more investments that you may want to move around time to time and that will lead to trading as well.

So, when you are a newbie you start with investing but in few years time you turn into a trader because of how much you invested.

I totally agree, you do not need to do derivative trading to know what it is or how it works, you should learn it for simply just learning it and that's it. If you simply learn it to be smarter about trading I am pretty sure that will work for other stuff as well.

Like let's say you will do regular trading and so forth without any other stuff, no futures no leverage no derivative, simple regular old buy/sell day trading, if you know what derivatives are you surely will become a better trader at that as well. That is why learning more and more ways of trading could only help you, even if you do not do those tradings at least you can bring some information from there to your system.

Yeah, everyone just focuses on the improvements on the financial side of the things when talking about blockchain and what type of things changed as well and so forth but when you look at other stuff you would realize that in reality blockchain actually provided a lot more than just finance, there are tens of sectors who have now started working with blockchain to improve what they have into blockchain to make a difference.

So, if we are talking about revolution in finance maybe not THAT much changed but when you consider all other stuff that blockchain changed you will realize that it actually revolutionized too many things in life and can be considered successful.