I think stablecoins will not but those big companies may make their own ones. We already know that most stablecoins like usdt are scamming people anyway, you can't even withdraw dollars right now so I have no idea why people still use it, big companies will definitely not adopt something like USDT that worth zero, they are not that idiots, huge companies are bigger than most nations, if they make their own currency slowly then people may start to use that.

Think about it, applepay or whatever is already a good thing, how about applecoin? Facebook is big enough, how about Libra? Starbucks is huge everywhere, what about stars bucks or whatever. I mean stablecoin idea itself is good for companies to make their own but they will definitely not use the scam ones we have now.

The money usually gets spread too thin which is the reason why the price of altcoins is not going up so much. There is fake money that people think that exists but doesn't exist in the market.

One coin that has lets say 1 million marketcap with 1 million supply and 1 dollar per coin, usually gets bought like for 100k but the rest is still worth money because that is what the initial 100k was bought for, so as you see there is fake money involved, hence the market is covered with thousands of fake money coins out there and that is why we can't withdraw our money from those idiotic useless worthless junk and put it into more reliable coins in the top 50, there are horrible ones in the top 50 as well but at least there are some good ones there as well.

I don't know how better it will get but I am sure it will be a bit better. What you expect from ethereum is the real question, if you are expecting it to be the number 2 without any question and 5x price of right now without falling back and getting used by everyone, then no that will not happen for sure.

However, if you are expecting it to be better than this and hit 300 and just get a bit more attention by everyone then yeah that will surely happen. Just because it has 2.0 there will be attention, people are like that, when there is a new version of something they take a look at it, they usually like it, they praise it, hell apple made a whole fortune worth a trillion dollars out of the "new version of the same thing" ideology so I am sure ethereum will be fine.

What people do not understand about the word "bubble" is that, something needs to have zero value and then increase so much then burst and have zero value.

Just to give an example, the housing bubble of 2008 happened because there was too many mortgages all bonded together and normally there was a lot of mortgages that were given to people who were not paying their debt and eventually the house would have been seized but the economy is bad so bank would have to sell it for barely any profit or even sometimes loss and also would take huge amount of time.

Now, combine all of these mortgages that were barely making any profit for them and make thousands of them stuck to one paper and also bet on that paper as well selling it like it is a good thing because everyone pays their mortgages right? Well, eventually they didn't and bubble happened, when something doesn't have value but you pay for it anyway then it bursts, bitcoin does have a value, it is not like housing bubble at all.

Freezing assets in Turkish banks is nothing new, it has happened in the past before and it has happened recently as well, it is mostly due to foreign exchange more than just getting your money, they don't like to get your money and leave you broke, that is not the issue.

If you have dollars in your account or euros they freeze your account, get your dollars and euros, they give you Turkish lira at the same rate as market (so not screwing you with exchange rates) and just keep the foreign exchange, they are basically making you forex forcefully because they want everyone to have Turkish lira and use that instead of dollars, they lack foreign exchange in the central bank which leaves them powerless against other nations so they collect it from the population this way, it is not ideal but it is not "my government took my money" level neither.

Yes, there is no reason to stop discussing, that is basically stopping freedom of speech, if people want to talk about adding new altcoins then people should be able to ask for new altcoins.

After all, if the website doesn't get any feedback, how could they get any better? They should be flattered that nobody talked about how bad their games are or something, which means their website is good, their games are good, they literally only asked for more altcoins so they could deposit and withdraw a lot faster and for cheaper, which means they want to withdraw and deposit and play here, the website gets a good pass from the people.

Moreover, customer feedback is what makes a website so good, if you listen to customers and react accordingly you will be able to get better thanks to your customers.

A republic government will not ban gambling overnight but they will give time with proper announcements so that casino owners and all other related business owners and other employees might need to switch over to other business/jobs. I wonder that when Bangladesh's 90% of population are Islams, how casino is popular there because as per Islam, gambling is a sin and prohibited one.

That linked article is country specific whereas we may have a common discussion on what casino owners need to do when their business become illegal as per their country law.

Every responsible citizen must obey their law so that may avoid all bad consequences. But, some people not finding differences between bypassing a porn site and gambling site; if they get caught, the consequences will not be the same.

Are you sure? How often you have made low wins? I mean if we are able to earn something which is even low in value, we may repeat the same process and add-up those small wins into a big one. I guess you are talking about winning small per game which is possible only once per game hence we may need to wait for another game to happen which may take some days or even a week.

Experience must be a good teacher everywhere, I agree. But, personal interest and being a fan for one particular sport will help you to learn and to become an expert with all rules and tactics of that sport. This will lead to analyze the capability of individual sportsman and their team so that predicting their performance may become easier for any gambler.

I can't believe I have to say this again. Iggy literally played with 5.7 points on 23 minutes, had a 58% free throw shooting, attempted only 2 threes in a team built around three point shooting and only made 33% of those, and even in playoffs where he had to play 30+ minutes per game he averaged less than 10 points. Dude is an aging star that once was a good dunker, then became a good role player and defender.

However, even with his defense staying still which everyone doubts because we saw last season on playoffs he is not as good of a defender as he used to be, his offense is a total black hole. Why would any team want a guy who they KNOW won't bring anything special to offense and maybe be a good help on defense? That doesn't worthy anything at all.

I doubt bitcoin will be $5k but I don't doubt bitcoin could go down anytime soon. I mean look at how people look at bitcoin, everyone thinks it will go down to a really low number and price which is why we all are talking here about the $5k price, hell even $5k could be possible if we go down too much, do you really think if bitcoin goes to $6k then it won't go under neither? We have been falling for a long time if that happens (from all the way from $13.8k at max) so anything under $7k is risky.

Now, if we don't fall then there is no problem because we would go back into bull mode and break $10k once again, however as soon as we start to fall we will definitely have a risky situation where price may hit $5k or at least a bit above that nearby because of the panic sellers.

Just because, governments can print new money and buy bitcoin with it doesn't mean that it would create a bubble, that would just increase the price of bitcoin and that is a good thing, that is exactly what we should be hoping for the governments to do. Think about it, governments all around the world printing hundreds of billions of dollars all going into bitcoin would mean that people with bitcoin would become rich and governments are de facto accepting bitcoin as a good thing.

Now, even if they print it and give it to people (or usually banks) then they would buy it, it is still a great profit for all of us. It is the moment they sell what we should be afraid of, that is the risky part, 100+ billion dollar worth of bitcoin at the hands of 100 corporations is a very dangerous thing.

Well, there is two things about 2020 that we should be considering when making a prediction.

One is before halving and the other is after halving, I personally think that before halving we will see a huge increase, there will be a lot of people buying bitcoin because they believe miners will not have any coins to sell, however what they are missing out is that miners already started to save up and they have been doing that for years because no miner is a bearish bitcoin hater, they love bitcoin and think it will go up so miners sell what they have to to pay for stuff and then keep as much as possible which means they have a ton, so before halving people will buy a ton of bitcoins and make it go up, but after halving people will realize miners still sell same amount and the price will dump.

This is what about pure decentralization and staying as KYC resistant. I guess this will be the only solution which may last for ever and viable for the people who value their privacy and other confidential things the most. Trading within us will be quite possible when we build a community for that purposes. It may look hard for today but with the help of social media and friends/colleagues/neighbors, it is going to be the only way in future for buying/selling crypto with all safety measurements.

What is the difference from using your own? I mean your uncle may face tax or other things which are supposed to be you then what is the point of using your uncles's docs instead of yours. Your uncle is now residing in different country or a senior citizen who are not/less taxable (as per some countries)? (I am just asking for any new idea which may be helpful if I will be copying ).

Will I be able to earn interest for my crypto holding by simply sign a message with my address? If not, what is decentralization here? How do you people believe into a service start up for your funds? I am sorry I checked one site mentioned here and all the above posts but I am not getting any answers of my basic doubts.

Even registered and highly reputed exchanges/wallet providers are getting hacked these days easily and scamming in the name of doubling, pyramiding are more common and frequent in crypto space now a days. Also, national banks in my country are announcing bankruptcy due to unrecoverable loans time to time. Still, OP is getting a positive reply in less than 20 minutes and that also seemed like from own experience. I am really confused.

I think other countries didn't looked into "shutting it down", nobody is that scared of bitcoin, they tried to probably ban bitcoin in their own country because they know they can't ban it all together and probably China and Russia looked into a way to control it as well because they are used to controlling everything but they realized this is something they can't control like they do with everything else.

Those are it probably, just a way to control it and a way to ban it in their countries but nobody looked into "shutting it down" that is like trying to say shutting down the whole internet all around the world, it is not possible and it can't be done no matter how much countries get together to do it together there would still be some people with internet.

It is not about crypto communities coming together and helping other less fortunate people out, it is about less fortunate people coming together and accepting crypto, that is the difference here. Now charities have seen that people who have crypto can dish out some money all around the world and they are using that as a way to make more money for their charities.

Somewhere in some Asian or African country where people are super poor, people are opening bitcoin accounts and getting money from all over the world. Normally there would be people in crypto community that would open a new charity and collect money and go help those people, now we don't have to bring the help to them, they bring the help to us which is awesome and would mean more money go towards good stuff.

Economy has been in shambles all around the world, India is just another leg of this, soon it will be all over the world and all the big major nations will face it as well, what do you think those huge nations like UK and USA do to make that much money? They scam the low money requirements in lower nations and now those nations are in economical trouble and require more money to keep surviving the prices of manufacturing will go up and that is when the people in those big nations will start to feel it as well.

India is literally the biggest source of cheap labor for talented people, they are not like Chinese where they make almost free shirts, they are IT people who understand from many aspects, they will want more money soon and then Silicon Valley will have to face a harsh reality that no matter how rich they are, they can't continue skimping on employee costs.

That is the key, it is not backed by dollars, nobody can say if people were to cash out all tether today for dollars they would be capable of, everyone knows that tether used to be backed by dollars but now there is no dollars and it is a scam company that literally scammed people for over a billion dollars thanks to Bahamian bank account legal loopholes and now we don't know what to do. People should stop using tethers but they are not doing it, they still use it even tho it is known that the company behind it is a scam.

I don't know what we need to stop using it, should they go to jail and be confirmed criminals until we decide not to use it? What will be enough for people to say "tether is not real"? They literally print as many tether as they want and buy bitcoins and they basically spend zero for all of it.

Well, if the offer is something via email then you can deposit and let them know and wait, it is still a brand new thing, if it was automatic and didn't worked then I would understand but this is not automatic so we can wait a bit more. Of course, everyone would want to get their bonuses right away and it would make a whole lot difference because you would play with it but waiting is still alright if it works out to be a legit offer, just a legit offer that took a bit longer than expected .

But, since it is a mail thing I think I can understand they want to double check who gets it and the right account, that is why it may take a long for security purposes. It is going to be a good challenge for rocketpot too, this way they will get to show people how legit they are and how great their promotions are as well, so they wouldn't want to screw this up.

Have you ever heard about STABLE COINS? For example, the famous stable coin tether? It is a simple replacement of USD. Tether is a crypto and its value will be always 1 USD. I believe now you may understand why you never need a bank account for trading bitcoins against fiat (for example, against USD here as per your requirements).

Still, you may need to clear KYC in come good exchanges to enjoy full freedom with them. I recommend bittrex for trading BTC against tether and you need to submit your ID proof and no bank account required. There are many exchanges are available to trade BTC this way even without submiting your ID proof. But, enegaing with good and reputed exchanges will eliminate lots of hassles.

Now I confirm that you never come across about stablecoins. It is almost 5 years that tether has taken the places of needing USD nor bank accounts for trading bitcoins against fiat. Tether is still a crypto but it acts like a fiat, its value is fixed always.