I believe April fools day will definitely have something, and I believe April will have a shock as well. Think about it this way, there is a chance that April fools could be used to trick us so why would they miss that chance, they will do something to have fun and make it funny as well, or maybe they will fail to make it funny because they are people after all and sometimes when we are trying to be funny we fail, but at the same time I think that opportunity can't be missed.

However one thing is certain, that April surprise will be something different than April fools day, I am talking about like a huge giveaway, something free, not even have to do much to get it type of big deal, it's going to be big. I believe stake has always been good with giving money away, sure I have some problems with them now, they are not as good as they used to be, but huge giveaways have always been great.

Wow, that is a pretty amazing bonus for active and loyal members! I am so happy to see FJ back to full operational mode because what happened some time ago was unfortunate.

I bet on sports matches at times and there were some cool promotions last time when I was betting so great to see more promotions coming for the casino too.

I was facing a problem where I was getting logged out after every few mins, I cleared my cookies and the problem was solved. I am sharing because other players might be facing the same problem so they can also just clear cookies and it is solved.

I do not agree that this is the last huge rally, I do agree that we can't go up forever that is true, but we still have some room to grow as well. Gold market cap is huge, and bitcoin is even bigger than that if you ask me because it is both store of value like gold and it's also spendable in some places, where was the last place you paid something in gold? It is very rare, nearly none existent for all intends and purposes, whereas we are talking about bitcoin being spent in many places, so it is like gold that you can spend.

It means if we reach gold market cap that would be like 500k per bitcoin, and that means at least one more huge rally for bitcoin to happen. I do believe that it will end sometime, it will be slower and more gradual in increases in the future, and it will have some downs time to time, but I believe in the near future we will have one more rally, maybe this year, maybe in 3 years who knows when but there will be one more.

I do agree that people are sad that they missed out on bitcoin, that's true. However let's not act like buying bitcoin today and buying bitcoin nearly 10 years ago are the same thing. If you bought 1000 dollars worth of bitcoin at 30 dollars each, you would have 300 bitcoins, that would be around 16 million dollars today if you did. If you buy 1000 dollars worth of bitcoin today, in order for it to worth 16 million dollars that would need to be something like 80 million dollars per bitcoin if my math is right.

So, we all know that we are way too late for making profits like that, people are sad that they missed on that chance and we are never going to have that chance. It's true that if you buy bitcoin right now and wait until it is higher you could make money, but we are not going to make profits like we did back in the day, we ain't getting that 500x return type of stuff ever again.

Depends on what kind of gambling. In a game like poker you are looking at something quite similar to trading, sure even in poker we are talking about luck, a newbie could have a four of a kind versus phil helmuth and could beat him straight up, but in a 20 hand game he is going to beat you even with that lucky hand. This is why I think it's obvious that poker could be like trading, they are very similar, and in both of them you can build a strategy as well as you can for decades but luck plays a role however experience still can recover faster and get better, and veterans can create their own luck out of nothing as well.

But, if we are talking about something like roullette? dice? plinko? Those are nothing like trading, those are just house edge games that are designed to make you lose and that's it, so I do agree that they are two very different things and trading is a lot better if you learn how to do it.

Yes you’re right about that, people should be learning and doing things on their own and not relying someone else to be doing it for them, although I do understand that some people who have to rely on others to get information on trading is because they don’t have that kind of chance to be fully into it, maybe because they have another job that’s taking their time or something like that. So it’s usually not easy for everyone, there is a reason why people do it the way they do, but if you have the chance to learn it and do it on your own, that’s the best thing to do.

Continuous learning is something, we must need to focus on our day to day life regardless of what we are doing in our life for survival. I mean you do not need to be a trader for needing to be a learner but we are into any field still we need to learn continuously.

Yeah, I am not seeing big differences between replaying and back-testing; replaying is literally testing our strategies and ideas with past markets. I guess this is one of the widely used technique by all traders regardless of where they will be trading; I mean just a common thing.

Unfortunately almost all the traders (including myself) do not have that much patience to test and then to ensure about building a perfect system. We just need to make money as early as possible hence we go risking with half-tested strategies. But with replaying, we can minimize the time required with real market as replaying is to test with past market conditions.

I think Deandre Jordan will keep his starting position, the trick here is that Blake Griffin is not healthy, and if you have Lamarcus Aldridge and Deandre Jordan both playing together, you are creating a huge line up, but you are also risking on defense a lot because both players are not great on defense when it comes to guarding people outside.

So, I think it will be a bit of like Blake and Deandre playing at PF and C on starting, and they will be forced to rest a lot anyway, not like they can play all game, so LMA will probably be the sixth guy coming in to keep them away all the time, like take Deandre out and put LMA in and then put deandre in but take blake out so LMA plays 20+ minutes per game that way. I am not sure how they are planning on doing it honestly, it is going to be a bit hard to handle it, but it is going to definitely be a huge help for them to get the ring.

I think the best way to approach this is to find volume in other places, that is the best way to do it and also when it started. For example if there is a coin that is very recent, (that is inside 6 months) and it has a very good volume, volume that rivals a lot of coins in binance itself, but it is not listed on binance, you could possibly see that coin listed on binance.

This is not guaranteed of course, but the logic is; where does Binance make their money from? They make it from the trading fee and the more coins that are traded the better, why would they add a coin that would be 300 dollars volume? So this means a good coin with a good volume equals money. That's why I check coins that has a good volume, they are not going to add a coin with a very low volume, that is a guaranteed thing, which means you need to find something that is not listed and has millions of dollars on volume and not have a reason for not being listed.

There is a very very very simple reason why he can't and won't do this : there is about 40% of all doge coin owned by certain group of people. So, if he pumped 40 billion dollars into dogecoin whic he won't because even for bitcoin they did a 1.5 billion one and not more, that would mean he would be buying dogecoin from those who have a lot and they will have enough money to keep dogecoin where it is, in fact they have enough dogecoin to drop the price of dogecoin under this current price even after elon musk spends 40 billion dollars on it. So long story short it would be the worst financial decision anyone has ever made in the history of the world.

I get that some people are hopeful about it, I get that some people want this to happen so that they could make some money. But the reality is that dude is just a meme guy who has fun and that's about it.

My entire family love slots, they play them a lot, waaay back years ago I was in charge of writing about slots in many different places, and eventually wrote about them all, later after a while stake added them as well and my family members tested all of them for me because they liked playing them and would play anyway, they talked about the differences and similarities and so forth.

One thing I remember them saying that this place has one thing common with any other place, if you just put it on auto, slots would not be fun to play that way plus it would lose you money for sure as well. It was like that here, and it was like that anywhere else as well.

Slots are something you should play manually, it is both more fun to do that, and it is also a lot better for your profits as well. Of course it depend on person to person but I just think that slots is a manual game to play.

This is as good as it gets, you guys are awesome, I have never seen anyone do a 100k giveaway before, I have seen smaller campaigns many times and I have seen place give more than 100k total as well in span of a lot of months or even years, but I have never seen any place give 100k in one competition before. It means this becomes the biggest giveaway there is, there is a "lambo lottery" which technically is bigger because it is 200k, and you can get tickets for that lottery by wagering as well so it does become "part giveaway" for those who gamble to get the tickets, but you can also buy the tickets so it is part lottery as well hence it is not really a competition like this one.

I think this will bring chips to a whole new level, I believe we will see bigger and bigger number of users here, and that is going to change the place a lot as well in the near future.

I think people just like it that way, I do not know why and I do not know how but there are way too many people that end up comparing years, and 2014 was nothing like 2017 neither but people kept talking about the similarities there as well. Just because it went up and went down doesn't mean that every time it goes up and goes down will be exactly the same. I do not get it, what's there to like those kinds of stuff, I mean it is really not that shocking if you ask me.

I think no year is similar to other year, the only similarity in years that except that one year we have gone up almost every single year, bitcoin is a store of value coin and it will only keep going up, so there is really no rush for bitcoin to go even higher but I can promise you that bottom of each year has been higher than the previous year and that will probably continue for a very long time.

I think dollar could gain as much strength as it wants but it will never be as good as bitcoin. Bitcoin is store of value and even though dollar "looks" like it is gaining some power the reality is that we are talking about 5+ trillion printed for covid this year, that is not a normal price, and it wasn't for people neither only some parts of it were for people and majority was for companies and that is why I think it will keep on being worse than bitcoin.

Bitcoin foundations always supported the people who needed some place to hide their money and not leave it to morals of governments, doesn't matter which nation and doesn't matter which party, and no matter how strong dollar becomes, it will be weak against bitcoin. The drop is about 6 billion dollars worth of bitcoin futures being unlocked, and it will recover very soon, hell it recovered already.

I get all the people here who say "I would be happy if it did that, I would be able to buy more!" and I get that, I really do. However the fact is that we are in a market that moves a lot together and that means if the price falls to 10k, there will be a lot of people who say they will buy, that ends up with selling. I know this for a fact because I know that prices of these things end up going super high make everyone believe in that but the reality is that people are hyping up because of where we are now, not because where we will be.

This is why I think we are going to end up living a better life in the near future, it is going to be high, but if we ever go down, that's going to make the people who are hyped right now scared. I have seen "I wish I had more money to buy this coin" turn into "I wish I never got into this coin" very quickly many times.

I don’t really worry myself about all these things, but I do know that people don’t just blame them, there are things they are doing wrong which is making a lot of people to blame for those bad steps they make.

So, it’s not really about whether they are getting money from the work they are doing, of course they should get money from it, cause anyone that works deserves to be paid, but not when they are going about it the wrong way maybe by doing things that are very wrong just to get extra money and fill their pockets. That’s not good. Whatever they are doing should be done the right way, greediness and selfishness should be kept aside when they are doing these kind of works.

Well, maybe for now, because they have seen how the price moved to a new all time high, so I guess they are just holding and expecting more increase so that they can sell their bitcoins at a price that is worth more than what it was after being mined. I don’t know what may be the effect of their  action, but if I’m right this will lead to a decrease in the supply right? And when there is a decrease in supply the demand tends to surpass it and that means that the price will increase to match the level of demands.

Maybe this will lead to increase or maybe not, I can’t really predict where it will be heading to. And finally I don’t think miners can hold their coins for long, especially this time around that mining Bitcoin is really expensive than what it used to be. So, they are still going to sell them to cover their expenses.

I think people know that if it drops, like there are many people who divest, that would be a lot better and a lot more profitable. However we know that when that happens people will profit a lot more, so people do not want to be the one that divests and miss out on the profit.

So, "someone" has to divest to make the profits bigger, but nobody wants to be that person. It's a good problem to have honestly, think about a casino that has so many people trusting it with their money that the bankroll exceeds what it should be, that's a good problem to have.

There are so many people who would have hard time finding 1 bitcoin to bankroll their casinos, I could start a casino tomorrow and work for a whole year and I wouldn't even get 10 bitcoins invested into mine, so even though this drops the amount of money people could make, it's at least something that doesn't disturb the system.

I have to say that there is really nothing we can do that would be more important than 2FA, that would be the best thing because in order for someone to steal from you, they would have to work 1000x harder if you have 2FA and that is why it's important. Psychological hacking is still something and people try to scam others and just get all the info they could get to remove that 2FA if possible, not an easy task and takes a while, but that's why 2FA is so important.

If you have 2fa and you were to be hacked, you would have to be an idiot and you would have to be not logging in for days and you would have to answer some private questions to some hacker, you would have to not look at your emails for days and some other smaller stuff, that's unlikely and that's why I think it's so clear that having 2FA "almost" guarantees that you will not be hacked.

Sure this increase what we are all looking forward and it is happening for sure , the price is not going down soon , a lot of money has gone into Bitcoin a lot of money that belongs to the big institutions and it has helped push the price to this current level price and it is going down from there, lots of them are going to holding for a very long time and now we also have lots of retail investors buying daily, so that very much helping the market to reach a higher level every time.

The op is right of course, anyone that’s telling people to short at this time is either not aware of what they are doing or just wants to misleading other traders, which is probably not going to make any sense at all since that’s not going to be helping them in a way that they think it’s going to be. They just don’t know what they are doing for sure.