Not just the government that gets the benefit in a gambling legalized area, the casinos always get to have the huge benefit as well, and it is from the tax the casino pays for these huge benefits that the government will always end up capitalizing on.

Online gambling like you said, actually have in a way made a lot of things easy, but in a way, at least, you will have to be running a server, most especially when you have a big set up, so one way or the other, even as a reputable online gambling platform, you will need to adhere to the regulations of the place where you are set up. Just thinking though, as possibly there could be a way in which a lot of online gambling platform owners could discard this part?

I wonder if there will be a casino where you can change your coins to other coins, kinda like inside exchange. I am not too sure how withdrawal would work with but if one casino had like 10+ coins under it and whatever you deposited you can exchange it to another coin to gamble on the casino and than if you win you can withdraw whatever you want can make a casino become a really wanted casino with high wagered amount pretty quickly.

Even if people use it for withdrawals and deposits like a wallet I think the casino can take advantage of that by just making the costs for it insanely cheap as low as it gets and just hope that whoever uses their website like a wallet can simply invest into the casino as bankroll or at least gamble and lose it. That would be a genius marketing move.

There is no need thinking, and even though we have managed to imprint higher lows for a while now, that still does not mean we are sure yet how the market will take its direction until we actually see the direction pretty clear. For now, we just have to wait and see how things will turn out.

Also, anticipating when there would be the next bull run is something no one can actually give bus basically, since the next halving which is 2020 is the target of most people when it comes to huge increase in price, i would rather just lean on that, but not like fixate my mind on it completely as trend to me is always the best friend anyone can have in the market, not speculation.

Right now the price of bitcoin is low and for those who basically understand perfectly well that, when a price is low and pretty far away from the previous ATH is when you really want to be accumulating bit by bit. I am sure we would not need a soothsayer to tell anyone that downtrends and fluctuations like this are normal stuffs that are usually bound to happen in a market, but those who take advantage of it, are usually the ones that get the best in the long run.

For instance, considering what happened in 2013 - 2015, and how some would have chickened out, may be people should start comparing the price back then, to what some are considering low now and see how things have turned out for the smart ones. I do not even need to go far back as 2010 or lower.

As far as I am concerned, what is going on in the market or on exchanges is just what I see as a strategy to keep holding the price to some level so as to achieve the accumulation phase, which we all know that the amount most institutions will be purchasing to get in is not something they will basically be doing on any exchange as that could have a huge effect on it.

Basically, most exchanges put together will not even be able to hold up the volume, so in a way, I believe like you said, they will basically be accumulating the OTC way and keep acquiring as much as they can, while suppressing the price for as long as they can. The funds are there to do all this effectively and it has been their game, so they basically know how to do it well.

For a market that is growing every day, at this stage, I really would not doubt anything actually. We all know quite alright that no one would have thought that bitcoin is actually going to be in this current market cap pretty soon and we all saw how it moved pretty huge last year, so there is actually nothing that is impossible as far as this market is concerned. For what it is worth, the market is growing and we will get to see more adoption in the long run, coupled with some good level of usage and when we put all these together, it all amounts to one thing, which is growth in value, and as the value increase, and the circulating supply increases, so will the market cap increase as well.

Not a chance at all. Bitcoin has always kept its volatile expect, it just not constant and all the time. Even during the 2017 year when price was at lowest 700 dollars it was 20 thousand dollars at most the price was semi-stable except the bull times. There are times the price just gets really high or low but all the rest of the time price is always stable and stands its price for a long time.

I do not believe this stagnant market will continue forever, it will definitely change, maybe when the price hits something really high and the marketcap just hits to a new high that can't pass than it will stay there for a while however until than the price will keep on fluctuating. Maybe it won't happen 7/24 but it will always be around the corner, none of us will be shocked if the price doubles in a month, that is the curse and beauty of bitcoin.

Most times, people who always approach trading as gambling always get to learn the hard way in the end, just that as some people get frustrated and chicken out looking for other ventures where they can make money easily, some will realize their mistakes and know that this is a world where you need to learn first before you can be able to get anything tangible out of nothing.

Trading is a ball game that requires a lot of understand of the market, what you are doing and require you to at least learn some strategy and until you are able to do that, you will basically just find out that you have so much mistakes to make in the long run and so much to lose as well unless you take the bold step to learn and practice first.

Yes, we always know it is the team decision to make most of the time, but for a team that is really ready to work and get their product exposed to a lot of people for demand to increase, I am sure they will sure be ready to make it available on bigger exchanges, otherwise, what would be the essence of raising so much money during ICO if the sole aim was not to get the product pretty well developed. One thing is that when you are listing your coin or token to shitty exchanges, it just mess things up over time, as you get lower trading volume and you really will not get pretty exposed.

Well, in a way, it all depends, but sometimes, I feel it is always good to let your product get pretty much exposed at a smaller scale and let it develop pretty well before even considering the larger scale. It is not a bad idea to get your product available to more investors anyway in the long run. I have noticed these days that sometimes, listing on bigger exchanges in the short term, always result to huge dump, in which at the end of the day, I see it as bigger investors using that as an opportunity to drive out weak hands, but all the same, it has pretty much to do with the team at the end.

There is no way people want to get into bitcoin world with ETF's and so forth and still keep the price at these levels.

If the big wall street companies and Korean markets and all that wants to get in than the price will get higher no matter what and for people like us that deals with the small amounts it will create an amazing market and opportunity as well. Do not think just the price also consider the jobs created in crypto market.

Right now, go out and see which companies are looking for "remote" works, there are plenty of them, considering we are still small in crypto company levels there will be a time when companies are looking for "crypto experts" which in reality basically people who has been around for couple years and just use them as workers in some sort of community manager type works. There will be plenty of works to go around which creates a crypto world for all of us.

Do people really need a warning at that height in order to not invest into risky ICO scams ? I mean I understand when we write here and say that "be careful about investing into that ICO they look like a scam" we are just helping each other out but this is a government based SEC of a nation warning people not to invest into unregistered ICO investments.

What is next the ministry of health will tell you to wipe after toilet ? Will they warn you not to cut yourself while using a knife ? I mean if people are idiots enough to fall for coins that are obviously scam and not registered (I mean come on that is the bare minimum, even scam ICO's register nowadays) than let them lose their money, they deserve to. A fool and his money soon parted is a quote that has been around for years.

Do you think bitcoin will go down ? Then putting your money into dollars is the better idea. Do you think bitcoin will go up ? Then putting your money into bitcoin is a better idea.

It is up to you to decide if putting your money into dollar or bitcoin is a better idea depending on what you believe bitcoin will do.

I put my money into bitcoin because I believe after all these months of stagnant prices there will be a time when bitcoin goes up really high and make me money. Recently it dropped a bit more meaning I think bitcoin is ready to skyrocket soon. If that happens than I will be in good hands and have more money, if I am wrong and the price drops even further than I will be screwed and my money will shrink even further than it already did. It is a bet on the price of bitcoin, you bet whichever side you think will win.

The funny thing most of the time is that it usually hurts when the market is in a downtrend and a lot of people even panic and bail out during this period with an assumption that there is actually nothing anymore for the market, but do you know what hurts the more ?

Coming back few years’ time and see that even by picking the lows right now, you have still ended up missing a huge chance panicking for no reason and not believing in the long term potential of what you hold. That is what I see people who are so much concentrating on the market condition at the moment and rather than taking advantage of it for the long term, they are just busy panicking for no reason.

Those who want to invest in ICOs themselves must be interested in selecting a good ICO and shoving out the bad ones into wherever they belong. Most of the ICO projects that keep popping up do not even have any product at all, and all the teams are just after is to enrich them-selves as the case may be, which is one thing I really do not expect that anyone at all should be investing in any ICO without at least doing some due diligence. The space has been raided with a lot of scam ICOs and the unfortunate part to it all is that a lot of investors have a part to play with it as a result of their own gullible nature.

Maybe if people start seeing the need to at least try as much as possible to frustrate those who are trying to scam by at least doing due diligence, by now, I believe scammers would have diminished to a very huge extent in this space by now but the thing is that most people who want to invest in this space themselves are just too lazy to always know the right thing to do most of the time, based on the fact that they do not have the knowledge to at least be able to identify a scam, know the steps to take and as well, know how to go about things generally.

I am sure most people who already know what the future holds, are already fueling up at the moment, so in that case, I am sure some smart people are doing the right thing. It is how you see the future of something that will matter in the way you get to approach it, which in most cases, this has to do with your mindset and your belief that the future is bright for what you are holding. Bull run may not even come this year, but one thing I am pretty sure of is that at some point later on, it will definitely come around, which is why as some are panicking, some are seeing this moment as an opportunity for the long term.

Well, that is basically the thing a lot of people are not getting, and probably I guess a lot of people should just go to the chart, and set the time frame to a month and actually see that we have always been in an uptrend for a very long time, one thing most people in this space cannot get to wrap their heads around.

The fluctuation we are seeing now is something that is normal when waiting for a breakout, which usually brings about some low volume in the space; I guess people should wait for the break out and see what happens afterwards. I do not even know why people will be seeing low fluctuation as something abnormal in the first place, when this is a market.

Apart from it being a dream, since no one can see the future anyway, there is still a good chance we get to see that become a reality based on certain development over time. I would not say $100k by 2020 cannot happen if we actually want to use the market movement so far to judge which one thing is over time I believe will keep increasing until we reach the level of mainstream level of adoption eventually.

Looking at the increase over the years, I would not doubt any possibility at the moment and for the fact that we will get to have another halving in 2020, we sure know what that has always caused in the market for the past ones.

Competitions in a lot of businesses brings about innovation as a lot of them will keep trying to stay on top of their games, and in such cases, the consumers are always the ones that will enjoy it as much as the exchanges are enjoying it as well. A time will come when it will come like a rain and most exchanges will be looking out for incentives for their users just as we are already seeing in some exchanges even now and most especially the new ones, and for what it is worth, I believe that is something good for the community at large, for investors, for the exchange space and for the crypto space as well. In some perspective, too many exchanges will ensure the decentralization slowly, I believe that would be the right situation for entire crypto space. Yes, too many centralized exchanges will lead to freedom like decentralized environment just due to heavy competitions.

Best currency in terms of they have been the power house and USD is the most used currency in the world ?
I would not tag it as the best just because of that, considering that USD has been losing its value and purchasing power over the years but really as a layman, it may be hard to understand that, but where you are not getting the gist is that, more money being printed, leading to inflation and so many other bullshits is one of the reasons that some common man get to suffer it at the end, but since it is a common man, he probably will not understand that the fiat space sucks.

Happy now to have an alternative, this is the main thing over the years, which have always been giving me great hope of the idea of freedom from the fiat world.

Right from the onset and not just five years, this market has been doing very great, except that some people do not get to put their focus on the long term and all they care about is just the short term. The market has been in an uptrend long term and it is still in an uptrend, it is only left for us as individuals to realize that the only way to be able to stay invested in this space for the long term and reap the long term benefits is just by being patient.

Stock is presently suffering its worst moment as well since the market hit some level of huge buying and all I see now is institutions and retail traders cashing out which always lead to a correction. People should get used to that and know that this is something that can always happen to every market.