as we've been in a state of bear-trend for almost a year, i'm trying to find another usage of my eth and btc except hodling. do you know any real working crypto-marketplaces? probably it's not a bad option and i would find something really worthful to buy without any doubts of being scammed. kindly waiting for your feedback

Well, I bought some recently and regret it, the GAS price is pretty terrible now, as all the current market prices.
NEO price to BTC is just going lower and lower. However, in the long-term it may be a good purchase, diversification is always a good idea.

trading plan can minimize the risks and increase the profit. No one trader possible to make profit by consistenly without any trading plan. Also you need to track your trade experience.

i diversify in stocks, commodities and mainly crypto, took some profits and bought a few things during the last bullrun

If by “accept” you mean as a form of payment, no, not directly. You cannot buy a MacBook or an iPhone with Bitcoin.
Of course, you can use a Bitcoin Debit Card like CryptoPay to pay for anything you want with Bitcoin.
You also could sign up for Purse and get 15% off anything on Amazon, including Apple products.
by the way is that good for the market of both?
beside not many ppl using bitcoin

In African countries, people spend an average of 27 cents dollar on each cellular credit top up. They use crypto tokens to refill it.
this may sound strange to many crypto industry players, because the current blockchain vision to make the movement of millions of micro transactions around the world has proven to be a difficult challenge to achieve. however, South African startups prove that with a bit of ingenuity and an effective approach it can make cryptocurrency a better payment mechanism than the traditional way that many African citizens currently can in the future crypto, is more famous inAfrica.

Ethereum has a huge upside, coin once worth above 1.5k dollars each and right now its about 200 dollar levels and nothing major changed for the coin and it is even better than it used to be and the only reason why it is not going high again is the market, everything else is bullish on ethereum except the market.

As soon as market trend goes up again ethereum will have a huge spike because there are a lot of people expecting ethereum to go up and the miners will stop selling their ethereum after a while which means price HAS TO go up so that people would start selling again.

Stellar has also built itself a great market with the content writing and with the content world of crypto being heavily influenced by stellar I think the world of content writing in crypto space will have to fight to death until stellar worths something again because they are losing more and more money by the drop of price for their works.

There's one certain mistake you guys are making on this thread cause you seems not to understand that any play games of chance for money which money is involved is also gambling. Although, playing games will make things lifely by bring more funs and excitement to the player.

It could be argued everything is a possible threat to government because not everyone votes or supports what a government of a country stands for.     The base line is the government power only comes from support of the people.   If a standard or utility is derived from this technology that benefits the people then its fair to assume that support and benefit will be passed on for support of the government which allows and encourages that technology.

I really have to disagree then for most advanced progressive countries they look towards technology as something which creates wealth for their citizens and enables a work saving economy beneficial to all.   The majority of governments do not see crypto as a threat even in USA where I expected opposition as they required the financing of dollars to service debt, most in politics seem to realise crypto is very popular with the people and not a threat overall.     The bad press mostly comes from just general apprehension of change I believe

Well, I remember last year where people are so hopeful to see bitcoin touch $10k inspite of the huge bans but what happened is it doubled the expected the price in December. I am expecting the same outcome this year where people are optimistic with the $50k all time high and the bitcoin will surpass that again.

We all know that gambling is one of the way on how people earn profits today in crypto. But as a smart player we must also know that this gambling isn't the best way to earn. It has advantages but the disadvantages are quite most concern. We must be aware on how this gambling may affect pure behavior in earning.  We must know when to stop and avois being greedy in profit.  In that, we will avoid negative acts that may lead us to make crime.

At the first I also think this year will the price of all altcoins and bitcoin will improve in this year a
Start for december 2017 but now its just wasted.

the simplest thing is to hold it and not sell in every panic situation and whenever there are not to much sellers than the stability would come but to assure this we have to use btc in our every day lifes like dollar is used.

Today I listened to a podcast that spoke about the prediction markets (the podcast was in the "Everything EOS", I was trying to learn about that chain, but they also spoke about this other topic).

So, the argument was that prediction markets were able to align the need of the people that were informed and prepared with the interests of the average Mike out there. So this is how:

- It has been proven that recurring to predictions in groups is quite successful when trying to predict results or events. For example, the winner of a race, the next president, etc...
- In prediction markets you have to "put your money where your mouth is". So you don´t simply say that "The L.A. Lakers will win", you also put a collateral, a bet basically on it.

That means that only people who have some idea of what is going on will "stake" and they will for sure try to get it right.

The only "coin" I know that deals with this is Augur, and I am interested in knowing about others.

yes you are right for now it seems like there are a lot of scam projects, you should be careful to choose an ico project and make sure you have the skills to analyze from the team first make sure the team is genuine and really can be contacted and state that they did make an ICO .

You can win, only if you know when to stop. It's a matter of right attitude towards gambling. I heard a lot of successful stories of gambler here and most of them has the same attitude. After winning they put a certain percentage for investment then only a portion of winnings was use to gamble again, that tactics will surely help you to control yourself and not to lose too much on gambling.

I don't think age has any effect on gambling addiction. Personally, I have an opinion that, people who have more free time are prone to gambling addiction. They just start playing for fun and eventually finds difficult to get rid of it.

P.S: Don't post for merits. Do contribute more meaningful contents and the merit will follow.

to analyze the right time to buy and sell bitcoin then you can predict the price movements of bitcoin and some other cryptocurrency and I don't think it will be possible for you to predict but if you have very much experience and expertise you might do