Times and things are changing bro and a time will come when it will not just have to be about listing fee, but with regulations, the whole criteria will be about not being a shit coin which is one thing I feel binance is doing right now. It is a good thing for the market, at least, to get rid of all the shit coins in the market which I believe at the end, is something we are likely to see happen anyway for the exchanges to be able to gain the trust of traders and investors who will want to use them. It is not just about listing coins, it is about listing the quality ones that matters.

@OP: We are beginning to see mainstream adoption kick in, institutions beginning to want to take even more leap than they have before and in all these things, the possibility of seeing riff raffs like you call them will start becoming a thing of the past.

It is not just binance, but bittrex has also been doing that lately a lot as well, which is why this is a good reason why people should always look at what they want to invest in as a time would come when some of these coins will not even have a space in the market as no one will give a hoot about them in the long run and if you do not know what to hold, at least just hold bitcoin.

That is usually the thing about trying to build on a strategy either as a trader or as an investor, but you certainly cannot have a strategy unless you are well vast at what you are doing. By being vast I am referring to at least having some very good knowledge of trading, great knowledge of the market as those are the things that would help you when you are making short and long term decisions depending on what suits you best.

Yes, all the things that the OP mentioned are attributes that are worth having, but they cannot just come unless you have decent capital first and confidence in yourself second and that is what should be built based on your skills.

Most of the time, some of the people who always end up an addict in gambling gets their family affected as well as they tend not to even have time for themselves, let alone their loved ones. Steps like this are always a good thing to step back and reason with you.

Yes, it is not a necessary thing to quit completely at least if you know you are actually doing it for fun, but there are sometimes, based on your budget and your pocket, there are actually point where you may really want to cut down on some things, even if it is classified as fun for you and I feel it is not a bad idea to always take a step back once in a while as there are so many things you can do for fun anyway without having to pay so much for it.

I would say actually that the ease of access is actually something that is making things the way they are in the gambling space when making reference to young people. There are a lot of things to life that I believe a young fellow should always realize first most especially before starting to make some decisions when it comes to trying to gamble. Like someone said though, most times it is not really about the age as we have seen old people even not being able to get hold of them-selves, and it is usually the mentality that bring into gambling and the fact that you are smart enough to limit yourself that counts.

This is really a very great story I must say and I am impressed that we can see people in this world who actually know they need help from being an addicted gambler. From the look of things, it is obvious that a lot of gamblers know what is good for them and how addicted they are, but their mindset has been tuned and fashioned in a way that it has affected their mental judgment into doing what is right from them and unless they are able to see something to pull them back and control them otherwise, instead of their impulse controlling them, then it would be hard to get out from.

It is glaring from here, that this guy really had something to spark his interest to want to get out and a good thing he was able to find something that could help.

Yeah, it is always included in most bounties as far as I am concerned, and it is only left for the individual to know whether they should be going through with it or not. Personally, I feel there is a whole lot that could make such things happen which most of it is the fact where just very few participants participated in a particular bounty and judging from the amount that would be distributed, it may actually not sound about right for the team to even let it roll like that.

A lot of managers actually do this, and they have the right to, and a lot of managers just usually let it slide, so it all depends but most times, I really have not experienced something like this before in which a manager gets to slash the bounty earnings or percentage.

These days the ICO space has been turned to a garbage ground for shit coins to thrive based on pump and dump and that is very terrible. This is really an unfortunate situation for all crypto aspirants. But, this is not something new and it is apparent so many people are just seeing it as an avenue to deceive investors and make them buy into something while at the end they only end up getting themselves rich and nothing else and so far, we have only see how people have gotten scammed, more shit coins and tokens keep coming to life and then just very few coins that one can point out to be for real.

I am not expecting anything big like regulating but DT members will care for us as far as they are able to. It is a fully decentralized space where each and every individual need to take care of themselves and we cannot expect some system to protect ourselves. Over all, being a community, we may protect ourselves more effectively rather than expecting some system of regulation to be implemented.

Being a professional investor is just by being smart.
A lot of people really find it hard to understand that a project without a team, cloned WP, no MVP and just some ideas that has been revolving in the past is a no go area. This is a digital age and I expect that everyone should be smart as there are so many things they can use to enlighten themselves on what to do and what not to do.

Scammers are out there, and the only way you can know which project is a scam is to identify and dig up the team, check the product and the real life usage possibilities and see if the idea is something worth putting money into. If all these cannot be answered, talk to your feet.

Wave’s platform is just basically an exchange that permits trading waves token with most of the top coins and sure, it is good but not really that much in use to a large scale extent yet. It is still the same thing across board, and we really cannot tell how things would end up panning out in the long run with decentralized exchanges, but one thing for sure, is that things can still get better and we are not where we should be pertaining decentralized exchanges yet. For what it is worth, I will say the only Dex that I can even MANAGE to use right now is Idex, and even at that, sometimes, I still have my reservations.

Be cool. When I traded last time with forkdelta decentralized exchange, I remember that I paid some exchange fee for my trade. If this is correct then this alone an enough way of income generation for a decentralized exchange. Maybe they do charge for listing a new coin/token. This must be the biggest way of income generation for exchanges now a days hence how it will be for a decentralized exchanges.

So far, what we are still seeing is the market moving sideways and trying to decide the direction to take.

Bitcoin which remains the centerpiece of the general market movement is at that phase now, while in some of the altcoins we are actually seeing the possibilities of seeing them get bullish if the chance and environment to do so arrives, and we know that environment like I said, is generally centered on bitcoin.

It is hard to tell at the moment though, there are coins that have already made some big move like XRP, and we have seen some already showing sign of recovery, but bull run is something that cannot be certain yet across the whole market.

Yeah, and this is one thing that I believe over time we would actually get to see a better way of listing in the long run. I guess the way things have been lately, we have seen the rate at which like you said, exchanges are coming up with strict policies when it comes to listing which is actually good, but these days the fee it takes to get listed on an exchange is actually a whole lot huge which could actually even be used to develop the project further. This I guess is one of the reasons why we get to see some of these very good coins with projects not getting listed on some of the top exchanges.

EtherDelta is not actually an exchange you really want to be considering, as this is one exchange that is already out the drain. It is a decentralized exchange, had its good times and bad times, but I just saw it as one of the dex that could not keep up and even though right now they have forked to become fork delta, I still see the same thing with the laggy features, the bad UI and so on. I still feel we have not gotten to that stage of decentralized exchange being a top notch usable platform yet, probably, may be binance would make a difference when theirs gets launched.

I guess that fake volume is something that is normal for smaller and even some big exchanges just to be able to keep themselves somehow recognized in the exchange space. I really do not expect such an exchange to have users who really care about their funds anyway and unless they probably are able to come up with something pretty much substantial when it comes to the exchange itself, why would I ever want to use them over the likes of Binance, bittrex, or even Kucoin. That is like seeing a hot charcoal on ground and deciding to sleep on it.

I understand you did your work and your research very well and there must be ton of evidence of why these should happen. Still, you are forgetting one eternal truth, this is bitcoin we are talking about. If we are talking about bitcoin you will never know what it will do tomorrow let alone what it will do in 2022 and everything in between.

These are just guesses and I am assuming they are not guesses that was just came out of your hat, you probably found some stuff that would back your ideas, however there has never been a single person in entire world that consistently found right prices for bitcoin ever, you will not become the first one.

I believe that kinda depends on the level of savings you have and you can invest.

If you mean is it okay to get a loan from a bank and put it all on a bitcoin, that is never a good idea, not now not ever. However if you are asking if you have $100k in your stocks account and you want to take out $20k of that and put it on bitcoin, well yeah that is a great idea. It is all subjective on the amount of money you have.

A person with a house all paid, a car all paid, some stocks and great investments can take out a little cash and put it on bitcoin, he wouldn't be hurt in any case, a person who is in debt for some stuff should not focus on investing in something as volatile as bitcoin.

This CZ dude has been improving their brand insanely by purchasing new stuff and pushing forward their company.

Binance was a trading company but if it keeps going with this I think they could literally become a tech giant as well and I can see it getting bought of making CZ big. That is what the wall street people want to see, a company getting big quickly and than to keep that profit income steady buying other companies and making their value bigger and bigger, look at facebook, how many people use facebook anymore ?

It is not as big as it used to be, however they bought whatsapp and instagram, look at google they bought youtube and many others, binance is on the road to be crypto version of these companies.

We are still in the early age, and I believe adoption is something we will definitely get to see in the long run.

The problem now is that without some good scaling option, merchants coming in to save the day by implementing cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, government regulations being lenient and then bringing a lot of awareness and adoption, we will keep seeing people look at it towards just being an asset, which is why the market is highly speculative at the market. With real life usage, things would change and as we keep seeing it being used as a currency, it would still serve the function of being a store of value.

Any smart person would even know the future is already here and mass adoption is gradually beginning to show its foot prints with some possible knock on the door sooner or later.

Anyone who is still thinking of whether to invest now should just understand one thing that a lot is changing with development, a whole lot of people are beginning to get a glimpse of what this is all about and wanting to be a part of it, real life usage will start becoming something we get to start seeing and before you even know it, we will get to start seeing the price skyrocket once again, but usually, only those who can see into the future are those who always tend to take advantage of now.

It is indeed a really big move and I must applaud Maltese government for taking such a big bold step. Well, it is a move that will mostly benefit the country that adopts it, so it is not really like the move they have made will have a general effect on the global population.

I believe just like Japan, Malta has been able to find a good ground, known the benefits that the cryptocurrency market will bring in the long run, as well as blockchain technology and they really would not want to be lagging behind for future sake, which is something that would end up happening to countries who just take it with levity. A good thing for him to have used this public gathering to prophecy his love for crypto and his belief in its future.

It really sounds like a very good strategy but you made it sound so simple. What happens when there is loss which is inevitable anyway and for sure, even though you really need strategy to always play and know how to analyze the sport of your choice, it is still centered on luck.

The money management thing though sounds reasonable with the whole compounding thing, but sometimes, when it comes to gambling and I see things like this, I feel we just make it sound so simple in the books and when you apply them basically in real life you tend to see something different. Well, if you said it has worked for you, then I would say you must really be good in analyzing sports then.

In as much as fee is one major factor for trading and choosing an exchange, most especially for high volume traders, I would still not say it should be the only criteria to choosing an exchange. There are so many exchanges out there, and you really want to be sure, you are not ending up with the wrong one all in the name of looking for lower fees.

It is important to check the reputation of each exchange in terms of security, support and some other relevant things which includes fee as these should be the criteria you will be putting all together to know where you want to be trading. Like many people here, based on listing of one trading-pair, I am forced to sign up with an exchange. At those times, just checking with coinmarketcap and finding that coin's all exchange are the few steps being followed before signing up with an exchange.