A lot of projects happen to advertise themselves to a very small target audience or a smaller than expected audience, or as others have mentioned here, just don't ever end up having a stable userbase due to a variety of issues that can sometimes result from fundamental problems. Altcoin demand's since decreased pretty significantly from its highs in 2017, though I wouldn't be surprised if we have another version of 2017 and 2018 with a flurry of newer coins trying to reel in newbies if Bitcoin starts another major bullish trend.

I would take single large walls with a grain of salt most of the time. While some of these walls end up holding until they're eventually closed out through buying or selling, a lot of them are also pulled as soon as they begin being filled or when they're filled to some percentage or amount. Most walls like the one mentioned in the OP also occur only mainly on one exchange, too, though Binance is one of the larger exchanges with Ethereum pairs.

One of the most important things you should realize at this point in time is there is an extremely low chance that you will ever see those stolen coins again. Even though this might've been done by a professional sort of group, it's still very difficult for even the police and other experts to precisely trace down the people behind this scam, and there's an even greater chance that this won't really be investigated deeply and the people behind the scam might never face any consequences for scamming you and other people.

Even despite this, as long as you've learned from this and you become more vigilant about similar schemes in the future, it's still a win. Some lessons will cost you money, and this is one of them.

I'm opposed to XRP mainly for its extreme centralization as mentioned in the OP, but I don't doubt that it could potentially reach a price of as high as $14 in the next major crypto bull run that happens (if it ever happens). I've found some newer investors actually find comfort in a centralized cryptocurrency despite cryptocurrencies being primarily decentralized in nature, and so this quality alone makes XRP attractive to new investors, not to mention its high placement on sites like CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko as well as its previous highs in 2017 and 2018.

This doesn't meet all of the demands that were listed in the OP, but I think a crash game like Bustabit would fit the criteria pretty well. The game's extremely simple to play and understand, with a very good UI, and although there isn't a jackpot for the game, there's always the potential for a very large multiplier to come around to ride, so the potential rewards for the game are very high. I also find crash to be extremely replayable despite being as simple as it is; it might be the occasional high multipliers or maybe the multipliers and bright green and red text or all of those factors, but I highly suggest your friend tries the gamemode out for himself at least once.

I'm open to both the process and the outcome of a gamble as it happens. The process ends up being exciting especially for betting, usually with esports for me, as I often watch CS:GO matches and I enjoy the process of analyzing and determining the potential winners of a match and various other details. I do suppose with other less involved gambles it's not as important as the outcome, though ultimately in gambling the outcome can be the best part.

I agree with a lot of what you said, especially with not following everyone else. There's obviously still times when the majority ends up being correct, especially when you look in hindsight at some of the bigger bull runs we've had in the past, but something more important that I would add besides not only being (mostly) independent in your trading is that all trends do eventually end, which is where a lot of people end up failing. Don't become too greedy or complacent, and always at least try to be aware and open-minded to signs of change if you spot them and always account for those changes.

While I do somewhat agree with this, there's also a ton of things that could go wrong such as people somehow accidentally placing a limitation on their account through some sort of a self-control function, or people that end up regretting activating the self-control or maybe needing the funds in an emergency that are locked up in the casino for X amount of time. The best solution is to start with something small that also exercises your self control, and continuing to do this until eventually you regain enough self control to stop gambling when you want to.

If you happened to be overly worried about trading and holding, then the chances are good that you're risking too much money. The best thing to do in this case is just to decrease the amount of money you have in the crypto markets and step back for a few days or weeks so that you can gather yourself a bit more and stop letting your emotions take the wheel. While it's extremely tempting to just dump money into crypto in hopes of scoring a big win, also realize there's also a ton of risk involved. A lot of the worst decisions I've ever made in trading were when I was under pressure as a result of being overinvested, and things massively improved for me once I realized this.

Over the past few years, my preference for holding coins has mainly shifted towards the higher-cap coins as I've seen way too many coins die off or drop massively in popularity recently, and I find that the risk associated with holding and hoping for lower-cap coins to rise is disproportionate to the potential rewards. The biggest proponents of my portfolio that I'm holding for the long term are Bitcoin and Ethereum, though I do keep a varying percentage of smaller alts and other mid to high-cap altcoins that I've determined to be decent for holding as well. Really depends at the end of the day how much risk you're willing to expose yourself to.

The OneVanilla cards you see on sites like Paxful are all obtained fraudulently; the basic explanation of how these people even get the cards in the first place is that they make fake balance checkers for OneVanilla cards that instead record the card number, security number and expiration date and these are exported to a place that the site owner can access, and then they're sold on places like Paxful for unrealistic rates. I would highly suggest trying to get refunded on all of the cards right now, because it's very likely that the owners of the OneVanilla cards will try to chargeback as soon as they see charges and you could be the one that gets in trouble for using these cards as well. Not worth the risk at all IMO.

The best way to defend yourself against these cases is just to not transact with prepaid cards and get funds through something like a wire or PayPal transaction with a reputable seller for a more risky option. You'll face less problems that way.

I use a Google Sheet to keep track of my investments and portfolio because I travel pretty often and I like the flexibility that Google Sheets offers, though I do prefer Excel when I'm at home.

I also use the Android app called Bitcoin Ticker Widget for alerts and updates based on the percentage of price change in the last 24 hours. The app allows customizeability in how often it refreshes data on pricing, and I typically set it to around 5 minutes even though this does burn a bit of my battery as I track a number of different coins with the app.

Interesting choice; I would personally weight my investments differently based on how confident I am in a certain coin rising in the future and potential risks and benefits, like perhaps giving ETH 0.9BTC and LTC just 0.3BTC based on the analysis I've done instead of giving everything a flat 0.5BTC investment, but your portfolio's fine too.

What I will say about when to buy is that there is no best time to buy coins because nobody knows for certain how high or low a coin might go in the future. Any guesses are purely speculation and shouldn't be trusted, and if you're solid on your picks but unsure when to buy in, dollar cost averaging is a good method of slowly scaling in.

I suppose there is a little bit of rationale about these choices which you can access on the OP's site by clicking on "Read Review" on each casino's little square, but it doesn't seem to be very substantial and fails to list any potential downsides of the sites, which I don't particularly like.

I've personally played on 1XBit, FortuneJack 7Bit and Bitstarz in the past, all of which I've never had problems with. I haven't played on 7Bit in a while because I don't think they've added much content recently and the games on the site got old pretty quickly, but I didn't experience anything particularly negative of note there.

I could see 2020 turning out very well for the crypto markets as a whole, though on the Bitcoin side of things I think we're going to see a bullish trend redevelop as the bearish momentum that we've been seeing for the past few months has largely slowed down, though it is indeed way too early to say for sure how things will go. I do find it very interesting that McAfee's $1 Million dollar comment is still relevant here, because it seems more impossible than ever to achieve, but I don't completely doubt it yet. The halving likely won't have any immediate affects on Bitcoin's price similarly to what's happened around and near the time of previous halvings, but I do think it's a good sign of things to come.

I've tried both Haasbot and Gunbot in the past, and the one I ended up sticking with ever since was Gunbot since I preferred Gunbot's UI more and I'm not a fan of a subscription plan like what Haasbot offers for their trading bot, because the most important thing at the end of the day is really just the strategies you come up with that you let the bot run. Some of the preset strategies that bots like Haasbot and Gunbot offer can be decent places to start learning how to customize strategies the way you want too. You're better off not buying a bot if you're not willing to put the time and practice in to develop your own strategies.

Nope. Even though it's completely possible that other leagues also suffer from collusion and match fixing that isn't as openly discussed, it's probably done to a much lesser extent in other leagues and I'll gladly take my chances on those often larger leagues. I'm also completely uninterested in potentially acquiring insider information as well, so I wouldn't gamble on fixed matches at all even if I knew the probable outcome.

One of the lesser known coins on here that I'm familiar with is BCN or Bytecoin on here, as I found it through mining on MinerGate a few years ago and making just a few pennies in the process, though I did gain a lot of knowledge about crypto and trading from it in the process. I've since stopped actively holding it though I likely still do have a few Bytecoins in older wallets that I own, since I don't see it ever recovering to its 2017 and 2018 highs anytime soon.

I assume you misspelled Tezos for #1, but that is one of the alts I'm holding for the longer run as well.

I also think that this thread should be in the Altcoin Discussion board considering it doesn't primarily focus on Bitcoin trading.

I do have accounts on sites in my country that require verification (with valid and legitimate IDs, of course), but because I earn a lot of money in cryptocurrency and I end up holding a lot of crypto as a result, I often find it more convenient to use crypto from my hot wallet on my phone than with fiat methods of transfer. I find the game selection to be pretty much the same if not less with crypto casinos, and most crypto casinos are pretty much equal to the fiat ones I find online that are available to me as well, with a few exceptions that fiat casinos do better, usually with support.

Anonymity is also one of the reasons why I gamble with crypto, though it's also important you're taking the proper security measures while doing so if you're gambling with crypto primarily for this reason. A lot of people don't cover their tracks well.

I'd actually argue that high stability isn't always the greatest, as it's (in my opinion) somewhat boring when crypto markets start to flatten out temporarily, because a lot of the trading opportunities that we capitalize on around here arise with volatility, although we perceive this as both good and also bad depending on what your position(s) are. A lot of people also start reaching towards using leverage during periods of stability, which also isn't good because a lot of these people end up getting screwed when volatility inevitably cranks back up again.