Bitcoin is strong, but there is hardly any form of assets or stocks that didn’t take a blow from the pandemic, and when I say that I mean bitcoin as well, like 90% of the market was on the red and going down, and bitcoin was doing the same and dropped to $4,000 or less than that. But, what matters most is the ability of bitcoin to recover after the fall when other assets are still struggling to make it up.

The recent times' halving was one thing we all believed will cause an increase, we all looked forward to it this year or next, and a lot of analysis were predicting it. Now PayPal added to the fire. When more than one positive news coincides that will trigger FOMO which must the be final reason for all bull trends .

Just be positive for once, it’s not going to fail. There are more important issues he should be talking about when he’s in the office, Bitcoin is not a threat.

Although some people are fond of bringing up things like Bitcoin is being used to find terrorism and that’s it’s for money laundering and all that that, but that’s not enough reason to stop Bitcoin, rather we should be looking for means to solve those problems and make bitcoin safer for everyone and also seem less of a threat. So I know or sure that he will have one of those targets to regulate the cryptocurrency environment, but let’s always how for the good and not the bad.

I agree a little bit here with you because the criminal activities are now moving towards better standards and now kidnapping and such are even done with proper planning like they are well educated of what they are doing and planning it.

The reason I think they do not ask for BTC is because they need cash to pay their team and it would not make sense to ask for BTC and then sell them and distribute so why not directly ask cash. It is more like why criminals do not ask for Gold that is because they are not going to wear jewelry instead their aim is to get cash. I mean you cannot expect a criminal to hodl BTC right? They need money and they need cash so they demand that directly instead of asking for BTC/GOLD and then sell it creating another process.

Well, we do have a "full sportsbook" in the sense that you can bet on plenty of things that sportsbooks have already, we may not have as much as other sportsbooks, it is not as big in numbers but the idea is still a sportsbook idea and works the same.

The biggest difference is the fact that all of these are parimutual betting and you can't find that in many places, certainly not in any place that has this much volume, I remember onehash was the first place to do this for example and they never had any decent volume on their betting and when you have close to zero volume on bets, one person changes the odds way too much and it makes parimutual betting horrible. Freebitco.in never had that problem, they always had awesome amount of wagered amount so it became gigantic.

Powered by pinnacle sounded they are the ones who are behind the website but if you are just using their odds that I believe doesn't make it powered by pinnacle but I am not much knowledgeable so I won't make any statements yet. Also like you said you are in partnership with them then fine I believe the you are indeed powered by pinnacle. It's strange how I never saw or heard about this sportsbook because I always am aware about new sportsboks as they arrive in the bitcoin marketplace.

It confused me a little bit too having two different website addresses for the same website, I have never seen that ever before with either fiat based sportsbook/casino neither with crypto based sportsboom or casino.

If you are a newbie and you want to get involved, first understand why people are here and what makes crypto so special. I understand that many people come to crypto with the idea of "making a lot of money" and that is totally understandable because tons of people made a lot of money from crypto in the past so you want to be like them, hell maybe people around you are making money with some right trades right now and you want to be like them, but you have to first understand the whole idea behind why they exist before you can understand what can go up.

Look at all the things that have gone up in the crypto world for the past 10 years and you will realize one thing common ; they all try to take out traditional financial system, not all of it with one idea, but they are taking it down one by one with each new project, so you have to find stuff that could potentially replace something in traditional finance world.

It is too early to assume about how it’s going it be, but whatever it is, there is still going to be progress. Even during the time of Trump as the US president, despite he doesn’t like Bitcoin there were still improvement and US is one of the countries where there is huge advancement for cryptocurrency (especially for BTC). Let’s give this guy sometime and see what he’s going to be like, whether he’s going to like the technology or reject it.

But, as usual we are going to be hoping for what’s the best. I hope they don’t place regulations that will be strict for exchanges. When there is strict regulations and things are tough for exchanges, they will have no other option than to relocate their headquarters.

Yes agree but those 1% are mostly people who got into the scheme first and ran away with their first profit rather than investing again.

Might be more actually because most of the scams end up pretty soon and the ones that run long offer small profit baits which help them continue for long time. One offering 5% monthly returns is likely to operate longer than one offering 50% daily.

Excellent point and actually some guys send more money to help get back their old money because the website will tell them to deposit a certain amount to buy a particular membership which will then unlock their balance or similar kind of stories and people actually go for it.

Trump fans could try to make it look like "let's do recount!" and "let's get to courts!" all day want, but the result will not change, not from here on out. First of all we are talking about 306 votes and nothing short, even if you can switch just one state you won't get it, hell you can even change 2 states and you won't get it, which means it is already a sure fire thing because we are not getting 3 or more states flipping with recount all of a sudden.

Secondly and most importantly, Trump team has been firing cases left and right all week, they have been trying to get anything to attach, but from mainly conservative judges of supreme court to all state level smaller places, there has been ZERO that got accepted, which means he has ZERO proof that there were fraud.

Yes, I understand they managed to make voters believe there is fraud, but courts saw literally zero proof of that, only talks.

Actually them adding bitcoins is a huge success already and I don't know which platforms also allow bitcoins which are similar to paypal so maybe you want to name them? Anyways a great news and some amazing adoption for the bitcoin users and some even say the recent bull run was aided to some extent by this move.

Mate, we are not discussing about Paypal in general as I know its a great platform but we are here to discuss about their recent move of adding bitcoins to their platform and allowing users to buy and sell bitcoins through paypal.

I am quote sure someone who has 1k BTC must also have other addresses with small balances and maybe he sold some of the coins from other addresses and kept this one as private during all these times.

There can be many theories if we assume the private key was lost, maybe someone accidentally got it? I mean at the end of the day it is a string of alphabets and numbers and while chances are near impossible but one might randomly get it.

I hope the coins moved are for a good reason and not for dumping because someone stored so many coins for such a long time then surely he must be a believer in bitcoins.

It is not just Indonesia, there are many many nations in the world that ban gambling, honestly we are having fun here and we see this as a fun thing but we do see it because it is something we do on our spare times as crypto people and gambling not being as common as you might think in regular life is actually quite good if you ask me.

Right now, right here crypto gambling is cool, maybe state lotteries and all that is good enough too, horse races? Sure why not. But think of a world where everywhere is like Vegas, casinos are as common as cinemas and theaters (not as common as cafes obviously) in that world everyone would constantly go to casinos to have fun and that would eventually lead to troubles.

So, I understand why many nations ban gambling, at decent dozes it is nice but when it becomes national problem, you can't stop it without making it illegal.

What was he thinking to start with? I mean I get that he won a lot and that is why he may have felt like he is on the right path to make a lot of money, but to start off with dude already had a lot of money, so he never felt like he "needed" more, he could have stopped and never work a single day in his life and still retire early, so why push things this further? Now his account is gone, he probably stopped after losing so much money, I can't check at where he ended up with at last but we can safely assume that the last known point was him losing a ton of money.

When you are gambling, even if you end up winning a lot of money, because of the house edge you are going to end up losing if you keep going, there is no mathematical scenario where if you keep gambling forever, you keep winning forever, you either gamble and win and leave or you gamble long enough to lose all your money those are two options.

I think we can't stop with just newbies, there are tons of people who I know for years now did fall for many scam projects because defi was the big hype. They have joined many staking pools and helped with many liquidity providing and basically all around got involved with many defi projects all because they believed this was the gold rush of our time and they had to take a small piece with them if they can.

Some of them did made some profits but others lost and I can tell you that the amount lost was bigger than the amount won in that situation. So, it is not just newbies that fall for these type of stuff, there are tons of people who have been around for years and seen centralized crypto world and believed decentralized could be the future.

Most of them are doing decent weekly, we had a big crash before, then it recovered and increased so much and even though we went down again now we are still up in many of them for weekly returns. That is all you should be looking at, altcoins have made on average 4-5% return in just one week, that is only one week.

Millions of people out there still trying to make this kind of money for yearly returns, banks do not give you 5% returns for a year, you may focus on being a better trader to get 5% returns in stock market, but in reality, there is nothing that makes you 5% profit this quickly. This is why I think it is vitally important that we focus on altcoins not when they are bottomed out, but when they are hyped as well, try to pick real good ones and be very very long on them.

Yeah, there are altcoins and then there are altcoins, some of them are awesome and they will become huge in the future, they could potentially make you profit a lot more than bitcoin can and they will keep improving to get better as well then there are ones that are scammy or just plain old bad that will become nothing, they will worth nothing and they will just stop existing after a while, left by the team and just nowhere to be found.

So, if you can find good altcoins that you can trust and could go big in the future they are definitely worth looking at but if you are going to risk your money you are not going to make a big difference and you are going to end up not making any decent profit neither, maybe few lucky ones. Hence altcoins are still feasible only if you invest into good ones.

$15K seems to be holding off very strong, I don't know if it will break or not, and even if it does it looks like there is no big correction coming up, it is not going to be a crash for sure or at least it looks like that. This tells me, if you still buy in from here, you may lose a bit for a while but in the long run we are still looking strong to go up, maybe we will do it very soon or maybe we will do it very late but it looks like we are going to finally do it and break over $20k in the next 6 months or so, maybe even closer.

People could argue about where to get in and why they sold all day but it wouldn't change the fact that only people who make a profit from bitcoin is the people who buy it and hold it for a long period of time, that will never change.

I believe this forum is having people from all over the world and what you are suggesting is not applicable for each and everyone which means even I am suffering due to pandemic and all its consequences, I'm not in position to think about starting a new business but I am thinking of making use of bitcoin investments more intensively than my past so that I could make decent profits with upcoming bull run of bitcoin markets.

I guess if you are in position to invest more into bitcoins then this must be the right time to make use of possible lower prices of bitcoin markets. If you keep buying with respect to your available funds then you can definitely get good buying average which will be leading you toward definite profits in the near future.

With respect to my country, it is not that easier to think about anything new just for the reason of pandemic. I always prefer to stick within what I'm doing for years and I believe it must be a good practice not rushing for a new business as it will helps me to get rid of all the associated risks.

If having a digital currency is what’s going to make a country to become powerful, then I believe that the US would have had their eyes on it for years now that it was being discussed. And having a digital currency won’t even make any much changes apart in the areas of transactions; digital currency will make their transactions easy and possibly cheap, but they won’t be able to send that digital Yuan to other country people because the digital Yuan is still the same Yuan that they have been using but now in a digital form.

If you take bitcoin as an example, it must be a revolutionary thing for people hence people who have adopted it, are finding big changes in their day to day life. Similarly if digital Yuvan will not be bringing bu only a digital format then we cannot assume it will make China more powerful .

Southampton is leading because they are one game ahead of everyone right now, I am sure they are going to drop very soon with rest of the games played, but even with that they have started the season amazingly, after that 2 losses, for the past 5 or so games we haven't had a single loss, and 4 wins in last 5 games is something special.

I am not going to lie when I heard about the sponsorship with Southampton I got very happy but when I heard about it with Arsenal I got a lot more excited because "arsenal is a big team" but looking at the standings right now and Southampton which we literally have logos on jerseys is leading while arsenal is at 9th place which we do not even have jersey sponsorship. I guess it is going to be Southampton at the topic name one day huh .