Normally I do not invest into stuff that I can't understand the concept myself, I do not like the features that looks like they are not needed in crypto world right now, however I just did a silly investment myself. I bought a cryptokitty. It is not an ICO I know but it showed my flaw that if I like something enough, I can invest into it without even caring about whitepapers or team behind it and all that.

I didn't even know who was the team behind it, I just know the company name dapper labs or something. Which can translate into ICO and the new coins that's coming up, I can literally invest into something that I want, all great inventions come from a need, if I want something, if I need something and I go out and build a platform for that need, if that's needed by enough other people than you can apparently get your ICO to the top. Just work towards what people need.

Well, it is one thing of course to have in mind that not everyone will actually get to be able to utilize crypto as they will find it a whole lot difficult when it comes to understanding how things are done within the space as well as how they can handle themselves.

Nonetheless, it is always a matter of time, and even though the fiat system cannot completely be ruled out, one way or the other, over time, paper currency will most definitely go into extinction and then as we are already seeing the age of cashless, it will even make the ushering in of blockchain technology at large within the financial sector to even make a lot of sense.

Amazon seems like one of the biggest companies in the whole world right now, it is not that easy to put biggest company in the entire world to get out of business thanks to couple of new options. Standard oil was seen as the biggest company of its time and had to be torn apart for monopoly reasons, the companies that came to be after it was torn apart right now holds over a trillion dollars in value, even shredding it to pieces didn't hold those companies low.

Amazon will always be one of the big players unless something huge happens to it. Of course, decentralized markets could get a share out of it and certainly rival it but just because Amazon would have some competition at the top would mean it will go down, it will just soar with them together instead.

You would not blame a bounty manager for what could happen to a project and I think a lot of people just like the idea of being spoon fed most of the time.

This is not something that we just have to keep pushing blame, because for every bounty participant that ended up joining a scam project, they are just as guilty as the campaign managers themselves, because they could have averted that easily, if they had taken their time to at least do some pretty good diligence on the project they are participating in its bounty.

Bounty campaign has its own risk too, and you have to live with it. Sometimes, you may even participate in a project's bounty that you believed in but ended up not reaching its soft cap, and then investor's money are refunded, which in this case, shows basically that there will be nothing for the bounty participants. It is all part of the risk.

Well, that is no longer anything new, considering the fact that bitcoin has been able to stand the ground of the general market controller thus far and I believe in a way, this is something that will remain like that.

When it comes to competition with bitcoin, I doubt if this is something we will get to see, as most altcoins are even trying it hard to compete among themselves, we keep seeing different clones of the same product popping up every single time, and most of the altcoins in the market are just scam with no real value or product, so in the case, where bitcoin scaling issue gets fully resolved, we get to see it hit the idea of being a payment system a lot better, and by then, bitcoin gains dominance, and this is the time we will get to see altcoins that will practically still be breathing as a lot of them will end up dead.

I doubt china will be in the top 2 when its all said and done. China keeps on trying to ban stuff related to crypto and just recently published a new desire to stop airdrops as well which they already explained their hatred towards ICO as well. So it means blockchain is improving all around the world while having setbacks when it comes to china, that's why it is hard for china to actually beat any country in blockchain competition.

Certainly not a big country like USA which already has many countries trying to build blockchain softwares to help out corporations on their needs. Blockchain software is now used in many third world countries like carribeans and bahamas and malta and so forth, it is quite soon that it will start to work its way towards first world countries and meanwhile China is just trying to keep its people away from it.

I do not think they are that different but they are not close neither. Penny stocks are literally scams if done right, there has been companies with no offices that started out with the funds coming from their penny stocks sold, they make hundreds of millions of stocks and make their company worth millions without actually starting the business but just a promise. It means ICO's are quite similar in that sense, but crypto trading ? I am not too sure.

If the topic was ICO vs penny stock I might have said yes but trading crypto is more like forex than penny stocks at this point. The upper side is not as big as penny or ICO but the risks are lower compared to both. I would say penny stocks have only one more advantage which is having the SEC and IRS with you and if the company scams you they are always caught by the law, crypto people can run away from law longer if needed.

There is no doubt that there has been some development with Ethereum platform recently, and Vitalik has made some interesting comments on upgrade and how Ethereum will stand a chance to beat its scaling solution and make it a preferred option for both an investment, payment method as well as a fantastic smart contract platform.

They already have the first movers’ advantage, so I believe that with this, they should at least be able to thrive greatly if there is a protocol upgrade that would most definitely bring about a huge adoption.

This is even more like asking if it is possible for bitcoin to attain at least as much as $55000 to $60000 in the long run from the current market price, which to me is something that is very realistic as I even believe we will get to achieve more than that in the future and even with huge mass adoption, it will be far more than a trillion dollar market cap.

The great potential is there, we have not even started seeing real life usage to its optimal level alone and with speculation, bitcoin is currently over a 100billion dollar market cap. It is just a little away to achieving trillion which can easily happen even in the next few couple of years.

I never heard any "crypto radio" before but I figured it would be quite useless. I mean crypto is a hectic world but there are two reasons why something like that wouldn't really work out well.

First is, radio is generally for music, even if there are shows where people talk and say funny stuff all those are presented with songs in between. It means a "crypto" radio will have to provide music too, which makes it not so crypto and quite mainstream type.

The second part is, if you try to make it like a 24 hour podcast of crypto stuff than you will run out of interesting stuff, you need to find interesting crypto personalities and make their shows and give them a time slot where everyone would love to listen. Also since crypto is global you can't really make it a global radio all at once neither, while some people listening the best show during prime time, it is early morning in another country.

Portland and Wizards are basically the same team at this point. They both have a great point guard and shooting guard combo, they both try their best with their bigs and they both try to draft well or sign well on free agency and just cut ties with anyone who wants more money.

Honestly, I find them west and east versions of each other. However this can't continue like that forever, they really need to blow it up and try again, I know tanking is not liked by many people but neither wizards nor blazers is going anywhere with these teams, if they could trade people like wall/beal or dame/cj and get picks instead with some soon ending contracts with it, they can both get rid of the contract quickly and have picks to restart all of this. Otherwise they will be stuck with mediocre play forever.

Learn! Learn!! And never stop learning. Experience may be the best teacher but if you skip the basic things you need to know, you will find out that trying to gain experience without any knowledge at all, will only end up getting you totally messed up and your account balance getting blown like a grenade.
There is always a step to everything;
Learn
Practice
Build strategy
Fine tune the strategy
Gain confidence
See all experience as a new phase to keep learning
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With real Madrid winning their recent games I think they might get on the rise. Coaching changes plus games and wins combined to a new fresh look for Madrid team if you ask me. Still won't be enough to get the championship but I am pretty sure they have what it takes to finish the league at top 3 right now.

I know finishing top 3 doesn't seem like an accomplishment to many people here when it is about real Madrid but they were literally losing their games to a point where they were closer to regulation side than champions. That is why I think it is a great improvement for a team to improve from that level to top 3 even if it is real Madrid we are talking about. Working towards a goal chipping away slowly is still a great way to get better, no one needs to get better over night.

I think this is because the regular people get out from trading and many people are either in fiat or in bitcoin but not trading anymore trying to make more money. A year ago everyone was a master about which coin was to get and even at the most unusual places you have seen talks about buying some obscure coin and that was the way to riches, nowadays no one really does that at all.

It means the whales who try to control the market can't anymore because in order to control the market it has to worth what you are doing and when they spent millions of dollars into bitcoin than there was other people who spent tens of millions of dollars and their speculation was not seen and balanced.

Nowadays, if they try to do that than they would have to really move the market themselves and when they want to get out they can't because there are not enough money to go around.

When you want to trade, there is always that thing to at least find some peace within you first but there is no way you can find that peace if all you are after is gambling your position in the market without knowledge and like you said, it will not even get you far, before you will realize that no matter how you meditate without knowledge of what you are doing, you are just busy meditating for nothing.

Rather than meditating, every day, before I hit the market, I take my time to study it, wait for a perfect position to enter based on my strategy, and then make the best of it. That is my own meditation based on my knowledge, anyone who does not have a strategy and thinking meditation will help them out should go ahead, as I will love to see where that leads them.

We all know what is actually useful for controlling emotions of traders, it is knowledge, practice and experience, not meditation. I am not saying you cannot meditate before you trade as that is your own call, but what would actually make you to trade like a pro, is not meditation, but the confidence in your own self and in your strategy you have been consistently used to over time. Being a successful trader is about how you get to develop your skills and strategy over time and meditation is never a criterion to being a successful trader. You will be in a clear mind when you know what you are doing.

Over the years, I have seen coinbase take their time to do everything appropriately and make sure it is done right which is one of the reasons why I have always been able to at least trust their services. Opening a department in NY, is not a bad idea, as every business will most definitely want to keep expanding and pretty much, they have a good and solid reasons for that and we all know that coinbase has been a very huge part of this space for a very long time, and seeing them grow in size is not a bad idea at all.

Someone after the OP said coinbase is acting like a bank, for heaven sake, this is a regulated exchange and every centralized exchanges are like that, so the whole acting like a bank thing is nothing new for a centralized exchange.

It is even funny that these days, news are no longer being bought, and people would rather stick with price action than seeing news as anything they should be relying on in this space. We all know how some positive development have come up for a while now and the fact that the market has reacted opposite to it, so in a way, we will just be deceiving ourselves to think some fundamentals will work but it does not.

I just believe the market is moving based on how it just wants to move, or how the institution want it to move and nothing else, and for the most part of it all, probably until we start seeing a more matured market, before we may actually get to start seeing news bringing about anything when it comes to movement.

Apart from the team scrutinizing and the whitepaper as you mentioned, availability of a minimum viable product as well as business solution is something you really want to be checking out first.

In fact, personally, whitepaper is usually the last thing i check. Basically, I visit the website, look at the team, check their LinkedIn profile page as I believe in this jet age, there is actually no excuse for a well-informed team and experienced one not to have a LinkedIn profile page over the years, and with this I check their past experience, dig further on them if they are for real, contact some of them if I could, ask questions on their ANN and social media pages, and then from there I look if there is an MVP.

As long as the team is serious and ready for business, there should always be a MVP before I even start considering going through the whitepaper for business solutions.

I honestly don't think they are scamming people, I mean there was the dude that took everyone money and ran with it and left the website with "penis" written on it to troll the investors. That dude definitely did scam everyone and just recently we have seen that Pearl owner has printed a lot more pearls for himself and sold all of it causing the price to plummet and than ran with all the bitcoin he made from the sale. There are scam stories like that all the time but they are probably just 10% of all ICO stories. Rest of it, the 90% is actually teams that can't manage to run a proper business and actually succeed on being the ICO they promised to be. They either try and fail or they are too lazy to actually do it. All of them fail at what they suppose to do not because they are "bad" people but because they suck at what they do.

But many people are not bothering about these but rushing to start a new ICO just to loot innocent people's money. There are two category of failing in ICOs : failure due to improper management and intentional scams. Improper management include the factors you have mentioned and the other category is just about what most people here are referring.

It all depends on how much money you have. The more you have the more diversification you will need. If you have at most couple hundred bucks than you do not have to, I mean you can still get couple coins but don't really need to diversify $200 at all. If you have couple thousand dollars than you can diversify in crypto and get tens of different coins and you can spend most of your money on known coins and put smaller amounts for some new coins that has a potential to skyrocket in the future (only put up like 1% of your investments into these).

If you have hundreds of thousands of dollars (which I have seen in crypto world some people have it) than you should surely diversify outside of crypto as well, put up some of it to stocks, others into bonds, some into golds and even real estate lands if you can afford to. Putting all of your money is a bigger risk if you have a lot of money, if you diversify into multiple stuff than you will be safe from any drops in one of them.