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8101  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will BTC follow the same pattern in February 2018? on: April 23, 2018, 03:33:25 PM
I think not. We are going straight to 12k, then we will have some correction.


I like your optimism dude. But let's see first if we can get back at $10K levels before we can even talk $12K.

However, as per OP we are going to cross $8800 before seeing a price correction. In actuality, we have crossed $9K already before seeing a minor dip but I think its achievable in the next coming days (the $9K barrier).

So I would say that the price could at least test $10K before seeing another retracement and then consolidating again for another run at $12K-$13K. But then again, even though we are seeing a massive gains in the last week or so doesn't mean that we can't make a sudden reversal, everything is possible, but I do hope that the bearish trend is somewhat weakening.
8102  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2018-04-23] ‘Time to Get Back Into Crypto, ’ Declares Dan Bilzerian on: April 23, 2018, 02:51:00 PM
Regardless of this guy's reputation, I guess this is a good indication for all investors. So as for me, I guess it is high time for people to buy in. I just hope too, we would not be swamped with many dumpers in the process because they greatly affect the market once they let go and cash out, leaving too much Bitcoins in circulation thereby causing the price to suffer. I hope people will be more rationale nowadays, and learn from the past. Nevertheless, let all positive vibes come in!

Correct, everyone who have been in crypto know that its just a matter of time before we can ride a bull run again. And you don't want to be left out in the closet once it started. I'm not familiar with the guy, maybe he is a bad investor, but it makes sense what he is telling though. Its logical to get in while the price is still cheap (below 5 digits) and again if a massive and exponential growth ensure in the next few months, you can make a big profit out of it. So get in while you can.
8103  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2018 NBA Season on: April 23, 2018, 02:16:06 PM
What a bombshell! Stephen Curry not coming back anytime soon, says Steve Kerr, head coach of the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors are already down in the fourth quarter of the game to the San Antonio Spurs. I don't even like them to bounce back with a win though, give the Spurs and Gregg a break, there are currently rough times in San Antonio. I'm really looking forward to the Toronto Raptors and Washington Wizards game though! Its going to be straight up fuego in Washington if they want to continue in the playoffs.
And the Warriors lost the game, so sad about the news of Popovich wife but the Spurs teams gave him a pretty nice win. Even though the Spurs managed to not get beat 4-0 in the series. But I dont think they will win another game in this series as KD is too much of a problem for them. Spurs were hot from 3 but I dont see this happening twice especially in Golden State.

Yes, they avoided a swept but I don't think that they have a chance against Golden State though. They have a lot of turn-overs beginning the first half of the game, and it cost them this game in my opinion. And fun to see Manu again making key plays and the end to secure their first victory.

And its quite surprising that San Antonio shot better 3's against Golden State in this game, which gave them enough room to win. Now Game 5 will be played on Warriors homecourt so I wouldn't be surprise if they closed out this game for good in their home.
8104  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Good news from India on: April 23, 2018, 01:45:08 PM
Ministry of Finance has the final authority for money and financial matters. Have a look at USA China trade war where Donald Trump has put $150 billion tariffs on Chinese imports.

Looks like China is the next to ban Bitcoin

You don't need to be a scientist to smell that China will obviously ban bitcoin. That's why Bitmain has already made its plan to move its mining hardware somewhere else.


~snip~


This might be a win for CoinRecoil but its going to be a long and arduous battle in my opinion. Its good though to hear that someone challenged this circular but I wouldn't be surprised if India will put a tighter regulations on cryptocurrency. Again, Kali Digital have invested tons of money having their own crypto exchanges that's why they are putting a fight, but they should at least a plan B of sort, if they lose this battle then they should moved to Malta as well, just like Bitmain and OKex did.
8105  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2018 NBA Season on: April 22, 2018, 08:34:40 PM
To be honest, I am little disappointed by the Trail Blazers. I predict them pretty easy series, or at least couple wins against Pelicans and yet they will most likely be sweeped tonight.
Even though the Pelicans have a higher spot in the seedings they are actually a better team compared to Portland Trailblazers even if Cousins is injured. Anthony Davis is a superstar, Jrue Holiday is a above average PG, Emeka Okafor has been a good signing. Damian Lillard cannot really actually carry a playoff team on his own. Ever since Lamarcus Aldridge chose the Spurs Portland was never the same.

Yeah, I really thought that Portland can overcome NOP but it seems its the other way around. Portland is seeded #3 so I was really surprised that they are swept. And even though NOP missed Cousins because of injury, but Davis and Holiday really step it up and combine for a monster 88 points, of course Rondo is there for experience and leadership so its really a team effort on their end. So its going to be Warriors vs NOP, and with how they played, Warriors hands are full with the duo of Davis and Holiday.
8106  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UFC 223: Nurmagomedov vs ??? Info Prediction, MCGREGOR ATTACKS BUS LOL! on: April 22, 2018, 04:18:56 PM
If the fight is in Russia, then I am afraid that Conor McGregor will be going back to Dublin in an ambulance (either dead or alive). Nurmagomedov is invincible in home conditions and it will be fun if the fight actually happens in Grozny.
Edit: Just remembered that Nurmagomedov is an Avar from Dagestan. He won't be very keen to fight in Grozny.... What about Makhachkala as the venue?
I really cannot imagine the beating Khabib Nurmagomedov is going to give to McGregor, but the problem is i never expected him to win against Aldo but he smoked him in seconds and when he was challenging Rafael dos Anjos for the title i was certain that he will smoke McGregor but that fight failed to materialized and finally when it came to Eddie Alvarez i thought he will defeat McGregor but the opposite happened, now my only hope is Khabib and Tony. Cheesy
It would be the biggest fight in history if they fight in Russia, but with things are going it looks like they will face in Madison Square Garden by November, if McGregor really wanted to face Khabib.

But during the fight with Aldo, dos Anjos and Alvarez, Conor is the top pick to win. Or maybe you are betting for the underdog to win and beat Conor. hehehe.

But we still have Tony and Khabib. Maybe one of them can win against Conor, who knows. I don't know if is will be the biggest fight in history if they ever fight in Russia, but hey, the 4 out of 5 top selling UFC PPV's was headlined by Conor(except #2 Lesnar vs Mir) and he still holds the record against Nate.

8107  Economy / Economics / Re: Cryptocurrency Career Opportunities - Especially With Markets Being Down on: April 22, 2018, 03:18:59 PM
"Cryptocurrency career opportunities are going up as the markets are falling downwards. Why? It's good to negotiate for jobs or if you're a jobs employer, you can negotiate for better expense deals as most websites/influencers/services have dropped values and prices. It's a good time to get into crypto (not necessarily investing money into it) if you were thinking about it last year."

Even last year was a good time for crypto related job opportunities because their are really a lot of projects that is coming up. If you will just go around the forum, you will see as well that there are a lot looking for blockchain developer so I would't be surprise if this will continue to the next couple of years are crypto is really taking off, but its not necessarily that its going up because the market is falling down.

Its going to be a continuing pattern. So if you are good in certain language being used to development blockchain or smart contracts then its another perfect opportunity to get involved with crypto because I was thinking that the pay might be good as well.
8108  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Why do people use bad exchanges like YoBIt? on: April 20, 2018, 11:23:57 PM
Many newbies begin their acquaintance with cryptocurrencies through shitcoins. And most of shitcoins are traded exactly on the Yobit exchange. With the study of the crypto market, newbies begin to understand that there are more serious exchanges like Bitfinex, Bittrex, Binance etc.

I started my journey into cryptocurrency world with the Yobit exchange, but at the moment I do not use this exchange, because I heard a lot of negative reviews about it.

Same case for me. Yobit actually is the first crypto exchange that I heard of when I was just starting my trading journey and I was awed as how trading exchanges worked back then. But it doesn't take long for me to realized that there are more exchanges out there, better than Yobit so I completely shift all my funds and traded somewhere else.

And the last time I heard there are a lot of scam accusations against them + poor customer support. They might still attract newbies because there are coins that are only listed in Yobit, however, it will just a matter of time before you seek better exchange once you experienced first hand how poor Yobit's support is.
8109  Economy / Speculation / Re: Swinging around 8k and countinnngg.... on: April 20, 2018, 10:31:51 PM
For more than a week now bitcoin's value have been swinging around 8k and counting. Indeed a good sign that bitcoin is fighting towards higher value from being down at 6,900 on the first week of april.

Will it be holding on to 8k for the next couple weeks or will it surge amidst of mid year or fall down again.

Hey Bitcoins Analysts whats your opinion..

For those who wants to track the price of bitcoin, this would probably help you. https://www.coindesk.com/price/

It's holding quite a bit in the $8K in the last couple of days then make a break out today, surpassing $8500 which is really a good sign that we might see a continues uptrend up to the up end of this week. I'm also seeing a healthy growth as well. But I don't want to be excited as this point because we don't know if this is the end of the bearish sentiments or not. Let's see how it pans out.

So short term, the price will fluctuate around $8500-$10K, up to the end of the month perhaps.

Long term: I'm seeing the price moving towards $15K-$18K range.

8110  Economy / Speculation / Re: Just $320/week gains to hit $20k by end of 2018 on: April 20, 2018, 05:47:40 PM
To get to $20k by end of the year using just steady growth, not even with a new boom phase starting, would just take an average of $320 gains per week.

There's 36 weeks left in the year, BTC is at $8500. That's $11,500 to go to break the ATH and touch $20k. Comes out to $320 per week. I don't think anyone  would say a $320 weekly gain for Bitcoin is very much. Granted it has to average that over 36 weeks, but still, looking at it this way $20k in 2018, building up to a 2019 boom, seems like it won't be that hard.

Should be a good year for making money from these prices onward!

If you are going to analyze it $320 gains is really achievable as a average gain. However, we all know that bitcoin can't go on a parabolic rise plus the market is really volatile so its hard to see it gaining at the levels till the end of the year.

But we have seen bitcoin make significant rallies in the past, huge pump of almost $1K one day. So I'm thinking at the long run it might be possible to get to $20K at the end of the year.

I wouldn't be surprised if we go and hit another all-time-high in December. Nonetheless, I would not put to much expectations on it so that I will not be disappointed if it didn't get there. At least though a price of above $10K-$15K will be a safe price for all of us.
8111  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC will cross 10k ? on: April 20, 2018, 05:08:25 PM
Bitcoin is at $8500 at the moment. I think it is definitely going to try to push past $9000.

Agree. We have crossed the psychological barrier of $8500 and it looks like everything is on our favor now. We have like more than 1 week to hit $9K so I would say by the end of the month we are about that range or even higher.

I've realised that the best guide to price is Soros. In Jan he said bitcoin was a bubble (that means he was shorting it, and trying to talk everyone else into selling in order for his short to make a profit).

A few weeks ago he said he was "going to get into cryptocurrency". That means he ALREADY was long, probably at $6600. Nobody announces their trades in advance, only after the fact. And he told everyone because he wanted everyone to buy so his long was profitable. (That kind of behaviour is illegal in regulated markets, but bitcoin is unregulated).

I don't know about the Soros thingy but we have hit rock bottom already so it means that the next logical thing to happen is to go up which we are now witnessing starting this month. Of course there are a lot of factors that made this push possible so maybe Soros announcement may have contributed but its not the sole factor for the price to go on a upward trend.
8112  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Pacquiao vs Matthysse July 15 2018 on: April 20, 2018, 04:50:59 PM
"I picked a dangerous opponent in Matthysse. He's a champion but I do believe that we can box him and control the fight," said Pacquiao.

That's what I like about Pacquiao, not bragging his achievement as basis that he can overthrow an opponent.

And you know what's the interesting part of this statement? He is the one who chooses his own opponent, away from the shadow of his former promoter Bob Arum who just picks and picks and picks any boxer. Since under contract, no way Manny will just argue for the selected boxer that will placed on fight.

Matthysee is a solid fighter and hope that he can bring up the old style of Manny Pacquiao.

It is just me or both of the fighters really looks old,

https://www.boxingscene.com/photos-manny-pacquiao-lucas-matthysse-go-face-face--127283

Lucas Matthysse is the younger fighter between the two but he looks like the older way older. Maybe I hasn't followed his fights lately that's why I was quite surprised to see him this way.


Because of the hairy characteristics of South Americans or even the Americans itself, they are looking more matured than Asian people, well based on my observation. Just look at NBA players, around 18 or mid 20's looks like an early 40's here in our country.

P.S Hey I don't mean anything here.

Previously when he was still under Bob's Arum management, he can't really pick his opponent because the team wanted to "cherry-pick" his opponent to make him really good, although its really hard to see Manny banging up with big guys at at 147 lbs and above specially Margarito who is almost a full Middleweight to Super Middle when all hydrated.

Going back to Lucas, yeah maybe he looks older because Asians tends to look younger than their actual age. Maybe Lucas was still out of shape or not on fighting form that's why I observed that he is just a tad older looking than Manny. But its all good man, I truly understand what you are saying here.
8113  Economy / Speculation / Re: Clairvoyant approach versus analytical in investment decision taking on Cryptos. on: April 20, 2018, 01:37:28 AM
What is your opinion on clairvoyant prediction about futures prices versus analytical/fundamental prediction ?

Do you go for : whatever it is as long as  the results are good ? OR, whatever is the result, bad or good, you would stay with the same approach ?


Here is the example of a clairvoyant approach from a 13 year clairvoyant person who have been through the mathematical/artificial intelligence for 25 years....

https://www.theclairvoyantinvestor.com

I always blows off my coffee reading this thread. What the hell do clairvoyant prediction can do here? Do they actually see the future and what would be the price? I doubt it.

I'm never a fan of this so called psychic predictions, hell even a TA will always be a miss because the market is really 'unpredictable'. Regarding your question about the result: for me as long as it effective and giving you good results then I will stick to that approach. if aint broke dont fix it.
8114  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Barclays considering Bitcoin trading desk. on: April 19, 2018, 11:13:50 PM
It's a positive change to see a large bank actually considering integration with bitcoin technology (even if it is an exchange) rather than waging war against it. I guess this will be the first of its kind, and will actually allow the bank to track transactions in bitcoin thus leaving a trail, unlike when people take out a loan to buy BTC and then default.

They have nothing to lose and everything to gain if they would just allow bitcoin to be part of them. Crypto and the new revolution, rather than waging war against it, they should embrace it and I'm sure that they will gain a lot money by having its own trading desk where most of their clients can do crypto currency trades.

First it was JP Morgan, then it was Goldman Sachs, now it is Barclays. The next in what will be an ever increasing list of big financial institutions that disparage crypto before changing their mind and getting involved.

Probably more will follow and I guess we can considering this really a good news for us. Maybe around few years from now, we may see the bitcoin adoption growing to astronomical levels as this big financial institutions are all getting involved.
8115  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2018-04-18]Crypto Fraudsters Face Jail Time, Warns Philippines Securities Regul on: April 19, 2018, 02:41:55 PM
There are too many investment schemes involving cryptocurrencies and it is just sad that many are still being victimized by those High Yield Investment Programs. It is obvious that there is something going on when the return is just too good to be true so people should already be skeptic as to why the returns are so high when in fact we are in a bear market now.

I also observed that even if the people knew that the people behind the HYIP may just run away with their money, they would still invest hoping for a return. Some even stated that it is new so they most likely would pay so they do not care about other people who would invest later on. I'm glad that the fraudsters were caught but someone would just appear again if people wouldn't change this kind of attitude.

Its going to be cyclical in my opinion. As long as there are people who are willing to invest in those so called HYIP, there will still be scammers born every minutes to try and swindle as many unsuspecting victims as they can.

I can attribute to people really wanted to make easy money because this fraudster will sweet talk you with a promise of 10%-30% returns, who wouldn't be entice on that?

Sadly though, those scammers really put a bad name on crypto in general. The greater public is again warn by the government, but I wouldn't be surprise if another scammers pull off a stunt more daring than the previous one.
8116  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Paper Wallet on: April 19, 2018, 02:14:15 PM
I just wondering why some people don't use paper wallet to secure their bitcoin, Some of them are just putting to the exchanger and trust their funds that no assurance of safety.I don't understand why they did not use the most secure way to keep their bitcoins.

Any Thoughts?

If really depends on you. If you are going to be a long term bag holder then its much better to secure it using paper wallet. As for putting funds in exchanger, the most logical reason is that for trading purposes only.

But the problem lies on people keeping too much funds on a exchange and in a likelihood of a hack or a inside job, all your coins vanished in thin air. You can try using a paper wallet here: https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org
8117  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Pacquiao vs Matthysse July 15 2018 on: April 18, 2018, 10:46:22 PM
It is just me or both of the fighters really looks old,

https://www.boxingscene.com/photos-manny-pacquiao-lucas-matthysse-go-face-face--127283

Lucas Matthysse is the younger fighter between the two but he looks like the older way older. Maybe I hasn't followed his fights lately that's why I was quite surprised to see him this way.

Love what I read here:

Quote
“I am not closing the doors on Freddie,” said Pacquiao, noting that “Freddie and I have a good relationship, we’re like family.”


https://sports.mb.com.ph/2018/04/19/pacquiao-not-closing-door-on-roach/

So maybe there is really a happy ending between him and the famed trainer.



I found a good article about the supposedly divorced of Manny and coach Freddie.

https://ph.yahoo.com/sports/freddie-roach-isnt-mad-things-ended-manny-pacquiao-just-disappointed-005848468.html
There's nothing that shows the link.

But when I googled it this showed, http://sport360.com/article/other/boxing/277134/manny-pacquiao-says-no-decision-on-trainer-yet-and-denies-rift-with-coach-freddie-roach

Let's wait until Manny contacts him few more months before the fight and he needs to be trained but if this never happens, their long time tied up will be gone.

Weird. I also try to access the link today and it was not there as well. It just points me back to the default yahoo homepage. Sorry about that mate.
8118  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling: Culture on: April 18, 2018, 09:25:00 PM
Every country have different culture and rule.

Unfortunlately , my government really strict about gambling activity so you will see less in my country because there are many past incident that turn into bloody murder because of gambling !

in my country, although it's strict about gambling, people still playing gambling but with secret and they can play in a secret place without other people knows except the gamblers. but I am not heard any bloody murder in here because I think that the police is trying to hide any illegal things that happen in my country.
I have same situation here in my country. People are concealing themselves and these gambling points are so hidden that a casual person can’t find them. But they are only known to the gamblers and people who are in this field. Police is always behind them and looking forward for such points. Sometimes we heard police had made a raid and many people become sentenced.

Then it would be really hard for a gamblers to stay in your country if the police are always are their tail. I'm sure that those 'secret' places for gamblers will not stay that long because once the police have identified that place sooner or later raid will be coming. So gamblers has really have a lot of risk, not only you can lose your money, but you can lose your freedom as well if you are caught.

Well if that happens in my country, I will probably stop gambling, and will not put that risk specially if I have a family. Luckily though I lived where gambling is part of our culture and tradition.
8119  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: One country in Asia to develop bitcoin transactions legally on: April 18, 2018, 08:47:14 PM
But there was one setback because it looks like lately when a couple in the Philippines was arrested for running a HYIP and scams a lot of investors:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/981374/news-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-ronald-dela-rosa-cidg-investment-scam

And then Central Bank of the Philippines gave the people a fair warning,

https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-fraudsters-face-jail-time-warns-philippines-securities-regulator/

I'm pretty sure that the latest scam will be a big factor on whether the Philippines will legalizes bitcoin or put a heavier regulations because one Senator is already calling for it, https://cointelegraph.com/news/philippines-senator-proposes-stricter-penalties-for-crimes-involving-crypto. Let's see how it pans out, Philippines is one crypto friendly nation and I hope that they will continue to do so.

8120  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: Bitsler accounts on Sale on: April 17, 2018, 11:18:25 PM
Why do you think it is worth to buy bitsler's account? High level account with high faucet amount? If you looking for anyone who are going to use the high faucet amount for the account, I doubt people will buy it as it wont worth the price (no matter how much you offer it).
AFAIK, it is also prohibited to sell/buy bitsler's account especially for bad purpose. Once admin notice that the account is a bought account then I guess admin will block the account. I could be wrong on this, just stating my opinion.

I don't know if they buying of old gambling accounts (with high faucet claims) has been going on for quite some time now because this is the first time I have encountered it, so I'm not sure if this is accepted or not. Of course sooner or later the account might raise a red flag and can be ban by the admin so buying this sort of account doesn't makes any sense at all.

Any balances on any of them>?

I'm assuming it doesn't have a balance but most probably a old account with a high faucet claiming privilege.
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