I agree with your point. Starting new projects backed by new cryptocurrencies no longer make much sense. 90 out of 100 such projects are either failed attempts or non-serious try.
But crypto space doesn't have any other option so far. When raising money from people, projects have to offer something in return as a security to investors. Unlike real world, crypto space is unregulated so it is not possible to issue shares validating invested amounts. Tell me why would I invest money in XYZ project if XYZ isn't giving me anything in return? Creating anything requires funds so without funds projects won't thrive. Therefore, issuing tokens is one of the best way to solve this issue in crypto space and to power the value of such tokens, projects integrate tokens in their platform. Theoretically, that's the win-win situation.

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The predictability in casino gambling is almost zero while although sports betting is uncertain too but there exists a certain degree of predictability. You say you lose even though you bet after analyzing teams and players. Well, that doesn't make any sense. If sports are so obvious that one can predict the winner of the match just by analyzing players and teams than why do the millions of people even watch matches! Anything can happen when you are betting on real-world events. So depairing that you didn't win even after deep analysis is irrelevant.
But still compare below two cases:
1. Betting 0.01 BTC on 10 straight FC Barcelona's La Liga matches.
2. Betting 0.01 BTC on 10 Hi-Lo dice game with 75% win chance.

Since Barcelona is one of the best team in La Liga, max. odd would be 1.25. So one can win 0.025 BTC if Barcelona wins all matches. In the second case, one can win 0.025 BTC if all 10 games go in your side. Now compare both events. Even with 75% win chance in case two, it is more certain that betting on Barca would be a better option because there is zero predictability in casino.

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I don't know how being a substitute of money is considered as a only mean success of Bitcoin by many. I believe Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies as a whole have much more advantages than the present form of money. We can't speculate money but we can speculate on Bitcoin's value. So it is wrong to put both money and cryptos in same bag as most of the governments and authorities are doing. It shows they aren't fully aware of what Blockchain provides. Instead of just being token serving basic features of money, cryptocurrencies provide much more with the features like Proof of Work, Public Ledger, transparency, etc.

I personally believe sports betting is better than casinos (although I love rolling dice on WinDice ).
Among sportsbook, football betting is my favorite and I have done lot of such betting in last few months. My favorite site is Wbet7. Wbet7 offers instant deposits and withdrawals with no need of verification of any kind. Moreover, it provides wide range of options to bet on, for example, in addtion to bet on teams, you can bet on number of goals scored, odd/even, half time goals and many more betting options. Also they cover all matches of top leagues plus international fixtures.
And the best thing is that they aren't limited to Bitcoin. You can bet using Ethereum, Ripple, Dogecoin and few other coins too.

The movement of $7B is no indicator. CoinMarketCap estimates the total value of cryptocurrencies by multiplying current price and total supply. So even if it goes up and down, it won't have any psychological on traders.
About investment, with $30 as an initial amount I would suggest you to follow trends. Deposit them on Binance, put them on coin in pump, sell every now and then. During pump if you act smartly you can easily double or even triple by  simply buying/selling same coin many times within a day.

The exchange is genuine and few of my known have reported successful trade on Giottus so yeah you can try it. But I have also heard about fake volume on Giotuss, well never tested myself.


Exchanging crypto in India is quite a deal now. But RBI has given green flag to peer-2-peer trading hence it's not too risky to use Indian platforms for P2P if they are not involved in shady business. Well, it's also a point how could we know that exchange is fully legit. So yeah your point is correct. I personally use Remitano and it's working perfectly for me. Also there is no requirement to do KYC on Remitano (LocalBitcoins requires KYC). I recommend Remitano to Indian traders.

I think the ongoing bitcoin fluctuations are too small to be called the manipulated ones. In last one month, Bitoin price remained in the range of $3.7K to $4.2K. So with the range of $500, it's too risky to do any kind of shorting.
No doubt most of the cryptocurrency market is manipulated by whales and bots but present scenario doesn't show that. Also by reading chart, it is hard to tell any kind of continuous pattern. So it is due to natural market movements and traders in large are buying/selling with increase/decrease in price thus nullifying any kind of huge surge or fall presently.

Gendry is not a king material. How can someone who spent all his life forging weapons can suddenly turn as a ruler. However, there is a possibility that throne may return to Baratheon family but who can become ruler? Well, yes Stannis Baratheon and who else! But he's dead! Well, did anyone see his head detaching from his body when Brienne of Tarth wield her sword? Who knows if Brienne actually killed him or there was some sentimental conversation among them and she let him go. Anything is possible!

By the way, my vote is on democracy! GoT will end with the end of monarchy and democracy will rule the seven kingdoms. 

You are right to some extent but I don't think it's wise to put all alternative cryptocurrencies in single bracket. Although most of the altcoins are nothing individually and exist only due to pump/dump but there are few altcoins which have their own existential importance. Suppose if ETH would have never been created, does people able to create tokens as easy as they now with Bitcoin ecosystem?
There are many cryptocurrencies like XRP, Tron, Monero, etc. which have provided something new to cryptocurrency world that was lacking in Bitcoin-Litecoin era.

Not everyone is same. I have seen many people involved so much in gambling emotionally that they end up losing everything. In order to curb this psychological setback, the only way is to become emotionally strong. After all gambling is more of competition against own self than against odds. In order to become mature gambler, one can choose any of the following way:
1. Pro Gambler : Here professionalism doesn't refer to expertise in picking the right odd but refers to the calculative mind. If you are practical and calculative in every bet, recording your financial gain/loss after every bet then you may not lose much even if odds are against you or even end up winning huge.
2. Fun Gambler : So instead of taking gambling as gambling, assume it as a game. Use only that much of your funds which you can afford to lose. I generally bet just $30-40 weekly in sportsbook just for fun. Even if I end up losing, it doesn't matter much.

I had one of the worst experience with Bittrex. Back in 2017, Bittrex was my favorite choice and I mostly used it for trading but from July 2017 they made it necessary to do KYC in order to trade. For personal identification they provide three choices, Passport/National Identity/Driving Licence. I didn't have Passport so I firstly filled National Identity but they denied. Then I filled KYC application with Driving Licence but they denied me again. I had 0.22 BTC worth of coins on my Bittrex account, even after series of support tickets nothing happened and still to present day my money is stuck in Bittrex. Now coins only worth 0.023 BTC. 


They may provide good trading experience but I would still prefer big exchanges. Back in December 2017, COLX coin multiplied 72 times. I had done translation for COLX and got around 0.02 BTC which became 1.4 BTC. I deposited my COLX on exchange named CoinMarkets and a day later exchange went offline. After 2-3 months of ambiguity CoinMarkets turned scam. From that day I swore to never use an exchange having less than $10M volume.

Chelsea lacking the winning instinct this season. They aren't playing like the champions in any tournament. They are below average in PL (how easily Everton beat them yesterday!), lacking charm in Football League Final and what not. I think Chelsea won't past through Semis of Europa League.
So who could be the winner? My bet is on Benfica! Currently, the table leader in Primeira Liga, Benfica is the stronger contender for Europa League. Also they got the easiest draw in QF so it may be an easy sail for them till Finals.

None of the exchange is safe, even the big names went scam in past.
Moreover, there are exchanges out there which although not wholly turned scam but are operating very shady such as HitBTC. So it is always preferable to use exchanges only for trade purpose, never ever hold funds on them. Also there is new trend growing among exchanges i.e. launching their own coin. Now I find this thing to be very risky for investors. Exchanges are already earning entities through trade fees, throwing them extra money by buying their coins is not a good idea from investors point-of-view. This model may survive in case of one or two big exchanges such as Binance (BNB) and KuCoin (KCS) as they have first-mover advantage but for other exchanges which are now adopting this idea, it leads to creation of liability which is not backed by any additional service. Moreover to lure investors, they promise fees sharing. All these things will backfire in future and such model will collapse.

True. JP Morgan slammed Bitcoin last year and it caused immediate fall in Bitcoin's value. Later it was found out that JP Morgan bought loads of btc after fall. So such statements no matter positive or negative are purely for personal gains. Crypto community instead of giving air to such statements should focus on becoming more mature. The crypto market need to be more stable or growing upward constantly in order to gain more adopters.

I think there is a need of an intermediary. A trusted intermediary which should receive the KYC of the applicants on the behalf of companies, verifies them and send the results to concerned company. I think there are already few websites providing this service but adopting them as intermediary is not a common practice among companies.
Such intermediary should work two-way, verifying applicants KYC one way and verifying the genuineness of company the other way. Everyone will be in win-win situation.

I don't think General Elections in any way are going to impact the prices of Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. Elections are fought on issues and cryptocurrencies are not the minutest of the issue. If we see the Indian population, after the closure of direct exchanges such as Zebpay only 50-60 lakh people are engaged in cryptocurrencies in one way or the other. I don't think any political party is going to care issue which can only give 50 lakh votes. So don't expect anything big for crypto from these elections. However, if the current government returns to power, capital market (inc. share markets and mutual funds) is gonna surge exponentially. So as a by-effect, crypto market may grow a little too.

Agree beyond doubts.