Last January, Turkish football club “Harunustaspor” became the first club to sign a player using Bitcoin. While the transfer fee itself wasn’t paid with crypto, a portion of the player’s signing-on fee was delivered in BTC.

Gibraltar just scored a major unexpected goal in the great tournament to be known as the most Bitcoin-friendly jurisdiction in Europe. A local football team made international sports headlines for deciding to pay its players with cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin-billionaire and owner of the Bitcoin Suisse provider Niklas Nikolajsen renamed the ice arena in Bitcoin Arena. When Niklas became the general sponsor of the Danish hockey club “Rungsted Seier Capital”, he offered the players to pay salaries in the cryptocurrency.

Football club “Real Madrid” decided gradually transfer to pay for services by bitcoins. The tourists and football fans can buy the tour of the stadium “Santiago Bernabeu”. This opportunity is realized thanks to the company 13 Tickets and the negotiating with another football club “Atlético Madrid”.

The football players started releasing their own crypto-currencies. James Rodriguez of the Real Madrid Football Club with SelfSell released a JR10 token, and the sale was on 27, May and lasted only 12 seconds.

Premier League football bosses will soon be paying for the best players in bitcoins, it was claimed last summer, after seven top-flight clubs launched cryptocurrency trials.

Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City, Newcastle United, Southampton, Cardiff City, Brighton and Crystal Palace have agreed to set up digital wallets with an online trading platform which says it is in "no doubt" the currency will eventually replace sterling in the multi-billion pound transfer industry.

What do you think, how soon top football players would be transfer from clubs to clubs for a fee in crypto?!

The answer is: “nobody knows for sure". Scott Galloway, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), believes crypto will have a worse year in 2019. Jim Breyer, a billionaire venture capitalist, said that the world’s best computer scientists are moving to the blockchain industry and it would be risky to challenge smart talent flocking to crypto. Pantera Capital’s CIO Joey Krug believes, while Bitcoin may become digital gold, it cannot succeed as money given its volatility. Moreover, a dynamic monetary policy doesn’t exist within bitcoin which severely affects its volatility. Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song says the original cryptocurrency can be a powerful tool to usher in a “peaceful revolution.” What can be said for sure is that crypto will remain one of the hottest topic for discussion and analyses from expert all over the world in 2019.

What is Your opinion?

It is not dying as it is established already as a payment method in many places.   

I believe some altcoins inclusive etherium will fall down bu the end of the year, and then will raise again in the new year.

On November 1, CCN reported that Grayscale Investments, a subsidiary company of cryptocurrency venture capital behemoth Digital Currency Group, raised more than $330 million from both existing and new investors.
After recording a 1,200 percent increase in the amount the firm had raised across three quarters in 2017, Michael Sonnenshein, managing director of Grayscale Investment stated that the substantial 69 percent drop in the price of Bitcoin had minimal impact on the company’s client base.
“Bitcoin prices doing nothing but go down the entire year has not deterred our existing clients from putting more capital to work. Asset inflows are really strong despite these price declines. Investors are taking the pullback as an opportunity to increase their exposure. The price has not slowed down the pace of investments — it’s actually caused us to broaden our relationships.”
As a publicly tradable instrument provider of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Zcash that allow investors in the stock market to invest in the cryptocurrency market, Grayscale has a strong reputation as a digital asset asset manager and investment firm.
But, over the last several months, other major cryptocurrency hedge funds such as Pantera Capital and former Point72 portfolio manager Travis Kling-founded Ikigai Asset Management have raised over $100 million to invest in the asset class.
The cryptocurrency sector has fallen by a significant margin within a 11-month period, but to many investors exploring the asset class as a long-term investment opportunity, the correction of the market has been considered an opportunity.
Throughout the past 10 years, the cryptocurrency market recorded four major corrections, all of which demonstrated drops of over 80 percent in valuation. Hence, as Travis Kling emphasized, the cryptocurrency market is merely at the start of exponential growth and the correction is a viable opportunity for new investors to enter.
“Same as that earlier invention, I believe crypto will create trillions of dollars along the way. Already the market for virtual coins is valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. And it’s all just getting started. So I left Point72, billionaire Steven A. Cohen’s hedge fund, in December to continue my investing career, but in a new asset class,” Kling wrote on August 1.
In August, Pantera Capital raised more than $100 million and is targeting to raise $75 million more to establish a venture capital-style fund to invest in cryptocurrency startups.
Over 140 investors participated in the $100 million fund of Pantera with a 10-year long-term vision to invest in the cryptocurrency industry and emerging startups rather than cryptocurrenies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Ethereum 2.0 is coming soon, and it could increase by a thousand fold the Ethereum network’s capacity to process transactions.
Vitalik Buterin, the cofounder of Ethereum who represents the world’s second-largest blockchain, has shared in Prague this week, the new upgrade formerly known as Ethereum 2.0, called  Serenity, and has  promised to make the network faster, more secure, less energy-intensive, and capable of handling thousands of transactions per second.
At the annual Ethereum developer conference in Devcon, Buterin reported the twisting path that efforts to upgrade the network have taken. Buterin and his coworkers were forced to recalibrate their timeline for development, as they got delayed with distractions like the infamous DAO hack, which led to a network split that Buterin compared in his talk to the Hindenburg disaster. They also found themselves pursuing overly complicated dead ends such as “super-quadratic sharding.”
According to Buterin Serenity will see Ethereum finally switch from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, a model in which people and organizations holding ether will “stake” their own coins in order to maintain the network, and will earn block rewards for doing so. In 2018, Ethereum’s core developers decided to abandon the half-measures of the hybrid model they had been working on and instead set out on a path that would initially take longer, but would deliver “a proof-of-stake and sharded blockchain with the properties that we’re looking for,” said Buterin.
Serenity won’t be the final product of Ethereum developers. Issues of transaction fees and governance will remain, said Buterin. Along with other technical improvements, he and other core developers have already begun mapping out future tweaks to the proof-of-stake model.

Dota 1 must be in top 3

my wedding day, is one of the most memorable day

try to eat more often, like 6-7 times a day

who is going to be the most popular costume this year? last year I think it was Harley Quinn

I think to make realistic promises is very important, when  I see everyday promises from different airdrops that their coin will go up in price thousands % in very quick time, I have doubts about this kind of airdrops.

I wasn't asking about artificial boosts or bots. I am interested in appropriate ways.

I guess you are toking about ICO, well there are many who try stilling money, but there are good one as well, just much less.
how about airdrop ?

No, its to attract people to the project and communicate

I need advice on how to expand our telegram channel. The question is how to add thousands members and promote in different groups without being banned.

Sometimes online is cheaper, so if you can check the quality in the shop and than order the same online it make scene.

Telegram groups, but be careful and dont just spam

I think there is nothing wrong on checking in the morning, on professional investor brain is not having any impact, as they need to know what strategy to use for the future investments.

It depends who are speakers and how many of them, sometimes the price worth it.

Our solution for improvement Geth Node Sync stability

Some of Redenom project participants ask us why transactions and payments sometimes occur with the delays. In order to answer this question, we decided to explain about the structure of our system.

The core of the Redenom project is a crypto smart-contract in the Ethereum network. This system is still relatively new and its creators are constantly working to improve it, nevertheless it is Ethereum that is de facto the most advanced blockchain system oriented to the implementation of crypto smart-contracts.

To interact with the blockchain, you must have your own Ethereum network node called “GETH” and here lies the main reason why transactions can sometimes be delayed. The matter is that on whatever powerful server the GETH node does work, it still periodically loses synchronization with the network. Due to attacks on the blockchain system (which occur quite often), the node may temporarily lag and transactions through it cannot pass until it gets the last blocks and is not synchronized with the network.

In order to minimize the waiting time for transactions and prevent failures, we had to organize several geographically remote GETH Nodes and configure the Redenom system so that transactions are automatically sent through the node that they can process at the maximum speed.

By increasing the number of Redenom Nodes on the Ethereum network, we developed a synchronization and backup algorithm providing a high level of both executions of any transactions in the Ethereum network within the Redenom project and fault tolerance.

Another problem with Ethereum is that the price of transactions can increase 10 or more times in just a few minutes, depending on the load on the network. If the transaction was sent at a price below the average in the network before such a sudden increase in value, it may remain unconfirmed for a long time, blocking all subsequent transactions.

To avoid such a situation, we have created a tool that analyzes the information about the transaction price and the network load recently, determines how the price will change in the future and all transactions of the Redenom project are sent at a price that will take into account possible fluctuations and changes.

We will continue to develop solutions that will bypass all Ethereum imperfections to make your user experience as pleasant as possible and accelerate transactions as possible.