I don't know, I would say it's never too late. Bitcoin was born during the last economic crisis. One might even say it was a great necessity to finally push it out to the world. If the economy never crashed, if the banks never got bailed out, people would never have needed to find a use for Bitcoin.

Same as all the "bad things" that happened to Bitcoin in the past. Necessity drives invention. People learnt P2P when governments banned it. People learnt to use their own wallets when Mt Gox crashes. Never too late!

That's sort of game theory at work.

If everyone just buys enough for themselves, everyone has enough and there is no shortage. But if just 1 person buys more than he needs, everyone else needs to also line up and buy or end up on the short end of the stick.

Trust me, when game theory starts to work on Bitcoin, it will be a whole new level of FOMO and then we who got in early will be really happy. Hopefully those of us who have more than we need decide to give it back to those who need it most.

Virtual sports boost looking good. Anyone know how this works exactly? It's just a random computation? And what's the house edge on this?

Tempting to try a few hands out but after busting on dice earlier, I'm probably going to wait until the end of March to re-up. I think this is also the time people will be really looking out for more P2P;)

Stay at home and stay safe (and clean too!).

I know right? I see some guy there with so many WUs (is that you OP?), must be an old home rig he's now putting to a hopefully good cause;)

I'm running into work unit issues right now, and I see I'm still bottom of the pile, but that's expected on an old computer that I only connect to F@H when I'm working. I actually thought this flu virus was more or less like normal flu but it's getting more apparent that it's a little more than that right now.

Cheers team BuyBitcoin;)

Right, they did lead 2-1 at one point, so to lose 3-2 isn't so bad, right? It was a friendly even and the favourites were pressured into 3 yellow cards before winning in the 88th minute. Could have gone either way to be honest, but that's just looking at stats haha.

I'm not learning my lesson, and with some good roulette wins I have money to burn so:

100 units at Betcoin on Jonkopings Sodra IF to WIN vs BK Hacken @7.97. Other odds: 7.92

Odds advantage: 0.78%
Units advantage: 5

I'll register in a while later guys, am not on my preferred device but please count me in anyway. IF for some reason I CANNOT join, then I will take the sidebet (but I'm not clear who are we betting on, just ourselves and if we outlast whomever we win?). My username there on SwC is "Sojourner".

Looking forward to playing with you @figment @SyGambler. Champion of the inaugural where I was first to bust IIR haha.

I'm not sure what you mean here, it's never been clear. Always, just as the nature of the market itself, speculative. I mean, I've seen myself the evidence of whale movements, spoofing bots etc. but when I personally sell or buy, those things do not affect me, and I can't see the clear correlation at all, especially when whales buy and prices go down.

If they're really manipulating the market, why are people still getting into it? If you believe, like some states do, or regulators, why are you buying into Bitcoin?

Don't worry, I'll tell you all the tricks of the trade, including when Steve's bluffing (all the time), when cryptofrka's got a really good hand (which is never) and when to go all in (well ok, I can't tell you that) but yeah! The freerolls are awesome to learn. It's actually pretty straightforward in terms of how the cards stack up, but yeah, let's all try to make it for the Poker with Steve!

Can't wait to win everything from all you guys =p

OK this is super stupid but every time I see this kind of friendly around, where the two teams actually aren't that far apart but because they play away they get some silly odds, yeah, why not? Probably a fool's bet and I can't even find a stream of it but hey, we need some of that luck don't we?

100 units at Betcoin on Fanna BK to WIN vsSollentuna FF @8.10. Other odds: 7.88

Odds advantage: 2.79%
Units advantage: 22

Yeah. I've seen pretty cool guys who got into Bitcoin way early, actually do a lot for it in terms of adoption, but who've changed their minds about how they understand Bitcoin.

There's this Danish guy the media called Bitcoin Jack for example, in 2015 lived off BTC for a month... and today he's 100% convinced that Bitcoin's decentralization isn't as foolproof as someone like Andreas Antonopoulos, for example, would believe. And then myself meeting people in 2018 who said it was all over despite having seen cycles before. I wonder how I'll feel about this 5 years down the line.

Even a day makes a difference really, in this kind of situation. I saw when price just kept nosediving. Read somewhere that it was at one point over 50% in a 24-hour period, but 30% was big enough for me to sit up and take notice.

Not that my mind's changed in any sense, but what I'm wondering now is, miners are the ones in pain... right? So they'll want to push prices up as high as it can get before the halving, because as someone said, this should immediately mean a doubling in price just to keep in check.

Someone who gets it. It's a bit strange though I got to say from all the different Russian states, with local politicians seemingly able to lobby for nuclear powered blockchain hubs that even supposedly could welcome crypto mining companies. And the you've got finance ministers and central banks issuing conflicting statements.

I wonder if it's just bad reporting, deliberate misreporting or plain old lost in translation vibes?

It's a really old project and you can look it up yourself... which I would hope anyone would self-verify on their own.

I'll admit, I have no true idea of what happens behind the scenes, but there have been hundreds verifying the datalogs and this is a super old method (I myself used Seti@Home and then IBM's World Community Grid for very long time as well on a project related to mapping the human genome project.

It also existed long before crypto mining so... maybe it doesn't deserve this level of criticism.

Welcome @iasenko!

Yeah I remember that too. Flags were lined up in the streets, we had months of low volatility and people were ready to say: this is it.

Then of course, we also have some of those calling even 2k and lower as potential bottoms now, but calling lower lows after Bitcoin just took a smashing isn't exactly prophetic now, is it?

Anyway. Interesting if stablecoins really are all backed by US dollars, what's to happen if they're all redeemed? Do we know there are audits on all these? And futures have no interest? Say whaaaat? I get if the bulls aren't interested but don't people be all lining up to short BTC now?

TP thing is cray guys, but yeah I think in many parts of Asia they don't get it. If you haven't tried a bidet or toilet hose or japanese toilet spray... it's a lifechanger.

Meanwhile, it's not the TP shortage that's making me annoyed. Rice, milk, eggs, noodles, pasta. All out every day at the shops because the supermarkets near me haven't started rationing yet. I gotta do longer shopping times now just to get stuff for my elderly neighbours who obviously can't travel far to get overpriced items from cornershops.

Game theory shopping....

@panjul yeah. I consider myself a true casual gambler, I mean most of my bets are beer money, but seeing my stats lately, I realise I've been betting beer money several times a day and often, on weekends on sports, taking crates of beer to town hahaha. On a pure dollar basis, I'm spending the salaries of what I used to earn in my first job in a couple of days, just to give context.

And still, I'm a casual gambler with no chance of winning those big wager comps.

Which makes me really appreciate the good stuff like Invincibles!

Just an update, and hoping to see more people sign up, it's not like we're getting any joy mining real crypto on our lousy devices right guys? Anywya, finally getting some work units today, but still a high failure rate when receiving the WU, though once connected, it's fine. Submitted my first units to Team Buy Bitcoin, yay! Second WU wasn't for coronavirus though but =)

Sorry about the delay, and thanks to figment for notifying me;)

I've sent you directly to this address but I only send 0.00075, here's the transaction hash: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/dc5341c68833fef8b424b5e7b072f88bfca20370e2213ee61d828c1684894201

I will send you the remainder of it in chips (250) when my transaction hits SWC! Sorry for that, haha. I was just trying to clear up all my smaller wallets =D

@figment I probably will try to make it to this particular game, but it will depend highly again on the family condition of the day. Incredible amount of txs in mempool (considering price) though I suppose 20+sats for reasonable confirmation is a far cry from 2017/18!

@cryptofrka yeah I'm actually pretty ok with what's going on. I know it's a bummer we won't make the record of winning title so early (and make it impossible for anyone to beat) but in my mind we've won it no matter what and no one will ever make me feel bad about it for as long as I live. That said, if we never win the title after this, it will be some kind of pain to add to the mountain of pain we already have as Liverpool supporters. But we're better than that and we can fight again for the title. I think we will only get better.

@DeathAngel. I personally think contracts are easily taken care of with insurance and settlements. TV companies will be the least worried as they'll have all their profits booked in. The obligation for the leagues to finish is of course waived by force majeure so really, it's just for sporting reasons that we must find a way to finish the season.

I have many lols here.

1. TikTok. All due respect but yeah that's the source for jokes and dangerous memes, not legitimate doxing.
2. Zynga. Yes, a guy behind Zynga has had other names. Satoshi is a super common Japanese name by the way.
3. Wikipedia admin approved post. Generally means a good thing but I have personal experience with that and it by no means lends veracity to the claim, just veracity of the material supporting the claim.