I can't really tell why Satoshi Nakamoto is hiding, but I have always thought of the possible reasons that can cause him to remain anonymous and things that always comes to mind are – maybe he's hiding from the wrath of big banks?

Although I have seen some people claim that banks are not worried about cryptocurrency, I don't think that is true. Central banks are run by influential people, and I don't think any of these people would be happy seeing Bitcoin ruin their businesses for them. The next thing is the angry Wall Street, lol. People like Warren Buffet are seriously against the use and investing in Bitcoin, and that's another long story, you can search that up on Google.

Other things that also comes to my mind is that maybe he's someone that likes privacy or he's ...dead? But in the other way round, if there's a risk in being Satoshi Nakamoto, then why are people still claiming to be him? Well, I'm just really confused anytime I think of this.

It is weird to see Liverpool being so well powered engine that goes very well in the premier league but at the same time on champions league Manchester city looks to be a better candidate to win it all. Look at the futures in almost all sportsbooks for premier league (some even closed it lol) and you will see that Liverpool as the highest candidate to win the premier league with the best odds to get it, now in champions league if an opponent was from any other league I would have said its expected and could totally possible but when a team from the same exact premier league becomes bigger chance to win champions league, that sounds a bit weird.

I don't disagree with it btw, I too think city has a bigger chance of champions league versus premier leagues Liverpool.

The deal is, when you are a huuuuuge sportsbook, you don't need to provide anything, if you already have a customer base that is huge and doesn't require you to get more customers like the new small ones, you can omit the foul ones, hell you can omit the corners and even "who will get a red card" or whatever. Because even with the cliche good old "who will win" as a pure state and some over/under or handicap and what not, you can already keep the base going.

But, if you are a place that is new and want to get bigger very quickly all around the world that means you may want to add in stuff like fouls and maybe even the coin toss, there was a guy who ran a place that literally had a 1% house edge "who will kick off" type of gambling, he was doing it illegally so it got closed after couple months but dude made money on just "kick off" prediction market.

Bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=555841
Current amount of posts (including this one): 1617
Amount of merit EARNED in the last 120 days: 9
SegWit BTC Address for Payouts: bc1q9m2m46qnea22kvxxp0n5x7ltzrxtcv8qzkx7gn

Uuhm, I don't think you're right. I like Bitcoin, and I have always thought the same until I realized that Bitcoin is not meant for that purpose. If countries should switch to making use of cryptocurrency I don't think it's going to magically make our economy better, make everyone rich and turn every country into paradise on earth.

As long as we continue with our evil ways and politicians remains the criminals they are, then nothing is changing, we are still going to continue to face the same problems we are facing these days. Is in our hands to decide whether things get better or not, Bitcoin is not a magical spell or whatsoever you think it is that's going to bring solutions to our problems. No matter what you do, there will always be those that don't want things to get better, they are the ones we need to tackle.

Are you sure about cashless society? Do you think that having a digital version of the currencies we are using today will stop the use of paper money? It's not going to happen like that. You need to do your research properly. Digital money is only going to make transactions easier, we won't be making use of long processes to send money abroad, that's the reason for digital money. When you have a digital money you can then redeem it for the real one in banks.

JP Morgan Chase have already created a prototype cryptocurrency, you should check out their website to know more about it. If that turns out to be a success other Banks will do the same. I believe that as time goes on and we begin to have digital currencies there will be special wallets dedicated to it, other online payment processing companies like PayPal might be part of it in building a wallet that will allow users to receive the crypto version of every currency and then redeem it to their bank.

These kind of stuff happens. For example, on dice websites there is an epidemic of "slow withdrawals" just because there were some people who wanted to use the double spend method to make money, they would not lose any money because before the transaction happens they simply send it somewhere else and that would end with them not losing any money, at the of the day if they win they win but never lose.

So, all dice websites forcefully went to manual withdrawal to check every single one of the withdrawals instead of the old automatic ones. Now, that is just the problem of the dice websites, for example freebitcoin is dealing with faucet abusers as well, casinos have a lot of people who try to abuse and destroy and even bankrupt them so its totally understandable.

I doubt that this idea will ever become real and it should not be even tested if you ask me. Yet if you want to actually know how we could potentially turn it into a provably fair one, you could pick a block after the contest ends and do it that way with the seed and all? I mean everyone plays from day A to day B and when it is over on Day B we wait and after that on Day C we get a block and a seed and see the result depending on that.

Hence, you can do this weird contest which I still think should not be done could still be done with provably fair method without giving any power to anyone. I am not entirely sure if that is the only method but it is at least one method that could stir up some more attention and get this website back to those 10+ btc days unless they want to just stay still.

You can't really tell what is causing the price of Bitcoin to fall. But, mainly it has always been supply and demand. Most people believe that when the price of Bitcoin is low then it means that there is a lesser demand for it than there is to supply - when there is an increased demand for it the price will go up as well. There are lots of people that are trading Bitcoin every day, so anything can happen at anytime, there are times supply can get higher than demand.

There are other factors that can influence the price of Bitcoin - like regulatory changes, a decision that is made by the government. Next is political events and the media. Explaining all these is another long story, would be better for you to do your research on it.

I'm thinking maybe the decrease that we are seeing right now is due to the halving that is coming. After the halving there will still be another decrease and that's for sure, but the question is when will the bull run be, is it going to be after the halving or before the halving?

I have seen a lot of price predictions by experts, some of them claimed that there will be an increase this year and this year is coming to an end and the price is still down to $7000 plus and still showing signs of decreasing. Halving is still far though, around May 2020, so does that mean there is a chance that bull run will take place before the halving? Maybe the price will go up and after the halving it will go down again. Best thing is just to keep on holding, if you can.

Bitcoin is the best cryptocurrency, and right now the only cryptocurrency I am holding is also Bitcoin. I stopped holding cryptocurrencies, I don't see the need for them, I don't gain much from them and sometimes I gain nothing, and I don't even use them for transaction, so I have decided to just stick to bitcoin for now, though after 2017 I was looking into buying Litecoin, not sure about that yet.

But I don't think PayPal will agree to add Bitcoin to their app. That their CEO is investing in it doesn't mean that they are going to add it, they might feel it's not fit for their business. Their CEO is not the only one that makes a decision, it's something the executives discuss and I know for sure that some of them won't be in support of it. Anyway, it doesn't even matter, whether they add it or not, Bitcoin always grow.

When you have a company and that grows to become a big name in the industry, people would prefer your product more than others even if they are offering something better than what you have. I think people are into buying names and not products lol.

It's just like social media like Facebook: I see a lot of people that complain about Facebook having bad security and selling users information, but these people continue to make use of Facebook despite all those claims, does that mean that there are no other social platforms that are better than Facebook? Well, you can answer that.

So, that's how it is when it comes to cryptocurrency. Yes, I have seen a lot of altcoins that claims to be better than Bitcoin and do what it does better and for half the price you will pay when making use of Bitcoin for transactions. Some of them claim to be faster, while other claims to have better privacy and security. But people don't care about all that, all they know is that Bitcoin has already made a name for itself and it is safe, they don't have any problem using it, any other crypto claiming to offer something better is just wasting time.

Maybe signature campaigns are just "that" and nothing more. It only makes people remember you exist and that is how you stay afloat. When you do signature campaign and get new people that is good but when you stop it that means you are leaking customers, there will be more people going out compared to coming it.

However, when you keep doing signature campaigns that may equal to actually making people comeback as well, they might have left for any reason at all and eventually after gambling in other places as well they might think "maybe I should give it another chance" and comeback. Signature campaigns basically keep making see your name over and over again and when you have like a contest or a promotion etc you could showcase that which would make them comeback even faster.

Stopping gambling at wish must be a good sign but that does not mean that you can gamble as much as you are able to. I mean there should be some limit even you have full control over your gambling and control on stopping it at wish. When you gamble unlimited, you may start losing your control on yoru gambling activities. That is a dangerous one, you may remain a disciplined gambler only when you gamble limited.

How to choose the right time is the million dollar question. If you are able to reach your intermediate target then why not continue until your final-target? A control on stopping is possible for every gambler but they do not know what is happening next so they lose. If I know I will lose all my bankroll on 25th bet then I will stop on 24th .

Sorry, Bitcoin is different from all those things that you have mentioned here.. Being the first cryptocurrency gives Bitcoin more advantage over other cryptocurrencies in the market. If you check, investors are always interested in Bitcoin more than altcoins. A lot of people these days don't even trust altcoins, they only trust Bitcoin because it's the first cryptocurrency. Most altcoins that are created ends up not succeeding at last. And lastly, there are people who will at some point, withdraw their investment from altcoins and invest them in bitcoin.

So, there are lots of advantages to Bitcoin being the first cryptocurrency. It's less likely to die off like other cryptos. And the way I see it, it might not.

Very soon when institutions starts to invest their money in Bitcoin it will start to grow and will be backed heavily. Though there are people who are against having institutions involved in Bitcoin. For now, it's the people that are backing it.

That's the good thing about cryptocurrency. I don't think banks will be able to do that. When you're making a huge transfer that is an international transfer, the bank will charge you their own fee, and since the bank is not the only agent that is carrying out the transfer there are other fees that are being added maybe for the government and others like Western Union and all that, depending on what you choose to use.

That is why Bitcoin is the best option when it comes to international transfer. I believe that if the same whale tried to transfer that amount using bank he's going to face a lot of difficulties and some screening? I guess. But with Bitcoin, he's in complete control and will only be paying the fees for the miners, no stress and the transfer is done already.

Lately, I have been making use of Bitcoin when I want to send money to friends abroad, they receive it that same minute and they sell it and get the money in their bank account immediately. But imagine when I used to make use of banks lol, I would leave my house and go to bank early in the morning around 8 or 9AM and start filling some paperwork and then wait for days for them to receive the money.

That seems like a manipulation. With the bear market that most altcoin is now, I dint think that you should be expecting any altcoin to actually do you 2x too now, except maybe you could be lucky now that we are approaching the altcoin season which we still don’t know if it will happen within the next 1 year or it will still extend after one year no one knows, we are only expecting and speculating without full assurance that it will occur by then, but if I am to advise you to risk any altcoin for now, it would be for you to just strictly hold altcoins that are within the top 10 coins in the market, while you should try as possible to make bitcoin your sole coin for the year as this is the only one that I can guarantee you that will actually do you that 2x to 5x within the next year now that the value still look cheap and quite very affordable.

You shouldn't do things based on your friends' point of view, the question should be whether you yourself are benefiting from it and whether the projects you have been promoting all this while is bringing in enough profit.

There are still a lot of good projects that are being successful and more are still joining the community every time. Your friends have tried and it didn't work out for them and they want to make you quit with them, that's not right. Whether you want to quit or not should be a decision you make for yourself and not them. So keep working hard, and be checking out tips that will help you know the best projects, in case you don't know any.

Do we know if there will be esports in the sportsbook part of the website when it releases? I know there are some people who are using the sportsbook part right now (the VIP people) if any of you could check and tell us if there is any esports that would be lovely, it would be even better if you could check which games and tourneys there are, right now there are not any worldwide huge ones going on as far as I know anytime soon but there are some Asian majors going on, if anyone could check those and tell us which games and tourneys there are it would be very cool. Also symph is here and if you know the answer you could check and let us know as well, or you can even get a picture from the website in BETA and send us a whole picture of the esports part if there is one, that would be super awesome.

I believe it is not about someone betting more or less that the result will be low or high. The reality is that when I gamble the game will end quickly and if I stop the game will go x100+ . We all have that gamblers fallacy and I have faced many times that whenever I made some profits from investment part and want to get it back (the interest lets say) and play with it and just go either all-in or just small time couple times in a row, I end up losing and suddenly I see the investment going down as well because someone won a huge amount after me.

It is really a kick in the guy because you see someone else betting and making a ton of money when you just lost but that is gamblers fallacy, you could potentially win a lot as well but you just happen to not because those are the odds.