Right on Rahar. I think companies affected also probably have contingency planning. Ie. If machines are destroyed they can be easily replaced (spare parts or even entire rigs that can't already be used due to electricity limitations or simply profitability efficiencies).

Flooding and earthquakes are surprisingly common in Sichuan. I expect insurance to kick in at worst case scenarios.

No hashrate effect unfortunately, guys.

Like all forms of addiction/affliction, pain or suffering, it's actually really difficult to empathise if you've never experienced it before. As I grow older, I am more open to trying to understand things, no matter how insensible they seem to me. I can't ever see myself losing control in gambling, but perhaps I've never really made myself vulnerable to such situations. I do find shades of irresponsibility within my limits - countless times losing a bit more than I intended to, a few times depositing more when I promised not to, just to chase back losses. But perhaps on worse days, less desirable personal situations, I could have gone a few steps farther, and then it's hard to say what could have happened next.

Living alone is always going to be difficult, no matter the rigours of self-discipline. It's good to see the recognition that having friends and family help keep an eye on you, having first being open about the problem, is critical to keeping that addiction at bay.

As audacious suggests above, perhaps keep control of finances. Bitcoin makes this a bit easier. Keeping the private keys on savings and income, and funneling whatever you're comfortable with to her, until she can trust herself again.

Yeah, it's really the crowd that moves the price, rather than the whales as the most convenient reasoning. Whales and manipulators - if they truly exist - set things in motion, but it's really the mainstream sentiment that are the self-fulfilling actions for the prophecies proposed. And even though the logic has already been identified that the best time to buy is when everyone thinks "it's dead" and the best time to sell is when everyone thinks "it's mooning", human nature takes over.

I also agree with the bubble reference, but only with its cyclical connotation rather than a single devastating event.

Not sure which chart you were looking at, but it broke the $6k support sure, but wasn't really near $5k at all. Even then, it bumped quickly back up above $6k where it's been for two/three days now. Again, not saying it won't touch that 5k - I personally am ready for lows that will test and break $4k, but realistically even $5.5k would be the real struggle for the bears over the next couple of months.

Can't argue that most coins look like good value buys right now, when compared to ATHs, assuming that they will again reach them when Bitcoin rallies. But I'm really not sure alts, save the few with use, can really pull the same weight again and again.

Didn't realise you were not only an early adopter, but an early owner of significant amount of coins. Sorry to hear you were convinced to let go of them but am equally glad that you pulled through.

Now, I don't have much opportunity to tell people to be discouraged. Generally, I don't even encourage people to buy Bitcoin (I do encourage them to use/accept it) but yeah, I've seen my fair share of people now disclose their unsettled minds at this time. I still am happy to talk to people about Bitcoin as long as they show interest (but only if asked never volunteering to tell)... but yeah always moving away from price fixations.

I have few regrets relating to Bitcoin, even feeling less and less regret that I didn't get in earlier despite having known about it years before I finally did in 2016. Lessons are always easier to learn in hindsight. And things can change quickly. Good to have you with us, and active in this community. Hope we're all still around years from now - regardless of where Bitcoin's price takes us.

Well, I can't say I haven't had fun in offline casinos and only a handful of experiences. All of them have been pretty much short-lived, and always in the context of having a holiday or the intention to blow off some cash.

But online? And especially on Bitcoin casinos? Definitely fun to kill a bit of time chatting (yep that's that community aspect) with the regulars. I don't participate so much but there's always someone hosting fun games every now and then for small prizes (don't have those in offline, just random draws maybe that you've got to wait hours for). And then I've also been lucky enough to be around when big jackpots are hit. These winners tend to be quite... generous.

So in summary: the interactive features/interaction of Bitcoin casinos, where there are chat functions anyway. That's probably the most fun people have and talk about. But if you're talking about glitz, having a pretty lady/boy deal you your cards, free flow drinks and snacks, well, those lose their novelty quickly.

Definitely not a lame idea, affiliate marketing very seldom is, once you've built up enough of a presence in the industry you're targetting. I used to have a few many years ago, with some success and decent revenue, but the moment I left it, it all disappeared. Even dabbled with Bitcoin casinos on my own but found that the gambling targetted audiences I had access to weren't quite ready to either use Bitcoin or to switch from familiar casino names to pseudonymous casinos. You should check out gambling too, these affiliate programmes even pay out direct in BTC, no Bitwage hassle.

I'll second that. I have Hero status simply on virtue of having signed up and been active here for almost two years. Had I remembered my original account login details from even farther back, I'd likely have been Legendary within months of using Bitcoin in 2016 - that wouldn't have been an accurate reflection of my knowledge then, it's by no means a reflection of the knowledge I possess today!

That said, I guess actively following Bitcoin's price for a long period of time tells the Legendaries that there's benefit to ignoring price movement in the short term. It's taught me, even in my short time, that "all this has happened before and all this will happen again".

As LFC says, it's just been 6 months. We know the market's been in years-long downtrend so we can't dismiss the possibility of another long "winter".

Whoa. Really nice wins. I started out so well on the first group games actually, but haven't won anything for a while, mainly because have been chasing huge parlays. I suspect we'll see at least 1 extra time game today, but the way the tourney's been going so far with the teams playing today, I'm hopeful we won't see penalty shootouts.

So okay. I like Croatia a lot but Denmark have been really showing up, so maybe a change of fortunes will happen if I take a ML bet on the Danes @5.5: https://www.bitcoinrush.io/sportsbook/ShareBet?id=%2Fh7BP3fRqB9%2BcDxs09kmPnm4xFxLj%2B2%2FMhA9rNZ6lsQ%3D

Spain have got to win this, or my bracket's further screwed. But damn Russia on steroids.

Yes, but partnering won't cost him anything, and also solves the issue of rights, because it's actually considered stealing if you simply use the content and translate him, plus partnering means backlinking from both sites - he already says he has quite a bit of organic traffic, so that's okay and actually good. 60k organic traffic is actually quite a big chunk, and specific audience can be leveraged. Small readership but actual interest, that's actually really hard to achieve.

You're kidding yourself if you think that sort of thing happens for clandestine reasons and that privacytools.io is going to be enough to prevent that

You're also wrong in your assumptions on what I think. Of course we should all operate on paranoia and assume the worst of the government. Is our use of Bitcoin not proof that we mistrust the state? My surprise was not on the thought of it happening, but on the public facing of it. My surprise is that an ISP was actually taken to court because it wouldn't hand over these data.

Nice call Sy. I lost my parlay, but not by too much on the Argentina game - definitely the pick of the tournament so far, almost worth having to put up with some of the group games. I wasn't even really upset by the first penalty (that has a way of ticking me off in the WC so far), and that the game went up even more notches after every goal is just the sort of reminder we need of all the abilities on display. My bracket's tearing up so far, and betting's not improving at all...

... but on the bright side, my other "favourite" from this side are through, didn't even need Suarez to score. Scored me 266 points too, though I suppose it won't do much on the table as others got even better.

My Joker's waiting tomorrow...

Well, there's recent research that supports a correlation between social media sentiment and Bitcoin's price (with further details to discover some possible room for causation), but it's probably also important to note that most of these whales aren't actually active on social media (or bitcointalk), at least, not regarding price action and speculation.

The research actually sees that the effect of these are amplified with their rarity of participation. So guys like us who discuss it a lot have less impact than a guy who comes out every now and then to say something.

Do I believe it? Yes. Does it matter? Not really. I'm a holder and a long-term believer.

Yeah. And it has been as aspect that's been considered even as early as middle of last year, which leads me to believe much of this was priced into the December rally (and perhaps forgotten, and will play a considerable part in pushing another rally leading up to it).

But like you, I tend to believe that it's the strengthening of what already makes Bitcoin so valuable that will eventually add on to its price: LN is definitely one of those. Yes, as a scaling solution (albeit temporary one in the span of years) but also an indication that the network continues to develop as needed, in the same careful, cautious approach that has built Bitcoin's reputation as mature and robust.

In my jurisdiction, it has been almost the same case, whereby individuals would not be punished but the provider of the access (the ISP) would have been the one. It is technically individually illegal to download pirated content, but the ISPs here took the stand last year to de-risk and simply block access to these sites.

I'm actually really taken aback by this decision, and in Sweden of all places. I wonder what's next. Exchanges forced to hand over the IPs of anonymous, unregistered, unverified users?

Hmm. You're right, I'm checking again and France are the clear favourites to advance, but I could've sworn yesterday it was slightly tilted in Argentina's favour (I only check Bitcoinrush/Pinnacle and oddschecker.com). Perhaps it was a boosted odds I saw on Argentina, though can't find it again today.


Yeah, it's on the full-result of match. From the rules: "Points for predictions are awarded based on the match result in regular time and extra-time. Penalty shoot-outs do not count towards predictions for Match Predictor."

Even bets on sportsbooks now consider full time including injury and extra time. But I'm confident neither game today will reach extra time or penalties.

I have a question for you: how much of your content is original and local? As in, how much of the news or content that you post is fresh, found nowhere else, and originates from Hungarian-only sources? If it's significant, you could consider partnering with other English-content sites to sort of syndicate your content with them.

i.e. You agree to provide English versions of unique stories to an English site, translated from your content, for publishing, and they, in return provide you with stories in Hungarian to publish on your site.

This might not do much to increase revenue but it could diversify your audience, perhaps even bump advertising revenues. Just a thought.

Yeah I saw the bookie odds for progressing to the next round and can't believe Argentina are the favourites against France (while they're the slightly less favoured ones in a straight match win). Are they better at penalties than France? Don't believe so. But yeah, they'll benefit for having the tougher time adjusting in Russia.

I was thinking then to hedge my bets by taking a France to qualify @2.6 but then again, where's my faith if I don't just trust my gut right? So my single parlay for the day is for both South American giants to whoop ass @10x: https://www.bitcoinrush.io/sportsbook/ShareBet?id=LBX4HEPV0SlW%2F7HSS%2FzXmeLvDRmZu5Qp7YdFeoCIkU0%3D

I'm going to just respond to OP's particular complaint about not being able to find a single source that aggregates all the relevant news in a single space. I personally don't mind a very narrow feed from coinspectator (which, if I recall actually also launched on this forum) and faws. They're both real time news aggregators. You can filter out a lot of the noise (but you'll still of course get a lot of it, depending on your chosen sources.

These, at first glance, are superior to your offering and seem to give you all you need. To launch another, you'd need to improve on what these guys offer/ I suggest a service that translates foreign sources into English as something I'd find really really useful. I know for sure there's so much Bitcoin discussion going on elsewhere that's not in English.

So a week later and we're still trying to push past the same $5,900. Looks like a struggle even for willing bears at this volume. I myself still think the lowest low we'll see in the next 5 months is only just below $5,500, so I'm happy to see my "prediction" still some way to go.

If you're really buying into the 80% of people are dumping, and you're not sure of where you want to be in the next few years (or aren't even thinking beyond this year), then yeah, you should probably get out now.


Yep. Six months is really such a long time to wait. Waiting is for traditional markets. Bitcoin is moon now, lambo tomorrow. Good that this bandwagon's dropping people off. I want a bigger share on the cart.