I've played it and I saw people lose a lot of money on these because you can be 100% on point and the toy would still slip from the claw. I saw things slip out when it was already up.
Some machines are rigged so that they go up faster and more violently to shake the claw a bit more and drop everything that isn't holding strong.
There are also machines where you can get a phone or other gadgets like watches.

They used to be very popular at seaside resorts, but now I rarely see them.

Either he had a tip from someone and believed it to be true, even though such tips are usually made up, because the tipster has nothing to lose and all to win, or he's lying to us and there was no fixed match in the first place.

I would bet on it if I knew the info comes from a real insider, but such tips are extremely rare and reserved for people who bet big money, gangsters and politicians. You can't get your hands on a real tip, unless it's like the lowest league of pro football or something. These guys fix matches on a daily basis.

I do. I'm not afraid to say that I actually own a lot more than that.

Most of my coins were acquired years ago and last time I was accumulating was in 2019. 2020 was for me a time of waiting, where I did not do anything with my coins and 2021 was the year of spending. Since 2022 I'm again in accumulation mode


You can earn this much in just 1 week of a forum signature campaign or by translating something in the services section. How can you be sick of holding so very little? Just forget about it for a while. $50 won't change your life in any way, but owning bitcoin, regardless of how much you have, is better than not having any.

I don't think it will even go above 40k this year. The macroeconomics is too bad. You can see how bitcoin reacts to every single move of stock indexes. It's not about if Bitcoin is bad or good, if it has strong fundamentals, or if it has the support of holders and innovators. It's being crushed by the FED that's pumping the dollar and the war in Ukraine that's pulling the world into a crisis situation.

It doesn't need saving, it just needs us to make a step back and stop polluting it. We only have one Earth.

You can see how easy it is to pull nature out of balance and how damaging it can be. There's a recent problem on a river between Germany and Poland where tons of fish were found dead because apparently the water became too salty.

I feel like we're focusing on the carbon footprint and melting ice caps but the real disaster will hit us where no one expects it.

I agree we should keep it decentralized as much as possible, although I doubt submitting code to github for all to see is a step towards centralization.


Exactly! People come and go, but ideas and tools continue to help future generations. We can't expect someone who's been coding since the 80s to keep doing it 40 years later. People need a break, need to focus on their family and retirement. It was meant to happen sooner or later. I think there were some articles about him quitting months ago, so it's not a sudden change of heart.

I agree with you about altcoins. My story is similar to your father's because at first, when I joined the forum, I also thought that bitcoin is great but too expensive. I was looking into various ways to make money online like cloud mining, investing in altcoins, claiming airdrops. All that has proven to be a waste of time.

When you try too hard you lose money or get scammed. You claim airdrops and hold them thinking the altcoins will gain value but most of them lose and after years of holding you have even less than you had when you claimed them. I even held some coins that were praised and were supposed to have potential like Cardano that is now worth about 20% of its ATH price... If any of you still think altcoins are a better investment than bitcoin, you can't count.

I feel like all this fear mongering in the bear market is a well planed tactic to scare people and make them dump into the hands of these big trust funds. Think about it for a second. You don't see a lot of these news in the bull market, but when the price falls by at least 50% from the top they come at you with full force. Gox coins were to be released since 2020. They were talking about it for 2 years and there was always some small hurdle and the release was delayed for a few months. Knowing it, people drove the price to almost $70k. Back then there was no fear of Gox, but now  suddenly there is?

You want to know why? They prey on your fear. You're stuck watching the charts and they keep telling you it's going to get worse to wear you down. All this is done right after the announcement that Blackrock is going to buy.

Gox is not going to dump anything because the restitution is going to take months. People are not going to dump anything because they see how high inflation is and how low BTC got. Even if Bitcoin loses 10% this year it's still going to perform better than most of the EU. Greece, Spain and Belgium are already over 10% and Ireland is gaining at 9.6%.

He doesn't have to name a successor. It's not like Satoshi chose him to work on Bitcoin. He started it on his own in 2012, long after Satoshi's disappearance
Imagine that bitcoin managed to grow in 2011 and 2012 and Satoshi left in 2010. In those 2 years van der Laan was completely out of the picture.

OP is making it sound like we just bought a car and now the only authorized garage is losing its lead mechanic. It's not how it works! Bitcoin can continue even when all of those core devs quit.

Sometimes, when you feel like everything is falling on your head, you consider putting it all on the line at one go, into a single bet. People do it to end the suffering and be done with waiting. Either they win and get back on their feet or they see it all going to 0 and move on. That's what he did by going to a casino and it worked, but I don't recommend it. 2 out of 3 times it won't work and then you're really in deep shit. I'd rather sell the business and start over than put it all on the line in a casino.

If you have money, right? So let's say you have a lot of fiat and we go into a hyperinflation crisis, you can expect something like in Venezuela, where you can spend a million bolivars which is a few notes and you won't even spend 2 USD. You have a wallet so full that you won't be able to close it, but all you'll be able to buy with that full wallet is a meal restaurant and some groceries.

Having money is not going to save you in a crisis. You'll be in a better situation than people with no money, but you'll be quickly approach a moment when you have money and can't buy anything.

I'm almost 100% sure it will not only reach $40k but $60k again. The only question is when.

Here's how I see it. Bitcoin is a growing market that isn't promoted by anyone. It relies on its current user base to advertise it and spread the word. It's not a company that buys time on TV. It's not an MLM where you're getting paid by getting a few people to invest. The longer it's around the more people hear about it and start to use it. Knowing that and limited supply, we simply have to slowly go up in price, especially that fiat money like USD faces growing inflation. $10 from 2020 when bitcoin was worth 20k is not the same $10. It's purchasing power is 10% lower, so if the inflation continues, in 10 years your 1BTC will be worth around 40k, even if the demand doesn't grow and it will grow because we have halvings which are another important factor that decides the price.  

We don't know how many of these people will choose which option, but everyone assumes the worst, which is a 2 billion USD dump.
This will not happen for numerous reasons like

Some people choosing crypto, even if they're planning to sell later. I'd choose this option because I wouldn't want to rely on the exchange rate of their choice. I'd rather do it myself knowing exactly how much I'll get after the sale. With the volatility we're experiencing right now, waiting a week can mean you'll get 2k USD more for your bitcoin or 2k less, which for me would be a big deal. Usually I don't make 2k in a month.

If the distribution begins next month it will continue at least until the end of the year. This illiquid market can't handle a 2 billion dump in a day, but it can do it if the sale takes place over a period of 3 months.

They don't want you to waste money on gambling, but if she wants to go to a beauty salon or wants you to buy here jewelry that's not a wast. Flowers are not a waste, picking her up in your car and driving her home is not a waste, everything you do to satisfy her needs is good, but when you have your needs to satisfy that's a different story, even if you're not using her money but your own.

Ultimately it comes down to whether you're going to really stop or lie to her. Most gamblers would choose to lie to satisfy a woman, that's the truth.

Is this thread intended as a joke? If not, you're doing your best for it to be the example of a typical bitcoin investor who sees bitcoin at 60k and says he'll buy it when it falls. When it starts falling it's never a good time. The price is never low enough.

-50% - nope
-60% - nope
-70% - I'll wait some more...
Fear and greed at all time low? Why would I buy now?

A while later...

-those fools are buying. It's obviously a fake rally. A dead cat bounce.
-damn did I miss the bottom? It's recovering so maybe there will be another dip.
-no dip still, we went back to -60% from ATH, it will correct again so I won't buy yet
-it went to 50% ATH - a fake rally.
-what? It reached the old ATH once again, now I won't buy it's too expensive!
-I'll wait for another dip and then I'll buy for sure! It's fine though, I'll have more fiat ready.

New ath 100k - when it goes down 60% I'll start buying. Wait, that's going to be $40k and I had a chance to buy at 17... I'm so unlucky! Stupid bitcoin!

I like the idea of a touchscreen implemented into the game. I think this is the evolution of gambling since physical slot machines with a turning drum require more maintenance and cannot be rethemed that easily. With electronic machines you can put any theme you like within minutes and when one show becomes unpopular use another that's on top at the moment.

As for me liking the machine, I'm not feeling this theme though. I know some people are and this is a big culture in Japan. I like animated movies, but not the ones that use cute little girls that moan all the time to attract boys.

That's completely normal as volatility always decreases when an asset matures. More users means more stable environment, less coins in the hands of a single individual and so on.

Cycles getting smaller is maybe not the best description. They are getting less volatile but longer. If you count how many days it took for bitcoin to bottom after the 2013 peak and do the same with 2018, you'll see that it took more time and will possibly again take more this time, taking us into 2023. You never know a pattern is valid until it confirms.

I agree with you. There's a small chance, maybe that 20% you're talking about, that we hit 6k of 2018 by being at 23k and a crash to 3k which would be something like 12k-15k range. To be honest this ranges are pretty similar if we look at what the price is doing, but also very different because we did not go to 4k then back to 6k and again to 3k, like this year when we hit a low and returned back to the 200 week average.

To be honest this year looks very unnatural on the charts like the selling pressure is too high, the highest ever in history actually. You can see that it's a manipulated crash made by all those dumps of Tera and Tesla et al.

It makes no sense to ask for gambling news sites because they are, first of all, easily accessible and easy to find, and also very regionalized. Like in the UK they will cover news about local football teams and local news about casinos openings or sites getting their license approved. You need to know what you're looking for. Also, gambling and crypto gambling are two different things. Crypto is still a niche that isn't covered by many of these sites. If you want crypto casino news you'll probably find more information here on the forum.

That's what they're doing, you're right. I suspect the estimation is based on the current exchange rate of usd to ruble in Russia. We all know that this exchange was artificially inflated by Russia spending some of their gold to pump up ruble prices and demanding countries to pay for international trade in rubles. Some countries like Bulgaria, Finland and Poland refused to pay, but there are some who did, mainly Germany - a country that is making a fool of itself in the EU. First they blocked aid coming to Ukraine from the UK, refusing to let it pass through, then, when Ukraine requested military help, Germany said it cannot spare any vehicles because they're all being used, then we heard they're paying Russia despite sanctions... I say fuck Germany, the supposed leader of the EU, who goes against its own vote and openly supports the aggressor, that the whole Europe condemns. The world should learn from this conflict and see which countries are really on which side of this conflict.
France isn't much better as it delivered military equipment to Russia during the conflict, despite sanctions, and of course agreed to use the ruble.