A Youtube alternative that earns you in Bitcoin, why not? Time to give the big boys a run for their money. Just a comment on your valuation... at 10 satoshi per unique view, that's actually only 10,000 satoshi per 1,000 views... even at BTC's recent ATH, that's less than $0.50 CPM, and not $2.25 as you state. Youtube average CPM is around $7.50. North American traffic is on the higher end of that scale... starting at around $5. I think a decent non-US/Canada CPM can earn about half that.

Of course, you'll probably need to start at that low return rate, but you might want to think about swinging it towards a tiered system to attract serious Youtubers.

Good luck with your project. Some comments based on my experience. I've played several MMORPGs already with some form of crypto system - browser-based, text and static graphics. Problems encountered:

1. Lack of game depth, focus on hack n slash = high initial player growth, but eventually low active user base. I imagine you would rely on advertising revenue to reward players. As you get fewer unique players, you get lower revenue, fewer interested people if the game has no real content.
2. Bots. If you have a reward system this could be your number 1 threat. It's the bane of faucet owners and game sites. So you need a dedicated security staff.
3. Payments should be your secondary concern. Don't go for crypto payments in-game. I think you can limit the game to in-house currency, which can be exchanged on a market or withdrawn as crypto. As kakmakr suggests, go for something reliable like Litecoin. Even DOGE! You can always offer another token or alt down the line when you're familiar with them, or as your base grows, as your game develops.

Indeed, that is exactly what I needed to take my score to 100. I was "right" also about one of the bottom 3 eventually winning last night, but I only predicted a 1-0 victory so couldn't rake in more. Should have taken more bets, all my Liverpool ones except total goals crapped out.

All-in-all 120 points for week 4 which is just great for me! I won't mind if this is my weekly average. @ajaxmoor, you're pulling away, great run again!

Now that you mentioned it, I wonder what the developments have been with Samourai and Dark Wallet. Just checked both websites and Samourai seems still in Alpha, DW in public beta.

The former supposedly worked on some mixing features such as randomised outputs on each spend while DW would implement an extended CoinJoin. I've only seen the DarkSend/PrivateSend feature on an a rather poorly supported alt wallet (no, not Dash but Bitradio haha) but never used it. I don't currently have the means to test either, but now you know and can try!

Honestly, I'll never understand the rationale behind sacking managers when there are clearly a lot of factors to look at. I think I gave up completely after Ranieri was shown the door... less than a full season after guiding a nowhere 5,000-1 odds team to victory and Champions League glory in arguably the toughest league in the world. Then again, I guess football is one of the great levelers in terms of salary. At least you know you get paid to shoulder responsibility. In the corporate world, sometimes salary doesn't match repercussion.

And yes, hate me but I still think Wenger doesn't deserve to get sacked for current results, unless he doesn't fit the job and someone better wants it. He has delivered on internal objectives, and he can't do everything on his own.

Exchanges and sites post "Completed" when your withdrawal request has been processed by their systems. This usually just means that a Bitcoin transaction has been signed. How quickly the receiving site account reflects that spend in your account depends firstly on how quickly the transaction is broadcast over the network and detected by the receiving wallet. Then, how quickly it is picked up by a miner and included into the next block found. Finally, it will depend on how many network confirmations are needed by the site (in your case 2).

If you find these out first before you do your next exchange to exchange tx, you'll feel less anxious about waiting.

Believe me, a lot of people unfamiliar with forex jumped in anyway. I recall even in the early 2000s when e-gold and Paypal, and then later even Liberty Reserve were easy to access, people were flooding to forex sites with accounts giving $5 no deposit bonuses. Suddenly it was easy to see your money double on margin trading, people were just doing long or short randomly. The experts and the signal sellers were plenty, 10 pips a day for double your money in a month.

Much of the same is happening with crypto, I feel. Even without margin trading, you have those satoshi pumps. Just scout around the forum especially in Speculation threads. Pump groups. Signals. Bots. So much of the old forex pattern emerging.

The rules for spotting a scam remain the same, whether or not it involves Bitcoin. Like many posters here share, the general guiding principle should be "if it's too good to be true, it probably is".

Of course, this doesn't speak too well to a lot of newcomers since the hype surrounding Bitcoin in the media is what probably got them to come here and learn about it. We've all seen the hyberbole. "Best performing asset class!" "10x returns in less than two years!" "Will reach $1 million in 10 years!"

So a lot of context should be built up first. And a lot of misconceptions cleared up before taking a look at Bitcoin. Bitcoin isn't a magic gold mine. The riches of the early adopters are not similar to that of pyramid schemes. Learn to differentiate between potential and guarantee. Treat the hyperbole as educated guesses on potential, see the guarantees of returns as scams.

Not sure you'll get an objective view from me, I sold my entire stash as soon as an exchange allowed me to =) I gotta say, I don't regret it, as it was an almost immediate >10% bump to my BTC amount, and we all know what happened to BTC price over the next few weeks since. If this were just another alt, I would probably have thought of it this way: I have a rare opportunity to gain "free bags" so I might as well hold out and see what happens since I have nothing to lose.

But since it wasn't, I chose Bitcoin in an instant.

A complete shutdown would not seem congruent with everything that has happened up til now. Plus, no one in the current administration is ignorant enough to think such a move would be remotely possible to implement, even with China's history re Internet and re Bitcoin.

They have already begun the crack down on ICOs, just the way they did with P2P lending platforms only a year or two back. That former move initially drew ire from the community but regulations brought confidence back into that ailing sector and people will (begrudgingly) acknowledge intervention as a success. I'm certain the same will happen with crypto.

I hope Newcastle move past their awful transfer failings, memorable for all the wrong reasons. Benitez will get some relief from here, see how quickly things change in football, 1 or 2 opportune goals to change the face of the entire season. If they can somehow survive til January, building up on these gems like Lascelles, they might just give PL teams a run for their money. Remember last season's performance in the Championship, how they blew everyone away until the last leg, luckily they won't have to play as many games in EPL!

Saw your other thread offering to pay $5 for people to distil their readings into projections for crypto. Guess you must have seen that people thought this was too low, taking into account the time they would have to spend to research and back up these projections. I doubt you'll find much useful information you can pay for, but you will probably learn a lot more useful info and gain skills by investing time. Nothing beats learning on your own. If you could pay to get correct calls consistently, like with paid trading signals, there'd be a lot of rich people. If people knew how to make the right calls consistently, they wouldn't sell it for any amount of money.

Just my friendly advice: don't waste your time collecting hype and speculation. Do your own research is this forum's best and most given policy =)

It's a very valid question when talking about exchanges. Have thought about it myself and the best solution I could come up with was to just open a trading account on localbitcoins, open a few bank accounts in several countries and start selling it. Just setting your price below the market would have you selling hundreds, if not thousands of BTC in weeks.

I'm certain if you also contacted one of this forum's escrows to hold an auction, you'd get a few bids.

Live wagering looking good, haven't had the opportunity to participate yet but will likely have a test bet for tomorrow evening's EPL games. Just would also like to mention here that the odds on soccer have been the best among crypto bookies since yesterday at least, finally a worthy competitor to some of the other established names in crypto sportsbooks.

Haven't scouted around the other sports but might do so once I dive back into tennis and MMA!

Heh. It's the era of hip catchphrases. Decentralised this and that, crowd this and that. I would say that studies on the wisdom of crowds can glean a lot of meta data, which can result in information... but agree that crowd intelligence isn't the all-knowing solution for trading. If so, then we're saying that you'd only buy at peaks and sell at bubble bursts, since it's at those points that the majority is achieved. AI has been impressive at predictive models, but not nearly good enough when confronted with new or unfamiliar conditions. The crypto market is exactly that: new and unfamiliar.

That makes at least three of us getting 40 points from Chelsea, doesn't seem like anyone got the correct score for M Utd either, I nicked 10 for a 1-1 prediction.

And "well done" tokeweed for getting a high score of 80 (so far!) I'm just behind you at 70, if Newcastle can score in the next 20 minutes, I might do very well even if tomorrow's game goes to hell.

Look at the league's bottom 3 at zero points so far. I'd bet on one of them winning in Week 5, since I'm one of those idiots who believe a result is "overdue" in football =)

I think it's perfectly normal for any of us to find some form of escapism. I guess for the majority, it doesn't get out of hand and serves stress-reducing purposes. Gambling is one of those things I can keep relative tabs on. Especially when I'm stressed, I do lose control every now and then, but at worst, I lose just a bit more than I intended. A follow up deposit when I've lost my initial, for example. But I've just heard to many stories and seen too many cases of ruined lives from gambling debt to go down that path. Unfortunately, I have other vices that I am less able to control...

Not hated perhaps, but they're definitely looking for better options to suit their particular need for secrecy/privacy/anonymity. Monero at least since 2016, and surprise, surprise Ethereum have now displaced Bitcoin as the dark markets' favourite cryptocurrency. See this findings from a blockchain intelligence co:https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/dark-web-finds-bitcoin-increasingly-more-of-a-problem-than-a-help-tries-other-digital-currencies.html

Last year, "illegal transactions" as percentage of total Bitcoin volume dropped from 50% to 20%. $225 million in cybercrime so far, with Ethereum.

Hey there! The way you've described what happened means you likely have nothing to worry about.

1. You said your Poloniex account shows your balance. So this is all you need to worry about. If it's there, it's fine. The balances reflected on your account aren't the same as the actual coins on the addresses. They're just a total of what you've deposited/earned/traded in and out.

2. Most, if not all, exchanges like Poloniex (in fact, any site for that matter) automatically empty out your unique deposit addresses into their own wallets. It's just a security measure for them.

Any move that further spreads the concentration of miner power will be a welcome one any day of the week. And no, I'm not (as) deluded about Bitcoin's decentralised ideology!

If Japanese sentiment from exchanges from the August fork resonates with these new miners, I'm pretty sure Bitcoin core will also gain a few more supporters, or at the very least those who won't side with the Chinese miners. They're making a bold 2017 readiness deadline, deliberately in time for November maybe? With India and the rest of South Asia taking their time to make their presence known, looks like the Far East dragons will be the ones with early flag-planting.