I disagree. It's wise to teach children about religions, not to force them into a certain religion.


What about drug cartels from Central and South America? They build churches, have altars in their houses, wear jewelry with religious symbols and often pray.
Taliban terrorists are usually very religious as well.

It's important that children learn to be good people, know ethics. Telling them that they can always wipe away some sins through confession will not teach them responsibility.

I'd probably dump some of my coins in fear of bitcoin being smeared in the media for being associated with Craig and people like him. It wouldn't be to protest against CSW, but to protect my money from a possible panic coming from, for example, an attack on Satoshi. Imagine seeing a headline in the media "Bitcoin founder kidnapped". People would freak out thinking that they're going extort his coins from him and crash the market. Even if I we were to stay calm, others would not.

Finding out Satoshi's identity wouldn't have to be a bad thing, but we're talking about a huge negative combo of Satoshi being discovered, alive and being someone who is, to say the least, not respected by the community.

Was it really the fault of auto betting? You were bound to hit that streak sooner or later on manual betting.

What would you do if you had 15 reds? Stop playing? How about 20? Stop or keep rolling? The problem is that people think they would be in control if it wasn't automated, but usually they aren't. Even if we were -50% and had to roll all or noting now to get back in the game most of us would try it instead of letting go and taking the loss.

Futures are the scourge of crypto, just like altcoins that are trying to gain exposure and legitimacy by pretending to have BTC backing. We could really use a spot ETF.

I feel like we should compare things. How are we otherwise going to be able to tell if they are similar or not? We can't deny that many traders trade both stocks and cryptos.

With Netflix it was about competition and the end of the pandemic. They also started slacking a bit and you could get better movies on Prime for a fraction of the money.

I feel like when Bitcoin crashes it's either right after a peak, like it did in the middle of last year and it coincided with Musk selling and some other things, or it's a bigger picture like stocks crashing, a global recession, pandemic and similar. A good example of such crash is 2020 when price managed to recover fast because the problem was not with Bitcoin, but came from fear of the unknown.
Personally I feel like we've already witnessed the peak selloff twice (May and December 2021) This last drop is more like the 2020 crash.

Elon saving bitcoin? Who's going to save Elon then? Tesla stock is down 35% in the last 6 months and even more from its ATH? In traditional market this is a huge drop. Crypotocurrencies can easily go -50% and it's considered normal, but traditional stocks rarely go down more than 20% and if they do it's a bloodbath for investors.
Bitcoin doesn't need saving. It's on its way to $100k in the next 2 years.

Bitcoin does not rely on Luna. There was completely no connection up until Luna team decided to boost people's confidence by buying BTC. Then they sold that BTC all at once in panic, proving that BTC was not to back the token. It was just there for show, to make people think that there is any backing. That's why there was such a panic among holders of Luna because they thought devs are running an exit scam. Bitcoin was doing great long before Luna was created and it will be doing so long after it's gone. Now that all BTC held by Luna devs was sold there's no possible way for Luna to impact bitcoin.

I bet the Chinese would love to see Russia try to take on Finland and make itself even more vulnerable. What would Russians throw at them? Those traumatized soldiers who are thinking of giving up or harming themselves to be taken home?
At this point Russia wouldn't be able to win against Finland alone, and if Finland gets attacked Sweden will send troops to help. If they join NATO, attacking them would be throwing all of your army away because Russia was no match for NATO even before the war in Ukraine.

All Russia can do at this point is stall and hope to negotiate a ceasefire. If it attacks another country it's going to weaken its presence in Ukraine and Ukrainians will liberate everything and put Russian towns along the border under artillery fire.

I do spend and I have nothing against spending. The thing is, I try to wait for the right price to spend. I won't do it now because 55% down from the ATH seems like a bad moment to do it.

You could say that I don't encourage others to spend and thus don't add to the ecosystem or something like that, but how would my little 1k USD spent on electronics make value in the multi billion dollar system? Maybe rich people could make it work and show others how it's done, but we little people have to wait it out so that we don't get left behind but those "strong hands" who don't need things urgently and can wait.

Although suicides are a sad thing, those people are in a way victims of their own greed. For this to happen there has to be a certain chain of unfortunate events and irresponsible actions taken by an individual. In case of Luna it was the following:
They chose to invest in a new altcoin, instead of an established project like BTC or ETH.
They went all in, investing more than they can afford to lose.
They did not set any stop losses, did not react fast enough.
They were greedy and decided to hold a coin that obviously had huge problems. For me personally, the first red flag would be promising to buy 2 billion in BTC and buying only half of the promised amount. The second red flag, selling the btc safety fund all at once - it's a sign of panic and irresponsibility by the owner.
If you sold at first red flag you'd be up on your investment, if you waited to the second one you'd be down about 60%, if you disregarded both, you took a 100% loss. Only shitcoins and scams can go that low.

No matter how bad it looks, you are alive. Money can be made again, it's not the end of the world. Don't ever kill yourself over a stupid investment, your life is worth more!

You were inactive since 2019 due to covid? That's before the pandemic even started. Please mate, have some decency and don't start your application with a lie

Ever thought how those ratings are checked? They call random people and ask them questions, but the trick is that if they know the number, they know who they're calling. Russians fear repressions so they either say they support Putin or act dumb and say they don't care about politics.
What repressions? Those that get you arrested for every little thing. A guy was arrested for wearing shoes in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. An old lady was arrested for walking with a "no to war" card.
A commander of the fleet was arrested when Moskva sunk and a local mayor of a town where a couple houses burned due to forest fires was also arrested because in Russia when things go wrong somehow you look for someone to blame and put in jail.

Do you know any people who can afford to lose a million USD in a single bet? How about losing it in 3 bets in a row like the guy that OP posted.
For me such bets are crazy. Not only risky but also desperate in a way. You could be having fun playing for a long time and be entertained but instead you're trying to push the limits and put the most money possible on a single bet just to see if you can? Maybe it was a drunk bet or something.

It's another proof of constant denials by Russians. You can clearly see a bus with V on it so that Russians would not shoot it. There's no reason for Ukrainians to use that mark as it would draw fire from their own troops.
Russian answer - our soldiers don't drive in vans, you're stupid. They don't mark cars with V, it would only drive attention.

In reality:
Russian special forces use 'Red Cross' ambulances to practise brutal ambush techniques
Belarusian journalists received numerous photo and video reports of cars without licence plates, but marked with the V sign on the sides and bumpers driving on Belarusian roads.

When they catch you stealing, tell them it's all propaganda and you were not really there.
This is a prime example of how Russians really are. Lie when you get caught and maybe you'll make it somehow.
2 russians try to trick ukrainian police officer

Isn't this the guy that was supposed to be dead?
I remember reading a posts in this thread where some of our supporters of Russia were saying that Azov or whoever kidnapped and killed this "independent journalist".

It's common for Russian trolls to use fear and misinformation tactics. For instance, Lukashenko did an interview yesterday and staged it so that the journalist of a state-owned TV channel would ask if he's prepared for an attack by Poland, so that he'd be able to make an unwarranted threat towards that country, a country that Belarus was attacking since the beginning of the year with the use of migrants from Africa and their own military, disguised as civilians.

Putin tries to make it look like NATO and Ukraine are the aggressors, yet NATO is not issuing any threats. I'd like to remind everyone than NATO is not flying its bombers into the air space of Russia, or Belarus, it's not staging attacks on any borders, it's not sending military personnel to blind border patrols with lasers in hope of provoking them to fire and last but not least, it's not waging a war (and losing).


Makes me think how many more are swimming at the bottom. In the picture with a closeup of T72 tanks that managed to cross the river you can see a lot of scrap right under the surface and then the water gets too deep to see anything. Probably a bunch of their tanks went looking for Moskva. 

Do you really feel that winning a competition makes someone more trusted or worth listening to? If we believe in the concept of luck then a single win can be exactly that. Trusting other people and betting like they do just because you saw them win can make you lose even more than if you were to bet alone and you'll feel even worse for trusting them.

A hall of fame isn't a bad idea especially for casinos because it will show where people are winning the most, but it shouldn't serve as a guide for new people and make them fall victim of people who sell predictions.

How does that make it any different when we compare a crypto casino to a fiat casino? The way I see it OP wanted to give pros and cons of crypto vs fiat and not compare online gambling to stationary casinos. Both online fiat casino and ones using crypto will face the same problems when it comes to scams.

The risk with a crypto casino will depend on the coin. If you choose to gamble with an altcoin that loses 50% value in one day, you're going to negate your wins just like that. I feel that volatility may be one of the biggest problems a gambling site might face.

That crash hatshepsut93 was talking about was 10k-4k That wasn't a crash after a pump or an ATH. The price was stable in the 7-9k range for a long time at that point. It was a so called black swan event, a strange scenario. There was no fundemental reason to go that low. It went that low because all trading is done on a fraction of Bitcoins that are in circulation and the price is dictated by a few big exchanges. You manage to crash binance or coinbase and you get a worldwide ripple effect.

All fun and games until you get a legitimate Cyprus bailout and find out your money aren't really your property. They were yours for as long as they allowed you to take them.


The moment tickets become goods, services, entertainment, is the moment the concert takes place. We're both standing at it, just that you have fingers in your ears, trying to tell people you don't hear anything.
This conversation is pointless.

You're both taking a risk doing that. If you get partnered with a manager or any other respected and trusted person, you can both benefit from it until one of the parties fuck up and loses trust of the community, then it impacts both parties. I think it's worth doing it as long as you can strike a deal that both parties will accept and I'm not only talking about bounty managers. Getting trusted legendary members on your team is also a good idea. I feel like it can be even better than a signature campaign.

I know you try to ignore the facts, but the concert is taking place since 2009.
When I imagine something, it's only in my mind. When I pay someone and he can buy physical goods with it, there's no imagining anything.
Guess what, when you send a bank transfer, it's also done virtually on a bank's server, just that there's no backup, no blockchain. If the server catches fire, your transaction disappears. When the bank defaults you don't get the money. When a country goes into war and limits withdrawals you don't get the money.