I first had a good opinion about them and thought it's an interesting idea, but if you really think it thoroughly, a gold token doesn't do much besides putting you under a double investment risk: you risk getting scammed by the centralized token and having your wallet devalued by a gold market dump. Not worth the risk imo.

2. This is a highly deceiving thing. Institutions and systems are going more centralized than ever if you really pay close attention to what's going on. Remember, we're going digital. This means the transfer of all the info you hold is one click away.
4. If by "crypto" you mean a decentralized currency, no. I'd honestly prefer to have fiat rather than a centralized crypto - you wouldn't even be able to give your kid $10 to go outside without the possibility of being questioned by the authorities about your transaction.

Governments and world bodies will only take another shape, but will be more centralized and full of control hunger than ever. They already are in fact, it's just such a smooth change you don't even notice it. Businesses will not be that changed imo, it's all about adapting to new stuff. The currency they'll promote is probably going to be an easily adaptable system anyway, so it wouldn't be a big headache for them at all imo.

To individuals? Well, while I guess >80% of the adults and >90% of the youth will easily adapt to a new crypto system, the main and biggest concern remains the elderly. I don't know if we can go fully cashless within the next 3-4 generations tbh.

The two bolded parts of your statement are contradictory. People usually get into crypto after they hear how someone got rich over it or that you can use your PC to "make money". It's a quite deceiving perspective and many are fooled by it, so a "send your BTC, we'll double it!" scam isn't too far fetched for a newcomer - especially if greed is also in the game. I wouldn't necessarily say newbies are to blame, I was one as well and I did also think in the beginning that BTC is a money-making machine.

Whoa, now I think you're kinda exaggerating.. Come on, use these words to describe maybe the hackers, not their victims.

Humans are greedy and a deceiving perspective doesn't help at all. Ransomwares are also very old scams but surely still are very effective.

The average person opening up Elon Musk's Twitter profile for the first time may not even consider that these hacked posts are actually scams. All you know is they are trusted billionaires "willing to make this world a better place".

Some tweets are still up, such as the one on Elon's profile - or Joe Biden's..

I'm curious why you think this affects Bitcoin. All it really does is just expose the vulnerabilities of websites and show how crappy the world is. The accounts are clearly hacked and so I am very curious to see why Twitter hasn't taken any action yet - is it that hard to delete the posts from those hacked accounts?

At this point, I believe it's easier than ever and more realistic to monitor someone through phones instead of CCTVs. I highly doubt someone is keeping a track of who uses cash at some places through cameras - it's much easier and makes more sense to monitor someone through a device they carry around 24/7 with them.

And then, how will the cameras know anything besides (possibly) the products you've bought and the fact that you paid in cash? >99% of the CCTVs do not have a quality high enough to properly see and count how much money you're spending on what.

I'd be way more afraid of an Alexa or a Google Assistant than I'd be of a surveillance camera tbh, and let's not forget the fact that a lot of people use NFC cards to pay at shops for comfort - so the ledger is already there: the bank account. With the smartphone it's as easy as the phone recognizing a customer-cashier interaction and storing the data in a server.

Ah, Twitter is at it again.. Same thing happened on YT - they somehow managed to get inside some verified channels and used them to create fake giveaways.

First and foremost, just remember nobody's giving you free money for nothing. If you see offers that are too good to be true, they really are so just don't bother with them. Giveaways don't ask you for money (unless there's an entry price).

I don't really agree with you, I believe it's better to have a complete review than one with missing pieces. Bolded subtitles could help you get to the points you want to read about. There were phone review websites out there that had like 10 pages of reviews and you could choose which part of the phone's review you want to read.. it's nice imo.

Accepting Newbies and Jr Members in sig campaigns and bounties is a mistake from the beginning to the end. That opens up a big door for spammers or alts to be able to join in - the campaigns such as 777Coin and Bitvest have had to cope with these things for a while now, and from time to time there still are sockpuppets/alts that are found to be cheating. I can't even imagine what a bounty manager has to deal with most of the times - I'd bet +30% of the bounty participants are cheating as we speak.

Increasing the minimum entry rank leads to newer members understanding better what this forum is about. The sad thing is, most bounty participants are spammers desperately dropping replies anywhere on the forum just to fulfill as many bounty requests as possible. As you say, being a decent member and trying your best to be better opens up a lot of doors and opportunities for you. Newbies choosing the spammy/scammy way will most likely regret it at one point in the future anyway.

Why do you think so? Besides pure speculation, there is no guarantee these will come true - although I'd be damn happy if they do.

Wow, and a while ago I used to think we wouldn't even be past 19M BTC until at least 2050. The fact that the max supply will be touched in so many years makes you first think it's going to be a long time 'till we get to it.

You are partially right, but you can make 100 transactions with cash, peer-to-peer, and nobody would have any ledger where all of them are recorded. That's the main difference - Bitcoin txs are recorded, validated and represent an undeniable proof that your address indeed has had transactions with another specific address.

If you go to an exchange (or any other service), use crypto to pay/exchange and you complete KYC or even some basic info forms, they'd very easily link the addresses to your name and any other info you (un)willingly gave away. That includes your IP, your e-mail address, your phone number etc. It's very easy to link these informations together and find a very accurate match for them.

And even if you enter an exchange using Tor without your real e-mail, name and phone number, chances are you are not using coin control in your BTC wallet so at one point the said account is easily linked to your other addresses through which you've leaked enough info to be identified.

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To me, one of the most important parts of an online casino is the community. If I want to spend my time playing my chances with some bucks, I definitely want a fun community to virtually hang with. So it'd be nice imo if the review includes at least a brief opinion about the community or how active the chat is. I find it quite boring to play alone, so I usually "invite" other players to bet with me at the same time and see who wins the most

Don't most casinos request KYC anyway? The "without getting known or identified" part was a thing years ago (so was gambling on Tor), but today it's quite hard to gamble completely anonymously .. although I do believe identification on casinos is not a very bad idea.

You can gamble on online fiat casinos as well and nobody would know who you are IRL, what's the difference? Most people don't even know how to use their crypto properly in order to stay at least partially out of the grid.

The traces will still be there out in the dust, waiting for a proper blockchain analysis to find them out. You cannot hide the tracks of coins on BTC's blockchain, it's immutable and the records will be forever known unlike you said.

I don't think they can easily get the private keys from a criminal. It's usually either the criminals giving up their private keys for their sentence to be mild or their privkey storage was crappy. Otherwise, besides basically torturing the criminal to make him unwillingly tell where the keys are, the authorities may have no luck in finding them - or the criminal could simply say "I lost my keys".

Yeah, let's leave BTC anti-crime regulations for later (or never) - they've abused them enough.

Have you ever thought just for a minute that both the twitter account and the website may be paid to post positive stuff about a not-so-good website? I mean, as long as a big bag of money is in the game, a lot of guys are willing to compromise their legitimacy for it.

I'd suggest you to look in other places such as googling the website name + "scam" and using the search function of this forum. You get way more accurate results than a blog's posts.

I'd personally advise you to at least write a summary of your article here instead of repeating "I will be showing [..] and I will also tell you [..] and then I will talk about [..]". Before you get to the article, you get exhausted by these wills.

I would argue that the following quote from your article isn't very true:


I honestly think Bitcoin has many more use cases than any other token currently has. Tokens are usually taken up high in the sky and praised just for their price to rise - only very, very few actually get to accomplish their goals and the amount of people using these tokens the way they were meant to be used is close to zero. With future updates, Bitcoin will get even better - and stronger, of course.

I honestly really wish it was that way, but it looks like the authorities have found a way to forcefully change some stuff without changing Bitcoin itself. Let's hope your last quote will still apply even 5, 10 or 30 years from now.

Tell the centralized exchanges this, not us! I'm quite sure there would be a problem if there was a clue that your banknotes came from a not-so-legal source. It goes even worse for bank accounts (which are closer to what Bitcoin is): had you received money from a criminal through the bank, don't be surprised if authorities ever call you out for an interrogation.

Your statement is quite contradictory, you cannot cloak/hide a transaction without making it hard for authorities to trace it. If the authorities can easily do so, then can the average person who knows how to do a proper blockchain analysis. The idea is that I'm trying not to link my txs to my identity/fingerprints.

True. It's a double-edged sword. You basically have to choose between the probability of a bad actor trying to analyze the blockchain to find who you are and the probability of someone considering you a suspicious dude because you tried avoiding your identification.

I was talking price-wise. There are lots of ICOs that are still alive as well, but if you take a look back at the times when ICOs were a thing and compare it all with the prices we have today, you'd see what I mean. The fall of ICOs brought ETH down with it as well.

I usually do two things:

1. Check this forum for posts or threads about the said casino using the search function
2. Google "insertcasinonamehere scam"

These two are usually accurate enough to see whether the website is reliable or not. I don't trust blog posts, they could be sponsored by the casino itself.