Investing on bitcoin depends on you, the investor, nothing else. What you think would work should be backed with extensive research before you throw in the first money into bitcoin. What matters is watching how the market price is moving. Whatever happens when you invest, if it occur to be losses, nothing can be done about it. That's why, it's advisable to invest what you are able to lose. It's not a get rich quick scheme. One thing for sure, the price will increase or decrease, if you want to profit do not fidget when the price goes down. Keep on holding on to it. Many investors still hold their bitcoin regardless of the market price. I'd say it's a good decision and a lot to learn from the investment. The best time to invest, can't be predicted. The chance of correctly predicting such, is low.

Ordinarily banks issue payments and savings, similar to what cryptocurrency is about. But, there are multiple differences between the both. Cryptocurrency transactions have nothing to do with banks. Bitcoin as a network keeps record of all transaction in the blockchain and users can access the transaction histories using explorers. It's open for everyone to see. Banks on the other hand, don't have a place where customers can see what another account is doing with their funds. Only the banking authorities have access to individual accounts. That's is contrary to bitcoin, where a specific address can be examined, though the owner is not known, to find where a transaction was sent to and the amount removed from the address. Bitcoin use private keys and digital signature to access funds stored on the blockchain; input and output. Signatures are used on banks too and the facial recognition, that's for inside bank transactions. But, no private keys whatsoever is needed in banks. Unless banks have started looking out to implementing such features. Cryptocurrency and banks are two different financial systems, where fiats are converted to cryptocurrency and vice versa. But, in a transaction where both parties don't need fiat, its crypto to crypto without any third party. And, it's necessary not to forget that p2p is the primary aim of cryptocurrency, which keeps it far different from banks.   

Every player's response to losing money in casinos is different. Many players when they're done playing for the day, when asked, how did it go? give a frowned face because they lost their money. The fact that gambling is fun, most times refers to those who won for the day. It's great to see it as a fun place, but the truth remains that deep down losing money to an extent, regardless of how and where we lost it, is not funny. Players keep going back to gamble because it's to them like a daily activity and soon or later they get used to it, lose or win they're happy. Which means playing for fun depends on how long you've been into gambling; understanding how it works. Yet any day they stake and lose above their average income, the player can't help, but go sad thinking about their mistake. For instance, if a person lodge in cheap hotels they may not think about the money lost paying for those rooms, but when they spend such money on expensive hotels, they tend to think about it to an extent. That's how gambling works, losing big can as well alter the fun and happiness, compared to losing smaller amounts. 

The OP stated things like belief and other societal factors that could result to such discrimination. It doesn't matter if the player is good or not, once everyone or family members discovers s/he engage in gambling activities the player will be seen as an irresponsible person. I've experience situations where gamblers are condemned to an extent that, when they go broke people around them refer to gamble as the primary cause of it. These societal attitudes are enough to make a gambler hide their gambling behavior. Definitely, a lot of people will celebrate when the player wins big, it's normal whenever we win people celebrates. Yet it doesn't remove the doubt that a gambler is wasting their money, especially when judged from the perspective of non gamblers. However, in those days before the institution of online gambling it was difficult to keep this a secret. Unlike today, players can carryout bets and nobody around them will know unless they open up to them; family and friends. We are advised to play responsibly and also take care of our other daily activities, even if we gamble, it shouldn't affect the next person who depends on the money for other things. For instance, gambling with family money or money meant for business.

Our personal data is meant to be protected, but, unfortunatly there is a market for it. Advertising companies pay so much for people's data, look at the total amount per demography, those are high amounts. Among the sold datasets include DNAs. It's weird that people's DNA get sold to advertising industry giants. Hence, the companies in control of the datasets, collaborate with advertisers to target a pool of audiences that love specific or different kinds of products. What matters to them is targeting the exact audience for the products using their DNA, which reveals the type of products a family likes, diversifying to any member of the family. The market is boosting and top tech giants use this kind of marketing for different reasons. The data or DNA owners don't authorize these transactions, their data sold for cents or millions. That's very risky to the owners of the sold DNA and other sensitive information.

I think so, if a good number of users hold their private keys they'll be lesser drastic fall of bitcoin price. Yet a lot of task is required here. These exchanges get hacked despite holding the keys that contains the funds of all who patronize the exchange. Self custody doesn't mean that a wallet can't be hacked, if the private key is carelessly stored. Hackers have multiple ways of accessing people's devices. Some users have their private keys stored on computers, written on different papers and not sure of the key's exact location. Thereby increasing the chances of getting hacked. If 90% of bitcoin users go self custody the loss of private keys and giving private keys to hackers by storing keys on sites and emails will definitely affect the loss of funds. Everyone can be thought about the risk of saving bitcoin on exchanges and they'll move to self custody, but they can't be schooled to always stay careful with their keys. Additionally, not every bitcoin user spend time reading about bitcoin.

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I also ponder about what happens if I played the game with higher amounts and lose? Sometimes it feels like a mistake, but that wasn't our lucky day. I'll accept it and follow up on the next game, instead of imaging how it should have been. The best step is to take it the way it happened, and they'll be no regrets. The choice that led to your loss or earning less is also a choice. Playing responsibly is the goal, targeting bigger wins can result to a painful loss of money that may be difficult for the player to recover.

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First thank you for adding me on the spreadsheet. Visited Utopia website, though hesitated to download the app on my device, but, when I did, was awed in surprise to see a well constructed ecosystem with friendly User interface and all facilities needed to run the ecosystem in a quality manner, such as emails and browsers with no outside relationship to sites that are not hosted within Utopia. This got my attention.

Idyll Browser: Amazes me, I looked up google and got an error message, and so, the only alternative was to find the problem. I joined the Idyll support channel where I learnt more about the browser. Tried to visit proxy.tt, but it seem to be down, because it didn’t load. I like how customized all the activities happening on the browser is limited to clear sites hosted on the Utopia ecosystem. It hands over complete authority to maintain security of transmitted data.

Channel Manager: is well organized with details of channels I’ve joined and shows online users. But, I’m wondering why, unlike other chatting platforms, Utopia didn’t permit direct messages to online users. Must conversations happen only through invitations? It’ll make the forum secure, if so, and less social. Quite good, channels are there for discussions, yet personal discussions still worth a lot in improving usage and time spent on site, especially when the airdrop, which serves this purpose, is over. However, I tried to see how the airdrop works, stayed online for quite a sustainable time, but didn’t receive any crypton. Are members selected randomly?

The airdrop: is highly beneficial to the Utopia ecosystem in attracting users and participants. As a new ecosystem with miners, the airdrop will send words on different social media platforms about the Utopia ecosystem; where people can chat, play games with friends and maintain total security.

Games: The both games are top notch, interesting and world games. A lot of players around the globe enjoy playing chess game and Poker. But the playing processes are quite not easy and simple to a newbie on Utopia Ecosystem. I’d suggest, for instance, users who are available to play chess get listed on a board, such that, players can choose who they want to invite or join in playing the game. Because, newbies need to find the UI very easy before there can participate, thereby keeping them on the app. Personally, how will I be able to play games if I don’t know any public key, that belongs to a chess player, to invite as friend or join my contact list. It abandons me with the thought of missing out on the ongoing fun.

Currency Swap: When I got to review this section, I saw Utopia to be an Ecosystem with an exchange between Crypton and Uusd, which can be used to trade outside the ecosystem. Hopefully, I expect more varieties of coins or assets that can swap in the Utopia swap section, to help attract users who can participate in the building of the Unique Ecosystem.

In a nutshell, Utopia completely gives to the cryptocurrency ecosystem what is rarely found in the market. Secure p2p messages, emails, sending cryptons etc. These are strong qualities, which I like and appreciate. I’d time to time visit the app to join the airdrop, once I get them as promised if I stay on the app. The growth of the Utopia ecosystem will be fast and the crypton coin will see a new all time high. Good Job!

The crypto gambling community know how big financially Stake is, and they can reimburse the funds. A $100 million dollar mega deal with Drake is an evidence to the viral belief. On the other hand, it's said to have lead to the attack stake is having recently. Some write-ups about this incident centered on the profits of Stake casino, as a factor to the reason hackers targets the casino.

Bitcoin moves forward and may not drop down to the previous price it took off from. The price of bitcoin used to settle at $3000 and 20k per bitcoin was once an all time high. Today it steadies around 20k, what price do you expect bitcoin to hit if it picks up from 20k to bullish run. The unpredictable volatility of bitcoin, stretches the thought of bitcoin ever going higher. Because many that see bitcoin as an investment expect to make profits on bitcoin. They wouldn't discuss with people about how bitcoin could go very low in price.

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The fear should be that these people have OP's mail on their database. We must consider how we accept cookies or submit our personal mails on any website. There are many risk factors attached to the way random people's mails fly around the web. It gets leaked or sold most often. Thereby, increasing scam rate, just like the example OP shared.

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First, you need to visit sites like coinbase to purchase bitcoin. Different exchanges have unique transaction fees. After purchasing bitcoin don't keep funds on the exchange, if you do, it means they have control of the coin. Transfer your bitcoin to a wallet that issues private keys, which authorizes you ownership of the coin.

Mining security is maintained in different ways, such as digital signatures that uses ECDSA for validating transactions, chain work the difficulty or hashes required to mine a block, consensus rules that guides what rule miners should follow to mine a block etc. These factors help to keep the mining process secure from attacks.

A good reason why using bitcoin over other conventional currencies is that, maintaining the bitcoin network doesn't require any external help, every update happens within the bitcoin developers, miners and users. No other charges aside transaction fees. 

The reason why the first thing that come in mind, mentioning cryptocurrency, is bitcoin. It provides what investors see as true decentralization. It only gets worse for any decentralized project, once centralized bodies begin to fit in the process and use it to make money. Centralized exchanges have brought multiple bad publicity on bitcoin, similar to what you're explaining about centralized bodies launching defi projects. These guys do the most marketing, and attract multiple people, who don't know much of bitcoin, to invest and they'll end up losing money to hackers. The blame goes to bitcoin, not the centralized bodies. If only the masses understand how bitcoin works, a lot of scam project will be minimized.

This, OP, should be in the service section, not here. The services you provide, having multiple competitors, should be cheap. I've not seen such prices like on your website, too expensive. I don't intend using them, but have flocked around such websites and I thought the fun of selling social media services is keeping it very cheap. Why Spam the forum? I found this same post on project development board.

If you're giving custody to any VPS, you just have to keep it stealth or colocate your own box with secured SSH access and an encrypted disk. Aside that, Voltage cloud is a good option, Voltage cloud integrated the Stateless-init feature that doesn't allow the Macaroon file written to disk. It returns the admin.macaroon to the API response when you initiate your node. The feature won't allow them access to your macaroon, as it'll be encrypted with the password you set for your node and sent to their API for backup. Here is a repo on Github for stateless-init read more about Voltage cloud if it's what you want. https://voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-infrastructure-providers/how-voltage-works/

Reading resources about bitcoin is important to participate completely in the forum discussions, mostly centered on bitcoin. You need to read as much as any bitcoin related contents shared above and ask questions to easily learn and get quality answers from members. The forum have different boards allocated to the different factors associated with bitcoin. And you must learn gradually, focus on the board that interests you. Grow from reading different terms, new jargon and words that you don't understand. We are here to learn, teach and exchange knowledge, that means your contributions matters too. I found a good resource about bitcoin FAQ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6jlop4/rbitcoin_faq_newcomers_please_read/ remember and stay clear from people who demand money from you and offer to mine bitcoin for you. Bitcoin mining is not for beginners and no app can mine bitcoin. Don't fall for this! A board is available for mining, if you have questions regarding how it works.