All reverted & website is back to normal, scotaloo is a surprisingly good sport, decent April Fools.

I was using an extremely old password for my github which was a bit dumb, I've seen that password in many leaks before (hence I changed passwords on most other accounts years ago, but not my github). It's all re-secured now, CryptoSamaritan is back online.

Yeah I know, that was directed at scotaloo themselves.

Sheesh, though. I remember scotaloo hacking people five years ago back when TradeFortress was still relevant and CoinChat was a thing. Interesting he's still around.

Oh man, scotaloo. Been a long time since I heard that name. To be fair that github account had a really old password.

Did ya have to change the password and the email, though?

That's impossible. There's no way he could edge me out, thank you very much, sir.

I have created some brief contribution guidelines and I am inviting people to add any suggestions or edits as a pull request to the repo for CryptoSamaritan (yep, CryptoSamaritan is open source!).

The repo: https://github.com/DiamondCardz/diamondcardz.github.io
The contribution guidelines: https://github.com/DiamondCardz/diamondcardz.github.io/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

If you have any feedback I would be very appreciative of it, and similarly any contributions you may wish to make would be appreciated, and although I don't expect to see many pull requests I would like to see some more general feedback.

Kind regards,
Diamond

p2p lending can be risky as you are relying on the website itself to pursue someone who defaults, and they often don't succeed. You need to trust both the platform and the person you are lending to, and I still think you should exercise extreme caution.

I thought about the relation between crypto itself and these forms of addiction/depression for a while before creating CryptoSamaritan. I value your feedback but I have to respectfully disagree. CryptoSamaritan is designed for advice about mental health issues that arise from crypto itself, and these definitely exist.

For instance, the extreme volatility of cryptocurrency allows for both speculation and just straight-up gambling on the markets at times, and CryptoSamaritan tries to distinguish between these so that those looking for help better know the differences. Gambling with crypto can also cause a disconnect in that you are looking at a value in "BTC", "LTC" or something similar, not $ or £, and so your brain takes longer to process what you are actually wagering as it makes the conversion. It is a lot easier to wager 1 BTC than $10000.

In terms of the 'target market', I am considering adding a new page relating to people who have issues due to them having been scammed, as this is something that happens a lot due to the anonymous nature of crypto. Thoughts?

Kind regards,
Diamond

cryptosamaritan.org

Hello everyone,

The idea for this project has been floating around in my head since 2016, when I started doing a lot of charitable work (collecting for homeless charities, etc) in real life. I recently was encouraged to finish this project due to FortuneJack's JackMate campaign, which I think is a brilliant idea which they deserve credit for.

CryptoSamaritan is a website which serves as a mental health resource, providing support for those who suffer from crypto-related issues, such as gambling addiction and depression. It focuses on mostly issues to do with trading as well as pure gambling, as these are where I see the majority of crypto-related mental health issues coming from. For one example, it addresses depression due to financial hardship caused by market fluctuations, and in all cases it provides many links and resources for users to get help, as well as crypto-related advice.

It also has a section giving suggestions on how any of us who wish to help those who are suffering can learn how to, with links to training resources for emotional resources, and similar things.

Please leave your feedback below, and feel free to give me suggestions on extra pages or paragraphs to add. This is version 1 of the website (I consider it to be undergoing constant development) and I am eager to see your further feedback!

Kind regards,
DiamondCardz

cryptosamaritan.org

Volatility comes about from hype and the size of the userbase shifting. Once the userbase stabilises and Bitcoin becomes normalised in society, the volatility of the currency will decrease at the same time as a natural consequence. Unfortunately that isn't happening any time soon, and volatility prevents the userbase from stabilising, so it creates a negative feedback loop of sorts.

The smart thing to do is to sell, simply because Bitcoin is extremely volatile. If this was any other investment it would've been sold after a peak simply because you don't hold onto volatile investments, especially if they've just risen in price. You take the gains and decrease the volatility of your portfolio, which is a win-win situation.

I suppose if you're really passionate about Bitcoin, however, you might want to hold a little. Just in case.

This happened over a year ago and Bitcoin isn't quite legal tender in Germany. Instead it's a unit of account, which means it's legal for tax and trading. Legal tender means that it has to be accepted as payment for debts, and Bitcoin doesn't have that status in Germany for obvious reasons - it'd be a bit unwieldy to enforce.

I'll be honest - as much as I'm an advocate of cryptocurrencies, I don't see them overtaking regular currencies such as fiat. The trouble is that they have too many issues right now and the population is not technologically literate enough. I do see a world where cryptocurrencies are as popular as fiat and run alongside them, but only for specific purposes.

Gambling should be considered for entertainment only, not for profit. If you're going into a gambling situation trying to make profit then on the balance of probabilities you're just going to end up losing money. It's a fun way of spending a bit of time with a small chance of making money, that's all, nothing else.

Important to distinguish between promotion and hype. Right now Bitcoin is going through a massive phase of hype, and that hype isn't really sustainable, and the market will correct for it accordingly soon. It's more valuable to have a grassroots, prolonged promotion of Bitcoin.

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Right, I wouldn't call investing in a casino "income", it's not reliable enough for that. Investing in stocks, for instance, is already shaky for "income" but at least has a consistent uptrend. While casino investing also has an uptrend, it's a lot less consistent and a lot smaller than the uptrend of other things you could invest in. It's not really worth it.

Probably if you were somewhat creative and analysed their inflows and outflows by finding their cold and hot wallets, and then just calculated the difference, but that doesn't account for running costs and the like. If they run on a system like Moneypot then the data should be readily available, however.

These threads are honestly just trash and I don't feel bad in saying it. Asking if gambling is better than investing or vice versa is a silly question. One is a form of entertainment. The other is, as the name suggests, investment, or a way to grow your money. Gambling should not be treated solely as a way to grow your money, it is supposed to be a form of entertainment, and if you want to grow your money gambling will almost never be a better option than investing.

You could possibly design some kind of open source system which allowed you to do this, but then it creates issues with other nodes needing to follow through on their transactions in order for you to not run into trouble (and possibly even lose your Bitcoin). Plus, I personally wouldn't want to be involved in a system like this in case it later leads to legal accusations of assisting money laundering (what if it's you personally who laundered the money of a drug dealer or big-time criminal?).

I highly doubt he even knows what Bitcoin is and even if he did I doubt even more that he's going to regulate it, he probably wouldn't even have the time to with all the scandals racking his administration right now. I doubt his presidency will affect the Bitcoin price either unless he somehow manages to destabilise the global economy or crash the US dollar.