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you provide collateral (something of value, like an altcoin, your account on this forum,...) and place it in the hands of an escrow. then the lender will give you the loan. then you pay it back on the set time with interest.
if you can't pay back, escrow will release your collateral to lender.

the amount of loan will depend on your collateral's value.

which part is tricky

for trading bitcoin i use localbitcoins, btc-e and kraken.
- localbitcoins because i can trade with my country's fiat
- btc-e because i have been using them forever and i am used to it.
- kraken because of its features.

it can differ from person to person. most people enjoy gambling because it is a game of chance and is is always nice to win something. in many cases win something big. and also the thrill that it creates is something that will draw you to it.

for many others it is like and addiction, it starts like the first group but it becomes an addiction and that is when they start losing big time and feel the negative side of gambling so hard.

i think it is time you introduced your method number 2. because your first method did not have anything interesting to offer, or at least i don't find anything interesting about it.
a method should improve the odds of winning or at least make things interesting.

i personally prefer to invest my money in things that i can control more than others (obviously you can never predict and control with 100% certainty). so i prefer investing in trade.
i mostly play around with altcoins because of their higher volatility hence higher profit. but at the same time i trade bitcoin on the side too whenever the price is moving.

as long as i remember they were not so happy about the changes and the bigger block sizes (something to do with their bandwidth) and now i think because the fact that they control more than half of the hashrate (more than 70% combined) they are going to be an strong opposing force.

there are many opportunities, not all of them good or even legit.
- investing in altcoins. this is good if you know which one is good and promising and can give you a good return.
- trading bitcoin. this is good and popular and with the unstable bitcoin market you can earn a good profit too.
- cloudmining. 99% of them are scam and the 1% is not profitable or bad ROI
- ponzi- stay away wherever you see double your coins run away

all the information you will need is available in the lending section.

just a word of advice, if you don't want to get negative reputation, then do NOT ask for a loan WITHOUT collateral. because people will assume it is scam (it happens more than you think) and will give you negative reputation.

it is all about self control. and i think it mostly depend on person's mental strength. while it is easy and common to get addicted to gambling, it is not that hard to discipline yourself to control your gambling habits.

what i do is i put aside a small amount and gamble with that small amount and i am comfortable with that amount, and losing it and do my best not to go out of what i have planed

it is not a pump nor a bubble, as others mentioned before it is just a correction. every time a big change happens -like the ~$50 sudden drop- the price goes back to its normal stage after a short while. #backontrack

p.s. hodl at least until the halving

in the case of "storm" and planning on putting away your coins till it passes there is no difference between Electrum, Multibit, or Core.
if you want to spend it during, then it would be a different story. because you need to know your (Electrum) server that you connect to uses what chain!

i haven't really followed this $hitstorm so i was wondering what is the major miner's stance about it?

i mean AntPool+F2Pool+BitFury that have more that 70% of the hashrate, where are they standing and does their stance and the rest really matter?

here is the big problem. ponzi schemes don't turn into scams. they are what they are. they are not scam nor legit. they are simply "Ponzi schemes". they are going to run away, we all know that! either the first day or after a while.

everything is clear about them. there is this unknown place (website) on the internet where asks you to give them money without giving you anything except a promise to give you back X time of your investment. the fact that people believe that promise is their stupidity or maybe they like to gamble with terrible odds.

all i can add is you should not thinking about bitcoin as your main job. what you do here or plan on doing should be your second job at best. because it is risky whether you want to do and online job and get paid in bitcoin or you want to invest for instance in trading cryptocurrencies. the market and the price alone creates an unsafe environment that you should only invest some extra money that you can afford to lose.


i don't get why you are considering it then! you have to either know or have some sort of interest in these sorts of thing then consider it as a job.


all i have ever learned from computer (from simple stuff to programming, graphic design or even complex mechanical simulations) i have learned on my own and through internet, and i live in a third world country with English as my second language.

p.s. if you are really interested in learning any specific program p.m. me and i can tell you how i learned it if it is in the list of programs that i know.

why is your house edge 2.5% that is extremely high IMO
this is a competitive market, and your house edge is not competitive at all especially because you are a brand new website.

well it is not flawless but i think the most important thing about PrimeDice is the fact that it has been around for a very long time and in this period the website and the owner gathered good trust and a good name for themselves.

on top of that the site looks good with a simple design and it is secure. also it is fast which is important when you don't want to waste any unnecessary time.

it is not just about the price you know. the year of bitcoin in my opinion is when it grows in popularity and therefore there would be more places that add bitcoin as one of the payment options.
and if the price goes up (which it probably would because of the popularity growth) that is just a perk.

the important keyword in this issue is "their own version" so i doubt if it ever can "take over" bitcoin. what the banks create is going to be a centralized altcoin which would serve their purpose and defeat the main purpose of bitcoin or any other altcoin for that matter.

it sounds to me more like a ponzi scheme to me. a website that pays profit with no background of what they do and how they are planning to earn profit on your investment and share 2.4% daily with you is risky business.

maybe he is talking about payment requests.
you can create payment request through a simple code, it practically tells your bitcoin wallet two variables: one for the address that you should pay to and one is the amount

like this i created a request for 10BTC


edit:
it is like this if i am not mistaken:
bitcoin:{bitcoinAddress}?amount={amountToRequest}