Considering that we're inside a crypto community, the third option is off for me. I barely ever gave any personal details to a casino, so I would not participate in them as I'm very careful when it comes to choosing physical giveaways.

Free spins is my choice. It could be a combination of free spins and bonuses. Most online casinos that had faucets 5-6 years ago have had success. Moreover, a giveaway is something only one or a handful of people get to win while free spins give the entire community an equal chance without any of them being chosen by a RNG.

I've honestly been mostly attracted to websites 100% assuring me a free gift if I look back at the history of websites I used to gamble on. Probably for the same reason bounty hunters join every single bounty: you're theoretically ensured a specific number of coins for free.

Come on.. the guy was smart enough to cover so much of his face that you can't recognize him. If many of us have twins "from another mother" (lookalikes) that share an >80% identical facial features, imagine how easy it is to find lookalikes from a picture of only some eyes and almost invisible eyebrows. You could be recorded in a constant face expression different to your natural one (say frowning) and you'd get very different results.

It's quite useless imo to try recognizing the Autozone guy by matching his eyes with someone else's unless there is a VERY close match and you have at least one detail like if the guy really is a disguised cop as many say. A very close match of a police officer could be helpful then, but with the information we currently have.. I'd think it's a waste of time.

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AI + DeepFakes in combination with some other effects and technologies could produce some astonishingly realistic stuff any eye could easily believe. Scares me when I think about the way we could be literally deceived into a world war at any point through a 100% AI-generated video. See what happens after Floyd's case turned worldwide? Imagine how much violence and unrest an AI-produced footage could generate.

To be honest, I often wonder if part of the news I see are even real anymore. I mean, let's not forget the Tom Hanks Saturday Night video where you'd need only 5 minutes of photo/video manipulation experience to notice the unrealistic head and .. the surprising baby hands this old man has in the video

The UK Coronavirus strategy paper clearly says that "The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging" and that a "substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened", these two quotes providing a lot of strength to your reply. Nothing's stopping them anymore - they have too many supporters for it to even matter whether they ever mislead the public or not.

Moreover, the MSM has been caught so many times in the past few months with misleadingly using emotional images and videos to induce fear or panic that trusting them 100% and saying "Not the MSM, not a credible source!" is plain stupid. The Onion is more believable nowadays than most "credible sources" are. Sadly.

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I mean... ears, nose, eyes, mouth, chin, forehead, hairline... none of them look like the officer's.

Ancient stuff never ceased to amaze me. OP, do you think the mysterious tombs have a link to today's BTC in any way or are you using them as some kind of symbolism?

I mentioned here in an older post of mine how interesting it is that figures very similar to what we know today as "astronauts" appear in ancient symbols.


Heritage is a possibility. The spenders could be his/their kid(s) or grandchildren, meaning in a matter of 2-3 decades we'd see the coins move. It's usually the parents carefully accumulating the wealth through hard work and the kids deliberately spending it all once the parents die/hand them the wealth.

It might actually be better if the million coins moves soon. The decentralization of a million coins would long-term overpay the initial possible market dump.

As YouTube and Google Ads are both part of the Google corporation, I'd have to assume (especially as there are some very obvious differences between what, for example, the automated suggestions provide on DuckDuckGo vs Google - some of the DuckDuckGo suggestions are 100% in the top on Google too although they do not appear unless you type them yourself) that the search is flawed too.

One very quick and interesting example I've seen on Twitter is that if you go over to Google and search for "reddit conspiracy". Putting all the conspiracy tinfoil hat and boogaloo stuff aside, you'd logically have to find the Conspiracy subreddit (like I used to find months ago) on the top. However, while DuckDuckGo gives you the sub as a top suggestion, Google now redirects you to the Coronavirus sub and "conspiracy debunked" articles. This gives me a quite strong hint that the algorithm has been influenced to hide specific results. I mean.. it's written by man, right?

Now looking back at this thread, my previous statement might make sense. Although it's an algorithm that sure is very intelligent and learns a lot from our interactions with Google's search results, it could be modified if Google ever decides to be biased in a situation such as the one we're currently talking about.

Doesn't surprise me that search engines sometimes give you the wrong results intentionally. If there's one thing I have learned, it's to always take infomation with a large grain of salt and verify it yourself. But that's too much to ask from someone nowadays, especially as most people only read clickbait article titles and share them without even reading a paragraph or two out of them.

It's just that Google is at it again. I've noticed the behavior, results and Ads are quite suspicious over there: crypto YouTubers kicked off the platform, fake crypto Ads running like crazy and almost fooling me a few times too, false/biased results upon crypto searches, the giveaway scams that ran wildly on YT and so on.

Can't be just a coincidence. Screw Google overall, all of these could've been very easily prevented if there was a will to do so.

And most of these "upgrades" are actually quite bad imo to its structure. Pseudonymity with the possibility of address change & generation should've been at least among the top 10 things on the "To-Do" list. Staking comes as a big turn-off for me. With the infinite supply, it all looks like a mixture of something deemed to fail (at least in the world Satoshi wanted to create).

Staking will advantage the rich which is very unfair and will create wealth inequality. But Vitalik does his thing. As long as there are supporters for all of this, why not..

Long story short, if there's no critical radical change to BTC's structure then miners will rely solely on fees and the existing BTC will start to deflate as money is lost various ways. The "lost" BTC is already much more than many think, which makes the BTC maximum supply even smaller than 21M (which was a low amount already anyway).

But the year all BTC will be mined is too far away to talk about it now. Lots of things about Bitcoin and crypto in general have changed since 2009 - the world is in a big change itself. By the year BTC touches its max supply, I would personally bet there'll be some hard fork to add more zeros before the dot or the fees might become too high to be affordable.

Until then, it's mostly speculation but there might be a core change. There's a possibility that Bitcoin will fail long before all coins are mined too - all options are on the table, there are many many years ahead!

Plenty of information about how fake, lying and misleading Wrong is. Indeed, lots of information to digest.

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Yet, +95% of everything we know is pure speculation and possible coincidences. This is mostly why a proper and in-depth research of Satoshi would most likely be a waste of time and, in the end, a negative thing. You'd research the person/group who has given you the ability to have a financial freedom but wanted to be anonymous and enjoy the freedom he has himself too, as putting yourself in the position of "Bitcoin's creator" instantly makes you a target for some entities.

Overall, the whole "who is Satoshi" thing is as useless as the "is CSW a liar" research.

A mix of them all with a good background music does improve the chances of someone going over to their website and registering. Stores have been doing this for a while. Noticed how most clothing stores have different music depending on the kind of clothes you find inside? It's mostly a subconscious thing, but it helps

I'd just advise to either use a copyrighted trending song (legally, of course, but the price might be quite high) or to hire someone to compose one for you. Assuming that you're looking for new users, I'd go for some hip-hop beat with a nice bass that sounds really pleasant to the ears. But old songs that aren't trending anymore.. nah, that might not attract many.

Won't be long before I'm getting allergic to this subject. CSW isn't Satoshi, it's a 99.9% accurate fact and with every new piece of information coming up we only get about 0.0001% closer to 100%. It's all for nothing, honestly.

This man is more than pathetic and a piece of poop - and the price he had to pay for all the forged documents and utter bullshit he spread was nothing compared to what he deserves.

Just put an end to this man's fame. Please.

I think there's actually a possibility to do it without having to predict anything.

Take a 24h chart. In the past 24h, say BTC's lowest point was $9,000 and the highest one was $10,000. If BTC hits $8,999.99, the bot would buy while if it hits $10,000.01, it'd sell. In 5 minutes (or whenever the 24h data changes), the figures could change.

There's no need to predict anything. Just take the data from the past 24h and make use of it if I got it right - a quite interesting idea.

Exiting the economy and going all-in on Bitcoin isn't only very risky but would be hard as hell. Probably harder than staying right now on fiat.

I'm all for BTC but imagine if you had $100k right now, bought BTC using it and price suddenly crashes to half. You'd lose $50k in the snap of a finger and if you depend on that money, there goes the "savior currency".

A big step taken by many by switching from fiat to crypto in one move could have disastrous effects on the current fiat system but it could also very well have a disastrous effect on Bitcoin itself. Think about those who've bought at $20k and are still waiting & hoping for a recovery.

And then, in my country for example there isn't much you can do with it besides selling it with a high fee to an ATM (and most of them have KYC too) or booking hotels and buying electronics. So my only option right now is to keep BTC as a long-term asset and that's basically it. Would switch from fiat in a second if I had the chance to and if I could live solely on Bitcoin, but unfortunately the reality says something different.

I don't know if it's the right way to call them. Most out there are acting according to their feelings, and it's not their fault. Crypto trading is way easier to access than stock trading - in fact, you can start trading by simply downloading a software which is insane.

Let's be honest - as much as I want to say I'm a 100% Bitcoin sustainer, profit is part of my interest. Although it's not the top priority, it does exist and every time BTC showed death signs I did quit due to the fear of losing everything.

I wish we all went for a single purpose out there: moving away from banks. But I have to agree with the fact that these guys who are out there just for the profit help us a lot. Imagine Tesla: what would its market value be if every single person who owned its stocks never cared about the profit?

Most are still sleeping. Just wait, calmly. The current events around the world will hopefully wake them all up, one by one.

It doesn't make sense for the miners to purchase all the necessary equipment. That's like building a mill to power your own mining farm - in the end, the cost might be higher than running it on electricity. The main idea is that miners could take advantage of electricity providers that work with oil, as their prices could drop in tandem with the oil price.

You'd need hella lot of generators and physical oil to run a mining farm from oil-powered power generators.

It's kinda dead honestly, compared to years ago when I used to read news and threads here all the time about it.

Ever since Charlie's retreat, it's been on a continuous downwards spiral. I'm quite sure there still are some amazing devs doing their magic, but without a proper plan it might all be in vein in the end. I still think it's a coin with lots of potential especially considering how long it's been living around for. If development isn't going to be organized though, it might go in a freefall right before our eyes.

The usual "scary" 5 seconds paper loss nobody besides spot traders noticed (and possibly stop loss limiters), similar to the -99% drops ETH had a while ago on an exchange.

Bitcoin usually hits the news right before a big price drop - possibly due to the "sell the news" strategy. I'm not convinced the MSM is too happy to feature BTC on their TV with a positive underlying story. Much better & safer to apply FUD when you have a coin undergoing a massive bull run that'd obviously go wrong at some point.

Haha, yes, kinda ironic isn't it? Am I the only one feeling like this starting to look like a spreading coup attempt? Some kind of coupdemic? Looks like all the parties are trying to take advantage of the situations that pop up.

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I have heard many negative things about the US courts - it all sounds eerily similar to what we experience in Romania. Is it the way to do it? Because to me it looks like too much evil is still free

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It's surprising to see how it only takes days for an event from some country to spread around the world - and it's insane how everything I feel and see today in Romania is felt and seen tomorrow in the US. Almost as if the entire world is synchronized right now with every event.

There's this book, it's called.. "How to Lie with Statistics", and before you call it a no-name.. Gates has done a very brief review of this book he considers excellent.

"The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify" - Darrell Huff (Author)

"One chapter shows you how visuals can be used to exaggerate trends and give distorted comparisons. It’s a timely reminder, given how often infographics show up in your Facebook and Twitter feeds these days." - Bill Gates

Interesting.

Read this:

In march 2020, Knox County (USA), in a matter of two days 9 people killed themselves which is 10% of the entire number of suicides from 2019. 10% in 2 days.

So many people give 0 f's about the situation others have been put into. We're shouting WEAR MASKS and STAY HOME in everyone's ears but you have food to eat while millions have gone from an okayish fiancial status to poor in under half an year.

I've seen so many riots and protests with thousands of people and yet I haven't seen a single video of someone falling randomly on the street from a supposedly extremely bad virus during these protests. It's been 6 entire months and I still have to hear of ONE person that's been infected with severe symptoms. But you know what? I have more than 5 families I know that are afraid they won't have food to eat anymore, nor will they have any money to buy with within 2 weeks.

Tell me again that "I should not underestimate the situation of the pandemic just because you live in a city where you don't know any infected" - well excuse me, but there are more than 1M people living around me and I think it's a significant number and I should've heard of at least 1. ONE. One in 6 f'ing months of a supposed pandemic that kills everything and everyone it meets.

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Hey, if anyone reading this is so scared of this virus, then please stay home. Barricade yourself and never come in contact with any other human forever if you will.

But don't fucking force someone to die from hunger because you are afraid to ever contact a human again. 6 of my family members are going hunger mode within days and I will have to help them out by purchasing food and delivering it to them - which .. do you know what that means? It means that my money bag will be emptied faster and in a matter of months I might have to go into hunger mode as well. Why? Because I'm forced to do nothing for a pandemic that ONLY EXISTS IN STATISTICS AND ON TV. Are we seriously going this fucking pathetic? Turn the TV off, go outside and if you ignore the masks and those absolutely pathetic paranoid humans, you'll see there's nothing to fear. It's the nature, man, we're literally being afraid of the environment we came from.

So if in a matter of months you see hoards of millions destroying EVERYTHING in their way on the streets and robbing you, then don't say you did not expect it. The world is literally dragged into suicide, hunger and depression right in front of your eyes.

And then there are some members here calling me indirectly mentally unstable. Sorry for speaking the truth out loud and for possibly having less money than you. Didn't know there'd be a day when all this shit goes down to the middle class & poor being literally forced into killing themselves or dying from hunger by the richer, in the name of "saving lives".

Well, the secret services are going to have fun with this one - and KingNull's pocket might be happy soon.

If someone is silly enough to use personal details on the dark web and do illegal stuff they could be charged for, they've done it to themselves. It's the first thing you have to do: never fill in personal details if you don't want to be traced on a website. Especially if the website is part of a suspicious network.

This is just as obvious as it is that "food delivery" searches went up. People have stayed at home doing nothing, what do you expect?

How so? Online casinos existed before the lockdown and lockdown forced us to move to online. How exactly is it a win for us?