The bonus example given above is clear but I wouldn't want to play at a casino which prides itself in being so generous with the bonus that then applies heavy restrictions on it.

I understand that if as described above the purpose would be to keep you in, and if you are a good player you can always use the bonus as residual to be earning more and then withdraw that, but in the end it still is restrictive!

This type of lock in mechanism might then act as a double edged sword, with some people liking it and some detesting it.

I suppose the choice of centralised vs decentralised storage really lies within the values of the user. If security is valued over risk then centralised storage platforms don't stand much of a choice while if users are about usefulness then probably Google drive and Dropbox could be a better option.

The way I see it with heightened danger of money cleanse due to various internet attacks, specially for people having significant holdings decentralised is the way. However, this may be a need only for the wealthy that could afford it. I think it depends on the type of people and their habits - though overall I'd say there's a good chance of a close 50-50 split or similar.

Foreign Exchange Market trading for me is too slow to make a profit from. Instead my preference is crypto currency trading as the market is much more volatile, yes, also risker though.
With crypto trading you can leverage and improve odds of profit by analysing which Alts could make the next big move whilst still having not much of the market cap 

I share the same experience as you here. ETH is so popular among casinos that it has become the ultimate gambling crypto. I like using it over BTC because of the low transaction fees and little hassle. This preference applies to buying as well as trading.

I agree the Longs have been doing very well for the last 48h or so. I do expect the resistance to hit soon around 12K and get into Short for the much needed correction. With how the market is booming this is inevitable. The new buyers will drop out soon after the correction and some people even entertain the idea that this year this may help reach a new ATH circa >18k. Let's hope things can get this peachy.

I think the questions above are important to consider as there's no clear transparency about how these BTCs have been categorised a illegal crypto. I have no doubt that a large amount of crypto came into circulation from illegal activities but this is not the point. The specifics we need to focus on is the flexibility crypto provides for each and everyone of us, and the independency from third parties.

For instance, right now because of the pandemic citizens from certain countries cannot longer access their own cash from their own banks because the government doesn't allow them to. So we should be grateful that we now have crypto where this level of restriction isn't possible.

Dude, that sounds excessive. By the time you're done with the data modelling and cleaning the market shifts and most of the effort is wasted. It is best to develop something more time efficient, something automated or find a way to look at data that isn't so difficult to unravel.

In a way, I can understand where you're coming from. Gold has been around for thousands of years and people have grown with it so in comparison to gold, BTC is no where near perfect and I cannot see it being as widely accepted and adopted.

Another issue worth considering is that gold at least is stable and doesn't fluctuate unlike BTC. So from that respect gold remains among the standards with BTC coming no way near close. At least this is what I think, it would be great to see cryptocurrency rise to this level but this will take years!

That's the question everyone would like to know the answer to. Is BTC going to stabilise above 10K or not? By the looks of it there doesn't seem to be much resistance to the next 1k to make it 11k but will it surpass that, and is this going to be the beginning of a new bull run?

Let's hope so, but on the realistic side of things probably this run won't last long but it may at least set a new and higher BTC stable price 

This is an interesting project with future potential.  Vietnam and other Eastern countries are a good ground for crypto investments, so I think there's scope for this ATM related project. Can I ask whether you still raising capital and if there's a limit to the investment?

Thanks,
Rex

I agree with you that knowledge and efforts can beat almost any type of market. The other interesting element that seems to be obvious from todays' and this week's market changes is that there're always opportunistic windows. The hardest is to be fast enough to enter them.

KYC verification will merely add just one extra step to this lucrative type of behaviour from providers. It is a preventative method but it isn't 100% bulletproof.
Casinos can screw its members if they don't want to pay out large amounts and users can always be accused of running multiple accounts, and some can actually do so.

In my opinion there needs to be a different kind of policy in place to prevent this from reoccurring, KYC might not be the best option but perhaps instead some other sort of policy that can protect both parties - I'm not sure what will be the best though!

These new waves of fake giveaways are so prominent that even large companies like Youtube can't track it properly - and it just goes to show how hard policing this is. Bottom line is that these scam accusations aren't benefiting anybody, it looks bad for any parties involved.

This can eventually with better policing be better controlled but not made absolute, and this is the morale of these stories. We can do our best to prevent scams from happening but at the same time we need to understand that the risks of them happening can't be 100% eradicated.

Bitrefill is a legitimate company, you were almost certainly just rekt by a phisher or some other malware.

You should scroll back through your history to check the link where you found the software you installed.

Send it to us here so we can analyze it.

That's true. No exchange = no token value! Reason being that not enough people will know about it mainly due to failure in raising enough capital in the seeding rounds and thus not enough investors are willing to risk. That being the case the potential of the project is considered insignificant and not many people will show interest in buying that token.

Hmm, first it would be useful to people on here generally and traders to provide some names of the exchanges you're talking about. This way everyone can determine for themselves if this is a valid statement or not.

Second, hacking is something that can't be completely eradicated and while strong measures are put in place, sometimes these do get breached but this is not often. And if you keep worrying about something that could potentially happen and you don't have much control over it then I say there's no point at all. This is the same as being worried that if you go out even if you take all the necessary precautions someone might pull your mask off and you might catch the virus. The point is that sometimes you have to take some calculated risks and can't always live in fear of something happening.

Building a criminal database using the blockchain technology is a good idea but it would have to compromise on privacy. This is the greatest challenge, going against what BTC was built for.

However, the benefit of it is that once a persons's details are entered in the database, well this is made public, but the great advantage is that power and money won't have much effect in erasing the data. So in a way it levels the playing field of criminality for both the power and the reach, bringing that inequality gap slight closer.

There are plenty of reports that MXC has the most unreliable withdrawal service on the market.

Other people say that MXC also blocks withdrawals for some users without explanation... Any response to these accusations? MXC's name is absolute dirt in Telegram trading circles.

It's quite obvious that Satoshi is either benevolent, unable to access his coins, or dead.

I highly doubt he's simply playing the long game because I don't think anybody's hands are strong enough to avoid dumping anything when you've got $10 billion sitting in your wallet.

Maybe he's worried that the myriad blockchain analytics firms will hunt him down if he does so?

Only the absolute shittest of projects run a bounty campaign for the most part. This is because they can't afford to hire a marketing team they pay a bunch of Bitcointalk shillers to spam the forum, Telegram and social media.

If you want to earn money, start looking into profitable low cap altcoins and do your own research. Or throw your time away on these random projects, your choice.