Why would smartphone companies offer their smartphones for bitcoin mining? A smartphone has other expensive components like camera, its screen, its motherboard, etc. Bitcoin mining only makes use of the power of the processor. You are paying for other components but you're choosing to abuse only one part of your phone which is the processor. If you're going to do that, then you should have just bought a GPU which has a lot more power than your smartphone.

I really think that where you are coming from is the Ads of the new phones claiming that they are as powerful as a computer. They can claim that, but we don't see phones running the same apps as computers do like AutoCAD, photoshop. And yes, I'm aware that these has mobile phone apps BUT they just don't have the same functionality. You can do a lot more in PC and you can also load the files better on PC.

Another reason why you shouldn't mine using your smartphone is that smartphones have a short battery life and mining bitcoin makes use of all your processor's computing power and that consumes a lot of energy. This means that, one day, you might be able to mine bitcoin using your phone, but it wouldn't give you much money (since there's not much computing power) and it will make your phone go low battery almost right away. You can do it while being charged, of course, but that's going to ruin your battery life. If you look at it, you might even end up paying more money for the electricity bills of your phone being charged all the time than the money that you're going to get from mining bitcoin with your phone.

Honestly, the computing power of your phone is so insignificant compared to how much computing power other people have to the point that it's probably better if you just do faucets.

TL;DR: It's not worth mining with your smartphone.

It also left me wondering, what bank is giving 10% annually for time deposit? Usually it's just around 0%-3%. 3% is already so much. We have 1.85% for the highest rate for time deposit for 12 months. 10% is so much and it actually sounds good. With $20,000 in your wallet with you not knowing what to do with it and a 10% gain per year for time depositing it in a bank, that sounds really good to me. $2000 a year out of money that you have no plans of doing anything with sounds amazing to me. I would have chosen that instead since it's totally possible that it will take a lot more than a year before you can earn that 10% gain from holding bitcoin especially now that we're at red.

On the other hand, I'm thinking that maybe it was a typo? 10% annually just sounds so much to me so maybe it was $200 instead of $2000.

Actually they do want improvement in their country. They want improvements, but not too much improvements that people are going to be so well-informed that they know what's going on or have facilities that allows people to have such good lifestyle that they can actually think straight or be able to think with no mind-fog going on. In other words, they want improvements but only enough to say that the current administration has done something good to the citizens so we can have some positive thing going on in exchange of all the things that they have ruined just to make themselves richer.

The government clearly cannot kill bitcoin. The only thing that they can do is prolong the mass adoption going on. For example, I live in a country where the Internet connection is really slow and most places don't even have a signal reception. This way, people aren't getting that much information as opposed to people from the first world country who has easy access to fast Internet. They can easily watch Youtube videos and become well-informed of things. They are smarter than us because of this thing and their lives are a lot easier too. Thus, they are more aware of what's going on in the world and they are more involved. With people being not computer literate, bitcoin's mass adoption will take so much time to take over.

The second thought is correct. Scarcity makes the price go higher but the first thought is not. The coin doesn't really become "scarce". The amount of coins in the world will still be the same. What's scarce is the number of coins in the market/the ones that are up for sale. The volume will be really low and thus the market will be a lot more volatile. Assuming that there will be constant demand for it, the price will go high. On the other hand, bitcoin is not something that's really that in demand when you look at the global scale. Thinking how little is the community of bitcoin users compared to how much people there actually is in the world, when the volume of bitcoin has become really low, people might not buy it and just start using a different coin. People might not care about it, is what I'm saying.

I really don't see a relationship between the coin's volume going really low and its acceptance to the world.

This is very situational. This forum is open to everyone and it has a lot of members. A lot of members are able to give their opinion about the gambling site and tell you what they have experienced in using it like if it was actually provably fair, if it has bugs, if it is rigged, and if the website or the company has had an issue in the past. Perhaps you can even find a link to a scam accusation. On the other hand, this is kind of a double-edged sword. Since anyone can give their "opinion" about it, some troll from their company can just reply to your thread and claim that they have had amazing experience using it and some other troll will come and confirm it. When no one except them has taken notice of your thread, you will believe that what they are saying is true since no one is there to counter their claims. It's like everyone can say something about it but not everyone will have the time to do so. Depending on who are the people replied your thread will be the basis of your conclusion. The troll scenario is very likely to happen especially when you're going to play on a new gambling site which doesn't have that much users yet, meaning not much can give you info on their authenticity.

What I would recommend is that you play on an established website. They are all the same anyway. Some has gimmicks like zero house edge or some new way to have a good algorithm for autobetting. If for some reason you still want to play on that website, I suggest that you google search them first. Have they scammed someone, it will be on reddit or in this forum right away. If you can't still find any information, maybe you should see it for yourself by putting a really small amount of money just to try it out although I would REALLY recommend just playing on a different platform since there are plenty of established ones anyway.

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I just google searched that, I don't know if the website is legit or not BUT we have seen on television people that have made fortune from lottery which is also a type of gambling (but a lot more socially accepted than everything else). It's really possible that a lot of us do not know personally a person who has made money out of gambling but that doesn't mean that they do exist. I personally do not know any famous celebrity yet they aren't a myth to this world, they do exist.

Gambling has done bad to most people but not to everyone. There are still people that have made their way into success by gambling. It's obviously not done by hardwork but rather luck. Gambling changes lives everyday but behind all these people that have become rich from gambling are the people who have lost so much money (and even their life savings). For example, in the link the first one has won $590M. That means people have lost $590M in the past and their money is now in the hands of this man. So much people have lost so much money just for this person's happy ending.

I thought it was only the other campaign? Nothing was mentioned about Varanida and there are people from the thread still wearing the signature so I'm just assuming that they are still getting paid?

People are lazy. That's all we have to think about to understand why are people becoming so delusional and think that they are going to make money out of gambling. Casinos were made for the casino owners to become richer, not for the players to take home the jackpot. In other words, the whole thing is programmed for you to lose. It's such a good story to be able to make money from gambling. You just sit in front of your computer and you are going to make money. Such story is so good, probably too good to be true. It is, indeed.

Poker has become like a sport like billiards. Money is involved but the whole thing is a combination of luck and your skill. The more skill that you have and the better you can bluff/manipulate your opponent into, ultimately, losing, then the better success you are going to have. But in gambling, in general, it's just impossible. Whenever you are gambling, the only time that you stop betting is when you do not have money anymore. When you're winning, you have no plans of quitting gambling. You might win now, and quit right away, but eventually you will go back to the casino and lose all those money that you have won in the past.

The only way to succeed in gambling is to be able to be at positive profit (win a bet) then never gamble for the rest of your life. On the other hand, going to positive profit can be really hard already. It's a lot harder to never gamble for the rest of your life again. Of course you can be at profit so high that even if you still gamble on other days, you will not lose all the profits that you have had in the past. But let's face it, not everyone's winning big. There's only a handful of them.

Instead of sharing your story here, you should have done something to get it back. Perhaps you withdrew the money in the past and you just forgot about it? It's really unlikely that your bank account is going to get hacked by some hacker. It's totally possible that your card was used by someone who has access to your wallet at home and used it to buy something online. You can always consult/ask the people inside the bank where did your money go. Perhaps even the transaction history of it, when and where did your funds go. If it was withdrawn, was it by you? You will know by looking at the timestamp and location of where it was withdrawn. There's so much possibilities that could have happened before you even consider that you were hacked because why would hackers target you in particular? It's also possible that there was just an error when you checked your card.

If you are sure that you're not at fault and it has an unauthorized transaction, you should have told them about it. They are probably going to do something about it. I know that they usually give it back (since they can make money out of thin air anyway AKA print as much money as they want).

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If not money, what makes people rich?

It's because they really don't have a plan on how to get out of poverty. Everyone's working and working but their salary's gone because of their lifestyle.

Again, it's because people have a lifestyle that they cannot afford. It's really funny because it's the regular employees and not the managers that are spending so much money on coffee (Starbucks).

This is exactly why there's such a service called wealth management. People who have won the lottery that are from a poor neighborhood will have a poor neighborhood's mindset. They don't think of the future and that their money is limited and is basically nothing in a wider scale. Funny because now that they have the chance to escape poverty, they just upped their lifestyle and thus lose all their money eventually.

I'm just gonna cut it here. In order to become rich, you need a business. Sure there are people that have become rich because of their job but it's probably because they are really really smart and good at what they are doing. But for a normal individual, you are going to need business. Money doesn't make a business succeed. If it did then no business should have gone bankrupt. You will need information on how are you going to run the business, how will it operate, where should it operate, etc. You basically need a business plan and information (or data) is needed for it.

Basically, money is just money and without any knowledge on what are you going to do with it, then you're going to lose it unless you hold it until the time that you're actually ready to start making money out of your money. If you just spend and spend, you will eventually lose it all.

Just because it's a digital currency, doesn't mean the government cannot control it. The balance in your credit card, debit card, or bank balance, they are all digital currency yet they are controlled by the government. Same as the funds that you have in your Paypal account. Your funds are held by a third-party company (Paypal) and at the end of the day, the government will still be able to control it. I think what you should have said is that bitcoin is a digital currency which is decentralized that's why they cannot control it. It has no central network and it is definitely owned by noone except the people that own the bitcoin (money) themselves.

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They have a new thread and sadly they just got full.

Yes as stated in the OP:
"You don't have to do anything, just update your profile once and grab the cash on a monthly basis!"

The only thing tho, they have the tendency to not respond for weeks so join at your own risk.

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Been eye-ing this campaign for weeks! Hope to get accepted, thanks!

The 2FA of your website is not working. I was about to join your campaign so I was trying out the website. I enabled 2FA, logged out, then logged in to check if it's working. Nope, not working. You can login even without entering 2FA even when your account has 2FA enabled. Another thing, what does this do?



After entering the 2FA, it gives that. AFAIK they are using that "enter 2FA code" so you can enable 2FA in your account since it confirms that you have the right Authentication keys but in your website, you can just toggle on/off the 2FA verification.

Does facebook have the time to check the authenticity of an ICO? Something can appear to be all authentic in the start but then still be able to run away at the end. A lot of ICOs here are like that. They are paying at the start and then later on the "buyers/investors" are actually just themselves and are going to dump the coin once it goes to the exchange. I'm pretty sure if there's a surefire way to validate the authenticity of an ICO, this forum will be the first one to find out about that and one of the first one to implement it. So much fake ICOs are making the reputation of crpytocurrency bad. On the other hand, people can always use fake names/fake accounts and remain anonymous to the world. This is the Internet, people can stay anonymous.


That means they should be able to hire someone who sees everything. Because there's no way they can filter out the legits from the non-legits unless they see everything. And even then, the plans of an ICO team to bail out/become a scam the moment they have finished their ICO can be discussed all offline.