Nothing is going to happen except maybe a price raise due to a speculatory bubble.

Look at LTC in 2015.


Can you guess when the halving happened?



Can you notice any change? There has been no long term change since then, and the price is about the same as it was during the halving almost a year ago, on August 25 2015.

The only currencies for which an immediate effect are seen in price are those like doge which are extremely susceptible to pumping due to lower market caps.
BTC is going to go on as usual, the only people seeing a difference will be the miners.

Even then you should not directly put BTC into steam. Steam wallet funds are worth less than paypal/BTC so you can get like 10-20% off.
For example, you can buy CS:GO keys for around 1.9 to 2$ in BTC and sell them on the community market for around 2.5$. Or buy skins from bitskins.com too.

The sad part is that if you buy CS:GO keys (1.9-2$) or skins from BitSkins and resell them on the steam community market, you get funds for 10-20% off.
Maybe if steam introduced this earlier, people wouldn't have begun doing this, but now that this way exists.... I doubt I'm going to directly buy steam funds with BTC.

How to check if your gift card is usable!

Go to the subscription page of any streamer, for example:
Open this link: https://www.twitch.tv/products/catonmarz/ticket/
(It is twitch, a very well known streaming website)

Choose any number of months.

Then on the payment screen click "Show more methods"

Change country to "United States"

Choose "100+ gift cards"



Check if the list has your card type. If it does, enter the card details, and choose "Check balance"


This will not use your card, and will only check it's balance.
This is done by a trusted third party, and not by me.

D4rkwizard gave no information at all about how much it earns or whether it has worked for him lol   
And neither have you said how much can be expected per day except for just "very very wealthy"...
Any indication if it is even worth the 30$?

I found something really interesting looking at the "sample" he provided.
The cells of the spreadsheet each have a username followed by a semicolon followed by an unknown hash.

If you search the usernames, you'll find that almost all of them are bitcointalk users.... and I couldn't find any of them on localbitcoins so far.
Anyone have any ideas on why someone would have gone through so much effort and made a list of bitcointalk users instead of localbitcoins users while scamming?

Hi, do you sell any types of gift cards for under 50% of face value? If so, can you tell me which ones they are?

Depending on your rank in CS:GO, you may be able to get a better deal/faster on epicnpc.com (BTC and Paypal)

You can get between 10$ and 30$ for most low-medium ranks.

The problem I see (other than the fact that people are not too likely to take this offer) would be the question of: how can we know that the weight loss is real.

You could have hypothetically taken a picture 6 months ago and have lost 75 pounds until now. You could then just show the pictures and boom, win.

Secondly, super long term bets of like a year are again, unlikely to be taken. One party is likely to leave before the time span.

If you really want to incentivise yourself to lose weight, try stickk.com. If you don't lose the weight within the timespan, your money will automatically be donated to charity. You'd be betting against yourself, and still get the motivational benefits of having your money on the line.

Since the purpose was to highlight when a link to bitcointalk.org s safe, instead of making all non-bitcointalk.org links red, they could even try to guess which links are attempting to phish bitcointalk.org....
For example, any link with bitcointalk in its text which does not direct to bitcointalk.org would have red hover text maybe.

No longer need it, may need it in the future and will reopen this thread.

I want to buy a twitch subscription, but they no longer accept BTC. They do, however, accept Gift cards.

Looking to buy:
Subway
Burger King
Best Buy
Target
Walmart
Star Bucks
Gamestop
and many many more types.

They do not accept Ebay/Amazon, so I will not accept those for sure.

Please reply here or PM me if you are selling pretty much any gift card for under 50% BTC value. I'll check if it works.

I'm looking to buy between 10$ and 50$ depending on the price you can offer.

EDIT: Additional info:
I will not go first unless you have some degree of trust or have vouches for selling giftcards before.
I don't really want to go through the hassle of using an escrow, but will if necessary.

What!? It would be terrible advice to tell a gambler who has just lost 600$ to go and try gambling more to win it back.

Added on Skype, I'm interested in buying a Starbucks gift card of the minimum value possible.

Yes, I can verify for sure that it is not a scam, but it may not earn as much money as advertised.
I'm 100% sure it will earn you more than the initial money you pay to buy the guide (lol only 10$!?), and I can see it getting you 20-30$ easily in a few days, but I think that as you sell it, the market for this specific item will get saturated.

It's not that anything can happen.

In your case, where the client seed is same, it is possible that you can hypothetically be scammed.
But in digaran's case, you can manually check the provably fair and see that it was provably fair and understand that if he correctly randomized the client seed, it is provable that the server had no way to cheat.

Alright, I have tried the method a bit.
The steam market says that the item's volume is under 20 a day (exact value hidden).
I will make around 40-50 cents in profit per item if the sales go through. I could likely increase this to 60-70 if I waited longer and searched for better offers, but the steam 15% market tax takes out a chunk.
Overall, I think if you were the only person doing this, you could earn around 10$ a day at maximum. Considering that others may be doing this, 5-7$ a day seems more reasonable.

Not sure if OP's claim of 20$ a day is true, but this method works to get around 5-7$ a day and takes a relatively short amount of time.

Vouch copy received.   
The method seems rather easy to use, but I'm not sure if it will be able to reach the volume you had claimed and it seems that it could easily get saturated.
I'm currently trying to get the stuff to try it out, I'll get back to you in a few hours on whether this managed to work.

You tell us that you will not play your own game. Why are we to believe you?

Just because one company asks for 33%, that doesn't imply that 20% is low.
Just-dice and primedice ask for 1%. Will you give us a rate under 1%?

This game goes against all the provably fair technology that has been developed in Bitcoin gambling, as there is no way for you to be able to prove that everything isn't rigged.

I just said that I cannot review this product

If you look at the private message I sent you, you will see that I have listed some requirements that I do not have.
I can post the requirements that I do not have here, but I wanted to keep the information you sent me as confidential as possible.

I'll tell you an amazing service that used to exist but stopped.

Snapcard.io is currently a wallet website, but used to be something completely different.
It has a bookmarklet which you could click on any webpage and then choose an item on the page that you wanted to buy.

It would take you to a snapcard.io payment page where you would pay the price of the item + a small fee. They would have a wide array of payment methods available and would hence buy the item for you and accept your BTC.

It was just amazing. It would work for anything, steam wallet, amazon, ebay, etc. And would allow you to spend Bitcoin on pretty much any online site without them accepting Bitcoin.

If you can somehow create a service like this again, I'll be your first customer