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Good news: I really believe you guys should be more marketing-oriented. There is a lot of competition out there and the lowest house edge on the market can't be successful alone in bringing new players (and new funds/investments).
You should dedicate some money to promote your site better and bring more people in.
But, by all means, warn players in advance when there's planned maintenance/troubles on the platform.
thanks
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Yes, and what you find below also reinforces it https://hacked.com/btcusd-gaining-momentum-chinas-bitcoin-ban-seen-backfiring/I mean this time looked a bit more problematic with the first announcements which sounded very hard. Now it looks like we are going to see a change. Either way, as you all know, bitcoin will die many times before its death. Back to business, we need to cross $4K again |
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Bitcoin (BTC/USD) prices are grinding higher this week on renewed optimism that the blockchain will overcome China’s latest regulatory crackdown. Prices continued to trade comfortably north of $3,900 at the start of Tuesday trading. Prices shot up nearly 7% on Tuesday, according to Bitstamp. The BTC/USD was last seen trading at $3,909.00, where it was little changed from its previous close. More @ https://hacked.com/btcusd-gaining-momentum-chinas-bitcoin-ban-seen-backfiring/ |
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I'm glad to confirm that my first payment is currently being confirmed on the blockchain.
Thanks
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I must confess something...
When I discovered Bitcoin about 2 years ago it blew my mind. I'm a scientist/engineer and my job is to design things, so I immediately understood the idea and its implications. Much like Andreas Antonopoulos's experience, I found myself skipping meals and forgetting to sleep while reading all a could find about it. I thought that this invention had the power and potential to change the world for the better. To help people. And I still believe that.
But something spoiled the dream for me. Greed. I was lucky enough to buy a good amount of BTC when they were worth 200 € each. I didn't plan it, it was pure luck. And then I found myself thinking about how much money I could earn, when I should sell my BTC and become rich (in a fiat setting), etc. I didn't care about Bitcoin "the world-changing invention" anymore, all I ended up caring was how much money I could make out of it.
Things are looking up, and my goal may be realised sooner that I thought, but is this a healthy goal? Are we all supporting or destroying Bitcoin by thinking like this? I see this greed in many people's posts here in the forum. It saddens me. Many here talk pompously and boasting how they're going to sell their stash when its fiat-based value reaches a set target. Is this all you see in Bitcoin? A money-making machine? Are we all failing to see the bigger picture?
Sorry for using WO to post this... I just wanted to get it off my chest.
Greed is good, comrade. Money is a requirement of life in this culture. Why would you have a problem with enhancing your life, the freedom you have and the things you can do? Is a Real Job™, where you essentially live as a slave, more attractive to you? If so there is nothing stopping you from living such a life. Having money simply gives you the option to not have to work if you don't want to, or to choose your work if you must have one. It's a good thing on all fronts. especially if work is a 9to5 monday to friday crap where the weekends are only to get rest or rekt ourselves so that we can start over and over again. "All in all, you're right. But the fact is we're all sitting in a big galley, pulling at the oars with all our might. You can't tell me different! . . . Sitting on nails and pulling like mad. And what do we get for it? Nothing! Thrashings and misery, hard words and hard knocks. We're workers, they say. Work, they call it! That's the crummiest part of the whole business. We're down in the hold, heaving and panting, stinking and sweating our balls off . . . " Louis-Ferdinand Céline what changed? |
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Shit man! I guess you were right  I mean I played for over a month without troubles and today I felt to write it down since you always get whiners and people complaining around here. I thought it could have been nice Anyway, site seems back up and running |
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We usually come to this thread to complain about issues, withdrawals not being processed and all the rest of it, but let me say something about SafeDice in the last month. Site has been working without glitches and gaming experience is back to normal. It looks like SD worked hard to solve what scared away investors and players. I was one of them, I left SD because it was not responsive anymore. Glad to be back and hopefully SD will keep on improving things.  EDIT: Site is down  The last famous words |
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Gotta admit this is out of my depth currently. Basically, what Litecoin has demonstrated is that atomic swaps is currently already possible with real coins hopping across actual blockchains, right? For now, am not sure if people would flock to atomic swaps especially with the added necessity of 2-2 multisig.
As it is, it's a struggle to convince people to come to a DEX. Have made a couple of test trades myself but volume is still too thin where I am (Counterparty).
Also, Lee says SegWit and LN are a must. But if atomic swaps are on chain, why is LN needed?
As per the quoted article Segregated Witness and the Lightning Network were used only for marketing purposes. It’s clearly stated that: Segwit has not been used and you don’t need no LN to do such atomic swaps. I don’t get why fooling readers by mentioning SegWit in the headline though… But, I mean, whatever the reason this cross-chain functionality is a great step forward. |
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I stay in crypto but often hedge into alts.
If you "hedge into alts" you don't know what you are doing. Alts always crash harder than btc when the latter goes down. I've learned this myself the hard way and I still have to recover my losses (if I will ever succeed). I should have simply stayed all-in on BTC and I could have been a much happier guy. As I always say, mistakes happen for specific reasons and I hope I've learned this time (for good). |
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I did not know the average monthly Russian wage was still so low (approximately 3,800 Rubles = $66 USD)! I supposed nothing really changed in terms of wealth after the end of the Soviet Union (the usual game "the rich get richer and the poor, well, you know that). I wonder if Putin is really Crypto-friendly as it looks like from his recent talks with Vitalik.
The should create a crypto innovation lab down there to gather startups and crypto-powered businesses.
Time stopped there
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There has been a slight 100$ pump tonight stopped as usual by the same selling mechanisms. It seems to me we are going to see these sideways a little longer. By the way, is it me or the silence around SegWit2x sounds extremely loud. September is almost over and November's approaching. I can't wait to see what the NYA will bring us |
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Bitcoin prices have been trading sideways for the last few weeks, moving within a reasonably tight range as many investors wait to see what China's regulatory environment will look like going forward. The digital currency's price has primarily traded below $4,000 since September 14, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The currency has suffered this malaise after surging to more than $5,000 on September 2 and then promptly falling back from that level. More @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2017/09/24/bitcoin-trades-sideways-as-investors-look-to-china/ |
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I think it would be great if you could pay your Taxi-drive with Bitcoin! U agree with me?
That is not a new story. There is already a post in this forum pertaining to a taxi company accepting bitcoin as fees for the fare. The poster was named Xester and his post tackles about a big taxi company in Italy and Rome that accepts bitcoin payments. But we have no more updates to that and I guess it is still the only taxi company in the world that accepts bitcoin as a fare. But it would be better if those services will be extended not only in Rome and Italy but rather on other countries as well. If it happens we can expect a huge spike in bitcoins value if it will happen in a mass adoption across the globe. I was on business trip in Rome a few days ago and I looked for those 3570.it italian white taxis that supposedly accept bitcoin. I booked a ride and asked the taxi driver about bitcoin while going to my hotel. Do you know what? HE did not know anything about it! I had to instruct him about what his company is (maybe) doing. At the end of the ride I couldn't pay with btc but I had to pay him with old fashinoed fiat money. Sad...... |
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johnsmithx are you a joke or what? You maybe do not even know what BurtW underwent a while ago because only an idiot would reply that way to him. You better keep your keyboard far away when you post something referring to him.
Unbelievable, really.
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I am not buying it sorry. Unless I don't read an official statement from Jeff The Bezos I will not consider this rumour true. We have seen many attempts like these in the past and I don't believe sources who read that on a newsletter.
It looks like pure market manipulation to me.....
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What annoys me the most is that bitcoin adoption is (unfortunately) bound to such services. The average Joe does not understand anything security related: passphrase, private keys import export, and so on. Bitcoin security is still light years ahead of all the crap we have been using but the only problem is always the same: end users
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Trading wise this weekend looks very slow. Volumes are very low, it looks like everybody is taking a break. As others are saying I also see some kind of bullish pattern developing. Hopefully the worst is behind us. This is a long march and only a few coins will keep up They do. People are fantasizing here, on the /bitcoin subreddit and even in news publications about 1,000,000$ /BTC prices.
How is that not a silly exageration? Now imagine Bitcoin is the new global currency. How many USD are there in paper + "virtual"? 5 trillion? Maybe even more? We all know that Bitcoin supply is limited to 21 million. Now the $1m/BTC forecast doesn't seem so crazy anymore? Where do we sign for this? |
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It looks like Jamie Dimon's time has come: his Masters needed a way to remove a once useful puppet. That's how it goes.
I can't believe one can be so stupid: one can't say all that stuff not knowing one's clearly manipulating the market in which JPM is in.
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Researchers from Positive Technologies recently showed Forbes how, using only a name and a phone number, hackers are able to compromise someone’s Google account, and use it to get to that person’s bitcoins or bank account. Hackers can do this using a flaw in the global telecoms network, that affects what’s known as Signaling System No. 7 (SS7). In a demonstration video, researchers were able to take control of a Coinbase account and do whatever they wanted to with its funds, via an SS7 flaw. Taking into account that Coinbase has over 10.4 million users, a lot of bitcoiners are at risk. More @ https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/stealing-bitcoin-with-a-name-and-a-phone-number/ |
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I probably would not be hanging out with you guys, here in these threads, if I were to have anything approaching 2k in coins...
I'm not sure what you mean by that ? I'm sure there at least a few folks with at least 2k coins posting in this thread... Even retired living on a catamaran in Tahiti I would check in on this thread. I find that between all of the arguments and general banter there is a good sense of what is going on in the Bitcoin world here from many different perspectives. Especially with regard to large price movements. It may not be the most accurate but it beats searching the Internet trying to see if people are reacting to one single thing or what is going on. The rest of the forum is shit due to signature campaigns. Reddit is comparable as the shitty threads can be downvoted. I tried following #bitcoin on twitter and it's just filled with ads. The Bitcoin world is as fast as its price movements. I agree that this thread is one of the best to get a sense of what is going on out there. Who post in this thread usually adds a lot of value to every bitcoiner who wants to touch base with the news. Especially during the summer, when I did not have much access to the internet this thread was the only one to keep me posted about all that happened. I'm actually grateful to all of you guys that contribute here |
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