Bitcoin being decentralized is very volatile in nature. Anybody can buy and sell howsoever they want.
The freedom to control your own money was clearly shown since bitcoin was created. So nobody else but all of us are controlling the bitcoin market.
Basically, it depends on us. It depends on how much we buy and sell at a given instance.
But there are some influencers who influence other people to buy and sell their coins which triggers a manipulative market these days.
Over time their influence over people will decrease and the market will mature.

This story looks total shit to me. OP received 3.8 BTC from someone a year ago and wants to send it back now.
He doesn't have access to his primedice account but still has the BTC which means he would have probably withdrawn it to his wallet.
Why did OP choose to withdraw the coins while he could have sent it back right away.

Also, anyone can impersonate as the sender and contact OP and ask him to send the BTC to him.

I think OP is inspired from EZ0010 story of being honest so that he could receive some merits on his new account.
I clearly see it as a way to earn merits.

I think gambling in the gaming industry and metaverse will be the next big move. May be they might collaborate into something huge.
Gaming in the metaverse is already taking it by storm. So I think there might be games in the metaverse which will support in house gambling as well.
We might be able to choose our avatar and play games on the metaverse with real coins and do gambling with it.
It might be the next big thing but not until the next 5-8 few years.

It's quite simple for me. New casinos tend to offer many bonuses/discounts/free spins/rewards when they are launched newly.
So taking up those initial rewards helps us gamble for a while on that new gambling site. With that experience I make up my mind whether to continue or not.
Most of the times I tend to end up playing in my favorite sites alone but I have found these sites the same way.
Basically, I play on the gambling site until it is providing me a good experience of gambling.

That is pretty much the same for me as well. Since I used to gamble a lot last year it made me learn many things.
I had committed many mistakes in the past which helped me in limiting my losses in 2021.
So it was a pretty good year for me when talking about gambling and I think the same will happen in 2022 as well.

Lotteries are as addictive as gambling because if you buy lottery once then you will probably buy it again in the hope of winning the grand prize.
The failure in winning the lottery triggers our inner emotions to keep trying again and again making us addictive towards the grand prize.
So I would say this is the same as gambling and we should try to have a self control and limit ourselves from buying these lotteries.

I personally don't care if it is Elon Musk or a random guy who says he thinks who Satoshi might be.
If any person claims to be Satoshi then the only way to prove the ownership over Satoshi's identity is to sign a message using Satoshi's keys.
I wouldn't trust any other way of verification because anybody can claim he is Satoshi.

Happy new year to everyone on the bitcointalk forum. 2021 has been a roller coaster ride. I wish 2022 gives us all subtle gains.
For 2022 my top 5 coins to keep my eye on would be BTC, ETH, SOL, FTM, SAND.
The first 4 are my favorite coins out there. I am not sure about SAND since I have just started following it a day ago.
But if things go right, it might be in the top 5 in my portfolio.

I am not sure if metaverse is a bubble or not because it is in a very early stage. Just like bitcoin the famous coins of metaverse like SAND and MANA have recently pumped up a lot.
Many people are thinking that the price has pumped very much and it might be a bubble but we have seen BTC rise from less than $1 to $69000.
So we can't really say if it is a bubble or not and at least not for the next few years.

What are you talking about ?
I think you mean bitcoin didn't reach $100k price per bitcoin and you though every December would result in a bull run.
Since you are relatively new in the crypto sphere you are having these misconceptions.

It's not necessary that every December would result in a price pump. You should see the charts and see how 2018 and 2019 were.
The long bear market was really heart wrenching and it shows how it's not necessary that price pumps occur every end of the year.

As for the speculation of bitcoin price reaching $100k per bitcoin it will reach someday or the other.
May be in 2022 or in 2023. We never know but it will.

I don't think there was any news about FUN token recently. BTC and other altcoins also had a minor pump today.
So may be it's just a normal price increase due to the end of the year.


Just a few more hours brother. Seems like $45k - $50k is the range BTC will land upon this time.

Did anybody notice that the price of FUN token pumped up to 34 sats per coin. I checked yesterday or may be the day before and it was just at 25 sats.
So that's an increase of 36% in just 24 - 48 hours which is really amazing. Honestly I didn't expect such a growth but I am more than happy for it.
I wish we see FUN token crossing 100 sats in 2022 

Keep reading various kind of scams and hacks on the internet and you will find out how to identify an obvious scam.
Anything that is too good to be true is an obvious scam. Some scams are hard to find out and you have to trust your gut feeling for that.
You need to have a scammers mind to identify a scam. The best way to stay safe is to invest only in fully trusted assets.
For example: Instead of investing in new coins invest in established coins like BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL etc...

That's exactly what I had in my mind. It doesn't really matter if that person is a Newbie or a Legendary for what we know he might be the oldest person on the forum who just created an account and got the Newbie rank. It is mostly on how the person is from the inside. That person had a good heart which made him refund the money back.
That is a normal behavior and we shouldn't be surprised of it. In fact we should be proud that our forum still has many good people in it who are there for others in need of it.

I think buying assets which beats inflation and also gives us profits is becoming the new norm these days.
People are becoming more aware these days and are investing into various assets.
There are less number of people these days who would prefer to stack their savings in bank accounts.
Even the fixed deposits are hardly near 5% - 6% which shows how inflation is overtaking savings account interest rates.


Of course not. We are definitely not back to normal and I think we will never be.
The simple reason is because the government has rained a lot of money into the economy.
This is creating an inflationary effect and will probably will not be ever recovered.

From the latest news that I read on the internet Mike Tyson was asked a question whether he would fight one of the Paul brothers.
In reply Mike Tyson mentioned hell yeah and it confirms that he would be fighting Paul.
I though the fight was scheduled in February 2022 but I think there is no specific date mentioned as of yet.

For the casino owners it is just pure business and a way for them to get good profits for their business since gamblers eventually end up losing all their money.
Gamblers get a false hope that their next bet will be a win and get them profits. While this does happen a few times but most of the times it is the opposite.
The addiction is obvious because the greed increases in gamblers making them place frequent bets.
You are right that gambling is just meant for enjoyment but at the same time gamblers should consider the amount needed for that sense of enjoyment.
They should keep a budget for their gambling needs and only play within their capacity to lose.

You definitely didn't bet wrong this time. $40k - $45k is a solid bet for the current cycle but I do hope you had also placed a bet in the $45k - $50k range as well.
The current price is at $47k and looks like there's a good support at $46k but if you are indeed lucky then you might get a good multiplier in the sub $45k range.


That is indeed rare these days. It has been months since I have won anything outside double digit rewards.

Price predictions are a myth in my perspective and it all boils down how to probability of bitcoin price reaching that particular price.
Machine learning and AI are just technologies which humans have developed and if they can predict bitcoin price then humans can too.
But that isn't the case. We haven't seen any person claiming 100% accuracy while predicting prices and it's all just a speculation.
If there were such ML and AI bots who could predict prices then everyone would be following it and getting rich.

This year was really great for me with bitcoins. I was able to use some amount from my bitcoin holdings and get into real estate.
The next year though I plan on to accumulate back the amount of bitcoins I used to get into real estate.
So my expectations are that bitcoin will take a dip in the first quarter and then start pumping throughout 2022.
Other than that, I expect bitcoin being widely adopted than in 2021 as more number of merchants, institutions start accepting BTC.