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2761  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥BITSLER > $10,000 DAILY Wagering contest < REFUND plan for Betking's players on: May 27, 2020, 11:49:09 PM
This is fairly common from time to time. Honestly there are times when people bet 0.10 BTC all day long and got like 50-100 BTC in losses and don't seem to mind it. Sure its alot of money but most likely this was some early adopter who might of mined BTC with their CPU back in 2009.

Remember a few days back when that dormant 50 BTC transaction took place? That guy signed about 150 other addresses he owned with 50BTC so >$50,000,000 or so. Probably could have more funds in other accounts.

Hence for someone with $50,000,000 of net worth, gambling away $50K is nothing. Its no different from a small gambler to gamble $200 and either win $200 or lose $200.
It is still a lot of money, even if you are a rich person that owns that much money. Just because you can afford it doesn't suddenly make it cheap. If Jeff Bezos plays with 0.1 bitcoin per bet and loses 100k at the end, that is still a lot of money. The exact reason is, gambling is more like fun thing, if you are super rich and don't mind losing 50k or 100k, that means you are not doing it for the money, but you are doing it for fun.

Especially when you are super rich your life becomes very stressful since how you made that money also causes you stress. So, having a relax time gambling looks like the main reason for them. However for 100k, you could have so much more fun somewhere else, it all depends on what you like to do but 100k opens a lot of doors and honestly I would rather do something else to relax and have fun instead of gambling for that much money. Personal differences of course, that is just me.
So, answer lies in your post. A lot is a little bit complex definition. If you have 100$, then 10$ may be a lot for you (10% of total budget) but if you have 100 000, then 10$ may be nothing for you (0.01% of your budget).
Another important factor there is how you have earned money. When money suddenly comes out of thin air (lottery wins, thousands of bitcoins mined in past and etc), then it's much easier to spend like nothing. That's why some people easily lose tens of bitcoins and even more easily.
Also if you are super-rich, you can even buy casino too and gamble with your money the way you wish + get them back Cheesy

jamyr
Once I had the same question about live statistics of wagering contest too and despite the fact that support was a little bit confused (maybe he/she was new), they didn't forget my question and the next day I got a detailed answer on everything.

rammy2k2
Bitsler rocks as usual.
2762  Economy / Economics / Re: Crypto is becoming legal in my country! Any business idea? on: May 27, 2020, 09:04:33 PM
Hello all,
Cryptocurrency is becoming legal in my country. The government will make some laws to regulate the crypto in my country in September (god knows what).
Is anyone here that can give me any businesses idea? Or our gold time will be over after that?

Thanks!!
I don't know where you live but you have to do some research around it. If you are from a small country, then it's far better for these purposes. In overall, analyze how is the demand on crypto in your country and what were people requesting/posting on forums in this category. Are there FB pages of crypto in your country? If yes, then check them and analyze given data that includes comments, answers and more.

In any way, if there are zero crypto business in your country, the best option is to create crypto exchange website but you may need a lot of money for this that includes creating secure currency exchange script, hiring a team of developers (or founding team) to improve your script, fix bugs and develop more features. Exchange is the best option if you are capable of doing it. Otherwise, it will be better to post how much budget you have and what you are capable of... It's very hard to give advice without this kind of information.
2763  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Bitcoin themed t-shirts? on: May 27, 2020, 08:29:32 PM
Hello every one, I'm going to setup a new store for t-shirt focusing mainly on Bitcoin. Will like to ask, did you ever buy some Bitcoin themed t-shirts? And if possible where? And what do you like most in a t-shirt?


I hugely doubt people will buy Bitcoin T-shirts and wear them in the streets. LeGaulois said correctly, just t-shirt with bitcoin logo won't be popular but on another hand, T-shirts with I ❤ NY and Supreme T-shirts were very popular and behind them, there is great marketing that requires a lot of money and believe me, it doesn't worth for bitcoin t-shirts.
I think it worths for you to check these articles: Why is Supreme so popular and this one - Some information about I love NY.

Also, bitcoin shirt, crypto fashion and related keywords have very low search volume in google (in USA and UK definitely) while competition is pretty high because of Amazon, Aliexpress and others.

You won't find any commercial success here, I remember user Condoras was seriously taking this job, to make crypto themed puzzles but as far as I know, it failed (check thread if interested).
2764  Economy / Speculation / Re: Do you believe that bitcoin will have a stable price in the future? on: May 27, 2020, 06:44:40 PM
I was thinking the same at some point but I realized that it won't happen. A lot of things affect bitcoin's price. Everytime there are some rumors, it had immediatr affect on people and as a result we get rise or fall in price. Also quite often there are a lot of hot news around it: Binance wants to buy coinmarketcap, particular exchange stopped withdrawal for a while, china plans to ban mining, transaction fees have increased and network is in stuck, cloud mining website was hacked and they took billions, there is upcoming bitcoin fork and etc, don't wanna make this list very boring.
As you see, each of similar news has huge impact on bitcoin's price and surprises happen very often. On another hand there are people who hate stablecoins and don't support them. Also bitcoin's unstable price is what attracts a lot of traders and so on.
So I don't think stable Bitcoin will ever happen.
2765  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2019/20 on: May 24, 2020, 11:45:26 PM
Very interesting article today in Marca: ''Barcelona's players feel under threat''.  Cheesy
Due to the current financial situation in Barcelona and falling revenues due to the corona virus, a large number of Barcelona players will be sold this summer.
It is unclear who is leaving and who is coming and the players are very nervous about it.
Source: https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2020/05/23/5ec8ec50268e3ec21d8b458d.html
My heartrate went downto normal when I read that:
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Only Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Gerard Pique, Frenkie de Jong, Antoine Griezmann, Lionel Messi and Ansu Fatu can be sure that their future lies at Barcelona next season.
Without doubt, N1 player who will be left in barcelona, of course, would be Lionel Messi. Then Antoine Griezmann, Pique and Ter Stegen. FC Barcelona is my favourite club, I love that Barcelona is more than just a club. Hope Jordi Alba won't be transferred into another team, I love this player too. Btw to be fair, I miss old good days where we had a chance to view Chavi, Iniesta, Puyol and others, just good old memories.
Btw usually I don't have enough time to watch live football matches and especially FC Barcelona matches so I am a little bit sad that I am missing a moments to see how amazing Messi is and how his dribbling skills conquers the world.
2766  Economy / Economics / Re: Continuous Printing Of Money Out Of Thin Air Has Never Being The Answer on: May 24, 2020, 10:12:19 PM
~snip~

Some may think that printing money is an internal matter of the US, which is partly true - but since the US economy is not something that can be separated from the world economy, the whole world is likely to feel the consequences of such actions. But the US is not an isolated example of such a policy, similar things are happening in the UK and the EU, although the amounts are much smaller, and citizens do not receive stimulus checks to their home addresses.
The most curious thing is that despite the fact that US is printing money like they breath air, it's value is gaining more and more strenght in some countries, paradox, right?

It is obvious that there are those who advocate this model of financing and those who are against it, but I think at least two things matter throughout the story : The first is that it is easiest to follow the line of least resistance (in this case printing money), and the second is that politicians are only politicians and not experts, so we cannot expect smart moves on their part. What they are doing today is likely to have consequences for future generations, but I think they can live with it - after all, no one lives forever and only history can judge them for their mistakes.
I wouldn't call politicians to these rundom people. Everyone who states silly statmenets, calls politicians to themselves. For me, politicians were Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and similar figures.
And we don't have economic experts or in overall experts in different fields, if you call youself an expert, then you mustn't be a minister of economics that's falling.

Cryptocurrency as Bitcoin can hardly become a solution on a global scale, such an idea does not fit into the current world order, and it would be foolish to expect any change in the near future on this issue. The world will continue to live by the old rules until the current system collapses completely, and then it is possible that a new, better and fairer system will emerge.
That's a question of time, when will current system collapse? Because technics and etc are going all against it. They analize our behaviors, what we buy and when, where we go, what's our basic health conditions (by fitness trackers) and so on.
2767  Economy / Gambling / Re: Primedice.com | Creators of Dicing 🎲 | 40 Billion Bets | 112+ BTC Jackpot! on: May 24, 2020, 09:52:57 PM
primedice and stake have the same owner? just curious.  Shocked
Once upon a time that was a question of the century but couldn't imagine if someone would ask this again.
Yeah, stake and primedice have the same owner and there is a big story behind it. Both of these websites share game dice but the reason why primedice is standing dedicated is that this is one of the first bitcoin dice game that was created and because of this website's story and it's ancient feelings it activates, they decided to leave this website on it's own and create another one, called Stake.com (yeah, nice and expensive domain) and make Stake crypto casino while keeping primedice dedicated by running dice only.
2768  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What to answer when asked "Can I make money mining bitcoin?" on: May 24, 2020, 09:32:00 PM
What do you even answer when someone asks "can I make money mining bitcoin?" I mean the answer for me is a clear "maybe". There's just too much things to consider imo, electricity costs, initial investment, maintenance (not very much but still has to be factored in), I guess what I want to ask is for some insight from someone that mines bitcoin, is there any bitcoin mining who can shed some light what is needed to make even marginal profit off of bitcoin mining assuming you don't live in places like China or Venezuela where electricity is cheap?

I ask just so that I can be prepared when I get asked this again, I keep hearing it and I hate it that I'm not prepared enough in this side of bitcoin as I've never personally mined crypto.
Sorry if I sound rude but that's really a silly question that someone can hear. What does it mean "Can I make money by mining bitcoin"? There are a lot of factors, it's not a thing where you can give a direct answer. Everything depends on electricity fees, current and upcoming price of bitcoin, price of mining equipment, quality of mining equipment, what kind of innovative ideas you have to cool your mining rigs, will difficulty rise or fall? And this list goes on and on.
But in overall, you can't make much money without owning a lot of equipments. Mining isn't as profitable as it was back in 2017.
2769  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Have a question about gaming developer idea on: May 24, 2020, 09:18:48 PM
hi i want to do a game that people play against each other by btc the question is it call gambling ? Should i have a gambling licese to run this kind of games? Im planning to do 1vs1 games for mbtc.. thanks for the help
Don't get wrong with me but if you still don't know whether you need license or not to run casino, then, sorry but this isn't your niche.
Btw what kind of game do you plan to create? Do you have that much knowledge to do this alone or do you have a team of developers? Just buying script online and then running a website isn't a business.
Definitely you need a gambling license to run this kind of games. On another hand owning a license makes you a little bit serious among users (no one wants to play on not licensed casino because of dangers that are associated with scams and etc.
2770  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Can bitcoin halving make cryptocurrencies reach all time high again? on: May 24, 2020, 08:40:38 PM
It's very hard to predict right now because situation is very different from what we were expecting in this world. I mean that no one though if there was covid, capable of causing lockdown in countries. So if someone was predicting in winter or earlier that bitcoin would go this or that way, means nothing now. There isn't full image of economic crisis that we may feel in near future so it depends on people's mind, there is two way: people may sell bitcoin to get money for their daily needs or people will only trust bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies and invest in it like a sight of starlight.
2771  Other / Meta / Re: Affiliate program as a signature ? on: May 24, 2020, 07:55:03 PM
Not sure where to post this but if my future service has an affiliate program this is ok to do a signature   campaign with in this forum right?
Signature campaigns put themselves affiliate link to track how many visitors from bitcointalk register on their website and what kind of activity they do (in most cases casinos do these kind of things along with bitly links). Also some signature campaigns let you to edit their signature and include your affiliate link while still getting paid and on another hand, there are some promotions in games and rounds where you put signature with your affiliate link and take part in their promotions.
OP I showed you a lot of examples, so don't worry.
2772  Economy / Gambling / Re: Blackjack.fun - PROVABLY FAIR Blackjack Accepts Dash/Bitcoin/Litecoin on: May 24, 2020, 03:53:33 PM
Meanwhile in blackjack.fun...

This week has been allot of winners.

Congratulations for all of you!                      
The top 10 biggest winners in last 7 days:

1st 1.31 BTC
2nd 0.54 BTC
3rd 0.31 BTC
4th 0.197 BTC
5th 0.189 BTC
6th 0.089 DASH
7th  10.6 Dash
8th 11 LTC
9th 0.051 BTC
10th 0.046 BTC


As some of you requested, we are planning to raise a maximum bet limit to 0.5 btc.


Kind regards,
Blackjack.fun

Good job, seems your website is becoming popular and like that people take part in competitions and are becoming active.
Btw I have some ideas and think it will be good to implement but hard, yeah, I know.
What about to create blackjack rooms? Where people will be able to play 7 against 1 (dealer). There will be rooms with different min/max bets and with different promotions. Some of them may have sidebet options and some of them - not. It will be better to become as close to live casinos as possible. A lot of people already know advantages of provably fair system and I guess it will turn into advantage for your blackjack too.
2773  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: how to compare between blockchain solutions for particular problem? on: May 24, 2020, 02:42:34 PM
Bitfury is the company that actively works on developing blockchain technologies. National Agency of Public Registry of Ministry of Justice, Georgia signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with Bitfury to implement blockchain technologies in this section and not only there.
So I guess it will be better to read similar articles, I'll link some of them:
1. https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/11_9_17_bitfury_presents_united_nationas_harvard.pdf
2. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/inov_a_00276
3. https://www.oecd.org/corruption/integrity-forum/academic-papers/Georg%20Eder-%20Blockchain%20-%20Ghana_verified.pdf
4. https://medium.com/bitcoinblase/blockchain-application-land-register-georgia-and-sweden-leading-e7fa9800170c

There are some informations from napr about this but that's not in English language. Still I hope that provided information will help you.
2774  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Miners are happy, while we suffer? on: May 24, 2020, 02:19:22 PM
Roger Ver, Bitcoin has 40x higher value than your bitcoin cash. Even XPR has gained more trust among users than bitcoin cash.
Bitcoin.com isn't reliable source of informations, according to them miner's revenue has doubled but in reality bitmover showed you perfect example of what rewards miners get from one block vs from collected tx fees.
Right now tx fees are divided into three part:
1. Most transactions are sent with 1-12 satoshis per byte.
2. Then comes transactions with 132-150 satoshis per byte.
3. And finally seems there are some people willing to pay more than 253 satoshis per byte.

It's not an alarming news but I think everything will fade away soon and fees will return to normal but they may rise again when price goes higher.
Believe me, miners aren't happy with current situation. They want bitcoin's price to rise rather than mining fees cause it's more beneficial for them and for crypto community in overall.
2775  Economy / Economics / Re: Is it possible to live without banks? on: May 23, 2020, 11:59:18 PM
Lots of people don't use banks.
I hugely doubt...

I haven't had a bank account in years. I've only had a credit card for a few years now. Before that I went years with neither bank account nor credit card. I keep my savings secure in Bitcoin and earn all my revenues and make all my payments and purchases in cash.
If you own credit card, you are in touch with bank, right? Or do you mean xapo and similar wallets? If yes, then such services belongs to banks too at some point. I wrote very small info about functions of bank above: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5250394.msg54486394#msg54486394

Where I am now, waiting out the covid-19 scare in a remote village in the Mexican jungle, absolutely no one uses banks. No one has a bank account nor receives nor writes checks. In fact there are no banks nor ATMs.  The nearest bank is almost an hour's drive away. I now own 6 properties here, including 3 houses, and all were bought with cash, except my first one which was bought partially with Bitcoin.
It's not right to discuss only from personal visions and examples cause they are hugely different from others. If you aren't getting ill for example, doesn't mean that illness doesn't exist.
When you want to start a business and need some money, what to do? If you need loan but everyone around you is poor, what to do? What to do when you have a lot of money and there are some people who need it? What about if there is something that offers you additional interest on it while benefiting borrower and taking all these risks of loan repayments on their own? I guess that's not a bad deal. There are other things why banks are bad.
2776  Economy / Gambling / Re: BITDICE.me - Crypto Casino 🎰 Now Accepting EOS | Roll Hunt | Bonuses on: May 23, 2020, 11:32:00 PM
I don't know if there is something wrong with me but when I tried to open slots on bitdice, it shows following text: "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension". I checked with different browsers and devices but same text again. Is there something wrong with IP location or does problem come from your side?
Idk how your slots but will be glad if you give us permission to play them without bitcoins or cryptocurrencies, to just play with some play money.
P.S your website works well but I remember, for ages, that left button on header that has to show us menu, doesn't work on smartphones.
2777  Economy / Economics / Re: Hedge Fund Manager Says Governments May Make Private Gold Ownership Illegal on: May 23, 2020, 10:37:10 PM
Why? Why to make such silly statement? In overall this guy and similar ones come here, some of them call themselves "economic experts" and we have still bad economics even when 'experts" take care of it. What kind of "experts" they are? Or am I the only one who can't perceive this word correctly?
Seems we will see Executive Order 6102 but V2.

How democratic is it when government tries to de-monetise something that I and millions of people own? They try to de-monetise things but not increase value of currencies. Good job!

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Grin
Governments banning private ownership of gold?OK,let's assume that this s*it happens.
The question is,who is going to find my gold,if I hide it somewhere? Grin The government?CIA?The police?
Most people are hoarding small amounts of gold,so hiding that gold would be really easy.
I don't even wanna write about the fact that governments confiscating private property is just communism.


Maybe if someone goes out with necklace, or bracelet, will be a victim and there will be a need of further tests to detect whether that thing contains gold or not.
2778  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you feel this pressure on physical gambling? on: May 23, 2020, 09:53:52 PM
In physical gambling (whether it's a big casino or just small gambling), do pressure on your opponents or playmates actually happen? Like for example, you only set a limited capital but since your friends still want to play, you will end up using all of your money. Or let's say in a casino, you have used all of your allotted money on gambling but since your opponent is winning and he wants to play more, do you exceed on your limit? Just because you don't want to look like you are afraid, that you don't have enough money already, and that you are losing?

Since I do online gambling, I don't feel this kind of pressure. I can stop whenever I want or when I have used all of my money. I don't feel embarrassed or what.





PS: I'm not sure if this topic already existed here and if there's I'm gonna delete this thread.
If you sey a limited capital but play with friends, doesn't matter whether in physical casino or on online casino, there will always be (possibly) pressure to break through this limit. Another actual pressures can happein in online casinos too, everything depends on your psychological conditions. When you think that you are playing to actual player, you may feel under pressure but when you know it's bot - you may not.
In overall, it's very individual task.
Psysical gambling and online gambling has much more differences than that one which includes chances of win (at some point it's really different), your skils usage may change in these situations (you can understand bleff of your opponent with mimics in real life but not online) and other things.
2779  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: HODLing is great but why not use Options to insure what you are HODLing? on: May 23, 2020, 08:08:33 PM
You could say the same with having a stop-loss order on an exchange.

But look. I somewhat get your point, but with some Bitcoiners here on Bitcointalk(or probably most?), we're not only here for the money. We're here for more than that, A LOT more than that. We believe in self sovereignty, and having total control over our money, which Bitcoin gives us hence why we hold them on non-custodial wallets and not on exchanges.

^And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Don't get me started into furiously ranting about governments and central banks.
Bitcoin turned into commercial business right now because businessman took their hands on it and when it happens, things get abused.
A lot of "bitcoin supporters" hodl bitcoin but is that right behavior? When you freeze money in your pocket in order to wait for futher price rise, when you stop circulation of money, I think that's not right. Holding only stops things from progress while circulation increases it's ability of massive spread. I know it may sounds hard to understand what I said but hope you understood what was the point there.
And my post isn't intended to start talking about central banks and etc, just about "bitcoin holders".
2780  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Signature campaigns and some discussion about seo on: May 23, 2020, 04:10:21 PM
Only owners of websites know answers to your questions. Probably even managers of campaigns don't know this information.

Without doubt, they know answer and are probably monitoring search engine rankings of their website but who knows, maybe some signature campaign managers are carrying this duty during campaign management and who knows, maybe some of them are willing to share this information with us?


~snip~

There is no way how signature campaign can move website into high place in Google search results.
I guess that's a typo?
Well managed signature campaigns raise brand awareness in bitcoin community, thus resulting in increased number of visitors on your website. Along with increased visitors from signature ads, your website's links are indexed with anchor texts on bitcointalk and this results in increased number of backlinks where some of them may be links with high URL ratings. Number of backlinks depends on how many participants you have in your campaign and how many posts they have.

With May 2020 Google update Backlink is no more important for ranking on Google search.

~snip~

Idk if I missed something but where did you get that info? I highly doubt backlinks aren't that important for ranking. Without page and url authorities google can't analyze content alone and do verdict whether this info is more relevant or not.
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