Probably because the phone calls are made from official banks' numbers.

Here in my country similar scams happen, but not involving cryptocurrencies and not involving the comission requirement.

Instead, scammers tell the victim they are the manager of his bank's agency and that his banking account was hacked, therefore they need their debit/credit card and every personal details to revert the transactions made by hackers and retrieve the money.

So they send a motorcycle messager to the victim's address (in the name of the bank), and tell the person to give him the card inside an envelope, addressed to the local police officer.

Target victims are usually elders, and they really trust the bank is trying to help them, since the call comes from an official number, as we can check on Google.

I don't know if scammers use top tier technology or if the schemes happen with the participation of banks' employees, though.

Regards Celsius it must the own scammers using depositors' funds to pump their token. They have been doing it since always and now they have the permission from the court to continue using creditors' funds as they wish, to run their scammy company.

That is an attempt to fake a demand for the token, expecting investors will fall for this bait, what I highly doubt at this time.

Anyway, they don't care. It's not their money they are wasting...

People bet on such entertainment awards knowing it's a matter of personal taste from the judges involved, so I guess it doesn't need to be forbidden. Gamblers who don't feel confortable betting on Miss Universe and Oscars, since they belong to the same category, can just avoid it. But for others, like movies' fans and people from the beauty industry it must be funny to practice their prediction skills in areas they have a lot of knowledge.

People who can't hold for long periods of time must be really in a hurry for money, so they have no alternative besides selling their Bitcoins at loss. But if they really need the money, we can't blame them for doing this, because it can be worse if they keep the holdings, but neglect a financial demand they face, especially if it's something related to their health and safety.

Patience is the key for success in Bitcoin investment, although without spare money, solely patience won't open any doors...

Aptos has its roots on the centralized Facebook's Diem, which was discontinued and became Meta later. Both of its main developers were part of Diem.

So you can expect it's a project which has the sympathy of the mainstream technological world of investors. They have wealthy investors and huge money potentially coming in.

I think Aptos still haven't reach its full potential price and it could be profitable to invest on this currency aiming the next bull run. On the other hand, since it has come from a failed project (Diem), there is already a history of failure which doesn't bring good luck to the investment, besides being also attached to SBF from FTX, who led a raise of 150$ million for the project last year. I believe projects which are connected to negative people aren't good opportunities, because they don't bring stability and reliability to investors.

There are so many crypto gurus and wealthy gurus in general on Youtube. It has really become a very suspicious place to find financial advices. It's so easy to fake a life of richness and success in videos of 10 minutes. Here in my country a scammer financial advisor took a homeless from the streets, who got famous for a depraved situation which gained notoriety on the media, and put him to trade Bitcoin with binary options. Then he recorded videos with this homeless, who claimed to be making 1800% profit trading daily for just one hour.

Then exhibited a hypothetical high middle-class apartment purchased for the homeless (through "Bitcoin trading" profits), a lot of ostentation in parties, shops and trips...

Everything faked and probably sponsored with money stolen by the scammer who managed the homeless. In the end, once the homeless' hype was over, the manager just kicked his ass and now he is back to the streets begging.

That is all we have to do to handle losses without further consequences. If you stick to a fixed bankroll, you don't have to worry, because once that money is lost, you know your gambling session ended and you will start a new one only next week, with another limited fixed budget. For gamblers having difficult to stop playing, it's better to never deposit more than the amount they set to use for the week, otherwise they will feel tempted to continue wagering with extra funds, even after losing the pre-determined amount.

I know Stake casino has a "vault", where gamblers can store their money, so it won't display on their balance. It can reduce the temptation a little bit, but if it's still not enough, it's really advisable to deposit only the amount which is going to be wagered on the week.

The employer must ask for recommendations and references from previous employers before hiring the candidate. Some educational background must be also needed in some cases. The fact is that most of those side jobs involve a lot of responsability and commitment. Family assistant has a lot of tasks to complete and can be decisive in a family's routine. It has to be a dynamic, energical, attentive and smart person to fulfill that spot. The hourly payrates are huge! My doubt is for how many hours someone can work as a family assistant. If they can work for 8 hours daily, it's almost 200$ a day! Here in my country people work almost an entire month to earn that amount.

Indeed, the biggest one is in Texas (AT&T Stadium in Arlington) and support almost 100,000 people! What games must they be going to play there, finals, maybe? That is huge, but personally I wouldn't go to a stadium like that, because the more overcrowded a building is, the more dangerous it's going to be in case of emergencies. Imagine if people have to leave the place instantly the turmoil, chaos and despair around.

You probably have seen a considerable number of threads from retail sellers on this forum section sharing their personal experiences when adopting Bitcoin as a payment method for their businesses, especially in Nigeria. So yes, it's a good a way to promote BTC to potential new adopters who have never heard about it before, or have heard, but have no clue on how to start dealing with the digital currency.

If you have spare time to teach and guide your customers, it's really a good idea. This way you will also be helping Bitcoin adoption to grow, consequently boosting BTC price even more.

You don't need to lock FUN to receive premium benefits. It's just that premium program doesn't start working immediately. You will start receiving rewards after 24 hours you deposited or acquired FUN in your account.

Locking FUN only relates to the staking program, which is another thing.

I'm glad you enjoyed! Thank you!

I understand your frustration, which is quite common when investing in altcoins. That is actually the reason why I avoid such investments.

However, what motivated me to acquire FUN isn't its growing potential, staking or even extra WoF spins, but raised interest rates on Bitcoin balance.

If you have a decent amount of BTC invested in freebitco.in, to hold some FUN becomes more interesting, as you can see on the monthly spreadsheets.

12,500 FUN gives you access to the best cost-benefit premium program tier.

Well, you can also let the daily spins stack up and use all of them at once, with a single click. Some users are saving almost 1000 spins already to roll at once.

Anyway, it's just one feature of the premium program. The interest paid on BTC balance works exactly like a bank, although a bank has guarantees crypto websites lack.

Sometimes I just give up when I see the AI isn't understanding what I mean. But I still try changing one word or another on the prompt before. I've never gone too far like 25 renders. I usually go until 4-5 attempts, although many of the results in OP were achieved in one try.

Here it always render pretty fast. I think I've never waited more than 3 minutes. It worths mentioning there is something called "fast" mode. By acquiring the subscription you have 15 hours of renders on this mode. After that, your prompts join a kind of row, where you have to wait other people's renders (in fast mode) to complete first, until you finish yours.

You can ask any doubts in Discord MJ server itself. There is a specific channel for this kind of doubt and people there are very helpful.

Yes, as you can see my Neanderthal on the last image has 6 fingers. Still realistic, but MJ doesn't know counting fingers with precision.

Indeed, a subscription is a must. Paid 30$ on the second tier for a month.

Added to the personal experience of @Kryptowerk, I also wrote mine. I hope it clears your doubts out, @kryptqnick.

I risk saying it won't. It's just a personal prediction which can be right or wrong, but it doesn't look like Bitcoin can retreat to that point anymore, unless another FTX scam happens this year.

Even during its worst moment last year Bitcoin didn't fall to that price range.

I'm being careful with such chaos' prophets, because they can be actually whales manipulating other investors. So you wait BTC to hit 14,000$, it never happens and they buy the dip as soon as BTC hits 16,000$-18,000$, which immediately returns to above 20,000$, and you stay out of the party...

I decided to move the topic to gambling section, as it was suggested to me months ago, so more people can get aware of the experiment, on the contrary of Securities section, which isn't known or visited by most forum members.

Moreover, it's part of an investment at a crypto casino platform, so I think it also fits here.

It's also the first time I'm hearing this, but a casino which cares for its reputation will answer any questions and solve any issues doesn't matter where. If gamblers have this channel of contact (bitcointalk forum) as a reliable website to find reviews and support, so better that casinos come here to talk to gamblers on their questions and complaints. And even if a member of the forum gives a red trust to the casino, although they solved the problem, they shouldn't stop posting here for that reason, because it will look shady for other members who might come futurely with another accusations.

Why do they win when price stay below 17,000$?

Today has started with a nice new fluctuation above the 21,000$'s line. Let's see if the wall you say will be kept by whales, preventing BTC from breathing above the resistance level. I like to see the day begins on bullish mode!

Alright. Thanks for clarifying.

The Metaverse concept is nothing new. It has been present in movies since many years ago, and it's probably part of human's imaginary since centuries ago. The point here is that this keyword was taken to create a hype during the last bull season in crypto market. We heard about Metaverse everywhere, and even Zuckerberg from Facebook showed interest for it. However, like in most crypto hypes, nothing concrete was done to deliver the final product Metaverse to the enthusists. It was solely used to pump some projects and make some developers and speculators profit.

And it really couldn't be different, since we still lack technology nowadays to create a realistic and immersive Metaverse. Of course this concept isn't dead and we will still hear about Metaverse futurely, but I believe you shouldn't expect anything magnificent soon.

I formed my belief based in Bitcoin's progress along the years. There is also the theorical part, but a theory is nothing if it doesn't work for real, and in Bitcoin's case it has really worked on practice, as we can clearly see the digital currency's potential on long term since the beginning. Now my belief is based not only in history, but also on the characteristics which are exclusive of BTC in crypto market: it's the first original crypto among all, truly decentralized, creator didn't want personal status and popularity for himself, remaining anonymous, limited and scarce supply.

This is an accurate definition of a good gambler. Someone who takes responsability for their acts and won't cause any prejudice to others because of his own actions. Besides gamblers who blame others for bad situations they face in life, there are also those gamblers who steal money from close people or even strangers on the street in order to maintain their gambling routine. This gambler's category is the worst in my opinion, because they can completely screw up someone else's life, especially if the person is emotionally connected to the gambler and can't take severe action against him.