Also, depending the price of the products many customers don't feel confortable in paying with bitcoin, because if they are too cheap like a tea cup, transactions' costs are going to be more expensive than the product itself. The initiative is good, though, and if seller and buyer use a same wallet/exchange provider, there can be the option to send btc from one address to another without paying fees, depending the service used.

You seem to have acquired some wisdom on this matter, congratulations. I can understand what you mean and I admire people who can differentiate the source of their inspiration. In my case, unfortunatelly I still haven't managed how to do this properly. I feel confused if it's my intuition of if it's my greed which are leading me in gambling. All I can do is to stop playing when I reach my limit. Regards that I have no issues, but I would like to be wiser on the aspect you mentioned to make my gambling sessions more productive and profitable.

When you develop genuine intuition you are likely to make profit more often and leave the table when things aren't favourable.

Isn't intelligence service of USA doing this since a long time ago without paying us anything, as Edward Snowden revealed? Well, I see no problem in earning 50$ extra bucks every month for something that is already happening behind the curtains. I think we don't have a choice, anyway. Even if you don't give your consent, it doesn't prevent you from being watched. It's happening all the time on the internet as you surf websites and watch videos. But if none of these intrusions existed and if we really had an alternative, I would prefer to not earn anything and to not be monitored.

That is good, as you started accepting bitcoin payments just now. It could be worse, as there are places where nobody has adopted bitcoin yet, besides the business owner who accepts it as payment.

Step by step these three customers will promote your shop and bitcoin at same time. This way, more and more customers will get aware about bitcoin payment method and some of them will give it a try too. If your business gets popular, I believe bitcoin will get popular as well in your area. Just as others have said, make the "bitcoin accepted here" announcement more visible, put it outside your shop, so everyone passing through the street will see it. And who knows, maybe doing some special promotions for bitcoin payments too? So you encourage people using btc as currency.

Right now it's the propitious time for those like you who are still building their bitcoin holdings or haven't started yet. There is still time for new adopters to acquire their first sum of bitcoin for a relatively cheap price before the next bull run begins. Profit opportunity is here, available for everyone. I would say any kind of investment in btc is worthful, doesn't matter if you have 5$, 100$ or 1000$. The important is to not waste the chance and buy bitcoin. People who are still in doubt should look previous scenarios, especially the 2018's bearish market and what happened from 2020 on. That is an inspiring scenario for undecided investors.

You can invest in stock funds which have bitcoin on their portfolio. Instead of purchasing bitcoin, you purchase paying dividends assets which invest part of their funds in btc. There are retirement funds which also use the same methodology. By contributing to a retirement fund which invests in bitcoin, you are also investing indirectly.

However, I don't see why to invest like this. With bitcoin you can cut every middlemen from your personal investments. You can have total control of your assets in your hands and 100% profit in the end, as you don't have to pay fees, taxes or comissions to the stock funds or retirement funds.

I believe such funds are more for people who don't have any informatics and internet knowledge, so they have to pay someone to invest for them.

To know how to limit your gambling activity by yourself and to know your own limits is the ideal, but not everyone is at this emotional and mental stage yet, so they need third party tools in order to help them keep their impulses under control. And it's very good gambling platforms are getting aware of the importance of responsible gambling feature and introducing it to their websites these days. It's an extra measure gamblers have by their side to fight addiction back, besides the account exclusion option they had since before.

I just think it shouldn't be so easy to activate and deactivate the feature. If someone activated it, it should be possible to deactivate only after a long time period. Maybe some months or a year...

I would stay away from anything related and connected to Alameda, FTX and SBF. We don't know how deep are their roots with the projects they are partnered with, so just for precaution avoid them, at least for now, until the dust settles. The lack of transparency from their side forces us to act like this in order to preserve ourselves and our funds in crypto market during the storm. Remember this mess started singly with Luna, and like a domino effect, it has reached the second biggest crypto exchange in the world, FTX. Who knows where it's going to stop...

Even on those days people weren't exactly giving free money, because faucets were sponsored by Google Ads which was a profitable source of income for faucet owners and allowed many of them offering decent rewards to users in satoshis. Sadly, the industry was instantly destroyed once Google banned their ads from every faucets. The secondary ads companies weren't enough anymore to keep faucets profitable for owners and users at same time. Practically every faucets of those old times were shutted off, with freebitco.in exception and maybe few others, while new websites were created, but under a new concept where users have to create personal accounts on every faucets sites, with login, password and email details. And rewards aren't paid directly to micro wallets anymore, because it takes too long to earn a single satoshi now.

Faucets have become worthless. But if it wasn't for Google ban, I believe faucets would be still a possibility nowadays for micro earners and newbies, as they were an alternative back then.

It's likely the bear market will end after next bitcoin halving. By there we have to remain patient, without despairing ourselves and losing hope in bitcoin, what can be hard for some investors, since we don't know if we have reached the bottom yet. In my opinion 2023 can be a stable or a bad year for bitcoin, but not a prosperous one. So hard times may still be ahead for crypto enthusiasts.

Anyway, the short term isn't to be trusted. Even if we were in a bull run, we could never make decisions based on what is going to happen soon. The goals in crypto universe must be drawn always thinking on long term, that is: period of time in years, and taking bitcoin's cycles in consideration.

Yes, it's much more convenient to not have to exchange crypto to fiat, so you avoid conversion and withdrawal fees. For someone who is actively working with crypto, dealing with bitcoin all the time it's great, especially if this person is coming from a foreigner country to Portugal, what must be the situation of many called digital nomads.

I imagine that to bring fiat from one country to another in order to settle yourself there as citizen is much more bureaucratic than bringing bitcoin.

Depending where he lives, an extra income of 100$ can be already enough to pay for his renting or food expenses, but definitely it isn't enough to pay the universit, unless he got a scholarship from the university itself or the government, so he has decent discounts on the monthly costs, installment payment, or doesn't even need to pay anything at all.

Yes, it's only 10% profit.

Actually, the investment is going on for 150 days already, at the moment that spreadsheet was completed. We had 5% profit after 120 days, and the last 5% profit made on the last month was only possible because FUN was locked for 3 months. So we can consider the 4,99% made from the last FUN sale corresponds to 1,66% monthly profit (4,99 / 3).

Opportunity doesn't come to everyone, you have to go after the opportunity, and even build it.

If I wasn't searching for opportunities would I have met bitcoin? Would I know about the existence of this forum? If I was laying on my couch complaining to myself how life is unfair and philosophizing why some are born with opportunities ready for them, while others don't, or if I was seated at the entrance of my house gossiping with the neighboors all day long and watching the pedestrians passing through I wouldn't be "lucky" to have this opportunity today, which still isn't the ideal, but it's already a beginning to persue something better.

But again, i'm persuing an opportunity that still doesn't exist and that I don't know if I will succeed in achieving it, but I must try. Nothing is ready and assured in my life. Don't put us as we were different beings. Your potential is the same of mine, since you work it inside yourself and start looking for solutions outside for your life.

Some rich live simple. Simplicity is a way of life. If you are really happy on this way, just continue. But here I'm not misunderstanding simplicity with poverty.

And be careful to not use catchphrases like this as crutches to not persue anything better in your life...

I hope you understand what i mean. I'm not against you, I'm trying to open your eyes.

Every bad events have a good side, since people have an open mind to learn with the mistakes.
After the scams involving the exchanges, enthusiasts started demanding for more transparency, and companies which want to thrive and keep operating will have to give what customers are asking for. That is a good thing.

I've learned the justice system is inapt and sluggish even in first world countries, so they can't give crypto investors any guarantees when putting money in the hands of centralized services.

Yes, Palmeiras' results were outstanding on the championship of this year. The club didn't give any chances to the other clubs to surpass them on the competition, and since we are talking about a very close championship that is going to start in April next year I think the scenario must be pretty similar.

There are no guarantees Palmeiras will win again, but just to launch an initial guess on the dark, they are the best pick among every disponible ones in Brasileirão.

Next step is a foreigner coach for the national team. Probably Jorge jesus?

I know it's my own fault. I don't blame others for the life standards I'm currently inserted on. And I know to have this conscience is the first step to leave the precarity. Everyone has difficults in life, but they can't become crutches to justify your failure, under serious risks of failing forever! Some people have born in poor families, some have to carry family members on their backs, some have diseases/disabilities, some live in dangerous areas, some are completely destroyed emotionally... But they have to overcome this. What other alternative do people have? To wait for a third party helping hand is just a hypothesis and those who chose to wait for it may wait for an entire life without results.

Well, that is what I'm trying to do. To change my mindset. To persue something better. To find enough strength and will to do this. To overcome challenges in a daily basis, ignoring the surroundings, the government and everything else which doesn't add and has never added anything in my life.

We don't know anything for sure anymore about the legitimacy of these exchanges. They may be in serious conditions due to a high volume of simultaneous withdrawals or they may be fine. However, it's not the first time we hear an exchange is going bankrupt, and nothing happened next. Some weeks ago it was Crypto.com to be pointed as a potential next bankupted company and they are still fine by now. The CEO said they had all users' funds stored and under control. The problem is that we never know when the CEO is being honest and when they are lying.

In every cases, if you can withdraw your funds from exchanges, do this. At least until all the rumours cease.

Personally I think it's hard for Binance to commit a big mistake like this, especially after pointing fingers to their competitors.

That is correct. Unfortunatelly when the casino accumulates a decent bankroll size by themselves they remove the investment feature for users, since they don't need external money anymore. I believe that is what happened with Crypto Games, which was the best casino for bankroll investment before, but suddenly decided to remove the feature.

It ends that we are left with the secondary platforms of the industry.

I'm satisfied with the results so far. I think +10% interest in less than 180 days is a good deal for a passive income investment. My only regret is to have gambled to earn cashback, imagining that would be profitable and ROI could be hit faster that way. I lost money doing that, so I gave up the cashback feature.

Another good point is that you can liquidate the investment anytime, since funds aren't locked, and retrieve the whole investment, with extra profit, due to btc being more expensive compared to FUN right now than it was on the moment of the initial purchase.