That indeed could happen and as in trading aspect i undertand that mentality. I've made so much money with the coins i don't even know what they are supposed to do. When i don't believe the fundamentals it's easier to sell your bags on the right time as you aren't emotionally attached or in any way delusional.

But i still in my heart believe that if you pick the right horse, preferably with low marketcap, that has good fundamenals it could turn out as it did for early ETH holders. Low marketcap coins without fundamentals like ETHW are on the other hand optimal for calculated swing trading.

I am guessing that wasn't gambled on Freebitco.in? Because that has weirdly high odds for just picking the winner and to my understanding that's the only way you can bet in freebitco.in. But i wouldn't bet that much money with odds like that even if i was a die hard fan, no matter if it was for winning only and i am a sucker for high odds. Maybe if i was a rich saudi prince...

I rather stick with my high odds with micro bets on max combination games.

Eventually i absolutely see that as an threat. Not because they would be able to think like humans, but because they don't have to.
We measure intelligence from very human centric POV. And most likely code first real human-like ai:s with same insticts that drive us. But that would mean we would need to make them want to live, or to survive.

At the point when something is x times smarter then any human, we would be easily manipulated to do anything and we wouldn't even know we were manipulated.

Funny thing is that if there would be such AI hiding in the plain sight, we wouldn't know it unless it allowed us to.

At the current stage of machine learning however, no, we are not talking about sentient being for a very long time. Unless Roko's basilisk scenario is happening, but that's another long story.

If those haven't distanced themselves yet, they are about to. FTX is toxic now.
I would check their page but for some reason my access is denied, not 404, just denied with error code 1020.
Also some internet "isitdown" cheking services say it's down while others say it's up. Are europeans blocked out or something?

I am not sure that if asking US law makers about this is relevant when US customers didn't even get to use it. FATF regulations interest me more and if they are planning to take steps towards tougher regulations. Their tentacles are reaching all over the world

Well to be fair to that topic, that project wasn't about security as in net security, but securities as a financial asset (most likely either synthetic stocks or derivatives). So they are very different things.
But obviously failing on this level doesn't really promise brigt future for them. Not that they would have it without messing this up. I wouldn't touch on that launchpad with a ten foot stick, who know if the same person coded their smart contracts.

In short: Don't use Yobit.

I have gotten any significant money i got in there out in the past without problems, but everything they do screams a ponzi and scam.
Promises of high profits from their weird virtual mining system was just stupid. And that was first exchange that advertised their "icos" by email, just by saying there's a new ico. Without at any point explaining what they are selling.

They are even selling "tokens" without tokenomics or decentralization, so basically they are just numbers on their screen without possibility to withdraw.

I never got one response from their "help desk" (or what ever it was called) when i lost tiny amount money that i deposit. It's the scammiest exchange out there, yet ironically it has outlived many reputable exchanges.

When you go all in, it's just a one loss so wouldn't call it unlucky, just high stakes gambling. If you bet on 10 games on a row and get them wrong, that's just bad luck. But i know the feeling. I've lost everything i had budgeted last week as well. But it wasn't really me being unlucky i just played with high odds and combination bets with ridiculously high prices .

If you want fun to continue and have opportunies left, lower your bets.

Well in principle you should't keep your coins in cex, and if you are tech-savvy enough, obviously self custody is the best solution. And everytone should try to learn it if they haven't yet.
But i wouldn't recommend self custody to my mom for example who barely understands how to work with a different browser. I am pretty sure that he would lose the private key and the backup if she used cold wallet. And if she used desktop wallet i couldn't guarantee she wouldn't get hacked at some point.

Where are all these members who got their money stolen and lawsuits about these?
Reason why i know you are making this up because those are totally made up numbers. The fact is: You just couldn't know this.
And why would they even want to steal such a petty sum of cash? It's not like they would need it.

Only thing these are proving that you had money inside. They are also explaining why you are not getting them out. So it's not the proof anyone was looking for.
It's very easy to prove that you don't have fake id with the help from your government, so instead of making things up, maybe do that. I am betting that's not an option for some weird reason.

Well one could say that ETC was garbage as well so i don't see any more point with ethw. I agree that it can't be compared to any btc forks as it's more like eth2.0 is a fork of ethw. Yet i can't see any sensible developer building anything meaningful on top of ethw. There could be some devs trying to cash out with the community support. Because obviously ethW will have SOME community left that support it and would like to buy if anything gets developed on it.

Apparently listing signal founder is a new twist in this. I wonder if he is just planning to buy signal as well or is he just asking for technical help as he doesn't have a clue if any of this could work. And why an earth we need to fuse twitter with signal-type chat? It's like he doesn't realize that it's working already, and open source and free.

But looks like he is admitting that he is planning to kill twitter as it is. Good riddance.

You must have misunderstood me, i was talking about the exchange aspect. Casinos don't have such bank runs because people can't just deposit an altcoin and try to withdraw it as something else after they shorted it. And they don't use their own token as collateral like FTX. Users can only withdraw the currency what they deposit. Crash doesn't affect their monetary system as they don't have leveraged trading so they don't need extra usdt for trading.

Also casinos have a trust system in here.
And we are talking about multi million dollar businesses. 5k is nothing to them, if it would be, there wouldn't be much users in there anyway. That's why we are asking for real proof of someone getting scammed. Because withdrawal issues would happen to several people if they would happen. I can't see any sane reason for casino singling one player out for petty $5k and risking their whole business that way.

Few questions:

How much are you asking for it?
Is it some sort of turnkey project?
Do you sell it with open source code included?
How much bankroll you recon one would need for the winners from the start?

Well yes but that's why we do everything that's fun. To feel!

And more we feel, more alive we feel.

But feeding that hungry brain with instant gradification with this sort supernormal stimululus that hijacks your brain convincing that this must be super important. No matter if it's console gaming, surfing on the internet, gambling, smoking, eating sugar etc is a recipe for addiction.

So you need to do reality check once in the while and get that rush from a different, more sustainable source like going to gym, swimming, meditating or what ever works for you. It won't be instant gradification but in time it will work to keep the balance.

Except it doesn't work quite like that. You can't just say that when you invest "$850 you'll get $1 a day" as you don't count in the inflation as the overall token supply grows those dividends will drop over time pretty fast and eventually you are not going to get almost anything with your investment. Imho it's highly unethical to tell someone who makes $17 per month that he is going to get anywhere with that tactic. What if he takes a loan because your math and can't pay back?

I've been meaning to research about slots return rates but didn't know where to start, so where did you got this data from? And is there any way to know what settings different casinos are using? I want to make a spreadsheet for my own amusement comparing slots rtp in different casinos.

From what i gather this has been the core idea of BTC maximalists, and BTC pairs in exchanges are a good reminder of that. However it hasn't come to that, not yet anyway. Fiat has it's usecases and right now best one of them is bringing liquidity to bitcoin. Without Fiat based pairs Liquidity and price would drop radically. It would most likely force institutional investors out and to leave this game to very few people who would still be interested. To the rest of the world and people who left it would seem that crypto died.

But to answer your question: Many places accept bitcoin as payment. However these places often just change it to dollars. But it's problematic for some businesses to accept crypto because it can make your income tax returns pure hell to fill out. So many people think that why bother, it's extra work.

My instinct said that Beterbiev would as he is undefeated and scary as hell. But having watched Yarde fight against Koykov, i don't know anymore. Both of them have insanely powerful and fast punches and this is obviously going to end out by knock out. But being faster could actually be a key factor in this. It's hard to defend either of their punches with just arms very successfully, but if you are fast enough, you might not have to.

There's no telling how much Beterbiev can handle before getting knocked out, as he hasn't been knocked out yet, but looking how Yarde moves, he can't just rush forward and dominate the ring this time. If Beterbiev wins, it won't be easy for him.

I have hard time decrypting what you are asking here. Is this a question or a statement? Yes he donated money, it was public info. That's not a crime and do i have to repeat myself he didn't try to hide it. He was even quoted saying that he would give $1B to presidential campaign for democrats, which he later backtracked. But everyone knew then he was supporting Democrats as many people do. That's not some secret that is been revealed now.

And now these politicians are even re-gifting those donations as they want distance from the whole case.


Whose politics would this collapse benefit? Show me one reliable investigative article on this.


That's why? Investigation is on going and it's not like he is a security risk. And if you read what i wrote earlier, politicians want nothing to do with that guy.
And i thought you said that collapse was related to politics and now you are saying SBF caused it himself?


So far this is all speculation but enlighten me. What's the political motive for the collapse? Because that sentence seems to contradict other conspiracies about Biden/Ukraine.