Why don't you ask your friend how he claimed his first bitcoin and you follow his lead? He didn't get it by begging as you mentioned and no one can get bitcoin by begging. I don't really believe it but as you said your friend gambled and invested his 1 bitcoin and now has 14 bitcoins then i'm sure he has a lot to tell you about his journey and you will not need to ask anything to anyone else after that.
And, the first 0.00001 bitcoins you can get even from faucets by claiming everyday. That is probably better than begging.

Why don't you simply hire a trusted campaign manager, escrow the funds and start a proper signature campaign where the manager should only accept the users you want for this to promote the ICO if you are willing to pay 100 of them? I think that would be a more better way of doing this than asking each and everyone to post their work along with their desired rates. You should allocate some rates for different ranks in the campaign and ask people to provide the links to their services in their applications and you will get what you are looking for.

I didn't understand the logic of the question if why it is not a good investment for "newbies". It is never about an expert or a newbie when it comes on investments on Bitcoin, but it depends on its situation and how it is reacting in the market right now. If you think and feel it is going good then it is obviously good no matter if you are a newbie or an expert in Bitcoin, but if it is not going really well and you know this, then it for sure will be a bad investment even if you are an expert.
And by the way, no one needs to buy a complete bitcoin in order to invest in Bitcoin, but you can buy any amount you want according to your budget.

Well, it is probably true that there are some people which are bitcoin owners but they don't really own their bitcoins, and it is totally their own choice in my opinion. Because there are wallets which can provide private keys and there are wallets which don't. Like electrum, bitcoin-core, blockchain, these wallets provide you the private key for your bitcoin address, while coinbase, Xapo and some other wallets do not offer this thing. Now a person should know all these things before putting their funds into a wallet and they should decide according to that. And, you are right about keeping money in exchanges, which is totally senseless for me as they are never safe there. A person should always withdraw their funds from exchanges after they are done trading to keep them within their reach and safe.

Escrow the funds and i will do it for you.

There are no coins that can compete with Bitcoin in any matter. The whole market of other cryptocurrencies is totally dependent on Bitcoin and its price. Their rise and fall, their adoption and all, it starts and finishes with Bitcoin. So obviously bitcoin will have and has the highest market value and it will always be the same. I don't think there will be a coin which can stand still against Bitcoin, unless Bitcoin surprisingly disappears and some other coin takes its place.

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The only thing i agree with is that only a few coins will remain in the market in the long run along with Bitcoin, and all others will either disappear or will be worthless after some time. Though there will always be coins popping up from every corner as long as there are programmers in the world, but they won't last every long. Other than that, i don't think we are gonna see Bitcoin reaching $100,000 very soon as it still has to go very far for reaching there, and it will obviously take a dozen years to do so.

There is nothing great for in something like that if it is done by the central bank of my country. I would rather use fiat instead of that digital currency if it has the same functions and is centralized like fiat. People use Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies because they are not centralized and they run only on networks and no one has any control on them. If i use a digital currency which i know is being watched by someone, why shouldn't i use cash instead of that?
And i think some other countries are also planning for this, but they might have not launched them yet.

Possibly. Because you can't hide much if your government is already concerned about it and has given you permission to use it without any regulations, and if they find out you are earning it but not paying any tax or something for it, they will surely come for you and you might have to pay a penalty for doing that. In my country, the government has not yet known about bitcoin and that is why there is no tension like that for us right now. We may face this situation in future when the government will start noticing the spread of bitcoin in the country.

Attackers are very active these days when the price of bitcoin is very high. They will try to exploit every exchange, every wallet or any other website having funds in them and if they succeed, this is what happens. Whoever does it for whatever his intentions are, this is surely hurting the community. We know they are not Bitcoins which are stolen, but they are still a part of the crypto world and if anything is harmed within a word we live, we get hurt too, and if it keeps happening, it will have a quite notable affect on the markets.

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You have your options. You choose what you want to bear. There are casinos with no deposit bonus which has no wagering requirements, and there are casinos with deposit bonuses which require wagering. So now it is up to you if what you want. If you want to get bonuses, you will need to bear their rules, and if you leave the bonuses, you are free from the wagering rules. So you should choose yourself what you want, and gamble with no issues then.

I don't have any experience with trading bots, nor i ever felt the need of using one. I can do my trades anytime i want without involving any third party. I believe our trades should be private i all means. I don't say that the bots are not trustworthy or they might steal your information or money, but i would still feel safer if i'm doing the work myself instead of a bot.

That would only be the case if a country legalizes bitcoin, and let the people use bitcoin as a currency in that country like its fiat. Because taxes only apply on things that are run or traded legally in a country, and if something is not yet introduced to the people, nor the people, or most of them know about it, then i don't think the government can implement any tax rules on it.

Wow! Sounds really interesting, and dangerous altogether. Someone following his team in other countries to support it, while earning the expenses through the games being played. It must have been a hell of an experience for sure. Even if i had the money for betting, or i was a die-hard fan of any sport, i wouldn't dare to take that much risk, but as they always say, there is no fun without risk, and for sure you had fun if you have took risks.
Good luck for the next time mate!

It doesn't make any sense. There is no way to make a bot with a strategy to make casinos lose constantly. A gambler will always lose, eventually, no matter what kind of formulas they use. It is true for sure, that every thing has some vulnerabilities and anything made by human can be broken by an human, but that doesn't mean a casino will start losing from a person using a UNIQUE strategy, which, for the years now, has never been applied by any hacker, programmer or any mathematical expert of the world. So as said by someone earlier, if there was anything like that, it would have already been done by someone else, knowing all the knowledge of the particular field, and what you have won has nothing to do with your strategy, but it is all about your luck that worked.

I don't see it falling anything below $7,000 before the new year, and if we were too lucky, it will cross $8,200 before the new year and will set some new all time highs at the start of 2018. Right now the price of bitcoin is quite stable between $7.6k to $7.8k and if it start falling again, it will hardly cross $7.2k and if it crossed that, it will end up falling a few hundreds bucks more, but i think it will stay above $7k atleast, in this month and in December too.

Never bought anything using Bitcoin itself, but bought a lot of things after converting it to fiat. The biggest thing i bought with bitcoins was a bike before a year or so. That was the first time when i cashed out my bitcoins for the only reason, to buy a bike for myself and i was so happy to do so. It feels so nice when you buy something for yourself for the first time, with your own money. It was the first time for me to earn money as well, and that was because of bitcoin. I can never forget those life changing moments.