Internal swap of coins is a great concept that always help gamblers a lot, especially when having dust on some of their altcoins' balances and when they want to withdraw, but can't afford fees from determined coins, such as ethereum, which tends to be really expensive sometimes. It means more freedom and mobility inside the platform. However, fees' costs should be cheap, otherwise it's not practicable to swap coins for real...

Well, your example made sense. I think it must be really hard for an addicted gambler to stop playing if he constantly sees gambling ads on his feed every day. At some point it will become unbearable for him to see so much gambling content without having access to it. A suggestion in this case would be to close or to not pay attention to gambling ads when they appear on the screen, like skip it faster as possible, or he could also report the ad to the platform, choosing the option 'I don't have interest for this kind of content'.

Nobody can stay away from the internet for a long period of time. Internet is part of our life, including our work. An alternative must be found to not set the trigger on, while not leaving internet.

You can find HYIPs through any searching tool on the internet or most commonly being advertised at paid to click websites, viewing ads for satoshis. At social medias like facebook they used to be pretty common too, but you should stay away from any investment of this kind, because they are using investments made by new investors to pay the early ones until the ecosystem becomes unsustainable, so the people behind those sites close them and disappear with the rest of the money or create a new HYIP´with a new brand and name, so they keep the scammy cycle going on...

Since you are a newbie, I think you need to be very careful before depositing your crypto in any website around. Verify the legitimacy of the services you are going to use, for how long they are operating, who are the people behind them and how they make their business work on long term. If you don't find enough informations or if informations don't make sense, avoid it.

You can also ask for advice on this forum regards specific services you are willing to become an user/customer.

How much can you make playing those games? Personally, I've had more success completing tasks on offerwalls (OfferToro) where you have to download mobile games and reach a determined goal inside the game. It may take a day or two to complete an offer, but they pay 8000-20000 satoshis sometimes. And now that the market is crashing rewards must increase even more, so it might worth to work on those tasks for now and save the rewards for the future, once bitcoin gains more traction again. It would be interesting to have a thread to talk and discuss about what offers of that kind are most interesting and hints/tricks about the demanded games, so others can complete the tasks faster.

Congrats for your list, anyway!

It seems nothing is going to be pumped this month, therefore the money invested on marketing, especially on major events like world cup, by crypto companies like crypto.com are going to be a waste. It's a pity they didn't match a precise timing between world cup and a positive season in crypto, but that is what reality is imposing to us at this time. Cronos has lost more than 20% market value today, it's bleeding side by side with every cryptocurrencies of the market and there is nothing we can do to revert this tendency right now. Moreover, native tokens are really frowned up by investors after the recent FTX's insolvency.

There are exceptions. But those who are always looking for the perfect opportunity to make money are the mostly struggling ones to achieve their goals, because they wait too long to act, and once they decide acting, it's already too late and the opportunity is over. A classic example are the investors who think bitcoin's price is too expensive, and once a new bull run starts and bitcoin skyrockets they start complaining they should have bought earlier, when it was cheaper. Since the bull run is already happening, they can't afford buying anymore, so they have to wait for the next chance, what may take a new cycle of few years again, meaning they lost time and money.

Can this recent chain of events, which lead cryptocurrencies to crash, cause collateral damage to another crypto services and exchanges? Can another platforms go bankrupt as well because of FTX's insolvency, loss of confidence from investors in crypto in general and crash in prices? Or is it an isolated situation which won't have further consequences for another companies?

I think the best hypothesis for crypto market would be if Binance really buys FTX right now. It may calm down investors and stop panic among them. Otherwise, prices can crash even deeper to very low levels such as 10,000$. On the other hand, by purchasing FTX, Binance consolidates itself as a titan exchange among all, leading crypto to more centralization, what is never good.

Sadly so many top tier scammers are completely ruining crypto environment this year. Reputation of cryptocurrencies is on its lowest level so far, I suppose.

Yes, there isn't a perfect system without flaws. Centralization theoretically has good points, but on practice they are almost inexistent. We can easily see this by how decentralization was broadly adopted by many people around the world since bitcoin was launched in 2009. They did it because the centralized system wasn't fulfilling their needs and demands as individuals, otherwise there wouldn't be any reason to adopt bitcoin and so many other products the decentralized crypto market offers. I believe to be extremist isn't healthy, so we need to find a balance between centralization and decentralization in order to enjoy the best both systems have to offer.

I was already against exchanges charging abusive withdrawal's fees, but now I see there is something even more absurd going on. Exchanges charging from inactive accounts are being greedy and hostile to crypto adopters. In fact, they should be paying inactive users for letting money idle on their platforms, since they can use it for business, and not charging fees from them. They don't have any expenses by holding customers' funds, it's quite the opposite. People should left those platforms immediately. With so many alternatives nowadays it shouldn't be hard to find a better service provider.

When using exchanges like this, who does need enemies?

Hahaha!

I would feel mad over my friend, just like the actor in the movie. But that is not something that is going to happen for real. Let's say you placed a bet on a casino and your friend attempted to remove or change it. The croupier wouldn't allow him to do this, because he would be interfering in someone's else bets, what isn't allowed. Moreover, we would notice if someone touched our tokens in a casino table. Anyway, the scene was nicely built and was really funny. It's interesting to imagine absurd situations like that happening in reality.

I can't generalize, but most countries are ran by corrupt practices. Maybe it's not the intention of a president or prime minister when he takes on the duty, but once there, he faces many different interests in game and in order to have support from those different sectors and individuals he becomes part of the problem (part of the corrupt system). Where I live it's said the president, governor or mayor have to do immoral things, otherwise it's impossible to rule. It's disgusting and repulsive to hear such things, but that is what citizens of the country say. As we can see, they are also part of the problem, because they have already accepted corruption as a trivial and essential aspect of the society.

After all, 'every nation has the government it deserves and every government is the reflex of its own citizens'.

You are being conservative on your assumption, I guess at least 95% of NFTs are useless, inevitably ending in losses for investors. The whole art work integrated into crypto world through NFTs is a shady practice which doesn't make sense from the artistic point of view. Why would anyone buy an 'original' virtual art piece which can be simply copied and perfectly reproduced just by clicking print screen button on any keyboard or smartphone? NFTs are great as practical and working items inside virtual gaming universes, but as flat virtual art pieces they are just a tool for wealthy individuals launder money.

I believe the threat isn't exactly digitar dollar, rather it's the regulators behind digital dollar the real threat to bitcoin, because they can use their decision power to difficult or forbid bitcoin usage in order to push the adoption of their own cryptocurrency upside. They can also launch misinformation campaigns against bitcoin aiming the masses, that can be made through comparisons between CBDC and bitcoin, where they will highlight the benefits and advantages of their currency while highlighting the negative aspects of bitcoin to discourage the public going for the decentralization.

The only correlation between twitter purchase and dogecoin would be the introduction of the cryptocurrency inside the platform for subscription payments or the potential feature of sending tips on the platform to another users. Besides these two concepts, I don't see why dogecoin would gain more value solely based on twitter being acquired by Elon Musk. Companies are traded all the time and cryptocurrencies don't get hyped because of that.

But if you believe doge can be introduced to twitter's environment soon, make sure to hold some coins.

I've never lured other people to gamble through sharing my betting results, but I've already been lured into gambling by others games' results.

People I talk about gambling are always fearful about betting and risking money, so doesn't matter how huge I can win, those results will never wake interest from those people for gambling inside themselves. Anyway, I don't want to delude anyone about gambling outcomes. I let all the risks involved on this activity very clear and accept their responsible decision of not betting without further arguments and discussions. Each person must know what is better for himself and others must respect their decision.

I know there are many crypto casinos on the internet claiming to be KYC free, although they don't even enter this forum, so it's likely they are shady scam platforms that must be avoided, especially for a high roller gambler.

The only trustful KYC free crypto casino I know is freebitco.in. But there you won't find a plethora of gambling games. You will have to stick with dice, lottery and events betting...

I'm sure we are winning less from wheel these days. I've observed to be receiving too many lottery tickets rewards when compared to satoshis and RPs prizes. Moreover, the incidence of medium (500) and high (5000) prizes have decreased considerably.

Premium program is great for bitcoin and FUN investors, since you can earn interest on your holdings, but the wheel feature has become just a detail to entertain enthusiasts.

Price is important, so bitcoin can fulfill its purpose, that is to provide a decentralized person to person transaction alternative. A minimum of stability is expected from bitcoin's price, so at the moment you purchased btc to send to someone on the other side of the world, its price will be almost the same on the moment that person receives the transaction. That is why price is important.

Otherwise, the transacted money could reach on the other side with a devaluation of 50% or more... on that case it wouldn' make sense to use bitcoin, as its purpose would be irrelevant.