You wager on your website yourself as well? I mean yes technically you are not the founder and wetsuit is, and you are... staff? partner? I really do not know what's your title here and it is none of our business but I didn't expected you to gamble in the website you are the (at the very least) spokesperson to.

It is nice to see it by the way, not a bad thing, I am not really judging or anything, in fact I found it so comforting that I would have started gambling if I saw this and wasn't already gambling like an insane person . However I am already gambling, and unfortunately I lost, I expected it to be 40k+ by the end, wish I was right.

As long as we can reach 100k, I will be very happy. We do not have to stay there, the price drops 50% all the time and we are living one of that right now as well, so I would be fine if it reaches 100k first then drops to somewhere like 50k, which it will probably do. Anywhere near 100k would be fine too, so like 95k+ is definitely enough, then it could be 50k or even a bit under 50k (over 40k) and I would be fine. That is my "expectation" from bitcoin this year, doesn't mean that it will happen.

By the looks of it we are in a bear market right now and things are not looking great, obviously it will take some time before we could get better but that doesn't mean that we can't reach high prices neither. We have lived through many bad periods, as recently as summer of 2021 as well and then we managed to recover too, which means there is still a chance for it.

The very first website was satoshidice and they did not have any autobet. In fact they didn't even have off-chain gambling, it was on-chain which means that you sent money to an address and it sent money back to you if you win and kept your money if you lost.

That is what the dice game started from, satoshidice being as primitive as it gets compared to this day. After that just-dice and primedice started and they were off-chain for the first time, but they didn't have automatic betting on their first version, then they developed quickly and implemented the autobetting feature. In fact they didn't have it for a while so that is why seuintjie built an autobet bot for those places that didn't have any.

Now, obviously all of them have it and I use it frequently when I gamble because I know what I am going to do and I do not want to change my strategy mid gambling so I use the bot to take the emotions out of gambling to be more safe.

We do not have to worry, they will notify us when the release will be at the moment and that is how we will get to know about what is going to happen. It will not be like 2 hours before they release it, they will notify us long time before, like maybe a week before at least and then they will do countdown, like 6 days left, 5 days left etc etc until 2 hours then 1 hour then 30 minutes etc etc.

That is how they did it beforehand and that is how most places do it. They want all of it to be sold so they want to get the hype going before the sale. If they start doing it just 2 hours before then it would not make any sense at all since they would have hard time selling it and that would be bad for them.

That would actually change a bit but at the end of the day people are only caring about what type of money they will win and that is enough for them. Like what is the latest one? 750 dollars for the winners? That is good enough that people would not mind the NFT or non-NFT version of it, they are just fine.

If Roobet takes these and then sell just ONE NFT from them, like not 10k collection or anything, just one created by Roobet and sold? Then it could even make them a profit and then the amount will be shared between the winners? Like instead of paying 750 dollars, they could do like 250 dollars for winner +50% of the NFT sold by Roobet of that exact art. That would be something that is unique and totally worth the trouble for any artist out there.

Before I invest in any crypto currency, I always look at their past performance to see whether they would have that potential of increasing in value in the future. Or if that’s not the case then I might be looking at how good the project or the platform is, to know if it’s really good to the extent of having the potential of an increase in the future.

$1 million is a huge amount of money, and I don’t think you should be investing that kind of amount in just one cryptocurrency, maybe three as you have listed would be good, or maybe four. The coins you have mentioned are good, although I would also recommend that you add coins like ADA and Solana which have the potential of an increase in the future. I believe that these two would be worth your investment.

Everyone here is talking about the situation like they have no idea about the real deal. I have read it on reddit that IMF is not telling El Salvador to stop bitcoin legal tender out of blue, they are doing it because they asked a loan from them. El Salvador asked 1.3 billion dollars worth of loan from IMF, and IMF RESPONDED with this, they didn't just say it out of nowhere like it was their business. And when you ask someone to give you a loan, they may have some requirements about it as well.

I totally understand IMF not wanting crypto in El Salvador, it really makes sense, why? Because, we are talking about a "bank" that gives money to nations and this nation is buying bitcoin like crazy instead of using that money for whatever they needed loan for.

If a friend of yours had 3k dollars in bitcoin but asked you 13k dollars in loan, would you give it to them? Or would you say "I would give you 10k, and you could sell the 3k you have in bitcoin"?

I saved some cash aside as well right now but I am torn apart between getting cheap crypto now that prices are low, or getting rollbot 2.0, the first one was over like in a few minutes but does that mean they were also resold to a higher price easily as well? How many of them were legit and not fake between same persons accounts type of deal?

I want to buy but I am not even sure if it will be the same for 2.0 as well because maybe it was the first one that got the money, the second and then maybe who knows third and fourth will drop in value after people are fed up with it? Even dropping the value of the first one because of it? I want to buy, but I am really worried about it at the same time.

Thanks for that, it is definitely something to check but seeing from the latest shared art contest about the valentines day, I am guessing that Hhampuz shares most of these topics, when I check it, that is probably the case for almost all of them. This means that if I start to check all the topics started by Hhampuz, I am going to end up with so many unrelated things because he is basically... well probably more influential than theymos at this point in bitcointalk, he is everywhere.

However, thanks for it anyway, it could be used for either something else, or I could simply just check the each new topic everyday for once and see it and catch it inside one day, so it is not bad. I also see that they are having 2 new art competitions, well one but with two different topics and I am really super excited about the potential of entering this one, I am not ready yet, but I would love to see how I will rank.

The reality is that as long as there are other places 1xbit could get customers from, they will not care about the posts here. They will pay a few people to defend them here like Erdogan, but that's about it, they won't do it themselves all that much. At this point we are beyond suspicion levels, we are beyond all the discussion levels, we are nowhere near those levels anymore.

If you believe that this place is legit enough then you will gamble from now on, if you think that this place is a scam then you will not gamble here anymore. Nothing will change from here on out, it has been talked about so much that there is nothing new that could be said which would change anyone's mind. Anyone who still didn't made up their mind must be a person who found here very recently and they could just read the previous posts. So, I do not think that anything new could be said anymore.

If the price should go down at this point , it is nothing to be surprised about at all because we all know that this is a bear time. So, I wouldn’t be seeing it as a big deal when the price goes down. Although it’s quite bad that El Salvador came in at the wrong time when the market was at its bullish time, because we all knew that the market was going to lose its value after the bullish trend. That was for sure, never mind all those people who will keep on telling you that the market would not go down, rather it would continue to increase, which is not true.

Now that the market is down their government would now be facing a lot of backlash from the opposition and those who never supported the idea of making Bitcoin a legal tender in the country.

Mathematics is one of the few things that humanity doesn't really feel interested all together. For example if you check history topic, you will see that a lot of people are interested in history, it could be their own national history or it could be roman empire or ancient Greece.

However, when it comes to mathematics, the general population doesn't feel interested, or doesn't just read on equations. Which means, when something with 0.0001% chance happens to them, they think it is a scam, but they do not realize that it was 10k to one or even if it is 100k to one or 1 million to one, it is all in the realm of possibility.

You do not have to get scammed for it, if you keep gambling, the more you gamble the higher chance of something like that happens. That is exactly where you are right, if you gamble 10 times, something that happens once every 1 million times may not hit you, but if you gamble 1 million times, then there is a chance of at least one.

How do you guys catch up with all of this before it happens? I am planning on joining some of them in the future, I am not ready yet but I am interested in graphic design right now. Obviously as anyone who has been involved with it would tell you that it takes thousands of hours before you are good at something, or at least even decent enough to join something.

However I feel like I need to know where they are so that I would check the competition and decide where I am at and to evaluate how I am doing. I have seen the past ones, and I have seen where they are posted but I do not know how to be notified about it. Like do you just check if there is a new one from both here on bitcointalk and on twitter and constantly check it? Or do you guys have some sort of notification system where I could get notified whenever there is an art competition?

That is a bit of their problem, I mean if you spent every single dollar you have to buy when it was high, and did not leave anything aside for when it was low, then it is a bit of your problem as well. I do not have tens of thousands of dollars, but at least I was smart enough to save some aside and I am getting my salary tomorrow as well which means I will be able to put up some more money.

All in all I am in a good position to make money, and it has been a decent return for me as well. This doesn't mean that I am the smartest investor or anything, I am quite bad at it actually, there are so many people better than me. However, the ones that left nothing aside for these days are not those people.

I have seen plenty of people who are wrong, but someone this wrong? I have never seen someone this wrong before. Subprime mortgages? So, investing into crypto is similar to investing into a layered and shitty mortgage loans filled asset?

Bankers saw mortgages as something solid and everyone always pays and gathered all the bad default rated loans together and bought them in thousands together in a single paper and now they are saying that crypto is similar? How?? This guy is an idiot, there is absolutely no resemblance at all, just because bitcoin went up so much and at a high price right now (even after the fall) doesn't mean that it resembles every single bubble in the history.

Same goes for websites like amazon. They have been making record profit after record profit, specially during the high covid period where people couldn't leave their houses. During that period they were making sales that they have never made before, why? Because people could leave their houses and wanted stuff come to their door instead of going outside and shopping. Same for iPhone logic as well, could be macbook or could be any apple product, they are making a big sale amount because since we are at home for the past 2 years, they have been selling something we can use at home and have fun.

If I could get the latest macbook then I would have totally gotten it, that is just way too good to pass up but I can't afford one, I actually need a computer badly, but I have been using my old PC for a while because good new computers are very very expensive in my nation, so people who could afford it, all bought them.

That bull season can't come soon enough. There are so many people who sold to make the price be this low, and there are new people everyday who are selling, look at the volume and look at the sellers and you will see that there are so many people still selling everyday and I am afraid it will eventually drop the price as well.

I do not get why people do it this way, it should be a lot better and we should be doing fine right now and everyone should be wanting to buy right now since it is cheap. However, there are too many people who end up selling instead of buying at this price which is the main reason why I do not like the current situation. Lets see how it will do, maybe I am wrong and people will eventually buy soon enough, but it feels like it is going to take a while before we see people start buying in bulk again and causing a price increase.

Seriously I wouldn’t blame businesses for not making use of Bitcoin at this time. When you are running a business, you have to be careful and avoid losses, because when there is loss, it will affect your business. And nobody will like their business to go down, because that’s their major source of income. And any business that is making use of Bitcoin is running a risk of losing value, because you can sell a product, and then you lose the money just because of the price dropped.

Imagine that you sold a product of $200, and after you have gotten your money in Bitcoin, and then the price of Bitcoin dropped and you are losing $100 of the $200 that you just got from the sold product, Wouldn’t that be a loss for your business? So for now, most businesses would be considering stable coins than a coin that is volatile.

That is the thing, I have started to learn a bit of it for fun, and passion is not something that everyone has, that is what I figured out. If this is like a "job" job for you, like if you want to make money with this, then you may not be doing it for the right reasons, by all means you should still do it if you are earning money since we all do and most people in the world hates their jobs anyway. However, there are a few who see this as their passion, like they eat and breathe and drink with it, it always fills their head, not that they do nothing else, but they keep thinking about art even when they are doing other things, they see art while walking down the road.

Those people will always end up winning, they are unique, and usually happens in artistic stuff, actors, musicians, painters, designers and so forth, obviously there comes out some guy who is amazing at coding like that, or finance, or even mechanic, but it is mainly an artistic virtue.

Yes it’s good to always make sure that we are investing money heavily in the market as much as we don’t see the need for keeping that money, it’s better it goes into a good investment such as Bitcoin where it can fetch us more profit in the future and that’s just it.

But, we should as well know that we need to keep some money as emergency, there are times that some needs might arise suddenly at any time, and you need to have enough funds to handle whatever that may come up in the future.

All it requires is a proper planning, knowing how much we have and how much is appropriate to invest in the cryptocurrency market, and trying not to be greedy when we are investing in the market . Don’t invest an amount you would end up needing soon, and it might be at a time that the market is not in a good condition.