by now I think everyone knows perfectly well that this is a clear spam attack against bitcoin network and there is no hiding the facts.
the question about who is responsible has been around for a long time and I am afraid we can only come up with speculations and I nave not yet seen any valid evidence on who is/are doing this and why are they doing it.

we know it started with the block size debate, so it can be related to that.
we also know that the fees are rising a lot because of this and fees go to the miners. in other words they are making profit from this spam attack and a big amount of profit not just a simple couple of percentages rise. the total fee they have been earning has gone up a lot.

p.s. here is the link to the hash rate but it is not showing anything about this: https://blockchain.info/pools
p.p.s. another problem is that you can't really call this a spam! these are transactions that bitcoin protocol allows making. and no rule is being broken while making them.

why do people think signature campaigns have to be a weird kind of advertising?! it is as if they have never seen any advertisement in their lives. or maybe they are used to any other kind of ads on TV, in the streets and on websites that they find it strange that signature space in a forum is also an option.

and this here is the best place to advertise any bitcoin related business. and you don't even need to generate traffic/get clicks. do you even know how low the number of clicks on banner ads lets say on top of a news site are? it is like 1 click in 10000 views. or even less.

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how exactly you three (2 comments with first one's friend) got free  bitcoin to play with?
OP is giving away 1 free amount to only 1 player and it was already claimed by the first newbie rank account after the post!

I could not register on the site to be able to check what the site says! also the https seems to be broken!

all I can say is that you won't get anywhere like this, because you are bringing in drama into a legit discussion and that is when people start ignoring what you say. (the drama is all that about your removed comments, you can start another topic about that if you are really concerned!).

with that said I agree with this:

since it is an investment and it is the investors right to know these things and demand transparency.
but also it is Moneypots right to deny these demands and not give any of these information to public if they have their reasons.
and finally it is the investors right to withdraw their investment or don't invest at all if they don't like the rules.

tracking transaction has always been possible to some extent since bitcoin has always been the same open ledger, legalizing it doesn't change anything about this part. you are still going to have your transactions written out there and viewable and follow-able by everyone.

regulation and legalization however makes bitcoin legit and will help its adoption greatly. more people will find out about bitcoin and more businesses will feel safer to add bitcoin option or even start a new business only based on bitcoin alone. and that's what matters most.

the only investment that I will ever do as long term around here is bitcoin. the rest will be only short term.

but there are many altcoins with stable price and also some good potential.

Monero (XMR) is a good anonymous coin with real anon features that work and it will always stay relevant and high priced since it has demand in the market but it is also getting pump and dumped so you have to be careful.

Litecoin (LTC) is one of the oldest altcoins that stayed around all these years with a high price and good stability. right now it is nearing a critical point where its SegWit will be activated soon and the price can go very high.

PIVX is a new coin with lots of potential. it is a lot better than many of the other altcoins and is a very good candidate instead of Dash since it doesn't have the premine scam of Dash.
and the market seems to be very interested in this coin.

this is the cheapest way of creating a shady dice site that I have ever seen!
OP used a free dice script filled with bugs and lots of problems and didn't even bother changing the least bit of things to make it look different and then he didn't even bother to pay a very small amount to buy a very simple and cheap domain name! he chooses a free hosting and free domain to keep the cost to zero!

do you honestly expect someone to deposit any money into this set up?
even if it wasn't really made to scam, and you were by a 1 in a million chance honest, nobody would even click on that link when it is free hosting and domain.

another rubbish news about regulating bitcoin exchanges here and no surprise that it is again coming from China and is written by a well known click-bait news site.
Chinese may be a tad bit more strict about regulations but the same thing is going on in any other place in the world that is working under the law and is using fiat and goes through banks.

bitstamp (Luxemburg): https://www.bitstamp.net/privacy-policy/
https://www.bitstamp.net/aml-policy/

Coinbase (San Francisco/US): https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1220621-identity-verification
https://www.coinbase.com/legal/privacy

Cex.io (UK): https://support.cex.io/hc/en-us/articles/215744957-Identity-Verification-Guide
https://blog.cex.io/news/kycaml-policy-and-identity-verification-at-cex-io-14576

Kraken (San Francisco/US): https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201352206-What-are-the-Verification-Tiers-

QuadrigaCX (Canada): https://www.quadrigacx.com/faq (Ctrl+f: "How does your verification process work?")

here is Forex exchange same process: https://www.trulioo.com/blog/foreign-exchange-need-know-anti-money-laundering-compliance/

why is there 2 winners on 1 bet number?
for example the 8050000000th bet has Raketa26 and Kana6us as winners, so I am wondering how is it possible that two players rolled one bet number the (8050...th roll) at the same time?

(sorry I am a bit new to bitsler's promotions)

I may be wrong but people who think and plan like this will never act on it because of a very simple reason, when price is higher than your target (whether it is at $250 and you want $200 or it is $2500 and you want $2400) you say 'it is high and I can't make profit if I invest'.
then when price comes down from that "high" price, you start thinking 'it is going down and is on a down trend so I will stay away' and miss the chance once again.

I am not saying to make irrational decisions without thinking or planning them ahead of time but I say sometimes it is best not to wait around too long and take a leap of faith.

googling the term "What is Ethereum" brings up some good resources you can read that can explain it better than I can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
www.coindesk.com/information/what-is-ethereum/

basically it is a platform which is designed for Smart contracts (and just FYI smart contracts is something that can be easily done with bitcoin).
now this platform provides a token called "ether" which then is traded like other altcoins.

additionally I should add that nothing about the development of this coins is decentralized. and the price has always been object of heavy manipulations by millionaires who have their money at stake in this coin.

that price is only if you want to buy tickets, I am not going to though.
they will give you tickets per each roll (1 or 2, can't really remember) and then for your referral rolls and some other stuff and you can even turn you points into each other. and always be a participant of the lottery for free (well only if you roll that period). and your chances of winning with only 1 is nearly nothing.
right now I have 10 tickets and my chance of winning is about 0.0003 %

but I agree that there should be a provably fair system on the lottery too. I don't see it now but I think if they don't have it they should add it too.

I may be wrong but the decrease you are talking about can be because of the signaling period which was reset recently. the previous period ended and a new one started and in the start it is possible that the other blocks were more so the percentage went down. (talking about the 60%)

it is however at 65% right now. so do we have any news about any kind of change that caused this? or is it just some mind games to play with the price

well I have never won anything not only from this site but also never from any lottery but I kina like the lottery in general. it is mostly a personal preference though. and it is not such a good thing to spend so much money on buying lottery tickets over and over but it is surely fun to do. and I try to always keep the expense to a minimum

and in case of this place it is giving free lottery tickets for each roll which is kind of cool and you can just claim and still have some chance at winning the top prize. and I believe there were 10 winners if I remember it correctly.

the correct place is in the exchanges subboard in the services discussion main board.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=223.0

maintenance on Yobit in 99.9% of the cases means they are not running the wallet at all. because it is taking up space and costs server resources. so don't even keep your hopes up for them coming back because they never will.

also other coins wallets being online in that exchange doesn't mean anything.
I don't think you are going to encounter any problem with your deposits (cant be sure though) but you will surely encounter a lot of trouble if you want to withdraw anything apart from bitcoin or a couple of other top coins.

Their wallets are all empty, you submit a withdrawal of some altcoin with its wallet online and the site tells you it is going to pay from cold storage, then the funds will be blocked in a non-cancelable withdrawal request for about a week before it is canceled and back to your account.

in short stop using that terrible exchange service.

yeah, I have seen your website before and I have to say it is so much better than coinmarketcap in many aspects.
I specifically like the Developers and Community columns.
also I would suggest that in liquidity column, it is best if the average trading volume in longer period such as a week or better in a month is considered instead of only past 24 hours. coins that are being pumped or dumped will always have a huge volume that is also temporary. but in long term it will be more realistic.

also I would suggest Number of transactions (again on average per long term) and also number of services in real world that are accepting these as real currency (this last one is going to be hard though).

read again, he is talking about bitfinex which is a bitcoin exchange platform which was hacked a while back not gambling sites. although there is the same risk for them too but in the past there has been more exchange hacks than there were casino hacks.
in fact I only know of once case in primedice that someone used some exploit to win and steal a large sum of bitcoin.

to be honest I am temped to go back to the site again, I used to use this faucet anyways back in 2014 when I found out about bitcoin. and today they have so much more features such as the lottery and the interest. although I have trouble with the extreme low faucet payment, I mean 100-200 satoshi! that is way too low
the only thing that may make me go and check it out again is the lottery and a chance to win a big amount  and I am actually a lottery fan.

actually many people are buying and have always bought ethereum because they have the illusion of ridiculously high prices. you can even see topics about $1000 for ethereum. and that my friend is a very dangerous thing for price of an altcoin and that is one of the reason why I mostly try not to invest in this coin anymore.

you see when people are buying an altcoin based on pure hype and they keep losing money and in the long term they don't reach their goals they eventually give up and dump. and by the time that type of dumping starts the price crashes hard.
that is not going to be a simple whales and day traders dumping, that will be anybody who ever had any fake faith dumping and it adds up to a lot of sell pressure.