It's true, I am a participant in this signature campaign, and as far as I'm aware it is one of the longest running signature campaigns on the forum. Besides this, FJ also purchases forum advertising here on Bitcointalk, if it was a scam, I really don't think Theymos would allow this. I've personally used that site dozens of times, and have never had an issue either with bet outcomes or withdrawals, and I'm not just saying that because I'm part of their advertising campaign.

Yes, they can co-exist, but the real question is.... Why should they? When one of them completely meets the needs of the market, what is the point of having a competing currency that only acts to decrease use volume? I think in terms of cryptocurrency, sometimes competition is a bad thing, at least in the early stages as we are now because we need a single cryptocurrency to generate enough of a user base to bring it up to recognition for corporations. This is much more difficult when these users are split between BTC and BCH, even though absolutely nobody uses BCH for anything commercial.

A lot of bounty programs have a clause in their terms and conditions stating that they can end the bounty whenever they like, or if the hard cap is reached. This means that for the more successful projects, they will tend to end earlier, whilst the less successful projects will typically stop their bounty early due to non performance.

The simplest answer is no, but the more realistic answer is yes, confirm or be banned. The fact is, when it comes to regulations, most governments are not big on individualised laws with multiple clauses and if/but statements. They prefer general, blanket, choking clauses that completely stifle innovation in an attempt to make sure the law is a catch-all and future proofed against innovations. It is very unlikely we will see a one size fits all policy that promotes the innovation of blockchain.

Right now, the proof-of-work hashing algorithm is essentially hack proof, as it features 256 bits of encryption, which is well beyond the level that can be reasonably cracked even by the most powerful supercomputers. However, it's only matter of time until SHA-256 is cracked by brute force, possibly earlier if a genuine quantum computer goes online, but doesn't seem like this will happen any time soon as Google's D-wave isn't a real quantum processor.

I think few people gamble for the enjoyment of gambling in and of itself, there is a different between enjoying gambling (regardless of outcome), and enjoying gambling because you stand the chance to win a lot of money. Most people fall into the latter category, which is unfortunately the category most likely to devolve into problem gambling.

Honestly, I'd actually prefer a lottery that gives out both cash and other prizes, such as vacations, cars and luxury goods. I think very few websites actually engage their players by giving them something real to strive towards, and I think it would be a good change in the scene.

Very, very few people gamble simply for the fun of it. Do you think it's fun playing slot machines on your own at 2AM in a dingy casino? Do you think the people you see doing so are having fun? The answer is no, they're addicted, addicted to the chance of winning big, or reliving the memories of a time they actually did win big. People do not know whether this can happen to them, it depends on circumstance, but you certainly cannot say that it happens to everybody who doesn't play for fun.

I wouldn't recommend participating in a signature campaign at your user rank, you will get peanuts compared to the sr and hero members that typically get 3-4x more stakes than a jr member. Typically all the high level members flock to the better campaigns too, leaving only the weaker campaigns for the jr members. Try the translation bounty instead, you will face much less competition and earn much higher rewards.

Honestly, if this scenario actually happened, and somehow nobody knew that it was an attempt at artificially increasing the value of BTC, then exactly that would probably happen.... It's value would increase. Assuming that trade volume and demand stay the same, that means each BTC unit will increase at a rate equivalent to the reduction in circulating supply. Of course, this is theoretical as such a thing simply could not be coordinated.

The odds of you successfully converting 1 BTC to 100 BTC by leveraged trading is astronomically low, so I really wouldn't recommend it. You should just try your hand at investing your money into growing, and starting projects. If you invest your money in a few high potential ICOs, at least one of them will probably do a x100+ and you'll at least have much more than you started with.

FortuneJack all the way. Of all the sites I've played it easily has the best customer support, and I've never had any issues with withdrawals. I know a lot of sites make you wait quite while if your withdrawal is relatively large, this is not the case as far as I'm aware with Fortunejack.

If he wins, he probably won't retire, that's the problem with older boxers, they don't give up. So odds are even if Pacman wins, he will still have another fight or two until he is inevitably bested, and probably KO'd by the better, younger man. Hopefully he has the sense to see this is the road all Boxers take, and manages to avoid the mistake though. I personally doubt it though, he looks like a guy that won't back down due to age.

Ontology and IOST are great buys right now, ONT is down around 10-15% and it has always shown great strength, so will probably bounce back up. Whereas IOST has the potential for 5x returns within a few months, you just need to keep an eye on the trade volume and numbers and you'll do well.

A lot of gamblers spend their time mindlessly playing, without actually trying to understand how they can improve, or what they can do to minimise their losses in future. These types of gamblers do not tend to learn from their mistakes, and may devolve to becoming problem gamblers due to their inability to think proactively. So that's really all there is to it, don't be one of these guys, as you can improve your win rate by simply practicing effectively for most games.

Just a week left before the Pacman picks up his gloves again and starts wrecking.

What will you guys be betting for this fight? I'll go for Pacquiao to win by unanimous decision, but might also put a small amount on SD.

Not sure why Cormier called out Brock, surely he understands the massive disadvantage he'll have? Brock is massive as fuck.

He got a good win over Miocic, but it wasn't entirely unexpected, yes, he's getting older, but UFC isn't as much of a young man's game as some other contact sports, e.g. Boxing. Brock Lesnar will probably wreck Cormier simply due to the 50lbs weigh advantage. Cormier is a beast true, but punching against the weight is never a good idea.

I think the recent pump was simply due to there being less FUD associated with Bitcoin than usual. There were no major happenings surrounding bitcoin at the time, which for a scarce currency like Bitcoin is actually good news. No news, is good news for crypto. I don't expect the pump will last much longer though as we barely broke the $6.7k resistance point. I doubt there is a full turnaround or a long term bull flag, odds are we will however around this level for a while until volume increases.

I have to agree, since December last year there has been a slow, gradual decline. Sure it has been interrupted by a few green seasons, but the trend is still massively red. Hopefully we can actually generate some strong resistance around the $7,000 level as I'm sick of losing money

Yes I did buy in at $18,000 

FML

Very interesting post OP I definitely also feel that decentralized applications are going to be big!, I'm glad to see people are starting to recognize the potential of decentralized applications. The image should really have NEO spread all over it though, as the NEO virtual machine is capable of running dAPPs for pretty much every purpose illustrated there, as well as a few others too.

Imagine decentralized video game platforms, one can only hope.