lol this is so random here. OP is asking for a place to bet on bitcoin price (like binary option) then you come here and make an outrageous speculation.
let me tell you what, there is a higher chance of bitcoin price going to $5000 by the end of the year than there is for it to go down to $500

everything is wrong with what they did. it is a promise of giveaway to do fake advertising for them, i find this a dishonest way of advertising. and it has clearly affected the Poll results, you can take your time and check the previous topics (the links are available in the first post) and see how it changed.

this month's poll is clearly disqualified in my opinion.

your comment does not make any sense.
even if price goes up because of a hype, people are buying it to go up which means a buy support is there and if you ever check some exchange an study the orderbooks you can see that support there. and even if some start to dump there are so many others waiting to buy bitcoin based on that support and it prevents price from going down specially so low to a $500 price.
and besides a sell needs a valid reason, not just a random one. random dumps are small.

that is true about all other projects too. when they attract more people it means more investors and less dumpers. but people are not going to be attracted to random projects just because they advertise, they have to have some real attraction that does it on its own.
take bitcoin for example, people will always invest in it because of the profit and the future. and also because it has some real world application as a currency which attracts users.
but what does steem offer?

the main problem here is the timeframe of this investment which is a long time (6 years).
many things can change in this long period. even bitcoin or even gold can go down a lot, because we don't know what can happen.

the only thing that is sure is fiat itself. but as an investment you should always divide the capital into multiple things and always have a way of pulling out if they go down. for example you can get someone who you trust to do it for you and if you can find that person you can then think about going in full.

this is true about any type of gambling as long as they are not rigged. when you play a fair game as long as there is even a 0.00001% chance of winning you can win a big amount some day.
but that doesn't change the fact that slot games are boring as hell. there is not much activity to it and you have to wait for each bet of this boring game to see the result. i have tried a couple of them online too and they were all boring, even more boring than the real life game. at least in real life there is the benefit of being actually at a casino.

i like poker too and i think it is one of the most famous gambling games which is one of the games that people can actually win at. one thing that i have found out about it is that you don't really have to be an expert to enjoy playing it. it is one of those games where you can just play anywhere as long as you have a bunch of cards and a couple of friends willing to spend some hours playing it with you.

last year price was $300 and now it is $770 which is more than twice the value of last year. you wouldn't have call that "nothing happened" if you take a look at a price chart next time. not that many investments can bring this kind of return in a short time.

this is a good suggestion.
you can only find the faucet on dice sites and many other games don't have that, and even a faucet is not enough. if there could be some kind of a demo mode which you could just play and test the games first in any type of gambling game without any limit that would help people get to know the games first and test them out before they do it with real money.
it is also helpful for testing strategies with no risk whatsoever.

not really.
coinmarketcap is only "data" and for those who don't know how to use this "data" it becomes misleading especially with their ranking system which is based only on marketcap which is a bad factor to use for comparing altcoins.

and it helps altcoins manipulate users easily. take a look at Ethereum for example. a hyped up coin with not much interest left in it but it is still number 2 because it has a huge amount of coins available.

as another example: if Dogecoin price was only 871 satoshi it could have a bigger market cap than ethereum and Doge with price of 14,954 satoshi could have a bigger market cap than bitcoin!

possibly because of lack of advertising?
or generally not enough interest in this particular type of gambling

have you thought about doing some promotional giveaways? they can be in form of simple giving away small amounts of bitcoin or it can be in form of deposit bonuses where people get a nice percentage on their deposits.

and in the end it is all about the game. some games simply aren't that popular among gamblers.

the most important thing that i like to see in casinos is honesty which is mostly achieved through their provably fair part. but also i would love to see a light but beautiful interfaces, sometimes some of them are too boring with their design and sometimes they overdo it with all the graphics they put in and make it crowded.

as for games go, i like dice and i enjoy bitsler and don't think there is much improvement on it. but about other games i like some PVP games, some real PVP games, because some of them are fake and only show it as a PVP but you are playing with the site's bot!

none of them are good and even if one of these many ICOs get lucky in the future and reach profit, there is no way you can make sure about it today.

and besides you should all stop wanting to invest in all these ICOs, any person who invests in any of these schemes is helping this particular scamming scheme grow more and more. and after a while we will only see altcoins that are created and then live 1 month before they die completely!

is this a joke or is this really happening?
13 brand new accounts on this topic advertising Primedice? shill much?

it was suggested before to OP to make this topic self moderated and remove this type of advertising from shills i wonder why he didn't listen and continue letting this happen?

you are mistaking bitcoin with a bank issued note or something!

even if satoshi comes out of anonymity and says "I am for or against Segwit" it should not matter either way. any person should make their own decisions on these matters, satoshi is not god

NO it can NOT.
what you see on that chart is a bad comparison of apples and oranges. you see two lines one is in USD the other one is in BTC it would be like comparing time with temperature

and the reason why marketcap (shown on the chart in USD) went down and price (shown on the chart in BTC) went up is because bitcoin price had gone down. if you check the market cap in BTC with price in BTC or both of them in USD you can see they both change together.
because simply put the formula is this:
This value for ripple currently is 308,833.75043664BTC or 241,127,889.763992 USD

i think all of us are the same but also at the same time it is mostly about how much you win. for instance if i win a big prize like in making 100% profit i will surely withdraw all my winnings and continue with the amount that i had before. but since i usually win smaller amounts like a 10-50% profit, i leave it on top of my bankroll to have a slightly bigger bankroll and then withdraw when all these winnings are accumulated to a bigger amount.

these days everyone with the smallest amount of programming knowledge (as much as  a hello world! project) thinks they can start a new altcoin. and all they have in their little minds is money. that is why we keep seeing lots of ICO scams, and too many coins that are dead in the waters before they can even stay around for a couple of months. so yeah the market is flooded bad.

i agree. none of these tech giants will ever be interested enough to get into bitcoin "mining"
but on the other hand i think they will eventually start integrating bitcoin into their systems someday soon. Microsoft has been working with some altcoins in their Microsoft Azure, and i am sure that Amazon has been receiving so many requests requesting them to add bitcoin and they will give in to the requests. and these two are enough for bitcoin to go mainstream and to the moon from then on.

first of all bitcoin is not anonymous and it never was.
and about your question i have to say when they don't have it in their terms and services when you sign up they have to warn people about it when they change their policy and destroy any information they may have kept before the new rules.