The biggest share of bounty hunters have been from third world countries because it is so easy to fool them with a promise of big money and sadly they fall for it too.

Point is that if they dont learn from their mistakes then they are fooling only themselves. I have seen how helplessly they start flooding TG channels and threads about non-payment but they dont ask themselves if the project was legitimate at all.

Of course everyone is drawn to the smell of free money and the prevalence of bounty has reduced. It would better for such users to build up their rank here and take part in other modes of earning than spamming bounties.

Both have their Pros and Cons. Depending on the situation one can be better or worse than the other. The point is that the problem in question is not about UPI, rather it denotes Fiat vs Bitcoin age-old debate.

Still a bit early to say that, but I like your optimism.

But if you have time at hand and thinking of buying a lambo like @webtricks did, you might prefer doing a method that allows unlimited volume of money to be transferred without any hassle.

LN will improve a lot of the merchant acceptance of bitcoin. We will see better and useful changes in bitcoin payment system them. So I am hopeful of it in the future of our economy.

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Webtricks buying lambos joke is getting old, isnt it?

Everyone is a stalker deep down isnt it?

There are players on the site who ended up losing but then cursed the site made bad threads saying site is scam for years but then there are people like TheQuin who understood that the site is fair and accepted their losses and moved on with it.

This is called being mature, because the ability to move on and accept mistakes is what makes us bigger what we thought ourselves to be. I am getting pretty philosophical right?

But I appreciate that TheQuin helped wetsuit in keeping everything working and allowing the work to be divided. After all this is the oldest bitcoin "faucet" that is still working as it is supposed to work.

The thing is that even if apps are not trade list, they are what is running the world today. Even new project is developing their own app and marketing it. This generate revenue and this what the smartphone ecosystem is working on.

Banning an app like say facebook would lead to massive amount of loss for the company and its investors. Thus it is a type of diplomatic stance to prevent them from doing what they were doing and making money off it. Now I agree that it does not seem conventional but it is effective. Some countries have done so in past and I appreciate this current stance by the Indian government.

The youth of this country needs to understand what is important to them and not get clogged on social media bullshit.

We can assume that their number is high because whenever we talk about whales are not talking about individual "retail" investors but hedge funds and capital funds. So these can be considered to be a part of the institutions putting their money or out of bitcoin. Proper numbers are to be taken with a grain of salt, how much of it is true is questionable and often politically influenced but they are there, no doubt about it.

Now if they are whales then the investment amount is significant. JP Morgan made Bitcoin purchases and I am sure the rest of the banking sector did too. So it is not something to push under the carpet, they will become significant more with time.

I disagree. The bounty boom was in 2016-17. 2018 was when the price of bitcoin dropped from a non-organic pump in 2017 and thus all altcoins also dropped with it. This dragged the finances of the ICO projects to zero value and revealed the fact that they are nothing but hyped up shitecoins with no intrinsic value of their own. So even if there were some "good" bounties they are worthless now.

Its more like 99% of them. It is better to focus on other ways to earn if you are looking for that. Signature campaigns paying in bitcoin are good but you need to work on your rank to get into one.

I dont like to say that some period is good or bad. It is a part of the cycle. Maybe in future we will see better developments and new types of bounties where spammer and cheating is very low.

I made these type 1 flags here:

MrKnight8686 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2118
bixbem90 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2119
PDAngel - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2120
MrPhil - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2121
M0neyGrabb3r - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2122
fern123 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2123

Well to be honest, even bitcoin is not that useful is hiding tracks. But is that of concern to the people who are dealing with it in a legally approved fashion? No, the ones who are going to be spooked are the money launderers and straight up criminals who are using bitcoin and/or privacy coins for for wrongdoings.

Whether every and every privacy coin is useful or not is a different question. XVG and PIVX are shitcoins in my view, you all might think different. XMR is still useful but I always prefer bitcoin over anything else because even if it is pseduo-anonymous, I have nothing to hide.

Moreover not every government is going to spend their resources to track down users. They have other work at hand but chances are there if in future bitcoin gains a bigger share of the economy then changes might be seen.

How much do you speculate as "a lot"? It can be 1 or 10 or 1000 or any number. Does not mean that it is significant comparing it to the number of people not inevsting in bitcoin.

What you think is not always correct. Many people hate bitcoin for reasons of their own.

Going with that sense, people have been investing in gold and stocks for years now. Have they become "boring"? Nope, they still are booming. Rather most seasoned traders prefer to stick to their familiar markets instead for their own. Everyday new traders are entering every market trying their luck or skills.

So your idea of "boring" is false here.

You should not give out KYC to an project owner who is developing something new. It can and will lead to identity theft. You are free to do KYC with businesses that you use everyday like a local bank or a local stock exchange broker but definitely not a fund-raised project that is far from being operational.

Everyone is greedy, no doubt about it but the point is that people hide their greed to make it look legitimate till they leave. A good example is the Advisors who join a project, they are just interested in the money they will get with the project's promotion and they have a fixed lock in period after which they will dump the coins and leave.

There are so many reasons why these bounty campaigns have no good effect on the participants and are always a gamble.

But money is money right? Losing ETH of 100 dollars value and losing BTC of 100$ value is essentially same if you talk in terms of dollar cost averaging. What differs is that they are two different assets and thus their market movements are different.

Thats why see more whales are spending BTC like anything on casinos when bitcoin price drops, probably they bought more bitcoin against USD when price dropped. I can understand that people would be more willing to keep bitcoin for a long term store of value instead of gambling with it. It is a reasonable decision.

Thanks for the new inputs, I have edited the OP to update the changes. It seems this user has a lot of accounts that are connected.

I have asked @M0neygrabb3r personally to post in this thread but they are not willing to.

This is the evidence I have collected about an old defaulter of mine that had taken a loan from me in Primedice. Unfortunately they cut contact and I assumed it to be defaulted. Loans were non-collateral there, so dont ask me why I didnt take a collateral.. Primedice forum also shut down its lending section but I made a snapshot of the page where he last communicated as well as the thread where scams are resolved in their forum.

The last message on my lending thread was here  towards the lower end of the page- https://web.archive.org/web/20180921112947/https://forum.primedice.com/topic/29174-lending-ultrabank-loans-at-low-interest-rate/?page=6&tab=comments

The resolution thread, he was banned and never came back to repay - https://forum.primedice.com/topic/30124-mrknight8686-defaulted-on-a-loan/

His usernames are MrKnight8686 (PD) and that is linked to the same username on bitcointalk - mrknight8686
via this post - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2272980.msg23105446#msg23105446
archived: http://archive.is/pOB3q#selection-1937.10-1937.23

Now that account is long inactive and abandoned, so I did some more digging and found out these-
His eth address was 0xa997C16ac933B4fE5207A81fd0eEA5C5295D6143
This has been used on bitcointalk by - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=980142
archived - http://archive.is/3O0MO#selection-553.0-553.42

So from this bixbem90 = mrknight8686

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Next,
His stake username is same. Used by user PDAngel
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1051629
here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2334624.msg24087262#msg24087262
http://archive.is/HzVIG#selection-4243.16-4243.29

How is MrKnight8686 (stake) and PDangel (bitcointalk) and MrKnight8686 (bitcointalk) connected?
https://forum.stake.com/topic/1407-wanted-bitcointalk-trust/?tab=comments#comment-26596
archived - http://web.archive.org/web/20181006153213/https://forum.stake.com/topic/1407-wanted-bitcointalk-trust/?tab=comments

PDAngel has another alt on Primedice - GodBlessU
proof here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2130097.msg21287143#msg21287143
archived - http://archive.is/xkYNI#selection-4230.0-4230.1

So from this bixbem90 = mrknight8686 = PDAngel

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PDAngel is using another Telegram account now -  @RockPrincess , Twitter account - https://twitter.com/auxterojunior
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5160104.msg51690973#msg51690973
archived - http://archive.is/eUGWS#selection-4602.0-4621.32

His telegram ID @rockprincess and twitter is being used by following UIDs:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1128571 archived here - http://archive.is/QjSXM#selection-2461.0-2477.33
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2649312 archived here - http://archive.is/HEzzK#selection-1435.0-1441.32

Now twitter account can be sold, but telegram accounts? I doubt that and it is very likely the same person. Checking the signup dates of MrPhil and M0neygrabb3r, one can see that the second one signed up right after the first one was tagged.

So from this, bixbem90 = mrknight8686 = PDAngel = MrPhil = M0neyGrabb3r

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Listed addresses are posted here -

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On the basis of the above statements I would like @bob123 and @M0neyGrabb3r to post what they have to say and I am accusing M0neyGrabb3r for defaulting and making multiple accounts to evade the default. I would like to hear what other DT have to say about this as well. I am not making a flag immediately but I will in the next 2days if I dont get a proper response from the accused.

If there is any question regarding the evidence, please post here, I will try to simplify it. It is a lot of information to go through and I have been collecting it for the last 2 years before I decided to finally call it out. The loan amount was around 20-30$ at that time but it is only 10$ today since ETH dropped in price. Still it has been a pain in the back for me, so I had to post this. I have already talked with @Parodium from whom @bixbem90 took a loan but was also never paid.

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New inputs from this thread:

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02/02/2021
Another account was caught by @lovesmayfamilis https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5260063.msg56249298#msg56249298

flag on LimLims - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2613

What happened with QuadriCEX is one of a kind. I am sure that a similar method was being followed in other exchanges too but after that incident they probably changed their systems.

Both Liquidity and trust are important IMO. Its more a speculation at this stage because we have not see any more development of a new kind in the exchanges sector but we have seen what people use mostly and that is CEXes that their currency supports.

For exchanging, truly decentralization is probably a myth.

Honestly they are not related. Betwrong was probably having a lucky streak getting such numbers more frequently but this is pure luck. In general the probability checks out and you should let luck do its work and not try to change it because it is not possible to do so. The number of times a person will hit those big numbers can be calculated and the average number of rolls to get a chance of hitting them is close to that.

It is best if you  keep a tab running while working on PC and claim it every hour for a few hours and then leave it for the rest of the day. You might hit one of the big numbers and be happy about it, but dont spend time hunting for them.

As soon as I saw the topic title, I was sure that OP is bullshitting.
Turned out that I was right as always.

Hhampuz is a man of of his word. Most of such threads end up being clickbait anyway. Sadly this a forum so no way to control such topics from being made.

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Dont trust but verify.

You can start by posting the name of your exchange here.

Make an ANN (announcement) thread in "Service Announcements" first and follow how other sites have done their ANN. If you need help, contact any of the bitcointalk ANN/graphics designers. You can find a lot of them here -Overview of Bitcointalk Designers

Next job would be to start a bitcointalk signature campaign like OSS said.

Then go for promotional content on news media sites like cointelegraph and others. Some managers here might be able to link you up with them for a sweet deal so make sure to ask them first.

You said yourself that lottery is unpredictable but then again you ask if there is any method to predict it. Whats your point?

If gambling on an EV- game would have been predictable then it would not be a type of gambling any more. A lottery is a game of chance and that is why very few people win it, more so unexpectedly.

Now one player may amass large number or tickets so their chance of winning increases. But the amount spent would be bigger than the largest possible win, otherwise the casino would go bankrupt - use your common sense.

Regarding your blog, I would suggest you to describe about lottery, its methods, its history and types and follow that up with sites that play lotteries or state lotteries and add in your referral link there. That totally depends on your choice of content.

The OP has made a few topics in this regard. I dont know if they are hunting some bounties even today but I would advice them to stop doing it because they are essentially wasting their time.

Many such projects have made even the bounty managers suffer. They were also promised pay but they didnt get it and team ghosted them. I have even seen managers paying from their own pockets just so because they didnt want the hunters to feel bad.

But do the hunters realize this? Or are they too selfish to think twice?

Reading what @irfan_pak10 said, if they can make bounty payments ensured, I guess that would be like prepaid amount escrowed and kept safe till the end, that would be a good thing.

Yeah they are rare but they do exist and to be honest it is not something that the errand-boy type spamming campaign like the ones for twitter and facebook. Bug hunting is a professional job and so if they are paying something for it, it is usually a big amount as you have pointed out. Hence not everyone is qualified or knowledgeable to take part in that.

Moreover if some is a security expert they would have a better paying job itself than go for a bug bounty but there are freelancers and younger students who might be interested in them.