It's hard to measure the real potential of the national teams from this group, because all of them are at similar performance levels, that totally contrasts with teams from South America and Europe, which usually present much superior skills' levels. But it would be really nice to see teams like USA and Canada reaching the quarter finals, at least. As I see they are constantly trying to improve their soccer proficiency every 4 years and never give up, especially USA, which has never been out of a world cup since 1990, with the exception of the last one in Russia, four years ago.

How much are faucet users making hourly right now? Is it possible to reach at least 1$?

A good moment to buy bitcoin is always now, on the present! There are lots of people who keep waiting for the perfect moment, the perfect dip to finally acquire their first portion of bitcoin, but that is actually a big mistake, because nobody can predict it accurately. So what happens is that these people never start investing and when they realize this fact, it's already too late, because bitcoin becomes too expensive for them to buy a nice amount of satoshis. That is why people should just invest in bitcoin, doesn't matter the currently price, while not getting anxious to see financial returns on short run.

Now I expect Cameroon versus Senegal for the final countdown. I think it's safe to bet on Cameroon against Egypt or Morocco and on Senegal against Equatorial Guinea and Burkina Faso next. For the finals, however, I think it can be an interesting duel with both teams scoring and fighting for the title fiercely, although Cameroon really look like the favorite and more skilled these days.
I just hope violence scenes like the ones seen on the game between Cameroon and Comoros don't repeat themselves for the next games. That was a barbaric shame for african soccer, leading to 8 deaths.

Another frustration was the way Ghana ended its participation on the championship. That was not the same Ghana from past world cups...

This is a profitable kind of business, but not applicable everywhere. Even if I say I prefer to work with the rich, it might not be my reality, because the area where you live heavily influences on this. If you live in poor zones, it's very unlikely you will be able to start a business focused in rich customers. It will be probably a waste of money and time, so you always need to adapt yourself to your own reality or move yourself to somewhere else where you will find the target audience you are looking for in abundance. Moreover, rich customers will demand improved skills and quality from the services offered, so you have to make sure to deliver what they are expecting.

Meanwhile, businesses focused on the masses let the quality in second plan and focus more on affordable prices for everyone. So they rely on the quantity of sales in order to make decent profit.

From the total list of 26 companies, only 3 businesses belong to the Software sector, while 15 are exclusive from crypto industry (mining, exchange or investment firm). More than half of the institutional investors from the top 26 are actually crypto businesses. It gives an impression mainstream companies are still avoiding bitcoin on their treasuries.

It's very nice to see a strong adopter like MicroStrategy always supporting bitcoin during its hardest moments, but without competition it doesn't make much sense. Because it's competition which keeps any markets alive and thriving. That means, more companies purchasing and accumulating bitcoin at same time. Hegemony isn't good in this case...

It looks like "man lost everything to his addictions" would fit better as the title of these news. Of course crypto investments are risky and it's possible to lose money if you pick the wrong coins or sell them at the wrong time, but it doesn't mean people are going to lose everything because of a bad move, exclusively.

Since he lost all he had I suppose it has something to do with his behavior, mindset, methods, strategies (or the lack of them) when investing, and not with his luck or crypto market itself. I just feel sad because news like this discourage average people to try experimenting cryptocurrency, as they imagine the same is going to happen to them, so they are going to lose everything as well.

You are right, because first of all the addicted gambler himself must want to stop gambling to overcome his addiction. No friends, family or therapists can cure an addiction if the individual on the center of the issue is reluctant in doing so. Third parties' help is useful as a support and as an incentive to encourage the addicted gambler during the hard times, when he may think about giving up his fight for sobriety. However, the battle is always fought by the addicted person, so the biggest part of the effort must come from him. He must be confident and resilient until the end.

Thank you, I hope you are lucky to win any of those sweet prizes as well! We don't want those rewards to get old, dusty and forgotten on freebitco,in's shelf without any winners, right?
But so far I've accumulated only 276 spins.

Well, that was something I wasn't aware of. I believed satoshis, RPs and lottery tickets prizes would keep increasing without being limited to 50 as btc price goes down...

Big sums of money leaving crypto market in one shot (whales cashing out) are responsible for that. Sentiments come only later, when every investors else realize what happened, so they become pessimistic about the currently market conditions, what can lead to further corrections in bitcoin's price, and consequently in altcoins' prices as well due to panic selling.
Anyway small investors (most of us) don't have a big impact in bitcoin price: positively or negatively, it doesn't matter. Bitcoin drives crypto market and whales drive bitcoin price...

It's undeniable El Salvador increases its debt regards the investment made in bitcoins when compared to the price it was bought if the cryptocurrency's price keeps falling. Although it's not a problem for now, as the investment was made aiming long term returns for the country's treasury. Only in some years or in a decade we will be able to conclude if that was a good step or not for El Salvador to have invested in bitcoin.

The point is that El Salvador faces a difficult economical situation for a long time already, currently with 84% of its GDP compromised with debt and I don't think bitcoin is going to be a magical tool which will solve all their financial problems suddenly. The government actually needs to attract foreigner investors and foreigner funds to their country in order to increase the GDP and decrease debt. It's not an easy task though. Tourism could be a decent source of income for the country, but the pandemic difficults it from happening. Moreover, there are so many countries and islands around which directly compete for the same kind of public in tourism sector.

I'm also saving my spins to use all at once when bitcoin reaches a cheaper price yet. I expect bitcoin is still going to crash a little more, because US Federal Reserve has said interest rates for investors is going to be raised soon, and from the moment it happens on, whales are probably going to cashout more funds from bitcoin to invest on traditional american markets, what will make bitcoin lose value.
Then it will be the perfect time for long term holders to use the wheel spins, maximizing satoshis earnings to keep for the future. Have a good weekend!

There are those who were scammed by Mt. Gox exchange in 2014 and are going to receive their money back probably this year. That is what it's expected accordingly to the last news and accordingly to the CEO Mark Karpeles. However, as bitcoin became too valuable along the years, these investors aren't going to receive the same amount of bitcoins they had back then. It's really not the perfect ending, but at least they are going to receive more money in fiat than they had invested in bitcoin in 2014. After all investors are going to make some profit anyway...

Not putting all your eggs on the same basket, it's fine to use centralized exchanges.

Very nice. I use an app called Alter (formerly AlterBank) which is unfortunatelly exclusive for my country as far as I know. They give a free credit card (although the money is instantly debited from the account) without any kind of fees, plus cashback of 0,5% on every purchases. Users can make deposits in fiat or bitcoin on their accounts and exchange it from one currency to another internally.

So just like you, I follow a similar financial strategy keeping a high percentage of my funds in bitcoin... Every month I exchange the necessary amount of money from btc to fiat for monthly expenses using this app, in order to use the credit card. We are putting high expectations on bitcoin, hum?

I wasn't aware about Crypterium yet. I will take a look on this later, thank you!

Well, many casinos promote their services on this forum for a good reason, that is directly linked to the fact bitcointalk forum holds a lot of legitimacy and influence in crypto gambling industry. If a casino goes shady you can be sure it won't be forgotten on this forum and it will be also very clear for every gambler who might start reading some threads around.

In case of doubt, you can even tell your gambler friends who aren't members of this community to always search on google the name of the casino they are looking for and bitcointalk keyword together to find out if that is a good site to play or not.

Usually another users' experiences are going to make me reach to a final conclusion if the casino is worth or not. If the reviews are positive and there aren't legit complaints I would give it a try without any doubts, but if gamblers are facing constant issues while trying to cashout their funds, making deposits due to delays and having their accounts banned because the casino is trying to difficult the payment process, I would definitely stay far away from that site. Inactive, slow customer support is also a big factor that would most probably turn me off from the platform.

I hope you are right, because here we are one day after my previous post, and bitcoin keeps showing positive fluctuations, already hiting 38,300$ right now. If we continue on this trend, one more day or so and we touch the 40,000$ mark mentioned by you. That would be great for now! Although I'm fearful because recent news say IMF (International Monetary Fund) is forcing El Salvador to give up on bitcoin as legal tender. Theoretically El Salvador is a sovereign state, so no foreigner agents, institutions or funds can impose nothing to them. On the other hand, I have read El Salvador wants a loan of 1,3$ billion dollars from IMF, so there could be a serious bargain going on and the main prejudiced may be bitcoin.

Bitcoin is almost 14 years old, countries have already regulated it or passed laws considering it legal tender, each new day another ATM is settled somewhere in the world, the most influent men in the world confessed they own bitcoin or have interest for it, big companies have been going through the same path.

However, online platforms which offer opportunities for freelancers, which could be the most benefited ones by adopting bitcoin on the practice seems to just ignore it. Sites like OneForma and ClickWorker don't care about improving their payment methods and actually, they are more than one decade late already. They keep forcing users to use Paypal or Payeer, which are terrible depending where you live, as these international payment services are forced to follow local regulations from countries where taxes are heavily imposed over their citizens, especially those who venture working online.

Unfortunatelly there isn't any bitcoin micro tasks site around with the same weight those mentioned sites have on the virtual environment...

In your opinion, why do these popular platforms act like this and completely ignore bitcoin? And why doesn't a platform of the same kind, but using bitcoin, is able to develop itself to compete against the big ones?

It's early to say it yet, because the scenario isn't solid at bitcoin's favour. We have seen a nice fluctuation up to 37,475$ today, but the price is already bouncing back to 36,632$ again. To make sure bitcoin is really recovering, this pattern must repeat itself for the next days until a new support level becomes clear enough in a higher price range than the one we currently have.
For now, the market continues looking bearish and to revert this situation fantastic news are needed. Average news like "bitcoin rised 8%", "investment funds buy 14 million dollars in bitcoin" aren't enough to push btc up. Something bigger is needed...

I agree with you, because centralized exchanges offer extra features that may be interesting for traders and investors, such as staking and investment programs for altcoins and bitcoin, plus debit/credit cards, completely replacing the function of banks in someone's life. The fact they exist as a regulated business also means an extra security layer for customers, as this business can't just scam everyone without consequences for the managers behind the company. Both kinds of exchanges, centralized and decentralized ones, have positive and negative aspects which should be taken in consideration in a case by case basis. Something good for me, might not be good for you, so individual discernment is a must.