We have to understand why people keep using the words doomed or dead or destroyed with assets. Thing is these assets are never destroyed unless they are destroyed physically. That's also one point where bitcoin excels over precious metals and gems.

Now investors are divideable into two types : one who have a belief and has reasoning behind their belief and ones who just blindly follow something because someone told them to buy something.

This second group always feels these emotions when their held asset drops in price. They will blindly try to associate the cause of the drop to any reason which they can think of. That is how the human mind works.

It is possible to write an article with anonymous identities If one wishes. Like the name withheld type of writings.  But I guess this topic is more for the non-anonymous type of writings. Be aware though that most gamblers will end up in a loss if they continue the normal trend. But there will be some who are wise enough to stop and make the most of the money.

Stories are often paid promotional content from casino owners as well. Don't trust the stuff posted in media always, they are often suited to provoke people into doing something.

The craze with AI is real and scum projects have used this hype to promote their scams for a long time. A single ico or crypto will not change the world economy by becoming the next bitcoin. It is an absurd claim that some projects make and some newbies fall for them too.

People should be wise to not listen to such vaporware but still they do. That's how they learn their lesson. But there will always be a desh flow of idiots to follow these same steps to make the same mistakes.

The funding through the ico is for development itself. So how do you say that they will be developed before funding? What they can or will have is an MVP or  a beta form of the final version.

The point is that majority of the projects don't have a market to sell their project to so they fail.

That applies to bounty hunters too. They don't watch this similarity.

Casinos games like poker and rummy are already popular. Dont know if Bridge is played anywhere but it is also good. Sports betting is always there. You see coming up with a new game is a very difficult thing to do. Homemade games may be specific to a certain casino and they will bank on that game to be their marketing avatar.

Chess, checkers are games that need skills but putting money on those games makes it even more interesting. I think this is one sector that is not yet received the involvement of crypto investors to set up a casino and might be a good market in future.

Up and down are the two directions the market price of an asset can move to. Now I see people find stagnant prices disturbing, downward prices disturbing. I mean what else do these people want? Always going up? Nope that wont happen. It would be better for such mindset people to just stop trading for some time.

Actually the volatility is a measure with respect to time. If you see pre-January2020 prices and compare that to 2019 prices the volatility is on average less than 5%. Such incidents happen once a while. Hence it is wrong to use this price drop to call something too volatile because it is actually not so.
Panic and speculation. No direct correlation unless proven.

That is the problem with online tutorials. They are good for non specific things but if you want trading courses it is better to teach yourself or read a book. The fact that youtubers are nothing more than paid shills pumping their own altcoins makes it even more dangerous for newbies to follow them and give the video makers free ad revenue. Dont ever sell your view to these people who are nothing more than scum. But not all youtubers are like that, most of them are. So again you have to use your judgement to sieve off those publishers who are legitimate.

  Paid courses are blanket scams. You have heard of the suppoman scum havent you? Used to run paid courses and then give them out for free on his youtube channel. Those who paid 20 pounds for it were crying scam but got banned from his telegram channel. Nice scam if you ask me.

Scams are always there. They are a part and parcel of life and though one can be careful to invest or not scams will not reduce ever. A project can be good but it may fail due to other reasons because developing a projects needs strength in finances, marketing and token economics. Every project that failed started with a motto and a roadmap to follow but did they manage to make enough money always?

The thing is that speculation drew a crowd at one time but it was not based on anything concrete which is why they all failed. From the bounty hunters perspective a failed project and a scam are one and the same.

One may consider investing for long term and trading is short term but these are interchangeable terms actually. So if you are able to generate profits everyday then dont be disheartened. While losses  are common it is useless to brood over that whether it was supposed to be a investment or trade.

Try going with both and see which ones works for a certain user. The important thing is to do research and perform dummy trades befor starting and not going in for the shitcoins.

Although we all talk about being controlled gamblers there are people among us who are gambling a lot and not being able to stop playing. If they are unable to control their urge it becomes bad for them and their close ones. Becoming a compulsive gambler is correctable and it is important to recognise such a person early so that others can come in to help.

Check you bankroll, playing times and family time to get an idea of how much you are spending online.

It is a good time to buy since coins have dropped to a low and there are less opportunities like this in future where prices will come down this much. Then we also can be somewhat sure that the reason for the drop was the virus panic and not any other reason. It will get better with time and the situation will improve with time.

At that time you will not have crypto at hand to sell for fiat. Missing out this opportunity may be a bad choice if you are looking to encash the panic.

Previously when these changes were not there the first page of bounty section used to be filled with new posts. Now it is only 75% of the last bumped threads. Truely the craze for bounty has reduced but there are still some fools going for them. This is a side effect of the low income countries who have bots and alt accounts to spam the forum and get paid for such transgressions.

Good bounty managers like you keep the spam in check which I appreciate a lot as well as reporting alt accounts.

Just another way of saying that you gone broke.

Wut?

You expct someone to give you 600$ worth of money with the full risk? Would you do that in real life too? Ripping people off?

Are you asking for a loan or trying to sell an account?

Stop blabbering incoherent bullshit.

You will find better "partners" if you offer something valuable as collateral for your loan.

Stop begging for such deals.

Do you have any prior trade feedback of a successful trade? Paypal is a very risky mode of payment considering the chargeback and because it is a reversible mode of payment. You can easily scam the partner using the chargeback if there was bitcoin used to pay.

If you are not from India you cant even get a Paytm KYC done. Now how do you expect to get transfers done there from user to user? It needs both users to have undergone full KYC.

Your best approach would be to ask the service to accept paypal as payment or use other methods to pay. Without any prior trading feedback anybody doing this trade is at high risk of getting scammed.

On another note:

Dont let that thought get the better of you. Bad times happen to every trader but it is important to note what went wrong from your side. Panic buying/selling or going FOMO? Not buying the dip or mistiming the order?

Long term hodling you mean? Yes that is profitable considering you bought at three digit prices and now the price is obviously more than 10x of the buying price. But then again there is always the good effects of using a 1000$ capital to buy sell daily and keep the money flow coming in. Converting to fiat makes you exit the market temporarily to tide over bitcoin bear scenario.

Very good. I hope you can keep it like that. Most of the gamblers are unable to continue doing so. Make sure you spend time on other stuff too in order to keep your habits in check.

Would suggest you not to consider gambling as an investment. Unless you are investing in the casino's bankroll it is not an investment. If you are playing against the house you are having a lesser odds of making a profit than the house. Thus it will be a loss especially if the game is an EV- one.

For skill based games, maybe if you are a good poker player, it can be your investment or staking someone whom you know.

Upto the OP to post it there if they wish too.

True but we dont see much of them coming to check these sections at all. Their life here is only login-bounty-logout.

They will come back, like 4months after completion of the promo and spam the bounty thread begging for reward and not reading the posts. Sucks to be these pople.

You cannot help a person who has a flawed insight and does not know how to judge investments. There is nothing called free money here. Anything being given out free will end up being your loss.

I feel these two different words which do not have any direct correlation. Maybe a single mode of payment unifies people from the globe. So the second phrase is more correct.

There are other digital payment systems too. Bitcoin got its popularity from the price changes that were huge in terms of dollar cost. The there were the bad PR of bitcoin being used to fund wrongdoings, even though fiat has always been used in the same manner.

It is still a long way from globalization and this is a longshot idea but possible.

Understanding it is not that tough. With time you get to know some of the intricacies of bitcoin and how it works. While this is important for the developers, the merchants don't need much knowledge but they should.

Faster payments is though better with visa and MasterCard but with lightning network we might see better bitcoin usage with fast transfers. Here altcoins often get a pitch because their blockchains often remain less congested. But don't let that concept make you enter too much into altcoins

Price currently shows a downtrend towards 7k though. If you had fiat to hold this would be a good time to buy based on indicators showing "oversold". Don't know about holding stable coins though, while bear market is going on.

Converting is needed if you want to keep the cash flow going. If you hodl stubbornly then it is your loss only. Recycle the money at the proper points and then use those lots to keep the trading going.