I know it is a number-juggling method to fool people. That is what bounties have been all along, just now that people are realizing their folly here. A big token number allocation does not mean the value per token is high, rather it will be small since the bounty share is limited of the entire ICO funds. You cant expect the project to give out huge amounts of money to twitter spammers for spamming like a bot.

Yet some people never learn and take part. Of course they are at fault but the bad thing is they dont make amends to their mistakes.

The basic concept behind them remains same always. A method of using fear, greed or uncertainity to bluff the victim's logical modality and then lure them give money.

They are not qualified to be called "experienced" if they are getting scammed everywhere. Probably they are making similar mistakes and not learning from them. If they expect to give a 100$ to every cloud mining "scam" and expect to get 1000$ in return then they are fools.

They can make money because someone will always get fooled by the scam methods. Just take these bounty hunters who are not getting paid because they actually promoting scams. They could have done some research and understood but they chose not to and now go for another campaign to get their wallets filled with shitcoins.

Gratz on that big win. I guess you are my protege now, havent been watching this thread for sometime and its good that the thread has reached so many pages now. I was one of the first few members to report a big win here and it was the one and only 10000 number roll giving a 200$ and that was my lucky day. You can find my post in the first page of this thread if you are interested

Dont spend it all at once!

You "think" or have a reason to say so? If you just think that you are losing a gambling streak because the game is forcing you to lose then you are suffering from the delusion that all gamblers face during gambling on an EV- game. You should verify the bets to make sure they are valid and that is all the casino can do to help your ease your mind. The rolls created on dice games and such are random and the site does not control them in any manner so stop making wrong conclusions. They would not be here without a "scammer" flag if they were rigging the bets.

EV+ games are skill based but not completely if that is what you are talking about.

It is a good thing that you realized your problem. I know it takes time and often a sacrifice to realize the reality which is often forgotten by the addicted gambler. Lets hope you dont waste too much money in whatever you are doing right now and manage your money in a more responsible manner. You are an adult and you are expected to manage the money to suit your spending and saving.

I would not say that it is impossible to save an addict from the worst corners of life but it is tough to recover from big losses. The one person who can make a difference there is the player realizing their mistake and not committing to that same habit again.

Lets keep gambling to a state where you can manage your bankroll and time spent and not put it before friends and family.

I dont think fast transactions and usage have a direct correlation when you bring in the adoption and knowledge about the method in the first place. There are many people who dont know that bitcoin exists, even if they do know that, they still dont know where to buy it or where to spend it. We are among a niche few who know and use bitcoin but adoption becomes a deciding factor at one time.

Well blockchain technology is being used by different tech companies for various purposes and they open up new avenues of thoughts no ventured before or more services for the commoners.

It wont happen at any time. Not even in future will we see a certain project outrun BTC. The only people saying so are the fools who were fooled into buying some shitcoin and are now wading in deep waters to sell their coin and crying to not find a decent buy order. It sucks to be them, but it is the effect of their flawed decisions. Hope they learn a lesson.

Bitcoin has the long term holding effect there. Altcoins mainly have been pump and dump and not something to hold for long term.

While I appreciate that some users attempt o expose these scams, end of the day the scammers are the winners. They will fool some noob everyday using newer methods and they will never stop. While this needs a lot of effort, the scammers keep doing it and thus you have to assume that they are having a good time doing so. What is needed is awareness and a strict bitcoin only investment portfolio management.

You will not be able to expose and conclude every project to be a scam or not scam, even a blanket scam or a legit but failed project. Sometimes you are just taking a risk and you have to accept that if you want to go in for their bounty.

Every project get the ICO funds in a trusted escrow agent. Be it from this forum or private institutions who are also investors of the project. Now they may turn scam one fine day but that was your bad luck that you bought them.

True, but do the bounty hunter care? They are in it for the money and any way they can get it will be enough for them. So they go for the bounties with high payouts being fooled with greed and thus waste their time and reputation promoting a scam project. They obviously lack the brains and are less fortunate enough to not be informed or even have the intelligence to comprehend the signs.

If you think that giving out some money to a person on the internet give you returns of huge values, then you are a fool.

Every scam happens like this and there is no end to the number of similar scams happening which dont get reported anywhere. Law enforcement cant help you because it was your fault in the first place and Ethereum is a non reversible currency.

But I am not sure if posting those personal information (which may anyway go away) is allowed here in this section. Doxing is only allowed in the "Investigations" section of the forum. You have posted there already, so why not link it here and remove the details?

as per https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5227265.msg53877716#msg53877716

The main problem is with trust. You will trust an exchange who is transparent and even if they force KYC on you, but they are operating from your country, at least you have a legal position on them to sue in case they ever turn to scam. But then what about those DEXs that scammed? Did they ever end up paying the money they owed to their users?

Of course people should not store coins on exchanges for long duration, still a part of the fault lies on the exchange owners. The exchange was made to faciliate trading and the people who go scammed on that exit - possibly the "zeroday" ones are the worst to suffer.

Now we have seen prosecutions on CEX owners but maybe not everyone of them will become like Mtgox still, they are trusted by traditionally most people than DEXs.

Everyone in this forum is. Do you see everyone of them getting a job here that pays for their food everyday?

This forum has a "Services" board where you can look for people in need of workers on different things. If you have some skills in community management, designing websites, signature and avatars you can get a one time job and once you build a good reputation and keep working on it gradually you can get better deals from bigger projects. There is also signature campaigns but for that you need to reach the higher ranks.

If you want an honest answer, just like you need to work real hard to get a real life job, it is same here. Bitcoin is not going to make your life easier by offering you new jobs that suit you, rather it is the opposite. Keep it as a side earning and not something to buy your daily bread with.

The gamblers like the thrill so they play. I am sure most dice game lovers dont compute everything even if they start with the idea of being careful about how much bankroll they are putting in, end of the day when the losses start getting stacked up they just all in the money that they had left. Rage bet is nothing new and it is one of consequences of emotions making a bad effect on gambling.

Of course the casinos are there to fill a demand. The habit of gambling is inherent in every human and thus they need casinos to get rid of the incessant tingling of their mind to play their luck. Whether it be buying some lottery tickets at the local bar or rolling the dice is upto them.

Both statements are necessarily wrong. It pumps price not due to the process but due the people putting in money and same drop could happen if people were to sell off their coins. Holders dont get profit out of the blue, but only if they sell their coins.

It is an inherent property of bitcoin and its mining. Those who invest in mining companies know of this risk and have learnt that it is a necessary evil.

But that is not related to mining and halving. The shortage of bitcoin is inherent. There will never be a higher availability of bitcoin than demand. It was how the system was meant to be: Deflationary.

True, which is why the first statement is wrong.

Seems optimistic but problem is that most altcoin projects are designed to be hidden pump and dump schemes. The fools who invest in those are going to lose big time while the owners become rich. Do you expect the owners to be in it for the tech or the bigger picture? You are wrong if you think that. Of course not all of them are bad.

But are they working on any? In a true sense bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency the public needs. Rest of them are like sideliners with no function and adds in redudancy which people try to justify using flawed logic.

What is needed is adoption and use of bitcoin. No need for any altcoin to be there. Lets hope for the better but altcoins will not be anything big in the long run. Bitcoin is and the first and the leader.

Texas holdem is a good game to play if you are well versed in it. Then again a real life game attracts a niche crowd there than the online games but online option is available. Many of the casinos here allow the p2p poker games where collusion is kept to a minimum but that fear is always there.

Still skeptical about how much the p2p associated skill and the EV+ aspect would be in RPS game in online mode.

Who said lottery is a p2p game? It is not. Lottery is a completely EV- game and you chance of losing is more than winning. Dont bet on lotteries to win jackpots, you will be broke before you know it.

There are signature campaigns being posted in the "Services" section here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0
The above pay in bitcoin though.

You can visit the bounties section for altcoin projects but they are more of a hit and run thing for earning like 2weeks on one project and then move on to 2week for another project. Not anything decent if you ask me.

Moreover you are going to sell those coins for money right? Now these tokens may not be worth any fiat and then you would be selling bitcoin anyway so why no go for the bitcoin campaigns. I always encourage that people go for bitcoin campaigns because the end result of altcoin campaigns is always anxiety and depression of not being able to sell the coins for anything worth the time spent on them.

See it is not necessarily true that the low allocation of the bounty saves the project from its hunters dumping their tokens. The hunters joined because they wanted to dump and make some quick cash. This is the side effect of giving bounties for every project and not being exclusive to few projects which showed their generosity for the community in this way of getting a bounty pool.

That may be one of the reasons but truth is that bounty hunting days are over. If you want to earn some altcoins buy them - put in your cash and buy them. You can always go for bitcoin paying campaigns and that is what people should focus on more on.

  Not for those who have a good control over English and can start a decent conversation here. It is definitely not tough for any average user to start posting and once they get the hang of it they will improve on their own as long as they follow the forum rules.

If you dont like then dont go for it. Campaign payments are not proper jobs but side earnings so they should not be considered to be a main source of income.

Preference is given to users who have a good Merit:post ratio but then managers have their own yardstick of taking whom they wish. Like I said, if you dont like it, leave it. While it is a completely wrong to assume that managers enroll only their friends into campaigns, it is true that they give a importance to quality over quantity.

Nope.

I would not suggest that directly. Too many scammers here even though some precious metal owners are legit but still using an escrow for the trade is essential.

Also they can use fiat to buy precious metals after selling bitcoin which seems like a two step process but a feasible one if direct transfer is not possible.

Again there may be local dealers in the person's marketplace of local boards or locality which is also good.

But in general there is always a risk of gold quality when taking it from P2P systems than an exchange.