It's a double-edged sword. It's true that we see new casinos popping up almost daily, but so do scam accusations and various issues from players who play at unlicensed and unknown platforms. If you get scammed by such a casino, chances are you will never get your money back.

Regulated fiat casinos are more secure in that regard, and you always have regulators and institutions to turn to if you aren't treated properly. Who do you turn to if you play at an unlicensed crypto casino that has no registered address, no public owner, and accepts only crypto? I am sure that some of the new crypto gambling sites are owned by scammers who got caught with their previous projects and now they are back with a new name and design. 

Glad to see it back online. There is a link to the Bitcointalk announcement page as well. Nice!
Hopefully, Google will include the official site in their search results one day as well.

But other search engines such as DuckDuckGo aren't any better either. When you do a search on "chipmixer", you have 4 fake sites among the first 4 results. chipminxer.com, chipmixér.com, chipmlxer.com/, and chipmixres.com. PLEASE DON'T VISIT THESE SITES!
I didn't check beyond the first couple of results, but there are surely more. 

ChipMixer wants a presence on all sub boards as long as they can find suitable users to advertise them properly. Take a look at Trofo, for example. He is part of the ChipMixer campaign.

Trofo has written around 9000 posts on Bitcointalk. Almost 4000 of those are in the Gambling discussion sub.
The other forum subs he likes writing in include Altcoins (Hrvatski), Hrvatski (Croatian), Gambling, and Games and rounds. Actually, if you look at his all-time stats as shown on Ninjastic.space, his TOP 10 sub-forums are not Bitcoin-related. The Services section is in some way. Everything else is gambling, Croatian local, and altcoin boards.     

I don't see where BigTimeGaming has claimed that they are investigating the problem. To be fair, the person you spoke to said he would get someone from the team to look at it. And that's it.

I don't think pressuring Yahoo will get things moving because he is not part of the Gamdom team. He is a campaign manager who was in charge of their signature campaign on the forum. A campaign that has ended in the meantime. If Gamdom decided to stop caring about their reputation or even scam you, I don't think they would care much about what Yahoo thinks about it either. Additionally, yahoo62278 isn't the one claiming you received your money. He responded to my questions and told me the things that the Gamdom team allegedly told him. So those claims originate from Gamdom and the casino owner.

I am going to get in touch with the Gamdom casino support and see what they say when I send them the link to this scam accusation of yours.

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Edit: Gamdom doesn't have live support. But I sent them an email. I will inform the community if and when they respond.

It's because of people like richie king that I wish this forum had a more strict guideline against scammers and not be so lenient with them. Giving people freedom to do what they want is great, but not when their actions can cause harm to others. If you spread malware links on Bitcointalk, you will get banned. If you advertise and post links to fake crypto recovery services that will take your money and disappear, that's OK, you are allowed to do that because of freedom of speech .

Some of my threads are self-moderated and it's neat feature to have. Sometimes I forget to tick the option and at other times I intentionally don't want a self-modded thread.

I personally don't like to see self-moderated threads when money is at stake or someone's reputation. People might question your motives if you are moderating such threads yourself. It makes it look like you are trying to hide something. But with the bots we have scrapping the forum nowadays, that's practically impossible to do.

I also remember seeing reputation threads or accusations against a person or group in threads that were self-moderated and had local rules that restricted those individuals from posting. That doesn't make much sense. You don't accuse someone of something but don't allow them to share their side of the story so that the community can approach the issue in a neutral way.

So you did gamble away a part of your winnings considering that your account balance was $223.000 at one point, but when the account got closed it was down to approximately $200.000.

You said in one of your previous posts that BigTimeGaming has already started investigating. I already asked you how do you know that. Now I am asking again. How do you know there is an investigation ongoing, and can you post some proof where they told you this?

You can't rely on Google either. They obviously don't know what they are doing or they don't care.

That's their problem. It's like clicking on phishing links, downloading fake software, and not verifying it. What can be done is to inform them about the dangers of such actions and recommend what should be done. If they are smarter or don't want to listen, they will face the consequences.   

There you go. Direct them to multiple sources where they can check the real .onion link. If Google interferes again and messes up or a new clearnet site goes down or gets redirected, there is always this ANN thread that should serve as official information. Bitcointalk hasn't had a serious security breach for several years, so the forum is quite reliable.

I share your opinion when it comes to signatures. I don't have them disabled and I don't mind seeing them. I participate in a signature campaign and feel it would be insincere or hypocritical of me to disable forum signatures. I know at least one forum member from the ChipMixer campaign who stated a few years ago that he/she has signatures disabled. The name isn't important and everyone has the freedom to do what they want on Bitcointalk. I personally don't agree with it though.

Seems like a standard debit card. Apparently, cards can be classified as US Debit or Visa Debit cards. The difference between them is in the way you verify yourself. If you pay with a US debit card, you need to enter your PIN. With a VISA Debit, no PIN is required, but you have to sign the receipt.   

That's what I understood from these two sources:
https://www.firstfinancial.org/youth-young-adults/it-all-adds-up/it-all-adds-up-article/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-your-debit-card/
https://support.nmi.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115001293352-US-Debit-vs-VISA-Debit-vs-Direct-Debit

I would like to tweak that suggestion of yours a little bit. They should definitely create a new clearnet website since the old one no longer works, but there shouldn't be a link to the onion website. Instead they should link to this ANN thread and instruct users to check the OP where the correct onion link is posted. Or at least ask customers to verify that the posted onion link on the clearnet site is the same as the one that appears in the Bitcoin ANN. Just in case the clearnet version gets hacked and someone posts a link to a fake mixer. Someone could of course post a link to the wrong Bitcointalk thread or a completely different source, but I think the potential damages are smaller by linking to the ANN thread as well.

Investing all the money you have into an altcoin is wrong in so many ways. It's as if you were to take everything you owned and put it on black on roulette. Just let the ball decide. Investing your life savings into Bitcoin is already an awful thing to do, let alone putting everything on an alt. Unfortunately, no matter how many times this is repeated, people will continue to gamble and speculate with money that can destroy their lives and well being.

Can you show some proof that they have initiated an investigation. Did they tell you that over email or a public post somewhere?

I asked him about it a few days ago in his services thread and he has replied. The casino owner told him that you got paid the following day.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1704638.msg60094377#msg60094377

No one can check those articles because you haven't posted them anywhere. There is only a screenshot of folders in one of your posts. Why don't you upload them to Google Drive and set the visibility to public for anyone that has the links to them. After that, you could share the link in OP. Unfortunately, making them public can also result in your work being stolen, so you have to be aware of that.

If wwzsocki claims that your articles were of low quality, that's a subjective call, and that's his opinion. If he expected something better, you might want to discuss it with him to see what can be improved. Assuming, of course, that everything you said is true. 

I am sure DireWolfM14 will remove the negative tag if there isn't enough evidence to prove that you are a scammer.

According to the screenshots, you first didn't want to work with that person until he sent you the $50. Once he did and you confirmed receiving the coins, what happened next? You told him to get ready and that's where the conversation ends. Are you claiming that the discussion shown in the screenshots is not between you and the OP at all?

Telegram is an awful platform to use for business. The fact that anyone can delete private conversations for both parties is proof of that.

They weren't consumer laptops. Well, one of them was a low-budget multimedia machine which I got a long, long time ago. The second one was a HP EliteBook and the third one was a Dell Vostro. The last two belong to the business class of laptops. The Dell Latitude and Precision series are even better. I have never worked on a Lenovo machine, but all the Thinkpads that caught my attention were really expensive devices.     

I didn't consider that because I would personally never do something like that without checking my exchange account first. Not just to see if the deposits are still allowed, but also to ensure that the address hasn't changed for some reason and that my account is still on good condition (no limits, suspensions, requests for KYC. etc.).

No, not really. I didn't consider the possibility which Bitcoin_Arena brought up that the OP could have saved his deposit address somewhere and just deposited the coins to his account without checking the exchange and the status of the Luna blockchain.

We will know more if we see similar accusations by other users against Gate.io.   

Bitcoin_Arena is correct when he says that an announcement was made that deposits and withdrawals will be suspended 4 days before OP sent those coins. But as okorieemmanuel rightly said, users of Gate.io shouldn't have to go search on Twitter or Gate.io articles whether or not they can deposit, withdraw, or trade their assets. Such instructions need to be available on the wallet page, which shouldn't allow you to display a receiving address at all due to the suspension in trading.

When it comes to accusations of the exchange doing arbitrage trading, that has to be proven, and I doubt OP can do that.

The chances of that happening are are practically zero. I think he is going to Inter.

I disagree. His stats show otherwise. He doesn't score tons of goals and is often sidelined because of injuries.

He scored only 10 goals in 18/19.
17 goals in 19/20.
5 goals in 20/21.
And 15 goals in the current campaign + 6 assists.

You can check all that here. Those are not the stats of a world-class attacker in my opinion.

Vlahovic is a scorer, a finisher. Dybala is a playmaker and player who plays behind the strikers. Dusan can't set up goals and organize the attacks, so Juventus will have to bring someone like that to the club next season. Di Maria is being mentioned to be close to signing.   

Speaking from personal experience, I have never been a fan of refurbished laptops. I like the speed and smell of new devices and I don't mind splashing out a few grands for a good business laptop that I use for work.
My laptops last 4-5 years, and then they die. It's always the motherboard that is the weak spot in my experience. I have had 3 laptops whose motherboards has failed in my lifetime. Buying a second-hand laptop is not an option for me because they simply aren't as good performance-wise and there is the added risk of hardware failures for outdated components.