Maybe. But if that is the case then they will get burnt out very soon. A good example would be this rant thread and thus it is very likely.
Properties that bitcoin have making it different from other modes of transaction. I still think many people dont really understand the meaning and importance of these words. They think of everything to be either on one pole vaporware and another pole as get-rich-quick. Those who go with either of these mentalities will fail in future in any attempt at making money.

I wont call anything ideal. It a good store. But nothing can be ideal.

HODL or sell, whatever anyone wishes.

Is it not better to avoid bounties altogether? Go build up your account here and earn merits to reach a good rank and then go for signature campaigns that pay in bitcoin. Doing so will allow you to learn more about bitcoin too which is the only coin you all need to invest in. Bounties are a waste of time today and they should not be your focus.

No. Waste of time.

Trading is a better choice.

They all are disguised scams.

Which is why hunting bounties is worthless. Learn trading and learn about bitcoin then some shitcoin.

None. All are scams.

Better off you hold that money in bitcoin. Buy some bitcoin now that the price tanked a bit and sell it a few years later.

Cloud mining is a disguised ponzi (HYIP/MLM) scheme. The only person who makes money from them is the owner and they are never going to reveal themselves or just fool you with stock images as team members. They operate them one by one as a nice looking profitable investment scheme only to rip you off once fine day when you realize that the site no longer exists and all the coins are gone.

They will initially pay to build some reputation. Again this payment is actually coming from new investors entering the "pyramid" while the older investors are getting some payments. It might be possible to get a few early bucks and then get out before the site closes but you never know when it will close so its risky as anything. I would never advice any beginner in crypto to go for them.

I think the OP needs to take a short but fruitful break from bitcoin.

They may have had a loss and thus sulking about their choice but as we have seen in the past and present buying low and selling high is the way to make profit from the market. Just look into the price charts 10years back and today. The price rise has been huge if you compare. Not that I expect anybody to hold for such a long period even 3x - 5x price at selling would have been a decent profit.

Trading should be kept to the extent of something that you would enjoy doing, not something that becomes a stressful job.

Fiat will never stop being here. It will be there even if bitcoin or crypto is accepted into payment systems wide and beyond. Fiat is the biggest mode of transaction even today and there are people who are not willing to accept crypto because of ignorance of what actually controls it, its bad reputation smeared by yellow journalism and so on. Older people are very less likely to accept it too but they will die out soon (<pardon my cold nature here).

However the time at which fiat and crypto usage reaches an equilibrium is far from now. Currently we should focus more on adoption and acceptance of bitcoin in different marketplaces.

Then your comment is biased one because you dont play. This topic would be more informative if you were a gambler and played more frequently.

Your post makes zero sense. If you are playing less then your losses will be less compared to someone who plays everyday. The average money spent per day is applicable only when players in comparison are playing at a fixed interval.

Then again losing money in gambling is nothing new and which is why people should refrain from chasing losses and trying to win lost money back.

Hi there,

I have sent you more than just 0.5 BTC, like usual, I have a big heart and willing to share as much as 12 BTC with you. Seems like you are in need of as much as you can get spanked read, money.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/053258b149d9b5ccff7bcf2cd1cc8dc3921ef912b45bef2e2a04405b0abf23a6

Make sure you dont spend it all at once and thanks again for giving us a chance to give out a loan to a newbie with not trust. 

Pretty paranoid there I see. Its not that bad if you have been going there for sometime and its your local casino/pub and most of the people know you there. But you should be careful and one cannot be less cautious when it comes to money. I wont suggest you to keep bodyguards so you can gamble, but you have online casinos why look somewhere else?

Yeah, there will be people mocking you for losses, maybe even try to provoke you into fights. No use going there unless its a Las Vegas casino and you are visiting it for a once a lifetime experience.

People find ways to keep themselves off the trading habit by indulging in other work too. Not everyone is a full-time crypto trader here. They also trade stocks, shares, commodities, metals and so on. Many of us are into other alternatives income methods and even other have a day job to look after. Taking a short break from trading is productive and that is the reason why a weekend exists after a week.

People who are wealthy enough will not be taking risk with their wealth unless they have some insurance over a loss. For bitcoin that does not exist. So they are more likely to not invest. As for whales of bitcoin, they pump and dump and then go silent. They are least bothered about the current price. They will take into advantage any price that exists.

No. Because bounty hunters are the ones who allow bounty campaigns to run. If they are acting like bots joining every campaign with spam reports everywhere then the topic would be visible to every other user and they may also join. Its a bad thing about this forum that such reporting is often asked for in the thread as replies than using a third party submission service to collect.

Interest? My ass.

Investors dont look for which project is giving out bounties. They are more of an opinion that bounty hunters are a waste of tokens since they will dump as soon as it gets listed and it become difficult to being trading on the exchange with a huge sell wall in front.

I am sure you are not addicted to gambling if you are able to keep your cool and control your emotions. If you ever feel gambling is taking out time from other activities you should check yourself but how much time you are spending and how much bankroll you have spent. It would be best if you stop gambling for a short period and engage in social work and social life.

Often bad things happen to people and they take wrong steps and go into gambling spree. Its important for them to be kept in check by their family members. Its tough for them but it is always possible to reform their ways if they wish to.

If you are pointing to questions that are used to keep a topic "bumped" then you should report them.

There may be legitimate queries but these questions should be obvious to anybody to be legitimate. In other words, do no overdo your reporting. The essence of making reports is keeping the community clean and keeping the discussion going, not attempting to earn a "reporters badge"

Moreover I see some threads made with simple questions. Just answer them or ignore them. You are not the forum mod to be bothered about who is posting spam and who is not. Report them if you like.

We would not be here in this forum if we thought the opposite. If you are looking for an unbiased answer to this question then you should ask somewhere else. Here more than 90% will answer yes because of what I said.

Sure very high quality. But do you have anything special in mind that other exchanges do not offer that makes you unique?

Get a development team but have something unique to develop on. You wont get any good ideas by asking in a forum. Ideas are "sold", not shared.

Several things are important, but I would say having a good support team and least delays in depositing and withdrawal is what attracts people. Again this is a personal choice. The reason why the recent exchanges went bankrupt at one time is that they failed to gather a business big enough to pay their employees and keep up with the market.

Everybody wants that. Do you have a working product already? Or are you looking for a team to develop one?

Confidence is earned by giving sincere service. It wont come overnight.

Good or bad is relative. I always advice people to keep their private coins private. That is use a desktop wallet to store coins and not a online service. I am sure you being a long timer would remember what happened to MtGox at one time.

Your country is irrelevant for wallet. But to use their other services like buying and selling crypto you would need to be located in one of their supported countries.

Alternative to LBC is now localcryptos previously started as localEthereum. However check your local residential friends who are also using bitcoin as to what exchange they commonly use. North America countries are supported by many exchanges so you should not have any trouble with this if you do some inquiry. I cant help you more on this.

Samurai wallet is good.

Did you verify the original user here by sending PryptoMontreal a PM first about their telegram ID before initiating your chat with this user? This may have been an impersonator using a similar username to scam you while the person you accuse may not be even aware of the situation.

Still, the accused account has been said to have changed hands in their trust feedback.
OP said that chatlogs were deleted. I doubt anything remains. Is that is the case then nothing can be done here due to lack of evidence.

@Elizabeth97040  How did this user on TG contact you?

I see people posting mempool graph images but I have a feeling this user is trolling. Like 1btc for fees?

Seems like those threads where people used to complain why bitcoin fees are increasing and that they should use altcoins to prevent being "robbed". I know its a not reason to stop using bitcoin but it was there and being promoted by altcoins shills on many social media.

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Considering the amount of responses in this thread I hope the OP if was looking for an answer would have got one, so I wont repeat anything.

I appreciate the fact that you spoke out your mind. It did hurt those who were just inches from being in the next rank when the merit system was started. However I became a self-made senior recently and it took me almost 2years to reach 250 earned merits. It might or might not be possible for you reach Hero by 2020.

So my advice is to focus on posting quality content, engage in discussions. Post where you feel posting is needed not just because you agree to post and dont force yourself to post.

It may take several years to reach the next rank so dont get disheartened.

That is if you win that bet. Its the riskier bet and the one that needs more luck to be won. Obviously the underdog needs to outperform that game and get lucky themselves so you can win. A lot of luck involved here but yes skills from the team will give them the upper hand and might even fetch a spot in the upper table tiers.

Do your own analysis it will help here. Otherwise one can always go with the less known games where there will be similar odds on both players because the game is less known and the players may not have known each other or played before. They are more of a dice game though.

Considering the amount of work that the mods of this forum have to get done in a single day, I still think every mod does their work sincerely and checks editing and timestamps before marking the report as good or bad.

@marlboroza

I have seen some of my reports remained unhandled even today - now consider this situation:

A wannabe mod who has a somewhat established name here, tries their luck at reporting posts as they wish without knowing the community guidelines and they get a number of unhandled and good reports. What they would do after this is "cancel" all the unhandled reports because technically they are not "handled" by any mod, since they decided that no action was needed for it and it is open to being marked as good or bad.

In this way they may try to get their accuracy rating high - not sure if the accuracy rating is based on only good and bad reports? Thanks @DdmrDdmr

So in this manner is one could cancel the reports they could get their rating high in short period of time allowing them to cheat the system. Obviously it would not remain so for long.

Deribit coming offline does not necessarily mean that the price going down was the effect. Deribit is like what BitMex is and you could speculate on the prices and buy contracts there for a future price, called margin trading.

Now what is possible is that a group of whales buy contracts on a certain price, which they have decided on and then dump the market to reach that price so their contracts go through before getting liquidated but this is a very longshot idea. The amount of bitcoin needed to move the market by 1% of its price is very big so it is less likely.

"Unprofessional" "disrespectful" are wrong words here. Being subjective makes you take the wrong decision. If you dont like them dont use them.