But Vaculin, luck is never on the side of the player. You know that from the number of outcomes coming out to be winning and being known popularly.
Rarely people win big win and jackpots. Sports is different though. You need to have a good understanding of the game, the teams and the environment where its played.
 
Obviously they are going to fool the player. Thats their job and how they make money. The majority bet wins in many cases but some matches will be fixed or the team will be reluctant to go beyond a draw. Specially happens in local league games of smaller countries.

When the merit system was first introduced theymos made a point that local board users should appoint a merit source for their local sections.

See the ability to be able to get merits while posting in a different language encourages a few good habits:
1. More activity in the local board
2. Source of unification among members.
3. Helping out users who are lacking the knowledge of English and are shy to post in English section, fearing that they might be laughed at.
4. Allowing local board members to gradually rank up.
5. Re-enforcing the grasp of native languages of the users.
6. Allowing users to gradually become potentially translators - those who have a background of higher studies in languages.

Considering the General english sections of the forum being heavily spammed getting country specific answers is very tough.

Nothing gets over like that. But the value does end with time. Bounty programs were the new advertisement campaigns of ICOs. At one time they used to pay good amount of tokens which could be sold for a good price. Thats is done for now. But the programs still exists - spamming hundreds of pages for their threads in the Altcoins Bounties section of this forum.

As long as there are bottomfeeding bounty spammers who dont care about spam in this forum and only how to abuse bounties to fill their ulcerated stomachs, they will continue.

A project can become innovative in developing a new marketing method other than just a bounty campaign. A physical meetup and coin distribution to users may be a good thing in terms of high class investors but at the risk of losing their privacy which is more important in the crypto ecosystem - this is more common in stock market trading. Just an idea to ponder over.

Without any doubt the biggest userbases are coming from US,AU, Russia and Europe. We see a similar distribution in the members of this forum too with Russian boards being very active along with European countries. Rest US and AU use English so they have their own share here too.

Nice way to put in the statistics though OP. These should give some logical backing as to the common FUD that bitcoin would be taken over by attacks on blockchain and government censorship. If people are willing to take it to the next level then they can - to such an extent that government would become forced to accept it in trading like stocks and commodities.

LOL this thread is a joke at the most. MacAfee and his calls - the biggest joker in the world. If you guys take people's words and put all your trust in them when they are least credible about their words then you will suffer consequences. The OP has tried to show that here that those who put their trust in the MacAfee got sold out to the wrong news.

This is market psychology. Someone is waiting to gain from your losses. So be careful whom you trust.

Just know this that casinos are there in a lot of numbers but they all depend on luck and the only source of getting a stable income is a job not gambling. Still read on.

I am yet to see any casino will pool/billiards. Maybe you can try sports betting if what you are looking for? I have seen snooker there on sportsbet. Although do follow what others have said.

All the reputable casinos here are provably fair. Otherwise their accounts would have been given red trust by our fellow cryptography enthusiasts. Check the scam accusations section too, but be warned that fake accusations are also common here. Its a free speech forum after all. 

If your friend already has a developer and a registered company, what is stopping them from going to a bank and mortgage the business for a loan? I know the bank wont give too much value to it so you prefer to go for the less-experienced crypto enthusiasts and seek money from them.

Pretty scammy if you ask me. If you want any sort of transparency which is seriously lacking in the ICO/IEO market then go to an ICO consultancy and seek their help in getting a team and advisors for your project. But I doubt you will do that if your objective here is to scam some newbie who is is a wannabe "venture capitalist" 

So you can see how flawed and baseless their arguments are and it does not take long for the long timers to understand what these people are trying to stir and thus become immune to such "opinions". People can opine what they want. Does not matter to you if your belief and faith are in the right place.

Stability of fiat vs bitcoin is more of a cognitive bias. You dont say any market to be stable. Every market is moving and is potentially volatile. But the newbies who are entering the market easily get swayed unless they have a background of trading and market psychology.

Its more of a psychological impact to give free coins. You see there are many "projects" that gave out free coins to ethereum holders and they never had any value at all. So this made an impact on those who are looking to make some quick buck to pump and dump that coin, but those who didnt understand the motif ended up bagging some shitcoin which is worthless now.

Then there are projects that have used this feature for something good. INX,now renamed as Insolar, did a airdrop of a promo token which if you held would give you a discount on purchase of INX tokens in their ICO.

So you can both good and bad effects of free tokens that have been given out be it on yobit or somewhere else. You have to judge.

It works in both depending on how you use it. For short term analyzing the older charts will also help and checking the market buy/sell trend.

Thing is that fundamental and technical are both important. You analyze charts and then only go for the indicators for studies. News will make the market move but is that movement really due to the news or some whales pumping or dumping is not relate-able. This makes it difficult to predict the market at times.

Not always will it work though. Its more of a 50-50 chance but generally you can make a prediction based on technical.

Its rare to see the teams coming good with their promises. Those days are long gone now. These days bounty hunters are happy if the tokens they get even worth 10$ when selling in total on an exchange. Even that is not achieve-able because of the low market making demand of the coin and lack of buyers.

However every participant should calculate the precedes of the fund raising before joining the project. I remember some projects having deceived their participants and then ran away with the manager in their cahoots. TokenSuite was one of those groups of scammers who have left this forum for now.

I think you are confusing between games that have EV- outcome and those which have EV+ outcome. The former group is games like dice where you just bet on whichever side you think the dice will roll and let your luck do its work. In EV+ games a lot of skills come into play. Here the analysis of teams and players is important. Games like sports betting, poker come in this category.

So if you are going for a EV+ game then betting against the majority is not a bad thing provided your reasons are strong enough that the minority team will win.

Volatility exists in every market. No market is free of it - there are methods to adjust prices on the basis of upswing or downswing of price and thats what the gold marketplaces do when people buy from them. You dont see people buying jewellery on a certain day or on a certain hour. They are active all day during business hours and they are not running out of options.

Where the problem lies is the governments methods to prevent crypto transactions. Prohibition of using crypto and banning people from accessing sites. Then you have law enforcement tracking down people. These things are a big obstacle to the growth.

A good example of the low level of IQ and serious incompetence in creating flags. As expected from scammers living in their basement.

The problem lies in the outcome of the project. They may be a top class team behind projects which had been successful previously and they are now advising a new project. But what this project will lead to is more of a gamble at these market conditions. The bear market is a test for any startup in raising money and being able to pay its employees let along pay bounty hunters - they are regarded nothing more than a bunch of sweepers cleaning up their dirt.

You end up with a pile of tokens for doing some articles, translations but end of the day its going to be worthless by the time you sell. So whats the point in doing these bounties?

The best exchange may not be the top exchange and vice versa.

What is top is what analysis indicated to be top in terms of volume average traded on that exchange. So you can get that data from the internet aggregators like coinmarketcap and so on.

But what is best, is a subjective idea. That you would gain once you start using them on your own and find out flaws that are there in any exchange but not bothering you much and some flaws which are outright annoying. So that you would have to decide on your own. Try out a few of the "top" exchanges and you might find something of your liking. Be aware of local laws regrading crypto trading.

Probably rethink your life decisions fellow member. You can live without gambling but you cannot live without money. It is important to take a break from such activities be it gambling, trading or speculating on any other market. They are risky and we all have out good and bad days. If we dont take this break then possibly the losses that we incur end up being bigger.

Gambling is there as a mode of entertainment. Dont overdo it. Although some people will argue with me here but I still think having the control in your hands and not the casino controlling you is what should be aimed for. Play responsibly not recklessly.

The more you check your wallet the more paranoid you will become about your money and the more stress will come into your system making you sick.

It is important to maintain a healthy mindset when trading or investing. The market has been bad for many people, agreed. But dont let that have a bad toll on your body. This cycle of anxiety of seeing your wallet and the depression that follows on seeing your coins do bad should be avoided. Maybe take a break from the market for some months?

PS: Move this to "Trading Discussion", if that is the topic discussion you meant it to be.

Yes, every other newbie is coming here to ask for loan only to get trolled and negative trusted by other members. If you dont have any collateral to provide then you may very well join that group.

Visit your local bank and mortgage some valuables for a loan. You could try asking them for a loan for free and get a feel of there boot on your bum.

No.

Banks have their own reason to put up such restrictions. You should blame this on whales who have tried to put through some good amount of coins through their exchanges and came under investigation from authorities or the surveillance groups finding out some black market deals going through. Nobody can say for sure and nobody will.

Its sad for the people living there but truth is even though they cry foul, nobody is going to care.