As well as here on the Services section, there are a bunch of subreddits pertaining to bitcoin and oddjobs. I know that those subreddits are not AS popular as the Services section here, but you might find some people. It's worth a shot. I saw that https://coinality.com/ had some job opportunities available.

The design looks pretty slick, but I would say to work on the website adjustments for window resizing. Even something as simple as scaling the site down would be good. I like to multitask, so having the window show only 3/4 of the site is a bit frustrating. It wouldn't be a problem if the options weren't on the two top corners.

I've got a roulette strategy to earn you the maximum statistical profit: walk away, man. Just walk away. Don't even bother, and your net profit will be 0. Granted, you won't gain anything, but statistically you won't lose anything. If you bet, then you have theoretical loss over time. But obviously real life is not as easy as statistics say - you may be lucky enough to profit from the variance. Here's what I would say. Bet however much you're willing to risk on a single bet, how much you're willing to LOSE, on a number. If you lose, then walk away. If you win, then walk away. Just stop.

I read through that article and thought it was pretty interesting, but what's the most intriguing part of the experiment is the part when they changed the gambling button system. With having both the red and green lights be reflective of the gamble, you remove the satisfying moment of "winning" a gamble and getting the jackpot. It's unpredictable as to whether you've won or not until you wait for the result. I believe casino owners already know this, as they use indicators to show whether you win or lose (typically that red for a loss, and green for winning). It can also talk about how people want an instant result for whether they've won or not, which makes sense as to why online gambling is so popular.

I know on Primedice there was a script that made everything green, but I personally felt that it was not as satisfying as having green be rarer. That is the *hook* of gambling, then.

As you play for an elongated time, you run a higher risk of ruin. Alright, now to understand, you need to think about the amount of TIMES that you choose to bet. If you continue to bet over and over again, there's a high chance that the house edge will catch up to you, and you'll hit a losing streak and then go bankrupt. That's kind of why the martingale system is guaranteed to fail statistically. Obviously, over a short period of time, you have a lower chance of losing everything, but realize that eventually your luck will dry out and you'll lose.

The % win rate does not matter. If you have a 90% chance of winning, you could STILL statistically lose 30 times in a row. It's unlikely, but the more you bet, the more OVERALL chance you have of getting a losing streak.

As soon as it becomes a more popular opinion Google should reveal anything that they decide to plan. That would be a good moment for them to do so... Although Google can currently add in some program with bitcoin association, I fear that there may be some community backlash due to the link between bitcoins and criminal activities. People could start to complain about possible scandalous activities using bitcoin with Google's technologies.

Spammers will look for easy threads to spam in. I'd already called out a couple of them for posting PURELY looking at the thread title, and just blatantly ignoring the information in OP's post and their question. Why do you think that there's so many replies in those badly questioned topics in Economics, Gambling, and even Bitcoin Discussion?

Because in those threads, you can reply without any prior knowledge of the subject, and just pop a quick reply for cash.

Here, in this topic I'd already quoted FOUR people who were simply spamming. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=923422.msg14012206#msg14012206

Well, not necessarily. It is absolutely probable that if someone expects the price to increase before the halving that they will buy it at the price, which also drives the price upwards. The demand correlates positively with the price of bitcoins, so I guess that the main points to watch out for nearing the halving are recent positive news.

Remember that the pump may occur way before the halving, due to the hype.

I'm reading this reply in disbelief. Truly, do you have any idea about how prices work? Gold could drop to 1 dollar as well, but that's beside the point. These items have value because there is perceived value behind it. If you're afraid that the price will drop to 1 dollar, you can still sell it right away, as the original post had stated you would walk away with it (and you don't have to keep it in that form). As well as this, it's way easier to sell bitcoins rather than gold (for a lower fee) and although gold seems like it's always valuable, you should realize that bitcoin also has a fairly large backing and community behind it.

171.7986918 is how much you'd lose in total if you lost 34 times. That's equivalent to (with the current price of a bitcoin being around 431.28 [coindesk]) approximately 74000 USD that you lose. That right there is a LOT of money to lose. However, if the bets there were with 0.00000001 clams as a starting basis, we can calculate that to be... about 0.335 BTC at current prices, and it would be a loss of 141 USD. That's a lot less than if you were to bet with satoshi, you know.

I heard somewhere that addiction comes from a lack of familial and friendly support. I guess one option is to associate yourself more with friends and family, to see if that can distract you from your habit of gambling. Hobbies, as previously suggested, can also divert your attention from gambling. You should focus on the entertainment value of gambling if you choose to continue, rather than the possibility of profiting. Perhaps that will set a threshold for stopping?

Right... anyway, it was said that Japan has an incredibly low inflation rate. In comparison to the US, it might be worth having that -0.1% with no inflation rather than in reality LOSING money but appearing to gain it. Remember, monetary values can decrease... but Japan is doing fine.

No inflation means that putting your money in a bank with a negative interest rate still gets you overall more money than if you were to deposit it in, let's say, the Bank of America. As previous people had already stated, this also helps to drive the economy. Don't reply without actually reading more deeply into the topic. It might be interesting to see about it. Who knows? You could learn something, instead of purely posting for a tiny amount money. Hypocritical? Sure, I'm in a signature campaign... but at least I take a few minutes (not much time, guys!) to think about what I'm posting.

Thanks.

Even if bitcoin doesn't go anywhere, those who have 1 BTC can call it a "souvenir" for future usage. A sort of memoir for their cryptocurrency days. Though those with physical coins, like Casascius coins, can REALLY show it off to people. I don't think that having a bitcoin is that large of an investment, and I'm pretty sure that there isn't that much of a financial drawback if you do choose to invest in it.

Again, if it doesn't pan out well, then I guess you just have it as a souvenir. An expensive souvenir. But, a relic of the beginning of the blockchain technology. Hopefully THAT carries through if Bitcoin doesn't.

Right. There are trends and factors that affect the possibility of winning when you're trading (stocks, currencies, doing bitcoin stuff) but at the end of it, it's all based on CHANCE. Unless you have a time machine, these trading opportunities carry just as much risk as betting money on some casino game. I bet (ha, gambling puns) that you would have just as much fun in trading rather than gambling, but you have the feeling that it's based on skill AND luck, rather than purely luck.

I think it's a good thing to do trading rather than gambling, but obviously the appeal to gambling is that it's easy and you needn't do research. The potential winnings already attract people to gambling, and the ease of it just makes that even better.

I would save up my money to go for a bitcoin. Honestly, if it turns to be a bad investment, then alright... you lost a decent sum of money. But, the possibility of having  your investment grow and getting the bitcoin price to rise is appealing. I guess it's similar to gambling, really. You COULD win, or you could lose what you've staked. But, the difference here is that you have to wait a while to see what happens (heh) and there's a community based around it. You can play around with bitcoin while you wait and see, by either lurking around the forums, or potentially trading. It's alright if people don't think that it's a good investment... I personally hope to prove them wrong in a couple years.

I believe that thus far, I've gambled approximately somewhere close to 15 BTC? Something around that. However... I've lost about 0.7 BTC in total throughout the 6 months of gambling that I've done recently. Although I do have some regret about the past, I will state that I feel like my time was not completely wasted. Those were coins that I hadn't bought, and it kept me occupied for a pretty long amount of time.

The entertainment value keeps me coming back (and a bit of the potential profit )

Ech. Not necessarily the price. The price tells you nothing - you need to look at the trend, and the recent news and how they'll affect the price in terms of demand. Are there positive discussions relating to Bitcoin and could possibly support the demand for them? Go ahead and buy. The price is likely to increase that way. Some huge scandal involving bitcoin occurs? Go and sell. It's obviously NOT as simple as I depict it, but honestly, it's stupid to hold ALL your coins. Obviously, don't sell all of them and become an absolute bear, but play around with some of it.

And there. So many people disregard OP's original question and jump at the chance to post an already-stated reply, a million times, just because of the title. "Is a faucet profitable ?" pertains towards the faucet-owner, not a faucet user, guys.

If you would only read... Geh. Four replies, all in the same day, with a few lines and a disregard for any substance. That is waaay too much.

For now. You need a lot of traffic to sustain the faucet if you decide to promote it actively (either with marketing with ads and other forms or by increasing your faucet reward and advertising your faucet that way). It could be difficult to start off a faucet, with the huge amount of faucets around, so you may be interested in seeking opportunities to join large faucet rotators. Perhaps by adding in unique features and nice/clever aesthetics, you can make it more appealing to potential visitors. (Maybe some sort of dice game. It allows you to take advantage of the gambling community, and can be profitable)

Addiction arises from the sudden dopamine surge in circumstantial occurrences in the moment of gambling. What I mean by this is that when someone wins while they're gambling: a lot of people return to gambling because they were able to profit some money, and want to try and win that amount again [or back if they lost it] and thus it creates a habitual system. I believe that the rush of the adrenaline is what keeps people coming back for more. Not necessarily the profit, though that can be one factor.