i agree, the provably fair part is a deal breaker if it does not exist but it is not the important part of a gambling site. with hundreds of different gambling sites which currently exist out there , the one you choose needs to be different from others in a good manner. like the fast support, easy and fast deposit and withdrawals, good design and one of important things is the fast response of the site so it would be available always to massive visitors.

exactly. as long as there are so few places to spend bitcoin to buy physical goods, it is hard to consider bitcoin as a currency "real money".

and i consider places to accept bitcoin directly not going through a third party service which in fact is changing bitcoin to fiat and then pays the shop with that. and we have to pay extra fees to use the service.

congratulations on your big winnings mate. i almost never see that kind of wining chance in my life.

do you have any particular strategy to win or are you just betting with your gut and get lucky?

since i believe that fiat as we know it is not going to go away in the future, i have to say banks which are working with cash/fiat are not going to disappear either.

even if bitcoin becomes big and adopted by all the people in the world , cash is still going to be around. so banks will be around too.

i doubt that this is the start of the pump. even if chinese start it i don't think they can move bitcoin price that much, only a small rise maybe.

there is some issues that needs to be clear for bitcoin to move forward like the outcome of the bitcoin classic release which is not yet determined.

the resistance has been so much that it is preventing the bitcoin classic effect on bitcoin price, besides there is nothing really happening yet.
so i guess we should wait and see how things turn out. it is soon to decide.

i have been using bitcoin earning as a second job for some time now and i have to say it is possible to earn a living with bitcoin but the problem is that you can not rely on bitcoin or bitcoin earning every month to pass your life.

i doubt if the understanding bitcoin is the main issue in here.

nowadays it is super easy to use bitcoin with all the different services, payment processors and easy wallets like coinbase, circle, bitpay, xapo,... they are all making bitcoin as easy as possible.

the problem is the price and places to use bitcoin which scares people away.

so far bitcoin had 9999 lives because i have seen it being announced dead that much and yet again it is rising. this strategy of calling bitcoin dead is getting so old.

only time!
you can not expect your trust rating to go high if you are in the forum for a short time. you should start your services, use trusted escrows at first. build up trust over time. it might even take more than a year to build that kind of trust.

faucets are waste of time for both faucet workers and faucet owners.
you might thing a faucet owner gets a lot of revenue but that is not entirely true. with all the adblocks people use and all the hack, exploits and bots the faucet traffic (the one thing that is making them money) becomes lower than what they are paying.

you should know what you are dealing with whenever you are using a ponzi scheme site. they are clearly scheduled for running away. there is nothing out of the ordinary or unexpected happening.

you have to either stay away from ponzi at all costs or accept the extremely high risks.

there aren't that many people who are really using bitcoin. because there is not enough places that accepts bitcoin and in some countries there is even none.

i have only used bitcoin to buy altcoins and that is just an alternative way of investment and not really a usage. but if there were places even online that accepted bitcoin directly i would do my online shopping with bitcoin at least.

not good at all, there was a time a couple of years ago where bitcoin was becoming super popular everywhere but that was mainly because of the $1000-$1200 price of it.

currently i am glad to tell you that there is no opposition or banning against bitcoin in my country and i hope this stays the same in the future too. but the amount of awareness is still low.

that link is the games and rounds section, those giveaways are always in bitcoin and usually for promoting a gambling site.

the altcoin giveaways that i have seen was about a year ago and on reddit. there were a lot of them being done just to introduce the new altcoin to crypto users. they you could sell them for btc.

- they are extinct right now

day-trading is not easy either. you will need to be alert all the time, also you will need well-coded-bots to watch the market movement at all times so you can decide when to buy and/or sell.

and all of this will come with a huge amount of stress since money is involved, which is not suitable for everybody.

it will always depend on the price of bitcoin for me to decide what i am going to buy with them.

my plan is to accumulate enough bitcoin that i can call myself rich in a couple of years. also i believe that bitcoin price is going to be high enough for me to become comfortable with my stash.

so in that case i am going to buy big things, like paying for a house in some place that i have in mind.

as Kevinatin have mentioned in a couple of comments above the benefits of such services can be as simple as giving a fixed profit on your bitcoin balance which you entrust them with. or they can offer services like giving loans which is a common usage of regular banks too.

my initial plan was to just buy and hold bitcoin as much as i can. so that i can sell them in the future that the bitcoin price goes up.

but i realized that this plan alone is not enough to get a considerable amount of money in bitcoin. so now in addition to the initial plan i try to earn more bitcoin too. and for that i am increasing the amount of time i spend in trading bitcoin and altcoins.

if it is the same scenario like last year when the price was stable between $200 and $300 then now is the time to buy before bitcoin starts to go up again and you regret not using the opportunity to get cheep coins.