if you want a more personal experience than that topic, i suggest 2 options: crypto-games and yolodice.
the first one, crypto-games because it has been performing very well and giving a decent amount of profit for a long time. so i think it is safer to say it is a sure return, at least for now.
and Yolodice because they have been growing at a good speed and their investment system gives a lot of good information to the investors who want it and that gives some level of transparency that i like.

if you are talking about the 2013 gox price then it was "catapulted" from less than $200 to above $1100 in nearly 2 months.
and no one likes that to happen again unless you are a fiat fan and want to take your fiat out of bitcoin and give up on bitcoin.

have you actually done this or something similar that you are suggesting it here?
because to me this doesn't sound like a good plan.
using a bot can be both a good thing and a bad one. for someone who is new to trading then they wouldn't even know what they want in a bot. and if you are experienced enough you know what features you want and then seek a bot that has those features. so there won't be a need to test all of them.

here is a question for everyone to think about:

if there is a strategy that is working and can turn ~0.047 BTC into ~0.256 BTC which means a 0.209 BTC or 444% profit, do you think he needs to sell that strategy to make money?

it has always been money and NOT cryptocurrencies.
things are different with bitfinex and it is nothing like Cryptsy. Cryptsy was a filthy scam that blocked everything and ran away.

and that is one of the reasons why many believe it is solvent. it is because of the "bank" that nobody can move fiat in or out of the exchange. but since cryptocurrencies are decentralized, nobody can block them and bitfinex has been paying the customers from their cold storage and they are withdrawaing.

there is certainly a lot more things that are going on behind the scenese that we may never find out unless someone from that behind the scenese goes rogue and shares the secret plans with us. maybe in a couple of years though.
but until that day we are only left with speculation. and this one seems plausiable enough to be true since they changed their minds so fast!

well it is not, and no matter how many people try too hard to come up with a new deffinition or description of gambling, the reality of it will never change. it will always stay as the same as before, a destructive but very thrilling activity.
this doesn't mean you can't control anything or even can't have fun. you can but gambling will always remain destructive.

there is no doubt that there are so many rich people (millionaires or more) are supporting ethereum, we have all seen the pumps and how they throw their money in, when the dumping time comes. you can't hide these things.

but bitcoin, i don't think so. because a billionaire is looking for a big profit and the pump of ethereum that they can control gives them that that is the whole reason of controlling 75 million coins yourself!!! but with bitcoin they will just be a moderate size whale because of the distribution of bitcoin.

forum wasn't really down, it was a weird DOS attack that we can see theymost already fixed. i read that people could access bitcointalk through VPN and TOR!

funny thing is, nothing about price has changed it is still bitfinex leading the wave and bitstamp dumping the wave killing our buzz.

i think a much better question would be "why would anyone want to play dice on Yobit"!
if you have ever played a dice game on any of the top sites like bitsler or crypto-games or even on one of the newer sites like YoloDice then you can see what i mean. yobit doesn't even have a half decent design, there is no auto bet, there is no changing of multiplier there are no hotkeys and there are alot of things missing.
so the question "why would anyone choose Yobit over other better places" and that goes for the exchange and trading part too!

there is a similar topic about it in the main board called bitcoin implants and it is basically the same argument. and i have always found it a bit weird to be honest, to have something in your body no matter how small or harmless to your inside body environment it is. and not just because of that but also because you would be carrying funds inside of it!
it is way to sceince fictiony for me

you can NOT deposit NOR withdraw fiat from bitfinex, it is the bank that is making delays and it goes both ways, in and out.
and for his suggestion we have to check LTC price and surely enough it is worth $11.54 on bitfinex which means others have done it and pushed the price of it up.
p.s. LTC is 10.87 on btc-e

how do you know they don't?!
because if they do, that would be internal exchange as in being inside their own country only and not giving anything out. so we may never know. and besides bitcoin is more like a "people money" not government and they can gain bitcoin whenever they want without anyone ever knowing.

there is nothing to master in dice!
you just roll the dice and hope for the best while doing all of it at a disadvantage called house edge.
you can't really do anything about it to win. there are strategies out there but all of them are bad, each worse than the other again because of this house edge. the only thing that can give you profit is martingale because each bet is a guarantee of winning all of the loss back but it is the worst strategy since your losign amount grows so fast and your bankroll will never be able to handle it no matter how big it is.

this is why the best strategy in dice is random betting. you make one bet and if you win you make a big profit and if you lose you lost your money and get out.

Amazon accepting bitcoin is a great thing, but only for those of us who already know bitcoin and have bitcoin in our wallets to spend.

for other people who don't have any bitcoin it would just be additional fees. because if you don't already have it you have to buy it. that means depositing fiat to an exchange or transferring money to someone who sells bitcoin which means 1 fiat transfer fee and then buy bitcoin at a bit higer price depending on which method you choose and spend at a little bit lower price (market rate) and that is another percentage lost.

i have found out that it is best to not think about how much bitcoin you need to be worth X amount and things like that.
in my opinion when you ivnest in bitcoin you should invest what you can, whether it is buying 0.01BTC or 21 bitcoin. as long as you buy something with some money you don't need and can let it stay there for a long term. the real value of bitcoin is always shown in long term. we can see it go up from 450 to 1000 and before that from 200 to 450 in 1 year. and so on.

no i did not mean it like that. sorry.
i am simply reporting my perosnal observation. based on things on read on the forum, things i see on charts and things i see while i am on the exchanges trading.

when i talk to other traders in here or in groups none of them like tether and they prefer using fiat instead. and the volume that i usually check on exchanges (not lately but so far in the past 2 years) are low. much lower than you expect it to be.

as promised, i have tried this strategy.
this is a good strategy in my opinion, very risky but it is high reward.
but there is a big problem with it when you try it with faucet, and it is an obvious one. if you lose you'll have to wait a long time to be able to claim again. losing happens in a second but you have to wait for example 3 minutes!

someone said open another dice site, that may be a good option but losing both places at the same time means the same wait again.

in any case i was able to win nearly 20000 satoshi in one go and decided to stop there, it is still waiting for me to decide which way i want to go

people love to blame others for their mistakes or what they lack.
it is not the government, it is not the banks, it is not .... it is users themselvs. when you see people are not willing to spend bitcoin (use it as a currency) and see bitcoin as only an investment which they will hold for 100 years you can't really expect merchants to accept it and eventually reach mainstream adoption.

tether is simply irrelevant because it is not being uses as much as you think it is. the volume that it has indicates it very well.
this is a new thing that i have been seeing you and a couple of rather newly created accounts are saying! and honestly i can't see how we can even start talking about USDT while there are a lot of other things wrong with these platforms that are much bigger.