You added some practical tips here. Most of the bounties that are being managed by newbie ranks or team members end up being scam only.

Still some members fall for these as  everyone is in hurry to make money. For me, choosing a good campaign is the most important aspect of bounty.

I do not think that this is the major cause of price drop. This is because even bitcoin prices are dropping. And we do not see bitcoin being distributed in an Airdrop now.

The reasons currently are quite strong as they have kept prices in check for so long.

I will give it a try if the countries involved are of interest to me. You got  a nice concept though. may be , you can add the spreadsheet link in the thread so that we can see current progress.

There are ways to compel yourself to stop after a certain point:

1) If you are married, transfer funds to another account for gambling related activities only. Give the other passbook and details to your wife.

2) There are apps that can be handy for this to monitor and control daily expenses.

Hours will be wrong word for me. It is less than an hour now and sometimes no game even for weeks. I am very much busy with my regular work. One thing I always try to cover are big tournaments especially the free ones.

In my country , a lot of young guys use the parents money to gamble. Most of the times they hide this from parents. I know some guys who lost all their tuition fees on this and that was a huge amount for their parents. It always ends on bad note leaving scars on your relation with parents. They will not be able to trust you in future.

One of my friends also took a lot of money to day trade (little different from gambling). But he was kind of making bling guesses only as he has no experience of all this.

Very correct. You may ask a friend to try few times with you but you cannot force him to continue this. I will not say that it is a wrong idea to introduce gambling to a friend. But if you have friend who is very casual with work or has less control on himself, things can get complicated once he starts this.

Personally, I would never do anything that can affect my friendship with my close friends.

It is already being used by many for :

1) Buying online services with anonymity. It is a good option for people who do not want to disclose their identity with payment.

2) Ideal for donations website.

3) Being used as an investment option by millions of people.

I do not think this is the case. The reverse might be true. 90% are the people who are burnt as they invested at peaks. I know that bitcoin is not dead but with such a bitter experience with their first investment (new investors) will think twice before investing anything more.

The people spreading FUD had already given up now, the FUD threads here are those which get bumped by new members.

In short the price is determined by supply and demand.

Now supply and demand is affected by factors like :

1) If there is a good news about crypto, it will increase demand.

2) If a major economy bans crypto, demand will reduce.

3) A major hack on an exchange will cause panic and force users to sell thus increasing supply.

One of the most common thing that all scammers use are fake screenshots. They take screenshot of crypto earnings from other people, post it on social networking websites as their own and then scam them. Some people still fall for all this.

The easiest way to remain safe from all this is not to buy any service or course related to cryptro. There are enough free resources on crypto to start with.

If we compare with that situation, even $50000 would seem reliable.

But a little more analysis and thought would give another picture. The rise in price of bitcoin from $2000 to $19000 was due to a number of new investors coming as bitcoin got a lot of coverage. Now most of them are in loss. The big crash that happened then has irritated all those investors. They are not going to invest more till they recover the earlier loss.

Yes I am holding because :

1) If I sell, the recent investment I made will be in loss. There is no way I am going to sell in loss.

2) I expected that I might have to wait longer for good returns. So, I am in no hurry.

I had a quick look the post and it is hard to say with confirmation that there is merit abuse here. Try if you can find more proofs of both accounts belonging to same member.

And please correct the spellling mistakes in OP.

I remember reading a very similar thread here recently.  In that cases also the section was not reversed.

It is clearly mentioned in forum rules that there is permanent ban for posting copied content. Now,  it may appear harsh but the decision is final and irrevedible. You should accept the reality.

What type of verification are you talking about here?

That captcha for some posts sounds like a good idea.  It can reduce the spam with bots to some extent.

I also sometimes feel that there are a lot of repetive topics in sections like bitcoin discussion. Rarely,  I see some innovative topics in those sections.

The replies there are also mainly one liners made just to I crease activity.  Someone suggested listing the thread repeonses based on number of merits.  It is a good idea in my opinion.  Till,  we have such a solution,  what I do is that if I see a good post from a user in topic I am interested,  I bookmatk his profile.  Generally,  all posts of that user are useful.

Is there an official mention of the activity cooling times for all the ranks here?  Is it also related to activity? 

Again in cases like that of OP it should get automatically reduced on achieving a good number of valid reports.

Actually, it has become kind of a standard procedure and all new projects follow this. No doubt it must be benefiting those projects, otherwise why will they spend so much money on it. Many other people are also benefited as they provide related services like telegram channel support and all.

But there are some downsides as well. It has become  very common and many spammers get away with most of the coins by creating multiple accounts. 

That is true but I would like it to change with time :

1) All coins depending on bitcoin prices defeats the purpose of diversification. It s bad for investors.

2) Juts because bitcoin is the first crypto coin, it should not be the number one always. That will stop further updates or improvements which only competition can bring with time.