I love your final disclaimer of if something's too good to be true, then it likely is. I used to be one of those people that would pay to get tips from professional tipsters in the past, winrate was fine but I ended up mostly doing my own betting and I was able to actually achieve a better winrate than what the tipster I was using offered, and I didn't have to pay a ridiculous amount of money monthly for those tips anymore.
You really don't gain anything yourself by using tips anyways, and it's always best to rely on yourself for anything like betting where money's involved.

I've seen a lot of people scamming scammer videos online, just never thought it'd spread over to crypto as well! Sort of inevitable in hindsight considering how many people try to scam with crypto, I've just never thought about it much though because I usually just block scammers as soon as they add me. I also agree, common sense protects you from 99% of the common crypto scams out there. Sucks that many people just don't think very much about the things they do.

Just read through the comments of the Reddit thread about this, seems some people have looked up the address of the scammer and the guy only had $3 in his/her wallet, and that scammer has now lost 33% of his funds! Hopefully that scammer will now think twice about scamming again.

I'm not a great poker player and I only occasionally play the game nowadays (sometimes online, sometimes in real life), but I've found in my experience that some of the skills you gain from playing poker IRL do transfer over to playing poker online, at least a bit. The game's obviously different in many ways online for various reasons, but you should still be honing your skills whenever possible especially as a newer player. You'll get better by doing so. Reading guides you can find online can also help your poker skills out to a degree, though if you aren't applying what you learn you don't gain anything.

I'm currently doing DCA buying in about once a week at these levels while they last, and I plan on buying in a set amount once per week even if the price continues downwards; I might stop if we get a nice green candle upwards from here, but it's really never a bad time for dollar cost averaging, especially during dips like the one we're in right now. If you're planning for long-term holding this is an even better opportunity to buy in a bit and see where things go from here.

Yes, I get the following error when I try to sign up for Binance from an IP in the United States:


You could always just use a VPN to sign up if you really want to use the site and trade on it (working for me at the moment), though I know there are people against doing this for various reasons. I assume Binance is going to require KYC when the US-friendly version of the site launches as well, considering there's no exchanges out there I know of that allow US traders to trade without completing KYC.

A lot of services that allow you to cloudmine out there are also potentially scammy, and there's examples over the years that cloudmining has been popular in the crypto community where sites have simply run off with users' funds and never returned. If you don't physically have the miners, there's a high risk that you could be getting scammed.

Even more reputable sites like Hashnest, the fees per TH or GH are often so high that it takes months to break even, and there's no guarantee that far out that you'll ever break even in a reasonable amount of time. Hosting miners could be a viable alternative, where you send your miners off to a colocation and you pay for electrical fees and other fees if applicable, but you need to be careful you're using a reputable hosting service if you go down this route as people have had their miners stolen from shadier hosting services in the past.

I'm currently mainly a swing trader and I don't forsee myself changing much from this style of trading for the time being. I don't need to invest too much time into sitting at a desk because I have identified stoplosses and take profits before I enter a trade (you should be doing this), so I can set up trades and just let them go while I do other things. Besides that, I've really never been good at LTF trading and it does seem more stressful to me considering you need to be at your desk more for LTF trading.

As for the main question, I will likely never go trading full-time. Just seems like a very stressful activity to me as I know people that just sit at their desks all day trading, and I'd rather just have a regular job and trade on the side for now.

Well, it's good to have an extra email addresses for when you're signing up for services or newsletters that aren't exchanges or work-related so your main inbox is kept as clean as possible and there's a minimal amount of spam in the main inbox you have where you're keeping things for exchanges and emails for other important sites. Ideally the email you're using for other signups doesn't have as much sensitive information on it, so you don't need as many security measures on that inbox.

You don't gain anything by using other peoples' predictions in anything, whether it's in trading or gambling or anything else you might be doing. If you want to improve at something, in this case betting, try predicting by yourself and doing analysis yourself and put small bets initially. If you at least put time into something, you're going to improve at doing it. The only person you should be depending on for anything where your money's being risked is yourself.

I used a prepaid Visa giftcard on Amazon just a few months ago on an account I owned for over a year with Amazon Prime, and immediately after using it my account was completely locked by Amazon and they started requesting for a boatload of information like a copy of the statement of the card that had the billing address on it, my name, address, and a bunch of other details. My Prime subscription was about to expire anyways at that time so I didn't bother getting all of that information. Sucks that Amazon's so strict with payments now, but after that terrible experience I've only used my physical debit card on the site.

I don't find it likely in the near future either. Crypto adoption as a whole's still progressing pretty slowly as a whole at the moment, with relatively few physical stores and services in general accepting cryptocurrency. IF the casinos were to start accepting a stablecoin like USDC or USDT, this could help out with the volatility issue, but I don't find it likely volatility's going away with non-stablecoins anytime soon.

I didn't actively start using a trading journal until a few months ago, and it really opened up my eyes to the numerous things I was doing wrong that I would otherwise have never known without thoroughly analyzing my trades and activities. Keeping a journal also helped me identify areas of potential improvement and things that I'm already good at. Progress and learning isn't linear, of course, but I've become much better at cutting out losing trades early and letting winning ones run recently and I've also become better at setting effective stoplosses as well, which I feel has improved my trading over the past few months. Sure, keeping a journal is a mild inconvenience, but the gain of keeping one makes it absolutely worth it.

I actually did buy one of these AGC generators from Nulled a while back, never got any hits like almost everybody said in the threads for the generator. Certainly not worth your time, though you might get a hit purely by luck, and even if you do get a hit there's no guarantee it'll be of any significant sum. Did a VirusTotal check on the generator I bought and it didn't seem like there was any malware on the software, but I still ran it sandboxed just in case.

I've got a pretty high total wagered amount as well, but a lot of that was in 2015 and 2016 when Bitcoin was priced much lower than it is at the moment, and I tended to wager several times my balance every time I gamble so the total amount does not represent my total deposits. Still pretty impressive though, and I've wagered plenty on sites that have shut down long ago so I will never know the true total. I'm overall slightly in the green, though I can attribute a lot of that to betting on CS:GO matches where odds were massively skewed to one side and I put a good sized bet on the underdog.

I've started to see a lot of prepaid giftcards from companies like Visa being sold on P2P platforms like Paxful for 50% off as well recently, and you shouldn't buy those giftcards either unless you want to get into legal trouble. AFAIK those cards come from phishing from various sites and it's illegal to use them because all of them are stolen. Everything that seems too good to be true is absolutely a scam in crypto. You're getting a card for 50%, but you've got a lot more to lose than what you're saving by using those cards.

I just went to look at the Haasbot site and it seems they offer an 'Inter-Exchange Arbitrage Bot' with their advanced plan only (https://www.haasonline.com/trade-bots/internal-arbitrage-bot/). Haven't ever used Haasbot so I can't comment on how good it is, but they do offer an arbitrage bot. I currently use Gunbot, but I don't use Bitrage either.

Scamming's probably never going to end in the crypto community or in any community in general. It's been happening for as long as I can remember, and there's always going to be people that just don't think about their actions or stop and think about what's going on and fall for scams. Sucks that there's so many scammers out there today, but the best thing we can really do at this point is to continue to warn as many people as possible about the basic structure of these scams and to remind people that if something is too good to be true, it definitely is.   

There's plenty of giftcard trading on Paxful, likely because there's no KYC requirement on the site yet AFAIK, and many traders don't require any receipts or any form of verification for you to trade your gift cards with them. There used to be some giftcard trading activity on LocalBitcoins as well, but they've since implemented mandatory KYC and I don't see a section for giftcard trading on the site anymore. Paxful's old UI is also very easy to use, though I'm just not a fan of the newer one.

Bitcointalk's layout and system hasn't really changed drastically over the years either, considering it's running on SMF 1.1.19 and even as newer forum software has come out for a better user experience. Pretty surprising considering a lot of the other forums I've been a member of have really changed their layouts over the years, though I've become very fond of the layout of Bitcointalk and it'd probably be for the better that it doesn't change much in the future.

There's plenty of support and buying happening right under where we are at the moment, even after we dropped from the $13.2ks to the lower $12ks as it seems there's plenty of money on the sidelines at the moment just waiting to get in on a dip. Still can't rule anything out, but I find it unlikely we're going to revisit the 4 digits in the near future.