well i did actually search for it first but didn't find anything understandable and complete, and since this website is located there and is also licensed under the laws of the place i mentioned i like to know from what the owner says.

and this still doesn't justify you posting off-topic comments in this topic
there is a board for discussions like that here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=228.0

can we know what are the gambling laws are in "Curacao and Malta"? a simple link to an article or news site would also be good too.

ok but what does it have to do anything with this topic which is about an "online" casino? and its related feedback?

the problem with this question is that majority of people using altcoins are not interested in the code and what they offer, they just want profit from pump and dump (more money). and most of them don't even have the knowledge to check the code.

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bitcoin
well it is obvious. the start of bitcoin was with Satoshi and then very knowledgeable people like Hal Finney who is a cryptography legend helped with the code and for the past 8 years it is being battle hardened and any but is found and fixed and improved.
not to mention all the code review it has gotten.

litecoin
is bitcoin. that is enough. the code is similar, it is actually a copy and the developers are good and has stayed around for the 7-8 years and have been working on it.

Lisk
i agree with what you said about it. i have not used it myself but i have read a lot about this coin and how easy, user friendly and fast it is specially with the usage of Javascript.

Ethereum
should not even be in there. the has had some serious bugs and they are not even fixed yet and there are lots more bugs in it.
and as for the wallet and the code, it is very terrible and nobody is satisfied with the experience they get with this platform.

PIVX
it is new and i have yet to check it out but the feedback i have been seeing seems very good and the project seems promising.

i don't really think any change is going to come for their "economy" just because they said bitcoin can be used as a payment method!
you are thinking too much in my opinion.

the effect however will be on bitcoin itself. and it may lead to more adoption both in Japan and then afterwards in other countries too.

you have a point but talking about altcoins and their USD value is a bit silly when they are not really being traded against USD. checking the daily volumes during pumps or during the down times you can clearly see that the alt/USD market doesn't even make the top 10 volume and they pump it with alt/BTC and in downtime everyone trades alt/BTC

however when it is being dumped you can see ETH whales put up buy walls in USD market and keep the price up with everything in their power. check out the orderbooks to see this. and that makes the alt/USD volume go higher but it is still not as high as alt/BTC

we have indeed come a long way from those super cheap days. and we still have a longer way to go and a lot more room to go up. this is just a start. and people never change, those who believed price is going up still believe it and those who were full of doubt are still the same and can not believe price can go higher and when it does they keep saying it is fake and years go by with price still rising with them on the sideline.

what you quoted and are surprised about is from 31/3/2017 not today. and the rise happened in the the last 24-30 hours only.

to answer OP i believe SegWit will be activated on litecoin long before it activates on bitcoin if at all. because pools like F2Pool are on both coins and they will try it on litecoin first before moving to bitcoin and that will clear many doubts for sure.

and as for price i say it will go much higher in case we pass the 70% and start closing in on the target (75%). you can easily expect 0.05BTC price = ~$50

those who are invested in gold will stay in similar markets. meaning they won't sell gold to buy something they are not familiar with. they instead will buy something like silver, titanium, etc.

it is like saying when bitcoin price went down to $900 range people went to buy gold! no they instead started pumping altcoins (a similar smaller market as bitcoin).

anybody who is saying bitcoin's dominance will last is a fool. but anybody who thinks any of the current existing coins can even come close to bitcoin's real dominance is even a bigger fool.

in 1800s there have been many duplication of "automobile" such as the ones in Britain in 1895 and 1898 or the 1891 three-wheeler in Ohio and lots and lots more from then until today but you only hear a handful of them. the rest are history and unless you open a history book you never find out about them.

the same goes with any of your other examples. how many similar companies to Google have been, how many Companies claiming to be better than Microsoft and IBM,... and how many of them are alive now?
claiming to be good is not being good.

and current altcoins that offer nothing but pump and dump will only remain in the history and in topics on bitcointalk and other places on the internet for many years to come and nobody will ever hear about them.

this is gambling we are talking about so there really isn't a fool proof method to make a certain amount of money with it. you just have to try and have the most fun you can while hoping you get lucky.

with 0.01BTC you can simply make 1 bet on dice with a 2x multiplier which is about 50-50 chance of winning and then win 0.01BTC easy in one click.

you need to clarify your question first. there is no single definition for the words "Scam" or "Shitcoin" which you are using in this topic.

there are so many manipulations in altcoin market and with one definition you can consider all of them as scams since they are all being pump and dumped and that is not logical or right.

but with another definition you can only call those coins with heavy manipulation, big pre mines or shady ICOs as scams. in which case a lot of the top coins fall under this category. coins such as Dash (big pre mine) and ETH (ICO and manipulation and centralized) fall in this category.

it is really hard to say if it is worth it or not. but it is easy to say that you shouldn't be planning on making money with gambling, since that is not possible nor easy thing to do.

but gambling can be worth the time and money, you are playing a game and it can very well be entertaining and you can enjoy the time you spend. and at the same time you still are going to have the chance to win something out of it anyways so you are not always on losing side.

moneypot is the worst and the weirdest place to invest your bitcoin in gambling related business.
logically one would expect it to be more profitable since there are lots more gambling games there and when the numbers grow the chance of house always winning becomes more and more but in this case history shows moneypot investors lose more money than they earn (at least last time i checked it was like this).

there has been a lot of different kinds of dice, i have even seen the 6 sided thing you say once. but they never interest anybody so to answer your question i say no people don't like actual 6 sided dice, apparently.

what seems to be the point of interest of majority of gamblers is this current type of dice game which is in fact a hi-lo game. and i also think the reason is because it is flexible. which means you can have a lot of routs to take in order to make a simple bet with so many different strategies and so many different "chances to win" and that makes this type of game interesting.

this is a very good point and i have been saying the same thing for ages

the thing to remember is that all these coins have been around for a long time, some of them even for many years and absolutely nothing has changed about them. even one bit. then in all this time you never hear anything about any of them, not even a single comment.

then their pump starts.

after that you keep hearing how good they are! if they were good, they were good all this time, why nobody said anything then.

then to complete the cycle of the pumping, after the dump happens and they are satisfied with their profit, you again don't hear anything about any of the coins again up until the next pump!!!

going to a land/real casino is a lot of work for me. i have to take a couple of days off then take a vacation to travel to a city that actually has a land/real casino so that i can play the same games i am playing online there. so no, i don't go there. although i have always liked to try. specially going to the race tracks, doesn't matter much what race but mostly horse racing is one of the things that i have always wanted to try out to see how the atmosphere is over there

it wasn't really unexpectedly though!
i said this earlier in January when nobody was talking about ethereum, you can see my comment here. i was waiting for a rather big pump to come when the price was low and nobody was accumulating but the whales.

i still say the same thing as before, ethereum is such a bad altcoin with lots of problems, the ICO and all the bugs it has and the fact that it is centralized are enough to consider it as a terrible altcoin.

with that said, i should add that i currently own no more ethereum, i have dumped and got a very nice profit a couple of days ago and i have moved on. will come back in the next bottom like January bottom.

here is how it works:
- keeping coins on an exchange like poloniex:
it is easy and you don't have to do anything. you just have an account there, and you put some very strong password and enable 2FA for extra security and stay relatively safe.
but here is the problem, we all know that exchanges can easily close down and run away saying "we were hacked" and it has already happened multiple times. and this is a serious risk, you shouldn't take this lightly.

- keeping coins in their desktop wallet:
this is the safe option and you would be wise to do this but the problem is that you have to be running their full node wallet meaning you have to download the whole blockchain and some of these are pretty big and are getting very huge. for example ETH is nearly 100GB right now. although some of these coins have some other options to have a smaller wallet you have to check them one by one.
also when you use their wallet, it would be up to you to protect yourself. you may end up downloading one of these wallets that has a keylogger inside (that has happened multiple times) and steels all your bitcoins for example. or so many other risks.

people say all kinds of weird stuff when they are online, so many say things that are completely random just to have said something and mostly there are signature campaigners repeating something they have read somewhere.

in the end we can not even say/predict anything about the future. whether there is a split or not, it is not clear now it depends on so many different factors and so many different decisions.

miners aren't fool enough to take risks of a "split" they won't switch without being damn sure there will be no danger for them. what most people forget is that miners are making money this way, it is not a hobby.

TLDR split is highly unlikely.

well, it didn't meant to be an insult, i apologize if my comments seems that way.
but you have to accept that when you see someone saying "price decreased" right after it in fact has gone up 70 to 90 dollars, things are a bit weird with that kind of question!

anyways let me explain more:


fluctuation is a perfectly normal thing in any market.with bitcoin, these changes are bigger because the market is much smaller than something like gold.
in the above picture which is showing the past 2 years (the major events are visible) you can clearly see these fluctuations.
sometimes it is small like the Feb and Apr of 2015 and Sep and Nov 2016
and sometimes they are bigger like June 2016 or the recent one in Jan and early Mar of 2017.
the reason for overall rise is that bitcoin is being adopted more and more every day and it has an increasing demand while the supply is fixed, and when people buy more bitcoin price rises in long term.
in short term however, when there is a news or some lies also known as FUD, price can fall. for example the recent one cause by a split FUD. the other big drop you see around 450ish was because of a butthurd called Mark Hearn.
the sudden rises are also sometimes because of news which are exaggerated like the recent <$1300 rise because of the ETF

that is why (in my first comment) i said you should say the time frame and you should zoom out.