I'm actually only responding because you sent me a PM. 2 PMs in fact, so I thought I'd drop a message, but I suggest you don't repeat this PM to others, it could cause you getting banned.

Anyway my comment is that unfortunately you probably have a point about analysing ICOs and taking the best things about them to launch your own successful one. I still insist deep down that the idea and product matters. As do the community and developers. But I've seen far too many successful ICOs launch, and many actually have neither idea, product, community or good devs. Yet they, like this thread, get so much attention.

So good luck, I guess.

That'll teach a lesson to all you guys looking for freebies;)

Anyway, the airdrop isn't dead. It is STILL a good way to get the word out easily, and still a good way to get as many holders and therefore users as possible, but of course, since there are 100 fake participants for every real one, projects have to get smarter about how it's done.

Though, maybe not the the point of blockchain.com asking people to video verify and all that, just to be in line to get airdrops (but to be fair, they airdrop good coins with liquid market so I dunno, maybe a good way to do it).

I'm not sure it's a wise idea to seek for funding at this point. You've got to be able to prove that the site can grow quickly and generate good value before even thinking to ask for investment. Bitcointalk and reddit are so strong in this terms. Value, and truly community driven. I'm not saying it's a bad idea at all, and you know competition is always good for the community but until you can show that people gain something better on another platform, than the existing ones, you can't really call it a success.

Well, I'm neutral towards Liverpool, but I guess anti towards City. To be fair I enjoy how City is playing at most times but I guess I'm put off by some of the players like Sterling who made a fuss of leaving Liverpool and the latest Mahrez who made a fuss of leaving Leicester City. Not that I'm against any guy wanting to play football at a different club, but you didn't see guys like Milner who joined Liverpool from City making a fuss and being unprofessional.

So yeah maybe it is ranting but anyway, Liverpool should be happy with the results of Sunday. Chelsea dropped points, Arsenal dropped points and their rival United lost. Don't worry about Liverpool dropping points. City will also do the same. I just hope Liverpool can beat United later, and also please beat City when you meet them. I also have good hopes of Spurs somehow winning, but they are scraping by on victories and if Kane goes off, they can't score.

But yes, if we are realistic. It looks like another City title. Just like you said, I just wish teams don't let them win so easily. Why do they get so scared when you can see City's defence is actually so nervous?

This is my 3rd time winning yellow cap (plus sharing same points as yellow cap on week 1), again I got lucky with picking 2 good draws, all my top weeks were because of exact draws. I think the season is reaching a point where draws are desirable by both teams, but then again, this is all about luck. Who can predict 0-0 Chelsea draws?

There is no such thing as any SEC compliant token, whichever the industry. Or at least, there is no SEC approved token. This is clearly a securities, and at the moment there are no crypto-related securities approved by the SEC. So maybe it is in theory compliant, but compliant doesn't grant it approval. But hey, if you can somehow get approval, good for you but shouldn't use the tag to advertise. Get yourself and investors in trouble I tell you. Invest at your own risk I guess?

Supportive of all projects and we need something to replace Amazon for sure, but until you can find a way for users to move away from Amazon and start using alternatives, we can never find better range of items or better prices than on Amazon itself.

Add to the services that let you pay for Amazon items with crypto, at 10% or even I've seen 15% discount, then it makes Amazon items still very hard to beat.

Also, too many alternative marketplaces, so choices are made even thinner. Tough market, not sure what's the recipe for success.

I would normally disagree on Ripple being in a portfolio, but if you have to beef up your portfolio now, there's perhaps not been a much better time (except a few months ago when prices were even lower). Yes, this consolidation could still lead to searching of new floors, but even so, there's not much more to lose for the big coins. Ripple as a token is pretty shit, but the price now actually is probably as bad as it gets. A pump is sure to happen, along with all other alts, and $1 is not an unrealistic target that its founders will surely try to manipulate for.

Finally someone who recognized that they only made money from bounties because of the bullrun. This is the same realization that people should have made when they made x100 or x1000 from ICOs and altcoins and bloody tokens, that any idiot who bought almost anything would have made some profits, but this had nothing to do with skill, or project worthiness or whatever, pure luck thanks to the bullrun.

Don't stay off bounties or projects though, simply because you thought they are useless. If I find an ICO I like now, I'd still put my money in it!

Still feel there's a lot more action to witness in the coming days for the competition. I predict positions 4 and below at least will get a lot of movement, esp when some easy 2 BTC spots (I say easy for whales not for me haha) are still available to be overtaken quickly. Akbar himself will be watching the last few hours, so expect a lot of craziness in the final hour even. That's how these contests usually work!

Thanks for the list, never heard of the 3rd and 4th option and in fact now in Singapore I found a couple of other new hardware wallets that I'm considering. I know the thing about Trezor and Ledger is that they are famous and proven, but their prices are quite high if someone just wants a hardware wallet to practice good storage security. Of course if I owned like even 1 BTC I'd go for Trezor for maximum, but maybe it's time we give a chance to others to prove themselves at half the price?

Who likes waiting anyway? And that's the whole point of being patient, the whole point of having discipline. And it doesn't matter what timeframe you're using as a trader.

For a day trader, the patience is about not getting distracted by the minute spikes. For a week trader, it's not to be fooled by daily movements. For yearly traders, not to get impatient after a few months.

Everything is relative!

Exactly! I mean, if you're centralized at some point, just say so and no need to pretend and lie. Hell, I like some things centralized. Like I'm OK having someone manage my bank account, for some things. I'm also OK with this forum having mods and rules, cause it's going to hell if we arbitrate among ourselves etc.

But Like ETH, XRP is centralized to a new level and worse, claim they are decentralized. What for?

Sounds pretty obvious to me the OP tried to game the system and was stopped in his tracks due to KYC.

I will say though, that projects that allowed people to participate in bounties or even ICOs, and then only later on asked for KYC to pay out tokens, now those are scammy behavior. Think a lot of tokens did that in the past few months, so some hunters were left with nothing because they couldn't or weren't willing to KYC - but at the same time I suspected most who didn't were scammers themselves anyway.

This shit is so tiring. You want to "earn" stuff for "working", deal with it!

I'm very much in the red too on every form of gambling, If I'm honest. I have won here and there, got good luck, but since I don't really have an objective to profit when I gamble, it's no big deal for me. Sports, MAYBE I am break even. I always bet on single games, and usually around 2/1, and sometimes lose, sometimes win, just for fun again so I don't take calculations.

Wish I knew much about esports... but isn't there a big risk of rigged matches?

Every now and then, to answer OP's question, I do put down one big bet for fun, and it's usually on Blackjack (I like my chances for BJ, or the ability to decide how to risk) but also I try x10 on dice for one single big reward.

If I'm a positive person, I'd say like some of you have, that the very spirit of cryptocurrency is about privacy and the right not to give out information about yourself. Which is why private projects, ICOs and bounties in general are bad for the industry, because they are selling things to people and they want to know who these people are.

If I'm not so positive, then yeah, agree. Hunters dislike KYC because they wouldn't be able to verify all their multiple accounts. Every time KYC comes out, you hear same stories.

You could call it bounties or whatever name, but don't be mistaken. Bounties did not equal crypto marketing at all, and crypto marketing has definitely not died.

Agree with some of your points, but I feel you might be wrong because of what you said about southeast asians. I live there but am not from there, so it isn't a personal offence to me, but you discredit yourself and the community by being disrespectful.

southeast asians contributed just as other people do, it shouldn't matter if a lot of them are also doing bounties. Bitcoin adoption? Crypto use? ICO startups? Research? Southeast asia is high in that list.

Not a joke... well, they didn't mean it as one anyway.

But yeah, a huge joke to cryptocurrency. There are better ways to prevent gaming of the system, really, or didn't blockchain teach them a thing or two about privacy?

Would I sell my identity to a company I know only wants to make profit? Maybe for a lot of money, maybe. But not $25 and not for XLM. I think less on Lumens for partnering with them like this, I don't know it feels bad to me.

Exactly. Not one of the crypto related accounts I follow are suspended and they are still basically Tweeting daily openly about crypto. It's automated accounts, spam and fake stuff that are suspended. Also, accounts with high percentage of fake followers and bots, which is what you should expect if getting 5k followers for only $10.

You pay for what you get in general, but I think in this case, you'll be wasting $10 for perhaps 0 active and real followers.

Copy and paste any of that information online and you can see Google shows plenty of hits. They're all scams. They'll give you pictures of people holding cash, with Western Union receipts, etc.

If it were real, they would do it themselves, no need to go through the trouble of advertising like this. And if they were real, people would be looking for them, not the other way round.

Keep your Bitcoin and thank me later.

Play dice long enough and everything has been seen. Especially at sites with higher edge too, you'll see your rolls just hit the losing streak more often than you can expect (because most people don't know how to calculate the variations after house edge). In your mind, you think 2x is 50/50, but even a 1% house edge changes that significantly on autobet.

2k rolls? I do that in a few minutes.