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.

Good luck to the venture. I have seen a lot of lottery platforms, all of them trying to be fair and transparent with blockchain and all that, but all of them just somehow not being able to attract the right attention. You estimate 10k tickets sold in a day? And at 15 dollars worth? Very difficult, I have to say. People would still rather play the freelotto free tickets or even freebitcoin. I don't know why but they do. Still, good luck proving me wrong.

Check out Bitcoin>Marketplace>Services>Exchanges and see all the discussions on official exchange threads. Plenty of good exchanges, but if you don't want to trust your funds on someone else's private keys, you can try out some of those P2P platforms to trade direct with other people using escrow.

Personally, I have no problem trusting Bittrex and Binance to exchange crypto. Just make sure you make the exchange ASAP and then request withdrawal. Don't ever leave your funds on exchanges no matter how much you trust them.

Yeah, whatever people didn't get in terms of BCH, which is half the dominance of ETH now, they should be. They should have the data of user balances, surely servers keep this data and they would have made sure this happened during the snapshot. It has never ended well for those who didn't give out BCH, even trusted escrows who kept money on this forum had come under fire for not giving it.

I've heard arguments on both sides of should/should not.

But it's wrong in any case if the BTC holder never gave the BCH to the rightful owner. Nitrogen, if they didn't, should respond to that and if they never emailed users, that's wrong too.

Wow, another bull flag formation. The words keep changing to sound like we're more sophisticated but this is just the educated version of "Bitcoin will back 2x soon" threads. I mean wow RSI plus bull flag plus Stochastic Oschillator going north. Overbought signals combining with strong buying sentiment!

Forgive me if I think this is unnecessary but this is just another example of people willing to go to a lot of trouble just to convince themselves that hey it's gonna be okay, my Bitcoin will recover.

Nah, I don't think ICOBench even are that stupid (to do bad reviews and ask money for edits). That's basically just blackmail and anyone knows blackmail, no matter the ends, won't get you anywhere. The law is very clear on that, blackmail, like murder, crime, no matter for good or bad.

But come on guys, surely you know by now that all sites are useful for a certain limit of information, right? Get what you need, no need to have trust for all the rest of them.

A week left to the competition, not much has changed it the top 3. Damn you Akbar

But as you know with all these wager comps, everyone waiting in the shadows to snipe at the last few hours! I see BoXXoB right at the top of the leaderboard now, just a little more to touch 4 BTC! rennekon seems keen to keep second place. Got to say it's not that big an amount to wager, I've seen a lot more, so definitely a lot more left to this contest

It's amazing how guys like Hazard and Aguero have been playing in the English league for years now, and they still have the capacity to change games, and yet their managers don't always use them with full belief or somehow don't know how to make them better (like how sometimes the crowd at City is booing when Aguero is still on the bench). Or remember when Mister Mourinho turned Hazard from Player of the Year to amateur Conference League footballer? I remember Hazard even sent a Sorry SMS to Mourinho for being such a lousy player.