OK, my two cents are this. Focus on quality. The best managers are recognized for having basic managing skills. They are on time, they are efficient, they can communicate well between participants and projects. But quality is the thing that many managers don't look at.

This isn't even just the quality of content that the participants post, that is somewhat easier to manage. But the quality of the projects they are working for is what is important. I've seen now reputable managers ruin their income by promoting scam projects. That was their fault for not taking care of their own due diligence.

Get the best projects, satisfy both ends, because unhappy participants ruin not only the project but the managers in the end.

Let's all admit that wherever we tried to go for new opportunities, we all end up coming here to bitcointalk for the best. I had a good time for a few months in Bitcoingarden because plenty of airdrops were starting out there along with threads of altcoin developers, but after a while it got saturated and this forum still became the best.

Now I also see Moon Forum picking up, also focusing on airdrops and bounties, but this may not be sustainable in the long run. It's easy to see. Advertising rates on this forum are still so high meaning the traffic and referrals are still the highest here. Maybe it won't be the case in 10 years but for now. BCT is king, like Bitcoin is king.

We never really needed any proof as everything was obvious but the whole industry is based around profit and money. The better you market yourself, the more people fall for it. It's hardly about technology anymore, hardly about blockchain and decentralization. Never about making the world a better place. Pay a few guys to market for you, to shill for you, and pay cheaply too. Forget all these ratings, make your own decisions. And in fact, forget about ICOs for now. They just want your money.

Not increasing difficulty in 12 months, but forced and guaranteed increase to such a high amount. This is the timebomb feature to force ETH to hardfork within 12 months, or else nothing can ever be mined with the difficulty.

People say this will mean a more robust ETH but I don't know because for me hardforks are always unstable times for a network. Miners will be leaving ETH I guess which means slower growth and slow security growth. But investors will love it.

Guys, enough of the conversations around PD or BetKing or whatever a. This is the Stake thread so we can talk about Stake.

And especially, stop using the word scam all around, open 1 thread and make your accusations, and then leave it there for people to take care of. I can respect and understand what happened to some players but they shouldn't be dragging other sites into this mess. Now PD and Stake are accused of being used to make posts about Betking? These are some of the nicest guys around. Let's keep this all about gambling right?

Bounty managers usually just do that... manage. They don't post on behalf of their campaigns. They might create an ANN (announcement post) and answer anyone who asks about the project in that thread, but that's the extent of their work.

What they do is open up a bounty program for you, get people to join it (these are the guys who do the posting on your behalf, usually carrying your signature. The manager chooses the right people who qualify, and determine the amount of work they do and submits to you payment details. Or you put them in charge of the tokens, and they make the payments.

The hardest of all in all that list is this: sticking to your plan. Traders spend a lot of time designing their strategies. Poring over charts and trying out analysis, reading and trying to make some plan. The temptation isn't just in the heat of the moment. It isn't just about revenge trading or keeping to stop losses and deposits. It's to look at others and say wow that guy's strategy is doing well, maybe I should change to his.

So traders never give their strategies a chance, they change it as soon as they're not doing well. This to me, is the worse.

Real blockchain games are coming, they're in development and they will be big. For me, popular games have always been primitive even in the world outside of blockchain and outside of digital even. I mean, you yourself see only scam games or collectibles - but there have been since many years blockchain gaming. If you've heard of Namecoin they were the ones who developed Chimaera and Huntercoin way back in 2013. Go check online and look for blockchain gaming. Discover a few intelligent games and give me merit

I am really confused about ETH and what will happen to it. What I worry now is every time they hardfork I have to be careful about spending, so probably need to now keep track of the timings and take note of when we can't spend.

I suppose keeping everything in MEW is good enough for now and ultimately I'm a holder so reducing to 2 ETH for me is a good idea. I always knew the risks of buying a centralized coin and even though even now people realize the dapp universe is not going to happen, I think it's still early and things can still happen for Vitalik's creation.

I would say though that surveys shouldn't be incentivized or rather not with a monetary reward. Promise to give them back results, or give them access to something new, a product or service we crypto users can use.

The reason is as you can see this alt forum is full of nothing but people looking for free money. They might just abuse your survey in the hopes of getting the reward. Just saying hope you track forum username and all that.

Finished the survey, I always do these types of survey whether or not there's an incentive. P.S. there was nothing in there that showed me how I would get the reward, so I guess that part's not true, or I didn't have the right profile?

I'm a Monero holder/user. Small time. Never gave a single look to any of the forks, even if you tell me they are better and faster and whatever you want to call for it. Mobile wallet? CN fast? Brilliant dev? But can you name a merchant who will take Masari or any of the forks? I can't. And I'm not going to stress myself looking for one or finding exchanges to sell when I moon.

Fact is, Bitcoin also had all its forks and all were supposed to be better but they all failed eventually in adoption. Tech upgrades were simple, not to the complexity of the old chain. So why would I ever move to a fork?

I don't know honestly how to tell anymore what is undervalued and what is overvalued.

What we know for sure is except for Bitcoin, every other crypto is struggling to do anything without promotions and marketing. And what we know now that most altcoins are 90% or worse decline from their all time highs, is that they were definitely overvalued and overbought.

So yes, alts appear oversold, and corrections are due in some months, but undervalued I cannot say. They are all progressing in development. They are all getting better. But are their utilities increasing? Users? I don't feel that at all.

Excellent news. Stake is one of the really good recent casinos to launch, and now that it is one year old you can see how a well run site can grow so quickly. Is there anything particular to be shared with this large update?

This is a feedback for the site to improve, maybe too late for this update but something to look at next? The chat moves too fast. I don't even chat anymore because it's impossible to follow. It should have a function to sort of mute non-important updates or to have a separate window that shows Rain plus Bet shares and maybe also implement a sort of auto-muting for those spamming and 1 liners. Just my take!

So many of you guys coming and going. Was almost tempted to play a recently launched game here (fomo's too big!) but then the game seems to have just gone quiet. Still very curious so I need to ask one thing: with the dividend option tokens, do they expire once the game ends, as in you have to keep buying in for every game to win a share of dividends? Secondly, does it matter when you buy the dividend tokens or can you buy up a huge amount near the end of the game and still get the same share as if you bought early?

Used to be a site called playforcrypto. I spent like, a lot of time there playing stupid games like snake until I could get enough coins to withdraw (if I'm not mistaken they used to allow you to convert to Bitcoin).

I should have seen it coming when they started to change things, change coins, remove coins and all that. About a month ago they just went offline suddenly. Lost all the coins I never withdrew, and it tells me you can't really run a site like that and be profitable. As pointed out, too easy to cheat with bots.

Actually I have never even seen any of these ATMs except on pictures online and how people talk about them. So like you I am probably curious to get some. Actually where I am living now, even localbitcoin fees and prices from Sellers are almost 10% at times especially with recent demand and that stupid crypto ban in my country. So if I could get ATM Bitcoins at 10% I probably would. I don't like meeting strangers too. So many crime from those meetings happened in my country.

It's a strange thing to imagine for me, to be able to buy Bitcoin everywhere. Perhaps one day if I can travel I will see all of these amazing sights.

Hello, this is an interesting thread. I invested myself in a few types of pooled portfolios online. They made me some money in the end of last year even until January, but I was too greedy and wanted to make 3 digit percentage profit that I left it all untouched.

As of today, I have lost almost 75% of my initial investments, because mainly altcoins have failed to recover like Bitcoin. So whoever picked NANO there is either quite lucky or very wise!

I read from the old threads there is maybe a Round 3 or another one for latecomers like me. Am I wrong?

Which alts are you talking about? Just look at the top 20 or even top 50, not a single alt is anywhere NEAR their old worth. Neither in dollar value and neither in Bitcoin value. Bitcoin as of this moment is making a new climb back around 7,250 and even ETH couldn't break past $300 now, just going back towards 290.

The longer this happens, the more we must all be prepared for the market to recover.

And now you see it. We shouldn't have had all these thousands of tokens.

Crypto is simple the medium. If you talk about trading, gambling, there's not much difference between fiat and crypto (except maybe there are such things as faucets in crypto).

Don't believe all the stories about secrets to making money. Since the 90's, people sell their secrets online. To trading, to casino arbitrage, poker secrets, and today are all the tricks and stories about how to make money with Bitcoin trading, arbitrage... etc.

Same tricks, different era, different tools. Now it is Bitcoin.

There is NO easy road in life. Bitcoin is not an easy road.

Ah okay so fair enough, now that I've read all the comments against poker. I don't really agree about competition, I think it's good and competition is better for everyone BUT I do agree most of all with the part about the difficulty to monitor all the cheaters and unfair play on poker. That will be so difficult it's not worth it, which is impossible to game with sportsbooks.

So good decision in the end.