Most gamblers must have went through this, sometimes luck appears to be your side specially in games like casino war or dice.

Today, morning I was playing casino war, I just use martingale - I know it's lame strategy. But I won most of time.

Then later at noon, luck just didn't appear to be on my side. A constant losses with win every once in a while to recoup the losses and then losing streak, all funds gone.

Now, let's be some superstitious and say, if you play only when luck appears to be on your side, would you call that a good strategy?

Report compares current crash with dot com fallout of 2000 which resulted in an evolution of the internet to more durable companies and business models.

The early days of the internet were plagued with viruses and scams, yet email and the World Wide Web did not get banned. Similarly the embrace of crypto technology is equally inevitable.

History is riddled with examples of otherwise good or neutral technologies being co-opted by bad actors and those ever-present human follies of greed, nescience, risks of opportunity or outright criminality. All of which are amplified in emerging, lightly regulated sectors and accelerated by technology. Indeed, no sector is risk-free, especially not one involving money. However, crypto punishes the errant at speed, giving bad actors few places to hide.

Read article: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/future-of-cryptocurrencies-davos2023

About a week ago arbitrum based project called Dictum exchange announced an airdrop.

Eligibility form was open then and claim was supposed to start on 30th December until 3rd of January. With 77% supply to be airdropped.

However, things turned out to be sour when devs rugged the LPs. The usual yield farming scam, lock your eth/usdc/etc and get our token.

What's surprising in this? They fooled reputed eth staking platform, Lido. Lido was announced as a "partner" and they agreed to incentivize the stETH pool in Dictum with 4000 LDO.

What can we learn?

- Be careful with airdrops, so many airdrop hunters have entered the field, so have scammers.

- Don't blindly trust the partnerships.

- Be careful with wallets you have connected to platform(s) and especially if you have given approve permission(s), use revoke.cash to revoke such permissions.

- New discord account, new website. who.is record shows dictum.exchange was registered 39 days ago. Ofc, not all recently registered projects are scam but it's one of things to note.

- It was a solidly exchange fork. If there is nothing original in project, one should be cautious of such ones.

- Ethereum address that deployed the contracts was funded by other address which was funded by tornado cash (popular ethereum mixer).

Steem got taken-over. Community forks it.

Meet Hive.

Free transactions, active community filled with devs, bloggers, gamers, people in parts like Africa, India, Venezuela make living out of it.

https://hive.blog

What do you think?

I read this post yesterday, it might be helpful to somebody here.

https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@l337m45732/how-to-buy-gift-cards-with-hive-and-earn-btc-cashback

I haven't tried it, yet.

https://thebitcoincompany.com/

If you gonna try, do post your experience.

Instead of directly opening links, it would copy it. I find it convenient plus security friendly rather than directly links getting opened in browser/app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.robwu.copylink

It's not standalone app, you will only find it in 'share' menu.

Had seen same some time ago, this post made me remember it again.

Man was genius.

https://youtu.be/DPzNArH8lFM

I wouldn't be surprised if Satoshi was actually inspired by this.

Do you know any?

Few options that I came across either dead or removed wwe betting.

I guess it's not that widespread due to its scripted nature. But, it's never known to viewer.

Altcoin bounties are famous for being useless. However, there tends to be gems every once in a while, have you come across such any?

For me and from my memory of 5 years of alt bounties these three take the cake,

Jrt: Got 180k tokens of it with 100 eth value at one point of time, that would be ~$500k at ath, and still ~$100,000 eth.

Aave: Back then 'lend'. Had just got 87 tokens, sold it on etherdelta for pennies. However it reached $660 ath, that would be 57k.

Gold - stablecoin bounty, was part of it for 41 months. Highest payrate being $300/month. This might not be much, but I'd like to include it just because how consistent it turned out to be.


What are yours?

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-announces-new-asset-recovery-tool-for-erc-20-tokens

I like the initiative, what do you think? Should more exchanges do this?

Have observed in past that sudden crashes tend to be caused by FUD/over-reaction rather than anything substantial and the market eventually recovers.

In such times, capital can be handy as such opportunities are like finding gold on street.

His personal text touched me, so decided to create another such thread, 

Today morning I received article regarding partnership of sequence wallet * onmeta.

I felt like trying. Purchased 100 rs worth usdc on polygon, it went smooth, no kyc, just email address. There is video of same in above article.

I couldn't find anything related to 'selling' as mentioned in article however.

Regarding prices, I paid 90 rs/usdc while on coindcx it's 85 rs/usdc.

https://sequence.app/wallet/add-funds

Some minds might find this interesting: https://medium.com/amber-group/exploiting-the-profanity-flaw-e986576de7ab

1) Basic one




2) I guess this would be pretty expensive one




3) Username nfts




Just a quick edit from these: https://opensea.io/collection/eipandas

Pretty late but as title says: https://colodax.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/47001229074-ganesh-chaturthi-offer

Colodax will fill tds on seller's behalf.

Colodax First impressions — been using them since then.

Suppose your country has banned crypto completely.

You could buy ecommerce [1]giftcards from sites like bitrefill ($1k/month without account and there are some other sites too which I have no personal experience of). Ofc they have some premium and if you were to sell these gift cards you would get 5-10% lower but could be helpful strategy in dire need.

You can always purchase basic necessities using these or purchase items online and resell them.

[1] Gift cards providers

I like that it doesn't count post 'edited' if you edit just after posting the comment/topic.

It could be available on other forums too, but I came across it first time in here.

What about you?

Apparently so,

https://thedefiant.io/pow-die-hards-plan-to-fork-and-mine-original-ethereum-after-the-merge

And poloneix will already support potential forks:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1555085757450272768?r=6g90c&

Every once in a while, someone posts 'Bitcointalk needs mentions support', and someone replies there is telegram bot for that.

Would that not be useful making people aware of this bot's existence in News bar or through welcome message so everyone comes to know about it naturally?