Today is the Liberation day and the president trump is expected to speak after few hours from now. It is likely that he will be announcing the tariffs implements (and they will be no more delays)  and it will have a bad impact on the stocks and crypto prices. There will be a lot of headlines today, and most importantly, we may see a lot of volatility in the crypto markets.

Trump may be correct in his opinion that other countries impose too many tariffs on US goods, which damages US exports. So he thinks that he has the right to implement tariffs on other countries and eventually make the US great again. That's his plan as of now.

I Just found one address shared on social media where it showed that a whale send short on BTC at entry price 84,018$. His liquidation price was around 85500$ but he added around 5,001,874$ in his account to increase his liquidation to 86,593$.

Is he some insiders who knows what's coming in immediate short term as he is heavy on short with 40x. Maybe he knows whats coming at FOMC meeting. No rate cuts  

https://hypurrscan.io/address/0xf3F496C9486BE5924a93D67e98298733Bb47057c

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Winning in gambling will make your mood happy just as we get some rewards and we feel happy.  These feelings are so great and we feel so energic and positive.
However, once we start to lose in gambling, we slowly move towards the sadness phase. If the loss continues and we keep on losing the money, eventually it can lead to depression.

Yes, I understand that depression is a very severe stage and it won't come at once if you are a new gambler but if you are not a responsible gambler, it is very easy for the gambler to lose his emotions and become depressed in life. Focus on other entertainment other than gambling for some time can be helpful in relaxing our mind and regrouping again to come back strongly in gambling with a strong emotion.

From the last two days, we have experienced some major Geopolitical Tension as Iran invaded Israel and there is a fear whole world including the United States of America, Russia, China and other Middle Eastern/ Asian countries may be directly involved in this war if the situation does not norm quickly.

We have seen some big dumps in the world stock market and crypto market and the world's business may get affected by this situation. I would like to know what impact will it have on gambling ?

Do people gamble less when they see such tensions around the globe?

Will the gambling sites/bookies will have an impact on this situation?

One of my friends is very sensitive about seed phrases lost. He does not have a hardware wallet and is storing his Bitcoin on an Electrum wallet on cold storage (that never connects to the internet).
However, the thing is that he does not want to keep the seed phrases on a piece of paper (physically) as he thinks that it can be stolen or theft or even lost and he may lose all of his bitcoins.

So what is doing now that he has created a new wallet with seed extension. He has created four or five different wallets (to divide his funds in different wallets), each of them with the same seed extension, the words which he memorizes and can never forget.



Now he keeps the original electrum seeds on a piece of paper as well as he is storing it online on his Gmail. He is of the point of view that now he is 100% secure as he cannot lose the seed phrase as it is stored both physically and electronically. Secondly, if someone hacks his seed phrases both physically or online, that is of no use because he has seed extensions to the seed phrases which only he knows about.

Given these conditions, is he doing it the right and secure way?

Recently I came to know about the Bitget Web3.0 wallet (https://web3.bitget.com/en) as they are offering some tasks like depositing and swapping on their platform that will earn us their free airdrop of their native token BWB.

Airdrop of 50 Million BWB: Official Launch of Bitget Wallet's Ecosystem Token!

I have been using the Unstoppable wallet for my altcoins and I want to know if is it safe to transfer some coins on Bitget wallet ? Anyone using the Bitget wallet can share their experiences and differentiate between the two.

Also, is Bitget Wallet Open Source?

With the advent of cryptocurrencies, there are a lot of staking opportunities where one may stake their coins and earn consistent profits at the good rates while keeping their original investment safe. There are many centralized and decentralized platforms available for staking.

Do you have a list of good staking platforms?

Also, can anyone share which are the best staking opportunities where we can get the best returns on our investments? I think staking is one of the ways to get good income but is underlooked and not much discussed here 

Do you feel sad when your favorite team loses a match and the bet (if you had placed a bet on that match)?

It is part of every sport where a team loses and a team wins the match. A team is happy and a team is sad, not only in cricket but in other sports too like basketball, volleyball and the last best sport Football.

Also, a match isn't considered a loss but if that match is a final, semi final or such a big match for example between two rivalry teams then it will be like this, but at the same time for us, even if the match isn't important in the context of the series but we place the bet and lose it, it's our lost booked and there are no second thoughts about it.

When your team wins you have happiness. Everything goes wrong including your mood and emotions if the team on which we place the bet loses the match unexpectedly.

A Panel here says that the next generation of online gambling will be more social, engaged and targeted.

This was discussed in the Next.io conference held in New York. They said that online gambling will be more targeted and at the same time it become more of a social activity. Right now we see that an online gambler is gambling in solo with no social connections but this could change in future.

The online gambling companies have to reform themselves as this will be a new demand from the young generation who are coming to online gambling and they need socialization also while gambling (like we used to have in physical gambling).

I am talking about this https://newparadigm.manta.network/ ?

For your information that has already ended on January 16 as stated on their website. And you can unstake your ETH on 26 March. Since we got the Stone token when we staked ETH, iso if anyone wants ETH before 26 march, he can swap stone for ETH but this will lose some value of ETH due to this swapping.

Also, there is a possibility that we may see Phase 2 of this airdrop too as it is written that the Phase 1 has ended. Is it so, any information related to this phase 2 ?

Phase 1 has ended on January 16th, 2024. You can still open your obtained boxes and combine, but will be unable to obtain new boxes or box pieces.
$STONE and $wUSDM withdrawal will be enabled on March 26, 2024.Meanwhile, you can use $STONE and $wUSDM on Manta Pacific across 150+ different ecosystem projects.

With the easy accessibility of the online gambling sites and tools, the younger generation is more involved in gambling. The risk for them is not only that they will lose money but gambling at such a high rate and at the age of teenage will cause them a lot of problems like lack of physical activity or no interest in the studies as they will more inclined to get easy entertainment in the form of gambling.

The most effective way to address this issue is for the parents and teachers to play their part and convince the young generation the do and don't of gambling and how it can harm our personality and life if we are addicted to it.

Gambling risks are rising for young people

Well, we have enough information on this forum on how to mix the bitcoins and there are many good mixers also available / advertising on the forum.

USDT is the most widely used stablecoin but I never heard if anyone needed to mix the USDT to stop its traces and i never come across any service/ways to mix the USDT.

Any suggestions on USDT mixing are appreciated here. Looking for direct USDT mixing, i know converting to XMR and back will serve the purpose.

I think you already read Lets discuss Poker and now it's time to know how does casino make money on Poker. Also we know that Casino favors the slots games more than the Poker because the profit percentage at the slots games is more for the casino as compare to the poker.



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It is basically the Rake (a sort of a fee) which casino takes for every poker games we play at thier platform. The Rake is usually fixed for the game but some casinos, will not take the rake, but will charge an hourly fee from the poker players. Its always better to know what type of rake/fee the casino will charge for playing poker.

I think many new gamblers are not aware of how to play poker and/or they do not have complete knowledge of Poker. Unlike other gambling games, Poker requires certain knowledge and there are certain sets of rules in the game. How to Play Poker for Beginners give some brief information about Poker which is a must for everyone who is new to Poker.



Also let's share our experiences about Poker and tips/tricks which may help further improve our game.

These days you might have seen the debate where a single bitcoin transaction of 0.074 BTC, paid a fee of almost $500K, that is almost 19.8K BTC as a fee. This was mined by F2Pool meaning that the miners at F2Pool gain that much money. However, there is a debate that they will have to return this money as it was due to an error or bug at Paxos end.

F2Pool Debates $500K BTC Fee Return as Paxos Confirms Error

I am not sure if the miners will agree to the refund

While Paxos asserted that it had initiated contact with F2Pool to recoup the funds, the miner no longer seems eager to agree to a refund. 

, but we will see how the situation develops.

As you know bitcoin halving is a few months away (first quarter 2024) and then we may have bull season in 2024/2025. We are all excited about the bull season but no one prepares for it. People start buying Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies when the bull market is in progress and the prices are already high. Some even have the fear of missing out and buy at the top of the bull market. The result is that most people lose money in bull season too.

So in order to have maximum benefits in the bull market, you should have a plan and start executing it unless it is too late.

I have already accumulated bitcoin in my portfolio (70% of my portfolio is in bitcoin) which i will not sell until we are above the all time high again. Similarly, i have bought some major cap coins and a few others low cap too which i think will perform well in the bull season.  I have been doing this for the last 3 to 4 months, buying some at every dump.

If the market dumps further, I will not panic and if I have more spare money, I may accumulate more bitcoin. I am confident that this bull season will be the best so far as it will be initiated by institutional investors.

Also, to keep my bitcoin secure and to remain calm in times of dump, I have moved my bitcoins in cold storage so I never get tempted to sell on small profits like i won't be selling on 2x profit if bitcoin reaches 50,000$. My targets are clear and will sell in parts after bitcoin reaches new highs.

Bitcointalk was down for around 10 mins or so. Did anyone noticed?  Any reasons, Server glitches or DDOS attack  

I also confirmed from downforeveryoneorjustme to be sure the problem was not at my end.

There have been rumours in the market recently that black rock wants to accumulate more bitcoins, but at more reduced rates and for this they will make the market crash more. I don't know if this news is really true or if it is just a rumour.

This is one dark side of these giants that they will never play fair. They have enough money to influence the crypto market which is still at the very initial stage and move the market according to their wish.


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According to the Finbold article, ‘Rich Dad’ R. Kiyosaki predicts Bitcoin to $1 million if the economy crashes. This is food for thought for those who are foreseeing the economic crash and are unable to find a safe haven for their investments.

Due to the current economic situation and the BRICS, the crash of the dollar seems obvious. Although it will not happen instantly as the US Government will bail out packages in order to maintain the dollar value, however, the question is for how long?

Some people are of the view that if there is an economic crash, then the stock market and the commodities market will crash and so will the bitcoin price will tremble. This may happen but I think the bitcoin will recover quickly and people will invest in the bitcoin. And who knows bitcoin may not fall at all if all this happens in a slow and steady fashion.

These days there are hackers everywhere trying to intrude on our systems or exploit the loopholes, inject malware and all such hacker stuff.

Still, Some people do not have hardware wallets so in that case a Multi-Sig Non-custodial wallet can be handy.
I heard that using a simple non-custodial wallet like Electrum on your system may be less secure but if we combine it with Multi-Sig, it would be impossible for the hacker to get hold of our funds even if he manages to hack the system Is it true?

Also, I would like if anyone can provide the step by step instructions (any link to guide)  on setting up a Multi-Sig wallet.