I missed this at first glance. Thank you for pointing this out.

Are there already plans to introduce additional currencies? Or will it be BTC, ETH and
LTC for the time being?

Many gambling websites would not tolerate this behavior for long. They want you to actually gamble there
and lose your funds in the process and not become a partner in crime for crypto laundering.

Some operators even explicitly prohibit this kind of behavior in their terms of service.

Sorry to hear that. Have they provided any reason why they only sent you a fraction of your actual withdrawal amount?
I always had the impression that they were somewhat shady, because of the huge amount of ads they have all over the web
(even in very shady areas of the web). Besides, they didn´t see to be a real market-maker, which creates an obvious
conflict of interest (i.e. trading against their own clients).

Nevertheless, I hope that this situation gets resolved and you get the money that you are owed!

Some of these gaming licences are not worth the paper they are not printed on  

There have been many scam accusations against fiat online casinos in the past, where the casino
had a valid gaming license. However, very often the regulatory body didn´t do anything to help the players.
What use is a gaming license if it doesn´t help the player to get their money in the case of an
angle, a scam or an exit scam by the casino operator?

You really have to differentiate between legit gaming licenses (e.g. Malta or UK) and less legit gaming
licences (e.g. a gaming license from some native american tribe).

I don´t believe that the price decline of today is caused by Jamie Dimon´s statement at all.
Celebrities and politicians have called bitcoin a fraud in the last years multiple times and
this didn´t have any noticeable impact on the markets.

Besides, it is telling that one of the profiteers of the current financial system is
the source of this negative opinion towards Bitcoin.

You are aware that the bear market that followed the 2013 run-up (partly fueled by MtGox) lasted much longer than a couple months?
I wouldn´t be so confident that we are going to experience a falling BTC price only for a few months. Depending on
the outcome of the November fork anything is possible, including a huge drop. Some people even expect a huge
Bitcoin Cash pump near the fork in order to take advantage of the volatile market situation.

Anything is possible in the next few months 

I´d argue that the downside can not only be just as bad - it can be much worse than with Bitcoin.
Most altcoins have tiny trading volume and can therefore drop 70-90 % in a single day if some
large whale decides to dump his holdings of the respective altcoin.

Bitcoin is much safer in this regard because of the high daily trading volume. As a rule of thumb
you can say that the downside risk of a crypto investment increases substantially if the respective
altcoin has a low daily trading volume.

I´m still not convinced that Internet-of-Things applications actually need to make use of a cryptocurrency at all.
Let´s take your refrigerator example. What exactly is the advantage of using a cryptocurrency compared to using
conventional programming without any cryptocurrencies or tokens? I think it is much more probable that
the refrigerator will be connected to Amazon or other popular merchants for groceries instead of using
a blockchain or a blockchain-less currency like IOTA at all.

As someone already pointed out I was talking about online fiat casinos.
Therefore it has nothing to with physical items like a real roulette table or anything like that.

Maybe I´m 1-2 years too early with this thread. I really anticipate this to take off in the near future, because all
major brands will be forced to offer provably fair gaming when the first brand pioneers the introduction.

I read an article from Bitcoinwiki about Pay to script hash today:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pay_to_script_hash


This part sounds really interesting to me. What additional security measures are possible that are only hinted at in the quote? Does
anybody have a link where can I find a more detailed explanation of all the features that P2SH addresses offer in terms of security?

As of now Mastercard hasn´t changed their current policy. But I assume that VISA changed their policy in order to comply
with new, upcoming regulation. Therefore it is probably only a question of weeks until Mastercard follows VISA´s decision.

What do the Ethereum proponents of you think about the following article?
https://medium.com/@muneeb/the-road-ahead-for-ethereum-b5b090bcd1a

Some of the mentioned problems haven´t been solved by some of the brightest minds
in computer science in the last 30 years. What makes you think that Vitalik & the rest
of the Ethereum developers will be able to find a solution for these issues?

Furthermore, it is also debatable, whether Proof-of-Stake can actually
work in the long-term. Vitalik keeps postponing the switch to PoS, because I
think they are still confronted with too many conundrums.

In my opinion Ethereum had a nice run-up this year and made some early adopters really rich,
but the long-term is looking bleak, if they can´t solve the above mentioned problems.

Have you specified already for which operating systems your client will be released?
Windows only? Will there be a web-client for people, who can´t download
or don´t want to download a software?

Additionally, can you already share some details for the opening promotions (if
there are any for the beta launch)?

(edit: I found that you edited the information regarding the promotions in the opening post, they look great!)

I´d be careful with IOTA.
Look at the recently discovered issues with IOTA that even made it into mainstream media outlets like Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amycastor/2017/09/07/mit-and-bu-researchers-uncover-critical-security-flaw-in-2b-cryptocurrency-iota/#207420627570

I tend to be bearish on the Internet-of-things buzzword in general and IOTA´s value proposition is basically based on
this area of technological progress. If you add the recently discovered vulnerabilities and the huge supply I don´t really
see IOTA as a particularly good investment.

Do you mind sharing how many referrals you have accumulated over the years with your signature link?
I´d be happy with a rough estimate and obviously don´t need the exact number.

Regarding the lending discussion I´m not sure if using a bot is the best way of managing your loans. Some of
these bots take a commission, which obviously affects your returns negatively. Besides, you can easily increase your
profits by altering your lending strategy based on the current market situation and loan demand (e.g. catch the interest
rate spikes), while you would be constrained by the fixed code the bot provider developed, if you don´t develop
the lending bot yourself.

You can find a list of all exchanges that offer Zcash trading pairs at Coinmarketcap:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/#markets

If you only trade small amounts basically all of the listed exchanges with suitable trading volume
should be good enough for you.

Bitstamp ist wesentlich größer als Bitpanda und sitzt auch in Europa.
Bitpanda hat aber Vorteile, wenn man auf bestimmte Zahlungsmethoden
wie E-Wallets (Skrill, Neteller) oder z.B. Amazon Gutscheine angewiesen ist.

You have to differentiate between a hard fork based in a strong consensus and a contentious hard fork.

With a strong consensus the minority chain (measured by hashrate) dies off more or less immediately and the coins mined on it have no value and
therefore no money is produced out of thin air. However, with a contentious hard fork you get two working chains, which
produces the situation that you describe.

Besides, the ability to fork is a great thing. Hard forks genereally aren´t done for fun by developers and users, but rather to address criticial
security flaws or introduce innovation in some form. I can´t believe that you see this as a bug, this is a feature of cryptocurrencies!

I was wondering about the viability of 7nm chips as well. If it would be so easy to produce working ASICs with 7nm chips, Bitmain and the other
ASIC manufacturers would already be doing this themselves!

The correction that DMM will invest 3 million $ in Bitcoin mining instead of the originally reported 300 million $ makes me even more sceptical.
I doubt that a 3 million $ investment is enough to seriously hurt Bitmain, because Bitmain is investing much more capital
into the development of ASICs and has more experience in both areas (BTC mining and ASIC manufacturing).

The answer to your question is contained directly in the post of me that you quoted! 

I´ll say it again:
If you manage to be the first fiat casino brand that offers provably fair games this could give you a major competitive advantage.

That is a great thing for the brand that introduces an innovation like this due to the following reasons:
-implicitly the offers of your competitors look shady or at least not as trustworthy, because they are not provably fair (a user might think: "They aren´t provably fair, so probably they have something to hide, the games are rigged and so on")
-you could gain a higher marketshare in a highly profitable, but saturated market with lots of competitors
-you could stand out from the offer, because as Stunna pointed out many operators don´t really differ, because they get their games from the same
few game suppliers like NetEnt or Quickspin
-higher turnover, because some gamblers might increase their turnover, if they don´t have to worry about being cheated (I admit that they still have to worry a bit, because what good is a provably fair game, if you never bother to actually verify your bets)