In short, it only means liquidity is drying up. Maybe lenders are finding better places to spend their cash or simply there aren't enough lenders interested to put up cash to provide liquidity. It doesn't automatically mean that market sentiments are suddenly bullish. There's many more things to take into account before being able to say with confidence that the market is bullish. A single lending market lacking liquidity isn't indicative for the entire sector.

Andrew Yang was not pro-bitcoin. He was experienced on cryptocurrency but not very liberal. His proposal was to make regulation clear and universal across the U.S. so enterprises would be more likely to invest. One coud argue that no-regulation is better for bitcoin rather than federal level regulation. Yang had said nothing about bitcoin receiving favorable regulation however. As a matter of fact, his tax against automation to fund the UBI might have targeted bitcoin firms over taking banking sector jobs.

Anyway, Yang has said in his latest statements that he would support whoever the democratic candidate would be. In my opinion, other democratic candidates have policies that would indirectly hurt bitcoin. Higher taxes and higher corporate tax for example, decreases the propensity of people to trade in BTC from their income, or any venture to be started. Especially Biden. I've posted more details about which candidate I think is the lesser evil here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5202869.0

To me, the work behind a certain project is the most important aspect. The ICO boom made it so that many projects were asking for investment even though there had been no work behind them. Words and promises are nothing compared to proven innovation and documentation there to support it. Many projects have failed to fulfill and promise and come close to their goal in spite of having partnerships from early on. I think fundamentals in the supporting documentation and core concepts are more important, along with actual development.

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Many campaigns lately are requiring participants to post for each term with a minimum amount of posts under a certain section of the forum. Do you think it might be appropriate to add another asterisk to clarify this specific term for such campaigns?

Hold your horses. To me, bug walls and overall support seems pretty thin. This run could die out pretty easily with some more resistance. At least selling pressure doesn't seem to push the price too much down.

This would be a nice game to lure in players that wouldn't know when to cut their loss. But also having that much control over an outcome just by betting players with lesser funds less likely to win also. It is a bit counter intuitive to bet in such platform

Birfknex is a long running and recognizes exchange but their volumes are no doubt inflated. But if anything, with Bitfinex creating Tether' like crazy, they are rather inflating BTC prices other than keeping it down.

I wish the Chinese one party system wouldn't demonstrate such fascist values in the outbreak of a deadly virus. First they sent aid, and then they continue to deny the censorship that even led to this. I don't know how many more disasters the Chinese people could go through to realize that this can't go any more.

I would gladly donate to the cause but knowing the Chinese fov, I don't trust them. I would rather put my money in Hong Kong or Taiwan. Or better yet poorer countries in. the region.

China could benefit from aid at the moment and to say otherwise is just foolish. Their own government also denied help TK an extent, but in the mainland LLC officials are so desperate they are stealing shipments of masks that are destined to neighboring provinces... Things are bad in China. If you have a relative or friend affected, ask them how they could be helped. I bet they wouldn't say that you should just pray.

Just how martingale only works if you have unlimited funds, j think that for the sake of clarity we should never involve the law of averages with gambling. Exlecially for the newbies, it must be made clear that their possibilities of their wagers are not connected. Everything else is just fluff.

Focuses exclusively on binary options... It's an interesting take on it as multipliers can rise based on participation, but it's also a downside to depend on user bets for the stakes to be raised. The website also has risk in this transaction, Soni think it would be best to offer a stable multiplier instead. Binary options don't seem to.fair that well with p2p for me.

There have been instances of old and reputable gambling websites also running away with use funds. It's funny to consider how easy it is for someone to run away with another person's BTC... And yet people still invest in such ventures. The trust issue isn't going TK be solved so easily when it comes to investing in the house.

Well, at least in my experience, match fixing is still said to be an issue with e-Sports. TO be honest, there is a disproportionate amount of matches for how low the stakes can be and how small some teams are. It might seem too intriguing to some new players that their team is now playing on matches that can be bet on, and there have been report sof players fixing their own matches to bet on them... This is easier to be done in esports than other events. Especially so since the rewards for a tournament can be at the level of a per-match salary for real-world sports. In such cases fixing your match might even be more profitable. Also easier to hide since it's a virtual environment.

The more honest full nodes there are on the network, the hardest it is for miners to perform attacks on the network or increase their earnings with malicious practices via Sybil attacks. For example, in a selfish mining attack, the attackers might have higher chances of having their split of a chain being accepted if they had poisoned the network with non-impartial nodes. So in an indirect way, honest nodes help also against mining attacks.

Actually, if only a gambling website could integrate some sort of edge-free p2p game I think it'd have a lot of traction. Of course, this way participants would have to also play some game with a house edge for the site to be feasible. But in a casino featuring many games this could be a nice attraction to attract more players to the main games.

Back when just-dice had a BTC option, and fees weren't as expensive, I was invested in the bankroll for a while.
To be honest, it's far from a standard investment. There's no guarantee it'll remain profitable in the long run. A luck strike by a whale could sweep months of earnings in a single day and vice versa also though. Usually the "tax" from site owners is on withdrawing funds from the balance.

With crypto, it's possible for you to run different kinds of ventures without it being immediately obvious to the authorities. Ross Ulbricht is a major example... He was running the Silk Road marketplace and was caught working on it in a public library.

The issue is, without a licence, it'd be hard to cash out on the earned BTC as most territories don't permit the authorized running of gambling websites. So unless a form of money laundering was involved, it's be hard to enjoy the earned wealth.

In my personal opinion, it's good to bring such cases to the spotlight because it's not that much of a clear cut case always.
Copy-pasting content isn't allowed and for sure when all of a user's posts are plagiarized its ban worthy.

But I think that organizations and companies that seek to promote their activities or even build backings CAN have a place in bitcointalk while also contributing positively. Other than ousting them away and being hostile from the beginning, I would recommend that we also try to propose ways for those companies to improve their marketing efforts in this forum.

I'll put my money where my mouth is and try my best to provide some guidelines:

For anyone looking to market a project/publication/website etc. in bitcointalk; DOs and DON'Ts:

NEVER:

• Create more than one topic about the same thing (article/website/campaign etc.)
• Create posts (be it topics or replies) that are 100% non-original. Whatever you post, even if your intent is to post a link to content you own, it should include some original content that will fit in the context of bitcointalk. Half-assed attempts to create filler context are also not welcome.
• Be out of context. Respond to topics of others with out of context replies for promotion is a double sin. 
• Post in the wrong board. 
• Create more than one topic for your organization. 
• Bump your thread more than once every 24h.
• Provide incentives for others to bump your threads.
• Promote a referral campaign via bitcointalk posts.

Not strictly forbidden but considered a dick move:

• Never interacting with the community. If your organization has a marketer on the payroll and he simply re-posts content on bitcointalk without having a grasp of the community, in the worst case it can damage your reputation or in the best case your campaigns will get minimum clicks.*
• Linking to non-bitcointalk content constantly without giving anything back to the forum
• Fighting with respected community members over disputed trust ratings (oh boy).
• Promoting articles inappropriately. The press board should be used for news, and if you're a news publication it should be the only place where you create topics for your articles. Other than that, there are very few topics where the context would permit for an article being promoted as a response, so unless the subject fits 100% and you have exclusive updates, don't do it.
• Not sticking to your own thread. If you have an Announcement thread for your project/service etc., you should post your press releases and promotions only under it. Unless we're talking about a campaign that'll be running specifically on bitcointalk like signature campaign.

DOs:

• Running bitcointalk-specific campaigns like Signature/avatar campaigns, raffles, giveaways, contents, bounty campaigns etc. These are guaranteed to capture the interest of bitcointalkers, which are by default experienced with cryptocurrency and a highly specialized crown worth to target with specializedmarketing.
• Use escrow. Is there money on the table for your campaign? Hire a trusted bitcointalk member to hold it.
• Familiarize yourself with the trust system and bitcointalk ranks. These are important features to get an understanding of how the forum works.
• Read the (unofficial) rules and make sure you fall within the guidelines.
• Hire experienced bitcointalk members to represent you. Using escrow, community managers, coordinators or even advisors that have an established profile in bitcointalk can help you better communicate with the community, without having to spend too much time getting familiar with the details.

* This is especially tricky. If you try to produce makeshift interaction with the community, it has a high likelihood to look forced. But get this, if you came through with some genuinely interesting information exclusive to bitcointalk, it'll also open up the way to your marketing efforts fitting better among your posts. It's ideal to keep a balance between promotion and community interaction, because having your account rifled with only marketing decreases the effectiveness of the campaign in the forum. So, make sure that if you run any campaign in the forum, you'd also be ready to respond to inquiries, address issues forum members can face, etc. What's worthy of huge props would be if high ranking members within an organization are shown to be capable of organic participation in the community. Similar to how Mark Karpelès, manager of the biggest BTC exchange at the time, was capable to browse bitcoin communities daily, interact and crack jokes with simple users whenever he saw an interesting. Before the crash he was an old school cool 'bitcoin CEO'.

I'm reading on "selfish mining" recently, and keep seeing a claim that attacks on the node network could increase the profitability of selfish miners.

In one of the most cited papers for selfish mining, authors state that with a Sybil attack, selfish miners could increase their chances of having their block as the one other miners will end up mining on top of by creating fake nodes.

However, several bitcoin supporters including the respected miner developer ckolivas, believe that this isn't something that could apply in a real world scenario so easily. To quote CK himself:

The idea of selfish mining isn't new, it was first discussed in this forum as early as 2010. Makes me wonder if anything has changed since. Are we closer to drawing a conclusion now? And most importantly, because much of all this talk is plain theorization, have the effects of any alleged selfish mining attack that took place in the blockchain been documented?