You'll need to have hundreds of referrals to make it worthwhile. I have more than a hundred refs on my freebitco.in account and only 1 of them is still active but I am lucky because he is constantly making bets, selling FUN tokens etc and generating me some nice sats every week. I agree with you in general though. Somehow I manage to collect these refs in the past but I probably wouldn't do it today because it is not worth my effort. Making money this way is not very time efficient.

Making more copies is risky too. A burglar might steal your home copy while you are not home... You may protect yourself from a natural disaster but then there will be other risks... On the other hand having only one copy is also risky because anything can happen to it. There isn't a foolproof easy solution to this problem imo. Physical paper wallets have their own risks, memorizing the seed words is also dangerous because dementia is a bitch... computers can get broken or get hacked if they are connected to the internet. Should you make 2 copies of your priv keys? Maybe. But I know for sure, you shouldn't make more than 2.

You are describing an addiction here. People get addicted to various things during their life. Sex, alcohol, gambling, smoking, drugs, gaming… just to name a few. Any of these activities can become a problem when you overdo it. So let’s say you have so much money and you don’t have to work anymore. You can buy whatever you want… If you decide to do drugs and do lots of them every day… what would happen to you? Your body would be ruined. What if you decide to play playstation everyday? Same thing happens…

What about eating from the McDonald’s every day? Your whole body will explode. Yep eating shit is a legit addiction as well. I probably named every shitty addiction above. Anything I missed?

The US can’t bring the production back from China because they can’t afford pay their employees. The US is broke. They moved the production from the US to China years ago for this exact reason. They can’t pay. They thought, “Why should we pay the American employees $3k, while the Chinaman is doing the same work for us for $1k?” And that’s how the great empire of the United States lost its dollars&power to China.

If China stops sending their ships to the US, the US will go back to the stone age.

Energy is energy. When you use “clean” energy, you only pay for your energy upfront. The difference between nuclear and “clean” is the space. How many wind mills and solar panels would you need to feed a farm like what OP described? I guess it would be a lot. And then you need to have a very big field to store these mills and panels, you need to do their maintenance etc… see where I am going? When you use nuclear, none of these needed. Plug in and done. Clean energy is not practical and certainly not clean when it is used on a very big scale.

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

As TryNinja said, you are now just another rabbit in the rabbit trap. If you want to get out of the trap, you need to pay a fee and the fee is 22%. 

I agree with you on that these things ain't making crypto adoption easier and you know what? That's the whole point. The banks don't want to do any business with the crypto exchanges for a reason. They don't want you to buy crypto. That's because your government also don't want it.

When crypto people say "We are going to destroy the FIAT, the banks horrraaay" You didn't think that was going to happen in a bed of flowers right?

Bittrex died for me the day they made KYC mandatory and now they are losing their US operations... It is not a big surprise. They should have kept thier operations off-shore, accepted no U.S. customers and maybe then they would still be relevant today. It is just
nearly impossible to do any business with the US government. Iran, China, Russia already stopped it and now even their old partner Saudi's are leaving the US Dollar... The US needs to get its shit together asap.

Another major blow to the US Dollar. The US sanctioned so many countries, now these countries are making their own deals between themselves and they are practically sanctioning the US back. The US Dollar is still the best currency out there but these countries aren't dumping the USD because they really want to, they have simply no other choice. They just can't make money and survive anymore if they bow down to the US.

Iran has lots of oil and the world needs oil. Russia has lots of gas and the world needs gas. What do you think these countries gonna do? Stop selling their commodities and starve to death just because some other country wanted that?

In this picture China has all the leverage over USA. Not looking good for the USD.

This was a great experience. I definitely forgot how hard and great this game was. I couldn't collect more than 2 coins on my first 10-15 attempt and then I collected like 10+ coins  However the game won't probably stay as it is just an April fools joke. There were other great April fools additions to the forum in the recent years and none of them stayed. I don't expect this one to become an exception. This is a bitcoin forum in the end, not an arcade machine. If you want to play flappy bird, you can do it on everywhere.

https://www.google.com/search?q=play+flappy+bird

See? There are many websites have this game. Nobody cares if google/apple banned it on their platforms.

I don’t think it has anything to do with btc. I think you need to realize that the world is not spinning around btc. These countries come up with a new currency so they can dump the USD. It seems like a futile attempt but still, at least they are making their goals clear: They don’t want to do any business with the USD. I can’t really blame them for this because the US has been weaponizing their currency for a very long time. Somebody has to say “enough” to this crap.

If you want to live like a saint, what are you doing in this forum? Bitcoin is being used by many criminals but here you are making posts here. Porn is still making the most money because there is infinite demand and so little pussy supply. Even though it is legal to make money that way, it is still not everybody's first choice. If everyone was a porn star, the market would be oversaturated and no one would make any money.

Humanity can't exist without capitalism. Socialism is against our instincts. Capitalism exists because we want it to exist.

Poor people get addicted to gambling very easily. Since they don’t have the brains to get rich from the normal ways like working, gambling is their only chance to get rich because gambling mostly requires no skills as it is only based on the player’s luck. Obviously the games are designed to make the casinos rich taking the money from the pocket of the players, these addicts get poorer and poorer while they expect to get richer. It is a brilliant business.

Who exactly said this? I'd like to see the source of this quote if you don't mind. Was this a private message?

If theymos really said this, it is easy to guess his reasoning. You don't need to ask him.

1- Staff endorsing mixers might get the forum in trouble.
2- Mixers can't guarantee your privacy even though they say they do. That's possibly false advertisement.

Bitcointalk Account: mindrust
My vote goes to: GazetaBitcoin

Every now and then those decentralized services still need some human interaction and that alone makes them semi-decentralized and that means the gov will find that “human” sooner or later and tax him.

I believe it is possible to create decentralized dice casinos but when it comes to sports betting, everything changes. A decentralized casino can’t handle this kind of task. These “decentralized “ sports betting casinos need input data and that data is human generated. So there will always be a human managing this data and that will be the weak spot of these projects.

Just like you said man It is becuz they are mad. Their mad becuz we're riding cars and flying jets. They jelly man. They can't let us have beautiful girlz and nice cars. They greedy man. They want everything for themselves.

For fucks sake,

LEAVE CHANG ALONE

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There is only one rule you need to know when you are gambling. You are going to lose in the long run unless you do the forbidden stuff like EV/Arbitrage betting. I am saying forbidden because they make you win and if you are winning who is losing? The casino. Obviously they don't want to lose because it is their business to make money.

So, when you decide to play even more to make up for your losses, what do you think gonna happen? You'll lose even more money.

If you don't want to lose money, just stop playing. Be a responsible gambler. Play once a week, twice a week, whatever... Have a plan and never change it.

Just don't post in any self-moderated thread unless you really trust the user that created the topic. Whenever I enter a self-moderated topic, I immediately close that tab because I know that the OP would delete any posts he don't like. Maybe he won't like what I am going to say and delete my posts too... then why would I risk my precious time on that? I am posting my message so people can read it. If somebody can delete it because he/she can without a reason, then it doesn't make sense to make that post in the first place.

Here they don't give a damn about what went to the bookie from the bank and what came back. If you made any profits on a game and that profit is bigger than appr. $1200, then you have to declare your income and pay a tax. That's all that matters. It may sound ridiculous but the gov is the only bookie around here.   So the money you send from the bank to the bookie, it goes directly to a government entity. Now you should get the idea of what's happening. You can't hide from the taxxxmannn