I am not sure if there is a good way to distribute it evenly especially if you want to prevent botting it. There has been several different ways that people have tried. But none of them would be percectly working proof of personhood, which i am assuming you are after. Not without kyc:ing everyone at least.

But what do you mean by $1 worth? Why it would have value during the airdrop? Or are you already giving it a marketcap estimation? If so what's the point of that? I don't see a point for the whole token but i am guessing you are asking how to do this in theory.

Not only a good idea, it's a brilliant idea, at least for credibility of proof of work consensus mechanism. For a long time i've seen giant centralized pools as a biggest threat to bitcoin.
And centralization of them was undermining the whole idea of centralization, so i am glad that someone is rethinking how we should approach idea of pools.

Only potential problem i see in this is someone will find an exploit and steals one block of rewards. And that's something i can live with. Also as i am not an expert i don't know where the fud will come towards this but
i am prepared to read critique against this with a grain of salt.

I have tried this, but problem with this tactic is that statistically you end up making more bets for same gains. If you make 100 bets, you have more changes to get losing bets that end up wiping your winnings. So i changed it to waiting for obvious results in live betting and raising the stakes for them.

When game has been played long enough and other side is winning so hard that' there's most likely not enough time to make enough points for even a draw. Often there aren't any gambling opportunities for bets like that but there always some when i look hard enough and wait. I raise the stakes enough to odds being worth it. Not everything though, as if i end up losing, i still have something left to gamble with

So far this tactic is looking good, but i can totally see some flaws in it that might end my winning streak.

If you could gamble rationally, there wouldn't be big wins as if it's rational, you can master it, and if you can master it, everyone with a bot can master it. That would mean everyone would be winning which is statistically impossible as it's a zero sum game and money has to come somewhere.

And Andreas is spot on like always when we speak about probability. But this is an analogy for investing into scams, and addiction mechanics.
And when we look at gambling from investment point of view, it obviously wouldn't make sense. Gambling however isn't investing and we can't assume that all people are in it to invest. Some of us are in it for pure thrill. It doesn't need to make perfect sense in terms of rational investing, as it's just one way to have fun. Some people invest with same mentality and that's what andreas is talking about. Investing for thrills is similiar to gambling. That's why people used to treat leverage trading as gambling and okcoin exchange was jokingly known as okcasino.

What ever exchange you are using, leave it. Because any exchange that would put low tx fees ahead of possibility for secure transactions is most likely a scam waiting to happen. Or at least they don't seem to know what they are doing. Are other coins and tokens available only in bep20 as well? Because i would assume so. I get all kind of scammy vibes from that. Poor scammers love bep20 as they don't need much capital to start a new operation.

By the way, i haven't really played plinko in anywhere for some reason, but now i decided to start and for some reason plinko is playing ridiculously slow when i am using it with my laptop, and by slow i mean like i would be playing at extra slow mode.

First i thought that since my laptop is from 2017,  it's not fast in these days standard and maybe it can't handle the code. But then out of interest i tried plinko with same settings in Stake and it works really fast. So i was wondering what would be a reason for it. I am not a coder but i don't believe that it would be about server speed.  Code optimization perhaps?

Not really projection or speculation, just a tool for comparison that can bring clarity to some people who think that price of one coin is meaningful info.

I used to do this by making my own calculator like this with spreadsheet. It's handy when coins aren't even listed yet and they are under $1M marketcap.
It's reasonable for many new tokens to reach $1M so i counted what would be my exit prices. That was actually making me lots of money when ever i wasn't buying a instant rug pull.

When i wanted to shill my bags i used to say that this has better fundamentals then coin A, and just pointing out that if it would have 1/5 marketcap of coin A, it would be worth N

People can give vibes that they don't care because they are easier to be around with that attitude. That however doesn't mean they wouldn't care. Some people will just hide their problems better then others.
And it's not like everyone would have to care same amount. Some people find comfort on keeping appearences and they start to believe everything is fine as they do it.

And sometimes owning it is a good way to deal with a problem. When you are owning your failures you are more comfortable inside your skin and you start to accept yourself as a person that is also doing mistakes. Or as a person who is having different kind of lifestyle that wouldn't make sense to most people... As someone who likes to do risky or questionable choices in life.

That's a way to control yourself and suits some people. At least it's more honest and healthy way then lying to oneself that they are spending less then they actually are.

You can think stablecoins as tokens representing a value of fiat money, CBDCs are that fiat money itself, so they are very much different concept.
And i am not sure where you are getting this idea that stablecoins would give you more freedom then cbdc. Every stable coin is complying authorities. Tether gives userdata to fbi and they are constantly freezing money etc...
Also stablecoins don't have anough liquidity to hold a candle to cbdc

Do you think people in US will want to go in the same direction as dubai? Becoming a tribal autocracy? Human rights violations would go to next level, and most likely so would mass surveillance. Also no more rights for women or lgtb? Flogging and stoning becoming legal forms of judicial punishment? Is that american dream or what you are talking about?

Because just moral guidelines based on belief aren't enough to build a society. Religious values aren't optimal for removing corruption, in fact quite the opposite. Churches are part of scandals all the time. And even if there would be good moral teachings some people would follow, forgiveness loophole gives you an excuse to do anything in the end.
Rules and regulations forced by law and transparency are way more effective. But that doesn't suite everyone as that more accountability also means more surveillance and less privacy.
At least by current standards. Things could change when we crack scaling of zero knowledge proof to be used in IDs and contracts. I know that won't suite everyone either, but removing corruption has cost something.

I've seen several people trying to do this in years i've been in this game. Some of them are proud that they have found this way, like they invented the fire.
But like you said. All it needs is one altcoin that's not 2x:ing, and these coin flippers lose their composure

And since here are more altcoins out there that go down then up, you can guarantee that some point you will encounter them.
Some of the projects will be even rug pulls so you can't even sell in loss as there's no liquidity to sell. So you will lose everything.
Losing your money on bad investments is another thing, but it will sting to lose your money to a scammer. More then you know.

Sudden dip of over 2 years long? Reason is that it was an obvious scam that no one had heard of.

Reason why it was "expensive" is an easy trick. Anyone can make a token with price movenent like that. Just distribute token you are making to your own walelts, trade them in dex from wallet to wallet to create fake volume. If you want more volume, choose a chain that has cheap tx fees. Keep doing that and some newbs see it as a real legit token they buy into. Remove any of your own liquidity if you had any and and start selling. If people panic sell their tokens to you in dirt price, you can do it once again. After you get bored, just slowly leave the project.

That's the million dollar question. According to Solidus Rug Pull Report from 2022 there were already 350 new scam tokens released daily and amount was only growing so who knows how many there are today.

So when picking the token, i often thought that i should stay away from old small caps as they were most likely long died projects. And i should either invest to mid/high caps or low caps with ton of active development, enough funding left.
But especially old small caps that would have any future are rare to find and don't necessarily raise with the rest of the bull run. So i thought i should invest to new coins and tokens instead. Those often raise from nothing and get fomo for no real reason. But they do often get gains before collapsing. But solidus report confirms something most of us knew, that changes to find new rising star from all the scams are slim to none

Account merging is actually interesting and original idea, at least from player's point of view.  And that would be accurately targeted marketing, as one would assume that they would want to attract those high rollers specifically.

In fact it seems so clever it makes me wonder why wouldn't new casinos just offer this service, no matter if they are part of related casino.
Ssure, casinos would lose money used to put in by account growers, but they would surely get those highroller players, and those customers are harder to come by.

In comparidon, SBF's trial is now over, and he was found guilty on seven counts of wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering and is facing up to 110 years in prison.

Trump charged with several felony counts, and if he is found guilty of them all (as he most likely is most of them), i am wondering what's is he facing, and why his fans think he is untouchable? Do they think that we are in uncharted waters just because he used to eat burgers in white house?

Please show me in the Stake TOS where it says I need a utility bill for proof of address. They provide a list of other options which I provide. They then ask me specifically to send a “utility bill.” According to ToS I have other options than Utility bill which I provided. 1 dollar per post from Stake must be a lot of money for you.
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They don't have to mention everything that is legally needed for KYC as it varies. So maybe read about KYC regulations in general.
There are several reasons an suspicion levels that can get you flagged for more investigation. Just by using crypto you might be in a list that requires enhanced due diligence by law. So i find it weird when people seriously think that casinos would have time to get them personally targeted. And it's always about "unfair" kyc policies.

Crypto casinos need to follow the AML regulations to the book and it's not just by crypto casinos. It can happen trough any service that's handling money because they are responsible to report details about their money flow. Often innocent people get investigated and get their money frozen until investigation is finished, but those issues can be fixed later on.

But imagine not complying. In fact you don't need to. Just look at CZ and Binance and $4 Billion dollars in fines with potential jail time. Why would any CEO want to risk that?

I can't figure out why it wouldn't be just a hassle for everyone. That's why i use crypto in the first place. Because it's easy. It doesn't take physical space unlike getting a package from another country. I am not even sure how our customs would deal with that or would i need to pay taxes for it before getting it if it's coming outside of EU. With btc /usdt prize equivalent, i would get the prize instantly and spend it as i wish. Well obviously there are taxes. But technically you should pay those for any kind of prizes you get.

Obviously i wouldn't complain getting prize in any form if i should be that lucky. But i can't figure out that whom would it better to get something valuable in a form of laptop than money equivalent of that laptop.

I am not sure why should movies be comparable in this way. Why couldn't movies with different genres enter into the game? Imho depth is just a matter of perspective and we need all kinds of movies. The idea that movies should all be heavy to process, artsy, or deal with concepts like oppenheimer in order to be taken seriously, would leave us with pretty bleak cinema.

Lack of depth in a movies is in eye of beholder as you can see lots of levels in different movies. They don't all need to be sad or direct about something that happened. It's not about who makes the saddest and most realistic movie should win. And it's not like Barbie went with the easiest route. It went all in bashing the very firm it was advertising. Backgrounds weren't digitally added. But moved by hand. Music was actually well done considering it was mostly musical. Imho it was bold and original, and left Bechdel test seem to be like a bad memory in movie history.

Sometimes being funny is the sugar we need to get the medicine in while being all preachy about it.

Edit: This might make it more difficult for judges to justify "best leading role" or something like that, but i assume it makes it more predictable for outcomes, as many people will see "serious" and sad roles with genocide ect, as winners. Which they often are. But there are other areas to judge, which makes the whole event more interesting and fair

You can't judge all altcoins because of one misleading shilling post. There are decent altcoins out there, and then there these kind of scams, they are not comparable.
And there are always going to be lying involved when people are trying to sell their visions or bags they are holding.

And yes, most altcoins are going nowhere or even solve anything, but that doesn't mean they are all scams even if 99% of them are purely made for eventual rug pulling reasons.

I am not sure where this rumor is coming from. They have been using independed auditing services.

Imho this hate towards tehter has long history and roots for it coming from the past when tether was one of the most centralized and regulated service and people thought it was a thread to crypto, as it was sort of mascarating crypto for newcomers.

I don't see it that way as it was important liquidity source. In the past we used to have mainly btc pairs with alts. Which wasn't a bad thing but in bear run it was quite devastating when your options were to cash out or hodl.