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Quote from: Okayama on August 29, 2023, 09:05:54 PM

Everyone wields different powers when it comes to business. Some say that cryptocurrency prices can be manipulated by wealthy individuals. Despite being decentralized, it seems that price movements can be controlled by specific entities.

So, in your opinion, can everything related to money in this world be manipulated? For instance, do you believe that the value of the USD or the largest stock market in the US can be manipulated by a few individuals?

What kind of people are capable of market manipulation?

It's too generic a question really, market manipulation can happen at the level of central banks or it can happen at the level of somebody who creates themselves a pump'n'dump altcoin, plus a wide range beyond that. Market manipulation can happen in every industry and at all scales within that industry. It often happens when there is a monopoly or duopoly of some kind, which is why regulators often try to break them and avoid situations where they occur. Something at the level of a currency, at least of the most popular in the world - the US dollar, is way harder to manipulate than any of the other currencies out there and is unlikely to be targeted by individuals. However countries like China are in a constant tug of war trying to devalue their own currency to benefit.

Quote from: Frank_Holo on August 24, 2023, 10:58:53 AM

Hey guys, so I've been doing some digging into fiat-crypto casino payment gateways specifically. Right now Stake.com and Bc.game use Moonpay for their "buy crypto" function, however after contacting Moonpay, Transak and a few other major fiat-crypto payment gateways I've learned that these providers no longer accept new casino business.

In the case of Moonpay they are upholding their existing agreements with casino providers (for now I guess) but new operators are only being accepted with casino licenses in the UK and USA (both of which require their own unique gaming licenses) as well as a reputable international license (e.g. curacao, malta, antigua etc.).

Transak on the other hand are just straight up removing themselves from the gambling industry altogether.

I think it's a real shame that new providers won't have access to reputable fiat to crypto on-ramps, it creates an uneven playing field as the big guys get treated differently.

The reality is that any reputable financial company, including these payment gateways, that wants to transact in US dollars and other popular currencies like Sterling or Euros, will ultimately need to file certain regulatory documents. Casinos have been used for money laundering a lot in the past, so will always come under massive scrutiny all along the chain, which is why there is a big push for KYC at so many casinos and bookmakers lately. If there is even the slightest hint that the money might have any dodgy connections, they will get black marks and after a certain amount of those they become too much of a risk to continue serving. The payment networks are ultimately the culmination of all this money and take on a large part of the risk, which includes jail time if they break the law.

Quote from: Mr. Magkaisa on August 25, 2023, 05:18:29 AM

- You, yes, you. Are you tired? Can't make progress? Or every time you move forward, something bad always happens? Are you in a situation where you have to start from scratch again? Where does your problem start? in money? Why do you always have no money? Is it because of your responsibilities for your family or because you just don't have spending discipline? It is important that you know what the root of your problem is? Maybe the reason you are not making progress is because you spend a lot, so every time you have an emergency, you move your savings? Or sometimes you can borrow a cape. How to handle money What is real personal finance? What do you have to do to learn it? There are some things that can help you in this matter, and some of them are:

[a.] Read books related to personal finance.

[b.] Always hang out here on the Bitcointalk forum; you can see and learn a lot from this platform.

[c.] Watch videos that can give you inspiration to become better. And mingle with people who have a positive outlook on life.

It's one thing to berate people and another to give them useful advice. Some people are ultimately just stuck in a rut and have very few options available to them. While it is a good idea to read a variety of finance books - be sure not to get stuck too much on one particular topic, like autobiographies of other rich people who might have wisdom but it may not apply practically to your situation. Frankly, unless you're actually making money in some way from this forum, you could argue that there are much better ways to be spending your time which could be making you more money, rather than procrastinating on many unrelated topics. One other thing is, be sure to evaluate your outgoings because often an easy way to save money is to identify areas of waste and cut that out first.

Quote from: virasog on July 29, 2023, 12:06:41 PM

Here I found a list of Top 10 Casino Slot Streamers which includes Corinna Kopf ,Tyler Faraz Niknamm, Flávio Fernandes and many others.

Do you guys follow the casino streamers and are they fun to watch? Or do you think that playing casino slots yourself is more fun?

While these streamers may earn a good amount of money through streaming, they sometimes may become inspirational to the gamblers which may lead the normal gamblers to gamble more or become addicted too in some cases.

Thoughts Huh

Much like the people selling courses on how to get rich from the stock market or house flipping on Youtube, they are making money from their audience rather than the thing they proclaim to be an expert in. If they really were banking so hard off of it, then they would be spending their type cashing in as much as possible and not chatting along trying to gain more followers. Nobody is winning long term from playing slot games, except for the casino, so they are either frittering away money hoping to make it back from pushing adverts to an audience or they are in cahoots with the casino in the most rigged manner possible. It amazes me that people find it interesting to follow along these boring, very static and staged graphics displays.

Quote from: Shortmaster on August 24, 2023, 07:31:09 PM

We can assoome the war Will be over soon becouse blackrock invest in ukraine so 1-2 years more and war over.
Blackrock ready to invest a lot capital in ukraine probably ukraine could be ready for huge bull run.
And off course west Will replace Putin or make Putin to go back in russia and USA come in ukraine to build their financial markets in ukraine so the wall Street Will make money and everybody knows that wall Street money making moment is holy Even putin will be killed if he Will interupt ukraine once big guys are there with their big capital.

Imagine what's the price ukraine currency once bull run start by holding ukraine currency you can become filthy rich.
And blackrock never do moves what's not good If blackrock ready to go all in ukraine then i follow them i rich

Blackrock is an investment business and as part of that they will take certain "bets" that the situation will at some point in the future stabilize, with the money they're putting into assets now becoming less risky and being possible to ultimately sell for more in future. This is good for Ukraine and bad for Russia, because if they thought Ukraine was losing then they would avoid adding any new money in. Ultimately the war has destroyed the illusion that Russia is a credible military power and dismantled the 20 years worth of shadow games that Putin was able to play quite well. However, much like egomaniacs and psychopaths, they fool into the trap of their own messaging.

Quote from: chigo on June 16, 2023, 08:00:51 AM

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Stereotypically, gender is also cited as one of the reasons why people like to gamble. One of the research findings shows that women tend to prefer percentage-odds-based games and men tend to prefer skill-based games.

For example, poker, from a man's point of view is considered a skill-based gamble. While women see it as a game of calculating the odds.

In gambling, generally, women don't like it when others see them lose. Girls probably prefer slot machines because no one sees players win or lose.

Gambling with slot machines is often a personal experience free of guilt or shame. While the men are not like that.

According to research, when a man loses a gamble, there's a machismo attached to him saying, "Yeah, I lost £500, but I can afford it."

And when you win big, guys like it to be exposed right away. Because, they consider this as part of the skill.

This difference in reasons does not necessarily indicate whether men prefer to gamble than women. Women who like to gamble or men who like to gamble are both related to the courage to take risks.

For different reasons, people who like to gamble see it as fun and for reasons that are more complex than just economics.

Do you think the results of the research above are correct?

I know that the number of women involved in gambling is very small because in some countries, people's views of female gamblers are still very bad and they are considered dirty and unfit to be a wife. maybe the results of this research can be used by gambling business owners in developing their business.

Some of the stuff in there does look like it could be true, and it is actually interesting to see how the perception of poker changes between the sexes - although it would be more interesting to see other studies into the phenomenon and the causes, rather than relying on a single source that might have introduced their own biases in while questioning. It is another curious point how women tend to be more interested in slot machines, even though they are better at judging poker as a calculated odds instead of a purely skill based game. Machismo is often aligned with stupidity, so your observation about a man pretending to suck up a loss does ring very true from my experience.

Quote from: gunhell16 on August 20, 2023, 05:05:08 AM

Isn't it stressful when we spend more than expected, right? especially if we follow a budget, having a smart spending habit is a good way to avoid such situations or events.

1. Make a realistic budget
In budgeting it is important that we consider everything. It should be realistic and achievable, It cannot be said that the budget is only 20$ for a week for food if you are 8 people who will eat at home. Plan what to eat every day and budget for it. Write down all the ingredients or how much to buy and how much it will cost in pmashae or gasoline if there is a car. Do everything with consideration and do it consistently.
Stop yourself from buying things you don't need, like buying coffee at starbucks when you can just buy 3 in 1 sachet coffee that just tastes like coffee. Because if we cannot prevent such expenses, include them in the budget.

2. Find out what triggers the cost
It's important that we know this if it's stress, boredom, pressure from friends, need to follow the trend and so on. It is important that we have discipline in these things if you want to avoid overspending. For example, if you're bored, you hang out online shopping at Lazada, Amazon, and others, this habit should be replaced with something more productive, such as cleaning the house and others where you can avoid it and do something good.

3. Break down luxury expenses
Try to list the things you have spent and separate the luxury and the things you have spent. It is important that you know what is really needed and the word I deserve it.

4. Make the 24 hour rule
This rule helped me when I was building in this way. Because when I want to buy something, I put it off for 24 hours, and during this time I learn how to assess these things. Usually the excitement we experience disappears immediately after a few hours. You imagine the sacrifices you will make when you accomplish them. Like the small savings you have or sometimes we will even borrow the money we will use here. At least in this way we can avoid impulsive buying or bursts of emotion.

5. Set a budget
Allocate a limit on expenses, know all areas of expenses from food, rent, electricity, water, shopping and other things related to spending. Once you set all of your spending limits, make sure to follow them and do it because everything will be ignored if you don't do it.

I hope this somehow helped us and the community here on the forum.

You have to be careful with things like luxuries and determine what you really want from life. If you want to retire a bit earlier and can think that far ahead into the future, then that expensive car that you have to finance for five years will be eating away at money, paying a loan interest rate, that instead could have been invested and tripled itself over 20 years. Some people are happy with a cheaper runaround that will get them from A to B, but others consider driving to be their passion and may actively make that decision which should not be faulted. Same with anything else, that 5k one week river cruise could be nice, but for one thousand you could probably get a lot too.

Quote from: NAPK1NS_RA3 on August 28, 2023, 07:49:02 AM

If someone told you a guaranteed sports bet that had a 100% chance of winning, how much would you bet on it?

If you had a $10,000 bankroll, would you go all in? We’re talking 100% can’t lose bet.

Would you take out a loan? How would you go about acquiring a large sum of money if you didn’t have the capital.

Let’s say the match is starting 24 hours from now, what would be your plan to maximize your profit?

Asking for a friend Wink

It's a bit of a nonsensical question really, because a bet would naturally involve some degree - even the tiniest fraction - of risk involved. Otherwise you're just carrying out a transaction, like getting paid an interest rate from a bank for storing money their for a certain time period. The answer would be yes to such a proposition, because as you state - a hundred percent chance of winning guaranteed, is a zero risk proposition. However, what you're really like to be asking is if you have a bet that has a 97% or even 99% chance of winning, would you take it? In which case the answer would be no, because from personal experience I have seen such bets fail several times and fortunately only had tiny amounts at stake.

Quote from: Thehallows on August 28, 2023, 12:30:41 AM

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right Undecided

Why not criticize him? He has dismantled large parts of what made Twitter great, because he overpaid for it without having a plan. He was a rich billionaire that used twitter to spread whatever ridiculous messages he had day to day. Sometimes they took moderation action that went against him and only by owning the platform could have make sure that would never happen again. He put an offer out there, not expecting for it to be accepted, but because he overvalued it so highly it was. At that point he took several steps to backpedal, but had no legal way to back out of the offer and would have been forced to buy it from that point on. So now he is stuck with a platform which is probably worth less than half what he paid in the last year and is just running random experiments on it at this point - like it's his personal project and not used as a valuable communication device around the world.

Quote from: Outhue on August 28, 2023, 08:28:13 AM

I have seen a few pieces of content online that are saying Stake, Fortune Jack, Casino Gap and few others are VPN-friendly.

Are users on here agreeing on these few mentioned online casino? I am asking this because I believe those who still use VPN on these casinos are not safe.

Because using a VPN is not openly acceptable by these online casinos, there is no where it's written on their website, I know readers might feel like, why would they wrote such on their website when the law isn't permitting such?

Well, what will stop them from using this against you too as a gambler? Bypassing restrictions is not the problem, but it was never allowed officially, meaning you should accept whatever will be thrown in your face.

What do you think?

You really need to read the terms and understand how each casino handles VPN usage, because some will ban it outright. Others may allow it but will definitely expect KYC verification and always tend to limit you to one account only, because they don't want bonus abuse to take place. However VPN usage can sometimes go undetected, alternatively it might be a red flag against your account that will cause the casino to undertake further investigations against you - if they can determine you are a user of this service. Generally there are very few scenarios where an average user would be using a VPN middleman service on their connect, unless they are trying to get around certain restrictions like geographic location.

Quote from: odunybiz on July 09, 2023, 10:01:28 PM

In the recent world, investing in Agriculture may be a way to save oneself from poverty and also relieve ones country from recession. Countries like China, India, Brazil and Indonesia have used agriculture to improve their economy in recent time. Almost all aspect of agriculture is profitable if done in the right way but some may be more profitable than others. This also depends on ones interest and ones country unless one plan to export its products. My choice of agriculture is vegetable plantation. Here is my tomato farm

CONCLUSION
Apart from this tomato farming, I still run a poultry and a piggery farm as part of my agro business. Agriculture is lucrative and comes with alot of opportunities for both youths and adults. Invest in one or more Agro business today and save the world from hunger as well as to rescue your country from recession.

While agriculture is super important to keep feeding a country, in a developing country it is often backbreaking labor and can be considered one of the hardest low paying jobs you can imagine. It actually becomes the reverse in the most developed countries, because huge swathes of the countryside can be tended to by relatively few mechanized and automated machines, depending on the crop. While you can definitely distinguish the two types as a casual observer, it is just a small cog in the overall economic machinery of a country and is not a mechanism to save a country from a recession. Nor should trying to prevent a recession, a natural part of the re-ordering life cycle, be an aim for anyone - the best you can hop for is to try and smooth it when it inevitably occurs.

Quote from: noormcs5 on August 27, 2023, 05:26:34 AM

China is one of the leading industries after US and the decisions they make have a global effect. For example, when they say that they will ban Bitcoin, this has a negative effect across crypto markets globally and not just China. Will this gambling ban affect the overall gambling business worldwide? That is yet to be seen.

Now that Chinese Content Platforms Reportedly Exclude Live Streaming Features, this has caused the revenue decreased in those platforms. It is obvious that if you block gambling streaming, then those people won't use that platform if they were using it previously to watch those streams.

Also, the Chinese were very keen to block the illegal gambling platforms and they also block payments in millions from those gambling casinos.

Gambling is China has long been viewed as extremely risky and based on what happened recently with a Twitch crackdown, this could have been somewhat predicted so may have been priced in to a certain degree. It's the right action to take really, because casinos have really pushed the limits of what is acceptable at times and you never really know what sort of collaboration they have going with streamers, some of which may start entering murky territory when you think about the large amounts of money that are at stake. China regulators are extremely erratic, so many investors have priced this in and will be aware that random crackdowns can target new sectors all the time - it's very high risk to invest in the country, and gambling companies are even higher risk.

Quote from: KiaKia on August 18, 2023, 11:15:18 AM

From someone who have claimed faucets almost all his days in 2016-2018 and managed to make some good money from just faucet claiming, I can't help but thinking how those running faucets at that time making money from it.

Since I don't see many people talking about this today I will like to ask for your help if any one knows of any places that I can learn about how to run my own faucet and how to make money out of it? .

Running Doge coin and few other old cheap coins like Litecoin Faucet is still doable, I can even add the likes of Shiba too, where do you think I should start from? What do I need to learn about?

Lastly, what advice do you have for my goal?

Faucets were basically a gimmick that existed in the earlier stages of bitcoin, long before the prices started spiking and drawing in so much interest across the world. I don't know the situation with all the altcoins out there, so maybe they are still a thing for some of the newer and lower trafficked coins, but you're not likely to see them with any semi popular coin. Simply because it is just giving away free money, you'll have a certain set of people who abuse them as well and make it unfeasible to keep going. Besides that the amounts they were giving away at the time were worth fractions of a penny, which the owner had hoped to offset by getting people to do certain tasks or just displaying advertising towards visitors.

Quote from: cafter on July 20, 2023, 01:30:11 PM

anyone deposited very less amount and luckily won a big jackpot like a 100x or 500x or 1000x of base bet and withdrawn without kyc or without facing any problem from the platform?

if yes, how much was that amount? and what was the casino?

i seen many people complaining about they don't give big wins easily or just don't give by making unanswerable queries like very hard KYC, freezing accounts, etc. this problem is very common with trusted casino's also/

do anyone withdrawn successfully the winning amount and if yes what was the process, it was seamless or you need to pass a hard kyc?

You have to be aware that many people think they can get around multi-account restrictions and make the same attempt at bonuses, which are only ever calculated to be given to one person for one time. They may claim that the casino is refusing to pay out, there may be the odd instance at less reputable casinos where this actually happens, however they quite often hide a lot of the details that give away the fact they are abusing these bonus promotions. It might surprise you, but the largest casinos are making plenty of profit and don't really need to dispute the odd cases where someone wins back a little chunk, but they most definitely will investigate if any indicator looks suspicious on the account and providing KYC is a pretty standard request now.

Quote from: Yamane_Keto on August 27, 2023, 11:14:10 AM

Historical background:

With the end of the "gold standard" where there was a fixed price for gold and every currency linked to the value of gold, the gold standard was abandoned in 1971, causing a free fall in the value of the dollar and an insane rise in inflation rates, the deal that arose in 1973 between the United States and Saudi Arabia Things returned to normal, and what is known as the petrodollar appeared to us, which includes pricing, trading and recycling of oil and the money generated from it in US dollars only.

I am not trying here to say that the system that created the petrodollar system may come to an end, but some changes have already begun to occur, as the Central Bank of India unveiled a new framework for settling global trade in rupees.

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First, the two giants agreed to settle trade in their local currencies — in an effort to cut transaction costs and eliminate dollar conversions. They also agreed to set up a real-time payment link to simplify cross-border money transfers.

The agreements will enable “seamless cross-border transactions and payments, and foster greater economic cooperation,” the Reserve Bank of India explained in a recent statement.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dollar-being-dethroned-india-just-201500390.html?guccounter=1

Can we say that trading using local currencies has become an attractive trend, especially with countries beginning to diversify their reserves, or is everything that is happening an attempt to put political pressure on the United States?

The reality of the situation occurring here, is less the fact that the US dollar is not being used as the currency of preference and more to do with the games that the UAE has proven they are willing to play. The are most likely trafficking Russian oil in disguise, because the UAE doesn't produce that much oil compared to it's neighbors. In reality the UAE is probably the middleman, and is trying to send a statement that India is a stronger country without the implication of saying that Russia is being forced to accept a less useful currency in return for their oil. The world is changing, however this is not even a blip in the huge volumes that are being transacted every day and frankly nobody is that keen on accepting the Indian rupee unless it's the only choice they have. This is a marketing ploy that some simpler minds accept without understanding.

Quote from: UmerIdrees on August 27, 2023, 03:27:55 AM

Is there any concept of Halal Casino Huh

By the way Mufti Ismail ibn Musa Menk is an Islamic Scholar from Zimbabwe and also he is leading the fatwa department in that country.

No, quite simply. Gambling is not permitted in any form that anyone here would recognize. Unless they are somehow twisting the definition of a casino to match whatever profit motives they are hoping to produce from this setup. He would not be the first or last person who is trying to manipulate a religious following in order to squeeze some money out of them. I highly doubt that he is genuinely behind this, or at the very least he has engineered enough support around the top of the government of the country to get away with such things - because there is no doubt that he will be looked down upon by other muslim majority countries. He is basically doing this out of greed, if it genuinely is him behind it.

Quote from: Mr. Magkaisa on August 25, 2023, 05:18:29 AM

I would definitely say a and c are good points to observe, because you should always be seeking knowledge if you want to increase your wealth pile. However option b is not really necessary, you might pick up some information here - like how to trade, or maybe you get into the collectibles section and work your way up as a specialty skill. However in general you're likely to make much more wealth using knowledge garnered outside of these forums. The world is a big place with many parts to it and crypto is just a tiny portion of it and it is a tiny fraction of the financial field itself, so you can learn how to make plenty of money without every interacting with it but you might keep a small bit as diversification in your portfolio.

Quote from: Obari on March 16, 2023, 09:05:57 AM

In my opinion, I think referral bonuses are typically waste of one's time because of its processes that seems so impossible to claim and recently I came across a thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437603.0 seeking for Casinos with paid referral bonuses and I tool out time to read most of the responses there and they all seem impossible to claim referral bonuses.
I wish to know if anyone has successfully claimed referral bonuses and how easy was the process and what Casino did you claim those bonuses

Referral bonuses are not really intended to be a long term income stream, they're mostly targeting friend referrals and they are not expecting many people to draw in people this way - because generally you'll not be introducing non-gambler friends into a casino for you to benefit in some way from it. They're just intended as a perk, where you might be able to personally benefit from one or two like minded people in your circle. This means that any bonuses you get from them will be rather small and usually a fixed sum, instead of earning some sort of longer term commission from anything they deposit - which affiliate programs would enable you to do, , but that is a different field entirely.

Quote from: Shortmaster on August 14, 2023, 02:42:27 PM

Yes paypal use crypto but instead of eth many users was expecting the TRON blockchain its faster cheaper and more used.
Eth transactions still too expensive i hope they start use TRON soon

You're wrong, plain and simple. It's laughable that you cite Paypal, which have actually just paused and further purchases of crypto currency until an indeterminable date, so are currently looking like they want to back out of the market. Besides that, Paypal were allowing people to trade cash 20 years ago, long before crypto came into existence and they flourished without it all that time. Heck, even Elon Musk got rich from the money that paypal was bringing in from transaction fees and they had everything perfectly manageable on arrays of servers. Financial institutions don't need crypto in the slightest to function, banks have been running even longer than Paypal and successfully moving money around - much faster and at cheaper cost (at least to the institution. Crypto is a threat to their profitability, so they are likely adapting to incorporate or subdue the effects if possible.

Quote from: Frank_Holo on August 24, 2023, 10:58:53 AM

This area of finance is often considered "grey" because there are much larger amounts of fraud taking place, sometimes with dishonest people placing bets and then later claiming that it was not them to get their money back. Which requires careful nurturing and intensive investigation, resulting in more expensive fees going to these businesses. A random person that is emailing these finance companies is going to get stonewalled and receive negative answers, because they don't want any potential bad publicity in the current world which is hyper sensitive. These companies negotiate deals with casinos behind closed doors and try to stay as hidden in the background as possible, they're not interested in announcing how they gather new business so gave you these answers but it doesn't make it true.