Number one is the dumbest for sure, but the best way to make money out of the ones you gave is to sue them, as long as you have something to really sue about, like getting food poisoning, getting a spiked drink, being beaten by security, kicked out for "cheating" and denied win, when they have no proof... There's a number of options and you aren't  really taking a big risk because most likely the casino will try to settle with you. Lawsuits are bad for business. That's of course unless you're making shit up. In such case you'll lose money and time.

OP, you're trying to get big in a saturated market. There's a lot of predictions available online and many people just go with their gut or bet on the fighter they like instead of reading what someone else has to say. Try it if you want but your chances of success are low.


Makes you think why he wouldn't change his name and start with a clean slate when his reputation is tarnished. That's what altcoin scammers are doing all the time. Altcoin fails? Change name, change team, get some fake pictures and you're off to another project.

This time it also looks different because bitcoin went below 200 week MA and remains below it.
IMO, it's because because there are people trying to keep it there to delay a possible breakout. They know if we break above many traders will think the bear market is over and go back in with what they took out during the panic caused by 2 scammers of the year: Do Kwon and SBF.

OP's 2019 scenario is definitely possible. How probable though? I'd say only 50% because of the SEC manipulation. I believe there are rich and powerful people pulling the strings here, the ones that orchestrated SBF's business, because I strongly believe he was the face here, just like that pair charged with laundering Bitfinex money.

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That's a great list. I've watch some of these and never had time to watch others, but they've been on my list for some time. I don't agree with everything said in them but they give you a certain perspective, makes your opinion stronger about certain facts. Especially liked all the silk road movies.


I doubt he cares that we talk about this and you shouldn't be afraid of being banned for it. He's a popular person and it's obvious people will have questions and will be interested in seeing him on camera. When you google his nickname, his real name comes up, so deleting posts that contain it is a waste of time, same as banning people who mention it.

Yea, that's what I told him.
Potato chips and coke also taste nice, but try eating it every day. They'll need people to move you out of the house on a stretcher after a few years.


I guess a lot of it had to do with the way Egg industry has evolved. I remember that in the 90s it was normal for farmers to keep chickens in crowded, dark warehouses. Nowadays in the EU we have labels that tell us what type of farm the egg comes from and you can still find cheap ones where chickens are fed the lowest quality grain and kept in cages. Luckily I have a neighbor that sells eggs and you can see what these guys eat and how they run around. Real bio products are going to become expensive in the coming years.



I try not to think about this when I eat out, but yea, it's somewhere in the back of my head


When I was studying I sometimes ate ramen noodles. If you read into it, it's water with salt, glutamate, pepper and those garbage instant noodles that taste like paper and you pay 1 EUR for that crap.
You'd be better off buying potatoes and just eating them boiled with some salt and pepper for the same price.

At some point I started baking pizza and realized that I can have 3 for the price of one if I make it at home instead of ordering and I'll know what's inside. My brother worked at a restaurant and he told me they'd often use moldy sauces for pizza and pasta. If there was a mold on top they'd fish it out with a spoon and boil the sauce for a while. Same thing with vegetables. Mold on a tomato? Cut it out and blend it into sauce - problem solved. Mold on olives? You'd rinse and drain them.

That doesn't change the fact that it was a win that was ignored by the casino and returned to the player. Clearly there was something wrong with the game itself.
They probably have it in written in their T&C that they are allowed to cancel any bet and return money to the player. Also, this demanding blackmailing stance where you tell them that they have to settle with you or you'll go to bitcointalk and cal them scammers is not the best line of defense

Wait for the provider's answer and let us know how it went.

Who is going to have control over these invested funds? You? All of your staff? You and the dev who makes the wallet?
Your ogu profile will not make people trust you. What if I wanted 1k USD from you and said that I can show you my Amazon account as proof that I haven't scammed anyone?

I guess you won't find investors here. You can try to borrow money from a forum member but they will require collateral. Maybe try some conventional routes of raising money and if that doesn't help maybe try gofundme

I don't play slots much, but purely for fun I can recommend money train 2. Great graphics, lots of cool features popping up, you shoot guns at slots instead of rolling them which is cool, music is good, it can be entertaining even if you bet a few sats. Oh, and it has pretty high RTP of over 96%. If you play, don't roll one by one, but choose the "buy feature" option. It's the most fun.

There's a lot of nice slot games if you're in for some fun, but keep in mind that you're paying for this entertainment. It's not a game meant to let you win fast but rather get you hooked and keep playing.

Early bitcoin mining was done on PC. Satoshi mined his first coins using his computer's CPU and hoped bitcoin would stay longer on CPU mining, but the demand pushed difficulty to new highs and CPU mining quickly became obsolete.

There are interviews with early bitcoin miners on youtube.

Here's a guy GPU mining bitcoin in 2011 on a dedicated multi-GPU machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEGIZOO-HYY

Miner who used his home computer in 2011. He says he used to earn about 1 bitcoin a day on his double GPU setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFE2FV9ia1s

When I first heard of mining it was impossible to mine on PC anymore. It was all about ASICS.

I'd argue that we've been witnessing this since futures were introduced.
You should remember that in December of 2017 and January 2018 we were in the top of the bull market and at that exact time they opened the CME. The result of that was an instant crash of bitcoin's price and the beginning of these "bart simpson" price patterns. The same patterns with strangely suppressed levels that you're talking about.

I've talked about it years ago, that IMO rich people are using high liquidity and low risk of the CME to bet billions of dollars on the bitcoin market and they're teaming up with bitcoin traders and/or miners to coordinate with their orders.

Why would they do it?
Imagine that  you've got a friend who has a lot of bitcoin left that he got cheap years ago and you both know he's going to sell at some point. He promises to let you know when he decides to sell, so you can bet on futures at that time, you promise to give him a share of your profit.
This system allows people who bought and would never buy bitcoin to profit from the same trade together. But it's worse, if introduced near or at the top of the bear market, futures incentivize shorting. You can be sure people who don't want bitcoin exposure, people who despite bull market don't own any bitcoin, will bet hard on it going down, and that's exactly what happened. The timing was perfect for short sellers, and that's why it was chosen by the CME.

And getting sick in the process. Most of that is carbs. I suspect you haven't had the pleasure of eating rice with beans all day, but I can assure you it's going to lead to gases and constipation.
I could technically eat extremely cheap if I wanted to, for instance buy the cheapest pasta and make a basic tomato sauce with onion, garlic and some basil and a serving of that would probably cost me 2 EUR and keep me full for half a day, but the real question is, do I want to?


Unless that $700 of meals would only buy you rice and beans for breakfast lunch and dinner.
The price is one thing, but I'd be willing to pay much more if that would mean eating decent food.

You're beginning early, good for you, but since you're youg and with no previous projects it's not going to make people jump from their seats to give you money.


Yes it does. New, young, inexperienced guy and already asking for money without showing any achievements.
I wouldn't hire you if you came to my home asking if you can cut my lawn. I'd have to see your gear first and I'd know if you're for real or full of shit.


How much do you need? Are you trying to start a casino with only a few hundred bucks of your own money? As an investor, I'd expect the owner to have at least 50% of the total budget. If you came to me asking for it all I'd offer you a beer and walk you out the door.

You're trying too hard. Don't fight them because some people live to argue. By giving them arguments you allow them to attack these arguments or ignore them. You, as the old saying goes, wrestle with a pig.


It often does, in any field. Look at politicians and their debates.


I don't try anymore unless someone approaches me with these ridiculous ideas that it's a ponzi scheme. I simply tell them to give me a definition of a ponzi scheme and show me how it relates to a decentralized payment system.

I'd explain to her that I'm winning and I'm being responsible, that I don't chase losses and I don't put my well being at risk. I would never go in debt over gambling and it's just a form of making money.
What she should understand that he isn't trying to end the relationship, she is by forcing him to choose. I'd ask her if she realizes that we're going to have less money if I quit.
The choice depends on how much he loves her, I guess.

SBF was a tool that I'm almost sure of, although can't fully prove it. There were much more powerful and much older people than him pulling the strings of his scam. He is incompetent, but I wouldn't say he's not a bad person. Have you seen any of the early interviews? The ones where he avoided answering questions, attacked people who did not allow him to elaborate and kept going straight to the point.
If you think it was all about his inability of running the business, how do you explain a few facts:

SBF bought himself a cheap Toyota to appear "normal" but at the same time he owned a yacht. He wanted to keep the scam going, didn't want people to think he's spending more than he should be.
He bought his parents a house with money he stole from customers. This was a deliberate action on his side. You can't expect a grown up man not to know that it wasn't his money to spend.

IMO he's a typical son of rich parents, an entitled teenager who refused to grow up. A little princess that complained there's no vegan dishes in jail.

I'll ask you a question OP. Imagine a situation when someone asks you where you work, how much you make a month, how many savings you have and in which bank. Would you be fine answering this?
Asking people if they are bitcoiners is very similar to asking all these questions in one go because most of us self custody, so if we own bitcoin, we have it at home. It's rare for people to hold a million dollars at home, but not for bitcoiners, many of us hold large amounts of money, therefore we don't like to talk about it in public. I don't want people to get the wrong idea that I'm some money launderer with a lot of untraceable electronic currency.

When I was a kid there was a physical currency exchange near my home and one day, in the evening, the owner was closing down and leaving with a suitcase of bills. Some guys knew he was armed so they didn't bother reasoning with him, they shot him on the spot and took the money. It was much less than I have on my desktop wallet and probably 100 times less than the coins on my hardware wallet is worth.

Bitcoin isn't and shouldn't be understood as a hedge against inflation because thinking like that can lead you to panic when the math stops adding up. Inflation in most of the EU countries is between 5 and 10% at the moment and Bitcoin lost 60% from its top. How is that an inflation hedge?

Can we achieve financial freedom with bitcoin? Of course but not the way most newcomers think. Bitcoin is not there to make you rich. Financial freedom is your freedom to transact with people all around the world fast and cheap with no limits and no need to exchange currency. It's not you buying bitcoin and becoming a millionaire in a year

Getting a loan for functioning gambling site that brings good money is doable, especially when you have some collateral.


His mistake was obvious, but why don't you answer the question all of us have in mind, which is that if you can earn it in 200 days why don't you take a simple loan. Many banks give out $10k just like that if you're a client with stable income. You could use that 10k to start improving the site, maybe pay for some advertising, while saving up from profits.

I don't see any of these things as issues or challenges.
Scams happen everywhere and they are a part of the traditional financial system as well. Most scams, drug and arms deals, prostitution, human trafficking is financed with cash.
The only scams that can be harmful are fraudulent exchanges like FTX, but these usually harm people who hold money there. It's rare for someone who does their business and withdraws on the same day to lose money on defunct exchanges like Quadriga, Mtgox and so on.

Price fluctuations are good for investors because you can be on the winning and on the losing side of things, but with enough caution and dedication you can come out on top.
People who buy the top feel bad about it, but you'd probably want to be one of those who bought the 2013 or 2018 tops. Buying the top means pain, but it doesn't have to mean a loss. Even if bitcoin were to decrease its volatility by 50% there would always be people who buy high and sell low.

I agree with you OP. I've said it years ago when I first joined the market that IMO most altcoins is just noise that's there to distract you and siphon some of the money away from bitcoin. Many of these coins exist only to decrease bitcoin's market cap and leach into it. You could see it in 2018 when a lot of these bitcoin imposters started to come out like BCG, BTG and so on.

IMO people who are investing in altcoins are either looking for fast gain (pump and dump) ore are hedging against bitcoin, or at least trying to. A good example of a hedging altcoin is XRP but I don't think it's going to come out on top.  don't own any XRP, I see no reason to go against bitcoin. If bitcoin fails XRP and other hedges will fail as well.