There's more similar threads. A few days ago there was a thread active about someone having problems with duckdice.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5430960.0

It might be a good idea if you guys gathered in a group and devised a strategy. Maybe contacting the police and a lawyer if all other means of contacting them fail?
Definitely make sure you start a scam accusation thread and contact the casino here on the forum. With all the things around duckdice in the recent days, there should be some warning threads about them.

That said, I don't get why people hold so much money in casinos.

I completely support electric bikes, especially that I had the pleasure to ride one that could easily allow me to go over 30km with partial support from the engine.
Pros of an EV bike:
Fine range, not many people go on bike trips that require more than 40km range in one go.
Great utility, allows you to go uphill for 15 min straight without going into cardiac arrest.
Cons:
Price, but they aren't that expensive.
Weight

With Electric cars IMHO there's much more cons.

The main problem in your calculation of 12 years is that the EV won't make it that long without a new battery. If after 8 years you have to add 5k EUR for a new battery the ROI gets much longer.


This is exactly what I'm trying to point at. The same problem the Renault Zoe users have. The battery lasts up to 8 years or 160k Km.
you're paying 30k EUR for a car that's going to depreciate about 80% in value over the next 10 years and most likely is going to get scrapped after that because nobody will pay 10k+ to get a new battery for a car that's worth maybe 5k without it...


So, that means you haven't driven one, haven't been driven in one and are trying to argue with me when I tell you that Electric mode is unavailable when the car is cold. I'm sure it's the way I say it is, but it seems we have to agree to disagree. I don't have one at hand to record you a video.

"Probably" is a key word here.


That's why I said you can compare ID.3 if you want. It's still much more expensive than the golf.


Well, It doesn't pain me when I have to agree with someone.

Here's a running cost for you:

With current prices of 84 cents per kWh, charging the car to travel 100 kilometres would cost about €12.60, the paper said. And that makes electric cars, in many cases, more expensive to run than petrol ones.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/12/tesla-owner-charges-car-by-linking-it-up-to-a-street-lamp/

I have no drive to gamble, not in the literal sense where you really feel the need to do it, cant go to bed because you forgot to place a bet or something of this sort.
What I do from time to time is bet on sports. It started when I used to hang out with a group of friends in high school and we'd all watch a match or a fight together and share a bet. It made watching games more exciting. When I got more money and spent less time with my mates I begun to do it alone.
My main motives are feeling the same excitement I did in the good old days and maybe making some money. The definition of fun, right?

The smaller, ID.3 costs only 2k less in the cheapest version, so it doesn't really change much if you want to compare sizes. ID.3 costs 44k and it's almost exactly the same size as Golf. You could have the Arteon for 1k EUR more.

At this time it's the closest thing to a limousine that VW offers. It's also made to be better equipped and more comfortable than the old CC.
I used it to compare with the golf and and an electric car of similar size from the same manufacturer. It's obviously better to pay for more space, better looks, some useful features, than throw the same money into a silent running mode from a battery.



How many of these Porsche users are people who actually love the sound of the engine and would never sell their car to buy a new electric substitute? People who buy a car like that do it for various reasons, but being eco-friendly is not one of them.

So, according to you, it makes sense for that 16% people who buy luxury cars to switch to electric and throw some of their precious time out of the window. Electric cars are basically for people who drive up to an hour to work and back and then leave the car for charging in a warm garage. You need to drive 300km in negative temperature? Stay in line to the charger and then have a nap while the car is doing its thing, or carry a generator in the trunk.


Have you ever seen electric cars at an interstate? If yes  then you've probably seen them go below the speed limit, because that's what you have to do to get the mileage. Whatever the manufacturer tells you to be the maximum is at the average speed of 80km/h.


Here's the thing, you never know if the thing advertised as "better" ends up being the successor.
Electric engines are not the only ones in the race. They could win, but definitely not with the current batteries that they're using. Their cost, disposal, their fire hazard... those are issues, but the biggest ones are their capacity and lifetime. Check out how many electric cars without batteries you can find for sale, specially the cheap ones like Renaults. After 5 years their batteries hold very little charge and cost of replacing them is a third of the price of a new car.



You're saying it because you drove it, or read about it on the manufacturer's site?
There are 4 modes, but the "electric" is disabled until you warm up the car.
You can only start it in 3/4 modes and the electric becomes available after a while, so it doesn't allow you to drive straight out of the parking spot or your garage in electric mode.

The hybrid engine in this model is made only to satisfy the emission standards. It has no real purpose and most people won't even use it. It's a fine example of how fake the industry has become.

I know about it and I don't think that I need it because I've never felt the drive to get back right away, or maybe never felt it to be strong enough to deposit again after a loss.
I usually have very little money to gamble and I try to divide it so that I can kill some time playing. Say I play poker and I know I only have $100 on my account. I'll try to bet low and if I come close to running out of money, I'll prepare myself mentally for that loss and think about the things I'll do when it happens. For me it's never a way to get rich. I don't try to save up for something and I don't bet money I cannot afford to lose. Most of my bets, e.g. sports, are so low that it doesn't really matter if I win or lose. A win will boost my confidence, make me feel good throughout a day, but if I lose it's not a problem. No boost, on that day, but no feeling down either.

The price action is the worst I've seen since I came here in 2015, especially that it's all done on low volume. In 2018 we've experienced those 50% crashes more than once and it always happened on very large volumes. You needed thousands of bitcoins to move the price. Often it was over 10k BTC traded on bigger exchanges. Now it's less than 1/3 of that volume which makes me think the price is manipulated. There's very little coins on exchanges, as a matter of fact we have the least bitcoins on exchanges in history, and when someone comes with a 100 BTC it means something, it moves the price even though in 2018 it wouldn't have achieved anything. Also, according to the latest news from blockchain analytics Alameda is dumping whatever they had left and putting it through mixers which coincides with SBF coming home. I think this guy is laundering coins and preparing to bail. One idiot managed to do so much to the market, It's unbelievable.

Many people get paid for posting. It's not a lot of money, but for some of us it may be the reason to come back and keep being active each week but that's not the only thing that's going on here. For many weeks I've been without a signature, not getting paid, and I kept posting anyway. I'm sure that the forum would get less posts every month if there was no paid signatures, but the number of new users and people who spend time here would remain similar.

I feel like most of us are here out of habit and habits are hard to drop, especially when they aren't unhealthy but something that we take pleasure in.

Most people don't spend 100k EUR on a car. 99% of users will want something cheaper, and cheap doesn't go with electric. For instance, one of the most popular cars in Europe VW Golf starts at 30k EUR, but it's electric crossover version, the ID.4 starts at 46k.

To give you a perspective, you're spending so much money to upgrade your Golf to silent running, that for the same money you could get a new Arteon, their most luxurious model, but with a traditional engine.
Is it worth going electric? Not yet, not at these prices.



These are their predictions.

Remember how similar people were saying that Bitcoin would die and go to 0 back in 2013? The same people were predicting the Internet would never be big and people wouldn't need to have computers at home.

I'm far from believing them and these predictions about 50% new cars sold being electric cars are made only because most companies claim they will stop producing combustion engines by 2040 so you won't be able to buy a new car that burns fuel anymore.

People don't want this to happen though because in simplest terms electric cars suck.
Have you heard of those new Mercedes cars? Their new hybrid 63S doesn't allow you to start in electric mode, you first have to start the combustion engine and then switch to electric and its battery allows you to drive for less than 10km before you run out of power. It's a joke. Then they made fully electric cars where you have to pay a subscription to unlock full power. Without paying thousands of dollars each month you don't have access to the whole package. Is this what the electric progress brings us? Is that the future of the industry? If yes then it sucks for us - slaves.

And you'd have about 10% chance to reach that goal because we're talking about a 10x win, so you'd really have to be good at this and very lucky.
Most likely you'd win a small sum or lose it all, and then what? No 100k and no money for your friend?

Some of you don't have a lot of fears when it comes to this. It's like you turn off thinking when it comes to money. What if a friend told you to take their 1 million dollar car for a ride? I'd be afraid because my first thought would be "what if someone crashes into me and for the rest of my life I'll be the one who destroyed his car?" It wouldn't matter that it wasn't my fault. In social gatherings I'd be the shit driver that wrecked the expensive car, the guy who you don't trust with expensive things.

There are 2 questions in this thread and the answer is the same in both cases.
1. Should Ukraine surrender at this point?
No. It's winning! Russians were pushed back and Ukraine managed to perform successful attacks on various infrastructure within Russia.

2. What would you do if you were the president?
I'd keep fighting and doing as much damage as possible to force Russians to negotiate. I'd demand Russians to move to the other side of the border. As long as they're on the Ukrainian side, I'd threaten to keep hitting targets in Russia, like bridges and airports, fuel and ammo depots. They have no reason to be on Ukrainian side and if they agreed to ceasefire I'd allow them to safely evacuate everything and go back to Russia.

This is surely something people expected of him after all the details of his management came out. Dude was only interested in stealing money and laundering them through donations, paid spokespeople and such. He claims to be completely broke and if it's true the guy paid 15 million to one of his shills and without having a backup fund of a few mill just in case. It's like that guy from a joke who bought a wallet with his last money. This drama is going to follow us for years and I'm sure we'll get a few more interesting stories out of it.

I've done that and never had any issues.

Let's not be paranoid about lack of security in desktop wallets. If you get a ton of malware you're going to expose everything like your online banking and private information.

Most of my coins is on a separate offline computer and on my ledger, but I've also had online desktop and mobile wallets where I kept smaller amounts, like 0.1 BTC or less. I've never had any issues with any of them, never lost anything, never had malware...

You need some discipline online. Don't open shady sites, avoid porn sites with popups and stuff, never install anything downloaded from torrents, use only verified software, don't open suspicious emails, have a good, paid anti virus software and you'll be completely fine using a desktop wallet.
Just don't use that for very large amounts of crypto. If you hold over 1 BTC, get a dedicated offline PC, or a hardware wallet. It's going to cost you less than 0.5% of your money and be a huge safety improvement.

Unfortunately the bull market was cut short. It was the worst performing bull market in history, so not that many people made money. If you bought bitcoin when the bull market got confirmed, so after it moved above 20k, you only made 3x your investment. That's nothing when you compare it to 2013 or 2017.


I never tell others to invest. It's their own choice. I also don't focus on the price. When someone asks I tell them that bitcoin is going to be big in future and that I'm waiting for it to be worth over 100k, but what they do with this knowledge is up to them. I don't care about fiat gain. I care about the things I'll be able to buy with my bitcoins, circumventing the corrupt fiat system.


I don't care about scams and I don't focus on them because I never invest in any of them. I've been here when bitcoin was worth $300 and I haven't lost a single satoshi on scam exchanges and imploding ponzis. When I talk about crypto I mean bitcoin.


Make them aware that bitcoin is falling because the dollar is being pumped by the FED. The whole stock market took a hit and bitcoin is a part of that. Make them see the difference between crypto scams and bitcoin. Bitcoin moves in cycles and a year before halving it's price is always low. The natural cycle of bitcoin coincided with FED tightening and we're experiencing the results.

It would be a great achievement if users actually learned that holding coins on exchanges is a bad idea.

While SBF is the fraudster and should be punished, he merely picked up the money and put them in his pocket, but why was the money sent to him in the first place? An exchange is not a custodial solution, it's not a safe or a hardware wallet, it's what the name suggests: a place to make a transaction and leave, but people were ignoring all the red flags and calling this idiot "the most generous billionaire" when he never was a billionaire in the first place. He had billions in worthless shitcoins that, if dumped on the market, would generate something like 10 million each and crash the price. The king was naked from the beginning all the way to the end, but he had to be legit since Kevin O'Leary vouched for him, right?

If there's no funds there, why do you want him to sign a transaction to verify he's the owner? There's no money that ha can steal from there.
Maybe he's attached to this account name and thought that since there's no money there he could have it back, I don't know his real motives, but it wouldn't hurt the casino if he got it back, especially that he's (or at least was before you made it so difficult for him) planning to use it.

If there was a legit user who spent a lot of money at my business, I'd do anything in my power to keep him happy because that means more money for me, but you do what you think is best for you.

The most important thing in data breaches is the loss of your KYC but many sites don't store that or store it on another server, not the one that manages logins and stuff, so this data is rarely lost.
The second thing you lose is your account name and password that can be used to take over and withdraw money from your account.
The third thing is your email address that can be used to spam you or further attacks where the hacker checks the password used on your gambling account with other services where you've registered.

The IP address is the least important thing. Usually it's not even worth hiding because it only reveals your ISP, not you as the user. That means they'll find out the city from which you've connected and the company that provides access, that's all.

I remain unaffected but the reason is not what you think. I just don't spend money on Christmas at all. I've rejected the traditional way of spending this time where people stand in line in grocery stores and then get stressed because they don't know if they can prepare all the meals and bake the cakes. They concentrate on opinions of others like is my house clean, is the outside lit up, is all the shopping done... Fuck that we don't live to satisfy the needs of others, especially if doing it doesn't make us feel good.

So, I do the minimum, have a family dinner, have some decorations but the bare minimum and we buy ourselves small gifts like chocolates or something. I spend much more on birthdays than I do on Christmas.

My wife doesn't know my seed phrase, but she knows passwords to my electrum wallet

I have nobody else to share this with and I have a child, too young to know how to access the money. I don't want my coins to be lost of I ever have an accident and die or worse, go into coma and require expensive medical procedures. I'd like my wife to use my money to help herself, our child and me.

The way you do it, your so scared of sharing money with your wife that you'd prefer it to be gone than for her to have it. I'd rather have my wife take my money than for it to be lost. I'd expect her to at the very least (if she happens to hate me one day) build the future for our child.

The hardest is getting the minimum that allows you to have income on the side and not worry about losing your job or having unexpected expenses.
Basically financial freedom is when you have enough money on the side to cover all expenses, even those that come out of the blue, so either you inherit millions or get something that will generate a steady flow of money, like a business that you allow someone to franchise, or invent something that other people use and pay you for. There are many options, the easiest being long term renting of real estate, like to a store or a bank. I know a guy who had a building and rented it out to a bank that rebuilt it and has been using it for over 10 years now, giving the guy passive income equal to a full time job.

Don't be offended OP but is that some third world that you guys live in?

First of all it was less than $200 and the owner of business was out of money? This would've never happened in the EU or the US. You send someone to the closest ATM and the guy with the winning ticket gets paid on the spot. IN the EU they would've called cops on you right there when you said you don't have money.

Then the guy hires thugs to help him redeem his winnings of $200? Where I live those guys would charge at least $100 each for help. Nobody would come to your aid and risk a 2 day stay in jail for a few bucks.