First of all, you are not a late adopter, OP. Late adopters  are people who start using the technology once it hits mainstream, so it becomes widely used. How many people you know in real life who use bitcoin? How many of them even know what bitcoin is? Do you know when late adopters will come to the space? When bitcoin wallets are integrated into bank accounts. When phone manufacturers start adding them like they add google services. When you don't have to buy gift cards anymore but can use bitcoin directly on Amazon and other online stores.

If you want to benefit from bitcoin, hold it and don't try to compare it to other things because this month gold will do better and the next it will be the stock market. Hold it for 3-4 years and you'll see how well it performs in longer time frames.

I actually know some statistics from playing, reading articles and simply being on this forum for a while.

So, Slots is the winner of all the competitions, but one. It's the most popular casino game, generates the most income for the casino and is pretty fair towards players because it usually pays out around 98% of the money, so almost everything you drop into the machine will be distributed among players who win. It's basically a game where players pay for what other players win and the casino generally takes just 2% of that.

The highest chances to win in any casino games are in blackjack and it's also one of the most popular casino games.

Casinos are much more popular than sports bets and generate more revenue. The global market cap of casinos is around 300 billion and sports betting market is less than $90 billion.

That's a great point.
ETH would not profit from attacking bitcoin because:

1. It would have to allocate tremendous resources into that and it would not destroy the network. All it would do is prove that with enough effort it can be done, but we all know it can be done and we all know it such attack cannot be sustained. It's like a DDOS on the whole country. You could do it and cut a country from the Internet for a while, but how much it would cost you and how long would you be able to sustain it?

2. A panic on the bitcoin market would most likely cause a panic on all other coins. If this attack was only to buy more of everything, that might work, but it would not make people flock from one coin to the other. The whole crypto industry is a big ecosystem.

3. What do you thing would happen if bitcoiners found out Vitalik and team are behind the attack? He'd climb above SBF and CSW to become the most hated person in the industry.

It's funny because it's true.
Especially this: I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire. I'm both a woman and a person of color. So if you criticize anything I say, you're both sexist and racist.

This is the kind of rhetoric that so many people use nowadays.
I'm (enter one or more from the list below) so I'm special. If you criticize me, you go against the whole group that I belong to.

Women
LGBT
Unknown gender (can't decide)
Minority
Single mothers
Climat change activists
Vegans
I'm sure you can think of a few more

I had a laugh when they attacked JD Vance for saying that Americans should have more kids because according to them he meant white kids, while his own kids aren't even white.

And they were spreading rumors that she's starting to be pro bitcoin, that she was in talks with some people from the industry... all bullshit IMO.

Kamala is a communist and all commies are about redistribution of wealth. People in the crypto industry represent the upper class to these communists. We have enough money that we can spend it on investments in the tech sector, while the poor working class is struggling

As for Every Garry being anti crypto, I think that Gensler isn't completely against it. He's pro bitcoin, as long as the US is in control. He'd like to cut everything libertarian and decentralized out of it and leave it a stock on the market that they can shut down if it gets too big or close the trading session if it moves too much.

I'm sure you are aware of the fact that all bitcoins on every single exchange in the world added together is less than 4 million? Buying 5 million bitcoin is impossible, unless you're able to strike deals with holders like microstrategy and buy out ETFs.

So, in an extremely unlikely scenario that a nation state wants to control 3 million bitcoin, the price would go crazy. It would not be a million dollars per coin crazy but rather 5 million or something like that per BTC.

If you suddenly saw someone bidding 5 million for your coins, would you sell it all? I wouldn't because I'd smell conspiracy. I'd maybe give them 1 BTC just for fun to see if this is real and hold the rest to see what the fuck is making them crave it so much.

Also, check how much they'd have to spend to buy that amount at these prices because this would require some serious printing.

They were obviously lying because when the media screamed about her leading in the polls she wasn't even an official democratic candidate.

Now more credible sources say she's a point or two behind Trump, but that's also bad because this means so many people chose to vote for that communist.
Imagine that, you're in a country that fought communism on all continents. That went into a long cold war against a communist country and fought in the WW2 against socialist Germany.
Now you have all those people vote for a communist president, against all the values their parents and grandparents fought for.
It's crazy.

The problem with luxury brands is that they aren't like gold. They have their own leaders and these leaders can make mistakes that can lead to depreciation. Balenciaga is a good example of this, but many brands had their own fuckups.

Cars are much better, but they're difficult to maintain. You can't just buy a Ferrari as an investment and hold it parked somewhere on your property. You need a garage, oil changes, you have to keep the car clean and insured and all of this costs you money.

It's not a rule that new account= false accusation. He posted a screenshot of a message he got from the casino and I haven't seen anyone say that it's fake.

Let's focus on the proof provided by the poster, not on his account. If this is true, the casino is overreacting, at least in my opinion. They also took his money which wasn't gained by cheating, so the casino is stealing players money. If they wanted to be fair they would have told him that he's going to be kicked out of the casino and should withdraw immediately.

Literally never. Yes, I did not like how idiots were paying hundreds of dollars in fees, effectively blocking payments for others, but I knew this was going to pass and these people will realize they lost money.

It's like when the herd is stampeding you can either try to stop it, go with it, or stand on the side watching. I choose the third option.

Fees are great right now. If you have old UTXOs it's a great idea to consolidate at the moment, because if we go to a new ATH later this year you're going to face much higher fees.

You're right and here's the important part:

OP is aware that there are sometimes problems with KYC. He wants to do KYC early so that he won't be scammed after winning a few grand.
Casino doesn't want to do KYC before withdrawal and I know why. They hire people to handle sensitive data and these people are paid either by account or  hourly, so doing KYC for OP will cost the casino some money. They don't want to do it for a client that may never deposit anything.

This thread should serve as a warning. Fortunately we have many casinos on the market, competing. If FJ doesn't want to do this, maybe others will. Those who need that kind of service should go somewhere else and maybe casinos willing to take care of them will post in this thread to get some customers. If I were a community manager I surely would do that.

Duelbits is nice, but all I can say about it being "nice" is due to not many complaints and a long time running signature campaign.
I'm unfortunately unable to try the site and I don't want to risk being caught with VPN and having my funds stolen by the casino




Also, after reading some of the points I still don't know why I should choose Duelbits.
Saying that you use best security measures is like saying "we won't tell you why you should trust us, but trust us, your money is safe!"
And let's not forget that our games are safe because of "technology" Imagine a manufacturer saying "buy our phone because we have the best technology and we have the best security" That means nothing!

That's simple math and statistics. If you play long enough the house edge alone will make you lose. The deal is to win in a certain number of moves, like you do in chess.

The only way to attempt this is to go relatively all in from the start but it's in our nature to start slow. We all think that if we play low stakes we'll be in control of the game, but all we're doing is prolonging the inevitable.

That's why I don't play slots.

I won't say this or that game is rigged because I haven't played enough of it, but I just can't get anything out of these games. It feels like all I'm doing is killing time and losing money. I'd rather go to the cinema or something for $20 than lose it pressing a button for nothing. Every time I play slots I always lose. I don't even get that $30 bonus OP is mentioning. In my games it's straight up loss.

Should you stop? Don't know, but after losing $200 on that one game I probably would switch to something else.

I agree. This looks like a money grab by the organizers. They want to kiss everyone's asses so much only to get their names on the list. Since inviting Trump paid off, why not invite Kamala, right? While we're at it, let's invite Brad Sherman and Elizabeth Warren. There's freedom of speech. If people like that want to attend and speak their mind they should be allowed to do so, but I wouldn't invite them.

I like politics, but I feel like we could use less politics in bitcoin.

Craig Wright has a PhD. Does that make him smart? I don't care what she is on paper, but what she says in public, how she acts and all that tells me she's not very smart, or maybe just socially awkward and cannot speak in front of a camera? Just listen to some of the things she said and google her best quotes. She's a master of speaking without actually saying anything.


That's why she will play 2 cards at once this time. Woman and minority.

That hyena pictures they were posting were spot on. Since you mentioned Disney, she reminds me of The Lion King movie and how they laughed there.

The way I see it, if she becomes the president she's going to do exactly what those people in Signature and Silicon Valley banks did. She'll sing and dance and learn new pronouns and won't address the real problems. She'll make sure there's equal number of men and women everywhere and that they have a person with a degree in gender studies in every major US company. She'll spend money she doesn't have, print more and send it to Ukraine, while paying people to deconstruct the Trump's wall. She'll have a laugh with other presidents, talk about the weather, healthy food and hair stylists, and let the things go their own way. At least CNN, Disney, Netflix and other wokesters will be happy.  

As for the donations, they should have managed SBF better, maybe put some agents to work so that he would focus on the company more and not on choosing apartments for his parents. If they did that, hyena would now have more money to run her campaign.

They do help, but do they protect Ukraine? Of course not.
If NATO protected Ukraine they'd simply shut down air operations. They'd declare that airspace belongs to NATO forces now and they'll target any flying object, including missiles, drones and all that.

How should Neighbors of Ukraine react to it being attacked by a much larger and more powerful country? Should they stand by and watch it unfold and then possibly face a similar attack in a few years?
All countries have allies and they choose sides and most of Europe is on Ukraine's side in this conflict. 


This is questionable because Russia did not officially declare war until March 2024. Russians started to murder Ukrainian border guards and civilians just like that without any official statements.
Russia attacked humanitarian aid, bombed hospitals and train stations where people were using to evacuate. If Russia really wanted to defeat Ukraine, why did it focus on residential areas so early in the conflict? Why did Russian soldiers shoot at civilian cars and murder prisoners? Are you sure that no rules were being broken?

Let's be objective here, the price is doing great. We were more or less in the 60-70k channel for months now and with the fact that 68k used to be the ATH since 2021, 66k is great.

For the whole bear market of 2022-23 I've been telling myself and people around me that anything below 50% of the ATH is a bargain and that I'd never sell below that point.
That said, everything above $35k is fair game, but everything above $50k is great. I'm not going to go into euphoria and dump my bitcoin because it's at 60 or 70k, but I'd be far from depression seeing a drop to $50k right now.

Good luck to all the Gox victims, I hope you'll never get out 100% and leave yourself at least 10% of what you received because bitcoin won't care if you sold. It will keep moving forward at its own pace and you're going to be left behind.
It's really funny seeing these people write things like: it's good gox went down because we would have sold earlier and now we can sell for more. If you know that this is how bitcoin operates, why would you sell at all? You have an appreciating asset in a world of depreciating money and you're like "I finally can sell this shit!"

I don't like many things but I have to endure them.

There will always be people who want to make quick money and don't blame them. What would you do if you had a family to take care of and not enough money? I'm in fact happy these people choose bitcoin over some shitcoins that offer ridiculous gains of 200 or 300 % a year and there are suckers who believe they can pull it off because shiba inu or some other pepe coin went up x%

People have to grow up in crypto to understand how to make money in a safe way. Many people learned that by getting burned over and over again and going through the depression phase a few times.