This was my first time participation in the art contest and really happy to see myself in the top-10 winners and congratulations to all others who have made up to that list.

These art contest are always fun and have watched them from some time seeing lot of creative entries and promoting a healthy competitive spirit among forum members to portray their skills here having a chance to win some amount also. But even if you have not win those rewards you gain lot of experience from the creative entries and motivation to perform better next time and as all know this is just a competition and appreciate all the submission that I have seen in this thread.So keep your hopes high for the next time.

Thanks Roobet team and @Hhampuz for organizing these art contest on regular basis for the community.

I would say No they won't be worth that much like the Punks and BAYC NFT's have been at the current with one piece being approximately a million dollars because Rollbot is gambling based NFT and give the benefits to the players in different manner but those projects have separate base and people are spending money on them is just waste because in the end nobody would be willing to have it with no utility.So price is not the only factor which we should consider but the actual usage linked with it make it more valuable.

Yeah that might be happening due to those configuration as I am also able to see his merit stats with 195 under his profile so he need to switch the parameters to once again be visible on his account what I think.

And if this continues again you can ask for the help from the community by creating a thread asking for help and you will get it resolved but most probably as @DdmrDdmr has mentioned this is extension plug in issue you are using so try it once.

I would say it's not that simple as how to decide the high and low levels is really hard but it depends on how much satisfactory returns you get from that particular strategy.For instance you have invested at $30k and now price is at $40k so now you are in $10k profits but it's high for you but how to tell is it for market also? So you need to make decision that you want to sell or hold as it can go up or down.But on the opposite when it's dipping you can invest money to hold on for long term as price would recover.So satisfactory profit is what you can cash out timely if you can.

That's right and I myself am DCA investor from some time and managed to gain some sats also and you could have considerable amount in the time span of 30 years I would say and newbies should give it a try with whatever amount they can keeping up the fees in mind.

Winning a jackpot on Bitcasino would be great addition to the bitcoin holdings then

If we are talking about decentralised coins like bitcoin and using these centralised exchange then it's completely depletes the base purpose of them and we should avoid using them for many other things also.

We all are aware about they control the keys to our funds but over the top they also act as banking institutions restricting users from withdrawing their funds and also freezing your account as we have seen during many times for example the war cricis between Russia-Ukraine.So what type of security we are expecting from these CEX ? They ask for KYC norms and then are also selling our information on the dark web and to the government agencies keeping track on out financial activity also.They need profits and keep running so they will follow government orders only so yes this is what all the CEX are doing at this time.

They file for bankruptcy your funds got dissolved and you won't get anything back but notice that if your have stored your funds in hardware wallets or some non-custodial wallets then they might be safe.

Go through this threads for more information :

Recent events should make you withdraw all your coins to your own wallet: Part 2

Another signal why to avoid CEX...

Use of hardware wallets with backing up your seed phrases is recommended because your funds are your responsibility and storing them on these CEX is like giving away to them your hard earned money.

His days are also limited until he is thrown behind the bars like the others Faketohis have been trying to scam people and without any results trying to convince people to also be part of this cheap game.He has only won the particular battle and we all know how was it possible but the clown will see the end results of his cheap manipulation tricks ending up soon.

The thread is about bitcoin whitepaper not about mining stuff so would advise you to read the content of the thread before you post anything.You are newbie on the forum and there are some mistakes we make but reading is that we should be doing in the first instance so be on topic only man.

Generally @DdmrDdmr sent out 1-2 merits in each TX on the forum while @fillippone has habit of giving out 3 per TX and if you see in recent thread about some private keys you might be aware of he has sent out 50 merits also in one TX to the members so you see there was lot of merit distribution from his side in past 120 days and have earned also quite well with his threads and posts.

While @DdmrDdmr has also sent out merits in past 120 days and we might see another merit spree from his side and you would see additional 200-250 merits being sent out in that spree taking his total high again and be on the generous merit source list.

Although he is the number one merit sender on the forum with 41074 smerits in forum duration while if we see about the past 120 days then he has earned 399 merits and sent out total of 228 and he also has the habit of sending most of 1-2 smerits in each Tx but that's fine as his wish and all have different ways of sending out merits.

And if we speak about merit speed what this thread is about then there's nobody near the flash @DdmrDdmr in that case.

The thing is we can't know how much he has wagered and this was unsponsored win shared by the team so don't know how much he has spent while hitting that number but if you are lucky in gambling in the end that matters the most and he was among that basket with some golden eggs that returned him with $600k win which is immense and even if he has wagered more than it he got good amount back.

We are termed lucky when we win because in gambling otherwise we are at risk always of losing money so what matters is our luck and winning amount in the end.

And that's why it's said "The best time to make money is when there is blood on the streets" and what people do is contrary to this part and start selling out of panic in the bear trends and this is where they loose money but what you have been doing is impressive and that also from 2014.

You have managed to gain good profits over selling your stash also and remember your thread in WO that how bitcoin helped you change your life completely.

There are many people who will always try to spread negativity about bitcoin in the market but that doesn't have any impact on it's prices and all these dips are temporary because once we see little pumps with money flowing through retail and institutions then the same people are willing to invest at the high rates.

Speaking about only bitcoin then we have already seen $69k approximately as it's ATH near coinbase listing and it's down from many months with prices going down to $18k also but now what's the condition of the market? We are recovering and now there are green graphs again pooping up on the screens so it's long term profit margin associated with bitcoin and if you understand it's technical working and know the importance of decentralisation then you know bitcoin is the financial freedom you can get for future.

At this time the bitcoin market cap is $472.5 Billion dollars after the dump also but real estate market is old age and have well established buisness line but in recent year trends you would see people have preferred bitcoin investment more due to returns associated with them and use as payment mode also.The big institutions are taking part in accepting bitcoin and we have LN channels for fast confirmation with increased capacity each time of bitcoin so it's definitely worth investing in it.

But if i would advise you then avoiding altcoins is good because we see lot of deviations in the top-10 and most of them are pump dump scheme coins giving you nothing but only scamming you of your funds.So sticking with bitcoin is best option but if you plan to hold only for long term as we might see another bull run soon and we are heading towards next halving.

There was only win against the rights over bitcoin.org and particularly for British people but spending money on the judicial system is not a new concept and what this faketoshi is trying to prove will never happen in reality as he can't prove the ownership to the funds he said belong to him so you can see where he is headed towards.So he won that particular case of infringement against Copra and after that there was tweet from bitcoin.org Twitter handle :


But we all know that clown cannot succeed in his motive with these cheap tricks and one day when he will run out of money he will be behind bars for making system fool which now is supporting him.

You can read the bitcoin whitepaper on lot of sources he can't file a legal suit against them.

This image fits directly for this scammer:

He has given only 11 merits in total time span on the forum and out of it 10 to CB in the WO thread so you see he is not interested in giving out merits at all but @LoyceV has further clarified you on the matter that you were the one giving him merit.

Just bumped into this thread and found it quite interesting to have the list for the members who are not giving merits at all so let me help you a little bit on this one.

I manually collected the data for the members in the @OP to check if they have given some of the merits in the last 120 days and the results are still the same :

Member	|	Merits Received	|	Smerits	|	Last Active
sidehack	|	14	|	0	|	Today
ocminer	|	o	|	0	|	July28
gallisiardi	|	0	|	0	|	apr 28
Sylon	|	0	|	0	|	March 12
mezzomix	|	1	|	0	|	Apr 5
Evil-Knievel	|	0	|	0	|	Feb 23 2019
Toknormal	|	2	|	0	|	Today
VeilDango	|	0	|	0	|	March 15
BitPanda.com	|	0	|	0	|	Jan 2 2021
deadsea33	|	0	|	0	|	Jan 3 2021
dEBRUYNE	|	0	|	0	|	Aug 9
ArehimedeslIX	|	0	|	0	|	Jan 19
truckinusa44	|	0	|	0	|	July 24
Whitefire990	|	0	|	0	|	Oct 18 2021
Dr Charles	|	0	|	0	|	May 20
chrysophylax	|	1	|	0	|	Today
dogie	|	0	|	0	|	March 31 2021
miramare	|	0	|	0	|	Aug 18 2020
TraderTimm	|	35	|	0	|	July 22
Panagot	|	0	|	0	|	Aug 7
Dyna	|	0	|	0	|	Jan 29
whoismoses	|	0	|	0	|	Apr 3 2021
dr_ropata	|	0	|	0	|	Dec 19 2018
georgemamat	|	0	|	0	|	Dec 2 2019

So you see this is merit reports for all the members in the @OP for last 120 days and only out of them @dr_ropata is the one who was last active on December 19,2018 before you even created the thread.

I understand your point and if we are so concerned about our privacy then we should avoid these browser at all and yes Firefox container tabs is really useful option and switching on the different profiles like you have mentioned is quite useful keeping it all safe once you install them and works fine for us and will focus on them discarding Brave to the full.

But still we are having the browser fingerprint problem where the previous container information could be leaked based on our OS and hardware according to GitHub reports also but those who are unaware about their working can read them here :

Containers

But my most of the work is absolutely handled through Tor only so no need of chromium based browser to me although Ungoogled Chromium is best in that case.

These days privacy is becoming a joke for these self pro claimed privacy oriented browser also but soon they show their real face and only you need to be careful about yourself and for them your privacy is just a joke.

With more big companies becoming insolvent the fear of another crash is there which is diverting the price graph downstream so it's hard to predict the price range for the ongoing prediction challenge on Bitcasino and any news could hit it in positive or negative direction or have zero impact over the prices and speaking of TA then it's nothing like that and all depends on market circumstances is that right @LFC_Bitcoin?

This is one of the big wins I have seen on Rollbit by the big whale who has wagered around $1250 in free spins and win a total of $606,500 which is really big according to me.

He has also claimed two daily bonuses of $100k each and now this big win on his part is really amazing although he is whale who is wagering big.

For more details read here : Twitter

You cannot trust these new projects coming in the market with your funds because there are two cases at the most like they themselves turn scam and rug you of your funds or the smart contract has security breaches that can easily exploite the whole project.

I would say not too much because we have also seen some hacks in this wallet also and there were many NFT's stolen through Metamask also and users fund got drained with the full amount they were having in them

Metamask hack

But now they have made some upgradation in the wallet for the user security by giving permission to access your NFT and you can change settings in yhe wallet so that's nice update but still the riks lies there if you are not taking proper care of your funds : Metamask update

Yes the normal theft of bitcoin would not effect the market at all but if the amount is high then it could definitely affect the market

The Ronin network scam was worth more then $600 million and they didn't found about it till a week and this was discovered when user was not able to withdraw the funds and there was some altcoins that were hacked if I remember to some extent but it was one of the largest hack and hackers account was freezed by Binance and also didn't follow up the stroy afterwards.

The problem is if any of the government representatives talk about some future plans about crypto the blog and articles start to interlink them and publish the articles that this country has big plans for the bitcoin future although they don't have anything in mind.We have seen so many articles claiming these big things and now only want to test the reality.The Singapore government has said they are developing some strategies for regulations but have not invited big bitcoin exchange or something like that make it hub so these articles are now more of rumours only.

So was talking about more cool merit records to be saved here and see I have found another one preety fast and this time it's for our technical bitcoin geek @pooya87 who has the round number of 7200 merits on his profile.



So congratulations to him on achieving this record and now he is heading for some more on the way so best of luck to him as well others also.

@Lucius you are just left with 112 merits to enter the 4k merit club so hope it's soon and best wishes to you also man.

Even the legit services are hard to trust in these KYC matters because they store these data with some third party software where privacy breach can happen anytime or they could sell your data on dark web using it for illicit works so how do you remain anonymous in this market is what makes you safe.

See I know you want to share something useful with us but forum doesn't allow this audio features and you have to go through these third party software and then sharing the links what you have done but just want to say that if you are sharing your audio then it's completely waste as you can simply write a detailed post about the same on the forum itself.

And if you want to share someone's else audio then you can summarise it on the post here as most of members will not be willing to listen to these audios and trust is another part for our safety.

That's right because we have seen so many phishing attempt through these links and even PDF files also so it's better not to click on the links in case it injects malware in your system and most of the times they have key logger that will gain access to your keyboard so I am also not a fan of clicking these links from these untrusted sources.

Moreover we should avoid uploading our files to these third party untrusted services ourselves also that can be harmful for us also so it should be avoided.