Some sites do so to gather people and entice them to bet more. Leaderboards are there to inspire and something of the likes are present in gambling sites to inspire people to be like those lucky winners. But for publicization, well it's a different story. The government refrains from the publicization of lottery winners because not only is this a right they have the means or ability to exercise, it's also a risk for the winner if they get found out. The risk of someone just mugging them on a busy highway, or an acquaintance literally gunning them down inside their house to rob them is a possibility. So if a site ever publicizes your name and I mean your real government name to their preface, you could sue them.

I've seen a quote from somewhere that goes like this. "If you never heard from your debtors again, then it is worth it." I know it is poignant to lose that amount of money and over a friendship that was probably built from years of spending time together to boot. But in retrospect, one can only accept the truth and move on. Or if you're really bitter about the whole ordeal you can always sue him, you found a way to at least see that he's living a pretty affluent life, you could find out where he is and send him a subpoena. Blue pill or Red pill bro, you choose.

Although as much as possible I want to remain positive and believe you in your sentiment about the bear market being over soon. It is still too early to decide that. There have been instances where bitcoin abnormally shot up in price in the middle of its regular 4-year cycle (which still couldn't be taken as a reference by the way) and has still dumped down eventually.  If you were right then congratulations to everyone of us. But this shouldn't FOMO everyone. Always do your TA first and foremost and DYOR.

The funniest thing is that you wouldn't know if the decision you made is right until later on in your life. No matter how promising it could be in the preface, life will find a way to mess it up and you can never do anything about it because the universe is cold and uncaring and does not care about your existence—is what most people will say. Personally, I agree with them, decisions will be justified later on in your life but that doesn't mean you couldn't do a little bit of a good thing everyday, even just for yourself. Cumulative gratitude is true, and once the good things you do pile up, you'll see the difference. Try it, do yourself and other people a little favor everyday. You may not know who, when, and where they or you will need it. 

I personally have a cold wallet ready for all my crypto and I advise everyone to invest in one as soon as they could. It's not that expensive but the benefits it could provide you will be worth millions. The amount of security they offer is invaluable. As for my crypto in exchanges I only put in reasonable amounts and never most or all of my money in these because everyday, there could be an attack from a hacker which will definitely not sound good for your investments. If I'm not mistaken Trezor wallets only costs around 100 bucks in some shops, so get yourself one.

with the price of bitcoin, people will be better informed of its purpose. It has been pretty evident in the few years that bitcoin had broken the mainstream internet. When people's trust rating of bitcoin is low, its price decreases and therefore along with it, its purpose is lost once again in obscurity, but when it does rise up in price, more and more people are becoming eager to know about bitcoin and its utilization. Although in the case of what's important, of course i would side with its purpose since that is what drove bitcoin to be created in the first place. But no one can deny how these two schools of thoughts complement and cooperate with each other.

I agree with the sentiments of some here. Especially regarding being blocked by KYC when they are just about to withdraw their winnings or after a massive win, making it look like they are being stopped from getting the prize they so deserved. However, there is logic behind this, although said logic isn't really something that takes the welfare of the customer. They are making sure that your money is not going elsewhere basically, without a pesky KYC that takes minutes or even hours in certain instances to finally push through, you could just withdraw your funds easy-peasy. Also this making you stay longer within their website brought about by the KYC provides traffic to their website, which means more money for them.

Assuming you are "asking for a friend", I would highly suggest that you pay off the ones that are easiest to pay. Personally it allows me to confidently be able to pay off the other debts that progressively becomes more expensive as time progresses. Some may agree with me and that's because I also found that stratagem here in this forum, and has tremendously helped me build up good behavior especially when trading and taking up debt. So next time, don't go into debt, at least the ones that you couldn't afford to pay triple, and when you do, which I know you will because we are all human beings here anyway and we need cash every minute of our waking hour, start paying up your debt, little by little.

It's not uncommon for a ruling body to be this idiotic and still have the cajones to say they are the only ones capable of imposing punishment and/or reward whenever necessary. Just take for example the time when Mark Zuckerberg, a man I do not lean towards in terms of principle and belief but will use as a prime example for my statement, was stuck in a courtroom filled with senile old men and women trying to make sense of how social media works. This is just funny at this point but ultimately sad considering it's us who they are practically fighting against, after all we are all Hodlonaut.

In the first case, it is only fair to give the girlfriend an amount that she demands regardless if the money is just miniscule or not. It's a matter of principle, you stole someone's money for one, and invested it in a very risky venture that has more chances of ever failing than you winning. So at the end of the day it's only fair she gets the 40 million dollars, the 10k capital isn't yours anyways.

For the second scenario, I would promptly nope the heck out of that partnership regardless if he's become a valuable mentor to me or not. The fact that the mentor, has in no way aided the apprentice towards the 16 million naira and is promptly demanding a 50-50 split just because is a big no-no for me.

Well these protests are for good reason. Inflation and hyperinflation further widens the gap between the poor and the rich, and also at the same time puts the burden of the economy to the middle class, given the fact that they are the ones who are expected to pay the taxes and jumpstart the economy. The inflation we are experiencing right now is a kick back from the economic shenanigans we have made during the pandemic, especially in the case of US where printing money for stimulus checks became the solution in order to not only empower the economy by encouraging people to spend, but also to support the marginalized courtesy of the aforementioned pandemic hitting everyone where it hurts.

Digging the internet for Satoshi's identity is gonna be a huge waste of time. The guy completely made it clear he doesn't want anything to do with bitcoin after creating it. If that's not enough reason for people to invest their curiosity to something else then I do not know anymore. There are other more important points of discussions out there that warrants our time, and in my honest and straightforward opinion. Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, no matter how interesting or inquisitive it may be for the many, is not gonna be one of those discussions.

Although it may look as if the most sensible answer, nothing happening wouldn't seem like a good one considering how progressive our society is slowly becoming especially when the welfare of our planet is being discussed. Lots of movements and protests may force large-scale mining operations to look elsewhere for energy resources or halt operations. The environment may also outlive the mining operations of bitcoin as it exponentially gets harder to mine a bitcoin the more bitcoins are mined. So, the most appropriate answer for me is the fact that sooner or later, it may not be sustainable to mine cryptocurrencies anymore as you spend more in creating a rig that would pass off as good and the profits aren't gonna be as great as it is.

I am with you in the sentiment that Telegram should at least take action against not only market manipulators teeming within their application but against scammers and spoofers as well who make Telegram a hostile place for people who are new to the platform. But then again it will take a humungous effort not only from telegram but from the people within its servers to implement such parameters which I guess is what contributes to the reason why no action until now is made.

I would accept your argument if Metaverse became as big as these aforementioned system solutions. You said it yourself, there are a million DeFi projects that came and went during its height. Metaverse on the other hand reached a certain height among people's ears, then it just died off. And even if you argue that there would be opportunities in the future where Metaverse would be needed, which I still believe so, just take for example the use of QR codes, the current stature Metaverse faces is just too concerning to not rile up a discussion.

Thing is that technology seem to steer towards the creation and proliferation of alternate reality that is powered by futuristic technology. And though at first it may sound Blade Runner-esque, which it does, its benefits are there and are especially present during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Which led people to believe that it could be the future of technology or at least of crypto, given the fact that it was what is needed and sought for by everyone at the time. Soon as normalization came around and people have become comfortable again with seeing each other elbow to elbow, it just lost its flavor.

A project could have a long-term vision but not uphold their long-term goals because of poor management. I've seen dozens if not hundreds of projects share the same fate when it comes to viable goals for the future. What I'm saying is that it is not enough that you have a good vision for the future of your project, in fact it's imperative that every project whether shitcoin or not be have at least a viable vision that could save them for the years to come. Remember that the path towards hell always start from good intentions.

For some, learning about cryptocurrrencies and how they work could act as a gateway for them to learn not only about internet technology but information technology in its entirety. I know a couple folks who started from mining cryptocurrencies and joining airdrops way back in 2015 who now owed their careers in the IT industry through the same path. Then again as with everything this is not a generalization and there could be other pathways people can take, but learning about cryptocurrencies will somehow impart you with the curiosity to know how it works, in one way or another.

There are a lot of factors to determine what is a good project, especially if you're just basing your opinions on whether a project will increase in value over time. What I could say for certain is a good indicative of a project that will stand the test of time is what I call the three Ss: Scalability, Security, and Suitability. Scalability is how well-equipped a project is against the market's tumultuous ups and downs, do they have a good backup plan? Have they accounted for the bears and the bull seasons? how about upsurge in users? that should be taken care of. Security is met when a project had imposed appropriate security measures against attacks from hackers, scammers, and the likes. Plus points if they have contingency plans during instances where exchanges are down due to hacker attacks. Last but not least is Suitability. Suitability is met when the project's features or main thing is relevant to what the market needs right now or possibly could need in the future. Just these three things to look out for is enough for me to pick which projects will tank and which ones won't. Use and abuse it.

Tensions from left and right is going to cause huge detriments in the future not only of cryptocurrency but of mankind, especially as we're steering towards what could be the one of if not the worst wars in the history of mankind. Then again, October has come and gone and there seems to be little to no progress in the aforementioned issues, except Credit Suisse who's continuously tanking amidst the scandals and is now becoming a meme stock which says a lot from a well-established financial firm as CS.