This won't be a deal anyway. Imagine that one day I decide to scam someone via PM by offering him to boost his transaction's confirmation time or double his bitcoin, etc. More likely, this user will fall into scam because I have some trust and have a better profile than others (Of course I write it just to show you an example).
So this isn't a deal, it's a bad way of solving the dilemma. Instead, we have to create some threads and pin it where we will talk about how to get rid of getting a victim of scams. When I offer this kind of benefits to user to scam that I mentioned above, user don't have to trust my trust rating, he/she has to be critical and ask question like: "How are you able to accelerate my transaction?" And he/she has to do some research at the same time. Also, when I ask for a deposit on my address and offer him double bitcoins, he has to ask: This user has good trust rating but it doesn't matter, how is he going to double my bitcoins? There are no ways of it, nor cloud mining, nor trading, they carry risks and in overall ROI of mining is low, by trading you can't profit that much in a short timeframe, so, this user lies to me, I have to ignore him and tell the community about him and his methods.

So... We don't have to act like a bandaid, we have to fix the problem from the root.

What governments do? They print money and cause inflation. It means that the money we receive has a lower value than it had before, i.e. the government takes money from us and leave us with debt that we have to pay.
i.e. Person gets a loan from us and we have to pay him for the loan that he had to pay fur us. This directly means that governments don't care about us, instead, they make us poor. And those who make us poor are bad people.

Banks... They are bad too. A bank is a place where the money is stored and it happens like those who have a lot of money borrow them who need it. At some point it's good and helpful, right? But... Banks have a huge profit every year, it means that their hugest treasure gets filled and filled always, on another hand - money goes from people to bank as time goes, i.e. more money in the banks and less money in people.

And covid is another reason to do more harmful things but keep people's attention on the virus and make your bad things appear like a shadow in the darkness.

If we check the leaderboard of bustabit, we will see that there are some players with decent profits. As I see, it's very popular in gambling community to build strategy or follow someone's strategy, so, as it seems these people use strategy to get profit and their strategy and the type of bets seems to be visible for everyone, so it's easy to analyze how and when they act. I am curious, has anyone at least on this forum followed these top bettors? If yes, then what happened? Didn't you succeed? If not, then what do you think what was the reason? Where these strategic gamblers just lucky along with it?

Not your wallet - not your coins, yeah, I agree with that one but at some point there are exceptions where you can feel secure. For example, PayPal is a very reputable company in the financial field and I hugely doubt you can't feel secure with PayPal. Of course, if you make mistakes and violate their rules, your account's status may be under question but otherwise, everything is okay with them.
With that logic, if you don't have control on things that has an influence on the value of money, then it doesn't belong to you. The money that you have in your pocket can get zero value and you'll be left with empty papers. Personally, I wouldn't dig further into such things, PayPal isn't a scam company and in case they lose bitcoins or their wallets get hacked, etc, it's still their duty to cover your loses and they'll do it.

As I see you are the representative of bitcasino.io on this forum. Your casino is pretty famous, right? And you aren't new on this forum, I am right again, so, I think it wouldn't be a bad move from you to share some experience because you carry a lot of data about gamblers. From my perspective and experience, I can tell that when the price rises, users usually try to hold it instead of spending. Also, most of the times users build a strategy according to current price of bitcoin in USD. If I can do 100 bet of 0.0001 bitcoin and it worths 0.01 BTC (140 USD), then tomorrow I won't be able to bet the same amount because bitcoin's price has risen up to 20K (for example) and I have to bet lower amount cause I focus on USD. But most of the users bet lowest possible bet, so in this case, it happens like these users gamble less because they can't afford more when the price of BTC is high.

Is it a good idea to add payment gateway on the online store? Yes. The more options - the better for customers because they love diversity when it comes to payments, that's why we have a lot of providers including PayPal, skrill, Netteller and others.
When it comes to task whether adding of bitcoin payments may benefit your online store or not, first of all, it comes to researches and data analyze. What is your niche? Do you have opponents that offer crypto payments? What is your audience? Where are they from? How popular is Bitcoin in their countries? Maybe there isn't any useful data and you have to just be the first one who will do that. In any case, you won't lose anything by adding it.

Canva is a great website for that, even their free version is enough for most of the things + you can buy or get udemy courses about Canva, there is a section for that.
On another hand, another easy way that comes to my mind is to use online PSD editors if you don't have access to photoshop and then find some free ready templates online and then edit them via online editors. This way you can't create unique design but you can edit professional and well-done ones.
Adobe Spark is a great option too.

Why not? As people are warned, not your wallet = not your coins. So, a lot of people try to send bitcoins on exchanges when they need to trade and once they think it's time to hold for a while, they get it back. I think the time of transactions matters for anyone. If I am an investor, it doesn't mean that I won't touch my capital. I'll have to have immediate access to my capital.

I have no idea why LN doesn't get attention. It really fixes a problem and is like a bandaid on a scar. What requirement does it need to gain attention? LN offers low to zero fees transactions. Traditional bitcoin transaction charges you a lot. That's why I am amazed, in this case, people still skip LN, Idk what's wrong here, sounds very illogical and paradoxical for me.

Okey, let's imagine that AI can understand and analyze the news that's published on website, what kind of impact that news will have on prices, etc. Also let's imagine that it can analyze charts, financial data and many other things (these mathematical things sounds 100% real and imaginable). But AI can't understand that it's AI and human can analyze that it's AI and programmed and it's much easier to human to look at it's behaviours and analyze it's data and then make movements that will be out of logic for AI. The human brain is awesome and unique. You can't integrate dopamine, serotonin, gaba receptors and other hormones that have a huge impact on person's behaviours and emotional intelligence.

I just checked myself this user's profile and there is -1 on his profile trust. I have never ever modified my trust list and if he isn't DT member, then why is that feedback visible? Hm... Idk what's wrong here...

Usually, trust ratings from non DT have no value but there comes time when they become DT members and then you have to worry

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Please can you tell us whether you are a DT member or is it some kind of bug in trust system? Some people like me see that your trust have value while you aren't shown as DT for others.

For those who think that it's okay and not a huge problem, why? When I have access to statistics, that way I know how much I have lost and how much I have won. This helps me to analyze whether it really worths for me to gamble. If I have a lot of loses, then I may understand that I spend too much time on gambling and the way I spend money doesn't benefit me, instead, I feel regress. This is the data that you can analyze and understand a lot of things and psychology behind your gambling behaviours. This is the data that you create so, why someone has to just ignore and don't show it to me?
This fact doesn't mean that these casinos are a scam but it's shady behaviour. Despite the fact that I love and respect PD and Stake, if that really happens that way, then it's unfair and should be fixed as soon as possible. Every casino has to support responsible gambling, it's their duty too.

Bitcoin was never meant to be a number one worldwide currency. It was created in order to get rid of 3rd parties during payment, that's why it's called p2p. Bitcoin's block size was never meant for massive usage too and the 4mb size of it proves that. It needs a lot of modification and changes in order to meet the criteria of being a number one world wide currency. Also, such movement would take a lot of years and changes in our behaviours, politics and economics. Right now, banks are the strongest institutes and you can't just change it in one day. So, long story short, no, bitcoin isn't ready and was never meant to be ready for that purposes.

Okay, let's say it's a scam. At the same time you have to consider that if it's a scam, there are a lot of businesses and services built around bitcoin. For example, mining companies, exchanges, etc. There is ton of money behind it, really a ton of money and a lot of employees. Turning of bitcoin into scam = turning of banks or Paypal or amazon or ebay into scam. Do you think such things will ever happen? If we consider the structure of bitcoin, how do you think that it will turn into a scam projects? Especially when it's decentralized and not a centralized.

I think this is the best strategy among stated ones. It's wrong to choose low odds because they carry low reward but still high risk. And sometimes there are matches where you'll see very high odds. I made an experiment and bet on three matches with 10 odds, 1000 in overall. Two of them won, only one match ruined the ticket and the score on that match was 1:2, not a significant difference in goals if we consider the odds.

In overall, personally, I think the best idea would be to just bet on certain clubs. For example, just bet on lose of F.C. Barcelona. You'll catch a good odd against this club and you may get good reward.

Where I live, it's seriously prohibited to send money inside country via post and it's especially prohibited if you receive banknotes from foreign countries, it gets confiscated and you may not end up well with the law. Illogical, right? There are a lot of illogical laws and situations in some countries are different from USA like black and white. That's why I stated that it's very captious case for escrower from both sides, any side can argue fake and argue that money they received was illegal (in reality it can be true or not). That's why it's better to get rid of 3rd party persons in this case and use Western union and similar companies. Personally, considering the risks, I advice everyone to just get rid of such cases and don't risk to be a middleman.

Why would it be plagiarism? I think everything is okay once theymos will give us the right to do so. I hope we will move on epochtalk in near future. It won't be easy for everyone to wake up one day and adjust to changes but at the same time new design and trends are coming, updates are always important. So, to my mind, it won't be bad if we create bitcointalk's clone but on epochtalk. It will give us enough time to adjust to changes and slowly start using a new version of bitcointalk.

Would love to see Theymos's opinion about this idea )

I think no one can teach anyone how to use their bankroll during gambling. Simply there is no idea about it because psychology plays a huge role during this process. I can set limit to myself but at the same time I can change the rules/plans anytime during my sessions if I feel to do so and there are a lot of people who feel that way because there are a lot of chemical reactions during sports betting too, it's an adrenaline rush and at some point euphoria when you win or are actively looking matches and are in process. These are the advice that everyone can think over.

That's a really good question. It isn't 2014 when it was hard or almost impossible to catch criminals that were using bitcoin, governments already learnt how to analyze blockchain and hot to track/trace those who do illegal activities. A lot of dark webs were closed, even some mixers decided to shut down because they weren't sure in the security of this whole system. I think the reason they may use it is that bitcoin is still popular in that area or they don't do deeper research and aren't professionals in handling of transactions. If you succeed in doing criminal activities, it sounds paradox for me, why don't you take care of your transactions more seriously.

Yeah, acceleration in this case means including your transaction in upcoming block that will be mined by a certain miner. It doesn't have to be a miner or mining pool alone, it can be a service provider that has a contract with certain miners / mining companies, am I right?

And about ViaBTC, yeah, it works and is the first and real transaction accelerator that was created. There was a time when I could add a transaction on viabtc at any minute but right now, you have to add a transaction in milliseconds, for this reason it sounds almost impossible because of some people's reaction and internet connection.

Another choice is pushtx.btc.com but their fees are so high, it really, really doesn't worth to use them. Viabtc also has paid service, not good but better than btc.com at critical moments.

The solution is to move on Lighting Network. I have no idea why but it's not really used and not implemented by bitcoin-related service providers. When I want to move my bitcoins, it takes very huge fees, it's a loss for me, current fees are really insane, don't want to imagine what will happen when price hits 20K and even more. A lot of people here hate bitcoin cash but what do you think guys, with current block size and no culture of using LH (I am amazed why people don't use it), won't they just move on Bitcoin Cash? Especially when Roger will use such an amazing chance for him?