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681  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin run up is coming on: November 06, 2021, 11:25:50 PM
If there ever was a time where bitcoin is going to skyrocket out of control, it's the coming 3 to 6 months ! Wink =D
Just why, why do you think that it will happen especially this time when the price of bitcoin is enormously high. It can't skyrocket out of control, bitcoin already did that back in 2017 when price went from 600 to 20K, there was 33x rise in price. And now? Do you think that it will be much higher? I don't even think that current rise will come near to the previous rise in terms of percentage cause price was kept already high after the 2016's halving. Right now, we didn't even have 10x rise because price went from 9K to max 66K at the moment, I think bitcoin won't exceed 100K and it will crash again like it happened at 2017.

Banks will panic, Banks will buy bitcoin too, with bank account holder savings.
Do you really think that banks ever panic? They control the whole financial system, they are the least that have to panic.
682  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🐺WOLF.BET - Advanced Dice Game 🎲 Sportsbook 🏟️ Slots 🎰 on: November 06, 2021, 10:44:47 PM
I just use doge mostly. (Much regret because I used doge there as trash coin before the boom, lol. Woopsie. What was like $20 in my statistics is now $4000). Lesson learned, sort of.
It is really a trash coin, no one knew that the price of doge would skyrocket, it's just illogical, people buy trash because one man says that trash is good. It's not your fault, at least you are not a supporter of trash blindly like others. Doge is a good lesson to learn and understand the behavior of people.

I do find using USDT makes me more aware of how much I am spending. It's a little difficult sometimes to know just how much I'm blowing because I can't do the conversion in my head easily.
You can immediately convert the coins into USD and save that in your excel file. In one column write the current date, on another one - the amount of bitcoin and on another 3rd one - current value of those coins. Add and leave another column clear and after some price rises, compare the old and current moments, how much you would have kept if you haven't gamble. It will make you think more about the way you spend money if that's your problem.

I think Woflbet will soon fix all the issues that people have right now regarding to fees.
683  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Signature Campaigns on: November 06, 2021, 09:54:11 PM
I think that after spending some time on Bitcointalk and even by reading some replies in this thread, he will understand that there is something between sig campaigns and posters.
OP, signature camapaigns here work in two ways:
1. You hire a lot of people to promote the service but pay them low $ and then they spam the forum, get disliked by the community here and probably people less likely click on the signatures of spammers.
2. You hire high quality posters, pay them enough $ to keep them and your business will succeed. Bitsler, Chipmixer, Fortunejack, Sportsbet, Bitcasino and some other businesses are great example of how a well-managed signature campaign with good posters can help you succeed in your crypto niche.

You can check the signature campaign list, have a look at each Ann thread and then run one by yourself: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0
Or contact signature campaign managers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266629.0
684  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin adoption by banks - good or bad? on: November 06, 2021, 09:12:42 PM
We want it to be globally adopted, but we don't want these big players to get involved?

Obviously, the adoption from the banks' side was inevitable to happen and will bring regulation, but hey, that's the cost. You couldn't except from the governments to hug bitcoin and its highly anarchic ideology warmly. It may be recognized as a better store of value asset, but I'm pretty sure they'll abuse their power on tracing us way too much.

As for your last words; anonymity is mostly gone since 1995 and decentralization isn't affected from banks' adoption.
To my mind the cons of adoption outweighs the pros of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. When something gets typical and usual, it loses the spell. Personally, I don't want bitcoin that will be massively used but will be regulated like a fiat. Then, what will be the difference between bitcoin and fiat? Only the blockchain system? I think bitcoin lost it's value as a currency, it turned into an investment option. Almost everyone that I know looks bitcoin as an investment option nowadays while at past I have seen some people who were enthusiastic on it as an innovative payment method but now, I really haven't heard from anyone new into it saying that bitcoin is innovative payment method. It's sad how crypto world become a puppet of some people.
Rich businessmen kill everything good for their wealth and fame!
685  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Mixer Detection in 2021 on: November 06, 2021, 08:13:26 PM
I am wondering, whether what I read online makes much sense in regards to exchanges "banning" mixing services.
I tried it and it seems not. I have tried to mix very small amounts through various mixers and used an account on a major exchange to see wheter they will have a problem with it (as they claim) or not.
Fact is no issues after weeks.
I guess you mean Binance when saying major exchange because it has the highest volume. I would say that you never know what kind of funds you receive when someone sends you the money. Imagine, someone pays me $100 for something, why will I know that it's from mixer? When someone pays $100 cash, how do I know that exclusively that banknote was used for crime, murder, etc? You are only under "radar" when you do something bad. If you do something bad, then don't count weeks, you may get caught at any time.
Otherwise, don't worry. I have received mixed money on Binance years ago without any problems and don't even think that it will cause problems for me in future.
686  Economy / Economics / Re: How is financial stability defined for you? on: November 05, 2021, 12:43:45 PM
How is financial stability defined for you? - I'll answer this question and I would say that Financial stability for me is defined by following - Have you ever lived in Europe? In countries like Switzerland, Sweden? Or have relatives here? In these countries, there are min lower salaries and these min salaries are really enough for you to live okay, have the basic things and still some fun even if you pay the rent. Great health insurance, great auto insurance in cheap prices. If something happens to you, the least thing to worry about is money. 30 days total paid leave a year. Did you lose your job? Don't worry, the government will help you for a good time.
That's financial stability but at the same time I want to say that I am not big fan of European system, I prefer America in this case. You can earn great money in USA compared to Europe, rent is even better here, everyone in USA has bigger and better house compared to Europe. Just see, all the top companies and entrepreneurs are from USA, this country is more for people with greater aims and not for family-guys type of people, don't get wrong with me, I'm saying that politely.
687  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Debunking a few crypto myths - governments that allegedly own Bitcoin. on: November 05, 2021, 11:49:58 AM
Ukraine and Georgia own Bitcoin

- Completely incorrect, because although there are various rumors that politicians in the two countries have privately invested in some cryptocurrencies, it has nothing to do with the official position of their governments.

According to Ukranian government data transparency provider Opendatabot, civil servants in the country have declared owning a total 46,351 BTC (worth some $2.6 billion at the time of this writing).
Okay, Georgia is a very small country and you know, in small countries everyone knows everyone and it's full of rumors but overall, nothing hides in a small country. Officially, the government of Georgia doesn't hold any bitcoins but at the same time, don't look at Georgia like a normal European country, it's full of nepotism and corruption. Also, don't judge any country from the standards and the quality of life of your country, just my advice!

Georgia is literally owned by one oligarch - Bidzina Ivanishvili. Prime Minister, President, etc, are just his puppies who will do whatever BI will tell them. They opened Bitfury Mining Datacenter in Tbilisi, years ago. Officially, BI isn't connected with Bitfury but the government made an exclusive law for them - Free Zone, i.e. Bitfury can import mining equipments without paying any tax, they can operate, profit without paying any tax and the electricity cost for them is enormously low - 0.045 cent and they consume 198.1 million kWh in year. Unofficially, BI takes the profit from that mining datacenter and people call it BI's mining center instead of Bitfury.
688  Economy / Gambling / Re: 1XBIT.COM ᐉ Bet online ᐉ BTC Betting ᐉ Online betting odds on: November 02, 2021, 11:06:35 PM
We have combined issues posted by bitcointalk users so you can see the progress and decide everything for yourself.

Fully restored accounts:
1) Tim1996, 1 ETH
2) h4ns, 4,3 BTC
3) Aeshman, 10 mBTC
4) 2kevin2, sum not mentioned
5) MrBrightside1, 7,4 BTC

Refund cases:
1) sezulus, 59 mBTC
2) Fabi86000, 20 ETH
3) jennyoller, 40 mBTC
4) Holen88, 100 mBTC
5) Blogab, 63 mBTC (+hashes)
6) bestneon8, sum not mentioned
7) zekiman, sum not mentioned
8') elninnohameni, 200 mBTC
9) sammichael, sum not mentioned
10) dammlyn, 4,6 LTC
11) aksez, sum not mentioned
12) haluktr, 68 mBTC
13) merceniumeras, sum not mentioned
14) bleedrulez, 20 mBTC
15) zackhirarmador, 154 mBTC
16) kullerimer, sum not mentioned
17) manul-ayn, 133 mBTC
18) polinagil, $460 usd

Total amount of resolved issues in this thread already exceeds: 13 BTC

post with a few more arguments: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5267172.msg57336733#msg57336733
Despite the fact that you have included original links of the threads, I think it would be better to include the price of those coins that were available at the moment. From current statistics, the numbers look great but from 2017s, it would be nothing significant. I.E. As you stated, Total amount of resolved issues in this thread already exceeds: 13 BTC but current 13 BTC is equal of 820 000 USD and that's not the real numbers in your case.

Also, I remember there was a case when casino with red tag was asking for their tag to be removed and had valid arguments about it (resolved cases), it was maybe sportsbet but can't claim 100%.

Also, the case with MrBrightside1 looks really very curious. It really looks like a planned thing (the most funny here was a man who could dig transactions on blockchain and do all the other stuff, wasn't able to post images on this forum where he only had to clearly click on image icon above this frame and smiles and then insert the url.
689  Economy / Gambling / Re: NEW Flush.com Crypto Casino - ♠️ $BTC ♦️ $ETH ♣️ $DOGE ♥️ $LTC on: November 02, 2021, 10:27:24 PM
I hope the owner don't mind if I give him some advice regarding to website.
1. Seems the domain comes from the Royal Flush of Poker. When we google word Flush, nice things don't come up but since we are in gambling, then the domain name looks really premium.
2. The website UI is very simply and easy to understand (and that's the main idea of UI/UX, to make things easier for customers) but I would improve it a little bit aesthetically.
3. When I click on Live Casino and Feature Slots section, there comes the option of viewing the providers but it doesn't matter on which section I am, it shows both, the slots providers and the live casino providers mixed. I can't only view only slots providers on Featured slots sections and only live casino providers on Live Casino section.
4. It doesn't matter much but Evolution Gaming has changed name and is now only Evolution, if you want fix the title and Logo on your website.
690  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Making profit with a bubble on: November 02, 2021, 09:51:14 PM
We all know that this upward move won't last forever, even if a real spot ETF is gonna be approved (that would cause another big rise, in my opinion), one day we will reach an unsustainable point of extreme overvaluation and a single fundamental event will trigger a huge dump.


I'm not trying to predict the future, I'm just trying to be honest myself considering that this cycle will come to an end (as always did before), but that could represent an opportunity too, for instance, with a short position opened at the right time (I know that I could appear like a complete fool who is trying to imitate Michael Burry in 2008).


What's your idea about that?



No, no, you are right, even fall is the advantage if the trader is open minded but you know, futures trading comes with leverage. When the users start to use leverage higher than 1x, then here comes the problem. The more leverage you use, the higher your profit can be but the riskiest your step can be. Yeah, with 7K USD right now and with 10X leverage, you can trade like you own 70K bitcoin and open short position on futures but if you open it at btc right now, then 10x rise and you'll end up with nothing, i.e. from 63K to 70K, you lose everything but if you open right now with 1x leverage, then the following scenario will happen:
1. Open short position right now at 63K with 1x leverage.
2. The price that will liquidate me will be 126K.
3. Even if bitcoin reachs 100K and then starts fall and lose 50% of it's ATH, you'll end up with the price of btc - 50K and you'll profit.

Maybe a bad example because I highlighted the positions at the moment but just wanted to say that short position with 1x leverage is great option on bitcoin because it's less likely to have massive gains or falls but still it offers ok profit but safer.
On coins like LRC, XTZ, QTUM, Matic, opening of short and long positions even with 1x leverage is very risky because these coins can rise enormously at any moment like they fall the same way too.

One thing that I sometimes do is wait for the massive rise and then open high leveraged short position (which is very risky but very instant rewarding too). Or another best profitable option is to spend days and nights on massive dumps and try to catch the best price to open long positions with high leverage, the profit will be unbelievable.
691  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The Gambling increase due to the pandemic, stats, UK on: November 02, 2021, 09:01:43 PM

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However, many wished to reduce the amount of time they spend gambling, with 43% of those who gamble at least once a month expressing this desire, while 57% of the everyday gamblers also wanted to curb the habit — but at the same time, 42% stated they had no idea how to go about it.


I hope this article can provide an insight for the safe gambling awareness week and could highlight the main events that we might have to encounter and understand.

https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13723/38-of-frequent-gamblers-in-the-uk-gambling-more-than-pre-pandemic



I find it curious that people struggle to stop gambling, because if they really wanted to take that step almost every UK regulated gambling company has a mandatory opt out mechanism. If you apply to self-exclude then you will be banned from that site for a long time which very useful for breaking the habit. Most gamblers will return to the same sites day after day, so being able to break that connection should have a very big impact on someones ability to quit - however most of the people likely want to continue and just aren't ready to let go, even if they say they are. Much like quitting smoking, you need to go cold turkey and learn to cut it out entirely or you'll keep falling back into that gambling addiction.
Do you think that it's that easy to stop gambling? Medically it's not different from drug addiction because it hits the same receptors like most of the drugs, including the majo one - dopamine. What you say sounds like an addict saying that he won't shoot tomorrow, flush the needles/substances and then he can feel free but in reality it's not like that! People even struggle to start a diet and can't say no to their favorite foods.
UK gambling websites offer variety choice of tools to help gambling addicts lessen the addict/withdraw symptoms and make themselves more independent from their bad behaviors but at the same time like you ask, why don't they apply for self-exlude, I would answer you that at the same time they think that it will be very hard for them to do. Like drug addicts can't throw away their drugs, the same applies to gamblign addicts, they can't click on the self-exclude button for the same reasons.
692  Economy / Economics / Bitcoin adoption by banks - good or bad? on: November 02, 2021, 07:41:33 PM
As far as I see, a lot of people here are very happy when they read news about this or that bank adopting bitcoin exchange, offering crypto related services or doing something related to crypto.

At some point I understand that people like it because they want to see crypto everywhere but the downside of this is that crypto gets more regulated and I think it losses the magic/spell that it had before. Personally, I think that more adoptions and regulations won't do any good for bitcoin, it will just become a little bit different digital version of fiat. I think as time goes, anonimity, decentralization and these words are fading away and they turn into myths like Greek gods.
693  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: China is thinking about unbanning bitcoin mining after price rise on: November 02, 2021, 06:55:59 PM
Idk about USA but in my country (which is very small) there already came up to 20K Chinese people in our 2rd largest country where they hired hotels/apartments with their families and transferred all the mining equipment. So, since these people have moved out with their families and we can say that they have already found their place and transferred the business, why China thinks that by unbanning bitcoin mining, they'll really benefit? China's action looks like when the person Buys bitcoin at 60K and sells at 30K, doesn't use the chance of DIP and then tries to buy again at 67K.

I would call China a silly country, in fact, they are really very smart, this applies to their government but really, all the stuff they do around cryptocurrencies is just out of logic and does nothing good for them.
694  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN] blender.io Signature Campaign | Sr./Hero&Legendary Members | on: November 02, 2021, 06:12:04 PM
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695  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HODL, HODL, HODL when can one actually sell Bitcoin? on: November 02, 2021, 06:02:36 PM
So I keep hearing HODL, HODL, keep holding and all that. My simple question to everyone is "when is actually the right time to sell Bitcoin or we don't ever sell it"?

 How then do we say we have made money from it if we don't sell?
And why do you care about someones advice in trading? This is very personal thing, when you think that it's good time to invest, then invest and when you think that it's good time to sell, then sell. Some people sell when they see the profit that they would like to keep and some people even buy high sell low, this is the category of people who want profit overnight.

But one answer that I want to give you is: Check the statistics of Bitcoin's price, check it from the very first moment to the current one and I believe then you'll find the answer, why everyone suggests to HODL and why you'll never know when to actually sell it. It went from some cents up to 67K! See, more than 67000x profit.
696  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Trading with leverage on: November 01, 2021, 10:42:24 PM
Here are the pros I could sum up:

. First of course is the bigger market exposure. It seems like the right time to cash in on the crypto market, and for many beginners with limited capital, leverage seems to be the only option.
. Lesser risk when you set tight stops and trade smaller amounts. You don’t risk all of your capital and as you gain experience, learn how to navigate the leveraged trading market.
The biggest disadvantage obviously is the extreme volatility of the market which can magnify losses as much as it can increase profits through leverage.
How many of you here are using leverage to trade crypto, and how much, and through which broker? Let’s bring to light the many unknown aspects of crypto trading, besides what is known - that you screw things up when you don’t understand technical analysis and blindly enter and exit trades.
Leverage trading has only one pros: If you luckily catch good time, then you can happily see the increased profit, which, according to your leverage, can range from 2x to 10 or 100 or even higher, depends on if it's cross/isolated or you used leverage on futures.

Otherwise, leverage is the thing that can ruin your budget and life. Leverage is great for liquidity provider because in any way, he/she gets the profit and you are the one who risks the capital and the mental health. The market is so volatile that even if you use the lowest - 1x leverage, you can get liquidated in minutes. Yeah, I have seen when price skyrocketed for 1-2 minutes and then felt down.
697  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: 🚀🚀 Sportsbet.io/Southampton Vs Stake.com/Watford 🚀🚀 on: November 01, 2021, 10:21:28 PM
Haha, accidentally found this thread. I was watching the TV and was switching between different football channels and suddenly I saw stake.com banner on one channel and then I got amazed, what? Stake? On premier league? Cmoon and then remembered that WAT stands for Watford and they are partner of Stake. Then saw the image of sportsbet.io and omg, you can't really imagine how happy I was at that moment. I am not fan of these teams, I usually watch La League and from Premier League ManCity and Liverpool are my very favourites but... When I saw Stake and Sportsbet, I was so happy, when I see the two company from bitcointalk.org

I think there should be a link of highlights of that match, so, click below:

HIGHLIGHTS | Watford vs. Southampton (Premier League 2021-2022)

Congrats Southampton and Sportsbet!!!
698  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🐺WOLF.BET - Advanced Dice Game 🎲 Sportsbook 🏟️ Slots 🎰 on: November 01, 2021, 09:39:22 PM
Its good thing that Wolf bet use the average fee in Bitcoin  because I saw many Casino that charge 0.001BTC flat rate on Bitcoin withdrawal fee no matter what is the status of mempool.
How exactly is a good thing? Wolf.bet is charging very high BTC withdrawal fee which is a negative point and there is nothing good about this. They need to learn from other sites which charge lower or zero withdrawal fees in comparison.
If they have to learn from other websites, then remember that some of them even have the worst cases. For example, Fortunejack offers free withdraw but at the same time they ask you to at least 2x wager the deposited coins. Is this better than what Woflbet has? I guess, no, personally I wouldn't even call that "free".
I wish if there was an option of: Low, Medium and Fast transactions and the fees according to it. It's more fair option and user will pay the fee according to how quickly he wants to receive funds. Btw manual fee transaction can be another ideal deal but haven't seen this kind of option nowhere.
To my mind, casinos shouldn't try to get some profit from withdraw fees and it will be even more appreciated if they pay half part of fees.

Most of crypto exchanges and crypto gambling sites charge same withdrawal fee without consideration on mempool.

[Table] Withdrawal Fees and Withdrawal Amounts on Crypto Casinos

It is fact that you must be aware of and must accept when you use crypto exchanges and gambling sites. Some of gambling sites waive withdrawal fee but they are not too common.

If you want to get cheap withdrawal fee, choose altcoins.
If they come up with exchange fees and you suggest us to choose altcoins instead of bitcoin, then these gambling websites should offer us built-in exchange. Why to deposit on exchange, then convert, withdraw and deposit on crypto casino? That's not comfortable and I think it's even better for casinos to offer built-in exchange, it can increase their profit in many ways.
699  Economy / Economics / Re: Financial Stability - Get yourself non ending economic circle. on: November 01, 2021, 09:11:10 PM
I know very well you can live a low budget life too. For example someone might just argue, you need only single stable income.
Depends on whats your aim in this life. Some people just want to wake up every day and have the money for food, nothing more. Yeah, there are really some people who are very happy with all the basic stuff.

With the digital era, there are just so many ways to earn the money. If spoken about the crypto space then . .
1) Crypto staking
2) Mining Farm (Very profitable if done properly)
3) Crypto Trading
4) Crypto Investment by HODL (More or less staking without fixed APY%)
5) Work at Forum
Forum isn't a work, I thought people were posting here because of interaction, their interests in crypto, etc... Signature campaign is a privilege for good posters to earn some additional bucks while enjoying the process. But yeah, I guess people from poor countries look it like a job and even $200 seems fine enough for them in their country.

1) Blogging
2) YT influencer
3) Social platform king e.g. Insta page, FB pages, Twitter (Promoters)
4) Digital Marketing
These are great options but nowadays I think that being an Instagram/Youtube influencer is one of the most amazing job to have and it's a little easier right now to enter into this. Do you have great body and are a good looking person? Then become a fitness influencer, upload videos, share your day to day activities and earn decent money. Do you have good hair/face and can suite amazing hairstyles? Boom, this niche made some youtubers very rich.
We have to be creative, that's all, then the opportunities will open up.
700  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The president of El Salvador just bout 420 BTC! on: November 01, 2021, 08:32:12 PM
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I can't understand how they're so sure it'll go upwards.
I'd say it's bluff: if it keeps going up, he did good. And if it drops, he'll just buy the dip.
No, you are wrong, if things keep going up, he will add the profit to the budget but if the things are going down, he will open short position on futures trading and will profit again (I'm joking Ofc).


I'm more curious how they store it: who has access? Many exchanges lost their funds to hackers, it would be nice if that doesn't happen to a (poor) country.
I guess the president is verified on Binance and holds the money Cheesy
The most curious thing will be if he starts futures trading with high leverages. Do you wanna dip? Then do 2x leverage and it will look like you bought bitcoin at it's half price. I hope he won't use 10x leverage.

Idk why people are happy because of that but I would say, this is just a very poor decision/action. He acts like a person who is a kid but thinks that become a matured man (i.e. teen who tries to act cool but does all the shit in reality).
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