modern civilization has progressed and not declined because we have learnt and corrected the mistakes of years back, and with today's technology
that is improving every day I can confidently say we living in a much smarter and simplified environment!

There are so many practical examples we can give which could serve as evidence of progress...talk of travelling, people use to take months, days just to
get to their destinations but today its all done in a couple of minutes or hours to get to our destinations and another example all thanks to technology human health has improved all thanks to modern civilization.

I dont like it and to be honest this kind of last minute requirement means the project is getting free marketing and the worst part is some projects wont even redistribute the extra coins nor compensate users that have not passed KYC.

And what I don't understand is why should KYC be applied to bounty hunters who cannot be classified as their customers

I like the idea and KYC requirements should be the bounty teams responsibility to get the necessary information if it is required or not, right before bounty is open!

Switzerland, interesting for a second I thought this was to be the best country in the world but it turns out this was europe bound

maybe the title should have read "Best country for crypto in Europe."

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Just wondering if EU privacy laws that will be effective starting tomorrow will have any effect on these rankings

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Verge (XVG) has been the victim of another hack, in which 35 mln XVG were stolen over a period of a few hours, The Next Web reported yesterday, May 22.

Verge tweeted that their mining pools were under a DDOS attack on May 21, noting that they were working to resolve it.
XVG is currently down by a little over 14 percent over a 24 hour period to press time, trading at around $0.041 according to data from CoinMarketCap, which makes the hack currently equal to around $1.4 mln.

Verge was also hacked of 250,000 XVG in the beginning of April, losing 25 percent of its value as a reaction to the news. Verge developers had “resolved” the April hack by accidentally initiating a hard fork, according to Suprnova mining pool’s OCminer comments on Bitcointalk. Verge’s Twitter account was also compromised in March, with hackers tweeting about a fraudulent giveaway of Verge coins in exchange for coins being sent to them.

Verge has not responded to Cointelegraph’s request for comment on the hacks at press time.

OCMiner, who pointed out the first attack, posted again about Verge’s vulnerability on Bitcointalk on May 22, noting that “since nothing really was done about the previous attacks (only a band-aid), the attackers now simply use two algos to fork the chain for their own use and are gaining millions:”
In other Verge news, last month the cryptocurrency announced a partnership with adult entertainment streaming site Pornhub, which will now accept the coin as payment for Pornhub Premium and all Pornhub purchases.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/altcoin-verge-hacked-for-second-time-in-two-months-around-14-mln-stolen

Hi cryptolord just how much do you charge for an article of 100 words?
Article should be:

• in english
• should pass the plagiarism check
• should have an element of uniqueness

Pm your prices

This is the price we pay for migrating from analog technologies to new technologies like the blockchain but am certain hacks will drop as we are aware of the hackers presence.

I follow some simple steps,

• Avoid clicking web addresses you are unfamiliar with
• Avoid responding to emails you did not request for password changes
• and for cryptonians like us we need browser extentions like metamask to give us some room of not been hacked

Cant say am affraid but if I was hit by them I would be very devastated  

Probably this feeling of shyness is only possible if you don't have confidence in yourself and possibly if its your first time having to gamble in such an environment which is only normal, once you become a regular this feeling fades away and everyone will mind there business.

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held a focus group on cryptocurrency regulation today, May 21, streamed on Facebook Live. The hearing focused on the SEC’s approach to crypto-related businesses and fundraising through Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), local news outlet Siam Blockchain reports.

Today’s focus group clarified that ICOs can only raise funds in the Thai baht and cryptocurrencies permitted by the SEC – those that “have enough liquidity and are not associated with money laundering.” Projects running ICOs, whose applications must be completed in 60 days, will also need to adhere to KYC and AML standards.

Siam Blockchain also reports that the ICO Portal of Thailand will not list any international ICOs, and that the Thai SEC will not be involved with the ICOs of stable coins, which instead are directed to the national bank for regulation.

Last week, the Thai SEC released a crypto regulatory framework that defined cryptocurrencies as “digital assets and digital tokens” under their regulatory jurisdiction. Thai Finance Minister, Apisak Tantivorawong, said that the new legislation is supportive of ICOs, as long as they are officially registered.

Cointelegraph reported last week that the new regulations have left some Thai crypto companies confused about how to follow the framework, particularly the sections on registration and taxes, as the new regulations will require that all Thai-based crypto exchanges, brokers, and dealers register with the proper authorities.

On May 14, the general secretary of the Thai SEC confirmed with a local news source that additional laws will be introduced to the crypto regulatory framework. Siam Blockchain reports that a Thai SEC hearing on crypto will be held on May 30.

In February, the privately owned Thai Digital Asset Exchange (TDAX) announced they were deferring the trading and registration of ICOs for two weeks while waiting for the SEC’s regulatory framework.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/thai-sec-holds-focus-group-to-clarify-new-crypto-ico-regulations

As things stand its not possible!

Why? because if bitcoin crashes the value of Ethereum is affected and most if not all altcoins follow bitcoin as the price standard

just like most fiat currencies are pegged to the USD...it'd the same relationship btc shares with other altcoins unless cryptos are pegged to something otherthan btc say something like gold, oil then Ethereum could rule.

Crypto Exchange Bittrex Reopens Registrations, Users Lambast New Interface

Update: due to “an overwhelming response from new users,” the Bittrex exchange has paused new registrations, promising to resume them “as soon as possible.”

Crypto exchange Bittrex, the 7th largest worldwide by trading volume as of press time, has reopened its registration portal for new user accounts, the company announced April 10. In December 2017, the exchange was forced to start temporarily turning away new users, due to a massive influx of signup requests.

Not everyone in the crypto sphere is celebrating however. The vast majority of tweets responding to Bittrex’s stirring declaration — “The.Wait.Is.Over” — were disgruntled by the new interface, with one user decrying it as “merely an exercise in CSS prettiness,” and another:
Others apparently faced unexpected errors when attempting to register and even log in, and within hours of reopening, Bittrex in fact had to again temporarily pause sign-ups, citing “the overwhelming response” from new users as its reason.

Crypto person “Tulips de’ Medici” quipped:
Bittrex is a major US-based crypto exchange, and its founders have a background in security at Microsoft.

Bill Shihara, Bittrex’s CEO, has emphasized the exchange’s commitment to KYC and AML compliance in a Unikrn Radio podcast, and in October 2017, Bittrex disabled thousands of accounts for compliance reviews without prior warning.

The excitement of some other users is nonetheless hard to deny:


https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-bittrex-reopens-registrations-users-lambast-new-interface

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ETH Address: 0xFAD8043415Bc0b581B75AD027ce096Bd795874c3
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The crypto market got hit hard during the early days of 2028 and we have had enough of the downward trend

but I think December 2018 won't carry gifts of a high price of 30000 dollars but we could see mid $10000+ around this time

as this period is known to be bullish but not expecting the volatile type of bullish.

If you have never been cheated by a scam project then you haven't  achieved the medal of real bounty hunting but when it comes to finding a good bounty project look at their terms and conditions, see to it that if it requires kyc you are able to pass it here but popular places are bountyportals, bountyhive, amazix telegram/email.

Team Background is a good start as it shows the individuals that make the team are more than capable to deliver.

Percentage of tokens for the team also helps reduce volatility of coins if they are getting a small percentage and people get to have confidence to..

Plans to list token on a particular exchange does play a role expect sometimes you cant plan for such.

You will need more coins if you want a good casino experience that's why other people have been able to win some good amounts of money through the use of certain gambling strategies as they have a healthy bank roll which wont put them out of the game even with a string of losses unlike having 100k sat which lives you with a limited number of chances.

Monero, a leading privacy-centric cryptocurrency, has undergone a hard fork in recent days – producing a new Monero chain in addition to the now renamed ‘Monero Classic’. The fork was initiated to protect Monero against mining centralization, as Bitmain had developed ASIC units purpose-built for mining XMR tokens.
Monero Announces Network Upgrade
On the 28th of March, Monero announced that it had scheduled a major upgrade for April 6th – which would see network undergo a hard fork.

The official announcement gave two primary outcomes that it intended to achieve through the fork. “First, a PoW tweak to curb any potential threat of ASIC and preserved ASIC resistance, and “Second, the minimum ring size is bumped to 7.” Monero’s expansion in minimum ring size was executed in order to strengthen the privacy afforded by XMR.

It was revealed last month that Bitmain had developed a new ASIC product specifically developed to mine Monero, creating a perceived urgency to fork among developers.

Read more https://news.bitcoin.com/asic-resistance-increasingly-hot-topic-in-crypto-as-monero-forks

Bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=895464
Bitcointalk review link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3139246.msg34201034#msg34201034
ETH smart contract link: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x08b1078f65125e29363e6d47b40519d9a67689526daa10077b8e9cf57cc3d429
ETH address: 0xFAD8043415Bc0b581B75AD027ce096Bd795874c3

Being a user who is more of sports games than casino games on my first visit of https://cryptosportz.com/ what I first noticed was the padlock https which means all my transactions on the website are secure and then the user interface is as easy as they come and am impressed that cryptosportz encourages its uses to use MetaMask which shows they are security conscious but what i would have liked to see is cryptosportz showing the price for each selection shown to us without guesing, I think this is the standard of sports gambling as far as I know and is good to see they using eth for their bets to avoid delays but hope in the future the support extends to others popular cryptocurrencies. Overall I give them a 7/10 just to keep them off their toes and encourage them to keep improving

In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the concept of prediction markets is a topical subject. There are a few projects in the works hoping to build decentralized prediction markets such as Augur and Hivemind. One particular project, although not fully ‘trustless’ at the moment, Fairlay, has been moving a staggering amount of volume over the past few months with over 100 to 150 BTC per day at times.
Aggregating the Wisdom of the Majority
This week news.Bitcoin.com spoke with the Fairlay CEO Gabriel Oliveira about the bitcoin prediction market and exchange he operates. The marketplace got its origin around three years ago. Oliveira tells us that Fairlay is basically a cryptocurrency infused prediction marketplace that allows sports betting in a digital asset environment. Users can create their own markets, bet on any event, and create insurance instruments and trade financial derivatives such as CFD and binary options, Oliveira emphasizes.

“With our platform, we specialise in getting reliable information for everyone by crowdsourcing predictions on a totally open market,” Oliveira explains to news.Bitcoin.com. “You can foresee the public confidence on various events such as crypto, economics, politics and general news — By using bitcoin we empower users to demonstrate where their confidence lies regarding a specific event by aggregating the wisdom of the majority.”

read more https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-prediction-market-fairlay-sees-sizable-volumes

Not the kind of news I want to be reading, sorry about your loss OP 

I strongly advice not pay this $500 advance these guys are asking for as there could be a possibility of losing double your money

and knowing this is no easy task of recovering your btc...the best is follow the money trail if it hits an exchange you might talk to the owners to help but this is a longshot too.