I was thinking about Poker when I wrote "skill based games". As chess, go or backgammon etc, not used to be available on 99.99% of the gambling sites, Poker is the only one where some skills are involved (and sports betting if available). So playing poker with enough skills and discipline could be profitable.

If you playing skill based games (and you have actual skills in those games) then you will have a good chance for that. ...especially if you pick the right "opponents" .

I'd like to join the signature (but not the avatar) campaign.

OK, Just in case:

Campaign Period : 31st Oct to 6th Nov 2015                           

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Campaign Period : 7th Nov to 13rd Nov 2015
                     
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...and my BTC address: 1BF4jonmLRCtfcA2mxFBZgyRpdHviCTK5M

Also, I'm leaving this campaign as it seems defunct now.

That's easy mate.

Follow your map to Brussels, then try to find some middle-eastern looking NPCs and keep asking about rumours. Soon you will hear a lot of helpful informations what you can use later in this chapter. After this, head to the mosque and wait for the next prayer. Enter the building (don't forget to leave your shoes at the entrance) and do as the others doing. After the prayer talk to other NPCs like the mullah and the terrorist recruiter (Hassan) they will send you to the scrapyard. When you enter to scrapyard a bunch of terrorist apprentice will attack you at the gate, fight them off and loot the bodies. When you move forward Hassan the terrorist recruiter will attack you. Defeat him and then he will tell you that they need such good fighters like you and will offer to join them. Select join and he will give you a couple of easy quests like bring back the head of an infidel (easy to complete in the nearby mortuary) and warn Aziz the shopkeeper about a police raid (cakewalk) or collect some protection money from Abdullah the builder (easy enough). You will get money and skillpoints after completing each quests. Spend your money and points wisely. When you completed all of these quests Hassan will introduce you to the terrorist leader (Ali), and now your infiltration is complete. Don't forget to save the game quite often if something not panning out as expected .

Of course there is a real chance for 1k in the next few days... well, it's something next to zero, but still greater than zero, so it could happen .

When the shit hits the fan maybe we will have issues with the constant supply of electricity... or issues with being able to pay for it . So, who will run the bitcoin network?

I don't think bitcoin would go back to $400. Except if there will be another pump but in that case that rise not going to last very long. Most likely the price will come and go somewhere between 350 and 300.

We are there for oil and pipelines of course.

Soon we will not have any other choice if we don't want to fight this war at home

Well this is what the Eastern European governments keep saying since this summer, but the wise western leaders called them nazis or at least xenophobic bigots who are exaggerating things... :/

Reversing trades, because of someone was stupid/fatfingered? This Gemini must not be an exchange to be taken seriously :/.

The short answer is no. Bitcoin will be one of the most important currencies, perhaps together with a couple of other digital currencies (ETH, NXT, BTS, XMR and a few others are all good candidates), and fiat going to stay for a very very long time (maybe the issuer will change time to time).

Probably this correlation is true in the opposite way . When price start moving somewhere then a lot of ppl talking about that move they keep opening threads to discuss their opinion. Especially true when the price moving up. In such cases lots of new people used to come here to get information and possibly "investment" ideas.

I'm afraid prices are not moving to somewhere just because of we are talking that .

I haven't seen anyone around here who predicted bitcoin price with 100% accuracy all the time. Whales are still able to manipulate the whole market if they want. 

I'm sharing you bullish feelings . Even if we will have some short term losses, I think in next year we will be massively in green again.

That gold sitting 2km deep under the sea. That's going to be a quite hard task to mine and bring it to the surface, so that's more like a hypothetical gold at this time... and for a while. I don't think such distant possibilities to mine some gold sometimes in the future will have a great impact on the gold prices.

There will be no bitcoin economy then, as everyone will hoard it. while hoping that it will take of from da moon and will sky rocket to Mars or whatever .

No, I wouldn't do, and no one else should do that. Do your own research, pick real facts from the BS, and then with a bunch of proven facts in hand make your own decisions.

As I'm not interested in drugs, mining gear, bitcoin t-shirts, bitcoin muffins, bitcoin mugs, bitcoin stickers and such stuff, and I also have a good source of cheap cigarettes, I can't really spend it for too many useful things, .

Sooner or later it will, just not right now . This spike last week was nice and profitable enough, I'm looking forward for the next one .
Maybe this upsurge was partly or entirely unrelated to the latest Chinese capital control rules, and there's a lot less buy pressure then we are expected.