Quote from: apogio on Today at 12:32:37 PM

Well, this post's title is a euphemism of course, but I find it curious that the great majority (if not all of them) of signature campaigns advertise casinos and gambling.

Is there any rational explanation behind the fact that a Bitcoin forum -I repeat, a Bitcoin forum- is full of casino signatures?

I don't really mind the fact that casinos are advertised. Or perhaps I do, because I hate gambling, but this is a personal opinion and of course, I can understand that any company wants to gather more customers.

However, my point is, is Bitcoin development so difficult? Is it a thing from the past? Nobody writes bitcoin-related software anymore? Why on earth isn't there any good bitcoin-related product advertised in the forum?

Is it because bitcoin projects can't be easily monetized?
Is it because even if they were monetized, they couldn't have the profit margins that casinos have, so they could be efficiently advertised?
Or is it because only mixers could bring money to the campaingers? I highly doubt that banning mixers was such a powerful measure, that lead to the "all-in" from signature campaings...

Casinos are promoted everywhere. I can tell you that in my region, there are casino banners on every website. No other project buys a web space from websites except casinos.
The competition among casinos is huge but so is the earning in this business. If you want to be competitive, you have to advertise everywhere. When a casino sees that another casino promotes on Bitcointalk and gets some results, they start promoting here to be competitive and don't leave a hole anywhere.

Btw to be fair, I think that the biggest users of a signature campaign on this forum should be exchanges like Binance, Coinbase and Kraken. Bitcointalk is a forum where we discuss Bitcoin and altcoins, trading and economy. Before we do anything in the crypto space, we want to buy cryptocurrencies and exchanges are the best place for that. It's strange but I haven't seen a signature campaign from exchange for years, the only exceptions are instant exchanges.
I also expect signature campaigns from Bitcoin and crypto wallets but they are very silent here. It's really strange why only casinos promote here.