happybitcoinph, you have described exactly why I was able to stop gambling. Too many times, there was plenty of luck and nice gains, but then doesn't seem like the time to stop. I'm happy those experiences are over now.

Your mindset misses big chances for even more holdings produced from successful trading. You do not need to ever sell all, but refusing to trade some is not the right way, if you take a look at established historical realities.

So many people never learn the true meaning of Buy Low and Sell High. Push repeat, watch it all happen again!

Airdrops are getting easier to get this year: The thread title is a bit amusing, what good can actually come from airdrops being even easier? More  scams, endless crappy tokens? How about focusing on developing real skills, before picking up tiny scraps becomes all you are able to do?

I have studied the very first major bull market, and BTC went over 30 times higher (30x +) in a short time. There are limits what can be learned by studying the older past cycles, but there's no reason to ignore them completely.

An older person taught me that quote a long time ago because they had learned it in school and never forgot. I also never forgot. Power doesn't corrupt all great sports stars (for example), but with political power sadly it seems to be very true.

Being kind to people helps give you good Karma and you get nice rewards in the future. We need more kindness in this community, thank you.

I was not aware airdrops had turned into something more than the lowest-level social spam giveaways. Thanks for letting me know. Needing to invest real money to qualify for an airdrop seems like a big upgrade, too bad it didn't choose a fresh, new name instead of "Airdrop."

An event based calendar would be great if there is a way to do it.

@piebeyb, I will request the thread to be closed asap, thanks.
@Bitbollo, Glad you got it now!   


Yoshi your advice is great in most situations:
1) I was not expecting the email to be real.
2) The Domain is 100% certainly stake.com, so I am communicating with them without a doubt.
3) It was real. 

update: Looks like I got a lucky freebie, this email came ~2.5 hours later.

"Hi "Blockstock",
The previous email you were sent from Stake was sent in Russian, which was not intended.

Stake is a global company & a lot of communications are localized.

Luckily, the bonus sent in that email is valid for you and only you, so please feel free to claim that bonus.

Rest assured this was sent by us and is a legitimate email. We apologize for the inconvenience and we hope you’re having a great new year."


// Question answered, thank you Stake for being the most generous casino!

My email had a surprise, a very scary looking email all in Russian, except I knew how to read the "$40". It seemed like obvious, dangerous phishing spam, but the "raw data" in the email headers showed it was sent from Stakes legit email address. The link leads to the actual Stake site, and I was already logged in, not needing to give out a password. Very odd, but a real nice little surprise:

Did you recently get a $40 "Russian Bonus" from Stake?

Large companies often hire over-qualified people for dull, boring jobs, what do they actually gain by doing that? If you can, learn about smart contracts, and escape the corporate rat race!

It appears to be an extra bonus for people who earned it, and you are complaining, but did not yet earn it, is that correct OP?

A. Private key (Seed phase)! An Achilles heel of the Cryptocurrency.
Scenario: A Cypto exchange platform has a hot wallet with 1,000 different coins. One day, this platform was attacked because of any possible reasons, and the private for the hot wallet above was stolen. Right at the moment when the exchange’s staff and management team realized a potential fraud that some coins were transferring to a suspicious wallet, they could not stop these activities. This is because there are no such options like changing the wallet private key to stop the transfers or utilize 2-step authentication to avoid these stealing transfers. The best thing they could do to minimize their final lost was to quickly transfer all the remaining coins from that wallet to another one. The faster they acted, the more coins they could save. If they were too slow, the wallet’s balance would be a big zero. Good luck next time! You might have heard and read about many big Crypto exchange platforms experiencing hundred-million-dollar attacks recently. How do you think about this? Is this because those platforms do not have a good security system? I don’t think so. Those big platforms should have many big brains to stop hackers from stealing millions of dollars that easily. Now it’s your turn. Think about this situation and you can find the answer from my sharing above.


The section above shares the title of your rather long post, let's take a quick look here: "Those big platforms should have many big brains to stop hackers from stealing millions of dollars that easily...." Your main point seems to ignore that most of the exchange hacks could be inside jobs designed to steal customer funds

"What other factors do you know contribute to form addictive gambling?"

Gambling triggers strong pleasure centers in your brain, which is a major factor contributing to produce a powerful gambling habit. Winning feels really good!

Pretty much almost everyone in the space...
Beam me up Scotty! We now have an opinion coming from a different space and time. 

Watching for more info might join Telegram channel soon, thanks.

Paying bounty hunters in real money would be a great way for new projects to build a solid reputation. Sadly much of the real money goes to "angels" and CEO's.

I am a little concerned about being late to the big BTC party, but not related to Craig. The "last day" seems to have passed and BTC is higher now than 3 weeks ago.