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Bitcoin is a revolutionary cryptography-based digital currency allowing easy, pseudonymous payments worldwide.

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Yo mama's so fat that she has a gravitational pull drawing all the food and soda into her mouth as she drives around doing the fast food circuit.

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Thanks and Merry Christmas!

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Good luck!

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Entry number: 14
BTC address: 15jUcSF2s17hw6Jd1r1QeBLUSD5KfmYvkd

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Wow, the same roll over and over again like that?  That's insanely unlikely to happen by chance...glitch in the system maybe?

Thank you very much for picking me as one of the winners!  I know that it must have been hard for you to pick, as I've been checking this thread, and though there wasn't that many entries, there were still some very interesting stories to read.

And I wish PrimeDice, as well as you and everyone else an awesome 2014!

Here's my story of discovering and using PrimeDice, and how using it and the faucet there got me my first fairly decent amount of BTC, with a bit of backstory:

After discovering Bitcoin earlier this year, I soon got into visiting site after site looking for free BTC, and filling out captchas over and over again for only hundreds of Satoshis per faucet.  And after doing all of that, I still needed to go through that one more time to have enough for a payout, after having to wait at least half an hour between each use of those faucets.  But I would eventually get about five to six thousand Satoshis on average in my Bitcoin wallet after waiting for the payout to be processed, which was a lot for me at the time considering I started out with no bitcoins at all.  I also checked out various other faucets that offered small amounts of BTC with different waiting periods and minimum requirements for payout, some of which were just ridiculous, and with a lot of those, I never even got a payout.

Looking for a better way to get BTC, I eventually found these forums, and then soon discovered that PrimeDice had a faucet that gives out three thousand Satoshis EVERY MINUTE!!!  So I went there and found that it was a really nice-looking site, and still by far the most elegantly designed Bitcoin gambling site that I've played at.  I checked out the faucet, clicking the FREE BTC tab and filling out the captcha there, and voila, I had three thousand Satoshis on my account.

Afterwards, I started gambling with it, since I wanted to check out the site, and besides I couldn't withdraw it because of the 50,000 Satoshi minimum for withdrawals.  I had some fun with that, using the faucet multiple times and trying out different strategies, though I would never get close to winning 50,000.  But then I figured out that if I would bet it and win with a 16.667x payout and 5.94% chance of winning, I could win 47,000 and turn that 3,000 into 50,000.  And with a little better than 1 in 17 chance, and one attempt roughly every minute, the odds were very good that I would win eventually.

So I kept using the faucet over and over again, and betting the free BTC I got from it.  And over time I would win at least occasionally and would withdraw my winnings, which even though it only ended up being 40,000 each time due to the 10,000 deducted from the withdrawal was still far more than I would have gotten using those other faucets for the amount of time and effort I spent, which goes to show how powerful combining a faucet with gambling can be.

And sometimes I would even take the 50,000 and gamble it, trying to turn it into more.  Sometimes I would succeed in getting a bigger payout, and sometimes I would lose practically all of it, but all of my winnings were pure profit since they all came from using the faucet and betting the free BTC.  I probably didn't end up winning much more overall than I would have if I would have just gotten the 40,000 every time, but it was definitely a lot more fun, and some great memories with not only winning bitcoins, but with Bitcoin gambling as well, which IMO is much better than regular online gambling.  Instant registration, no having to give personal information, more payouts, fair play, etc...it's just awesome.  Seriously, Bitcoin gambling FTW.

So anyway, whether I end up winning or not, at least I shared my experience.  That was back in late October to early November, when the PrimeDice faucet payout was 3,000, and my user ID back then was 187228.  Thank you PrimeDice, and I wish good luck, lots of fun, and a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays for all!

DragonStar, User ID: 93

I signed up using your referral link to check out the site, and my deposit address on the site is 1DmahHgSK7FdkXqYiDGsXuX6o4MUU7HfxN.

LOL @ zitcoins

Seriously though, bitcoins.com was probably originally bought amongst a lot of other domain names in the hope that some of them could be worth much more than they were bought for someday.  I definitely don't think the purchaser in 2000 knew what bitcoin would become, and probably thought more that maybe it could be a possible name for a money news or exchange site, or much of anything else that bitcoins could have implied back then.  Or maybe it was just a couple of words that were thrown together by someone while thinking of domain name ideas, and it sounded catchy enough.

I checked the address and it still doesn't have any BTC on it, so obviously tonino wasn't being serious...

Also, this thread should be called double nothing or nothing...