Rare is running allday/night-long giveaway, throughout September 2023 :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465460

..hey btw @mods... could I not possibly have posted^ this in the regular top Gambling section .. since I'm talking about degeneracy lifestyle impacts and promoting a casino or two more than I'm merely "running a games & rounds giveaway" ..??

I hope I don't disqualify for having posted it in here just because it's in LTC and DOGE on top of being sometimes in BTC. I mean.... it's 2023. Is L still gonna b seen as such a "shitcoin" that it automatically makes this thread a shitcoin/alts thread..? rlly

Heya fellow degenerate gamblers..

  So, which casino, or quiz site, features the best-structured, and least censored trivia games engine, you think..?

  Believe it or not, good ol' derelict ass BitVest.iohttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1221154.5540 has one of the if not the top score in terms strictly of both^ those criteria for someone to run trivia chat games from

  It allows any account over a day old to type /trivia as a text command in the general room's chatline, to launch up the ButtVast (hehe ^) trivia setup pop-up window

  After selecting which coin & which amount of it (correct answer winning reward or prize) to run the trivia giveaway from [ltc|btc|doge|bch|eth ; the site's native token for doing dailyquests/faucet claims/receiving rainbot drops, "TOK", cannot be used for running such trivia giveaway games -- as that token cannot be withdrawn, deposited, nor tipped to other players -- it can solely be converted (swapped) into actual cryptocoins, in the Account left menu tab] ; then entering your desired trivia question to be asked, along with the correct answer's exact spelling required for any chatter to be registered by the engine as having answered it correctly ; the amount selected will be deducted from your balance and your trivia giveaway game will begin

  Playing chatters have approximately 60 seconds to guess your trivia answer correctly. If nobody guessed & entered your trivia answer correctly in that timespan, the giveaway game's funds get automatically returned safely to your balance. This allows the same player to keep teasing eager chatters with an incredibly juicy trivia prize to win, say, 0.5 LTC, over & over, if they can just guess it correctly -- which, as long as the trivia is kept shrewdly just too difficult to be won, is never given away! Allowing the same funds to go to more trivia rounds )

  Players can spam as much as desired during the time allotted by GameBot for each trivia giveaway round. This would of course quickly become crazy spammy & cease being workable if the site reached several hundreds of active chatters ; in the past 8 years of ButtVast, that has never and most certainly never will happen. The site is too small & obscure (and largely abandoned by owners moved on to more fulfilling projects) to ever attract such a crowd

  Anyhow, I have become a bit of a local legend around the degen gambler community for running interesting trivia rounds there. Well, for the first time ever, I have now decided to open it up for all of the entire crypto public to see

  I have joined cryptospace in late 2013, under another account ; have wasted literally multimillion dollar opportunities of coins in that valuation actually had in personal wallets at multiple times throughout these years ; have been a dice, crash, limbo, roulette gambling junkie since summer 2014

  I am by now beyond sick of busting all my funds, of cocaine-effect winning-streaks turning under my feverish, utter disbelieving eyes into nightmarish red-lining butthole craters. Like so many I have tried so many solutions to control my addiction, to little avail, and the brain damage from depression, longevity stress impact, loss of goodwill and family from this has been repulsively catastrophic

  We just lose the psychological war against ourselves (cuz when you win vs. your childish impulses & play like an inhuman robot, it's real -- you truly can print money, drain the casino an absurd bit before the -EV finally catches up to you -- WE EXPERIENCED THIS BEFORE and the brain just won't let it go, keeps chasing it again -- that's the business model, that's the appeal)

  So keeping coins in timelock / inaccessible-for-X-duration solutions ; as well as spending, and now^ -- running trivia giveaway rounds over & over instead of actually risking those funds to merciless casino game prng ; is how i try to control my self-destructive habit

  And you stand to profit from my sillyness, by making a free account (fck affiliate links, who cares) over at BitVest.io & joining our community of uncensored free for all clowns & junkies to eagerly try & guess the right answer to Rare's trivia games -- for a piece of dat pie to yourself ;p

  ..That's right, I am none other than Rare from BV ; from Telegram (@Porphyrysm -- join us for more thought-provoking discussions @ t.me/+3YyMFyflcHs5OTFh) ; from Reddit (u/SecretOfTheOdds | u/Post-Cosmic -- i occasionally write bloodknife-y mood stuf like this -> https://reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/kbxoca/catabolic_mass_consumerism_is_a_timehonored) ; THE original Rare whom Stunna & Edward -- back in 2017 -- had drawn inspiration from to launch their Stake casino license with the name "Medium Rare S.V."

  So who wants to try & snatch 0.5 LTC from me in trivia??

  See you on BitVest.io

Oh, I can't do that, man, cuz that would be a .gif from some auteur tvseries of some fiend tryna extract my eye out with an icecream ballscoop

..same thing we saw in 2016 with infamous redditor & bitcointalk poster 'bitfinex'd' (in reference to someone's funds having been "gox'd" by mtgox in 2014)

an observable human behavior is this tendency to attack politicians, celebrities, industry leaders (-> therefore major exchanges, major companies, etc) ; for the thrill of "taking on a giant" with the potential satisfaction payoff of "taking them down a notch" -- ego self-aggrandizement from indignantly taking on the powerful & influential

to top that ^psychological incentive off, with the rise of social media & adtraffic-remunerative virality, there also arises of course substantial financial benefits in acquiring a viral subscriber base because you're attacking/"exposing" companies or famous people

 . . .

more relevantly though

why do you bother with a $100M rumor?

investors' lost market value in the FTT price crash, along with the user balances held at FTX, represent double-digit billions of dollars lost by their Mark-Karpeles-like criminal incompetence(at best) ; in the face of that, $100 million is a less than 1% drop in the bucket.......

^Quoted For Truth

these pathetic groveling leechy pakigerioid farmers man..

 False. We do know. He said so. Health complications due to rushed poorly-tested poorly-researched harmful covid vaccine

 And we do also know for over two & a half years now precisely why the BV hotwallets are deliberately kept low and empty out easily [(and no, lightlord doesn't just want to hire some staff or representative to replace him when he can't handle things, because he doesn't TRUST other people with ACCESS to SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS of SITE USERS' FUNDS) :


  . .


 False. We do know. I explained it to you, as I've known & observed the bitvest administration for over 5 years -- since February 2017 :

 Yea, thanks, you're definitely my coolest & most sensible asian ever

 ..Except bad comparison because 999dice was an utterly pathetic bald-faced pure scam, whereas BV is handily winnable if player is well versed & prudent, which we too often aren't

 So, which pages of our chapter do you disagree with, i'm curious..?

 ..Yet that's the thing.

 The hotwallet problems began in august 2018, for a good, very specific reason, and have never stopped since. And they won't. The reasons are fundamental

 Nothing will ever get "permanently fixed"

 Players will continue waiting and waiting and waiting whenever they happened to haplessly have won & then attempted a withdrawal simultaneously at a time when other users also had won & had already successfully withdrew funds, thus leaving the sparsely filled site wallet empty ; for hours if very lucky, for several days typically, or potentially for weeks on end as happened to me with dogecoin 4 months ago..

 -- because, the owner **does not care anymore**, his deteriorated health + any number of other situations in his personal life now mean he has vastly more important priorities to cater to than the proper, responsible administration & functioning of his site

 Yes, you guessed it Einstein -- this does also mean he couldn't give less of a shit about "market share erosion unto a growing slice of competitors' gambling offer" because the meager revenues from operating BV do not constitute a primary lifeline for LL's subsistence any longer ; and so it is hard for all this to be such a big, pressing deal to him -- not to mention the OBVIOUS fact (if you actually did play on the casino & observe players' trends over time) that it is the same old regular punters that have been using BV for years & years, all the while grunting out some repeated irked grievances at its "rigged" "unfair" systems -- therefore inevitably returning to it, completely lost in disgruntled yet hopeless addiction, regardless of any sig campaign revival, marketing push, or loss of trust via lack of communication + continuous hotwallet problems

 This CAN happen to project managers or business owners, over the course of a long decade, they just can't muster the inspiration to give a fuck anymore about their project. And so I'm pretty sure LL would have CLOSED BV long ago rather than reluctantly keep dealing with all the work & ignorant complaints, if he hadn't closely observed and understood just how cherished it is as a haven by its degenerate rabble of gamblers & junkies glued to it 24/7 - so much so that the site's sudden absence causes a whole upending in their errant lives ; for the unusually different type of gambling it offers them - not to mention its colorfully unhinged & mostly uncensored chatting community

 It's a shame you fools can't have understood this in 245 pages of spam and it took my time & effort to explain it to your obtusely confused, desperate, hungry, anxiously-spammed sig-campaign posts

 I for the record am fine with things as they have been, for I long ago acquired the sensible maturity to cognizantly accept this is how this weird site is gonna be functioning, you might well get to siphon more free coin mileage here via the token conversion system than via periodic bonuses granted in copycat fashion after one another, by the dozens of other sites ; and by the rng here POTENTIALLY (unconfirmed) being more favorable than elsewhere ; BUT, you WILL WAIT whenever you have a support ticket or withdrawal in line

 . .

 Yes, I am Dr. Phil ; Yes thank you for tuning in to this 71st episode of Degen Blues Radio ; I am BV Lv.[16], w/ multiple Lv.9-14 alt accounts, don't forget to hit the [Like]/[Subscribe] button and see you all next time ;p

 Excellent trolling, chief. You manage to masterfully channel snitchY, w/ his characteristic "damn, eddie cancelled the monthly at stake this time around guys" lol

 Thing is, though, this site's webserver had behaved like worse-than-normal utter laggy, buggy shit for a looong time now. It does indeed corroborate the story that this is an unintentional, technical issue as opposed to an exit

 Especially with Zodiac the programmer himself raised literally from the dead after over a year's absence, apparently NOT having left this project at all since immediately a few hours after the server stopped letting people access BV, BANG he posts an explanation update..

 . .

 As for the desperate hungry hungry e-worker sigcampaign mechanical turk spammers, well guys, guess what, i know all you ever care about is using the internet to spam any word or video content you possibly can to extract advertising money from (ultimately, down the line) the wealthy megacorporates ;

 ..but in doing so single-mindedly, you completely pollute the aesthetics, art, cultural, political, entertainment, or scientific value of internet venues. It is such an abject wrong and a crying shame that so many among you live precariously, your families needing any money and food you can trick out or extract from crypto and the web for meager survival - and it certainly doesn't help that there are BILLIONS of mouths to feed - regardless of the ACTUAL PURPOSE of a given internet startup (in this case a CASINO - so, GAMBLING. not signature post-count-spamming without even bothering to read the thread at all. no - GAMBLING)

 Why can't there be more organizations and billionaires helping funnel desperate internet content spammers/subsistence $ extractors - into ACTUAL constructive work - or UBI - so they can live! and cease cancerizing the entire web with bot-like ugly, insincere, valueless repetition

 . .

 ..Wew, okay ;s  @buway, how you think I would forget you..? x) Just the act of writing in this august forum after 2 years, immediately made me think "watch, buway will probly read what I post and be shocked that I am there.." for I did lurk during all those months and had read your occasional posts, so I knew you were around. Just PM me

 ..well, it's finally happened!

BV either central-server/-cloudflare-crapped itself out, or, pulled an exit.

Huh! And to think it is I of all people who is first to bring this website total inaccessible failure up!

How interesting the timing of this, and of a certain moderator's publicized actions a week ago.. hm..!

Had 2.08LTC & 140doge still in there =/

What's happening is Crypto is Internet Tech.

It has become Wall St, and will rise & fall according to what the stock markets do.

Ever since ETF's, hedge funds & "institutional investor entities" got in a few years ago, that was it. It was no longer able to be something that goes up when the traditional finance markets go down.

Peter Schiff & Andreas Antonopoulos are correct. Bitcoin is a risk-on asset, for a long while now.

In fact even gold/silver struggle to really be risk-off, "honey badger" -type assets. Too much all-infiltrating financialization by Wall St.

Weapons, ammo, tools, vehicles, land, food, water, seeds, humans, animals, skills.

^Those are the true risk-off assets.

What happens is, Crypto is Internet Tech.

It has become Wall St, and will rise & fall according to what the stock markets do.

Ever since ETF's, hedge funds & "institutional investor entities" got in a few years ago, that was it. It was no longer able to be something that goes up when the traditional finance markets go down.

Peter Schiff & Andreas Antonopoulos are correct. Bitcoin is a risk-on asset, for a long while now.

In fact even gold/silver struggle to really be risk-off, "honey badger" -type assets. Too much all-infiltrating financialization by Wall St.

Weapons, ammo, tools, vehicles, land, food, water, seeds, humans, animals, skills.

^Those are the true risk-off assets.

What happens is Crypto is Internet Tech.

It has become Wall St, and will rise & fall according to what the stock markets do.

Ever since ETF's, hedge funds & "institutional investor entities" got in a few years ago, that was it. It was no longer able to be something that goes up when the traditional finance markets go down.

Peter Schiff & Andreas Antonopoulos are correct. Bitcoin is a risk-on asset, for a long while now.

In fact even gold/silver struggle to really be risk-off, "honey badger" -type assets. Too much all-infiltrating financialization by Wall St.

Weapons, ammo, tools, vehicles, land, food, water, seeds, humans, animals, skills.

^Those are the true risk-off assets.

A historic ~49% range in a single 40-minute candle.

From $3800 to $5750 on 'Stamp & GDAX while a more muted $4000 to $5400 on BFX because of course, 'finex has much bigger less amateurish whales with deeper volume & liquidity.

Crypto is Tech.

Tech was the bubble again.

Flu panic popped that bubble a fair bit.

So, even gold & btc fold too. Liquidity Crisis.

Especially since the past 10-15 years, everything got integrated into BigTech, ETF'd, leveraged, from gold/silver to crypto to even collectors' gimmicks or art pieces.

Makes sense, and it'll all go back to 30k DJIA & 10-660k BTC within years.

Central Banks, and the world's 100+ million millionaires, are always there to print, and bid it up.

..Until that weird uncanny day when famine, payroll wages or worker disruption, looting, pillage, rape, civil war, nuclear blasts, become widespread, spiral out of control ; thus law & order breaks down and somehow eludes paranoid paramilitary agencies' grip in being restored and so techno-industrial global civilization's social complexity breaks down for a long, long time.

I've lurked & posted (under a variety of accounts) on WO since late January 2014, having discovered decentralized finance in September 2013. Wasted my vast opportunities. Squandered my easy early pickings. Seen it.

What is clearly understood, however, and examplified multiple times in the above post from this simian dudebro, is that as Einstein famously stated, "Very few things are infinite - but chief among them being human stupidity"

-> "..the accounts get easily it seems - [this somehow affects the bankroll]" <-

Of course any investment carries some risk otherwise it wouldn't be an investment

Ahh Lori ^)

Not only you shower us with your eloquent word artistry but also flood our umbrellas with torrential downpours.

A most generous one

You, and the rest of the those commonly seen, typically over-invested ICO risk takers in this community, are, I regret to say it, greedy degenerate reckless gamblers.

There is a new, PROMISING ICO with serious potential - not least of which were Iconomi, Santiment, Lunyr, & Akasha - with an absolutely stellar marketing & professional-**seeming** international-class talent team, every SINGLE month around BitcoinTalk & sites like www.tokenmarket.net, on average. For the past 2 years now. And it shows no sign of slowing down.

So WHY do you OVERRISK like this.

Learn to hedge your bets.

Never leave it all in one basket, no matter how afraid of the (misguided) sting of FOMO regret you might feel if 'this particular one turned out to be the Game-Ender Unicorn'.

Example :

I have 0.5 BTC in Ethereum, Bitcoin, Monero, Factom, Iconomi, MelonPort, & Dogecoin balances on various wallets. That is the extent of my resources.

..I risked 0.028 BTC in Matchpool.

I was beyond thrilled and excited about this project. I still am.

I refreshed https://www.matchpool.co/crowdfund-live 38 times in the 24h period starting this past Sunday just before ICO officially started. I could not get enough of the success and excitement over this genuinely promising idea, have to admit it's a great idea.

But that did not stop me from being reasonable and only investing/risking what I can afford to lose..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When will you learn..?

In the normal business world, waiting several days, to a couple of weeks, for even a critical announcement such as to clear up what is really happening and what's to happen with Matchpool at this point, is to be expected. In cryptospace we're accustomed to ~6-hour "world has changed" timelines ; Real world does not match up to that expectation. I am not remotely surprised that Max Richardson's saying we have to wait up to a week, to know the details.

It means either that : 1) They'll handle it in a decisive, professional manner, and all will be well (mostly), at last, by that date, or ; 2) They're buying time to be able to avoid law enforcement investigation while Yonatan is running with the funds.

Either way the lesson here is that even with my tiniest stake, I am - just as you all are - disheartened and worried at what I am seeing - not least because it does not bode well for humanity and especially the future of cryptospace, altcoins, and the ICO business model in particular ; But that does not prevent me from sleeping or refraining from absolute hysteria - why? Because I did not over-invest myself in an unknown new project with more money than I could afford to lose.