There is a hack in one of the BTC casinos to win their jackpot
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It happened with an online casino. By chinese regulations they had to include the chances of getting each item. I saw that after anybody plays a game of it, the chances (percentages) are different. If someone loses money on it they go up, if they win they go down. So I started playing with it and played a round when these chances were high. It worked and made quite some money, but now they say, they will send the police on me if I don't get in contact with them and (probably) send the winnings back. Can they do this? Am I in the wrong here? All I did was that I only played when the chances were high. Thought of it like counting cards or knowing when a jackpot is so high that by playing long-term on it would make you profit or come out even (advantage play as wikipedia says it). Didn't hack it, all the infos I used were on the site by them and anybody could see it.
I live in Hungary if it helps, but answering by general laws around where you're from should work too.
Thank you very much!

This kinda came to me when I was feeling dead at work. If there's some similarities from a previous KR series or anything else, feel free to point it out. Im not going into too much detail.
Motif: Not sure yet
Driver Design: Greed Engine: Slot Machine
The lever is stored on the side of the driver and will extend out the arm once coin is inserted. Cranking the lever will cause wheels to spin and all 3 will land on rider symbol causing henshin. The first crank to transform will be called beginner's luck because it is always a guaranteed henshin but mid form will be luck based
Weapons: 5 card saber, coin shield, dart spear, dice crusher, roulette revolver, etc...(Most weapons won't be as powerful as the original users unless it is mastered)
Abilities: Scan, Showdown, Rider Heads or Tails
Scan, Gamble can scan an enemy Rider's weapon and add it to his arsenal. By cranking the lever the driver will summon the weapon it lands on, so Gamble has no choice in his weapon choice once he gets a bunch of armaments in his roster. "Time to even the playing field"
Showdown, Gamble can face off against another Kamen Rider in their own game. If Gamble wins he may instantly master the enemy's weapon "I'll take you on no matter the odds!"
Rider Heads or Tails, Gamble's finisher that starts off with a jump to a somersault and ends with either a headbutt or a Rider Kick "Call it"
Forms: Cheat Mode, Royale Form
Cheat Engine, will grant user the ability to always win in showdown and lets Gamble choose his weapon instead of getting a weapon by chance, downside is it will corrupt the user causing them to go mad and will possibly damage the driver.
Royale Form, allows Gamble to summon weapon a specific weapon in mastered form and will grant him the same abilities of the weapons owner. Will only last for 30 seconds - 1 minute. Requires Gamble to get all 3 Gamble symbols on driver. "The Real Game begins!"
"Let the game begin"
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Based off the name alone it'd be a gambling based Kamen Rider. For now, let's call the protagonist "Suzuki". I wasn't sure how to start the plot, so it was either Suzuki is...
(having a horrible string of bad luck from waking up late to getting fired from his job with other events in between)
(a happy go lucky guy in which things usually go his way as scenes would show off his luck.)
As he's walking down the street, he sees a coin rolling to him from an alley. His curiosity gets the best of him so he picks up the coin and walks towards the alley to see where it came from. There, he would find a dying man on the ground. The man would acknowledge that he picked up the coin give Suzuki a slot machine looking driver and tells Suzuki to run. The man would be absorbed by a fiend. The fiend tells Suzuki to hand over the coin but Suzuki runs out of fear after seeing what happened to the man.
With the fiend on his tail, Suzuki is freaking out about what to do and then he hears a voice to put on the driver. After some confusion, the voice tells him to pull out the coin. As he does, the coin flashes and time stands still. The coin flies out of Suzuki's hand and here we meet Silva, a mysterious talking coin. Silva tells him she needs protection and she's taking a risk by putting her life in Suzuki's hands. She follows it up by telling him the driver is incompatible with him but by accepting her contract she can hack the Greed Engine allowing him to transform. Suzuki agrees to the offer and Silva tells him exactly what to do.
Time resumes and Suzuki turns around and confronts the fiend. He puts the slot driver around his waist and the belts wraps around him. He inserts a the coin and the belt powers on and a lever pops out. He cranks the lever and all 3 slots would land on his rider symbol, the coin flies out towards the sky and expand like a net and land on him thus transforming him to Kamen Rider Gamble.
(Fight Scene)
Suzuki cranks the lever and all 3 slots display jackpot for his finisher. He jumps and somersaults towards the fiend and finishes them off with a rider kick. (Had it not been for all 3 jackpots the finisher may either end with a rider kick or a headbutt)
At the end of the day, Silva tells Suzuki there is an evil organization called "Dealers" who are after the power she possesses and it's up to Suzuki to stop them and end the organization. Silva then dubs him Kamen Rider Slots but Suzuki decides he wants to honor the man by not taking his name but instead be called Kamen Rider Gamble.
The role of the Dealers is they run underground casinos and gambling halls and they create fiends by letting people bet their lives. If they lose, based on the game they lost at, they become a fiend. The fiends are basically minor enemies casinos and halls have a champion Kamen Rider and a Dealer who runs the whole place. The dealer holds something precious towards the champion, thus the reason why Gamble would have to face the other riders.

Source https://news.bitcoin.com/how-crypto-became-a-gamblers-paradise/
Comparing cryptocurrency trading to gambling is like comparing crypto tribalism to religion: the analogy is correct, but it’s also tired. What bears emphasizing, then, isn’t that crypto trading and crypto gambling are often indistinguishable, but the extent to which the two disciplines permeate the cryptosphere. From the most popular dapps to the leading hacks, everything of interest within the space can be interpreted as a form of gambling. It’s the reason why crypto is so fascinating and so addictive.

The Whole World Is a Game

The gamification of everything is the endgame of life itself. Soon it will be impossible to go for a jog without receiving a high score or being showered in shitcoins for your efforts. Competition is what drives us as humans. The desire to be better than one’s fellow man or woman is the reason we’re here today on the internet, and not still living in mud huts. Combining money, mathematical puzzles, economics and copious amounts of game theory, crypto is a heady concoction of all the things that spur a man to get out of bed in the morning and conquer the world.
And the use of “man,” on this occasion is deliberate. There are many reasons why crypto has been historically male-dominated, some of which are too contentious or tangential to delve into here. This much, however, needs said: men are greater risk takers in life. It’s why their fortunes are more likely to fall in the extremes than in the mean: atop the mountain or in the gutter, but rarely in between. It’s also why crypto’s greatest success story so far has been letting men do what they were gonna do anyway: gamble, both literally and loosely, while striving to stack more sats than their peers.

Gambling on a Future for Dapps

What is altcoin trading if not a game to end up with more BTC than you started out with? Whether you get there through charting ichimoku clouds or rolling high-low in a crypto casino seems immaterial. To understand the extent to which gambling dominates the cryptosphere, there’s only one place to start – the dapp store. Hit up your favorite dapp tracker (Dappradar or State of the Dapps are probably best) and take a look at the most popular decentralized applications on each chain.

Top 10 dapps according to Dappradar

State of the Dapps notes six of the dapps in its top 10 as being gambling. Dappradar, which records more crypto networks, including Tron, also has six gambling applications in its top 10. Leading the pack is Wink, the betting platform that uses the same principles as Bitcoin.com’s Cashgames: instant wins, micropayments, and provably fair gambling. Wink can be accessed as a conventional casino or on a game by game (i.e dapp by dapp) basis. In most respects, Wink is indistinguishable from any other crypto casino, with the primary difference being the way in which it’s accessed.
Online casinos can be banned and geo-restricted, as often occurs at national level. Dapps, while not the censorship-resistant paradise their proponents would have them, are a lot harder to block. It’s no surprise that many of the most popular gambling dapps have struck gold in Asia, where download links are shared in Wechat groups and where wagering on life is a way of life for many.

Trading or Wagering?

Not all gambling dapps can be neatly filed into the gambling category. How to interpret Bulls vs Bears for example? Like many of the leading dapps on Tron and EOS, it’s dubbed as gaming, rather than gambling, and as a skill-based endeavor, that’s technically correct. Players don’t compete against the house, and since the game calls for predicting crypto market trends, there’s skill involved. With talk of a “dynamic wagering environment” and large jackpots, though, it’s clear who the dapp’s target demographic is. Like many new dapps trying to bootstrap, Bulls vs Bears relies on giveaways (in this case TRX tokens for signing up) as a means of getting bodies through the door, or rather users on the protocol.
In condensing the act of trading into basic binary options – high/low, bull/bear, the dapp bestows the same duality that bifurcates so many other domains in life, from U.S. politics to dead rappers. Are you a bull or bear? Republican or Democrat? Biggie or Tupac fan? Somewhere out there is a dapp for that, where you can wager on binary options for all the things you love and hate.
Further blurring the lines between what constitutes gambling and what’s trading is Guesser. Built on Augur, it’s technically a prediction market that uses crowdsourced wisdom to determine probable outcomes. In reality though, it’s a betting dapp, and a very neat one at that. Guesser appears to have given up all pretences of operating a prediction market, inviting users to “Bet up to” a certain amount on each market.

There’s More Than One Way to Beat a Dapp

While crypto users have been filling Telegram and Wechat groups with gambling dapp strategies, a handful of more enterprising individuals have been working on their own means of beating the system. In crypto, as in everything else, there’s always a way to fast track your way to riches, provided you don’t mind breaking a few rules along the way.
Eosplay usage briefly dropped to zero after an attacker found a way to drain the pool of EOS.
Eosplay is the sixth most popular gambling dapp on EOS. For a short while, over the weekend, it was also the most profitable for whoever rented a bunch of resources and used them to clean out 30,000 EOS from the contract. Call it genius, cheating or a bit of both, it was an effective case study in unorthodox ways to beat the house.
People can moan about the rough edges around defi protocols, the unreadability of bitcoin addresses, and the complexity of wallet recovery, but not everything in crypto is quite so wonky. Gambling has been a mainstay since the beginning of Bitcoin, and developers have gotten extremely efficient at it. If crypto builders can approach other ecosystem verticals with the same gusto with which players and devs have approached gambling dapps, mainstream adoption is just a UX breakthrough away. Where there’s a will to innovate, there’s a way, and when there’s money wagering on it, no problem is too big to solve.
From casinos to bitcoin, formerly fringe interests have now been normalized, thanks to those willing to put a punt on them when no one else would. Where gamblers lead, the mainstream tends to follow.
Do you think gambling is one of the best use cases for crypto to date? Let us know in the comments section below.

CRYPTOCURRENCY BITCOIN
Bitcoin Table of contents expand: 1. What is Bitcoin? 2. Understanding Bitcoin 3. How Bitcoin Works 4. What's a Bitcoin Worth? 5. How Bitcoin Began 6. Who Invented Bitcoin? 7. Before Satoshi 8. Why Is Satoshi Anonymous? 9. The Suspects 10. Can Satoshi's Identity Be Proven? 11. Receiving Bitcoins As Payment 12. Working For Bitcoins 13. Bitcoin From Interest Payments 14. Bitcoins From Gambling 15. Investing in Bitcoins 16. Risks of Bitcoin Investing 17. Bitcoin Regulatory Risk 18. Security Risk of Bitcoins 19. Insurance Risk 20. Risk of Bitcoin Fraud 21. Market Risk 22. Bitcoin's Tax Risk What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a digital currency created in January 2009. It follows the ideas set out in a white paper by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, whose true identity is yet to be verified. Bitcoin offers the promise of lower transaction fees than traditional online payment mechanisms and is operated by a decentralized authority, unlike government-issued currencies.
There are no physical bitcoins, only balances kept on a public ledger in the cloud, that – along with all Bitcoin transactions – is verified by a massive amount of computing power. Bitcoins are not issued or backed by any banks or governments, nor are individual bitcoins valuable as a commodity. Despite it not being legal tender, Bitcoin charts high on popularity, and has triggered the launch of other virtual currencies collectively referred to as Altcoins.
Understanding Bitcoin Bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency: Balances are kept using public and private "keys," which are long strings of numbers and letters linked through the mathematical encryption algorithm that was used to create them. The public key (comparable to a bank account number) serves as the address which is published to the world and to which others may send bitcoins. The private key (comparable to an ATM PIN) is meant to be a guarded secret and only used to authorize Bitcoin transmissions. Style notes: According to the official Bitcoin Foundation, the word "Bitcoin" is capitalized in the context of referring to the entity or concept, whereas "bitcoin" is written in the lower case when referring to a quantity of the currency (e.g. "I traded 20 bitcoin") or the units themselves. The plural form can be either "bitcoin" or "bitcoins."
How Bitcoin Works Bitcoin is one of the first digital currencies to use peer-to-peer technology to facilitate instant payments. The independent individuals and companies who own the governing computing power and participate in the Bitcoin network, also known as "miners," are motivated by rewards (the release of new bitcoin) and transaction fees paid in bitcoin. These miners can be thought of as the decentralized authority enforcing the credibility of the Bitcoin network. New bitcoin is being released to the miners at a fixed, but periodically declining rate, such that the total supply of bitcoins approaches 21 million. One bitcoin is divisible to eight decimal places (100 millionths of one bitcoin), and this smallest unit is referred to as a Satoshi. If necessary, and if the participating miners accept the change, Bitcoin could eventually be made divisible to even more decimal places. Bitcoin mining is the process through which bitcoins are released to come into circulation. Basically, it involves solving a computationally difficult puzzle to discover a new block, which is added to the blockchain and receiving a reward in the form of a few bitcoins. The block reward was 50 new bitcoins in 2009; it decreases every four years. As more and more bitcoins are created, the difficulty of the mining process – that is, the amount of computing power involved – increases. The mining difficulty began at 1.0 with Bitcoin's debut back in 2009; at the end of the year, it was only 1.18. As of February 2019, the mining difficulty is over 6.06 billion. Once, an ordinary desktop computer sufficed for the mining process; now, to combat the difficulty level, miners must use faster hardware like Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), more advanced processing units like Graphic Processing Units (GPUs), etc.
What's a Bitcoin Worth? In 2017 alone, the price of Bitcoin rose from a little under $1,000 at the beginning of the year to close to $19,000, ending the year more than 1,400% higher. Bitcoin's price is also quite dependent on the size of its mining network since the larger the network is, the more difficult – and thus more costly – it is to produce new bitcoins. As a result, the price of bitcoin has to increase as its cost of production also rises. The Bitcoin mining network's aggregate power has more than tripled over the past twelve months.
How Bitcoin Began
Aug. 18, 2008: The domain name bitcoin.org is registered. Today, at least, this domain is "WhoisGuard Protected," meaning the identity of the person who registered it is not public information.
Oct. 31, 2008: Someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto makes an announcement on The Cryptography Mailing list at metzdowd.com: "I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf." This link leads to the now-famous white paper published on bitcoin.org entitled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." This paper would become the Magna Carta for how Bitcoin operates today.
Jan. 3, 2009: The first Bitcoin block is mined, Block 0. This is also known as the "genesis block" and contains the text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks," perhaps as proof that the block was mined on or after that date, and perhaps also as relevant political commentary.
Jan. 8, 2009: The first version of the Bitcoin software is announced on The Cryptography Mailing list.
Jan. 9, 2009: Block 1 is mined, and Bitcoin mining commences in earnest.
Who Invented Bitcoin?
No one knows. Not conclusively, at any rate. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name associated with the person or group of people who released the original Bitcoin white paper in 2008 and worked on the original Bitcoin software that was released in 2009. The Bitcoin protocol requires users to enter a birthday upon signup, and we know that an individual named Satoshi Nakamoto registered and put down April 5 as a birth date. And that's about it.
Before Satoshi
Though it is tempting to believe the media's spin that Satoshi Nakamoto is a solitary, quixotic genius who created Bitcoin out of thin air, such innovations do not happen in a vacuum. All major scientific discoveries, no matter how original-seeming, were built on previously existing research. There are precursors to Bitcoin: Adam Back’s Hashcash, invented in 1997, and subsequently Wei Dai’s b-money, Nick Szabo’s bit gold and Hal Finney’s Reusable Proof of Work. The Bitcoin white paper itself cites Hashcash and b-money, as well as various other works spanning several research fields.
Why Is Satoshi Anonymous?
There are two primary motivations for keeping Bitcoin's inventor keeping his or her or their identity secret. One is privacy. As Bitcoin has gained in popularity – becoming something of a worldwide phenomenon – Satoshi Nakamoto would likely garner a lot of attention from the media and from governments.
The other reason is safety. Looking at 2009 alone, 32,489 blocks were mined; at the then-reward rate of 50 BTC per block, the total payout in 2009 was 1,624,500 BTC, which at today’s prices is over $900 million. One may conclude that only Satoshi and perhaps a few other people were mining through 2009 and that they possess a majority of that $900 million worth of BTC. Someone in possession of that much BTC could become a target of criminals, especially since bitcoins are less like stocks and more like cash, where the private keys needed to authorize spending could be printed out and literally kept under a mattress. While it's likely the inventor of Bitcoin would take precautions to make any extortion-induced transfers traceable, remaining anonymous is a good way for Satoshi to limit exposure.
The Suspects
Numerous people have been suggested as possible Satoshi Nakamoto by major media outlets. Oct. 10, 2011, The New Yorker published an article speculating that Nakamoto might be Irish cryptography student Michael Clear or economic sociologist Vili Lehdonvirta. A day later, Fast Company suggested that Nakamoto could be a group of three people – Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry – who together appear on a patent related to secure communications that were filed two months before bitcoin.org was registered. A Vice article published in May 2013 added more suspects to the list, including Gavin Andresen, the Bitcoin project’s lead developer; Jed McCaleb, co-founder of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox; and famed Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.
In December 2013, Techcrunch published an interview with researcher Skye Grey who claimed textual analysis of published writings shows a link between Satoshi and bit-gold creator Nick Szabo. And perhaps most famously, in March 2014, Newsweek ran a cover article claiming that Satoshi is actually an individual named Satoshi Nakamoto – a 64-year-old Japanese-American engineer living in California. The list of suspects is long, and all the individuals deny being Satoshi.
Can Satoshi's Identity Be Proven?
It would seem even early collaborators on the project don’t have verifiable proof of Satoshi’s identity. To reveal conclusively who Satoshi Nakamoto is, a definitive link would need to be made between his/her activity with Bitcoin and his/her identity. That could come in the form of linking the party behind the domain registration of bitcoin.org, email and forum accounts used by Satoshi Nakamoto, or ownership of some portion of the earliest mined bitcoins. Even though the bitcoins Satoshi likely possesses are traceable on the blockchain, it seems he/she has yet to cash them out in a way that reveals his/her identity. If Satoshi were to move his/her bitcoins to an exchange today, this might attract attention, but it seems unlikely that a well-funded and successful exchange would betray a customer's privacy.
Receiving Bitcoins As Payment
Bitcoins can be accepted as a means of payment for products sold or services provided. If you have a brick and mortar store, just display a sign saying “Bitcoin Accepted Here” and many of your customers may well take you up on it; the transactions can be handled with the requisite hardware terminal or wallet address through QR codes and touch screen apps. An online business can easily accept bitcoins by just adding this payment option to the others it offers, like credit cards, PayPal, etc. Online payments will require a Bitcoin merchant tool (an external processor like Coinbase or BitPay).
Working For Bitcoins
Those who are self-employed can get paid for a job in bitcoins. There are several websites/job boards which are dedicated to the digital currency:
Work For Bitcoin brings together work seekers and prospective employers through its websiteCoinality features jobs – freelance, part-time and full-time – that offer payment in bitcoins, as well as Dogecoin and LitecoinJobs4Bitcoins, part of reddit.comBitGigs
Bitcoin From Interest Payments
Another interesting way (literally) to earn bitcoins is by lending them out and being repaid in the currency. Lending can take three forms – direct lending to someone you know; through a website which facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, pairing borrowers and lenders; or depositing bitcoins in a virtual bank that offers a certain interest rate for Bitcoin accounts. Some such sites are Bitbond, BitLendingClub, and BTCjam. Obviously, you should do due diligence on any third-party site.
Bitcoins From Gambling
It’s possible to play at casinos that cater to Bitcoin aficionados, with options like online lotteries, jackpots, spread betting, and other games. Of course, the pros and cons and risks that apply to any sort of gambling and betting endeavors are in force here too.
Investing in Bitcoins
There are many Bitcoin supporters who believe that digital currency is the future. Those who endorse it are of the view that it facilitates a much faster, no-fee payment system for transactions across the globe. Although it is not itself any backed by any government or central bank, bitcoin can be exchanged for traditional currencies; in fact, its exchange rate against the dollar attracts potential investors and traders interested in currency plays. Indeed, one of the primary reasons for the growth of digital currencies like Bitcoin is that they can act as an alternative to national fiat money and traditional commodities like gold.
In March 2014, the IRS stated that all virtual currencies, including bitcoins, would be taxed as property rather than currency. Gains or losses from bitcoins held as capital will be realized as capital gains or losses, while bitcoins held as inventory will incur ordinary gains or losses.
Like any other asset, the principle of buying low and selling high applies to bitcoins. The most popular way of amassing the currency is through buying on a Bitcoin exchange, but there are many other ways to earn and own bitcoins. Here are a few options which Bitcoin enthusiasts can explore.
Risks of Bitcoin Investing
Though Bitcoin was not designed as a normal equity investment (no shares have been issued), some speculative investors were drawn to the digital money after it appreciated rapidly in May 2011 and again in November 2013. Thus, many people purchase bitcoin for its investment value rather than as a medium of exchange.
However, their lack of guaranteed value and digital nature means the purchase and use of bitcoins carries several inherent risks. Many investor alerts have been issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and other agencies.
The concept of a virtual currency is still novel and, compared to traditional investments, Bitcoin doesn't have much of a long-term track record or history of credibility to back it. With their increasing use, bitcoins are becoming less experimental every day, of course; still, after eight years, they (like all digital currencies) remain in a development phase, still evolving. "It is pretty much the highest-risk, highest-return investment that you can possibly make,” says Barry Silbert, CEO of Digital Currency Group, which builds and invests in Bitcoin and blockchain companies.
Bitcoin Regulatory Risk
Investing money into Bitcoin in any of its many guises is not for the risk-averse. Bitcoins are a rival to government currency and may be used for black market transactions, money laundering, illegal activities or tax evasion. As a result, governments may seek to regulate, restrict or ban the use and sale of bitcoins, and some already have. Others are coming up with various rules. For example, in 2015, the New York State Department of Financial Services finalized regulations that would require companies dealing with the buy, sell, transfer or storage of bitcoins to record the identity of customers, have a compliance officer and maintain capital reserves. The transactions worth $10,000 or more will have to be recorded and reported.
Although more agencies will follow suit, issuing rules and guidelines, the lack of uniform regulations about bitcoins (and other virtual currency) raises questions over their longevity, liquidity, and universality.
Security Risk of Bitcoins
Bitcoin exchanges are entirely digital and, as with any virtual system, are at risk from hackers, malware and operational glitches. If a thief gains access to a Bitcoin owner's computer hard drive and steals his private encryption key, he could transfer the stolen Bitcoins to another account. (Users can prevent this only if bitcoins are stored on a computer which is not connected to the internet, or else by choosing to use a paper wallet – printing out the Bitcoin private keys and addresses, and not keeping them on a computer at all.) Hackers can also target Bitcoin exchanges, gaining access to thousands of accounts and digital wallets where bitcoins are stored. One especially notorious hacking incident took place in 2014, when Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin exchange in Japan, was forced to close down after millions of dollars worth of bitcoins were stolen.
This is particularly problematic once you remember that all Bitcoin transactions are permanent and irreversible. It's like dealing with cash: Any transaction carried out with bitcoins can only be reversed if the person who has received them refunds them. There is no third party or a payment processor, as in the case of a debit or credit card – hence, no source of protection or appeal if there is a problem.
Insurance Risk
Some investments are insured through the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Normal bank accounts are insured through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) up to a certain amount depending on the jurisdiction. Bitcoin exchanges and Bitcoin accounts are not insured by any type of federal or government program.
Risk of Bitcoin Fraud
While Bitcoin uses private key encryption to verify owners and register transactions, fraudsters and scammers may attempt to sell false bitcoins. For instance, in July 2013, the SEC brought legal action against an operator of a Bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme.
Market Risk
Like with any investment, Bitcoin values can fluctuate. Indeed, the value of the currency has seen wild swings in price over its short existence. Subject to high volume buying and selling on exchanges, it has a high sensitivity to “news." According to the CFPB, the price of bitcoins fell by 61% in a single day in 2013, while the one-day price drop in 2014 has been as big as 80%.
If fewer people begin to accept Bitcoin as a currency, these digital units may lose value and could become worthless. There is already plenty of competition, and though Bitcoin has a huge lead over the other 100-odd digital currencies that have sprung up, thanks to its brand recognition and venture capital money, a technological break-through in the form of a better virtual coin is always a threat.
Bitcoin's Tax Risk
As bitcoin is ineligible to be included in any tax-advantaged retirement accounts, there are no good, legal options to shield investments from taxation.
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Read it once, go read other crypto stuff, read it again… keep doing this until the whole document makes sense. It’ll take a while, but you’ll get there. This is the original whitepaper introducing and explaining Bitcoin, and there’s really nothing better out there to understand on the subject.
“What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party


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Despite the activity here seemingly dropping to only a fraction of what it was last week (well, perhaps exactly for that reason), let us have some of that sweet, sweet discourse.
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Most of us should be familiar with how crypto works. What is profitable, what isn't, I'm talking about the basics on an exchange like binance (which according to coinmarketcap which I don't exact,trust, is where almost 50% of IOTA volume happens). Citing recent events, they decided to donate some BNB for their users: https://bitcoinist.com/binance-relaunches-giveaway-upgrade/ (you can find same info on binance site this was random pick news from google).
"50k BNB shared among the users? about 1 mil current value is hardly big money in crypto" is what one is likely to think. It's still relevant though, not only in terms of worth but long term accumulation. Despite the news talking about jackpot, you get an x amount based on your trading volume in relation to other users.
The big news came in the small print: "For those holding one of Binance’s various ‘VIP’ status levels, the exchange will offer a free ‘promotion’ to the next level up for free until May 22." I thought, what the hell a VIP status even is? (hey I took a break!). Turns out, retail investor with small volume and BNB holdings pays 5x as much in transaction costs. Unless you traded over 100 btc worth in the past 30 days and hold 50 bnb, your level is general, meaning no bonus.
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It is blatantly obvious they are favoring their precious whale customers at the expense of the retail investor, upon whom they kind of depend on. (Sidenote: Might want to consider this your business strategy, don't drown the river you drink from). The vast majority of us remain in the general category, paying 0.1% maker and 0.1% taker fees (bnb discount is the same for all). Now, someone with only 40k or 80k BTC worth of volume gets bumped up, the maximum category offering 0.02% maker 0.04% taker fees. You need a gain of 0.2% in order to sell without loss or profit aka break even. The one manipulating the market and providing the most liquidity only needs a gain of 0.06% in order to - pay attention this is the important part - not only break-even, but also profit due to the airdrop after a week has passed! Many trades can be done at some loss, yet still profit from those very same trades later.
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Yes, they actually gave discounts only to people who trade over 100 btc worth every month, giving them a competitive advantage over us (who trade less monthly) as compensation for this hack that had an affect on everyone. Money too, obviously, because one of two things will happen: us lesser people try to compete for those BNB tokens, losing small but relevant amounts of money due to having a different break-even compared to anyone significant trading there. The other option, whales wash trading among themselves, generating enough volume to grab 90% of the BNB airdrop as a whole anyway.
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Everything lines up conveniently enough to make coincidence unlikely, it's a setup. Our crypto over-lords (who may not be affiliated by binance but who binance appears to favor because of obvious business reasons) have been preparing this for weeks if not months, creating reddit accounts and gathering information about possible IOTA holders, the general sentiment (bullish/bearish), whether some strategy of theirs is public knowledge and thus needs re-adjustment, all kinds of weird stuff (I'd do this just as misdirection too). Not to mention telling (trying to influence) us how we should act in terms of buy hold or sell. I find this type of data harvesting fascinating, because it's a two-way street. The questions that they ask (assuming you know who is part of 'them', the '1%' of crypto) equally provide us at least some information as to what their normally secret motives and tactics are, meaning what goes on with the prices.
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They be getting into our heads, in other words. Speculative markets are mostly psychology anyway if you ask me. The key part in all of the above was that it happened behind the scenes, unknown to the public. What they gathered from us - judging by the particular strategy deployed atm - was that the retail-investor-milking-machine did not have a unifying strategy at all. Hodlers, buyers, sellers, traders, waiters... It takes a different strategy to counter each of those approaches to trading not just IOTA but crypto in general. So now that BTC is valued 2x or even 3x what it was earlier this year, they rigged the casino all the way to 11. Basically, no matter what you do, if your volume isn't in at least 1000's of BTC monthly, you'll bleed out little by little during this crazy time everyone supposedly herded into FOMO. While not impossible to trade profitably, you are at an extreme disadvantage if you do any trading at all (buy & sell round trips during the next week).
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This is fucked up, to put it bluntly. Even for crypto. I'm calling for more just, fair and above all, equal treatment of crypto exchange customers. If you are a whale, you already have an advantage by the sheer size of your stack (don't complain about not being able to liquidate profits fast enough...). You really need even more advantages on top of that in order to be willing to trade? Not enough profits? What happens if we, your precious milking-machine that you keep squeezing tighter, just start trading less and less. There's zero profits for you. Who's in power now?
As for the exchanges, don't treat the little guy as a second class citizen. It's bad, even as a business decision. Understandably you incentivize big players to your market place, with Binance going about it perhaps most successfully. In process, you take away the incentive for 'normal' people to take part on your platform. While we obviously don't bring much in terms revenue from transactions directly, how else are you going to feed those whales bringing all that revenue?
No, the current model is dependent on us. You're fucked if the little guy goes on a strike if things go too far.
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There's a certain threshold of when the game becomes too rigged to tolerate.

So I was playing my first Edge of the Empire campaign and given that I like playing support characters, and I like Droids, I decided to roll up an astromech Droid Mechanic/pilot (a Mechanic with some piloting skills). I'm having trouble with the backstory so I decide to roll for my obligation. I get debt (keep this in mind), so I build upon that so that my previous organic companion was a gambler who gambled me away to the GMPC and some other stuff that for reasons soon told will become irrelevant. With debt I figured that I could just save up some money and pay it off eventually.
Then the first session starts and we sell off a raided drug stash and I encounter the main problem that will haunt the rest of the campaign. According to the group, all Droids are property, and property cannot own property. Therefore, I get none of the loot, no possessions, and only whatever upgrades they deigned to outfit me with. When I first realized that, I got understandably upset. They replied by basically saying that everyone treats Droids as slaves in the SWs universe ignoring the exceptions like K2-S0, clone wars R2, IG-88, etc., and the parts of the core rulebook that says to treat PC Droids differently. We argued for a bit, and then I came to the realization that if I didn't get credits, I couldn’t pay off my debt. And in response the rest of the group basically laughed at me and said “what did I expect?” I expected to get a share of the pie, and to be informed by the others who had played the game before of such a large consequence of picking my race.
After that fiasco I got (note: not chose/purchased for myself) what I thought was a good upgrade (in-body grenade launcher), and we entered into our first combat scenario. I get knocked out almost immediately because A) we are in a forest, thus the only cover the GM provided was trees that people could hide behind (but that an astromech with a grenade mouth couldn’t shoot around) and B) no-one told me how important (basically necessary) cover was in EotE. And then they laugh at my actions. (Looking back I’m realizing more and more how bad these people were)
So we hit the next session and everything starts out alright. We do some space combat, which I am initially quite excited for (after all, my character was built for space combat). Until someone else says they want to be the pilot despite the fact that not only did I make my character specifically to be the pilot, I was empirically better at it. But through a combo of his (IRL) charisma and my position as group slave, I didn’t get a say. Thus I was relegated to the engine compartment, reducing ship strain for the entire battle (fun and engaging gameplay!). We land, kill some Rancor babies for their brains (it was a quest), engage in a long range weapons duel (which starts by me getting knocked out by a just spotted sniper), and do things that are fun for everyone but me.
The third session was the one that was the nail in the coffin for my enjoyment, as the GM retired his previous GMPC (overpowered 6 in everything that mattered Mary Sue) for a new one. Specifically a master mechanic. Now I am the type of person who is horrible with confrontation (note that to the above treatment I objected when it happened but didn’t push very hard), but this was over the line. I had officially lost my last in-game role to another character. If I was more assertive I probably would have left the group. But it is hard to leave an abusive relationship, and I didn’t have the strength. Even so I objected furiously, and even pulled the GM out of the room to talk about it. But I could not get people to understand how HORRIFICALLY INSULTING AND STUPID this was.
After that incident things reached a kind of status quo. I stayed around out of a weird sense of obligation (something I now realize was the huge mistake it was). I started off hoping that if I was helpful enough I might get some recognition, but after me and another character single-handedly managed to get a hundred million credit jackpot from a casino operating as a money laundering business (who killed an old lady for winning a 1000 credit prize) and I got nothing in return, I gave up. In the role-playing I basically had at best an advisory role for what the party wanted to do and had little to no control over my personal actions. In combat I floundered because almost everyone else was a combat focused character and I had built myself for a support role the GM was covering better than I could. Eventually I was labeled a fanatical droid independence radical for JUST WANTING TO PLAY MY CHARACTER.
Eventually I left, apparently right before the last session. The rest of the group basically got their wish fulfillment jobs (namely becoming a Jedi Master who killed his twin sister who was a Sith Inquisitor, the leader of the Rebellion military, and the Mandalore respectively) and had a decent time. And all I got was some first hand experience on why no roleplay is better than bad roleplay.
Since I don’t want to just rant (though it was cathartic), I figured I’d try and include something constructive. So I just want to ask how you guys treat droid PCs. Or do you just try to avoid them.
TL:DR: I played a droid and was given no say in the roleplaying and slowly replaced by others in the gameplay, giving the best experience of why no RP > bad RP.
Edit: While thinking over the incident/reading the comments, I remembered a couple more things that happened. Namely the two sessions I was without my knowledge implanted with a remotely activatable set of explosives by the chaotic mercenary (which considering the slave implants from ep. 1 is weirdly thematically appropriate (but still a horrible action)). I only discovered it while a hacking module was being installed. And secondly, towards the end of my tenure I was getting threatened with memory wipes (after all, that's what happens to "rebellious droids"). And according to one of the people I'm in contact with who was in the group (co-workers and decent guy, just bad RPer), that's exactly what happened after I left.
/rpghorrorstories specific stuff: I posted this yesterday on /swrpg and got a recommendation to post it here, and after reading a few posts figured it was a good idea. Link to the original.

‘The National Lottery is played by 70 per cent of British adults every year. Online gambling is booming. They are all vulnerable to hacking, lost tickets, people cheating and such like. Lotteries, tickets and prizes can be faked. Could blockchain be used to protect gamblers’ winnings? Quite possible’. - Edmund West for CNR
However, most authors do not raise the main issue: the blockchain is intended to get rid of all intermediaries. Neogame is actually one of those projects, whos lottery is fully based on blockchain. It allows to abandon the house edge.
To avoid fraud and to increase trust in distribution of winnings gambling industry is doomed to switch to blockchain. And in the nearest future lotteries and casinos will have to do it.
Neogame is the first lottery that will work with a zero house edge, without owners and with no human control at all.
The main objective of Neogame project is to transform how the gambling industry works. Until now, old gambling has centered around the use of "house edge" – a principle, where the house or organizer always has an upper hand. With the advent of blockchain, organizers are needed no longer. People can gamble without intermediaries and claim their prize without commission fees.
By launching Neogame, we kickstart this transformation. We are confident that over time, most of the global gambling industry will switch to a non-profit model. Neogame strikes a contrast to traditional lotteries. Our aim is to show the world how blockchain can become a game changer.
Gambling always carries certain ethical issues, whether it is investment or organizational matters.
The social consequence of problem gaming is often compared to drug or alcohol addition, because many players become addicted to gambling, and for a good reason.
With the ever-popular online gambling, the problem only gets worse as games become more accessible. Addicted gamblers spend more time playing from their homes. What adds to the addiction is the advertisements and intrusive customer service driven by one goal only – slowly spin problem gamers back into the game.
A study by the National Council on Problem Gambling found that 1% of the US population suffers from a pathological dependence on gambling and up to 3% can be considered problem gamers.
Problem gamers are a juicy slice for the industry, and the problem will continue for as long as gambling remains profit-driven.
Non-profit blockchain gambling will gradually squeeze profit-driven operators out of the market. Once the gaming industry adopts a decentralized non-profit model, games will become more humane – if the game does not generate revenue, a casino operator will have no reason to pursue addicted gamers.
The lottery will use its own Ethereum-based cryptocurrency – Ticket Token (TKT).
Ticket Token is a utility token that has the following 3 functions:

• A lottery ticket. A player buys tokens, chooses a combination of numbers using a decentralized application and sends tokens to the lottery's smart contract.
  
• An asset that forms a part of the prize pool. All prizes are denominated in TKT. The prize pool is volatile to the same extent as the tokens value, which allows for scaling the size of the jackpot if the tokens increase in price.
  
• A tradable cryptoasset with predictable exchange rate changes. Ticket Tokens will be listed on cryptocurrency exchanges. Its value is expected to be volatile and affected by certain predictable factors.
  

TKT tokens use ERC20 standard and are compatible with any wallet that supports Ethereum-based tokens. This provides for a seamless operation of the project over an indefinite period with no exposure to external factors.
Tokens will have a limited supply of 500 million TKT. 400 million tokens will be offered for sale at a rate of TKT 2,000 per ETH.
Funds will be collected in ETH on the token sale smart contract. According to the smart contract, if the soft cap is not reached, Ether funds collected will be returned to the wallets they were collected from