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XplodnPnguins92 posted...

this is good for bitcoin.

This is good for GPU prices.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-market-crash-prompts-suicide-concerns-135248250.html

The cryptocurrency market is seeing angry shades of red this week. On Tuesday, the 20 largest cryptocurrencies by market cap all fell by 4% to 10%, with ether, token of the smart contracts platform Ethereum, taking the biggest hit, down to about $250, its lowest price of 2018. Ether was above $1,200 in January. By Wednesday morning, coins were rallying slightly. But volume remained low, a possible sign that coins have still not seen the worst of this correction. The losses have some crypto believers in serious emotional distress. On Tuesday, one of the top posts on the popular bitcoin forum of Reddit was information for suicide prevention hotlines. This has happened before: In January, Reddit users shared the same kind of posts after bitcoin plummeted from its December 2017 high of above $19,000 down to the $13,000 range, on its way to under $10,000.

Bitcoin is down 57% in 2018 so far, ether is down 67%, bitcoin cash (BCH) is down 80%, stellar lumens (XLM) is down 60%, and ripple (XRP) is down an eye-popping 87%. The overall coin market has lost more than $600 billion in value in the last 8 months. In addition, startups that held ICOs (initial coin offerings), in which they create their own token and sell it in exchange for ether, are believed to be selling off that ether now into bitcoin or fiat currency, which explains why ether has taken the biggest hit of all the cryptocurrencies, and why bitcoin has not seen quite the same damage as the rest in the last week.
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Future_Trunks posted...

Turtlebread posted...

hold

I haven't paid attention to crypto in a long time. Are you saying to hold because it might still go up?
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https://coinidol.com/crypto-investors-lost-almost-100-m-to-ico-exit-scams/

Recently, several Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have excited the investors to a larger extent and there is no denying that some of these cryptocurrency-based fundraisers have also hurt the majority of them. Currently, it is appraised that investors have lost almost $100 million to ICO exit scams as first reported by Diar, a Blockchain intelligence company on Monday, August 13 this year. There are now over 1,600 Cryptos on the market. However, over 1,000 cryptocurrency-assets are "dead projects," without strong plans for the time ahead of us and their prices are influenced largely by speculation. If digital assets remain estimable and valuable and go on to gain much adoption, ICO exit scams plus other cryptocurrency-linked frauds are likely not to come to an end.

Even though the governments are formulating proper guidelines for ICO projects to follow, in a bid to control the activities of fraudsters, investors also require to ascertain the situation properly in cryptocurrency-based investment schemes. Most scam ICOs are depicted by red flags like plagiarized, error-ridden white papers, they promise investors fat returns within a very short period of time, lack an active GitHub repository and other signs. Even with the recent Bitcoin price decline and the altcoin market downward trend, there is quite a small number of projects that began as ICOs and have stayed standing healthily since the time of their launch.

lol surprised people still think you can make quick cash off this. The ability to make quick cash ended last year.
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Will Gamefaqs even be here in 2023.
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The people who were selling the ponzi scheme to the newbies pulled out and became millionaires.
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Money
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MadDewg posted...

Less serious answer: Too busy playing street fighter/tekken, smash bros, nba 2k, or madden tournaments.

Serious business answer if this isn't a bait topic (probably is though, but whateves, ain't like nothing much else is going on atm, lol): PC Esports in general is a more "privileged kid" thing. Vast majority of the type of dudes that is in actual esport teams grew up in well-off families, and had access to decent/good/great gaming PCs and the time to sit around to play their asses off in their teenage years. Your average kid that didn't have access to PC building money growing up isn't going to be nowhere near being in these tkind of teams, or having the years of experience PC gamin' to be on that level.

Its also the reason why the fighting game community in general has that good old "for everyone" feeling and you see a vast majority of minorities playing....a carry over from the old arcade days, when poorer kids was able to play along with everyone else since all it took was a quarter to beat someone ass. Color didn't matter in the arcades....all it took was lining them up on the cabinet, wait your turn, then prove your might, lol.

Thanks. This is my first ever experience with these gaming tournaments. Didn't realized they were televised until I saw it flipping through the channels.
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Megaman50100 posted...

BlueTigerLion posted...

Surprised there aren't more.

Why?

There must be a lot of black gamers out there.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

I don't get it. Are blacks the best at Overwatch like Koreans are the best at Starcraft?

I'm watching the finals on ABC and the majority of players are Asian or European. But none are black. Only black person is a host but he seems added on. The two white hosts speak for the majority of the time and he just went be right back. Surprised there aren't more.
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