CPB-directeur: Nederland moet bitcoin en andere cryptovaluta verbieden
The director of the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis wants his 5 minutes of fame, saying government should ban Bitcoin and other crypto coins, because a crash is inevitable. Then he comes with the argument that the product has no intrinsic value. I guess the Euro will be banned first?
Meanwhile, I'm being taxed in the Netherlands just for owning Bitcoin.

I know one thing: if governments are afraid, Bitcoin is on the right track!

So in order to minimize the house edge, you should only place bets that meet the lifeline rules (so only small bets).

In BlackJack, a "bad" player can have a much larger house edge than a good player. See for instance The House Edge in Blackjack: 21 Things to Know.

Are you using your own alt account to respond to your own post?

The "units of evil" on IP-addresses are meant to reduce signups from spammers. When you say there's a problem to register many accounts using VPN, you should consider that a hint and stop registering more accounts.

I wouldn't mind, but I don't really have the time. And I'm just really not good at designing anything graphical (apart from the code part).

Thanks for that, I didn't even notice it's different on the two pages. I wasn't sure exactly where to put your suggestions. So instead, I compared http://addresses.loyce.club/ and http://addresses.loyce.club/donations.html: the latter was missing header-tags. So I changed a <div> into <header>, and the footer looks okay now.

You'll have to ask bL4nkcode, he got me the logo.

Quoting and verified on Electrum.

Thanks again for your great timing!

I don't think I've ever seen a "company" advertise their business without adding their name. The only reason to do that, is if there is no company.

People who got scammed often get scammed again by someone who promises them to get their money back. If they pay up front, of course.

A subphoena from the FBI has slightly more impact than an email from plainchain@protonmail.com.

Anything you want

Unless you're trying to hide where you send the 2btc, you can just spend it normally. Chances are the person you sent 3btc can see the address you send the 2btc to, but usually that's not much of a concern.

Just in case: change addresses are no "special" addresses, they're just regular Bitcoin addresses used by your wallet. If you don't change anything, Bitcoin Core will use a new change address every time.
The general recommendation is not to use the same address twice, that doesn't mean you can't use the funds sent to the change address.

There are also reasons to reuse addresses, and I often do it too. It's not necessarily a bad thing, as long as you're aware of the (possible) privacy implications.

Update: I type too slow

There no limit to how many change addresses you can use/create.

Somehow I always end up procrastinating updating the design. I like data much more than graphical stuff.
However, with all the above tips, I managed to add a design to addresses.loyce.club:


And (very imporant of course) addresses.loyce.club/donations.html


Unfortunately, some of the other links on top aren't working at the moment (cheap servers tend to disappear after a while). Long-term, I want to add this design to loyce.club's main page too. But first, I should get a bit more comfortable with the CSS. It still feels like I don't really know what I'm doing with CSS, so this took quite some time. Ideally, I'd like to strip most of the unused stuff out, a much smaller file is easier to use.

Although you can use a change address for this, the proper way to do it is use "Add Recipient", and add your Electrum address there. You can tick "Subtract fee from amount" so you don't have to subtract the total fee.

I wouldn't do this, you risk sending your entire balance to the change address if you have more funds in your wallet, especially if you don't use Coin Control Features.

TL;DR it works, but you should know all the risks.

That would be called bullish, not bearish

This doesn't guarantee a safe trade: what if you say there's a problem, but reksal36 denies it? The escrow won't be able to verify what was sent, so they can't know who's right or wrong.
And even if you get working digital keys, chances are they're bought with stolen creditcards, or some other problem emerges after a while.

My advice: just don't do it. This can go wrong in so many ways.

That's quite a bold statement.

You can't block a decentralized payment system.

So basically you, an anonymous person using Protonmail, want to be paid upfront for a service that's impossible to deliver.

For someone who claims to partner with a law firm, you might want to read the forum rules first:

Let me guess: you can't name any of your "legal service partners"?

Great! Bitcointalk once lost 250 BTC, and there's a 25% reward for the amount recovered. That's 2 million dollars up for grabs!

That doesn't sound like me:

I wouldn't be in Bitcoin if I'd be bearish

There's no way an automated system can properly assess post quality. However, for a high-quality campaign with high-quality users, I believe my automated system can get within 95% of what a manual count would do.

But it's equally unlikely the hackers deposited the full amount at once, whether it's a mixer or an exchange.

Still: why trust any third party with millions of dollars at once?

If that's true, I'd expect the hackers to share what happened. What are the odds of the hacker using the one mixer owned by the Feds?

Drunk bot?

I had a "nightmare" last night, I dreams Bitcoin was down to €16k. Luckily it was "only" down to €26k when I woke up.

Still low