Did it really have a significant impact? I was under the impression that not too many users cared a great deal about it, and that not much changed after my thread. But if you say otherwise, I am glad that it had an impact. But it's TryNinja that deserves the thanks for creating a simple copy-paste solution that anyone can work with.

That's correct. And you don't even know if the person meriting you is a merit source or a regular user, nor does it matter for your personal merit count. 1 merit is 1 merit, regardless from which bag it comes. Whether they are sMerits or source merits, one isn't worth more than the other, and you still need a specific number to progress to the next rank in the line.

The merits your receive from someone remain attached to your profile unless theymos takes them away. The source merits that merit sources receive are valid for 30 days. If they aren't allocated during that time, they get removed/they expire only to be replaced with the same count for the next one-month allocation period.

For absolute clarity, it's important to distinguish two types of merits: sMerits and source merits. They are not the same thing.

An sMerit is a sendable merit. Two received merits generate one sMerit that you can send to another account.
Source merits aren't sMerits. It's a unique balance of merits that only merit sources have. So if my monthly allocation of source merits is 200, the merits I give to other users will first be taken from that balance. My sMerits balance remains untouched until I have allocated all my source merits. It's actually quite common that a merit source who receives a lot of merits ends up with hundreds or thousands of sMerits because he isn't in the best position to spend those due to his source merit allocation.

I think LoyceV mentioned he has over a thousand of sMerits at one time in the past. I am guessing it's several thousands now. @LoyceV have you reached 5000 unallocated sMerits yet?

A thread like this one created and maintained by Coin-1 will help you figure out who the merit sources are: TOP 200 merit senders.
It's in Russian, but you shouldn't have difficulties to understand the data in the tables. It's a top list of users who distribute the most merits each month. Since merit sources have the most merits, it's only logical to conclude they will be at top of such a list.

You can also make a quick manual check. If you suspect someone to be a merit source, just check their profile on BPIP. If there is a significant different in the number of merits they send compared to what they receive, it's also a sign that they might be a merit source.

Ledger je pravio mnogo grešaka kada je u pitanju kvalitet njihovih proizvoda, privatnosti svojih korisnika a sad i sigurnosti novca zbog Ledger Recover ranjivosti. Ako u tim poljima djeluju neprofesionalno, mislim da vrlo ozbiljno shvataju zakone kojima su podložni. Imaju dosta novca za bacanje i siguran sam da imaju jak tim koji je detaljno pregledao šta se smije a šta ne smije raditi prema GDPR-u kako bi izbjegli kazne i probleme. Sad kad si spomenuo, i mene zanima da li korisnik mora i na koji način biti obavješten o podacima koji se prikupljaju njegovim korištenjem nekog softvera.   

Probably because of heavy sanctions that are in place against everyone and everything that is connected with the ruling power of North Korea. Lazarus Group is always mentioned as a state-operated hacking team. If that is true, it would make sense that they use Bitcoin and other assets outside of the traditional banking system. They would be fools to use tether and similar centralized tokens that can be easily frozen. I just read that over 100 Ethereum addresses were frozen over the weekend after a new Tether policy update. There wasn't a lot of money, but still.

He said that the value of his balance is $300 on Bitcointalk, on CasinoGuru he mentions $400. Perhaps it will go up to $1000 on AskGamblers. But seriously, the amounts don't matter.
You are correct that Justbit.io doesn't allow players from the United Kingdom to use the site. It's the player's responsibility to ensure whether or not they can rightly play there. If he is from the UK, I doubt they will release his winnings.

On the other hand, I have just tried accessing the casino using a VPN and different IP addresses. Some other banned countries, besides the UK, include the USA, France, and Germany. Very typical of Curacao-licensed casinos.

Here are the results:
- The site displays a notification and doesn't allow you to access it if you are using a German, French, or US IP.
- The site displays no notifications and you can freely access it with a UK IP. I tried two different ones, and both worked.

This is far from ideal, and there should be an IP block if a particular region is banned from playing. Still, every individual is responsible in following rules and laws themselves.

That's becoming a thing of the past. More and more services will be asking for KYC because that's what regulators require them to do. The big and flashy we don't require KYC is usually followed by a terms and conditions apply notification in small letters or some other note hiding the obvious. And then when you go and read it in more detail, you find out that you are giving them the right to ask for any documents they need if you want to withdraw your money.

In that case, all I can suggest is stay with the casinos you have a positive experience with and avoid jumping from site to site, especially if you are doing it for the welcome offers and bonuses that are almot impossible to obtain anyways due to the ridiculous wagering requirements.

Me too, but the crypto community doesn't want that. I made a poll somewhere in the gambling section. The results showed that people don't want to do KYC immediately after registration and prefer doing it only if they are asked later. These are the results of that.

You are not going to get your winnings. That would then defeat the purpose of their KYC request. They freeze your funds so that you have to undergo KYC, not turn them down and still get paid.

Ne sjećam se stvarno. Taj novi GDPR zakon o privatnosti je stupio na snagu poslje nego što sam ja počeo koristiti svoj Ledger i Ledger Live pa nisu imali tu obavezu ni da me pitaju to. Ali da, bio bi zanimljiv test da se vidi na koji način svoje korisnika obavještavaju o tim informacijama koje priklupljaju prilikom instalacije softvera.

To se tebi baš odužilo. Kao da Trezor konjanike šalje sa hardverskim uređajima za dostavu. I oni bi dosad stigli dva puta.

A service or a payment method in itself isn't bad. Its features aren't bad. A mixer isn't bad. Mixing illegally obtained coins is bad.

If we put such tags on money, then all fiat should be classified as bad. What did criminals use before 2009? It wasn't that long ago. Drugs, children pornography, bribes, illegal weapons, and murders were all financed by fiat like the USD. Still, you don't ban the words "fiat", "cash", or "USD" because of that and treat everyone as rule breakers because they mentioned such terms.

That's also why the payrate is so low there compared to what was and is still offered on Bitcointalk. Here, you used to get $5-7 (up to $10) now. I doubt you will get more than $1.5-2.0 on AltcoinsTalk.

According to Thum.io, the first 1000 images each month are free, so he wouldn't even have to pay that $1 unless there is a need for more images.

Perhaps OP isn't only concerned about finding a service that adds generic images to his content. Maybe he needs ideas on how to configure it properly in Wordpress to only add generic images to articles that have no pictures at all without making changes to those that do. 

Just to clear any confusion that might arise out of this part of Z-tight's sentence and what 'it' refers to. He is saying that if you can't buy the bitcoin mining equipment (ASICs), then buy some bitcoin and forget about mining altogether.     

Not only that, but the "tax" can only be paid with a new and real-BTC deposit. They couldn't take the amount needed for taxes from the balance that OP supposedly mined already. If that balance represented a real value and real bitcoin, they would just take it from there and request that OP deposits new coins.

It's typical of scammers to do that. It's no different from the exchange or casino scam where someone contacts you to say they will deposit thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin in your account that you can withdraw as soon as you pay the fees for "address verification" or something like that. If it was real, any fees could be taken from the amount you won or you were given.   

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Aha, ok. Sad razumijem na koji način si razmišljao kad si to rekao. Pretpostavljam da oni adrese svojih korisnika mogu sami pronači u svojoj bazi podataka pa im ne mora onda svako zasebno govoriti. To bi bila jedna mogućnost. Kod svih kasino kampanja koje isplate vrše na nalog od kladionice je riječ o internom ažuriranju salda i ne postoji prava blockchain transakcija. Što bi antikvark rekao, ažuriranje excel tablca. Dao ti njima adresu ili ne, bitcoini su njihovi dok ih ne povučeš sa kasina na sopstveni novčanik čijim ključevima ti raspolažeš.   

A Google search is a great way to find a mixer phishing site and fake mixers where you will lose your money. If we go back to the era of ChipMixer, for example, if you did a google search for the term "ChipMixer", you would see results of phishing site. The genuine website was banned by Google. That tells you everything you need to know about Google and their care for customers. You can also pay for Google ads and advertise an obvious scam and money-grab. Google doesn't care as long as they make money of you.

Correct, but advertising and using mixers isn't against the law. In Sinbad's case, the problem was that scammers used it to mix and launder the bitcoin they stole, creating problems for everyone else who had nothing to do with that.

Yes, that's correct. The free service is for their own mining pool but ViaBTC's paid accelerator can include your transactions in partner blocks as well. Since several people have mentioned that the upcoming service of Mempool.space will be cheaper than ViaBTC's paid plan, I expect that Mempool.space will take a great chunk out of the pie for users looking to spend additional coins to accelerate their unconfirmed transactions.

Ne znam kako i šta isplačuju. Jel to sa sigurnošću znaš jer je isto bilo slučaj sa njihovom prethodnom kampajom, neko ti rekao ili si kao korisnik Stake-a to zapazio?
Taj IOU svakako ne možeš povuči sa Stake-a jer predstavlja neki dug ili saldo računa, tako da ga se mora pretvoriti u onu valutu u kojoj zatražiš povlačenje sredstava. Ili na koji naćin oni to rade? U signature temi navode da će se konverzija iz USD u BTC izvršiti kada menadžer pošalje listu za isplate.

Perhaps you can add mixhub.to to one of the categories if you see fit.
It was created by PrivacyIsImportant, and is a website to list links to working and non-working bitcoin mixers, ways of contact, and a discussion feature. 

This is the ANN thread: mixhub.to - a maintained list of mixers for backup and lookup purposes
https://mixhub.to/

Or you can just look at o_e_l_e_o signature (unless he changes it) if you forget the domain again.  

The centralized/decentralized and open-source/closed-source elements aren't considered when a rating is given by KYCNOT. As they explain on their About page, the rating depends on how much no-KYC friendly the service is. The other features they consider are TOR and which cryptocurrencies they support.

You can read about it below if you are interested:
https://kycnot.me/about#scores

I don't understand the purpose of the waiting list. Just allow the people to create their accounts. The more users you have, the greater the chance that some of them will use your paid service, hence, you will benefit from them.

I think PX-Z meant that as a recommendation of what ViaBTC could do in the future. He didn't say that it it's already like that.

Try to switch Electrum servers. Maybe you will get lucky and find one with a more suitable purging fee rate. At the moment, nodes may be deleting (and not allowing) anything that pays less than 10-11 sat/vByte. So either pay more or try to find a different server.

Is that screenshot correct and you managed to withdraw almost $700 from those scammers in the past?
They seem to be taking you for a ride and you are taking the bait. How exactly did you pay your "taxes" to the "UK government?" Did the hash mining company give you a crypto address for you to deposit the money you "owe."?

I seriously suggest you stop engaging with that website and anyone connected to it.