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Please understand gambling if you're going to participate. Its -ev, you will always lose in the long run. If you're winning, stop.
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Bitcoin was made so that you can for sure own your money. Its not held by someone else in an account, its yours. While those services are great, you shoudnlt store your money in there any more than you trust a stranger to pay you back.
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I was having doubt about the reversiblity of the Shell gift card. Since the vast majority of people have a lot of FUD about Bitcoin, I can see a problem down the line.
How can the shell gift card be reversible? You're getting the gamestop code sent from amazon, and purchasing the shell card yourself at a gamestop? |
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OP did you actually try it?
Because i know lots of stores, any I've been to, would not let you use store giftcard to buy other service or store giftcards. Basically they dont accept giftcard as a payment when you buy giftcard.
Case in point: Homedepot has a policy clearly at the cashiers that giftcards can not be purchased using voucher store credit....etc.
Think about it, it makes sense doesnt it. Because the store does not want they revenue stream to another chain store.
So I'm shocked that Gamestop let you do that.... Unless Gamestop chain is owned by Shell
I know I have previously used a gamestop gift card to buy other gift cards, so I can vouch that that at least will work. |
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Big banks don't give a damn about the bitcoin blockchain. They all want to come up with their own private permissioned blockchain. Anyone thinking otherwise is a fool.
I know what you're saying but I doubt it would be based on blockchain technology as we know it, it would have to be either something centralized or something like bitcoin but where they still have control of everyone's money. |
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According to multiple media reports on Friday, blackmailers have started trawling the database, widely available online, in an attempt to extort the users on it.
If the data is already out there then why is it such a big deal. These scammers are just bluffing. Are they really going to contact the millions of people? No. Theyre just hoping people will panic and pay up. If you do pay thpugh they'll probably target you further. Exactly, the data is still on pirate bay to be downloaded by anybody, and if they can just spam emails out to people then someone is bound to give in, with the millions of addresses leaked. |
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Think of ads you see on sites. If you're interested on something, are you more likely to click the ad, or to google it later? You're paying for people to see the ad, and give them thoughts.
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Can we be sure that Google are not "too big to discredit"? Could Bitcoin endorsement really damage them that much?
I'm not so sure it's a matter of "too big to discredit", more just a buisiness decision, it might not make business sense to accept bitcoin for anything right now. What, like their almost certainly loss-making, free-at-point-of-use video streaming service? That sort of business case? You mean youtube, one of the most profitable businesses ever made? That's them. Convince me the profits came from their business model, I'm genuinely interested to find out. Has anyone ever clicked on a Google Ad? Not accidentally, but because it really was what your were looking for? It has happened to me, and I can count the number of times on one hand. I think I'm fairly typical in this respect. Does that really sound like the business model that generated one of the most profitable businesses ever? Not all ads are pay-per-click, some are on a model where you pay per so many, usually 1 thousand impressions (views) |
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but is not in the same server
But they're likely still in the same datacenter, they still help, just not as much as they would if they were spread out more. |
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Are this many "how did gambling affect your life" threads really necessary? There's like 3 on page one of this forum right now.
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For what it's worth, the latest Mycelium android beta 2.5.0 supports both Trezor and Ledger hardware wallets
I don't even have a trezor, I clicked on it to see what it was and after 2 seconds it told me that it found a trezor and was connecting to it when I didn't do anything. I don't even have a trezor. |
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I've never watched 'game of thrones' or whatever, but I understand that the basic idea is the plebs compete for a slot in the more limited upper class. It struck me when Gavin came back from his meetings with the CFR and got extra chummy with Hearn that he could have been offered a winning hand in such a game.
I've always felt since 2011 since I got involved that at best Gavin was a very mainstream kind of guy who would be most comfortable if 'the authorities' exercised control over aspects of Bitcoin so that the 'bad guys' couldn't use it to 'do evil.' He has always given me the impression of being rather naive. I have never agreed with almost any of his priorities when he was still influencing the direction of Bitcoin but I leaned toward writing it off to his native disposition as a rube than to anything more nefarious.
This is true, I'm not sure we would be able to know if something like this was happening except by observing his actions. |
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Theymos has too much power to control discussion by himself, for someone that supposedly supports bitcoin, he sure likes centralization...
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It's not worth it to buy a 77 activity account, that's 2.5 months of posting, which is nothing. Nobody is that impatient to buy a worthless account.
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Can you prove that you're actually playing them legit and not spoofing location? I know it's possible, I've seen it done around me.
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If you host a bunch of nodes on one server provider, you're really not doing that much good. They need to be spread out more.
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This is to be expected from a pseudo-anonymous currency, if people can get away with these kinds of things, they will. Even if only 1/1000 people they send this to fall for this, it was worth their effort.
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I guess Google doesn't like BTC because it doesn't control it. I'm pretty sure they're working on their own crypto solution. I'm expecting them to launch some kind of Apple pay or Samsung pay competitor. The huge risk to BTC is that they could make it as a native app in Android.
They already have Google Wallet, that's their solution. Have you really never heard of it? |
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Maybe I am wrong, and I hope to god I am because google integrating bitcoin even somehow would mean a massive jump in adoption.
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Are the coins being sent out from firstcoins? I'm still waiting to get my $2 after I completed the survey. I followed the instructions in order.
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