1. Paypal co-founder thinks Bitcoin's a scam.
2. Paypal has allowed its merchants to accept Bitcoin at least since last year if not earlier, so they're not totally against it. Why would they be? Tried to fight it before, but now it knows it can't be stopped.
3. They actually announced Bitcoin acceptance back in 2014, same as above point actually but it didn't work out.

Note: this is all with 3rd party payment processors of course.

Wasn't this old news reported from December already?

It appears already a few planned offerings are looking for this new route now, if what I've been hearing in the news is anything to go by. I think the SEC has always been this understanding, just people weren't patient enough to hear their side properly (same as FATF). Slow they may be, but not stupid. Not hasty. Kind of the same impatience people were showing sometimes with Bitcoin haha!

Anyway, seems Bitmain itself thinks it's benefitting from this confirmation of relaxation for its resurrected IPO.

Cool, I got one exact score, but then ended up on 3 points like many of you guys. Guess I should be glad I clambered up 2 spots. Still 6 points off the pace with only 5 games left. Need 2 more exact scores just to get even!

But how about that eh? Damn Chile still knows how to progress. Poor Higuita now has to keep his promise and cut off his beautiful mullet though.

You know what would be funny? Another Chile Argentina final hahaha.

You know what else I know was super shilled at a time on CNBC? Bcash. To be fair, they probably didn't as a network realise it. Not sure anything these days on any network really represents anything. Just random personalities pieced together.

Will I be surprised if that one (Bcash) exit scams (and if anyone actually thinks it's so decentralized it's impossible to exit scam, then wow)? Nope =p

And yes of course, it's never in good taste to make light of other people's misery. But agree, gotta see the funny side sometimes.

Good timing for Argentina to turn up, and the holders Chile also managed to scrape through on penalties, Alexis Sanchez might just be the only Man Utd player to end up with a medal before the end of next season if Chile goes all the way!

3 games from 3 tourneys today, Concacaf, Copa and Womens WC.

Game 1: Uruguay vs Peru. Uruguay WIN @1.77. BCR odds: 1.74
Game 2: Italy vs Netherlands. Netherlands WIN @1.94. BCR odds: 1.92
Game 3: Mexico vs Costa Rica. Mexico WIN @1.43. BCR odds: 1.44
100 units parlay at Betcoin @4.9103. BCR parlay: 4.8107

Odds advantage: 2.07%
Units advantage: 9.96

Why is this a big deal? He could have just used (and probably should have haha) disposable mobile credit or anonymous debit cards to pay for those servers. He could probably even have used cash to pay some guy in a cyber cafe to do it, even better but I guess nothing beats the comfort of doing it from your home.

But yeah, anyway, the fact that he had to say it instead of him being accused of it = Bitcoin use still isn't all that obvious on blockchain if you don't know what you're looking for.

Hey guys, a bit of a noob latecomer to this thread. I ordered this when it first came out, had no idea it was going to be this big. Didn't even know at the time that there were different colours in the digital version. Went right to the Austrian Post online shop, bought 5 (2 stamped) and then it was only later on I realised they were in different colours. By then, too late, sold out =)



Anyway, received them today. No notification of delivery or anything but they arrived in very good condition. 1 green only, it's not too bad. Nice work Kryptowerk and thanks for the informative thread krogoth, just wish I'd found it BEFORE I bought them;)

Hey buddy, my stamps just arrived and damn, they're all Black! I mean, I had zero idea that they came in different sets, like I said, there was just absolutely no information about them, just a standard price per piece on the website of Austrian Post.

And no, unfortunately I ordered only 5 pieces. Not 5 sets. I probably would definitely have bought the entire set if they'd sold it like that! So strange or maybe when I translate to english or maybe it wasn't available to non Austrian customers...

Anyway, scroll all the way down to the page, look on the left hand side and see "Move Topic" to Economy == Collectibles. Good luck!

@carton97: Yeah, Slack's where the community's at, and you'll gain a bit of insight into the company workings there too -- Monster Byte, that is, of which Bitcoinrush is 1 brand.

@SyGambler: Thanks for the suggest, just did that;) I know serious gamblers probably see $5 very casually but I do like my parlays quite long sometimes, plus you're right, regardless of price a lot of crypto players start of really small. I suppose the alt options should be looked into but I generally hold everything in BTC on gaming.

Tough game the Senegalese had after all, I knew Algeria were a good team, but wasn't expecting the boys in green to run aground on their defences, especially not Mane who looked rather forlorn at times up there.

We'll revert back to the Copa tonight. Venezuela used to be the whipping boys but these days are pretty solid, so can we count on Messi and co to underwhelm again, while backing the Colombians to outmuscle Chile?

Game 1: Venezuela vs Argentina. Venezuela WIN @7.03. Betcoin odds: 6.78
Game 2: Colombia vs Chile. Colombia WIN @2.21. Betcoin odds: 2.21
100 units parlay at Bitcoinrush @15.5363. Betcoin parlay: 14.98

Odds advantage: 3.69%
Units advantage: 55.63

And Brazil is through, anyone watch the match? This is exactly what I mean so far when I said all the upsets have been worthless -- draws and not underdog victories! Straight ducks all in a row for all of us. I was the only one who predicted a 1 goal margin victory, and even though tempted to predict Paraguay upset, I'd still have lost, so yeah, stupid tourney so far.

If Brazil play like this in the SF, they won't make it though. I still think they need to start with Firmino, yes, he's not samba all out, but he gets the defence jittery and that's how you play against a defensive side. Get them scared. Qatar did it, Tite should have watched.

I'm thinking of parlaying Venezuela with Colombia tonight, and then hedging it with Argentina win. A draw would kill me though haha.

I actually thought it was strange that Uruguay were the slight underdogs. I'd pick them any day (and I did! Shame it was part of a parlay that failed). I also thought Japan were a good side so I'm not surprised at all they drew (I predicted that exactly in our pool anyway). I think the bookies got it mostly wrong in this Copa, but I will admit  that I was expecting more victory upsets, not just draws. Somehow, draws always piss me off haha.

@tokeweed what happened haha! I jinxed you when I said congratulations, didn't I? I did climb up to 9th but I'd be doing so much better if I didn't back Qatar 3 times in a row haha.

@SyGambler: That's the problem indeed. I honestly thought Japan would push for the winner, since they needed to win but they looked like they didn't want to qualify. Very strange tourney indeed.

Next match not worth betting at all unless you think Paraguay can win. (16/1)

He was scalping so it wasn't like ti was too early, people don't just sit around waiting for pumps, no matter the action. In fact, even with the past 7 days all registering new highs, 2% crashes at 5% leverage can kill you at stop losses all the way waiting for those spikes.

OP you made a profit. You did it scalping. There's nothing wrong there. That's kinda exactly how it's supposed to work =)


Precisely! As long as you entered and exited knowing and understanding why you did both, you're good. Every decision has to be educated and based on sound reasoning. How the market turned out after the fact is more learning. OP prevented an unwanted scenario (loss) so should be happy.

Very helpful, thanks! So it is 3 sats/byte anyway (though maybe actually less since 1 kb is > 1000 bytes?). Makes me wonder now how much is stuck out of circulation because of this.

I've never had the "opportunity" to send anything so small to be honest, although I can foresee that by the time I'll have some reason to do so, we'll already be taking these kinds of transactions off chain onto lightning channels.

Tough 1-0 wins for both our Concacaf/Cup of Nations legs but we folded on Rostov's win against Spartak (shame on you guys from the capital haha).

Copa's got the Brazil game but I don't see them even drawing to Paraguay, not after they finally got their juices flowing in their last group game. So we'll stick with Cup of Nations and a U21 game:

Game 1: Senegal-Algeria. Senegal WIN @2.08. BCR odds: 2.08
Game 2: Kenya-Tanzania. Kenya WIN @2.34. BCR odds: 2.30
Game 3: Germany-Romania (U21). Germany WIN @1.58. BCR odds: 1.57
100 units parlay at Betcoin @7.6901. BCR parlay: 7.5108

Odds advantage: 2.39%
Units advantage: 17.93

Hey guys, I ran into a new issue at the Sportsbook. I'm a parlay player but since BTC price has gone into the stratosphere (relatively), I've decided to trim down on my bets but noticed that 0.5 mBTC bets aren't accepted for parlays. Error message I get is "invalid bet amount" so I assume it's too low.

Only, that's still over $6 a pop at today's prices. Any chance we can consider lowering the betting limits for parlays?

At least all of us here know we're not price experts (I'm right, aren't I? ) but we definitely know we're probably not worthy of being called bulls. Might really have to give that hat to those crazies out there willing for 100k in the end.

I'm enjoying this for sure, but I don't understand the twinge of nervousness I get whenever Bitcoin spikes over 10% in a day. I'm much calmer in a bear market!

Well, I've always said to the people complaining about this inflation that it works both ways. I certainly don't recall people complaining about whales and manipulators in the last bull run, so it does help explain the lack of whining in this current period as well (unless you're a nocoiner).

But if it's true it works both ways, then remove them from the whole formula and you remove them from both sides of the equation... ending up more or less at parity.

These üneducated fools you talk about also come in cycles. both at the peak and at the bottom. Those who mortgage their homes to buy at ATH, and subsequently cut their losses near the bottom. Whales benefit the most, but so do the average guys who actually know to hold.

What do the market makers have in mind, you ask? Why not pose the question to the market takers?

Now regarding alts... 15x from which point? Their 2019 bottom?

If this wins, it should be a news piece. Put all them experts to shame, no tech analysis I'd seen 3 months ago saw this coming, not like this. 4 more days to crash and burn, it would be really funny if this game saw Ipwich win by being the closest to a really crazy ATH though.

Conspiracy theory: Ipswich is a whale manipulating prices to moon for end of Q2.

The world and micg's prediction games are meant for the crazies. Long live!

I was actually up early today and saw that happen practically in real time. Felt really good to sell a big batch just yesterday at 10k EUR, had no idea it was going to pump double-digits again today! I'm still a bit mystified by how little the orderbook seems at these prices. I was really expecting those who got BTC at 6k to trigger 2x profits at 12k but there was absolutely no slowdown.

You're right. Looks too good to be true. I'm not sure what to think really.