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141  Economy / Gambling / Re: Duelbits.com | Casino & Sportsbook | VIP | Instant withdrawals!|ARGENTINA & AVFC on: February 01, 2024, 04:18:43 PM
Political bets are very interesting and hope we will see them on many crypto casinos. I think it was very easy to predict Biden as a winner in the previous election, I didn't know about political bets or I would really bet on him.
There are some things are very hot and big, politics and religion. Members in a family can have serious conflicts just because of politics or religion. Betting on political events are surely hot and gamblers are keen on joining those hot events. Especially the USA. President Election that only happens every four years. This year, it's very probably a second fighting between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Some survey results recent weeks show that Donald Trump has better chosen rate than Joe Biden but till the President Election day, it will be enough time for many changes from politics, economics and other things in the USA as well as around the world. Those changes can affect this election a lot similarly to 2020 Election when Joe Biden suddenly got a gift from Covid-19 pandemic and eventually won against Donald Trump. Without the pandemic, I believe Trump would be the winner and the Elected President in 2020.
142  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: why a large Bitcoin transaction does consume more space on the Blockchain on: February 01, 2024, 04:11:17 PM
to my knowledge a large Bitcoin transaction does consume more "space" on the blockchain than a small BTC transaction.

Why that?
What are large and small transaction in your post?

If large and small are their sizes, it means all already.

If large and small are values of those transactions, it is different and it seems you misunderstand how Bitcoin blockchain works.

Transaction fee is paid by users to Bitcoin miners, who confirm transactions but they don't care how big or small value of that transaction. They only care about transaction size, fee rate and at the end transaction fee they receive.

Transaction fee = Transaction size * fee rate.

With same transaction size and same fee rate, transaction fee will be the same but transaction value can be either 1 btc or 1,000 btc or even more.

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/transaction-fee
143  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: As a trader never settle for less on: February 01, 2024, 01:34:25 PM
There is a certain level of desire for anything. Once you reach it, your desire for it will decrease. Money is something that everyone seeks to achieve. However, once you reach a certain stage of wealth, you will begin to search for something special of your own, for example a car with limited editions, a phone with a personal design, or a designer dress. Especially for you, or a rare piece like a painting. All of these are reasons to satisfy the desire to get something new and in exchange for it you may pay 10 times the money. Therefore, contentment is better, setting a certain level of profits according to the money in your hands, and striving to improve your financial situation year after year is better than searching for more money, and you deserve to get thousands of dollars per month.
You gave many good examples and from small desired things like phones, car, etc. I would like to give bigger examples. Some billionaires are very rich but they don't buy luxurious assets and just live their simple life. With them, simplicity is best and some people like Bill Gates even left his powerful position because it will help him enjoys his life with less pressure and stress from powerful position.

When you are poor, you want to be rich but when you are rich enough, you will find ways back to yourself. Look at your soul, with meditation, connect back to wild environment and assets mean nearly nothing important with you.
144  Economy / Speculation / Re: Was Bitcoin ETF really a good thing for growth of crypto and Bitcoin prices? on: January 30, 2024, 05:59:13 AM
It would of been good if they approved all the etfs except GBTC. Reason why is because when it converted to an etf, the shares were unlocked with the bitcoins and the outflows started to happen.

Since they kept their fees very high, many people left for the other etfs. But the bigger issue is companies like Ftx selling the shares they bought years ago at a deep discount. This leads to the decline in bitcoins price and will continue until people are done selling GBTC.
It will need some weeks or months for investors and market to digest selling pressure from Grayscale but eventually Bitcoin market will be fine. Because capital from Black Rock, Fidelity and other ETFs are bigger than Grayscale and surely they will want to buy more bitcoin.

In addition, it is not logic if Bitcoin skyrockets after approvals of Bitcoin Spot ETF when everyone expected its soar. Market makers usually do oppositely than majority of market participants think. I bet Bitcoin will go side way for a while maybe some months and only start to grow after Bitcoin halving.

My expectation is Bitcoin will have good bull run since Q3 2024, not too soon in Q1 or Q2 2024.
145  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: January 30, 2024, 12:59:53 AM
We should probably make decisive actions regarding the matches of the present form of AS Roma, because they're gradually falling back to brilliant form. AS Roma nets a goal against Sportiva Salernitana, it wasn't tough for the visitors because they came prepared, they have everything in plan and pulling big shoots for the best.
Salernitana is a weak team in Serie A and they even created many difficulties against Roma at their home stadium. Salernitana created some dangerous attacking situations and came closely to an equalizer. Roma played better in the match but also struggled to secure their three points. They won two latest matches against two weak teams and it's far to say they are back to brilliant form.

Excuse me, but this is so wrong...

They are not gradually falling back to brilliant form. They are actually miles and miles away from brilliance and this result against the last team of the Serie A table standings only came to happen because Roma had two shots on target and both hit the back of the net. In the entire game they had two shots on target, that was all they had against the weakest team in Serie A.
There is a fact we can not deny, they are getting better results in two latest matches than previous matches with Mourinho. We also can not ignore another fact that in previous matches, Roma and Mourinho had to play against stronger clubs so losing points is not something strange. With two winnings, De Rossi and Roma can move onward with more confidence about themselves and they need to beat strong clubs to prove that they are ready for top four. Brilliant form is not important and the ultimate purpose is joining top four.
146  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: January 29, 2024, 05:04:17 AM
The decline in Bayer Leverkusen's goal productivity began to appear when they managed to achieve a dramatic victory at Augsburg headquarters, they were only able to score one goal in that match and Leverkusen achieved success when the match was almost over. After that, Leverkusen played another Big Match, they were forced to use all their energy to face RB Leipzig's very disciplined game, a dramatic comeback was achieved in that match.
Leverkusen does not have deep player resource like Bayern Munich and they have many young players in their squad who don't have enough experience to use their energy wisely through a match and a long season. Xabi Alonso is responsible for it too because as a head coach of Leverkusen, he must request his players to slow down in playing intensity when necessary.

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Now Leverkusen is starting to run out of gas, even though they are playing at their own base, they are unable to secure full points.
Now Leverkusen have only 2 points more than Bayern Munich and we knew what happened with Dortmund in the last season. With Stuttgart and Dormund at third and fourth positions with only 37 and 36 points while Leverkusen and Bayern Munich with 49 and 47 points, Bundesliga seems to be a race between two top clubs only. Because the competitor is Bayern Munich, Leverkusen must be very careful if they don't want to be another version of Dortmund in 2022 - 2023 season.
147  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blochain wallet ISSUE ! on: January 29, 2024, 04:47:33 AM
isn't it more easy if copy my 12 words of the wallet and put it on a Trust wallet ? rather than dealing with electrum thorugh phone !
Trust wallet is a wallet for multiple coins, Bitcoin and altcoins. I am against practice to use a wallet for both Bitcoin and altcoins.

Choose a wallet for Bitcoin, only use it to store Bitcoin.
Use another or other wallets to store altcoins.

Electrum wallet is available for mobile, Android. What is you issue to use Electrum wallet on phone while you can use Trust wallet on phone?

https://electrum.org/#download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.electrum.electrum
148  Economy / Gambling / Re: MetaWin.com | The First WEB3 Casino on: January 29, 2024, 01:24:42 AM
for high rollers, you are not exempted to undergo kyc on this site. just a reminder though. withdrawing more than 5ETH is their trigger to conduct kyc.

https://metawin.com/games/kyc/

Is 5 ETH a triggering amount for a single withdrawal or a lifespan withdrawal value?

At the site notification pop-up, it is 25 ETH withdrawal in less than 60 seconds. It looks impossible to have KYC completion within 60 seconds.

I also see mSOL, USDC, PEPE so is the term needed to be like 5 ETH and equivalent value of other coins?
149  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blochain wallet ISSUE ! on: January 29, 2024, 01:16:18 AM
But today i do have a issue with BLOCKCHAIN wallet
1. i copy the address  and send 0.022 BTC from an exodus wallet
2. Transaction has more than 20 Confrimation
3. The BTC isnt showing up on Blockchain wallet at all , it used to show up instant even when 1 confrimation
Did you try to check the address balance with Bitcoin block explorers?

20 confirmations so that address should have a balance with that transaction value plus what you have in it before that transaction from Exodus wallet.
If balance is shown on block explorers, you don't have to worry because issue is from Blockchain.com wallet.

A similar guide like Charles-Tim.

How can I migrate from blockchain wallet to Electrum?
Importing your private keys, seeds into Electrum.

Choose BIP39 after enter your wallet seed.

You should verify your Electrum wallet too.
[Guide] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum.
150  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Lightning Network Tutorial on: January 28, 2024, 03:58:08 PM
In this topic, [Table] All Lightning Network Threads In One Place, you will have many tutorial threads about Lightning Network. I believe those threads will be helpful for your guides.

Very few exchanges have Lightning Network for deposit and withdrawal but basically if you can use Lightning Network from your non custodial wallet, it will be better than using centralized exchanges.

The barrier is you have to open your Lightning Network channel, with an on chain transaction, before you can use LN as an off-chain solution for your bitcoin transactions.
151  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: There is nothing like it since the past 12 years on: January 28, 2024, 03:43:38 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, I had no job when I started gathering some Bitcoin for long term hold, I looked wreteched for few years, I eat single meal per day, I looked old at a young age, like those who don't want me to carry on my BTC journey used to tell me, but in the end it all went well
I am very confusing by reading your post because if you could not have a job, no salary and have to minimize your diet to only single meal per day, how did you invest in bitcoin?

Health is most important so you must have acceptable diet, meals daily to maintain your health. With good health, you can learn, find jobs and use salary to invest in bitcoin.

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Because since the past 12 years, there is no investment that does it better than Bitcoin, you can't find anything like this anywhere else.
Bitcoin is best in risk management and ROI but there are other cryptocurrencies that provide better ROIs. The big reminder is they are more risky than Bitcoin and very few people can bet on right altcoins to gain bigger ROIs than Bitcoin.

If you want both, safety and good ROI for your investment, Bitcoin is best.
https://casebitcoin.com/charts#roi_chart
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153  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What is your Bitcoin Core version? Tomorrow will be anniversary of Bitcoin v0.1 on: January 11, 2024, 10:44:54 AM
SEC. approved Bitcoin Spot ETFs, not one but eleven in a batch approval.

It is another thing to celebrate, Run Bitcoin has its 15th year anniversary.
https://x.com/halfin/status/1110302988


Hal Finney already passed away but if you want to know more about Hal.
Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
[History] Hal Finney - Man Who made a huge contribution to the development of BTC
Hal Finney was not Satoshi Nakamoto


154  Economy / Gambling / Re: [Overview] Comprehensive list of Crypto Sportsbooks v2 (Updated) - New Poll - on: January 10, 2024, 08:14:25 AM
Thanks for your suggestion. I have updated the list now. The issue I was facing was with image hosting, maybe the images were too small and were getting rejected when I was attempting to upload them individually. I just bunched them up and managed to upload it. Does it look fine?
I think those images are good enough. No visual issue from my view, you made a great job vennali.
155  Economy / Gambling / Re: [Overview] Comprehensive list of Crypto Sportsbooks v2 (Updated) - New Poll - on: January 10, 2024, 04:47:47 AM
Trying to add sportsbook's logos along with the name but having some issues with it at the moment.
What is your issue with sportsbook's logos?

I am unsure that all sportbooks in this topic have signature campaigns but I believe most of them have signature campaigns. You can visit Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns and get their avatars.

If the issue is their avatar size is too big to fit with your table column, you can use image resize websites to do that.
https://imageresizer.com/
https://www.simpleimageresizer.com/
156  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Anniversay of first Bitcoin mined block, P2P transaction bw Satoshi & Hal Finney on: January 10, 2024, 01:36:56 AM
After the Bitcoin Genesis block mined on 3 Jan 2009, a first Bitcoin block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on 9 Jan 2009.

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/1

We will soon celebrate the Run Bitcoin even from Hal Finney who already passed away.
https://x.com/halfin/status/1110302988

At the block 170, Satoshi Nakamoto sent bitcoin to Hal Finney and it is a first peer to peer Bitcoin transaction.
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee

Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
Payment No. 1: A Closer Look at the Very First Bitcoin Transfer.

Some most important early days and activities in Bitcoin history.

To recognize contribution of Hal Finney, Bitcoin community proposed a finney, one of Bitcoin units.
I propose we rename 0.0000001 BTC as the Finney. Just as we honor Satoshi for 0.00000001
157  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Three basic fact you would love to know about bitcoin on: January 09, 2024, 04:28:58 PM
1. The coins are created by users who "mine" them by lending computing power to verify other users’ transactions which use blockchain technology.They receive Bitcoins in exchange.
Bitcoin blockchain is Proof of Work and its network runs by miners that solve computational puzzles to find new Bitcoin blocks and get block subsidy and confirm Bitcoin transactions to receive transaction fees from Bitcoin users.

How does mining work?

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2.The coins also can be bought and sold on exchanges with US dollars and other fiat currencies(the physical money we use every day in our bank accounts).
Exchanges have centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges.

You can trade (buy, sell) bitcoins with fiat currency, stable coins and other altcoins.

In your bank account, you don't have physical money (fiat currency) but a digital number which does not mean anything if the bank bankrupted.

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3. Bitcoins have to be stored in a digital wallet, either online through an exchange like Coinbase, or offline on a hard drive using specialised software.
Wallets on centralized exchanges are custodial. It means exchanges own the private keys and own the coins, you don't own private key so you don't own your coins.

Use non custodial wallets and open source to use.
https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

Beginners: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet?step=5&platform=windows&user=beginner&important=control,fees&features=bech32
It recommends Electrum wallet.

Experienced: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet?step=5&platform=windows&user=experienced&important=control,fees&features=bech32
It recommends some wallets: Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Knots, Electrum, Green, Sparrow, Specter

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Hope you enjoyed it.
You don't need to write essay like this when you still need to learn a lot.

Newbies Stop Teaching When You Need To Learn.
158  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hypothetical ETF disaster hardfork on: January 09, 2024, 11:40:56 AM
I was looking for some ETF news and apparently the VanEck one will pledge 5% of earnings to "Bitcoin core developers" during the next 10 years from the money they'll make on fees.

What if they have enough % of developers under their payroll, and enough people supporting it because they lost their money, and start pushing for a hard fork? What would be the game theory outcome scenarios at play here?
Bitcoin blockchain has never been rolled back like Ethereum blockchain. It is one of big factors make people to believe in Bitcoin.

ETF, VanEck cause Bitcoin hardfork, it sounds too much exaggeration about impacts from VanEck.

Recent months, if you follow the Bitcoin blockchain, its mempools and read reports, you know the biggest problems are from Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens and Inscriptions. They cause mempools become bigger and bigger and transaction fee becomes more expensive.

If any hardfork happens, it will be to resolve Ordinals annoying issues on mempools and transaction fees.

Inscriptions, mempools and miners
159  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Effortlessly promoting Bitcoin, raising the curiosity of none bitcoin ethusiast on: January 09, 2024, 06:42:06 AM
That is one thing that should be considered as to why Bitcoin is decentralized: to give its user anonymity and ensure their safety and security. Not only for the newbie people but also the safety of the person teaching would be in danger, especially if he or she is trying to teach a stranger.
Teaching Bitcoin to strangers when you are alone is risky. Like you go to a new nation, live in new location and hang out to find strangers and teach them about Bitcoin. It is like showing strangers that you have money and I am sure some strangers are not good people. They actually don't know how much do you have but if they feel you have money, have bitcoin, they can kidnap you and do even worse things to you.

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I don't really suggest that people promote Bitcoin to people who are close to you like friends, co-workers, family, etc. I mean it wouldn't always be a good idea to be involved in this kind of promoting Bitcoin which is volatile and has risks where people could still possibly lose huge amounts and break relationships.
The best advice is don't. I agree with you.

Don't do this, because when you teach people are close to you, even you say it's not financial advice, you are not free from their complain later. If they come to you, complain that they get loss, even it is not your fault, you will still feel very annoying and uncomfortable.

Don't teach them will give you more comfortable life. If they want to learn, they can learn from many resources on Internet.
160  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / What is your Bitcoin Core version? Tomorrow will be anniversary of Bitcoin v0.1 on: January 08, 2024, 01:01:56 PM
Bitcoin v0.1 released on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:22:14 -0800
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html

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Satoshi Nakamoto writes:
> Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
> system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
> It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority.
>
> See bitcoin.org for screenshots.
>
> Download link:
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.0.rar

Congratulations to Satoshi on this first alpha release.  I am looking
forward to trying it out.

> Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins.  It'll be distributed
> to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half
> every 4 years.
>
> first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
> next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
> next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
> next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins
> etc...

It's interesting that the system can be configured to only allow a
certain maximum number of coins ever to be generated. I guess the
idea is that the amount of work needed to generate a new coin will
become more difficult as time goes on.

One immediate problem with any new currency is how to value it. Even
ignoring the practical problem that virtually no one will accept it
at first, there is still a difficulty in coming up with a reasonable
argument in favor of a particular non-zero value for the coins.

As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that Bitcoin is successful and
becomes the dominant payment system in use throughout the world.  Then the
total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all
the wealth in the world. Current estimates of total worldwide household
wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With
20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.

So the possibility of generating coins today with a few cents of compute
time may be quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million
to 1! Even if the odds of Bitcoin succeeding to this degree are slim,
are they really 100 million to one against? Something to think about...

Hal

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Several hours till 15 years anniversary of Bitcoin v0.1.

Bitcoin blockchain went far than the last row of next 4 years in the mail.

Next cycle, it will be 8 years from that and there will be only 164062.5 more bitcoins in new supply.
Controlled supply
Bitcoin Equivalent Network Time

Satoshi Nakamoto was responsible for releases of Bitcoin Core v 0.1 till v 0.3.18 (links from Satoshi topics[/url]).

v 0.3.18
v 0.3.17
v 0.3.15
v 0.3.14
v 0.3.13
v 0.3.12
v 0.3.11
v 0.3.10
v 0.3.9 rc1
v 0.3.8.1
v 0.3.8
v 0.3.6
v 0.3.3
v 0.3.2.5
v 0.3.2
v 0.3.1
v 0.3
v 0.2

From Bitcoin Core v 0.11.0, it's available there
https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/
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Bitcoin Core 26.0
Bitcoin Core 25.1
Bitcoin Core 25.0
Bitcoin Core 24.2
Bitcoin Core 24.1
Bitcoin Core 24.0.1
Bitcoin Core 23.2
Bitcoin Core 23.1
Bitcoin Core 23.0
Bitcoin Core 22.1
Bitcoin Core 22.0
Bitcoin Core 0.21.2
Bitcoin Core 0.21.1
Bitcoin Core 0.21.0
Bitcoin Core 0.20.2
Bitcoin Core 0.20.1
Bitcoin Core 0.20.0
Bitcoin Core 0.19.1
Bitcoin Core 0.19.0.1
Bitcoin Core 0.18.1
Bitcoin Core 0.18.0
Bitcoin Core 0.17.1
Bitcoin Core 0.17.0.1
Bitcoin Core 0.17.0
Bitcoin Core 0.16.3
Bitcoin Core 0.16.2
Bitcoin Core 0.16.1
Bitcoin Core 0.16.0
Bitcoin Core 0.15.2
Bitcoin Core 0.15.1
Bitcoin Core 0.15.0.1
Bitcoin Core 0.15.0
Bitcoin Core 0.14.3
Bitcoin Core 0.14.2
Bitcoin Core 0.14.1
Bitcoin Core 0.14.0
Bitcoin Core 0.13.2
Bitcoin Core 0.13.1
Bitcoin Core 0.13.0
Bitcoin Core 0.12.1
Bitcoin Core 0.12.0
Bitcoin Core 0.11.2
Bitcoin Core 0.11.1
Bitcoin Core 0.11.0
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