as of last month, if you have a verified account, it's already possible. https://support.bitfinex.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000051486-Purchasing-Cryptocurrencies-through-Payment-Cards


if you are unverified on bitfinex, you are subject to these limitations:

not by default, no. i play on sportsbet with an anonymous account through VPN because i live in a prohibited jurisdiction. i've had no problems yet, but i also don't store much funds there just in case.

they operate the same as non-KYC exchanges. of course they "reserve the right" to demand KYC, to cover their ass legally.


+1. i did some digging. this issue doesn't come up very often. i would consider it similar to using a non-KYC account at binance or similar exchange. the possibility of them forcing KYC is possible, but small.

no big deal for a 1 mBTC buy-in.

bitcoin also recovered impressively from each crash. no harm done---except to weak hands.

there's no point viewing bubbles as fundamentally good or bad. if bitcoin is to become mass adopted, the bubbles are inevitable because 1. the adoption question is super speculative (people try to buy up the supply before mass adoption happens) and 2. bitcoins are extremely scarce.

that's the perfect recipe for these exaggerated boom/bust cycles. we might as well just enjoy the ride......and profit from it!

the landscape is constantly changing. one of the most popular DNMs (apollon) just exit scammed not 2 weeks ago.

here is the best analysis i can find:

forget about "addresses" for a moment. that's just a human abstraction.

there are inputs and outputs. the coinbase (which claims the block reward, which includes newly generated coins) is an input. the coinbase transaction spends that input to an output (or "address") under the miner's control.

blockchain.com's explorer is oversimplifying things. only the 12.5 BTC subsidy = "newly generated coins". the rest of the block reward = fees collected from the other transactions in the block.

yes, just check the coinbase transaction of any given block.

for example: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/b1e12ab3f33e71e7fff9859334e5b146290a1daa4bc7a462cceb90a17f9fa5c1

the block reward (12.5 BTC subsidy + 0.25934459 BTC fees) was sent to 1C81BGyi8SJ919UxnHm2iwNmaN2RHfU4us


1. create a coinbase transaction that claims the block reward (subsidy, fees, both) and sends it to an address under his control
2. mine a valid block on the longest chain which includes that coinbase transaction

https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/coinbase
https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/coinbase-transaction

vote in the poll.


trying to optimize the timing to make sure we can get enough players.

i'm hoping we can get at least a semimonthly game going. for now it's tough since we don't have an established/regular game (yet). the last tourney was the first one ever, and it only had 10 or so players, including multiple sit-outs.

nope, that was just speculation based on rumors of an incoming crackdown. the chinese government recently removed bitcoin mining from its "unwanted industries" list.

as of mid-december: New Report Shows China Dominates Bitcoin Mining

2+ years later and he's still making the same prediction. lame!

we didn't range for 2+ years below $20k just to go up another $7k. once bitcoin breaks above the 2017 ATH, we're looking at exponential gains. the chart could go vertical like 2013 or 2017.

$27k + an order of magnitude sounds more like it.

yup, i realized recently that was a huge leak for me. coming into big fields with 15-20 BBs (or even less!) doesn't let me exploit weak players with my stack, and really ups the variance due to all the shoving.

when there are no interesting MTTs i'm gonna start firing up 5/10 or 10/25 6-max blitz tables instead.


good, i'm not crazy. i have a similar attitude about it. we've got a good deal of outs facing a likely c-bet bluff = good bluff opportunity.

i shoved. they called with AJ---fair enough. turn and river = A + J and i was knocked out.


i've never played much 6-max but i'm enjoying widening up my ranges. playing fairly loose from the CO and BTN has been paying off pretty well. in late position, i'm open raising weaker suited kings as well.

some ranges i've been playing around with:
https://upswingpoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/6-Max-Open-Raising.png
https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/8829/pre-flop-charts-6-max-cash-games

btw, what are your thoughts on HM3 after the free trial?

Notifications: http://loyce.club/notifications/136484.html

i've made one successful in-person cash trade---the first i've made since LBC shut down cash listings. i had to drive a ways to make the deal happen, but it was 100% worth my while.


wrong attitude IMO. you can capitalize on this situation by putting up lucrative offers and seeing what fish you can get to bite. there's a lot of anti-LBC sentiment emerging and plenty of people who will pay a premium to avoid KYC on LBC and paxful. now is the time to provide liquidity because IMO localcryptos is gonna keep gaining in popularity (as long as they can maintain zero KYC), so the profit margins are gonna drop.

decentralized protocols like LN do not require custodial intermediaries. transaction routing by LN nodes does not constitute money transmission in any way, shape, or form. see section 5 of FINCEN's recent guidance:

you might be able to apply the "money transmitter" label to specific custodial setups like bluewallet/LndHub, but the same theory applies to all on-chain custodial services too. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5173370.0


similar to LN nodes, bitcoin nodes can also propagate transactions to other nodes. that doesn't make them money transmitters. they are propagating/routing data to the p2p network, not transmitting money.

here's another one of these semi-bluff spots. this is a 6-max table btw---been getting more into that because of blitz cash games.

what's your opinion on the preflop flat call? post-flop against pairs, we have less than 50% equity. my instinct is still to RRAI post-flop in case of a c-bet bluff or weak (non top) pairs we can get him to fold. what do you think?

you wanna update the poll in the OP?

what do people think about sunday february 16th at 6pm GMT?


it's the lesser of two evils. this way, inactive players just time out once and it's over. with softwares where the time bank doesn't automatically engage, i've accidentally missed loads of monsters like AA and KK pre-flop. this is doubly important on sportsbet, where the notifications don't seem to work 100% of the time.

good detective work! i knew there was something deeper going on because a typical 17 sat/byte transaction should have confirmed hours ago. i looked up the transaction on 3 explorers. i assumed at least one of them would have flagged inputs as having unconfirmed parents, but they didn't.


yes. miners need to clear transactions down to ~3 sat/byte in order to confirm all the parent transactions in the chain. that will probably happen later today.

i don't expect QC to break bitcoin tomorrow, but i also think depending on current extrapolations of quantum computing progress is illogical. we fundamentally cannot know if/when huge technological leaps will occur in this field. even if we ignore that fact, reasonable extrapolations say ECDSA will be broken during the current decade. https://medium.com/@nopara73/stealing-satoshis-bitcoins-cc4d57919a2b

even if these threats are purely theoretical, they are threats that could never apply to the security of gold. that's the point i was making above.

this is what people are talking about when they denounce "throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks".

another thread where the OP is filled with unproven accusations and "guilt by association" bullshit. you're just fishing to see if you can get other people to publicly turn against eddie13.

it's not a good look.

i would say if new applications are closed (and they do appear to be), that it doesn't belong in the "active" section. DS said he might accept others but the OP also says [FULL].

+1. and start using segwit to save on fees.


the OP's case is a bit curious. from the timestamp on blockchair, the transaction was broadcast 6+ hours ago. if you go back 2-3 hours, miners were clearing transactions all the way down to 12 sat/byte or lower. the OP paid ~17 sat/byte.

the fee market isn't always efficient. miners have different ways of ordering transactions.