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1681  Other / Meta / Re: Newbie Copper member and jr member to be restricted in altcoin bounties section on: October 25, 2020, 09:38:27 AM
I think the culture that we should implement on this forum is that when you come with problems, you have to come with solutions too.
There can be some things done to lessen the spam and scam in those sections but at the same time everything comes with some costs and theymos comment was interesting regarding to newbie jails.
First of all, people have to use their brains. It's bad that someone tries and scams but it's even worse that people fall as victims. People should learn how to analyze the project, why that project gives them a promise, they should understand that nice words look nice on paper and not in real life.

I think this is the best deal here, it can be like cognitive behaviour therapy for people and I think will lessen the number of scams.
1682  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Online Gambling could be used to pay for covid problems on: October 24, 2020, 08:55:46 PM
There is some logic behind it and despite the fact that I have been in touch with b2b service providers and was working in online casinos, I have to say that it's not really a bad idea. During pandemic and lockdowns, there was an enormous rise in traffic. It was great for business but it was an indicator that people were spending too much money on casinos. I think most of them wouldn't be very rich, so money was very necessary during this lockdown because you are in stuck, no work and no income. Yeah, people may need entertainment but at the same time we have to consider reality and it's that people can't have much control over themselves when it comes to gambling. For this, we started an active campaign for responsible gambling and I think we played our role in it to inform players and help them to spend less money.

But limitations that Germany sets is very tough, we need moderate control, we shouldn't kill this segment and have to consider that a lot of people work there too and they have their families, they need money.
Another deal to my mind can be if governments increase taxes for a while and use those funds to help people who really need during this covid. I know it sounds like a terrible idea but I believe it's not that bad for a limited time. Here it will be like: Money from those who have a lot goes to those who don't have and need it.
1683  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: If only we had a crypto version of Ebay that could save us the hindrance of fee on: October 22, 2020, 05:01:24 PM
I said that if Ebay may decide to add cryptocurrencies, other attempts from competitors would turn into a huge, huge loss. As we see, PayPal decided to integrate cryptocurrencies. Right now you can only buy virtual bitcoin but in 2021 you'll be able to fully use crypto service.
Btw bitcoin will still be taxable because according to IRS it's treated like property.
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For example, assume Sam wants to buy a piece of furniture listed for $10,000 by a PayPal merchant. Sam doesn’t have US dollars to make the purchase so he uses 1 bitcoin (BTC) he owns. Sam purchased this 1 BTC for $4,000 a few years ago and now it’s worth $10,000. When Sam initiates the transaction through PayPal, Paypal converts this 1 BTC into $10,000 USD and transfers the funds to the merchant. At the time of the conversion, Sam would face a taxable event and have to pay taxes on $6,000 ($10,000 - $4,000) of long-term capital gains. Taxes would roughly equate to $900 ($6,000 * 15%).

Have a look at this article: Will PayPal’s crypto offer turn into a tax nightmare?
And at this: How Taxes Will Complicate Crypto Payments On PayPal
1684  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why didn't PayPal decided to use xrp than Bitcoin? on: October 22, 2020, 04:07:18 PM
Please don't crucify me. Some hours ago PayPal payment system made some good decision of incorporating into their system buy and sell of Bitcoin, this has made it price to move from it former state. Basically ripple would have be the best for them IMO, seeing that ripple is the future of cryptocurrency irrespective of it centralization. As a ripple holder from inception, I did want Paypal to reconsider the use of ripple as it stand at the frontier of this era of digital currency. Hope this message get to PayPal team for appropriate actions.
They stated that upcoming cryptocurrencies are: Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. They haven't mentioned ripple at the moment and to be fair I am a little bit surprised but there is a logic behind this decision. Paypal needs new customers, as they stated, they expect that millions of crypto users will come and use their service after this implementation that will be fully covered in 2021. So, if they need new customers, then bitcoin is by far the best choice because it has a lot of users, then comes Ethereum but seems they jumped from Ripple to bitcoin cash.
1685  Economy / Gambling / Re: Roobet.com | Crypto’s Fastest Growing Casino 🦘 on: October 22, 2020, 12:25:29 PM
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<snip> Personally, I am in the negative so far after gambling for several years, but I will continue gambling now and then for fun using real money.
Honestly I'm a little surprise to you that you keep playing even though you have such not so good results on it.
But I won't be saying anything bad negative about you, in fact it's nice to notice the positivity on you.
Just be much careful gambling since you could always lose all of your money because of it, and I do relate, cause most of the time I'm eager to win.
Goodluck, I hope that you to hit some jackpot soon Cheesy
I think it's not a right place to discuss about gambling and it's effect on us. But in overall I want to mention that you have to look at casinos as service providers that offer you another level of entertainment and sometimes you have to pay some money for it or even get rewarded, that's all. Similar to fitness subscription, where you pay for it but and sometimes get rewards or succeed in group trainings.

it was fantastic experience to be honest compare too many other high volatility casino iv try if you see what i mean Wink i need to deposit like 20 -30 time  to catch a big win but here it's so different also the feature of instant funds are awesome hope you gonna make more promotion like regular casino such welcome bonus free spins  etc 

 big up roobet   Grin
Seems you were just lucky, wish you all the best.
1686  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Lost more in the process to recover ? on: October 22, 2020, 11:55:43 AM
What I see the most often is that there are cases when people lose and try to recover, promise themselves that once they recover from losses, they'll never gamble but sometimes it happens like people can't really follow their words or luck isn't on their side and they can't profit, higher debt makes it much more difficult to recover from it.

But, also what I see is that people usually think about different kind of strategies and while in their mind it sounds good, once they fail, then they think that they didn't give it enough time and budget to prove that it works and then they invest even more in their gambling strategies and if they end up losing a lot, then they move on another one and think around it. Then time comes when they promise themselves to never gamble but then again happens what I already mentioned above.
1687  Economy / Speculation / Re: PayPal to open up network to cryptocurrencies on: October 22, 2020, 11:28:25 AM
I understand that they will start in 2021, for now they are closing all the negotiations with Paxos since they got the license with BitLicense, it is an opportunity to be able to expand with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, BCH. It's all a matter of waiting, so far it has been published in a reliable source known as Cointelegraph.

Source : https://cointelegraph.com/news/paypal-to-offer-crypto-payments-starting-in-2021
Pretty much true. On most of the news websites titles look like PayPal already implemented crypto with full features. Right now, as it seems we will only be able to buy virtual bitcoins, not a real ones i.e. we own bitcoin on paypal and it's price will change like a real one but we won't be able to deposit/withdraw bitcoin. Also, there was an article on cointelegraph about paypal crypto and taxes. Seems we will have to pay and get charged again.

Btw without doubt, paypal is a reason of this rise in price but was it the result of the fact that people didn't understand that paypal hasn't really implemented it right now and what it offers to us is just virtual bitcoin? Or people understood it and it still caused positive vibes?
1688  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Hardware Cryptowallet with Fingerprint Authorization on: October 22, 2020, 10:39:28 AM
At some point it's good that they follow the technological trends but I don't think that hardware wallet with fingerprint authorization is a good idea, it's very dangerous.
First of all it's very easy to fake fingerprint by trying some techniques, for example, 3D printing, getting imagination about his/her fingerprint by touching something from his/her side and then working on making a fake one. Also, what if somehow happened like you fall asleep and someone tries to have an access on your wallet by using your finger while you are asleep? What happens if you seriously scratch your finger? There are a lot of cons in this subject.
1689  Other / Meta / Re: Random thoughts on: October 22, 2020, 09:59:52 AM
I am not against the copper membership but I am against those newbie who wear copper membership promoting scam projects. This is just my random thought anyway.

You're focusing on the wrong thing. If copper membership wasn't available, scammers would buy/hack/farm accounts just the same, as they've done for years. If you see someone promoting scam projects - create a scam accusation and ask the community if it should be labeled as scam. There is nothing special about the copper account, other than the forum getting 20 bucks and everyone seeing that it's a purchased account.
Good remark, if someone sees that someone promotes scam project or even scam service, just open scam accusation thread or ask some DT members to red tag him.
I think the problem that this user faces is that newbies aren't naturally able to wear signatures while some people are able to pay for copper memberships and break this resistance.

I don't understand at all why there is so huge negative feelings regarding to signatures, copper memberships and around similar things. There are things that you can't fully fix. There is jail on crime but tons of crimes happen daily. People have to learn to do more and deep research when they are looking for something. If you see a project, just check scam accusation, reputation child boards, google more around the project, have analytical thinking. You have to use your brain and don't be lazy to look into someone's hands.
1690  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will you buy BTC from PayPal now that they are letting people do it? on: October 22, 2020, 08:33:59 AM
Well, if I would be able to buy real bitcoin and would have an ability to deposit/withdraw bitcoins on Paypal, then for sure I would use it.

But buying virtual bitcoin and holding or keeping it on Paypal isn't something that I want. If I have USD, then I would just normally use Paypal as always but what users here want is to be able to send bitcoins into their Paypal and be able to exchange it or send. Hope, they'll soon add this feature.
Seems, right now their strategy is to gain the attention of holders but at the same time they talk about taxes that we may have to pay, so, idk how wise action it is from Paypal to launch this service without main features.
1691  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: What requirements are you looking for in a gambling site you might want to try? on: October 21, 2020, 07:23:33 PM
If you have a good relationship/communication with casino owner/managers, then it will be better to use this advantage and ask them this question, especially data analysts and marketing managers/product owners.

Personally, I can tell you that at first people are looking for a nice user interface, something that will be easy to use and understand. Then comes promotions, promos play a huge role to attract new customers. But you know what, casinos spend most of their money in advertisements. They spend huge money in promotions too but these promotions are like an investment that should have good ROI. I'm telling you this just for general information that you may already know.

To be fair, some people rarely check the house edge. Slots have a high house edge but a lot of people play them because of its graphics and different types of giveaways with different visual content. This has it's psychological effect on humans too. If I play blackjack that has high house edge compared to dice, that's because I love this game and opposite. And in overall, the house edge on games are like a standard everywhere.

So:
1. UI/UX/Visuals
2. Promotions
3. Great variety of games
4. Great customer support / great response time.
5. Speed of website
6. Easy deposit / easy withdrawal.
1692  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥Sportbook and Casino: BITSLER > $10,000 DAILY Wagering contest < on: October 21, 2020, 06:00:07 PM
The players here at Bitsler will not lose or leave just because it lacks the features that we want to see or they should also have in the sportbook.  I noticed that Bitsler has a lot of really loyal players since I started hanging out here on Monday, not a day goes by that I don't talk in chat.  I have seen people betting even though this is their situation now.  Because they know how to understand that this sportbook is really new here on this gambling site.  Even I have not tried to bet on their sportbook so I only play in the old games first.
Bitsler really has loyal customers. That's because there is a strong and healthy relationship between the company and the customers. This casino cares about customers, tries to offer good promotions, reward players and solve all of their problems quickly.

The only thing that I really don't like and wish to be amended is the speed of casino products development. They have to move at a higher speed and add many products. For example, they don't have slots, just a basic thing.

Btw their sportsbook will get better and better with amazing and exciting features/promotions. Bitsler rocks in it...
1693  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Card Counting in Blackjack on: October 21, 2020, 05:01:06 PM
Do you seriously say that? Have you ever played blackjack in live casinos? Well, I'll still explain.
First of all, in live casinos, they play with 8 decks in the shoe. From these eight decks, only four plays. So, from 416 cards, approximately 208 plays and sometimes it happens like even less or more, it depends on the shuffler. Card shuffle quality is controlled, so, for this reason, shufflers try to put the cutting card in the front and not back to the middle. It results in playing even fewer cards, nearly 170-200. So this action even lessens your chance to count cards. It has zero idea to count cards in live blackjack. Also, there are risk analysts there who sit and have a look at players behaviours. Not only that, shuffle quality is always monitored and if it happened like shuffle quality in the certain round is very, very low, then the game can be cancelled and players get refunded.
I replied about it a long time ago and I retracted what I said on my thread starter. What you said is what other people have said already.  I do not care about your explanation because others have pointed it out and yeah what you just said I know about it already. Sorry.
First of all, you created this thread on 13 October and I replied to you on 20 October. So you haven't replied to anyone here "a long time ago". It's a short time.
I said everything about evolution gaming in more details than anyone here and believe me, I have very high competence in it.
Also, I do not care <-- sounds rude cause I'm not t spamming your thread and instead try to help and give you a detailed answer to have an overall image around this task.
Again, if you provide me with posts here that say the same things that I said (double-check my post), then red tag me.
1694  Economy / Economics / Re: How Can Blockchain Improve Healthcare? on: October 21, 2020, 12:27:09 PM
I think, via tokenization, we will avoid 3rd parties and save millions of dollars and this is a great bonus, these funds can be used for different projects and even for improving our healthcare systems and higher funding of healthcare services.
In overall, blockchain technologies can make stored information more secure and very hard to modify but at the same time, this can be a problem. For example, people are often misdiagnosed, i.e. someone has bipolar disorder but is misdiagnosed with depression, etc.

But the main problem of our Healthcare is that they don't want to fix the problems and even cause them. Stimulants, antidepressants and anti anxiolytics are given to kids, to my mind that's a catastrophe. Their brain hasn't developed and doctors already mess with their brain chemistry. As a result, someone feels like a zombie, develop depression and other mental problems. I think that's the real problem in our world right now but the most curious thing is that we see advertisements where brands suggest people ask for this or certain medication and in this case, advertisements come from hard drug manufacturers too.
1695  Other / Meta / Re: Full transparency on the forum? Why not? on: October 21, 2020, 10:37:13 AM
Why not make a few things fully transparent here?

Post reporter

You see who reports what posts

Mod dealing with report

You see which mod deleted the post or marked it bad

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This can cause unwanted side effects: People who got reported may PM post reporters and ask why did they report them, wtf do they want, etc, this can turn into revenge. Nothing serious but not joyful at all.
And the second case, to see which mod deleted the post, can really be very bad for moderators because they may receive dozens of PMs from users about why did he/she remove the post. Mods are super busy and it will be impossible to answer all of these kinds of PMs, so PM spamming isn't something that we want.

Btw polls transparency is a good idea. We can see whether certain answers are consciously abused by newbies/alts or not.
1696  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🐺WOLF.BET - $1,000 Daily Race! 30% Rakeback! Advanced Dice Game🎲 2.000 Bets/s⚡ on: October 21, 2020, 09:50:49 AM
What I find really weird is that there is no Crash game in Wolf.bet and it has been sometime since this site launched and is quite popular currently. Only 3 in house games on such a popular site is a bit disappointing.

More games like Crash, Blackjack, Roulette etc need to be added to provide more options to gamblers since the competitors are offering in-house and 3rd party games these days.

I keep coming back to Wolf.bet thanks to the low minimum bets and betting speeds, but I do hope they add more games in the near future.

Crash is very similar to limbo. I don't get why you asking those games...  Normally if I see some casino with such games nobody plays them... 99% bets you will see in all bets will belong to dice game.
There are differences between Crash and Limbo. Crash is a more social version of Limbo because people bet together and once the bets are closed, game begins. While Limbo is more likely a personalized version of Crash where you bet alone and crash results are instant. That's the main difference and it has it's psychological effect on people and that's why some of them request crash to be added.
Also, right now dice isn't only the popular option and not 99% of bets come on dice. A lot of games have been implemented in crypto casinos and have become popular, including Roulette, Blackjack, poker, sportsbook, etc.
1697  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Different level of risk in crypto currency trading on: October 21, 2020, 08:42:25 AM
Hi,

I have some experience in crypto trading (far from being a master though).
One question I came across is if there are different level of risks for different cryptos? I know that generally cryptos are like stocks, ie you only can lose what you invest; but obviously there are financial products to deal with leverage etc.

But if we take a simple example: If I just would like to buy some (simple) CEL shares for 1000 $, this would be the maximum I could lose right?
The reason I am asking is that for some COINS, on coingecko there is a disclamer saying 'Highly volatile investment product. Your capital is at risk.' (which is a banner sponsored by etoro,  but it doesnt appear at all cryptos...)

I understand that with speculative cryptos you can lose part of or all of your investment, but is the risk limited to the amount i laid out? When I was trying to buy a similar crpto on binance they displayed some warning as well which confused me quite a lot...

If anyone could shed some light on this that would be appreciated.
As far as I understood, you mean that if you invested $1000, is there any chance to lose more? i.e. you may mean that for example bitcoin's price will go into minus and you'll have to pay that debt, am I right? The maximum you can lose is the money that you invested in the beginning but on another hand:
1. You invested $1000 and got $14000. Price went to zero, you lose $14000. If price kept $1000 and then went to zero, you lose $1000. But the most curious thing is that it happens like people still trade with dead coins or there are exchanges that still carry dead coins.
1698  Economy / Gambling / Re: SafeDICE.com ★ Bitcoin Dice ★ Monero ★ 0.5% Edge ★ Fast Cashout ★ Since 2014 on: October 21, 2020, 08:18:38 AM
I'm surprise that https://safedice.com/ is now down, when did just the site goes offline?

Just curious as I still see some discussion months back that the site was still running though without a support.

It looks like the domain finally expired.

The domain was registered on 2014-09-01 so it probably got renewed automatically every September:
https://www.whois.com/whois/safedice.com

According to here (can't directly link to the request unfortunately), the name servers got set to the default registrar name server on 2020-09-03, indicating that the original owner failed to renew the domain name:
https://whoisrequest.com/history/

And then its whois status switched to "Reactivation Period" one month after entering the grace period, indicating that the owner didn't use the grace period to reclaim the domain, meaning it will probably get auctioned off to the highest bidder sooner or later:
https://www.whoxy.com/safedice.com#history

It's amazing really that the site kept on running without an admin for so long. For all we know the server is still running, just unreachable for lack of a domain.

And boom, seems someone was looking for this moment to catch such an amazing domain and bought it via Namecheap. It's curious, if domain was bought by Godaddy, why they didn't keep it? It's known that godaddy is a very shady when it comes to domain registration. There happened like good domain name was free but once checked on godaddy, after some minutes it was already bought.

I visited the current website and as it seems, new owner decided to keep the same title and description on this one too:
Title - Bitcoin Dice | Monero | Bitcoin Cash 0.5% House Edge Gambling - SafeDice
Description - Play Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero Dice - Lowest 0.5% house edge dice gambling casino, Instant payouts, Provably fair; High max win. Join anonymously for free!

So, what's the point?
1699  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Exchanges are guilty of preventing Bitcoin mass adoption on: October 20, 2020, 10:05:12 PM
Btw the problem is that exchanges really try bad things. For example, binance bought coinmarketcap, the major cryptocurrency price checker. So, I think it's unfair agreement and is not good for cryptocurrencies.

I don’t see what Binance could do through CMC, other than perhaps better positioning their company on the crypto exchange list that is present there, but nothing more than that. The only thing I noticed after that acquisition is that the CMC page has become much slower to load, regardless of the browser and device I use.

It is in human nature to do bad things, so even strictly regulated banks can do very bad things, let's just take the example of the HSBC or Danske Bank scandals that are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. And anyone who expects transparency and honesty in the crypto sector, which is still a very wild place, is at least completely unrealistic.
Okey, Binance paid $400 million to acquire Coinmarketcap. It's really an insane amount of money for a website but I want to remind you that in 2017, Coinmarketcap has been in the list of top 100 websites globally according to Alexa rank. This directly indicates that the website generates huge traffic.
Now their Alexa rank is 656 but the bull run will be the huge advantage for Binance and I think we will see it soon, halving has already happened.

Personally I don't think it's a good fact that Binance has taken control on almost everything and it's their main aim. Increased centralization on decentralized assets? Doesn't sound good for me. I won't be even amazed to read next time that Binance plans to acquire Cointelegraph. It looks like takeover bid on the crypto world.
1700  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BitCoin and bitcoin high transaction fees on: October 20, 2020, 08:31:37 PM
I don't understand , I live in india and here we can use UPI like google pay and phonepay to easily pay money within seconds and a touch and no extra cost or transaction fees is taken . But when i try to ay with bitcoin like 1000 ruppes i have to pay around 120 ruppes in fees to get the transaction done in 10minutes .  So for a order of 1000 i have to pay 1120 ruppes and also wait for 10minutes for the transaction to be done .

So why is bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency more reliable or disruptive if it cant even help me in paying a simple small amount . Can somebody lease elaborate what i am missing here . Thanks in advance
Seems you haven't heard anything about lighting network, so I suggest you to check it because it's a solution that you need right now. Lighting network offers you instant transactions with almost zero fees. You receive bitcoins, just have slightly different wallet address but that's okay, you can send bitcoins from lighting network address to normal address.

So, from lighting network to lighting network (wallet address), you get instant transaction with almost zero fees.
From lighting network address to normal bitcoin address, you are able to send but you'll have to just pay fees normally and transaction time will be long, just like from bitcoin core to bitcoin core.
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