Glad you've arrived in the world of Bitcoin, the crypto and network that handles the most transactions... eventually, if the crypto/network you use reaches the same volume of transactions of Bitcoin, you would have to be aware of mining fees. I'm pretty certain all miners will prioritise txs on fees, since you're actually paying for the space you take up on blocks.

Just checked out your transaction here: https://blockchain.info/tx/a74a02513901ec832b8f18d6485c074d90b86e30a449fecdd4f632318319ff8c

As you can see, the fee per byte is just over 7 satoshi/byte. This is what's important for you. If you then check https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ this fee is estimated to have a 90% chance of confirming in the next 3-87 blocks, estimated at over 900 minutes away. Now, this is only an estimate at the current status of the network, which currently has over 22k unconfirmed transactions. You can always check here: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

That's actually a lot lower than it was 2/3 days ago. If the network fills up, the fee needs to be higher to improve your chances of being confirmed faster. If the network frees up, your estimated time should get closer.

For now, you can try to accelerate your transactions. There are some such services in this forum offering to do that. Or you can do it yourself with services like: https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ -  except they require a min fee of 10 sat/byte.

I've done it for you for this one. Should confirm in next few hours. Next time, you know better.


There is another option, but you're unlikely to have done that since it's an opt-in choice in some wallets... called Replace By Fee (RBF).

Aguero's probably going to take it, Lukaku will find it hard to score many times in Mourinho's system and Kane is a bit brittle for an attacker. I'd have taken this side bet early season but am afraid ain't ballsy enough to back anyone outside of these guys!


I got this one too! I thought Rooney had a goal in him at a 2-1 Leicester win, but I can't win them all, I guess. 160 points are way more than I expected and there's still a game tomorrow for a chance to get my highest weekly ever.

Places 3-6 all unchanged, really tight up there!

You are just too lazy and don't care enough when applying for a job? Or you just have a disregard for this forum?

What makes you think anyone would hire you on evidence of this? There is no difference in the way you will treat your responsibilities in any position. Hirers know that, and you just make their selection process easier.

P.S. It's been proven that it's actually less time-efficient to type improperly, when taking into account comprehension. So if you really were lazy, you'd learn to type a little better.

Despite my own personal feelings that people should do their own research, can't deny that a lot of newbies wouldn't know how to verify provably fair claims on their own, based on my own initial experience with crypto casinos. On that note, I think this is a good call and can be educational at the same time.

Just be careful not to harm your own reputation also. Rhavar's right that it would be harsh (not to mention unfair) if a blanket label of fake be used in calling sites out. Might want to edit the thread title to better reflect your objectives... which is not to call out fake sites but perhaps... to ensure a standard or benchmarking for Provably Fair casinos?

I'd advise to develop a standard operating procedure for approaching, informing and evaluating site owners responses and (possible) rectifications before announcing anything. I think owners should also be given the benefit of doubt - a proper reach out can help establish this.

I disagree. I think blockchain tech has really come into its own and outgrown its sole association with Bitcoin. Of course they're still inseparable - any decent blockchain course online still takes you through the fundamentals of Bitcoin and how to code in the language. I think it's a great thing that "crypto haters" can look beyond currency and see the useful applications for blockchain innovation. Understanding and awareness of blockchain can only be good for the future of Bitcoin.

To me, what's "sadder" is that anyone now can learn how to launch a new token, blockchain or ICO, add on a "blockchain" tag to their creative marketing solution, and that qualifies as fintech startup. Simply adding blockchain to your company sounds like what companies did in the 1990s, buying a dot com or even just naming their companies... X dot com. I shudder to remember those times.

I'll throw my weight behind localbitcoins too. It's slightly less secure to BUY Bitcoins, since you have to send payments first, but then if you just stick to Online Offers, choose traders with a good feedback score, good volume (50 is good enough), and with average release times corresponding to your mode of payment, the escrow release feature will do well for you. Never been scammed there, sticking to reputable and verified traders with online buy/sells.

Bisq is something similar, and am a new user there, so far so good. Slightly more complicated but I'd say the trouble you go through for escrow safety is well worth it.

As far as I know, passports nowadays can't be valid for longer than five years, so are you using an expired passport? In future, before you start depositing any funds into any exchange, ensure you fully verify your accounts. With regulations clamping down, you should expect all exchanges over the coming months to require identity verification.

On your issue, just wait for support, hound them on as many channels as possible. Unfortunately, it seems that only pestering them (while being polite and clear in your requests) seems to be the only way to draw attention to your problem. Otherwise 8 days is beginning to be very normal in terms of support time.

Also, better not try anything funny. The system anyway won't let you do the trades you've just suggested, while withdrawing to someone else's account could get you in trouble. Don't give them any reason to flag you for potential fraud.

No... if someone claims he sent from an address A to an address B, a simple lookup of that either address on the blockchain should show if that were true or not. Of course, if you were withdrawing from Online Service X to address B, then you're not really sending anything, Online Service X is.


Yes, you do, provided you are in control of your coins and wallet. You're describing what happens when you use an online service's wallet. You request a withdrawal, and wait for them to perform the transaction on your behalf, providing you the transaction ID.

A good wallet, let's say Electrum, should let you determine exactly which inputs and associated addresses will spend your coins to the receiving address.

As it turned out, the first transaction (accelerated) was finally confirmed just over three hours from the time I submitted it to a miner. As explained, this finally meant that all of the inputs for the second transaction were confirmed. The second tx had a decent enough fee and confirmed 2.5 hours after the 1st.

You've got all your inputs nicely merged now, well done:https://blockchain.info/address/14kvy6zYsCQJfT3G3xgraerurf9C8QKjkC

Next time, please don't:
1. use a low fee if you need the tx confirmed urgently. Always check with bitcoinfees.21.co or similar for an estimate
2. don't spend from an unconfirmed input that has a possibility of not getting confirmed.

Face to face meets aren't anonymous, by definition. But actually, my experience in two locations shows that the value for selling Bitcoins is much, much higher if you opt for non-online exchange, such as face-to-face meets. As of right now, both locations show rates >10% of the highest online buyer offer, and at much, much higher minimum buys.

And the reason why is simple: there's little or no protection for the seller. Think they busted several scam rings in India recently: lure people with high rates, rob them when they meet. With online exchanges, there's an escrow system that has never let me down in all my trades.

There are at least two exchanges I have seen in this forum that may not ask for verification for small amounts of cash sells. One's Russian-based, the other Ukrainian-based. Hint: go to russian local board and translate.

Here's something I just thought about! I can memorise my *-word mnemonic seed phrase and carry around any number of bitcoins in my brain, and be able to reproduce it, spend it, and receive it at almost any time to/from anyone (yes, there are exceptions but let's not get too creative!). I couldn't exactly do that with dollars. With my two bank accounts, I could do all those actions just as safely to a reasonably wide circle of people but only within a pool of people using the same centralised service (Sepa, for example).

Oh and I can send 1 cent worth of Bitcoin to about 160 people right now (almost infinitely more when Lightning Network is used if I understand its implications properly).

They're not yet stuck in limbo and have a chance of going through. There's almost 90,000 unconfirmed transactions in the network now, so yeah, your low fee is part of the problem.

Now here:

1. Your first tx as you note has too low a fee. At 22 byte/satoshi, https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ thinks it has a 90% chance to confirm from between 60 mins to infinity heh. Anyway... I've accelerated it so it should confirm within 20 hours, if not less. Once that happens...

2. The "Unconfirmed parent" in your 2nd transaction will be recognised as confirmed... thereby, all inputs in your 2nd tx will be confirmed, and then the tx itself will go through.

This link might make the connection clearer: https://blockchain.info/address/1AHhuFtyURozAgaZ9Pg8J4ZSXkTbNJFzKR

When you make a spend, make sure all the inputs you select are confirmed. Any unconfirmed input must first be confirmed before it can be spent.

So in summary, your 2nd tx includes inputs from your 1st tx. 1st tx must be confirmed before the 2nd one can.

Some nice projects I didn't know about before, thanks for the suggestions.

Although... I'm truly at a loss these days as to what qualifies as unique. If I wanted to be honest, the last time I was impressed was when Jesuscoin came out but maybe that just appealed to some deep-rooted morbidity that seems to embed itself into bct users after a while. Here's a thought to anyone who wants to try something that's unique - how about just going to the Technical Support and Bitcoin Discussion sections and do a bit of market research on the most frequent issues/problems that the typical layman user faces using Bitcoin?

Perhaps instead of coming up with inventive new ideas or pretending to solve problems that aren't really there, something can be done about what's obvious?

Too bad Kane wasn't available to help boss the attack, I'd have really liked them to get a hiding from Spurs the way the did Liverpool, but finally a decent win without Coutinho and Mane, even could afford to miss a penalty (they are now the Premier League team with the worst penalty conversion!).

I lost a prediction to Wilfried Zaha's late, late strike, too,,, Crystal Palace may no longer be bottom on top of these performances, now that their striker looks to be back for good. They really missed him for the first 7 games of the season!

Other than that, no surprises this week. The top 6 all won (except Spurs). Life is beginning to get on track for the Big 6.

Ah, Week 10 and Liverpool give me the full 40 points from this match, probably the only time this season I'll be glad Salah didn't convert his penalty! Zaha stole 40 points with his 6th minute injury strike, so that really took the shine off my week but at 100 points so far, I'll be satisfied to get a score above my weekly average. In fact, would gladly have given away my 10 points from the Man City game for West Brom to equalise, but that's the way EPL rolls!

If I can just get 40 points from the remaining games, I'll be really happy!

The main advantage doesn't change and that is being in absolute control of your coins. Untrue that crypto will be centralised. True 95% don't know how to use it (more like 99.9 actually) but you forget that adoption and decelopment of mainstream tools has an early steep climb. Think banking was accessible and useable in its early stages? Roughly a third of the world is still unbanked!

Bitcoin in that way isn't just about economics, to change the way we view money as something we control is very political!

You've got to be a bit more specific. Are you talking about active about hindrance to blockchain technology development? Adoption? Simply awareness? From my full year of daily observation, my feeling is this: there are many developers, tens of thousands perhaps, but only a very small group of perhaps hundreds competent to the level of the lead developers of Bitcoin (core). I think the leads at Ethereum are also highly competent, with different motivations.

I think the next step for development is an ISO certification for academic qualification in blockchain tech. A quick search online shows me at least three certifications for "blockchain developer", but I can't trace any of them to an academic foundation (they're all corporate educators).

Of course it matters, in some varying degree, depending on who it matters to. But Bitcoin has moved on from Nakomoto, the moniker now a respectful homage more than anything else. Yes, there are some, including recent forkers, who still use his eponymous whitepaper in bible-thumping validation of their rebellion.

But what's the worst-case scenario? People discover Bitcoin was a hoax? It was a big conspiracy? So what? It's now the world's most-used cryptocurrency. It's accepted as payment globally by a growing pool of merchants. Its underlying blockchain technology has now inspired hundreds of innovations. As much as I dislike the phrase... "it's too big to fail".

It is funny how language can play a role in how people view things. Milk, like bread, have humble beginnings and mean different things to different people. Not to be confused with an earlier Milkcoin (let's not go there, haha), this particular project fits the out-of-the-norm profile when it comes to ICO projects. No fancy blockchain innovation. No claims of being the first mover in some industry. Just a fairly simple justification to raise funds.

Surprised to see them put up their legal documentation for everyone to view, though. Few companies are as transparent. Too bad they're in Russian.

Phew, there wasn't any Friday night game so I was in time to put in predictions for this week. I wish they'd open predictions as soon as games are over for the week though, I haven't been remembering to login on Monday for my next week's games. Good luck everyone! Fingers crossed for my eventual 3-0 Liverpool win!