Just keep safe, buddy, I'm sure you can do it next week. And yeah! 2 correct scores and it hauled me back up to 100. I think more than half of us took the right score on Arsenal, though I was sure it was all over when Jay Rodriguez was chopped down in the box. No penalty and shot saved by Cech, and we all got our 2-0 win. These are the margins of football, eh?

Anyway guys, a reminder that BBC Week 7 is up, so enter all your picks now to save heartache. I still got Liverpool on a 3-0 win away at good old Rafa's Newcastle!

At first, my reaction was "poor guys, they have to cough up almost double the money just to get something that everyone should be able to get at the same rates. Then I came to my senses and realised that these guys buying Bitcoin at that price were probably loaded with cash anyway (hence the willingness to buy so costly). And not to play to stereotypes but in countries like Zimbabwe, if you were super rich, then you probably got there through status or some less than honest way.

Isn't there an international exchange accepting Zim at the moment? I thought Western Union was there.

@ajax are you sure you just didn't have a bad week like I did?
@toke come on, there are 32 games left and plenty of upsets and surprises, don't throw in the towel yet.
@unyil man you got some balls to come in and play after missing 6 weeks, but welcome to the BCT league!

And hey, there's still tonight's final game of the week to throw up 40 points. Maybe tonight's the night overtake you, hilarious. 

Whatever digital currency banks might issue to "combat" Bitcoin will merely be the next iteration of fiat. I am often reminded that, despite other new uses for Bitcoin, it was first created as an alternative digital currency. Crypto/blockchain is still in its infancy, with little pronounced real world use. So no one is can be blamed for going with the convention of lumping all crypto into a convenient "cryptocurrency" label.

But once this age has passed, I do believe that there will be only a few "true" currency. Bitcoin being foremost and possibly the only one to enter true economic use. I see Ether and others to power their own networks, niche currencies like Monero for their specific purposes will always remain outside of mainstream.

There won't be a war, though. That's just sensationalist talk. Comes out from all sides of discussion. This did get me thinking about fiat's main weapon: paper money! No fees ever to transact

Gotta admit this is out of my depth currently. Basically, what Litecoin has demonstrated is that atomic swaps is currently already possible with real coins hopping across actual blockchains, right? For now, am not sure if people would flock to atomic swaps especially with the added necessity of 2-2 multisig.

As it is, it's a struggle to convince people to come to a DEX. Have made a couple of test trades myself but volume is still too thin where I am (Counterparty).

Also, Lee says SegWit and LN are a must. But if atomic swaps are on chain, why is LN needed?

Hey philip, thanks for getting this degenerate train back on track! Looks like the graph is getting over that huge blip, wonder if we'll get another surprise at the November mark?

Let me be the first to show ye of little faith how the miners are returning to the comforting fold of Bitcoin with my positive adjustment guess
Edit: eh, abeandund appears to be stronger of faith

1.7 = buwaytress

I'm with DarkDays on this one. It's actually pretty clear cut. You tried (successfully) to take winnings from a misgraded wager. Nitrogen is actually one of the better bookies out there simply because they grade quickly... but of course, they do run the risk of making mistakes like in this fight.

You seem to acknowledge yourself that you shouldn't have won this, and had you read their full terms and conditions, you'd find yourself the guilty party. Every bookie graded this at UNDER 9.5 in the end. A mistake was made, and they were merely correcting it.

You've got the gist of the answers to that... I would say they're separate technologies similar only in distribution (p2p) and decentralisation. Arguably, you could say they're both inspired by the same libertarian ideologies. But here are a couple more connections:

I'm a heavy torrent user (yes I still don't do Hulu or Netflix) and recall Micro torrent secretly installing malware on their client a couple of years ago (before I even got into Bitcoin actually). They'd used thousands of home computers to mine Bitcoin for a while before whitehats discovered this. They've gotten over that scandal since, but more recently, Pirate Bay installed a mining script that also used surfer's CPUs while on their site.

While unregulated, Malaysia already has been for almost a year now the top 10 fastest growing countries in terms of bitcoin trading volume (Localbitcoins). But if you consider the official current stance of the central bank since 2014, which warns citizens to use Bitcoin at their own risk, then surely you could understand that a lot of people would simply take this advice at face value.

Think about what regulation means for the average Malaysian. You walk into a bank, or money changer, and you see them proudly showing off their license to take Bitcoin. Maybe this alone gives exposure.

It's been a long time coming but it should not come as a surprise to anyone in Southeast Asian finance. Even the central bank and SEC's previous comments on Bitcoin have been fairly innocuous - at worst neutral. There's also been a lot of silent backroom discussions with Bank Negara Malaysia in the months since the first blockchain conference in June. With another scheduled for November, looks like 2018 is all clear for Bitcoin.

That's the thing isn't it? If China really wanted to prevent citizens from exchanging their crypto to fiat, they'd have to go after (block, rather) all means of accessing exchanges operating outside their borders. You're right of course and Chinese banks work the same way. You give a person anywhere in the world your bank account and you get it in the account's currency, regardless of what currency it was sent in. The receiving bank is the one who decides if they can accept the payment currency, and then it's all converted at interbank rates. That's actually a major part of banking income.

China would not want to prevent this, since this makes it even easier for them to raise alerts at bank level if receiving money from abroad.

I just saw that post too. I recommend you go to the thread, and report the post/user. Newbie with 0 activity so does seem like a ripoff artist.

On your page: I would like to say good job. It's not very often I add a new site to my bookmarks, but yours certainly looks useful. Clean and loads fast. I would only say that I wish there were a way to also add the actual event organiser. Do you take the events from official websites or are these all user content? I'm asking from the perspective of someone who might be interested to find out more - a contact person for each event would be useful, for example. I see that this usually works for each link but some point to social media feeds instead of event page.

Very nice update! BitoinRush has to have one of the more underrated cashback programmes. You usually find them at the bigger, full-fledged online casinos, tied to fiat wagering, but they have really poor returns, plus hidden wagering requirements. This latest update makes it even better.

Just a question here: the comps are highest at Hi-Lo, does this mean that's also the game with highest house edge?

I actually saw this excerpt on a news feed and thought it was from Charlie Lee. While it's good to hear things like this, I somehow still view these reports as arbitrary noise on the news. I can't say if the balance between FUD and enthusiasm has reached equilibrium on the mainstream, but I have to wonder what the real point can be in these kinds of predictions, other than bragging rights at some obscure point in the future! Also, tags like former MD at JP Morgan won't lend any credence.

Nevertheless, one good comment raised I did not know about: only 300,000 holders of at least $5,000. I suspect, after removing exchanges, start-ups and them angels, you might end up with a far smaller number of actual holders. That's good news for someone like me, yet to hold my 1 BTC.

In theory, of course that's how you trade. But in practice, it's impossible to foresee or predict the conditions of demand, especially when it comes to short term trading, never mind day trading where minutes are the average timeframes.

The only prediction I have been consistently "accurate" enough with is with Bitcoin, and even that's just the pattern observeable until now. Demand is a funny thing really. I've sold at prices above market when demand seems to be peaking, but then it can easily drop off, as if afraid to touch the price I've set sell orders at.

Sounds like a good model for the operators, since there's no way for players to game the system (what do you do, bet against yourself? Still lose out on commissions).

I do want to clarify one item here though: You say that a 0.01 withdrawal will only result in 0.009 after site commission. This is a 10% commission... in addition to 5% of winnings. Sounds slightly exorbitant for me.

A better way would be to just charge a flat commission on winnings, with the entire winning amount sent back to the person who won immediately. You still make profit like this, no?

Interesting post on "new ideas". I'm also keen to see this forum generate newer ideas, or introducing better innovation. There are plenty of gems still to be found, but they tend to get easily lost under the pile of carbon copies. The "everything" idea is not practical, nor wise, in my opinion. There are still so many alts that don't even have a market outside of decentralised exchanges or P2P.

You only have to look at those exchanges that specialise in exotic alts to see that their models end up at nett loss when wallets fail and blockchains lose their nodes. You simply cannot sustain "everything". The hit you take to customer confidence is a risk not worth taking. Have you seen the rant posts of X exchange stealing 1000s of "XYZ coin"?

That's unfortunately the nature of P2P. But I do find in my particular country anyway that the methods I use are extremely difficult to defraud. I always contact the trader first so if they don't provide a method of contact, I don't use them. Then, it has to be an online trade with escrow. Finally, the method of payment is usually online bank transfer. Once sent, yes they can still try and reverse the tx through the bank, but it happens with difficulty from their side.

Also, I do my sells in a few small batches with several trusted traders (those who have years of trades and high volume). It wouldn't make sense for them to sacrifice their feedback for a few hundred dollars. As a newbie, build up sells first so you have enough trust for people to want to take your buys.

That was my only exact hit too. I had myself over-excited when Liverpool got themselves into 2-0 but I should have known better... I tipped both Manchester teams to draw tonight, 0-0 would have got me a nice score so lost points there, bloody Lukaku!

And well done to Stephen for temporarily dethroning Ajaxmoor... did he forget his picks? Quite a few predictable wins tonight, or did he also try to guess wild outcomes?




I had hoped for another Swansea win, but predicted them on the exact opposite 2:1 outcome. Blah.

@BetAdviser, I'm always waiting for Liverfool 3-0. Almost had it but they HAD to score 4 against Arsenal!

He also needs a better assistant able to come up with easily Googleable numbers and data. If he thinks fraud is Bitcoin's harshest criticism, he makes himself look incredibly foolish when he admits he doesn't have proof of this.

He also likely means illegal activity rather than fraud.