Ah, the "world's most popular way to buy and sell..." Last week, you were recognised for being the first "Bitcoin Unicorn", today you gets a patent. I suppose if you keep filing patents, one is going to be accepted at some point. I can only imagine if Satoshi and others queued to file their own patents. For Coinbase and the Bitcoin Foundation, just another badge to add gloss to an already shiny corporate skin.

Yeah, I got that it doesn't provide Internet =) Was just saying that up til now, it was the only way you could access to the Bitcoin network there, so this is great news for the continent. Large swathes of it will not have Internet for years to come.

Small shops serving up Bitcoin payments? That's definitely a start! Plenty of Ethiopians and Kenyans with shops in E Africa, with at least part of the necessary equipment already.

In other words, you're saying that the scenario that would make this threat possible will arrive in mere decades? Even the brightest minds often fail to correctly estimate how quickly home computers are able to advance.

Here's an article about very smart people who knew a lot about their field (computers and tech mainly)... and yet made a few wrong calls. Nothing wrong with making mistakes but point is, what's wrong with ideas?

It was just a starting point. He did say average player, and I'm actually pretty sure that once you take the hundreds of faucet testers and lump them together with your $200 player, you might end up with a low average per player. Take into account how time a casino will need to build trust and reputation before attracting a $200 wager player and you see that small average amount even likelier for a brand new casino.

I think your bankroll has to take into account a LOT of other factors though. Especially if you're the sole bankroller. Like habbear said, estimating an average payout you might bleed based on # and type of players you expect. I would add your risk appetite for variance. Yes, house eventually wins, but you may experience wild variance against you early on. You should prepare for that. Limit max win? Trigger a lower max limit/jackpot every time it is hit?

Just to vouch for onemd and WhyFuture's AI projects: they have been quite complicated and intensive, especially the academic papers, but have always been serious and paid promptly. In fact, the project awarded bonuses on top of payments for all the work I've accepted and completed (I believe it has been 4 assignments already).

I believe serious applicants won't find any issue communicating with onemd.

You can check his/my feedback, although it is only for the latest assignment. I rather neglected using the feedback feature in the past.

This is not short of amazing, having worked in a lot of near-zero Internet places. My last job in East Africa had us relying on very expensive satellite from a Danish ISP.

I just checked Blockstream and if the network status map is correct, the Africa satellite coverage only misses out Somalia, Madagascar and part of Ethiopia. The only issue now is the hardware needed according to GH. I know if I set that up in the places I worked in, I would also require security guards to make sure they stay where there are!

0.9 = buwaytress

Came pretty close with the last round, though not as close as V8 and that was me overestimating my original guess. So here's another overestimation. Thanks as always for hosting this game phillip!

You probably should wait, collect data on customer habits for a while longer to see if the pattern change was temporary or if it is indeed shifting. Personally, I feel that this slight difference with ChipMixer is unique and identified only with the service - maintaining it keeps the message, useful if you're interested in reenforcing your brand. Don't worry. People will get used to it eventually and if they're concerned about mixing in the first place, they will want to insist on using the more private option.

Patience, my friend. Both transactions have now been confirmed. Your first one minutes after submitting for acceleration... it's pretty confounding that >110 sats per byte was unconfirmed after almost 20 hours.

The second one confirmed on its own in under an hour, just 7 blocks later just 14 minutes ago. As I said, the fees for 2nd one was sufficient and took care of itself. Try not to spend unconfirmed coins in future!

Heh, don't worry even I used to get extremely confused by the different systems sportsbooks use. My preference is European + decimals but one of my favourite bookies forces me to use American or Fractional so I've begun to get used to that as well.

Nitrogensports is almost similar, except it shows American and decimal format. Basically, ML means Moneyline and that's what you're looking for. You choose your winning team on ML option or you choose the draw. The first two options are handicap (meaning your selection could still win/lose with a draw). That's Asian for you, they don't like "push" outcomes

Wow. Fees really are getting absurd. Bitcoinfees is showing that even up to 140 sats/byte, estimated confirmation blocks is 5 - infinity... so looks like OP's tx is going to be sitting there for a very long time!

I don't recall ever seeing that even when though there was well over 150,000 txs in mempool. 281+ sats/byte is the highest I've ever seen so far at the extreme end of near-guarantee next block confirmation.

Almost the same problem as OP, thankfully only your second transaction is dependent on the first. I've submitted your first for acceleration. Once that confirms, the second one should happen on its own relatively quickly given its fee is more than 220 sats/byte.

You're technically correct in that there isn't a US legal ban on its citizens. The exclusion of US citizens from most ICOs (or any other crypto service offering investment vehicles for that matter) are pre-emptive of regulatory measures most people feel must happen soon. It's just cautionary so they cover their asses legally down the line, so to speak.

Personally, I doubt you have much to worry about if you're thinking of using a bypass (VPN, for example) for short-term participation. For now at least, in practice, it would be very difficult for authorities to pursue you anyway if you also cover your ass in privacy-wise.

Not sure how much satoshi/byte your eventually paid as you didn't clarify but it sounds like you paid a flat fee. With Electrum, I recommend unchecking the manual and dynamic fee boxes and then entering your own static fee adjusted to the current network situation and/or your needs. For example, yesterday I still had a 60+ satoshi per byte fee that bitcoinfees.21.co estimated would confirm in 20 hours. It was fine for me as it wasn't an urgent tx. Turned out to be pretty accurate (as it usually is for me) and confirmed a few hours ago.

Also the estimate for Localbitcoins is just an estimate. Bitcoinfees.21.co is a lot more accurate. You can post your txs here and I'll see if they can be accelerated.

On Segwit: we are not quite there yet. It is still in the lock-in period, and activates about a week from now when full nodes will begin validating SW txs.
On Blocksize increase: that's Bitcoin Cash for now.

For faucets, I would only recommend two, if only for being some of the oldest faithfully paying sites that won't crash your browser with pop-ups: freebitco.in and moonbit.co.in. If you only use one faucet, it's the former. Decent rewards/bonus systems in there that doesn't penalise you for using faucets infrequently. Don't let the amount fool you, it's pegged to a dollar value that's been consistent since its launch.

Cloud mining, poster above me named just about all the legitimate ones. Despite my distaste for Bitcoin.com you should also check their plans out. Careful though, even with legitimate cloud mining, there's a significant waiting period just to recoup your investment. With the recent price boom, it should be a bit more profitable now though.

Btw, you don't technically mine any BTC from faucets.

Fun for a while, levels are interesting. username: casinogambler. Cheers!

These levels above $4,000 were actually experienced in the Far East back during the spring ATHs when demand far outstripped supply. I suppose it was just a matter of time global prices caught up with that willingness to buy. It's been noted that the majority of this week's volume came from the same region, so we see a continued trend of demand-fueled pricing.

What I've noticed since the $3,000 mark is that LBC traders have been buying below the average price, at least in Malaysia and EU. I used to be able to sell very close to that, but now always about $200 below average.

I haven't accumulated enough to feel the euphoria of these ATHs; perhaps a slight tinge of regret that I cannot buy any or am not earning them quickly enough. But far from feeling too bad about it, it's just pushing me to reach my personal target of 1 BTC in savings by the end of the year. If it ever reaches even $10,000 by early 2018, I'll consider myself an absolute genius for ensuring I reached my goal before then.

Big fat correction? You bet! Been holding off earnings for a few weeks and hoping to request them when the inevitable, if temporary, correction comes.

Yes, I know. Lots of others may have known about this. But it was a cute Easter egg anyway. Only came here more than two years after creating my first account, couldn't even remember the username or email. The second coming was a lot more fun for some reason, so I stayed. 12 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes later, enjoying every bit of this bloody forum

Is this a screenshot of the wallet History tab and not address history? I'm afraid you're mistaken if that's the case cause it's pretty apparent that this address isn't part of your Electrum wallet. You can look at your Address tab, click the collapsible Used option. I doubt it's there.