I am not sure if having rooms with limited players would make playing slots more exciting & fun or more boring for the average casino player. To be honest, if I wanted to play slots right now and had an account on two websites out of which one of them has full rooms, I would move on to the second casino. The idea of having multiple slots in different rooms seems fun though, I support that. Gambling is way more exciting when you play with more people.

Thank you for accepting me into the campaign. I will make sure to update everything needed in a matter of hours, as soon as my current campaign week finishes.

I salute everyone else who is on board of this sig campaign - glad to be part of it from now on. Congratulations to the other accepted members as well!

EDIT: Thank you, @Questat for congratulating me

You could get Replicant, GrapheneOS or deGoogled LineageOS on a compatible older phone and use use that as a hardware wallet for sure, with Orbot active. Restricting internet on smartphones is kinda harder though, as your phone could still receive and send data even if Airplane Mode is active (remember, it's just a graphical button, not a physical hardware disconnection). Now the "super-secure" part is quite difficult to accomplish. With every new software update, new vulnerabilities appear.

But hardware wallets help you avoid most of the possible mistakes you can make with such a phone and you are physically assured there is no external connection that could take place. To be honest, I barely trust even a brand new smartphone anymore since I have my HW. My personal preference is Tails OS in combination with a hardware wallet.

This is one of the main negative sides of using bank accounts with crypto.

If you haven't done anything illegal, you should have a chat with the proper authority about it. You may have traded with someone who later proved to be a crypto thief, which may have triggered your account suspension. Might be a good idea to first talk to an expert just to make sure your trades weren't illegal in any way (if the taxes were properly paid, etc).

If you're entirely sure everything you have done is legal, then there shouldn't be a problem if you contact Cyber Crime Branch as far as I am concerned.

I mean, the government is probably the largest and most prominent barrier in the crypto business. If there's something I'd be afraid of, it's that I might be forced to go against my customers' (and BTC's) interests by the state. This is the main reason I am still in doubts about launching one. If and when the governments ever stop ruthlessly entering our online privacy, I might reconsider.

You'd pretty much do exactly the opposite thing by trying to check your privacy through block explorers. The thing is, it's quite hard to keep your BTC unlinked to your identity (or at least to sufficient information to connect the dots) all the time without mistakenly leaking crucial data about your devices and location.

Having your privacy up as close to 100% as possible would mean absolutely nothing if, by clicking the wrong button, you mistakenly open up a block explorer with a transaction of yours. As the ledger is transparent, one little mistake would make your entire privacy on the blockchain poof in no time - and be written in the ledger forever out there.

Take it another way: imagine you have a very important text from history that has a coded word in it nobody ever understood. Finding what exactly the codename was means uncovering the entire text and understanding it all. Same goes for your Bitcoins' path. Finding the smallest information about you (IP, orders, exchange accounts, browser fingerprint - anything) means possibly uncovering your entire history.

If you want maximum privacy, the average Joe would most likely have to first of all reconsider the OS they're using cryptocurrencies with. Install a FOSS Linux distro, go through a few CoinJoins (or mixers), throw your balance from one address to another a few dozen times to try erasing the mixed history (some people do have a problem with them) and, finally, move it all to a fresh Tails OS Electrum wallet and only use that one from that point on. From time to time, it may not be a bad idea at all to throw your balance again in a mixer (or CoinJoin) just to make sure you continue making your BTC path a pain in the arse for anyone who's willing to go after it. Tails OS has system-wide Tor active, which drastically improves your privacy.

Turning JavaScript (press the shield in the upper-right corner of the browser and modify security level to Safest) off is even better. It does mess up with most websites though.

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Late reply, but I am highly concerned about the possible long term consequences of an improperly tested vaccine. One vaccine needs decades to only try to approximate which side effects there are to it. Giving a dose that has been worked on for only 10 months to the entire population of a country/the world is very concerning to say the least. Just imagine a possible scenario of severe side effects that only come after an year or two after taking the dose. One of them may be even paralysis. Let's try not to avoid the pandemic only to push ourselves into an even more severe situation.

I think the last seven months proved all the global hysteria wrong. I still have yet to hear one person from my country who knows a person that has been severely affected by the virus, and it's been seven months already. But leaving that aside, instead of focusing on the very quick distribution of the vaccine, I would personally focus on properly creating herd immunity and possibly releasing the vaccine only when it's almost sure the side effects are only seen in very very low percentages of the pacients.

Taking a quote from GatesNotes to sustain my just-explained opinion:

I highly doubt all these people have a lot of money stored on their Ledger. As a burglar, choosing someone off this list could be a very big hit or, more likely, a very big miss.

I mean, you could get a Legder from authorized resellers without having to fill any personal detail. This is still an option. The customer leak could happen to any other shop just as easily. There can't really be online shops without trust and centralization.

Speaking from my own investment, in order to make money with shitcoins you have to either quickly sell at the right time or be lucky enough to catch one that doesn't only boom temporarily out of all those dozens of thousands of coins.

Most coins you would've bought back before the last crazy bull run are still under BTC's increase in %. Only few lucky ones got to sell at a good shitcoin/BTC ratio. BTC is the winner in >95% of the times.

I wonder if older customers have been affected as well or just recent ones. IIRC, they once said older customers are deleted from their database for security purposes. The fact that it's the second time something like this happens is worrying, to say the least.

I'd say a wrench attack isn't very likely for most customers, but is something they should consider - especially if bigger or more popular names are involved.

Would make no sense to throw away free money at your customers without making it hard to withdraw or turn it into a profit. The chances are the same though, no matter if the money has been deposited or given away. Casinos give free bonuses and bucks as a customer bait. Usually, the players start out by trying to multiply the bonus and end up actually depositing.

All this really does is it shows how much you should ever rely on personalities' mindsets and how ignorant they are. I wouldn't say something's a scam if I never even done a quick research over the subject.

It obviously doesn't impact BTC price-wise - it would have been a shame if we still were at the stage where one person's thoughts influenced BTC's price.

Just do your own research and stop being so easily influenced. We all have brains, we don't need others to tell us whether BTC is or isn't a scam. The way celebrities are able to change the mindset of a significant amount of people through a few words is truly scary.

Evolution means, for guys such as Brian, destroying it. The mass adoption some people imagine will never be a thing imo as soon as BTC will keep on being the decentralized crypto it currently is. Considering the way his exchange has "evolved" over time, his words are worth nothing right now for me, so is his supposed solution to the mass adoption. I'm currently fine without a company that is selling its own customers to the government and helping dissolve privacy day by day.

The only way you may be able to achieve this is by prioritizing certain addresses on the explorer, but it becomes a large privacy risk in the end. It pushes new questions to the front, such as: if the tx has 10 inputs and 100 outputs, how does the explorer know which input and which output to prioritize?

A tx with prioritized inputs and outputs could be shown with a little "Part of a more complex transaction. Click here for more" warning, so that the visitor has the option to see it in detail as well.

But overall, I personally think this is a block explorer newcomers would not use at all anyway - in order to prioritize an input/output, you have to filter addresses - which newcomers would be confused about. One way would be by having an open source non-custodial wallet push all your existing addresses to the block explorer's servers - but then it becomes a huge security compromise. If all your addresses are pushed to a server, it means the server will know they're most likely all related one way or another.

If I got this right, you're trying to find a way to show only one instead of multiple outputs/inputs to make the txs look simpler.

That seems kinda hard and nonsense imo. If you have multiple inputs and/or outputs, the total tx value and fees show up anyway in all wallets. Having the possibility of viewing the same tx in detail is not something that should be missing. Transparency should be there at all times.

You cannot aggregate multiple inputs and show only one. That is basically hiding the rest of the inputs and making it seem like there was only one address the money came from. If you have 10 inputs and show only one, that means you should maintain the same address now, in 1 hour, 10 days or an year. In other words, there will be no more blockchain analysis difficulty as everything would be done straight from the explorer and having multiple addresses per wallet would hence make no sense.

What you are willing to do to Bitcoin is basically what ETH does, and it's bad for various reasons.

I'mma use other words and say it's uncertain times for cryptocurrencies. That's basically it, as it has been for a long time and as expected especially after halving. This is a time to either get out if you're weak, get in if you're willing to get into a wild rollercoaster or sit on the side and watch. Fake bull flags have happened before, so expect just anything. Welcome to crypto

Deposit 0.001 BTC and earn from 1 to 10 BTC in return .. whoever falls for this is silly tbh, if this one was legit they would've probably needed all the existing BTC and still not have enough to cover the participants' earnings

The Quora answer may not be very accurate. If it is, then here comes the big question: if currency doesn't have a consistent value, then which one is changing value: USD or BTC? Because if you take it the other way, 1 BTC will be equal to a constantly changing amount of USD and vice-versa.

In how many places can you buy stuff using gold coins alone? Bitcoin has plenty of them. It's used as a mean of exchange and as a payment method and that is enough imo for it to be considered money.

The current worldwide economic status makes this happen. And, imo, we are only getting a very quick glance of what's to come. Whether BTC is about to follow the uprise of safe haven assets or not is the never-ending debate that makes no sense anyway - it's us who will decide whether it is or not.

Personal opinion: the elderly will purchase more gold, the younger will lean towards BTC for a safe investment. We'll see what's going to happen. If the above comes true, BTC and Gold will go in tandem.