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1861  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: SCAM: Bitcoin SV (BSV) - fake team member and plagiarized white paper on: September 04, 2019, 12:07:40 PM
I understand that my judgement is not relevant for the matter, however, you question the only US Federal Judge's findings on this matter - the creator of Bitcoin.

It appears as if you are under the mistaken impression that the judge's statement about their partnership supports CSW's claim to be Satoshi:
"One, Dr. Wright and David Kleiman entered into a
50 percent 50/50 partnership to develop Bitcoin intellectual
property and to mine Bitcoin."


^^^ This does not assert that said partnership created Bitcoin, only that they were supposedly developing Bitcoin-related IP at some point.

Which bit of the judge's statement explicitly clarifying that they were not ruling on the matter of Satoshi Nakamoto's identity confuses you?

 



What did they make the basis of the case that he actually owned bitcoins at that point? Just his word?

I see you still have trouble in reading the whole hearing from 08-26-2019, I will try to help.

Ms McGovern, Dr.Wright's lawyer:
Quote
In response to the Court's order, Dr. Wright has
provided the first 70 of those public addresses. There are
over 16,000. In addition, Dr. Wright has disclosed his full
holdings of Bitcoin as of December 31st, 2013, and has stated
under oath exactly how much Bitcoin he holds as of that date,
and has confirmed under oath that that Bitcoin has not moved.



So basically all he's done is claim he has x amount and provided the public address of such which anyone could do, but no actual proof of him ever actually owning or having access to them and them being in a trust is the excuse as to why he can't? Is there a list of addresses he's publicly claimed to have owned?
1862  Other / Meta / Re: Prediction of sport games on: September 04, 2019, 11:55:32 AM
Don't get it, how isn't predicting a game related to gambling? Isn't gambling all about predicting the outcome of an event.  

It's not gambling if there's no money at stake and that's the key issue you're missing. They're just taking about sports. Talking about sports isn't gambling, so technically it shouldn't be in a sub board of Gambling. If you stake money on something then it belongs in there but mere discussion of it isn't.

Creating more gambling-related sub-boards will make matters worse.
Many signatures campaigns require participants to make minimum posts in that board, and many participants may be tempted to SPAM to get paid.
If there is a need to create more sections, more mods must be added or signatures removed from that section.

Well the point is is that they're not gambling related and are more fitted to belonging in off topic or even their own sub in there. Merely discussing sports isn't gambling. Its the same as discussing films or what potential films are going to be made and who's going to be cast in them. That would be discussion that belongs in Off Topic. If you were betting money on when or if the films were going to come out and who might be potentially cast then that would be different matter but that's not what's going on in the majority of sports threads.


Talking about predictions threads though they are often having a good discussion going on even if you do feel that some post is offtopic, just report it.

I think the issues is that most of the content/threads is off topic, specifically if there's no gambling going on. It's just sports talk otherwise. Maybe Sports Discussion should be it's own board as that's essentially what most of it is and if so then it would belong in Off Topic.
1863  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Would this finally be a real Satoshi? CW lost the Kleimans case!!! on: September 04, 2019, 11:49:45 AM
Latest news about the Kleiman's case and the court judgment that CW has to return 50% of all mined coins and intellectual property from creating Bitcoin toKleimans family members.

This is so good to see such outcome but from another side when I start thinking about it then I start to worry because the amounts of BTC are overwhelming and we can not forget that Kleimans family would have  to pay 40% in taxes from the received amount which can be the reason for price dump if they will have to sell BTC to pay the tax.

Is this another threat? Or CW doesn't have this BTC in the first place and there is no Tulip fund which releases this coins 21 January 2020? I want to ask you about your thoughts about this?



Craig Wright is a habitual liar and fraudster. He probably doesn't have anywhere near that amount of bitcoins if many at all and his claims of having them or at the very least so many were just to try bolster his obviously fraudulent claim of being Satoshi, because it's widely assumed he holds them. If he did have as many as he claims and from such an early time period he could have easily proven such and also that he was satoshi or at the very least a very early adopter by singing a message from some of the addresses he owns. He admitted he can't do that and came up with some bullshit excuse about this trust to try weasel out of proving it. So, sorry to say but the Kleiman's are probably entitled to 50% of nothing and even if he does hold substantial holdings he isn't ever going to hand them over and will come out with whatever BS to prevent that, but my guess is he just doesn't have them in the first place (or anywhere near as many as he claims) and the Kleiman's only went after him because of the lies he told about having them or being satoshi.
1864  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 04, 2019, 11:41:47 AM
Yes. Why wouldn't you? Though the odds of winning one of the cash prizes are astronomical, especially when you consider only one person from the entire site can win each so even if you managed to get the correct scores right if someone else did and they have more points than you overall then they will win. Pretty shitty but I guess they can't afford to send prizes out to everyone who gets them right.

Near impossible to win those prizes. If anybody really thinks they have a chance of winning them they should put £1 or $1 on their predictions every weekend because if they get the top prize it will be a lot more than £50,000. I can tell you that for sure Cheesy

of course it is, but here I see this opportunity as a lottery, and the possibility of winning is equal too  Wink

Yeah, I wouldn't put money on those sort of odds but just see it as a free lottery. Your odds of winning the lottery are astronomical, but people do win it and as they say you've got to be in it to win it. It's not like you have to do anything extra anyway and it's just there in the background. Would be cool if someone from here won something though. You never know, someone might get lucky. I wouldn't even think about it though and just concentrate on doing your best in the pool. It's why it's worth taking the risk with some picks though as there's always going to be some upset or crazy score nobody sees or predicts but that's half the fun.
1865  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 03, 2019, 02:20:07 PM
@hillariousetc why do these rewards differ from the ones in the 1st post?

Not sure which ones I should be looking at.

Those are the prizes from the previous pool. I'll update them later.
1866  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 03, 2019, 01:41:24 PM
Yes. Why wouldn't you? Though the odds of winning one of the cash prizes are astronomical, especially when you consider only one person from the entire site can win each so even if you managed to get the correct scores right if someone else did and they have more points than you overall then they will win. Pretty shitty but I guess they can't afford to send prizes out to everyone who gets them right.
1867  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 03, 2019, 12:38:11 PM
Is it only highest (winning) scores for each individual match week?
I scored 16 in match week 4. Does it only count for the match week leader?

Yes. I've just been counting the 'yellow caps'.

Wait, what? There's a reward for that too? Grin

Yes. In addition to the main top five places there are 5 consolation prizes for the highest scorers in a round so even if it becomes apparent that you're unlikely to win a top spot you're still in with a chance of winning something:

Main prizes (minus any fees if there's not enough to cover it):

0.04 1st
0.03 2nd
0.02 3rd
0.01 4th
0.005 5th

Consolation prizes:

0.005 1st
0.0025 2nd
0.0025 3rd
0.0025 4th
0.0025 5th
1868  Other / Meta / Re: Prediction of sport games on: September 03, 2019, 09:28:04 AM
I haven't ever posted in gambling section, but I just checked "gambling discussion". I saw that's full of discussions about sport games.
I think general discussions about gambling and prediction of sport games should be separated into different boards.
Many of posts are not even related to gambling. They are some discussions about football matches and players that are not related to prediction and gambling. Such posts should be removed or should be discussed in "Off-topic".

You're right that most of the mere sport discussion doesn't belong in there if they're not really discussing gambling, and even then it technically probably should be about bitcoin gambling only. The Gambling Discussion board is just a product of sig campaign spam as a lot of campaigns wanted posts in the Gambling board for obvious reasons, but there's only so much you can say about gambling before you exhaust your possibilities, so people started creating threads for every possible league of sport in the world to rack up their posts and meet their quota which dwarfed all the actual threads about bitcoin gambling sites etc so that sub board was created to separate it. I don't suppose it matters really where it but at least it's in its own section so if you or anyone else doesn't want to see it they don't have to.
1869  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 03, 2019, 09:04:05 AM
3 more points for the mighty red men without breaking a sweat & back in 1st place ahead of the international break....just like me in the pool Wink

I didn't realise there was an international break. Boring.

Top five highest scorers so far:

cryptofrka 16.5
hilariousandco 14.5
Sojourner 14.5
BitcoinSupremo 13 tied
hahay 13 tied

I'm sure these will all be usurped by much higher scores as the season progresses so don't be disheartened. Everyone is still in with a chance of winning the top prizes as well.

If anyone wants to join the Champions League pool who haven't already signed up please state your interest here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5154317.0

Money will be collected early next week and it'll be around £25 again.
1870  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: August 29, 2019, 11:11:28 AM
I suck so far, position 28 out of 29. Fuck, I need to fo much, much better. Going to do my scores later in the week when I have a chance to really think about them.

Congrats to the leaders, maybe I still have a chance to get a paid prize at the end. It’s still early in the new season.

I really wouldn't worry about your position right now as it's far too early. Everyone is always in for the running for a top score from a round as well, and a couple of good weeks can send you straight to the top. You don't even need to get correct scores as doing well on getting all the outcomes right and especially a close prediction is much better than getting one or two exact scores. The user mattle was mid table for a lot of last season then had a really great run in the last month or so to clinch a top 5 spot. I was the opposite and kind of blew it in the same time-frame and ended up mid table myself. I went straight into 1st position in the 1st week with the highest score from the round and then the last round I barely got two points. It can happen to anyone so all you need to do is just keep trying, but that's the fun of it.

^  Grin

But seriously...  No shill.  It's really fun.  And having the chance to win 1 BTC for making all the correct picks for free?  Yes please.

Is that what’s in your signature? I might go & check it out, never played before bit even though it’s unlikely that’s a great offer. Free to play too?
Yea its completely free I just check you need to have fortunejack account for this now I am also creating account for this.

Yeah, but don't you have to get all the scores exactly right? That's probably some lottery style odds. Probably even much worse to be honest.  It's worth playing though as the stars may align  Grin. Don't forget superbru also offer cash prizes for correct scorelines: https://www.superbru.com/premierleague_predictor/prize_jackpot.php



1871  Other / Meta / Re: Referral Link In Post Is Allowed? on: August 29, 2019, 10:58:52 AM
Technically they're against the rules, but people kinda started to get a free pass in the Gambling Discussion sub a while back. Personally, I don't really care about them regarding users like tipsters who are giving their picks away for free and include a ref link if anyone wants to put the bet through them. At least they're putting some effort or at least thought into their posts, but I'm sure many others (including mods) would disagree. If someone just signs up to post a ref link though that would be a different story. Theymos will probably say take them on a case by case basis but I'm sure everyone has a different opinion on in what context they should or shouldn't be allowed (especially regarding tipsters).

Does this mean that anyone can open a similar thread (new members excluded), and by posting 2-3 free tips per day promoting referral link/s? To my knowledge, no other tipster promotes referral links in posts.

It doesn't mean anything really. I am only one mod and others may feel differently. As I said, ref links are technically against the rules in most cases and they'll also be taken on a case by case basis but as you said there's not that many that do and I doubt many of them make much from them anyway. Again, I personally am not that bothered by them if someone is being helpful by offering tips but that's just me. Some users clearly put more effort in to them than others. Joca97's use of them seems fine to me, personally.
1872  Other / Meta / Re: Why are newbies allowed to post in the Lending boards? on: August 29, 2019, 10:51:31 AM
Theymos probably doesn't want to restrict users and there will be times when new users will be able to get loans genuine or not, but it's not against the forum rules for them to ask with or without collateral and it's something the staff wouldn't get involved with anyway so it's left up to the users to police. The lending section is mostly pointless to me anyway. I think most of the people who use it do so just to try easily build up some reputation or easily get some positive feedback. Taking out a loan when you have adequate collateral seems silly to me. Why do you need a loan if you have the money in something else? I wouldn't necessarily be against restricting it to certain users, but I think it's best just to leave it as it is because people will still come here to ask for loans whether they're allowed in that section or not. For those that do it's best just to tell them that they're almost certainly not going to get a loan without some form of collateral.
1873  Other / Meta / Re: Referral Link In Post Is Allowed? on: August 27, 2019, 01:05:36 PM
Technically they're against the rules, but people kinda started to get a free pass in the Gambling Discussion sub a while back. Personally, I don't really care about them regarding users like tipsters who are giving their picks away for free and include a ref link if anyone wants to put the bet through them. At least they're putting some effort or at least thought into their posts, but I'm sure many others (including mods) would disagree. If someone just signs up to post a ref link though that would be a different story. Theymos will probably say take them on a case by case basis but I'm sure everyone has a different opinion on in what context they should or shouldn't be allowed (especially regarding tipsters).
1874  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: August 26, 2019, 09:32:05 AM
2.5 points from that round total lol. Can't believe Spurs lost to Newcastle and at home. Nobody predicted that outcome, not unexpectedly. I have Newcastle to go down on an accumulator as well. Spurs can't be throwing points away like that if they want to stay in the running for the title, but I think it's going to be down to Liverpool and City all the way.

Highest scorers so far in the running for the consolation prizes (though I expect all of these will be surpassed fairly quickly):

hilariousandco 14.5
Sojourner 14.5
BitcoinSupremo 13 tied
hahay 13 tied
1875  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: PayPal payments are just a 6 month loan on: August 20, 2019, 08:08:51 AM
Think of it as an escrow service. Do most escrows work for free? Whilst Paypal fees can be a lot, I'm sure bitcoin escrow fees are pretty similar, but there's always going to be a price to pay for the security they offer. I'd much rather have the security of PayPal with using a new website as I know if there's any issues I'll be able to get my money back. Of course it's that's same loophole that allows fraudsters to flourish but at least I'm not doing anything wrong and I know my money is protected in case of issues.

Even using old services such as bitpay or btcpay do you prefer PayPal?

Bitpay is now demanding kyc, but PayPal requires even more invasive verification. And PayPal is certainly more expensive.
I think it is much better to use cryptocurrencies, because this "custodial service" has many drawbacks (you just don't own your own money and pay very high fees for not owing it, and the risk of being frozen)

Edit: for a customer perspective it may be useful, because PayPal offer more security because you can't be scammed (as Lucius said). If it were may website I would charge 2-5% more on every PayPal payment.

I prefer using PayPal when necessary. It's great for ebay and other such online services. One or two clicks and you don't have to give the site your bank details and you're also protected if anything goes wrong. It's obviously not perfect and every business has to make money but we need payment processors regardless of whether you're using fiat or crypto. Which ones you use is entirely up to you and if there's cheaper/better ones people should vote with action. I haven't sold anything on ebay in years mostly due to their fees, but I still buy lots from there and it's the sellers who have to pay the price of fees not the buyers luckily. 

why PP is allow 6 months to buyer to make chargeback? From sellers point of view this is very bad business practice, and one I would never use to sell something.

Well it's the same with Credit Cards. In fact, I think they offer even longer, maybe up to a year or something. I've never had a chargeback happen to me that long after. They're normally within a week or two when the person had claimed an item didn't arrive, but I'm sure PP would require some good reasoning as to why you've only just decided to try the charge-back 6 months later.
1876  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: August 20, 2019, 07:55:22 AM
I'm not sure what to go with but I don't think I'd back them to win. Maybe a draw or 1-2 to United. Haven't made my mind up yet but this could be one of those games where the gamble on going for the shock could pay off. Or not.

Oh, and thanks to buwaytress for sponsoring both the pools.
'

ManU winning by at least 2 goals tonight, for sure for sure Smiley.

You were saying?  Grin It seems a lot of people backed the draw last night and most at 1-1. I did think about changing it to 1-2 but glad I stuck to my guns this time. Nice to see both Manchester's dropping two points from this round.

Costly missed pen.  Embarrassed

Not for me. Thanks Pogba for the 3 points  Grin.

I had prediction United to win 2:1. I backed them because I thought that Wolves might focus on upcoming Europa league qualifier against Torino on Thursday. Not a best schedule for them - match against MU on Monday and against Torino on Thursday.
It was terrible week for me - I got just 5 points in total and dropped by 9 positions to 15th place. But still, long way to go, I hope that I still can recover.

I didn't do that great either really. Got 6 nul points but 2 close and 2 correct scores from the last two games, which was just enough for me two creep back into first. Had I not got the last two right it would have been a disastrous round.
1877  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Would this finally be a real Satoshi? on: August 20, 2019, 07:47:07 AM
There is only one true fake Satoshi and that is Craig Wright  Grin.

If the real satoshi wanted to make himself known I'm sure he could easily do it in multiple ways. But ask yourself this, why did the real satoshi go to such great lengths to hide his identity. It's almost like he didn't want to be found. These other guys seem desperate to be found and want to make you believe they are satoshi just for their own financial gain. Again, if the real satoshi did want to re-appear, I'm sure he would and could easily prove it in multiple ways (unless he's dead, then probably impossible).

He is an obvious fraud. He is now shilling an ICO:




Well there you go. He's just trying to get attention to promote something he's involved in. Case closed.

Quote
https://satoshinrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/laptop-cleaned.jpg
This image was recorded with an Iphone X on August 5, 2019. Even the geo information is available. Faketoshi is from UK:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.464069&mlon=-2.336669&zoom=15#map=17/53.46335/-2.33564

Damn. I'm busted.
1878  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BitcoinNews.com's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: August 19, 2019, 01:07:41 PM
<°°°>
Hopefully these figure will be worth a lot more by the end of the season, which finishes a week before the halving.


Love the sound of that

Well the opposite is also true as well. I think we'll be up by the season ends as long as bitcoin doesn't tank during the season and then it has a long way to climb back up before the halving to get back to where it is now.

So no one, was willing to gamble on Wolves winning lol we're putting a lot of hopes on united neglecting the fact wolves are playing at home. Hope they don't disappoint.

I'm not sure what to go with but I don't think I'd back them to win. Maybe a draw or 1-2 to United. Haven't made my mind up yet but this could be one of those games where the gamble on going for the shock could pay off. Or not.

Oh, and thanks to buwaytress for sponsoring both the pools.
1879  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: I already have a Bank attached with paypal account? Why should we use Bitcoin? on: August 19, 2019, 01:01:53 PM
Do people still use PayPal? I gave up when PayPal itself tried to scam me to boost their profits, and I realised that there is a 6 month confirmation time on a PayPal payment. You can lose the funds within that window for a whole load of unreasonable ( in my opinion ) reasons.

A Bitcoin payment is fast and secure, and cannot be reversed to boost some banker's profits.

PayPal, as well as payment processors (including bitcoin based ones) have their place, especially regarding payment protection. Do you use ebay? Pretty much impossible to use it without it really, and I really wouldn't like to buy something from certain sellers without some sort of third party protection. Same goes for certain bitcoin purchases. Of course in an ideal world we wouldn't need them but sadly we do.

I don't understand how can someone pay 2- 5% fees for every payment made or received and ask "why should I use anything else?"

Don't people believe in math?

Op, you shouldn't be using PayPal at all, they are just robbing you with abusive fees.

Think of it as an escrow service. Do most escrows work for free? Whilst Paypal fees can be a lot, I'm sure bitcoin escrow fees are pretty similar, but there's always going to be a price to pay for the security they offer. I'd much rather have the security of PayPal with using a new website as I know if there's any issues I'll be able to get my money back. Of course it's that's same loophole that allows fraudsters to flourish but at least I'm not doing anything wrong and I know my money is protected in case of issues.
1880  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: I already have a Bank attached with paypal account? Why should we use Bitcoin? on: August 19, 2019, 08:35:19 AM
I am little confused.. . I have already a bank account/debit card with paypal account. So can anyone please, explain me the benefits of bicoin wallet  something else.. .. As I am newbie I am little confused.. .. !! !!

The main point of bitcoin is that you can be your own bank and no third party or bank account is needed. Maybe this is unnecessary for you, but for many others it's not. Some people don't or can't have a bank account and bitcoin is a solution to that. Many people are also treating bitcoin like a speculative asset as well where there's money to be made from trading or even holding it (know as hodling here), but that doesn't come without risk. If none of that interests you then bitcoin might not be for you, but I think everyone should try own a little bit of bitcoin whether it's to hold as a long-term investment or just to be a part of the revolution. What you do with it is entirely up to you though.
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