Pacman couldn't even knock out Adrien Broner... Do you really think that GGG wouldn't have stopped Broner COLD?

Pacman is also struggling to maintain his knockout ratio lately—only one KO in his last 10 fights, and that was against glass-chin Lucas Matthysse. For comparison, GGG knocked out both Vanes Martirosyan and Steve Rolls lately, and only narrowly lost against the GOAT Canelo. Before that, he was blitzing out everyone and still has a knockout rate of over 80%.

I honestly think Pacman would be stupid to take on this fight, though it would definitely be a huge payday. I expect GGG will deliver a brutal KO the likes Pacman has never seen before.

They're both getting old to be honest, but I think that Golovkin is just too big for Pacquiao, particularly now that the Pacman is over 40 years old.

GGG was competitive with Canelo back in their last two bouts and that was just a couple of years ago. Everybody knows that Canelo is one of the greatest to ever do it in any weight class, and GGG managed to keep up the pace and arguably won their first fight.

I know that Pacman is a multi-weight champion, but I think this is biting off more than he can chew. I also think it would be his highest ever weight fight as I'm sure GGG isn't going to come down in weight.

I predict this will be the fight Pacman gets retired in. GGG is a god damn savage, he will probably knock Manny clean out if he hits him with the same bombs that Canelo took.

There's no such thing as a best altcoin, and anybody telling you to invest in altcoins around here is likely just shilling the project.

If you're not willing to put the work in and do your own research (DYOR), then you're going to get rekt, I can promise you that.

How about spending some time scrolling through the micro-cap coins on Coingecko or CoinMarketCap and seeing which ones YOU believe are undervalued.

If you don't learn how to assess projects now and instead rely on "suggestions" from the community, you'll always blame others for your inevitable losses. Keep it in house and you'll only have yourself to blame.

You'll definitely find that a good fraction of compulsive gamblers are using their "hobby" as a way to escape something else in their life.

However, it's the equivalent of weaning off nicotine by getting addicted to heroin instead. One does not fix the other, it actually just puts them in a different issue.

I've actually tried to help a few people out that I believed were in this situation, but sometimes they're so deep down the rabbit hole that they're unlikely to ever climb out. Especially when they start getting into debt and then need to play compulsively and take huge risks to pay it back.

It's a shame really. Gambling doesn't need to be destructive at all, but people's lack of self control makes it that way sometimes. I guess it's similar to over-eating. Everybody needs to eat, but once you start doing so compulsively, odds are your just damaging your body.

So are you looking to hire people, or are you looking for volunteers? If it's the latter, what do they get out of it?

There's far too many people trying to solicit free labour on this forum, so it would need to be something truly special to be worth the hassle.

You didn't paint a convincing picture with your opening post that's for sure.

I think 32 ETH is a fair amount for staking, it's far lower than the requirement for something like DASH or many other PoS coins.

In any case, I don't think that the new Caspar upgrade will necessarily be that big of a deal. We need to see whether it really brings the performance benefits that Vitalik claims it will. If it's only marginal, then I don't think we'll see a huge pump.

The community are acting like ETH 2.0 is going to be some sort of technological revolution of sorts. If it can truly blow away competing platforms like TRON and Cardano, then I believe it can approach Bitcoin's success —but it probably won't overtake it.

Why not reach out to some of the most popular escrows here on the forum?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0

Hedgy73 maintains a list of some of the currently active escrows. There, you'll find people like minerjones and OgNasty, who have been offering escrow services for years here on the forum. I'm sure they'll be best poised to help with your platform. I'm sure some of the less popular ones on the list will jump at the chance to scale up their operations.

It's not so simple to just exit the economy in some places.

There are government mandated money controls in place which prevent people from freely using their fiat currency.  If they can't even use their fiat currency, then they certain can't use their capital to purchase Bitcoin.

And even if they did, how would they spend their Bitcoin in places with an authoritarian government? When zero places accept Bitcoin due to the risk of prosecution?

It's all very well and easy to say something like this when you live in a free democracy or a liberal country at least, but in many places it's a pipe dream.

I wouldn't be surprised if Craig Wright doesn't manage to get his hands on the domain after it gets handed over.

After all, he could secretly reach out to all the major candidates and offer them a large sum to part ways with the domain if they're selected. So long as this agreement is made under an NDA, Wright really doesn't have much to lose.

I'm sure he would keep it 100% under the radar anyway even if he did get it, but maybe this could be part of his myriad tactics to delegitimize or attack Bitcoin.

Then again, Wright has proven himself to be all mouth and no action. He's threatened to reveal critical flaws in Bitcoin and dump the market numerous times now, so I doubt he actually intends to do harm to the network.

I don't know about never.

Basically what you're saying is that it shouldn't be anonymous to prevent it from being banned or attacked by governments.

However, if (or when) Bitcoin achieves dominance over fiat currencies, it won't be possible for governments to simply take it down, since the economy would be built around Bitcoin.

Once that happens, it would be completely fine for it to switch on an anonymity update, since by that point it's not going anywhere anyway.

That said, I don't see the need when BTC is easily interchangeable with Monero, and preventing address reuse and using a proxy is enough to prevent most tracking anyway.

$1 trillion per Bitcoin, or a $1 trillion market cap? It's already been over $300 billion before, so achieving $1 trillion is certainly within the realm of possibility.

However, it certainly won't ever achieve $1 trillion per BTC, since that would equal a market cap of 21 quadrillion USD, which I believe is higher than the total asset + fiat + credit values of everything on earth.

In any case, he should at least post some supporting evidence with his bold statement. Though I believe he is correct, how do you arrive at $1 trillion? To me, it seems like it should be closer to $3.5 trillion—given that the market cap is currently $170 billion and only around 5% or less of the world's popular has invested in BTC (probably closer to 1% overall.)

I don't think it's necessarily all because of the audience.

Sure, having the entire audience against you can definitely be draining, while being cheered for is a huge motivation, but I think it's also the result of the way the games are judged on home turf. Teams playing on home turf seem to be more likely to get favorable decisions when issues arise mid-game. This can lead to opposition players being disqualified more, home team getting away with slight cheating etc.

That said, I do think the crowd is a huge aspect of it, so the gap might be closed if we don't have live audience games anymore.

Congratulations to Willem551 for his chunky Ethereum lottery win earlier today;



1.2 ether won with less than 2% of all tickets. Pretty sweet!

https://twitter.com/Crypto_Games/status/1268406401514106880

Don't forget, Crypto.Games' lottery has no house edge! 100% of ticket sales are distributed to the winning players.

Whenever I'm playing online poker on something like Pokerstars I'll use a tool known as a HUD (heads up display).

This basically allows me to keep track of opponent hands much better, identify when they bluffed (bluff rate) and other useful metrics for the game. However, it also allows me to keep track of my profit/loss account and EV—even going so far as to break down my wins and losses against particular players, so I can identify whether to play cautiously or just go hard trying to felt the table.

I'm sure similar software exists for other casino games, but if not, it's quite simple to track it in a spreadsheet.

It goes down practically every time there is a dramatic surge in volume, and every time they say they've implemented a fix.

However, sure enough, the next time Bitcoin or the crypto market surges—down goes Coinbase again.

You would think that they would be using some sort of elastic server system similar to AWS, but it seems that the problem is actually on the infrastructure side. Their matching algorithm simply can't keep up with demand and the platform just crashes.

It even happens when the surge is less significant than previous surges, indicating they haven't really done anything when they say they've fixed it, or if they have, they roll back the changes when the volume returns to normal. Not ideal, but what can we do?

Litecoin hasn't really seen any major developments in recent years. In fact, I'm not quite sure why it's still a top 10 cryptocurrency.

Sure, it's cheap to use and transactions confirm fast.... But isn't that most cryptocurrencies nowadays? I mean, you can send DASH and have it confirm practically instantly for almost free, why isn't that worth more than Litecoin?

The answer is, because Litecoin was one of the first and it still has a popular mining community.

Looking at the Litecoin Github, there really hasn't been many changes over the last two years: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin

This is roughly when Charlie Lee sold out, so maybe it's on its final build and won't be getting any better any time soon.

We're not interested in legal information.

We want audits and evidence.

If you're going to ask people to invest in and hold your silver-pegged stablecoin, you're going to need to give us all the assurance that you're actually legitimate.

I also kind find anything about your business model on your site... How does your company make money? Are you going to lend out investor money just like Tether does?

Definitely looking for more player v player gambling sites. There are far too many of these in the cryptosphere, which isn't ideal for somebody who is ultra-competitive like me.

I also think I'd like to see more skill based games, these are also few and far between not just in the crypto space but in brick and mortar casinos too. I guess a lot of casinos are worried about the games being botted or scripted to neutralize the house edge—that's certainly possible, but I think if they made a very complex game then AIs or scripts would have little use.

Why can't we just get a good online shooter where people need to wager their Bitcoin each game? Like counterstrike, but every game costs like $1 or so?

That's the Ethereum burn address.

It's essentially an address which nobody has the private keys to, and is used to burn tokens or ethereum, reducing the circulating supply.

Some ERC20 smart contracts have a function that will automatically burn tokens at fixed period, potentially forcing holders to perform a mainnet swap when the option is available.

It also stops testnet tokens being traded when the new mainnet coin is out. Overall, whatever was sent isn't coming back out.