so, just kinda throwing this out there. it's probably already being done, i'm no professional, totally pulling this out of thin air, etc, but figured we could talk about it. maybe you guys know of something already in the works i can look at or something.

as we all know, the BTC blockchain gives us a record of every transaction that's ever happened and it more or less can't be altered. more accurately, it grows increasingly hard to alter the longer it exists, i suppose.

well, enter orwell's 1984, fake news, photoshop, deep fakes, etc.

there's a need for a verifiable, unalterable record of ...well, everything. history itself. it sort of already exists in the internet itself - nothing ever really gets deleted, right? but that's kind of ad hoc and random and really difficult to track down when it could be urgent. ideally we'd have something that could be referenced in courts, in politics, as absolute irrefutable, unarguable, hard fact. "at this time, in this place, this thing happened." full stop, period, end of.

no more editing someone out of a photo with a leader, like the soviets famously did. sure they could edit the photo and share it like it was the original, but then someone comes along and shows, nope, that's fake, and here's the proof. a hard record of fact checking, basically.

i'm not exactly sure on HOW this would work mind you - is it some sort of bot scraping articles for dates, events, pictures and video? well if so, how do we know the articles are posting real things, and not, say, the onion and it's satire?

and obviously there's issues with why would people bother to mine it and build the blockchain - i don't mean this as some kind of "TruthCoin" - not to mention who'd manage it to determine what goes into the record.

and it also obviously couldn't verify any event that happened before it was activated. you'd have to start from zero, really, just like BTC's value...

anyway - you get the idea. a record, via blockchain, that's about factual events and proves they happened and can't be altered.

can it be done? is it being done? SHOULD it be done? how could it be done?

federal reserve, despite the name, isn't a part of the government, they're separate from it. and, effectively, yea, they're the final authority on printing money. ...sort of.

see, they don't print it, the mint's do, for coin, and the bureau of engraving and printing does for bills, at least as far as physical ones go. obviously not all money is physical...

the federal reserve effectively loans the government money by, yes, creating it out of nothing. the government is then supposed to pay it back with interest, which is where the fed's changing rates to effect the economy and inflation coems from, if i understand it right.

these loans are then used as limits on what can be printed or spent.

i'm probably horribly, horribly wrong, by the way. don't take anything i'm saying here as hard truth.

but yes, they're effectively the final word.

...except for banks. you've heard of fractional reserve banking? a bank has 10,000 dollars init's holdings, but can loan out 100,000, say.  well, what happens when bob gets a loan from Bank A and deposits it at Bank B? bank B add's it to it's holdings of course. which it can loan against...

but that's getting quite off topic...

as others have said or implied, there's a bunch of details here that effect this.

there's the bitcoin network itself, which has fees varying as mario described.

then there's fees the poker site itself might charge to deposit.

then there's where ever you got the bitcoin in the first place. let's say coinbase, an exchange for trading one currency, say US dollars, for another, say, bitcoin.

what'll happen is this - you'll deposit money into your account on the exchange - likely incurring a fee from your bank and a fee from their bank.

then you'll trade the US Dollars for BTC - possibly another fee here.

then yu'll withdraw the BTC from the exchange - another fee - and send it to your poker site - here's where the bitcoin network itself comes in with it's fee.

then your BTC is deposited at your poker site and you're able to play as you please.

all told, it shouldn't cost very much - in a crazy horrible "everyone is charging huge fees" scenario you might be looking at 25 bucks or something, on a guess.

also, just case it needs to be said - if you are gambling as an american citizen on a website... it's almost certainly illegal at the federal level. choose wisely, or at least don't get caught.

honestly. it's actually kind of sad how long he's kept this up, without ever actually proving it...

i only just now noticed how many of the avatars in here are hats...

got our own dang culture in here.

thanks! had no idea how to find that.

right!?

and of course your post is immediately followed by an on topic, serious post with actual useful data. love it.

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i'll change the sig and avatar if accepted.

gods do i hear ya. i work in video games, so i'm in the thick of it, in a way. i will often just read a book at the end of the day or work with some hand tools and actually make something...

or, you know, bust out the legos...

man just readying that hurt my head. i am so glad i never got into apple products...

not that windows is remotely perfect, mind you...

this is probably your best bet, assuming you have some idea what that passwordis but your just slightly wrong. like it's password123 but you're trying PassWord321 or the like.

425k per btc to equal the ENTIRE gold supply in the market? honestly, i'm a little surprised it's that low.

but then, if i recall correctly, all the gold out there could fit in a cube 100 feet square or something insane like that.

the long term logarithmic charts are always fascinating to me. just those repeated spikes, over and over. sure only a handful of times so far, but we're talking a mere decade.

ok, that is actually really cool. i need to read more on that...

guys, help, i'm scared, i agree with JJG.

yea, we're a long, long way from stable. and yea, I agree, we're in another slump of down like we've seen multiple times before, and each time before there was, eventually, a climb, then a spike. this is what, the 4th or fifth time in the last decade?

it's a scam. definitely.

i've used bitcoin ATM's in america. once, several weeks ago. the ATM did not require anything like what you are describing.

do not EVER send someone money expecting them to send you more money back. ever. as an example: did you mother call you from her death bed and ask you to send five dollars so she can send you 50? it's a scam. it's not your mother, they are lying.

SCAM. do NOT send money to this person or anyone associated with them, EVER.

well yea, but that's just how sideways goes... i mean, an actual stable currency would have tiny movements, never really changing by any large amount... least we're not seeing that.

hey, i remember that!

ah, right.

as to the ...next post... i... i have many questions.

none of which i actually want to be answered.

...wat?

also, why would being at slush mean you get nothing? you just mean the whole pooled mining situation generally or is there an issue with slush?