Score!  I've always liked the Watford jersey with the big BTC on the sleeve.

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I just noticed the title of the thread has changed, Is sportsbet.io no longer sponsoring Arsenal FC?

I might be dating myself here, but I seem to recall all the ones we had growing up were red, not black.  My favorite recess game was kickball, and IIRC we used the same balls for all those schoolyard games.

Thanks for the nostalgia.  

The other problem is that many of the account traders operating here are pure scum, and it's hard to perceive them as victims.  Like in this situation, for example:

Why is anyone buying a bank account, when it's free to create your own?  Maybe because you don't want your name associated with one?  And who would sell their own with their real identity attached?
 NO ONE!  So, how was the account obtained?

The only thing I do know is that I really don't want to know.  Account sales are among the worst thing that goes on here, and I wouldn't mind to see theymos ban them all.

Agreed, if we can schedule for the weekend before the first kick-off, that would be best.


I think we've got folks from all over the world here, actually.  At least one member from Europe, and at least one American ex-pat hiding out in eastern Asia.  Weekends would be best for me, I tend to be early riser, which means I go to bed early too.

I don't mind the small league.  It means I'm guaranteed a spot in the playoffs.  

Just as a part of the discussion; not a recommendation for this league:  Now that the NFL year is 18 weeks, I think 16 teams would be the ideal number.  That way each team plays each other once, and only half the teams make it into the playoffs.

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I also like the current crew, prefer we keep things small for now.

I tend to agree, with the OP to some extent.  Even though there's nothing to indicate the project is a scam, it should be clear to any rational person it has a snow ball's chance in hell to succeed.  The more senior members of the forum, and Royse777 being one, should have a bit more scrutiny to the projects they promote.

From a perspective of ethics and sensibilities, I find the project to be rather misogynistic and tacky.  I have nothing against porn, everything in it's own place and for it's own time.  The graphics are in poor taste, and they link to a site that's should have an NSFW warning.

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That's where we differ.  My sensibilities are mine, and I have to own them.  There's nothing here that would cause me to suspect Royse777 is risky to do business with, regardless of whether we differ on what's appropriate to discuss in polite society.

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In a perfect world, yes.  

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Yeah, I'm good with 0.0015, but lets make sure suchmoon doesn't try to pull another fast one.

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I have no problem with this, happy to help out assuming no one objects.  And, of course I'll do it free of charge.

Regarding escrow, we should decide somewhat soon so the address can be available for a few weeks before the deadline.  That'll allow us to send our stake with cheap fees.  Mempool is clear and fees are low right now, but who knows if it'll stay that way.

This has been going on since March, but for some reason it's gotten really prolific over the last few weeks.


It's quite odd to say the least.  There does seem to be some sincerity to that post, but it could be just a ruse by a LiveCoin sock puppet.  It's hard to believe that LiveCoin is actually offering refunds, but if they are, they picked the most obnoxious way to go about it.  

If it's true that LiveCoin are offering refunds it could be they're trying to repair their reputation, possibly to resurrect the exchange.  But why?  As far as I know the operators were anonymous, so they could just start fresh with new name and not contend with the stigma of the "LiveCoin" name.  Even if they are returning funds out of ethical and moral convictions, why do so in a way that keeps promoting the fiasco in the first place?

The whole thing just makes so little sense.

The Concacaf Gold Cup is under way, it started last night with Mexico and Trinidad Tobago playing the first match in Arlington Texas.  Everyone expected Mexico to run away with it, but Soca Warriors held on to a scoreless draw.  A big win for Trinidad Tobago. 

Qatar's national team is an invited guest for this competition.

The USA plays Haiti later today, obviously I'm rooting for the US to take the cup!

This one post newbie asking for a no collateral loan:


Then for his second post he offers this gem:

That's not valid collateral.  Obviously you didn't read the post to which I provided a link.  Identification documents can easily be faked, and none of the lenders here have the ability to verify your their authenticity.

That's not how things work around here.  One-Post-Newbies don't get loans without providing valid collateral.  Read this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.msg6311902#msg6311902

It'll be best if you lock this thread now before you get your first red-tag, the button to lock the thread is in the lower left-hand corner of the page.

Adding to ranochigo's comments; assuming you have 100 current inputs in one or more addresses, and you're limited to 20 UTXOs per transaction, you can turn those 100 UTXOs into 5.

In Electrum make sure you have your addresses tab and your coins tab visible.  On the menu bar select View>Show Addresses, and View>Show Coins.

From the Coins tab you can select one input to spend, or multiple inputs to send together.  From the Addresses tab you select a specific address to spend from, which will select all the inputs to that address.  Also from the Addresses tab you can select an address you want to use to receive the inputs.  You can send the inputs the same address they are coming from, another used address, or select an unused address.

Once you've decided on the inputs to consolidate, send them all to your chosen internal address with the lowest possible fees; 1 satoshi per byte.  Then once all the applicable inputs have been consolidated you can send the consolidated inputs to the recipient.  You don't have to wait for the consolidation transactions to confirm, the default settings in Electrum allow to spend unconfirmed transactions.  If you sent them all to the same address you can select that address from the Addresses tab and send the desired amount to the recipient.  This method is referred to as Child Pays For Parent (CPFP.)  To help pay for all the parent transactions you'll want to use a slightly higher than normal fee for the child transaction.  Make the fee appropriate for your spending needs, then add a few more sats/byte.  This method should help you save a little bit on fees.

Spyware schmyware!  Are you not aware that you can set up Windows with a local account, and provide no personal information?  Okay, so Windows is not open-source, but if you're personal information is also "closed-source," spyware problem solved.  If your privacy is a significant concern you're probably already using Tor or VPN for IP masking.  Unencrypted data you transfer through the internet is more likely to divulge personal details than anything I'm likely to save on OneDrive, and a warrant isn't required.


Of course there's more risk to Windows than other systems, because hackers want results.  If everyone took your advice and started using Linux, do you think that hackers would continue to only target Windows?  Hacking a Windows box, or writing malware to attack Windows isn't any easier than it would be for other systems.  In fact, with all the closed-source anti-malware features built into Windows these days, I would reckon it's harder.  It makes perfect sense that hackers would target the most commonly used operating system just because it's the most commonly used operating system, regardless of difficulty.

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It's perfectly fine to not like Windows because Bill Gates, NSA, ABC, XYZ... but, it's disingenuous to promote this theory that if you don't use Windows somehow your privacy is magically protected, and you're invulnerable to being hacked.  That's far from the truth.  If you don't know how to keep your data private or your computer safe, no OS will protect you.  Educating yourself, your family, and your colleagues is the only safe course of action, and promoting any alternate theory is dangerous.

Sounds fine to me, I really don't care.  We could tally up our predictions from last year and let the biggest loser pick first. 

Admins and Mods,
Please take a moment to investigate what's going on with the Livecoin service discussion thread.  Even thought Livecoin has ceased operations and is out of business, the thread is being spammed by a bunch of newbie accounts that appear to be shills, bots, or both.  The typical reasons for reports don't seem to apply to the individual posts (incentivized posting, maybe?) so I'm afraid reporting them won't help.  Others have already done so, to no avail.

There's a discussion in the Reputation board about the issue which includes more details:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5328907.0

Please lock or nuke the thread.

I know it doesn't take much to confuse me, so I'm glad I'm not the only one.  The livecoin site isn't up anymore, but the domain is still there.  Back in April I would have agreed that this was some backhanded tactic to drive up the stats for the site to which the livecoin domain was forwarding.  But there's no meta redirect anymore, what's the endgame now?

In the last 24 hours there have been 15 posts claiming to have received their 50% reimbursement, and a single one by an account with more that 2 posts total.  They're obviously sock puppet shills.  What's the point of shilling for a defunct exchange that has no web presence?  Maybe they're still trying to drive traffic to the domain in hopes of selling it to some unsuspecting noob.

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I'm not sure if reporting the posts will help, so I started a thread in Meta: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5348543.0
Hopefully that attract attention from Theymos or other admins, and we'll get some results.

Lol, this reminds me of when I bought a new truck:  The salesman asked me if I want to add Paint Protection...  WTF?  Why the hell are they selling a $60k truck without automatically adding in a $300 feature that protects the $600 upgraded paint job?  Did they think I wasn't going to buy the truck if it was priced at $60,300?  

Obviously my anecdote is a different scale of expense, the PanzerGlass (love the name) adds almost 50% to the price of a Trezor One.  Just an up-sell, and means more money for the retailer.  And I agree with HCP that it's not as important on a hardware wallet as it would be on a phone.

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That's just Ledger's implementation of a Bip39 passphrase (extension.)  Trezor does that also, it's just implemented a slightly different way.

https://wiki.trezor.io/Passphrase

All OSs are vulnerable to malware and phishing attacks.  The only way to avoid being victimized is to educate yourself, and be diligent.  The OS you choose will not save you from mistakes.  

I've been using computers since Commodore 64s were all the rage.  I used Apple IIs and the first generation of Macs when I was in junior high and high school.  My first version of Windows was 3.2, and I've used every version since, including enterprise versions and some server versions.  Currently I use Ubuntu for a variety of tasks, and most of my servers run a version of Linux.  My daughters prefer Macs, so I've had a couple of those around the house for the last decade as well.

Those of us who have industrial engineering jobs, those of use who use CAD to earn our living, those of us who must interact with other people around the planet who use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the like...  How hard would we be making our lives trying contribute while using some buggy shitware?  All the best quality and most practical business and industrial software is written for Windows, and only Windows.  So yes, my main personal computer is built to run Windows, and that's the only way I'll have it.  Not because I don't know what else is out there or because I don't know how to use anything else.  It's because I like it, it works great for my needs, and it's been quite safe when I do my part.

When I say that I find Windows to be among the most versatile, useful, and dependable OSs of all that I've used, it does come from a place of experience.  So, you'll have to forgive me for not taking the advice of some newbie on an internet forum when he says things like "i suggest not using windows."

Wow, what a spectacular end to that match.  Very exciting.  Congrats to England on the win and congrats to Denmark for their historic run.

I was holding my breath there at the end, I had U13.5 corners in my parlay and those last few started to get me worried. 

Don't download anything posted in this thread, especially the files posted by newbies.  Lot's of shady links being posted here, even by members who should know better.

Since you want to play around with "wallet.dat" files, I'm assuming you're talking about the wallet files generated by Bitcoin Core.  The best way to learn about bitcoin, bitcoin core, and wallet.dat files is to run your own node on Testnet.

The testnet blockchain isn't very big, won't take too long to synchronize, and you can do anything with it that you can do on mainnet.

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I suggest learning how to keep your computer safe regardless of which operating system you use.  All OSs vulnerable, and even more so if you're unfamiliar with it.