All these problems and fears could be easily solved with a wallet that you own. A hardware wallet is most secure but even a paper wallet is more secure than storing your coins on an exchange wallet. Buy your coins P2P and you do not need to even go near an exchange (unless you are a daytrader, but in that case I would still recommend keeping your coins off exchanges, if not in Bitcoin because the withdrawal fees are too high then at least in the form of a cheap withdrawal alternative like XRP). But thats really all you need to do to keep your funds safe...

Be your own bank.

Why would nuclear launch site strikes even mean that Russia cannot use nukes anymore? Both Russia and US have nukes and launch systems moving around secretly and swiftly. And anyway nukes is a suicide button that cannot be unpressed. At this point, I do not even care anymore since neither country is dumb enough or desperate enough to light up the world over some land. Thats what the world leaders think to themselves, I would bet. Still, playing with fire like this is dangerous and needs to be stopped before something happens that everyone regrets.

I have yet to hear about a online gambling casino being hacked. I have heard many times about crypto exchanges getting hacked, but never a casino. Maybe gambling casinos just have way better security and/or easier code? I am sure that the casinos are working together with the partnered exchanges to hedge their risks and have some backup plans in case of a hack. They definitely have the money to reimburse any players after a hack, since gambling casinos make such nice profits.

A good reputation is a completely different issue. Any platform can be hack-free and have a bad reputation. But in the case of Fortunejack, their reputation is pretty much spotless.

A perfect chance to neutralize BSV by having it delisted?

Sounds to me that we should try to alert the exchanges to the upcoming danger. If I were running an exchange, I would definitely want to hear about this to hedge my risks and get away from BSV in case shit hits the fan. Not that I am a friend to exchanges nor do I believe the very concept of temporary centralization of your wallet in third party hands will have a future with Bitcoin.

The community could prevent much damage just by spreading fake-toshis plans, so that we can successfully counter them. We might even get BSV delisted everywhere. What a nice thought that is, wouldn't you say?

Also would he be basically committing theft, from a legal standpoint?

I would rather never spend crypto. Its just a huge disappointment to see your coins going down. Instead, why not hedge your coins against fiat and make more coins by trading? Never sell at a loss, never forget to buy at a bargain. Although depending on your individual trading strategy, you might find hodling to be the better of the two options. Either way, coins to me are more valuable then most unnecessary things. The only except is living costs and thats it, really. Apart from those spendings, there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever to throw away coin.

I am not sure of where you you got your numbers and facts from but they are way off and have absolutely nothing to do with reality. You make it sound like there are only a few owners of Bitcoin and that somehow, Bitcoin has become decentralized. This is complete BS and this entire thread is another bear FUD thread which has the sole purpose of scaring newbies and shaky hands into selling.

What are my thoughts on the matter? My thought is that Bitcoin cannot be regulated and therefore its a meaningless fight over who will attempt and fail to regulate cryptocurrencies next.

As long as we are free to hand each other money anonymously, without the government keeping a digital eye on each transaction, there will be no real way to regulate the crypto market. Especially not Bitcoin. So their only choice is to attack the centralized end points like service providers. And there still exist service providers who wish to do their business anonymously. We can see drug dark markets using I2P or TOR as a slightly distasteful example of this. But the proof of concept is there.

So who cares what the regulators think? Bitcoin is unkillable and uncontrollable.

Thats a bit dark. I'll tell them you posted schizophrenic drawings on a magic money internet forum

In the long run, this is a good thing. Especially for Bitcoin. China becomes less reliant on the US, the US becomes less reliant on China. We all stop trying to politically control each other and China can keep on quietly torturing, enslaving, killing and organ-harvesting the "unwanted" peoples of their population.

What a fun time to be alive. Russia is probably going to never touch the dollar again and Bitcoin will finally show itself for what it is.

Namely a third option. One which remains stable as the one global money.

I agree that we should always keep our coins off exchanges as much as humanly possible but I think you might be panicking a bit too soon about that Faketoshi will get what he wants or even close to it. Justice will prevail and he will keep on being fake-toshi with nothing to show. Nobody will fall for his scam because he has nothing to provide as evidence, nothing to show that he is who he says he is. All he has is a long history of sad and pathetic ego-circle-jerk litigations which always end up him trying and failing to screw someone over to get what he wants. He's a schizo sociopath, there is no other word.

I do not think that shitcoin era will end. It will never be as awesome and grand as the original era of Bitcoin but it will always exist. Why? Because the benefits of blockchain can be individually programmed into a something that a certain business needs. Some businesses do not care about POW but would rather have POS. Others would rather treat their coin as a SNFT. And some want to create an entire ecosystem bubble for themselves and for their project case uses.


So saying there is no need, is not right. But it remains to be said, unless you are the one bringing something new to blockchain, investing in Bitcoin would probably be a better road to take, financially.

So true. A mystery of nature to be sure.


Once again, good fucking luck.

Would it not be easier to do the following:

Step 1: Introduce a ban on the russian SERVICES/GOODS (that you can purchase with Bitcoin) and IP ban Russians (who don't know how to use VPNs) from accessing EU services/goods.

Step 2: Tell voters: "we successfully regulated Bitcoin".

Step 3: Pose with a terrified child for the photo shoot during voting period.

They just get exchanged and sent back to the frontlines.

I really do not understand why people are entertaining this thread? Are the signature bounties really that important that you guys need to fill up every discussion thread with so many useless posts? The newbie has yet to prove himself. Is there anyone with a veteran account who can vouch for him?

Theres a bitcointalk newbie selling "courses" and he would rather do his business in private chats or by contacting him on a protonmail email... Are any of these not red flags?

Call me skeptical but is OP trying to erase any leads pointing to him?

His last posts were two months ago. Time to let the thread die.

As someone already mentioned in an above post, most casino owners do not bother writing their own code from scratch. Why? For the same reason why they do not like it when people start winning big money. Greed, basically. The owners would rather buy some white label code and add some fancy user experience design of their own without changing what runs the games underneath. And from a perspective of cost, its really the smart thing to do. Unless you want to create something which is unique. But why would anyone want a unique casino? Clone copies make the same money.

And those clone copies have gotten so advanced and audited all this time that bug bounties do not make much sense. Its just too hard to find a bug in something like that.

Hmm, well that is true. OP did not provide us with any proof or much details of whats really going on. Most of the complainers here are rule breakers who disregard the terms of service of the online gambling casino they play at and then complain when they get punished. Thats true.

However we also know that casinos do not care about rule breakers as long as the casino makes a profit. Once the casino starts losing money, rule breaker or not, they will find a way to stop the person from taking their money, no matter how unjustified their methods are. So I would not judge too hastily.

I think you might have made your list a bit too long. There are too many variables when it comes to humans. Not everyone values the same things the same ways. Some people do not value money as much as others. Some people value money too much. As far as making money goes, the main issues can be narrowed down to two things. 1. Not having/obtaining a skill and 2. Not spending your money wisely. Plain and simple. Every other problem can be derived or traced back to these two problems.

Also, you need to realise that everyone has a different "broke borderline". Some people see a few thousand dollars a month as broke. Some people are happy with a few hundred dollars a month. Depends on where they live and what their values are, really.

Good on you for being such a good gambler! You must be really good at predicting outcomes if they panicked and put a limit on your betting. Although it seems unfair, and most righteously so, it is a normal phenomenon in the gambling world. In real life, what happens when you sit at for example, a blackjack table and win too often? The casino gets suspicious and kicks you out. Especially if you are winning too much money.

Don't let it get you down, its just the way these things are.

So let me get this right: You first buy decentralized money which you bought because you do not wish it to be in the hands of a single entity that controls what happens to your funds. So you then decide to take that decentralization and centralize it all over again by giving the bank your wallet(s)? That seems to defeat the purpose of Bitcoin, which is to BE YOUR OWN BANK. If you cannot handle the responsibility of handling your own money then I guess you can give it to a relative or a friend and hope he does not steal it, lose it or gamble it away. Same thing will happen if you give it to a bank.

If you're a gamer and you enjoy playing the game over and over again starting from scratch then selling your old accounts then thats fine because that is something you enjoy. There are also gamers who would freak out and have a mental breakdown over having to start from scratch because they enjoy their progress and do not wish to lose it. It really depends on the person in question. Same thing goes for gambling. If you are a gamer transitioning to gambling, you might find a lot of things similiar and enjoyable. But it could also be troublesome learning new concepts.