https://www.reuters.com/technology/grocery-retailer-pick-n-pay-start-accepting-cryptocurrency-payments-2022-11-01/

"One of South Africa's largest grocery retailers Pick n Pay (PIKJ.J) is expanding a pilot of adding cryptocurrency as a payment option to more stores after the successful completion of the first phase..."

"The announcement came weeks after the Financial Sector Conduct Authority formally declared crypto assets as a financial product in South Africa, enabling them to be regulated and clearing the way for cryptocurrency to be a mainstream method of payment."

"Pick n Pay has partnered with Electrum and CryptoConvert on its latest pilot. Electrum's payment platform connects Cryptoconvert and Pick n Pay, letting customers pay with the Bitcoin Lightning technology at the till point, the company added."

I thought it was time to post some positive news, because most news posted here are bad news. 

Elon Musk is not the type of person that goes with the mainstream, he always find ways to be unique. I think he will use some weird token that he invested in prior to the decision being made final to use it. (Like he did with Shiba & Doge)

He might even pay developers to create his own token and then we will see millions of people buying MuskCoins or paying with Elons to go to Mars. 

I have seen discussions where people were saying that Gold prices were being manipulated by Cartels and also Gold companies to keep it stable. The Oil companies are doing this with oil prices, so I guess Gold companies can do this with Gold too.... they just control the supply and the cartels do the rest.  

A lot of the Gold are held in reserve and only sold when the price is going up, so you do not have a pure "Supply & demand" market, where people are trading and the real "Supply & Demand" is determining the price.  

I saw someone posting some odds on one of my local National lotteries, where they said that the odds was 1 in 13,983,816 chance of winning. (I guess the person took out 1 ticket and there were 13,983,816 tickets sold) 

Sport betting can be good for some and bad for others, because it depends on your knowledge about Sports and your skill level with Sport betting. (How you use the odds in your favor)

The Slots depends on the RTP and Variance and also your client seed, so I would rank them as the worst games to play, if you want some ROI. (Some casinos have their own in-house games with a very good RTP, but you will have to test it, before you play it ..to see if it is hot or not) 

Is the Bonus code the same for everyone? I saw this code being posted on the chat ==> https://stake.bet/?bonus=OctoberPostMonthly3110ahB22 .... I do not know if it will work, but you can try it.

If you want to resolve the problem with you not getting the email for the Monthly, please contact "Support" and ask them to re-enable your email notifications... it does not take long for them to fix it. 

Well, I am glad you resolved this with them.... and that you got refunded. It is a pity that you had to resort to Social media, because your relationship with them are now even more muddy than what it was before. (You did mention in a previous post that "they" has always had it out for you)

I think you can "close" this thread now, seeing that it was resolved. I hope to see you betting on the Sports bet again soon, because I need to "Copy & Paste" a few good bets... because most of my bets ends in a "Loss" 

There will only be 21 000 000 coins mined and who will be issuing this interest and from what coins? Yes, the protocol can be changed to add features like this, but will we get consensus from all the full nodes to implement this?

The coin cap will have to be increased to allow for "extra" coins to be mined to pay for this... and the moment when changes to the coin cap are made, people will lose trust in the experiment and their coins will be devalued. (You can use sites like Freebitco.in to earn 4%+ interest on your deposited coins, so a change in the Bitcoin protocol is not needed to do this)  

This can actually open up a whole new industry, if you can implement this successfully. The "Pay per use" concept can work well, in a student village for example, where people can charge students to use their appliances. (Microwave)

You can also implement this in a Guesthouse to charge people to use the Jacuzzi or the vibrating bed for instance... so it is a very cool idea.    The question remains..... Is the LN matured enough to get enough business to pay for this. 

If you have to wait for your partner to tell you to quit gambling, you might be doing something wrong. Gambling should be entertainment... and not something that pushes a wedge between you and your partner. You should try and limit your gambling time, if it creates issues in your relationship with your partner. (I am saying partner.. because it can be the wife or the husband in the relationship)

I will quit when it stops being fun... or if I win something significant and I am showing no control to stop when I want. Until now.. I can control it...and it is still fun. 

You are a Diamond III player, so they should have been a bit more accommodating to you, because you have shown that you invested a lot of money and time into their casino.    Unfortunately, we do not know why Stake support handled it this way, because a $400 loss.. would have been nothing to a casino of their size... and also to lose a high roller like you. 

I would have liked to hear the Stake Support side of this, just to be fair that both parties had their say... but I guess this will not happen. I hope you get this sorted out.... and that you stay with Stake, because they are much better than a lot of other casinos out there. (Believe me.... some support on other casinos are horrible) 

You have to search for the one thing that people cannot go without and you invest in that, because whatever happens to the global economy, people will have to buy that...and if you are the supplier of that.. you will become very rich.

I would buy a farm or even a small piece of land and I will cultivate my own produce to sell on the markets. You will be amazed to see how much tomatoes can be grown in a small greenhouse. (Open field cultivation can produce 100-120 ton/ha. Table tomato cultivation in greenhouses can yield up to 500 ton/ha.) 

I think it is easier to "centralize" Bitcoin mining, when someone can simply buy a shitload of tokens and have a huge say in the direction that the project is going..... in PoS, that is the case. A Fiat whale can simply buy a lot of tokens and then have a huge say in a lot of decisions that usually were made through consensus from Full nodes in Bitcoin mining.

In PoW.... this is not as easy, because you have to invest a lot of time and money into ASICs and you have to hire people to run those mining farms and you have to spend on the expenses of such a mining farm. (Electricity & labour & hardware etc...) 

The trust relationship between them and Elon Musk was broken, before he bought the platform. (They even went to court to fight against him) So why should he keep them in the same positions, if they are working against him. 

I would have done the same thing, but I would have sat down with them and explained my actions and then I would have fired them. Twitter management made controversial decisions, that went against freedom of speech..and that is the main reason why Elon Musk fired them... they do not have his vision for what he wants to do with the platform. 

The Exchanges are not only for Crypto to Fiat conversions.... people also use it as a trading platform to trade in and out of Alt coins, so they will still exist in the future for that purpose. 

I predict that more and more people will use it as a wallet too, because they are used to custodial services protecting their money. (Which is the last thing you should do, but people do not listen) 

You have to look into the ToS of the site that you signed up to, because they can have a clause in there ...that gives them the right to use your data in certain circumstances. (Example : Promotional material when you win Big)

I seriously doubt that the casino will disclose the players real identity, but they might give the players casino name and the BetID as proof of the big win. 

Unregulated casinos will do whatever they want to ... because they have nothing to lose, if they do something like this.

What did you guys think of Mikey and Steve's first Stream on DLive on Saturday? I think everything went pretty good for two people who has not done this on their own before. 

Steve handled the drop's like a Pro..... and I think Mikey will get the hand of it..as soon as Steve has shown him the ropes and sorted out the privileges to do it. 

Eddie can be proud of these two guys.... now it is time for some of the other people to also join the 3rd spot... when Eddie is gone. 

Well enjoy all the money that I am feeding from this side... because most of my Sports bets ends in a "Loss" .... I am betting on different platforms and I hardly win anything. My Sport knowledge is rated between average to good... but it seems as though Sports betting is not my calling. 

UFC fights are very tricky.... and one huge blow or kick can turn the odds in your favor or destroy you.... so you were extremely lucky. 

Yes, I saw that ...... it was actually just a typo ..and someone saw that and thought it was catchy.. and they continued doing it. Some people seem to believe that it is the abbreviation for "hold on for dear life" 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hodl.asp  .... I also saw a guy with a T-shirt in a Crypto movie that said "Hodl" ..the name of the movie is "Bitcon" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14463198/

I think it is a controlled experiment to see how many people are playing from Canada and what games they might make available to them on that Server. If you look at the UK Server, you will see that only a limited amount of games are available.. so I think they want to do the same with Stake.ca  

The thing is..... most players are simply going to use VPNs and continue playing like they used to. It will get tricky, if they want to withdraw their funds after a big win on Slots that they are not supposed to play on.  

"Stake will continue operations in Ontario under our new Canadian licensed & Canadian regulated website, stake.ca." - Stake Telegram

The whole idea with Pseudo anonymity is to not re-use addresses that can be linked back to you, because you used it for several things. Satoshi wanted to promote the idea to use new addresses for everything you do, to protect your pseudo anonymity.

Satoshi was also experimenting a lot with his new "invention" ..so he mined lots of coins and moved it around to experiment with the transfer of tokens and simulated payments.