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2201  Economy / Gambling / Re: SafeDICE.com ★ Bitcoin Dice ★ Monero ★ 0.5% Edge ★ Fast Cashout ★ Since 2014 on: October 02, 2018, 07:47:26 PM
Hi, i'm Tor user and surprised that there's Tor friendly casino (and even accept Monero)

Anyone knows the fees and minimum withdraw when withdrawing Monero? Is the fee 0.01 XMR just like most greedy exchange? I checked thread first page, site's FAQ and site's withdraw tab, but there's no info. If the withdraw fees/amount is low, i want to try SafeDice again.

There's no info on site regarding XMR fees. Looking in my own XMR withdrawal history, the fees varied from 0.01 and up, but that was in 2015 when XMR was worth ~$1 or less, so probably normal back then.

To be honest, I wouldn't recommend depositing any XMR, at least until admin shows some signs of life.

I tried to initiate test XMR withdrawal (despite having zero balance) and instead of 'insufficient funds' message got: Something went wrong, hot wallet may be empty please be patient or contact us via email in the FAQ section.
2202  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 18-Sep-2018] on: October 02, 2018, 09:11:28 AM
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There's nothing to update since Privcy campaign appears to be a fake campaign. Idk why someone would do that but possibly to put a bad repu to Privcy's name.

I'd say it's more likely some Privcy bag holder tries to extort >1 week of free advertising to hype the price up, dump his bags onto others and vanish without paying.
2203  Economy / Economics / Re: How Binance Decentralized Crypto Exchange Launch in 2019 Will Impact the Market on: October 01, 2018, 04:00:20 PM
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But that platform, or kind of, has been there for centuries. When you exchange fiat person to person, just like gold and silver coins a few centuries ago, that is a peer-to-peer exchange. How are they going to regulate it? Now, with the advent of cryptocurrencies and Internet, we are taking this exchange to the next level by removing distance from the equation completely. If you ask me, that's a natural course of events, and preventing or hindering it would be like trying to stop a freight train. Typically doesn't end well for those trying.

You may be confusing peer-to-peer with decentralisation, these 2 doesn't necessarily go in pairs. Binance is/will still be a central entity providing platform for P2P traders and as such, they could be forced to impose limits and comply with KYC requirements.
Even Localbitcoins seem to require ID verification above certain threshold: https://news.bitcoin.com/significant-trade-volume-triggers-localbitcoins-kyc-requirement/

I think this is still a 'grey area' in many jurisdictions, up until cryptos were introduced - such activities were simply not possible to do online.

Anyhow, the good news is, if there's ever too many restrictions on legal P2P exchanges, new 'underground' exchanges will quickly pop-up and take their place.
2204  Economy / Economics / Re: How Binance Decentralized Crypto Exchange Launch in 2019 Will Impact the Market on: October 01, 2018, 01:01:15 PM
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I love services such as shapeshift and changelly. They don't require kyc and are fast, However expensive for high amounts.

Changelly have transaction limits, which are definitely too low for high profile traders. Shapeshift unfortunately recently shifted their model and now require user verification:
https://news.bitcoin.com/shapeshift-membership-user-information/

Maybe binance will require kyc, but a few months later many other exchanges will copy their model and make other Dez without kyc.
For that reason I don't think Binance will be rushing in making transition. They would have to set their fees pretty low to make it harder for anyone wanting to copy their solutions.
2205  Economy / Economics / Re: How Binance Decentralized Crypto Exchange Launch in 2019 Will Impact the Market on: October 01, 2018, 12:42:48 PM

Smart move, but I wonder what would this change from legal perspective, ie whether Binance would still be required to verify customers ID, since they would be no longer holding funds on anyone's behalf. I'm guessing Yes, as I don't see any government giving green light to non-regulated, anonymous platform, not in a long run that is.

So the main and only benefit will probably be a shift in control/responsibility of one's funds.

On the other hand, this could be just a PR move to prevent people from moving to EtherDelta and alike, or to deter other devs from developing their own decentralised platforms.
2206  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Which forum/thread to make test posts? on: October 01, 2018, 11:26:26 AM
Thanks for the help! I will make a test thread in Off-Topic and just use preview to test out formatting.

You don't need to actually start new topic to test formatting, you can do such test anywhere with 'preview', just don't click 'post'.

Start a new topic only to test polls, self-moderation, locking-unlocking and moving to different boards etc.

Remember, Off-topic section may not be held in high regard, but it's still not a rubbish bin. When you're finished with testing delete topic if possible, if not - move to Bitcoin Forum > Other > Archival, see lower left for "move" option.
2207  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Criminal life is easier on: October 01, 2018, 11:03:43 AM
...Did crypto make doing such things easier? Earlier criminals had to think how to keep their anonymity and get paid, how launder their money, how to not get catched with this. But now they can just use crypto and all the headache about this financial troubles passed away. ...

That's truly idiotic statement, even for a spam topic.

Physical cash is by far the best method of conducting face-to-face illegal exchanges.

Why would you think crypto crime proceedings are not needed to be laundered? Do you think you can just buy expensive stuff directly with crypto without ever being asked to prove legitimacy of your funds? Do you think you're free from having your funds frozen by exchange/bank when converting crypto to fiat?
2208  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Are Bitcoin Forks Altcoins? on: September 29, 2018, 09:30:16 PM

Technically, many of other altcoins, ie. Litecoin are also considered a 'fork' of Bitcoin. That would be a source code fork rather than hard-fork, but still. Don't be surprised if you see the word 'fork' used in a wider sense.

What kumiskura wrote is correct: any separate coin after Bitcoin is an altcoin, that include BCH/BTCP.

The only time a separate coin created by hard-fork would not be an altcoin, is if it was never meant to start as a separate coin - either hard-fork is successful (and takes over existing name) or fails (and dies off).



2209  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Advantages of cryptocurrencies for China on: September 29, 2018, 09:12:56 PM
Even Binance moves its operation to the Malta. There are some various crypto legal friendly countries in the world but China is not one of them.

Yup, the problem with China is even if they were friendly, they have history of changing their stance overnight, catching everyone by surprise and instability is a huge detractor.

Also, China is heavily invested in gold, likely anticipating collapse of the debt-based western currencies and return to gold standard. Bitcoin, often referred to as 'new gold' can potentially become serious competitor to the actual gold, and therefore can be seen as a threat by China. Some speculate that Bitcoin was a CIA project started to hinder China's strategy.
2210  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: ETH not dead, Austria to Use Eth Public Blockchain to Issue billions in Gov bond on: September 29, 2018, 08:42:57 PM
...Australia government...
...that Australian government ...

Austria =/= Australia


News is almost certainly legit, quoted source, Kleine Zeitung, is the largest regional newspaper and in top 10 largest news-media in Austria. So wouldn't make the story up.

Ethereum devs are in no way obligated to 'respond' to anything. As far as we know, they're not even involved in it and probably have the same knowledge as any other person.

News is indeed bullish, but it's not as big as it might sound. It's not like Austria is issuing bonds on-chain. They just use ETH blockchain in parallel to traditional system for extra security.
2211  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 18-Sep-2018] on: September 29, 2018, 02:06:42 PM
Hi! I think you need to update the status of the company IOU
They finished it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4846530

It's removed. See Fatanut's update directly above your post.
2212  Economy / Gambling / Re: SafeDICE.com ★ Bitcoin Dice ★ Monero ★ 0.5% Edge ★ Fast Cashout ★ Since 2014 on: September 29, 2018, 05:58:20 AM
Thank you very much pawel7777 for your answer Smiley .
Having finally an answer from someone is so
enjoyable.
When was the last time he was active ?
How long do you think it will take ?
Thank you

No one knows. Don't set your hopes high for this one. On this forum admin was last active on 25 March 2018, so very long time ago. But site is still up and issues like empty hot wallets seem to be getting resolved, so he must be somewhat active.
2213  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency giant Bitmain chooses Hong Kong for IPO on: September 28, 2018, 04:51:54 PM

Some really interesting read from Katherine Wu, who is dropping some Chinese to English translation from IPO prospectus (400 pages long) on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/katherineykwu/status/1045059356994269184


Quote from: Katherine Wu
Just had the chance to skim the (400+ page) Bitmain IPO document. Some interesting stats: + In the first half of 2018, Bitmain’s revenue was $2.845 billion, with a net profit of $1.123 billion. 95% of revenue comes from the sale of 2.56 million (!!) mining rigs.
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Quote from: Katherine Wu
TO CONCLUDE: I mean, personal opinions aside, Bitmain is one hell of a fucking company. These IPO documents contain an incredible wealth of information. Happy to answer anything specific if you have burning questions and I can look through the docs for you- otherwise, enjoy!
2214  Economy / Gambling / Re: SafeDICE.com ★ Bitcoin Dice ★ Monero ★ 0.5% Edge ★ Fast Cashout ★ Since 2014 on: September 28, 2018, 01:10:35 PM
Hi,

I am quite new to safedice, and i accidently forgot to register and i have been disconnected from my session.
All my funds are blocked for about 2 weeks Sad .
I sent many emails to support@safedice.com explaining the whole thing and proving my identity but i had no answers.
Could anyone do something plz ?
Thank you

Ouch.

The good news is, admin will likely be able to help you.
The bad news - admin is inactive lately.

Just keep sending email every week or so until you get a reply. That's all you can do.

You can also try cc in different email: safedice@protonmail.ch (noted in the first post of this thread)
2215  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency giant Bitmain chooses Hong Kong for IPO on: September 27, 2018, 11:20:25 PM
Why would a company that made almost 1 billion $ last want to share part of their 'profit making' company with the public?

Bitmain has lost half a billion dollar because of its chips production costs and over $400m just during the last three months. The only hope for the company is to get new investments coming. Bitmain is fucked for good it's now trying to find people to enroll in its fall

So you're saying they just made ~$900m loss? Seems impropable for most efficient bitcoin hardware manufacturer. And how would you know that in the first place?
Can you provide source?

Are you saying they lied about that >$740m profit for the first half of the year in their prospectus? That would be a criminal offence, ridiculously easy to detect.
2216  Other / Meta / Re: Theymos should consider guidelines for bounty managers. (Here is draft) on: September 27, 2018, 10:37:02 PM
Good effort. But you have to consider that admin/mods are not willing to (and cannot in practice) investigate content of every topic, not to mention things like following on bounty-campaign progress and checking whether participants got paid etc. Just put yourself in their shoes.

If you want to create a 'good practice' guide topic - that's fine. But if you want to introduce new forum rules proposal, then you have to boil it down to something clear and simple. ie.something like this could solve the problem:

"Bounty campaigns organisers are responsible for preventing spam-posting of their participants. Providing incentive to spam, or failure to counter it can result in ban for both: participant guilty of spam and campaign organiser"

... but it's probably already too complicated and could be impossible to enforce. How do you define who's 'organiser' (there could be multiple accounts involved), who decide where's the line between normal post and spam? How many spam post does it take to get organiser banned etc.

You could have a separate discussion thread for every point that you proposed. But what strikes me is that you're attributing too much power to bounty managers. Often times they're just middle men between ICO organisers and participants and have no say on things like when/if the tokens are issued, what's the budget and its distribution, even minimum post requirements could be decided by ICO devs.
2217  Other / Meta / Re: List of inactive DT1 & DT2 from long period. on: September 27, 2018, 09:38:15 PM
If this thread is still going dooglus can be taken off the list. Last active yesterday (26th Sep), last post 17th Sep.

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Seems like almost everyone have a dark side here, it's just a matter of time circumstances to be revealed.

FTFY
Good post overall though.

imo either adding DT members or completely changing trust system is inevitable at some point.
2218  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to put images on my post? on: September 27, 2018, 09:07:23 PM
Create some decent quality posts --> Earn your first merit point --> become 'junior member' --> now you can post images

While a Newbie, your image links will be displayed as links, not pictures.

ps. Changing your posting habits is more than recommended to have better chance of earning merit. Less bounties, more engagement.
2219  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Namecoin Happy Halving Day is coming soon on: September 27, 2018, 08:33:29 PM
Namecoin Happy Halving Day is coming soon, but Namecoin is forgotten by the community. Why?

1 Because it was created as an experimental project that simply didn't get much traction.
2 Because it's merge-mineable, that means:
 a) miners/pools get it as an extra and are happy to dump it at whatever cost
 b) average person can't afford to mine it anymore



That being said, NMC is doing better than I expected. I thought it's almost completely forgotten, but the value holds above $1 and there's even some activity on their subreddit. Perhaps there is market for vintage coins after all.
2220  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 18-Sep-2018] on: September 27, 2018, 10:45:45 AM
I don't remember the number of open campaigns being this low. A year ago there were so many of them that people were choosing and picking and posting about rates being too low or the rank requirements being too high. You could even get a campaign being a jr. or a member. Is the era of signature posting coming to an end?

Actually if you included non-bitcoin paying campaigns (ICO tokens), the number probably has never been higher.

But apart from ICOs, there seems to be a decline in active usage of cryptos (other than trading), which has impact on number of crypto related services and, in turn, on number of campaigns.

Other factor is the increase in spam and low-quality posts, which makes signatures less visible + most of the forum members are not really an attractive target group for advertisers.

But, iirc, we've seen worse than that, both in terms of number of active campaigns and payment rates - it's all about market finding the balance.
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