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2341  Economy / Services / Re: ➤ Top-notch translation services: English ⬄ Russian on: October 14, 2019, 10:20:00 AM
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2342  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Question about Blockchain/Smart Contract/Decentralized Casino on: October 14, 2019, 10:12:39 AM
@deisik

It's a bit different if we talk about other mobile apps, since it offers various other ways to monetize the apps, for instance, with push notifications and in-app advertisements. Apps also provide a more streamlined payment mechanism

Could you please expand more on this?

As far as I know, modern browsers support notifications, so in this regard there is nothing that such apps offer that browsers don't. Further, I'm not sure if in-app advertisements are somehow different from same advertisements presented on a web page (if what I think is what you mean, of course). All in all, we need to find at least one example of some useful feature (i.e. not contrived or invented for the sake of example) at which a mobile-friendly site would suck while a mobile app shine
2343  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Question about Blockchain/Smart Contract/Decentralized Casino on: October 14, 2019, 09:37:18 AM
Like many people have already said on this thread.

If their websites were already mobile-friendly and responsive, there is only little benefit from developing mobile apps. In other words, it's pointless

Then I don't get it at all

I mean why would anyone (i.e. not just casinos) want to have a mobile app if they could just go with website optimization making it mobile-friendly, more responsive, etc? It would be a waste of time and effort if you can get everything from a mobile version of the site that you would get from a standalone app. Or maybe, it is exactly as you and I see it, i.e. it is indeed pointless, apart from obscure marketing purposes and that kind of thing? What's the catch?
2344  Economy / Economics / Re: Taxless society idea on: October 14, 2019, 07:12:15 AM
~snip

In fact, there is law

And it has always been there. The codified law you implicitly refer to in your post is only a subset of a wider system of unwritten laws and traditions existing in society. So it is not the lack of law as such which would be at the root of potential problems that a society without government would likely encounter but rather the lack of law enforcement, which is part of the government (and therefore, part of the problem). In other words, as soon as we are able to solve this little hindrance, we can happily live without any government and don't sink into lawlessness and chaos soon thereafter


Hmm, all this time I was confused about what "law" really implies. I always thought that the governement "created" the "law". And tbh, I haven't thought about traditions to have innate "law", but there's always has been. AFAIK, these "unwritten laws", I reckon they're subjective to "moral conducts". I say that because if a "society" is to follow traditions, which are embedded with "unwritten laws", "moral conducts" are the only things to be considered--no need for the government (no need for law enforcement); no need for taxes

The codified law of a country typically reflects the already existing rules of "moral conduct"

If it stops doing that, and the law system is not adapted accordingly and on time, this may lead to a revolution (or a coup). That takes long years since the society doesn't change overnight. Nonetheless, these changes are objective and they are prone to accumulate over time, so they can and do have such grave consequences. But we would still need law enforcement anyway, at least as long as something else doesn't take its place

For example, the term ostracism has its roots in the Athenian democracy of Ancient Greece, where someone breaking the law would be expelled (ostracized) from Athens by the local citizenry. In the same way, if a criminal or wrongdoer could be quickly and effectively isolated from the society (to the extent of the gravity of his crime or delinquency), there would be no need for special law enforcement bodies

We can hope for that, even if it would require a quantum leap of sorts. But at least we don't need evolution for this leap anyway (read, we don't have to wait another few million years)

Agreed. (What I'm about to say is based on how I understand "being human") If ever we achieved such circumstances, do you think we are still considered as "human beings"? Because I'm so fixated on humans being violent(or kind), irrational(or rational)

I think that technically (or rather, physiologically), we would still remain same human beings as before. It is our environment that we operate within that should change dramatically for us to stop being "human beings" in the most casual sense of the word
2345  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bitcoin and casinos on: October 14, 2019, 06:32:36 AM
If offline casinos implement such a system, it will really be wonderful. And it will be really beneficial for the casino as with all the winnings, if they hold it long term, the profit value increases automatically as the price rises of crypto. Hence, it is really something that should be implemented. I think Japan might have some offline casinos that accept crypto.

but offline casinos that implement bitcoin as a payment method can have long term losses, you saw that until recently the price was $ 12000 and now the price is $ 8000, i wonder how offline casinos would do to avoid having big losses if they accepted bitcoin as a means of payment. A few years from now (maybe 10 years) when the market is very large and not manipulated and regulated, I believe offline casinos will be happy to add bitcoin as a means of payment.

For land based casinos accepting crypto would be a good feature that would attract new audience to their premises. How to avoid possible losses? That's easy. They can accept BTC or any other crypto in exchange for casino chips at an undervalued exchange rate, say, $105 worth of BTC for a $100 chip, and exchange crypto for fiat themselves right away. It is very unlikely that they could lose anything this way. And for crypto holders wanting to gamble, 5% is nothing

They don't need that

If the chips in question are denominated in Bitcoin itself, the problem of volatility is solved automatically (in fact, it doesn't even arise in the first place). That would mean your losses as well as winnings are still denominated in Bitcoin. So no matter how much Bitcoin's dollar price changes, the casino wouldn't be affected by this change. Indeed, their Bitcoin bankroll would have then to be in actual bitcoins (to pay out what's due), but isn't it exactly what online casinos keep their bankrolls in anyway?
2346  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Margin trading. Where to start? on: October 13, 2019, 04:10:51 PM
The leverage does attract a lot of greed and that is what fuels the market of margin trading. Because the markets are more in a stagnant phase in the 8000-9000 USD marks people are getting desperate not having a big swing to sell/buy on. So they are moving temporarily to other more risky methods, which I pointed out in another such thread yesterday

That's not the only option (or rather, a direction)

When prices become stagnant (though I wouldn't call the current market that or even stable), first thing many traders do is narrow their trading ranges and likely increase volumes to squeeze same profits from less price action. This is also risky as the longer market stagnates the stronger it is going to move when it finally starts to move. In this manner, these traders get caught in the action by either suffering losses or losing profits, wherever the market goes

I feel that newbies should stay away from margin unless they learn the basics of spot trading before margin trading

Agree
2347  Economy / Economics / Re: Taxless society idea on: October 13, 2019, 03:41:34 PM
If you'll try to replace taxes with printing money (which is effectively a tax on owning money), you'll just destroy your economy, because no one would want to own money and the inflation would be much higher than what would you expect from simple calculations. Taxes can be very complex, there are tons of rules that can increase, decrease or even remove taxes for certain situation, meanwhile printing money just affects everyone the same, so this idea is much worse than taxes

The so-called inflation tax is most harmful to those who receive the new money the last

And since the government printing money has this money before anyone else, they can easily abuse the purchasing power which they essentially receive for free at the expense of the whole society (real, simple people). In fact, that's what all governments do whenever their very existence is threatened (for example, in war or economic collapse)

Well said. A taxless society simply would not work in this day and age. Radical ideas like this, although they sound beautiful and rosy, are just idealistic adventures that have no place in a free and democratic society. I'd be more agreeable if we lived in a tyrannical communistic society, but luckily we don't

If taxes can be paid directly, i.e. as a price for services and goods offered, a taxless society would become a reality. Moreover, it would be a better reality due to less corruption and inefficiency caused by the tax system itself (read, we could safely dismantle it altogether)
2348  Economy / Gambling / Re: Email SCAM: "receive Free Bitcoin and Ethereum With Bitcasino" on: October 13, 2019, 03:02:53 PM
If that is problem from their third party service. They atleast giving refund about it, because that is still part of their site. But the problem is how to identify who get scammed. Maybe for fair, the dev must giving big notice in their site about scam email.
For who get scam, hope can learn more about fake email, so don't get scam again in the future.

Why the site give the refund ? The site has nothing to do with it. They did not email the people. Rather site has warned people to stay away from such scams. It is the responsibility of the gamblers / players to pay attention

Well, there can be different views on this issue

Really, BitCasino's clients didn't choose the email service provider as this choice was entirely on the part of the casino, right? If so, why should they get away with it and cannot be held accountable? Think of it this way. For example, if they hired somebody and that person then stole the money from the accounts of casino players or was negligent in doing his job and through this negligence the same story occurred (money got stolen), whom would you start to blame, that person or the casino itself?
2349  Economy / Economics / Re: Taxless society idea on: October 13, 2019, 02:44:37 PM
Exactly! That's what I'm trying to explain. It will depend on the understanding of every member of the "society", the meaning of "organized" as a "society". AFAIK, every person has their own point of view on things. Since there's no "law", as there's no acting "government", e.g. if one member doesn't agree on the decision of the majority, the said person will tend to do either commit a crime or just accept the situation whatever it may be

In fact, there is law

And it has always been there. The codified law you implicitly refer to in your post is only a subset of a wider system of unwritten laws and traditions existing in society. So it is not the lack of law as such which would be at the root of potential problems that a society without government would likely encounter but rather the lack of law enforcement, which is part of the government (and therefore, part of the problem). In other words, as soon as we are able to solve this little hindrance, we can happily live without any government and don't sink into lawlessness and chaos soon thereafter

This will be possible. But it will only be applicable to very selective-people--people who are as sympathetic as you are, I guess. If these conditions are met, then this "society" will exist

We can hope for that, even if it would require a quantum leap of sorts. But at least we don't need evolution for this leap anyway (read, we don't have to wait another few million years)
2350  Economy / Gambling / Re: WOLF.BET - Provably fair dice game $1,000 Daily Race7-day streak bonus on: October 12, 2019, 05:55:41 PM
Why deposit addresses expire after 24 hours? All gambling websites and exchanges I know allow users to use deposit addresses forever. It's not a big problem. Just curious to know the reason.

Not all IMO, there are still some sites that changes the deposit address after there is one transaction on the address. One of the site is sportsbet unless they have changed the system lately, but indeed most other sites lets users to use one deposit address only so it will be easier for them to make deposit as they do not need to check the deposit address anytime they want to make deposit

There is another issue with disposable addresses

While most altcoin transactions get confirmed pretty fast (within minutes), it is not uncommon for a Bitcoin transaction to get stuck (due to a low fee, network congestion, or whatever). Sometimes, and I mean it, you have to wait a couple days till it finally gets through. I don't know what happens at wolf.bet in this particular case (i.e. when your address expires with the TX still not confirmed by the network), but this is definitely not what most users would like to check or experience anyway
2351  Economy / Economics / Re: The re-accumulation period is in on: October 12, 2019, 03:22:27 PM
It actually goes the other way of the other way, that is, in the original direction toward prices rising (long-term) due to forthcoming halving. I don't think that miners play a significant role in Bitcoin price formation. However, if they do (in some mysterious ways), the halving of the miners reward could in fact be considered as a positive circumstance for Bitcoin since it is assumed that miners can somehow influence the price. Obviously, if their reward goes down, they will be highly incentivized to push the prices up

Whether it is actually so is subject to discussion
No they don't play a major role in price formation of BTC instead they are the ones most affected by the price movement in BTC because only if the price of BTC goes up makes a chance of miners rewards rising up

Personally, I'm inclined to think along the same lines

But the opponents of this view can be quite vocal and pushy in claiming the opposite view. I can't even recall all their arguments right now (as it was pretty complicated and illogical stuff anyway related to mining costs) but I very well remember how some of them had gone as far as to assert that Bitcoin could never ever drop below 5k. Small wonder, it first dropped below 5k and then 4k shortly thereafter (in November and December 2018, to be exact)

But the drop was due to the hash war that time between BCH (Roger Ver and cohorts) and BSV (Craig Wright). The reason behind as others have said, is that some miners switch their gears to either of the two coins, thus affecting the price negatively

And why did it affect Bitcoin?

I mean the regular one, true and only? Besides, the price had been staying below 4k for too long to indiscriminately attribute that dynamic (or rather static, given the lack of price action at and near the bottom for a couple of months) to the hash war between different Bitcoin copycats, which was mostly an isolated event, in both effect and time

On the other hand, Bitcoin had been spiraling down all 2018 since the very beginning of that year and continued to fall well into 2019 (till March, if my memory serves me right). So the hash war was just a small accident and insignificant episode which was unlikely to trigger first the fall of Bitcoin and then its rise
2352  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Overall winning - Dice on: October 12, 2019, 11:57:43 AM
If you are running the automatic bet, then it does not require you a lot of time. You will just leave it according to the setting you personally prefer and set. Finally, if you claim that you are always winning, I can say 100% that you are bluffing

He is not necessarily bluffing

If he is sticking to the safe side of things, he may indeed be winning all the time. I mean at the end of each sequence of losses, obviously, as he is using a martingale setup. Honestly, I don't quite understand why people are so unfriendly and hostile in this case. You could in fact win all the time

The real problem which people don't see with that is the fact that your winnings will be small bordering on outright pathetic, and you can't make them great (again) as in that case you will expose yourself to the risk of irrecoverable losses and thus stop winning all the time
2353  Economy / Economics / Re: Taxless society idea on: October 12, 2019, 10:21:31 AM
And crime rate will increase without tax . The tax is needed by the government not only for insfrastructure , but mostly to help people who cant afford to pay for health services  ,piece tax use for  as payment for soldier and police .  Education for  public teacher government will also pay for thier salary.

I don't think the crime rate will be increasing, the chaos might be

Chaos is what makes crimes take over society

Whenever there is failure of authority and ensuing lack of law enforcement people quickly turn into beasts (Mad Max scenario), so if the reduction of taxes leads to less effective law enforcement, criminals of all sorts will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to get away unscathed with their criminal activities. But overall, it is a complex issue as more law enforcement (read, more taxes) doesn't necessarily lead to more law and order. There should be a balance, middle ground or golden mean of sorts
2354  Economy / Economics / Re: Taxless society idea on: October 12, 2019, 08:30:41 AM
And call it a proto-government, leadership, or whatever. But it naturally (as opposed to being forced) comes about only when there is a need for that, i.e. when a certain society becomes too big and complex, making solving issues directly by the consensus prohibitively expensive in terms of effort and time. Thus, they are solved by a group of selected individuals ("government") who are delegated such authority by the consensus. I don't consider the case when this authority is taken by force as we have assumed that it should be natural ("self-inflicted"), not imposed

So, what you're saying is, when it comes to "proto-government, leadership", and ("self-inflicted"), we will rely on trust? So you believe that since a ("government") is unavoidable such as this case, it'll come out naturally? Well, technically, forming a government needs (trust) even if its delegated, but I am not worried about the leader, government whatever ('cause they are "the selected" people) but the other members of the society (the common people). Do you honestly think a society could be as "organized" or even better without an acting "government"?

Could you please rephrase your thought?

You speak in so vague terms that it is hard to get what you are actually trying to say. Anyway, if something is unavoidable, the issue of trust becomes kinda irrelevant as what is unavoidable will inevitably come about in a "natural way", trust or no trust. Regarding a society being as "organized" or even better without an acting "government", that obviously depends on your understanding of "organized"

You might think that I may be against the idea but actually, no. I'm having thoughts on the consequences if this would ever happen. I genuinely think that this could only work if the "society" is comprised of people who respected and trusted everyone, which in case of a human being is quite impossible

That's not necessarily so

And we don't need to change a human animal in certain ways (think eugenics here). As I'm inclined to think, we could get there when we have a certain level of integration between people as a whole that would allow to have a form of distributed government but without the typical drawbacks as well as overheads of a regular one (think taxes here). Indeed, some things should remain centralized but more and more could be taken and re-delegated back to "people". And it can also be a natural process (read, more or less inevitable and unavoidable)
2355  Economy / Economics / Re: The re-accumulation period is in on: October 12, 2019, 08:17:39 AM
It actually goes the other way of the other way, that is, in the original direction toward prices rising (long-term) due to forthcoming halving. I don't think that miners play a significant role in Bitcoin price formation. However, if they do (in some mysterious ways), the halving of the miners reward could in fact be considered as a positive circumstance for Bitcoin since it is assumed that miners can somehow influence the price. Obviously, if their reward goes down, they will be highly incentivized to push the prices up

Whether it is actually so is subject to discussion
No they don't play a major role in price formation of BTC instead they are the ones most affected by the price movement in BTC because only if the price of BTC goes up makes a chance of miners rewards rising up

Personally, I'm inclined to think along the same lines

But the opponents of this view can be quite vocal and pushy in claiming the opposite view. I can't even recall all their arguments right now (as it was pretty complicated and illogical stuff anyway related to mining costs) but I very well remember how some of them had gone as far as to assert that Bitcoin could never ever drop below 5k. Small wonder, it first dropped below 5k and then 4k shortly thereafter (in November and December 2018, to be exact)
2356  Economy / Economics / Re: My challenge to bitcoin on: October 11, 2019, 09:08:30 PM
And now, you're also leaning on not having, as much as possible, any contact with everything the government needs you to do

I actually like how well you put that, in a true Orwellian way

I refer to that last piece about "everything the government needs you to do". Needs you to do, huh. In real life, it is more like "do it or otherwise". I leave it to you what kind of punishment you can bring on yourself if you don't

Well, I can sympathize with that one (it's a pain in the ass). So, you really value anonymity that much? I was leaning on "transparency" by the government, so that fairness on both parties could be realized (more work for them)

That's another interesting example

Well, if you ask me (since you ask me anyway), I wouldn't call that "fairness" as it is actually a complete reinvention of the term ("we are 35 years late, but we are well on our way"). Fairness assumes somewhat equal conditions (at least, that's how it feels) but the idea of a government pretty much excludes this assumed equality

Seriously, why should I care about being fair to someone who is supposed to be inferior to me by my own definition and volition? Wouldn't it be a sadistic turn to ask for fairness in these very unfair circumstances? Regarding anonymity, I don't think it is so much an anonymity issue when you just want to move your wealth around hassle-free

I'm really starting to think that you don't like everything that the government requires you to do, and everything about the government trying to do to you

I can't prevent you from thinking that (but you are on your own here)
2357  Local / Идеи / Re: Майнинг в космосе on: October 11, 2019, 05:39:26 PM
Теоретически это хорошая идея, я правда не уверен в КПД. Там надо бы что-то такое, чтоб гоняло тепло с минимальными потерями. И неприхотливое в обслуживании, ибо на Венере грустно будет и оборудованию и обслуживающему персоналу

Я про Меркурий писал (изменил свой пост, чтобы убрать двусмысленность)

Хотя и на Меркурии будет далеко не айс, ибо если на Венере просто тупо жарко, то на Меркурии сначала жарко, а потом холодно (ну или сначала холодно, а потом жарко). И еще надо посмотреть, что лучше, а что хуже - просто высокая температура (в относительно разумных пределах), или ее зверские перепады от +450 градусов Цельсия (такая же как и на Венере) до почти -200 градусов (почти как на Плутоне). Потому что день длинный, а ночи короткие (зачеркнуто) ночи тоже длинные
2358  Economy / Gambling / Re: WOLF.BET - Provably fair dice game $1,000 Daily Race7-day streak bonus on: October 11, 2019, 04:49:16 PM
A thing I liked at wolf.bet it's subsatoshis in balances,  I never seen it in dice, actually it makes it more profitable to play with uncommon multiplier

That's definitely a nice feature

Especially when you want to build your own betting strategies using tables and need to know exactly how things get calculated with these subunits. But technically, if you don't see lower denominations at other casinos, it doesn't mean that they are not using these subunits internally before rounding up the outcomes to the lowest possible denomination as they then get displayed. I read somewhere that certain exchanges (not casinos but still) actually use 16 digits after the decimal points for their calculations
2359  Local / Идеи / Re: Майнинг в космосе on: October 11, 2019, 12:45:06 PM
Куда рациональнее уже солнечные батареи на Меркурий кинуть и тоннель построить длинной в пару тысяч(или даже десятков тысяч) км длиной, чтоб достать до уровня минусовых температур и азот там гонять

Туннель - это, как говорится, геморрой (зачеркнуто) overkill

На Меркурии нет атмосферы (сдуло), в отличие от той же Венеры, которая дальше от Солнца, но в целом горячее за счет парникового эффекта. Поэтому за ночь та половина Меркурия, которая находится в тени, успевает охладиться до лютого холода (ибо день там длится чуть меньше местного года), поэтому достаточно просто иметь кабель с одной стороны планеты до другой. Можно еще сделать элемент Пельтье, только наоборот (как он там правильно называется). Хотя элемент Пельтье, наверное, тоже можно сделать

Ты хочешь им охлаждать асики?

Я не юрист (зачеркнуто) физик, но разве (теоретически) нельзя?
2360  Local / Альтернативные криптовалюты / Re: Переоценка-недооценка альтов on: October 11, 2019, 10:59:34 AM
Вот ты знаешь, EOS реально очень ликвидная монета, торгуется более чем на 100 сильнейших биржах. При том что суточные объемы всегда выше 1 млрд дол. Я бы EOS отнес к недооцененным Альткоинам, на данном ценовом диапазоне можно закупиться

Ликвидность Йоси действительно высока

Но тому есть простое объяснение. Суть в том, что транзакции на этой монете очень быстрые и бесплатные, т.е. ею удобно пользоваться как обеспечением на таких биржах как Феникс. Например, у нас открыта солидная маржинальная позиция на бирже, которую мы обеспечиваем минимумом средств (в целях снижения рисков третьих лиц, т.е. потери средств по вине бирже)

В том случае, когда цена идет не в нашу пользу, с помощью Йоси мы можем быстро добавить необходимое обеспечение. Соответственно, при движении ценника в нашу сторону, мы можем это обеспечение уменьшить за счет бесплатного вывода ликвидности. Наверняка, есть еще какие-то подобные сферы применения, где такие особенности имеют важное значение (арбитраж, например)
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