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Also, for anyone who really read the article, I reckon Pete Rizzo is desperate to convince the readers that the limitations of bitcoin are only short term in this statement.
they believe that these crypto assets and services are profiting off the short-term limitations of Bitcoin,
However in the same article he mentioned a commitment to slow software changes.
3. A Commitment to Slow Software Changes and Enfranchising Users
This appears for me as a request for everyone to be patient for updates that might never arrive. There is nothing wrong with this. Bitcoin should continue being a store of value if the community and the developers want it and leave the other developments, experimentations and scams to other projects.
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Jake Paul posted on twitter that he just got an opponent for October and he’ll be announcing it this week. https://twitter.com/jakepaul/status/1563650857803173889I’m really hoping it’s Andrew Tate. That is the fight to make right now for the money and one that is actually be excited to watch and maybe even pay for. Fingers crossed it isn’t some no name boxer at the end of his career. Andrew Tate would be the very best opponent for him if they want much payperviews from the younger fans hehehe. However, from Jake's tweet it appears to be someone else, I reckon. Someone who might have fought one of the Paul brothers already and had the victory? I predict the next opponent might be KSI. KSI has fought and knocked out Luis Pineda recently. He is a Mexican professional boxer who has a record of 2 wins, 5 losses hheehehe. @Baofeng. Can you suggest a list of the top 10 boxing events or fights for September that everyone should be watching. |
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@cr1776. Agreed. Also, if those articles and stories about the government of Iran mining bitcoin through their chosen delegates of miners are real, I reckon yes, it would not be very shocking if they choose to use bitcoin instead of an alternative to SWIFT.
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According to this Dune analytics dashboard page by a user called @phabc, Tether has banned 716 addreses already with $420 million of USDT held by the addresses in total. Circle has banned 82 addresses with $4 million held in total. We can use this information if there are updates on Tether and if Paolo will wait for instruction from the government concerning funds that came from Tornado Cash. https://dune.com/phabc |
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Only 4 items left to finalize: Action Item list: - 12. Point per First Down? - 1 vote opposed, 5 votes in favor[12]
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- 17. Determine Waiver Priority - 3 votes in favor of default, 1 vote in favor of reverse order of standings[17]
- 18. Lock Eliminated Teams from Waivers? - 5 votes in favor[WIP][18]
- 19. Determine Prize Distribution - Proposed: 1st 0.02BTC, 2nd 0.005BTC - 4 votes in favor[19]
12. This is a yes for me. 17. I vote for what we had last year. Why change this? 18. I vote yes. What would be the use of continuing to improve if eliminated already hehe. 19. I like the proposal, however, Hhampuz's proposed winner take all would be my vote. |
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Someone should create a survey for those 28% of Russians who bought bitcoin and ask them what they used bitcoin for, I reckon. Would it be for speculation, gambling, buying something in the darknet, moneylaundering, day trading altcoins or buying regular items. I am quite certain much of them would answer that they have used bitcoin for speculation and day trading altcoins.
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@Coin_trader. I speculate that because of this bear market, the gambling sites might be forced to offer more exclusive tables with lower minimum bets to be more competetive in attracting customers from a smaller pool of people of gamble. I also think that gambling sites should promote those games with lower house edge so that they can keep their players longer and they would avoid losing their money very quickly hehehe. If they lose money quickly they might play in another site.
Yeah bro. This is exactly my reason to brought up this exclusive tables with lower minimum bet to let small players enjoy playing on the rgular blackjack table. Evolution gaming itself is the one that choose to increase the minimum bet in fiat right after this bear market occur. I remember that there a lot of regular table before with 1$ minimum bet and those tables like infinity blackjack offers 0.1$ minimum bet which is not available nowadays. Only exclusive table by casino is the only way to make this happened and I hope livecasino will consider this soon. I personally limiting myself on playing my typical gambling budget due to current bear market but since the minimum bet is 5$, I was forced to play using bankroll that capable to withstand a 20 lose streak just to give a better winning probabilty against house edge. Do these table games creators like Evolution or Infinity exclusively make the games only for casinos in the cryptospace? I am not quite certain of this, however, I think they might want to maintain their revenue counted in bitcoins instead of dollars or euros. And people looking for small house edge games with small stakes can already "bet behind" good BJ players they've spotted.
That is a good idea, I might try using that tactic hehehe. Thank you for sharing. |
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@Hueristic. The OP and the next first posts in the pages after this until draftday hehe. One other thing just occurred to me; what will the prize distribution be?
Champion: 0.02BTC
2nd Place: 0.005BTC
Or something else?
This is also a yes for me, however, I am okay with anything if the group wants something else. |
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@Coin_trader. I speculate that because of this bear market, the gambling sites might be forced to offer more exclusive tables with lower minimum bets to be more competetive in attracting customers from a smaller pool of people of gamble. I also think that gambling sites should promote those games with lower house edge so that they can keep their players longer and they would avoid losing their money very quickly hehehe. If they lose money quickly they might play in another site.
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@estenity. It would not be a good idea for who? The regulators or the investors in the cryptospace? It is certainly very clear that in this bear market more strict regulations on stablecoins are coming and this might affect the stength and how powerful the next bull market will be. However, I speculate the stablecoin issuers might also fractionalize and print more out of thin air hehehehe.
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Maximalism isn't fanaticism. It isn't bad; it's neutral. It's similar to being stereotypical versus being racist. True, but to be far we really don't have an official definition of "maximalism". Simply put, a Bitcoin maximalist is a person who supports the ideals of bitcoin, and fights FUD. That's how I understand it. Being toxic or non-friendly on altcoiners is reasonable, because having multiple currencies that thrive to give a solution to the same problem is somewhat against the ideals. I identify as a Bitcoin maximalist. You do not support the freedom of other developers to create other projects in the cryptospace that might be better than bitcoin? Also, would you support those projects being developed in Ethereum to be developed in Bitcoin's ecosystem instead? I reckon if the Bitcoin developers and community were supportive of this there would not be any growth in the Ethereum ecosystem. It would also be arguable if Ethereum would be created. |
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Many fighters do not recover from the type of knockout that Leon Rocky Edwards has given to Kamaru Usman according to former lightweight champion Khabib. We cannot be quite certain if he is correct with his analysis, however, Khabib has also made a similar prediction on El Cucuy after he was beaten by Justin Gaethje and he was very much correct. Khabib Nurmagomedov has said he is unsure how Kamaru Usman will react to his knockout defeat by Leon Edwards, admitting: “A lot of people don’t recover.”
“I’m aware that the trilogy is already in the works,” Khabib added. “I believe [Usman] can beat Leon Edwards, but after such a knockout, a lot of people don’t recover. It will be interesting to see, but I would love to see the trilogy.”Source https://news.yahoo.com/lot-people-don-t-recover-145032420.html |
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I am sharing this article without antagonizing anyone and also sharing it with much neutrality. What are your latest comments, thoughts and opinions on Bitcoin maximalism?The replies of the older members of the forum who joined before 2015 will certainly have more importance in this because they have witnessed the changes and the growth of the cryptospace from being simple to presently being billions of dollars of crazy hehee. Bitcoin Maximalists are skeptical and critical of claims to technical advances made by other cryptocurrency softwares, and seek to maintain and bolster a culture of scrutiny.
Still, they acknowledge there are new services and products made available in the crypto sector, and that the product of this effort can provide learnings to Bitcoin.
However, they believe that these crypto assets and services are profiting off the short-term limitations of Bitcoin, and thus their use should be discouraged in order to inspire and fund the development of like offerings built on the Bitcoin network.Read in full https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterizzo/2022/08/25/how-to-be-a-bitcoin-maximalist/?sh=76bcd4897036 |
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On Tether, this is an admirable act from them, however, this is risky for the cryptospace because the US treasury department might be given a reason to sanction them before law enforcement instruction can be given. This is only another speculation but it might presently be safer to hold another type of stablecoin or only hold bitcoin. Tether Holds Firm on Decision Not To Freeze Tornado Cash Addresses, Awaits Law Enforcement Instruction
Tether works closely with law enforcement worldwide to assist in investigations, including freezing addresses. We are in almost daily contact with key law enforcement officers and pride ourselves on the timeliness with which we respond to their requests. When Tether receives an applicable/legitimate request from a verified law enforcement agent to freeze a privately held wallet, the Company complies with the freeze (we do not freeze wallets of exchanges/services).Source https://tether.to/en/tether-holds-firm-on-decision-not-to-freeze-tornado-cash-addresses-awaits-law-enforcement-instruction/ |
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Like some crypto influencers who promote crypto projects, they get to be blamed when someone spends to invest in projects they shill. BitBoy (Ben Armstrong) shares the same situation with him and I think more influencers will end up getting fighting legal action.
On Bitboy, he filed a lawsuit against another influencer on social media. According to this article, it might be safer for Bitboy to avoid filing the lawsuit because filing it might bring more attention to him and what he is doing in those videos which much of them are about hyping a token on his followers and as speculated by some people, dump on them. This will certainly be news to follow, however hehehe. It will be another comedy show and similar to what @Kakmakr said, what Bitboy did might be blamed on the whole cryptospace community again. BitBoy Lost His Lawsuit the Instant He Filed It
The YouTube cryptocurrency promoter is only drawing more attention to the pump- and dump-filled oeuvre he'd rather suppress.
On Aug. 12, crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, aka “BitBoy Crypto,” filed a lawsuit against YouTuber Erling Mengshoel Jr., aka Atozy. In the suit BitBoy claims that Atozy’s November 2021 video titled “This Youtuber Scams His Fans … Bitboy Crypto” caused him harm, including damage to his business and “infliction of emotional distress.” BitBoy, who had been widely accused of unethical and irresponsible behavior long before Atozy’s video, seeks $75,000 in restitution.
This was, unambiguously, an extremely ill-advised move, and it is blowing up in BitBoy’s face in a truly poetic manner.
Coverage of the lawsuit, almost all of it relentlessly negative towards BitBoy, has had far wider reach than Atozy’s original video. BitBoy is reaping the fallout of what’s become known as “the Streisand Effect,” when attempts to hide or suppress information have the opposite impact.
In this case, the information BitBoy would like to suppress is that he’s really terrible at his purported “job” of evaluating cryptocurrency projects for his YouTube followers. Atozy’s original video was focused on BitBoy’s promotion of Pamp Network, whose crypto, PAMP, would supposedly “only go up in price,” yet somehow dropped to zero soon after BitBoy’s endorsement. Crypto sleuth ZachXBT found back in January that a huge proportion of BitBoy-endorsed projects had lost immense value even before the current bear market downturn, quite likely costing his viewers serious amounts of money.
But that’s not just because BitBoy is bad at picking cryptos. He’s also deeply unethical, and quite possibly an outright criminal. ZachXBT revealed in January that many of BitBoy’s videos were not neutral evaluations of tokens, but undisclosed promotions paid for by the token creators themselves. This kind of “touting” is considered a form of fraud, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has regularly pursued violators under securities law. (BitBoy has since claimed he now discloses all paid promotions.)Source https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/24/bitboy-lost-his-lawsuit-the-instant-he-filed-it/ |
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I got an email from bitcasino to join Livecasino, there some sister or fam?
Just make it sure that the email came from the official Bitcasino email so that you not be a victim by phishing scam. I don’t received this kind of email on my Bitcasino email so far. But the comment of the user above is legit and they are connected to each other that’s why you can see the similarities on the format of the casino and games offered by Bitcasino to Livecasino. The only difference was Livecasino is focus on live games. They have lot of tournaments and promotion that exclusive on live games which you will not find on Bitcasino. So if you are a regular player of live games, This casino is the best because of there unique promo tailored for live games.  Agreed. Scammers have become very skillful in making those official emails of gambling sites appear very much like their scam emails. It would be very difficult to notice the difference unless you make the effort to look for the differences very carefully. In any case, @teddybu, if you shared your email address in bitcointalk.org or other forums, you should assume that bots have collected the information already. Also, use a different email for each and separate them from your gambling site registrations, trading site registrations, your job and your personal email. |
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First the regulators block them then they control them. Similar to what I have been telling everyone, the regulators will use the stablecoin issuers to control the cashflow and liquidity of what and how much goes in and goes out of the whole cryptospace market. I am not antagonizing everyone. I reckon if America also creates the same legislation and implements this with the European Union, I speculate the next bull market might not be as strong as the crypto bull markets we have witnessed during 2017 and 2020. Dollar-pegged stablecoins might be blocked in the European Union’s 27 countries if the bloc’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) legislation enters into force in its current form.
The European Union’s landmark crypto law has already been approved but technicalities still have to be ironed out.
Blockchain for Europe and the Digital Euro Association this weekend sent a letter to the EU Council, a collegiate body formed by EU member states, in a bid to reverse controversial rules which would effectively quash any large stablecoin projects tied to anything but the euro.
The crypto industry says MiCA imposes restrictions on the issuance and use of stablecoins which aren’t denominated in euros or other official currency of an EU Member State.
This would possibly ban Tether’s USDT, Circle’s USD coin and Binance’s binance USD, which account for an enormous chunk of crypto trade volumes globally.Source https://blockworks.co/eu-crypto-lobby-fights-mica-limits-on-us-dollar-stablecoins/ |
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I also used to criticize exchanges, however, they do not have a choice, I reckon. They are required to stay compliant with regulations or they will have their business license and other licenses for operation to be removed. They will also be having the risk of lawsuits. Nobody forced them to create and own centralized exchanges, and they can move it to some other countries or work on becoming decentralized. With that attitude nobody would ever creating anything useful for people (Bitcoin for example), if only blindly following new draconian rules and regulations. Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken has always been in support of privacy for the community, however, if he is given the choice of keeping Kraken in operation or go against a lawsuit, I am quite sure he will choose Kraken.
Support for privacy is shown if you stand up and choose to fight for what is right, but I guess real problem is that not enough people care about privacy. This is not my attitude, this is only an observation of our reality. More than 10 years of the cryptospace existing, what has occured? What were the changes? Where is the disruption storyline that has become very popular on 2015? What is bitcoin and other cryptocoins being used for? What is the basis for the value of these coins? |
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News update. A small group of people from the cryptospace community and what appears to also be from the opensource development community are starting to organize themselves to protest against the arrest of Alex Pertsev. Everyone can sign the petition in their change.org page. https://www.change.org/p/open-source-development-is-in-danger-take-action-before-it-s-too-late-opensourcenotacrime-privacynotacrime-freealex-freepertsev-freealekseypertsevIf you are in Amsterdam, you can join the rally. https://www.meetup.com/cryptocanal/events/287867009The global crypto community is spearheading a campaign to raise awareness about Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev’s arrest earlier this month.
The supporters of Alexey Pertsev, the top contributor to Tornado Cash’s open-source code, have raised 2,070 signatures in a petition to free him as part of a campaign to raise awareness about his recent arrest and its potential impact on the future of open-source software. Netherlands’ Fiscal Information and Investigation Service sparked outrage in the crypto community after arresting Pertsev in Amsterdam on August 10—two days after the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Tornado Cash—on suspicion of “involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering.”
Despite the significant outcry from the global crypto and open-source communities, Dutch authorities haven’t yet revealed the laws Pertsev has allegedly broken. According to a statement shared by crypto policy and advocacy group DeFi Education Fund, the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service thinks that Tornado Cash was created solely for money laundering. “About the concerns, the development of a tool is not prohibited, but if a tool has been created for the purpose of committing criminal acts, for example to conceal criminal flows of money, then putting online/making available a developed tool may be punishable,” the agency told the DeFi Education Fund in an email response.Source https://cryptobriefing.com/crypto-fans-launch-campaign-arrested-tornado-cash-developer/ |
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I never before heard about Aztec platform but freezing of accounts is spreading like a plague for bunch of different reasons and big centralized exchanges are most responsible for this.
It's funny to see even many members of ethereum community are actually supporting censorship on their blockchain, it shows what a shitshow that blockchain is.
I didn't see official confirmation and explanation from FTX, but I wouldn't be surprised if they start to kiss regulator asses like this as we know they are based in US, and they care only about profit.
I also used to criticize exchanges, however, they do not have a choice, I reckon. They are required to stay compliant with regulations or they will have their business license and other licenses for operation to be removed. They will also be having the risk of lawsuits. Jesse Powell, the CEO of Kraken has always been in support of privacy for the community, however, if he is given the choice of keeping Kraken in operation or go against a lawsuit, I am quite sure he will choose Kraken. |
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