In 2019 I probably searched about the Bitcoin halving at most 4 to 5 years. This year however, I duckduckgo'ed it more than 20 times already.

I don't know if the trend of "Bitcoin halving" searches are significant in any way. I guess I did influence it too and most of us here are surely searching it more often than in the past 4 years. The halving itself is (or at least should be) bullish, but trends are just statistics for me and don't show much.. at least not about the market sentiment.

Corect, sunt polonezi si au retea destul de larga de ATM-uri prin Europa.

Eh, si daca isi vor lua doza de informatii de pe BitcoinTalk, vor merge tot pe principiile lor - n-am prea multa speranta ca ar face ceva "wow" legat de asta.. Frumos era daca aveam si noi niste legi mai frumoase, macar una de genul celei din Germania: hodl-erii care si-au tinut banii mai bine de un an sa nu mai plateasca impozit pe crypto.

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Is that all you care about when it comes to sports? Companies that are rich already anyways? The end of mass sport events post-COVID could mean the end of many athletes' careers - see what Djocovic said about vaccines. It all goes way beyond "Sky News will not have revenue anymore!" - they will, don't worry about them.

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I'd rather not enjoy any kind of entertainment than take that "cure". No coronavirus vaccine is known to be successful, not a single one, not even on animals! Do you think that an untested vaccine administered to us, created in a record time, is going to work?

Yes, critical thinking has been my way for a few months now, but I have never taken all the right steps to avoid any scenario such as intel possibly working with some of the companies. If we have authorities asking all exchanges and services (we now apparently have this obligation in Romania too) to send out to the gov information about customers and their trades/moves, I highly doubt there aren't more operations done in the background to identify us.

Anyway, I'm working right now on what I was trying to achieve in the OP. Will return when I get some results out of it.

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That's good news I didn't know 'till now.

I really hope the pandemic does not mean the end of sports. It's a beautiful type of entertainment and if that ends, it's gonna be pretty disappointing and sad for me. While I'm not a fanboy of any of them, I do have respect for any athlete and always enjoy watching them if a friend or relative of mine wants to.

If all these championships/leagues/matches will continue to get delayed, I guess the addicted ones will slowly try to expand their gambling coverage and move towards e-sports. They're the closest you can get to the feeling of a real sport betting experience. Otherwise, there's nothing you can do other than bet on matches being played in countries that still haven't been put under lockdown.

Thanks for the reply. I do get it - once someone has physical access to your HW, consider it exploited. The fact that I have to go online to upgrade my Ledger makes, however, the idea of using it on an airgapped PC nonsense. I either use it fully offline or I don't. I'm not very afraid of it being possibly stolen. If someone gets to physically get my Ledger in their hands, there is much more stuff I have to worry about.

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I'm not necessarily afraid of a physical or online attack. Here's part of my concern, more in-detail:

• As far as I know, Ledger is not fully open-source. Ledger Live isn't either, if my knowledge is right. If so, then how do I know that, while I am using my HW to verify my wallet balances or transfer funds, Ledger does not send any information to any third party such as intelligence agencies?

I have read countless posts and Reddit threads about this concern and the only thing I have to do, apparently, is trust. Well, we know how this 'trust' thingy went throughout all our history.

In consequence, I thought of doing this: setting up a completely airgapped PC and using my Ledger ONLY with it, so that the only information that ever leaves my PC or Ledger is fully controlled by me. In other words, why trust Ledger Live to check onto your wallet balances and addresses online when you can take complete control of it all and broadcast only the txs and addresses you want to be published somewhere online?

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Privacy is one thing I have never studied or focused on, yet it's one of the sides we've apparently had invaded the most in the past few years. If we take a look at how much of our data is collected, stolen and sold all over the place, we'd probably get to the final conclusion that privacy isn't really there anymore.

I am willing to go fully paranoid. It's something I'm willing to do as part of a little "initiative" of mine to stop this personal info from leaking everywhere around me. Look at Microsoft with their Alexa & Windows, look at Zuckerberg with his Facebook, look at Google with all their services. Look at what they've done.

My big fear is that Ledger is not very different from them. I fear the day I might wake up and read this story about the most trusted Hardware Wallet company of cryptocurrencies allegedly collecting & transferring data to intel or who knows whoever else.

On the other hand, I do not want to quit using hardware wallets. I feel safer with them than with any other wallet, hence the creation of this topic.

The beginning of my BTC journey is dated back in 2013 too. 2013 apparently was the beginning of Bitcoin's explosion, and that obviously led to lawmakers thinking about crypto laws. I am against control & KYC, but on the other hand I do get the fundamental idea of "we can't just let everyone be anonymous and handle money the way they want without any underlying ability of controlling from where, where and why the money is moving".

However, they're pushing it to the limits - exactly like I thought they would. They essentially pushed it to the abuse, out of which the most obvious one was KYC. This identification program, in my opinion, has put out the fire for many as they lost trust in BTC. It was supposed to make you free, not linked to yet another third party.. right?

The thing is, this being a new area of economics means there'll always be never-seen-before measures and features coming up and/or vanishing. Expect just anything. The only thing I have never stopped doing is believing. Maybe Bitcoin one day falls to 0, but what if I can be part of the opposite? Part of a changing world?

Focus on your beliefs. Focus on your privacy. Fuck Bitcoin laws man, they're nothing compared to what our leaders are pushing as an excuse of this "pandemic". The privacy thing goes way beyond KYC if you stop being blind and look at the situation we are witnessing as we speak. WHO wants to enter your house and check on your family members every single day and we're worrying about a KYC?

Where the hell are we heading?

That is quite of a wet dream of many that didn't really came true for most, isn't it? Assuming that BTC's volatility makes anyone who's holding it a millionaire is quite silly - did you become a millionaire from holding BTC? Because I've been doing it for 7 years and I haven't..

E foarte tare sa vad numele unui ATM din Romania intr-un articol scris de fillippone. E un lucru, cu toate acestea, de care ma tem: cred ca ar fii o idee mai buna sa nu facem prea mare reclama retelei Shitcoins de ATM-uri deoarece ma tem ca exista niste persoane de mai "de sus" care s-ar ocupa de ele.. Stim ca sunt in stare de orice, deci nu m-ar mira

Sincer sa fiu, tot respectul pentru ownerii retelei respective. Dintre toate ATM-urile pe care le-am folosit, cele de la reteaua lor au functionat perfect de fiecare data. Felicitari lor pentru continuitatea KYC-less.

Has any of you guys decided whether BTC or any other alt is a safe haven asset or anything else? Yeah, me neither. So why are we expecting a nice graph when we aren't even sure if we're holding the asset we want it to be? I'm personally neutral for now but if people start looking at BTC as more of an HYIP than a safe haven asset, I'll probably slowly change my mind & perspective over it. But until then, it looks like we'll only go through waves of uncertainty.

I don't think anonymous voting & transparency could work together. If the government allowed us to see a list of all voters, it'd mean no privacy and although we may not know who is who as our name could be transformed into codes/IDs, the government would.

The old ways of elections are still the best imo, although they can manipulate votes. Let's be honest for a minute: if they have a plan to manipulate them, they'll surely find a way to do so as they've done it for decades or even centuries. Blockchain won't solve it without sacrifices/consequences.

In my case it is not the time that goes fast but the seconds that always seem to end right before I press the stop button, followed by rounds and rounds of 20-30x runs. Either that or there's always a few rounds of okay-ish wins followed by a few of <0.50 runs.

It doesn't look fun at all to me, it's more of an ensured money loss.

Well, if so then let it begin! Once this starts, I assume it'll look similar to what always happened to alts: BTC stayed up on its own feet, alts went back down to what they used to be. During the bull run though, alts are always faster & more profitable.

When the real uptrend starts, I'll contemplate moving everything into BTC. Risky move, but no risk no win! Time to profit off this bull run. Many of us have missed enough of them by believing in alts

Not sure if it's me or not, but I've always lost everything within minutes on crash games while some of my dice sessions took +10 hours (on auto-bet even +24hrs). I, too, feel like crash ones make you lose easier but as far as the theoretical side of the game goes, it should be as risky as dice, poker or any other gambling game - totally depending on luck.

I tried crash games many times, but no luck. Ever.

I don't know man, I feel like Satoshi's identity is very important to them because Bitcoin is a threat to them so they want to stop any genius mind - like Satoshi's - that could provide us so-called "weapons" against them..

I'm just wondering: what if Bitcoin's creator was either Chinese or a Russian? Yeah, so what? Where's the threat to us as human beings? I'm asking because it looks to me like it'd be a threat to them, the 1%, not to the peasants.

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Haven't you guys had enough of CSW on here? I don't know, it kinda scratches my brain when I read his name now, just let his character die in peace, let him be, he doesn't deserve any of the attention we give him as we pop this topic to the top every day..

I'mma be straight on point: he's not Satoshi, he's just a lying pos that deserves nothing of what he's received except the court case. The court case is what he deserves, and I hope his final sentence will be larger than what he's got so far.

Bit of a difference between using COVID-19 as a way to scam/take advantage of others and using it as an excuse to put your project on hold for a bit.

I doubt the serious projects (I'm excluding shitcoins from the start) that are being placed on hold are lying. Projects need a team and every member has a personal situation and a family. Therefore, each member may have their own, personal or financial problem. I would not jump straight to conclusions.

I wish I had the right answer for you but I lack the necessary knowledge. However, I'd recommend you to move your topic to the Bitcoin Technical Support board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0).

The most technically advanced people out here usually do not spend their time on boards such as Gambling & Bitcoin Discussion due to the fulfillment of spammy threads they have. So you won't only move it to the right board but also get answers from people who only browse that specific board to help others.

Well, I mean.. Bitcoin transfers aren't as fast as PayPal, for example. Credit card payments are instant and require no blocks to be mined to be confirmed. It's not the ideal currency and it will never be.

The ideal currency is one that solves all issues that Bitcoin has too. Don't think it's perfect in any way. For one, transparency might actually be a problem (hence the existance of privacy coins like Monero). Bitcoin is a great cryptocurrency, but I don't think it'll ever touch the idea of it being used as a national one.

Since we already have banks working on their own emissions, it became pretty normal to me as a thought that Bitcoin will not be the "chosen one". Banks will most likely still exist. Third parties will never leave because.. hell, why not make a handful of people more powerful than a country (literally), right?

Maybe there'll be a global currency. Maybe only one bank. Maybe only few people will govern the world. Maybe everyone will rebel against the existing banks and finally wake up to the reality. The fact is, the last supposition is the least possible scenario while the rest are becoming more real than ever, especially as we speak.

It's all uncertain right now. Just a "maybe".

Wait, so there are some states out there that consider online gambling illegal? It's the first time I am ever hearing this. Interesting one.

I don't think it's a great idea to legalize online gambling if it has been considered illegal in a certain state. The main reason is that online gambling in these times could be catastrophic: one who has enough money to survive this pandemic could lose it in no time, especially if they are a newbie to luck games.

I understand that casinos are profitable. But in pandemics, wars or other hard times.. let's at least not extend the possibility of people losing/spending their money to one man only. It's happened for enough already anyways.

Physical casino owners wouldn't be at an extended loss if online casinos remain illegal in those states.

Never has it crossed in my mind that some campaign participants have not been earning Merits in months or even years. Well done on the research.

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Will leave my personal opinion here. If the managers of this campaign want hear a non-biased opinion, here it is.

The idea is that some users should be taken out of the campaign without a specific rule in the OP if they have not met a few unofficial requirements such as earning at least a minimum of Merits per month (or 120 days). Speaking from what I have personally seen, if such rule is officially added to the campaign's OP, the campaign participants will start creating useless threads in a desperate try to gain Merits.

Some unofficial rules should exist out there imo, because officializing them means making them aware there is a possibility of being kicked out of the campaign if they don't obey the rules. Applying this "minimum earned merits" as a condition for the existing participants would also be a mistake as they'd be basically forced to earn merits, so the same consequence would take place.

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I do not have anything to gain from this as I have just joined a campaign a few days ago and I am willing to stay with Hhampuz for now - Seems kinda disrespectful IMO to leave a campaign as soon as you're accepted, unless there is an underlying problem behind the leave.