I actually have a feeling some of these threads are deliberately started by seemingly new-ish users to then enable other newbies (especially alt farmers) to sow flurries of posts to build up their posts counts then sell or join Signature Campaigns.

You've either been banned, failed to provide relevant KYC documentation, or you're just a chronic gambler who's unable to know when to stop.

In any event, you need to just stop, take some time out and reassess what you hope to gain by having multiple identities.  No good can come by continuing down that murky path.

It's undenyable that a correction is around the corner.  I personally felt the correction would start at the end of March given those who bought in in December wouldn't be seeing the gains they were hoping for and so would start dumping by now.  Perhaps those investors are more resilient in which case it may be a slow and steady decline over many months.

I see someone else has started an identical thread over in the reputation section - the only difference is their thread is a self moderated thread.

I have no inclination to participate in any more self moderated threads given the number of users who have weeks, months or even years later arbitrarily deleted my posts.

I've just clocked up 7,200 posts and am closing in on being in the top 200 ranking of posters here in the Forum.  I estimate it'll be the end of August this year that I'll have clocked up 7,777 posts and then mid November 8,000 posts.

From what I can tell, all that happens is the odds are added together, it's not like the winnings from the first bet are then placed on the second, then third etc.

The bet is 0.00003 which works out to be $ 1.69 at the moment and the projected winnings are 0.00045 which is roughly $25.44 ( a lot of effort for little payout).

If the rollover snowballed, that would be a story to tell.

From recollection, the Broncos won the first two games, then there was the long break due to Covid and lockdowns in most East Coast states of Australia.  Then when play was resumed, from recollection, the Broncos won just one more then lost the rest of the games played in the 2020 season.

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As the odds are too short on their own to put a small wager on, I've decided to take out my first parlay:



All teams I've said will win this round of the competition.  (Fingers Crossed)

Some NRL round four and five wagers via

https://nitrogensports.eu/sportsbook

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Some of the fixtures are a little too tight for payouts to be worth making such a small wager, so I'm going to have my very first parlay:



Good-luck to everyone.

I guess it's my turn to bump this thread - there's a core group in the Forum that are advocates of the Bitcoin Lightning Network and have been asked from time to time why our various threads are in this or that thread ...

So, as the title of this thread asks:

Don't you guys think it's time for LN to have it's own (sub)section now?

I also received a glib PM (which was probably sent out to a few more users than just us two I would imagine.  My response was intended to be fairly glib and lo and behold!  I got a glib reply.

I just had a look for the thread asking for a LN sub forum to be created, but I just can't find it at the moment.  It would save the hassle of responding to dense questions for people who have no intentions of using the Lightning Network at all.

If people abandoned Core Wallets in favour of other forms of wallets for their bitcoins (such as gee, I dunno... a Lightning Wallet for example) then would that mean consensus has been reached and the LN is actually how bitcoin evolved?

Core is not the only type of bitcoin wallet out there.

Doubling the price of bitcoin by the end of the year would require most sellers to withdraw their supplies forcing the price up as demand can't find lower priced coins.  That said, if the price went up as forecast in the OP's chart, that would take the price to ⅛ of a million dollars (which if it reached that point would mean one satoshi = one cent).

Where it goes from there is anyone's guess (especially if the sellers who had been holding out decided to sell en-masse)

I highly doubt even if you were to front up with 0.02 worth of alt coins such as ETH, XRP or even LTC that you'd be able to get a loan (especially given you've already disrespected some of the lenders who've politely said "no" to you).

If you did front up with 0.02, I for one would wonder who you'd scammed ??

If you're wanting to accept bitcoin, then perhaps you list via facebook which I'm fairly certain doesn't require you to utalise their preferred payment partner (as I don't know they even have one).

You could also list items here for sale.  And, if you are concerned with privacy, you could always start up a new UID which is permitted.  If you are going down the escrow path as well (whilst using a new UID) then be very clear users have the option to choose from a list of escrows.  Otherwise, it'll backfire if you are seen to be escrowing for yourself (think Tomatocage / Quickseller ).

What are you selling?

The Paramatta Eels managed to outplay the Wests' Tigers.  I have a feeling the Eels might be the overall better team and the Tiger's win last week was the exception rather than the rule.

So, at the end of the fourth round, the NRL 2021 Season:

https://www.nrl.com/ladder/?competition=111



I feel the Panthers, Rabbitohs, Dragons and Storm with be top eight if not facing off against each-other in the semis.

The Eels and Sharks will be in the top eight. 

As to the other two slots Roosters/Raiders/ plus maybe Knights/Warriors.

Just for a laugh I sent 500,000 sats via LN from my Eclair (mobile phone) wallet to the Phoenix (Tablet) wallet in one TX costing 51 sats.  The original 1,000,000 on chain TX cost ~7,250 sats so it's a stark contrast in TX fees for on-chain Vs off chain.  (I haven't tweeked any TX request fees on either device).

As we supposed, a new channel was created in under two minutes with an outbound figure of 499,000 sats (1,000 sat fee to open a new channel) and an inbound component of ~ 239,000 sats.

So...

I have 1,501,000 sats OUTBOUND capacity in my Phoenix Wallet with three channels open and ~ 455,000 sats INBOUND capacity combined.

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Now all I have to do is find venues around Brisbane that accept BTC either on or off chain and test out transactions in a real world setting which is something I've been meaning to do for quite a long time now.

Hello again, I'm just going through my lists on the [Guide] Broadcast Your RAW Transaction (Push TX) BTC & Alts coins thread and was just checking if your program is still active? 

The list above has a couple of broken links to site that are no longer available.

Thanks.

OK... I'd heard of Phoenix LN Wallet a while ago, but hadn't done anything to investigate it until now.  Not long after the above post I followed the github link and downloaded the Android APK, installed it ^{on a 7" tablet} and then sent the bc1... wallet address BTC 0.01 ^{from my mobile phone's Eclair Wallet} as I'd briefly read that Phoenix is based on Eclair LN Wallet which I have been using for some time now.  ^{(Just as an aside, none of the Eclair LN channels values on my mobile phone have changed for many weeks)}.

I'd paid 20sats/byte TX fee and not long later I discovered 999,000 sats had been created into a channel ^{(The channel connects where to?  No idea at this point)} with ~3,750 INBOUND capacity inbuilt into the single channel.

Having probably misread the above post, I waited 24 hours and no additional channels (with inbound capacity) were created, so I sent 100,000 to a LN wallet on another device.

Another 24 hours went by and still no inbound channels were created, so I sent via LN (from a secondary LN source) ~2,500 sats bringing the balance just above 902,000 sats.  But no secondary LN channel was forthcoming.

The next day, I sent the Phoenix Wallet BTC 0.001 from a different wallet to all previous sources thus far to a bc1... wallet address rolled by the App.  After generating the wallet address, I shut the program down and left it closed until after the funds had had a number of confirmations.

12 hours ago, roughly 12 hours after sending the BTC 0.001 I opened the Phoenix Wallet and got a near instant message stating the funds had arrived via the bc1... wallet address.

However, when I went into the channel list I discovered a second LN channel has been opened but with 99,900 sats outbound AND ~122,000 sats inbound capacity in the one channel.

on reviewing the wallet address in mempool.space (their linked block explorer) I can only see one inbound and one out bound transaction cancelling my theory the other side sends funds to jointly open a channel then sends funds out to create inbound capacity

However #2 the outbound TX has three wallet addresses sending funds to another (two) addresses.  I suspect one very close to the combined inbound/outbound/TX fee is "my" transaction which then lends me to suspecting Phoenix co-creates it's channels using your and their funds.

Which makes me wonder just how "custodial" Phoenix really is?

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Unfortunately, as with the Eclair LN Wallet I seem to be in the same predicament in that as soon as the screen goes dark, the program goes into hybernation and the channels effectively go off-line (so I can't run Phoenix as a node on my tablet)

I also can't open channels to whomever I want to either, so (if my five week (and counting!!) TX from one Zap wallet to another Zap wallet ever gets confirmed) I'll be back to creating a series of Zap LN channels which I can keep open on my PC.

You can embed data into the block-chain via this website:  ^{(Not sure if there are any other websites out there that do so - anyone?)}

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/embed-data/

You can search embedded data in the block-chain such as this example:

https://blockchair.com/search?q=timelord2067

     

This thread is to alert both the fake accelerator ( provenance.im ) and the fake testimonial creator site ( demo.divipeople.com ).

The website https://provenance.im/ - Archive [1a], [1b] 1s being advertised on the website http://www.blockcypher.com/ which uses third party advertising (and therefore is not associated with the advertisement ^{(At least I don't think they are...)}).

During my research I found that there has been a previous thread: Provenance.im - Bitcoin Transaction Accelerator Scam however, as I stated above, I uncovered the site and scam through different methods.

All merits received in the first 24 hours will go to margana who authored the above Forum thread.

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Testimonial #1



https://provenance.im/img/ct1.jpeg Archive [2a], [2b]



Using the Reverse image locator site https://www.duplichecker.com/reverse-image-search.php we find that image used in the following locations:  (Bing lists over twenty sites using that image)

BING SEARCH

• https://tevredenconsument.nl/doe-het-zelf/de-beste-verstekzaag/ - Archive [3a], [3b]
  
  
  
  
• https://twitter.com/danielcaeiro - Archive [4a], [4b]
  
  
  
  
• https://www.australianimmigrationagency.com/ - Archive [6a], [6b]
  
  
  
  

In all likelihood, most if not all of those testimonials were created via this website: https://demo.divipeople.com/plugins/brain-conkit/testimonial/ - Archive [5a], [5b]

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Eight Bing Image search sites listed

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Testimonial #3



14 websites listed by Bing Image Search

While that is mostly true I can give you at least one example - Rolls Royce who when selling a car place a covenant on that car concerning service and resale.  They even tried to force John Lennon to repaint his psychedelic Rolls back to it's previous colour scheme.