We don't know how many sMerits people got from the original distribution so the 'at least..' number just means available from the sMerit gained from receiving Merit. Accounts that have spent all of that may still have some distribution sMerit left but it is unknown so nothing is displayed. The same goes for sources as it is unknown how much they get each month.

I'm curious if the same people have won the lottery more than once? 

Really?

It is not maths it is probabilities, there is always variance in luck. Provably fair means you can prove it to yourself. Follow the instructions and verify the results, you can use your own choice of tools to do that if you don't trust our verifier.

Because we have to wait for the Bitcoin network to pick the winners. The client seed is the hash of the 12th blocked mined after the ticket list is published.

https://twitter.com/freebitco/status/1028668966397337602

Download the ticket file and it tells you the block number we are waiting for.

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I downloaded the file and we're waiting for block 536470.


Last block mined 536469 so next one.

And most of the account sellers are scammers that don't have accounts to sell. You'll pay and then they will disappear.

The wild swings are coming from the Halong burn in address. They had over 12,000 workers at one point yesterday and less than 4,000 right now.

That's the point I wanted to make. Now that I manage a couple of service threads I get a lot of people that only joined the forum to ask a question or raise a support issue. It would make it difficult for me to have to keep checking to see if there were new posts.

We've discussed this recently in other threads and I still think manually approving the first post for each new account, as is done on many other forums, is the best way to combat this.

Thanks, that's a great breakdown of the data but just to be awkward I don't fit into any of those categories as I'm one of the few to rank up from Sr. So I guess I'm included in the '17 have over 600 merits in all (awarded over 100 merits)' group.

Not to be pedantic here but you missed the most important word out.


Transactions not having to trust a third party and being irreversible is part of it. My opinion here is that although it isn't explicitly stated in the white paper he went much further and didn't want to trust the creation of money supply to a third party either. Otherwise, we could have ended up with something like Tether. A payment system on its own doesn't require its own currency, but it does require trust in the issuers of whatever currency is used.



He could have just as easily set a constant block reward of 50 BTC forever. This is what makes me think most that he had the intention of making Bitcoin a digital gold. There is a finite amount of gold below ground and as it is mined the easiest to extract gold comes in to supply and as time goes by it gets ever more difficult to mine the gold that is left.

It's just a personal opinion but everything about the design tells me this was always the intention. The words in the genesis block  “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. It wasn't that banks were going to fail and depositors would lose money, it was that governments were devaluing our money to bail them out. We all paid for those bailouts.

That isn't really surprising when you consider that with the Legendary randomiser just to get the activity takes between 9 and 18 months. It will interesting to see how many have made it after that time has elapsed.

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@cryptofarid10 wrong thread, report it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895

No. If you keep a balance above $50 you will get the full reward even if you never gambled at all.

You can get back to full reward by keeping a balance of $50 or more. That number will be significantly reduced for you as the lottery tickets and wagering are also taken into account.

He was lucky.

It would be better to start a new thread as anyone seeing this bumped is unlikely to be someone interested in your inquiry.


I know it is only my word but since I started doing support in March the only issue I have had to deal with was one panicky customer when our hosting site had a problem that took all our history servers down and meant we couldn't display the recent interest payments data.


That's a question which everyone will have a different view and if you want answers I'd suggest starting a thread with that in the title.

Gold and silver were both originally used as currency. I think that the similarity with the limited supply and the mining analogy show that it was very much the intention to have a deflationary money. You have to remember the context of the time Bitcoin was created. It was the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis which led to central banks running huge QE programs where peoples wealth held in fiat currencies was deliberately devalued by government policy. That can't happen in a decentralised system with a finite supply. That's exactly why people that understand that part of Bitcoin would rather store their wealth in it.

Because that's what pays for all the reward points, lottery tickets and bonuses. It works well this way and it attracts more gamblers because most of them don't look for low house edge, they look for other benefits.

Appealing a ban means you think that the decision was wrong for some reason.

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Clearly, you did break the rules so there is nothing to appeal.

Yeah, they both went head to head for the last few days of the contest and the places kept swapping over. I missed the last few hours due to sleeping.

The second place last month has just made an entrance to this months competition with a quick 55BTC wagered. It looks like they were waiting for the 4x reward point weekend.

Our auto-bet works the same way as every other site. If you want something you have greater control over try https://bot.seuntjie.com/