That is one scary picture

But how about this one?
Everything was perfectly aligned again

How about this: put one of those chips in other hardware! If that would be possible without raising the price per hash too much, it could have a market. Then again, I wouldn't keep my Bitcoin mining hardware wallet connected to a PC 24/7 just for this, and I wouldn't want it to be very hot all the time. I regret missing the days that a home computer could mine Bitcoin.

Thanks for finding this! I've reported his post too. This bounty spammer has 6 deleted posts already in modlog, now all he needs is a ban.

Correct:
The image needs to be generated when Bitcointalk's image proxy asks for it, and that doesn't always work (or only after a while).

Bump!

I'm still working on adding avatars.

I didn't check the link before. I did just now: $95 for 1/330th of the power of an ASIC miner. That's 1/41th of the price.
It would need to cost about $15-20 to be worth it.

Proudhon mode: time will tell who's right on this one

There you go, he's getting better as his scam and people start doubting he's a scammer.

His screenshot shows he received 0.02331972 Bitcoin. BetKing gained millions of dollars in their scam ICO, at the time worth a couple of thousand Bitcoins. Giving back a fraction of a fraction (assuming it's true) doesn't mean squat.

He's basically saying: "gamblers lost $44k on my site already, come play with me so you'll lose more and I can pretend to be Robin Hood".

It depends: take my neutral feedback on this account for example. If you trust me, you'll know this is true. I couldn't create a Reference link, it was confirmed by email. Screenshots would be bad for privacy and don't add evidence anyway since they can easily be edited.
If you don't trust me, ignore this feedback.

What would it take to add a small ASIC miner into this? Would it be possible to take 1/1000th of the chips of an ASIC miner, and instead of 3500W run at 5W (a bit more per hash but still small enough to run off USB power)? It would be great for decentralization to have millions of people do some mining, but I guess the market isn't big enough to make production economically viable. You'd have to produce many millions of them to get the price low enough to sell them, and still they'd have to compete against millions of ASIC miners that are a thousand times more powerful.
I'd like it though! It would still be not for profit, but at least there would be some chance to find a block.

It really sucks that laws of scale made miners so large, power hungry and loud to be efficient.

Hey, I've seen this one before:

And 2 years earlier, he did the same:

The scam and misleading only gets worse. Those "BKB tokens" he claims to be refunding expired years ago:

I've seen the new topic. He's trying the same every 2 years, somehow using his previous scam to convince gullible people he's the good guy now. Lol.
If people still fall for his scam, despite a big red Flag banner, -11 and a self-moderated thread, they can't be helped.

See:

Of course not, he's a scammer.

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He's still using one post Newbie sockpuppets:

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Why is he advertising his "token refund" on the Gambling board anyway? The rules are One thread per site ONLY. I've reported his topic:
Update: a Mod locked the topic.

It must suck to live in a place where you think government is hurting you through tap water. I've seen old pipes in the water supply dunes: they were calicified for about 70%. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't drink it, it's natural and totally fine. The water reports are fine too, tap water is approved for new born babies. Even better: bottled water is not recommended for babies, unless it states so on the packaging (which I've never seen).
The only exception is old houses with lead plumbing, that's toxic.

The quality of water comes with colder climates. In Nevada, tap water smells worse than swimming pools, and hurts my eyes. In France, they have signs not to drink it everywhere. In Belgium, it's probably still safe to drink, but smells like chlorine, so I realized how much we drink after buying 60 liter for a few days. In Luxembourg, it tastes great! In Denmark even better. In Germany, it's fine. In Austria and Switzerland too. New Zealand tap water tastes great. In the Netherlands, it's high quality everywhere but the taste depends on the water hardness, which varies strongly throughout the country. In Norway, I've been drinking straight from ice cold mountain streams (although that's not always safe). The tap water is great. In Asia, I'd even use bottled water to brush my teeth, and drinking tap water (thanks to a bad restaurant that served it) means sitting on a toilet for a week

See Countries with the Best Drinking Water to see what you're missing out on.

I'd still like to try the tap water in Iceland. It comes highly recommended.

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Rule of thumb while traveling: do as the locals do. If supermarkets have long aisles filled with bottled water in large packages, you should probably not drink the tap water.

I assume OP is talking about referral links, not his own faucet. That's not allowed on any board.

@mallman: faucets are remnants from the past. Forget about them, there are better ways to earn money. It's up to you to find them.

It was 10 BTC, right?

Assuming you still have your wallet, it's easy to sign.

Or this. If you don't know how much you donated, and can't sign a message, maybe the account wasn't yours in the first place.

Bounty Manager: Hhampuz
Platform: casino contest
Highest Payment (BTC or USD): $1200

I like to think outside the box a bit I'm totally okay with not qualifying.

I've been in touch with several campaign managers once in a while (unrelated to this competition), but I like to avoid conflicts of interest. That's why I went "outside the box" with Hhampuz' casino design contest instead of signature campaign.

A few years ago, when I created my account, the limits were much higher (after only registering an email address). It's been lowered a few times, probably because of regulation. Nowadays it is indeed quite useless if you don't want to go through KYC.

That's incorrect. There may be time travel involved, but:

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Bitcoin is designed to be electronic cash. With cash, you can't really schedule payments, unless you create some automated payment system for it.

And that's a good thing! The protocol doesn't need to do things that can be done in another way. The protocol has locktimes, you can for instance create several transactions that will only become valid in the future. Or a wallet can be coded to do exactly this, it could have a separate balance that isn't locked with a password that can be used to schedule sending funds. Even better if that's LN enabled.

This could easily be implemented in a wallet, say in Electrum. The fact that it hasn't been done yet makes me think there's no demand for it: anyone who wants to schedule payments (and those are mainly businesses) has another system to process payments from their wallets.

Spending the funds before the locktime can be seen as a way to cancel your subscription.

When using Locktime, the transaction is not valid before it reaches a certain block (or date). No miner can change that.

Another thing to consider: the amount. If it's $100, it's not really a problem spending it anywhere. But if it's $10 million, you're going to need a car wash in Albuquerque.

That's (kinda) my point: what if they make Bitcoin illegal, they find out you used to buy Bitcoin on Binance, and then ask you where it is now. Can you have a plausible story (other than "a boating accident")?

For me, it's the opposite: banks want to know where the money came from, and the more anonymous it is, the harder this is to explain. Using P2P in combination with a bank account raises more questions than using an established exchange. P2P in person has a whole set of different risks (for $5 wrenches and for privacy).

Is this really worth all the transaction fees, just to "not have KYC coins"? Depending on who you're hiding from, the exchanges you used in the past will still have a pretty good idea you own crypto. They may not know your addresses, but that's it.