I got back access to my account, but the stats are gone. Now I have a brand new account, while it was 1.5 years old (which is often required for giveaways) with a few million bets. It now has 0 bets. Wagered went up a lot, but that doesn't do me any good unless I use faucet.
I'm still curious what happened to the database, did all account data disappear entirely?

This is where you went wrong. It's Paypal's core business to track fraudulent behaviour. Although I would like to have a Paypal account in a fake name, I know for a fact that sooner or later they'll close the account.
I am curious though where the money goes if they close an account like that.

This is indeed my experience. They try very hard to get an exchange rate for every transaction you make.

First of all, your Red Trust isn't from users who are in Default Trust 2, so it doesn't instantly show up.
Second: a lot of scammers try all sorts of things, not only escrow, but also trying to get a loan, or trying to give a loan and run with the collateral. This has resulted in many people being "paranoid" and giving Red Trust to anyone who attempts anything that could even remotely be a scam.

People who have been trying to build a reputation have been given Red Trust too, for the simple fact that - wait for it - they're trying to build a reputation!

For this reason, I haven't even tried starting an escrow service, although I wouldn't mind doing it.

Have a look at the Bitcointalk Escrows list

For $14 I can do it too, up to you if you (and the other party) trust me with it. Unless it involves stuff like Paypal of course.

That sounds more like part of Steem's marketing plan than actual real life people writing about it. And that worked of course: seeing someone earn $30k from writing an unimportant story on some unimportant website makes people think they can do it too. The problem there is only a few can earn a lot, the rest is just wasting their time.
I've has a look at it, pretending to be a great social network, while in reality it's a website designed to make the creators rich, and they decide exactly what you get to see.
And when it fails, the next thing will pop up. "Social media" and "smart contracts" are the new altcoins, only meant to make the creators rich.

Nothing wrong with getting rich out of it BTW, but it is important to realize when you use it. And it is especially important to realize when you decide to spend money on it.

Note: this quote is wrong, this was an old seed (I forgot to change is while copy/pasting the update).

It was explained in my previous post: I was gone for the day

Congratulations Cannabis for winning 25 mBTC.
Full Lottery Results are of course public.

The winning Lottery Ticket was #138.

The next Draw is Sunday 23:00h Amsterdam time. As always, you can claim Free Lottery Tickets every day.
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You can't. If that would be possible, anybody could "recover" any Bitcoin address.
You may be able to recover your wallet.dat file, depending on how you lost it and how much you're willing to try (or pay).

Why would they pay uploaders? Torrents have enough uploaders without paying them. A service like Megauploads has much larger storage and bandwidth requirements than a torrent site, so why would they need to pay the uploaders?

This is crucial information!
I thought I was doing the right thing not following up so you guys have time to process all emails, but it has been 4 days. I've sent an email again (Ticket 15635).

The following Rollin users received Free Lottery Tickets (Ticket number(s) shown behind the name). Your name can be in the list more than one time:
iKID 11
praxantt 12
P1R4T3 13
Abe_ 14
abitguru 15
angayan17 16
aRp 17
arunkmr865 18
AtlantaSix 19
CASIO 20
Cazkys 21
famiextrem 22
Humbertin19_ 23
maksosip 24
Provablylucky_ 25
SimpleRed7 26
vavilon 27
x2 hitava 28,29
x2 interbtc 30,41
x2 psonowa 42,43
x2 singpays 44,45
x2 Xanidas 46,47
x3 Erikalui 48,49,50
x3 katerniko1 51,52,53
x3 shanem 54,55,56
x2 bankk 57,58
visions 59

The following user(s) did not receive tickets. Either the names don’t exist, or they never talked in Rollin Chatter Box:
ukon

]1 remaining ticket(s) (60) donated in Rollin Chatter Box:
Christy 60

Next Draw is in 1 day, 2 hours and 35 minutes. Tonight's Draw has to be moved to tomorrow because of connection problems with the VPS running the Bots.
Lottery pot: 19 mBTC.
Admin donated 10 mBTC to the pot, so it is EV+ again.
Good luck!

Tomorrow I'll be enjoying the weather, and I won't be back before the Draw. You can claim Tickets as always, but they'll be added to the Weekend Draw instead of Thursday's Draw.

I didn't know the noscan-option exists. "Noscan" would be okay if you import the address before depositing to the address, or if you want to import several addresses and scan them all at once afterwards (rescan 86 GB can take longer than creating the address).

It would be great if this also works with a "pruned" Blockchain, so you can still import vanity addresses without downloading the entire blockchain again.

Any idea what the exact command would be? I've tried several options (noscan, norescan, rescan=0, rescan=false), but it instantly says "Rescan is disabled in pruned mode". I don't want to rescan, I just want to import the address.
Someone posted the same idea on Github 2 weeks ago. I guess it's not possible yet.

In a way importing vanity addresses is the same as importing from cold storage. It has been tested on Reddit. Conclusion: It should be possible to get the balance without downloading the full blockchain again, but it's not (yet?) implemented.

Edit: I'm confused: somehow it did add a watch only address, but it says it requires a rescan to show the balance. I haven't been able to import the private key though.
Now I get what you meant! I did "importaddress 1something rescan false". It imports the address without rescan, and "rescan" is the label of the address. So I should import it useing "importaddress 1something Something false" to give it a more useful label.

A password can be converted into the hash, which is what always happened when I logged in. So my main question was/is: what happened to the database that my password is no longer enough to access my account?

This was 2 days ago, what's the status now?

Congratulations psonowa for winning 12 mBTC with a Free Lottery Ticket.
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The winning Lottery Ticket was #63.

The next Draw is tonight (Wednesday) 23:00h Amsterdam time. As always, you can claim Free Lottery Tickets every day.
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x2 actmyanme 35,36
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arunkmr865 40
AtlantaSix 41
CASIO 42
Cazkys 43
cent21 44
famiextrem 45
Humbertin19_ 46
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Lontong 48
maksosip 49
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Provablylucky_ 52
SimpleRed7 53
TheDarkRide 54
tolerl 55
Tryme4pkr 56
vavilon 57
x2 hitava 58,59
x2 interbtc 60,61
x2 psonowa 62,63
x2 singpays 64,65
x2 Xanidas 66,67
x3 Erikalui 68,69,70
x3 katerniko1 71,72,73

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tessaphin

7 remaining ticket(s) (74-80) donated in Rollin Chatter Box:
FLT rains 5 tickets: hassanafridi-1,aRp-1,bhattifaisal-1,Humbertin19_-1,Tryme4pkr-1
hassanafridi 79
lolgatocell 80

Next Draw is in 4 hours and 15 minutes.
Lottery pot: 8 mBTC.
Good luck!

I realized a possibility (the 1000 BTC giveaway gave me the idea):
1. You start saving Bitcoins in Address A.
2. You create a raw transaction sending 10 BTC 0.001 BTCfrom Address A to Address B.
3. Do not lose the private key for Address B!
4. Throw away (!) the private key for Address A (Remember: Satoshi recommends never to throw out a private key!)
Now, when you have exactly 10 BTC in Address A, you can broadcast the transaction.

I haven't tested it though. Try at your own risk.
I changed 10 BTC into 0.001 BTC because it feels too risky to do. I'm also not sure if you can use a raw transaction for inputs that are not in the address yet. So this may fail. But I'm curious to know if it can work.

I got you all CAPS:
Address: 1LANDAK9ks8zkcBH5qdWnhG53rYT96T2Nc (Balance: )
PrivkeyPart: 5Jh2xRtDaz6xthfumPQwQkDdruzuuLwuHffSquADQJmjYjFKNrT

They used to show the site's profit along with the total wagered. Dividing wagered by profit showed the house edge was about 4 times higher than advertised.
Now they stopped showing their profit.

Congratulations Humbertin19_ for winning 5 mBTC with a Free Lottery Ticket.
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The winning Lottery Ticket was #17.

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I clearly don't have Photoshop Nor any skills ... I regretted this when I started. Maybe you can still see what I wanted to do, it just didn't come out