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26921  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: ETH price soaring. Are you going to move some BTC into ETH? on: May 17, 2016, 01:11:18 PM
Eth is going up again. I am still not moving BTC (back) into ETH, as I am still expecting it to go down. But I must admit I didn't expect this (anymore) after the first big drop in value.
I would have wanted to

I am happy Bitcoin is no longer moving down when Etherium goes up. Does that mean Etherium is now more bought with fiat directly instead of with Bitcoin? Currently both coins go up, Etherium goes up faster than Bitcoin increases against the dollar, but Bitcoin is less volatile.
26922  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bitcoin Gambling is Exploding on: May 17, 2016, 12:54:21 PM
Privacy is the best gift this bitcoins has given us, we can gamble with anonymity and we have the privilege to choose from different sportsbook to bet on. We can even bet at the comfort at our own home, that is why bitcoins will become more stable.
Bitcoin is not private. Say you want to be absolutely sure nobody can link a payment to you. That means you have to hide your IP-address in that transaction, but also in all other transactions in the chain leading up to that transaction, upward to the moment where you buy the bitcoins.
And buying bitcoins often requires a form of ID, showing your real identity. If you have more transactions in between it becomes more difficult to trace you, but you'll need to use things like bitmixers and darkwallet to completely hide yourself.
Even if you buy a bitcoin with cash, the buyer can help for example a copyright agency to identify you.
It will depend on how deep the agency is willing to dig. And if it's a law enforcement agency, they can get even more access.
Call me paranoid? Sure! But just for fun, try to make a transaction that can't be linked back to you in any way. It's not that easy.

Of course Bitcoin is much more private than any other way of online gambling, so it's still the best option. It's just not perfect and it is important to realize its limitations on privacy.
26923  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 17, 2016, 12:47:56 PM
Could anyone give me a setting of bet amount and wining chance that reach exact 20 mBTC. I couldn't find anything.
What is your account name (or level) at rollin.io? The house edge gets lower when your level gets higher, and the exact profit varies per level.
For example, at lvl 5, wagering 20.3749 mBTC at 50% chance gives 20.00000 mBTC profit on win.
26924  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Forgot password and seed on Electrum wallet on: May 16, 2016, 04:36:47 PM
Oh this is really hard. Could someone help me out? We could pehaps make a deal?
How much bitcoins are in the wallet?
Be careful sending your wallet and possible passwords to anyone: not only can they run with your bitcoins, it sounds like you also give them all possible combinations to all your other accounts (email/Paypal/etc.).

That being said, from what I've seen shorena seems to be a good choice to help you.
26925  Economy / Services / Re: [1 OPEN SLOT] Rollin.io Signature & Avatar Campaign on: May 16, 2016, 05:39:21 AM
Received on my 1RoLLiN-address Smiley Thanks guitarplinker and rollin.
26926  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 15, 2016, 10:10:25 PM
Contest: R9
Username: Loyce
Bets: https://rollin.io/dice/history/2620263948
26927  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 15, 2016, 10:06:47 PM
Contest: R8
Username: Loyce
Bets: https://rollin.io/dice/history/2620264186
https://rollin.io/dice/history/2620264256

26928  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: BetKing.io Pi competition. Up to 3 Bitcoin prize for all players! on: May 15, 2016, 07:31:51 PM
My account reached 1 week and I've reached 400+ Activity so I can join the fun Cheesy Thank you Smiley

BetKing.io User Name: Loyce
Account ID: 117238
Date Joined: May 8, 2016

Bet amount: 0.001 BTC

02 Bet #326007231 Roll:   2.9778
16 Bet #326364137 Roll:   16.0561
23 Bet #327097980 Roll:   23.3953
26 Bet #326364302 Roll:   26.8894
27 Bet #326007417 Roll:   27.6795
31 Bet #326365908 Roll:   31.7261
33 Bet #327101475 Roll:   33.8686
37 Bet #326364419 Roll:   37.2601
41 Bet #326367120 Roll:   41.8865
41 Bet #326367464 Roll:   41.7414
51 Bet #326007015 Roll:   51.7567
53 Bet #326364687 Roll:   53.8498
58 Bet #326364373 Roll:   58.9084
59 Bet #326355570 Roll:   59.396
62 Bet #326007319 Roll:   62.2254
64 Bet #326365269 Roll:   64.452
83 Bet #326007079 Roll:   83.2666
84 Bet #326365400 Roll:   84.5877
88 Bet #326007087 Roll:   88.1708
93 Bet #326366171 Roll:   93.8133
93 Bet #326367640 Roll:   93.69
95 Bet #326364918 Roll:   95.0201
97 Bet #327097409 Roll:   97.334
97 Bet #327097836 Roll:   97.361
99 Bet #326367511 Roll:   99.4862
26929  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 15, 2016, 08:06:21 AM
I already make a post about that above U  Smiley
Nice hit Smiley On your rollin birthday Cheesy
I only saw yours after I posted indeed. So 2 prizes for R6 left.
26930  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 15, 2016, 07:27:23 AM
These are the new (potential) R6 winners since yesterday:

Bet ID: 2611703333 - ccc222
Bet ID: 2612219999 - bankk
Bet ID: 2612982222 - ccc222
Bet ID: 2614262222 - luv_dat_labia
Bet ID: 2614285555 - carmen
Bet ID: 2614760000 - Flamezero
Bet ID: 2614823333 - RemoteConsoleXD
Bet ID: 2615096666 - aytack
Bet ID: 2615214444 - shadows
Bet ID: 2615373333 - gestat
Bet ID: 2615651111 - Santino_6tc5a
Bet ID: 2616021111 - Beckylitch

Still 3 prizes available!
26931  Other / Meta / Re: Stake your Bitcoin address here on: May 14, 2016, 10:56:24 AM
Here is my wallet address.

1Du3RDfKANEKkjoRBsWYP2WiAjSygSxL5h
Quoted for the rest of eternity Cheesy
26932  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 14, 2016, 10:50:33 AM
I just realized my script cut off the first digit of the BetIDs I posted before. The links were correct, it just needs a 2 in front of the BetID shown in front of it. I won't change the posts, I'll just correct it from now on.

These are the new (potential) R6 winners since yesterday:

Bet ID: 2602487777 - cf88
Bet ID: 2604135555 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 2604824444 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 2606880000 - Alkoxy
Bet ID: 2607038888 - Alkoxy
Bet ID: 2607046666 - Alkoxy
Bet ID: 2607239999 - Narzick
Bet ID: 2609428888 - Flamezero
Bet ID: 2609564444 - Flamezero
Bet ID: 2609841111 - KESHAV_BHANDARI

Still 5 prizes available!
26933  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin IS basically DESTROYED on: May 14, 2016, 09:00:25 AM
Ah I misread the Google quote as "kilowatt hour" and rather it is referring to annual consumption. Still 1/100th is still a small fraction.
You're kidding, right? 1% of the electricity consumption of a country with more than a billion people is HUGE! It is a whole lot of power plants wasting their energy into something that can basically be done by 1 PC.
Without redoing the math for myself I assume the 5.6 GW is correct. See if you can get a tour in a 1 GW coal fired power plant, it is a huge facility where you can really feel the power.
Especially in China that also means lots of people will die for mining bitcoin: the miners who work in real life coal mines and do IRL mining.
Not a pleasant scenario.
26934  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin IS basically DESTROYED on: May 13, 2016, 07:24:21 AM
Can't Shelby Moore go n' do some pull requests at Github and fix Bitcoin the BTC protocol?

There is no fix. It is an inherent phenomenon of the economics of mining. Satoshi of course knew this. He was no dummy.

The only possible fix I can think of, would be to make mining unprofitable.
I think indeed bitcoin could be better off if miners would get much less money. A block is currently worth $ 11,400. If miners would get much less, they would performe the exact same service with a lower hash rate. The only good thing about a high hash rate is that it makes a 51%-attack much more expensive to do. But as a few miners already have that much power, the possible risk of a 51%-problem is already present.

Industrial rates are actually pretty low across the country (average being 6 or 7 cents, afaik)
Electricity prices fluctuate wildly. Only a few hours per day prices are really high. For mining, it would even be possible to shut it down a few hours per day if prices get too high, but I doubt miners are big enough energy consumers to get good deals on the grid.
26935  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 13, 2016, 06:37:33 AM
A few new (potential) R6 winners since yesterday:

Bet ID: 596752222 - munkee
Bet ID: 598322222 - gestat
Bet ID: 598999999 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 601025555 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 602090000 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 602143333 - Erik_74pxn
Bet ID: 602487777 - cf88
26936  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rollinCoin.com caught changing provably fair hashes after betting on: May 12, 2016, 04:59:36 PM
$ echo -n "win:SecretKey=1205110482" | md5sum
fe3b7dee0cf7cb7ea552995675306786 
That's it? Cheesy
You can even brute-force this Cheesy No wonder it has to be changed afterwards Cheesy
26937  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin IS basically DESTROYED on: May 12, 2016, 12:21:22 PM
So there masterplan is to invest millions of dollars into a mining farm, collaborate with other farms that have done the same, destroy bitcoin and lose everything?/ sounds like a solid business model...
No. But they do have different interests than regular users like you and me. For instance, they need higher fees, not only now, but especially in the far future when block rewards get much lower.
While as a user I like low fees and large blocks, so my transactions are confirmed faster, the miners benefit from small full blocks, as users have to compete by increasing fees.

If you are really concerned about chinese bitcoin miners and china's greed in general, you can try to stop using chinese made stuff.
That won't change the fact that miners go where power is cheapest.

I'm curious now what electricity costs in China.
First hit on Google:

I'd say India has potential here. Or any location with a very big hydro power lake with very cheap electricity in a remote location.

Well, if it ain't China then those white devils look like they'll do a pretty good job too - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4isxjr/petition_to_protect_satoshis_coins/d30we6f
Wouldn't this be a serious possibility if the majority of miners agrees to do so? What stops them from saying: "from now on, the first 1 million bitcoins mined will be added to miners fees in the next 100,000 blocks?

There's another downside of it. Chinese gov could easily take control over (vast) majority of hashing power (or shut just shut it down) if they only wanted to for whatever reason. It would require minor operations and, unlike western countries, they wouldn't even have to justify it (search for legal grounds etc).
Say 75% of mining power is gone tomorrow. That means blocks take 40 minutes on average, after a while difficulty goes down, and all goes back to normal. Nothing lost there!
I would more worry about China disconnecting the internet for a while. When it comes back online, they have the longest chain and all transactions confirmed outside of China in that time are gone.
26938  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rollinCoin.com caught changing provably fair hashes after betting on: May 12, 2016, 11:12:25 AM
Using an incredible 10% house edge, and still it's not enough?

sir, i'm not scam and cheat.
is bad situation for me..
really fake.

Please explain how I could have possibly faked it. I would really love to hear your theory. How did the different hash get on archive.org?
I can think of a few Cheesy

You work at archive.org and decided this is a good way to test your Admin powers?
You've hacked archive.org and edited their archive?
You've changed rollincoin's DNS-settings to a site controlled by you, posted the edited hashes, archived that site, and changed the DNS-settings back to the original?

There! Three very possible but highly unlikely explanations. Let's see which one rollinCoin chooses Cheesy
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26939  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: rollinCoin.com caught changing provably fair hashes after betting on: May 12, 2016, 10:56:36 AM
Using an incredible 10% house edge, and still it's not enough?
26940  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: [Rollin.io] Rollin May 2016 || Monthly Contests!!! || NEW Contests each Week!!! on: May 12, 2016, 06:30:01 AM
R6  Bet Id Contest  Running  Win a bet where the last 4 digits are the same. Max Win Chance: 50%  0.2 m฿ 10 winners x 15 m฿ = 150 m฿
I'm still searching for all (potential) winners Cheesy All they have to do is claim it here with a qualifying bitcointalk-account. The full list so far:
Bet ID: 572859999 - Grant_70eoa
Bet ID: 574915555 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 575134444 - madcoin CLAIMED!
Bet ID: 576128888 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576141111 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576178888 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576196666 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576232222 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576243333 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576266666 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576352222 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576399999 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 576410000 - Andreas80
Bet ID: 577239999 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 577327777 - aRp CLAIMED!
Bet ID: 578499999 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 578521111 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 578812222 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 578857777 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 579613333 - ZackMarco
Bet ID: 581454444 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 582601111 - issam000
Bet ID: 582738888 - Banbam
Bet ID: 582801111 - 6bcost
Bet ID: 583145555 - georgemartinv
Bet ID: 583180000 - georgemartinv
Bet ID: 583210000 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 583591111 - detol69
Bet ID: 584003333 - munkee
Bet ID: 584234444 - awan CLAIMED!
Bet ID: 584518888 - aRp
Bet ID: 584781111 - aRp
Bet ID: 585416666 - amir1355
Bet ID: 585932222 - amir1355
Bet ID: 586395555 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 586473333 - Loyce CLAIMED!
Bet ID: 587128888 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 587314444 - Douglas013
Bet ID: 588859999 - gestat
Bet ID: 589500000 - Danial_728vm
Bet ID: 590098888 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 590112222 - Emilie_70jtp
Bet ID: 590135555 - Emilie_70jtp
Bet ID: 590254444 - ulib
Bet ID: 590341111 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 591188888 - mmackoo CLAIMED!
Bet ID: 591781111 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 592109999 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 592419999 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 592583333 - subhanshahan
Bet ID: 592924444 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 595786666 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 595853333 - dddnuri
Bet ID: 596344444 - mille88
Bet ID: 596609999 - munkee
Bet ID: 596625555 - munkee

There are 5 remaining prizes to be claimed for R6, 15 mBTC each. You can hunt it with just 0.2 mBTC bets.
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