Don't know if Netherlands is any different, but normally when the parcel is seized, you'd receive a letter from the customs. They'd ask you to either pay the duty or have your cigs destroyed. In some countries you can refuse the delivery and the parcel is returned back to sender (unless the goods are illegal, counterfeited etc), in such case - dutyfree would re-send.

So, if Netherlands allow recipients to refuse deliveries and return seized goods to senders, than you'd need to wait for the letter to tell the customs what do you want them to do with your cigs.

But your parcels haven't been lost, they've been seized by the customs, you know where they are.

Look again at "Q" directly above the one you quoted, it goes like this:

I don't get it, how do you think they've scammed you? You ordered cigs and they've sent them to you. You got unlucky and have all of them seized by the customs. As far as I remember, dutyfree would re-send them only if you refuse the parcel and the customs sends it back to dutyfree (although not every country provides such option).

Margin lending is probably the safest option but it's not risk free. If you provide a loan to a trader that uses it to margin buy a certain altcoin (hoping it goes up) but the altcoin's price takes a sharp nose-dive for whatever reason (ie critical vulnerability discovered) and forced liquidation can't be executed at set price (due to no buy orders) then you'd be at loss. So there is a risk other than exchange going bust.

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Thanks. I remember wetsuit saying something about revenues from ads and dice long time ago, but I thought it was the other way around, that ads generated most and profit from dice was just an addition.

Anyhow, it still would make sense to put some ads here and there to generate bit more income and capitalise on large traffic.

Personally I'd rather wait for a few days for withdrawal and see the site operated by trusted admin, than force him to hire new people and put private keys in their hands.

You need to note that people may have different lifestyles/employment commitments than yourself. If i.e. admin has a full time job that requires frequent travel, he will not be able to resolve any issues until he's back etc (don't know if that's the case tho).

I've had my own issues with SD in the past and had to wait and I know how annoying it can be. It surely can negatively affect the user experience, but I wouldn't say that long response time means that the site is in any way less trusted.

Damn, I just discover this thread. 1000 coins is an epic giveaway.

Nevermind the shipping time, but do you know (roughly) how many of them have been claimed / how many still available?

Is it first come - first serve, or do you prioritise by country (lower shipping cost)?

Are you seriously funding this yourself, or is it some wider XMR community promo project?

OK, my another guess:

You're going to implement CLAMS staking. Users will get some CLAMs per roll (or choose between BTC and CLAM), or users will earn shares (per roll/ref roll/wagered etc) in profit from CLAM staking.

ps I noticed that (for a while now) there are no ads on the site at all (other than the small ones from your own 'advertise' program). iirc after the adsense block, you used a different ad network, but now there's nothing. Is this permanent? How do you generate revenue?

The thing is you seem to rarely know what you're talking about, you post your brainfarts at random and when you're called on that, you'd just beat around the bush and try to somehow justify it, or go with "that's not what I meant" or "(I posted complete nonsense) because I couldn't find a better term".

Your utterly curious how people bidding with fees on the limited block space are causing increase in fees? If that's not self-explanatory to you, I can't do nothing for you.


You don't? Than what's this?:


Flexible or 'remain the same'? Which one is it?



In case you failed to notice, for a good couple of years we had a 'default' fee of 0.0001 for the first 1000 bytes. Yes, if it wasn't manually adjusted, it would rise/fall (in USD terms) according to the price, but since it was always a trivial amount of few cents, rarely anyone cared. That's in no way an indication that people would be happy to pay significantly higher fees, just because it's 'default'. They'd either change it manually or use different wallet (with lower 'default').
Now things changed and most wallets would use flexible fees. As I already pointed out to you, you can find examples of standard fees (in USD) being lower when BTC was in $1,000 zone, then they are now when BTC is in $700. Similary, in the 'off-peak' (with BTC at $700) you could pay lower fee, then when BTC was at $500 or $600.
But that's irrelevant anyway, let's circle back to your original claim, from which you're trying to escape:


Can you provide short, on-topic explanation of what will prevent free market from keeping fees affordable? The only sensible answer you can give, to sound somewhat coherent, is that full blocks will enforce higher fees, but (according to yourself) that's not what you're talking about.
And if "fees are now higher than when BTC was at $200, therefore they'll always rise with the price" is all you got, then don't bother - I'm not interested in 'artificial discussion' with the main goal being that of increasing your post count.

I missed nothing. You've missed a point.

First of all, current increase in fees is due to the block congestion, not increase in price. Fees now are higher than they were when BTC was at $1000 (in USD terms).

What I mean is:

Let's assume average fee being 10,000 sats ($0.07), if BTC price increased 1000-fold, do you honestly expect anyone to be happy to pay $70/tx? Of course not, number of txs would massively drop, leaving lots of room in the blocks, then you could send your tx again with $0.07 fee (this time being only 10 sats) and the miners would likely include it (providing they want to maximise their revenue).

Edit: shortly saying: fees in btc terms are not fixed, they're flexible.

My "FTFY" is correct assuming BTC purchasing power = OJ's nutritious value.

You won't increase market cap by x1000 by introducing millisatoshis.

I do understand where you're coming from and you're not wrong saying that it's essentially creating x1000 more bitcoins and changing definition of what "bitcoin" is, but that would have zero effect on the price, other than maybe caused by psychological discomfort and few bad press hits (I. Kaminska from FT would be all over it).

It's definitely not the same as i.e. changing 21m cap to 100m etc. It's essentially the same as dividing shares of a company, i.e. from 10 to 10,000, it won't have any effect on % holding of each shareholder and will have no effect on the value of share capital. So what's the issue?

FTFY

Nodes don't get any revenue, miners do.


Increasing the number of base units by x1000 could have some ugly psychological effect, but in reality it changes nothing, every balance would be multiplied by the same factor and the cap of 21m units called "bitcoin" would still be in place. The only difference from the users' perspective would be more decimal places.
There's nothing controversial about that, and afaik that was suggested from the start if BTC price was to go up to some incredible levels.

Could depend on your jurisdiction and/or the type of activity, but in most cases (in my unqualified opinion) the answer is Yes. Doesn't really matter if it's bitcoins, foreign currency, or even other goods/services (received as a payment), you're still expected to pay tax on it (providing it's a taxable income), at the exchange rate/value at the time of receiving payment.

Let us know what kind of earnings are you talking about and what country do you live in and maybe someone will offer you a sound advice.

Interesting initiative, can't wait to see what impact will it have.

But what's the end result you're trying to achieve? Is it to create one main list ("general"?) to serve as a single point of reference for other campaign managers to use when considering applications? Or do you want maintain 3 separate lists + 'general' and 'Permanently Blacklisted' just as informative additions?

In theory it doesn't matter, you could say that each manager can choose whichever list(s) he prefers (if any), but imo, putting focus on one, main list (by clearly denoting it as 'main' and possibly moving other, supportive lists to 2nd post) will have much stronger effect, especially if you intend to take more managers on-board.


Will it only be an indication, or will you adjust the value of such account accordingly?

What do you mean? There's no minimum, set-in-stone bitcoin tx fee (well, you could say 1 satoshi is the minimum). If BTC price goes up to $1m/1btc overnight the free market (after some time) would bring the fees to the lower level.

There's no strict correlation between fees/btc price. You could have btc price at only $100 and still have high fees, if there's high transaction demand and blocks are full.

Looking at your posts, you're very likely to be removed and won't get paid. You should reconsider whether you want to be in.

You tell me. Does bitcache and LN allow you to send tip to twitter account, or tip reddit post? Will they allow you to tip someone who doesn’t even know what Bitcoin is?

ChangeTip failed because they were spending more than earning. It's that simple.

The site has a good record and they've been operating for over 2 years now. The biggest issue is that admin is not full time committed to running the site and sometimes it takes few days to get reply. But so far, all the problems have been resolved eventually.