I have been playing and enjoying dice lately. Got some small profit as well. I do it once day just for fun. I'm also playing poker every once in a while but I don't have much time to play, too busy.

A new bill filed in the Washington State Senate is seeking to prohibit local marijuana businesses from using bitcoin.

Sponsored by Senators Steve Conway and Ann Rivers, SB 5264 seeks to amend some of the state’s rules governing the sale and distribution of marijuana products. The move comes more than four years after Washington voters passed a ballot measure legalizing marijuana in November 2012.

Under the proposed rule, businesses that work in the local marijuana industry would not be allowed to either pay for goods with digital currency or accept those kinds of payments from customers. The bill also includes a definition of "virtual currency" that explicitly targets "digital representations  of value used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value", but excludes the "the software or protocols governing the transfer".

Read more here -> http://www.coindesk.com/washington-lawmakers-are-trying-to-keep-bitcoin-out-of-pot-shops

Bitcoin did that in 2009. It seems they are a bit(coin) late. 

Blockchain bloat, nothing major really. Why on Earth timestamping pdfs on the blockchain makes so much fuss?

I do agree. Let's make a parallel: we should all know that TCP/IP and SMTP, only to name a few, suck. But they got mass adoption and now they are simply not replaceable.
The same goes, IMHO, for crypto projects. I've seen many good projects die young and many good devs abandoning their "dreams" because there was no cash flow.
This is why I admire David and I'm so happy to see this nice spike up in the price lately!

And, last but not least, the peg should be put in place when the coin reaches a good value. Again, IMHO, bay should be top 10 with 5000 sat per bay. But that is my view.

 

A technology is called “disruptive” if it creates a new market that first disturbs and then displaces an earlier technology. Bitcoin is
potentially such a technology and much more. The fact that it can disrupt the largest and most interconnected marketplace in the world—money, banking and finance—makes it perhaps the most promising investment opportunity of our age.
Unlike our current increasingly unstable and unpredictable financial system, Bitcoin has 21st century technologies at its very core.

Read more -> http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bitcoin-why-it-now-belongs-in-every-portfolio-cm734833

Ok sorry if I repeat just to clarify some concepts:
1. If I moved around my BTC I will have to link those addresses to be part of the second distribution round;
2. The same goes for the GBYTE: if I moved coins around I will have to do the same.
3. I'm not sure about blackbytes but it should be the same, please correct me just in case.

Last but not least, is there any possible date for the 2nd round? Do we still go for mid-feb?

Zhou Shuoji is not a bitcoin believer. He says the cryptocurrency will never replace its traditional forebears, and he calls most of its proponents fanatics.

But for Zhou, a 35-year-old high-speed trader in Beijing, bitcoin is also too good to resist. His computers trade it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Using lightning quick orders, they profit from tiny price discrepancies on the myriad venues where it changes hands.

“It’s the golden age to be in the bitcoin market, because it’s imperfect,” said Zhou, a former IBM technology consultant whose firm, Fintech Blockchain Group, runs a bitcoin hedge fund and venture capital fund.

Read more here -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-16/high-speed-traders-are-taking-over-bitcoin-as-easy-money-beckons

For once I completely agree with Bloomberg. This is the reality for the bitcoin price market. We all know it.

Reference: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-16/high-speed-traders-are-taking-over-bitcoin-as-easy-money-beckons

In the 80s, there were basically only three distribution systems for video: TV, VHS cassettes and the movie theater. That meant that the only video was highly produced by strangers and most of it ran in half hour increments.

Not today. Now, micro-video has become hugely popular. On Vine (RIP), a six second video of a bin full of squeezy toys screaming might be the most amazing video you’ve seen in years (if you haven’t seen it, it will be). That video would have never hit the pre-internet distribution networks, though.


Read more here
http://observer.com/2017/01/bitcoin-lightning-network-andreas-antonopoulos/

I think I will use all my bitcoins before I die  Or, at least, I want to use all of them before the time.
Anyway, maybe, with family members, a multisig wallet will do the job.
5 keys and people are enough I think

yes scavengers and wizards are everywhere here. I personally think that if bay keeps the promise it could be a leading project in the crypto world.
If it was not for its sad ICO history (which marked the project negatively) bay could be very well into the top ten
It will eventually reach it though, I hope 

They want a "blockchain" but they don't want bitcoin. That want all the security the bitcoin protocol provides (via mining, proof-of-work etc) but they want it in their walled garden.
Ask anybody what a blockchain and they will answer that is the "technology behind bitcoin"!
FALSE!
The Blockchain is the chain of blocks in which all the transactions are stored. full stop. Then they build a huge castle on top of this.
And, of course, the blockchain "does" and solves every problem.

Go buy a blockchain

Consider safedice.com also

House edge: 0.5% variable
Affiliate commission: 10% of the house edge times the wagered amount. For every bet that using 1% house edge and more, you will earn a flat 0.1% of the wagered amount.
Has special banners: no
Altcoins: XMR

No David I am not on slack sorry  Anyway, if you would need anything ask me via pm and I'll do what I can.
 

today it could be your new $200: maybe you will regret not buying some even today. I've personally lost a lot a the beginning simply because I had to learn how to deal with BTC (security, not relying on exchanges, mastering the keys etc.)
BTC forced me to study many things I've never heard of and today it gave me a true financial fredoom. That's fine by me.

Crotone-Bologna might be a very interesting game: Crotone is playing much better lately. Last week only a score during the very last minutes gave Lazio its victory. So I would go for a double chance while I believe Inter Milan will easily win this one.

Crotone - Bologna Home or draw
Inter Milan- Chievo Inter Milan

I don't think it will be that easy for Paris Saint Germain to win that match because despite Rennes performances away they are quite though playing home, hence my double chance. As for the derby between Lorient Guingamp Ithink Lorient could win but another double chance is better.

Rennes - PSG Draw or away
Angers - Bordeaux Bordeaux
Lorient - Guingamp Home or draw
Montpellier - Dijon Montpellier

Cool! If you would need some tuning for your PR drop me a PM. I've done this in the past and I'd happy to help.
Let me know

FIY
https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/215282838--Draft-Frequently-asked-questions-about-account-verification

This means Bittrex is changing its way to deal with anonymous users. They are still moving forward to it. Personally I'm still keeping a legacy account opened long ago: but I know that new users already fall into the new verification policy (basic as the first level).
Things change soon in crypto.

I believe most of us know all that. Exchanges are the weakest link of the "blockchain"  (sorry for this joke)
I've never used an exchange that ask my private information: I have my ways to escape giving away my data (I suppose that's a must for a true bitcoiner).
We'll see how this unfolds.