They've sent me a message asking if I want a unit to test/review... I have provided my shipping address/contact details, so hopefully they send me one and I can give an independent, open and honest review of the wallet that they provide.

It looks like an interesting bit of kit and I'm keen to check it out!

Except in your video... As far as I can see, you still bet test credits after the deposit was made (and before refreshing).

I can see that you set the bet to 1 credit (550 credits), played a hand (549 credits) and then the test credit balance was affected (increased by 2 credits to 551 credits for the win), BUT your ACTUAL BTC balance was not affected (showing as 0 BTC with "you are playing Test credits" banner displayed).

Then, you refreshed and the full, unchanged 0.01 BTC balance (100 credits) was displayed (even though you had wagered AFTER the deposit was confirmed but before refreshing the page).

So, I don't see anything in your video that shows "actual" BTC being wagered until AFTER you refresh and the deposit popup is shown and the "Playing Test Credits" banner was no longer visible.

Or, to put it another way... I don't see any point in the video where the "you are playing Test credits" banner is visible and you are actually wagering real BTC.

Unless I'm missing something?

Yeah, I was a bit quick and got in before Krogoth's traditional 2nd post! It was just pure chance I picked up my phone and got the email notification saying a new thread had been posted!

Boom it was the raffle thread, and I know how quickly it fills up!

9 - HCP

Thanks. and no worries... I'm generally not in any particular hurry with these sorts of things

I'm busying experimenting with "Loop" at the moment... supposedly it allows you to create some inbound channel capacity on a specific channel by moving sats out through that channel "off-chain" and then "looping" them back to your wallet in an external "on-chain" transaction.

However, the minimum amount is 250,000 sats... and I am just getting a lot of "TemporaryChannelFailure(update=(*lnwire.ChannelUpdate)(0xc005cee160)" errors... so I'm guessing there just isn't the channel capacity between myself and the output point

Anyway, feel free to post up a return invoice and I'll repay it...


I've been having issues with Bluewallet and lntxbot the last day or so... lntxbot had a bit of a brainfart yesterday... and since then, I get a lot of "no routes" and "Error: failed: WIRE_TEMPORARY_CHANNEL_FAILURE (reply from remote) (204). Erring: 611785x2234x0, 0340…1c80" type issues with it

It generates weird API errors in Bluewallet

Firstly, I just want to re-iterate, that I think the site design is terrible.


Having said that, I'm a bit confused as to why you think that the "1 credit/0.0001 BTC" bet after you transaction was confirmed proves anything?



As far as I can tell, 1 credit == 0.0001 "btc" when playing test credits AND "real" BTC. You were playing 10 credits == 0.001... so 1 credit == 0.0001... I'm struggling to understand why you think that the 1 credit/0.0001 bet that you made, after your deposit has confirmed but you haven't refreshed, means that you are now playing real BTC?

As far as I can see, after you did refresh the page, your balance shows correctly as 0.01 BTC. If you were playing "real" BTC, it should have been showing as 0.0101 (to account for the "win")... but it doesn't, it shows 0.01... then you play the next hand and win and you see the 0.0101 BTC balance.


I would also point out that before you recorded the video, there appears to be a bunch of 0.01, 0.02 and 0.03 (test credit) bets that were made... that would be 100, 200 and 300 credits. So you assertion that you only played 10,20,40 credits during your test appears to be incorrect.



You seem to be getting your credits/btc mixed up...

TwitchySeal is right... poor UI/UX isn't a scam. At the end of the day, you deposited 0.03BTC and then wagered it on Blackjack. Granted the site design is pretty awful, and they should probably take steps to prevent something similar in the future, but it does not make them scammers... unless you have some 'smoking gun' emails that reveal that there was intent and that they purposely designed it that way to trick people... as opposed to simply being incompetent.

Is this a new feature... or was it always there?


Does that message not change after you deposit? 


No-one forced you to chase those loses. You willingly deposited and then played that money on a completely separate site. Claiming that Bitcoinvideocasino are responsible for that is ludicrous. Perhaps you need to take a look at your gambling habits and accept some personal responsibility for the extra 0.03BTC that you lost?


Best of luck with your claim, but this is more of a customer service issue than a scam situation.

It doesn't "buy" you member rank... you will stay at your current rank (ie. Jr. Member). You just get some of the privileges of the "member" rank in terms of being able to include links in your signature.

So, you'll still get to enjoy "ranking up" on your own efforts.

Are you trying to claim that the banned account Younasrajput is not an alt account of yours?

It would appear that The-Devil was attempting to farm merit... either by using an alt account or a "friend" to post some sort of question in B&H which The-Devil had a pre-written answer for.

As per the timestamps in the screenshots here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215242.msg53538254#msg53538254

You can see the time between the original question being asked, and the answer being posted was measured in seconds. Maybe 1.5 minutes for the first 2 posts. So, The-Devil was either frantically F5'ing in the board... spotted the question, then hammered out an answer like a madman... OR he knew the post was about to be made and already had an answer for it.

It seemed to garner a few merits from people... and then TMAN really drew attention to it all by dropping 50 merits on the guy.

As to whether or not the accusation is correct, it's hard to be 100% certain... but if you look at the post history, then it's fairly clear that the typical posts this user was making are of the "Yes I agree with [idea posted in OP]. I think that [idea in OP] is due to [related thing]. [related thing] is the cause of [idea in OP]. I also like [related thing]"-type posts

For them to have seen the post, read it and then created, typed and posted such thoughtful answers in 90 seconds is a bit of stretch.

Hey mate... ok, experimenting more with LND... Seems like my Bluewallet+lntxbot combo isn't working at this time, apparently the lntxbot is a bit "broken", so I can't send sats to myself.

Go ahead and put it on GitHub... It's as much for feature requests as it is for "bugs" (there is even a feature request 'tag' that the Devs can use).

In any case, it's more likely to come to the attention of the Devs on GitHub than it is here.

Sounds like the wallet file is corrupted after the restore.

Are you sure that it is an Electrum wallet you have restored? Was it encrypted? If not, have you tried opening it with a text editor to see what the contents look like?

I have been running 0.19.0.1 on Win10 x64 since it was advertised in the "news" bar at the top of BitcoinTalk... I have not seen any "Not Responding" errors with this release since I have been using it.

And that's running on a crappy old i5-3570k, with 8 gigs of RAM and the blocks folder on an HDD... that is also running an Electrum server and an LND server and a shitton of other services and background apps.

Is there anything in your debug.log that might give an indication as to why it is "not responding"? The next few times that it freezes... open/refresh your debug.log in a text editor and see what the last few lines say. See if it is outputting the same things each time it freezes.

Looks like I was wrong... Ledger Live now supports "bech32" aka "native segwit" addresses! I've edited my guide above!



So, you need to figure out which address you sent your bitcoins to... is it a "1", "3" or "bc1" address in Ledger Live? Check which "account" has the Bitcoin in it... and see what addresses that account is using, then make your choice accordingly.

Also, what account "number" are your bitcoins in in Ledger Live? If your account number is higher than 1 (ie. it displays as "Bitcoin 2"), then you will need to change some things during wallet creation in Electrum to see your bitcoins.

You probably should not have edited the OP like that... it makes the thread very hard to follow and confusing, as the responses don't line up with the questions any more!

You should either have started a new thread, OR... simply asked the next question you had in a new post!

Anyway... to answer your new question:
No. You do not need to export anything from Ledger Live or your Ledger Nano S... follow these steps:

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BEFORE you start:
- Determine what address "type" your Bitcoin is on, by looking at your "receive" address in Ledger Live. You need to know if your addresses start with a "1", a "3" or with a "bc1". You need to know this later on in Step 8!
- Once you know the type of address, disconnect you Ledger Nano S and make sure that Ledger Live is NOT running.

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Creating your Ledger Nano S wallet in Electrum:

1. In Electrum, select "File -> New/Restore"... Electrum will prompt you to enter a wallet name, give it something descriptive so you will be able to identify it easily in the future:



2. After entering the name, Click "Next" and Electrum will prompt you choose the type of wallet. Select "Standard Wallet":



3. Click "Next" and Electrum will prompt you for the type of "Keystore" that you wish to generate. Select "Use a hardware device":



4. Click "Next" and Electrum will prompt you to connect your device:



5. Make sure your device is connected, you have entered your PIN to unlock the device and you have selected the "Bitcoin" app on the device and you see:



6. Click "Next" in Electrum to get it to connect to your device, and it should be identified and you should see something like this:



7. Click "Next" in Electrum and it will ask you about the "Script Type and Derivation Path":



8. Determine your Bitcoin Address type from Ledger Live:
- If your wallet in Ledger Live has addresses that start with a "1", then select "legacy (p2pkh)" option.
- If your wallet in Ledger Live has addresses that start with a "3", then select "p2sh-segwit (p2wpkh-p2sh)" option.
- If your wallet in Ledger Live has addresses that start with a "bc1", then select "native segwit (p2wpkh)" option.



9. Click "Next" in Electrum and it will ask if you want to encrypt your wallet:
- If you want to be able to open your Electrum wallet and see your Bitcoins (but not be able to spend), WITHOUT needing to have the Nano S connected, UNCHECK the box
- If you want the wallet to ONLY be able to be opened with the Ledger device connected/unlocked, then make sure the box is checked.



10. Click "Next" and your wallet will be created and synced and you should see your transaction history:

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Troubleshooting:

IF you do NOT see your transaction history... and the wallet is connected and not syncing (Green Dot):



Then check on the "Addresses" tab... (You might need to use "View -> Show Addresses" to see this tab) and make sure that the addresses you see start with the same prefix as the ones in your Ledger Live account where you can see the bitcoins. If they are different, then you selected the wrong option at Step 8, go back and start from the beginning and select the other option.


"1" == "legacy (p2pkh)"
"3" == "p2sh-segwit (p2wpkh-p2sh)"
"bc1" == "native segwit (p2wpkh)"


You MUST select the correct option at Step 8, or it will not generate the same addresses as your Ledger Live account. Remember "1"-address == "legacy"... "3"-addresss == "p2sh-segwit"... "bc1"-address == "native segwit".

EDIT: NOTE: Ledger DOES NOT support "bc1" addresses ("native segwit (p2wpkh)" option)... DO NOT try and use this with your Ledger Nano S if you want to be able to view on Ledger Live as well! Looks like they support native segwit! YAY!

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If you see "blue arrows": , then your wallet is still syncing... just wait until you get "green dot".

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If you see "red dot": , then there is something wrong with your network and it's possible the correct balance/history won't be shown, check the network settings by click on the red dot and perhaps try changing servers.

I've gone through and reported basically every single "good project"-type post and all the "OP quote" posts in that thread... in fact, I believe that the OP/project is actually breaking a fundamental rule with this this "requirement":
Sure, they've marked it "optional", but it's still encouraging ridiculous comments and of course the giant OP quote spam.

As per the forum "rules":

As per the references...


IMHO, the entire project should be banned... and possibly most of the 1 post new account sign ups should probably be nuked!  

Awesome, glad you got it sorted... I was going to say that it looked like either the port was closed, or that your bitcoind wasn't configured to accept incoming RPC connections. The "-server" part is probably what fixed it if you didn't already have that in bitcoin.conf

One more piece of advice... if you see errors when trying to connect using Electrum. It might be because, as far as I'm aware, electrs still doesn't support direct SSL connections, you need to use a proxy... and Electrum tries to use it by default.

So, I created an "Electrum - Local" shortcut within Windows... that runs as follows:
It prevents my Electrum from connecting to anything other than my local server (--oneserver)... and it specifies that it should just use ordinary "tcp" connection... that's the "t" part on the end of the server spec.

Not having SSL isn't a huge deal for me, because this is a "personal" server, so it's all internal communication. If I was going to open this for external connections (if I wanted to be able to use Electrum from my Android phone for instance), then I'd investigate setting up the SSL stuff.

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EDIT:

Ok, so mentioning SSL got me curious about how hard it was to setup... the answer is... Not very

I installed the prebuilt NGINX using apt-get as outlined here, created some SSL self-signed certs using openssl as outlined here (I just changed "apache-selfsigned" to "nginx-selfsigned" for the .key and .crt)... and then added the NGINX .conf changes as specified in the electrs docs

Started up NGINX, then connected using Electrum with a new SSL shortcut:

et voilà... Electrum running using SSL... at some point, I might attempt to make this externally accessible, so I could connect from external networks. But for a "proof of concept" it was pretty easy to do.

And people wonder why Google and YouTube are on such a big cryptocurrency "purge"

That entire channel is just a giant red flag to anyone with half a brain...

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Earn 30K per day?

Remember: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!

Really? I was under the impression it is simply creating a copy of the wallet.dat, as all that option seems to do is create a copy of your "wallet.dat"... it isn't creating an archive or anything like that. Or are you saying that the GUI/RPC option makes sure that the wallet.dat is "updated" with current data and then "copied"?


Also, I probably should have mentioned earlier that if you *are* going to be manually copying the wallet.dat, you shouldn't do it while Bitcoin Core GUI or bitcoind is actually running. You should make sure that it is shutdown first.

Which then also begs the question, does shutting down the GUI/bitcoind leave the wallet.dat in a state similar to using the "Backup wallet" option?