My first thought was that it might be multi accounting. But I just had a quick check in the ToS and it might be related to the number of times you can withdraw faucet winnings.

8.3. Continuous withdrawing of earnings from faucet is forbidden and leads to your account being blocked.

and from the faq:

Can I play for free?
You can play for free with the built-in faucet (reward system). The purpose of the faucet is to test the available games with zero risk prior to depositing. The number of faucet requests available every 24 hours depends on your player level with up to 60 requests available for the highest level players. If you want to continue playing, PlayMoney can be used without a faucet request limit. Faucet abuse leads to account block. Continuous withdrawing of earnings from faucet is forbidden and leads to your account being blocked.

They can withdraw faucet winnings if they don't deposit, I've seen many do it in the chatroom. They might be jumping to conclusions as they may have been blocked for an unrelated breach of the ToS.

That transaction doesn't have 400 confirms it is a double spend. https://btc.com/08ab649f63fcbb202c8eec4638037f5d79d9ce65540b190dd87830545bca593c
It will probably take 14 days for our node to remove it from it's mempool then the pending Tx will not be displayed anymore.

They are actual coins held in our hot and cold wallets. If someone withdrew them they wouldn't be there anymore. Whether or not an individual account with a balance is active or not isn't important but the overall size of the bankroll is.

The point of the bankroll is that we have coins available to payout if a high roller gets lucky. The maximum win is set to be a tiny fraction of the total bankroll so if someone wins it, even a few times in a row, we can payout without suffering a noticeable decrease in that bankroll. Over time the house will recover that amount when others come along and lose. So the bigger the bankroll the bigger buffer you have against a big winner. We don't "use it without the users permission" it's all just part of the big pot. Inactive accounts abandoned with balances make that pot bigger.

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Yes jackg, if or when the site ever shuts down is the only time we'll ever know how much belongs to people that will come and collect it and how much is people that don't even remember having an account.

I'm not 100% sure either but I think atomic swaps need a blockchain transaction so wouldn't be instant. I would see it as being used for p2p exchange by people that have a specific need for another currency. Exchanges would still be used by traders looking to profit from market movements.

It's playing with semantics but it is still a wager even if it is a very long odds one. That's not really the point I was getting at. As a personal preference if I was doing this I would prefer to do it with a low multiplier on dice as that would greatly increase my chances of not losing the stake.* That's why I feel the using the term spent is misleading, you don't have to spend (lose the wager) to increase the base reward.


* I'm just giving a personal opinion not official advice.

OK, so another theory. Maybe they didn't donate 50 BTC but were gifted the VIP status because of their contribution to Bitcoin and the forum.

I know how hard learning a foreign language is, I'm particularly bad at it. When an account here went inactive before the 2015 hack and database leek and then wakes up exclusively posting in another language more than 3 years later, it's worth pointing out. Admin would require a signed message from an address posted in that accounts first life to prove it is the original owner.

He already did an experiment to see what it was like starting from the beginning again. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1977706

900+ merits should take a long time to earn, that's nearly 3 years on the old activity system

There are plenty of new members that have been ranking up to prove that it is possible under the new system. I managed to rank up from Sr to Hero pretty quickly.

You would have done better to heed his advice about what makes your posts look like the sort of thing a merit source like him just wants to skip over.

Not on the list for some reason. https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

Did they change their names after donating?

I don't know how accurate your calculations are as it is difficult to keep track of your total wagered amount. You would have to start off with an account that has never wagered before to be able to do it.

I do want to point out wagered != spent

It's actually quite easy to wager many times your balance.

Quoted and verified. I always find it strange when an account registered in 2013 is only just getting around to staking an address. Interesting that all your post in 2013/4 were in Chinese but then when the account woke up in 2017 they are all in English.

This thread is very interesting Bitcointalk history of hacks and vandalism.

More specifically this image:



It looks like where the hash to satoshi's password is it says "invalid" so that makes me think it's been deliberatly sabotaged so it can't be brute forced.

I believe it already has been deactivated so that nobody is able to hack it. I'm sure if he wanted it back he could easily prove who he was to theymos.

You'll have to get one of the moderators to confirm this but I remember reading somewhere that all the accounts that have been inactive since the 2015 hack are supposed to be locked.

In April 2013 the price range for BTC was $50 to $230. All those VIP listed above were registered in 2012 or before. I haven't checked the Donator list but it is possible that there was a 10 BTC ($500 to $2,300) donation at that time.

Edit I misread 2017 for 2013. A $10,000 donation is possible I suppose.

It really depends on exactly when they made the donation. If it was in 2011 it could range from $25 to $800. I remember reading in 2013 that the amount was supposed to be around 1 months server hosting costs. The price range at that time 50 BTC would have been $1,500 to $2,500 until later in the year when the run up to $1,200 for 1 BTC happened. I doubt if anyone purchased after that.

No.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320959.msg33423133#msg33423133


That's not how gambling works. Try thinking about how much you might win.

It depends how much you have received from free rolls and what your balance is as all those things are taken into consideration for the calculation.

I was thinking more along the lines of RP to go with the interest on your balance. wetsuit would need to work out all the costs etc. but for example, we pay 4.08% on balances above 30k sats we could do xx RP a day for balances above 100k. Something like that anyway.

By finding the right thread in the stickies at the top of the board. Recovering hacked accounts or accounts with lost passwords