I think if I was high on cocaine my customer support would suck as well.
Interesting combo of issues,almost like bitcoin is a afterthought in the story. Think the issue we run into over and over is there is a element that are attracted to bitcoin in the same context as being a drug dealer. They could give two shits who they get hooked and who they disrupt in the process. Would be nice to see some one that did no go fubar in the process of getting rich.

Some great advice and forced me to look up what "air-gapped" meant and now I need to learn how to achieve this.
Feel like such a donut when it comes to securing and understanding a lot of the jargon used. I might have stumbled on a few porn sites before I found what I was looking for but thats the price of learning.

Judges have also been known to ask rape victims why they where unable to keep their legs closed!
So if we are looking to them to dictate the flow of society,we are doomed to live lives under the thumb of whatever power is in control.
The idea that we need or want to get bitcoin into the limelight to make more people use it,seems at odds with the move away from government with bitcoin leading the way.

I did not read any of the replies that started with "I think" because that should have been obvious to any one reading.

Banks are only interested in the blockchain,bitcoin has nothing for them other than something they can steal and twist into a product that they can profit off. So bitcoin and banks will not happen on any serious scale. Just look at how banks are dealing with weed in Denver! Legal yet still the banks have a moral higher ground and yet no one asked them to judge where the money came from.

Could we not set a 3rd party site that would run for us bitcoiners that would allow us to play on Chess.com?
Have a escrow that both parties send to and lock in 1-5 games per a set amount. The program releases once games are finished. If the games do not all finish within agreed set time,the bets for unplayed get sent back.

Seems simple enough to set up,it would just be flying under the radar of Chess.com that would be the hard part.

Faster things are brought in the faster they usually die or miss some glaring red flags that get exploited to death.
Would rather see slow adoption but I am not to keen on handing aspects of bitcoin to any government to regulate and tax.
So slower the better and would rather run bitcoin into uncharted waters than stifle and snuff it out with greedy banks sticking their fingers in the pot.

Just a matter of time before people start lacing bills with fentanyl.
The drug is in everything now and we can all thank China for flooding North America with it.

I sometimes get to thinking where my money has be been and it turns into a bit of a ocd venture and I start thinking of hookers and homeless folks doing all kinds of things with the money.

Really depends on how you are setup to live,if you are living paycheque to paycheque it would not be a very smart way to go about life. If you had enough of a nest egg you could make some gains,instead of taking a lose due to swings.
Groceries,gas,bills and a little extra and you could swing this with some of the current setups available to bitcoiners.

You watch the vice essentials where they talked about synthetic weed?
The way the one guy was tweaking was unnerving to watch.

@OP

Nice catch,very interesting article and filled my void for information. Twitter following just does not seem
to quench my daily reading.

Not sure which man you are referring to when you tell me to read their history? Both have troubled paths and I am well aware of both,so I will pass on the reading suggestion. Also was not endorsing Kim but saying how the attention could gain some bitcoin traction from people that are not currently involved in bitcoin. The download aspect can draw quite the numbers as people are tired of itunes shafting them on price. This is what I am pointing at and not either names being mentioned actually putting us on a more solid foundation. Both have ego issues and pump and dump mentality.

Bitcoin is attractive for the sole reason of not being in the pocket of the banks or government. These are the reasons I am attracted to bitcoin and the reasons I will continue to support bitcoin with the few that believe it goes beyond making profit off the swings and see it as a game changer. My government can barely keep track of my own taxes when I file them each year,so going after bitcoin would just be more laughs.

All I have really read about Kim Dotcom lately is the beef with Macafee,would like to see more promotion on this idea,instead of reading the spat between them.
Think this will potentially get Kim int trouble but it could create spin offs that would be harder to crack down on for a short amount of time. Enough time to get people interested in bitcoin and learn how to navigate it,so it should be a good look if it does not get taken down with his project.

Was it partypoker that attempted this with backgammon or another site? They had backgammon on T.v like poker to attempt to spread it to the masses and it never took off.
Poker was just starting to get scrutinized for cheating and backgammon optics did not fair well under the look of most players just being bots making the best move.
Imagine chess would face the same dilemma and death if it was ever to get going anywhere.
I play on chess.com and enjoy that but would not venture down the playing for money rabbit hole for many reasons already mentioned.

As stated the fee is usually pretty large and the sites you wander across on the net are usually defunct or scams.
Think it has a little to do with the wire act for why it is not available world wide. Seems to be available to people in Africa as mentioned and certain spots in Europe.
North America never seems to have any such companies providing the service and would most likely run into trouble.

Think the last one I used was connected to paypal some how but it was years ago.

Its to bad because it is a service that people would use if the fee was not to high and it was available world wide.

I find that a lot of the play is due to field size if you are playing in the freerolls on Fortunejack. Its not unusual for players to snap call with atc and suck out 6 handed.
As for the connection this is the site that I was told by a Argentinian player after hounding them forever about it:

red argentina de poker

The link:
http://rapoker.com.ar/

A few dynamics that fall into these games is some of the players really dislike North Americans and they will play differently against them.
Reason I created a new account and labeled its location as Argentina,find it gets me not many but a few easy rides near bubble that I would not have got otherwise.

As for cheating,you really can not trust any of these sites due to how long it takes them to investigate a issue. Watch the amount of late registrations and how many accounts are sitting out to wake up and shove. Thats usually a pretty good tell. Mark them and be prepared next time is all you can do,besides playing tag.

The internet for me is place where I visit multiple sites with opposing views to sort through the distorted message.
If you visit this website during a time where people want bitcoin to fork or alter its projection,you can run into a lot of biased thinking pushing their agenda.
With every website you need to apply due diligence and fact check when possible.
You eventually will be able to see the helpful thread posters as opposed to misleading ones as time goes by.

This pretty much confirms what Franky has been saying about the project all along. Most people that are establishing a legit project will not immediately talk down to people that have issues but go out of their way to explain the issues and see if there is indeed some aspects they need to address as they move forward.

Like the idea but it does seem to have a lot of holes that need to be worked out and legitimacy seems to be a good start.

Some of you may not be old enough to recall banks closing at 3:30pm on a Friday and people having to rush in to get their cheques into the bank or be screwed.
Likewise getting money for the weekend had to be done as well,then came the atm and at first people would gawk at it and use the teller instead. Some thought it was eliminating jobs and that type of thinking has sadly died off for faster and more efficient ways of doing business.
I bring this up because the banks have changed enough to keep pace,never exceeding but maintaining the slow steady path.
To think they are not actively looking into these new facets of doing business would be foolish,as the evidence of them tapping in to it is all around.
They may not be allowing it but they are dabbling in it behind the scenes till they have a way to protect their bottom line.

Banks like Prostitution will be around a tad bit longer.

I would not see this as stealing,would put it in the realm of finding five dollars on the road. Most people would look around to see if anyone is in the proximity that may have dropped it and if not they would just put it in their pocket. Doubt many would walk to the local police station and hand it in.
It would be stealing in a sense if you know who the person is and could return the money,otherwise I think most of us except that bitcoin has that tendency to lose funds time to time in putting in the wrong address.
Moral debate is really open to to many aspects due to upbringing and beliefs.

This presumes that the people doing this are using the same locations more than once and not moving around. The point that sticks out when I read articles that talk about bitcoin being less anon,is the leaps in talking points as if every one approaches bitcoin in the same manner.

The other aspect is with every hole that is closed off,new holes are created.


The article points to high profile cases and mentions involvement but nothing about solving a case and then they mention in this quote "some arrests",so I doubt it is as air tight as they want you to think. Its a good promotion job more than anything in my eyes.
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I posted before the links where added and think the first one just points to the whole vibe or Europe wanting to encircle the internet,which will not be easy with America wanting to own it as well. To many chiefs at the party will cause it go at a very slow pace to achieve this goal if anything. Their was a similar article about the U.K wanting to control another aspect of the internet recently but it eludes my memory.