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3681  Other / Meta / Re: JollyGood: an amazing journey becoming Hero member rank on 1st January 2020 on: January 10, 2020, 11:57:10 PM
against all the retaliatory and defamatory feedback you received.
Huh.  I don't recall JollyGood being in the center of any drama, but I could have missed it or forgotten.  I'll have to take a peek at his trust page.

He's got tons of untrusted negative feedback flags with no support, but plenty of opposition.  All signs of a successful scam buster:)
3682  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donald Trump Has Been Impeached. What's Next? [serious discussion] on: January 10, 2020, 11:43:48 PM
Pelosi is sending the articles of impeachment next week.  Senate trial will probably begin within 1-2 weeks from now.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/10/pelosi-to-send-impeachment-articles-to-senate-after-weeks-long-delay-097185
3683  Economy / Reputation / Re: Did TMAN say a bad word? on: January 10, 2020, 10:39:50 PM
Any chance you could list the complete words that include a bad word?  These new words are where TMAN really shines.

For example, twatcuntfuckingdickspazzer and cuntnozzle from this post (now locked)

Or cuntytwatwaffle:


best service sir.

robot is TMAN's best annon friend sir.

cuntytwatwaffle
3684  Economy / Gambling / Re: FIRST Peer-2-Peer betting website. NO HOUSE & NO DEALER 1$ UNLIMITED GAINS on: January 10, 2020, 10:20:42 PM
Paying someone to post an article about your site that is written as if it's an objective third party review is deceptive and will be a turn off to many members of the crypto-gambling community.  I suggest spending your promotional budget more transparently. 

The way i WAS going to implement is the same way Alex Cambose proposes it:

https://medium.com/@alexcambose/provably-fair-system-in-javascript-6457e028d2aa


"Each result is generated using the following parameters:
client-seed — a randomly generated selection of text that you can (and should) modify. This is generated at client/browser level.
server-seed — a randomly generated selection of text (usually a 64-character hex string). This is generated server-side. You will get a hashed version of this before you start gambling, in this way you can make sure that the outcome has been pre-determined and not changed after the result was generated.
nonce — a sequential bet number"

The example above is, in principle, the same as this one here.

No, it's not.  You're just using the built in math.random() function to pick a random number.  It would be incredibly easy to know the what the number is before the game, and then use a player account to win or tie every single game.

Of course, if you decided to cheat, it would be silly to win every game because then nobody else would ever win.  But if you cheated one out of every 50 games, using different player accounts, it would be impossible to prove.

In the crypto gambling world there have been tons of cheating scandals so asking people to just 'trust you' won't work and your argument of 'why would I cheat? I'm taking a 3% fee' is invalid and will only make people distrust you.

Now, going to the casino example we were talking about, i haven t seen lottery games giving away prizes worth their ticket sales value, except when there s no winner for a long period of time and past pots are added to upcoming ones. That s why i m saying that the HOUSE never loses, it wins over time (house edge).
Now, going to the casino example we were talking about, i haven t seen lottery games giving away prizes worth their ticket sales value, except when there s no winner for a long period of time and past pots are added to upcoming ones. That s why i m saying that the HOUSE never loses, it wins over time (house edge).
Of course the house always wins.  They profit x% of every dollar wagered. They either have an edge in games where the player plays against the house(black jack, craps, roulette for example) and in other or they take a fee in games where players play against each other (In poker cash games they take a percentage of each pot, and in tournaments (can be any game, but usually poker) they take a fee from every buyin and put the rest in the prize pool.

Your site offers the latter.

There's nothing revolutionary about this.  Your players are playing for a prize worth 97% of what they paid, so the expected value of your players is 97%.  It's possible some players will successfully exploit other players and have an EV higher than 97%, but that just means the other players expected value wiil be less than 97%.

There's nothing unethical about this business model.  But it is unethical to advertise it as something it isn't, which is what you are doing.

3685  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What news sources do ya guys use? on: January 10, 2020, 05:28:21 AM
Uh, no. We both might eat mashed potatoes. Just because I eat the mashed potatoes with a fork and you suck them through a rotting pig intestine doesn't make it any less of mashed potatoes, but it clearly isn't a healthy or efficient method of consuming them. It is by no means the same thing.

I watched the entire 10 minute interview on Fox.
You read a zerohedge blog that included a 4 second and 3 second quote from the same interview.
 
They were mashed potato sausages in a pig casing to begin with.  I just ate them to see what they tasted like because I was curious.  
You had Zerohedge slice them open and scoop out a teaspoon of the mashed potatoes and then serve it as a side to a perfectly cooked porterhouse and a glass of Macallan 18 and now you think you know what mashed potato sausages in pig casings taste like.

I'll stop derailing this thread now, maybe we name an official 'fuck twitchyseal and his stupid opinions thread'.  apologies to OP.
3686  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What news sources do ya guys use? on: January 10, 2020, 04:48:06 AM
Forgot to mention I'm a podcast addict with many news related podcast subscriptions, posted a list here a few days ago.


You get any of your news from TV. That is all I need to know about your standards.

So do you.

The only difference is I watch the actual interviews on TV and you read blogs that quote snippets of the TV interview with commentary.  Why not just watch the interview and cut out the zerohedge commentary?

For example, you recently posted a link to a zerohedge blog which quoted two sentences from a Chris Wallace interview with Pences Chief of Staff on cable news.
"Trump Exposes Pelosi And Son's Ties To Ukraine-Linked Energy Group"
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-exposes-pelosi-and-sons-ties-ukraine-linked-energy-group



In my opinion, anything the VPs chief of staff is relevant and worth watching - the fact it's on TV doesn't mean it's fake.  There's plenty of cable news bullshit to sift through, but letting someone else sift through it for you just creates more bullshit.
3687  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What news sources do ya guys use? on: January 10, 2020, 01:25:58 AM
As many as possible.

Where I work usually has CNN, Fox, FoxBuiness, MSNBC and CNBC on all next to each other.  If something interesting is happening we'll alternate which one gets unmuted.  In general I'm more partial to particular anchors over networks.  I prefer CNNs 7-10am anchors, MSNBCs Ari Melbur and Chris Wallace by far does the best interviews Sundays on Fox.

Anytime there's a "BOMBSHELL NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ, etc ARTICLE", I try to basically ignore the reporting and just read what the actual journalist wrote, even if it's really really long.

Also goes with any big government reports.  I try spend significantly more time reading the actual report than reporting on the report.  I read every word of the Mueller report over the course of 2 months for example.

I follow journalists I respect on Twitter. Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi)  is an incredible journalist that knows a shitload about what's actually happening in the middle east.  Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) and Michael Schmidt (@nytmike) both have some very reliable high level White House sources, to name a few.

A bunch of Politicians on Twitter.

I check out Drudge report regularly to try and keep my personal bias in check and also go out of my way to read alt-right news sites like Breitbart and Daily Caller ,blogs like Zero Hedge and r/the_donald.  Will occasionally check out straight up Russia propaganda at RT.com and sputniknews.com

Really the only sites I just ignore are the ones that BADecker likes to post like naturalnews.com (almost entirely nonsense)
3688  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: January 10, 2020, 12:21:47 AM
If memes could win elections... come to think of it, Trump is oblviously a winner in that department so y'all Trump supporters don't even need to bother voting.



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3689  Economy / Gambling / Re: FIRST Peer-2-Peer betting website. NO HOUSE & NO DEALER 1$ UNLIMITED GAINS on: January 09, 2020, 11:59:40 PM
Looking at the lottery game, where a ticket gives you 0.00000715% chances of winning the pot, how in the hell is the player favoured or the casino having ONLY a 3% edge here when in fact the casino has a 99.99999% edge? Are you on drugs or something? You are clearly out of your fucking mind to even state stupid shit like this. If you want to at least "look" intelligent, better shut up. If you want to BE intelligent, do your homework first and then start posting.

You're confusing variance and house edge.

A game where the player has a 99% chance of losing their bet does mean the house edge is 99%, you would need to know how much the player won 1% of the time.

Let's say it's a $1 bet and the player has a 99% chance of losing their entire bet.

If 1% of the time they won $100, then there would be no edge for either side.
If 1% of the time they won $110, the player would have a 10% edge over the casino
If 1% of the time they won $97, then the house edge would be 3%

In your example of a game where the Casino has a 99.999% house edge they player would win less than a penny 1% of the time and $0 99% of the time.


Let's try to do it step by step:

1.I give you SHA256("random_string") = 621e8b0818308b0bc408231cab46ba9ec65425b25ec9e367b6081406c87a7532

2.I tell you that the last character of the "random_string" is either 0 or 1

3.You make a guess and place a bet. I will double your Bitcoin if you are right.

4.I will reveal "random_string"

5.You verify that the SHA256 matches the value I gave you in the first step.

Provably fair takes a player seed + server seed + nonce to generate the result.  In the above example, you're just picking a random number, there is no player seed. 
WIth multiple player, you could use a server seed + player0 seed + player1 seed + player2 seed etc.

You don't have to take my word for it, and I'm not really interested in debating the basics with you,  there are a lot of great resources out there on the topic and experts that are way smarter than me in this community.

Check out https://cryptogambling.org/  or go visit their thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2178857.0, ask them what they think about relying on the built in javascript
Code:
math.random() 
instead of a provably fair algorithm.

Since this is a peer-to-peer betting website, if i implement this, how would this prove i am not betting against my clients?

If you accept anonymous players, it's impossible to prove you aren't one of them.  What needs to be proven to be considered a trusted crypto gambling site is that you don't have any advanced knowledge or the ability to manipulate the result of a bet.
3690  Economy / Gambling / Re: FIRST Peer-2-Peer betting website. NO HOUSE & NO DEALER 1$ UNLIMITED GAINS on: January 09, 2020, 08:31:57 PM
Looking at the lottery game, where a ticket gives you 0.00000715% chances of winning the pot, how in the hell is the player favoured or the casino having ONLY a 3% edge here when in fact the casino has a 99.99999% edge? Are you on drugs or something? You are clearly out of your fucking mind to even state stupid shit like this. If you want to at least "look" intelligent, better shut up. If you want to BE intelligent, do your homework first and then start posting.

You're confusing variance and house edge.

A game where the player has a 99% chance of losing their bet does mean the house edge is 99%, you would need to know how much the player won 1% of the time.

Let's say it's a $1 bet and the player has a 99% chance of losing their entire bet.

If 1% of the time they won $100, then there would be no edge for either side.
If 1% of the time they won $110, the player would have a 10% edge over the casino
If 1% of the time they won $97, then the house edge would be 3%

In your example of a game where the Casino has a 99.999% house edge they player would win less than a penny 1% of the time and $0 99% of the time.



 
3691  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: I allege that https://bitcoinvideocasino.com/blackjack stole 0.03 BTC from me on: January 09, 2020, 07:55:46 PM
I have't watched the video yet (can't right now), but if the page says you're betting test credits and it's actually wagering your deposit then that's definitely an issue.  For your own sake, I would cool it with the 'they intentionally stole from me' line since it's probably just a bug - If you can prove the bug exists then refunding your .03 + a bug bounty seems reasonable. But the more you piss them off the less likely they'll admit they were wrong and make things right.
and which is on the "third" confirmation as of writing this sentence. I screenshot the entire deposit process, and the 0.01 BTC send it showing clearly in my Coinbase account.

There's a decent chance your coinbase account will get shut down in the near future.  Never send or receive any transactions gambling related to coinbase.  Use a wallet like electrum instead.  Coinbase => Electrum => Gamble
3692  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Post Your Favorite Trump Memes Here on: January 09, 2020, 07:33:28 AM
Just in case someone hasn't seen it yet, I would like to apply for an exception to the memes only rule and post this glorious video of Trumps Performance with Megan Mullally at the 2006 Emmys.

That was more disturbing than any meme I've seen so far.

I'll one up it . Rudy dresses in drag, Trump motorboats
3693  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: January 09, 2020, 07:25:25 AM
I like this one better

3694  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What news sources do ya guys use? on: January 09, 2020, 07:07:35 AM
I prefer Zero Hedge just because I enjoy reminding people it is an aggregator every time they try to criticize it as a source while totally ignoring the content. I hear a lot of people around here prefer eating their own vomit and then reporting on it as they spew it out, but I am not a fan.
Pretty much all your zero hedge links are blog posts written by 'Tyler Durden', the a pseudonym for the anonymous conspiracy theory/alt-right bloggers who work for zerohedge. (their true identity was revealed a few years ago)

Also, when I go to zerohedge.com the primary content is a list of Tyler Durdens 20 most recent blog posts.  Of those blog posts, 5 of them give credit to an author other than Tyler Durden.  It appears the other 15 blogs are written by the owner/founder of zerohedge.

zerohedge is an alt right/financial blog

If you're interested in what a news aggregator looks like, check out DrudgeReport.






3695  Other / Politics & Society / Re: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman Says Someone Using His IP To DL Child Porn on: January 09, 2020, 06:23:25 AM
Front page of Mediate, cernovich.com, zerohedge, breitbart, theblaze, daiilycaller and dedicated thread on bitcointalk...must be a slow news week.
3696  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Post Your Favorite Trump Memes Here on: January 09, 2020, 06:09:55 AM
3697  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Situation of war between IRAN & USA on: January 09, 2020, 04:50:44 AM
Both sides are claiming huge achievements at there end. USA has a proof that he killed Iranian general while Iran has no such proof of USA base attack. Iran should stay away from war with USA as Irani land and it's people will suffer the most.

This is exactly what has happened here. Both sides are going to go back to their people and say that they did a great job. That's how politics works, people are both aiming for themselves.

I don't think something like this was planned from the beginning, I guess that's just me being someone who believes in some conspiracies.

At least we're going to avoid war, for now. We really shouldn't be involved in countless endless wars.

With all the drama it's easy to overlook the fact that 3 days ago Iran officially withdrew from the Nuclear deal which still existed with all ~8 original countries + UN and EU (and the pope lol) other than America till then.

Ironic considering one of Trumps main criticisms was that the deal was for only 15 years, and here we are 5 years into it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-agreement.html

This means no more inspections, no more limited uranium enrichment, and the possibility that a year from now they'll have nuclear weapons.


Quote
When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, he justified his unilateral action by saying the accord was flawed, in part because the major restrictions on Iran ended after 15 years, when Tehran would be free to produce as much nuclear fuel as it wanted.

[Insert Cliche Battle/War Metaphor]
3698  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: I allege that https://bitcoinvideocasino.com/blackjack stole 0.03 BTC from me on: January 09, 2020, 03:56:40 AM
Bitcoinvideocasino doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to CS and timely payouts, and I find their response in this thread pretty annoying (half of it is just promotional spam), but it's pretty clear you didn't get scammed.  You wagered your entire deposit, either intentionally or not, woulda been nice if you had won right?
3699  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Trump does an Obama Trick, and Twitter has pronounced it as World War III on: January 09, 2020, 03:36:04 AM
Quote
3) Does Iran have nuclear weapons and if they do have will they target it on US and their allies.
The Obama deal ensured that it would take Iran about a year to produce enough Uranium to be a real threat, and the deal ended mid 2018, so it's possible I guess, but that's just for the raw material so I think it's unlikely. At the time some people said maybe in a couple years, some said it could take them up to 10 years to develop the technology.

Looks like I was wrong to assume that Iran stopped adhering to the Nuclear deal when Trump stopped honoring it.  There were several other countries involved that continued to honor it, and Iran did as well, until a few days ago when they announced they would no longer honor it.

This means that the clock started just this week, not May 2018 like I thought, and if there's no intervention or agreement they could have enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon as soon as 8-12 months from now, although some experts say it could take much longer.

So to answer your question, no, they definitely do not have a nuclear weapon right now.  Thank god.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/world/middleeast/trump-iran-nuclear-agreement.html
3700  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Post Your Favorite Trump Memes Here on: January 09, 2020, 03:27:00 AM


Just in case someone hasn't seen it yet, I would like to apply for an exception to the memes only rule and post this glorious video of Trumps Performance with Megan Mullally at the 2006 Emmys.
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