Why are you guys so negative? Elon Musk could have said something very bad about Bitcoin and it could have tanked even further. He said .."Bitcoin has potential" and that they are still invested in Bitcoin (SpaceX) and it definitely had a positive affect on the market.

Someone should really educate him on the "Lightning Network" and how that solved the "transaction speed" issue, because he obviously has not seen it or used it. Cmon, guys..... he was the pioneer in Paypal ffs..... he knows what he is talking about.  

You say... "the whales are still lurking in the deep waters" ....but I beg to differ, because these guys are Orca's!!... they are calculated killers that are working in a pod together to kill of the competition and all the small fish and even members of their own pod.

Let's not forget how these Orca's colluded together to trap one of their own and then triggered a massive sell off that brought us to where we are now. (From $60k to $30k in a few weeks)  

We need to have diamond hands to keep the coins out of the Orca's jaws ... because that gives them power!

I think a lot of these big companies are just "following" the Money..... they are tapping into a new income source..because they know that there a millions of bitcoins being hoarded by people that are not really using it for anything else..other than gambling and the odd transaction to buy food and drinks. 

They will in all probability use a Payment Processor and then instruct the payment processor to convert payment back into Fiat currencies, before it goes out onto their platform. (Payment processors will "legitimize" transactions, because they strip anonymity for all users that use their platform) 

How controversial will it be if ROC (Russian Olympic Committee) won the 2021 Olympics.    The ROC won the Gold medal for "Women's Artistic Gymnastics" today... so countries like the USA and the UK got Silver and Bronze. Also, these countries might be close to the winner of the Olympics and they might have even won.. if Russia did not compete in the Olympics.

The bookmakers should actually "ignore" the ROC (Russian Olympic Committee) position on the podium in all the events where they are participating and just give it to the Silver & Bronze positions. (shifting them a position up on the podium)

Do you think it is fair for a banned country to participate as individuals to bypass the ban?

Do you guys think it is fair that a banned country can still send people from that country to participate in the Olympics? If you have not noticed... Russian individuals are competing under the abbreviation ROC  (Russian Olympic Committee) but Russia was banned from the Olympics .. because of its doping scandal. 

It will only be fair if betting on Stake are only approved for countries that legitimately participate in the Games? The ROC just won the Gold medal for "Women's Artistic Gymnastics" and if Russia was banned .. the USA would have taken Gold. 

Now that the "Pegasus spyware" are revealed to the public, people will be more vigilant on what they store on their phones. If you just dump a small amount of Crypto on your mobile wallet to buy something to eat or drink .. you will not be targeted.  

The Anti-virus companies will also look at methods to detect "Pegasus spyware" and to block or remove it from people's phones. If they do not do that, people will not trust them to secure their mobile devices.  

People said Satoshi Nakamoto's first code that was submitted.... was very sloppy. I do not know if he quickly threw a bunch of things together to create it or given more time... he would have made it more presentable. I think Satoshi provided the bones for the skeleton project and he coded it in a way that it could be used.

Other people submitted a more "fleshy" body to the bones to make it more presentable and they added more streamline code that made the body into a Olympic Athlete.

So if someone wanted to re-create it from the start... they should not aim for an Olympic athlete.... but rather a skeleton project of a bunch of ideas. (A team with different skill sets and knowledge.. will probably do this a lot quicker .. than one person) 

Can you explain the difference between the Mini Private key and the Full-size Private key? Is this something like a URL shortener where you make it easier for people to remember the Private Key?

I have swept many Private keys into Electrum from my Paper wallets, but I have never seen this before. OP ..thank you for posting this, I learn something new every day.  

Well, I hope the demand for bitcoins as a payment option, will be higher than the hoarders selling coins to buy sh1t on Amazon. It will be good if Amazon could offer some kind of promotional incentive, like a 10% discount for people paying with Bitcoin at the start of the implementation.. so that people will have a reason to use it. 

Also, if Amazon is going to do this through a Payment processor .... then it will have zero impact.. because Payment processors simply convert all payments into Fiat. 

The real threat come in when 51% of people in this world do not understand what a "51% attack" is and they post misinformation like this on a public forum. Luckily for us, more than 51% of the people in the Bitcoin community know what it is and some of us even experienced a close call, when the GHash.io mining Pool nearly acquired 51% of the hashing power.

We also know shills love to talk about "51% Attack" as if it is a huge threat to Bitcoin, but we just smile at those posts and we go on with our lives, because we know the facts.     (Done that.... got the T-Shirt.... )  

Facts : To sustain a 51% Attack is VERY expensive and definitely not profitable and if governments target 1 Crypto with that, then we just shift to the next Crypto and laugh all the way to the Bank.    (Tax money can only be wasted for a while, before the tax payer and voter starts to riot and not vote for that government)

Robert kiyosaki also had a rich dad and a poor dad... and his poor dad was a hard working employer with a Pension Fund. The problem is, his poor dad never acquired the skills and knowledge to be an investor or a trader or a speculator. His rich dad on the other hand, acquired the knowledge and he was very successful when he applied it.

Traditional investing back then had a lot of barriers to entry for the unskilled, because the rich wanted to stay rich to hold onto the power. Now, with Crypto currencies..... ANYONE can still have their day job and also be an investor or a trader or a speculator ..or all three. 

A responsible fund administrator will only invest a small percentage of the whole Pension Fund into High Risk investments, but nowhere are there mention made of what percentage are invested of the whole fund. If it is say... 2% of the fund, then I will not say it is reckless to do this... but if this is higher than that... then I will be worried as a member of that Pension Fund.

Crypto currencies are a High risk investment and it can give high yields over the long-term or it can completely collapse if it is one of the Pump and Dump Alt coins.  

Yea, I have always said..... the real "flaw" in Crypto currencies are the "need" for people to convert back and forth between Fiat and Crypto and visa versa on Exchanges. Exchanges could care less about your Pseudo anonymity, because they are only focused on their profits from your transactions.

When I started out with Bitcoin, we had to do person to person trading behind McDonalds where they do not have CCTV cameras. (Yes, it was illegal back then, so we did not trust 3rd party services and we had to take big risks to buy it from verified "contacts". Now, with verified contacts, I mean... people who knew people ...who traded with those people before.)  The authorities set traps for those traders, so you had to watch out for them and also robbers and scammers. 

If large companies was held responsible for their activities and the products they provide... then companies like Coca~Cola and McDonald's would have been bankrupt. Also, big pharmaceutical companies would have to close their doors, because these companies pump several toxic drugs onto the markets and they bribe doctors to hide the adverse reactions to these drugs. ( http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/pfizer_fined_$60m_for_bribing_doctors_to_win_business_417954 )

The casinos offer responsible gaming and you as a individual must make the decision to STOP gambling, if you are becoming addicted to it.... they provide self exclusion and some even provide assistance if you show signs of addiction.

Elon Musk knows more than the "average" person about Payment systems, because he founded an online financial services company, called X.com.... which later became the global payment company called PayPal. So he can give good advice and also criticism about Bitcoin as a payment (currency) option.

He also has several "Green" solutions to make Bitcoin more environmental friendly and sustainable... which was been a talking point for years. (Most FUD creators jump on the "Bitcoin is bad for the environment" bandwagon and also mainstream media that are shills for the Fiat masters) 

I cannot keep my eyes off Women Gymnastics and Women's Volleyball and swimming... so I will be glued to the TV for the next couple of weeks if Stake added betting on those Sports.  (jokes)

I think the team events like 7's Rugby and Soccer are more suitable for gambling purposes, because the disqualification of people in individual events are more likely. (Or if someone gets Covid or if they are sick) 

Well, what we need is some countries making some positive announcements that they will accept Bitcoin as a "Currency" and not just allow it to be a "Commodity" ..... We saw what happened in China when they started to ban Bitcoin mining.... now imagine if they said that they will allow Bitcoin as a payment/currency. 

The acceptance of Bitcoin as a currency will have a trigger action on large Merchants... because they base their decisions on what the government regulations stipulate. (Some are using a backdoor method... by accepting Crypto through payment processors)

Any Crypto hacker that is actually good, will never send coins stolen (directly) from the source to the charity.... they push those coins through Mixer services so that it cannot be traced to a specific hack. The reason for doing this is simple... if they send it directly from the source to the charity... the authorities with enough knowledge to track transactions on the Blockchain, will be able to track it and then confiscate it.

Also, if the hacker is sending it to a charity and it can be traced to him (Example : Donation for a local school basketball tour...) then he will quickly be pinpointed for that hack by a simple process of elimination.  

Is this capped for now, because you do not have the money to pay such bets if they win or is this just a "bug" that needs fixing? I know some small sites do this to build up the house to cover "winning streaks" or big Jackpots... right?

In any way, the site is still in beta version.. so you would expect that it will only be a skeleton version of the end product. Looking forward to see the final product in the future.... added it to my favorites under the "under development" directory. 

I have read through some of the reviews of the sites where I play ...and I can see that you did your research and you know your trade. I am looking forward to the "insider" information section, because I am very interested on how sites like these work.

Some things I would like you to add to that section is detailed information on how online casinos partner with third party providers. (How much does it cost to host 3rd party games and who is paying the casino when people win huge Jackpots?   -- Money goes from 3rd party to casino and then to the player or does the casino cover all wins from their profits?)

Thank you for some very good reviews.