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41  Bitcoin / Mining / BFL refund on: August 26, 2013, 11:49:08 PM
Ordered with paypal, will I get refund?

Contacted BFL last week on email saying ive been waiting forever and that I think I would like a refund if I cant get a guaranteed delivery date or something, but no answer.. They have taken my money, failed to deliver and don't even answer my email, unreal..

So im thinking, anyone else here that has ordered from BFL via paypal and are contemplating refund? Maybe we should start a "group refund" campaign and get this rollin? Smiley

42  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Do I need to make new backups? on: April 03, 2013, 08:35:34 AM
Probably a noob question, here it goes.

Ive recently made a new wallet and encrypted it using the bitcoinqt software, since then ive received a few coins and added a couple adresses. Do I need to make new backup of the wallet.dat file after these changes?
43  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Restore wallet help on: March 18, 2013, 01:12:08 AM
Nvm figure it out, ALL BY MYSELF!! hehe

Peace
44  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Restore wallet help on: March 18, 2013, 01:09:51 AM
Anyone?

(maybe this should be in alt forum)
45  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Restore wallet help on: March 18, 2013, 12:41:32 AM
My computer malfunctioned and I had a decent amount of litecoins in my wallet, now all I have is the backed up .dat file. Is that enough to restore my coins? Please say yes and if so how do I do it? (just dragging the file into the wallet gives me this "Uri can not be parsed" error

Thanks for all help
46  Economy / Gambling / Re: Winvery - Casino & Poker on: March 04, 2013, 01:56:09 AM
Just a heads up to everyone, malwarebytes blocks connection to this website for me  saying "malicious website", actually unables me to visit the site at all.

Could be a programming error of some sort, or it could be malicious...

Edit. Disabled malwarebytes out of curiousy, im stupid.

Site loads something at entry and looks like a low budget project
Site as no licence as far as I can see, while accepting real money deposits. (very unusual)
47  Economy / Gambling / Re: Nevada opens pathway to legal Bitcoin gambling in the US on: February 24, 2013, 08:41:34 AM
Isnt technically bitcoin poker legal in US already? seems to atleast be in the gray zone as its not yet defined as "real money"

Several of the bitcoin casinos are operating on servers located in the US actually..
48  Economy / Currency exchange / Best place to buy bitcoins with bank transfer? (EU) on: February 21, 2013, 06:41:02 PM
Was going to use mtgox, however they are not accepting my ID, its taking forever so ive decided to go somewhere else.

Whats the best place in regards to safety/fee?

Appreciate if someone can point me in correct direction
49  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transfer not going through on: February 14, 2013, 07:09:58 AM
Hi guys

I made a payment about 6 hours ago, it has 40 confirmations but its not going through for some reason. When clicking on it it says 0.00 in fee..

what should I do?
If it has confirmations then it went through. I don't understand what you are trying to say. What makes you think it isn't "going through"?


Sry, because I got email from the store that my order was changed from "pending" to "Unpaid"

Maybe its just needs to be manually accepted at their end?
50  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Transfer not going through on: February 14, 2013, 06:25:51 AM
Hi guys

I made a payment about 6 hours ago, it has 40 confirmations but its not going through for some reason. When clicking on it it says 0.00 in fee..

what should I do?
51  Economy / Gambling / Re: Bitcoing gambling server hosting on: February 10, 2013, 08:03:26 PM
Any country with legal online gambling should be fine, UK could be one place.

This is completely false.

Seems there's a lot of misinformation and basic misunderstandings here. Whenever I see this topic come up in the non-BTC gambling world, I see the same vague and incorrect suggestions over and over.

Just because online gambling is legal in a country does not mean you can host an unlicensed site there. The UK has a very strict licensing regiment with master licenses costing around £500,000 per year. Hosting unlicensed games on a server there is a quick way to get booted by your hosting company who is required to comply with UK law.

It is, however, legal to serve games from offshore into the UK, if they are legal in the country where they're hosted. The key here under UK law is "where the bet is struck". The bet is considered to be struck where the server is. Since the UK abides by international trade laws (which the US refuses to sign onto), they have to allow their citizens to strike bets in another country so long as those bets are legal under that country's law.

Now here's where it gets interesting. There is no jurisdiction on earth where it's legal to host an online gambling site without a government-issued license, except for Costa Rica. Costa Rica requires something called a "data-processing license" but it is not strictly a license (more a way of incorporating) and is not subject to gambling regulation as such. The reason for this is that, for historical reasons and thanks to a byzantine Napoleonic legal structure, Costa Rica contradicts the rest of the world (except, interestingly, the United States) and considers the bet to be struck on the user's computer, not where the servers are. So they see nothing wrong with hosting a casino there. What you're not allowed to do in Costa Rica, if you host there, is take Costa Rican players. Because then you'd be breaking their law by running an on-shore casino. Funky, right?

It is certainly illegal to host a gaming site in Ireland without an Irish gaming license (this came into force several years ago; before that Ireland had no specific legislation on it and it wasn't prosecuted).

However, the vagaries of where a bet is "struck" leave open a number of interesting loopholes for the clever site operator. For example, some countries which require a license to host gambling have various amnesties in their laws to attract business, which allow back-office operations to be run there, even downloads to be served there, so long as the bet isn't struck there. Some will consider the location of the RNG to be where the bet is struck, and others consider it to be where the player connects to the game server (assuming those are two different machines). Hosting in Costa Rica is enormously expensive, the bandwidth is terrible and the service is nonexistent. So many companies host their primary website there and serve the games elsewhere.

The ONLY way you can be sure that what you're doing in a particular country is legal is to hire a gambling attorney in that country to advise you and, if possible, put an opinion on it in writing. The safest route for a casino not willing to pay for a governmental license is to get incorporated in Costa Rica for $1000 or so and serve the games and RNG from there; and then put your non-gambling stuff like videos, graphics, sounds, etc. on faster servers wherever you want. I like http://nohostsland.com for finding servers in odd parts of the world. But DO NOT consider sticking gambling services on one of these VPS's, or on a server anywhere in the EU without a proper license from the country you're serving from.

If you have the money, some countries which offer packaged license/hosting/banking arrangements are: Malta, Curacao, the Isle of Man, Kahnawake (First Nations, Canada), Belize, Antigua; and on the top shelf, the UK, Australia, France and Italy (primarily for domestic markets).

Also be aware that the UK classifies two types of offshore casinos: Those licensed in the EU or with a country whose gaming regime is recognized by the EU (e.g. Curacao), and those not recognized (e.g. Costa Rica). While it is not illegal for a Costa Rica casino to take UK players, it is illegal in the UK for Costa Rica based casinos to advertise in print, on radio or television. Again, lots of rules, so the best advice? Lawyer up and don't take advice that could land you in jail from anonymous people on the internet.

Thanks that was very informative.

I do think this applies to regular gambling, but maybe not all to "bitcoin gambling"

I know satushidice is hosted in Ireland and sealswithclubs in Iceland, both without a license if im correct. So im very unsure about what would be the best approach still. I appears that those sites have come to the conclusion that the gambling laws does not apply to "bitcoin gambling" and they suprisingly went for an EU host..  Seems risky.

About Costa Rica, Ive heard that it has gotten significantly more expensive to operate from there, and as you mentioned the hosting alternatives there are terrible.

52  Economy / Gambling / Re: Bitcoing gambling server hosting on: February 08, 2013, 09:37:23 PM
If you really mean small then they might not be for you, but OrangeWebsite.com is in Iceland and has been reliable and helpful for over a year. They accept bitcoin.

By small I mean big, hehe.

Are there other bitcoin casino sites hosted with Orangewebsite?

I cant seem to find any information like "the best would be to host in this country.."  etc or something similar, I hope someone has some information or know what steps to take. Any good advise will be rewarded once we are up and running Smiley
53  Economy / Gambling / Bitcoing gambling server hosting on: February 08, 2013, 03:54:17 PM
Hi,

Im looking into developing a small bitcoin gambling site, however im unsure about what hosting company I should go for. I assume it should preferably be a non US host.. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks
54  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Buying BitCoins with Moneybookers or Neteller on: January 15, 2013, 10:11:48 AM
you can buy bitcoin via moneybookers / skrill if you follow this tutorial:
www.scribd.com/doc/110005258/

Thanks, I have noe idea how I missed that, its the first reply.. hehe

Looks like the site is down tho Sad
55  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: i want to sell 20 -50-100 bitc , . I TAKE NETELLER EU. on: January 06, 2013, 07:47:33 PM
Hi, im interested in buying bitcoins for neteller.

Im new though, but Im fine with sending first as long as we do it in small increments.

Edit: I want to buy more than 100, would that be possible?
56  Economy / Currency exchange / Buying BitCoins with Moneybookers or Neteller on: January 06, 2013, 07:35:54 PM
Hello, I want to buy Bitcoins with Moneybookers or Neteller. (Preferably neteller)

-Im new so if you are a regular member here with previous trades Ill ship first.
-Would prefer small increments
-Looking to buy for 2k
57  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Whitelist Requests (Want out of here?) on: January 06, 2013, 05:46:05 AM
Hi, I would like to be whitelisted.

Ive made a few posts already and I just dont wanna sit here an update the page for 2hours more.. hehe.

If something could be done that would be great Smiley
58  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: My major concern about Bitcoin on: January 06, 2013, 03:14:22 AM
Well the future will have a currency like this in it for sure, because the demand is so huge. So really the only way for bitcoin to fail would be if there comes a better alternative... Anyone know if there are other ideas around or alternatives to bitcoin?

there are a lot of them https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0

but bitcoin is to good for something a little better to take it over, it's like google - bing algoritm is better, but google searches are more accurate because more people use them. the same is with bitcoin, you can make a lot of theoreticaly better alternatives, but bitcoin will be beter simply because of more people using it.

also, OP's and my points apply 100% identicaly to some other currencies than could replace bitcoin, so this brings nothing new to the topic.

thanks. I was just pointing out that the ONLY way it can fail is if its replaced by something else, as the demand is so high.

Taking your responds that is highly unlikely so I guess its here to stay Smiley
59  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Introduce yourself :) on: January 06, 2013, 02:34:10 AM
I have been a bitcoin for a while and finally glad to have an account here,  I wish I wasn't sandboxed in the newbie, but I appreciate that the site is trying to keep trolls off.

Same here, kinda annoying that I have to wait but its understandable
60  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: My major concern about Bitcoin on: January 06, 2013, 02:31:11 AM
Well the future will have a currency like this in it for sure, because the demand is so huge. So really the only way for bitcoin to fail would be if there comes a better alternative... Anyone know if there are other ideas around or alternatives to bitcoin?
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