Man, what a squeaker. Magic wins by 3 in the last few seconds of the game. So both bets won! Thanks @yahoo62278 you were spot on with these picks.


Thanks again buddy. I tipped you merits instead. If you have a Counterparty wallet I'd like to send you a Bit Bowl team token of your choice.

There have been all sorts of linguistical analysis comparisons done over the years. For example, this is a thesis/dissertation that was posted in the BSV scam thread that compares Satoshi's writings to those by Craig Wright, Gavin Andresen, Hal Finney, Adam Back, Mike Hearn, and Nick Szabo. Spoiler alert: the only thing it definitively concluded was that Wright is farther away from being Satoshi than any of the others.

Nobody's bothered to mention it here yet, which speaks more about the current popularity of the forum than anything else, but both Adam K. (Phantom Phreak) and Robby D. (xnova) have returned to Counterparty & have already contributed a lot to development (or re-development).

https://twitter.com/agkrellenstein/status/1756968626765058249

As a result, the price of XCP has surged from about $3 to $9.50. Wish I hadn't sold the rest of my bag at about $3.80    



Still, I'm more bullish on the future of Counterparty than possibly ever. Excited to see what comes next.

I have supported your flag on lemipawa and issued an additional red tag on them as well.

I'm just curious how the others are connected as alt accounts as I don't see any links about that in their trust ratings.

Satoshi:



Also Satoshi:

There was a user data breach in 2015 - part of it was user email addresses - so likely what happened was somebody figured out that your email had expired and re-registered it. I see old accounts coming back to the forum all the time; many of them were probably obtained through this same method.

Just wish campaign managers would do 5 seconds of research before accepting them into their campaign    by doing so they are only encouraging this kind of behavior.

No I didn't but it appears you got 3/4 picks (just the "or over 2.5" of the 1st match was incorrect), so I'm sending you what I think is enough merits for you to rank up.

This is kind of hilarious. It could be they were paid to do some kind of marketing maneuver for whatever this is:

https://ordinals.com/inscription/f007131d7db409461f0eead4939eacb2399e88a766b2d6c87c7705ad1d46a0b4i0
https://ordinals.com/inscription/50a4589012d4ca22634d601f259c40f92cfd4e9d12846a559b968c85696c5cffi0

In any case, great to see fees so low again. Wonder if it will stick this time.

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Thanks for your offer, that's nice/brave of you. I was about to take you up on it but when I clicked on "Deposit" I saw this:


They must have implemented this rule after I made my last deposit, sometime around November of last year. Oh well.

I ended up going with this as a parlay; no guts, no glory:


I got Orlando Magic @ -333 and Houston vs. Baylor O134 @ -112

This comes out to a combined Total Odds of +146, which puts me way over the minimum withdrawal amount. Don't worry yahoo, I won't blame you if I lose, lol.

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No, that's not the one, but thank you for your offer.


Thanks everyone else for your suggestions! Will be interesting to see how it goes.

So recently I won a small-ish bet on the Super Bowl, only to discover than I am still an entire 50% away from the minimum withdrawal amount for this particular bitcoin sportsbook. The sportsbook, which I won't name, is highly reputable, but they increased the withdrawal minimum to 0.005 BTC. This was back last year when tx fees were skyrocketing due to ordinals-mania, and I'm not counting on them to lower it any time soon.

So in light of this dilemma, I'd like to ask for the forum's gambling experts opinion on what is the most surefire way to double my balance with one or two solid sports bets.

Please let me know what sporting event bets you would make to make this happen in one or two bets maximum. If I end up taking your suggestion and win, I will send you $25 in BTC as a 'thanks'.

This particular sportsbook has a lot of events & leagues to choose from and tends to have relatively decent odds, so any suggestions not too out of the ordinary would probably work just fine.

Thanks!

Let 'em rip.

I sympathize with OP in this case: it is clear they are being unfairly hounded by someone with real mental and/or emotional problems.

As far as the licensing thing is concerned, I know that a casino's reputation for doing good by their customers completely outweighs whatever credibility a license can provide, and blackjack.fun seems to excel in this regard.

As far as what can be accomplished on the forum, the neutral rating I left for JackpotRacer almost four years ago now still adequately sums what anyone can expect when having to deal with him (and I truly sympathize for those that fall under his crosshairs):


Not sure what further action should be taken at the moment.

No, I can't imagine it. Clearly he's no dummy, but he's going up against some of the smartest people in the world, and they have managed to poke sizable holes in his story since he first started telling it. By this point the fabric of the pseudo-reality he's woven is so tattered, its barely hanging together; who knows what it will take for it to finally fall all the way apart.

But you hit the nail on the head with the sociopath part. That is just one "ability" that most people can never achieve, because our brains are fully developed. It really is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by stunted growth of the prefrontal cortex, which is the most human part of the brain. Its the part that prevents us from simply bashing each other over the head with a rock when things don't go our way. Craig is unencumbered by this dilemma, which allows him to experience an utter detachment from morality, and therefore the rest of humanity.

This is super dope. Now who is going to 3D print one of these?

The Official WO Throwing Star™

Frankly theymos I hope the look of the forum never changes. I can't help but think when people come here to read satoshi's old posts, they want to read them exactly the way they looked when he posted them.

Might be kind of weird or off-putting to see historical posts in a different, "modern" format.

Well folks, it was fun while it lasted. Sell everything, pack your bags, hug your wife and kids and say goodbye. Its time to head for the hills and wait out what is likely to be the most brutal bear market of this generation.



Gentle reminder that BTC is up over 20% since Cramer said it was your "chance to roll out of bitcoin" on Jan 25th.

He made statements that were basically centered around that idea:

LOL. Well in that case he is completely fucked.

I can't think of a more disgusting, detestable, deplorable human in the crypto scene, and the bar is very, very low.

Neither BitBoy, Richard Heart, nor Do Kwon hold a candle to what level of douchebag Craig is.

If he is charismatic, it is in the way cult leaders are charismatic: they appeal primarily to the lost, the dumb, and the soul-lessly greedy. Everyone else with a competent or moral mind can see them for who they truly are.

To become a Legendary w/ a 2021 registration date by now would mean posting just about every day (or at least 14 times per 2 weeks) since then, along with accumulating an average of ~1 merit every day... No easy feat really. It requires a lot of commitment to going beyond shitposting, which is a step most accounts here aren't willing to take. They are here because its "easy money"... once you have to put effort into it its no longer "easy" anymore. So they will never get beyond Sr. Member or Hero and they don't care.

I think it took me at least 4 years to get to Legendary based on the speed of my posting, which was intermittent. I don't think merits would have been a factor but who knows.

Do me a favor and just do 1 reply at a time, or combine multiple thoughts into 1 post, otherwise your secondary posts may be deleted by moderators.


This doesn't have anything to do with BSV. But to answer your question, we'll have to wait and see as its an unprecedented issue. For the next couple of decades I think it will be a non-problem. The current hash rate for BTC is incredibly high. Its fine if it drops a couple orders of magnitude; Bitcoin will still be the most secure blockchain several times over. All other PoW coins combined don't come close to matching the security of its chain.

OK, setting aside the entire debate about the inherent centralization risks imposed by BSV's scaling model, what good does scaling do for a coin if nobody wants to use it?