The Samurai team released a decentralized Soroban whirlpool at the beginning of April. Wouldn't it be possible to switch to a different coordinator using Soroban? From the little I read about it, Soroban was working and had decent traffic. I wonder if the government-friendly Wasabi wallet will ever get targeted. It probably never will.

I am sorry if I sound like a douchebag, but why do you care about what your parasitic government thinks about your involvement or non-involvement in a signature campaign for a crypto casino? We have Bitcoin, so they don't have to know. Do they know the real name behind the LoyceV username or were you contacted by one of their parasites agents?   

Hmm, that sounded pretty similar to what your marketing head said in the YouTube video I watched. Are you the same guy?

That's too bad. I know that whatever they are building is unofficial, but it would still be cool to see a privacy coin like Monero working within an airgapped solution like that of the Passport hardware wallet.

I hoped it would be Ben Sessions. A pretty popular channel when it comes to these types of software/hardware wallet reviews. But I have come across the work of Crypto Guide as well. Decent lad.

It's like you are suffering from a Multiple Personality Disorder. First you announce a big update and changes on the site, and then a few hours later you inform everyone that you have abandoned the project.
If you have given up on the idea of creating the game, there is a lock button at the bottom of the page. Click on it and the thread will be locked, stopping any further discussion.

Nothing against you or your honesty, but I trust a centralized exchange or swap service to do the right thing as much as I trust any government that the tax revenues they collect will be put to good use. In other words, I don't trust them one bit!

But I have had several positive experiences with eXch, and can only recommend the service to others.

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I noticed that your website doesn't have a FAQ or Help section. It might be worth creating one. For instance, I wanted to check which exchanges have an OrangeFren Guarantee, but the information is nowhere to be found on the site. I can complete a search and see it in the results, but there really should be something better.

Thumbs up for the giveaway!

That's true, but don't forget that many people will gladly give up on security and decentralization if you offer them a more cost-effective and convenient way to pay with crypto. When you try to introduce Bitcoin to anyone and talk about all its strengths and benefits, the inevitable question from their side is, "how much is this going to cost me?" We currently don't have that big of an argument to onboard them.

My respect goes out to them, especially in times like the ones we are experiencing right now. Some casinos are very greedy and charge way more than they have to, just to pocket the difference. And that difference ends up being a big one. And then there are those who cover everything from their pockets. They deserve some love.

One way to mitigate the problem could be to do what Gamdom did and increase the minimum withdrawal amount. That way, there wouldn't be as many withdrawals during times of high congestion where the casinos waste big amounts on paying for mining fees.

I think we checked the mempool conditions around the same time today because I also remember seeing recommended fees at around 40 sat/vByte. Sadly, they are now around 100 sats/vByte right now. The block time is below 10 minutes. The difficulty adjustment played out in our favor, which is one of the reasons we are seeing quicker block confirmations at the start of the new interval. 

Yeah, that's true.

We can still do all these things, but it's not worth it, considering that mining fees will be too high for the BTC transaction to make sense from an economic viewpoint. I feel sorry for all legitimate users who now have to press the pause button because spammers have infected the chain. Worst case scenario, many turn their backs on Bitcoin completely ad embrace other coins/tokens that aren't affected by this spam exploit. 

I remember that theymos said that representatives of mixing services will only be banned from posting at first. So you are right. They can receive and send PMs. However, that is only a temporary solution, and since we are now 4 months in the mixers being banned on Bitcointalk era, theymos might have changed his mind and banned them for good.

Please expect high withdrawal fees in all crypto casinos ever since the halving due to the on-chain spam being created with the Runes exploit.
I haven't checked or made any updates to the fees in the table, but I don't doubt that they are much higher than what is currently written there.

If you are not in a hurry to get your winnings, wait for the situation to calm down (if it does) before requesting withdrawals.

I wish you were right, but I don't think you are. Ordinals spam didn't stop. It slowed down, but it's still here. There is now a new form of spamming. When the spammers get tired of Runes, they will invent Corks, Hooks, Queens, or whatever other bullshit they can come up with. In the meantime, legitimate developers are being arrested and their websites taken down by three-letter agencies of the United States of Genocide. Oh, I meant America. Not that it has anything to do with the Runes garbage, I am just thinking it aloud.

This isn't directly related to the Aqua wallet, but then again, it could be in the future. Boltz exchange has drastically lowered the network fees for swaps between Lightning and Liquid Bitcoin. The fees have dropped from around 400 sats to 40 sats. They explain this change by saying that they are beta testing a liquid protocol upgrade which makes it possible to send transactions with fees of 0.01 sat/vByte instead of 0.1 sat/vByte.

There are some comments and discussions about it here:
https://twitter.com/Boltzhq/status/1782801788762026244

Those who use or have heard of airgapped hardware wallets know what a SeedQR is. The standard backup method is, of course, on paper, but Stamp Seed has now created a titanium plate for SeedQRs.

It's an interesting concept. I just wonder what would happen if the stamped and finished plate would be damaged by a high temperature fire or strong acid, and would camera's still be able to recover the keys from the code. I leave this to Jameson Lopp to test.

Of course there should be no censoring of anyone using Bitcoin as digital cash, and I have never thought of saying something like that. I wish the situation post-halving was the result of legitimate use, but sadly it isn't. If it wasn't spam, but a genuine onboarding process of new users, these discussions and ideas wouldn't need to exist. The only ideas that would be valid would be ways of scaling.

If you are a football/soccer fan, you have probably heard about the stadium where the Bolivian national team plays its matches. The national stadium is located at a sea level of over 3500 meters. When other teams come to play Bolivia who aren't used to the height, they get into all sorts of problems and issues like breathing normally. Bolivia used to beat all its rivals playing at home because of that. It wasn't even easy for Argentina and Brazil.

I just came across a video of your marketing head talking with the Bitfinex team, and I heard some interesting things I wanted to mention them and ask you about it.

• He was pretty secretive but said that Foundation is working on multiple new hardware devices, with plans to release them this year. Can you say something more, exclusively for the Bitcointalk community? We already know there won't be a pre-sale stage.
• How is the development going with Lightning being added to Envoy? When do you expect that to be finished, and have you thought about liquid BTC, for example?
• How far ahead is the Monero community with introducing their forked version of the Passport firmware to support the coin?

It's not cash. Again, my opinion. Anyone is free to agree or disagree.

Then, that someone is free to suggest what should be done to change/stop the threat and the community will decide the course of action.

I don't disagree. But how good has that done us? We don't have a solution for scaling on L1 that wouldn't affect the decentralized nature of Bitcoin and which wouldn't require much more storage at the same time.

It's already been ignored, thus Ordinals led to Runes. Tomorrow Runes will lead to something new, and then we can all enjoy our censorship-resistant Bitcoin at 500-700 sat/vByte.

What does it mean where there is no notification or guarantee from your side? For instance, just for testing purposes, I did a BTC to ETH search, and the second result is for ChangeHero. Your page doesn't show the OrangeFren Guarantee (like with eXch), but there is also no warning that funds may be frozen.

When I go to ChangeHero's website, the first thing I see is this:

https://changehero.io/

The site's TOS also states the following:

https://changehero.io/terms-of-use

Have you taken into account the withdrawal fees? Check the withdrawal tab and the fees that apply. Subtract the sum from your total balance and what is left is approximately what you can withdraw. It could be that.