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Your coins are safe at Seals. We don't use player funds for anything except paying players back. We have some coins that are potentially at risk for my convenience, but it is an amount I can cover without too much pain and if they were lost I would replace them immediately.
Still, I don't recommend that people leave coins unnecessarily with any business including Seals. So leave on what you might want to play with and know that it only takes about an hour at most to add more if you get low.
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It does indeed. It takes the power to manipulate wealth away from plutocrats and gives them to the working class. It evens the playing field. Everyone has equality in a Bitcoin system; there are no classes, no rich and no poor, just Bitcoin users. Really, we don't need HOURS if we have Bitcoin because it works just as well.
Which is utter bollocks. All you have to do is point out that some bitcoiner have more bitcoin than others. Oh, does everyone have the same number of HOURS? |
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I'm a relatively smart guy, but this is a struggle.
I did some research, and sent a check to mtgox. It cleared a week ago but there's nothing showing up in my account there. Then I found out it's purely trading, not like a checking account, where I can direct them to pay a vendor.
How do I buy bitcoins and put them in a "checking account" or my "wallet" and then use that to pay a vendor?
I like the idea of taking $$ to Chase Bank but I still haven't cracked the code on how to easily get bitcoins and then spend them.
There seems to be a charge every time there is a transaction, but I'm not that worried about that.
I've read a lot of guides, and I'm not coming here without trying.
Thanks,
noobie
I might not understand your problem, but you should be able to send bitcoins from your MtGox account to literally any bitcoin address. Maybe you just need to use the cash you sent to buy bitcoins first? If you don't even want to deal with making a market order in the future check out coinbase.com. If you don't want to leave your coins with MtGox or any other company look into the Electrum client. |
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The android app is currently blocked by our fancy new gate. We're going to punch a hole in it soon.
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1) Seems to be back. There may be intermittent connectivity issues in next few hours while some other-other next shit cooks in DNS land.
2) Mad #respeck to Freemoney. His hard work is why we have bitcoin online poker (mostly) every day.
3) tytytytytyty for the support of our players in this thread and across our social media outlets. You guys rock. You guys are what makes Seals the cool little "poker club" type of community that it feels like today. Watching you all come back and chatting in the main lobby warms my heart.
4) there are still some issues being worked out, game server time, freeroll dates, some random images that are not game-facing... We'll get it worked out.
edit to add: *** if anyone has an outstanding deposit they feel has not credited their account please msg admin@SwC with details
Since I already made it very clear to you that there is an outstanding deposit on my account I know I won't have to go through any further trouble of messaging admin@SwC with details cause you're handling it. Right, Micon? I am investigating. I know most that were backed up were paid. |
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any updates? whats happening? can they do this indefinately? is there any real way to stop it or trace the source? I don't know much about this kind of thing.. Thanks!
I've caused another problem while trying to fix this and our host is taking longer than expected give the assistance we require now. We were close, but now I'm not sure. I hate to guess, but I think 6 hours is reasonable. |
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I don't know if it will last, but try to get in now. And then don't leave just in case ;-)
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So I guess you're on the west coast?
Mine says noon... didn't realize the site adjusted to local time.
Actually, I'm in Ireland (GMT+0), for some reason all website's get my time zone completely wrong.  But yeah, you're right, its supposed to adjust to local time. I think it gets the time from the browser, you might be able to fix it in browser settings pretty easily. I assume the browser usually gets the time and zone from the system so you might double check that first. |
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Woopsie, looks like somebody forgot what year it was.  So, is this tourney a mistake, or is it happening? if so, is it today or tomorrow? I wanna play it nao! Also, while I'm here, are there any plans to offer krill to tournament players? There are a bunch of people (myself included) who rarely play cash games anymore, so we have little to no krill & can't participate in all the cool freerolls cash players have access too. It was a mistake, it is fixed now. This game starts tomorrow noon ET. Expect 1 chip tournaments with (relatively) nice guarantees at random times. Krill for tournaments is possible, but not set yet. |
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Would you consider reducing/eliminating the rake on the 10 chip hu sng game?
It's currently 9+1 and 11% rake is hard to beat in a heads up game.
For example the 50 chip game is 48+2, a reasonable 4% rake.
Thanks for the welcome kjlimo!
We don't rake fractional chips and some players really wanted a 10 chip option to try out omaha. I'm going to add a 25 chip option which will have much closer to the normal rake since rounding will have a smaller effect. Possibly I'll remove the 10 chip option as well as I don't really like having a game with that high % rake. |
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I don't like that changing the bet is not allowed but then again it somehow is when I managed to realize that my bet was taken already.
Bets can be made to arbitrary precision so the betting space is not going to be dense, although a 3-digit number is more likely to be a direct hit than a 7-digit number due to the fact that there are still trades done manually.
Betting where nobody has bet before makes winning more likely as the 3-digit values in the 18-ish area are bet on densely already, it's more likely to win with 22.3 than with 18.333 as either 18.33 or 18.34 would be 10 times more likely than any 18.3x
Sure, betting later yields higher chances of hitting the target so there should be an incentive to pick earlier, too. (Or not as apparently many people bet early. Well …)
If you just invested 10 Ƀ to see where the journey is going, you should provide this incentive more decoupled from above concerns. You want early data? Weight it higher. You want honest guesses? Don't punish people that are off by 1 Satoshi just because the correct guess was already taken. Make an even payout to all within +-5ct. or maybe weight that number with the days before the event that they gave their bet.
It's actually an interesting game as is imo. There is some incentive to pick early since your guess will help keep people out of the range you think is most likely. |
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Government is the largest security risk to Bitcoin. If some government shuts down Mt. Gox, for example, the value of BTC will evaporate overnight.
No, that one exchange is not what's pushing most of $200M worth of stored value. |
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Mmmm ok, they wouldn't be 'completely anonymous' hmmm ok, maybe because they'd be entering their name? mmmmmk.
But yeah, forget bitcoin at your peril silly website.
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I wonder if any payment service has ever done a chargeback on a government department ?
MmmMMmmm I wonder if my bank would let me claim fraud on my tax check  Lol, tell them you sent it under duress. |
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It's the best thing ever and the more value it can hold the better it works. Why it took 18 months and counting to put in new highs might be a better question.
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Excellent article: I will disagree only on one item.
Scarcity is not a necessary attribute of money, usefulness is (your article missed that one).
The article is clear at demonstrating that the value of money comes from a set of attributes, each attribute being insufficient if taken individually.
About usefulness.
For instance, gold is useful in industrial applications like electronics or jewelry.
Bitcoins are useful in services like internet payment processing.
Fiat money is usefull to extinguish a fiscal debt (usefulness enforced by law, not natural).
About scarcity.
Scarcity can even prevent something from being used as money.
I believe there is confusion in the article between scarcity and limited, auditable quantity.
Gold has been around and has been mined for a long enough time to convince everyone there is a limited quantity of it on earth and that quantity is audited and published (mining operations report). Likewise for bitcoins. If we would have had a hundred times more gold or more bitcoins, that would have not impacted the possibility to use gold or bitcoin as money. Conversely, if no one had a precise idea about the quantity of bitcoin or gold, that would be a show stopper.
I think scarcity is often and correctly used to mean known or roughly known amount and not arbitrarily expandable. I think a usefulness discussion could be interesting. Arguable bitcoin was not useful in the beginning and that did not stop it from becoming a money. And saying 'potentially useful' is no good because it's wholly circular, anything that has the other properties could become a money and thus become useful so that attribute would be completely wrapped up in the others. |
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I always tell people to only buy what you're willing to lose...if everyone did that, then why would anyone sell for less than what they paid? If no one sells for less than what they paid, you'll have a sustainable appreciation in the price. It is the very definition of capital formation.
There are plenty of reasons to sell while up or down even if you are (or were) 'willing to lose'. You might get fired, prefer a new car or get cancer etc. |
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Maybe some of their updated security policies will help cut down the chargeback nonsense.
Maybe it'll cut down on some of the people-still-use-paypal nonsense. |
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Played last night. First online poker since Black Friday. What a great feeling.
I hope more people start playing.
Welcome. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions. |
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