I would say this will surely be a cumbersome task since there are growing Ethereum holders and this would never. Having a database with eth holders like btcltcdigger said would end up difficult to manage as well. You should probably dig the whole Ethereum Blockchain with list of Ethereum holders >1 and try to segregate them. From the list being pulled from Blockchain, you can create a database and can issue a smart contract to perform further tasks.

I have created a token in test network and have airdropped it to a few Ethereum accounts which I had. You can check this link : https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/25074/how-to-do-an-air-drop-to-all-eth-token-holders

Reserved for future thoughts and suggestions from myself and other community members. This post will put forth some of the suggestions which will be provided by e everyone regarding the unofficial rules to be followed in the forum and to make them a better place for new members.

BTCumping for better visibility and also looking out for volunteers to help me with translating 0.20.0 version in Hindi and Telugu which is scheduled to launch on 03rd June 2020. Regarding bitcoin.org, theymos has stepped out from the position of being the domain owner and it is solely being owned by Cøbra. The website changes and contributions are being taken care by open source contributors. Though bitcoin.org is unofficial source for bitcoin related information but they have been created by Satoshi and is of a historical importance.

I don't have much free time as I had during September - December last year and only a fair amount of time per week can be spent on translating the whole site. The Hindi translation is being taken care by webtricks (AFAIK) and as of now, we have a current broken Hindi translation for the site. So, you could collaborate with webtricks for fixing the current broken Hindi translations and myself for Telugu and Tamil versions respectively.

If anyone willing to contribute for these translations and get them sorted out before the release candidates which could possibly happen around May 15th reach out to me via forum PM or telegram.

Predicting random outputs from dice rolls in a physical game is certainly achievable but predicting the same in an online casino game is commendable and I wouldn't really go by the theory. There have been various researches over the ages that we could probably predict the randomness of game outcomes but an online casino doesn't always code that way. Provably fair casinos have such a factor that 50% of the gaming outcome or the randomized results always favors the house and 50% favors the gambler and this is how the casino runs.

Pseudorandomness is different from randomness. You can atmost try to predict the outcome by judging the previous outcomes and they would favor towards yourself but the same doesn't happen in a cryptographically secured RNG mechanism. For instance in a game of raffle which has bitcoin blocks for guessing the outcomes, you can never predict the last character of the block hash but then predicting a outcome isn't completely impossible. Most likely the block hashes ends with 1,2,a,b,0 and I have experienced a major number of times. The block hashes are indeed cryptographical in nature and its outcomes are never really predicted.

In our forum, I have participated in various raffles and I chose1,2,0,a,b as my winning character which yielded the result. This has gone wrong at times and I have lost the raffle but for at least 50% of the raffles I have participated I have won the game of chances/luck. But I am not sure, the same applies for a random dice generation event as the house is't always generous in making the gambler sweep the money!

Fees are certainly based on the transaction volume and the miners trying to pick your transactions to get included in the block. When there is lower transaction volume as like in 2018, you could end up with lower default fees and your transaction will pass sooner even if you have specified a 1 sat/byte fee. Basically a block can have upto 4 million weight units worth of transactions. At the time of writing, blocks are full and the recent #626438 has 3,993,278 weight units. If you are willing to include your transaction in next block to be mined you should be paying the recommended fees which sits at 20-30sat/byte currently.

When there is lesser transactions in the mempool, the miners wouldn't have a go other than picking up your lower fee transaction. If your transaction stays in the mempool for quite a long time i.e either days or a week, it would eventually get removed by the nodes from their unconfirmed transactions. The coins you have sent will be seen as unconfirmed and they can never be spent either unless the transaction gets removed from the pool. This is why Core sets default tx fee for you to prevent such bizarre circumstances.

So, for quite some time I have been confused about the rules which are being followed up in the Indian board. There was Benson back in 2013-2017 who made up the now available unofficial rules, but they have been outdated and many of the new members aren't still following up them quite actively and are making up their own rules for the board. Since the forum on the whole relies on the idea of decentralization and free speech, devising certain specific rules is not really advisable but on the other hand leaving up random spam topics in various parts of the local board would clutter the whole Indian board quite sooner.

There are no official rules and there shouldn't be any official rules forever and this is how a decentralized forum should work based on the inputs gained from various community members. S_D the author of original Unofficial rules of Indian forum is highly inactive and any new suggestions or improvements in forum (like Merit, DT decentralization etc) were never addressed in the topic and has been outdated since then.

S_D's contribution through the topic was certainly great but shouldn't we move forward by having more inputs from community members?

- Scam Accusations and Reputations of a bitcoin based company is being posted in the main board but they do find a place in the Buyer/ Seller Reputations (India) board.

- Similarly, Press & News from India board should consist of news paper clippings which highlights about cryptocurrency standards being followed in India which isn't currently happening. Many newbie accounts are posting stuffs which are being published in newspaper and doesn't relate to bitcoin in general.

- Regional Languages (India) sub board seems to be rotten. Shitposting newbies from various parts of our country are churning out shits in the form of posts. We never have any good discussions going over there in our Indian languages.

India is a complex country where we speak a large number of languages and follow a varied number of traditions. So my idea is to have the main Indian board to be present in English and move our Indian language topics to Regional Languages (India) sub board. What are your thoughts on this suggestion?

- Marketplace (India) : Since, the board is dedicated to India I hope dealing with currencies other than INR shouldn't be allowed. I have seen newbies posting stuffs like selling bitcoin for EUR, USD and other global currencies. What is the purpose of selling Bitcoin other than INR in an Indian board 

What are the community thoughts on framing certain set of new unofficial rules which can make our local board more organised for new members?

Right from the beginning when I got to know about bitcoin or cryptocurrency, I had 2 standards for considering them. One as the common SoV concept and another was the usage of bitcoin as a MoE for buying goods and commodities. This is completely based on the individual's perspective and how they are using bitcoin. Right from using bitcoin in 2017, I had been using them as a MoE for global transactions and only a very few percentage of my investment is being considered as a SoV. Bitcoin was created by satoshi as an alternative to payment system and today's developers are striving hard to scale bitcoin along the terms of Visa and other payment processors. Why should someone create a protocol called Lightning Network if we are considering Bitcoin as a SoV? This perspective is completely based on my thought on bitcoin and it would vary among different bitcoiners.

If something needs to be considered as a MoE, they shouldn't be subjected to volatility standards and should be stable for quite a certain amount of time which isn't happening with bitcoin. Gold on the other hand, is rising in value for quite a long time and would most likely reach even greater heights in future. If bitcoin tends to follow up the similar strategy as the market has been following all these days it would rise up in price. But from a MoE perspective since there is demand for bitcoin and limited in number, they should certainly rise in price to be used up as a global transaction currency. If there is higher adoption towards bitcoin being used as a global currency, there is no other go for it to rise in price to support the global population which is currently happening right now.

As Cnut237 pointed out, we are still mining bitcoin and the market is relatively new. For a market to stabilize, we need the commodity to get settled and to reach a stabilization. If 99% of the coins have been mined, we would be reaching the stabilization point and would have a price to quote until then there would be influx of virgin bitcoins from blocks and volatility would rise up and down.

Stablecoins are one among the most important part of the decentralized crypto economy. You could never depend on fiat all the time for trading in bitcoin and certain popular stable coins like USDT and TUSD are necessary for huge volume tradings. In general, crypto currency markets are highly volatile in nature and you will surely require a stable coin to trade and receive the profits.

If for instance, a person has 7000 tether and if BTC dumps to 6000 USD overnight and pumps again the following day, it would be very much difficult for the traders to withdraw each and every time to their fiat money or to the banks. If banks see through the +1000 USD profit within a day or two, they would be questioning up the trader. These kinds of situations occur when the person has  7000 USDT but if they are trying to trade with 5-10 bitcoins, they might be facing 5000-10000 USD profits and loss within hours which would certainly make the trader even more questionable.

Apart from the above mentioned facts, bitcoin market is certainly new and we need time for them to mature over the period. Until then, we could be USDT for real world transactions. I always use bitcoin for global transactions but some traders might not go well while considering volatility. Hence, stablecoins might rise in adoption which certainly could pose a risk for governments and the banking system. The government is trying to minimize the usage of bitcoin and also trying to reduce the exposure of people towards cryptocurrency in general which wouldn't last longer.

Duckdice has a bad reputation in the gambling market and has been considered as a scam. I wouldn't trust DuckDice with my money though I have played and withdrawn from them back in 2018 once. There have been various claims in the forum that duckdice is stealing users funds and never returning them back. You should probably stay away from the site if you are willing to risk your bitcoin in Dice games.

With that being said, I vouch for freebitco when it comes to playing dice games (fastest bets) with bitcoin. I have been using freebitco right from the time when I was initially introduced to bitcoin in 2017 and have been using their faucet and would be playing Dice games when time permits.

If you willing to use altcoins, I would suggest using cryptogames. They have been one among the oldest gambling companies in the cryptocurrency space and has one of the largest bets per second. During autobets, you can make upto 10 bets per second and when doing it manually you can go upto 3-4 bets per second.  It's been sometime since I used cryptogames, but they along with freebitco are one among the legit casinos out there.

I was going through some old archives of bitcointalk and found that Gavin Andresen was the head admin when satoshi left the forum. Another interesting fact was that theymos was the global moderator and was made an admin at some point between January 2011 to November 2011. I took a snapshot of December 2010 archive of theymos account but the archives are missing right now in archive.org. This is how theymos account looked after the disappearance of satoshi in December 2010.

I was both a TOR user and a VPN user a few years back. In the country where I live in currently, there aren't much exposure towards bitcoin and I could say around 75% of the citizens residing over here aren't aware of the term digital currency or bitcoin. But truly speaking this isn't the only reason why I don't use VPN. I download and upload decent chunks of data all the month with the cumulative rate reaching over 1.5 TB+ and my current ISP provides over a seamless 150-200 Mbps speed which isn't truly achievable with the VPN providers. Each time I should be logging off and on the VPN which had become cumbersome over time.

Apart from this I was initially using TOR for connecting bitcointalk in 2018 and connecting through TOR was problematic with the captcha issues prevailing back then. However theymos came up with the captcha bypass solution but I am certainly used to this normal logging behavior. When there does seem to be good exposure towards bitcoin from my country citizens I might be thinking of a way to use bitcointalk through TOR or by using VPN.

A bitcoiner can consider bitcoin in various ways as he likes and that completely depends on the individual's perspective of viewing them as either a collectible or a medium of exchange or a speculative asset. The idea of satoshi was to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange for the transactions which are happening over in the internet without a third party intervention. This was the part of whitepaper which was written by satoshi and so does it would become when the coin and its market matures over the years. Bitcoin on the whole would become something more or less similar to this initial idea coined by satoshi.

Bitcoin - The Ideal Money :

Right now in today's world while we are buying goods from other part of the world, we depend on the banks for the conversion of money to their local currency. Bitcoin prevents this trust problem and we can send money without the intervention of third party(banks or governments). This is how the future years would most probably roll by. I do agree that we were using Gold as a Medium of Exchange centuries ago but were made a Store of Value as centuries passed but we need to consider that they were a physical medium and cannot be transacted globally without the intervention of governments.

I buy goods from other countries and I can't depend on my fiat currency conversions all the time and all I can say is that they are too much time consuming and has expensive transfer rates. Hence I would deal with Bitcoin accepting parties and transact for the exchange of goods. If there wasn't a decentralized digital currency like Bitcoin, it could have been a problem for people like me (depending on fiat currencies, conversions and paying higher transfer rates).

Bitcoin - SoV, Speculative Asset and Digital Collectible :

All 3 of these terms deliver the same meaning that bitcoin would become a store of value in future. Bitcoin is certainly new and it need more years to mature and become a medium of exchange globally. Let us have an alternate theory. What if we could never really say that gold is limited as we might be finding a new major gold deposit in future? If that happens to be the case, why would anyone be using Gold as a SoV? I do agree to the fact that bitcoin is limited, but its really possible for bitcoin to stabilize in prices at a later point of time in future, not in near future of course!

All the new markets would be subjected to severe speculations from newbie investors and so does the same is going on with bitcoin. The prices are being driven due to unnecessary speculations but the final fact would be that bitcoin will always be used as a global money and a medium of exchange for internet users.

Bump. 6 more slots to be filled before we roll

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This has filled up a little bit faster. 9 more slots to be filled before we roll!

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I am still stuck with Season 1.   Going on a Bing watch with "The Good Doctor, Money Heist" and a lot more these 2 weeks. Just finished up S4 of La casa de papel

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Been reading through all the posts on anonymity and privacy. If you are involved in crypto or bitcoin, privacy and anonymity is generally needed up to an extent. In my case, I wouldn't say I am completely anonymous but can partially be called so. I have never uploaded any pics of mine nor do allow anyone to upload my pic in any of the social media platforms (inc whatsapp) and have never revealed the real name of mine anywhere around in terms of social media platforms. I once had a defunct facebook account (without a pic and a fake name) which was deleted 6 years back and so on.  

But to the contrary, I don't use a VPN since I am really not willing to hide what I am doing to my ISP provider. I have an official twitter, keybase and an instagram account linked to the forum name but neither of them are related to my real life. Only 2 or 3 of my real life acquaintance do know I am literally involved in bitcoin and cryptocurrency and other than that none of them really does know what I do over the lengthy leisure days.

I don't really trade much but majority of my bitcoin earnings and savings are being used for global transactions in order to import and export stuffs in and around the country. I would compare myself with L from Death Note anime (I have 2 separate identities which aren't interlinked to each other and are completely different from each other)

As Lucius pointed out, boasting about ourselves and our involvement in crypto to our friends and acquaintance will probably end up in a death threat (just kidding) but I wouldn't trust any of my friends or acquaintances with my personal info on bitcoin.

The governments of the world has always tried to supress bitcoin as much as they can since the truly believe it might pose a risk for the government controlled fiat currencies if people started using them. Here the problem doesn't rely with the government as people are the ones who still believe on the government controlled money and would continue using them until the banks scam them by not paying. USA was widely affected during the 2008 recession and this is one among the reasons Bitcoin is still being used for transactions higher in USA while comparing it with a third world country.

The idea behind creation of bitcoin is not to rely completely on a middleman like Banks controlling all our funds and to be used as a currency for internet transactions. But today they are being termed as a stock market kind of stuff with only very few people like to use them like a global currency. Truly speaking, I don't hold bitcoin for longer terms as investment and I use them as a global currency for transactions which I make overseas. People should understand that Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme but rather a global currency which can be used in any part of the world.

I was hunting down for a better day to start the April month raffle. But as far as I know, there weren't any days which are of historical importance to Bitcoin in the month of April. Since 13 days has already passed by, I have launched the Fourth Raffle.

The May month Raffle would be following up quite soon and might be launched at the first week of May and we would be rolling by the halving block #630,000. If there aren't enough interest for the May raffle or if there is a delay in filling up of the slots, I request even the old timers (regardless of ranks) to participate in the raffle so that #630,000 would be deciding the winner.

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The globe is marching towards uncertainty, fear and the risk of getting into another greater recession. As far as India is concerned we aren't among the worst affected nations and during this lockdown, I would like to announce the game for the month of April. At the time of writing, bitcoin is currently trading at ~5,00,000 INR / $6,800.

As I have already said in the ANN topic, these fun lotteries will be hosted each month on a particular day which is of historical significance in the history of bitcoin. With just over 29 more days left for the Third Great Halving Event and since there aren't any historical importance falling in the month of April, I am starting this raffle on a random day. As far as May Raffle is considered, it would start at the first week of May to fill up the slots as fast as we can before the halving event and we would be surely rolling by BLOCK #630,000. I believe this is one of the greatest historical importance, the day when bitcoin block rewards will be halved to 6.25BTC per block.

About the Game :

1. This is a pretty simple and quite interesting game, where there would be 16 spots from 0-9 and a-f. Each person should pick one character and post in the reply of this topic along with their bitcoin address.

2. Once all the 16 spots are filled, I will choose one single future block to be mined. For instance person X has chosen '4' as their spot and I have chosen block #625819. Here the hash of the block #625819 is 0000000000000000000e1089abf14e4643daef0479c7686f4d3b1fab253f2ac4 which determines that 4 is the winning character.

3. The person who has chosen the correct character wins the prize amount of 0.001BTC (Please note that 0.001BTC is kinda cheaper but in terms of our economy it costs around 500 INR which is much better)

As per rules, they are mostly the same as followed in the previous raffle topics

Rules :

1. The game is strictly restricted only to Indian forum members. If you are someone outside India or hailing from nearby countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, you are not allowed to participate in this game.

2. Previous lottery winners cannot participate in the upcoming games for 6 months. Let us give others a chance to win some bitcoins. You can consider this 6 months as a cooling period like if some X has won the game in January, they can participate only in the August lottery.
This rule is applicable for Speculation Game winner as well. Our local community is so small such that I have reduced the period to 6 months. If in future, we rise up to one of the most populated local boards I might change the rule such that the game winners cannot participate in the upcoming lotteries for over a year.

3. There are 16 spots and only 1 slot per person is allowed and more importantly I cannot give you any random spots. Once I have updated the slot in OP, there is no changing of slot numbers. Please see to the filled spots in OP/ have an eye on picked up spots by others before posting your slot number in reply.

4. Newbies are allowed to participate, but you shouldn't have made your first post in this topic and You might have been a old guy but isn't really an active poster.

5. This topic is only for playing the game and all the other discussions and doubts regarding the raffle or future game ideas should be posted only in the Indian Raffle Discussion topic.

6. Bounty Hunters are not allowed to participate in the game. Even though if you are from India, the board doesn't need bounty hunters who are chiming here only for profits or earning money from this forum.

Spots :


Escrow Wallet : 31ndia1cACc51Ge4hGdtPjgt5HfxQR4oj8

Signed Message :

We are going to experience a global recession in the upcoming days which might be far more worse than the 2008 great recession. Government is printing trillions of money and we are still paying out our taxes regularly. If they are printing more and more to prevent the upcoming recession to certain extent, why should they totally depend on our taxes? With the concept of limited capped value something like bitcoin's total supply comes into existence and being understood on a global scale, we would be seeing far more interest towards bitcoin being used as a form of currency in most of the shops around us.

But the problem we are currently facing is that, majority of the people are still holding their belief on the government backed unlimited shit currencies which isn't going to last longer. Governments are suppressing bitcoin as they are fearing about the global adoption which might post a risk to their government backed currencies. Adoption is one of the major cause which is certainly required to rise the price of bitcoin and to make them as a globally accepted currency. For that, we the bitcoiners should initially educate these citizens on the positive aspects of bitcoin as a whole.

satoshi could have been one among the people who was affected greatly due to the early 2010 recession and this could have been one among the primary reasons for creation of a currency which doesn't depend upon the governmental values. Similarly, this second greater recession exactly after a decade could be seen as a turning point for bitcoin adoption as people are well aware of the consequences which they are going to face after the pandemic has reached an end. The bitcoin market is new and still maturing, thus we need another more decade to truly know the price of 1 bitcoin before they come to an end of inflation or deflation.

AFAIK, they seem to be doing this service for 10% fee of what has been struck in the BTC wallet. But as pooya87 pointed out, providing the public key will give the miners control over the OP's coins. But there isn't any way for OP other than providing them the public key of the Bitcoin Address generated by Ledger Wallet. Prior in 2018 when the btc.com were recovering funds, they were in need of 3 data to be submitted by the person who has lost the bch.


They still do follow the same procedure I guess. Hence, OP should drop a mail to admin@btc.com with the following info.

P.S If anyone in need to older webpage, here is a cached version of it from archive.org

Truly speaking, most of the ICO coins were closed source and developers were trying to scam the investors with the launch of coins. At the end of 2017, I came across Oyster Protocol and most of it's team along with the head dev were quite anonymous but the project as a whole was very much promising. They were one among the famous 'get rich quick coins' during the bull run. Within 2 weeks - 4 weeks of launch, the coin traded from as low as $0.005 to as high as $4 at the December peak. Bounty hunters earned few hundred thousand dollars through shitposting but at the end of 2018, the lead anonymous dev increased the coin supply all of a sudden and tanked the coin completely in Kucoin and ran away with millions of funds.

ICO trends were once a smart way to scam newbie investors and right now either the investors have become matured after losing thousands of dollars or they have ran away from the cryptocurrency market. We wouldn't be seeing much interest towards these ICO coins/ Altcoin markets and all would be diminishing as years passes by.

I like the core idea behind the CryptoNote tech and this is one among the reasons I still vouch for Monero and its developers. I am aware of the fact that they are highly anonymous and being used by dark markets for transactions but doesn't common people deserve the privacy of using these coins? I hate dark markets and people selling illegal and dangerous stuffs through Dark Web but some still consider this as a way of freedom. Physical Terrorism financing is quite different while comparing to the Cyber Terrorism or dark markets selling illegal goods to various countries.

In Physical terrorism, terrorists travel through various countries from a particular epicenter for terrorism by masking themselves as visitors of the country thereby using the various fiat currencies available in the particular attacking country. But cyber terrorism like conducting crimes through internet is highly discouraging and privacy centric coins like Monero are still being used for those. I am certainly afraid that privacy centric coins or cryptocurrencies in general might pave way to the ease of Cyber War in future.

We are currently experiencing a Bio War kind of stuff through the COVID-19 pandemic and there are reports China has faked the real death numbers. But this doesn't end here as we would be experiencing a Cyber War when Internet has taken over our life to an extent were we cannot live it even for a single day. There are villages in various parts of world still existing without Internet but this wouldn't be the case for long term.