I don't see it as a weakness of the forum, it's a weakness of the users doing that. Bitcointalk allows you to take part in any activities you want as long as they don't break any forum rules. If you want to read and learn about Bitcoin, you have many ways to do that. If you want to join bounty campaigns just because they promise they will pay bounty hunters $10 million worth of unlisted and non-existing bounty tokens based on a price the developers have set in their heads, but will never be achieved, you can do that too. If you didn't learn the lesson after the first time, maybe you will after the 2nd or 10th.   

Malware can in some cases infect your device as soon as you download it without requiring you to open or run anything. Besides, if you aren't planning to check out the "evidence", why download it in the first place?

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I would be careful trusting random people on social media making big claims. If they wanted to post some proof, they can do that already. Post a few screenshots to prove that they have the data they claim they have. Anyone thinking about downloading and inspecting the files should probably do so on a virtual machine and a secondary device that you could simply reformat without fear of losing anything of importance.

Self-moderated threads in the gambling section are allowed. However, you shouldn't open such threads if the topic of discussion is someone's reputation or matters related to money. Also deleting legit posts that you don't agree with makes you look bad. Besides, everything that is posted on Bitcointalk will get picked up by Ninjastic.space and LoyceV's scrapper, so deleting it won't get rid of the post entirely. Moderating a thread to prevent the truth from coming out isn't going to get you anywhere.

Judging by your trust feedback, I assume this is going to be a self-modded thread about FortuneJack. 

I was thinking more along the lines of bot-like activity. They come online just to bump the thread and post some new announcement. I just looked through the thread a bit to check their behavior and although most of their recent posts are just announcements and new updates, they do take the time to respond to questions and comments made by other users from time to time. There is no reasons for me to believe they haven't seen OP's posts about his withdrawal problem.

Be careful with this one.
Brand-new site created just two days ago > https://whois.domaintools.com/easymixer.ru.
Neither Google nor DuckDuckGo have indexed the website and there are no search results when you run the name through their search engines.

ChipMixer requires no cuts and the users pay no fees except the donations they want to send.
Not to mention that this platform only works with legacy addresses and doesn't even support nested segwit, let alone native segwit.

I guess you have no other choice than to wait for those couple of weeks to pass. "Couple of weeks" can mean anything. 2 weeks but also 10 weeks. I have had withdrawals be checked and usually it takes a couple of hours to a day. Never seen something like a month of doing security checks.   

Try sending a PM to the Fairspin casino representative on the forum. You posted in their ANN, but just in case they are completely retarded or have eyes in the back of their heads, send them a PM making them aware of this scam accusation and the fact that they have been red-tagged because of the way they are (not) handling this case.

Someone asked about KYC.

UK gambling licenses require that casinos verify the identity of their customers and request KYC when a player creates an account and not when they win or request a withdrawal. That's actually the way many crypto casinos operate.

Source: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/reminder-to-operators-new-licence-condition-on-customer-identity

The OP claims the casino owns a UK license, but if we check the Business and Personal license register on the official site of the UK Gambling Commission, there is no information about Neodice. There is no information about that Vulkan site either. Try searching for other established UK bookies such as bet365 or Ladbrokes and the site will bring up their profiles.

https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/personal/results?personal-search=neodice
https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/businesses/results?business-search=neodice

Unless proven otherwise, Neodice does not hold a license with the UK Gambling Commission!

You could actually deposit some funds into his account that he could use just for that testing purpose. That wouldn't be money he can ever withdraw. Once the testing is done, you take it back or give it to him as a reward for finding a bug. That way OP doesn't have to use his own money if his trust in your platform has been shaken by the things that happened.

But would Quel be interested in something like that?

Sooner or later, that 1x campaign will end and the casino might get tired of throwing money on people who aren't capable of reading and writing properly. The consequence is that no other reputable project, campaign manager, or forum member will want to do business with them anymore. Of all the streets in the city, they can only walk on one while you can walk on all of them.

The delay is bigger than what you think. You can check that yourself if you know someone who lives next to a stadium and if a game is televised live. If you sit in the apartment and you hear the cheers from the fans after their team scores, pay attention to how long it takes for the goal to be seen on TV. Analog transmission is the fastest. Cable and satellite depends on the TV station. And then you have to consider SD and HD channels. SD are faster most of the time, but not always.

Even if the game is televised on multiple channels, each one of them have different delays. You usually wouldn't notice it unless you have access to multiple sports packages and transmission sources such as cable and satellite. Not to mention IPTV that can be 40-50 seconds behind and even more if you are getting it from the worst kind of service providers.

Based on the screenshot you provided, I can see that you have withdrawn from Fairspin in the past. Did you change anything in your gaming habits that could make the suspicious? The use of VPN, multiple accounts, accessing the site from a different country? Did you maybe play any new games from a provider that restricts players from your country?

I see that they ignored you in their ANN thread. Try asking the support to point you to the rule in their TOS that explains how long they have the right to hold your funds due to "security" or other checks, and when a final decision has to be made?

Super bi bilo da je tako ali ja baš mislim da će se desiti suprotno i da ćemo imati pad cijene. Nema više rudarenja i kupovanja skupih minera. Samim time će se isplatiti prodavati ether po nižim cijenama.

Ako rudariš Bitcoin, nema te nigdje ako taj svoj Bitcoin bacaš na tržište po cijeni od $10-20k. Kako će to biti sa ethereom, vidjećemo. 

If theymos wants a 70-80% decrease in forum activity, banning signatures and removing the altcoin boards altogether is a great way to achieve that. But I doubt that is something that is being considered.

But the admins obviously don't care about who wears what signature or if they wear one at all. Generally speaking, the interest of the forum is not to restrict people from doing anything. Do what you want but you have to be willing to face the consequences. 

A few weeks ago, the user SISAR wrote an interesting post on the Croatian local board. He mentioned the integration of Bitcoin with the ICP blockchain. It sounded interesting, so I checked it out a little bit and decided to create this discussion thread where we can talk about what and if this means anything for Bitcoin.

I found a YouTube video from September 2021. This is a community talk with one of their researchers/engineers where the integration of Bitcoin and the ICP blockchain was introduced to the public.

Here are the most important parts of the clip:

The goal is to integrate Bitcoin on top of the ICP by enabling Bitcoin smart contracts to run in canisters on the Internet Computer (IC). The idea is to make Bitcoin transactions possible from BTC canister smart contracts to the Bitcoin blockchain. The canisters will run smart contracts and can be configured to accept Bitcoin. Using the smart contract logic, one canister can move these coins elsewhere if the smart contract conditions are met. This way, the limited smart contract functionalities of Bitcoin supposedly get improved.

To make all this work, ICP needs to integrate with the Bitcoin network so that blockchain data gets fed into the Internet Computer and knowledge about UTXOs becomes available to the canisters. Canisters need this data to make transactions that could then be submitted to the Bitcoin network and included in blocks. They call this a direct integration because they don’t use bridges or second layers on top of the blockchain. ICP replica nodes communicate with actual Bitcoin nodes, and they will validate all blocks themselves. To fight concerns regarding centralization, each replica node will connect to one random node from the BTC blockchain. The canisters store real Bitcoins, not wrapped tokens that can be swapped for native BTCs, as is the case on some other platforms.

It’s essential to mention that ICP still relies on the throughput of Bitcoin’s blockchain with this approach. The other thing is the way these containers work. IC containers use open-source code, but they are different from Ethereum’s smart contracts. On Ethereum, once a smart contract is live, you can’t change it and modify the code. But on ICP, you should know who the controller of a canister is. It can be a person who is the controller. In that case, changes to the smart contract logic can be made even after a contract has gone live. Theoretically, the code can be changed to move all the coins to an address controlled by this person. There are canisters that aren’t humanly controlled, though, and they are based exclusively on code. In this example, they work similarly to ETH smart contracts and can’t be modified after going live. I don’t know if you can create your own canisters or not, but trusting random people is not a good approach.

The private key for the Bitcoin addresses will not be stored anywhere, according to the ICP engineer. Instead, it will be split up into shares. No single share can be used to retrieve/bruteforce the entire private key (supposedly). Each replica node has access to its share of the private key. The shares from several nodes have to be used to sign a transaction.

My question here is what happens if one or more malicious node operators have access to the private keys, and what kind of “access” do they even have?

Those interested in this proposal's architecture and technical details can fast-forward to 17:15 in the video, which provides more advanced information.   
There is also a second video that deals with the Threshold ECDSA Signing. More about the content of that video in this post.

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In May 2022, a tweet said that the Internet Computer can now sign Bitcoin and Ethereum transactions with keys not known to anyone else. More information about the ECDSA signing is available on GitHub.



The last piece of information says that ICP canisters now have access to BTC testnet UTXOs and balances. A Bitcoin integration demo is available on GitHub.



I am curious what everybody thinks about this.


Sources and more info:

1.   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1230285.msg60202950#msg60202950
2.   https://twitter.com/ICDevs_org/status/1527728525356281856
3.   https://twitter.com/manudrijvers/status/1531644187631837185
4.   https://github.com/ninegua/ecdsa_example
5.   https://github.com/ielashi/bitcoin-integration-demo
6.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBIvPhPzzc
7.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MulbKPwv6_s

Have you considered BTCPay Server? It's open-source and non-custodial. In contrast to the two service providers you mentioned, BTCPay Server doesn't have any middlemen fees.
Besides the official website, you can also get yourself acquainted with this platform at BTCpay Server: A Real e-Commerce Game Changer?

Bitcoin addresses and wallets don't need to be authenticated, unlocked, approved, or anything similar. The whole idea is to have you deposit the coins to that address and then they are done with you. Onto the next victim we go.

Seems like the site owners are running a campaign trying to prove they are trusted with fake Trustpilot reviews and rankings. They gave themselves five stars every time and all (except one) reviews were posted in the last week.

Yeah, these Bitcoin notes won't be sold pre-funded. It's mentioned in the OP that they will write an encrypted private key on the paper and the user will write down the user key. After that, the note gets loaded.

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Since OP didn't include any pictures and no one else shared any, I though this thread should have some, so people can see what is being discussed withoout having to leave the forum. Here are a few that can be found on the official website:

Maybe the account recovery team can help with proving those really are your accounts. I assume if they can be tasked to recover locked or hacked accounts, theymos trusts their judgement to the point their decisions aren't being questioned.

@philipma1957
Are you worried that someone might some day get access to these alt accounts of yours and that's why you want them banned or closed? Not really sure what the appropriate term is. The simplest solution would be to just never ever use them again.

Da li te postove žele da pišeš u našem lokalu ili po engleskim pod-forumima?

Ponuda nije nimalo loša ali treba vidjeti kakvu vrstu promocije tačno očekuju. Reklamiranje, tj. shillanje jedne te iste usluge može bili problematično ako se samo to radi i pogotovo ako to radiš u tuđim temama i na agresivan način. Neki zbog toga dobiju i negativan trust feedback pa treba biti pažljiv. Nije vrijedno rizika i da ti daju $200 za 5 postova ako će te neko tagovati i poslje mjesec dana možeš da baciš svoj Bitcointalk nalog.

Puno sreće sa Instragram stranicom. Ne koristim Instagram a da koristim zapratio bi te, što da ne!?
Da li si možda razmišljao da nešto slično pokušaš na Twitteru? Twitter zajednica mi djeluje kao bolja publika za sve vezano za kripto.

Instagram je više za one koje imaju sise i dupe pa sebe nazoveš influencerom i trendsetterom i kenjaš po vazdan.