What does the blame become though? One of the people who helped cause the 2008 financial crisis is now prime minister in the UK (although he was only elected by ~200 people). Since the crisis, no one was prosecuted either (this is just one example).

I've seen lots of examples where people actively doing good have ended up in much worse positions than those who do badly, this might not change with decentralisation but there's a hope it could change with society.

A decentralised economy, however, isn't a new thing. It's what most places would have had before imperialism (similar to colonialism) and is not something people aren't already used to. Protections like chargebacks are available with centralised authorities but they can also lead to scams and other problems. CBDCs may offer a helpful alternative for those who would lose money using crypto because of its lack.of a central authority, but you'll be waiting a while for that and bitcoin has better utility and probably will continue to.

There's best change as well that isn't chipmixer and a few other signatures that aren't related directly to gambling.

I think it's a matter of time before we see new campaigns coming out for different products (perhaps altcoins, exchanges, or crypto related services).

I remember one of the altcoin signature campaigns being malware though too and it seemed quite well paid - that was probably the reason. A lot of ICOs that are well advertised don't make profits for a long time and a lot that are poorly advertised need to be timed well so people probably exited because of that.

I also remember bitmixer and yobit seemed quite easy to enter which also took up a lot of signature space here for a while - they might also have had some role in deterring coinmakers and other companies from competing here - a 3 month ico campaign you have to be accepted into over a quick copy and paste task is probably not going to convince people to wait to be accepted.

The variance isn't too far away from blackjack. The main differences is a 2:1 layout for a royal card and an ace and the chance of winning by a five card trick - which beats all but a 2 card 21.

I actually just thought pontoon was the non gambling version of blackjack until I looked it up though because it's normally a game I've played among social groups and without any win incentive except the gloat.

If you're scanning an "invoice" from a bitcoin wallet (a request with a prefilled amount) make sure you double check its an accurate amount you're sending. There's a chance extra fees could be included too but this is a risk with most payment types.

The greatest risk comes from the qr code not being generated properly (so you don't send to an address the service don't own and then say you have to pay again) or the software you're using to scan it not being trusted - most apps I've used either have inbuilt scanners or trusted APIs with other apps. If you're in doubt of your security, you could always scan it with your camera and copy the text to put in your wallet once you decide it's not malicious (if it's just text for example) - you can normally copy text from most scanners too without clicking it and potentially following a link.

Additionally, most sites don't moderate their ads so regardless of the site you see it on, it could still be inaccurate.

If a project does badly in its presale and ico, it's probably going to keep doing that.

ICOs are also a very risky investments and not really something you should be attempting to do without some even small research into the coins competition (if it's already something done by another coin - which by this point is quite likely).

Using resources like dex data (even collected by sites like coinmarketcap) are a good place to start to track more accurate price moves as their data can't be manipulated if it's on chain (there's more sites than cmc out there for checking price too - some just need a token address).

It's been long proven and we'll known that anything produced in the AI space at the moment adopts the biases of its creator/developers (as they're the ones feeding it with their own judgements). If something like surveillance were to be done on a large scale and by AI it'd end up marginalising minorities.

In a way, I don't think this would lead to an end of things like bitcoin and other decentralised projects but it might lead to higher amounts of more restrictive regulation targetted at impaling the consumer but advertising it's in their best interest. Where such a system has been implemented in the past, China, a lot of companies have already left (especially tech startups) and I think this will be seen to be happening more and more in any country that considers adopting such systems. There's a difference between making sites warn they're unregulated and adding lots of barriers for them to be able to function - it seems more and more that regulation is geared towards conserving wealth and companies competitiveness without them having to compete with newer more efficient companies, but this might and probably will change at some point soon enough due to voting pressure (or market pressure - it's harder to regulate your borders information wise now - companies can function internationally without licenses/tax/fees if their host doesn't have them).

A lot of countries still have strong employment statistics iirc.

Gambling sites probably do like most gaming or online sites and have measures that manage resources depending on load. If you've only got 4 people playing live blackjack, you don't need more than a 3 or 5 dealers on standby ready to go live if they're needed.

A lot of companies using games like slots don't need to run as many servers and can send some into standby mode at low load times (most machines from hibernation can take a few seconds to come live again). For the owner of the company it's up to them whether they need to extend cash reserves by expanding their company, audience or taking some other job to ensure they can remain afloat. I think creditors of previously profitible businesses are easy to find if you can prove you were once profitible and it's only the economic downturn that's made your business no longer financially stable/sustainable.

I don't think sports betting costs much to keep going either as many sites can outsource for statistics (such as paying for data from a company covering it live). The only main issue I'd see with sports betting is if few enough people bet that it becomes something that creates too much loss but they can normally adjust their odds or the way they're calculated to counteract this.

It's probably possible to allow the vm to port to the biometrics (especially if they're removable or are uninstalled from the host system/deactivated).

If you're wanting to make things a lot more secure and are trying to achieve airgapping on a device you're hoping to use for other things (I'm making assumptions here) you might want to look at having a VM for both.

I've been thinking of using VMs a lot more for common tasks as I think it'll speed up a computer better if you have a lot of things installed normally (and easier to backup).

Since when? The UK has about a 9 year cycle (3 years of growth, 3 years of falls and 3 years of stagnation - not unlike the rest of Europe and particularly countries like Sweden). There's a potential for 70 year cycles (1850, 1920, 1970) but those have been met with immediate innovation and a new economic revolution. Most countries are now developed compared to 18th and 19th century Britain, we're not seeing a revolution every 70 years, we're seeing one every 5-20...

The housing market probably won't follow that because a lot of demand comes from foreign investors or large capital firms like hedge funds.

Property prices will probably fall in the UK but it'll be most likely caused by a declining population over anything particularly economic.

European bonds have a lower interest rate than US ones at the moment too - is this because of everyone's tremendous confidence in the US? A third of the US economy is domestic healthcare too...

If every country became tokenised, the ones "worth the most" would probably surprise all of us and if ownership of a token changed hands based off citizenship, countries would probably move a lot over the long term.

If the US produces a lot more of their semiconductors than Taiwan then I think that'll put them more of a difficult position with China than they have now (the US might not need to come to their aid as much, they might do like is being done with Ukraine now rather than it being considered an attack on them directly).

I'd envisage chipmaking becoming either like steel production or many other industries financed by governments (transportation, energy, water). If it's playing an integral role in keeping a government/country secure and functioning it should be easy to source production internally if necessary. Italy is in the top ten of countries that can produce planes and that's directly to support their military efforts (this may be outdated, I was looking at the stats in March).

When wars happen, countries generally strive towards socialism - militaries are "socialist" (heavily funded and controlled by the government), ownership of infrastructure becomes more and more important too there are examples of this from the past like kindertransport).

How long is long? Multi year investments are generally a good idea based on the past (everyone who's held for more than 4 years so far has made a profit afaik).

If you plan to invest for only a year or less, you'll probably be disappointed and might just be back at these price levels this time next year. If you plan to hold for 2 years, there's a much better chance you'll have made a return on your investment.

With that being said, there might be fewer security concerns related to shorter term trading (protocol related issues cryptos - especially new ones - might undergo). You're shielded a lot from these with bitcoin but it's always a bad idea to sell flash crashes if something does come up as the markets here often overreact.

I think these goals for adoption with a lot of companies have been in the pipeline for a while and they've been waiting to add crypto acceptance around now where the sector seems sjlent from the outside.

Companies that join during bear markets are more likely to stay in the crypto economy than ones who join during bull markets imo. Most who join in bull periods don't have the reserves to handle it or don't want to look like they're launching a pump and dump scheme (I think - although it does make it look more like that's what they're doing when they withdraw after large price move).

I think they're losing the battle because they don't understand what they're actually doing. I've seen a lot of arrogant employers on social media that say it might not be worth hiring people who change jobs a lot (the example given being 8 in 5 years, which might be excessive or not depending on the industry - someone working for startups might expect to go through 10-80 in that same time, someone working for a fairly good employer and receiving constant and consistent pay rises and promotions will probably only change jobs once in that time: if at all). If you don't expect to pay your employees well and are in a market sector in high demand (more jobs than qualified people), expect them to leave.

I've known companies lose good employees because they won't offer decent pay rises, some office and hybrid jobs don't offer higher pay either to cover the travel expenses - so why wouldn't you work from home if you could? (a 40 minute journey is over £150 in fuel a month - assuming 40 mpg).

A lot of companies retain employees by adding personal touches and ensuring people are well compensated and know they're needed in companies. I know people who have worked for a company for 10-40 years though and I couldn't imagine doing that, it might also look bad too if you're not switching employers (you only know how to do one job then).

They're not going to learn until they watch it over time - I don't think anyone fully does. If you watch the price over a period of time you can start to understand what's going on and how to invest.

It might be best to tell these sorts of people to invest just before or after the halving - but maybe they're just coming up with polite excuses. They might be the same sort of people who invest in stocks, see it's a little lower the next day and sell them to "cut their losses".

For a beginners topic, bitcoin is ultimately the best investment you could make because everyone in crypto knows it and most people outside of crypto do so it'd be the first one they turn to to invest (I don't think alts are mentioned in mainstream media without bitcoin being mentioned either).

A lot of alts are in a bit of a run compared with bitcoin too recently so may be a worse long term investment than bitcoin as they've produced a lot of returns already over the past few months.

Windows 10 was designed to be able to switch between desktop and tablet if a keyboard wasn't attached (and most devices do - except fixed laptops without some fiddling - most don't have touchscreens though). My laptop also came with integrated biometrics (fingerprint scanners) and it's unlikely to buy a computer without a webcam - you can use parts of the data for making biometrics but shouldn't use all and will have to keep it stored as normal biometrics now use pattern matching so the data can change quite a bit while still being accepted (like putting your finger on a slant).

Completely filling and rewriting the drive would work but would also be intensive. I don't think encrypted folders are yet a thing anywhere (they might be) but there might be a way to add an application that's able to encrypt and decrypt the data along with it to resolve that - there might be ways to hide this information in unsuspecting files to further hide it (so you don't have a bunch of dot dats and malware heuristics don't find the files easily)

I'm sure there's a simple program to takes the last few microseconds/milliseconds of a timestamp and presents them as a random number (it's something that could be tested and would work with other things too).

Blocking peripherals is a hard task, especially if you want your keyboard, mouse and biometrics to remain and some devices could disguise themselves as that - you might be better off using an open source VM for this, controlling the clip pard and limiting Internet access - it's much easier to guarantee if it's segregated. I've seen an example of one of these online but haven't looked into it too much in the past - you can obviously use VMware or virtualbox for the same thing (they're free but not open source).

If tesla accepts doge then I don't see a reason Twitter couldn't. I doubt they'd be affiliating themselves with bitcoin or accepting it though.


I thought this too. A lot of people were saying it's likely cheaper and more efficient to impersonate someone now by buying a blue check then it is to stay genuine.
I had a thought verified users on other sites could circumvent this by linking to them - perhaps another site could take over twitter that does the same thing (it might have seemed like a big 4 giant in social media at some point - but I don't think it does now unless it gets a thorough reinvent: similar to tiktok but hopefully different enough to not be reels).

Sites with higher deposit limits I'd consider to have fewer games and probably older games like more focus on table (poker, dice and blackjack) and less on newer games like slots. Lower deposit sites are probably more entertaining or addicting and encourage users to play because of it (like sites with slots and wheels).

I don't think these do as much to increase initial deposit as deposit bonuses do (or other rewards like wager cashback). Withdrawal limits probably act as more of a barrier to both though but it might make players get into a habit of gambling until their funds are gone rather than withdrawing before they are (the same comes from withdrawal delays too).

Standard 2 of 2 multisig is already a thing but isn't implemented. The lightning network has a similar thing with channels whereby a multisig address is paid but that transaction isn't broadcast until a withdrawal transaction is made so both parties can get their funds back.

Which are you expecting to implement (should the user have the ability to withdraw from the "contract"/multisig)?

Were you around for previous cycles? You have to be careful about the samples you use when determining if there's fear among investors (you're unlikely to see as much fear around here as you will in places like Twitter and YouTube).

I don't think bitcoin has "died" enough yet though to end the bear market, but what if it doesn't have to? Perhaps not having complete fear will derive greater strength in a rally (though I do think we have further to drop at this point).