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5241  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Risks of the Exodus Exchange function ("CoinSwitch Scam") on: May 10, 2020, 01:19:17 AM
I have never used any wallet to exchange my coins. I regularly use exodus but only for keeping my coins and sending them out. I don't understand why someone would exchange coins through the wallet instead of sending them to an exchange like binance, kucoin or instant exchange like coinplaza.it or Exolix.com where the rates are so friendly compared to the wallet exchange services.
Storing coins on exchanges is always the worst method. Making deposits and finish trades before withdrawing your capital as soon as possible. Big exchanges are secured, and safe but they surely can be hacked. If you store your capital on one exchange during the period it is hacked, that's terrible. No one knows how severity the hack is and how it affects that exchange. Unfortunately, in worst case, you will lose your money. Don't put your capital on hands of the others even they are big exchanges.

I have never used Exodus but thanks 1miau for point this out. It reminds me about the risks of capital storage on exchanges.
5242  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 10, 2020, 01:14:14 AM
I am very happy that the Bundesliga will resume soon on May 16, and have the support of UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. But while
maintaining a strict health protocol, to prevent the spread of the corona virus. Like a player in a minimal health test once a week, the number
of viewers is limited in stadium, substitute players who are on the bench must keep their distance and spray disinfectant to the entire stadium.
This is also good news for sports betting fans.
Having regular tests (once a week) and maintaining social distancing are good but I don't agree to have limited viewers in stadiums. There are risks of cross-infections and we should not ask for it at the moment. Having the league's resume and good ending for the season. For normal match in stadiums with views, maybe we have to wait for the next season. Let's countdown a few more days till 16 May for the first matches of Bundesliga after months.
5243  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread on: May 09, 2020, 10:56:03 AM
The reason you mentioned look acceptable, there will be more hard for players to play in several league in a week since current stage still not finished yet. Maybe if UCL want to back as normal conditions, they need to change current season. Mostly, league starting on august, because club need to finish 2019/20 season, new season starting on october or after last match from primary league (serie-A, EPL, La Liga etc) but it will change everything including transfer season.
UEFA will have to change the schedule for next season because of the current prolonged season. It is the best to see both national leagues (top at least) and Champions League + Europa League finish their current season. The next season will be easier to handle despite of some later beginning days. Everything over the globe has been changed because of the pandemic so it is acceptable to see normality of leagues changed too. After the end of next season, I hope we will see normal ones again.
5244  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin popped $10 000 on: May 09, 2020, 09:14:52 AM
For the last few days it seemed that Bitcoin is heading towards 10000$ rather fast. However, now it pulled back a bit.
I wouldn't make drama out of it, it's kind of expected and it the upcoming period price will probably continue to fluctuate. 10000$ resistance barier obviously isn't so easy to break. Still, it's possible but it takes time.
If bitcoin is pulled back hard, it will drop back to $9k but if it is boosted and breaks $10k, I believe it will head towards $13k range before dumping again. I don't feel shocked if bitcoin will be boosted to $13k range in next one or two weeks. A reminder for traders, it is not a time for margin tradings with high leverages. Don't be too greedy and lose all your profits that you have earned temporarily on table with the ride of bitcoin. Taking care and save your profits should be a first priority at the moment.
5245  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 09, 2020, 07:26:21 AM
Bundesliga markets are LIVE. I repeat, Bundesliga markets are LIVE!!  Cool



source: https://www.pinnacle.com/en/soccer/germany-bundesliga/matchups/

Never thought I'd get so excited to see those beautiful 1x2 odds  Cheesy  Will definitely keep an eye out to see how odds change as we get closer to matchday.
One more weeks and we will see Bundesliga comes back with real matches, not virtual ones. Eventually, it is true and we will see real matches with real players soon. The next wish is the complete finish for the season that will be good for the one and for next one as well as for clubs in Bundesliga. In turn, the complete season in Bundesliga will affect next plan of UEFA for Champions League and Europa League.

Let me repeat, football will come back soon, starting with Bundesliga.
5246  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: EVOLUTION OF SIGNATURE AD CAMPAIGNS (BEGINNING DAYS TO THE PRESENT) on: May 09, 2020, 01:50:46 AM
There were much better paying campaigns. Some offered 0.4 -0.5 BTC per month. Imagine earning 5000 dollars a month for posting on a forum!

But there's more! Years ago there were no such strict rules for posting in certain sections or x posts a week. You were often paid once a month and could post anywhere you wanted to.

Easy money if you were around in 2013 and 2014 and were able to hold it for a few years.

What intersts me is the anumber of scam businesses that were promoted this way.
Payments from campaigns should be converted to fiat when you consider them as income. Because people (participants) have their financial need to spend their payments. So in a nutshell, 0.4 - 0.5 BTC per month as payments years ago was not worth $4000 or $5000. Of course, I as well as you and maybe others will look at past campaigns' payment rates in BTC and wish if we were here in that period but it is life. Even with participants of those campaigns, they did not actually earn $4000 - $5000 per month. I meant the earning from campaigns should be put in right contexts of BTC price.
5247  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: EVOLUTION OF SIGNATURE AD CAMPAIGNS (BEGINNING DAYS TO THE PRESENT) on: May 08, 2020, 10:21:32 PM
OP made a decent efforts to scrap all signature campaigns on the forum. I appreciated his time and efforts. If OP can move further and if he has time to do this in such dull time in the pandemic, would he mind including maximum of payments in BTC and in USDT over signature campaign history? I know this is a time-consuming work for OP.

Does the topic belongs to Beginners & Help? In my opinion, it belongs to the Meta board.
5248  Other / Meta / Re: I want a way to demerit posts. on: May 08, 2020, 10:19:20 PM
LoyceV's deMerit source application. I kind of agree with you about the minor punishment on bad posters or merit abusers but theymos does not care too much about merit abuses at small levels. He stepped in and demerited sometimes. In more than 2 years, there are some demerited posts on the forum but I don't think theymos will make a demerit button or demerit sources.
5249  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Will the difficulty change and block halving take place on the same block? on: May 08, 2020, 11:53:50 AM
The issue is the the halving may cause an large abrupt drop in the total hash rate, and blocks would take longer until the difficulty adjusts.

This year, the difficulty is nominally scheduled to adjust a week after the halving. Suppose that the hash rate drops by half (not likely, but not impossible). In that case, blocks will each take 20 minutes and the difficulty won't change for two weeks. Cutting Bitcoin's transaction rate by half for two weeks could have a major impact.
It is nearly the same as what we saw in 2017 when bitcoin transactions got stucked even people tried to boost their fees to higher and higher. That's terrible in that period but such things often occur whenever bitcoin price skyrockets to the peaks. People turn to more actively move their coins and accept higher fees while more miners join. After all, when price drops back and newbie miners leave, we see some kinds of effects from less total hashrate and a 14 days waiting period to see difficulty adjusts.
5250  Economy / Gambling / Re: 💜 Bitcasino.io — 5 crypto investment tips that will change your life 💜 on: May 08, 2020, 11:09:10 AM
2.) Be patient, bitcoin is very volatile at times. At some point in 2014 I was over 50% down on my investment at the time. I was patient & HODLED, I kept buying & didn’t panic sell. I am now in (unbanked - still holding) obscenely high profits of a high order of magnitude.
Weak hands = Losers
Weak hands only are known after investors shake their hands and they only realized that after months or even years. Investors tend to have strong hands when they but at peaks or all time highs, for bottoms or low rice ranges they usually prove their hands are so weak. Within the last 3 years, we have seen some great examples of weak-hand losers: in late of 2018 and in early of 2020.
5251  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin popped $10 000 on: May 08, 2020, 01:05:12 AM
Looks like it didn't have the momentum to follow through in a strong way, it's back until $10k now but is still testing the resistance regularly.

I'd like to see a strong break over $10,100, then we'd probably see it spike up to around $10,800 and get rejected at $11k.
Bitcoin has moved to its very interesting phase. The ride of bitcoin makes people who feared and cashed out or got liquidation at prices below $4k during the pandemic effects and announcement of WHO will deeply regret for what they easily lost.

I am waiting patiently for it crashes especially flash crashes in coming days. It is a time of FOMO but experienced traders will never use high leverage tradings at the moment. Unfortunately, there are many types of traders on the market, and newbies tend to use as high leverage tradings as possible. Then they will get sucked.
5252  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Will the difficulty change and block halving take place on the same block? on: May 08, 2020, 12:44:39 AM
The difficulty changes every 2016 blocks. The halving occurs every 210000 blocks. To find when they coincide, you find the LCM ("least common multiple"). The LCM is 1260000. They will coincide every 1260000 blocks, or about every 24 years.
Impressive. Thank you for those figures that I don't remember. From what you give, the difficulty on the network is changed after ~ 1.4 days (2016/1440 blocks per day). It can take longer or shorter than 1.4 days to adjust difficulty depends on how fast each batch of 2016 blocks found.

The big difference is difficulty does not increase two times or halve like block rewards. Therefore I don't see why people care about how difficulty change around halving time. The miner capitulation or new participation makes more sense on difficulty changes.
5253  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: May 07, 2020, 11:45:56 PM
3 players from Fiorentina have been found positive.
They are all asymptomatic but positive.

This is normal, they are testing everyone and they will find more and more.


On large scale experts her in Italy are saying that only 20% of the population have symptoms.
The majority is positive without symptoms.

This is why they have found 10 in Germany and they will find more everywhere else when they will test everyone.

Also these positive have been infected probably during the lockdown in the past month.
There is another risks that recovered people can be get positive tests later. Not only about false negative tests before but there are some cases like that and if tests are considered as true positive, there are more risks from recovered people.
Players who test positive will just be sent home & told to stay away from the squad for a couple of weeks. It’s like any normal sickness rule, they get taken away from the healthy players. This whole pandemic is bull shit imo, young, healthy people are mostly fine.

Let’s get some normality back ASAP.
The problems are not for healthy guys but for the elderly who live around healthy guys who can spread the virus and indirectly kill the elderly. Because of low death risks on healthy guys they tend to be less carefully and in turn put more risks on the elderly.
5254  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🚀 Sportsbet.io - Main Club Partner of Watford FC ⚽ Fun. 🏀 Fast. 🎾 Fair. �� on: May 07, 2020, 03:30:03 PM
May 8 - K League 1 Korean Football
May 9 - UFC
May 16 - Bundesliga
May 17 - NASCAR
June 6 - IndyCar
June 11 - PGA Tour & Australian Football League (not confirmed yet)
June 12 - Premier League (rumored)

source: https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/1258390649000189952

Things are slowly, i mean very slowly getting back to normal. I'm sure not only fans but sportsbooks are excited that live sports are returning. I'd say about damn time, i'm already fed up with anything related to Esports. Grin

Steve, i need your insights/predictions when the AFL comes back, you had 8 of 9 correct picks in round 1 back in March.

It is a very new normality in society and sport community. The world will never become normal as it used to be before we have an effective vaccine for the contagious virus. Anyway, we have seen some lights for a new normality. Time to think more positive about life and some kind of sports, especially football.

Such recent good news make me think more of Esport betting, will they still be appear on casinos when real sports come back.
5255  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: As a beginner look up more boards as much as you can on: May 07, 2020, 03:06:23 PM
Right, there are really a lot of boards that a newbie should explore, specially if you are here to learn and share your knowledge. I would suggest that Development & Technical Discussion and Bitcoin Technical Support.
The very first boards to look at is Beginners & Help, then Meta. After jumping to Bitcoin boards (you recommended), I advice newbies to read bitcoin books to have an overview on bitcoin's technical terms first. Then, they will be less overwhelmed by joining those boards.

Some sources:
https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/getting-started.html
Mastering Bitcoin
5256  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What is the minimum fee for a transaction? on: May 07, 2020, 02:11:39 PM
This website is very good to calculate fees:


That site provides a great tool to have an overview on Bitcoin transaction fees and waiting time to get confirmations.
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I made last week a transaction with 1 sat byte from a native segwit to a native segwit, 1 input and 2 output, and the price was less than 0.01 usd at the time. And it confirmed pretty fast, in about 3 hours.

Personally, I always tell people to use 1 sat byte in transaction. It is cheap and gets confirmed in less than a day.
To set up fee at 1 sat/byte, people should remember to activate Replace-by-Fee in their wallet. With that option, in case their transaction has not yet confirmed for a few days and they suddenly have urgent needs, they can boost their transaction.

I usually visit the site: https://coinb.in/#fees to check transaction fee. If I see the recomended fee is at 1 or 2 satoshi/byte, I will set up my fee at 1 satoshi/byte.

Bitcoin Transaction Fees - Everything in one
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5257  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Max Keiser takedown of Buffett on his bitcoin stand is epic. on: May 07, 2020, 01:22:32 PM
What would motivate Warren Buffett to go against the investment strategies and instruments that made him filthy rich? He has built his whole empire on the old traditional Fiat based systems and he is too old to make a major change now.
Keeping his capital as safest as possible is the most priority of Buffet, not invest and earn more money.
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Bitcoin is also a high risk investment and mostly unregulated, so they will be going up against the people that are supporting them with this "insider" knowledge, like the government.  Wink  (The same government that bails them out, when they do make mistakes)
Investing in strange asset or in companies or industries that Buffet does not have knowledge of and experience on is never his priority. Bitcoin is extremely volatile, that violates Buffet's rules. Blockchain industry is very strange for him, that violates his rules again.
5258  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 07, 2020, 12:50:23 PM
We will have more than 2 waves, of course. That is the nature from such a virus. We will be only are in the old mode, when we will have a vaccine, medicine or the data situation has changed due to further research in such a way that it was determined that the virus is not so dangerous after all.
People have to be as most careful about their personal hygiene as possible. More waves to come and such good personal hygiene and social distancing will help the world has less dramatic death tolls. For whatever reasons, death never is what we all wanted.
It looks like the German league will start on May 15 with a match between Fortuna and Paderborn, according to this news: https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/njemacki-savez-objavio-kada-ce-poceti-bundesliga/2181024.aspx.
Of course, all matches will be played without spectators.
Chancellor Merkel finally allowed football championship to go ahead.
Finally, the best news for football globally was released. Began in Germany, and maybe we will see a domino effect to other major football leagues in the Europe.
5259  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 07, 2020, 12:20:14 AM
Sky Sports News reporting it too - https://www.skysports.com/share/11984035

Bundesliga will re-start in late May   Cool

"late May"

They will starts in 10 days.
The other major league will not probably copy the german protocol and starts.

SerieA wants to start in 1st week of June.
Bundesliga in late of May and Serie A might be resumed in 1st week of June. All plans sound good. Each nation has own problems and public health problems in the pandemic so they have different protocols to resume their leagues. Anyway, when Bundesliga resume, it is a light at the end of arguments over major leagues and I believe the other leagues will resume sooner or later.
I guess they will start as as soon as possible. The number of new cases will increase again, since many things are again permitted in Germany. But this means that in 3-4 weeks many actions have to be restricted again. And the DFB would certainly like to have played as many games as possible until then.
I can not disagree with you because with such the virus, I think we will see more waves of infections, not only the second but maybe more. Let's hope major leagues can finish their seasons before the second wave of infections come and hope that the peaks of later waves will be lower than the first one. I think with stricter containments, we will see lower peaks.
5260  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 06, 2020, 07:22:49 AM
The virus doesn’t behave the same in all persons as we have seen.In Italy one person 27 years old who did a lot of swimming and sport died no matter he had a perfect body so no one is excluded.Of course this was an isolated case and of course athletes have better immune system than normal persons.
Such cases are so rare. The general death rate for young population is very low, about 0.2% compared to the population above 60. Nevertheless, such rare cases warn the young that they also have risks to switch from assymptomatic to severe or critical after have a virus infection. They have to care of themselves and the loved ones who live around them or have closed contacts with them.
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If they get infected they isolate themselves in order to keep their relatives safe.The show must go on and we all are waiting for when the league resumes which should be after a few days in 9 May if I am not mistaken.
It seems people escalate the risks on players. They are young and so strong so the risks on them to have severe or critical health consequence is lower than general population.
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