Not sure exactly whats going on with boolberry but I am happily liquidating my small hedge there today,
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Hey Micon,
When are you going to start cleaning up the rampant cheating and collusion that happens in >50% of your NL tables?
Any time you have 2 or more players playing at more than 1 table together, they should be auto-kicked. If they continue patterns of collusion they should be banned. This is common sense.
I encourage everyone to boycott Seals With Clubs until Micon at least attempts to do something about the cheaters. The odds can never be fair when cheating is allowed. You will have more fun playing PokerStars.
I agree this is an issue to some extent or another but "Any time you have 2 or more players playing at more than 1 table together, they should be auto-kicked."?? That is overly draconian IMO. And I imagine as the recipient of the rake Micon et al don't want to virtually disallow multitabling. For a small compony(miss you mosrite) like seals the challenge to eliminate collusion and cheating is pretty mammoth. Stars has an entire department and proprietary reporting to help with this... tl;dr Your description of the problem is good. Your suggestion of a solution is not so good. it isn;t simple either.
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1) There will always be rigtards. ALWAYS. #GoodScientist using absolutes.
And I have come to understand, believe, and celebrate the fact this means there will always be poker. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) It's still fun to mock them though.
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The app looks great. I would want that for my iPhone. Do you know if he plans to release that as well?
iPhone support will likely have to wait because of Apple's censorship of applications. People need to understand that their choice in operating systems has consequences. For example: I was busy buying XBT in late 2011 and 2012 in the 2 USD to 6 USD range. If one waited to purchase XBT for approval from the Apple censorship board the price is more in the 450 - 650 USD range. iPhone users that waited for Apple's permission are now able to purchase XBT at a 10000% mark-up from GNU/Linux and Android/Linux users such as myself. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Though I appreciate your point here, and I run Arch Linux machines mostly... You could still just buy bitcoin via the browser on any iOS device couldn't you?
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That said, Monero is one of the few alts which actually solves a problem. It would make the coinbase problem go away completely. ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) I understand that this new crypto-currency called Monero that has anon features. So all that needs to happen now is for monero to become more widely used than bitcoin, all the bitcoin exchanges and ATMs switch to Monero, and then you don't have the Coinbase issue. meh, IMO stick with bitcoin. FWIW, and I will not derail further, Monero and Bitcoin may exist side by side well (along with perhaps ONE alt 2.0 type coin). Bitcoin can remain open and traceable. A system in which records of payments are public and traceable. And monero can do the work of the crypto swiss bank account and perhaps take the place of the crypto cash transaction. Entirely fungible and private. I think Seals would be crazy to take anything but bitcoin. I also think players need to be responsible enough to manage their crypto wealth well and not do (frankly stupid) things like deposit from a poker site to an exchange hooked up to your bank account. Part of this money revolution is learning to manage your own accounts, and privacy. I hide a portion of my crypto in Monero now. It is the only alt I own in any notable quantity, though I am also interested in about 3 others... Moving Monero to bitcoin to the poker site is something I can do in all of 2 minutes. And if I were ever to use coinbase (I will not) then they can be none the wiser of where my money has been... But if people think the sorts of actions taken by coinbase are going away they are crazy. This sort of privacy breech will be MAXIMIZED by both corporate entities and governments.
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I think it's also noteworthy (as in interesting/strange) that the author and signer of the CN whitepaper Nicolas van Saberhagen isn't part of the official CN team. As it consits of: Johannes Meier (Chief cryptographer), Maurice Planck (Cryptographer), Max Jameson (Math expert), Brandon Hawking (Economist), Catherine Erwin (Communications manager), Albert Werner (Core developer) and Marec Plíškov (Developer). I can't come up with a solid reason, how that makes sense. (If Saberhagen is a group pseudonym, why not sign "Team CryptoNote" as author?) Also https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf is gone and no giving HTTP Error 404. That list of names has always reminded me of Lost. Locke, Rousseau, Faraday, etc. Lost universe is full of philosophers and scientists. Planck, Hawking, Wener (Heisenberg), Erwin (Schrodinger). All theoretical physicists. And this is just off the top of my head perhaps there are others too... I've always assumed this was noticed by others... maybe even in the OP?
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Just donated 100XMR Love you guys! ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) 2014-08-26 15:55:14 COMPLETE: 1bd12d58c821078673ff5e821a5d443ad52521a23fa11b87987ede09fca4a8d8 We love you too! / \/ \ \ / \ / VSuch ASCII art...much skill...wow... Who exactly is working on the GUI again? :/
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So far whenever someone has come up to me and said "Why doesn't SwC accept X alt coin?"
the answer has always been "Because we already have bitcoin"
No crypto is more popular than bitcoin. All others are essentially copies of the bitcoin idea. We go with the original, the largest supported from a network and a human perspective. There is simply no reason to accept anything but btc at this stage.
The other part of this equation is that there exists many alt-exchanges, so anyone holding an alt that wants to play the largest crypto-currency poker site can convert with relative ease.
I think this is obviously a perfectly reasonable position. Seals does not have time to also run an exchange which is what taking multiple currencies is. That said, Monero is one of the few alts which actually solves a problem. It would make the coinbase problem go away completely. ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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You should change the software. No matter how much you call it not rigged.. It is rigged. The variance is simply too much. and people river everything, after going all in on the turn or the flop.
No it's not. You are a moron. Of all the problems and challenges Seals has (I will not make a list, but I could), you picked one that is entirely not real. There are arguments to be made for different software. Your's is not one. Switch to checkers.
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Just a note. I am converting 80% of my BTSX distribution to XMR here at .00009490/.00392. I hold negligible amount of any alt besides XMR at this point, and for the most part have only dabbled in a few. Protoshares caught my attention about a year ago, and it is interesting to see the BTS project mature, but I am dubious of it's stability here.
It will be interesting to see if my timing is good. I don't usually publish my trades publicly, but thought it would be fun.
It is hard to say what is happening with BTSX though...
I've wondered with these BTC 2.0 type technologies, if any large companies are doing deals, if word gets out, what is to stop people from acquiring it ahead of the news? It is not insider trading imo. Brings up some interesting dilemmas. I was really interesting in BTSX a year ago as well, but something was just missing in their presentation and seemed off to me. Honestly, it seemed a bit "off" and I can't put my finger on it. I do wonder if anything is up. In general, I imagine Sesame St, I mean Wall St., and other big money players will get their feet wet with most. I mean the way money is continually being printed, it would be stupid not to. IAS Well there is the constant looming rumor of Counterparty and Overstock relationship, but to be honest the counterparty system is so kludgy I cant see how a company like Overstock would really pull this trigger. And Counterparty is VERY high on my list of Crypto 2.0 experiments because of its general lack of scamminess as well as it's minimalist approach to features and implementation. The whole Bitshares universe just get more and more convoluted, and it was a web of complicatedness to begin with. I cant even begin to imagine some of the myriad attack vectors we could see with BTSX. Which is another reason I like the Monero project so much. It is a minimalist approach to solving 1 major problem and it aims to do a simple thing and do it well. The recent attack is just proof that it is evolving, albeit slowly, in the right direction.
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would usually end up around $2000. I'd discount the work significantly, though, and do it for 1000 XMR.
You aren't doing your credibility any good with statements like this. Back to a discount at 1000 XMR. But not much of one...and not for long, I suspect. I'd suspect we might get that ATH cap right after Labor Day. And onward. You should maybe use a fixed discount instead. Like XMR equiavalent of 2000$ minus X% He did... OK...rates TBD, but figure a 15% discount on USD rates. Better? I swear, 1000 XMR actually WAS a discount when I got to work this morning!
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Just a note. I am converting 80% of my BTSX distribution to XMR here at .00009490/.00392. I hold negligible amount of any alt besides XMR at this point, and for the most part have only dabbled in a few. Protoshares caught my attention about a year ago, and it is interesting to see the BTS project mature, but I am dubious of it's stability here.
It will be interesting to see if my timing is good. I don't usually publish my trades publicly, but thought it would be fun.
It is hard to say what is happening with BTSX though...
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Come over to XC coin, we've got a great community with lots of exciting developments in the works!
How does the XC anonymity feature trump the one of XMR? I think I can safely say that XC holds a lot of "promise". I'm just a bit concerned that this is a brand of margarine. EDIT: I should have held my peace perhaps, but I find my own jokes too amusing sometimes. I CHALLENGE you to stop the jokes!
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On its way to becoming possibly the biggest disaster in crypto history. Keep clear of the damage when the time comes. Key reason for coming disaster?
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Updated with new high rollers.
Thanks to the donors.
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Idiot.
There are probably far less embarrassing ways to introduce yourself, but I suppose if accuracy is your thing then who am I to judge.
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Update: Now 59 entries on the list. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FIPJ4q09.png&t=663&c=Ef9nOn5D_EW-TQ) Am I correct that this shows the median monero holder on your list currently holds ~20k USD worth of Monero?
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No one care. Such advertisement, such hype. I care quite a bit. If pool owners do things to make the network less secure or stable I care very much. As pool owners have come to make up the majority of my ignore list I am beginning to see (some of) them in a distinctly negative light. I am solo mining because of this.
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