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5401  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] AEON: Cryptonote privacy, efficiency, decentralization, and stability on: April 25, 2020, 04:41:40 AM
@bigslimvdub. I am supportive of Monero, however, have you tried running a node after RingCT update? Syncing it became harder and it might not be sustainable for longterm. Bullet proofs reduced the size of blocks, however. But still bigger than before RingCT.

@smooth. Is there more possibilty for Aeon to reduce the size of blocks?
5402  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Grin Observer - GRN/BTC - Price Movement and Discussion on: April 25, 2020, 04:16:59 AM
@Globb0. Sorry. I only assumed you were also monitoring Aeon closely hehehe.

In any case, I do not know, I am not an expert. However, clearly it is not safe to buy anymore hehehe. The buy walls are gone on Bittrex also.
5403  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down on: April 25, 2020, 03:54:35 AM
@eaLiTy. I speculate what Roger might do is put a hidden promotion for bitcoin cash similar to Bitpay. Let users choose payment option between BTC and BCH then show their increased high fees for BTC and a 0 fee for BCH.
5404  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / [JOKE NEWS] Ripple lambasts Bitcoin and Eth, showcases XRP as most eco-friendly on: April 25, 2020, 03:29:00 AM
However, what the Ripple commemorative report was not telling everyone is that their Ripple platform is centralized and from the point of view of developers who are trying to create decentralized coin solutions, the XRP tokens are useless in such a centralized platform.

Also, why this commemorative report? I speculate a pump arriving hehehehe.



Ripple published a commemorative report about the Earth Day anniversary, briefly explaining the sustainability of various currencies and their environmental impacts, showcasing XRP as the most eco-friendly.

Focusing on the two most widely adopted cryptos, Bitcoin and Ethereum, Ripple noted that PoW mining —the process of adding transaction records to the general ledger called the Blockchain— is required for extraction, which carries high energy and electricity consumption; “the cost of producing one coin could power almost four U.S. homes for a day”.

Ripple noted that unlike other currencies, XRP does not need that massive amount of energy to circulate so it can be “one of the most sustainable forms of currency available”.


Read in full https://zycrypto.com/ripple-lambasts-bitcoin-and-ethereum-showcases-xrp-as-the-most-eco-friendly-currency/
5405  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Grin Observer - GRN/BTC - Price Movement and Discussion on: April 24, 2020, 03:26:18 AM
There are also other cryptocoins more ready to pump.


Oh prey tell, I am tracking here for Grin experts to tell when Grins for all.  Grin



I am not an expert, however, you should be more knowledgeable than most of the people about the pump on Aeon by americanpegasus hehehhe. Yes, she is back with her savings from driving on Uber!
5406  Economy / Gambling / Re: Cloudbet | Bitcoin Casino & Sportsbook | The No.1 Bitcoin Gambling Site on: April 24, 2020, 03:12:15 AM
@Ronnie. I reckon easy to research current affairs betting for finance and politics will be the next big demand for sportsbooks. Everyone is watching the news and they might be thinking that they are becoming experts hehehehe.

The demand might also continue after the pandemic.

https://smarkets.com/current-affairs/covid-19

These markets are interesting but hard for fixed-odds books to trade. Elections are notorious in that regard because they cannot be modelled in the way the EPL can. With Ł1 traded on the Nitrogen Levels in London it doesn't look environmental markets are a big draw  Shocked

Certainly think everyone is a bit more tuned into risk in their daily lives now, even if it is just weighing up whether it is worth nipping to the shops for milk and biscuits!!



Are you open on offering betting on movie box office openings and rottentomatoes.com ratings, however? They might become more unpredictable after the coronavirus hehehe.

Also, something many bitcoin sportsbooks missed is the NFL draft.
5407  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: US Presidential Election 2020 on: April 24, 2020, 02:45:09 AM
Several months ago on freebitco.in, where you could choose from several options: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris and Others, I placed my bet on "Others"(with some amazing outcome odds back then, and now they are 18.93, not that bad either).

But today I think it's obvious that Trump is going to win the elections. Well, it's not 100%, but 95% I'd say. And that's why I will probably not make another bet on this event. I hate betting with the outcome odds less than 2.00. First off, it's too painful to lose such a bet; secondly, you can't win much in the case of winning.

With the pathetic approach to handling coronavirus crisis, from denying to blaming others, Trump is losing his approval at a higher rate. Democratic doesn't have any face to stand against Trump but the situation may demand any face on presidency but trump. In such situation, even a not well known candidate may win the elections.

How was Trump's handling of the crisis pathetic? Is it because America is no.1 in cases? The are the highest because America is the fastest in testing people and have tested more people than any country. Stop listening to mainstream news media. They are the same mainstream news media that have said bitcoin is for criminals. They are liars.

Also, how would Trump win if his approval rating is down and his handling of the crisis is pathetic?

His handling of the crisis is dependent on what month you're talking about. You can't merely lump in 3 months, January, February, and March all together in one rating because each month warrants a separate discussion.

In January you had the WHO lying about the extent of coronavirus to the point where their counsel and advice was useless. China was heavily censoring their data and coronavirus had exceeded China's borders and were spreading around the Eastern hemisphere. The U.S, nor many other countries still did not understand the potency of coronavirus which is why countries did not close down their borders from incoming travel. The U.S took a step in the right direction by banning travel from all areas of China at the end of January which drew criticism from democrats. Nonetheless, it was a damn good move no matter what partisan hacks want to say about it. So Trump's response January was satisfactory.

February is where things fall apart. Trump's response to coronavirus in February ended at the travel ban from China. He did not implement any sort of action that would have mitigated the spread of the virus and in fact, continued to have campaign rallies. To be clear, not Trump nor any democrat (besides only a handful of exceptions) saw coronavirus as being a national crisis. No one had the foresight to predict the U.S. economy would collapse and that coronavirus would begin to kill thousands of people a day. However, I'm sure there were disease experts looking at coronavirus and advised the President on potential ramifications of coronavirus meaning actions that Trump should have taken include ramping up production of PPE, ventilators, and ensuring supply chain logistics could deal with a sudden influx of patients. Creating a pandemic task force and implementing loose social distancing measures are things that could have happened as well. No one is arguing that Trump should have shut down the entire U.S. economy in February. Realistically, you cannot shut down the world's largest economy based upon a few dozen deaths from an upper respiratory illness.

March is when Trump took measures seriously and coordinated a federal response to coronavirus which included national agencies working with states to mitigate spread. He established the coronavirus task force, and implemented CDC guidelines with the "30 Days to stop the spread" sentiment. According to Dr. Fauci, when he advised Trump about a national lock down predicament in March, he listened to the experts.


If we're criticizing Trump's response, I would focus February and I think it's fair to say that his response was pathetic in that month.

However, Trump was taking he coronavirus seriously from the beginning. On February, he ordered that some of the flights from China should be cancelled. This was against the advice of his advisers on health care.

What was he called by mainstream media after the order? Yes, a racist.
5408  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down on: April 24, 2020, 02:18:21 AM
Well, the situation seems to have changed ... https://support.purse.io/en/articles/3851246-purse-is-saying-goodbye

It appears that gentlemand might be correct. Their business model will change, however, the skeptical me thinks it will be used as a passive political attack tool for bitcoin cash, similar to what Bitpay has been doing.

In any case, this might be the reason Purse wanted to stop.



Amazon is planning to make dramatic cuts to commission rates for its affiliate marketing program, which allows media organizations, e-commerce companies, and small and independent businesses to receive a cut of revenue from a sale if a customer lands on the product page and purchases the item through a provided link.

Source https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/4/14/21221326/amazon-affiliate-marketing-links-commerce-commission-cuts
5409  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] AEON: Cryptonote privacy, efficiency, decentralization, and stability on: April 23, 2020, 05:17:24 AM
@bigslimvdub. Hehehe. Also, Aeon might be the answer for the balancing of privacy and scaling. In retrospect, we made the correct decision not including RingCT.
5410  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down on: April 23, 2020, 04:40:19 AM
It appears that he might save purse.io and use it as one of his services to promote his bitcoin cash scam, however hehehe.
He'll need people to want BCH for their gift cards though. If he does go for it it'll be interesting to see the uptake. I really can't see him educating newcomers as to the difference so maybe it'll explode as they believe they're getting 'more' Bitcoin.

purse.io already supported BCH so there wouldn't need to be any real transition there. i don't think roger ver would be dumb enough to remove BTC from the site since it surely provides most of the liquidity. there is no doubt he will unsubtly use it to advertise BCH though. it will probably be the default currency.

he sounds pretty confident that purse.io will keep running.

That, however, does not have answer to the argument that if purse.io's problem was financial and bitcoin's economy cannot support it, how can bitcoin cash save it?
5411  Economy / Gambling / Re: Cloudbet | Bitcoin Casino & Sportsbook | The No.1 Bitcoin Gambling Site on: April 23, 2020, 03:52:19 AM
@Ronnie. I reckon easy to research current affairs betting for finance and politics will be the next big demand for sportsbooks. Everyone is watching the news and they might be thinking that they are becoming experts hehehehe.

The demand might also continue after the pandemic.

https://smarkets.com/current-affairs/covid-19
5412  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-13] Coin Mixer’s Record Month Proves Bitcoin Users Want Anonymity on: April 23, 2020, 03:18:33 AM
@Harlot. Agreed, it is Singapore's laws. I was asking the question again for you to understand that it is in the exchange's decision to put guilt in the user's actions because of Singapore's laws.

You can hate me for asking questions, hehehehe. However, they are important questions that need to be asked, I reckon.
5413  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [AEON] Aeon Speculation on: April 22, 2020, 04:12:20 AM
@estenity. This only shows that there are 8000 Aeon bagholders also waiting on reddit similar to us here in bitcointalk hehehe.

In any case, it appears americanpegasus has not yet left for her job on Uber hehe.
5414  Economy / Gambling / Re: Cloudbet | Bitcoin Casino & Sportsbook | The No.1 Bitcoin Gambling Site on: April 22, 2020, 03:32:28 AM
@Ronnie. You should have proposed this to the owners. I was also suggesting this to you since last year after the Game of Thrones betting went to an end.



“With the North American sports schedule coming to a halt, we are looking for some out of the box ideas to maintain engagement with our players,” Bovada’s head oddsmaker, Pat Morrow, tells TheWrap. “One of the most popular betting markets in 2019 was the final season of Game of Thrones. So it only made sense to make props on the show taking over its time spot, Westworld.”

Source https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/cant-bet-on-games-how-bout-putting-your-money-on-westworld
5415  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is DeFi anything? on: April 22, 2020, 02:44:48 AM
@exstasie. Defects might be wrong to say, however, would you say that Solidity is a bad smart contract language that was shown to be not appropriate for creating dapps?
5416  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2020-04-13] Coin Mixer’s Record Month Proves Bitcoin Users Want Anonymity on: April 22, 2020, 01:15:52 AM
@oeleo,
I'd twist your question in my way here:
Even if we bounce our coins into 100 or even 1000 addresses and keep them in 1000 different addresses each, who gives these exchanges the power to ask us where the funds came from? Will they even ask if I use a wallet that's unknown to these exchanges and is highly untraceable for services like chainalysis (like if ever such a wallet arises)? What if I send my BTC from each of those 1000 addresses to Binance? Will they stop me and ask for proof that these addresses belong to me? Where the hell remains anonymity then?

P.S.: What has these exchanges to do with gambling sites? For eg.; If I send some considerable amount of BTC from sportsbet.io to a centralized exchange, won't they accept it as a deposit?

Agreed! However, in this sad world that is the cryptospace, they can clearly lock your account because they would be questioned by a government that gave them the license to operate.

In any case, everyone gave good arguments. Thank you.

@Harlot. Hehehe. It was only an argument. I did not try to put guilt. Is it not true that Binance Singapore froze a user's account because they something they did not want?
5417  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down on: April 21, 2020, 04:22:47 AM
@mk4. It appears that he might save purse.io and use it as one of his services to promote his bitcoin cash scam, however hehehe.
5418  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [AEON] Aeon Speculation on: April 21, 2020, 03:57:25 AM
I see a lot of small coins gaining value right now. Small demand pushes price a lot if there is no supply. It is very simple. AEON was extremely cheap. Now is 3 times higher as it was only 2 weeks ago. It wil have to moe much higher to attract more supply.

However, it appears that the pump has reached its end. Our americanpegasus might be back to driving on Uber
again with a wallet of bitcoins hehehehe.

@bigslimvdub. Why did they do that? They should stop the trading if they did not want a pump and dump.
5419  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is DeFi anything? on: April 21, 2020, 03:38:30 AM
@exstasie. There was also the parity bug where a developer accidentally froze more than 500k coins in an Ethereum smart contract.

Are those bugs there because of defects on Solidity the platforms programming language?
5420  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is DeFi only another type of scam? on: April 21, 2020, 03:16:47 AM
There was another attack on another DeFi smart contract hehe. In any case, how many DeFi smart contracts have been developed in Ethereum? I appears that all of them might not be secure.


Reports indicate that on April 18th, a leading protocol was just hacked for a large sum of Ether and tokenized Bitcoin.

According to blockchain developer and DeFi specialist Julien Bouteloup, an attacker managed to drain a Uniswap-based pool (a market), and gained more than $300,000 worth of ETH and an Ethereum-based tokenized version of Bitcoin, imBTC, in the process:

“imBTC TokenIon pool on Uniswap has been attacked and drained. Simple attack vector on Uniswap [allowed them] to steal more than $300,000 in ETH + BTC,” they wrote.


Read in full https://bitcoinist.com/a-defi-protocol-was-just-hacked-for-over-300000-in-ethereum-bitcoin/
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