The thing is that form my search, here on Bitcointalk English areas, it was only you mentioning it. No offense, but I'd wait for a bit more, since "it should just work" doesn't imply that it would also do exactly what we'd expect. Maybe I'm paranoid, still, it would mean I'm running new unknown software with not much of trusted reviews.
I've seen a bit of info on Reddit, but mostly in BCash areas, which I skipped super fast.

Cred ca pana la urma, in mod realist, nu prea exista alta solutie. Adica stim cu totii ca o plata poate fi refuzata sau se poate intampla sa te intorci tu la magazin cu produsul, iar acesta sa returneze suma sau o parte din ea. Iar acest lucru in mod normal se face prin returnarea - intr-un fel sau altul - trimitand bani/banii inapoi in portofelul (sau cardul) sursa. Putini o sa iti dea cash in mana.
Acum, cu timpii de asteptare, chiar daca asa scadem de la peste o ora la 10-20 minute, tot e mult. Dar avand banii deja in BTC, poti folosi LN.

Deci da, e posibil ca asta sa fie solutia. Dar inca are prea multi pasi de facut "manual", nu cred ca lumea se va grabi sa faca asta.
Si cu atatia pasi ajunge cam departe pentru a fi numita "plata cu XMR".

While I do understand your point (let others do the beta testing and let other see if the casino is honest), the way you've said it sound like you'd also be afraid that you may like this new casino (I don't care, and I'm not affiliated with neither of the two, but it's funny)

I can see that it' clearly stated in their Terms & Conditions


Best would be to ask them why, still, since you asked for our opinion too, I'll say that what you wrote "gambling is not totally illegal in my country" should be the key. If there's any concern about a country, some will find a way to comply (or just not care), some will find out they cannot comply and some others will just simply avoid (the safe and easy solution).

I expect this to happen more and more often. Afaik the governments are not really allowed to do this (discrimination cannot be in the law), but they kinda encourage businesses implement it "for their own safety".
I personally had to show the vaccination card only at the border, but I know that it was at least one festival you could enter only with proof you are vaccinated, had the illness in the last 6 months or you have a (very) fresh negative test result.

"If it's not broken, don't fix it". Indeed, as long as Binance is alive and well, I don't see any good reason for most to ditch it. If indeed it will be shut down, then the equation will change.
But now leaving Binance because of KYC and go to another KYC exchange looks counterproductive.
And the volumnes are still higher and afaik FTX doesn't issue debit cards, so Binance has an edge there too (although I honestly don't know how significant).

You made me hope for a minute  
I indeed installed "VirtualBox Extension Pack", but it didn't help.

The drive is indeed NTFS, but, I think that the problem is not that because:

1. Also the guest additions CD is not seen.
2. The same NTFS drive is seen (as Shared Folder) in the Debian VM, and myNode is also Debian.

I think that for the shared folder I need the guest additions installed; since that's not seen, I'm stuck.


When I get some more time again, I'll give another shot to EPS on Windows. I think that I'm missing something very simple there. It would also make more sense than an extra VM.
myNode looks overly restrictive for my needs and I feel like even if that problem gets answered for me, I'll run very soon into another problem. But I'll keep it as a backup option if I have to get back to a VM.
Thank you.

Afaik the raffle is held by the national lottery and many trust it's not rigged.
But.. I'm not part of that group 

That's why I said that the 100 RON vouchers are more helpful for the actual people. The lottery is just a bonus; it has the potential to help as publicity though, but, again, they could have hired some public figures for that much cheaper.

You can see FTX also while he's driving:

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I was so sorry for Lando... what a hearthbreaking lesson... he was exaggeratedly overconfident and the rain was much heavier than he would have been expecting.
For those only seeing the result, it's "meh, same old story", but what a race! Interesting strategies for all and a lot of overtaking. Plus the drama at the end. It was a real pleasure to watch.

No, I didn't move the vdi disk file, don't want to mix with that. I only want bitcoin core use that specific data dir.
The point is that since bitcoind worked well on Windows, I have already the data pretty much up to date on that HDD and I would rather not spend ages for a resync (I also don't have space for moving the data too much around).
Even more, that USB disk is only 500GB, which is fine for the blockchain, but not enough for the rest, hence that vdi should stay where VBox created it, where I do have other ~250GB free.


I tried to mount the USB drive directly into Virtual Box and it didn't work out.
If I remember correctly, the guest additions made me troubles. But, you know what? I'll give it a try a bit later and I'll come back with this.

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Update:
I tried to insert Guest Additions CD, I cannot find it anywhere to run the additions.
I tried to use VBox Shared Folders feature (which works for me on the clean Debian!) and I don't find anywhere the corresponding folder.

So the directions I have:
1. [preferred] Make an Electrum server and a block explorer work on Windows
2. Anything I can install on Virtual Box as long as Bitcoin DataDir remains on the USB attached HDD. This is a special problem, since I am badly inexperienced with Linux.
2.1. I do have a Debian configured on a Virtual Box, with DataDir just fine, but I don't know how to make bitcoind start automatically with the system (and with that datadir); I didn't go with other steps yet there.

Since this indeed went off topic (sorry!) and it may get longer, I've moved the things to a new topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5362554

Later updates:
* I managed to make Electrum Personal Server work on Windows (see here and here)
* I compiled/installed electrs under WSL as HCP advised and it works on Debian!
* I compiled/installet BTC RPC Explorer under the same WSL as ETFbitcoin advised and it also works.

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I am moving here a discussion which (mea culpa) went off topic somewhere else.

The relevant bits:





I'll continue from here.

I've tried that too yesterday, and didn't work out because the disk for the blockchain is connected though USB and VBox/myNode didn't like that.

In VBox my last attempt was with a proper Debian. I managed to get Bitcoin Core run and use that USB drive for the data, but I completely failed in making it start with the system. I suck at Linux and I know it  

And on Windows, bitcoind is fine, but the Electrum Personal Server just doesn't do anything. Whatever I do it just tells "press any key to continue" and Electrum doesn't see it.

Since most of the non-vaccinated seem to be now in the rural areas, with lower income, this is quite something.
And yes, it's nice that they can buy almost anything from that money (I know that alcohol and tobacco are not allowed, but that should not be a big issue).

Nice list!

And since o_e_l_e_o came with very valid points for having own server and block explorer, I tried my luck and... it's not easy. I didn't manage yet to make any of those work on Windows (heh) and I am a bit undecided about trying out fulcrum, since I didn't find much of discussion about it here on bitcointalk.

I've also looked about using Bitcoin core with HW and.. hmm.. it looks unfinished and far from straightforward, so I pass that.

Any ideas?

I think that actually it's not the lottery that may "inspire" more people get the vaccine in Romania.
One additional "detail" is that those getting the vaccine in these last months of 2021 will also receive 100 RON (~20 EUR) tickets they can use in supermarkets (in theory, for food).
The hugely rising numbers of infected people filling all the news also did their part.

The number of newly vaccinated is rising from lows under 5000/day in August to 15-20000 (and rising) lately.

I'm surprised you don't know, it was kinda the news for August. However... since he first returned 260M, then the rest, there are 2 topics about it here:
HACKER returns $260m in funds | One of the biggest Crypto hacks ever.
What could make a hacker return stolen $600m crypto

Unfortunately the only Android wallet I know to properly support hardware wallet is Mycelium. Indeed, it's imperfect abd it's full of ads. Still, for now I don't have any good enough replacement.
From what I know Electrum doesn't support HW and from what I've read BlueWallet may be working with Coldcard (for Ledger and Trezor all I've got is how to import xpub for watch only wallet).
So if OP wants to use a HW, he may have to also consider this.

It did occur to me that maybe, just maybe, this was done like this on purpose, to have a bit more interesting races too.
I mean, there are plenty of great drivers there, but on a dry track it tends to be boring... On the other hand, a bit of rain has the potential to bring a bit of drama, a bit more interesting race and results.

For now, I can say that I'm pleasantly impressed by the look of the starting grid.

I already said, a few days ago in this very topic that these coins, resulted from seizures are most probably not worthy for the list, since they are supposed to be auctioned (sooner or later).
Still, I think that they are of interest, at least to be mentioned (again: in a post, not in the topic).

Of course, the fact that those coins are already sold, is another story = it's an update I was not aware of and thank you for that.