To be honest you're right. I was writing a response to bob123 but after you wrote your post I abandonned because regardless if we can make it work, why not just broadcast one tx?

Make a timelocked transaction that spends his coins when he's a 100 years old, or a 120, some time that he obviously won't reach.

Broadcast it and that's it.. If he decides to spend his coins before that, then do it, otherwise, they'll be transferred to his friend.

But as a quick answer to you bob123 :

1. HeRetiK's solution also stores the timelocked transaction on a server.
2. You can easily change my solution from "press a button to send the tx", to "press a button occasionally before to prevent the tx from being sent from the server."

My solution also doesn't expose his private keys, or endanger his money, all of those are only known to him. The server holds 2 transactions to addresses he already owns.

Yes I've been thinking about it for a while, you could do this with only one timelocked tx.

You craft the transaction that will spend the coins from his existing addresses, to address A.

You craft a timelocked transaction from the output that still doesn't exist inside address A, that spends these same coins to the addresses of his buddy. This timelocked tx can be for example when OP is a 100 years old.

Broadcast the second tx. And don't spend the original coins.

That's it. Now he only needs to create a "switch" to spend his coins to the address A whenever he dies. A button on his phone when he's on his deathbed, or something.

In case he's still alive, he also owns the private key to address A, so he can invalidate the timelocked tx by sending the coins back to himself it if fuck-ups happen.

I can think of a few ways to do this with a smart contract, but in bitcoin it's a bit harder.


This is basically the solution but it's kind of redundant.
A simpler one would be to just sign the tx that would spend all his coins right now. And store that transaction on a server. Write code in your favourite language that broadcasts the tx after Y amount of time just for an added layer of security. And open up a port on your server where the application can listen to.

If the application doesn't get pinged once every X months, weeks, whatever, then it calls the function, and after Y amount of time, the tx will be broadcasted.

So he has to ping the server every X interval, and if he somehow fucks up and forgets, he has Y more time to stop the application from broadcasting his coins.

Hell if you want I can probably set this up for you in node.js right now.

It's true, all you need to do to see this is to keep the Bounties section open to see how much of a shitshow it is. I don't understand how people can have the time, effort or human resources to keep creating newbie accounts to bump their threads, but I figure if it's going to give them more visibility they believe it's worth it.

To OP, you can try taking different roads. If you have an ICO, announce it in the Altcoin ANN section, and maybe implement some sort of reward system to people who promote your ICO on your website. An example of this was Stellars when it just started. Everyone who logged in using their facebook account got a few free stellars.

Of course a few people might abuse it, but if you promote your project right you'll definitely get more organic traffic versus botted.

Lol this is an interesting post. Can you share more about how you pick these games? Do you just look for the highest odds on some unknown teams and bet on the one that has the worst odds of winning? But why are all these games so nichey though, would love to hear more on how you do this, you basically won 3 out of 4 bets

That's neat! You should maybe make a quick spreadsheet and update it bi-weekly with how much profits you made. Might help you too move more funds into the website you make the most out of.

I did end up investing with bustabit indeed, 2% dilution fee is meh but I guess time will make that back soon. I'm not looking for a quick buck to be honest just somewhere I can place my funds for a few months and make some slow small dime.


Yeah I've used Just-dice in the past. Just when it rebooted with clams too, drove its price through the roof. But the coin died out now and I don't think it would be wise to invest in it.

You can register a delaware corp for under my name, even if Im not a us citizen? And Ill pay taxes for it too? I mean I honestly cant see what your job is here.

If you can only register a corp for us citizens then why dont they do it themselves? If you can actuallh register a corp under any worldwide citizens name then I'd very much like to hear it.

Thanks for the suggestion everyone. I'd try them all honestly but my budget is too short for me to effectively compare profits from all of them effectively.


Isnt bigger bankroll lesser risk? I dont get what you mean.

Lol, this ought to be interesting.

You're going to create these companies under your own name? I can't say I'm not interested but there are so many questions hanging that it's impossible for this to make sense. How can I trust you're not going to claim the company for yourself? Are you going to pay setup/tax fees? How exactly do you have access to making both a delaware corp, and bulgaria? Please post more extensive info about this.

Like, its obviously a scam, but you picked my interest because Ive never seen something like this before.

Netherlands v France: 1-2
Slovakia v Ukraine: 0-2
Turkey v Sweden: 1-1
Italy v Portugal: 1-1
England v Croatia: 1-2
Slovenia v Norway: 0-1

Thanks to both of you @HereTiK and @bob123.

Sorry I get what you mean now by 58 chars, I was thinking the wrong way.

I just thought there might be some specific way to branch the search out to get the desired goal in the end.

If you take my own address for example : 1KingZeeW97uLvngcUA3R6QJx18Fn78ddb

You're basically telling me that I need this many keys 2.207.984.167.552, -at least- to run through every possible combination of 7-letter words, and maybe land into the pattern I want.

While I do believe now that there probably isn't a better way, this just looks like a very awkward Hoyle's fallacy to me...

I mean I'm sure if the other websites had leaderboards we'd see some big whales too. I saw it before I invested but it's not accurate to judge, I'm sure there's a negative leaderboard they don't show.

Mining is dead in my opinion unless you have a very big capital to invest with. One 800$ card will net you 1$ per day assuming you don't pay electricity bills. I'm sure profits scale pretty well if you're going to invest into rigs of multiple cards at once, but not everyone can afford that. So because I don't usually like to gamble on dice and fully randomised things, I figured investing was a nice middle ground for the long term.

@bob123 Thanks for the answer! A few things I have to question..


Are you sure? I thought it showed worst case scenario time? I'm talking about samr7's vanitygen. I know it might take a lot less if you get lucky, but it shouldn't go above that time. It calculates the time to reach 100% probability of getting a specific pattern.


You mean 34? The pattern is inside the address, not the private key! I'm going to edit your maths in the next quote.


See this part I don't understand. How are you calculating all this? The pattern is in the output, not the input.

You could generate a private key, get an output of 1SomeBTCAddressxxxxxxxxxxxxx, generating just the neighbor of that key, will give you a completely different output.

See what I dont understand is how does calculating n number of private keys, gets you closer to generating your wanted private key. How does the process of elimination go? If it were truly random then we'd just be blindly generating random keys constantly.

You get 6 extra points for backing your picks with a bet of over 5$ on CloudBet.

So 18 points for free picks + just 1 backed bet will max out your point winnings if you get eveything right.

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Can anyone explain to me the concept or link me some source that explains how can vanitygen find a pattern in an unreversible hash?

It's clearly following some search pattern that isn't just trying out random private keys and hoping to find the desired pattern. People can let it run for weeks to find a 8-char pattern for example. And it'll slowly display the probability percentage until it finds one. I'd like to know the maths behind that if anyone can give me a clue, cheers.

I was in the crypto-games sig campaign in the past, I know they're trustworthy. I didn't know they let people invest in their bankroll though!


Thanks, I decided to invest in bustadice just yesterday and the profits went from 720btc to 696. My luck still as shitty as I remember I guess.

Following the example of this ballsy dude : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5037928.0

Anyone has any recommendation on some good, big gambling websites that allow investments into the website's balance? Feel free to let me know your experience, and why you prefer any specific website.

Preferably a website that has been around for at least one year, and proven itself as a profitable source on the long term. No one likes scam exits. Cheers!

In general the word "kill" is always going to be clickbait.

The one and biggest example to cite against that is Ethereum. It comes with a MASSIVE boost to functionality compared to bitcoin. If bitcoin is a decentralized transaction ledger, Ethereum is like a decentralized master computer where a "transaction ledger" can be a tiny small application of its full potential.

AND YET, look at bitcoin price going up. Regardless of whatever new altcoins come up with, they will never override existing coins. Purely because of the sheer amount of money being moved around. Its ironic how this used to be said about banks, but can now be said about both btc and eth, "They're too big to fail."

Lol that's a bit selfish, they won fair and square, no one would want to let go of their prize simply because of EU regulations.

Maybe CloudBet can spin the slots themselves and send whatever the outcome is to the winners? But that might be a bit unfair as it's not provable.
But then again, since people in the UK might legally not be able to use their website, I don't think CloudBet would want to run any risks by letting them gamble. So it has to be some sort of reward that doesn't involve them gambling I guess.

The best of both worlds in my opinion would be letting people choose to either pick a very small flat weekly reward, or take the free spins if they're feeling risky.

Great job to DeathAngel indeed, he got Newcastle vs Bournemouth which was arguably the hardest game to decide. I missed 2 points by a hair on the City vs Utd game, but oh well, hopefully I'll have better luck the further weeks.

Looking forward for next week's games! There's both European and African Cup of Nations qualifications.