Their official thread is actually still here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77870.5480

Basically when it got sold a few years back the support was slow and people started to complain on the thread. Then I think it might of gotten sold again or at least the domain name. Since the domain name still has lots of value.

Right now when you go to the site, it seems they only accept onchain bets which are not even with Bitcoin but with Bitcoin Cash. So that is probably the reason why there are very little bets taking place.

In my opinion they should re-add the options to place bets with BTC and make it offchain as before. Since due to the transaction fees, people will move elsewhere.

There are some bitcoin services, exchanges and casinos which actually still do manual withdraws. It might seem like a poorly designed system these days with so many sites doing automated withdraws but it does have its advantages.

Many sites do this primarily because of security. Lots of crypto sites in the past were hacked due to some bug in the automated withdraw process. So there are some sites like Bitmex which processes thousands of BTC withdraws per day and its all manual. The reason why is because all the customer funds are kept in cold storage and a multi-sig is needed to release them.

So basically there is more than 1 admin who needs to manually sign the transactions to approve the withdraws. Again this is for security reasons. Most people rather choose security rather than fast transaction times.

Got an email a couple of days back about some 3rd distribution of Stellar lumens?

I assumed that they weren't distributing the lumens anymore, unless you were a Blockchain.com member and did KYC?

I remember a few years back I had to sign a message to prove my BTC holdings and I got a decent amount of Lumens. I think I did this for 2 distributions. This was years ago. I assumed there wouldn't be anymore.

Any idea if the 3rd distribution is legit or some scam email?

No idea if the original poster will ever return to comment. Basically got 4 pages of replies and he hasn't responded back.

Either way. If you are in the USA just use Coinbase or Gemini which has good security and your KYC info is safe and withdraw your BTC to a hardware wallet like a Ledger.

If you can't afford a ledger then just use an old laptop that you never connect to the internet and run Electrum or Armoury on it with cold storage mode and your coins will never get stolen. There are tons of guides on this forum on how to do this.

Like the above poster has said, just bookmark the link and click the bookmark to prevent going to a phishing website. If you get any PM or emails from Binance never click the link just go to the bookmark and you won't have issues.

Give this a read,
https://steemit.com/crypto/@technicalwealth/binance-hacked-no-and-this-why

Basically a few people were tricked because the link seemed legit but if you look closely there are 2 dots under the "n" of the domain name. If one day you were in a hurry you might miss this and go to a phishing website.

Hence always do a bookmark.


Thanks for the info Raja_MBZ.

I know this isn't the official Binance exchange thread but I got some questions about the exchange. I got some Bitcoin fork coins like Bitcoin Gold/ Bitcoin Diamond that I want to sell and seems that Binance has good liquidity.

What are the policies with KYC with Binance? I am not located in USA. I won't be doing large deposits or large trading just want to sell my BTG and BCD but rather not go thru the hassle of KYC just to transact something in the 3 figure range. My exchange that I use to withdraw my USD to my bank account doesn't trade these coins unfortunately.

So if you use this exchange please provide some input?

Thanks for posting this link. Its actually a pretty good article how it talks about all the different coins that were possible to mine with a 280X starting with Bitcoin itself all the way to Zcash.

One issue with the article is most likely the power consumption figures, they seem a bit low. I don't know how the test rig was measured in calculating power consumption but it should almost be double of what is shown.

When I mined ETH in 2016, my hashrate was 20MH/s and my power consumption at the wall was like 200Watts with each GPU undervolted. I am assuming he used GPU-z which is not accurate to measure power consumption.

When I first started using Claymore years ago, I had the same issue as you. Basically it connected to the right pool but after 5, 15,30, 60 minutes of checking my pools stats it showed 0 MH/s and no shares submitted.

The issue was that you need to manually change the epool.txt file with your info. Because by default it mines to Claymore's account. It was confusing because it was my pool but apparently the default Claymore pool was also the same one as mine. Eventually after 60 minutes of mining for Claymore it worked on my ETH address.

Most likely this is your issue.

But how is it different than martingale then with someone having a very large balance. If you are betting 0.01 BTC on martingale using 50/50 and your total balance is 1 BTC, you will go bust very fast. However if you are betting 0.00000001 BTC per bet with a balance of 1000 BTC then it would take a very long time to go bust. Basically it can take years and the bot would seem like its effective when it fact it just didn't have a long enough timeline.

I don't know how his bot works but I know that with a house edge is very difficult to make any money with a bot. The bot might be in profit for a few months but then eventually it will reach a streak where it loses the entire balance. Similiar to the way people bust their entire BTC wallets when doing martingale and getting 15 reds in a row.

If you ever in the future plan on having a large balance on PD or any website you should always set 2FA on before that happens. Reason being is that if you get infected with malware now and you activate 2FA in the future the hacker will see your 2FA code and will be able to generate it themselves a few months after you got a bigger balance on PD or any other site.

Most 2FA is just a few letters which generates a 6 digit code every few seconds or so, if someone see those letters before you actually activate 2FA they will have the same 2FA as you have. So its best to get it up and running as soon as possible.

Generally 2FA is only safe when you set it up by not having any active malware or viruses, if you set it up while someone is spying on your screen then it won't make a difference.

Your post actually reminds me of all the bitcoin dust that I collected throughout the years. I had probably a dozen or so wallets, online wallets, dormant balances on pools, etc where I tended to usually round my transaction figures instead of sending the entire amount.

If you ever used the old versions of Bitcoin Core, there was no option to "Send entire balance" basically if you had like 1.00529832 BTC, I would just send 1 BTC and forget about any of the following decimals due to laziness since I always had to manually subtract the transaction fee and I rather just send 1 BTC instead of 1.00519832 BTC since back in the days of $200 BTC those amounted to very little.

So when BTC was in the 5 figures, I took the time to sync every wallet and finally used up all my collected dust and in the end it actually ended up being a few hundred dollars. Got some LTC and ETH from a pool where it never hit the min withdraw since it was like $5/ETH and just left it there and when it hit $1400 ETH the pool lowered the min withdraw fee and finally got my ETH out.

Like finding gold pretty much...

This is basically I think the very first product that features 7nm technology and it seems very buggy according to many people. This reminds me of the older AMD Fury/Nano GPUs that they released back in 2016 or so. I remember that a large percentage of those GPUs actually had lots of faults. The GPUs prior such as the Hawaii series or the Polaris series never had much issues.

Why did you buy the GPUs from an international marketplace? Usually in those scenarios whenever there is an issue its always difficult to get a refund. You probably can get warranty directly with the manufacture since you are the original purchaser and it might be cheaper than shipping it back to the store.

The long ProgPOW audit which is being conducted by a 3rd party is suppose to investigate that isn't it.

Because right now we have say 50% ASICs and 50% GPUs mining on the old DaggerHashimoto algo. If ProgPOW will turn it into a haven for FPGA's where 90% FPGA and 10% GPUs then most likely the algo will never get changed since in my opinion FPGA's depending on the supplier, can become more centralized than ASICs themselves.

No idea when this audit will come out, was suppose to be due end of August according to ethermine pool.

I gave you a merit because this is wonderful artwork actually and you have quite a talent. I can see some people going to Stapes or Office Depot and getting these printed in large poster size and hanging it around their office, I actually might eventually do it.

I think the reason why he used the word propaganda is to describe the type of artwork he is trying to achieve. These posters are very similiar to the ones that the army used to post during the war, they had a similar theme and symbols. The actual use of the definiation of the word is not what he is trying to say. So whether its propaganda or not, its just a form of artwork.

Keep up the great work...

I think in the early days its usage increased might of been due to the darknet markets but these days its usage increased exponentially by a investment and speculation asset.

Most people who invested in crypto in 2017 did it purely to "get rich" and didn't do it for the technology. They basically saw that Bitcoin was $1000 one day and next month it was $2000 and next week it was $3000 and then $4000 and so on... so fear of missing out turned in and they opened a coinbase account because they wanted to get rich and sell at $1 million a coin. This is why it spiked up to $20000 very quickly because the entire supply dried out for a few weeks and there was crazy demand. And this is why Bitcoin was on the news and got most people talking about it.

I've only started reading the beginning of page 483 and what I can understand is that broke_tradah has some bot which is able to beat the house in some way? Is that correct?

I don't think its ever possible to make a bot in crypto gambling because no matter how sophisticated it is or no matter what strategy it uses, it will never come out ahead due to the house edge. The house edge is always towards the casino and due to this it doesn't matter how the bot is coded the house will always win when time -> infinity.

Even if the server seed got changed in the middle of a game, I don't think it would affect the overall result by much. Every bet is completely independent of the prior and the way that the hashing goes its pretty much completely random, there is no pattern. Trust me I've tried.

The only bots in Crypto that actually are profitable are the private arbitrage or trading bots which are active on most exchanges. Those usually can turn a profit because there are many arbitrage opportunities in the markets during volatile times.

I am pretty sure they will survive because they have been in operation for a long time and got a good standing and trust among the community.

There are many sites out there like PD which is only Dice and its still pretty popular to this day and has lots of bets taken every second. I think dice is the one game that people will play all the time. Sure there are more entertaining games out there but dice has been the pure crypto gambling game and it will always be.

Like you said before, most games are all the same except they got different odds and house edges. Dice usually has always a lower house edge compared to most other games like slots and it will always be an all-time favorite.

For an new and up and coming dice site, then I agree, it most likely wouldn't survive but for most of the old and legendary dice sites out there they will always have traffic and generate revenue.

Well its been over a day since the trial and looking at the markets including BSV it seems that 99% of the people already knew that Craig was never Satoshi.

Basically if he actually was Satoshi then a massive sell-off would happen since the estate would have to pay taxes on those BTC holdings and the taxes alone would be in the billions and the market wouldn't be able to absorb all that selling especially if it happened in a short time-frame.

I think unless we start seeing some old 2009 Bitcoin coinbase public address start moving 50 BTC around and being sent to a single party where it adds up to 400K BTC then there won't be any panic in the markets. However like everybody has mentioned here before. Most likely he is not Satoshi and those BTC aren't his.

Wow been a while since I've seen a new version of Claymore coming out. Looks like V15.0 has been released for over about a day and only about 20 posts followed the launch. This is actually pretty low compared to the good old days of 2017 where whenever Claymore released a new version usually about 5-10 pages would happened in the following hours after the launch. His ZEC miner was also pretty popular during those days.

Its sad to see GPU mining going downhill where many people have moved onto something else. Really hoping that ETH devs do something and get ProgPOW added to the Q1 2020 fork and we might see a comeback of miners.

But right now in my area, I am getting barely a quarter a day of net profit with a single GPU. Sure wish the days of $1/day/GPU would come back.

I wasn't around during the LTC main-net launch so this is news to me... never knew that LTC developers did this.

This actually reminds me of a similiar situation with Darkcoin (now called Dash coin) basically people analyzed the blockchain after the launch and they also did some analysis and found out that it was instamined in some way. I don't remember the details but X11 I think for a while might of been CPU only and later on it was GPU mineable. And lots of coins were pretty much premined in the early days and people have been complaining for years about the coin being shady.

Would have to find the post in the Dash thread to find out for sure though. Anyone know what I am talking about?