Are there any estimates on how many people are going to sell them immediately in order to cash in $100, and how many are going to get to know more about Bitcoin. I wonder how many are going to get them, at all

“Throw a cool concept at a bunch of smart people — something cool is bound to happen,” said Buschel.

Now i know it.

IMO, you shouldn't advise people to keep investing in new dice sites that have no reputation and no verifiable details. Unless you know someone personally or you are cashed up and willing to part with your money I'd be extremely careful in randomly investing in sites which you cannot be sure are not scams.

The Bitcoin Foundation's chief scientist Gavin Andresen has given his opinions on a variety of issues at this year's Web Summit – an annual event held in Dublin, Ireland, that attracted more than 20,000 attendees this year.

The summit has established itself as an important date on the calendars of technology investors, startups and even rock stars, like U2 frontman Bono, who attends regularly.

Andresen gave a wide-ranging interview to the Wall Street Journal's Lisa Fleisher, at the event's 'Centre Stage', discussing the centralisation in mining, regulation by governments and the future of digital currencies.


Cycles of centralisation
Creeping centralisation, particularly among miners, is likely to occur in "waves", Andresen said, adding that this would mirror the pattern seen in computing in general.

He said:
"Centralisation of mining is going to go in waves. Now you see economies of scale for companies that create huge mining farms where electricity is inexpensive. Once those [ASIC] chips become commodities and inexpensive, you'll see it decentralise again."

Andresen likened the cycles of centralisation by miners to earlier computing technologies that saw rapid cost declines over the time, leading to reduced reliance on centralised structures.

"When I was in college in the 80s, we were at the cusp of going from mainframe computers to personal computers," he said. "I worked in tech support, and the biggest wave of tech support requests happened around the time theses were due. People from campus would send their theses to this laser printer and then come and pick them up. That's what computing used to be."

Andresen added:
"It was very centralised, and then the PC revolution happened and everyone had a PC."

Andresen graduated from Princeton University in 1988, majoring in computer science.

Nodes numbers not a concern
When asked about other weaknesses in decentralisation on the bitcoin network, such as the declining number of nodes, Andresen was similarly unbothered.

He told assembled journalists at a press conference after his onstage appearance:

"The technology is still so early ... it doesn't really concern me much. Right now we have 7,000 nodes. It's a good number. If it was 700 or 70, I would be more worried. We're still a couple of orders of magnitude away from where it would be a problem."

He indicated that changes are underway on the technical side that would make it much easier to run a full node, but explained "we've simply had other priorities".

Andresen also addressed the issue of regulation of digital currencies by governments, welcoming the attention that governments have given to cryptocurrencies in recent months and even expressing sympathy for regulators who have to grapple with the complexities of creating a framework for bitcoin.

"Regulators have a hard job," he said. "They have to react to this new technology and try to fit it into laws that were passed 40, 50, or 100 years ago. It's really a struggle for them."

Need for balanced regulation
Andresen singled out China and Russia as states that have approached bitcoin regulation too severely.

"Certain countries around the world take a much stricter approach ... countries such as China and Russia have been really anti-bitcoin recently. Their first impulse is to ban something and, if they think it's good, they'll allow it," he said.

Andresen highlighted BitX's efforts to raise bitcoin donations to combat the spread of ebola and bitcoin ATMs as worthy ways of increasing awareness around the digital currency.

"Bitcoin ATMs are a wonderful thing. I'd love to go to a bitcoin ATM here in Dublin and get some euros ... I could really see that taking off and taking bitcoin mainstream because international use of bitcoin will be the first mainstream place where it happens," he said.

It's unfair!  30 POSTS per week is  two many. the pay out is too little for so many posts! It ofen 30 posts per two-weeks.

Ok i am removing it
i don't want to offend you guys

I lost 12 btc can i get it back ?

Yes Bitcoin is dead @340$

Any other good sig campaigns? This was going to be my next, but they closed.

I cannot believe that a Bitcoin event is being sponsored by all of those major companies.

Are you sure it is not another event sponsored by those companies that happens to have some Bitcoin speakers?

ie...since when has American Express started sponsoring Bitcoin events?

Hi, current referral program pays for only one month, but new affiliate program will replace the existing system.  We are finalizing it and it will be live on Saturday/Sunday. Affiliate program will me much comprehensive with much higher payouts so stay tuned.

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If you have 1 btc you can afford all these bets (last bet is 0.33)

So yea 26 loss streak is extremely rare, on the other side betting 1 satoshi is really low (right now 10k satoshi = 0.03 USD)
Meaning that you are basically betting 0.000003 each bet so you need to win 10.000 bets to win just 0.03 USD
100.000 to win 0.3 and 1 million to win 3USD, Unless you have a betting bot that can do that extremely fast i dont see how it would work

Hi Support

I am unable to play any games on the casino. Have you banned me or something? Everything i try to play just freezes. I can see other peoples bets so i guess the problem is only with me. I restarted the system and checked, same result. I tried to raise a support ticket, but unable to raise one as the submit button is greyed out. Im feeling lucky, so can you please check this and let me know? 

Im not sure if anyone else is facing issues too as there is no one in chat, or so it seems.

So this method doesn't work then?

We will launch Affiliate program very soon (within next 5 days) with very good terms, it will include our banners as well.

The big corporations limit their locations that they accept Bitcoin until they're 100% sure about where they can and can't trade it, Overstock for example accepted it in the U.S and now they're moving to worldwide, it's all just because the laws are different in each country.

$500,000 for a tip bot?  

That is fuckin cray cray. rofl... I wonder how that works out!