I don't tell people I own bitcoin now. Mostly for security reasons.

Back in 2013-2014 I told people because the price was low and I figured they wouldn't listen anyways. So after the price broke $10K a year back I had people asking whether they should invest or not.

I told them to wait until price was lower and buy then. They either didn't listen and bought at the top or when it hit $3K they didn't buy because the excitement was gone.

Better not to tell people about investing in Bitcoin. Most will go full 100x leverage on Bitmex and get rekt and then they will blame you for their loss.

Yes I agree with stex and tradeogre, they shouldn't have an issue getting it listed there.

Since the block explorer is down I don't know which block we are on, but there is a hard-fork coming up and it would be best if they applied for a listing there right after the fork, it will make this easier, especially if there are issues with the fork.

I still believe in this project. Waiting for the difficulty to go lower so I can mine it again.

I agree. I only gamble on my iPhone with a small balance, basically do it if I am in the waiting room at the doctors and want the time to pass by faster.

However I had issues with mobile. I remember a few years back, I went to a gambling site, didn't make an username/password/email due to laziness and made a deposit and then my phone was lost and couldn't get that account back.

Another issue is that its easier to control a mouse and a keyboard rather than type and move around in a touchscreen. It wouldn't be so bad if it's on a larger device like an iPad because the screen is larger but on a iPhone 5S it's very difficult to navigate.

I understand that times are changing and people are moving away from desktops/laptops but there are certain things that should be done on a proper computer if gambling with large balances. Same with trading Cryptos, I generally only check the price on my phone but I usually only enter/exit trades on an actual computer. Due to phone hacks and other issues that can come up like public wifi being unsafe.

You should state the rules to get the 10% deposit bonus. Most sites usually have a high rollover to be able to withdraw that amount.

I suggest that instead of deposit bonuses you should work and get your site design UI improved and also at the very least try and prove solvency by posting a DOGE or BTC wallet with the available bankroll funds.

This is a must for most new sites because usually the bankroll is very small with new sites and usually if someone is lucky and has a big win they can cause insolvency for the rest of the users and lead to withdraw issues.

I understand but why can't a HBM2 16GB GPU do this faster than a system with a fast CPU + loads of system RAM.

I am not too technical on the details here but I understand that if you know the private key you can easily compute the public key, but not the other way around.

So since the search space is small, basically most of the private key starts with 0's then you can easily start a range at the small private keys basically something like " 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001A838B13505B26867 "

So the GPU would take that and increment it and compute the public key very fast and just compare it to the public key with the funds inside it.

I think this panic and break of $10K was mostly due to the huge 20K BTC claim that happened on Bitfinex. For those unaware on June 30th, all of a sudden the amount of shorts went down from 30K to 10K which means that someone covered 20K shorts. At the time it was worth about $11000, so about $220,000,000 or so. It had no effect on price because the trader just "claimed" his position and didn't need to buy it on the market.

Its hard to tell exactly when he shorted but he most likely did it because he wanted to sell 20K worth of BTC and if he sold it by sending the entire 20K to Bitfinex then the alarms would go off and people might panic, so he just slowly sold by short hedging and in the process didn't affect price too much.

Now his position is closed and he is already in profit.

I used to be a regular in this thread. I actually used vanitygen on my R9 280X to try and solve the #54 or #55 key a few years back before someone beat me to it. I only got like 20 MH/s with my 280X while the Nvidia's with Bitcrack got multiples of that and I just gave up.

Anyways regarding the dangers of reusing BTC addresses. I know you shouldn't reuse BTC addresses ever. However why do many exchanges like Bitfinex and Binanace reuse their addresses.

It seems that since these private keys have a low entropy its possible to solve quick with enough RAM as long as the public key is shown. However would this even be possible if the private key is actually completely random and has high entropy. You would need Terabytes and Terabytes of RAM which is not possible these days.

The only people who lose their hard drives or USB keys are novice computer people. Its something that would happen maybe to my wife or my dad on the computer.

Most saavy computer people, especially a highly skilled programmer like Satoshi, always keep backups and they probably got some full-proof RAID setup incase one hard drive fails.

He didn't lose the keys. He either destroyed them on purpose or he maybe had some unexpected death and its the reason why he never spent them. Or maybe he is alive and well and just spending the newest mined bitcoins not to attract attention.

Yes this was actually introduced during the conference back in May. From what I recall it added fire to the already crazy bull-run we had back in May.

Good that you posted this because at the time, the app was only available to reporters and other testing personnel.  But right now it looks like you can actually use it if you got a iPhone.

Reading the reviews on the app store, they are mostly mixed. Basically people either rate it a 5 or a 1. Will download it and see if its any good and hopefully won't be any issues while trying to actually use it to pay.

I checked this site out and was surprised that it looks pretty decent. A few things in your main post where you have the url "http://...." change it to "https://..." so it goes to the SSL.

I've tried it out on mobile and was pretty easy to navigate. However it took me a while to find the faucet first, maybe make a direct link somewhere to the faucet. Basically for anyone that can't find it on mobile, just tap on your balance and click the 3rd button from the left, basically the hand holding the BTC.

Also I don't know if this was intentional or not but when you tap "PLAY!" you see the 3 dice rotating and it takes like 5 seconds to get the bet to actually process. Its fine at first but after a few hundreds of bets people won't like the delay, maybe make the delay 1 second instead to prevent any bots.

Either way good luck.

I remember years ago before Bitcoin ATMs and before Bitcoin exchanges like Coinbase the only way to buy and sell BTC was locally.

The issue I had was that even though fees were very low, and you only had to include a 10000 Satoshi fee which was like 5 cents back then. There was no gaurantee that the next block would be found in the next 10 minutes.

There was one time where I had to wait almost 2 hours for a transaction to confirm just once before me and the buyer/seller could part ways. It wasn't a back log or anything it was just luck where prior to the meet blocks were found quicker and then after the meet the blocks took longer to find.

This is the only issue you might encounter, but 1 confirmation is enough as long as you are trading BTC and not some coins with less hashpower and might be prone to 51% attacks, but even those are rare these days to happen. So you should be safe.

The charts might look similar but I can show you hundreds of stock charts which look similiar and half of those will be parabolic runners and the others might trade sideways or even go down. So its not good to compare just the charts.

Look at the Google trends for "BITCOIN" search term,
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=bitcoin

We are nowhere near the 2017 high, even though its the highest high of the last year. So for Bitcoin to go to $100,000 according to your chart there needs to be enough buyers to bring us to that number. I don't think we are there yet.

There are many coins which have in the past.

The most popular and recent one I can think of is Monero. They basically use the Cryptonite algo and due to the threat of ASICs and FGPA they had to fork to a slightly different algo about 2-3 times already. First it was the original Cryptonite algo, then Cryptonite V7, Cryptonite V8, and now its Cryptonite R. And from what I read they will change this algo every 6 months or so to defeat ASICS.

There are some smaller coins like Bitcoin Gold which switched from Equihash to a different variant of Equihash to make it mineable with GPUs but not with the ASICS which are all over ZEC.

You would be surprised but computer equipment actually sells pretty well. I've sold most of mine on Craiglists at asking price and if that didn't work there was also eBay as an option.

GPUs like the RX 470/570 are not considered old. A R9 280X is considered old but I had no trouble selling them in the last 12 months. Yes they are power hogs and ancient but AMD still makes drivers for them and they are great for Crossfire.

So in a couple years or so, the RX 470 will still be worth something. Never worth it throwing away in the garbage. Throwing away in the garbage is maybe worth it if the GPU is damaged and not worth the time to repair it.

Found a small typo for Safedice. I looked under Owner year registered and it says 2018 but that owner has been registered with Bitcointalk since 2014.

You might of been confused because in 2018 there were 2 new accounts made which started to reply to some posts in the Safedice thread and they seemed like staff. One was called "SDupdate" and they only made 1 post but they commented on how the site is undergoing maintenance and the other was by "SDMod" which was slightly more active but only made around 28 posts.

Some say they believe that the accounts were fake made by scammers to fish people's username and password when they PM them asking for help. Because it was really odd why all of a sudden the SD admin started to post from a new account instead of his original account.

I don't think he will correct any of the issues as suggested. I doubt he will hire some UI graphic designer. Unless he has some experience, it would be expensive from the ground up to hire someone to do a full redesign of the website and UI features.

Basically Bitcoin and Crypto in general is booming and everybody is trying to profit from it. The OP probably doesn't want to invest too much time and money into this in case it doesn't work out. This is how it was in 2017/2018 with many ICOs. Many people saw how successful they were with little to no work and they wanted to profit off it. This idea is no different.

It can still break the $13800 area. The reason why it took such a hard fall was because it was almost up 20% in less than 24 hours and it had over 1 billion of open positions which were mostly high leverage.

When the sell-off started, there were tons of liquidations and towards the end I think $200-$250 million of open interest was evaporated, probably a world record for BTC.

Basically too many people were too bullish and didn't think a 35% pullback was possible and got rekt. It happened many times in the past, especially with Bitcoin.

In all the years that I was mining. I've never had a motherboard, CPU, or RAM ever fail on me.

The parts which have the highest failure rate are the GPU fans, then maybe the GPUs itself, then the Risers, then the PSUs, then the harddrives.

The most reliable GPUs I've had were the cheap and loud Reference GPUs from all generations. Don't think I've ever had one fail.
The most reliable PSU was probably the cheap $40 Corsair 750CW. Had tons of those and suprisingly it never failed while my Gold rated 1600W did fail. Ironic.

This question is hard to give a correct answer to.

Basically a currency doesn't really have shareholders. Usually shareholders hold shares to companies that produce a profit, a currency is not that. However Bitcoin is a very volatile currency which increases its value compared to the US dollar, so you can say its like a stock per say.

So in that case, every miner which mines a specific currency, earns a small % of that currency as a miner reward, so they in fact are holders of that currency.

However these days, most of the larger holders of BTC are not miners but early adopters which held their coins like Satoshi or the Gemini owner's.

No when I posted that message it was before the delisting notice. After the delisting notice it took a huge dive and hit the 2 Satoshi mark.

Honestly at 1 or 2 satoshi's its very difficult for coins to survive, especially when they have no active market. If Cryptopia was still around they would have a listing there but with Bittrex being the last active exchange it has no market.

I will probably mine it as a low risk/very high reward compared to ETH mining. If the development continues then I think the coin should go up in value if it finds a new exchange.

I still belive in this project.