For example, match fixing is a very genuine threat to any site that operates a sportsbook. Should this mean every site operating a sportsbook should shut down? Were the users guilty of match fixing? If so, where's the evidence? And also: why does that lead to "limited" accounts instead of banned accounts? Is fixing matches with lower amounts acceptable? Considering abuse is a very small % of our overall volume, we don't think so. However, we certainly will take action against prolific abusers, with the hopes of deterring their future efforts. It sounds like most users lose money, and a very small percentage of users wins. That should be normal in a casino, instead of a reason to take their funds. |
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Quoting for images (updated): Hi everyone! Recently I have noticed one problem on Bestchange and I want to share it with you because I think it's important. I was shocked when noticed this. First I created a topic on the Russian forum, so now I'll translate it here. Sorry for my English, it's not my native language. So I noticed many exchangers started to have KYC / AML that is completely inappropriate when dealing with crypto. When you start an exchange after sending your coins to an exchanger it may say "your coins are dirty, you must pass KYC". Before if a client refused to pass KYC exchangers returned his coins to a wallet they were sent from. But now exchangers became completely impudent. In many of them appeared a new rule saying they can block your coins for indefinite term. So according to their new rules now they have a right to scam you and just take your coins if they want to. They even don't put this rule about blocking on pages where you make an exchange, you can see it only if you open their rules page and read it carefully. Also please pay attention to the fact exchangers don't have any authority to perform any KYC procedures, collect client's personal info and ask for it. And of course they don't have any authority to block coins. Because exchangers aren't any kind of legal businesses. They are anonymous persons, not registered financial companies. But they don't want you to be anonymous. So according to them you must send your pesonal info to some noname who don't guarantee you anything and may sell your info everywhere. They think it's ok but it's not.Also there are exchangers that don't have any AML policy on their website but they block your coins despite of that. For example, https://fixedfloat.com. Look at this:  There are 2 reviews on the screenshot. You can read the English one. The Russian one says they stole coins saying they are "blocked because of AML". They refuse to return the coins. During the conversation FixedFloat's admin was repeating the same thing about AML and in the end Bestchange's admin just closed the dispute and made it gray despite Alex didn't receive his coins and kept asking Bestchange's admin to keep the dispute opened and of red color. You can find both reviews here: https://www.bestchange.ru/fixedfloat-exchanger.html. You can read full conversations, you can use Google Translate to translate the Russian one. The English one already became gray and there isn't any reply saying the dispute starter received his coins. And also there are many other reviews like these 2 on the FixedFloat's page at Bestchange. So this kind of scam is something permanent there and Bestchange's admin keeps FixedFloat and just closes disputes while people don't get any refunds. Here is another example, EasyBit exchanger:  This exchanger makes a refund if you refuse to pass KYC. But anyway, they tell you about KYC after you send your coins, not before. So it's a time wasting and hassle. You send your coins without knowing about KYC, EasyBit doesn't have chat so you must reach their support, you may start a dispute on Bestchange etc. It takes hours to return your own money back. EasyBit has only positive reviews on Bestchange but if you open their page at the rating https://www.bestchange.ru/easybit-exchanger.html you'll see how many gray ones it has. And all the gray ones are about KYC. Also EasyBit's rules state they can 1. scam you (have right to block crypto you sent them), 2. ask you for a verification as many times as they want without any reason. There are many exchangers like these 2 on Bestchange. I just provided 2 examples here. All the exchangers like these 2 don't have icons showing they may ask for your personal info if you find them in the exchanger's list on Bestchange. Bestchange shows they don't ask for any verification so people believe it and use exchangers like this. Look at this, no icons:  And here is the example of such icons near exchanger's names when you see the list of exchangers who make exchanges from bank cards:  So why is that? When you want to exchange money from your card you can see in the list an exchanger will ask for your personal info. But when you want to exchange your crypto you don't see this. People start to exchange crypto without having in mind there is a probability of being asked for KYC and without knowing the exchanger has AML. Many people just don't expect this when dealing with crypto (like it should be). And as I said in the start of this topic many exchangers have link to this info at the bottom part of their websites. Nobody looks there so nobody reads it. I sent an email to Bestchange's admin and said he must put the icons near crypto exchanger's names and he must remove scammer exchangers which "block" client's crypto. Because if an exchanger doesn't want someone's coins and thinks they are dirty it must return the coins to the client and that's all. All the "blocks" are just scam. But Bestchange's admin refused to put icons saying "AML is everywhere anyway and if some exchangers don't have it they just work bad because they should have it". Well, it's a very weak excuse. Because then why do exchangers who deal with bank cards have such icons? Also AML is not everywhere, that's a lie, especially when dealing with crypto. Also he didn't delete scammer exchangers. So Bestchange's admin knows very well what is happening, he keeps scammer exchangers. He closes disputes when coins are stolen "because of AML". And he doesn't inform people an exchager has any KYC knowingly. If people knew that they wouldn't choose that exchanger, so the exchanger couldn't "block" their coins. The only reason Bestchange's admin misinform people is that he has profit share from scammer exchangers. I think he collaborates with them because I just don't see any other reason not to inform people about KYC by putting "exchanger asks for personal info" icon. I have emails from him and can forward to prove I didn't invent anything. Here are some screenshots from my mailbox, so you can see my email and if I forward the emails you can compare text:   Instead of passing an inappropriate KYC / AML I propose to share this info everywhere. Let's inform people. And let's report to Bestchange's hoster, domain registrator, maybe to antiviruses. Same thing for exchangers who ask for personal data and steal coins. Also I think we must help exchangers to comply with laws. They want it so badly. So let's report to the tax department and authorities (the pay taxex and work legally if they want clients to comply with laws, aren't they?). Because in fact what are we having here is illegal personal data collection (and maybe selling) and illegal coins "blocking". So, they love police, they say they can report clients to the police in their rules, let's help them meet with police loved so much by them. I'll post links to Russian authorities soon. I think community should act. We can't just ignore such things. If we just keep observing and being passive about that in a few years having crypto will become just like having money in your bank account - when your money in fact isn't yours and any official or clerk can block it anytime. We shouldn't accept and allow practices like KYC and AML with crypto. Or we'll find ourselves in this situation soon:  Yes, we already are in this situation but partially. Especially when we choose crypto instead of banks. So let's don't lose this piece of liberty. |
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All Bech32 addresses created by my Bitcoin Core installation are lower case. I can't tell why yours are not.
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One hundred and ninety-third week paid. Thanks again for your flawless timing! My timing is late, the usual excuse: the kids. They're getting better again  |
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The issue is, at least in IMO SSD vs HDD is **WAY** too generic.
It's like saying car. Did you get the cheapest thing that anybody puts out, a Honda Accord or a Mercedes S580? I think you're missing the point  Saying an SSD is faster than HDD is like saying a car is faster than a bicycle. There are exceptions, but in general, it's correct. Saying you need HDD and not SSD is not correct. I had no problems doing IBD on a server with HDD and enough RAM, but I once tested and noticed a significant different in startup time between having chainstate on HDD vs having it on SSD. Hence my recommendation to, if at all possible, at least put chainstate on SSD. The rest doesn't matter much (unless you frequently load very old wallets). |
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a hard disk (should be HDD, not SSD) For the record: there's no reason not to use SSD (unless your budget doesn't allow it). Since I'm still low on SSD-storage, I have chainstate on SSD and the rest of the data on HDD. That's the best compromise for performance. |
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LoyceV is a MAN and a dad with with two kids ( a boy and a girl) just like some of us, at least that's what i know so you should start addressing him as HE.  If it helps me get elected as Miss Bitcointalk, I could promise a picture of my (man)boobs if I win  |
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Makes me wonder what's going to happen to altcoins with gigantic space requirements over the next several years. My guess: nothing. Many people keep their altcoins on an exchange to speculate, and the ones who use their own wallet, use something that supports many different shitcoins. |
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Makes you wonder how much gear is just sitting idle waiting for the price of BTC to go up or for enough for it to be worth it. Not too much, I guess. New miners won't be ordered if they're not profitable at the moment, so only old miners can be idle. And considering the difficulty still went up this year, the share in hash rate from idle miners gets smaller until the moment they're not worth it anymore even if the Bitcoin price goes up a lot. I know there are a lot of places sitting idle since it just does not pay to mine at the current prices, add $6000 to $9000, which is a lot of swing up from where it is but still possible in a short span of time. And all of a sudden there is going to be a bunch of us looking at the hashrate going where the hell did those miners come from? Even if there's a sudden large increase in hash rate, that means some of them will drop out again after the next difficulty adjustment. |
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Can anyone fill me in on what went down here:  It looks like his username was changed, in my Trust list viewer he still goes by his old name. Thanks for posting this, otherwise my next Trust update would give errors. |
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About a year ago, at $70k we had 22.6 trillion difficulty. Currently, at $16k, we have 36 trillion difficulty. Apparently, hash rate isn't mainly affected by the price. I think it's safe to assume the hash rate would have been much higher now if Bitcoin would have been at $100k now. The fact that it still went up is probably because new mining hardware got more powerful, but for sure miners have much less money to spend now. |
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the pictures are really bad and I can’t see anything. Click them Would you mind re-uploading with a better resolution (I use imgur.com)? I prefer images that be seen without clicking too. |
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I would like to know what wallet/service he used to deposit that money. If it's one that reuses the same addresses, I should get the same address if I register an account there as well. From my experience, there's no guarantee the address was used before. I've been given new and used addresses from the same service. It looked like they recycle different addresses from a pool. |
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You seem to have mixed up two different scam accusations. You're right, I copied from multiple topics, and intended to post it here. It's fixed. Coming back to this one, there is no question here if OP has used different Rollbit accounts, and he admitted to have done so. OP admitted using multiple accounts, because it's allowed. Rollbit claimed he used more accounts, but hasn't provided evidence. For more than 2 weeks, they've ignored my questions. That's not what a honest casino would do: To me, their silence speaks volumes. If they would have satisfying answers, they would have given them by now. |
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I'm starting to see a pattern here: someone creates an account, Rollbit takes their money, and then claims they created multiple accounts: This was not your first account on Rollbit You utilised at least 4 accounts this was not your first account There's never any real evidence, but very significant amounts are being taken. Note that creating multiple accounts is explicitly allowed according to their Terms. with the intention of abusing our sportsbook. If your sportsbook is that easy to abuse, you should close it, not use it as an excuse to take people's money. Note that winning is not the same as abusing! Can you show us the entries in your system where it shows that two (or more accounts) made withdrawals to the 0xd671f6bbc4998e24b575ff8178715ffb96674d89 address that you linked to? Since OP claimed that he never had any other accounts and this was the first time he played at Rollbit, that would show that he is lying if we have multiple accounts making withdrawals to the same Ethereum address. I've seen instant exchangers and payment processors recycle addresses, and I've paid to addresses that had been used before. While you are at it, can you also show a screenshot/log that proves that 0xcbd6832ebc203e49e2b771897067fce3c58575ac is Rollbit's hot wallet where OP's funds went to? Screenshots can be faked, signed messages can't. That doesn't prove I have anything to do with the first payment. |
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If you or anyone else decides to give 13px/12px/11px a try then here's a little advice (if I may): Like I said, I don't need it. I can however imagine that changes when I buy a new monitor with higher resolution (and smaller pixels). |
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You briefly see the message but then the message fields are blanked moments later. This sounds like a browser thing. Most of the time, it works fine in my "normal" Firefox. Even after restartingt he browser, open tabs with unfinished posts are usually still okay (except for the rare moment when it's all gone). I get there's a preview button for saving drafts, but what exactly is causing the post content to get cleared when you hit the back button? Your Tor browser, I guess. if you use Tor and some other posters make their posts while you are composing yours, when you hit a Post button, you will get error. Go to your Profile > Look and Layout Preferences > tick Don't warn on new replies made while posting. [1]  Mind blown! I never knew those two buttons on the left of my mouse do anything (and I never tried)! |
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Allow me to recommend my topic on how to Consolidate your small inputs. It explains how to save money on fees. Depending on my needs at the moment, I either consolidate transactions before I need to make a transaction, or I select the inputs that best match the amount I need to pay. Years ago, using old coins got you a zero-fee transaction ("destroy coin days"), but that doesn't matter anymore. Now it's a balance between privacy and reducing fees. |
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I've never heard of story of someone that said they had stored data on an SSD and then unplugged it and then in a year later they couldn't read it. Me neither. Apparantly that's a thing though. Like I said: data retention is a thing for enterprise SSDs. Here's some worst case clickbait reading. So don't buy enterprise SSDs for your long-term backups |
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running it locally (without having to install browser extensions) I think this means your patch will never be applied. By adjusting it client-side for the users who want it, the forum can remain unchanged for anyone else. |
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