Bitcoin is not centralized electronic currency, it is a decentralized digital currency. Where did you see such wrong information that bitcoin is a centralized currency?

Bitcoin is possible in physical form like Casascius Bitcoin which contains the private key of an amount of bitcoin but government will not make such project to move forward.

You can use it to search for members on this forum. After you clicked on it, just click on search for members, you will see where you can write the name of the member and search for it.

I used it before I started to use Google search instead. But Google do not bring the name of brand new members but which the search for can be useful for.

ETFs are not moved but completely stored somehow safe. It is good for multisig and cold storage together which can be more layers of protection if done well than Coinbase that their customers can decide to withdraw their coins at anytime. I am not saying that the storage will be better for ETFs but it will likely be better because the coins remain not moved unlike Coinbase that still have to move some coins. Because of how exchanges are and customers moving money is the reason exchanges make use of hot wallet but which is not needed at all for ETFs. I have not gone deeper into ETF because I do not like it at all than for more bitcoin adoption but I think if I want to set up an exchange or bitcoin ETF, I see the bitcoin holding safer with bitcoin ETF.

This is not good at all. I did not know it is like this. I am using my knowledge to discuss it before. If they have it with Coinbase, I see no difference. But Coinbase may agree with Blackrock to hold the coins on cold storage with multisig. Bitcoin for ETFs should be very easy to protect.

The ETFs are more secure than the bitcoin on centralized platforms like Coinbase because they can only be traded on the centralized exchanges, unlike bitcoin on Coinbase that can be moved to a noncustodial wallet address by a scammer or a hacker which can not be freezed by the central authorities like the exchanges.

But the reason I do not like bitcoin ETF is because it is not bitcoin itself. I will prefer to hold bitcoin instead. I mean the coins that is fully controlled by my own private keys and not those centralized platforms private keys or ETFs.

But did you know that many people are using casinos that accept cryptocurrencies, they did not provided KYC documents and thinking they are having privacy. If they read the terms and conditions of the casino, they will see that KYC is required and if they win and want to withdraw, the casino will ask them to get verified before they can withdraw. Some casinos will only give their customers withdrawal limit and if the customers have been withdrawing and passed the limit, the casino will ask for KYC. Reading casino terms and conditions is very important.

I am using a different browser recently because it has dark mode which I like so much. I wanted to enable a notification on a topic and I saw what I wrote as the topic title. You can see it yourself



I went back to my old browser because I have not uninstalled it. It did not show anything like this. But I am curious to know what could be the meaning of it if I mark it.

I can be a scammer and come on a forum with no or little effort saying I am selling bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies just like DanyBTC_C is doing right now. I think anyone that wants to sell bitcoin will come up with a rate which he will constantly change on this forum as bitcoin price is changing. I am also expecting him to list the payment methods that he is going to accept. But he came as simple as scammers can come. I do not trust this seller.

I do not see this as greed if we are talking about gambling. What I see that is greed in gambling is not when a gambler is losing already and chasing losses. We call that chasing losses. But what we call greed is when the gambler has won significantly some amount of money. Instead for him to quit, he will continue to gamble. Later the game might not favour him and loses all the money won and also loses his own money.

@YOSHIE, I think you know OP is not referring to only CEX.io but centralized exchanges generally.

Centralized exchanges are still used more for derivatives trading like perpetual futures and options. Many people are still also using centralized exchanges for spot trading. Some people visit their launchpad and launchpool. They are also using their staking but which can be done on noncustodial wallet. They have coins that you can stake and have APR.

Just use a reputable centralized exchanges. Do not hold your coins there is what that is important to know.

My conclusion is that staff are moderators. Although theymos will be the one that can give good answer to this. I think all moderators are seen as staff but some other people may not be a moderator but have works that they are doing that theymos employed them for but I do not think so. I think theymos later call moderators that he chooses later as staff, example is OmegaStarScream. Moderators elected during OmegaStarScream are called staff on their profile but moderator on each of their post. Recently theymos called the new moderators as staff both on their profile and while posting you will see it as staff now.

Some people do not hide their character but they may disappoint. That is why we should not trust our money with anyone because anyone can misappropriate people's money. What the person will notice is that he spent the money on gambling thinking he should double it and not use it to gamble again but seeing himself losing instead. But we can still say that it is indiscipline because it is easy to know that the loss can not bring anything good than shame and punishment.

Martingale is a good strategy but it is also a bad strategy. It is good because it can increase the chance of a gambler to later win huge amount of money if he still have bank roll that is enough to win huge, but ones you lose like 5 times continuously, it would be a big loss. The best is to not gamble for money because martingale strategy is likely to fail and it would be a big loss for the gambler in a way he may not be able to recover the losses ever again. I prefer to gamble with just little amount of money and not go for strategies that I know will bring me problem of money loss.

I gamble on mobile phone but I do not gamble when I am out of home. If a gambler is addicted to gambling and he is not having phone but having only just laptop, although not possible but just saying, you will see the gambler as an addict charging his laptop and gamble as long as he still have money in bank or coins on crypto wallet. Addiction is not about using phone or laptop to gamble, it is from within the gambler.

If you can be good with small amount of money profit and if you win ones in a day you will not gamble for that day again, you can go for 3 odd games and go for martingale for like $25. In any stage that you win, you stop gambling for the day. You can start with $1, then 3, then 9, then $18 and the last is $25. If you win only ones, you will stop gambling. I guess you should be able to win at least one time out of 5 times. But it is dangerous.

Discipline and responsible gambling are what that can help you eliminate gambling addiction or to eliminate what can lead to gambling addiction.

It will be better for people that access their mobile phone more than their computer. But as for me I see this as a failed strategy if you can not discipline yourself not to be get addicted in gambling.

The betting sites are all different with different rules. The last time that I saw this type of thing was because of the odds that I selected which was very small odds.

Well known betting sites like minor leagues. I have used bet365 for huge amount of bet with minor leagues before and it worked. What they are looking for is money.

I found out some weeks ago that bitget wallet is having lightning network. The wallet is noncustodial with very poor onchain fee estimation. I can not tell anyone to use the wallet because the fee is not customizable and the low fee estimation on the wallet is more than the highest fee displayed on mempool for fast confirmation. You know you need onchain fee to open and close a channel. But the main reason I will not be including the wallet on the list is because it is close source. If the wallet is open source, I would have included it when I saw it.

If you want to use Bluewallet, you need to provide your node address. Bluewallet is not having Linux and Windows apps but it has macOS app.

Electrum is not newbie friendly for lightning network, but the developers are improving it in updates. It is a good wallet that you can go for.

I think I can get the images for this thread if you do not understand how to use lightning network on Ekectrum. It is a guide.

Paxful may not be seen as P2P to some people but it is a P2P but which is centralized.

You can add Robosats.

Did you visit Agoradesk website recently? The exchange is winding down.


I do not think it was up to 2 months that Paxful started P2P exchange again after it closed down. I think there was a dispute between the founder Ray Youssef and some stakeholdes of the exchange. Not long after Ray Youssef left the exchange, the exchange began operation again.

What I think more about this is that OP is not playing on casinos that are accepting cryptocurrencies. If he does not want coins that are volatile in price in the market he can go for stable coins like USDT while many casinos are accepting USDT on Tron network and its fee is cheap. I think he is just the fiat casino type that have no experience about cryptocurrencies at all.

Aside this some people just prefer to have privacy and gamble just on online casinos. The ease that online casinos provide their customers make people that are gambling today to be more than in the old time when there was no online casinos. I am also a kind of person that is most often busy with works, I only have few time for myself during the week. But there are time of holidays and vacations that I can go for physical casinos but most often I gamble online.