Sorry, I have been very busy lately and didn't really find time to reply to this. Instead of a speculation game, there would be raffles something like 'GREAT INDIAN RAFFLES' which  which will run forever unless the funds gets emptied/if anyone stops donating to the wallet. The raffle is limited only to Indians and unlike other country people (Bangladesh or any other nearby countries) are not allowed to participate. If some of the non-familiar users tend to participate like in this topic, their account would be checked prior to their entries are accepted.

By this week I would be creating a formal announcement topic with rules, the pattern of the game, how will they work etc and another important note is that the monthly raffles will start from January 2020 and would continue forever. Let this new year bring some hope for the Indian bitcoin enthusiasts.

Cheers 

The OP has been updated with various new communities and I have added newer resources and did some minor changes in the topic as well. If I have left out any of the important communities or other resources kindly add them here.

Finally, the topic has been pinned along with webtricks's 'People Pay your taxes' topic! 

Arcbit is now an inactive wallet. There have been no PRs, issues or any sort of development happening over in github page and also the website's certificate has not been renewed. You should probably leave the wallet aside and move onto Bitcoin Core/Electrum as mjglqw suggested.

Since you have the 12 word passphrase, try importing the words in a trusted wallet in Electrum. You would be able to access your funds there. Do the following to access your funds in electrum.

1. Download Electrum from official website. Verify the PGP key of ThomasV before entering your passphrase.
2. Select 'Standard Wallet' and click on Next
3. Select 'I already have a seed' and click on Next
4. Enter the 12 word passphrase in the electrum window

Note that Arcbit is a legacy wallet as per the information from trezor

5. After entering the 12 word passphrase click on 'Options' instead of Next
6. Select 'BIP39 Seed' and select legacy(p2pkh) and enter derivation path as m/44'/0'/0' and click on Next
7. Enter the password and confirm it and then click on Next

You should be able to spend your coins there. Hope this might solve your problem.

Thanks for the stats thanthidung. These are much needed data for this discussion to move on a higher and more serious note. In 'Users who received merits' we can exclude some of the older inactive accounts like Hal, satoshi, lazlo and so on and many of them would be newbies who don't have enough smerits to give to others. Another noteworthy point in 'Users who have both sent and received merits' is that there are users who don't merit regularly or who have only merited once in this 2 year period. They are the forum users whom we are speaking about in this topic as even though they do have enough merits they are not really willing to give them away for quality posts or merit might be of a lower priority to them?

If every one of the active poster give away their smerits at a regular earning rate, I am pretty much sure around 20-30 merit sources are enough to do the work of meriting quality posts. I would say that giving away smerits is equivalent to providing feedback either positive/negative. Both are a feature of the forum while the latter helps newbies and others in not getting scammed. Merit Sources give away their allocated source merits and DT provides feedback for successful traders, scammers and trustworthy individuals. Not everyone do use the trust feedback feature in bitcointalk even if they encounter a scammer and the same goes for merits.

There are quite a few wallets which could be used in your apple mobiles, but if you are in a situation to store some hefty amount, I would suggest you to go for a hardware or desktop wallet and use the mobile wallets for spending minor amounts of bitcoin. BRD is one of a better iphone wallets out there but they do offer very basic features and you could go with Edge wallet, Coinomi or Green Wallet by Blockstream. Though they were not being suggested by bitcoin.org website I guess it's far more better than BRD in my point of view.

Green wallet has multisig implementation which helps you in protecting the funds along with the company servers. Moreover bitcoin devs work for blockstream and they can be far more trustworthy when development of the wallet is concerned.

Do you have any screenshots of what exactly the ban is about or what you receive during your withdrawal initiation?

While you try to withdraw the amount to your wallet, what exactly does binance respond to the withdrawal? Binance has implemented a security feature for white listing your withdrawal addresses and see to it if you have turned on the feature!

The whitelisting feature can be found in Security -> Address Management -> Whitelist On/Off . If you have turned on this feature and have added a whitelist address, you won't be able to move your coins to other addresses which are being posted by you!

If the above doesn't seem to be your case, as others pointed out above you should post about your situation with sufficient evidences in Scam Accusations board.

A poll sounds better along with posting. Not everyone would have a read through my post which is being posted in the third page of the topic, but if someone reads this here are my thoughts.

I would rather keep the money myself instead of wasting them by gambling it. As 'Hydrogen' said, the casinos and gambling companies are rich enough, they would wait for the gambler to lose and they really don't need this money and speaking by the fact, I don't gamble a lot or would never do frequently and hence spending the money for my own cause or helping someone with this would help either myself or the one who seeks help from me.

If we were to lose in the gambling game, the money goes in the hands of casinos which would make profits with that and would pay for the future winners who might be hardcore gamblers and would lose the money again to a casino.

This.

As 1miau pointed out even the most knowledgeable posters/people who really know what merit system is meant for doesn't merit posts very often. Many feel like the post doesn't deserve their merit even though it does deserve at least a merit. We do know the people who are the top merit receivers make quite good posts rather than others who have less than 10-20 received merits right after the introduction of the merit system 2 years back. Some doesn't like to merit top merit receivers nor they can never find people who have received less than 20 merits. I was once an active poster in Altcoin Discussion helping out tech related queries but over the course of time, it was really difficult to find good topics out there in spam and it was like hunting for 'Heart of the Ocean' in the vast spread out Atlantic!

Either way, merit sources and only few of the posters really care about spending their merits and perhaps the rest of them are hoarding them. We need to know the functioning of merit from a shitposter point of view and not from the Beginners board I guess. We can change most of the low level shitposters to good by educating them about the forum and merits and probably they can turn into some of the most helpful users on the forum.. But the knowledgeable posters who are hoarding their smerit can never be changed upon and if we tend to, we might receive a backlash as well!

Truly speaking many of us were shitposters in the earlier days of account registration and later changed to helpful members of the forum. When I was new to the forum and after the introduction of merit system, even I have received backlash/hate from Hero members for being somewhat helpful.  All I would say that, if people don't want to spend their smerits for good posts then they shouldn't instruct others to stop meriting.

Even if the pools work together to ruin the whole network, why should they initially carry out such an attack on the bitcoin? It would ruin their own company or the profits they were gaining all these days mining bitcoin. For instance, Ghash once had 51% of the total hashrate, but they requested the miners to move onto other pools making the network decentralized again. Same goes for the Bitmain and its hashrate as well. They made over $4 billion in profits in 2017 through mining and selling of ASIC chips and if they were to attack the network, it would ruin their future business completely.

Checkpoints were one such thing which could prevent 51% attack to happen, but they were removed citing they created unnecessary confusions and I agree to that. They were introduced in code to prevent DOS attacks and were not meant to prevent 51% attacks on the network. But if some mining company/pool in future tend to involve in such an attack, developers would write a new code and insist miners to run that. As ranochigo pointed out, 51% is basically making fake transactions to get accepted by the network and if the node has sensed a fake transaction/double spend it would make the subsequent blocks as invalid I guess.

82 - Heisenberg

Thanks for conducting free raffle in holidays and may the force be with everyone! 

Just changed the preferences to publish only links. I should wait for my next notification to occur and the 7 days removal is really good thing which doesn't make the page to look cluttered.

Finally, it's looking good now as far as datas and notifications are concerned! Just a premium design like bpip or a normal design would make the website more attractive now.

Thanks, didn't notice about it. Added!

Yes, but since you do have the 7 days old removal system I guess the clear button is not really needed. I was not aware that you would be removing the notifications after 7 days.

Aware of that. Have informed to my friend about the project and if I get any sort of positive feedback, will post the code in my git profile and publish it in your topic. 

Thanks again for making up the notification bot.

It's pretty sad to hear when a collectible doesn't reach the destination. And at the same time, I am little afraid as well while shipping some expensive items. Until the package reaches my destination, it would be a kind of nightmare for me and the same would be for  anyone who is experiencing a situation like me. My experience as a collector (less than 10 trades) was good to be honest but nowadays I am kind of afraid to buy little expensive items from far off countries. I am very much sure my country is bad in handling international goods, it can go wrong anytime and well that's one major problem associated with shipping items to my country.

All I can suggest you is to wait for the package to arrive for a little more time as I had a silver bitcoin collectible item stuck in customs for over 1 month when it was shipped from USA. Another negative aspect is that my country imposes around 50% of customs duty which is damn high. If they don't return up for a month, start enquiring about the package in nearest post office? I think it might be of some help, but not really sure about this!  

To prevent such bizarre nightmares and problematic situations in future, you could try to follow 2 things in your future buys.

1. Shifting most of your future buys to a fellow country collector. Shipping within the same territory is always much safer as you don't need to undergo any customs charges and other problematic stuffs. If you are worried you can travel to the destination and get that hand-delivered.

2. If you don't have a fellow country physical bitcoin collector, talk to any of your friend who is living in USA or the country where the collectible is located. Ask them to receive it on behalf of you and you can very well get that from him when you guys have a friendly meet-up.

P.S I have already followed both the above mentioned ideas and now my coins is in the home safely! 

If the person tends to continuously win over occasions even during a higher multiple bet, then the problem should be with the code of the gambling website or probably the gambler should have a favorable luck always. Experienced gamblers tend to lose money during multiple and repeated bets and the losing of huge bets always favors the gambling company. On the other hand, if the gambler invests his complete winnings in the gambling game regularly after a winning streak there are higher chances at one point of time the bets will favor the company and subsequently the gambler loses all his money.

Some of them tend to be satisfied with what they have won and would leave with that minimal amount before they lose further in future games. I am always against of investing huge winning bets again in the gambling, rather I would suggest to invest what I can afford to lose and have the rest withdrawn over time. At the same time, winning some games are based on strategies which might help the gambler as well in winning up their bets.

Gambling is based on the fairness of the casinos and are purely at times winnings are based on luck. There are various instances where the gambler has unknowingly clicked on a massive bet and they have won. There are recent instances in this forum where the massive bet was won and was higher than the casino maximum winnings and the user has made a scam accusation against the casino as well.

Either way roulette and other gambling games might be won when you have higher bet multiples and can even be lost when you have very lower bet multiples. I have experienced a continuous winning streak in Dice game with a smaller amount, but never played roulette TBH. I have been a newbie in terms of gambling and probably would never spend much for the same.

The very purpose of using bitcoin is that they are completely trustless but if Bitmain tends to increase their hashrate higher than 51%, it breaks the purpose of why bitcoin was created. Even today people believe in Ghash and Bitmain that they won't do anything bad to the network if such a situation happens in some near future.

It's highly impossible for China as a country to completely manipulate the market since if someone needs to manipulate or take control of the bitcoin system (as like CZ thought of doing that during the Binance hack) a particular mining company like Bitmain alone should have 51% of the network hashrate. Ghash was a mining company where majority of the miners joined hands, but sooner Ghash instructed some miners to look for a different pool thereby making the mining industry again trustless.

This is quite true. Theoretically a 51% attack is possible, but to practically execute such an attack I think we need atleast 60-65% of the hashrate as 51% of the hashrate is constantly needed by the miners to create a chain longer than the current original chain. I had been running a full node last year just for learning purposes and deleted the blockchain later and converted it to a reg-test mode to regain space in my PC. During that time, I have once seen REORGANIZE keyword being shown in debug.log but that actually means a chain reorganization has taken place and the client shifted to a longer chain.

If someone has less than 51% hashes and still trying to broadcast false transactions, their IP address would be permanently blacklisted (caught) by the node as TheUltraElite said. There is a code written in the client for blacklisting of the nodes if they try to broadcast or accept false transactions or blocks.


Tx fees and mining are completely unrelated to each other. Fees increases only when there is large number of pending transactions in the mempool whereas mining doesn't gets slowed down or gets faster.


Let us consider your scenario that Bitmain or China completely stops their mining operation (which is highly unlikely), at that moment the mining will depend upon other mining companies which will significantly take more time to solve the 2016 blocks. Difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks and if these blocks take more time to get solved, difficulty reduces thereby making miners to find new block under the current target more easily. By this way new miners would jump in the network and help in mining btc. This might make the China/Bitmain worthless again.

Perfectly right. A little more additions to the post.

A quits and thus making B and C mining those 2016 blocks. It takes a lot more time than A,B and C mining cumulatively. Hence the difficulty drops and when B and C solve the block they are rewarded. When B leaves, C mines the blocks alone and it takes even more time than B+C cumulatively to mine 2016 blocks. Difficulty gets reduced to suit C's hashing power and thereby C becomes the sole owner of that prize.

Notifications: http://loyce.club/notifications/1564795.html

I guess I have did that right! Thanks for coming up with an alternative immediately after the bot went offline. It would have been difficult without notification, but you made it pretty quick.


Regarding the first one, a link is probably enough since we would surely be visiting the topic once the notification triggers no matter what. So, quoting the whole post will be another nightmare in that particular notification webpage as o_e_l_e_o pointed out. Regarding the second and third one, it is more than enough to show a gist of the post just like what maggiordomo has been performing for all these days if the second idea is taken into consideration. Some people would post a longer reply for our particular post and that would again make the notification webpage difficult to read.

You could probably consider eddie13 idea as well.

As far as maggiordomo is concerned, it just spammed by inbox and I am still deleting all those which I have replied to. But since the pages are published publicly, instead of a clear button auto-deletion of the whole webpage after 90 days - 120 days might be a better alternative so that we could trash all the notifications once we have read that or replied to.

The idea could be something like, each webpage can have 25-30 notifications. Once 31st notification reaches, it would be posted in second page and so on. After 90-120 days the oldest webpage would be automatically deleted? Can you do something like this?

I will try to help you with this if I have time! Though I am not a HTML designer, but can ask a friend or someone to do that and can submit the code to you. Either way will try to help, but need time to contact them.

I guess the topic better suits in Speculation board rather than posting in Bitcoin Discussion. You need to understand that bitcoin is not a shitty trading/get rich quick scheme for you to sell as and when you like. Bitcoin was meant to be used as a perfect alternative to the bullshit censored fiat money (or) what you people call them as original money. The fiat currencies are meant to impose restrictions on us, the public and would always keep us under the control of government. You should probably use bitcoin as a currency apart from using them alone as a trading scheme and you need to understand the basics of bitcoin before making any topics like these.

Speaking from a trader's perspective, most of them wouldn't sell unless they see some good returns from what they have invested. Majority of the world thinks bitcoin in a bad light considering their minimal to absolute zero knowledge in knowing about what bitcoin is about and why it was invented. There are quite a lot of backlash from governments fearing that bitcoin might replace their fiat money and this could be considered as positive rather than labeling them from a negative perspective.

P.S Please lock your topic before it gets occupied by spammers. 

Everyone of us have a life outside the forum and as far as an online community is concerned we can't really expect anyone of us to stay online or active here until our death. Maggiordomo was a well written piece of code which helped many of us, but the sadder reality is that we should move on with the recent 'Loyce Notification Bot'. Personal problems plays a vital role and will probably force us to leave what we like at times (forum?). There were a ton of valuable members who left the forum, made a significant contribution and never returned back.

The problem can be due to their lack of interest in bitcoin or the forum as a whole, due to their health (Hal) or personal problems or might be due to their personal involvement in something bigger than this and which concerns them more than this forum etc. The likes of Piggy can be found right from satoshi, nullius and to the very recent disappearance of a valuable member like ICO Ethics. Some stay here regardless of their personal problems and for some this forum has become close to their real life.

Satoshi left the bitcoin for the greater good to make it more decentralized and so does everyone has a cause for themselves leaving this place. Many of us from 2017-2018 era would be very well aware of nullius (the outstanding tech and highly anonymous guy), but their reason of leaving was not really clear except the logging in from TOR.

12 - Heisenberg

Thank You philipma1957 for updating the spots regularly.

May the force be with everyone! 

Thank You very much Hhampuz for accepting me in a campaign which is running for quite a long term. Avatar has been changed and I hope this campaign and Site would emerge as another Fortune Jack or Cryptogames!