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741  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is this safe for my crypto wallet? on: October 01, 2023, 11:42:17 AM
That is not a permission that is necessary for the wallet to function. The most I have allowed a crypto wallet to do is to access my camera to scan QR codes for transfer of transaction data or to copy an address, any other permission required is denied.

I don't mind getting rid of the new phone because of this, my last one isn't asking me of this access.
This should not be necessary. You just have to verify that you did not download a malicious clone of the app, in which case you will need to delete it and clean out your device.

- Jay -
742  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: October 01, 2023, 11:33:05 AM
Well I see losing like another 7 positions this week and I am in a consistent losing mode during the recent weeks but I am not worried at all.The reason is that I see a lot of other people not doing well either in the pool and the fact that only 8 points distance from 37th place to 10th place says a lot about these standings so far.
It is good to pick up as much point as possible to be in the running for a prized finish, but you are right and we are still early in the league, very early and things can change very quickly in the space of a week or two.
The season will also be getting more unpredictable with the weeks, injuries, dips in form, change of managers and then the coming transfer window. The roller coaster is just getting started.

- Jay -
743  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: October 01, 2023, 08:21:10 AM
How is it that ref and var both make wrong call? This smells like Spanish scandal.
it was quite a ridiculous call. VAR did not even draw a line and it was obvious even to the naked eye that Luis Diaz was onside. They have released a statement admitting an error, but this is the exact reason why VAR was introduced in the first place.

But I want to point out, Liverpool red card seemed wrong. Nobody thinks so? Ball turns the foot, obvious.
In the actual play, it does not look bad, but when you watch the replay and it is slowed down to a freeze at the point of impact, then it looks nasty.
A yellow could have sufficed, but i can see why the ref changed it to red. It was a very dangerous challenge and with a bit more power can severely injure the tackled player.

So many talking points from the match, but worse off was Tottenham's performance; playing at home against 10 men for 45 minutes and then 9 men for the final 20 minutes, you should really be winning that game more convincingly than they did. Liverpool were amazing.

- Jay -
744  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Given the first 15 words out of 24, can a hacker crack the wallet? on: September 30, 2023, 01:37:46 PM
I am currently using a highly complex method to store a set of 24 mnemonic words. Decoding the mnemonic requires 20 minutes.

I am considering why not use a simpler approach?
If you really want to use a simpler approach then simply write down the seedphrase on paper and store that, as a contingency have more than one back up sites.

If you really want to complicate it, then add a passphrase or use a multi sig wallet and store that separately. These are tried and tested methods and they allow you to easily recover it when you need to. Do not over complicate the process.

- Jay -
745  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: September 30, 2023, 01:25:39 PM
It is 5 -1 now against Brighton. This will be a very tough defeat to swallow for the club as it is a very wide margin. There momentum will also be very low going into a very important match for the club in the Europa league fixture. In fact the whole of their coming fixtures are very difficult ones.

- First they are away to Marsaille,
- Then they host Liverpool,
- Then they are away to Manchester City
- Then they are home to Ajax.

The direction of their season will be determined in these fixtures, cause they could lose any chance of making it out of their Eueopa league group and fall behind in the Premier league, and they are already out of the EFL.

- Jay -
746  Other / Meta / Re: Do you use 'All' option given next to topic links to read all comments in... on: September 30, 2023, 12:42:25 PM
I use here when I want to search for something in the thread, the function of displaying All helps a lot
I click on All and then use CTRL + F in windows to search for the word
Alternatively, you can search in the page using the search box at the top which shows result from the entire thread. It works efficiently and from there one can locate the exact page the result was made.

- Jay -
747  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 30, 2023, 08:08:12 AM
Tottenham vs Liverpool, I am not sure why bookies are thinking Liverpool is going to struggle. The odd for Liverpool is 23/20.

Will we see another match like Castle vs Liverpool?
Maybe cause they very well would struggle. Tottenham are very tough opponents to play against for any team in the league and they are playing at home so Liverpool does not have the advantage of the Anfield noise to spur them on. This is also Liverpool's first real test of the season, so we get to see if they can perform under that pressure.
Tottenham has already played against 2 of the 4 teams that qualified for the UEFA champions league last season and are yet to lose a game. Although we can all agree that United are still struggling to find their feet.

That match can swing either way.

- Jay -
748  Other / Meta / Re: Do you use 'All' option given next to topic links to read all comments in... on: September 30, 2023, 07:44:04 AM
I can imagine that one of the main reasons this feature was put in place to allow printing of all the pages in a thread easily without having to go page by page.

I have never used it since I registered on the forum, but maybe other members have used it to read through very interesting threads.

- Jay -
749  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: PayPal Just Announced Plans to Launch a USD Stablecoin - Thoughts? on: September 30, 2023, 07:22:32 AM
The freezing of assets is an unfortunate feature of such tokens that will hopefully never be used against ordinary and innocent individuals on the orders of government institutions and those in power. 
Hopefully that never happens, but power is known to be abused many of the times.
And we have many corrupt governments around the world who will use any power they have against the ordinary individuals.

DAI is a much better option to the rest of the stable coins or worse, the CBDCs.

- Jay -
750  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How important is the witness data? on: September 29, 2023, 08:12:04 PM
In segwit, witness data is not excluded. Segwit stands for Segregated Witness, which by definition means that the witness data is segregated into parts.

A legacy address which has no witness data weighs more cause the non witness data takes up 4 times the amount of weight units that witness data takes up per byte.

- Jay -
751  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: September 29, 2023, 08:05:06 PM
Barcelona playing on Friday night for the first time in a very long time and the score is 0 - 0 despite some big chances from both sides, with Ocampos missing for Sevilla and Fermin as well as Felix missing for Barcelona.

Raphina also got added to the growing injury list which already has Frankie, Pedri and Victor Roque. This will force more game on the remaining fit members of the squad and force the youngsters to fill big boots consistently.

- Jay -
752  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: PayPal Just Announced Plans to Launch a USD Stablecoin - Thoughts? on: September 29, 2023, 07:58:51 PM
They are all centralized, they are all closed-source, and the issuers can freeze the stablecoin tokens in your address with the right request/paperwork from law enforcement...
And the holders do not care a bit cause many of them do not even believe in actual decentralization. It is either they do not trust themselves to safely hold the tokens or they appreciate what they believe to be extra security when the developers freeze stolen coins, when the question should be why all the breaches are happening in the first place.

- Jay -
753  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is this the path you should take to become successful? on: September 29, 2023, 06:20:56 PM
Some say he's an Idiot but something he says sometimes makes sense. LOL. What do you think about it? Is it some way to manipulate people or that's the right thing to do?
I do not care for much for politics and try not to get involved in it, but I will not call him (Donald. J. Trump) an idiot at all, and the statement actually made lots of sense. It is no way to manipulate people and many popular figures many times in the past have made similar statements with different words, so it is not entirely an original thought.

- Jay -
754  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling and it effects on: September 29, 2023, 06:13:09 PM
Growing up into a man I got used to gambling believing it will change my current financial status, which I was wrong, it was quite the opposite, not that am not seeing money, I was but I was too fix in making it through it.

When I finally quit the addiction, I realized that I was doing better than I even thought,
The bolded part is why people encounter issues while gambling. Not only is it wrong to see it as a way to change your financial status, you got fixed in it, which shows there was an element of addiction into it.

Your topic title should have been Addiction to gambling and its effects, which is a topic that is talked about here many a times.

One one thing I have noticed about gambling is that before you win a thousand box, they might have milk you of more than that.
[I just want to use this medium to appeal to the younger generation, please stay off gambling, if you must do so, gamble responsible, don't take it as your only source of living so it wouldn't milk you dry.
Definitely everyone should gamble responsibly and if you do not have the self control to do so, avoid it entirely.

- Jay -
755  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: The effect of bitcoin halving on bitcoin mining. on: September 29, 2023, 07:42:51 AM
As the halving will increase profit in investment for hodlers, it will reduce the reward for mining for miners to half.
If the event increases the profit of holders then the value of the halved mining reward will also increase.

For comparison, miners earn 6.25BTC which is about $170,000 with the current bitcoin price of $27,000.
The halving will drop the reward down to 3.125BTC but if there is an increase in the market value of bitcoin to 3× (which is a conservative amount), the value of the mining reward then will be $255,000, which is significantly higher than the current value. The downside is that the bull run does not come with the halving but several months or a year after.

I imagine that every miner is also hodling bitcoins and will still benefit the other way from the halving. Am I wrong? Is there anyone amongst us who is strictly a miner that depends on the rewards from mining as income to sort expenses and is not hodling any?
All miners invariably hold bitcoins since they are competing to win the mining reward. They need to cover operational cost regularly which will be affected by the halving.

How should miners prepare for the halving?
I imagine there will be a temporary drop in hashrates if some rigs close down due to high operational cost and a halved reward. This will balance out after some time if the market enters a bull run.
Although I expect they will be preparing for it and have already started saving from their current gains.

- Jay -
756  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 28, 2023, 08:52:41 PM
For Liverpool, we start with the hole, and then bail the water out as we put our sails up.
The high expectation is part of what makes up the perceived problem of letting in tons of goals.
If I was in an opposition team, I will really be scared of this Liverpool team, cause not only do they come back from dire situations, they know how to kill of the game once they go ahead.

I will like to see how they handle a game after going ahead first, cause I will expect them to be very dominant in that situation.

- Jay -
757  Other / Meta / Re: Let's Make The Merit Fun - Win Some Merits And Next Membership In The Meta Board on: September 28, 2023, 07:38:44 PM
Spammers and trash posters are present in all forums, also here - merit system can not help, if the member want to spam & trash, he/she will do it.
But they have no incentive to spam which reduces the number of spammers we have here and also, wait for it... reduces the amount of spam and trash post.
The merit system means spammers are not rewarded with higher ranks for the number of posts they make here without any consideration to if they offer any value at all.

- Jay -
758  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: September 28, 2023, 07:31:38 PM
And despite leaking goals, we're actually 2nd on "least chances conceded" behind Citeh, so I'm also okay there.
Conceding 5 goals in the league after 6 games is not exactly 'leaking goals'. Liverpool have conceded the second least amount of goals [5] just behind City with 3 and they have kept one clean sheet this season.
I think what makes it look bad is that Liverpool have been going down first and needed to come back from behind in almost all the games they have played this season. It has a different feel when you are cruising to victory by 3 goals and the other team get a consolation goal and when you go down first.

It is looking scary how good Liverpool's results have been and how much they have to improve to become better. They just might edge Arsenal and return as the main title contenders.

- Jay -
759  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: September 28, 2023, 07:08:09 AM
Girona host their biggest test of the season so far and while it may be too early to call the results and performance in that match will prove if they are or can be title contenders this season or a flash in the pan.

Real Madrid are dealing with a lot of injuries especially in central defense and there are concerns about Alaba and Rudiger after yesterday's victory over Las Palmas. It is a very bad point in the season to have a depleted squad with Champions league and domestic competitions bringing difficult fixtures which needs lots of squad depth.

- Jay -
760  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: UTXO Consolidation using Segwit and Taproot on: September 27, 2023, 04:32:56 PM
After consolidating and one still wants to have a reduced or higher transaction fee for the transaction, is it still permissible or possible to modify the transaction fee before sending?
You can edit the fee of the transaction before signing, depending on what wallet you are using. You can edit it after sending too but only to "bump" up the fee, not to reduce it.

Since you are consolidating, you should be looking to reduce the fee and not to increase it. You are sending to yourself, so just border around the minimum feerate at the time.

- Jay -
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