8 days, 9 hours and 9 minutes.

Looks like mine is the highest so far out of all the recent posts in this thread.

There are no rules for .org domains. Ever heard of 4chan? Same goes for .com, .info, .net, and a few others. There are rules for .gov and .edu domains and some country-specific domains require you to either be in that country or to be connected to that country in some way however.

While I was eating a cheeseburger yesterday, I had a bit of a eureka moment. Current dice sites have a house edge that makes them ultimately unprofitable if one plays long enough. They can also be shut down by authorities, hacked, or the site operater can run away with users' funds. But what about a decentralized peer-to-peer dice betting system? There would be no need for a house edge because there would be no "house". The total number of bitcoins in the system would stay the same although some players will emerge as winners and others as losers. Users would be playing against each other (i.e. for every winning bet there would be an equivalent losing bet) and the behavior of its participants could be enforced using some sort of protocol that rejects attempts to manipulate the system.

What do you think about this? It should be plausible at least in theory, no?

Why 21 million?

Digital content can be copied, but Bitcoin is much more than that. Bitcoin is a decentralized network of computers that together maintain a commonly agreed ledger of all transactions. There are no bitcoins. Just a private key that allows you to modify this ledger by broadcasting a transaction. You can't "copy" a bitcoin because attempting to broadcast such invalid transactions would cause all the other computers in the network to immediately reject said transaction. This is also why a 51 percent attack is so disastrous. Because it allows for bitcoins to be double spent and for transactions to be reversed.

But you can copy data because pure data alone doesn't require the agreement of other parties. It is just a collection of 1's and 0's. Once you have the encryption key for that piece of data (assuming it is encrypted - if not then it would be much easier), there is nothing stopping you from copying it ad infinitum.

Not to mention that would be one heck of a huge blockchain.

EDIT: Some minor rewording.

I like this system. If Bitcoin manages to replace fiat, then 1 bit = $1 USD (circa 2014), a satoshi would be worth about a cent, and those who have one or more whole bitcoins will be millionaires or multimillionaires. Nice and simple.

Umm... Are we thinking of the same site here? Last time I checked, Landofbitcoin.com was a faucet rotator for Microwallet.org. That one was actually one of the first faucet rotators I used before I started getting seriously into Bitcoin (and like you, realizing that faucets are mostly a waste of time and it is much better to just buy it with fiat instead ).

I like both and will probably be investing 50:50 into both. There's no denying that Bytecoin was there first and its devs are more familiar with the code than Monero's devs can ever hope to be, because they, ahem... wrote it. But I also like how Monero is less shady and more transparent and is starting afresh with a more inclusive community whereas Bytecoin has most of its coins mined and held by the early adopters in the deep web community that we don't know anything about. It could just be a small handful of people controlling 80 percent of the coin supply. This to me is the biggest reason why I'm not going 100 percent with Bytecoin because it means that everyone else is pretty much fighting over the twenty percent of the mineable coins that are still remaining plus if only a couple of the darknet whales decided to dump their coins, the value would surely drop.

Yeah, that sounds about right from my experience, although I've found that some characters take less/more time to find than others.

This. Litecoin is a good coin and a worthy addition to any crypto portfolio but it seems that OP has jumped for the wrong reason.

I didn't know what Martingale was until I read about it and realized I was actually doing the exact same thing on Freebitco.in when I wanted to turn my balance into a nice round number just before withdrawing - e.g. having a balance of 29,980 satoshis and betting 20 satoshis to reach 30,000 satoshis. If I lose the bet, I would bet 40 satoshis, and so on until I won it all back plus the 20 satoshis. It worked well for me so far but I would definitely stop if I lost a large enough amount (fortunately that hasn't happened yet).

Martingale works semi-reliably if you have a very large balance and only bet very small amounts. But anything more than that and people tend to underestimate the frequency of losing streaks. The more bets you place in order to bring yourself to a reasonable profit, the more you're exposing yourself to encountering such a losing streak, and when that happens, you can easily blow away your entire balance - thus negating the strategy overall.

EDIT: Some rewording.

And how are they different from normal motherboards?

I've noticed that they have lots of slots in them to put graphics cards in. Is this so that you can mine using multiple cards? Is that the only difference? And how do they compare to those who are using their gaming rigs to mine? Which one is better? Or could a mining motherboard also be used in a gaming rig?

Even generating 1b1asomething isn't easy. It would take my computer 8.8*10^11 years at 50 Kkey/s per second to generate that. The rise in difficulty per additional character is exponential so 1b1a would be easy (a minute or two at most), 1b1aso would be moderately difficult (a couple of hours to a day or two), and 1b1asome would be very difficult (a couple of years to a decade or two).

With that setup, the amount of bitcoins you would mine would not make it worthwhile. People use ASICs to mine bitcoins. The age of CPU and GPU mining is over. You could try mining scrypt coins like Litecoin if you had a good graphics card but you say that yours is integrated so that's no good. Perhaps CPU coins could be mined with the processor since the one you've got seems average at least. These could then be traded for Bitcoins via an altcoin exchange like Cryptsy.

Or you could buy hashes from a cloud mining provider like CEX.IO or PB Mining. But these mining contracts aren't profitable unless you are interested in trading them. And you'll need BTC to buy them too, i.e. from another place like Coinbase or LocalBitcoins.com.

Yup, I received it too. I went back to check today and now it's gone so theymos or one of the admins/mods must have deleted them all. It was probably a wallet stealer. I hope nobody actually got scammed.

The Chinese have their own online ecosystem that is mostly separate from the rest of the world. Google, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook aren't very popular in China and the Chinese people seem to prefer their own homegrown alternatives like Baidu instead of Google or Weibo instead of Twitter, etc. So how did Bitcoin buck this trend to become popular in China? I'm guessing it must be very popular there because China seems to be very important for Bitcoin. After all, why else would prices drop whenever news come out about their government regulating Bitcoin?

Yup:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

You signed up in April 2012. Back then, 1 BTC was like what? $5? You're still an early adopter.

Same here, except I bought my first fraction of a bitcoin in early 2014. I even signed up with Mt. Gox back in 2011 but never did anything with it.

I just had a look at Bitmixer.info and the site looks very professional and well made. Not the kind of site I would associate with a scam. It's amazing how sophisticated some scammers are.