Almost every gambling site out there(FIAT and Crypto) hates it when customers keep withdrawing frequently from their sites, but love it when customers keep depositing regularly which is the sad reality.

This is why they use shitty tactics like enforcing KYC etc in order to try and slow down the withdrawals.

Interestingly enough, Chinese government has been focusing on this. They've been trying to build that up to improve the domestic "demand" in their economy and strengthen it from within. In fact one of the reasons why they are less affected by the global crisis is this.

But you are right. China has always wanted stability so that they can milk everyone in the world! If US economy crashes, China will be significantly affected. This is also why they always try to or hope for stability in other regions of the world too, such as West Asia.

However, lets not forget that for China that is a double edge sword. In fact the reason why China owns a huge amount of US debt is two reasons:

First is to help the dead US economy to stay alive artificially for longer so that they can milk it more.

And second is that at the same time they want to have a very potent weapon against United States in case US regime wanted to face China militarily for instance (ie. if China dumps the massive amount of US bonds they own at cheap prices it would annihilate US economy).

Whonix only runs as a Virtual Machine.  There is no way you can INSTALL it as a stand alone Operating System.

There are two ways of running Whonix.  Qubes or Virtual Machine.  Qubes is kind of hard to get accustomed to if you are not a fan of new UI and if you are unprepared a new, overhauled experience with a Linux distribution.  I like Qubes because it gives you many options.  You create what they call 'Domains' which are pretty much Virtual Machines.  You can create a Windows 'Domain' with no Internet connection.  All Domains are separated.  They do not interfere.  Any USB you insert has to be assigned to Domains you want it to be assigned to.  Any thing you do is pretty much happening in separate Virtual Machines and Qubes is just an offline desktop to manage them.  Think of it as running multiple computers all on the same monitor.

Best part of it is that the main management desktop known as dom0 is offline while you can run online Domains.  With this being said.  If a Domain is hacked it is almost impossible for the virus or hacker to get to dom0 let alone another Domain.  It is overkill like you say however.  Unless you truly care about top notch Security.

Like I said however.  It is hard to get accustomed to it.  You will have to do a lot of documentation.  Reading their install documentation is very important too.  You will learn a ton of important things about keeping high levels of Privacy and Security while running Qubes.

Qubes offers full disk encryption in the Install GUI and is extremely Privacy friendly.  It has pretty big system requirements however.  There is an exhaustive list of computers tested with it.  Maybe it is helpful to you.  https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/

Now that I wrote this all I realize I sound like a walking Qubes advertising billboard!

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Tails is fun and all but because of its amnesic properties it is not a great Operating System for daily use.  It was not meant to be a daily driver or to be used occasionally with Persistent Storage anyway.  So I do not recomment doing a Persistent installation of Tails.  What I like about it is the amnesic property of it.  But this makes it only a great temporary Operating System.  It is perfect if you need to quickly boot up Tails for an Internet search.

In some cases Tails is more secure and can offer more Privacy than Qubes can.  But for your needs this might not be it.  Would not recommend any body to run a Full Node on Tails.  Defeats the purpose of Tails and probably builds loop holes too weakening the Security you should have.

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Since you are looking at some Debian distros.  Why do you not just install the blank version of Debian?  Download and install only the first CD file from https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/.  That will install the most stripped version of Debian.  Last time I checked, the stripped version of Debian is 100 percent Open Source.  Then you can install any non free driver or package you like by downloading it from https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.  This is the most hard core way you can go if you do not trust any thing and any body.

What I like about Debian is pretty much ANY issue you will ever encounter with Debian will be about one or two quick searches away.  There is an entire community for this distro.  It is Debian after all.

Warning.  This means you will encounter a lot of problems you will have to fix by yourself one by one until you can get to run the things you need properly.

You will probably not even have Wi Fi drivers after installing the first CD.  Probably will not need that if you are using Ethernet any way.  You can look up drivers for any thing that does not work.  I doubt you will not find a way.  Internet is your friend.

But there is a bit of work to do if you want to keep it as clean as possible and this is the best way to do it.  Who needs display driver which is proprietary.  Who needs Bluetooth adapter.  Who needs all that B S.  I like it raw.

There are many other distributions but I would not trust them.  Fewer contributors and users means more loopholes.  Tails, Qubes and Debian are pretty much Top 3 for people who do not trust their computer and Operating System much.  Ubuntu is probably the most popular distribution across the Linux community but even Ubuntu is based on Debian.  Why run something that has been built on top of Debian when you can run Debian itself.

Other Privacy oriented distributions are more focused on Security than Privacy it seems.  Kali and such.

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Or give them all a try.  See which you like most.  Maybe you fall in love with one and keep it.

You said "An ordinary user would be digging himself into a bigger hole if he mixes his coins with what usually would be the criminals' coins."  Since users such as yourself would rather have no privacy at all instead of mixing with criminals, zkSNACKs obliged your concern and is refusing to do business with criminals on your behalf:

KYC is always compulsory to any casino that has a Curacao license. They just require it in random basis but all the account is subjected to KYC at some point of their game. Casino just imposed it during registration process but you automatically agree to undergo KYC once you are asked the moment you sign up and agree the casino ToS.

It’s not about how huge your withdrawal but depends on the overall activity of your account since you can be subjected immediately to KYC if you show some shady activity.

Casinos who will do such thing are shady. Because if the platform is trustworthy, they will not use a trick to take advantage their gamblers for something that they're not aware of. It's a common practice for casinos to ask for verification if you win a decent amount especially if you exceeds the limit.

However, this rule should be written on their ToS and they're transparent regarding this. And even kyc is not compulsory at first for new player, they will understand that this is inevitable in the future. So it's the responsibility of the gambler to read the rules to be certain that they understand and agree on the casino's rules.

In terms of wallets, I suspect it will be ones owned by other malicious entities such as centralized exchanges. Coinbase wallet, or Trust wallet which is owned by Binance. Those are already terrible wallets, but when they start attacking bitcoin itself as Wasabi does then that becomes yet another reason not to use them.

Almost all centralized exchanges will do this. Some will even lock your coins if you deposit coins from a Wasabi coinjoin, which makes a complete mockery of Wasabi's pro-government and pro-surveillance stance.

Chinese economy is too weird to analyze like this, specially without doing extensive research into it. For example last time a sector in China was about to go bankrupt, it turned out that it was the Chinese government's doing. They basically bankrupt them to prevent capital from leaving the country!!!

Not saying this is the same but you got to do a lot more research to figure what the hell is going on in China.


The economic crisis is a global matter so it is affecting every country but to be honest China is one of the least affected ones.

For example the budget deficit thing you are talking about is like $130 billion which is like 1% of China's GDP and is really nothing specially since the GDP growth for China is above 5%.

In comparison other countries are doing a lot worse. For example US budget deficit is already in the trillions ($1.7 trillion to be exact) which is a much bigger percentage of the GDP too (nearly 7%) and the growth US set was 2.4%.

Which is why we need to speak out strongly against any entity which promotes the use of taint, such as Wasabi, and warn everyone to stay well away from ever using their products. Taint only exists because of the likes of Wasabi. If everyone stopped using any entity which promotes the use of taint, then the entire concept ceases to exist.

This is nothing but a PR campaign. It's pretty clear to me what the casino have done and are doing.
- BC.Game have scammed many, many players. Left a lot of them on hold for a very long period of time, and watched to see which ones have complained.
- BC.Game have come here now only to resolve the cases that are public - and denying the larger cases with technicalities.
- Those who have not made a public claim, are probably still left without anything and will probably be left without anything.

After BC.Game pays out all of those who have open claims, including the larger claims, BC.Game should then cease to operate. Shady practices have occurred once, why should anyone trust this brand again?

Yes. It is trivially easy to identify coinjoin transactions, regardless of which coinjoin implementation they use. The benefit of coinjoins does not come from obscuring the coinjoin transaction, but obscuring which coins are which.


"Tainted" according to their provably made up bullshit nonsense. As I've said before, I have never once had a problem with any of my well obfuscated coins being accepted anywhere, because I flat out refuse to interact with any person, service, business, or other entity which attacks bitcoin by buying in to the nonsense of "taint".


I do. It's a direct attack on what makes bitcoin bitcoin, and paves the way for government take over.

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Just lol.

You've had the same things explained to you dozens of times by multiple users over many months. Your continued lies and denial of facts is simply evidence of your malicious intent to drive bitcoin to a government controlled system.

Wasabi is the enemy.

This is not accurate, otherwise coinjoins wouldn't work at all. The concept of tracing specific sats through various transaction is entirely made up and does not even exist at a protocol level. Have a read of my previous posts below:

This is a case to case basis depending on different factor.

Weak Trader:
-If you take profit just because you are a bit excited because the price move after you purchased without analyzing the price chart if it’s still just the beginning.

Wise Trader:
-If the market is already reach a resistance or there’s a negative news that you knew that the price will be affected heavily. This time, Taking profit is really good because you already gain some despite it didn’t meet your target since you can always open new position once smoke is clear which you will knew if you analyze the chart.

Remember that taking profit early is still much less painful than taking loss while you already have the opportunity to gain profit.

It's funny and unbelievable when a veteran people can think like that. But, I guess this also has to do with their age . Maybe they are heavily attached to the old school and do not want to give too much effort on the newer ones because their body or mind can't handle it anymore XD. Younger generations tends to disagree with their statements. For us, modern investing or investments are much better.

Yes. I like that kind of approaching the problem, by the way.


Scaling is directly related with compression. If you can use the same resources to achieve more goals, then that thing is "scalable". So, if the size of the block is 1 MB, and your "scaling" is just "let's increase it into 4 MB", then it is not a scaling anymore. It is just a pure, linear growth. You increase numbers four times, so you can now handle 4x more traffic. But it is not scaling. Not at all.

Scaling is about resources. If you can handle 16x more traffic with only 4x bigger blocks, then this is somewhat scalable. But we can go even further: if you can handle 100x more traffic, or even 1000x more traffic with only 4x bigger blocks, then this has even better scalability.

Also, scaling is directly related to intelligence. You can read more about Hutter Prize, which was advertized by Garlo Nicon some time ago: http://prize.hutter1.net/

I will add a bonus question: how do you measure if your model is scalable or not? Write it as a function in big-O-notation, or anything you like. I support "constant-based scaling", which means O(1) scaling, which means leaving current resources as they are, and improving algorithms to build things on top of that, for example through commitments.