That's right, and that's why admins can't (or better said) shouldn't consider paraphrasing as a bannable offence. Unless, of course, we are talking about a shitposter who does nothing else but post dubious content whose origins and authors can't be proven, and has other posts that are plagiarized.   

Iznenadio sam se kad sam pročitao da Polkadot ima jedan sličan sustav kao i XRP u smislu da ne možeš poslati svu DOTu sa svoje adrese. 1 DOT mora ostati na adresi, ako je "Keep Alive" opcija aktivirana. Kod XRPa je ta rezerva nekad bila 25 XRP, ne znam kako je sada. Njihov Polkadot.JS novčanik dozvoljava korisniku da deaktivira "Keep Alive" opciju. Ali u tom slučaju sve što ostane na adresi ispod 1 DOT će biti uništeno (burned) i adresu biva deaktivirana. Ledgerova aplikacija još uvijek ne nudi opciju da se ta značajka mijenja tako da ta rezerva od 1 DOT mora ostati na adresi.

How is an intangible digital currency or a cryptocurrency similar to a tangible physical currency like a dollar bill?

Tron the coin doesn't use the Ethereum blockchain. It has its own network. You are probably thinking of USDT, a token (even though it's called a stablecoin) that can be transferred over the Tron blockchain. While writing this post I just remembered that Tron used to be an ERC-20 token, but sometimes in 2018/2019 it migrated to its own network, so maybe you were talking about that. Such migrations happen often once the projects develop their mainnets.

Although this thread is about the dangers of centralized exchanges, the OP also mentions hardware wallet, so your question remains partially on-topic.

The coins are never on your hardware wallet. Only the private keys which allow you to spend your coins are stored on the wallet. When you set up your wallet, you will be presented with a 12/24-words seed. Everything is derived from that master seed. Make several copies of your seed on paper and store them somewhere safely.

If your hardware wallet breaks and stops working, you can simply get another one of the same type or a different one as long as it's compatible with BIP39 seeds. So, if you use Ledger, get another Ledger or Trezor wallet (those are the most popular ones), import your seed, and you will have access to your coins again. You can also import your seed in a software wallet, but doing that, you lose the security that hardware wallets provide.

I have a question about your brand ambassadors such as John Terry. From what I know, UEFA doesn't allow players and club officials to be tied to betting companies and having "a financial interest" in such companies. Zlatan Ibrahimovic was recently fined for a similar misconduct.


The article goes on to state that:

Your site states that John Terry was a brand ambassador in 2018/2019. In that season, he was Aston Villa's assistant manager. Are there any official documents/sources that can prove that he is a brand ambassador of BK8?

Many people will tell you that Ethereum is the real shitcoin and Ethereum Classic follows the principles of the real Ethereum coin before the DAO debacle. The difference is that the classic Ethereum has less network security and thus suffered 51% attacks. 

He really said that? I'd like to read about that pathetic attempt of his, do you have a link to the story?

If someone says that Bitcoin uses a public and decentralized ledger, is that plagiarism? is it paraphrasing or can it be considered public knowledge? Do I need to put a source link anytime I use words like decentralized, ledger, distributed, open-source, etc? What about backward compatibility, do you think anyone puts any links when talking about it?

Paraphrasing as an act of plagiarism can sometimes be difficult to prove. How are you going to prove that someone's post about importing a private key into a wallet is plagiarized/paraphrased just because the steps he wrote down are the same as what other people wrote previously?

Whenever someone explains how a bitcoin transaction goes from point A to point B, it's paraphrased from somewhere even though you memorized and you know the process by heart. There was once an original post about it, people read, improved, and memorized the process.       

Riddle #7

Ivan is from Croatia. His younger brother Igor studies abroad in Canada. Ivan wants to send Igor a $100 gift in bitcoin, but he is worried. Canada is far away, and the transaction will inevitably include international transaction fees, he thinks. Ivan hesitates whether or not bitcoin is the best payment method to use and thinks the more coins you spend, the bigger the fees will be.

Can you help Ivan to figure out how bitcoin transactions work and how the fees are determined?

Oh, you didn't know that there is an app available for Windows 10 that allows you to extract a private key from any address out there and it's completely free and absolutely not malware-infected at all...

Joking aside, I can't be angry with a journalist for not knowing the workings of Bitcoin and the blockchain. What pisses me off is when I see that someone reports maliciously about crypto, but obviously knows nothing about how it works. I am OK with the lack of know-how as long as the general idea of the piece is not about how Bitcoin should be avoided at all costs, that it brings only trouble in the world, is only used by drug dealers, and similar nonsense.

UserU is right. I haven't ranked the casino from best to worse, I just listed them as I came across those with faucets. Having an ANN thread on Bitcointalk was an important factor as that's where I can find out more about the site's reputation. I didn't consider those with negative feedback, so that it doesn't look that I am promoting them somehow. The faucet has to be free for all. If the casino requires KYC or deposits before the player can claim some coins, it losses its point of a free faucet in my opinion.

Ovo sa Eriksenem je baš ružno bilo za gledati. Danci u tom trenutku izvode aut i pogodi ga kolega loptom u tijelo dok ovaj tetura i pada. Igrač najbliži njemu okreče leđa kao da je najnormalnije to što je pao. Tek poslje toga kad je sudija signalizirao lječničkoj ekipi da uđu primjetili su da nešto nije uredu. Stalo mu je srce na par minuta sigurno i korišten je jednom i defibrillator. Što se tiče ponovnog igranja, mislim da je svoje u Interu i u Italiji generalno završio. Žabari imaju neko pravilo da igrač koji je imao srčanih problema nema više pravo nastupati. Tako se bar pisalo ovih dana.

I kod mene fali onog nekog pozitivnog naboja koje obično bude prisutno kod ovakvih velikih turnira. Izblijedilo je.

You are right about that. I think your theory about the FBI making a deal with the cryptocurrency exchange to hand over the coins makes the most sense. The entire report about them "having the private keys" could be just a fabrication created to not put that centralized exchange in a bad spot business-wise. 

Although Entrochat wasn't created by the FBI, as soon as you mentioned encryption software, it made me think of that. I was planning to write a thread about it, but I am not quite sure where to post it as it's not really related to any bitcoin type of discussions. Maybe Serious Discussion could be appropriate. Everything can be broken with enough interest and coordination.

The mempool looks pretty good right now and if your transaction is valid and got broadcasted correctly, I suggest you take another look at it as the problem has been probably solved already. At the moment of writing this post, there are less than 1.000 unconfirmed transactions in the mempool.

@Raiviic
Depending on how much was in that wallet, you might have learned the hard way how important it is to be in control of your own data and ultimately your own money.  Bitcoin teaches us about financial independence and not to rely on third-party services to store sensitive information because they can stop their operations any time, be hacked, or have a leak. A physical backup with pen and paper is and always remains a better option than a digital backup.

I hope you will somehow manage to regain access to your wallet!

There are currently less than 1.100 unconfirmed transactions in the mempool according to https://mempool.space/. That means that even if mempool.space suggests a 4 sat/vByte as minimum fee, a 1 sat/vByte transaction has a good chance to receive next block confirmation considering that some blocks have 2-3k of transactions. Of course that's not a rule, and it all depends on how long we have to wait for the next block. Currently, we are 11 mins without a new block.  

You know that meme, ain't nobody got time for that? That's the sad reality. Things like common sense and personal safety are easily forgotten when all you can think about is how much money you stand to make.

It's also going to take years before people understand both the benefits and shortages of irreversible transactions. We still use a financial system where you only need to pick up your phone and make a call and ask someone else to correct a mistake you did. Crypto works in a different way, and not everyone is ready for it. 

I can't wrap my head around the idea that the FBI "had the private key" of that address. If it was a centralized exchange, I'd understand if they put pressure on that exchange to block that particular account. But the exchange would certainly not give out its private keys. If the hackers used a custodial wallet, I'd like to know which one, and how did the FBI get the private key of the address from it? From the report, it doesn't look like the FBI managed to infiltrate the computers used by the thieves and gained access to the keys that way. They already had the keys.

Maybe it's important to consider that the FBI has released fake custodial crypto wallets that are being used as we speak. Similar to the fake apps they created that led to the arrest of an international drug cartel not that long ago. Another reason not to use unknown, custodial and closed source apps. 

There are so many cryptocurrency exchanges and P2P methods of purchasing bitcoin that it baffles me that people still believe in online/email offers where the crypto equivalent of Nigerian princes give you the chance to get rich. Not only that, but he gave the scammers access to his computer where they stole his personal information and showed up at his home demanding more money.   

@BitScorpio
You have to realize that not many people look at the state of the mempool before broadcasting their transactions. They either rely on their wallets to suggest what fees to use, and those are too high most of the time. Or, they use even worse fee estimators that can be even worse at times because they suggest 10, 20 or 100 times higher fees than what is needed.

Some bitcoin users get worried that their coins will magically disappear if their transaction isn't confirmed within a few minutes. To avoid all that, they would rather overpay. People are still used to traditional banking where everything happens in just a few seconds. At least, that's how it seems. They don't care what happens in the background.

I created an account with BC.Game when I wrote my Withdrawal Fees and Withdrawal Amounts on Crypto Casinos thread. You are right, they do have such a lucky spin wheel. I tried it out and got some in-house JB tokens as a reward. From what I can see, players can spin the wheel once every 18 hours.

It's free coins whether you click on a claim button or spin a wheel. I'd consider that a faucet as well.

BC.Game will be added to the table in OP as well!