Shit, really? I could have sworn I saw you mention that it was yours. Plus the 'ninja' part of the site's name points at you. Did you advertise/mention it a few times in your posts that could have led me to believe that it was yours or joked about it being your site? I will surely remember it now. 

Lucius offered a good insight in what he has been doing and his post history shows it all. It doesn't look like he wants to stop. 

That's what I meant when I said social media link spammer. He posts links to his twitter and facebook posts in the bounty threads on Bitcointalk. 100s of users do that daily and all it does is create 100s of pages of spam in the bounty threads. If you were to remove the social media reports and fake bump conversations, most of those bounty threads would have a few pages at most. The way it is now, they go up to several hundred pages.

When it comes to social media campaigns, I don't think they have rank requirements like other type of campaigns because the activities take place outside of the forum anyways. They would only care about friends/follower count. That makes them available to newbies as well.

Social media link spammers are the worst kind of bounty hunters. Don't take it personally, that's my opinion and I am sure many members look at it the same way.

To earn merits, you need a history of good posts that someone else will like and deem merit-worthy. Do you think twitter and facebook links are posts anyone will like and award merits for? If you want to become a member of this community, you can. For that, you have to start reading and learning about bitcoin, and discuss it with other members here.

If you go to the Beginners & Help board, you can find threads were people might be willing to help newbies for completing simple tasks. Try to find them yourself...message signing...ahem. It's unlikely that the thread-starter would want to help you (looking at your post history), but you can learn something for free and you can use those skills to acquire new knowledge, or maybe help someone else who could award you with a merit or two.   

That's part of the freedom that bitcoin gives you. If a merchant wants to use a centralized exchange for reasons that make sense to him, it's his right to do so. I can tell him about better options, but he doesn't have to listen to me as long as that exchange satisfies the needs he has. If I use the services of such a merchant who then sends those coins to a centralized exchange where they get confiscated for being associated with mixers/underground markets/gambling/whatever, I can't tell the merchant that I am a privacy-oriented individual and he needs to be one as well by not using such exchanges. He'll want his money because the coins I sent him, aren't worth anything to him. Therefore, if this practice of removing value from certain coins that centralized entities don't like continues, it will be the privacy-focused users who suffer the consequences.

I had no idea that Electrum does what hosseinimr93 mentioned by default. ranochigo's explanation about the buckets system makes sense, but being overconcerned with privacy can certainly cause you to lose a lot of money. Although it's the user's job to learn how to properly send and receive bitcoin, I still think users should be informed that they are about to spend an unnecessary amount of UTXOs for a transaction that can be spent by using only one input that is big enough. Some sort of pop-up or system notification would be nice.  

You can also use Find My Coins.ninja to see the entire list of fork coins available on your address. You just enter your address in the search field. The site was created by Bitcointalk user TryNinja, feel free to try it out. You have already moved your bitcoin from the address, but as a remainder, it's always a good idea to move your valuable bitcoin from an address whose private key you are about to import in a wallet for one of those forks.  

Yeah, it happened. I took another look and he sent 500 bitcoins to the faucet back in 2010.

Here is the part of one of my threads where I talk about that:
Yeah, I remember those messages he exchanged with Lazlo as well

You can never know what intentions someone has for reporting something. Maybe if multiple people reported him for sending them PMs they never wanted to receive and consider it spam, something would have happened. We don't know.

That's why I am hoping one of the admins will pop by and offer his view on the whole unsolicited PM theory.

I am even thinking of a scenario where one could frame someone for sending him and multiple other people unsolicited PMs and then reporting that person. Of course, I am not going to give anyone any ideas of what I am talking about. Depending on how strict admins are with that rule, it could get the person in trouble.   

That's good to know. Looking forward to seeing a lower withdrawal requirement.

Another suggestion regarding the withdrawals page. Back when the site was operating with the old design, players could see what the minimum withdrawal limit was by entering an amount in the withdrawal field. But now that message is missing. It would be nice to get it back. So, if I enter 0.002 BTC, I think it would be good to see a notification that the minimum withdrawal amount is 0.004 BTC (or whatever new limit you introduce).

Right now, the system only tells us that the amount you are trying to withdraw is below the min. limit. But, it doesn't say what the limit is.   

Cheers!

It's good that the casino doesn't require an email address to sign up. Just a username and password.
@OP why aren't you answering questions by the community?

Will you require an email when withdrawing from the casino or maybe some sort of identity verification?
If you want any chance to be successful here, you need to address the questions raised by members regarding verifying the fairness of your casino games. How do we check if the games are provably fair?

I have seen some casinos with a 45-60x wagering requirement for the deposit bonuses. Compared to those, a 15x rollover is nothing. I am curious, which casinos do you know that have a lower wagering requirement than 15x?   

The computational power dedicated to the network is what keeps it safe. If you take that away, you take away the infrastructure that has protected it all these years. Bitcoin, because of its POW consensus algorithm, is the most expensive network to attack and maintain that attack for longer periods of time. 

Other coins like ethereum classic, grin, Verge, some less-known forks of bitcoin have suffered from serious 51% attacks.   

Yes, but the question is, what would have happened if I, someone else, 5, 10, or more people reported you for sending unsolicited PMs? Would you have received a temp ban or maybe a permanent one? Or would the admins not have looked at it that way at all or simply warned you to stop?

BitcoinFX, isn't that the guy who donated 100s of bitcoins to Gavin's faucet back in the day? I think I remember that from a thread I wrote some time ago. Thanks for bringing that up as an example of what can happen in such situations.

That's what I thought. It comes down to whether or not it will get reported. The consequences will depend on the friendliness or assholeness of the PM receiver and the mod making the call.

Turns out that neither of them started because Guardiola had other plans. About on hour ago, I read a good post by one of the sport sites that I follow and it said something like this: Guardiola played with either Rodri or Fernandinho from the beginning in 59 out of 60 matches this season. The only match where that wasn't the case was in the Champions League finals and he paid a heavy price for it.

According to Rule #29 in the Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ, sending unsolicited PMs, including but not limited to advertising and flood, is not allowed.

I am interested in the forum's interpretation of the term unsolicited. It's something you haven't asked for, but are the rules really that strict? How do you make business connections and collaborations with other members on the forum privately if you can't send an unsolicited PM? If I don't want to state my intentions publicly, why can't it be done via PM?

A few examples:

- If I want to advertise a service, is it against the rules to PM that member on the forum and asking if he/she is interested in working with me?
- Is it ONLY against the rules if I send 5, 10, 100... PMs with the same content to multiple recipients. That would then be considered flooding.     
- If someone sends me a PM saying: "Cool site. If you want, I can advertise/write about it on my blog for a fee", is he breaking the unsolicited PMs rule?
- If I see a gambler who posts excellent tips on the forum, and I PM him saying: "Do you want to cooperate and join forces in finding value bets"? Can he report me for sending unsolicited PMs, and am I breaking the rules? 


I could think of more examples, but I am just trying to determine where the admins draw the line. If I were a dipstick and reported such PMs of people willing to offer or use a service or got reported myself, what actions do the mods take?

@zaico
Hardware wallets are simple to use, but still provide a decent level of security. That's what makes them so popular in the community. Web and software wallets are even easier, but they aren't nearly as secure as hardware devices. The perfect setup is an airgapped device or a properly generated paper wallet. But both these options require better technical knowledge than using a USB-like device.

An airgapped computer is only used as an offline medium to sign your transactions. It's a computer you aren't using for other things. Some don't have that luxury unfortunately. Some people don't own or want to own any PC/laptop, but they can still use a hardware wallet with their mobile phone.   

It's great that you are willing to experiment with bitcoin and especially the Lightning Network, but you could have saved a lot on fees if you just performed a standard on-chain transaction. I know that you wrote in your 2nd post that you are doing this to learn something new, but it could have also been achieved by not throwing valuable satoshis down the drain.

You bought coins on an exchange and withdrew them to your private wallet (I assume). That's your first on-chain transaction.
You now have to send 0.001 BTC to your friend. That's your 2nd on-chain transaction.
Depending on what exchange you used, you could have sent the coins to your friend's exchange wallet P2P (for free) and have him send those coins to BlueWallet for example.

It's a good learning experience, but one that wouldn't have needed the LN and the multiple on-chain transactions + the LN routing fees because we are talking about just one transaction of 0.001 BTC to your friend. If you wanted to make it interesting, you could have played a double or nothing game with the total price being 0.002 BTC. For each bet you or your friend wins, a prize of the pool is moved via the LN to you or him. That way you could test it out with 10-20 or more off-chain transactions. That would have been a good use of the LN infrastructure.

Rath_ keeps track of LN development, is dual-funding of LN channels possible now?

There are, but it also depends on the type of wallet.

Don't get phished. There is no reason to be curious and click on every link you see. Don't click on unknown links from random people you don't trust or you aren't expecting will PM you.

They can cause no harm to hardware wallets (except a clipboard hijacker that can change the destination address, but if you pay attention to the address displayed on your devices' screen, you will notice it), papers wallets, and airgapped devices.

This is similar to phishing links. In most cases, there is no reason to use the majority of them. If you absolutely have to, ensure you are downloading the real thing.

Of course it is. Orwn (intentionally spelt wrong) is all over the place in his latest posts. Although I would never vote for any kind of general restrictions towards newbies and low-ranked members, I would be the first to limit (if I could) people like sujon5 and 415jeremy, whose only agenda is to advertise those two brands, from posting in certain sub-boards on the forum.

Technically, I don't think they are breaking any rules.
Rule #24 says: Advertisements (including signatures within the post area) in posts aren't allowed unless the post is in a thread you started and is really substantial and useful.

I wonder if such posts can be reported and be deleted based on that rule? All they do is advertise their wallet in threads started by other users. But will the admins agree that those kind of posts are useless or not? 

True, but we still haven't reached a point where the acceptability level of this currency is high enough. There are many limitations, and they depend on how crypto-friendly the place you find yourself in is. When we reach a point where I know that I can ask my counterparty if he accepts bitcoin, and he will happily take it in the same way he would accept cash or a credit card from me, I would be happy with the results. We can only measure the true value of an asset by how accepted it is in any situation we are in. The more those odds move in bitcoin's favor, the better it will be.     

What if the majority of the network approves and decides to allow for a transaction to be double spent? What happens then? 

Are you talking about a penalty fee for the node that allowed the double spend to happen and what exactly is that node paying? Is the transaction still double spent?

The ones that appear on the public ChipMixer spreadsheet are yours . Anyone could follow the movement of those coins (or get a chain analysis company to do it) until you mix them, do a CoinJoin, or send them to an exchange where you could exchange them for a different coin and withdraw them. I know that's not what you meant, just saying.