Buff.bet has been removed from the list for scamming a Bitcointalk user, closing his betting account, and confiscating 399mBTC. If you want to read more about this particular case, check out the following scam accusation thread: Buff.bet unfairly closing account and confiscating 399mbtc balance.If you are gambling on this site, remember that those who are ready to scam ones, can do it again if they feel the reward is worth it. Consider changing to a more trustworthy platform. Buff.bet has also locked their ANN thread, probably in an attempt to prevent users from writing posts about them being scammers. I assume they will either start a self-moderated thread in the future, or re-open the original thread when things calm down. |
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It makes no sense repeating what I already said in the corresponding ANN thread of this casino, so I will just quote myself below. I am glad OP opened a scam accusation and hopefully he will get some sort of justice. Make sure that you take your case to AskGamblers as well. Since BUFF.bet doesn't look like they are interested in resolving this, I am removing them from my Withdrawal Fees and Withdrawal Amounts on Crypto Casinos list. No matter how this case gets resolved, they are scammers in my book. @BUFF.bet
I remember that post I made almost a year ago where I asked you why citizens of restricted countries can freely sign up on your casino even if they shouldn't be allowed based on your ToS. You reassured me and the community that players from countries such as Germany aren't allowed to play on Buff.bet with fiat, but they can use crypto and it wouldn't be a problem because such restrictions don't apply when using cryptocurrencies.
What you are doing now is basically the opposite of that. You are preventing a player you know is from a restricted location to continue playing on your platform? You knew he was from Germany and it wasn't a problem for you in the past, but now it's a problem. I wonder if his account would have been closed if he was losing money regularly!?
Based on what I see here, I think that despite the fact that GekkeBelg is from a location whose citizens shouldn't be allowed to gamble on Buff.bet, you told everyone that it was OK as long as they played with crypto. At this point all I can do is advice GekkeBelg to open a scam accusation against you because you confiscated his money. It doesn't matter how much he played, deposited, and won in the past because you didn't have a problem with it in the past.
You said that new regulations don't allow you to have players from Germany on your site. OK, that can be true, I don't know. If it's true, you can't apply rules retroactively and count what the player withdrew from the site in the past when such regulations weren't in place back then. Speaking of new regulations, can you show some proof that your regulator recently requested that you close GekkeBelg's account or the accounts of other German players?
If a scam accusation is opened against your site, you might see your account tagged with negative trust. It's your mistake if you allowed players from restricted jurisdictions to sign up and use your services because you said it was fine to do so. Now you have to do the right thing. I will repeat what I said earlier. If that is no longer the case, and you can't have German players on your casino, you can't just apply those rules to a period in time where those regulations weren't yet in place and you were in fact allowed to have players from Germany gambling with crypto. You are doing that currently with this player in question. The appropriate course of action would have been to inform those players who reside in restricted locations and tell them that they are no longer allowed to play on your casino for this and that reason. You didn't do that and went straight to confiscating funds.
Did you understand what LoyceV was trying to tell you? You are heading towards the direction of having Buff.bet being market a scam. Why throw away a decent reputation here for such a foolish act? The ball is in your court, do what you want with it. |
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Theymos is surely back from his holidays by now. What better way to start your day than to answer my 30 Questions for theymos. He is going to have a blast! Doing one by one is also an option, but please pay attention to the "multiple posts in a row" rule. (naughty, naughty)
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It's very simple. Buy Bitcoin for an amount you can afford to lose. Send it to a non-custodial and open source wallet that is properly backed up and leave it there.
- Forget about trading if you are a newbie and you don't have trading experience. You need to know how to read the charts, recognize the trends, and be able to predict what will happen next.
- Bitcoin mining requires investing in expensive hardware and unless you join a mining pool, you aren't going to generate profits solo mining. It's an expensive venture unless you have some capital to begin with.
- I have nothing against staking, but it involves transferring the ownership of your coins to someone else. Those sites or platforms could experience hacks, exit scams, or have serious bugs which could cause you to lose your coins. All of these scenarios have happened many times.
- DeFi platforms have had various exit scams and vulnerabilities as well. It's also quite expensive communicating and moving your tokens across various smart contracts.
Start with the basics. Buy and hold.
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If you want to have the safest online wallet then you would go with a hardware wallet. Hardware wallets aren't considered online wallets. Even if connected to online devices like computers, the private keys stay protected in secure offline environments. That makes them convenient cold wallets.
@2girls1facemask Since you have already been hacked in the past, you might not be the most security-conscious individual. I am not sure how much of a help a desktop wallet will be to you if you have a tendency to visit dubious websites and download various things off the internet. If you have a spare computer/laptop and you are eager to learn, look into setting up an airgapped device by reformatting the OS and making sure it can no longer be connected to the internet. Electrum is one of the wallets that you can use as cold storage and make sure that your private keys and recovery phrases never touch the internet. If that sounds interesting to you, feel free to check out the linked guides below: Electrum Cold Storage TUTORIAL: How to use Electrum (for advanced users) |
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but I have standards one of them is it has to be insured by the government why is that so hard to appreciate? You are in the wrong forum then. Nothing related to Bitcoin is supposed to be insured by a central authority/oppressor. If such a company existed, then there is also the chance that they might put a freeze on your bitcoin without your permission as well. That's exactly what your government-insured financial services providers can do. But they can't do it to your Bitcoin stored in non-custodial wallets, with or without a freeze function. I personally haven't found a real use case for it. Anything that I could do with bitcoin, I could do cheaper possibly more efficiently a different way. You are from the USA right? Check with your bank how much it would cost you in transaction fees to send a payment to the Balkans? After that, you can calculate how much the equivalent of that would cost if you spent one Bitcoin input, no matter where you send it. Consider if that is a use case or not. And if the bank happened to go bankrupt the government would step in and pay me back. Your money is insured up to a certain value, but depending on how much you have, not everything will be paid back as you say. For ordinary people, that should be enough though. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is an independent federal agency insuring deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures. As of 2020, the FDIC insures deposits up to $250,000 per depositor Source |
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...just banning miners from operating in their country like China did. I don't believe it will come to a worldwide Bitcoin mining ban in the future. The Chinese government lives according to its own rules. I don't see that being reproduced in many other places, especially not in the West. What could happen is that we could see a stronger opposition of the use of fossil fuels, which would impact Bitcoin mining. But switching to other sources of energy production is something we will have to face sooner or later anyways. |
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Pmalek maybe you can add new betting website BTC365.com information with stats for Withdrawal Fees and Withdrawal Amounts. Thanks for the tip. I heard about this casino yesterday for the first time. Since they are brand-new and only created their ANN less than a week ago, I will wait for a little bit to see if the site is OK and delivers on its promises. I need to update this thread with new data and that also includes adding some new casinos like I promised earlier. That's now on top of my to-do list, as soon as I have some more free time. <Snip> Thanks for the information. I will check it out with the next update of OP. From a fee perspective it does seem like that there are a few winners that you should look out for, including FJ and Nitrogenbet. Nitrogenbet is probably affiliated or connected to NitrogenSports, isn't it? I wouldn't put them on any lists of trusted or recommended casino platforms. |
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This doesn't impact Bitcoin. The security that the 12 word or 24 seeds provide isn't the issue here. The issue here is how many words can be exposed before it becomes vulnerable to an adversary, which doesn't concern Bitcoin's security at all. How much time will be required to crack the remaining words with X amount of words exposed, exactly. But why do you say that such a technology wouldn't negatively impact Bitcoin in its current state? If it becomes possible to crack 8 words tomorrow, in two years time it might be possible to crack 12. Once 12 becomes brute-foreable, could 15-16 be penetrable in 10 years? Cracking a part is just the testing phase to the ultimate goal of cracking it all. It doesn't undermine the security of our implementation, and cracking a seed that is securely generated and stored is far, far, far more expensive (both in terms of the monetary and the resources required) and also improbable than any rewards you'd possibly get. Forget the monetary rewards and just focus on someone wanting the death of Bitcoin. Death in its current state unless it can adjust to an algorithm strong enough to withstand the new attack technology. I suppose that shouldn't be difficult considering that the interests of everyone involved with Bitcoin is in jeopardy. |
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No one will merit such an account cause it could be an impersonator... Obviously you aren't going to create a new alt account and PM someone from that alt account asking them for a merit. You would do that from your main account, and in the PM you mention the name or link to your alt account. Nonetheless, that shouldn't be done as the other party might see it as merit begging. |
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The problem is not how hard is it to be developed, but how big is the market for it. If the technology can be used for evil and can do bad things, there will be a market for it. Wouldn't it be more worth to just go out and buy some Bitcoins instead of cracking some partial seeds. Don't look at it in that way. Look at it from the point of view of someone who doesn't like the benefits that Bitcoin offers. Be it a government, a political party, or the banking elite. If bans and regulations don't deliver the expected results, let's try to hit the security of Bitcoin and show everyone how useless it it. Think about it in that way, for example. |
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There's an official rule, visible when a Merit sources Merits a post: It is not allowed for merit sources to sell their merit. I will check that out next time I merit someone, I don't remember seeing it to be honest. That still matches with what theymos said when he touched upon the subject of people getting tagged for the way merits are sent and/or received. Unless they are sold, you shouldn't be tagged according to theymos. Although I am the one who asked the question of meriting yourself, my personal opinion is that it's an abuse of merits, even though the ultimate goal is not to abuse bounties, campaigns, ranking up, etc. |
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If we assume the data could be extrapolated, it should at least take 10 days to 2 weeks not 10 minutes. That's still quicker than what I assumed it would be. I wish I had better technical knowledge on the topic to not sound like a noob and respond in a more professional manner, but I don't. How important is knowing the checksum compared to not knowing it in that estimate of yours? Another issue is whether we can actually build an ASIC that does all the operations needed to brute force a BIP39 mnemonic... Is there optimism that such technology couldn't eventually be developed? |
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You can't clone my credit card. Ever heard of credit card skimming? It captures the info on the magnetic strip and steals the credit card number and the CVV code. A camera records you as you enter your PIN code. I read a story a few years ago about a guy who worked at a gas station who was skimming the cards of some of the customers. He would first give them a fake lookalike device to swipe their card and enter their PIN. After that he would say, crap the device isn't working. Please try this one. He would then connect the real one and have them pay what they owed. There are ways to do it. Plus, you could very well end up in jail if you weren't careful. That's unimportant at this point. We aren't discussing potential punishments. unless my deposits are insured with them by the united states government then i can't really trust it. sorry. Bitcoin isn't insured by the US government or anyone else either. Do you trust and use it? |
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For deposits, we require 1 confirmation for BTC and an average of 6 confirmation for ETH/USDT. OK, good to know. I asked that question because your website talks about "blazing-fast deposits" that take less than five minutes. That made it look like you have instant deposits to me. Maybe you can change that since that's not the case. The claim that the deposits are "blazing-fast" isn't true if the appropriate network fees weren't paid by the sender. On top of that, the next Bitcoin block can sometimes take 30-40 or more minutes to be constructed. |
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If the forum rules explicitly prohibits meriting your own alt-accounts, even with the most honorific or reasonable excuse, it should not be allowed in any case. Actually, there are no rules when it comes to meriting at all. There is only the community's viewpoint on this matter. If you want to see what theymos thinks about it, take a look at his quote that LoyceV posted in post #14. Besides OP, with your caliber of a poster, receiving 1 merit would not be too difficult on your experience and skill. Like I said in my OP, this is only a fictional scenario and not something I have plans to do. |
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Thanks for the list. The OpenSSL wiki has the site I used and recommended placed on top, so everything is good. I did notice a significant difference in size. The Windows installer I downloaded from the wiki source is 63MB, while the curl 7.78.0 for Windows is only 5MB. I guess the first source contains many more libraries and/or tools while curl.se only comes with the basic package. |
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I was watching this video of Andreas explaining the dangers of splitting your seed into several parts. He was answering a question from someone who wanted to know about the safety of splitting the seed into three different locations. Any two of those locations would contain all the words and would be enough to recreate the mnemonic. A) Words 1-8 and 9-16 B) Words 1-8 and 17-24 C) Words 9-16 and 17-24 Andreas explains that it’s a bad idea and suggests using Shamir's Secret Sharing scheme to those who want to split up their seed words for whatever reason. A 24-word recovery phrase contains 256 bits of entropy. That’s impossible to brute-force with today’s technology. In the proposed method of spitting represented above, there are 16 out of 24 words in each location. 8 words are missing. AA explains how the last word of the phrase is the checksum, and since only one word fits in that position, it can be brute-forced much easier than the rest. Location A doesn’t contain the checksum, and you will be required to brute-force 7 of the missing words + the checksum. AA says that it decreases the entropy to 80 bits that need to be brute-forced. I don’t have any knowledge about brute-forcing, but Andreas says that’s an exponential. It’s not going to take one-third of the time (since you only need to crack 1/3 of the seed). It’s much less than that. According to the explanation under the video, it’s 2^176 times easier to brute-force those 80 bits of entropy. He goes on to mention that this could be easily done in the next decade with the appropriate hardware, especially if the checksum is known. Did he set the bar too low, or could this be “ easily brute-forced in the next decade”? 2^176 times quicker to brute-force doesn’t tell me much about a timeframe, so with the most powerful possible hardware, how long would such a process take approximately? The video about this topic can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nSibpfHYE&list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj&index=35 |
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I cannot access the site because my location is restricted, but find it surprising of all the many gambling sites I've had accounts and visits this is one of the few sites that restrict my country That's because the majority of other sites have Curacao-based gaming licenses, but this platform is licensed in Montenegro. Different licensor = different restrictions. Could you tell us what the use is of this rule from your terms? How can there be transaction costs other than miners fees? They can never be even close to 5% They explained this in one of their previous posts. If you deposit or withdraw less than the minimum amount, that's when that rule can kicks in. Unless you do that, it's not going to happen.
@btc365partners You accept USDT but over which network? Do you accept the TRC20 version over Tron? You stated that your deposit and withdrawal times are 5 minutes of less. Does that mean you have instant deposits, or how many confirmations are needed for the balance to be credited in BTC and ETH? |
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if you don't know what it is, how can you think it is not stupid? I am basing that solely on the info found on Zion's homepage. same with the telephone for example or language, or money (like bitcoin). there will be only one in the longterm (or at least one network which dominates). I am not sure what you consider long-term but there are different currencies and languages, and depending on where you are, it's you who need to adapt and not the other way around. You can try and shop with your dominant USD or EUR or whatever in a particular country and see how far that gets you. When I was doing some work in Germany a long time ago, I asked my boss if we can speak in English because I am fluent in English and still learning German. She said no! We speak German here. In other words, you can take your dominant English language and shove it. She just said it nicely. wow such a great claim, did you know that you can get paid right now for your creation? as i said, the idea is stupid So what? Since when is more competition not desirable? If I buy my groceries at shop #1, I should never enter shops #2 or #3 even if they have the same or better type of offers and should consider them stupid for trying? |
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