On this you're correct. However, the wallets too are on the right direction. Some of the LN wallets, although I've seen them for now only in short movies on twitter, have impressed me. And LN is fast too (although some will argue that LN is not actual bitcoin because is not on chain), so I expect this is what most people will use.

Of course, most of the more advanced wallets we use for on-chain transactions are not as newbie friendly as we'd like, but yeah, since they are done by people in their free time, we cannot complain. They are far from bad though. Still, I do agree with you, on this chapter there's plenty of room for improvement. PS. The fees aren't that big, you can still send easily at under 1$/transaction. Still, even if they go way up, keep in mind that it should not be feasible to rent an armored car in order to send 10$... and on chain that's pretty much what we do.

Well, it was you who said first the magic word "board" , and that in topic title
A pinned topic, yes, that can work, but a topic doesn't even have to be pinned in order to be visible. As I said in my previous answer: make a topic with all the relevant info; if it gets enough traction and people keep talking there, it will be on the first page in Gambling and it should be good enough. If theymos and/or the mods will see that being maintained and useful for long enough time, they may pin it.

Just pinning a topic without proving its long time usefulness is risky; a topic can easily get outdated and because of that it'll show a casino being great, but in reality it's deserted (just as an example). You may be very active now and in 2 years you may no longer visit the forum; what will happen with the topic then?!

..just my 2 sats.

Yep, you are in confusion. 
Do you know how banking works? Do you know how Visa/MasterCard and the partner banks settle the payments? I'm almost sure you don't, and you still use cards.

This being said, a lot of wallets are being made lately, some of them very easy to use (albeit some are custodial). Absolutely ordinary people pay or get paid with bitcoin. They don't know how it works, all they know is how to use their wallets to pay or get paid. As simple as that.

...So you're looking to recruit a gang to spread some drama on this topic/subject?


In the past few years, every few months there was a news about Mt Gox bitcoins about to flood the market soon^TM. Indeed, that made me wary.. first 2 times. Now I see it as a non issue. If will ever get released and if too many people will be dumb enough to dump their coins at this rather low price (since we're just after the crypto winter), so be it. But I think that it's rather unlikely. Hence I'm one from the "non-issue" group.

Casinos are just another type of businesses and they are already treated separately and have a pretty big part of the forum.
As businesses, one place for this could be in "Service Discussion".
As gambling businesses, this could go directly into Gambling. And, interestingly, if such a comparison/reviews topic gets traction, it will pretty much stay on the first page of gambling topics, so it should be OK.
Plus: if a gambling business doesn't act fairly, the Scam accusations (and maybe Reputation too) areas are welcoming the users with complaints.

So, sorry, I don't see why an entire area would be needed for reviews/rating only.
Keep in mind that there are nations present on this forum having only a single topic for themselves. Maybe this gives you a better idea.

Actually afaik this is what legal tender means: everybody has to accept it as payment method.


(I've bolded the important part).


In my country bitcoin is not illegal. But it's also not legal tender. And since bitcoin is not illegal a few shops accept bitcoin payments, legally.
As I said, I do wait for the next step: seeing it legal tender.

Brute force attacks can in theory end up with ... stealing, hence in most cases they're shady, unless you indeed have lost your password.
Anybody with some more experience in Bitcoin knows the brute forcing wallets is meant to end up only with wasted resources and nothing found.

Then, brute force attacks are often asked for bought wallets which are usually a scam, i.e. wallets created artificially and that don't contain anything useful.

This leaves only one brute-forcing related endeavor on the forum I know about. It's Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it and maybe other threads too related to the same addresses.

Indeed!
I was surprised that Aston Martin is that good.
I was surprised that McLaren is that bad.

Great race for Alonso, great race for Gasly and very strong start of the year for RedBull.
I am also happy for Sainz, I don't know if it was luck or better management of the car (compared with Leclerc), but he did finish on a not-too-bad position.

I've just read one of your old posts related to those giving you negative tag:


All I can add is, yeah, I would have no expectations on getting your tag removed (you may even gather some more).

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I would do something extra. After creating the useful paper wallet, writing it down (including address), I would ... create one more wallet (with the same name, if asked).
The point is that there's a chance that if you do this the old wallet file gets already overwritten.
I would also format the phone afterwards, but it's known that phone format is not perfect and may be missing some files (I don't know more details, hence that extra step of mine, which may or may not be useful).

Sorry 1miau, I agree with @hosseinimr93 here: if one posts into a self-mod topic he knows that his post may get removed. This doesn't happen with a "free" topic. Changing this "during the game" is unfair advantage for topic owner.

Just imagine a shady business getting a couple of bad reviews: in your proposal it will be allowed to change to self-mod and remove those. Those users, if they would have known that there's a chance their posts get removed may have been made the complaints in completely different topics.

Your use case takes into account only your situation when the topic starter is honest and the posts he wants to remove are probably spam (which can be reported) or bad intention garbage (which, at an extent can be ignored, and if a threshold is passed the topic ends with a link to the new moderated topic). We are old enough around here and can find our ways. Let's not give more tools to the scammers only because we want some things be easier for us.


This would make sense, but may be more difficult to implement.

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This logic is useful only if another pool gets a target hash in the same time, which happens rather rarely.
In most cases that competition for milliseconds between pools doesn't exist. It's not like all pools find the block all the time exactly at 11:23:56.777 and being the quickest really matters.
So normally the pool can easily grab both the block and the fees. Sometimes it may not be able do that, but it doesn't know when is that.

Maybe I'm missing something, but really, if you would be right, all miners would just mine empty blocks.

I think that if one makes his own casino.. may spoil the fun of it. Or, at least, would not play at his casino (and then it's two unrelated things).

Having/managing a casino is not necessarily for a gambler. It's for somebody who knows to handle all the legal things, all the software and security issues. Gambler(s) can be asked for opinion now and then in order to spice up the games. But the rest is more management than gambler-mind business.

Even more, a gambler may take unnecessary risks with his business (eg start with too low bankroll and risk not having money to pay the winnings at start, especially as the start is more expensive due to increased advertising and bonuses), so he can doom the business before properly starting it. Not a good mix.

Making Bitcoin/crypto illegal is stupid at best. The government makes (some of) the voters unhappy and also loses money it could get from taxing crypto gains.
So getting it legal is an easy step and a win-win situation. The "like El Salvador" is another step, a much bigger and harder one. But I wish you good luck and may the right candidate win and also fulfill his promise!

I'm not trying to justify anything. Imho any fee bigger than the minimal (for my small sized transactions) is probably not worth it because I'd pay less on LN if I'd bother switching.


I don't deny that. But if there's no huge improvement in the number of blocks mined by the pool, the miners will not be happy about those fees they're losing.
And I can bet that the pool does care about keeping (most of) its miners there.


Again, I think that you're over-simplifying the things. Let's say the pool doesn't care and mines empty blocks. But if the pool constantly mines empty blocks and the miners don't get the income they're expecting, they'll leave. And then the pool will care. (Of course, again, the pool will make sure this doesn't happen, hence will try to find a good balance.)


... But I think that we've started now to get somewhat off topic...

It seems that Luke was targeted. It seems that Luke didn't use hardware wallet nor a proper cold storage (ie completely offline).
So a proper cold storage (if you know what you're doing) or a hardware wallet should do. Then you cannot really get hacked.
You can make smaller transactions also with one wallet. Nowadays a (HD) wallet can have many addresses and you can use them wisely with the right wallet software.

Of course, I also think that if somebody has really big money in bitcoin then multiple wallets (most probably hardware wallets) may not be a too bad idea.
I think I've read in the news of a family that has a big number of wallets spread all over the world, exactly for this reason.

However, that one cold storage - multiple online wallets (probably watch only?) - thing doesn't make sense to me, but I may be missing/misunderstanding something there.