Let's give riddle #4 another try before giving the green light for all ranks to answer. Newbies, Jr. Members, and Members can you solve the problem?
Another question for our 3 lowest forum ranks: Are the riddles and questions too difficult, or does it hurt when you strain your brain and you are not that into it?  

Current thread status: Open for all ranks

Bounty threads get infested with report spam quickly and it's possible the campaign manager will never see or react to your post. Why didn't you mention in the bounty thread that you made a mistake when submitting your info and copied the userID of another forum member? You only said that you made a mistake and want to take a break. The campaign managed doesn't know you need anything changed. When and if you decide to come back from your break, you have to contact the manager a second time to have him correct the mistake in the spreadsheet.

If you still don't know your userID, it's 3155973.

Many coins that have been created in the past and those that will be created in the future only exist so that a centralized group (core developers and those close to them) can profit from them. They don't offer anything new or create any benefits to the users compared to what was available before their creation.

cryptoaddictchie mentioned Vitalik. I think he sold like half a million of ethereum many years ago. Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin did the same thing with his bag of LTCs. I am sure this list is much longer, but you see the point.

Without knowing the threads and the topics in which you made those posts, it's difficult to speculate on the reasons why your posts got deleted. Even if they weren't off-topic, they can be deleted for other reasons.

Maybe you were repeating what others already said and some user/users started getting irritated and went through your post history reporting those kind of posts. I am just speculating, but many users don't read the threads they reply to. They read the OP, maybe a few posts below it, the last post in the thread, and then they comment. Just to be sure, read the whole thread (top to bottom) to ensure that what you are writing hasn't already been suggested and written by other users before you.   

The land of the free is interested in generating money through taxes and you are free as long as you pay your taxes.

The United States allows each State to create their own laws when it comes to gambling. A big majority of States allow at least some sort of gambling. It's not uncommon that local laws allow playing at licensed casinos, but make betting on sports illegal or vice versa. Some time ago I read somewhere that you are not allowed to operate an online casino (which also includes online crypto casinos) anywhere in the United States. However, you are still allowed to play at certain online platforms who will gladly accept US players. It's best to check with official institutions what the legal frameworks look like in your place of willing to be safe.   

You should have stopped after you made a profit of 3 times your deposit. That already puts you ahead of the majority of gamblers who first lose money and then play more chasing their losses and trying to come out on top. You are already showing signals of becoming an addict if the occasional game here and there is turning into you considering becoming a VIP member. Seek help before it's too late and consider the needs of those around you who are impacted by your decisions. You'll get rid of gambling addiction when you understand what your priorities are and stop chasing a dream.           

We could be wrong thinking there were 2 different leeks. Both Ledger and Shopify mention that data was stolen using an API key.

I think this is the timeline of the entire incident:

1. April - June: Members of Shopify support team steal data of over 200 merchants.
2. July 14: Someone informs Ledger Donjon security team that they have suffered a breach.
3. Ledger claims they "immediately fixed the data breach". I am not sure what this means and what was fixed.
4. After that, they conducted an investigation and discovered that the breach happened through an API key.
5. July 29: Ledger informs the community of the breach and sends a report to law enforcement.
6. September: Shopify releases a statement that mentions that data of over 200 merchants were stolen.       
7. December: Spotify informs Ledger that among the records that were stolen by their employees, there were also private records of Ledger users. 

If this is the correct timeline, how did the person who informed Ledger in the bug bounty know about the breach? I remember reading that no data was public at that time (again allegedly). Did the person inspect the faulty API key?

Ledger says:
 
https://www.ledger.com/blog/update-efforts-to-protect-your-data-and-prosecute-the-scammers

These sentences make it sound like Ledger fixed the breach first, then they launched an investigation. It was during the investigation that they discovered the API key. Again, how did they fix the breach before the investigation if the investigation lead to the discovery of the API key?

Žalosno je to kad ljudi zaslijepe od pohlepe ili od želje da zarade neki novac i rješe neke svoje životne probleme. Nažalost imao sam priliku da slušam i gledam uživo neku dalju rodbinu sa mamine strane kako priča o nevjerovatnoj ponudi koju su dobili da pomognu jednoj bogatoj arapskoj obitelji da izvuku novac iz zemlje. Za svoju pomoć bi dobili par miliona dolara ali prije toga naravno moraju platiti par hiljada za naknade, registraciju, itd.

Nikad nisam saznao koliki novac su dali jer smo izgubili kontakt i prije toga. Ne mojom greškom. Upozoravali smo ih da je riječ o klasičnoj prevari, da ne budu naivni, itd. Tad sam vidio koliko pohlepa može da utiče na čovjeka. U njihovim očima, ja sam bio ljubomorna budala. Optuživali su mene i roditelje da nam je krivo što mi nemamo priliku da zaradimo taj silni novac. Da sam ljubomoran na njih što su oni "izabrani" a ne ja. Oni su zapravo i vjerovali da su posebni i da su ih zato bogati arapi odabrali među milijonima drugih kandidata. A ja, bezobraznik ljubomorni sam želio da uništim njihove snove.

Tako da ništa me ne čudi Rikafip. Vjerovatno ti se neki od njih smiju i smatraće tebe neprijateljem koji im oduzima priliku da zarade novce.       

Many users suggested some of the most popular crypto casinos on this forum but without taking into consideration one important element. OP is from the United States. Many of the sites suggested here have a Curacao gaming license. According to that e-gaming license, players from several countries like France, Netherlands, and the USA, are restricted from playing. mu_enrico seems like the only one who noticed that.

USA is very peculiar when it comes to online gambling. It's allowed, but only (and mostly) if the casino is registered in the same state where the player resides and gambles. If you want to be a law-abiding citizen, you most probably can't play on most crypto casinos.

A quick search led me to https://bitwin.io/casino/. If that list is to be trusted, there are several bitcoin casinos that welcome players from the USA. Check it for yourself to get the whole picture.   

I always thought that the Spotify breach was a separate incident to what happened to Ledger. Maybe because the public was first made aware that Ledger's database got hacked/leeked, and only after that we discover that it was due to Shopify's personnel that the database was stolen in the first place (allegedly).

In this report, Ledger claims they were made aware that there was a breech through a third-party API key in July 2020. Back then, they were still suspecting that complete details of only 9.500 customers were leeked + 1 million emails. They went public and informed people what happened, or more precisely, what they though had happened.

The article goes on to mention that it wasn't until December 2020 that they found out that the breech was much bigger. Shopify informed them that records of Ledger users were among 200 other merchants that were affected by those rogues Shopify employees.

If Ledger manages to prove they took appropriate measures between July-December 2020 based on the data they had and that they weren't lying, the repercussions might not be that severe. They will still have to answer how it was possible that they didn't discover the malicious API key that exported the data and why their customer's personal information wasn't encrypted or deleted. They might claim that the responsibility to store client information was Shopify's duty, not Ledger's. The fact they had a bug bounty might be seen as a mitigating measure, and that they showed an interest in strengthening their systems. We will have to see whether or not that holds up in court.     

Hold on to your coins. Regulatory frameworks and laws can always change. When it comes to the government's stand towards cryptocurrencies, when they realize they can tax it and benefit from it, their opinions could change. Even if it doesn't, you never know what the future holds for you and one day you might find yourself living and working a a crypto-friendly nation.   

It's Sunday and the mempool looks good just like last week at this time. I am sure that many of the transactions in the 5-7 sat/vByte range will be confirmed today. Right now, 7-8 sat/vByte is probably enough for a next block confirmation. Keep your eyes on the mempool and consolidate your inputs while the fees are down.

The prosecution will have to prove that Ledger was aware of the extent and size of the breach from the very beginning beyond a reasonable doubt. Unless someone testifies and confirms this or there are documents that can prove that Ledger knew the size of the breach, I think they might get away with it and claim we simply didn't know. When we found out, we informed the general public. It's certainly going to be an interesting case to follow. 

Accounts don't get stolen that easy. Unless your device isn't vulnerable, you aren't using an easy to guess/bruteforce password, and there isn't a recent database breach, you will be fine. And unless you used the same password on another site that got leeked of course.

I like how they do it at my current job. Every 3 months we are required to change the password to log in to the main platform. And they have a system in place similar to Skype's. You can't reuse an old password. It has to be a new and unique password. Maybe this is also a possible attack vector because it means that a server somewhere compares the entries (hashes) you make with the ones you used in the past.  

I think the reason why they don't support it is because the majority of casinos were developed and became operational several years ago before DeFi became a trend. Before DeFi, transacting cheaply with ETH was possible. It's a totally different situation right now. The developers are slow to introduce new features. You can compare that with Native SegWit compatibility on crypto exchanges. There are still many exchanges that don't recognize bech32 addresses for withdrawals.

How is that different from when you place bets with other cryptocurrencies? If you place a bet with bitcoin at $61.000 and bitcoin falls to $50.000 the day after, you find yourself in a similar situation. The probability of that happening isn't important right now because theoretically it can.

It's not about whether or not they accept USDT, it's about whether or not they accept USDT over the TRON network.

Thanks! It's just raw talent I guess

Be careful with Lamborghinis on our roads. Those two don't always fit well.

Banks charge fees for all transactions. The same goes for payment providers such as PayPal or Skrill. I can answer that with a counter-question. Is it wise to use a bank to receive money over international borders considering that banks and their intermediary banks charge at least $€10-50 per international wire transfer?

While I researched this topic before writing this thread, I found an interview with a car dealer who sells sports and luxury cars. He mentioned that during the bull run of 2017, there was a huge increase of clients who purchased expensive cars from him with cryptocurrencies (mostly bitcoin). 20 customers in a short period of time.

If you haven't done so already, you can use TryNinja's site https://findmycoins.ninja/ to check for any forked coins you own. Unfortunately, there is no shortcut in the process of claiming hard forks. The most important thing is to transfer bitcoin from those addresses first before importing their private keys into non-bitcoin software.

When scammers see your OP, they will probably PM you offering their services. Most of the time they'll ask you to send them your wallet.dat file. Never do that, they are lying, they can't help you, and only want to steal your coins. Each step of the claiming and recovery process should be public.

It's known as a "romance scam" or "love scam". You can google it and you will find plenty of sources talking about it. It's not new, scammers have only advanced their tactics by asking payments be made in cryptocurrencies instead of fiat because they are harder to track.

Widowers and middle-aged women are often the targets of such scams. Boy-toys approach them via dating sites trying to win them over with their charm. The aim is to gain their trust, have them fall in love, and exploit their feelings to profit from it. They do that in various ways. Some pretend they have a private business and are in debt. The COVID pandemic is a great cover to use right now. If they don't come up with a few grand soon, they'll have to close their business and sob stories like that. Others ask for money to fly out and visit you or pay their taxes... The victims who are now in love believe everything they say and many of them send money and are ready to do anything.   

A few years ago there was a story about a local guy from my country who used similar techniques to exploit over $40.000 AUD from a business-woman from Australia. She believed everything he said and invested in his "business". She never saw her money or him again.

Click the on the More button at the top of the page on Bitcointalk. The first option when you click on More is Buy a copper membership. You will be shown an address that is specific to your Bitcointalk account and the amount you need to pay to get your membership. After you make the payment and it gets confirmed, visit the same page again where you will find details on how to wear your new copper membership.

Tesla made plenty of headlines recently when they announced they’ve made it possible to purchase their cars with Bitcoin. But this company was not the first to offer customers payment methods in cryptocurrencies. I have listed various other dealerships located mainly in the United States which have started accepting crypto payments as early as 2015.

Let’s see what kind of cars you can buy with bitcoin, and where:


1.
NAME: Carriage Auto Group
LOCATION: Georgia, USA
OFFER: Nissan, KIA, Mitsubishi, and Mazda.

ABOUT: Carriage Auto Group is located in Georgia. They are a car dealership with over 25 years of experience in selling new and used cars. They started accepting bitcoin payments in 2015. Brands such as Nissan, KIA, Mitsubishi, and Mazda are on offer.

2.
NAME: Lamborghini Newport Beach
LOCATION: Orange County, California
OFFER: Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche, Aston Martin, Bentley, Chevrolet, Ford, Land Rover, Mercedes.

ABOUT: A Lamborghini dealer from Orange County that’s been in business since 2010. They sell new and pre-owned luxury cars. In 2017, they announced that they have started accepting bitcoin payments for their vehicles on their official Twitter feed.

3.
NAME: Bitcars
LOCATION: Geneva, Switzerland
OFFER: Supercars, luxury cars, bikes, motorhomes, Off-roaders, Oldtimers.

ABOUT: Bitcars is a car dealership website that sells luxury cars and Oldtimers for bitcoin since 2016. Besides cars, it’s also possible to purchase bikes, motorhomes, and yachts. They made a post on Bitcointalk announcing their car dealership services in 2018.

4.
NAME: Stephen James Enfield BMW
LOCATION: Enfield, London
OFFER: BMW

ABOUT: Stephen James Enfield is an English car dealership that sells brand-new and used BMWs to customers in the UK. They made an official statement on their site that they also accept bitcoin payments.

5.
NAME: Michael's Auto Plaza
LOCATION: East Greenbush, New York
OFFER: Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, GMC, Jeep, Nissan, Ram, Subaru, etc.

ABOUT: Michael's Auto Plaza is owned by the Rubinchuk family. They have been in the business of selling used cars in the state of New York for 15 years. Bitcoiners have the option to purchase vehicles from this store with bitcoin.

6.
NAME: Bob Moore Auto Group
LOCATION: Oklahoma, USA
OFFER: 18 different car brands.

ABOUT: The Bob Moore car dealership is located in Oklahoma. They own 15 stores in the state and sell 18 different brands of cars. In 2019, it was announced that the company will start accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.

7.
NAME: Classic Recreations
LOCATION: Oklahoma, USA
OFFER: Custom-made Mustangs.

ABOUT: This company is located in Oklahoma and specializes in recreating and restoring various Ford Mustang models. Since 2018, they have been accepting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for their custom-built cars.

8.
NAME: Post Oak Motor Cars
LOCATION: Houston, Texas
OFFER: Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Karma, and Bugatti.

ABOUT: Post Oak Motor Cars operates out of Houston, Texas and offers new and pre-owned Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Karma, and Bugatti luxury cars. Crypto holders are welcome to pay for their new car with bitcoin.

9.
NAME: Carriage Nissan
LOCATION: Gainesville, Georgia
OFFER: Nissan

ABOUT: This car dealer offers new and used Nissan cars and maintenance services. Bitcoin holders have the option to pay with cryptocurrencies.

10.
NAME: IDOM Inc.
LOCATION: 24 stores across Japan
OFFER: Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi

ABOUT: IDOM Inc. is a car dealership that specializes in the sale of used cars. In December 2017, they introduced bitcoin as a payment option for purchases up to 100 million yen, approximately $888.000. If successful, their plan is to expand and start accepting bitcoin payments in 550 subsidiary branches across the country.

11.
NAME: L’Operaio
LOCATION: Setagaya, Nerima, and Aoyama in Japan
OFFER: Mercedes Benz, AMG, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, Volvo, Lamborghini, Maserati, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Land Rover, Jaguar, Peugeot, Citroen

ABOUT: L’Operaio sells pre-owned luxury cars in Japan. On 1 December 2017, they added bitcoin as a means of payment. The company will accept payments up to 200 million yen in three of their branches across Japan.


There are many other individuals and sites that accept crypto, but I tried to filter out legit dealerships that have been in the car sale business many years.
Source: https://www.hotcars.com/car-companies-accept-bitcoin/