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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Disadvantages of bitcoins on: Today at 09:30:46 AM
Examining the challenges bitcoin faces including scalability issues, price volatility, and environmental concerns relating to mining

Take it easy bro.

All our life faces  scalability issues (as we need to take care of the next generations), volatility of the cost of living, environmental concerns relating to the life expectancy.

And with all above you can't contend that your live is disadvantage for your. Or you can?
2  Economy / Services / Re: [YTS] Playgram - The Telegram Casino Signature Campaign | Reward $100 p/w on: Today at 08:03:59 AM
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3  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Foundation Passport Official Thread on: Today at 07:54:50 AM
Does this mean that Passport is now capable to connect directly to lightning node embedded into ZEOS wallet and thus,  open/close channels?

If yes, how many channels it is capable to support simultaneously?

Would be nice to have the full guide on this matter.
From what I can see on Zeus' Twitter feed, the update is not publicly available yet. It's in a closed alpha stage, nearing an open beta release soon. I am wondering how users will be able to use the lightning network and open and close channels without making transactions from the connected hot wallet that broadcasts everything?

Node is in charge for broadcasting transaction rather than a wallet itself. Thus if Passport connected directly to lightning node embedded into Zeus it could have the ability to open/close channels without  topping up Zeus-wallet itself.  Sure, along this line ,Passport must be capable  to control the state of the channel.Hope, Foundation will correct me if I'm wrong.
4  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: JokerChange Presents FREE RAFFLE - Receive $50 BTC Round # 1 on: June 02, 2024, 12:02:55 PM
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5  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Foundation Passport Official Thread on: June 02, 2024, 10:32:17 AM
Passport v2.3.1 is live now!

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With this version of Passport’s firmware we’ve added connections to Zeus,


Does this mean that Passport is now capable to connect directly to lightning node embedded into ZEOS wallet and thus,  open/close channels?

If yes, how many channels it is capable to support simultaneously?

Would be nice to have the full guide on this matter.
6  Local / Oбcyждeниe Bitcoin / Re: Lightning Network on: June 01, 2024, 02:39:33 PM
Открывать и закрывать лайтнинг каналы теперь можно прямо из аппаратного кошелька  Passport , последняя прошивка которого интегрировала его прямое подключение к легкомк клиенту Zeus. Если я не ошибаюсь это первый из доступных аппаратников, позволяющих осуществлять это напрямую без дополнительных транзакций вовлекающих  горячий кошелёк.


P.S. Когда-то баловался с лайтнингом, потом забросил. Попробую возобновить с помощью своего Passport 2 и  Zeus.  Wink

7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Biden team shift their tones on Bitcoin & cryptocurrency market on: June 01, 2024, 08:12:11 AM
Everyone extends olive branches to crypto when the price goes up but empty their rounds of bullets at it when it goes down. Who would've known? Roll Eyes

However, I still do not trust the Biden administration in regards to crypto. They still look like the kind of people who are ready to kill bitcoin privacy at any moment if they want to.

But I do.

His administration  just wanna arrange everything back to order, including crypto

Trump as referred to crypto is more unclear as  I think he commonly  calls an audible depending on the profit he takes at this moment.
8  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Bitcoin wallet vs pendrive or Memory card. on: June 01, 2024, 07:24:33 AM
Bitcoin is not stored on any device rather it is stored on blockchain,

Blockchain doesn't  exist in the thin air. It's kind of database which must be stored somewhere, in RAMs, HDD, SSD, any media which allows to store digital data. My copy of blockchain which feeds my node is stored for instance on 1TB SSD by Samsung. (In fact my node support two copies, the second one ( as a backup) is on 2TB SSD.  Wink

In my opinion, I find it quite stupid to store a crypto wallet inside removable media. First of all, it can easily be lost. Second, it will be found by customs if you are traveling. Third, USB media is more brittle than a HDD hard disk and can be corrupted more easily, thereby making it more susceptible to failure and so on so forth.


Depends on the media and the way which protects it. You may find how I protect mine.

9  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are any of you guys are winning with probably fair games? on: June 01, 2024, 07:13:39 AM

In my view the provably fair are kind of games which depend solely on skills rather than on luck.
It depends on luck and not skills. If a game is a provably fair game, it means the casino is not manipulating with the game except the house edge. It has a way some gamblers can know the fairness of a game.

Casino is not the only place to game. As a mater of fact you can play at any place, for instance in someone house, in his narrow circle, thus withing that circle the game should be such a kind, that could exclude manipulation by its own nature. Chess could be an example of such game. That is what I meant to say.
10  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are any of you guys are winning with probably fair games? on: June 01, 2024, 06:23:45 AM
I'm currently searching for probably fair games and how they work. Are you guys playing this? If so, which games do you recommend?

Probably fair games, do they depend solely and exclusively on luck or on skills too?

In my view the provably fair are kind of games which depend solely on skills rather than on luck.

Probably the chess could be considered as one of the available  instances of such games.

I'm plaing sometimes  for keeps  with few participants,  putting on the line not too much, twenty or fifty,  to the end that  my chess skills were   not go off.
11  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling is not place to make money is place to lose it? on: June 01, 2024, 05:54:00 AM
Even those who lose money all the time never accept that they are exactly persons which may be characterized as losers in the eyes of others who were never involved into gambling. Commonly they don't like complicated things and prefer to think that gambling is precisely for making money and proceed to the next casinos pit being more eager to try next game.
12  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is gambling all about luck? on: May 31, 2024, 08:43:22 AM
Depends on the gambling.

Craps and roulette is a pure luck while,  let's say,  in bridge the wings of this bird are less stretched,  I would say not more then for 20%. The expertise is responsible  for  the  rest  80%.

I knew guy who could play bridge even in his sleep, and count cards unsight when gambling in casino.
13  Economy / Gambling / Re: More revelations on the challenges of physical casinos on: May 31, 2024, 07:44:04 AM

So for me, online casino is the new revolution; it provides convenience, and you can play whenever and wherever you are, but of course, online casino still comes with cons, such as gambling addiction or what, so both have flaws, so it depends on the gambler where he wants to play gambling.


I kinda agree with  this. Online casinos is a new domain of my gambling activity. Heretofore I was a gambling shops fly and though those places have always mesmerized me I have never feel myself comfortable inside suffering the myriads of strange glances.  

Now, I am gambling on-line, in front of my laptop display  with еру webcam cover acquired for this case.
 
14  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: Jameson Lopp's multisig hardware wallet signing test on: May 30, 2024, 07:00:37 AM
Do experts agree or disagree with him about the phenomena of signing mass?

You don't have to travel far afield and could    see it for yourself by signing two different transactions with single input  and output but differing in the ways  which deliver their   UTXOs in previous transactions. Let's say one UTXO is secured by 100 inputs while the other - by a couple of them. The difference would be drastic if you have done this. Smiley
15  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Summer Olympics 2024 on: May 30, 2024, 06:26:29 AM
I like to watch Olympics opening and closing ceremonies which have flavors  of both show and politics.

2024 Olympics adds  the  new events and among them are those which are relevant to  breaking which is (at least for me) is more like dancing show rather than athletic competition  itself. However, youths will definitely applaud them.  Probably some betting agencies will get catch.



16  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is Gambling A Hobby? on: May 30, 2024, 05:56:24 AM
There is some category of people who are working as shills for casinos. They are gambling on casinos' chips rather than  on own money thus are free to lose or win at any moment  the aim being to provoke hobbyists. They receive salary from casinos so for  shills  gambling is definitely a profession. I believe internally they even  hate gambling  seeing  as casinos manipulate them.
17  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Comprehensive SHA256 implementer's guide on: May 30, 2024, 05:05:04 AM


sha224 and sha256 only use the first 64 of those constants. The other SHA2 functions use all 80 of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2#Comparison_of_SHA_functions

Interestingly, SHA1 also uses 80 rounds.

Yeah, agreed, as defined by NIST standard,  sha512/256 is sha512 truncated to 256 bits   and as such it uses 80 rounds with 80 constants, while sha256 has 64 rounds and relies on 64 constants.

According to NIST, besides SHA1 the whole 80 rounds are also valid for SHA384 and truncated SHA512/224
18  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Comprehensive SHA256 implementer's guide on: May 29, 2024, 07:30:39 AM


There are also 64 round constants K, although we almost always make this an array. Their initial values are the first 32 bits of the cube roots of the first 64 prime numbers.


I had a quick  comparison with the  NIST standard and noticed the discrepancy relevant to those constants.

NIST refers to eighty of them.

Does it make any sense to limit their number in your scheme of calculation or I  have missed something?




19  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: People keep asking me to borrow money, some of them for betting on: May 29, 2024, 06:50:48 AM

And when they are female friends, do you lend them?

Why not?

If my female friends are  pleased with gambling  why  deprive them  of this joy.

One day I had met one of my girl friend in her deepest humiliation after she lost her money in casino. I lend her a bit, she won and was incredibly thankful to me.

I don’t care what they spend money on - gambling  or yet another gewgaw. Money is nothing - the friendship has a value.

20  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is this true or some superstitious believe about gambling? on: May 29, 2024, 06:26:59 AM
What's your opinion about this please?

Take him easy, that is just his mantra.

Gambling spirit  is in  the core  of the human brain and I think should  it were lost in the past then evolution would have slowed down significantly. I think this spirit will help humanity to withstand AI at the time when needed. Wink


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