Just got these set up - two L3+'s mining LTC+DOGE! They’re a friend’s, but it’s my first time seeing (and hosting) cryptocurrency miners in person.

[not]

I'm a penultimate year law student in a commonwealth country. And I need a side income.

Happy to research any legal issue and present my findings for a fair fee.

I can research for the following jurisdictions:

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Australia
• Other common law countries that take reference from UK courts, such as Singapore, Malaysia, etc

Most questions you can find the answer to with a simple Google search. My services might be more appropriate for questions like:

• A owed B money and wrote him an IOU. B owed me money and "transferred" the IOU to me. Can IOUs be transferred? Can IOUs be transferred if A doesn't/didn't consent? What does consent to transfer (assignment) of an IOU look like, practically? If I decide to take legal action, should I be the one to sue A or should I ask B to sue? In what court should I commence the action / how do I start?
• I traded cryptocurrency using a trading bot, but the trading bot made a huge error. What legal recourse do I have, if any?

As a matter of principle, I'm willing to do preliminary research on any criminal charges you may have been charged with, but for pressing issues where your literal bodily freedom is at risk you really shouldn't be hiring a not-even-a-lawyer-yet, faceless individual on BitcoinTalk. You should go find a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction - this advice is free.

As a final disclaimer, please keep in mind that not only am I not yet called to the bar locally, it is most likely I'm not even going to be called to the bar in your jurisdiction. While I'm confident in my legal research skills (I've participated in several competitions/moots, a few of them international), I am not a qualified lawyer. I am a law student offering to lend my legal research skills for a price.

You can contact me via BTalk PM. If you have a simple legal question that needs answering and you think it'll take less than 5 minutes to find the answer, feel free to drop it in a reply and I'll just address it for free. No point charging for a few minutes of work.

[Club selection]

Inspired by this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5517667.0

I'm an agent for a several local X-Poker clubs. Chips are 1:1 to Singapore dollars (SGD). As an agent, I receive x% rakeback and give my players y% rakeback, where y < x, pocketing the difference.

Club selection

#1 - Dusk Till Dawn https://i.x-mobilegame.com/Ughk
Singapore's largest X-Poker club. NLH stakes range from 0.5/1 to 25/50, though the 25/50 game rarely forms. Tables run quite reliably 20 hours a day, only really quietening down in the wee hours of the morning here. PLO5 also very popular, with stakes from 0.5/1 to 3/6 and regular straddles. Dedicated double board bomb pot tables also form quite regularly.

Rake for NLH is 7.5% uncapped; rake for PLO is 8% capped at 10 BBs. I can offer 60% rakeback right off the bat with increases negotiable depending on volume, bringing effective rake to 3% uncapped for NLH and 3.2% capped 4 BBs for PLO.

Accounting (rakeback) happens locally at 0000hrs GMT+8 every Sunday night, but I can grant rakeback to my players during the week "in advance", essentially advancing credit against whatever rakeback you've accumulated.

Because the lowest NLH stake is 0.5/1, minimum buy to sit is $50 SGD (50 BB).

#2 - Poker Dynasty https://i.x-mobilegame.com/3pEf
A relatively young X-Poker club. One of the hosts plays mid-stakes PLO5 very regularly and is known to intentionally play loosely to generate action - the cost of starting a club. Tables form less frequently, but it's like playing in Texas: There's no shortage of action.

Rake structure almost identical to Dusk Till Dawn and rakeback is the same.

#3 - Club UNO https://i.x-mobilegame.com/reyn
Formerly a purely local Singaporean club, they've recently joined a Malaysian union. Chips are still in SGD, but because it's a union (and larger) there are WAY more games. MTTs run daily and there's a roughly 8.8k USD guaranteed prize pool MTT that runs every weekend. NLH tables go as small as 3 cent / 6 cent and go as large as 15/30 (50 MYR / 100 MYR).

NLH rake is 6% capped 8BBs, but I can only offer 50% rakeback on this club - effective 3% capped 4 BBs.

The promised $15 bonus

Because minimum to sit at a table at DTD/Poker Dynasty is $50, I'm willing to offer a $15 bonus to any $35+ deposit. Keep in mind this is Singapore dollars. Works out to $11.32 USD (at time of posting) bonus on top of any $26.40 USD deposit. I have one condition:

• Minimum 100 hands played at any 0.5/1 and above table to claim the $15

No wager requirement. If you want to sit there and bleed 1.5 BB every orbit for 100 hands then cash out your deposit + $15, that's up to you. For transparency's sake, I'll fully admit I'm just hoping you'll see something you like enough to play (a few times) and make me enough in the (x-y)*rake equation to justify me "spending" $15 to get you in the club.

I will cash out the $35 (USD $26.4 at time of posting) deposit at any time. That's your money. If you win and haven't played 100 hands, I'll deduct $15 SGD from the cashout amount and send you your deposit + winnings.

Accounting

All clubs settle rakeback on a weekly basis. DTD and Poker Dynasty do it Sunday night, UNO does it Monday morning local time. I will have your rakeback to you by Monday afternoon OR you can opt to automatically cash out every weekend and I'll send you your entire balance every single weekend. You'll be free to redeposit it if you wish. I will provide any parties that take me up on this offer with the following info every weekend:

• Gross profit/loss
• Total raked
• Screenshot proof - my agent-side panel showing the P/L and rake

Example of screenshot proof:



I will also compile your games into spreadsheet form, within reason (don't hit me with 200 tables), on a weekly basis.



At any time during the week, my players can contact me to cash out their chips. While rakeback is only granted on Sunday/Monday, I'm happy to empty your balance and send it to you at any time. If the rakeback amount isn't too much (couple hundred or less), I'm happy to advance you that amount as well and send it to you before *I* receive it from the club administrators.

Payment methods

For local players, I can do:

• Bank transfers
• PayNow/PayLah! (local equivalent of CashApp, Venmo, etc)

For international players (which is most of you), I can do:

• ETH
• USDT
• BNB
• BTC (though transaction fees will be killer)
• BTC Lightning Network (+5.5% fee)
• Other stablecoins, preferably those with large market volume / extremely stable
• PayPal (withdrawals to any and all, deposits only from reputable forum members

For incoming deposits, I'll take the SGD equivalent after transaction fees. For outgoing withdrawals, I will send the SGD equivalent and you will receive the crypto minus transaction fees.

Escrow and misc

I'm fully aware I'm not very well-established on this forum. I expect mistrust on how I will handle funds. If you find a reputable escrow willing to be fairly involved (since he/she might have to be involved in transactions on a weekly basis or more often), I'm 100% willing to use that escrow if you're willing to handle any associated fees.

For example, if you're willing to send an escrow $35 SGD, I will send you $50 in chips on X-Poker. If you lose everything, I'll send the escrow proof thereof and claim the funds. If you win, I'll send you the winnings and you can get your money back from escrow.

Contact

If I don't reply on HF, you can hit me on Telegram: https://t.me/alwaysmissdraw

Are there enough interested parties here on BitcoinTalk that we could start a low-rake ClubGG/X-Poker club? With some reasonable amount held in escrow for peace of mind, etc.

Hi there, don't play a lot of these games anymore and looking to get the account off my hands. Included SteamDB screenshot below, censored for privacy. Looking for about $120 USD for the account, given the value of the games but also taking into account the recent game ban (for ARK:SA).

Games:
https://imgur.com/a/43aFLb3

Keep in mind that the price displayed is in Singapore dollars. $1USD = ~$1.34 SGD at time of writing.

Escrow is fine, if not 50% before and 50% after delivery for trusted members. Interested parties may PM me.

[Update 12/08/21:]

Update 12/08/21: This graphic should explain things better:

 

Update 07/08/21: Join the Discord server!

Update 05/08/21: A lot has been made, including a good portion of the backend / wallet management. Started working on in-game GUI today. https://imgur.com/a/w1gDo10

Wow. Much hype. Many fancy title.

I've played Minecraft since 1.3 days and have always dreamed of this iea.

Actually a fledgling project and more of an idea than concrete code right now, but here's what I'm thinking:

The main idea is to run a Minecraft server where the economy is pegged to cryptocurrency.

• Users should be able to earn minute amounts of cryptocurrency, somehow
• Users should be able to trade this currency in-game both player2player and player2server, for in-game perks or items
• Users should be able to both deposit and withdraw cryptocurrency

This is what I'm thinking:

• A premium currency is created in-game, whether it be virtual (a number) or "physical" (stored in blocks/items)
• An example of such an item might be emeralds -- whose spawn would then be disabled in wild + villager trade disabled, so the only way to get emeralds would be from the server / some process / trade
• Emeralds could be worth, say, 0.01 mBTC

Edit 23/06/21

• In-game cash will be called "Playcash"
• Premium currency will be called "tokens"

With this in mind....

General economy

• Each token is pegged to a fixed amount of Bitcoin
• Given the server's limited supply of Bitcoin, the supply of tokens (total amount of tokens that can be in circulation) is also capped.
• The playcash/token exchange rate is variable. As the server bank runs out of tokens, the exchange rate goes up, thus increasing the playcash value of tokens users hold as well.
• The server bank does not buy tokens back for playcash. Users can sell tokens to other users, though.
• The server will always allow deposits and withdrawals of crypto, i.e. withdrawals and purchasing of tokens.

Quest system

• Quests are available to EVERY player
• They grant playcash and in-game item rewards
• Premium quests are unlockable with a season pass, purchasable with tokens
• Premium quests give better rewards or otherwise unattainable items (read: Miner's Cores, later on)

Towny

• Raiding is permissible and very possible in the open world, as no land is protected
• Towns allow for protection of land (importance explained later)
• Founding a town costs tokens (server "earns" money back)
• Town owners/leadership can charge members a set tax rate on their playcash balance daily
• Towns have a daily playcash upkeep cost
• Higher membership = more protected land
• Tax rate limited by competition (who wants to join a town with higher tax rate? tax rate set by players needs to be competitive with other towns)

In addition to towns, there are nations:

• While towns have players as members, nations have towns as members.
• Founding them costs tokens.
• Nations provide a HUGE boost to the amount of land claimable by member towns.
• Nations can tax TOWNS on a daily basis.
• Nations have a daily playcash upkeep cost, like towns.

Why is claiming land important?

Playcash -> token conversion mechanic

The conversion is NOT instant and the rate varies:

• In order to convert their playcash to tokens, users need to plant a special plant called a token plant.
• Practically, this will probably be a vanilla flower/plant we will disable from spawning naturally in the wild.
• Plants take x hours to grow. The faster they're set to grow, the worse the exchange rate (exponential % penalty)
• If another player breaks the token plant before it reaches maturity, they gain tokens instead of the plant owner, prorated for the amount of time the plant had been growing. The remainder of the ungrown tokens are discarded (portion given back to server, portion given to miners). It's therefore necessary to protect the growing token plants.

Miners

• Miners join the network by building massive, expensive, multiblock structures (think, like, a 9x9x9 cube of a valuable block) with a special block called a Miner's Core in the center
• Miner's Cores are purchasable ONLY from the server / given out as rewards
• Whenever tokens are spent/discarded/burnt due to fees, a portion of the burnt tokens = immediately distributed to the miner network.
• Each's miner shares the reward equally.
• Allows miner owners to earn tokens passively, but defending the miner multiblock structure is necessary.
• Miner's Cores can be broken and stolen

Technical stuff

• Minecraft server, set up for some gamemode... Towny?
• Custom Minecraft plugin to keep track of users' balances
• Custom server to manage the wallet

I use a dedicated server for all my projects, so development will be free. Actual production server would have to be different, of course, but I'm willing to tank that cost indefinitely. It's not that bad.

More importantly, one major challenge is finding an income source to fund the money that the server will be giving away. I considered in-game marketing the players, but that goes against the Mojang EULA.

I'm thinking:

• A partnership with a gambling site that has an API? Possibly allow users to bet on the site while in-game or (with the help of the Minecraft plugin) make bets more fun. Income would then be collected either directly in a fixed payment from the site or a % commission.
• It might be possible, however impractical, to create a way for users to mine BTC to their in-game balance... but unsustainable and inconvenient, to say the least
• Donations or sponsorships? Possibly selling cosmetic perks / perks that won't affect a player's ability to make/earn BTC in-game

Another challenge is advertising, as there's no real point in going through all this effort to create something that people aren't going to play on or use. I think that simply saying you can earn money while playing it will attract a large playerbase, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Lastly, there's the issue of security and trust. Who's to say I won't just walk away without paying anybody? Or barring that, who's to say the system won't be hacked into somehow and the coins stolen?

To-do list

• Make this forum post to gague interest / gather thoughts
• Buy domain: blocksofcrypto.io
• Wallet-handling server
• Minecraft plugin to handle balances
• Other Minecraft server setup (really fast)
• Beta testing
• Release
• Achieve ultimate victory??

Just a big mess of thoughts. Would love to hear your takes on it.

Edit

Some ideas:

• Quest system w something like a battle pass / seasonal pass. Users can complete quests and earn rewards, but these rewards are greatly amplified with the purchase of a seasonal pass that unlocks additional rewards. We make it feasible to make an ROI on this investment, but design it so that playtime and active contribution would be necessary. Can require that this user interacts with other users to breakeven on his investment in buying the season pass. Would encourage community building and also spice up the vanilla game.
• Run the server as modded server. I currently run a modded server with a custom modpack just for friends and DEFINITELY enjoy it more than vanilla Minecraft. Barrier to entry: potential users would have to download the modpack. Not a complicated affair, we can use public launchers/platforms like CurseForge (https://www.curseforge.com/) or the Technic Platform (https://www.technicpack.net/) to distribute the modpack, but it does add some hassle to the process of joining.

[all payments will be made FULLY through escrow]

Hi! I realize this is my first post, but was just looking to get out there and put my skills and free time to good use to make myself some crypto, if people were interested.

I have an amateur background in programming, but I've been at it for just over five years now. I picked it up way back in 2015-16 to create Minecraft plugins and mods and have since expanded my digital vocabulary from just Java to include a web language (PHP), HTML/basic CSS, basic Python, basic SQL, etc.

I am looking to take on small to medium projects, but I'll entertain larger projects too if you have the budget.

Here's what I can do:

• Telegram bot interface / frontend
• Simple web interface / frontend
• Backend system to store or process data

With this setup, most ideas are possible. I don't know what you would want to do with Telegram. Create an announcements system? Membership system? Auto-buy system? I can link the bot/system to anything else that has a publicly accessible API. Maybe you want to create something more complex. A betting site... or a crypto betting bot? A game?

I'll do anything that's legal. No HYIPs or Ponzi's... also these are super easy to make, and you could probably make your own in a few hours.

I work at a decent speed and quote either by the hour, in which case I'd be looking for $15-20 per hour spent on the project, or I can give a fixed quote. Of course, all payments will be made FULLY through escrow of your choice, provided he or she is a reputable member. You cover escrow fees by default, open to negotiation to split it 50/50 depending on the job.

I really don't know how the reception to this will go, so pardon me if this is out of place or something. Drop me a PM if you're interested!

Edit: here's a thread I found with escrows. Willing to use any of these are willing to escrow our transaction. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.0