In my region, salary lotteries are very popular in many workplaces. I don't know what's the exact English term for his but we call it that name. The purpose of salary lottery is that 5-6 employees collect together and they play lottery. The first winner gets the salary of every worker, in the next months the second winner gets everyone's salary and that's it. There isn't a random winner, everyone gets their salary back but the fate of who is the first person to receive the salary is decided via a simple coin flip.

For example, imagine that there are 6 people and salary of each person is $1000. They determine via coin flip who is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. First gets $6000 in the end of the month, in the next month, the second gets $6000 and in 6th month, the 6th person gets $6000. You may ask me how do they live for 6 months without a salary? Family members take care of them. Too many people work for fun because sitting at home is boring for them but they don't have enough money to have fun too.

I want to implement Google Pay on my woocommerce website but the problem is that there is no 3rd party plugin. I can't use Stripe because it's not accepted in my country, I also can't use other payment gateway providers that accept and have woocommerce-ready plugins because I'm only partnered with one of local bank. By the way, this bank has a documentation about how to implement Google Pay on website. If someone can help me to add Google Pay on my woocommerce website according to the my provider bank's docs, then send me a PM here or write me on Telegram - @shield132btc

Recently I actively gamble on Metawin because owner posts very good giveaways on their Twitter and he also randomly gives a reward to those who have wagered in the last week. I personally get some fun from gambling and I want to actively wager with some dollars. I decided to spend $20 a week and wager as much as possible, the outcome doesn't matter much to me, I'm okay if I lose $20 every week.
Recently I have enjoyed playing Plinko. With low risk and 16 rows, I managed to easily wager my money and I haven't lost much, I actually enjoy playing this game for a long time every day.

What is the game that you find it easy to wager? What strategy do you use to increase wagering?

Bitcoin mining was always my dream but back then I couldn't afford ASIC miners and I was mining altcoins with GPUs, which was nice but today it's not as profitable as it was years ago.
Finally, I have some money to buy a Bitcoin ASIC miner from Bitmain but I also have one fear for years. What if I receive a damaged ASIC miner? It takes months to receive them for China, it will take months to return them back to China and it will take some months to then receive them back again from China.

How do you risk buying ASIC miners from Bitmain? How often are their products damaged? Does it worth the risk to buy miners from them? How good is their support?

Yesterday Bitcoin's price was a little down and I was reading on many websites that it was caused because of the Trump-Harris debate. Today as we see, Bitcon's price is up and reached 58K USD but today also crypto news websites publish that the reason behind crypto price recovery is the result of Trump-Harris debate where Harris won in many polls.
Do you also think that this is true? The crypto community expects a positive impact from Trump and since Trump lost, if the debate was the reason for the price dip yesterday, then it shouldn't be up today because Harris won the poll.
Is this true or do crypto news websites use this debate as a clickbait?

Despite the fact that Binance has many problems and issues in almost every country, including multiple government lawsuits, it often gets accused of helping money launderers, helping some people bypass KYC restrictions and etc, despite the fact that their co-founder and ex CEO - Changpeng Zhao got arrested for violating U.S. laws against money laundering, Binance still manages to grow its business and attract millions of users. Binance announced on June 8 that they reached 200 million global users, they managed to collect 30 million users in 6 months while Binance had the most problems and headaches during this time.

200 million is a self-reported number but do you believe that Binance really reached this number? I think that Binance is bluffing because they are known for their shady practices but if it's really true, then it's a pity if so many people put their money on centralized exchanges after everything that happened to many centralized exchanges.

https://x.com/binance/status/1799475255838462273

This year I was expecting that we would see a main bull run later after halving, in winter, like we see traditionally but today the situation is absolutely different, we saw an all-time high of many coins very soon and the price has been increasing for months, good news after good news, now I can't imagine how long this bull market will last. At the moment, it looks like there is no place for bears and after so much positive news, I can't imagine what should happen to make people start selling.
What do you think, when will bears take advantage and start dominating the market? Is this bull run the major bull run that we will see till the next halving?

[Satoshi-era dormant Bitcoin address wakes up after 10 years]

I probably shouldn't be asking this question because I am an old member of this forum but this recent article on Cointelegraph quickly inspired me to ask this question here today. Satoshi-era dormant Bitcoin address wakes up after 10 years.

My questions are the following:
1. People who own hundreds and thousands of Bitcoins, where do they trade? It's risky to deposit such a high amount of coins on platforms like Binance and Coinbase because you aren't guaranteed that they won't block your account, even immediately after you deposit them. So where do they trade?

2. How do they convert their Bitcoins into fiat? I know that years ago there were some bank transfer deals on this forum, I remember that Bitmain wanted to sell 10 Bitcoin or something like that here and they probably had a deal with a forum member but today when the price is so high, where do these big holders sell their coins and get fiat in their bank account? On traditional exchanges?

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SEC chairman didn't want to approve Bitcoin ETFs because they think that Bitcoin can easily be speculated and in overall, they don't like it but there was pressure from as influential and powerful company as BlackRock is, so they were forced to approve it because the big guy was demanding it. Now after the Bitcoin ETF approval, everyone has got a huge appetite and wants to get ETFs of altcoins but the SEC doesn't want to give the green light to altcoins ETFs. So here is the thing, since the SEC approved Bitcoin ETFs, why not approve Bitcoin Options Trading?
What's your opinion, will SEC be forced to approve Bitcoin options trading? Click here to read article

Bitcoin transaction fees are very high, thanks to spammers. I can't spend any satoshi from my wallets because I will have to pay enormously high transaction fees, because of this reason I can't buy anything with my Bitcoins, I can't deposit and gamble in casinos via BTC, I can't buy a VPN via BTC, I can't send someone money abroad via BTC. I am very limited and forced to use altcoins but to do this in a comfortable way, I have to use centralized exchanges to buy altcoins via card with a bad exchange rate.

At this moment, I prefer to stick with Visa/MasterCard and PayPal if I can. How are you doing? I hope some Bitcoin business owners can write down how the current situation affects their businesses. When I check mempool.space, all I see are blocks full of transactions created by spammers, it looks like no one else has been sending coins recently.
Do you experience a profit decline? Did people stop playing with Bitcoins? Did the demand for altcoins rise? Which altcoin is the most popular now?

I installed directadmin on VPS, hosted websites but they don't send emails. I downloaded plugin WP SMTP but can't connect it to SMTP and also can't send emails from DA's roundcube. Can anyone help me? I will pay a small tip (0.06 LTC) since it won't take more than some minutes for those who know it.
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler was against Bitcoin SEC approval and he was trying his best to avoid it but the interest of Blackrock and pressure from outside forced him to take this decision and accept Bitcoin ETFs. Now senators pressure him not to approve any more crypto ETFs because it would expose investors to risks.

Ethereum is the most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, and the Ethereum ETF application is awaiting the SEC's approval. What do you think, will the SEC approve Ethereum if there is a pressure from big corporations like BlackRock?

Read the news - https://cointelegraph.com/news/senators-urge-sec-gary-gensler-reject-further-crypto-etfs

[bitcoin:youraddress]

I wanted to create a beautiful QR codes for my business and once I found a great way, I decided that it would be a good idea to share it with you guys because you can use this QR code to show off your Bitcoin address, bitcoin website or it can be a good way for signature campaigns to create a beautiful QR code avatars that will also keep their graphics visible.

I created a beautiful QR code for bitcointalk.org, just see and scan it:



These are the steps to follow:

1. Visit qrcodechimp.com and be sure that URL class is active (it's active by default). Registration is free.

2. Type your crypto website if you want others to visit your website when they scan QR code or type bitcoin:youraddress if you want to create a Bitcoin QR code.



3. On the right side, you have tools for customization



4. You can change the color of qr code, you can change the shape (body type, eye frame type, eye ball type, increase or decrease stroking and scaling), add logo in the center of QR code or generate a QR code with your image as a background.



It's a very handy feature for signature campaigns and campaign managers too because instead of just an avatar, they can create a scannable avatar. I created one as an example for Bitsler


If you have a question, ask me and I'll try to help.

I have a vanity Bitcoin address that I have been safely holding for years. I just love vanity addresses and I want to generate some more but I want to back up and safely store them on paper as seed phrases instead of long and ugly WIF key format. Is this possible? I spent a lot of times with Google and I wasn't able to not only find an answer but to find a question too. I hope this is not a stupid question but it's probably a shame from such an old user.
Btw it's okay for me to generate a new vanity address if there is a program like vanitygen or vanitysearch that will generate results in seeds instead of WIF keys.

Bitcoin ETFs are officially approved - https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nysearca/2024/fg-89shlq.pdf

It's hard for beginner traders to trade with bitcoin and altcoins. Many people look for analysis that are written by other people. If you are a newbie trader, I suggest you to never take seriously what Cointelegraph authors write about bitcoin and altcoin analysis. Cointelegraph often posts the worst crypto price analysis articles - https://cointelegraph.com/search?query=price%2520analysis

I was actively reading their articles. They always mention what price is the support level, what price will cause the bearish moment and what will cause the bull moment. Never ever rely on their advice because practice showed me that their analysis is not correct.

I want to create an e-commerce website on WordPress and was thinking of buying a domain and hosting a website on Hetzner but I have heard that they ask for KYC verification, is that true? Does anyone know any good and cheap hosting website that will let me buy a domain and host a website without KYC documents? It will be good if they accept Bitcoin and altcoins but that's not mandatory. Don't suggest a random list, recommend one that you have used successfully.

Hello guys, I have heard many stories when person was playing casino games, for example person was playing slots and managed to win a huge jackpot, 100 thousand or up to a million but casino didn't give him his winning because they said slot had bugs and they can't give away money because person won through a buggy slots.
I have never seen a case when casino called player for a refund because slot had bugs. What happens if you think that slot has bugs and that's why you lose? If we follow logic, since casino can deny your winning because they think that game has bugs, you should have right to ask for slots inspect if you lose a lot. Doesn't this make sense? I think it makes but I want to know if you had similar experience or if something similar has happened in history ever.

I hope it's correct board to poost but if it's not, then mods please don't remove my thread, at least for some days.

I make fitness jewelry and if there is an interest, I can design and manufacture Bitcoin jewelry too. To make things more clear, please see this work of mine:





If anyone here also loves fitness and bodybuilding, I can sell this jewelry to you. But since everyone here loves bitcoin, want to hear your honest opinion, would you buy something like this with bitcoin logo? If there is an interest, I can make this happen!

It's very important to run bitcoin node to increase the security of transactions, to help the decentralisation of bitcoin and make it even more secure. There are so many benefits for bitcoin network to run bitcoin node that it would require from me to write a big article. To sum up, it strengthens the robustness of the network and that's one of the most important part but I often see that people don't run bitcoin node because they don't want to let it take some space in their computers and also don't want to spend days to download bitcoin blockchain. They prefer to use lightweight wallet like Electrum. To my mind, it's okay to use Electrum on your smartphone but at the same time I think that by relying on other nodes, we aren't doing good for bitcoin. Wouldn't it be a good idea if satoshi also implemented reward system in running a bitcoin node? For example, every 24 hours, each node runner would receive its share from 1 bitcoin or something like that. No one would be able to make money from it but I think a lot of people would run bitcoin node even for some small rewards and that would benefit bitcoin. What do you think about that?