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981  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Would you trust a controlled ICO? XIAN COIN in particular... on: August 18, 2020, 10:37:46 PM
Didn't Philistines have a president who himself encouraged citizens to go out and murder addicts in cold blood?

Did I even mentioned anything political and social issues about the country? What's Philistines btw lol. I haven't even stated anything related to such matters...
Well, yeah... It's kind of an oddity how a government that's so authoritarian on illegal transactions lets such wrong doings fly with crypto crypto and related pyramid schemes. Makes you wonder how corrupt officials might be. Potentially they're even directly benefiting directly with bribes from such schemes for such matters to fly under the government's radar. 
982  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Russian tool will make your transactions transparent on: August 18, 2020, 10:34:14 PM
Sounds a bit fishy if you ask me. To make such claims they'd need to provide better proof other than just claims. They're not the first to make a tracing tool for bitcoins but that doesn't imply any de-anonymization. Maybe at best they could see which coins have been associated with "tainted" websites/wallets etc. but to find the people behind the transactions for "full transparency" would depend on many more factors. Anyway, big claims require extraordinary evidence. Something to keep an eye on of course but if it's something new or not will only show once they release it.
983  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Would you trust a controlled ICO? XIAN COIN in particular... on: August 17, 2020, 01:34:26 PM
Didn't Philistines have a president who himself encouraged citizens to go out and murder addicts in cold blood?
I can't imagine how there hasn't been a crackdown for a coin with the explicit goal of supporting illegal transactions. If this isn't shut down fast it has the potential to stain the image of crypto in the entire country, which is already pretty conservative leaning from what I can see. Hopefully this bad apple doesn't spoil the bunch.
984  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Private key hack new method on: August 17, 2020, 01:08:28 PM
It's been posted again but an illustrative example is always good for newcomers I guess. The chances of cracking a private key are so small, you shouldn't even consider the task. The resources that would be required to break bitcoin's cryptography are beyond our mortal comprehension.  

985  Economy / Economics / Re: Fixed amount vs. infinite coins on: August 17, 2020, 01:04:09 PM
Infinite coin supply would be too much against bitcoin's principles for it to be integrated as a feature.
It's a feature that's the very core of bitcoin at this point and I think that one shouldn't dismiss the fact that there's much of the community and support behind bitcoin is because of this very feature.

Anyone looking to create a coin with infinite supply is very much free to do so. Satoshi never said that there shouldn't be currency competition. The code for bitcoin was always open and I'm sure it wasn't just because Satoshi wanted improvements. If you want an example of a bitcoin copycat competitor that has infinite supply, you need to look no further than dogecoin.

Theoretically because DOGE has such a small value and so many coins the fee value as part of the transaction is bound to be smaller than in other cryptocurrencies. But realistically speaking, because of the lower incentives to mine, the network is not as secure and hence it's even less likely to become a payment tool that could serve people at a wider scale.
986  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Visual appeal - important to a project launch? on: August 17, 2020, 12:48:51 PM
The design you'll need to have looking perfect on launch is the landing page and perhaps an overall website template. If you plan ahead, it shouldn't cost too much. You're not asking for extreme functionality if it's just to present a project at first. From what I understand some features could be rolled out later so no need to rush into spending much there.

With that out of the way, yes I would say that appearance is very much a key point to promoting a project these days. Sadly or not many people look at this thing first and foremost when they go into crypto. Like, even savvy people in the space judge projects by this factor. Even if they know that the technical background is more important. Many compare the deigns to see how much a project takes its marketing seriously (i.e. how appealing it'll be to a more average investor).

For developing the technical details, I'd say do your best to show there's a solid, feasible plan and that you as a team have what it takes to carry through the tasks.
987  Economy / Gambling / Re: Gigabet - legit or not? on: August 17, 2020, 12:40:03 PM
Well if the casino is new and doesn't do anything to make a name for itself then I can't find any reason to depost.
If things are as OP claims then the most likely story is that they don't want many real people reaping rewards from their rewards scheme. In other words, their reward is just a scheme to bait users into coming into the site but probably isn't sustainable to keep for everyone so they just ban people. Seems like a scummy practice and I would avoid such casino.
988  Economy / Gambling / Re: best crypto dice site for reward systems? on: August 16, 2020, 12:11:51 PM
I think wolf.bet has a pretty generous faucet system. Just for being active in chat you get fractions of different cryptocoins very frequently. It pays more than faucets and generally is decent money to start playing with and if you have a good series of wins even withdraw maybe.
989  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "Stephen Wolfram" says bitcoin creator is known classified material on: August 16, 2020, 10:12:54 AM
 
Stephen Wolfram can neither confirm nor deny the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. [citation needed]

Glomar response
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response

 Cheesy
Pretty much this. He claimed it's standard practice in science too. It's a position that doesn't put him at risk, and also since Satoshi is not a known person anyone can contact, his claims can't be proven or disproven.

I can only think about what he'd have to gain from this. Since it was done through one of his streams promoting his proprietary platform I can only safely assume that it was probably a stunt to draw attention.
990  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Brave browser scams 1,5k USD out of archive.is based on nationalist rhetoric on: August 15, 2020, 05:15:03 AM
Brave has proven time and time again that they are not to be trusted. The BAT token itself is a scam token since the only reason it exists is to enrich Brendan and his pals. A browser doesn't need a native currency when there are already many currencies which are truly decentralized. If they wanted a centralized KYC compliant payment system they could've just integrated PayPal into their browser and it would've been a much smoother experience for users. And speaking of KYC, why would a privacy preserving browser require users to give up personal information to withdraw a few buck in earned BAT from a centralized custodian? Blocking funds from Archive.is is just another example of their shady behavior.
Exactly right. If they were going to be hyper vigilant over government suggestions about sanctions and impose KYC on users looking to use their browsers earning aspects, why not just simply use FIAT money directly? In my view they're just exploiting crypto here; deriving no ral benefit from it and even damaging the reputation of cryptocurrency. Essentially making it even harder for users to withdraw money.


After the previous move of Brave browser dev, which has clearly shown the level of greed - I mean ref links don't really bring big money and he has traded his user base possibly for peanuts - of course that 1.5k USD was an amount he couldn't resist.

It's way beyond disappointing. It's not even unexpected anymore. Sad.
God fucking dammit. Even honeypot browsers that have a known direct relationship with the Chinese communist party are more subtle about their ways on how they profit off of users... Brave truly seems to have no standards.
991  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Wixiplay is fully scam and rigged on: August 15, 2020, 04:46:34 AM
Could you find some of these people who were scammed and ask them to create a trust flag? By posting relevant proof also.
Here's a relevant guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5156835.0

Recording the scam and making a report on bitcointalk would be a good step towards warning people for what a scam casino truly is.
992  Economy / Gambling / Re: Trustworthy Asian crypto sportsbooks? on: August 15, 2020, 04:36:58 AM
A friend had asked me recently about it and I honestly had no idea about it. Does anyone know any? If yes, Plz respond below. TIA
I think it'd be better to specify your request so it can be narrowed down... There's countries with interest in footbal in Asia, there's countries with interest in cricket... And then there's vastly different regions
What's the goal here even? Find a website where people located in Asia will be allowed to bet? Or find a website where Asian leagues can be bet on.

A friend had asked me recently about it and I honestly had no idea about it. Does anyone know any? If yes, Plz respond below. TIA

Nitrogen and Betcoin are the best and both are trustworthy. Here's a full list.
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Thanks for the list. Where does this rating originate from? Your own criteria?

993  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Brave browser scams 1,5k USD out of archive.is based on nationalist rhetoric on: August 13, 2020, 07:19:50 PM
archive.today/archive.is is a website that allows for on-demand archiving of the contents of a website. It captures sites as they would be displayed in a modern browser.
It's a useful website for keeping archives of contents that might be followed by deletion later and it's also useful for keeping an exact, verifiable copy of a website at a certain time.
The owner is anonymous and for the longest time of the website's existence didn't accept donations. Offering this service pro-bono and without even accepting acknowledgment or assistance. 

So, what does this have to do with Brave Broser?
Brave Brower is a chromium fork that integrates Basic Attention Token (BAT). The browser features a built-in ad-blocker. Users can opt in to view ads and receive rewards for this, while webmasters can opt-in to also receive rewards for the BAT-supported ads on their website. Another feature of the browser was to allow users to donate BAT that would be pledged to a website's webmaster. The inclusion of a built-in ad blocker on the browser had sparked fury upon its release, with the organization behind the browser receiving a cease and desist signer by 1200 publishers.

But what did brave do now?
The organization behind Brave browser appears to have broken their side of the contract with the owner of archive.is, embezzling roughly 1500 USD that were voluntarily contributed by users towards the website via the browser. I'll put the saga in a timeline for easier reading below. This is from the 'Ask' me Anything section of archive.is.









Which was followed by one final block post publishing the email exchange between archive.is and brave.com. It's too big to screencap so I'll just link it for those interested:
https://blog.archive.today/post/626174398020403200/please-provide-all-the-details-about-how-brave


It seems like archive.is webmaster transferred his domains to a friend. And as a result, Brave decided to withhold that person's own funds via Uphold citing nationality.

I have some opinionated commentary on this. Basically I find it quite appalling for Brave browser to deny people their funds based on nationality. I think archive.is' webmaster puts it exactly right by calling this Aryanization. Crypto affords people the opportunity to conduct transfers of value regardless of their background, independent from government oversight, independent from restrictions from regulators and politicized payment processors... Only to then apply nationalist policy on who gets to benefit from their service? What's the point of using crypto if you're not going to allow your services users to reap its benefits? Brave acts much like a protectionist national leader. They want to participate in international trade for the sake of not missing out on its benefits, but only so that they can squeeze out the maximum benefit out of others, instead of actually giving back.


TL;DR altruistic webmaster behind free on-demand web-archive service archive.today states he can accept donations via Brave browser's feature, days later org behind Brave denies him his donations citing nationalist rhetoric.
994  Economy / Gambling / Re: FrostBets.com launching soon on: August 13, 2020, 06:43:49 AM
Honest feedback for frostbets.com:
Good that you are using Bitcoin blockchain for proving fairness, but website looks very bad and low quality, and I would not use it for any kind of betting.
Better update it before launch.
Well to be fair from the information available it seems like a service to be offered in game for Classic Runescape. If you look at the graphics of this game, players aren't probably after flashy graphics but more about content.
And this thread is to verify a hash chain other than advertise. So I can't blame them for not having a flashy website. It's not like the game will be played there anyway. It just needs to be informative.
995  Economy / Gambling / Re: BADCOGAMING.COM - Odds Comparison Website for Soccer and MMA / UFC on: August 12, 2020, 03:17:18 PM
Interesting website. Is the data refreshed with every page reload?
Also another thing that would be interesting to know. How often do you draw new data?
996  Economy / Services / Re: Gamdom.com Signature and avatar campaign(codes fixed apply now) on: August 12, 2020, 03:01:49 PM
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997  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Just received an unknown Innotech machine on: August 10, 2020, 11:05:56 PM
Are you sure the miner had writing saying "innotech" instead of innosilicon?
998  Economy / Services / Re: Go-Overt Bitcoin Mixer review campaign. on: August 10, 2020, 07:16:39 PM
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999  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN] FreeBitco.in Signature Campaign | Sr./Hero/Legendary | on: August 07, 2020, 11:56:06 PM
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1000  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Selling 25 BTC @9000USD each on: August 06, 2020, 11:39:28 PM
Pick an escrow for such transactions.  Roll Eyes
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