That's hillarious.  How much did you win on the bet (I hope more than 9776 satoshis )?

I'd love to see the distribution of times to claim free bitcoin dust amounts.  Unfortunately, I can't afford to run the experiment.

SwC still is windows only (but mostly likely that will be fixed soon, then they will almost certainly be kings again).  I've never gotten betcoin to work on gnu/linux.  I think there's a missed opportunity window going on now, but yah, it would take the right marketing.

I don't think that there's some kind of federal agent usa honeypot in the seals client, but you're absolutely right that running executables that you can't see the code to on Windows is really dangerous.  The best you could do is use some kind of virtual machine.   I can't do this because my laptop is too crappy to run more than one one OS at a time

I think a lot of players will return when they get a safer client.

Sweet, it's the quickseller masterbation post of the day.  It's a fun game you guys, look through the 1000s of posts that quickseller produces every week and nearly everyday you can find one where he "toots his own horn" so to speak.  This one is a little more subtle, because he's responding to someone else wanking him, but who knows, with his anonymity, they may actually be the same person.

The reason that quickseller isn't on default trust is that he's too hot tempered and no one knows what his real motivations are. Yes, he does a lot of posting, yes he calls people out.  But the issue is that he calls people out for the reptuation points, not because he's trying to find the truth.   The folks that are saying things like "he's 99% right" are obviously not the ones who got wrongly caught up in his dragnet.  In a recent high-profile event, he went on for a week about how respected member ndnhc was scamming (for some tiny amount, the story didn't add up) using some faked proof.    When people confronted him about the fact that the motive wasn't there, he would shut them down saying I have evidence and that scammers don't need a motivation to scam.  After he was shown wrong he didn't apologize or say that he'd be more careful in the future, he just moved on and continues to toot his own horn about how he found this "evidence".  There was even a good deal of speculation about whethere he might have been the one who planted the evidence himself, although this was never proven.

In a saga that spans nearly 4 months now, he went after me starting this March/April for literally no known reason.  In case you didn't hear this one, it's quite nuts:

I had called quickseller out for not being nice in several threads---he was calling people "idiot" left and right and generally not being helpful.  Only a few days after I started saying, "hey quicktemper, simmer down, not everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot", he logged on with one of his alt accounts and started trolling me.  Saying how he was gonna get me kicked of my sig-ad campaign because I suck.  So, he goes digging through everything and comes up with a lie that known scammer traderfortress accused me of like 2 years ago.  He then neg-repped me (this was during the brief period when he was on default trust) with his main account.  Weeks of fighting were the result.  Quickseller's reputation quickly went down the tubes as badbear saw that quickseller is too much about pride and destruction of those who he considers enemies than about fairness or community.  Quickseller was booted from badbears list only a few weeks later after other incidents in which he fingered the wrong people.

Then he got put on tomatocage's list.  He wanted power so badly that when I asked tomotocage to intervene about my negative trust from quickseller, qs relented in order to stay on tc's list.  Tomatocage saw that QS's feedback on me is nothing but vindictive bile with no basis in fact, and he asked quickseller to at least change it to a neutral.  Quickseller did this.  But he was removed from default trust again shortly after presumably because of his false accusations against ndnhc.   Don't be confused on this, QS is not on default trust because the people on default trust can't trust him.  They've tried but no one wants their reputation to be tied to his fiery temper.

In case you think he's learned from this and moved on, note this.  Just recently I saw that he's changed his rating on me back to negative.  He hasn't let go of the nonsense yet.  God knows why this guy hates me so much, the only thing I could figure for a while was that he was some alt of tradefortress, but finally I decided that that doesn't make sense.  The only explanation left is that he can't handle being crossed, that once you say to him something like "you are wrong" or "stop calling people idiots" he will stop at nothing in order to defame you for the rest of your life.  

Only one month ago he seems to have registered a newbie account, FunFunnyFan https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=519804 who was trying to sell a default trust account.  He spent one weekend trolling me with this account.  The writing style was the same as quickseller's and I have no doubt it was him trying to openly troll me without getting his main account involved again.  I thought it was very interesting that that account was trying to sell a default trust account and that the moment I said "hey you must be quickseller, no one else has any problem with me" the account disappeared and stopped trolling me.

For the record, I have 4 negative feedbacks on my account after 3 years here.  1 from tradefortress (a false accusation), 3 from quickseller and his alts flaming me for god knows what purpose.

This is the deal with quickseller, if you want him to be your moderator, god help anyone who dares to say he's wrong, you'll get nuked so fast....


Indeed, Shorena has all the positives of quickseller, but without the firey temper and vindictiveness.  You really can't be a leader if you can't be fair and be willing to put aside personal animus.  Any objective look at quickseller's time here shows that he has a lot of growing to do on that front before he could be trusted to be an impartial judge.


Indeed, once I had been the victim of a quickseller smear attack I started reading those meta threads saying quickseller was falsely accusing them with a new view.  Originally it's easy to see a newbie account saying "no" to quickseller and think these are just scammers who are sad they got caught, but once you've been falsely accused by him yourself, you start to think more about giving people the benefit of the doubt.  I think all those people who are saying QS is 99% right on page 1 are either alts of quickseller themselves or else they've never really looked closely at the evidence in those 99% cases they're talking about.  And this is the problem, QS doesn't look closely either, he merely acheives his 50 posts, 20 reports, 10 negative feedbacks per day and logs out, logs in as an alt, repeat.

It's been discussed already up-thread, but you're completely right.  The software works well and the site-owner is honest.  The issue is that there are probably like 50 of us who would like to play there but we're never online at the same moment so no critical mass is ever reached.  I think the best thing to do at this point would be for bitcoinpoker.gg to close down and build up hype with advertising and special promotions on some sort of opening weekend.  That way when they reopened they'd be sure to have everyone pop in at once and the place might even thrive.

... where X is some integer greater than 0.

(0 and negative whole numbers are integers too!)

The screenshot posted by deadly?  I see that it meantions two domains he owns: mmoclub.com and bitcoinminerz.com.  DNS for those sites resolves to
92.232.216.170, 162.246.56.115, respectively (which are probably IPs for hosting companies, I doubt he hosts his websites at his house).  Where do you get the 70.208.200.218 address?

"Looks like"?  Where are you getting this information?  Were you in contact with him recently?



Yes, people can be saddled with debt for hospital bills but even in USA you don't have to pay up front for care.  I think you're right that he's just offering up excuses.  Very sad situtation in any case.

One reason not to is fees associated with currency exchange, sometimes they can be quite high.  So especially if you want to exchange back you might pay a lot changing to doge just to bet then changing again after.

Another reason not to is that doge may not hold price.  I haven't looked closely recently but I know doge is pretty inflationary and volitility can be crazy if you just want to try to place a bet and then have the value of that be affected by volitility.

A third reason not to is what was just explained upthread by direct bet, they actually accept the bet at 0 confirmations.  You only have to wait for a confirmation for the payout.

Feel free to educate yourself.  You can check out the bitcoin wiki for a good start
Block frequency isn't going to be changed.  That's one of the important things that's held constant.  Difficulty is changed regularly in order to maintain that frequency.  Block rewards are phased out after a certain time period with that frequency in mind.  It just wouldn't happen.  If you do a little search, you can find pages and pages of threads of people debating the block size increase.  I'm going to lock this thread now as my question is more or less answered and I've found other threads discussing the volume increase this week.  Thanks for the replies folks, and ShamrockHannah, I'm sure you'll find a proper thread for your question soon, it's not really on topic in here.

Think seh means "seals error handling?"  Thanks for trying this, if you hear anything from the devs and you get it working, let me know.  I might be convinced to give wine a try myself if at least one other person has succeeded.

Seems like a happy ending.  KD seems to be trying to get back on the straight-and-narrow.  GL, KD, be nice!

That was yesterday, dude.  Final score was 1 - 1.  ghostN0 won (check previous page).

So, I was completely wrong.  Sorry for the misinformation.  I'll edit my post above to avoid spreading wrong information.

Also, glad to know that I can still hope to get in a last minute bet even with all of this extra transaction spam going on.

You should contact them and see if they'll give you a ref code.  I imagine they'd be interested but you'd have to contact them to find out.

They already have an affiliate program:

https://swcpoker.eu/affiliates/

It's actually pretty generous if you have a good network of contacts to refer.

The old sealswithclubs often had between 300-500 players online in the final months, which is a respectable figure in my opinion.  It was enough that you could find action at basically any stakes at almost any time.  That's not something that I've found elsewhere, but then again, a lot of the other provides ask you for dox or they don't run on linux or some other stumbling-block.  Nowadays swc is without it's non-windows people.  I think once they straighten that out they'll see their numbers basically double from what you're seeing now.

Furio, I don't know how you compiled all that information about yourself and yet seemed to fail to look at not only any of the last three pages of this thread but also the very topic itself which says pretty boldly: [CLOSED].  :/

ndnhc, alas, maybe it's time to lock this thread for the history books.

Directbet does require one confirmation to make the bet effective.  You have to have that one conf before the start of the event in order for your bet to count.  Personlly, I didn't happen to do any sports betting this week but I was thinking about the issues surrounding confirmation times because I sent a transaction that took 5 days to confirm.   I was considering how lame it would be if I was trying to place a bet on some event and had my confirmation take forever and miss the fun.

EDIT: I was incorrect.  directbet make the bet effective at 0 confirmations, but won't pay out any winnings until at least 1 confirmation.  This is very cool.  See their post below.

Hopefully, transaction times seem to be going back down now.  I know my long-waiting transaction finally went through yesterday.

Natural selection will take place whether or not you "let it".  That's by definition.

OP has an okay point, it is a good thing to see a community get stronger and wiser, but it's not a good thing to see people get hurt.  Unfortunately, oftentimes people have to learn the hard way.  There's a lot of discussion in meta these days about how the "scambusters" of default trust are actually causing more harm than good not only because of all the stuff they get wrong (false accusations and whatnot) but because the little green trust light offers a false sense of security to people who ought to be making decisions more critically.

Porn is not my thing but I am happy to see freedom.  I remember there was some trouble with backpage a few years ago in my town related to possibly underage escort stuff.  I guess that while I'm happy to see bitcoin allowing usage where credit cards feat to tread, I'm not completely convinced that backpage is a great thing for our world.  I see this news as mixed.