Oh, what a surprise, giving away many for free brings attention!

First, let me ask you if you meant Bitcoin or bitcointalk, cause I'm really not sure about this since you mentioned "traffic".
Now, if you really meant Bitcoin it's pretty simple:
- Windows doesn't have grant programs
- Microsoft has grant programs

Since there is no company behind Bitcoin that can do such a thing, the obvious answer is NO!

Also, I think a lot miss the real definition of a grant, people or companies pooling money to build something in their own interest is not a grant!
Binance or Kraken giving away money to make their system better, create a btcpay server or anything else is like Amazon offering "grants" in order to develop better Amazon warehouses!

And the mother? And the guy that was the previously assumed father?  
Now, even if we meant father of all crypto, he was a terrible one, I mean 90% of his sons were scammers, two of them tried to pull a Chronos and Zeus move and stab him, and right now he's on the point of getting evicted out of his block by his own memes!

Oh god (the real one if there is one at all), just make topics go away!


Let's count out memes and so-called smart contracts, what REAL-LIFE use cases does any altcoin have?
Name a few of those coins and cases cause for almost ten years I'm still waiting to witness a real one!

Exactly and this is why it will never be a real threat because instead of the third guy whom you want to cheat, you can BE! that guy and take all the fees perfectly normal yourself! Trying to make the route longer but at the same time cheaper will act like the barrier, it's a no go!
I'm curious if such an attack which results in collecting a few milisatoshi now and then will ever make up for all the funding you have to set up in order to deploy your malicious network!

Now if D would be able to do that without B, that would change things but since it can't, I think right now it's as dangerous as Foundry colluding with some guy in Nantucket to reverse his coffee purchases.

It was related to the timeframe in making a change, and how easily it can be done compared to everyone getting a smartphone now or buying his first washing machine in the 60's. That's why 2-5 years might not sound like much but in this age it might be too late. Again, might!, as I have no crystal ball, just my pessimism right now on full throttle!


You don't have to believe me, you can believe math:
Last average hahsrate > 387.57 EH/s
One exahash is 1,000,000 Th/s.
One S19Pro capable of doing 100Th/s is 1,950 $/Unit
So you need 3.8 million x $1950, that's $7.4 billion!

The $250 billion number is just ridiculous, based on the current daily reward ($26,326,734.21) it will take 10 000 days, so ~ 30 years to recover the investment.  


SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD 8TB 2.5"  - $369.58 on Amazon.
Almost fits 20 x 420 000 (two halvings) of blocks, I think is enough.


Of course not, I'm not for having everything on the mainchain, but since we're at this point, how long it will take for let's say everyone in California alone to open and close one LN channel if we keep these blocks? Now if we would assume the same userbase as Visa...oh, better not!



2.88 GB a day > 1 TB a year > 10 TB in ten years assuming that blocks will be from the start full, which is not going to happen so I allowed myself to believe it will be only 75% of that, so fitting in an 8tb drive.
You have above the SSD at $369 and we're talking about an evo which is more expensive than others.
I don't understand why you took the 8 cents per GB since in the same article you have ssd with 4 cents per gb.

Hmmm, I would say early 2022
Domain available but parked in late 2021:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211223065526/http://richy.casino/
First complaint September last year
https://casino.guru/richy-casino-review#tab=js-tab-discussion
So the deja-vu deepens 

But it does change a bit my initial thought, maybe they haven't pulled a scam now, they have been doing this for months and we just knew about this since none of the forum members played on until now on their casino.

Oh and just a bit of useless trivia, while diggin' around I've found out there have been a richy fish, a richy fox, a richy leo and a richy farmer casino, all four of them ending in scams.

Probably what's limiting it is the number of available campaigns, even if you would be able to farm 10 000 accounts, you can't have them all enlisted, so that's what's putting the breaks on it as far as I can think.


Overkill? Hardly! It's a guy that abuses the forum and secretly builds accounts claiming it's his childhood friend or disabled wife, would you trust this guy enough after such lies and way of acting? No, so it's definitely tag-worthy! I think we've become way to lenient on this, just like the discussion if WW deserves a flag 3 or flag 2 or a Spiderman shirt because of technically that and this. From my point of view a guy that talks to himself or merits his own posts it's either a tag or a psychiatric case!
But, I don't care that much anymore!


Just like in Nasreddin's stories, it would be far better to give him a beating before he does something bad, no matter how many times you slap them afterward the thing will not get undone. But out of curiosity, since you mentioned members exposing cheaters, has this stopped them from posting or participating in campaigns or giving away merits? I just don't think it stops them, not in your board, not in any other local boards not on the entire forum, so kind of useless.

Probably more a we're not able to do it scam than a preplanned exit scam.
Not going to name the deja-vu I'm having right now!

Even if this were only a somewhat legit casino the whole thing would not make sense, I doubt the deposits they got in this tiny frame they were online are enough to cover for all the work and planning put into it, it's still a casino not a Ponzi one page website, they did put a few thousand in this even if they have a copy or a clone script, it still worked so there is somebody who knew what he was doing and those people cost money!

Just one thing:

The gambling license and the KYC are completely unrelated, if we go by the laws then you would have to verify your uses for KYC and AML regulations even if their license is not valid or they don't have one at all, as long as you're a financial institution you're technically forced to do so, just like taxes for example!  

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17

They are not just tightly integrated, they are almost the same company, both founded by Haipo Yang who acts as both their CEO.
Probably they just wanted to avoid the troubles and play as close as to the book possible, they could have done it for 0 or 100sat/b the cost would eventually the same, the difference is only which pocket pays for the other.

The funny thing is that maybe Coinex is scrapping for all the dust they can find now, without ViaBTC those consolidations might be something they really can't afford after that hack. Or maybe it's ViaBTc sending everything they can find to cover the balance sheet!

There is one legit accelerator that will actually confirm your tx and not just rebroadcast, and that it is ViaBTC!
But on a simulation for your tx they ask for $130 so, looking at your $190 worth of BTC tx, I doubt it is worth it.

So, the usual question,are you in control of any of those wallets, or are they custodial wallets? Once we know how that looks we can think of what other options you have, that is if you have any!

Pretty easy!
Take your whole net worth, let's assume you have $1 million, just for the sake of conversation not insinuating anything,  divide it by 5000 and now tell me, do you feel like you couldn't sleep over $200 of coins left in metamask? There are people who buy cars worth nearly that much as those coisn are worth and never drive them more than once forgetting even at which home that thing is, and here you have a guy with 5 billion worth of assets who bought on impulse some coins and tossed them in some wallet.


For some it's a bit more complicated, it's not that they have to save every penny or that they have some sort of trauma but they don't like it if they feel cheated or misled on buying something, they will argue for one hour over $5 wrong in a bank statement but they wouldn't care throwing away 1million in a day. Not really being cheap, more like trying to play it smart or something!


My bet is on some custodial service like Coinbase or Bitgo!

These days you can't make a 10 sats fart without every single individual knowing that, I just love the irony in all of this, we're protesting against public cameras and cookies tracking our shopper profile but god how everyone loves knowing how much that individual has in Bitcoins where he sent it, from who he gets it, and so on! Bitcoin has some pseudo-privacy that everyone cheers for and demands more and the same millions are subscribing to whale alerts and trying to figure out who that guy that did this and that is.

As for how the news went, it's not even as complicated as normal surveillance, tether signals when they freeze funds and I'm pretty sure they reacted that fast not because of that analytics company but because they probably know every single address exchange use and it getting empty is probably and instant trigger. I find it far more plausible and it explains why some funds are getting frozen almost instantly while others are not even days after.


In all the hacks there are a few alts also but everyone focuses on the large sums and as always these two are the most liquid ones and make more of the hot wallets share. Both Remitano and stake hack had other coins involved too, it's just that the headlines don't mention them if they are not big compared to the overall number, sensationalist journalism at its best.

It was a solid variation, not real gear, more luck than miners.
During that day there were no less than 189 blocks in a 24h interval, that would have been an insane amount
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/blocks?q=time(2023-09-14%2017:15:30..2023-09-15%2017:15:30)

We're down to 150 blocks last 24 hours, guess this is the actual situation with no outages.


But it was expected, what I was saying 10 days ago?
Of course it was going to happen, if somebody would come with me to a casino and always bet roulette the other color than me he would get satoshi level rich in just one night! Bane of casinos they would call me! 

No, it's an extreme example to underline the problem.
Fess in the last 24h were 26.52 BTC, that's around half of that!


To overpower the network right now you need around 4 million S19pro, each was sold at 2k, so that's 8 billion.
Since the hashrate doubled in the last year, obviously you need just two years at the current deployment rate, not a possible production rate!


So if Bitcoin goes to 1 million next month, you will feel it's normal to pay $40 instead of $1 when buying a pizza?
I don't see anyone claiming that a tesla charge could be x100 more expensive and people will till use it just because since their shares have gone x100 times in the last decade! You're still transferring value at a cost, as long as that value is convertible and you have other means of transferring it cheaper then people will migrate to that.


A blockchain with 20MB which would give the same 20 times capacity would generate the need for a 300euros evo ssd in 10 years!
I'm willing to bet there are 100 times more people who have that much porn than there are Bitcoin nodes in this world!

Why not?
It's easy when you talk about a certain proven scam but on the other hand, look around the forum!

The new iPhone just launched and everyone was quoting how an iPhone cost 150 BTC 10 years ago and only 0.03 BTC now or whatever numbers, if everyone keeps talking about  500000% growth in 10 years and shows pretty pictures of those as proof why do you assume a newbie who is bombarded by such tweets from members that have somewhat of a reputation on socials media will not believe a measly 300% return a year cause it's obviously just as the OP they won't know what compound interest is?

You're going to be amazed on how many people I've talked too and are not believe when I tell them you can only make a few $ a day by running a Bitcoin miner, until I show them the math they think I'm lying to them and I'm hiding the fact that it's making thousands a month!

When everyone talks about the price going 3-4 times up in a year, 0.5% a day starts to look credible for a newbie!

Hmm, I don't get it!?
I assumed in my calculations 0.70 BTC, I just put the dot and not the 0 like Phil did so to avoid a mistake while quoting him
So, I don't understand the minimum 0.01 when we already assumed 0.70 , what did I get wrong here?


Define soon and a matter of time by Bitcoin standards, cause that could mean 1 year and 10 years and it would till fit both both being extremely fast or extremely slow judging by how things evolve nowadays. And this is one thing I would like to point out, it's no longer 1900 and not 1970, you can't compare the spread the penetration of cars and the internet with embracing a bunch of code that takes no manufacturing, no distribution and furthermore no accessibility problems.

And I'm going to be skeptical about it anyhow, one thing that Bitcoiners have besides other qualities is a sky-high ego, no way they will accept big blockers were partially right.



Yeah, another bitcoin IOU papers wanna be seller claiming random numbers, did he say he will eat his *** too?
I need to bookmark this one:


The strict value of BTC or the fees or anything on its own is quite irrelevant if we talk security.
Bitcoin can be 1 trillion or 1 billion, the fees can be 1000$ or 1$, what matters is the ratio between those two
- the entire wealth guarded in the blockchain and at stake in case of an attack
- the amount of money needed to launch such an attack

If you're going to protect 100 trillion with a hashrate that can be bought with 1 million then you (and us collectively) have a problem

And nobody has tried this?
Seems....interesting:


So, a double scam with both the app and the token?


And how do you know that, my dear newbie who just signed up on Bitcointalk?

I just thought of a way to explain to OP the difference between theory and the economy as a model of study and real-life application.

You can build a car that is perfect, it runs smoothly it can drive at any time anywhere, it has a billion sensors, the car will be great except the moment you're driving legally and carefully and a drunk driver is swerving on your line coming 200 km/h at you and totally destroys you!
It was not your fault, not your car's fault and nothing could have prevented this from your side of the story.

Same here, there is no way to prevent some of those things, if you go into 5 or 10 years bonds, how can you make sure
- a virus doesn't screw the whole economy
- a war doesn't start
- an asteroid doesn't hit the earth
- Hitler's grandson doesn't become president of Bartovia?


2+2=4
Unemployment Rate= Total number of Unemployed / Total number of employed individuals.
Both of these are correct even if I spray my leg, even if my country is wiped by a nuke, 1000 years from now those formulas will still stand and will be right.

But if I take a loan of $100 a month and I have a wage monthly of $5000 everything works fine and there shouldn't be any problem unless I take up drinking and gambling I lose my job and I have no money and no willingness to pay back. This is no longer science, it's no longer theory, it's just shit that happens and and you can't know if will happen or not 10 years in advance because science doesn't do crystal globe readings.


It's the doom and gloom section, haven't you got used to it?

It's not news, it's the date that was decided in the last meeting by that master of postponements Kobayashi.
https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20230309_announcement_en.pdf


The article just made it sounds like it was decided now but everyone knows about it from March, if I recall correctly in May they had the final amendments on that plan so they can't really change anything anymore, just again postpone it.

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A final court decision on a rehabilitation plan is a rumor or a lie to you?


What makes you think they will not?


Yes we all know the numbers, you just have to use Google to find all the documents stating the amount held by the trustee right now.


The coins are no longer held by MtGox and there is no MtGox anymore.

Guys seriously, rather than making one foot long pyramides quotes why don't you make a single search or if that's impossible for you and you still need to voice your opinion without knowing one thing about this issue why not tone it down a little?

Why, is the suspect Chuck Norris? 
If the OP didn't have guts he would have used a throwaway account to do so, what he did is pretty normal he censored the name to show only the important thing, everyone could if they wanted find out as it has who the guys are, what was meant here was to simply analyze the merit distribution.
So, why are you so angry at OP?


From the start I'm not accusing the two as I didn't even bother to check what they post as I'm getting really bored about this, it' 's so obvious local boards are full of account farmers, they farm the merit step-by-step there then start polluting the BD and BH with merit fishing posts, make the 100 merit threshold and then instantly signature applications only for some of them to inevitably ending up in the wall of shame thread also.

And even if we prove it, merit abuse is not tag-worthy anymore, having 1000 accounts is neither as long as they don't enter the same campaign it's just a useless investigation uncovering a dozen accounts while a hundred more are in the making. We just have to come back to tagging shitposter and spammers and that would eliminate the need for all the detective work.

10 pages on the same topic locked just a week ago:
How do we transfer bitcoin wealth to heirs and the next generation

So, start by searching if not 1000 people have asked the same question 1000 times before!


Do you really care that much about what happens to your Bitcoin investment once you're no longer in this world?
Focus more on living than on what you're going to leave!