If the question was only about timing then I would agree with you, but it's not.  It's about actively promoting the site, attracting new clients (and deposits) while the current clientele are unable to withdraw.  How much time would be appropriate for this to continue?

If we are to discuss timing and whether it's too early or not; it's fair to point out this isn't an overnight glitch.  This has been an issue for over a week now.  Technical difficulties aside, they could have issued those withdrawals manually in that time.

I'm sorry to be the one who has to do this, but I can't stand by in good conscience and let this continue.  I know this will be an unpopular move, but I also know it's the right thing to do.

Royse777 is acting as the representative of the new casino BitLucy, as has been demonstrated by his actions and suggested by his posts quoted in this thread.  He started the official BitLucy thread in the gambling board, and just made a post to address the site being down for the last 24 hours, and users denied withdrawals for the last week.  In that post he announces that the site is back on line, but to those who've been waiting for their withdrawals he offers this tidbit:


This does not give anyone clear indication of when they'll be allowed to withdraw their money.  I believe that until people are able to withdraw their funds, it is unsafe to use this casino.  Yet Royse777 continues to promote it and has demonstrated little concern for those waiting for a withdrawal.

This post will serve as a reference to the tag until the issues with withdrawals are resolved.

But again, does that really matter?  There are always going to those who try to avoid taint.  You'll know them IRL because they put on latex gloves when handling cash.


I wouldn't be so naive to believe that a that a mixer couldn't be in cahoots with the government.  And again, how would we know?  Mixers are centralized services.  Any privacy, anonymity, and most importantly, safety that you get from a mixer is purely assumed.  We must trust that the mixer will provide the services as promised.  With the exception of privacy, there is no way to verify and validate the results. 

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Okay, okay, JoinMarket, I got it. 

I'll look into it, do my own research.  Thank you.

Why stop at marketing?  Sportsbet should just start their own full blown Football Travel Service!  Let's start with an airline.  Just imagine it; Sportsbet.io branded peanuts with the Southampton crest, bitcoin symbol emblazoned on the stroopwaffles, LN payments for Scotch, unlimited streaming of Arsenal wins.  It would be the best airline.  Ever.

It's been three days since Royse777 made that excuse-filled post that offered no solution, no accountability, and no responsibility for this situation.  Given Royse777's popularity and his services I can understand why a lot of you are reluctant to criticize him, especially those of you who've helped promote his services in the past.

But, this is not looking good.  The clients of that casino are still waiting for their withdrawals, and the bitlucy website has been down for over 24 hours.  Maybe it's too early to call it an exit scam.  Or is it?

Congrats to the Sportsbet.io team on their anniversary.  Great job, guys.  It's a privilege to have you here.


I know, right?


Okay, fine, when Istanbul meetup?

That would actually be a lot of fun, Turkey is on my bucket list.  The next time I visit family in the middle east I'll be stopping in Istanbul for a few days.

There's noting wrong with discussing this here.  This is Bitlucy's service thread, and if people are having issues with their service it's perfectly acceptable to bring it up here.  If this casino turns out to be a scam then this is the best place to discuss that too.  People need to be made aware of what kind of service they're about to use...  Or not.

How about Jordan Pool last night?  14 minutes on the court, 14 points on the board.  Not a bad outing.  It was nice to see the rest of the team step up with Curry having an off night.  Wiggins and Thomson looked great, and Green was a monster on defense. 

Thursday is going to be fun, but I expect the Celtics to come out swinging on their home court.  Losing at home in game six will not be an option, and honestly I'm being a bit greedy here.  I would love noting more than to see the Warriors win game 7 at home.  Story book ending.

Asking others to consider the evidence against you, and tag you if they feel it's accurate is not misuse of the trust system.

If he were to do something really stupid, like create six newbie accounts to spam your trust page, now that would be misuse of the trust system.  But that didn't happen did it?  In fact, somebody created six newbie accounts to spam his trust page.  What kind of drama queen would do such a thing?

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This sounds too much like a soap opera.  Any dispute between two members needs to be resolved by those two members.  Trust is not managed by the moderators, so one can do anything about it except the person who left the review.  No one is going to tag Kavelj22 for being rude, that would also be a misuse of the trust system.  If Kavelj22 is leaving trust ratings that have no supporting evidence, the community will notice and very likely remove him from trust inclusions.  Regardless, he's not in DT so his reviews don't show up as "Trusted."  

الله يحييكم

Is it really worth the effort?  I mean if privacy and anonymity are the goals, aren't there better options than CoinJoin?  In the other thread n0nce mentioned one could even code in an easier way to add coinjoin coordinators, so you could even have a whole list to choose from.  Even if you had a whole list of coordinators, they are each a centralized entity which requires trust in those entities.  Wasabi told us they're using BCA, what's to prevent another coordinator from pretending they're not.  Would we know?

I just had a look at their website again, and you're absolutely right.  They do mention non-custodial which is true, and the trustless part is technologically over my head.  It is open source and I trust the community, for what that's worth.  I don't remember exactly what it was about the wallet that turned me off, but something about it did creep me out.  Maybe it was fear of taint, lol!  I was much "younger" then, and I'm not afraid to admit that it may have crossed my mind.  I've read through this thread, and I can't help but agree with you and the like-minded-others on the issue, however.

Any attempt to avert tainted coins does a dis-service to privacy and anonymity for all of us, and will play into the governments hands.  The end goal is to blacklist all bitcoin UTXOs that can't be confirmed by BCA as having been thoroughly taxed.

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Funny thing about this quote you posted (emphases mine.)

 

Half of the bolded sentence, if not patently false, it's intentionally misleading.  I guess one could argue that if they're blacklisted they're not "participants."

I sent the whole requested amount, 0.01086BTC.  Here's the TxId: 77a6e6c8c91ffb5030c9e4580b9aaf44ac91bb1ee3f08b33a5f600e45f5f155e

Please pay back here: bc1q2nwf4njwkpeuyycx5a95nj6mf8m45djdk863xs

I haven't used Wasabi Wallet for a couple of years, so I largely ignored this thread.  @n0nce, no the irony of the thread title didn't escape me, but I didn't know why until I just got caught up on what's going on.  One of the reasons I didn't use Wasabi for long was that I didn't trust it.  Maybe it was due to my ignorance, I still don't know exactly how CoinJoin is decentralized, and I'm not comfortable with claims that it is.  Maybe I'm missing something.

What I don't understand about this whole debacle is why zxsnacks is the only viable coordinator.  If it's a decentralized service wouldn't some other coordinator owned by a Russian mafioso running on a VPS out of Curaçao just start getting the majority of join requests?  Why is a wallet that claims to be "decentralized" locking it's users into one CENTRAL join providor?

ELI5.

Now you're starting to make some sense.  I can't tell if you're contradicting yourself or if I misunderstood your previous post.



I gave you that dollar for making a funny, it's all yours.  You won't be getting any bonus points for attempting to return it.

So what?  I could live quite a comfortable life in many lovely places on this earth with no more than a thousand dollars a month.  I could even afford to lend out a few satoshis on the interwebs if I chose.  On the other hand, there are places where people struggle to put food on the table with over five times that amount of income.  Such a stupid thing to say.  Especially since you're the one here begging for a dollar.  $1000 would be pretty nice right about now, wouldn't it?


I'm willing to wager that the millionaires who are here didn't get that way by begging. 

Do you mean avoid having your wallet hacked?  There're plenty of ways to get scammed that have nothing to do with hijacking your wallet, crooks are cooking up new ways to steal our money everyday.



You must have a connection to the blockchain to confirm whether an address has received funds, and verify the quantity of the funds.  The easiest way to connect to the blockchain is through an internet connection.



As nc50lc suggested, a watch only wallet is essentially just a list of your receiving addresses, but it needs to be connected to the internet to synchronize with the blockchain.  Once you've created and secured a seed phrase the corresponding private keys don't ever need to be restored to an internet-connected wallet.

I received a PM from a new member this morning, asking if I was in communication with him on Telegram.  I was not, but the person he was communicating with was claiming to be me.  This scammer has been at it for at least a couple of years.  His "first name" is spelled exactly like my forum handle, but for the Telegram user name he's using a capitol "i" instead of an "l" in the word wolf, i.e. DireWoIfM14.  The scammer's profile picture is a photo of some hardware wallets that I recently posted for sale.

Here's his Telegram user info:


Be diligent when using Telegram.  Do not trust anyone who approaches you out of the blue claiming to be me.  I will never do that, and you can be sure it's a scam!  My Telegram ID is posted on my profile page, copy it and paste into Telegram to contact me.  I've been under attack myself recently because I don't tolerate any Telegram shitfuckery here on the forum.

This is one of the reasons that the last three games require travel.  Unlike games 1 through 4, no two games will be consecutively played in the same city, thus mitigating the affect of home-field-advantage.  Unfortunately for the Celtics, this has essentially become a three-game series now and two of the games are in San Francisco.  The Warriors won't risk going behind in game 5, and since they have the advantage they'll do everything in their power to win that one.  These two teams are so evenly matched I expect each to win their remaining home games, which will make the Warriors champions in game 7.  It's been several years since the Warriors have one a championship during a home game, it's about time for another.

Thanks for responding here, I'm sure you've got enough work without getting tied up by this drama.  Just a quick question; does removing them from your website mean they are no longer able to use the [banned mixer] API for their mixing service?

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I'd be interested to know who made the post in October claiming the service is going down.  Was it the hacker, the original owner, and what was the purpose of that post?  It's also worth noting that the "new" twitter account, @RealMixsafer no longer exists.



There's this one in their ANN thread, but I don't know of any others.  Judge for yourself:

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Thanks, that would be helpful to know.  Not that it would really prove anything other than the forum account and the Telegram account are controlled by the same person.  Of course the one individual with whom you are in contact is going to claim the other person is the hacker.

Based on what Jay said their having some internal conflicts, which doesn't make me think this going to end well.

There are quite a few similarities between this service and Mixsafer, which is starting to look a lot like an exit scam.  Is it merely a coincidence that this service pops up with a two-day old URL as people start to question Mixsafer's honesty?  Being a cynical skeptic, I say that's too coincidental to be coincidence.