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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "if we know who created bitcoin it would go to zero" on: February 15, 2026, 02:04:56 PM
You are more right than ever with your support of Satoshi Nakamoto being hidden given that bitcoin is 17 years old and its maker remains complete mystery.
Although the of his guessed 1.1 million BTC is now worth more than 75 billion dollars, according to 2026 study, legal wall surrounding Satoshi has just gotten tougher. In 2024 and 2025, two big court cases shown by major decisions in the United Kingdom, which have proven in legal courts that Bitcoin rules are not owned by one group and bitcoins are owned by no one person, have only strengthened the use of rules as money tool against wall.
Bitcoins of Satoshi Nakamoto holdings are now on Arkham.
https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/satoshi-nakamoto

The court in the UK would be this one.
COPA vs Craig Wright: The Identity Trial
Updates from the COPA v Craig Wright trial.

Craig Wright was confirmed as not Satoshi Nakamoto while the court and we still don't know who is or who are Satoshi Nakamoto.
2  Economy / Gambling / Re: BC.GAME - CASINO-SPORTBOOK, OFFICIAL SPONSOR LEICESTER CITY! on: February 15, 2026, 01:49:03 PM
Correct point, and that’s actually what I experienced too.
Sometimes I receive a bonus when I’m not that active on a casino anymore. But honestly, that doesn’t really make me gamble more than usual.

Even without bonuses, I still use the site from time to time, especially when I’m looking for better lines in sports betting and more market options. So for me, bonuses are nice, but they’re not really the main reason why I stay.
It's responsibility of each gambler to control their fund, gambling activities and manage risk as well. From your description on your gambling style and your intensity of doing bets, you are very disciplined and responsible with your gambling actions, that are very good for your long term risk and financial management.

Companies of course can run very different bonus programs and they don't only distribute bonus to very active or active gamblers. Sometimes they will run marketing programs for waking up inactive users on their platforms. It's quite sure that if they distribute bonus to inactive users and these users don't return to their platform with active bets, the company does not lose anything at all.
3  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥 EarnBet.io | No KYC Casino | 62.5% Rakeback • Highest Rebate 💎 on: February 15, 2026, 01:39:35 PM
Honestly, these days you don’t even have to read long Terms and Conditions manually. You can just copy the entire text, paste it into an AI chat, and ask it to summarize the most important points — like bonus rules, withdrawal conditions, KYC requirements, VPN policies, limits, and possible reasons for account suspension. It only takes a few minutes and is much easier than scrolling through dozens of pages. The key is to clearly ask the AI to focus on the risky or critical clauses.
Honestly, I don't have need of copy and paste terms in ToS and ask AI to summarize it for me. I don't trust AI especially I can simply search for terms about withdrawal, KYC, VPN, and other terms if I want. I can read them and understand them by myself rather than relying on AI summarization for me, it can save my time but who knows whether AI works accurately.
While as said, doing it by myself does not take too much time, as I don't have to read all ToS, just searching and reading terms I am interested in.

I don't deny that AI can give good support but with things related to my account and money, doing it by myself makes me feel safer and more confident.
4  Economy / Gambling / Re: Punkz.com | Anonymous Crypto Casino | Sportsbook | No KYC | 100% Welcome Bonus on: February 14, 2026, 02:11:18 PM
Use VPN to access the casino to check the ToS or ask the support. Punkz allow the use of VPN which means you are safe to bypass the restrictions using VPN for the sake of asking the support why you can’t access it but don’t play if the ToS shows that your country was restricted to play.

It will be helpful if you can indicate your country since that’s the only reason I can think for a casino denied request access.

I will check the ToS for you if you provide this info and seek help of the support in case your country is not restricted.
If they don't allow you as a person from a restricted country to join their platform, it is dangerous to register an account with VPN and use VPN for asking customer support or using their platform. It's completely different than using VPN for privacy while you are a citizen of a nation that is allowed by their ToS. VNN in such case can be accepted while it's oppositely if you use VPN to mask your location for registration even you're not welcome and it's clearly written in their ToS.

Use VPN carefully and don't try to outsmart any online casino, if they don't welcome you, find other casinos to use. Playing against their ToS with VPN is risky for your account and fund, while consequences will appear as a matter of time.
5  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥 EarnBet.io | No KYC Casino | 62.5% Rakeback • Highest Rebate 💎 on: February 14, 2026, 02:01:09 PM
You mean, lazy people? Anybody could've just used the search function on any browser and typed "VPN". It'll easily point out the topic that they are looking for.  Roll Eyes
Any gambler should have the patience to do a bit of research and read the ToS to avoid potential problems with the platform. If they are too lazy to do that because most ToS are "too long to read", then they deserve to have those problems.  Cheesy
Companies built up their platforms for business operations and profit from it so they do not care whether users are lazy or not. If users broke terms in ToS, depending in each violation, there will be relevant solutions and even strict punishments from the company. It's because they are unable to verify the truth if you broke ToS, then later excused that you did not broke their ToS intentionally for cheating, but only by laziness. If any company accepts such excuse, their platform will become a favorite target of cheaters and surely no company want to open their platform for cheating.

People can be lazy but they actually don't have to read ToS, just need to search and scan for terms they want to find information. This saves a lot of their time, and it makes excuse is very unacceptable from company view.
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "World's top credit rater S&P says Bitcoin is becoming global collateral." on: February 13, 2026, 08:16:22 AM
"World's top credit rater S&P declares Bitcoin is becoming global collateral."
Please don't make that happen and this saying with me is a clickbait for making noise.

Let Bitcoin is simply itself, Bitcoin, and an individual collateral, a company collateral, a national collateral or global collateral, it's how the community at small or wide scale accepts and uses Bitcoin. The world is truly huge and Bitcoin can not fix all issues nationally or globally as it is responsibility of governments at wide scale. When more people, companies, institutional investors, governments try to join the Bitcoin party, Bitcoin will get benefit from such rising adoption as its value will soar more with more utilities, better adoption, bigger demand while future supply declines every Bitcoin halving.

7  Economy / Gambling / Re: ANN] 5bet.com | Licensed Curaçao Casino | No-KYC | No-Wager Bonuses on: February 13, 2026, 08:00:47 AM
I bet, someday they will appear in this forum with another brand name.
I even came up with that idea, and I hope I'm wrong.
When they did something shady but gained success, they will try it again. I hope I am wrong too and hope that people behind Betmoco team won't start their new business here.

Well, I would say it's because all of them used AI to post their announcement thread. When you see text-based announcement threads, most of them are organized by AI, and the thread creator probably made some modifications to before posting. However, it is obvious that the thread text was AI-generated.
I don't know these threads were created by AI, I did not check it and even announcement threads with graphics can be created by AIs. My point is if an announcement thread was created with too little efforts for making it attractive, it signals not too good dedication of a team on their business advertisement. It does not signal that it's a scam but just a minus point for that company and something must be take into consideration by community.

Welcome OP to forum and hope that the team will make a better announcement for his business as not only, some people recommended it too.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Every reasons why his past doesn't matter on: February 13, 2026, 07:56:54 AM
If Bitcoin was created by a very bad person it wouldn't change its function because it is decentralized, open-source code running on thousands of computers, not controlled by its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Things can be invented by many people who belong to different categories when you or society classify them as good or bad people but mostly scammers are pretty stupid so they are less likely able to invent something cool, and helpful for societies. They are only good at finding holes in laws, platforms for doing their exploitations and steal money of companies, someone else for their financial benefit.

Great things are invented by good people, in most invention, innovation, this is true while what will happen after that is diversifying but how it is used is not responsibility or fault of inventors. Like funs, fun powder were invented for good things but criminals use them for bad purposes while it's not responsibility of Alfred Nobel.

Bitcoin is Bitcoin, it was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and it has many great things to use for everyone. Who invented it is not important and won't change how we use Bitcoin blockchain.
9  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⚡⚡Toshi.bet No KYC⭐Up to 50% Loss Back 🚀 Instant VIP Perks 🎁 Deposit Bonuses⚡⚡ on: February 13, 2026, 07:35:43 AM
Centralized exchanges usually have big amounts of tron and other altcoins staked. They receive energy and bandwidth for that. That's why they can afford to charge their users with cheap withdrawal fees. If they wanted, they could even make withdrawals free because they have plenty of energy and bandwidth resources each day. They are making money even with $1 per withdrawal.
If they want, they can do anything even it is stupid like how Sam and his team allowed free withdrawals with Ethereum and tokens on ERC20 chain years ago when transaction fee on Ethereum blockchain was very expensive. I don't know but during these crazy months on Ethereum blockchain, I guess only FTX exchange had that generous withdrawal policy for their users but stupid for their exchange business.

With casinos, I see there are more casinos have free withdrawal fees for users than centralized exchanges.
[Table] Withdrawal Fees and Withdrawal Amounts on Crypto Casinos.
10  Economy / Gambling / Re: ANN] 5bet.com | Licensed Curaçao Casino | No-KYC | No-Wager Bonuses on: February 12, 2026, 01:38:18 PM
Your ANN needs improvement op since it looks really bland at the moment. The site design is great though and I am surprised to hear about the zero wagering requirement bonuses. Seems like a too good to be true promotion which can make people doubtful after the Betmoco scam recently.

Also, why the heck are y'all advertising yourselves as curaçao licensed when there is a anjouan license at the bottom? 2 red flags!
Welcome to forum OP but the newest scam from Betmoco actually makes the community more cautious with any new casinos appear here after that scam exit accident.

I don't know the truth behind the scene, only time can tell it but after Betmoco accident, there are three announcement threads of three casinos with very similar style.
This one.
🎲 Revaano.com | Crypto Dice & Crash Games |Free Crypto🎁 | VIP |No KYC Required
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All posted by newbies and these teams did not want to spend a little satoshis for copper membership. It's not like a red flag as a casino with announcement thread posted by a copper member can still be scam but at least it is one thing to pay attention to.
11  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Amazing video about June 19, 2011 BTC flash crash to $0.01 on: February 12, 2026, 01:33:19 PM
According to the article, the flash crash was probably due to two factors
1. Massive sell off due to the Mt Gox hack
2. A software glitch purported used by the hacker

I got this from Wikipedia
On 13 June 2011, the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange reported some BTC 25,000 (US$400,000 at the time) had been stolen from 478 accounts. Then on Friday 17 June, Mt. Gox's user database leaked for sale to pastebin, signed by ~cRazIeStinGeR~ and tied to auto36299386@hushmail.com.[24] The theft of Bitcoins from Mt. Gox accounts continued, reportedly, throughout that day.[25] On 19 June, a stream of fraudulent trades caused the nominal price of a bitcoin to fraudulently drop to one cent on the Mt. Gox exchange, after a hacker allegedly used credentials from a Mt. Gox auditor's compromised computer to transfer a large number of bitcoins illegally to himself. He used the exchange's software to sell them all nominally, creating a massive "ask" order at any price. Within minutes the price corrected to its correct user-traded value
More information about Mt.Gox hack.
Hacked exchanges since 2011
Exchange graveyard.
Bitcointalk history of MtGox and how a Bitcointalk post caught the MtGox hacker. This is a very informative thread about Mt.Gox but it is worth reading time with people who want to know more about one of most famous Bitcoin exchange and exchange hack in Bitcoin history.
12  Economy / Gambling / Re: 2UP.io | No-KYC Crypto Casino & BTC Sportsbook | Fast Withdrawals + 200% Bonus on: February 12, 2026, 01:24:07 PM
Well, you’re right about that because this is exactly what we gamblers should be doing, and we can only achieve this if we truly have self-discipline. It sounds so simple to do, but why is it that most casino players just can’t seem to manage it?

It’s because a positive mindset always dominates their thoughts to the point where they no longer consider the losses they might experience once they start playing. If we all just thought this way, I’m certain there wouldn't be any gambling addicts.
Doing things responsibly is really hard for most of us as we are mostly not too disciplined while being lazy and acting carelessly and arbitrarily is more easy to do. It's same from investment, trading to gambling, the majority are doing these thing irresponsibly that leads to common results that most people are losers while only the minority can be winners and have profit in long term.

With bets on casinos, people mostly do their bets in irresponsible ways and lose money but even if they gamble responsibly, it won't guarantee that they will get profit in long term. It only minimizes their risk of losing too much, too big money and with too fast losing rate.
13  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is this still a thing? on: February 12, 2026, 01:19:23 PM
I have read this online that it was a big problem at one time, but I can't tell if this is still a thing today because fewer upgrades have been applied to Bitcoin network in this past years.
1 confirmation is the minimum one but if you are more careful and have time for waiting a little bit, you can wait for 2 or 3 confirmations. You must know one interesting thing that the first confirmation can be stressful and take a long waiting time by your lower and less competitive transaction's fee rate compares to other pending transactions in Bitcoin mempools.

After getting a first confirmation, your transaction can get a second or third confirmation in next several seconds or one to two minutes as there is chance for two blocks mined consecutively with each other.

Another way to explain it for you by Antonopoulos in his book.
https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch11_blockchain.adoc
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One way to think about the blockchain is like layers in a geological formation, or glacier core sample. The surface layers might change with the seasons, or even be blown away before they have time to settle. But once you go a few inches deep, geological layers become more and more stable. By the time you look a few hundred feet down, you are looking at a snapshot of the past that has remained undisturbed for millions of years. [iIn the blockchain, the most recent few blocks might be revised if there is a chain reorganization due to a fork. The top six blocks are like a few inches of topsoil. But once you go more deeply into the blockchain, beyond six blocks, blocks are less and less likely to change. [/i]After 100 blocks back there is so much stability that the coinbase transaction—​the transaction containing the reward in bitcoin for creating a new block—​can be spent. While the protocol always allows a chain to be undone by a longer chain and while the possibility of any block being reversed always exists, the probability of such an event decreases as time passes until it becomes infinitesimal.
14  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🎲 Revaano.com | Crypto Dice & Crash Games |Free Crypto🎁 | VIP |No KYC Required on: February 11, 2026, 09:05:34 AM
Buy a copper membership if you are the casino owner or representative.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

If this thread is an official announcement thread of your casino, assuming that you are the owner, you must make it as best as possible. With a copper membership, you can post images that are surely better for the post and quickly make readers imagine how your casino looks like.

You can contact and order it from some designers
jayce
Zwei
Heisenberg_Hunter
15  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: What does “legal” even mean in a decentralized world? on: February 11, 2026, 09:00:11 AM
If your government bans Bitcoin and the police find Bitcoin in a citizen's possession, the following mechanisms are available. It's virtually impossible to confiscate Bitcoin unless the citizen hands over the private key. Therefore, the court can seize or confiscate the citizen's property worth that amount. If the citizen has no property, the government can ban them from leaving the country until they pay the debt, as well as other adverse legal consequences.
In some nations, governments through police can enter citizen houses and do their 'dirty jobs' for finding things they need. Like if they know you have bitcoins, and you broke some kinds of laws, they will enter your house and find 'evidence' while who knows what will they do if they find your bitcoin private keys, wallets and so on. In such nations, the best practice is don't let governments knowing about your Bitcoin and cryptocurrency related activities. Don't do anything stupid that can bring them to your home, as if it happens, you will lose your bitcoins.

People who are living in nations with Illegal, Allegal or Unknow legality of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have to practice more carefully than people who are living in nations where the legality of Bitcoin & cryptocurrency is legal.

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/legality-map
16  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: No idea why Bitcoin dumped so much but opened a short. on: February 11, 2026, 08:54:13 AM
One of the reasons why bitcoin has been so volatile all this time with wild jumps and crashes is exactly this. There are still a lot of people who are making "bets" on the price as if this is a gambling game. Like any gambling game the "house" always wins and these gamblers lose money in the long run. In this case the house is the smart money that takes advantage of the panic sell to buy bitcoin at a discount...
They are too greedy, want to have quick profit with leverages, even very high leverages. They are too confident by believing that they can outsmart the market and market makers while eventually the fact and results would be very painful for them.

Liquidations against their leveraged positions bring a lot of loss, severe loss and they will cry like "Bitcoin market is too wild, volatile, unfair" but they will not change themselves by coming back with money and leverages again.

With this liquidation map
https://www.coinglass.com/pro/futures/LiquidationMap

and the liquidation heatmap
https://www.coinglass.com/pro/futures/LiquidationHeatMap

we can see many "gamblers" are in the market around big walls of resistances and supports but they will be liquidated soon.
17  Economy / Gambling / Re: 2UP.io | No-KYC Crypto Casino & BTC Sportsbook | Fast Withdrawals + 200% Bonus on: February 11, 2026, 08:44:47 AM
I think sometimes you really have to adjust your habits a bit, because if you keep withdrawing every time you win, honestly it just adds more stress in the long run. I get it, we all want to cash out as soon as we win since it gives that quick feeling of fulfillment, like “okay, I got something.”

But then later, you realize you’ll probably deposit again just to keep gambling, and that’s where the problem starts, because next time you might not even be lucky anymore. So in the end, it kind of feels like a waste of time, going in circles.
It's about withdraw your profit from bets, not withdraw all money in your gambling account as far as I understood this idea. Like you deposit $200 for bets and after a while, you manage to win for increasing the fund to $250 or $300, you can withdraw your $50 or $100 as profit and save it somewhere beyond the casino. You will still have the initial gambling fund $200 for future bets without need of deposit any extra money.

It's helpful for gamblers to be disciplined and self-controlled their max gambling fund and won't exceed it while when they have profit, they save it for avoiding over betting with both initial fund and temporary profit.

This principle can be applied for trading and generally, if gamblers or traders can do it well, it's good risk and capital management.
18  Economy / Gambling / Re: Cloudbet | Bitcoin Casino & Sportsbook | The No.1 Bitcoin Gambling Site on: February 10, 2026, 04:27:06 PM
Hhampuz posted that he will announce the payment there.
I am locking this thread now and once rewards have been paid out I will unlock it and notify you all. Thank you for your reviews, we got some real good ones in here!
I am unsure that whether the payments already sent to eligible reviewers with their quality reviews or not, and whether payments distributed but Hhampuz forgot to update in that review thread.

It's important note that if payments sent, it does not mean all reviewers will receive it as only quality reviews will be accepted. The review campaign has this rule.
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Please remember to keep your review original and free of any hateful content or AI-generated text.

You can wait for confirmations from Hhampuz and Cloudbet.
19  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⚡⚡Toshi.bet No KYC⭐Up to 50% Loss Back 🚀 Instant VIP Perks 🎁 Deposit Bonuses⚡⚡ on: February 10, 2026, 01:46:29 PM
You will see that most online casino usually set a fixed withdrawal fee of their own choice but a standard value regardless of the actual cost of the network, so that they could be safe if the cost suddenly fluctuates. This is why you might be seeing on Toshi.bet that TRC 20 fees are same as ERC 20, probably it's 4$
Mostly does not mean always but you are right that centralized exchanges and online sites usually set fixed withdrawal fee on each blockchain in order to avoid unnecessary inaccurate and not-profitable for their business operation when processing withdrawals for users. If fees went down or up a lot for a while long time, they will change their fixed withdrawal fee on that chain but it takes time, not a short time definitely.

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but we thought Tron was always cheaper, lol.
It's a big mistake with many people as Tron blockchain was only cheap for transactions years ago when Ethereum blockchain had very expensive transaction fees like $100, $200 or even higher. Recent months, this story between Ethereum and Tron chains changed and Tron blockchain is no longer a better choice for making on chain transactions if people care about saving fee.

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Whatever, I use BSC chain, it faster and fees are almost zero Wink
I use it too but you can use Solana as well.
20  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥 EarnBet.io | No KYC Casino | 62.5% Rakeback • Highest Rebate 💎 on: February 10, 2026, 01:41:31 PM
Some time CM and the casino need to have something new to test the waters, that's why there is a wagering contest after the 6th round of the slot multiplier contest. I am not sure if there will be new wagering contest but looking at the number of participants, it is less than the slot multiplier contest so I think it has smaller chance to continue. Hopefully the slot multiplier contest will be continued or maybe another new contest will come later.
Little Mouse is a very experience manager with his capability of running from signature campaigns to different types of contest for many casinos so he know what are good, what are bad and even what are best.

Testing the water is more like an initiative from EarnBet.io company after their discussions with Little Mouse for possible "best" contest types to run. The manager can recommend some best contest types, and the company must use their marketing fund for "testing the water".

Soon we will know how they feel about the wagering contest and whether they will host more round with this contest type. If they host more rounds in the future, it means their "testing the water" result is good.
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