Maybe rather than pricing it in fiat, the price should be measured on how many grams of gold 1 BTC is worth. After all, gold is still considered money and such a measure wouldn't particularly favor any national currency. I think gold and BTC are much more similar than debt created fiat currencies anyway.
It order to come up with a figure, we would probably have to use some kind of weighted average from several popular BTC exchanges and several gold markets.

Well, I just got done having a 3 day gambling episode at Betonline.ag. They had a live game that was 6 decks and the rules were OK. Hit on soft 17, can only split once, and double down on any two cards even after the split. However, the deck penetration was only less about 50%. I tried to count the cards. It was kind of easy because they play really slow. Most of the poor dealers looked bored and tired. Unfortunately, I lost about .06 BTC. I am wondering if there are any games online that are good for card counting. One that has a deck penetration larger the 50%. I somehow think that what was offered at Betonline.ag was about the best that there is to offer. Guess it is back to my day job.  

Well, since I am 51 years old, I naturally stated playing with fiat, both online and in the meat space. Unfortunately, I got my ass handed to me by online casinos back in the year 2000. It was nice to play my favorite game, blackjack, from the comfort of my home without having to drive or fly anywhere. It was a bit too convenient.  Furthermore, most blackjack games offered online play like it is a shuffled deck after each hand. Therefore my card counting skills where worthless.
Lately, I have stuck to only buying lottery tickets, here and there, in the meat world. I also play at online casinos a few times a year with BTC. However, my bankroll only consists of .01 BTC. Very recently, I have been playing at Bitvest. I have invested a very small amount and do their daily quests. I mostly play with the tokens on their daily quests unless one of the tasks is to bet BTC. However, they usually only require that you bet less than 20 K sats.

I edited my post to include both flags.

If anyone is displease with how Livecoin is handling the vulnerability exploited of XMR, and believe they are scammers, Please support the flags against them.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=308
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=475

These particular flags were raised by a user who experienced loss due to Livecoin's handling of the Mona 51% attack. However, the thread mentioned also discusses their handling of the Monero matter.

Actually splitting 6s is not a bad move if the dealer is showing a weak card of 4 5 or 6. When the dealer shows a weak card, the player should take every opportunity to put as much money on the table as possible. If the game allows double after split, splitting 6s against a 2 or 3 is also a good move. I agree with the 10s though. 20 is a good hand and will win more than 80% of the time. One should never split 10s unless you are counting cards and there are lots of 10s and aces in the deck.(Like a +5 true count, and only against a dealer weak card.)

You should consider always splitting 8s as well. Two 8's total 16, which is the worst blackjack hand. Also, when the dealer is showing a weak card, like a 4 5 or 6 you should definitely consider splitting 2s, 3s, 6s and 7s. It may be a pain, and you could end up losing all the bets. However, it is best to be as aggressive as possible when the dealer has a weak card showing.

In order for Bitcoin to gain the speed of xrp, it would have to change it's confirmation protocol. Instead of competing mining pools, Bitcoin would switch to having only a handful of designated servers that can produce a block. With EOS, there is also a limited number of designated users that are eligible to create new blocks. In order for Bitcoin to obtain speed, they would sacrifice decentralization. BTC is not going to do it. There is no way that you are going to get any kind of consensus to implement such a drastic change. Now one could argue that BTC only has a handful of pools. However, most pools consist of many independent miners that can move their hash elsewhere, if they so choose. Also, it is true that ETH has unlimited blocksize and 45 minute blocks. However, with all of the smart contracts and token transactions, the blockchain is massive and is a challenge for most users to run their own node.
If an altcoin serves your particular needs better, then by all means switch to them. However, the way that BTC is currently set up and the current network logistics, it is the most secure of all of them.

Now, can you please share with us the transation id of your transactions so we can try to help you? I'm getting suspicious that there really is no transaction, and you are just using this as way to promote altcoins over BTC, or somehow suggest we need to overhaul BTC, and make it more like other altcoins.

What is really disconcerting about the news item is that Livecoin is insinuating that a Monero developer was probably involved in the exploit. I think their allegations teeter on the edge of of libel. What makes it more grievous is that Livecoin has a policy to freeze a users account if the user posts their allegations on the web. They will demand the user remove any "false statements" from the internet before giving them access to their funds.

I wouldn't consider your scheme a MLM scheme. You are not really offering any product or service to "market." What you are offering is a pyramid scheme, and since investors are only paid from proceeds of later investors, it is a Ponzi.
I have flagged and tagged your account. Everyone else, please support my flag.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=648

I have no idea why Yobit sets their maximum so high. All a 20 post maximum per day does is encourage people to post crap. As for people that actually join this campaign, I will not personally give them red trust. However, if they start spamming the forum, I will use the report to moderator button.

I agree. As an investor, I have benefited from Bitvest making me whole. The have to make up the losses from the exploit, somehow. I think it is preferable that they reduce token giveaways rather than asking their investors to share the loss. Technically, they could have asked the investors to share in their loss. After all, that is what most businesses would do. I am very thankful for Bitvest's decision to eat the loses out of their own pockets and reduce giveaways, for now.

I think it is very interesting that they are making the insinuation that someone on the Monero development team executed the vulnerability to profit.  I wonder how much proof they actually have to bring up this allegation. It's disconcerting that they will freeze one of their users accounts for spreading "disinformation" about them, but then turn around and make an unfounded allegation against an established and trusted team. Monero is listed on several exchanges. I am not aware of any other exchange insisting that Monero return the lost funds. Weren't other exchanges hit with the same vulnerability? Or do hacker know to go to Livecoin for their exploiting endeavors?

It is not acceptable to offer as collateral something that you are offering for sale. Flagged and tagged.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=644

Actually, the basic strategy move on insurance is to never take insurance. The only way this ever makes sense is if you are keeping track of the cards, and there are way more 10s left in the deck than not. In a 1 deck game, after a fresh shuffle, this would be equivalent to no 10s being dealt with 2 hands being played. Since most casino games are more than 1 deck, this situation comes up very rarely. If you don't count cards, it's best to never take insurance or request "even money." (In an online game, it never makes sense to take insurance.)


I find that if you stick to certain rules when changing bets, you won't get too much heat.
1) Never change your bet after a tie. (Unless you plan on taking a bathroom/smoke break.)
2) Rarely decrease your bet after a win.
3) Doubling your bet after a win or loss looks like a standard player move. (Martingale, let it ride strategies.) Just don't get crazy with it.
4) Eat, drink and be merry.

    One of the 1st steps any blackjack player should take is to learn the basic strategy. Some of these recommended moves seem rather dreadful. Exactly what basic strategy move do you particularly despise. Please also inform us if you go against the basic strategy recommendation in such cases or do you grudgingly follow it anyway.
  Here are some of my least favorite basic strategy moves.

Splitting 9s. I realize that when a dealer is showing something like a 5, it is best to get the most money on the table as possible. However, my experience with doing this move has been less than ideal. Furthermore, when I execute it at a brick and mortar casino, my fellow players seem to bitch about it. Especially when my move somehow took "the bust card."

Splitting 8s against a 9 10 or ace. I realize that a hard 16 is a rotten hand. However, having two 8s against a dealer high card seems even worse. Many times I end up with two or more bad hands, rather than one bad hand.

Hitting any stiff hand. It's rather unpleasant to hit a stiff hand and bust just to watch the dealer bust and pay the survivors.


Edit: Please reference this chart, before posting. Unless the community wants this thread to turn into a tutorial of what basic strategy is. 

     That was very kind of you to do that for your investors. I have a small amount invested in your site. I'm sorry for the losses. I see that Keno is back up again. I gather that you patched the bug. Also, it was nice for your site to not penalize people who could not meet their daily quest, since Keno was down.

Thank for pointing that out. Therefore, I would not use a BTC wallet that is secured by biometrics. I do not plan on wearing some kind of suit and mask that prevents my biometric data from being copied.

You can believe something and you can also know something at the same time. For example, I believe 2 + 2 = 4. I also know that 2+2=4. I'm not certain why you think if you believe something, you cannot know it as well.
BTW, you can frequently kiss someone, and later on kill someone. Just because you kiss someone, does not mean you cannot also kill that person. Just look at Judas. Doesn't the story go that he gave Jesus a kiss, that alerted the authorities on who to arrest? With the way everything turned out, Judas literally kissed Jesus and at the same time did something that ended up killing him.

   It depends on the Biometric used. Fingerprints are not that secure because a person leaves those everywhere. I'm sure someone can lift a fingerprint and create something that can fool a scanner. DNA is really not that secure either, since a person leaves traces of their DNA everywhere they go. Facial recognition is not secure either, since someone can easily capture your image, and use that to fool a scanner. I suppose a retinal scan can be pretty secure. It is somewhat difficult for a person to get a copy of that. It's not impossible though.
   Naturally, as you imply, all biometric security is overridden by the five dollar wrench attack. Since a person only has one set of biometrics, they can't even set up a dummy wallet, effectively. I suppose someone could use a different finger/thumb print to set up ten wallets. However, a smart criminal will simply have you try all ten fingerprints.