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Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?)
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on: June 07, 2012, 09:32:48 PM
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Not only that, but the US government is basically going to have to make the argument that gambling with fake money is somehow illegal, and if that's the case, well, they better go after all of those online MMORPG's that have ways players can gamble fake money.
This is a very good point; however I don't really want to be the one to test that in the courts  My guess is that they would start looking at the income (my income) and having me justify it or seize that, saying that it was part of a criminal enterprise. |
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Economy / Gambling / Re: Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?)
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on: June 07, 2012, 07:40:38 PM
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So if the US from cloud flare did get the IP and the location of the actual server, as long as it isn't on US soil they can't touch it.
True, but alot of times they will still ask the provider and if they divulge that a person in the US is connected to it...... Anyway why not just make it a tor hidden service. That is a little more protection.
I would actually, except that I think that raises the bar alot. If you want to make bank on a gaming site then you need to make it as easy as possible to throw their money at you. |
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Economy / Gambling / Running a site legally (OR how to do it and not get a boyfriend?)
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on: June 07, 2012, 06:45:01 PM
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So I have some ideas that I think could make some BTC; however I am hesitant because of the US Government's hostile attitude toward online gambling combined with bitcoin. I see that our favorite SatoshiDICE is registered in AU (although it is a .com so the US govt could seize it) and they use cloud flare as a buffer that is all good and what not; however isn't CloudFLARE a US company? Couldn't they be compelled to release what IP (and therefore the location of) the actual server? Even sites that are 100% outside the US they don't like. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling#United_States, the BetOnSports paragraph. The guy wasn't even planning on going into the US and they still got him. Who knows, the plane might have actually be diverted on purpose when it was found out that David Carruthers was on the passenger manifest. How can one legally put their gaming ideas to work? Someone in AU want to partner? |
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Economy / Gambling / Re: SatoshiDICE.com - Verified rolls, up to 64,000x winning
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on: June 07, 2012, 06:18:45 PM
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Very interesting.... It shows source IP as 127.0.0.1 which in my experience means that it was a blockchain.info wallet that crated the TX. Also it doesn't exist on blockexplorer either. I have had this happen before; however it will eventually clean out and pay. |
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Economy / Gambling / Re: New Proposal - Looking for feedback
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on: June 07, 2012, 04:59:23 PM
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Interesting concept bitlane....
Some knee-jerk thoughts (keep in mind I have not run the numbers yet):
How do we prevent someone from taking more than one spot?
I think we would have to have a fixed bet amount for each slot, ie. 1 BTC a 'ticket' pays out 10 BTC = 5 BTC profit for operator.
I like the idea on the surface. The reason I don't like bitlotto is because the cycles are sooo long.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [Password Leak] LinkedIn database hacked
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on: June 06, 2012, 07:31:56 PM
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Who salts a password? Is that something I have to do when creating a password, or is that directed at the password manager to make sure to salt the passwords?
kjlimo, It is, unfortunately, up to the website operator to do. The safest thing you can do as a consumer is user a random password at each site. |
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator [v0.17]
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on: June 06, 2012, 07:11:12 PM
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Does anyone have a working build for OSX Lion? I get the following output: $ make -f Makefile.osx oclvanitygen
cc -ggdb -O3 -Wall -c -o oclvanitygen.o oclvanitygen.c
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-ggdb'
oclvanitygen.c:311:36: warning: conversion specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'cl_ulong' (aka 'unsigned long long') [-Wformat]
fprintf(stderr, "Global memory: %ld\n",
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%llu
oclvanitygen.c:313:37: warning: conversion specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'cl_ulong' (aka 'unsigned long long') [-Wformat]
fprintf(stderr, "Max allocation: %ld\n",
~~^
%llu
oclvanitygen.c:494:2: warning: 'MD5_Init' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
MD5_Init(&ctx);
^
oclvanitygen.c:497:2: warning: 'MD5_Update' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
MD5_Update(&ctx, str, strlen(str) + 1);
Full output: http://pastebin.com/CYwyPQgZ |
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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: PHP martingale bot for satoshiDICE
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on: June 06, 2012, 03:24:47 AM
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I'm pretty sure that gambling is a big part of bringing Bitcoin to the next level. SatoshiDice is unique, and couldn't be done without Bitcoin. The people gambling on it are proving just how useful Bitcoin is. Maybe a major casino will take notice, and make my friend Erik a buyout offer he can't refuse.
I highly doubt this due to reglatory bodies, in the USA anyway. In fact that is one of the only major stumbling blocks I have from proceeding with a gambling idea of my own... uncle sammy kocking at my door. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin as a Gift
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on: June 05, 2012, 10:45:52 PM
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Seriously, the 10 btc silver one looks so fantastic I don't know why anyone would not want to have it.
Everyone *wants* to have bitcoins..... now paying for them is another issue...... |
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