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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF 79k bitcoin address. The truth about it? on: Today at 12:00:46 AM
Craig Wright claims that he bought them from Mt Gox
No, he claimed to have bought them from a long defunct russian exchange.  Of course, the supposed seller say it was nonsense and the "invoice" wright produced was obviously fake, including having mistaken some russian section heading of their website as their logo.  In any case, Wright withdrew that lawsuit after we obliterated his evidence, was forced to pay our legal expenses, and the the UK courts went on to certify his lawsuit as totally without merit.  He's just a scumbag scammer, one of many in a scumbag laden ecosystem.

MTGox was hacked many, many times, by multiple unrelated parties.  These were funds pulled out in one of the hacks.

You want some real intrigue go look at who was laundering money for some of the mtgox hackers and how.


He's the craziest man in history of Bitcoin and he will be remembered as Convicted for repeatedly lying about inventing Bitcoin This crazy title will remain on his name forever.

Crazy that he can convince people regarding on his false claim and its good that authorities certifies his lies and expose him globally. Maybe he think before that to obtain easy richest he could just claim that he is Satoshi and after that he can gather everything that he want.

Got curious about what you have said about who was laundering money on mtgox hackers and this is the result I got https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian-national-and-bitcoin-exchange-charged-21-count-indictment-operating-alleged This is much interesting and good to read especially those people interested about what happen before.
2  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⚡Satoshi Strike - An online tank battle game where you can earn sats ⚡ on: May 21, 2025, 10:02:20 PM
Just some bump!

What happened into this site? Checking it out and seeing only 1 player is online on which this do basically means that the interest is just that somewhat anticipated.
There were no further updates nor responses into this thread about people been giving out some advises.

With small projects such as this, there's a good chance it's just something people do on the side along with their full time job and other things. Following on that, there could be limited time and resources that may lead to slower updates or worse, project could be neglected for a long time or forever.

I noticed op was online this month, though. Probably, to check on this thread. Their last update was they're working on improving the platform.

I guess we'll know for sure once they post an update or the platform continues to be stagnant/shutdown.

Provably it is since if the owner of this project do this for full time then for sure that he can do something to provide good updates and also he can market this so well.

We see some good potential of this project but it seems OP is lacking with resources that's why he didn't manage to do those necessary things to do.

If they continue to be like this for sure that no players will get attracted to play on their platform. Then maybe same with other casino or project didn't maximize their exposure they might also fail especially they didn't meet what they expect to happen.
3  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Mario Barrios vs Manny Pacquiao WBC Welterweight Title - July 19 on: May 21, 2025, 01:14:03 PM
He's already retired last 2021 after his match against Urgas where he losses and I think he has some exhibition match after where one of his match he's losing and he's trying to come back, I do support him and I've seen that he's still capable and his speed and power is still there.

This is interesting match as Barrios wins against Urgas (Where Manny losses to) but Barrios losses to Thurman which Manny beats.

Just a heads-up: it’s “Ugas,” not “Urgas.” Manny did lose to Ugas, and Barrios beat Ugas, so if Manny can beat Barrios, it’s basically like he beat Ugas on rewind. He did have an excuse, though,  claimed foot trouble (probably from over-training ). Now it’s time for Pac to prove he still has pop in his feet, win that fight, and slap the belt back on.

As for Manny’s exhibition matches, I don’t think he’s ever lost one as most aren’t scored anyway, so there’s no official winner to complain about.

Nope that's not how it works. Situation is different between those bout and result may came out different on some conditions.

But its still interesting to see if Pacquaio would able to beat Barrios since somehow there would be a what if Ugas if Pacquiao would fight again maybe by that time we can see Pacquaio wins against Ugas.

Also Pacquaio vs Barrios is not an exhibition fight. This is professional fight which their win or lose will be recorded.

4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Arthur Hayes Predicts ETH Will Outperform SOL in Coming Alt Season - Thoughts? on: May 21, 2025, 10:49:48 AM
Just caught wind that Arthur Hayes (former BitMEX CEO) is predicting Ethereum will outperform Solana in the upcoming alt season. Given his track record with market predictions, this caught my attention.

For those who haven't been following, Hayes has been pretty vocal about the ETH vs SOL debate lately. His thesis seems to favor ETH's established ecosystem and institutional adoption over SOL's performance and growing user base.

My question to the community: Do you agree with Hayes that ETH will outshine SOL during alt season? Or do you think Solana has more upside potential at this point?
Personally, I'm torn. ETH has the security and developer advantage, but SOL's speed and lower fees have been attracting impressive user growth. The ETH/SOL rivalry is one of the most interesting narratives right now.

Drop your thoughts below! 👇

Curious to know his basis regarding on that statement? Since anyone could guess about what's going to happen. Although we can say that ETH is doing good but there's no assurance that this thing would gonna happen.

Also those statement is just pure prediction so we cannot really look forward that it will accurately happen.

But still everything is good since somehow there are people release some positive insight and maybe it can help to create some slight progress to the coin they mentioned.
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6  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🔥BetFury.com | 👑#1 VIP CLUB | 🎁FREE BTC DAILY | 🤑Up to $10 500 BONUS on: May 20, 2025, 10:00:01 PM
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I think it's fair to assume that game providers keep records of their live games and game shows. But the question is, would they make them available to individual casinos on request!?

I came with this article before where they say that providers are tracking records of players because of this reason https://casino.betmgm.com/en/blog/do-casinos-keep-track-of-your-wins-and-losses/

They have to keep updates to monitor their players and could do some some actions if player request something or there are certain things that need to improve.

But I'm not sure about player could ask this, I guess yes and also maybe it depends on the rules provided by casino towards giving the data's to their players.
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What kind of competition is this? From the email you share, it is related to live game competition but what kind of competition?
I'm curious whether it was a wagering contest or something different? You spent $300 only and there were 24 winners only who get a share of the $50k prizepool.
Also it is a 3 months competition and you say it was a hard work, did you play every day for this competition for those 91days?
btw congratulations on your winning and I think you did it really well since you did not lose more than the reward you get.

I guess this one https://bitcasino.io/promotions/2025-02-01-live-casino-masters this is the one came out when I research the live casino master competition. Also the details are there if you click the link hopefully I pointed out that promotion he participated.

Not active here for I think many months but it seems there are lots of cool promotions Bitcasino offer to their gamblers here.

Also congrats to @slaman  we could see that being competitive somehow bring good result.
8  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: May 20, 2025, 11:48:42 AM
So that mean if someone don't want to lose their money, they just need to buy and hodl which will be safe for them. Trading is difficult if they don't have skill so they must realize that trading is good or bad for them so they can decide to choose the right for them. Bitcoin investment will be a good choice for them to have many Bitcoin, start from small amount of satoshis and continue buy using DCA and keep buying if the price is down because that will be a good time to add more Bitcoin to their wallet. Yes, using DCA help them to buy Bitcoin in the right time, no matter what the situation and condition in the market. They just concern with the time to buy Bitcoin and buy it while the time come.
In my opinion, now is a good time to buy bitcoin, because currently the price of bitcoin is still relatively cheap. So buying now is the right thing to do, because in a decade or even half a decade the price of bitcoin will definitely be much more expensive than now. So in this phase I think we don't need to think about the price if we are going to buy bitcoin, because we have to look at the future that is further away that the price of bitcoin will definitely be much more expensive than now. So whether it uses the DCA or Lump sum strategy, I think buying bitcoin as soon as possible is the right thing to do if you have discretionary income. Because if you wait for the price to drop first to buy bitcoin, I think that is a less than ideal strategy, especially for beginners who are just starting out. So the point is to take advantage of the current time to start investing in bitcoin, because now is the right momentum to buy bitcoin.

Not actually cheapest but somehow its still good to enter knowing the potential of Bitcoin is really great. We already see those good snapshot of possible big adoption will come unto it and we see that demand continue to rise due to those Bitcoin reserves announcement also more big companies taking their shares to invest on Bitcoin.

Not only that Bitcoin became more famous globally so with those positive things already happened at this point it already give us some ideas that Bitcoin price would potentially grow more in future.

We provably know what will be the future figures to come with Bitcoin in future, but we can say that chances to earn is high especially that those efforts made by government to adopt Bitcoin would generate more demands.
9  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: When U choose to gamble, do you already accept that losing is part of the deal? on: May 20, 2025, 09:49:15 AM
We all know most of us end up losing in the long run as casinos have that house edge for a reason. Once you get that, it’s easier to control yourself and avoid making dumb mistakes while gambling.

Like they say, gambling is risk, so it needs control and discipline to keep those risks in check.

I know this is a pretty general topic, but I want to know, do you have that mindset already? That it’s okay to lose as long as you’re having fun?

Or are you the kind of gambler who believes you’ll eventually get so good you’ll beat the odds and actually make a profit? Not like most of us, right?  Cheesy

I already accept that situation since after all there's no people would always gonna win passively on the casino. Also for making aware about possible losing will make us aware of those consequence then can make us decide on when to quit.

Since if we don't have those feelings like we are afraid to lose then have this courage or belief that we can continuously win on the casino since maybe there are some entities brainwash us that we could win more if we use this strategy then provably that chances to lose big or everything is there and that is totally depressing if this situation already happening to us.

That's why I would like to approach gambling in realistic way and think about that losing is part of the game.
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Are we really using crypto as a currency... or just holding it like digital gold on: May 20, 2025, 08:34:13 AM
If we follow Satoshi, the goal is to use bitcoin as a currency, but I think that’s not the wisest thing to do for now. Bitcoin continues to give us an amazing price, so why not grab it while good opportunities are still in front of us. We need to be realistic in order to gain maximum edge, and with that, we need to acquire more bitcoin rather than spending it. After all, we can spend some of our bitcoin when we have sufficient amount of bitcoin to hold first. That should be the first goal.

Yes that should be what's going to happen, but we don't reach unto that level yet since the level of adoption is not wide and policy made by government is not in favor for that usage. For now they think about Bitcoin as investment and I'm happy for that kind of development since somehow we are seeing them participating on the scene.

What good thing about is we see El Salvador initiated that action to make Bitcoin as their currency although for now it failed but with the efforts they made to educate their people about Bitcoin would provably play huge role for their future generation. Then maybe next time when they execute again that Bitcoin would be their legal tender many people can adopt because they know how to handle their Bitcoins.

In this situation provably that we can see lots of people would gonna do it and maybe more country would make Bitcoin as their legal tender to.
11  Economy / Economics / Re: MicroStrategy Buys $250M in Bitcoin, Calling the Crypto ‘Superior to Cash’ on: May 19, 2025, 10:16:44 PM
MicroStrategy continues to buy Bitcoin, and Michael Saylor added 7,390 new Bitcoins today, with a current market value of $764 million.
https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1924435262232314148?t=dlIVe8zU0TyNF1eQzjmCGw&s=19

MicroStrategy ,Today, 7390 Bitcoins were bought @103498 per BTC.


As of May 18, 2025, MicroStrategy has gained 16.3% YTD and its new Bitcoin holdings bring its total Bitcoin holdings to 576,230 BTC. With a current value of over $40 billion, its organization is the world's largest private institution in terms of Bitcoin reserves.
MicroStrategy (Michael Saylor) is good investor and he didn't look at the market to invest but whenever he has money and from the way he is buying BTC, it is clear that he is investing for long term. He invest both in the bear season and the bull season. Today Bitcoin hits $105,534 and he is investing means he is not investing only on the bear market.
Bitcoin will hit $110+ before the end of this year though it is a prediction.

If you want to know more about them you better not to missed read this article https://tradersunion.com/interesting-articles/best-crypto-companies/microstrategy-review/bitcoin-strategy/ because they write interesting information about MicroStrategy.

MicroStrategy is doing DCA all the time and I'm not surprise about them buying at current high's since we already know that they are for long term and not engaging for waiting for dip then sell it later on when price goes high. What they do is sustainable type of investment and we see them how they establish their company towards on their good decisions made and for sure there would be more interesting news coming up for them since for sure that MicroStrategy would announce more accumulations including their earnings calls in future.

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Imagine how huge the profits he get from his 0.0189 ETH then he turn it 16.4 ETH. Never experience to hit huge the same as what the subject get also by other player. But who knows maybe later on or future we can also hit it especially if we always try our luck playing our favorite games.

For sure this profit gained by that player gained good motivation for other gamblers to continue.
13  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is it possible to be a long-term profitable sports bettor without being able to on: May 19, 2025, 11:48:16 AM
...quality forecast, its role in a gaming system and the methods of its construction.

In my opinion you don't need to forecast an outcome. You need to find an event that you can guess and allow to have a profit.
I would not care about forecasting and being able to guess some high odds. I prefer to win even small odds, even silly results is fine to me.
Its a suble and important difference because one thing is to guess who is the winner of the match, another thing is to guess a specific number of goals during a part of the match.


Absolutely and agree with this since somehow if you chase those things you will just get frustrated on any possible result since its like you are desperate for seeking a sure win with those things.

That's why sometime I bet on the team I think that has huge chance to win and don't care about the forecast made by they called expert or anything since they are also not sure about what they are saying.

Maybe more better to enjoy and bet on familiar teams since somehow you will be confident on your decisions made especially for betting on those things you think have high chance to win even if you can get less profit from them.
14  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Three teens kidnap Las Vegas man at gunpoint, stealing $4M in crypto on: May 19, 2025, 08:12:08 AM
What we really need now is for governments to create laws that protect crypto holders, so we can confidently go public with our investments. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen cases like this, similar situations, like kidnappings for ransom, have happened before. The bottom line is, without proper protection, it might be safer to keep our holdings hidden and stay under the radar.
What kind of law do you think the government need to create that will help protect crypto holders, they can try to improve security in the country but that does not still make the place safe for anyone to parade around in public announcing how much you have made from crypto or how much you possibly hold it’s not safe even in a country that’s consider to be a less dangerous area is not safe for such kind of thing their is no security measure that’s 100% secured we just need to be our own personal security and be secretive with what we hold in other not to have target in our back.

For sure they made a lot of improvements after those kidnapping incident happen and the raise of numbers of crimes related to kidnappings of crypto individuals for sure raise its concern and we could also see that there's good development happened on that case.

Also better for people not to announce their wealth or how much they made on crypto since even if the authorities made a lot of good counter measure towards crimes related to this industry there would be a situation that criminals will succeed especially that they studied well their subjects. So better be safe and don't expose theirselves that they are crypto or even a fiat millionaires to avoid get involve in this issues.
15  Economy / Gambling / Re: ?BetFury.com | ?#1 VIP CLUB | ?FREE BTC DAILY | ?Up to $10 500 BONUS on: May 19, 2025, 07:26:09 AM
No doubt.

And even platforms like Betfury has an offer for someone to deposit and 'stake' their BTC for them to earn, I'll still choose to hold it.

But if it's with other altcoins that I have then I wouldn't mind doing so.
That is benefit for investors who stake their Bitcoin, ETH, BNB, BFG, TRX on the Betfury platform. They can wait for their investment to grow and earn a nice profit.

You can hold your Bitcoin if you want. There is no force from others to interfere with your decision.

You can use BFG, TRX and other coins listed on Betfury to join in staking so you can earn the interest.

For sure they could learn about it here https://www.doublethebitcoin.net/guide/betfury-crypto-staking-guide/ especially if they are interested about staking their coins in Betfury.

But for me I prefer to use BFG to stake since Bitcoin is for personal investment and long term holding.

Although I don't buy much the other alts but as we see on that site BFG have more higher APR compare to other alts out there.

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Binance Coin: APR up to 27% and 60%, respectively
Tron (TRX): APR up to 27% and 60%, respectively

I just don't know if that is updated but somehow it makes BFG became more desirable to use for staking.
16  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The Illusion of Competition in Different Casino Brands with one Parent Company on: May 18, 2025, 10:39:56 PM
As we may already know, there are some brands that seem like competitors but are actually owned by the same company. For example soft drinks like, Coca-Cola, Fanta, sprite, are all owned by Coca-Cola bottling company. Another example is in my country, Peak milk, Three crowns milk, Olympic milk are brands all owned by one particular company. This raises an interesting question, are there casinos that follow the same model? That is, do multiple casino brands operate under a single parent company, competing under different names in order to capture a larger share of the multi-million-dollar gambling industry?

On brand you have been mentioned I guess they made that to fight competition so people will not go anywhere and buy their other product.

Somehow this actions is pretty common since its like the casino just want to take advantage on the situation and they want to extend their reputation built and offer other things which they don't have on their old casino. Usually they launch a sportsbook on their sister casino and they want people to go their if they like to gamble on latest sporting events.

Provably their intention is not to dominate their competition but rather to expand their business and want to target more bigger market in the industry.
17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What is the best wallet for Litecoin? on: May 18, 2025, 01:55:01 PM
I use Electrum (https://electrum-ltc.org/). More due to lazyness (because I already know it from Bitcoin) and not because I've really investigated if there's a better one Smiley But it "just works" for my purposes.

I was afraid that this would be the only answer  Grin  I know about Electrum-LTC, but was hoping that the Litecoin community would have designed a simpler and more popular alternative by now, but I guess this will have to do.

Don't hold LTC but you can try to explore what has been listed on this site https://coin.space/top-10-best-litecoin-wallets-in-2025/

Since somehow they have good suggestion on what available wallets to use for storing LTC. But I also guess that Electrum would be the best option to choose since somehow that wallet is quiet popular.

 But if you want to explore other things maybe one of listed wallet out there would catch your interest.
18  Economy / Gambling / Re: ?BetFury.com | ?#1 VIP CLUB | ?FREE BTC DAILY | ?Up to $10 500 BONUS on: May 18, 2025, 12:10:47 PM
If you win then withdraw 50% of the winnings and you can place another bet with the remaining 50% of the funds you have. No need to follow your passion to continue gambling but think wisely to gamble responsibly. I mean if you lose in the next bet you will cry because all your winnings turn into zero, but if you have withdrawn some of the winnings then if you lose you will not be too frustrated.

Seeing your answer, I think you do not set the right way to manage your winnings. Because everyone says gambling is for fun but in the end they are just chasing losses from the previous days. Not to advise you but that's what I felt before

Withdrawing 50% of the profit is not possible for gambling, but in crypto, no matter what I buy, when I make x2, I sell half of it and get back the money I invested.
Unfortunately, this is not possible for betting.
Things are a little different in betting, especially if there is live betting.

You are still losing in that set up since imagine you only get 50% of your winnings out then with that your capital and other 50% of your profit still there so there's big chance that you will lose those money in your casino balance especially if bad luck came and frustrations will occur while betting.

That's why I always think that once we are in profit if we really want to take some funds out on our accounts we better pulled out the capital first then let those profits we earned rolled out then try to make it more bigger. Since even if we lose that money we left for sure that we won't feel any huge disappointment and provably that we will just think about that this is just our profit and we made lots of fun for using that funds.
19  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you think that a gambler quickly gets angry? on: May 18, 2025, 11:05:07 AM
Not only gamblers, as humans we are bound to get angry when things are going wrong, he lost the money he had with him and it's only natural for him to get angry, even business people get Angry too, but he took a very risky decision to gamble with his transport money thinking that he might get lucky and it backfired him big time, I always advice my friends that gambling isn't a bad thing but don't be irresponsible or don't make irresponsible decisions while at it. Gamble responsibly.

Making reckless decision will really cause anyone to get angry. Betting your money that is never supposed to be used in gambling can ruin your whole day if it results negatively. The person OP encountered is so desperate that he really had the urge to play before going to an important meeting.

Gambling responsibly is hard to learn for some people when they see it as an opportunity to earn extra money.

For sure it is, since they provably get angry for those bad decision they made especially they didn't meet those expectations they think would gonna happen. And they should not come to think about betting especially if there's serious matter that needed to attain since if they lose there's provably a huge chance that they will be out in their focus on irritable especially when they lose huge which they can't afford to let go.

Gambling responsibly is just a word if they didn't put it on their minds and execute it. Since those losing situation will still occur if they gamble in wrong situations then do bad decisions. Gambling does not give consistent profit that's why better they think about to gamble only when they want to have fun also when they have nothing else to do at home or on their convenient places.
20  Economy / Economics / Re: Everything you wanted to know about Bitcoin Strategic Reserve on: May 18, 2025, 09:40:40 AM

This speculation they made is really easy to predict since if we look at the current events where lots of countries are becoming a Bitcoin friendly then lots of them are considering to create their own Bitcoin reserve. Those intentions plays huge role for future positive adoption since those situation could lead up to more exposure and demand for Bitcoin.

That's why its amazing to speculate that  Billions would really adopt Bitcoin at that year and imagine on what's going to happen especially that Bitcoin have limited supply. There's huge chance for a huge price surge at that time. So better for people to buy Bitcoin now and HODL since Bitcoin future is always promising.

Right now things became more interesting especially with Bitcoin Strategic reserve plans to add by many countries https://flush.com/blog/post/top-countries-racing-to-build-bitcoin-strategic-reserves-in-2025
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