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2161  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: August 14, 2023, 08:42:10 AM
In my view there is less chance for India to win the Asia Cup based on the recent performance. Though it is an ODI the performance of the players doesn't have much of variation. I think one of the small team will make miracles and reach till the finals. I'm not sure about the result of the match.

It's too early to say that India will not reach the finals of the Asia Cup. Yes, India lost to WI in a T20 series but Asia Cup is a different format, a format of ODI with different playing conditions of Asia, which may suit India better.

I think let the Asia Cup start, see how India plays their initial games, see how other teams are performing and then we may be in a position to predict that this Asia cup may or may not be for the Indians. Until then, all the fears and speculations mean no value.
2162  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are there real sports bet groups on: August 14, 2023, 08:27:45 AM

Another risk or additional money to be spent when paying for the subscriptions and there's no guarantee that the pick will win, maybe there are times that the pick will be correct and you will earn but it's not a guarantee that it will always a win. So-called tipsters group may have some good numbers of winning tips but the timing is important or crucial, you never know when it will win still better to do it your own and learn to analyze games to select which types of game you are familiar and good in dealing with analyzing the potential outcome than to pay for such groups who can never assure you the win.

Logic will dictate that in gambling there's no such thing as assurance, all are about risk and how to manage that the right way.


The owners of sports betting groups are actually very clever and they are playing with us in such a way that they will also gain money.

It is very obvious that even the experienced gambler will predict some bet's rights and some wrong. So they will get the money in the form of a subscription and it is risky fee money. Meaning that it cannot be lost.

Now the players who paid will bet based on the sports bet owners' prediction. If they win, they will get some money through betting. On losing, the players will lose only, the owner of the sports betting prediction group never loses.

Hope you understand how this risk free business model is run by the sports betting groups.
2163  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: August 14, 2023, 06:01:07 AM
Anyhow this T20 series defeat may badly impact the Indian cause in the upcoming Asia Cup and World Cup as the team morale will be down after this defeat.
Agreed. It's crazy to see so many bonafide IPL superstars failing against a weak WI side. The future of India is definitely not looking bright in literally every format. They need to step up their game.

There is no threat to the future of cricket in India, cricket is one of their major sports and the Indian cricket board is one of the richest and biggest cricket board.

However, I feel that the excess of playing too much cricket at the IPL may be the reason for this temporary downfall. Anyhow the world does not look for excuses. India lost to the weakest team and that is being discussed all over sports TV channels and social media.
2164  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Reckless gambling starts after a win round. on: August 14, 2023, 04:21:39 AM
I think you are wrong on this. What the OP is talking about is the scenario of someone who gambles for the first time, and what you say is true but when he has been gambling for a long time. So someone who has been gambling for a while and has developed addiction or other problematic behaviour if they have a losing streak will try to chase their losses, go for more money or even borrow it, but someone who is starting out and losing money gets bored and doesn't gamble when they lose the money they have decided to gamble.

A person who comes to gambling for the very first time may feel a lot of excitement but at the same time, he may be fearful too of losing the money. He would have mixed emotions initially.

I think if he loses his first few games, he may say bad words about gambling or maybe quit it for some time but if he wins, he would be happy but he would not become addicted to it. Addiction only starts when you play too much gambling that all the losses won't matter to you and you still keep on playing. I would call it a state of mind, where the gamblers fail to understand the drawback of excessive gambling.
2165  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: August 14, 2023, 03:09:32 AM
My prediction was spot on. Hardik showed a lot of potential as a captain initially, but he has squandered it in recent times. Why the heck did he give Chahal so many overs and Axar so few overs?

Sky and Varma played well, but they can't save the team everytime. The current Indian ODI and T-20 teams are in a bad state at present.

I do not know if the Indian team is in bad form at the moment or if they just do not take the West Indies team seriously. Perhaps they thought the West Indies is not a strong team and they took things for granted.

Anyhow this T20 series defeat may badly impact the Indian cause in the upcoming Asia Cup and World Cup as the team morale will be down after this defeat.

On the other hand, It is a very important series win for WI when they are in their worst days, not able to qualify for the world cup and losing back to back matches. This win may give them hope that they can return back to their glory days if they work hard in the next few years.
2166  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Mixin Safe: A Convenient and Decentralized Multisig + MPC + Timelock solution on: August 14, 2023, 02:24:31 AM
I reviewed this project recently. At the time of upgrading the plan, i send the trx from the exchange and the minimum TRX the exchange allowed was more than the worth of 2$, so some extra TRX were sent. At the time of review, i did not claim my extra trx back to my Mixin Message wallet but later (after a day or so)  i tried to check if this process really works.

So here is my  experience. I got my TRX refund instantly. However i do not understand the role of EPC and how it can be a surety to avoid assets lost through Mixin Wallet ?


          


The whole procedure for a refund is mentioned here. https://help.mixpay.me/en/articles/7063792-how-to-get-a-refund
2167  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: What is the minimal transaction fee for 10$ usd or 1000$ usd? on: August 13, 2023, 05:58:06 PM
It says that low prio free is 8 sta/vB is $0.33
Does it mean that I will pay $0.33 for a transaciton of 10$ and the same for a transaction of $1000?
Yes. No. Maybe.

Bitcoin transaction are based on the number of outputs, not the value of those outputs. If I have a single output of 1 BTC, then to spend that I only need to pay for one output. If I have ten outputs of 0.0001 BTC, then to spend that I will need to pay for all ten outputs. It will be cheaper for me to spend one output of 1 BTC than it would be for me to spend ten outputs of 0.0001 BTC, even though those ten outputs of 0.0001 BTC are only worth a fraction of the one output of 1 BTC.

An analogy is like sending cash in the post, where you are charged for the weight of the cash you are sending. If I send a single $100 bill it will be very cheap. If I send a few dozen coins it will be very expensive, even though the total value of the coins will be much less than that of the $100 bill.

The $0.33 flat fee given by mempool.space is based on an "average" segwit transaction which spends a single input (regardless of the value of that input). If your $10 payment and your $1000 payment are both from a single input, then yes, they will pay the same fee. If they require more than one input, then the total fee will vary, although the fee rate (in satoshis per virtual byte, or sats/vbyte) will remain the same.

Yes, i myself have experienced it here Electrum Wallet RBF Feature and learned that Tx fees depend upon the number of outputs and it does not matter if the value of those outputs is big or small.

I assume that most people have this wrong perception in mind that the bigger the value of the amount being transferred from one wallet to another, the higher will be the fee when in reality it is not. Once I came to know about it the whole bitcoin fee structure thing has changed in my mind and now I see the tx fee in the right context.
2168  Economy / Gambling / Re: HIT A JACKPOT on BITCASINO.IO - WILL I BE PAID? MY JOURNEY HERE. on: August 13, 2023, 05:40:01 PM
The OP has an evidence for winningthat huge jackpot price on hacksaw gaming that makes him finish the requirements in huge profit. I don't see any reason here for his profit will hold due to his proof of winnings on slot.

A good gambling site will never stop or delay the withdrawals to their customers, however, the scammed ones may be looking to find several excuses for not letting them to pay the gambler.


Thank you guys for all the kind words!

Still no update tho.
No email, no ask to KYC , just withdrawl is still on pending. Will keep you all updated


I would say that you will be lucky if you will be able to cash out this amount without the site demanding the KYC.

By the way, once you get the withdrawal, share with us the withdrawal successful screenshot from BitCasino.
2169  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: August 13, 2023, 05:03:54 PM
In today's 5th t-20 match between West Indies and India, India won the toss and batted first to score 161 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 19.4 overs. Only two balls left in the first innings. Unfortunately rain intervened before two balls were over. The match has now been stopped due to rain.  It is expected that the match will resume once the rain clears in a while. In today's match, Indian team players did not play very well in the beginning of the game. If the players of the Indian team could have batted well in the fast order, they could have made a big score. Now let's wait and see how well India can bowl in the second innings after the rain ends

Well, India still manages to make 169 runs but this does not seem to be a match winning score. Thanks to the innings of 65 runs by Suryakumar Yadav which helped them reach this total. The openers once again were unable to deliver.

The match is not out of hand for India yet. They may still win this one if they manage to take some quick West Indies wickets. Kyle Mayers is out on 10 and WI is 18-1 after 2 overs. I would call it a good start by them provided they do not lose more wickets in the next few overs. West Indies have their chance too in this match and series. It will be a big test for the Indian bowlers to restrict them.

2170  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Wagering - share your opinion on: August 13, 2023, 02:21:08 PM
Dear all,
Here to discuss wagering.
Wagering is an activity to redeem gambling bonuses, increase the rank of your account in a casino and a whole series of other advantages ...
Share your opinion and what are your tips or tricks on this topic

In my opinion, bonuses and other goodies are not worth the amounts that you have to wager to get them. Even if you play games where the house edge is minimal (say 1%), it is unlikely that your bonus will be $10 per thousand, but your average loss will be just that. Maybe it makes sense to look for sports betting in different bookmakers, but it's not easy since the bookmaker's advantage is quite large - 4-6%.

Most of the times, the gamblers will not be able to make use of bonus and promotions but instead they would lose more money in order to fulfill the wagering requirements.

Good for those who want to gamble but got some additional money in terms deposit bonus, but not good if any gamblers purposefully deposit more in order to avail that bonus on deposits.

Another aspect is that gambling sites will give deposit bonus on new signup and that is obvious , they want more gamblers to make an account on their site and then deposit too.
2171  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: August 13, 2023, 05:13:12 AM
In both the matches that India had won, West Indies have won the toss and decided to bat. In the first match India failed to chase and reach the target. As said, in the last two matches Indian batsmen have played really well and the same have helped in winning the match and level the series. For West Indies it is Hope and Hetmyer who did the best and took the score close to 180 runs which is really hard to be chased. Indian batsmen have reached it in a much easier way. The final match is going to be very interesting as the winner is to lift the trophy.
Exactly the Indian team surprised everyone. Because if we took a look on the very first match of the this series so we will see that West Indies made only 149 runs and India was unable to chase that target. But in the last match West Indies made 178 runs and I was one of them who was thinking that this is really hard to chase for Indian team. But Indian team chased it within 17 overs and with only one wicket loss that was amazing.
By the way now the series is at 2-2. There is a big final and this will be very interesting so let's wait for it and will be played today in Lauderhill again.

India's players have proved that they have the ability to bat against big targets and win. At the same time, they also proved that it was not a wrong decision by BCCI to give them a lot of opportunities. We enjoyed a great innings. India's two openers destroyed the West Indies bowlers. India's two openers made a huge partnership of 165 runs in the first wicket pair. The performance of the West Indies bowlers was not good. They seemed unenthusiastic about my match.

Apart from West Indies' Akel Hossain and Holder, no bowler's performance was controlled. Every bowler has given plenty of runs. The players in this Indian squad are talented. They have the ability to beat big teams. But the problem is that their performance is not consistent. And this is one reason why they will fall behind so much. If they want to do well on big platforms, it is important to maintain consistency in performance.

I knew that India will win this match and will not let go the series. This was an easy bet match if you know the circumstances of the current series.

Well, we saying the Indian openers are not in good form and they need to play responsibly but they proof us wrong. In this match both the openers single handedly won the match for India. The West Indies scored 178 runs and it was on the higher side. But when Yashasvi Jaiswal
and Shubman Gill , this score looked very small and they won the match for the Indian team and levelled the series.

Today is the fifth and final match to be played between them and believe me India are favourites for this match after their previous two matches' performances.
2172  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum Wallet RBF Feature on: August 13, 2023, 04:57:19 AM
I can see that OP has bumped his fee again, this time to 7 sats/vbyte, and his transaction has now confirmed. I would also suggest to OP that I don't know where he is getting his bitcoin from, but receiving >40 outputs to the same address, some of only a few thousand sats, is a very inefficient way to use bitcoin. You should try to receive larger amounts less frequently if you can. And given that almost all of those outputs predate the current surge in fees, I don't know why you've chosen to consolidate them now when you could have consolidated them at 1 sat/vbyte almost any time over the past year.

Yes, i again increased the fee to 7 sat/vbyte and got my transaction confirmed but i was wondering why i got so high fee. If i remember it correctly it was around 0.00021064.

After reading your post, i came to know that even if we receive small amounts on the SAME bitcoin address, when we withdraw from that wallet, it will detuct a lot of fee. Don't know the reason for this as all the bitcoin are in the same wallet address.

Another thing was that i only send around 5$ to some address, why it used a change address in the transaction and move all my funds to a new address in my wallet. Maybe this was the reason of high fee  Huh  

How to send to certain wallet without using the change address  Huh

Another question is that since the fee these days is always above 6Sat/vbyte usually, when can we perform that consolidations as you mentioned ?
2173  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on: August 13, 2023, 04:41:28 AM
Australia's match against France will start in a few hours but this can be said as a home match for Australia it's just that I'm not too sure Australia can take advantage of a home game to win.
Odds of 2.17 are decent enough odds to have an advantage for those taking bets on France.
Actually, this match between the two is difficult to predict and confirm who will win, but because France has always performed quite well so far, there is a high probability that France can beat Australia.

I will have a look in the next few minutes when the match has started to be able to make predictions that can be bet.
Let me give you a summary of it because it has already ended. In the first half, we saw several close chances for both teams, but the goalkeepers and tenacious defenses held their ground. Australia looked to press high and create opportunities, while France relied on their technical prowess and intricate passing to penetrate the Australian defense. While the French defense successfully neutralized Australia's attacking threats as the second half got underway, the intensity of the game continued to rise and the players displayed amazing energy and desire. The Australian goalkeeper produced a number of vital saves to thwart France's attempts. That Australia won is what is even most surprising to me. I never expected it. I judged them based on their performances in their previous games. France disappointed me and I will not forgive them.

This was no doubt one of the most intense games in this women's fifa world cup. Australia made history by winning it on penalties 7-6 and moving ahead to the semi finals where they will play against the strong England team.
Also, this win was so important for all the Australian fans because this is the very first time that any Australian team, whether it be men or women, have managed to move ahead in the semi finals of the Fifal world cup.

As far as France is concerned, they had their chances, but they fail to capitalize on them. I remember that in the last women's world cup, the France team lost in the quarterfinals and this time too they could not win the quarterfinals.
2174  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on: August 12, 2023, 09:03:45 AM

Most of the people are supporting France which is kinda obvious but if Australia somehow wins then it will be a pretty good reward for them.
The odds are better on Stake when compared to freebitco.in. I usually bet on freebitco.in but it seems that I might have to reconsider it.


I always find the stake odds much better than the other betting sites and also you will find a larger variety of games to bet on Stake.com as compared to freebitco or other sites. Stake has full-fledged sports section which can be found here https://stake.com/sports/home

Coming to the match, it is a draw at full time 90 minutes, Both Australian and the France women's team are unable to score any goal and it is right now tied at 0-0.
We are going into the extra time and if the score still remains level, plenty kicks will decide the fate of this quarterfinal match.
2175  Economy / Services / Re: [CFNP] Mixin Safe - Decentralized Bitcoin Custody Solutions | Review Campaign on: August 12, 2023, 08:02:27 AM
Bitcointalk username: noormcs5

Review for Mixin Safe


Configuring Mornin key
I started by creating the Mornin key. For this when i visited the playstore, i found that it was not free and required payment to install it. However, since I do not have the payment method configured in order to purchase the app, i decided to install the APK version of it.
Once installed, i backed the mnemonic phrase in order to secure my account.




Configuring Mixin messenger

Now I installed the Mixin Messenger again from playstore. It was free and there was no payment. I verified it and it ask me the PIN 4 times and then it was all set up. Easy and quick setup process.
I explored the wallet and it supported many cryptocurrencies. The interface was clean too. I did not deposit any amount here directly because i will use the Mixin Safe to deposit.

Configuring Mixin Safe

To do this, i go to the Mixin Safe Dashboard https://safe.mixin.zone/start and followed the step by step instructions there. The first thing i noticed there was the chat readily available and in case of any issue we can always contact their support.



Creating the Safe was the first thing to do here and for that i signing to the mixin messager through the QR Code. The scanning was instant, it ask me to verify my pin and i was able to login to the Safe Mixin Dashboard https://safe.mixin.zone/dashboard

I do not have any plans, so i decided to upgrade to the 2$ plan and see how it actually works. Point to note is that without this upgrade we cannot create the mixin safe.
I payed 2$ using the TRX and the plan was upgraded.



Creating Safe and Testing the Deposit and withdrawals

Now i will create my safe and then test the deposit and withdrawals. The safe creating process was easy, i choose bitcoin Network, and then i scanned the Momin Key and safe was created.



Now i deposited Bitcoin in my Mixin Safe and it arrived successfully.



Now i will check the withdrawal through mixin safe.

It first ask for the members approval, which is done by approving the transaction by the the Mixin Messenger scanning the QR code

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Use Mixin Messenger to scan the QR code on the left to approve the transaction request.



Then i approve the transaction as an owner through the Mornin Key and it was successfully done.

Below is the screenshot of the transactions.



Conclusion
It was a good experience of using the mixin safe. Also, this is a more secure solution as now we need at least two approvers before our funds can be withdrawn.
2176  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Why do 90% of Bettors Lose in Sports Betting in the Long-term? on: August 12, 2023, 07:29:44 AM
Generally I will bet when I get a good prediction based on my own research, for example a meeting between the two teams in football and I will see the chances of winning first before deciding to bet.

Chance of winning alone is definitely not enough and is probably the main reason why so many people lose money. What you need to be looking at is the relation of payout rate to the chance of winning (Expected Value of the bet). So what if the team A has 90% chance of winning if the odds are set at x1.05. This wouldn't be a good bet to make. And if the team B has only 10% chance of winning, but the odds are set at x15.0 - that'd be a good value bet.

Although that is definitely true that the odds of winning are relatively low on the player's side but another major reason is the habit that gamblers develop to keep playing.
Despite knowing that they are losing most of their bets they still tend to keep playing losing more. This is why the losses always overcome the profits.
This is why 90% gamblers lose money in the long term.

I would say that gamblers will lose both in the long term and short term if they have no exit plan, if they do not have any profit taking plan and if they do not know what percentage of the win needs to be reinvested in the bets and how much you should cash out according to your portfolio.

In the absence of all these things, no gambler can be a winner in a nutshell. Yes, one may get a few wins and feel he is a champion gambler but without the above-mentioned skills, sooner or later he will lose all his profits and even his invested seed money too.
2177  Bitcoin / Electrum / Electrum Wallet RBF Feature on: August 12, 2023, 05:10:08 AM
I recently used the RBF feature in the Electrum wallet.
What happened was that I send some amount but put a fee of 2satoshi - Fee per vbyte, it was showing it will take 1 day for confirmation.
So after about 18 hrs, i decided to use the RBF feature for the very first time. I increased the fee to 4satoshi - Fee per vbyte and broadcast the transcation.

Now when i check the old Tx, it says it is not found. 

OLD TX, NOT FOUND



I see a new TX ID and it is still pending confirmation.

My question is that the fee which i paid in the old tx, 0.00005064 BTC, where does it goes? Is it lost?

Because in my new TX, the fee is 0.00012064 BTC (4.0 sat/vB) or did the OLD tx fee added to it  Huh

Also how long will it take for this new transaction to be confirmed with 4.0 sat/vB fee ?
2178  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on: August 12, 2023, 04:27:33 AM
I also want Australia to advance to the semis, since they are an Asian team. But winning against France is going to be a very tough task.

Australia is not an Asian team  Shocked

It would be a good game of hockey but France will have an advantage. France and Australia both topped their groups.
In the knockout stages, France beat Morocco 4-0 while the Australian women's team beat Denmark 2-0.

If we go through the odds at Stake, we will clearly see that bookmakers are also favoring France in this match. One may take the risk to bet on Australia and get the odds of 3.45 but i do believe that 2.17 odds for France is pretty decent too.

2179  Other / Off-topic / Re: Keeping your gambling habit a secret. on: August 12, 2023, 01:27:59 AM

Even just a friendly gamble when we are just young, we just copy it to others, and deep inside us, we really don't know what the meaning of that is, but again, there are really people or some people persuading others to gamble because they can get a cut when the person they invited deposits money. Also, religion is really not involved in it because some religions have banned it, and you're right, others still gamble, which means it is on them as they know that they violated their rules.

If someone's religion does not allow gambling and still that person is doing gambling means that he is doing something which is not liked by his society and therefore he will try to hide this fact from his near and dear ones. They may say bad words to him and in other situations, may force them to leave gambling, and due to this fear, he or she hides his/her gambling activity from everyone.

But do you think he is doing justice to himself? As he denies his religion by doing an act which is not allowed for him. He is hiding this from everyone but his soul knows that he is doing wrong. I don't know these days people are not so spiritual  Huh
2180  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Signs that indicate you are not addicted to gambling on: August 11, 2023, 05:55:37 PM
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3. They don't regret losing, but just think it's part of gambling.
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In my opinion, gambling addicts and non-addicts both regret when they lose their game. The only thing that differentiates them is that people who are addicted to gambling will continue to play regardless of their financial condition and they tend to be aggressive and don't care about their condition. Whereas people who are not addicted to gambling, they tend to think rationally and keep thinking about their financial condition and tend to hold back from gambling again.

While you have mentioned the emotions of regret related to gambling addicts and non-addicts, I will not agree with the point that non-addicted gamblers not be prepared for a loss. They should be prepared for both loss and win.

Why would a non-addicted gambler will be sad about the gambling loss? I think such a gambler already knows the risk involved in the game and he would be prepared for the loss. This means that he would not risk too much that a loss from gambling will lead to a change in his mood. He must have a money management plan with him and therefore we put him in the non-addicted gamblers category.

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