Congratulations, bai!

Bakit malaki ang utang? Wala ka namang utang. Deserve mo naman talaga na magkamerit at magrank up. Di ka naman nanghingi, nakiusap, naghunt, o bumili ng merit para tumaas yung rank mo. You're very natural. Nagpost ka lang naman kung saan ka komportable. At may laman din naman yung mga post mo. Asset kang maituturing sa forum na 'to.

Hero, accomplished na. Road to legendary na. Congrats ulit, bai!

Only he can truly measure his parents. There are parents who are religious and who also frown on gambling but would probably set aside their stand upon knowing that a huge money is made by their son out of gambling. They will probably advice him to stop since he has already won big and rather than gamble his wins he better invest in. There are others, however, who give more weight and importance to their values that they won't compromise it for the money.

If his parents are like the former, he could open it up. But if his parents are like the latter, he better keep it as a secret.

I actually don't drink often. I usually just drink once or twice a week, consuming 3 or 4 small bottles each time. A cold San Miguel Pale Pilsen is a perfect company when you're into some introspection or whatever. Of course, I don't count those times when I'm with friends. With them, I usually drink more and with a stronger drink.

I'm curious, just what is Bitcoin to you? If you love your drink and you're happy having it every once in a while, why would you avoid it for the rest of your life just to attempt having 1BTC? What's 1BTC, anyway? Why would you let go of those beautiful moments drinking your cold beer in the beach, for example, or at your rooftop during sunset, or when there's an occasion?

This isn't entirely different with so many people being too hard on themselves, trying to avoid watching a movie, drinking with friends, going to a vacation, use their work leave, buying good food, and so on because they're saving for a house and lot, a car, farm for their old parents; in short, their future. What is life? Life is here and now. Your future may or may not come. Balance is the key.

Other than water, I usually only drink beer. I also drink the ever-popular Coke, of course, but I drink beer a lot more often. Nothing fancy, just the smaller, cheaper, and less strong San Miguel Pale Pilsen. It comes with 5% alcohol only. It tastes great. I used to hate it, but as I age it seems it slowly becomes the best choice.


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I usually buys it at $1.27. So, with Bitcoin's price at $29,371.83, it means I have to give up 23,127 bottles. If I do it, I will die without drinking it ever again. That would be such a tragic life. If that's what it takes, to hell with Bitcoin!

It's just amazing how a commonly accepted yet oftentimes forgotten thing is broken down into tiny pieces. Sometimes, we're so enamored or absorbed by certain gambling games that we end up believing we can make money out of them. We forget that gambling games are all designed in favor of the casino. This kind of nerdy video is a slap on our face. It's like somebody is yelling wake up right in front of us.

I can imagine Khaby Lame with his popular gesture showing the codes to everybody who think they can outsmart casinos.

Well, all fiat currencies are problems. They just differ in degrees. They're all slowly crumbling down. They basically share the same doctrine. The euro is relatively younger, though. And while you are criticizing it as one big problem, if we compare the euro with other fiat currencies in the world, it's actually doing much better. Even if some member countries of EU itself don't like the euro and even prefer to use another currency, the euro actually remains widely used. It's the second most used currency in the world.

It's like this. Let's say your mother is the Bitcoin network and she's giving you $100. You can buy whatever you want with it but you will have to return the change or whatever is left at the end of the day. You are the Lightning channel. After you received the money from your mother, you went out, bought a cup of coffee, a sandwich, watched a movie, ate at a restaurant, and so on. At the end of the day, you went home and only $10 is left of the $100. You returned the $10 to your mom as agreed.

What's only registered to your mom, or what she only knows, is that she gave you $100 and you returned $10. Those are the only transactions that are on-chain and are registered on the Bitcoin blockchain. The rest of the transactions, those that happened between you and the others, she didn't know. All of them happened in another network which is the Lightning network. You receiving the $100 and returning the $10 is the opening and closing of the channel, respectively.

Yes, of course, I know that very well. We can actually expound this discussion a bit to include certain discrepancies and other harsh realities on the ground, but since OP is simply talking about the minimum wage, then those are the official numbers. This discussion is, after all, basically theoretical.

You've been in the country for quite a while. You must have observed how laws and policies here are oftentimes mere hollow letters.

Check the mempool.

• Choose a wallet that allows you to personalize transaction fees.
• Use the Lightning network.
• Use Native SegWit or Bech32 addresses, those that start with bc1.
• Choose the right timing when making transactions. Consult the mempool first.
• Decrease the size of your transaction by consolidating your UTXOs.

• There's a high demand for block space. People are willing to pay high fees in the competition.
• Your transaction size.
• The network is congested.
• You're using a legacy address.

Check the mempool.

To a certain extent, license may not really mean so much. Curacao license is as cheap and easy to get as a coconut. If you have a problem with a casino, will you be able to file a suit against it in Curacao? How many shady casinos are there that are licensed?

In terms of security, there's not much guarantee either. The moment you deposit your funds from a wallet under your control to a casino, that's already letting go of your funds' security.

So it will minimize the risk if you choose casinos with long and more or less clean track record.


I'm afraid you're wrong. I think Freebitco.in is a licensed casino. Anybody please correct me, but I think Freebitco.in has a license from Costa Rica.

The Lightning network doesn't add a feature on the Bitcoin network because it is a separate network. Also, there are transactions within the Lightning network. However, these transactions are outside the Bitcoin network. They don't need block confirmation. These transactions don't reflect on the Bitcoin blockchain. The only transactions that will reflect on the Bitcoin network is when you fund or open your Lightning channel and when you close it. So if you open your channel and deposit 1BTC, that's recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain. Succeeding transactions on the Lightning network won't be recorded on the Bitcoin network. When you close your channel and you're left with 0.01BTC, that's the one that will be recorded on-chain.

My point is, you can't address every problem with a subsidy. Subsidy is necessary in certain aspects, but it can't be a permanent solution. If the government's response is merely subsidy, such government is not working. It's not diving into the root cause of the problem.

I once created a thread here about the price of onions in my country reaching as high as $13 a kilo. As expected, the word subsidy surfaced. I don't agree it's necessary. Why is it expensive to begin with? Perhaps there is a need to create a strong agricultural program for onion farmers. Perhaps there is a need to bring down prices of fertilizers. Again, not by way of subsidy but something else more permanent. Perhaps there is an urgent call to courageously confront cartels and hoarders and smugglers. Or perhaps there is a need to craft policies in relation to the handling of agricultural products.

I mean there must be a number of ways to confront a problem other than simply providing subsidy. Subsidy will indeed bring down the prices almost instantly. That will appease the public. That will give the administration a good face in the media. But will it last?

I don't know how many Bitcoin supporters in the US. But does it have to be several million for candidates to try to win their votes? Does Kennedy Jr. court the support of the Bitcoin community because it will make him win?

Anyway, accordingly, "about 46 million Americans (roughly 22% of the adult population) own a share of Bitcoin."^[1] I don't know whether this is true or not but my point is, in an election season, all communities, big and small, suddenly matter. Candidates utter sweet words in front of everybody: Asian Americans, Hispanics, black Americans, senior citizens, LGBT, gun owners, farmers, American Indians, Catholics, war veterans, baseball fans, Bitcoin supporters, and so on.

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[1] https://explodingtopics.com/blog/blockchain-stats

It's not free advertisement because the man is courting the people for support. As well as donations, of course. By clearly speaking out his stand in favor of Bitcoin, he's certainly hoping that the community that is also in support of Bitcoin will rally behind him. This is elections season.

Anyway, quite similar to mk4's question, why "as a collectible" when Kennedy Jr. has probably not even once called Bitcoin as a collectible? He called Bitcoin the "perfect base currency," an "exercise in democracy," and others but not as something to be merely collected.

Well, we can only hope so.

Yeah, I agree that we seem to take motivation from being the underdog and when nobody is expecting anything from us. It's like a huge amount of baggage is taken off if we have nothing to lose or if we're going against the world.

Anyway, it's probably expected that this fight will be held in Japan. Naoya very seldom fights outside of his home country. But Tapales isn't a stranger to fighting in Japan and against Japanese fighters. If I'm not mistaken, Naoya is his 5^th Japanese opponent and this is also his 5^th time fighting there. So it's probably not a huge factor for him to once again fight against a Japanese opponent in his home court.

Good suggestion!

In addition, OP, if you are kind of annoyed with all the discussions about anything else outside the Bitcoin technology, then don't go to sections and boards where topics such as basketball or boxing or bounties or trading or even politics are discussed.

If this isn't enough, then, like noorman0, I suggest that you try changing some settings yourself. Manually ignore the boards you don't wish to explore. I'm also not sure if this is available to newbies, but try to go to your profile, proceed to Modify Profile, and click on Ignore Boards Preferences. You can even ignore all of them except Development & Technical Discussion, Mining, Bitcoin Technical Support, and Project Development.

This forum will be a paradise this way. No signatures shown, no avatars, no discussions outside the Bitcoin technology.

I'm afraid it's not really marketplace insolvency that's the problem. The problem is inconvenience to sellers. However, they cannot entirely remove it because it's the direct result of the solution to another problem. You have to take note that Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. Once the buyer sends the payment and the transaction is already confirmed, there's no way he/she can reverse it as soon as he/she got the wrong, defective, or substandard goods. This is the reason why there has to be some kind of party that ensures the safety and security of everybody.

I understand that you've been a pioneer international seller on Ebay and Amazon, and you're trying to find a solution to a problem you've been dealing with. However, much bigger than your problem when it comes to E-commerce in general is the low quality or sub-standard goods. It's a much larger problem and it's being addressed by the escrow system.


Then you're not talking of a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace.

And what could the arbiter do when the payment is already made? Will you implement KYC or something else to make sure sellers could be held accountable in case of disputes?

Well, Tapales has the chance, but I doubt he will be able to dethrone Inoue. Regardless, however, this is the fight of his life. This is already a huge achievement for him. To be given the chance to face Naoya and, more importantly, to become the unified champion, is a big opportunity he couldn't afford to miss. He should be giving his all not just during the fight but even during the training. Defeating Naoya and unifying the belts mean a lot.

It will be an uphill climb for Tapales for sure. Naoya, on the other hand, will be fighting against somebody who is probably easier than Fulton. He's well prepared for this. As early as now, the odds are heavily in favor of Naoya. 1/10 to 1/12 for Naoya. That's extremely low. That's 1.08 to 1.1. Tapales has 6/1 to 13/2; that's 7.0 to 7.5.

I tried reading the entire paper but because of my very limited comprehension capacity of the technicalities the authors were talking about, I decided not to continue.

I assume those who cherry-picked didn't also thoroughly understand the paper. They spread the cherry-picked lines, nonetheless. OP is one of them. There are many others in social media who did the same. Even those who I think are capable of separating the wheat from the chaff are equally irresponsible for spreading it. 

Worse, they are putting words in BlackRock's mouth. This isn't BlacRock's opinion. This is not a study done by BlackRock. BlackRock has nothing to do with it. Those who started spreading this fake news are just using the huge brand to create a baseless FOMO.

Simply said, this is it. Although in reality this may not be as simple as this. It's probably a bit complicated really. But the fact remains that Africans are mostly exploited by foreign companies and more powerful countries for centuries already. Sadly, many leaders in the continent are all too willing to be complicit in the subjugation of the African people for their own personal benefit.

I risk sounding like a believer of conspiracy theories, but I kind of agree that there is this ulterior desire to keep the African people from becoming truly independent and empowered because that would then deprive the external powers of control over vast amount of resources. For what then is the ultimate reason that for centuries the African continent remains poor despite having "40 percent of the world's gold," "90 percent of its chromium and platinum," "largest reserves of cobalt, diamonds, platinum and uranium," "65 per cent of the world's arable land," and "ten percent of the planet's internal renewable fresh water source"?^[1]

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[1] https://www.unep.org/regions/africa/our-work-africa