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 on: Today at 01:24:36 AM 
Started by sleepfirefly - Last post by Samlucky O
it seems like a good business venture but it seems a little too much especially if you are still starting out... what could be an alternative? the answer is AIRBNB. it has become a trend now wherein people rent airbnbs instead of checking in hotels. if you have a spare condo room, or an apartment unit, you can use these as an airbnb. you just have to spend on beautifying the place and maintaining it but the rest (food and services) will be of the guests'. it seems like a less intimidating, trendier, and profitable business venture than hotels.
Surely this AIRBNB you claim to be the alternative to hotel, do you really think everyone will fancy it? Well in as much as it appears to be an alternative to hotel and also cheap, it doesn't guarantee safety of the person unlike it is in hotels. In hotel they make sure they make provision of adequate security and welfare and customers satisfaction. There is also fun in hotel than such places. I believe with the fun in hotel, people will hardly patronize you. You can only succeed in such business if there are no hotel in that neighborhood and it happens that your AIRBNB is the only option. But provided it is not the. Count that business a dead one, or maybe you can only be patronize by people who may have run out of cash to afford the expensive one.

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 on: Today at 01:23:48 AM 
Started by Findingnemo - Last post by LogitechMouse
Well, such a rookie question but I am looking for some new ideas to explain about bitcoin and why they should have bitcoin in the simplest way possible, because 90% of them will not be interested in learning the whitepaper if they don't get the concept of decentralization and how central banks are ripping the people with money printers.

So no need to talk about price and share any technical source, just plain and simple, how would you explain Bitcoin to someone briefly?
I'll just let the internet do the talking.

It already came to a point where for me, I don't need to talk anymore and teach somebody the basics of Bitcoin because TBH, there are many sources of information online already. We have YouTube to teach the basics, this forum for some to share their own knowledge about Bitcoin as well, at the same time we have LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini where they can just answer any Bitcoin-related questions that you throw to them. There are many sources of information online already that we don't need to talk anymore. I know that it's different if it's a person teaching Vs. something that you only read online, but if you're not good at teaching and they asked you something about Bitcoin then you just let the internet do the talking. Just provide the links, and let them research it.

I'm not a good teacher, but if you want to teach Bitcoin in the simplest way possible, I think asking ChatGPT or Gemini will help you provide some tips and tricks on how to make it simple yet understandable for newbies.

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 on: Today at 01:23:32 AM 
Started by bbc.reporter - Last post by Sithara007
What taxes, friend? Is Polymarket a tax agent? I haven't heard of that. If the responsibility for paying taxes lies with you, then you simply don't have to  Wink As far as I know, even a KYC is rarely required at the Polymarket, email registration is usually sufficient. If your VPN doesn't show a restricted country (like the US), you can trade without any problems. As for risk, it's obvious that it exists everywhere. But if you want, you can make the opposite bet, it's all up to you.

Tax is one of the lower priorities. I agree that a VPN should keep you safe, as long as you deal in moderate amounts. The IRS can track the uers still, but they will not bother if the traded amount is not in millions. But the biggest factor in play here is that you will be risking 33x of your potential winning on an online platform, which is not insured. I would say that the risk is similar to what users take when they keep their coins in exchange wallet. Now I am someone who has lost plenty of coins in exchanges such as BTC-e, Instawallet (back in 2014) and Mt Gox. There is a real risk of this website being taken down, albeit very low.

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 on: Today at 01:23:30 AM 
Started by rishib - Last post by rishib
Thanks for the direct feedback @LoyceV

Quote from: LoyceV
I wouldn't call 500+ rolls anywhere near "battle-tested"... Try a billion rolls.
You’re 100% right. I’ll take the hit for that phrasing—500 rolls was internal dev-speak for "it didn't crash during the pilot," but in this community, that’s not "battle-tested." I’ll adjust the wording.

Quote from: LoyceV
Can you give an example of a "common client-side pattern"? Users shouldn't use any pattern but create their own random client seed.
Ideally, yes. In reality, most (I would guess ~95%) of casual players never touch their client seed. This allows for Seed Grinding: an operator pre-calculating millions of server seeds to find one that results in a "house win" streak against that specific, static client seed. Standard PF prevents changing the seed after it's hashed, but it doesn't prevent the house from "choosing" a favorable seed to hash in the first place.

Quote from: LoyceV
How does a delay improve a provably fair system?
The delay is a Security Buffer. Drand issues a beacon every 3s, but we enforce a window to ensure the player's and server's commitment are fully propagated and locked before the next beacon exists. Without this buffer, a malicious operator could intercept the beacon and "fake" a latency issue to reject a winning bet. The delay ensures a Symmetry of Ignorance: neither side can know the outcome until the bet is immutable.

Quote from: LoyceV
if a player doesn't care about changing the client seed, it means they're okay with trusting the casino.
I disagree that apathy equals trust. Most players don't change seeds because of UX friction. Blockrand removes the burden of "manual verification" by ensuring the house literally cannot know the outcome when the bet is placed.

Quote from: LoyceV
If a casino would do that, the player could game it by selecting the opposite and win.
Only if the player knows the seed is biased. If a whale is betting $$$ on a 50/50 roll, and the house has pre-calculated a seed where that specific roll is a loss, the player doesn't know to "switch."

Regarding verification: Every Drand round is public and immutable. Verifying a Blockrand roll is actually easier for a third party because you aren't checking a casino's internal database; you're checking a global public beacon.

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 on: Today at 01:19:11 AM 
Started by goldphysicalbitcoin - Last post by Cryptogreatdane
The risks are to great with this coin. To many unanswered questions with regards to funding. It should be peeled and swiped and the gold coin sold for gold value plus premium. Im sure it will be a highly sought after coin. The OP should not be on reddit trying to sell this to newbies. This is an advanced transaction for an OG collector to navigate.

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 on: Today at 01:19:02 AM 
Started by cryptoaddictchie - Last post by Selaphiel
Hindi ako maglalagay ng ganyang amount na pera sa Maribank, siguro kung kumita man ako ng ganyang amount, yung ibang portion nyan siguradong ipambibili ko agad ng lupa, at segunda mano na sasakyan din siyempre bibili ako, maglagay man ako dyan sa maribank siguro mga halagang 100k lang, though naranasan ko ng gumamit nyan at nagyield ako sa halagang 500php dyan sa Maribank na dating Seabank ay nakita ko nga na daily mo pwedeng makuha yung interest nya sa digital bank na yan.

Nung nakita ko na ganun sabi ko sa sarili okay itong seabank withdraw agad daily yung interest na makukuha mo sa kanila kahit magkanong amount lang kahit nga 100 pesos lang daily interest nya makikita mong dumadagdag sa balance mo sa kanila. Pero siyempre andun parin dapat yung do it at your own risk parin. Basta ang maganda lang talaga sa kanya na hindi kayang gawin ng ibang mga traditional bank ay yung wihtdrawable yung daily interest na makukuha mo sa kanila. Saka bakit ka maglalagay ng milyong halaga kung ang insurance lang naman kaya nilang ibalik ay 500k lang.

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 on: Today at 01:18:16 AM 
Started by Jet Cash - Last post by Darker45
Most especially international payments, yeah. There should be a strong emphasis on international. Anybody could argue that Bitcoin on-chain transaction seems pointless when buying a cup of coffee at your local coffee shop, but I guess nobody would challenge Bitcoin's relevance or importance as a cross-border payment. There's just too many players and factors involved that transactions aren't only slow but also expensive.

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 on: Today at 01:18:14 AM 
Started by Scaccomatt0 - Last post by Rustam Meraj
ACF Fiorentina football team played match against Pisa Sporting Club and they performed good in this as their stats was great in this match and their defense was also good in this match and they tried to win this match in which they became successful. Kean was a only person who did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 13 minutes of the match and in the second half we expected good performance by opponent team but they could not do well in this match and they could not do any goal in this match. The shots of ACF Fiorentina football team were more in number and these were 14 in this match and 5 shots were on target and possession percentage of that team was 59 percent in this match and opponent team stats was very weak in this match which was the reason opponent team could not win this match.
Although we expected that second half would see more organized attack by team but defense of Fiorentina through amazing play by Luca Ranieri, was like wall that saw Pisa getting no shots on target and losing 15 games in row. I think this victory was huge mental boost that would help prove that Fiorentina has found its self and strength, which had not been so high in long time due to feeling of extreme fear as it was at bottom of table. Now that 24 points have given them 16th spot, it is safe bet that they will be safely placed in middle table as long as they keep their order in next Conference League match against Jagiellonia on Thursday.

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 on: Today at 01:17:02 AM 
Started by Peanutswar - Last post by Mindyspace
$ 66.412

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 on: Today at 01:15:48 AM 
Started by goldphysicalbitcoin - Last post by Cryptogreatdane
Funding link: https://mempool.space/address/1HrT7P815aoj3DdsbhvKa2EEYPWNEMUn8o

Current gold price + load = 1.08BTC

I would imagine this sells for somewhere between 1.5-2BTC

Unlike most physical Bitcoins that were sold at face value + small markup, this series was never commercial. Each coin cost ~5 BTC to produce in 2014 (1 BTC loaded + 2BTC worth of gold + 2 BTC minting/overhead from a 500 BTC community fund). The Minters spent 5× face value per coin.

For context: Casascius 1 BTC brass coins (tens of thousands minted) trade at 1-4 BTC. This series has 100 total, struck in gold, each physically unique. How would you approach valuing something like this?

For context: Casascius coins are not trading at 1-4 btc... you would be lucky to get more than 1.2BTC for a brass one


Your 2014 vs 2026 evaluation at 1.5 - 2BTC is well nuts .... 40k-90k variable on novelty?
I'm pretty sure general consensus around here is ~10%-20% novelty hike.
Maybe 100% on smaller and cheaper items as an inconvenience tax.

i find your statement novelty offensive. These coins have transitioned away from novelty and straight into respected collector class. I suggest familiarizing yourself with the physical bitcoin auction scene before insulting our industry. The unfunded 1000 cas coin just sold at 93k. These coins we collect are some of the most valuable on the planet. This coin who knows what it will go for. Never seen one sell.

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