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Quote from: CryptoBetGrade on Today at 03:01:44 PM

Since 500 Casino uses BETBY for its sportsbook, how are sportsbook-side risk decisions handled in practice? For example, if BETBY flags a bettor for suspected arbitrage, sharp betting or other risk activity, can that directly trigger KYC, account restrictions or voided winnings, or does 500 Casino independently review and make the final decision?

Hi CryptoBetGrade!

Based on previous (abuse) cases, our team actively works alongside BETBY (we can ask BETBY to confirm any suspicions, or BETBY will inform us if they detect such patterns) so once the jury is out, 500 will handle the KYC checks or restrictions.

We can use a sample case as reference. Rioluth is a member here that opened a case against us, while Cossaq is one of our staffs handling Sportsbetting-related matters:

Quote from: Rioluth on January 09, 2024, 07:24:13 PM

What happened: I registered an account on 500.casino on the 31st Dec and immediately KYC verified my account since it was my 2nd account (I was unable to deposit to my main from my Newton exchange as can be seen mentioned in one of my support messages) and I didn't want to hide it or break their TOS, I was given the green light, the documents got accepted and my account got verified https://ibb.co/xJwRyNk and I deposited 185.97USD in LTC and I ran it up to 10000.02USD with only tennis bets on both pre-match bets, live bets and combo bets (https://ibb.co/wLDwvQr, https://ibb.co/drT88BC). And once I've attempted to withdraw it got declined and for the reason I was given that I am attempting to evade sports betting limits imposed on my main account. And the problem here being that I had Baseball and American Football player prop limits imposed on my main account that I was aware of as seen from the conversation with support there from a few months ago - (https://ibb.co/qM0fVzR, https://ibb.co/mtnx2GF) and apparently I was also given other limits that I wasn't aware of and since that support conversation I was able to place fairly sizeable bets on tennis on my main account and even on their promotions with $150 bets.

Their take on this is since I was given and made aware of Baseball and American football player prop sports betting limits on my main account (https://ibb.co/qM0fVzR, https://ibb.co/mtnx2GF), that means I was aware of any other limit imposed on my account including tennis (Which I couldn't since I've bet fairly sizeable bets since that support conversation on my main and on top of that there is no max bet button for example with which you could track and check if you have any sort of limits imposed. I would have to deposit fairly large and try to bet large to even be remotely suspicious if I was limited or not and from my contact with support I haven't received any information for other limits) I will attach the full live support conversation I had with Cossaq the main sportsbook admin there.

Me being made aware of limits on MLB/NFL player props = me being aware of any other limits I had imposed on my account is Cossaq's take on this.

In addition to the above, I asked my friend to contact support if they are able to tell him what limits he has imposed and 500casino themselves don't even know what limits and for how much - https://ibb.co/nmwT48f|
So it's impossible to figure out if I am even limited on tennis or not.

Edit: Would really love Suspects take on this issue since the people responsible for sportsbook seem to have their opinion on this and if being aware of specific limits and not abusing those specific limits is okay for a ban.

Quote from: Cossaq

Hey,

I'm sorry you feel inconvenienced, but even screenshots you posted state that you would never be able to make this profit if you stuck to your 1st, limited account. You created next account which is a severe breach of our Terms of Service.

Sadly, your screenshots are singular excerpts that do not provide full context. For example, when you posted screenshot "https://ibb.co/nmwT48f" you forgot to include our next message (that you displayed and read), which reads as follows:
"To add, it's instantly noticeable when you continue using our Sportsbook, because the system no longer allows you stakes that you used to play before. Limits never go unnoticed for the user."

Additionally, you don't have to know what are you limits, because you're supposed to have just one account. If you're making a second account to continue on playing sports then you know what you're doing - you wouldn't breach our guidelines otherwise.

Your case has been reviewed by 3 different Sportsbook operators and several members of the support team. We've talked to you through many support tickets, bringing context as to why we had to ban you - you were provided with all the information and decision was reviewed multiple times.

Numerous points of our Terms of Service were broken and you said you understand this. You attempted to bargain for lower withdrawal amounts, knowing you're in the wrong, but still seeking compensation on a lucky run - which should have never happened due to limits.

Unfortunately, this is the last time we're responding to your claims, because the case has been reviewed at least 5 times at this point. The outcome won't change and we don't negotiate with abusers.

Sorry I couldn't be more of help,
Cossaq

There were a few more exchanges after that but it was ultimately deemed that the OP wanted to circumvent his gubbed account by creating a new one, and that breached our TOS.

We never take bans lightly, hence we carry out our due diligence to ensure there are no loose ends.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 03:46:00 PM

Wow! Whoever that player is, they definitely deserve to be congratulated for such a wager. And it wasn't a small amount either for such a high-risk bet. The margin for errors was tiny and the player got it just right. I am not a big Dice player, but when I play, it's usually on much lower bets. I don't remember ever winning more than 3x to 4x, and that was on wagers below a dollar.

High five haha!

Even with that much cash to spare, I won't even feel comfortable following their footsteps 😅

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:08:33 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on August 29, 2026, 07:41:16 AM

Don't blame bitmover, it's my server that's "missing". It makes me think of the scene in Silicon Valley where they threw all their servers at the back of a rental van.

Update: it's back online

The only logical explanation is that they are following this thread, they saw my post, they put all their manpower on the task of bringing your server back online, and now everything is back to normal. Cheesy

This actually happened in Twitter. Elon musk himself rented trucks and put Twitter data center computers inside trucks Grin

Full history here

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At 3 p.m., after they had gotten four servers onto the truck, word of the caper reached the top executives at NTT, the company that owned and managed the data center. They issued orders that Musk’s team halt. Musk had the mix of glee and anger that often accompanied one of his manic surges. He called the CEO of the storage division, who told him it was impossible to move server racks without a bevy of experts. “Bulls---,” Musk explained. “We have already loaded four onto the semi.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 03:47:44 PM

It certainly looks like a giveaway where the person who guessed correctly can expect some type of rewards. If not, it would look really weird if their social media manager comes back in 24 hours, announces the correct number, writes who guessed correctly, and that's it.

Since you mentioned giveaways, here is something similar. 1 hour ago they posted the following bonus code on their X profile: "thisisnotapromocode"
No wagering requirements necessary. There is a note saying: "fastest fingers", so it's not going to be around forever.

Yeah, it is likely to be a giveaway. I hope I at least won't get shadow banned by X this time LOL. So far, I am still seeing my reply normally.

Too bad I missed the "thisisnotapromocode" code (LOL). I tried and it is now expired as I think everything has been claimed—not surprised since it's been many hours.
But it looks like this person was one of the fastest ones.

Quote from: Pmalek on August 28, 2026, 03:37:04 PM

I am advocating for using complex passphrases as seed extensions, though. A good passphrase could have saved some of those people who lost their coins, giving them some time to find and set up a different storage for their coins when the hacking began.

I agree, 100%.

This is one of my biggest gripes about most hardware wallets.

Most hardware wallets make entering a strong passphrase cumbersome. Even if the thing has a decent keyboard (which none do, not even LOL'DCARD), do you really want to type a long passphrase every time you use it? Most hardware wallets encourage the use of weak passphrases. That weakens security through bad design.

Krux, Kern and SeedSigner solve this problem with Passphrase QR.

My passphrase is well over 50 characters long. It's more than 7 words, which makes it uncrackable. Passphrase QR makes it easy to load, instantly. And, because it's just plain old words, it's easy to back up on metal and easy to someday pass on in a will.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 08:00:08 AM

Quote from: Meuserna on August 28, 2026, 05:31:23 PM

Surely you realize quoting Ledger about their closed source code is the same as quoting Coinkite about ColdCard's closed source code. In May, they said it was the best. How'd that work out?

Small correction. Coldcard's codebase isn't closed-source. It isn't open-source either. Perhaps you are using the logic if it isn't open-source then it must be close-source but that would be wrong. Coldcard is source-verifiable.

You're right. That was a typo on my part.

The point I was making is that in May, ColdCard would have told you their code was the best in the business. Clearly, it wasn't.

And yet, people constantly quote Ledger as a source of trustworthy information, even after Ledger spent years lying to them.

Quote from: BlackBoss_ on Today at 11:45:20 AM

Quote from: Pmalek on August 27, 2026, 03:48:18 PM

I wouldn't recommend it. Contacting customer support and asking the same question every day won't help speed up the process. If they are conducting an investigation into the player and the winnings (I am not saying they are), it can take a while. Especially if multiple parties need to coordinate, like the casino and one or more game providers. Besides, some players are quick to show impatience or even curse at the agents and attack them. That can only complicate things and might lead to the player getting banned from live support, chat, etc.

If the customer support did not reply anything, it's recommended to contact again but if there was reply with information like "please wait, we are looking at it and will give you official information soon", it's better to stay waiting for their support replies later. No restrictions that users can not contact again for customer support about their cases but like you said, recontact in such situations won't boost the support time faster.

Very likely the team already work to investigate such cases, and they only need time, more information, evidence, analysis before officially give users the answers and finalize such cases.

Sometime a customer support can be very so sensitive if we ask about our issue too many times while they have said to us "to wait".
Maybe the best thing is to ask an ETA on the first communication, if the support give like please wait up to xx hours so better do not ask until the given ETA ended.
Of course, I can also understand that waiting is something annoying for most of us especially if it is related to our money.
The main point I want to say is, trying to be patient as much as possible when we experienced an issue but at one point we can do follow up action.

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Quote from: bitmover on Today at 10:15:35 AM

I think now my server would be able to handle all calls from your table simultaneously.

Let's test this with Pmalek's list:

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on August 28, 2026, 04:16:16 PM

This sounds like having a dedicated airgapped computer for bitcoin with extra steps.

Am I the only one who just does not trust neither Trezor nor Ledger? The whole point of using separate hardware is so that you do not put any trust on neither the computer nor the coordinator wallet software running (such as Sparrow), but I feel like there are far more attack vectors that can be exploited to a hardware wallet that connects with the computer, than a signing device that is airgapped.

Not a single hardware wallet that you have to connect to an online computer to function is on my list of devices I trust, although I have a Trezor that I use for amounts I can afford to lose. The only thing I still have some confidence in are air-gapped wallets, but even there things are clearly not completely secure considering what happened.

Quote from: LoyceV on August 28, 2026, 03:51:58 PM

Quote from: Pmalek on August 28, 2026, 03:37:04 PM

I am advocating for using complex passphrases as seed extensions, though.

How does that work? Say you have a Trezor: do you enter that complex seed extension each time you use the device, using those 2 small keys scrolling through characters?

You buy hardware wallet that has a physical keyboard and if you still remember how we used to write SMS messages on the good old Nokia 3310, you won't have any problems entering a 15-20 character passphrase.

Quote from: Pmalek on August 27, 2026, 03:48:18 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 07:41:16 AM

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:09:07 AM

Any idea what could have happened? Did something maybe change on your end recently?

Don't blame bitmover, it's my server that's "missing". It makes me think of the scene in Silicon Valley where they threw all their servers at the back of a rental van.

Update: it's back online

Great that everything is working again.

A few months ago I made a small change recently that had a huge impact on performance (i changed the name of the image files in my server, making them more unique), so I think now my server would be able to handle all calls from your table simultaneously.

Later on if there is any problem with LoyceV proxy, you can try to make the calls direct to bitcoindata.science. I think they will work.

Quote from: logfiles on August 28, 2026, 11:59:26 PM

A good reputable casino should not even be able to let you access their website or sign up/sign in from a restricted region in the first place through geoblocking. Casinos that let users sign in even if they are from banned regions or if IP addresses point to banned regions should be used with caution.

I agree with you but all business companies can change their systems, make improvements if they want. A business company grows together with customers and they must serve customers well enough. It can be not too good now but it's never too late to change their system by deploying geoblocking on guests and people who want to register accounts from restricted areas.

A small check in 2020 by Pmalek
Which casinos have IP blocks in place for restricted countries?

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:09:07 AM

Any idea what could have happened? Did something maybe change on your end recently?

Don't blame bitmover, it's my server that's "missing". It makes me think of the scene in Silicon Valley where they threw all their servers at the back of a rental van.

Quote from: Pmalek on August 22, 2026, 06:58:11 AM

Was it always like that or has it started happening recently? Did it start happening after an update, app settings changes, OS update or settings changes, etc.?

I haven't updated it since I first installed it about two months ago. So, this has been happening from the start, but I didn't really care.

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on August 22, 2026, 03:50:20 PM

So let me get this right, when you open the wallet after some period of inactivity, you have to restore your wallet, and when you do and then go to "Manage wallets", you can actually see the previous wallets as you're showing us on the screenshot?

Exactly. I was actually planning to write a report on their Github repo today, because the issue resurfaced after I hadn't opened the app for nearly a week. Then, I stumbled upon the solution recently by accident.

Here’s the sequence of events: I opened the wallet, and it prompted me for the wallet PIN; as I suspected, it then asked to restore the wallet. I left it like that for a while before force closing it from the list of active tasks. Later, when I started writing a reply here and decided to take some screenshots of the UI, I reopened the app. Suddenly, I managed to log into one of the profiles and could see the list of active wallet profiles without having to perform a restoration.

It might be an issue with my device failing to update its state after the re-sync process, or perhaps the sync needs to run for a few minutes before reopen the app.

Quote from: Pmalek on August 25, 2026, 07:07:25 AM

I am pretty sure the article you posted earlier mentioned a fixed 20 sat/vByte upper limit on transactions but it looks as if you edited and changed that part.
Thanks for the clarification, though. When you say that the maximum is 10x the current rate, what source do you use to determine the current rate? Something like Mempool Space's high priority fee or do you have your own fee estimator?

No fee estimator. The rates come from Blockbook - an open-source indexer for Bitcoin, it estimates fees from the mempool.
Thanks for the questions - they helped, the team corrected the wording about the limit in the article.

Quote from: Pmalek

When you say that the maximum is 10x the current rate, what source do you use to determine the current rate? Something like Mempool Space's high priority fee or do you have your own fee estimator?

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 03:57:54 PM

For me to trust a new casino, they must not be that new. Wink

Besides that, I would have to have experienced issues on my previous casinos and made a decision to leave them.

That is way to believe mostly when the casinos haven't really gain much trust from users.

Building trust system is not what they built in a day, certain sacrifice must be made to achieve it as a new casinos that is newly seeking attention.

When I want make choice of casinos, I don't like going for new once. Why because people care hardly define their competences and how interesting they're. Maybe few years can prove them better.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 04:16:16 PM

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 04:08:59 PM

You do it on the computer the hardware wallet is connected to. It's far from the best approach but it's ok if you are careful and use a dedicated computer just for bitcoin, for example.

This sounds like having a dedicated airgapped computer for bitcoin with extra steps.

Am I the only one who just does not trust neither Trezor nor Ledger? The whole point of using separate hardware is so that you do not put any trust on neither the computer nor the coordinator wallet software running (such as Sparrow), but I feel like there are far more attack vectors that can be exploited to a hardware wallet that connects with the computer, than a signing device that is airgapped.

Spot on. The whole security model of a hardware wallet falls apart the second it shares a physical data interface with an internet connected host.

Stateless, opensource airgapped signers with optical QR communication are the only true way to eliminate host machine trust.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 04:08:59 PM

You do it on the computer the hardware wallet is connected to. It's far from the best approach but it's ok if you are careful and use a dedicated computer just for bitcoin, for example.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 03:37:04 PM

I am advocating for using complex passphrases as seed extensions, though.

How does that work? Say you have a Trezor: do you enter that complex seed extension each time you use the device, using those 2 small keys scrolling through characters?

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:18:14 AM

Quote from: Donneski on August 27, 2026, 10:44:45 PM

I've never and don't think I'll ever understand those that keep huge funds in their casino accounts. Regardless of the level of reputation a casino has, it does not in anyway remove risks completely. A casino site can be hacked, have technical issues that might be very difficult to resolve or even disappear from the internet.

I'll be more comfortable to leave my coins in an exchange than a casino account because I feel an exchange is safer with securing funds at their disposal.

I wouldn't recommend either of the two. Neither is safe long-term. Crypto exchanges and casinos aren't wallets. People should use them for the use cases they were built to provide. One allows you to buy, sell, and trade crypto, the other is for gambling. Use them for those activities as much as you want to and then withdraw your funds to a wallet you and only you control. Keep only the coins you want to play or trade with in a custodial service.

Both are not really the best option to choose.

If they want sample of big exchange unfortunately turn scam then they can look at the situation happened on FTX.

On casino side the incident happened on freebitco.in is so another unfortunate event. They are one of the OG casino and now they left then didn't return back the money of their players.

Those incident is the big reminder that people should not trust those exchange and casinos whatever big or how reputable they are. For long term storing this is been suggested for many times and hope people already learn that self custody wallet is best for this. Casinos is just for short term fun and not intended to use for storing their funds for long time.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 06:54:22 AM

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A long and complex passphrase is still non-hackable with today's technology. If a Coldcard-generated seed was additionally protected with a complex passphrase, the BTC would probably not be among the +1500 coins that got stolen. Some 2 and 3-word passphrases got bruteforced. An 8-word passphrase wouldn't be. An 8-word passphrase with numbers, lowercase & uppercase letters, and special characters even less so.

These are two different things and in one case your bitcoin are at risk (like here with coldcard scam...) :
-passphrase or password (bip38) would not help you at all.

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A custom password used to encrypt and lock a single Bitcoin private key into a secure 58-character string

-extra-word or bip39 (that is not a password but literally part of the seed) yes it's an extra word and not the password it would be used.
Yes a very long string could help but at this point I don't see any reason to have those risks and rely on a third party for a seed generation.

Weekly update (2026-08-21_Fri_05.18h)

theymos' raw data (format: time amount msg user_from user_to)
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Full list^* (58 MB) (not limited to 120 days, 3009 Merit transactions added since my previous update).

theymos' data (human readable format, including usernames and post titles)
Sample
On Fri 21 Aug 2026 04:40:17 AM CEST, SeriouslyGiveaway (history) sent 1 Merit to PrivacyG (history) for Re: Self-Custody vs Centralized Exchanges: Which Approach Makes More Sense?.
On Fri 21 Aug 2026 04:38:39 AM CEST, nutildah (history) sent 1 Merit to Zwei (history) for Re: Sigbanned user impulse709 owns at least four other accounts. .
On Fri 21 Aug 2026 04:31:23 AM CEST, iwantapony (history) sent 1 Merit to xLays (history) for Re: S a t R u s h . i o - Mine Bitcoin on Solana ⚡️Sat Strike🪙 1 mbtc Raffle! .
On Fri 21 Aug 2026 04:29:17 AM CEST, Hueristic (history) sent 1 Merit to xhomerx10 (history) for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion.
On Fri 21 Aug 2026 04:21:00 AM CEST, KawasakiNinja1_ (history) sent 2 Merit to Out of mind (history) for Re: Buy Bitcoins for your children instead of building houses for them. .
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On Wed 24 Jan 2018 11:28:54 PM CET, AdolfinWolf (history) sent 1 Merit to Lutpin (history) for Re: What is the function of the "Merit" score?.
On Wed 24 Jan 2018 11:27:54 PM CET, Dahman El_Harrachi (history) sent 1 Merit to theymos (history) for Re: Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?).
On Wed 24 Jan 2018 11:27:22 PM CET, Tyrantt (history) sent 5 Merit to AdolfinWolf (history) for What is the function of the "Merit" score?.
On Wed 24 Jan 2018 11:27:13 PM CET, Last of the V8s (history) sent 2 Merit to Rosewater Foundation (history) for Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion.
On Wed 24 Jan 2018 11:12:21 PM CET, theymos (history) sent 1 Merit to AdolfinWolf (history) for What is the function of the "Merit" score?.
Full list (610 MB)

Usernames to go with theymos' data
Sample
0: deMerit (Bitcoin Forum) (history) earned: 0 Merit.
3: satoshi (history) earned: 8880 Merit.
4: sirius (history) earned: 935 Merit.
10: Xunie (history) earned: 1 Merit.
11: madhatter (history) earned: 16 Merit.
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3765795: openbitcoin (history) earned: 1 Merit.
3765801: coinfuty (history) earned: 1 Merit.
3765834: Chief777 (history) earned: 5 Merit.
3765896: iloveDigit (history) earned: 8 Merit.
3765974: koilbuckethatbtc (history) earned: 1 Merit.
Full list^* (11 MB)

Usernames machine readable
Sample

Code:

0: deMerit (Bitcoin Forum)
3: satoshi
4: sirius
10: Xunie
11: madhatter
12: nanaimogold
13: SmokeTooMuch
14: The Madhatter
21: AgoraMutual
23: 1 currency now
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26: NewLibertyStandard
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28: Sabunir
29: giik
30: BitcoinFX
31: Suggester
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35: theymos
37: soultcer
40: xc
42: ec
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51: DannyM
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145: ducki2p
146: Brandon
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183: hugolp
198: allinvain
203: HostFat
206: teppy
217: SirArthur
224: Gavin Andresen
237: lachesis
241: QuantumMechanic
244: nixoid
251: wobber
262: chaord
267: virtualcoin
269: Bitcoiner
270: llama
271: Timo Y
274: limikael
284: joey.rich
288: Stone Man
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3762578: sidrabtc
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3762738: Prince patrick
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3762860: PolarCrypto
3762899: Akos26
3763135: Geould
3763168: jaxx.bet
3763191: greysonz
3763248: xxxmourn
3763270: swapsslol
3763276: MegRewards
3763338: omenswap
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3763895: Papa_Mojet
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3764157: MrGambler531
3764227: Zeto Cash
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3765001: nipperk
3765014: AnonymtNorskNr
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3765795: openbitcoin
3765801: coinfuty
3765834: Chief777
3765896: iloveDigit
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Full list (2 MB)

UserIDs, sent Merit and earned Merit machine readable
Sample

Code:

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Full list (1 MB)

Total number of users who received 1 or more Merit: 51712
Sample

Code:

1. 21505 Merit received by LoyceV (#459836) from 1123 unique users in 12471 transactions
2. 21334 Merit received by fillippone (#1852120) from 773 unique users in 11649 transactions
3. 18914 Merit received by o_e_l_e_o (#1188543) from 801 unique users in 9993 transactions
4. 15655 Merit received by El duderino_ (#1067333) from 480 unique users in 8978 transactions
5. 15033 Merit received by theymos (#35) from 1230 unique users in 5459 transactions
6. 13885 Merit received by JayJuanGee (#252510) from 742 unique users in 9135 transactions
7. 13344 Merit received by icopress (#1137579) from 620 unique users in 5002 transactions
8. 12169 Merit received by cygan (#27470) from 539 unique users in 6215 transactions
9. 12149 Merit received by LFC_Bitcoin (#379487) from 505 unique users in 6669 transactions
10. 11957 Merit received by Symmetrick (#2627711) from 773 unique users in 6854 transactions
11. 11472 Merit received by pooya87 (#379147) from 619 unique users in 6687 transactions
12. 11378 Merit received by DdmrDdmr (#1582324) from 655 unique users in 6474 transactions
13. 11368 Merit received by philipma1957 (#64507) from 590 unique users in 6535 transactions
14. 10711 Merit received by nutildah (#317618) from 678 unique users in 5766 transactions
15. 10529 Merit received by xhomerx10 (#120694) from 331 unique users in 5377 transactions
16. 10465 Merit received by gmaxwell (#11425) from 347 unique users in 3816 transactions
17. 10447 Merit received by TryNinja (#557798) from 568 unique users in 4639 transactions
18. 10166 Merit received by NotATether (#2739424) from 545 unique users in 4689 transactions
19. 10140 Merit received by GazetaBitcoin (#1285797) from 406 unique users in 3533 transactions
20. 10060 Merit received by d5000 (#85033) from 464 unique users in 5479 transactions
21. 10049 Merit received by BlackHatCoiner (#2775483) from 477 unique users in 5041 transactions
22. 9316 Merit received by ABCbits (#359716) from 544 unique users in 5037 transactions
23. 9009 Merit received by nc50lc (#1237156) from 413 unique users in 4652 transactions
24. 8965 Merit received by Pmalek (#112493) from 587 unique users in 5326 transactions
25. 8880 Merit received by satoshi (#3) from 413 unique users in 939 transactions
26. 8829 Merit received by dkbit98 (#1410401) from 459 unique users in 5233 transactions
27. 8542 Merit received by suchmoon (#234771) from 573 unique users in 4859 transactions
28. 8251 Merit received by Rikafip (#2658890) from 465 unique users in 4527 transactions
29. 7684 Merit received by bitmover (#1554927) from 596 unique users in 4573 transactions
30. 7614 Merit received by 1miau (#2143453) from 496 unique users in 4138 transactions
31. 7434 Merit received by AlcoHoDL (#998490) from 202 unique users in 4259 transactions
32. 7316 Merit received by PowerGlove (#3486361) from 235 unique users in 1874 transactions
33. 7198 Merit received by mikeywith (#2033515) from 405 unique users in 3671 transactions
34. 7088 Merit received by cAPSLOCK (#35501) from 230 unique users in 4047 transactions
35. 6966 Merit received by hosemary (#995810) from 408 unique users in 3842 transactions
36. 6958 Merit received by DaveF (#300014) from 386 unique users in 3541 transactions
37. 6900 Merit received by joker_josue (#97582) from 351 unique users in 3250 transactions
38. 6804 Merit received by stompix (#164749) from 495 unique users in 3783 transactions
39. 6794 Merit received by achow101 (#290195) from 278 unique users in 3046 transactions
40. 6779 Merit received by Hhampuz (#881377) from 959 unique users in 4415 transactions
41. 6727 Merit received by Lucius (#533583) from 535 unique users in 3890 transactions
42. 6622 Merit received by Hueristic (#198573) from 208 unique users in 3832 transactions
43. 6581 Merit received by OmegaStarScream (#375981) from 434 unique users in 3606 transactions
44. 6503 Merit received by Charles-Tim (#2776678) from 438 unique users in 3803 transactions
45. 6368 Merit received by The Sceptical Chymist (#487418) from 626 unique users in 3587 transactions
46. 6277 Merit received by jeremypwr (#137185) from 223 unique users in 3653 transactions
47. 6272 Merit received by NeuroticFish (#257071) from 462 unique users in 3495 transactions
48. 6087 Merit received by n0nce (#3373858) from 196 unique users in 2649 transactions
49. 5826 Merit received by lovesmayfamilis (#1982152) from 463 unique users in 4093 transactions
50. 5802 Merit received by DireWolfM14 (#2003859) from 397 unique users in 2749 transactions
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51663. 1 Merit received by 1ceStorm (#2342907) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51664. 1 Merit received by 1ce (#1019784) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51665. 1 Merit received by 1camtron (#1236351) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51666. 1 Merit received by 1apayment (#1855631) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51667. 1 Merit received by 1907KFY (#1935217) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51668. 1 Merit received by 16xypjnxlrew (#2705665) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51669. 1 Merit received by 16tonn (#3560052) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51670. 1 Merit received by 15horses1donkey (#560958) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51671. 1 Merit received by 15519028115Q (#3575647) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51672. 1 Merit received by 15262kk (#291561) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51673. 1 Merit received by 14z4rus (#3669471) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51674. 1 Merit received by 1453ist (#1431126) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51675. 1 Merit received by 1453eko (#1431103) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51676. 1 Merit received by 13Winter13 (#919666) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51677. 1 Merit received by 13ex07 (#1207068) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51678. 1 Merit received by 13dizel (#1208678) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51679. 1 Merit received by 1357924680 (#333305) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51680. 1 Merit received by 12tribes (#1221082) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51681. 1 Merit received by 12assa34 (#1729394) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51682. 1 Merit received by 123tm (#848549) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51683. 1 Merit received by 123pogi123 (#2252156) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51684. 1 Merit received by 123exo123 (#1919155) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51685. 1 Merit received by 112_blockchain (#2081987) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51686. 1 Merit received by 11:11pas (#1306783) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51687. 1 Merit received by 1083ivangod (#1952712) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51688. 1 Merit received by 101Crypta (#1287691) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51689. 1 Merit received by 100x (#80115) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51690. 1 Merit received by 100steeze (#3637720) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51691. 1 Merit received by 100%_Shared_FreeBitco.in (#2531436) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51692. 1 Merit received by 100monet (#323057) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51693. 1 Merit received by 1000x (#3509491) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51694. 1 Merit received by 1000usdforwife (#1547718) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51695. 1 Merit received by 1000alasan (#2458354) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51696. 1 Merit received by 0xMuted (#3713926) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51697. 1 Merit received by 0xBrian (#2625170) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51698. 1 Merit received by 0xb100d (#1342964) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51699. 1 Merit received by 0x77 (#3316521) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51700. 1 Merit received by 0x1Knowledge (#2000899) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51701. 1 Merit received by 0vx (#2805438) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51702. 1 Merit received by 0RajA0 (#1151527) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51703. 1 Merit received by 0nion (#3614135) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51704. 1 Merit received by 0bit (#493268) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51705. 1 Merit received by 063Myxa (#1432563) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51706. 1 Merit received by 05btc (#2050202) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51707. 1 Merit received by 00RedBlack00 (#2527578) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51708. 1 Merit received by 00hello (#2471124) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51709. 1 Merit received by $--Perfect. Exchange-$. (#1140007) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51710. 1 Merit received by $imple$imon (#2060672) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51711. 1 Merit received by $BitMakeR$ (#1166812) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
51712. 0 Merit received by gwsukabokepjepang (#2536607) from 2 unique users in 2 transactions

Full list (5 MB)

Total number of users who gave away 1 or more sMerit: 26745
Sample

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1. 77613 Merit sent by El duderino_ (#1067333) to 912 unique users in 13133 transactions
2. 72788 Merit sent by fillippone (#1852120) to 2326 unique users in 32097 transactions
3. 69604 Merit sent by LoyceV (#459836) to 3355 unique users in 18198 transactions
4. 62856 Merit sent by JayJuanGee (#252510) to 3675 unique users in 60612 transactions
5. 60713 Merit sent by ABCbits (#359716) to 4753 unique users in 34777 transactions
6. 54807 Merit sent by vapourminer (#33156) to 3807 unique users in 37891 transactions
7. 45834 Merit sent by hugeblack (#1059082) to 2940 unique users in 16221 transactions
8. 41808 Merit sent by suchmoon (#234771) to 2887 unique users in 9159 transactions
9. 39554 Merit sent by xandry (#382413) to 2547 unique users in 14607 transactions
10. 38370 Merit sent by DdmrDdmr (#1582324) to 2966 unique users in 31070 transactions
11. 36172 Merit sent by LFC_Bitcoin (#379487) to 1601 unique users in 14271 transactions
12. 34063 Merit sent by klarki (#407174) to 2219 unique users in 11574 transactions
13. 33333 Merit sent by Symmetrick (#2627711) to 2254 unique users in 16803 transactions
14. 32926 Merit sent by The Sceptical Chymist (#487418) to 1496 unique users in 10475 transactions
15. 30088 Merit sent by EFS (#140584) to 1468 unique users in 7889 transactions
16. 29539 Merit sent by Welsh (#84521) to 1742 unique users in 6902 transactions
17. 26646 Merit sent by o_e_l_e_o (#1188543) to 2510 unique users in 9360 transactions
18. 25901 Merit sent by 1miau (#2143453) to 1317 unique users in 11630 transactions
19. 25822 Merit sent by qwk (#24140) to 605 unique users in 6509 transactions
20. 23619 Merit sent by pooya87 (#379147) to 1394 unique users in 9606 transactions
21. 22424 Merit sent by dbshck (#153634) to 1314 unique users in 6442 transactions
22. 18629 Merit sent by NotATether (#2739424) to 1809 unique users in 4177 transactions
23. 17143 Merit sent by Julien_Olynpic (#1166480) to 571 unique users in 8071 transactions
24. 16956 Merit sent by Vispilio (#982288) to 757 unique users in 6319 transactions
25. 16860 Merit sent by nutildah (#317618) to 1762 unique users in 7697 transactions
26. 16726 Merit sent by Pmalek (#112493) to 1206 unique users in 9474 transactions
27. 16272 Merit sent by Halab (#1053119) to 2012 unique users in 6616 transactions
28. 15384 Merit sent by Foxpup (#55384) to 647 unique users in 5513 transactions
29. 15326 Merit sent by bitmover (#1554927) to 1337 unique users in 8594 transactions
30. 14746 Merit sent by philipma1957 (#64507) to 1696 unique users in 7702 transactions
31. 14562 Merit sent by theymos (#35) to 1113 unique users in 1791 transactions
32. 14453 Merit sent by OgNasty (#18321) to 3168 unique users in 7586 transactions
33. 13685 Merit sent by krogothmanhattan (#1000199) to 667 unique users in 3650 transactions
34. 13615 Merit sent by CryptopreneurBrainboss (#1052091) to 1369 unique users in 7532 transactions
35. 13593 Merit sent by dkbit98 (#1410401) to 1159 unique users in 8308 transactions
36. 13561 Merit sent by paxmao (#1192397) to 1307 unique users in 5936 transactions
37. 13454 Merit sent by NeuroticFish (#257071) to 834 unique users in 6312 transactions
38. 13450 Merit sent by BlackHatCoiner (#2775483) to 855 unique users in 4328 transactions
39. 12170 Merit sent by d5000 (#85033) to 1212 unique users in 6635 transactions
40. 12114 Merit sent by chimk (#1202061) to 757 unique users in 4369 transactions
41. 10800 Merit sent by mikeywith (#2033515) to 548 unique users in 3984 transactions
42. 8915 Merit sent by Hueristic (#198573) to 592 unique users in 7549 transactions
43. 8734 Merit sent by DarkStar_ (#507936) to 971 unique users in 2196 transactions
44. 8712 Merit sent by bones261 (#452769) to 1032 unique users in 4239 transactions
45. 8672 Merit sent by Buchi-88 (#204821) to 764 unique users in 7469 transactions
46. 8660 Merit sent by babo (#65636) to 526 unique users in 6808 transactions
47. 8645 Merit sent by Coolcryptovator (#1980983) to 1066 unique users in 3742 transactions
48. 8442 Merit sent by BobLawblaw (#569455) to 333 unique users in 3402 transactions
49. 8309 Merit sent by Xal0lex (#1068464) to 680 unique users in 2556 transactions
50. 8282 Merit sent by OmegaStarScream (#375981) to 964 unique users in 3613 transactions
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26696. 1 Merit sent by 3acaga (#1232502) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26697. 1 Merit sent by 360llqzc (#1300924) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26698. 1 Merit sent by 333btc (#3450760) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26699. 1 Merit sent by 3227jw (#2592839) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26700. 1 Merit sent by 2x2coindwarf (#2686612) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26701. 1 Merit sent by 2x25BT (#990097) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26702. 1 Merit sent by 2drive (#1304704) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26703. 1 Merit sent by 2andahalfBTC (#1142164) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26704. 1 Merit sent by 27QVUTZj8rgZP1 (#662730) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26705. 1 Merit sent by 27aume (#1001865) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26706. 1 Merit sent by 2342q6tegw (#1212678) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26707. 1 Merit sent by 214missy (#1285563) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26708. 1 Merit sent by 212fox (#1342293) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26709. 1 Merit sent by 1xbitpatnar (#3475604) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26710. 1 Merit sent by 1r0n (#1252002) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26711. 1 Merit sent by 1pool Ltd. (#2062862) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26712. 1 Merit sent by 1melyun (#543052) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26713. 1 Merit sent by 1cyrax00 (#964210) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26714. 1 Merit sent by 1CryptoSmurf (#1352746) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26715. 1 Merit sent by 1chempion123 (#1346880) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26716. 1 Merit sent by 1cak (#1136856) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26717. 1 Merit sent by 1amCrypt0 (#933826) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26718. 1 Merit sent by 19Nov16 (#921267) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26719. 1 Merit sent by 19nataliya12 (#1873934) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26720. 1 Merit sent by 19dimasik77 (#881779) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26721. 1 Merit sent by 1971ECPT (#3553473) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26722. 1 Merit sent by 17buratin (#1187494) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26723. 1 Merit sent by 13ex07 (#1207068) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26724. 1 Merit sent by 13Charlie (#76987) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26725. 1 Merit sent by 12retepnat34 (#1053271) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26726. 1 Merit sent by 10yearsolder (#1094878) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26727. 1 Merit sent by 10sat (#1162504) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26728. 1 Merit sent by 10casproj (#3515598) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26729. 1 Merit sent by 10BTCaDay (#396522) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26730. 1 Merit sent by 100kk (#1316426) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26731. 1 Merit sent by 100eth (#1324600) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26732. 1 Merit sent by 0xBitcoins (#2205183) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26733. 1 Merit sent by 0xBet (#3572636) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26734. 1 Merit sent by 0x0333 (#1913654) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26735. 1 Merit sent by 0vn1 (#1216048) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26736. 1 Merit sent by 0virtual (#1244555) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26737. 1 Merit sent by 0id1d (#3600764) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26738. 1 Merit sent by 0Alvaren0 (#2020991) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26739. 1 Merit sent by 01BTC (#1756786) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26740. 1 Merit sent by 01bits (#1629161) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26741. 1 Merit sent by 00HasH (#841746) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26742. 1 Merit sent by 00DKM@ (#1311705) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26743. 1 Merit sent by 00.00WIB (#3392171) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26744. 1 Merit sent by $@to$h! (#1183184) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions
26745. 1 Merit sent by $Talker (#1043705) to 1 unique users in 1 transactions

Full list (3 MB)

Merit per day of the week
Monday 343555 (14.41%)
Tuesday 342255 (14.36%)
Wednesday 341811 (14.34%)
Thursday 362441 (15.20%)
Friday 360674 (15.13%)
Saturday 314089 (13.17%)
Sunday 318267 (13.35%)
Total: 2383092

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Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:02:08 AM

-snip-
Only some victims would be able to acquire the needed digital proof.

Yes agree with you, especially from someone who is sending from his other personal wallet. I always thought the transition for someone to store their bitcoin could be from exchange > self-custody > hardware wallet. That's why I always thought that a previous transaction could be used as PoA of the coins.

Quote from: Wind_FURY on Today at 05:29:44 AM

The "hacker" should have used ThorChain, and swapped the stolen Bitcoin to Monero starting in Day Zero and continued that when more Bitcoin is stolen.
But the hacker's current move is good to test how those mixers are good in obfuscation. For that purpose, they should probably test CoinJoin too.

The problem is liquidity, there is no service that can handle those typical funds with such a large fund. The best way for him should just not do anything for the next 1-2 years until the topics a little bit of room, and he can try to learn the best way to mix the coins. Right now maybe he can do is Coinjoin & Peel-Chain transaction, IMO he just too fast to do these.

Hopefully with these small errors, we can catch him.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:19:32 AM

If they had a 'Promotions' page, it would be nearly empty.

Yep. Just like I previously said: There's no need to make one if there is none to list. Grin

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:19:32 AM

EarnBet sometimes organizes short competitions for their followers on social media.

Those things feel like simple giveaways. Usually doesn't have much impact on their platform. And while yes, they do have that $200k wagering competition, I feel like that's a very old type of promo (and pretty common with other crypto-casinos, too).
I was hoping they'll make new ones, perhaps centered around their new sportsbook? Promos for Major League Baseball, UFC, and E-sports major events like DOTA 2 Tournaments, CS2, etc.
I mean, there's a ton of sports betting events every week; they could just pick a few, make a promo for it, and list them all in a single Promotions page.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:19:32 AM

There is a bug bounty for those who find and report reproducible bugs and vulnerabilities.

Not sure if this qualifies as a promotional campaign. It's meant to find and fix vulnerabilities in their platform. Kinda necessary and not meant to boost their active players. Cheesy

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:19:32 AM

Finally, they have a 'Rain Bonus' with crypto drops for active players in the chat.

Same thing. Not an impactful promo. Only meant to make the guys in the chat box happy and lively.

Quote from: Pmalek on August 26, 2026, 04:15:35 PM

[...]
A crypto user from Thailand had a Ledger Nano X hardware wallet, but the internal battery wasn't working properly. He decided to buy another Nano X, the cheapest one he could find, in order to take its battery and replace the one in his device. He bought one from Lazada. Lazada is an official Ledger reseller for Thailand, but it turns out that the service had (maybe it still has) fake listings as well.
[...]

It would be really interesting to follow the lead regarding sales on "Lazada" again.
After a quick search, I got a better idea of what this platform is. Lazada is one of the biggest online shopping platforms in Southeast Asia and can best be described as the "Amazon of Asia." Roll Eyes

This isnt a huge surprise, but somehow the distribution channels must have been compromised, or the Ledger was sold by a third-party seller on Lazada. Either way, its definitely worth looking into, especially considering how much effort went into tampering with and sabotaging the fake Ledger. Crazy story somehow.

Friends, the match ended with the score 3 : 0 in favour of Arsenal. The first goal was scored in the 15th minute of the match. The winners of this contest are xandry and Pmalek.

Congratulations to the winners 🎉

Quote from: xandry on August 15, 2026, 07:29:55 AM

Time: 14'

Quote from: Pmalek on August 14, 2026, 04:57:40 PM

Time: 17 '

Quote from: Pmalek on August 03, 2026, 08:25:12 AM

Now we have the Coldcard disaster that will forever change how we view cold storage. Despite the keys being generated offline and never touching the internet, hundreds of users lost over 1000 BTC in the last few days. The lesson learnt is that one line of code can be the difference between sufficient or insufficient amount of entropy. If it's the latter, it can have devastating consequences. In the future we will see greater focus on more complex key generation, like getting entropy from dice rolls. It will take more time but if the dice aren't biased it will be safer all-around.

It’s a significant and notable even in the history of Bitcoin and the idea that backs how secured a noncustodial wallet could be. People has always relied on the pathway to the generation of the seed phrases and private keys but, studies and technological advancement would always try to prove otherwise and this coldcard incident has just created a solid base for such ideas to breed.

It’s very disturbing that, despite haven’t done everything right and tried to remain safe, you can still lose everything.

Quote from: Forsyth Jones on Today at 02:15:35 PM

This is just one of the proposals that came up in this discussion. I don't think it's feasible, as it's complicated and currently, as far as I remember, no wallet currently does or has implemented this. But let's say it were implemented, you just need to add any of the options below (one or more) in advanced sending to:

Manually select a change address, as proposed by Pmalek (and there are wallets that do this, for example, Bitcoin Core if you enable coin control), image example below
Optionally, there would be an option that opens a selection box for wallets that the user has generated, which could be HD Standard or imported from isolated keys or addresses. Electrum doesn't need to guess where the change is going or which wallet is primary. Again, Bitcoin Core already has this option (manually specify a change address if coin control is enabled).

But I keep hammering the point that:

The best solution for this was initially proposed by SomberNight, the creation of an advanced wallet with support for multiple scripts (or not) that would allow the import of private keys as well, and Electrum sends the change spent from that address to the HD account, period, simple to solve and painless.

Creating this type of function is also not the best, because then all the exchange goes to a single address, creating a connection to several transactions, which can break privacy.

Well, I'm not an expert in encryption and how the entire wallet is generated.
But, I think that a super wallet solution that can be created and at the same time accepts importing address, is something complicated.

A wallet generates an address based on a seed. Mathematically, it will not be possible to add addresses to this wallet.

Doing so, the software would no longer work based on the generated wallet, but more like a wallet management program, which has information from several wallets at the same time.

There are already software wallets that do more or less that.
They may in fact fail in the Import Addresses field.

Now doing this in Electrum, would almost be creating a new program.

This I say, that I am not an expert in this field.

Quote from: joker_josue on Today at 06:51:54 AM

I understand the idea. But the question is: how does Electrum know which is my "default" HD wallet?

For Electrum, each HD wallet is viewed independently. That's why when you open two wallets, they open in different windows.
Furthermore, there is no default wallet. The wallet that appears when you start Electrum is the last wallet you had open.

A user can have 10 HD wallets, even saved in different system folders. How would Electrum know which address exists in wallet X, if it doesn't even know that wallet exists, unless it's open?

The only way to do this was to indicate in the settings that wallet X was the primary one.
But by doing that, wouldn't it become more dangerous in terms of privacy? Because it could create connections between wallets.

Manually select a change address, as proposed by Pmalek (and there are wallets that do this, for example, Bitcoin Core if you enable coin control), image example below
Optionally, there would be an option that opens a selection box for wallets that the user has generated, which could be HD Standard or imported from isolated keys or addresses. Electrum doesn't need to guess where the change is going or which wallet is primary. Again, Bitcoin Core already has this option (manually specify a change address if coin control is enabled).

Quote from: bitmover on Today at 10:40:02 AM

I would not consider this a workaround. This is a basic wallet feature, which people use everyday.
It is the native way of the wallet to solve the problem you mentioned, the address reuse in case of change.

I'm not saying that pay to many is a workaround, I'm saying that using it specifically to designate the change is a workaround, there's a big difference between the purpose of pay to many and change addr.

Basically, the way Electrum handles my imported keys today is exactly like this:

"Here, we created a rented room for you (imported-only keystore, privkey-only or addresses watch-only), but there's no balcony because we don't know if you're stupid enough to want to jump out the balcony, while other residents are VIPs (HD wallets) and have balconies, terraces, and rooftop pools, because we assume they know what they're doing. If you don't like it, rent another apartment (use another wallet) or buy ours (do a sweep transferring everything to the HD wallet)."

Quote from: bitmover on Today at 10:40:02 AM

The wallet doesn't force you to reuse the address, even when you import a private key.

Of course, it forces me to, when I import a private key (creating a keystore called "imported" only for private keys and not public addresses), the change goes back to the imported key (bad for privacy), even if I enable use change addresses the wallet sends the change to a random address if there's more than one imported key. This isn't ideal either and just messes things up. In other words, it forces me to use this imported keystore that doesn't communicate with the standard HD or BIP39 imported keystores, with a "use change addresses" function that works in a stupid way, trying to guess where the change to a new virgin address goes, much worse than when they removed the import feature from the deterministic HD keystores (electrum v2.0).

The solution to all this is very simple:

Just keep what already worked well before v2.0, imported keys were saved in the same keystore as the HD wallet and this discussion wouldn't even exist in the first place, that's how Bitcoin Core works today
The option to create a wallet only for imported keys could be kept exactly as it works today, the only difference is that the import option would appear again in the standard HD electrum wallets (BIP39 or Standard Electrum) to satisfy users who demand that: imported private keys would no longer be reused > change goes to the HD account. This would solve the problem of the privacy of the imported private key
Or the creation of an advanced wallet for advanced users as proposed by SomberNight.

To be clear, my intention is not to use imported addresses forever, I would just like the imported keys to have same behavior as HD wallets regarding change and non-reuse. I'm thinking of users who use paper wallets who wish to use reliable software like Electrum or any other wallet like Bluewallet, preserving their privacy. The funds would be temporarily transferred to the HD keystore, which has paths for receiving /0 and changing /1, so that they can then transfer everything to a paper wallet or other cold storage, or why not, transfer directly to an integrated hardware wallet?

In my view, the best way to solve this would be to add an option to create an advanced wallet with support for multiple types of scripts and descriptors for users who know how to handle descriptors. As I've said many times, I'm being repetitive, seriously, it shouldn't be complicated to understand my reasoning.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 06:59:57 AM

Quote from: panjul07 on August 25, 2026, 03:58:12 PM

My question, is this winning happened in Earnbet?

It's probably an EarnBet player who won that. If not, it would be weird that EarnBet posts replays of wins that originate from other online casinos and not from their own.

I find it so unethical to post the gains made by other players in other casino, since its like they are misleading their community for posting something which didn't happened in their platform.

So most provably that win truly happens there, since if lots people will find out that what they do is false marketing. They provably get lots of criticism from those people who find out that they are misleading and doing such shady actions.

But I also guess that they don't need to do that, because for sure its more beneficial for their platform if they post those legitimate wins made by their players.

Quote from: Pmalek on August 25, 2026, 03:27:18 PM

Another crazy and sick win on a NolimitCity slot game. This time it was on Brute Force.
The player bought Super Brute Spins and received 10 free spins. The multipliers kept stacking ever respin until he received the maximum payout of 40,000x his bet.
It looks so easy when you watch it, but you have to be really lucky to stack them up like that.

https://x.com/EarnBetCasino/status/2091987838480892415

Well, this is crazy... And you are totally right, it looks so easy when we watch it, but we need to be crazy lucky to see those multipliers lining up from the first spin. Of course, max win for this guy... while the rest of us are waiting in line! Cool

Thanks for sharing... I enjoy watching max win bonus rounds. I think I would stand up, start dancing & singing while I wait for this crazy payout...

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