I saw some nasty things, really nasty things. This round got you all excited.

Here are your predictions for Round 10 :

Name	Prediction 1	Prediction 2	B/M
cryptofrka	70 050,00		0,50% p.malus
Doan9269	70 425,00
ESG	68 486,84
examplens	71 648,00
GazetaBitcoin	68 623,00
Hypnotizer	71 078,89
Leahized	70 436,00
LoyceV	72 642,41		0,50% malus
Pmalek	70 188,00
promise444c5	73 800,00
xLays	71 067,22	71 567,22(*)	Worst prediction

                           
(*) You sent me 71 565.22$ as your second prediction. I took the liberty of adjusting it to 71 567.22$ to respect the 500$ difference.
                  
Within 24 hours all the predictions will be available here. You will be able to check if I have made any mistakes.

This is not a question IF, this is already happening now in several countries.
Sure, they can bypass it for now, but next step will be face scan or ID upload for sure.

Yeah, but you have no other option but to KYC to use those services

Social media are even more ''gloal'' than forums, and they are starting to implement this.
I even saw that Discord started with this crap, and reddit is moving in that direction.

I would probably do the same thing a leave.
I am sure many members would just pay someone from other countries to ''kyc'' them.

I remember them also, but California is sometimes looking more SSR than EUSSR.
People already started forking systemd and many linux OS, but I am 100% sure Ubuntu will have this age verification crap.

Our explanations were very clear. Bitcoiners are supposed to be the elite, it’s just that some elites are more elite than others

Just 2 hours and 30 minutes left, and there’s only one person left who needs to submit their prediction (@Doan9269).

Kinda counted on that one

In battle royale there are no rules so naturally took advantage of this.
Don't blame me, blame the tool with vague instructions. And don't be surprised when the maluses start coming your way..

Only LoyceV can know this issue better because if he wants to, he can pin it and if he doesn't want to, he can't. If it is seen from your point that there have been enough threads this month and LoyceV has already made this thread in a better way and it contains enough details, then we should not create new threads. The only way to avoid such a rush is to pin it so that the complete details about it can be seen from there. Such information that is necessary in our form, one of which is this, it is better to pin it so that more threads and useless questions will be avoided. Our form has a better performance on every question and also gives its solution, but some people have made it a habit and are wasting people's time, so I will also correct it for the reason that it is better to pin it.

There are two more topics about whitelisting, should they need to be pinned too?
Whitelisting for Brand New accounts (Enable posting)
Remove Proxyban (evil fees) - whitelisted for free | my list

I don't know.

There are threads need to be unpinned too like I listed there.
[theymos] Please unpin this thread, link in the post.

I also reported this > CFP Bitcoin Scalability Workshop (Sept 12-13), Montreal Canada for unpin but it was not resolved so far.

The board is writing beginners and Help and if you are new on the forum and you are going through the forum to get a solution for something that happened while creating an account, believe me you will likely visit the beginners and Help because you believe as the name says you will find help over there, so thread like the one we are talking about should be in beginners and Help board because that’s where newbies with visit first and not the meta board.

This is more forum related . Why not in meta?

Beginners should be more a bitcoin board for Beginners

Sometimes i think there is so much off-topic that we may even forget this is a bitcoin forum

The reason a newbie is banned can directly be seen on their account when they visit this forum. It is located at the top part of the forum and housed in red so that the newbie can easily see it.

But what you posted that is valid is that the thread can easily help newbies to send email to LoyceV so that he can whitelist their account for them.

It is not compulsory that LoyceV will attend to everyone at same time or attend to them at all, when the thread is pinned newbies with such ban issues won’t be creating thread on meta board to ask why the account they created was banned since the reason for that is already on the pinned thread.
If you check all the newbies coming to meta board to ask this question they are all directed to this thread created by LoyceV so why not just pin it on the Beginners & Help Board.

I love your last suggestion, however instead of creating such thread LoyceV can just add their names on the already existing thread created by him so they can support too.

LoyceV may not need an heavy loan. Did you ask him if he wish the thread to be pinned?.

Do you know that there are other members which Theymos referred to as veteran that can also whitelist people on this forum? People in their community on this forum will know them.

Having lists of all members that can whitelist users will be better so that it will not become a burden for only one person.

I don't think it's necessary IMO, Proxyban and evil fee exists for abuse of IP addresses that are banned from a particular region and over time, it get lifted.
If you openly make a kind gesture solution to the big problem of the forum for new accounts, the purpose of the help will be defeated and LoyceV might even close the thread and those who genuinely need it might not get the use.

It better remains that way.

Remove Proxyban (evil fees) - email to get whitelisted for free.

The thread was created by LoyceV and the thread talked about removing the Proxyban and the reason why the Ban is on some new account that is being created, so a thread like this should be pinned in the Beginners & Help Board so we won’t constantly be seeing thread being created by newbies to ask about the Proxyban.
Within this month I have seen 2 or 3 thread created just for this Proxyban issue, this matter is a very serious issue for newbies and the thread that has answers to all that, should be pinned in Beginners & Help board, it will help reduce thread created in meta board to ask about the Ban.

I have not had this problem recently. Yes, you'll need many attempts until there is CPU mining competition and reorgs reappear.

It's evil fee that needs to be paid for posting or OP can send whitelisting request to LoyceV or two other users as I know are ready to do whitelisting too.

Whitelisting for Brand New accounts (Enable posting)
Remove Proxyban (evil fees) - whitelisted for free | my list

You opted for a full node, getting close to 1TB in size, and because of a few GB more, you want that everybody else also downloads and verifies 1TB instead of starting with just a few GB?
Sorry, but that sounds absolutely egoistical: "I don't want it, so let's keep it bad for everybody else".
Ever thought that the ever increasing chain size might support centralization, because it is getting less interesting and feasable to run your own node?
Decentralization was the big point of Bitcoin.

1~5hrs before still use the 1hr right? It’s the least btw..




Sorry Satoshi.. but I need to spend my BTC in the Afterlife.

why most people choose “1337” 

*Quietly sipping soda.. 


taste the feeling of being rich….
I think some people want to see Lo..LoyceV out of the battle…that’s just an assumption 

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So
I’ve sent a PM just minutes ago but I set a delay =1, is that okay? Or what should be okay? I don’t quite understand the delay time stuff? LoyceV can you elaborate more on it..

I just saw this for the first time. I clicked it and it did actually reset the Updated Topics. I don't remember ever clicking it. I must have accidentally clicked it without knowing.

My followup question is: how can I stop following a topic? Marking all read is a nice cleanup, but I'd rather have a "nuke" option that completely unfollows all these threads that are no longer relevant to me, and never displays them at Updated Topics, unless I make a new reply and follow them again.

fillippone is quite an open minded person, so I'm pretty sure if you go to the Italian local board with a legitimate question or saying something that adds value to the board he is not going to give you any weird look.

While you were at it you could have read the last page of the Unofficcial rules thread, where people quote theymos's stance on AI translation and ask for it to be updated (it hasn't been yet).

Here you have a reply of him about the subject:


I guess that rule was implemented when online translators were laughable (even though it might not seem like it, they were pretty bad a decade ago).

Finally managed to send PM properly, (after two attempts).

Specially thanks : LoyceV, Halab

I swear, my Updated Topics page got reset recently and started from zero. Hasn't yours reset? Can you click and tell me if you see many pages with topics you haven't replied since last year?

I didn't clear my browser cache. It just got reset out of nowhere.

What does a Brand New member with no posts see when clicking that page? That's what I saw, until I got new replies in threads like Wall Observer, which made them appear again.

LoyceV, I would just like to say that your data affects me in such a way that I find I am unable to stand up straight *ahem* in polite company until my head detumesces.  At the next Merit Cycling Club shindig perhaps I shall explain in more graphic detail.


Oh to be back in 201X again, eh?  Take heed, young ones.  Time starts to fly when you get to be a curmudgeonly old coot.  Sometimes I don't even zip my fly. 

My point is: thanks for the excellent merit data dump, brother-in-arms.

Yes, that was the idea.

Noted.


Set delay=3 if you don't want to bother with it.
And your BTC will disappear if you don't use them.

Oh, OK.
Go to Profile > Personal Message Options > check the box “Allow newbies to send you PMs.”
Once the PM is OK, you can uncheck that box again.

Welcome back LoyceV!
We are always glad to see you on Bridgoro.

Thanks dude.. I now have some stash all thanks to you.Still don’t understand how hours can be set.

Lastly, what happens to my small BTC stash if I eventually lose without using it… @ halab

I want to buy 1 - 0.50% malus on another player's next prediction.
For LoyceV please.

OK, I have clarified these two points.



@Leahized : You forgot to add "LoyceVs PM publisher" to the list of recipients. I can't validate your prediction.

I'm disappointed, @Hypnotizer is very upset with you. You were one of the rich.

It was the best time.To awaken others.

It seems that luckily I am kind. Most of my cash is gone.

What the hell, LoyceV is scamming us with these special tools.

To be honest, it's a nice change. There's a big advantage in knowing other people's picks - if you edit yours a few minutes before the deadline you'll surely be in the middle - thus safe.

Game Master, now go back in time and punish all of those that edit close to the deadline.

Done. The list has been updated.

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Great. The Cash Shop has reopened.
To apologize for the delay of the maintenance, I have applied significant discounts to items... almost all of them.  These discounts are available only for this round.
There is also a new feature and a minor change.

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OK corrected.

I had been wondering whether or not you could see the contents of PM. This clears things up, thanks for that.

huh..the bearish momentum. 


So, I’ll start by choosing “the poor people” to gift the rebalance first…

Let’s welcome to the stage…

ESG
promise444c5
examplens


..then I’d chose from the “rich people”…

The richest of them..

Leahized
xLays; and
Lo..LoyceV 

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The total 🟰 money for the rich is - 75$+60$+50$= 185$

185$ will be divided amongst the poor..

That’s equal to $60 for each of the poor…..the poor will have a test of what it feels like to be rich.


Wait…

Those once poor people are now richer than me …that’s like Franklin.

Round 9 is now over, here are the results :

Closing price on 19/03/2026 : 69 871$

Name	Prediction	B/M	Final prediction	Difference
Hypnotizer	71 856,55		71 856,55	1 985,55
Pmalek	73 401,00		73 401,00	3 530,00
Leahized	73 582,00		73 582,00	3 711,00
Doan9269	73 606,00	0,25% p.malus	73 790,02	3 919,02
examplens	73 999,00		73 999,00	4 128,00
xLays	74 067,00		74 067,00	4 196,00
promise444c5	74 208,00		74 208,00	4 337,00
GazetaBitcoin	74 223,00		74 223,00	4 352,00
LoyceV	74 665,85		74 665,85	4 794,85
cryptofrka	74 250,00	0,75% p.malus	74 806,88	4 935,88
ESG	75 555,55		75 555,55	5 684,55
Danydee	80 750,00		80 750,00	10 879,00

                                 

Hooo, Danydee, you followed the bulls, but you fell into the ravine and now you are out of the game.

Hypnotizer, you have one life left, you have 0BTC, and your life has been miserable. Let me bring you a little joy.
You win this round, so here's 50BTC in your account to get started.
Now it's time to rebalance everyone's chances in this game. There are too many rich people and too many poor people.
So, Hypnotizer, you must take half of the BTC from 3 participants (it can be you, you are one of the rich), add up the total you take and divide it by 3 (rounded down), and give that amount to 3 people who have 0 BTC (it can’t be you, you are one of the rich now).
Don’t call me a communist, I might take offense. It’s just a rebalancing.
Once Hypnotizer has made his choice, the Cash Shop will reopen.

Well done Doan9269, you managed to survive the poisoned malus and are now cured.

For Round 10... Wow, round 10 already. Congratulations to those who have survived this far. Let's make this round a little more challenging. You will have to show off your prediction skills.

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Round 10 : The blind round

What will be the price of Bitcoin at March 26, 2026, 12:00:00 AM (BTC closing price on 25/03/2026) ?
Submit your predictions before March 23, 2026, 07:00:00 PM.
 
Cash shop: Reopening (very soon)
 
Special rules :
You will not post your prediction publicly in this thread; instead you will send your prediction to me via PM.
And to provide proof of your prediction, you must CC LoyceVs PM publisher in your PM. Include “delay=X” where X=1, 2, or 3, depending on when you send your PM in relation to the deadline.
You can only send one PM for this round!
If LoyceVs PM publisher isn’t in the CC, your prediction won’t be accepted.
Mark this date : March 23, 2026, 07:00:00 PM. After that, it will be too late.


Thanks LoyceV for this tool, I wouldn't have been able to do this round without it. I hope it doesn't cause you to fall.

Yeah ram is money.  4 sticks of 8gb ram ddr5 cost about 250 usd  used ram if you find a deal  on ebay.

So a z790 mobo is around 170
A psu 100 bucks
A used i5 13500 150
32gb ram 250
A case 60
A 2 tb ssd over 200
A 4 tb hdd for back up 150
A cheap gpu 100

And around 1200 built should be good for 5 years

That is expensive.

I think you might be overestimating the average bitcointalk member. 

I just changed the data for Whale casino according to what notblox1 suggested earlier.
Sharing the link here for your scrapper to pick it up: https://logpaste.com/NPtjFEk1

If everything works as it should, the correct image should appear in my OP within an hour.

No one should be using BetHash anymore. I will keep them in the table as an example of what a casino shouldn't be.

The Definition of Legendary
Legendary (adj.): A status reserved for an individual whose contributions are no longer just part of the community’s history, but are the substrate upon which the community exists.

Vod - a cornerstone of DT1.
LoyceV - the neutral source. LoyceV is the "Version 1.0" of the community's integrity.
Hhampuz - trust in the community - BPIP

Many other Legendaries have built projects while some have scammed.   Tell us what traits you look for in enduring and positive contributions.

That's what I'm talking about, it'll have to dump data from the UTXO set to your disk more frequently which will compete with the gigabytes of data that's already being written.
Whereas having a RAM capable of utilizing higher dbcache value to store the whole UTXO-set, it'll be significantly reduce disk writes.
It may still perform reads though, specially if he restarts his node often.

That is just a rough comparison in the node's performance if the user didn't set an optimal dbcache (set to default or too low).
The point is, if the node doesn't utilize the free memory effectively, it's not benefiting much from it.
Setting it too high isn't good either as I've previously mentioned.

Going forward, all I need to do is edit the image links before uploading them to LogPaste, then post the LogPaste link in this thread or anywhere else on the forum. Your scrapper will pick it up and eventually the correct images will be displayed once they get picked up by you. That's it?

Haha, yeah i'm a dumb ass!

I'll see if we can get that done. So far, this year, the highest volume went through Exolix followed closely by WizardSwap 🧙.

LOL. To be honest I don't think so. I think Quickex froze more in the past few months.

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Copying the full blockchain to an air-gapped device is actually not solving any problem in this set up, it will just add unnecessary complexity. He is going to compromise security for convenience of seeing BTC balance. A watch-only wallet can handle that need.

The main principle of air-gap device is to minimize data transfer. Copying data weekly goes against this principle.

To me, copying the entire blockchain regularly just to view balance is inefficient. It is like downloading the whole library just to check one page of a book.

Someone already test it on 32GB RAM system, https://blog.lopp.net/effects-dbcache-size-bitcoin-node-sync-speed/. In short, OS caching work great. But setting higher dbcache allow somewhat faster sync speed.

[ignore list]


i wasnt able to load my ignore list before; now i can. it has ~1300 names

All images look fine except Sportbet.one. But that one is also on the list I gave you. Any idea why that particular image isn't loading?
What do you suggest to do next? Leave it for now to see if and for how long the images will stay online?

OK, I have uploaded the list on LogPaste. It's the same one I sent to you over PM back in September, which is the last time I updated the OP. It should be the most up-to-date one, but I will go over all numbers myself later If I am able to make the changes without you needing to do anything.

This is the Shareable link I got from LogPaste:
https://logpaste.com/EkShMnRC

I also tried several exchange pairs and FF exchange was never shown on top of results I received on OrangeFren.
If there was a different note for exchange that seized most customer coins and froze most coins than I could bet that FF would also be on top
Maybe it would be a good idea to add similar note for exchange(s) that never froze customer coins.

Lock & unlock

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Sorry, but you had two lifes, you missed two rounds, and you lost two lifes. So you are out (and MIA).

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Here are your predictions for round 9 :

Name	Prediction	B/M
Hypnotizer	71 856,55
Pmalek	73 401,00
Leahized	73 582,00
Doan9269	73 606,00	0,25% p.malus
examplens	73 999,00
xLays	74 067,00
promise444c5	74 208,00
GazetaBitcoin	74 223,00
cryptofrka	74 250,00	0,75% p.malus
LoyceV	74 665,85
ESG	75 555,55
Danydee	80 750,00

Correct. The label is based on which service does the most swaps (not the highest volume). We update it manually every once in a while.

Do you want me to upload the image links from bitcoindata.science for each casino? The same list I send to you over PM?
Like this: https://bitcoindata.science/api/localprice.php?coin=bitcoin&amount=0.000874&currency=USD BC.Game

This partially paints the picture from Sept 2023; it's DT1 & DT2 combined so there is upto 100 extra users included which shouldn't be, but you can see the divide between >0 and >1 either way.



I'm assuming not much has changed, last DT update was 581 + 95 = 676, this is the same as the high of 2022/2023 when DT had started rounding off (after increasing from ~400 to ~650).

Things escalated after the last time theymos introduced bunch of new merit sources, and mainly on the local boards, which made them a perfect place for alt account farming. Maybe its time for another readjustment.


Its a pity that feature was removed.

Did it but didn't work

but  Catenaccio ( awesome nick btw  ) explained why


Thanks both guys.

Putting them side by side, and adjust the width to be small enough for displaying two or three images horizontally on the same row.

Like two images

Three images
and so on.

I don't know where to start. I have zero experience with that kind of stuff.

I haven't paid that close attention but they should be. If the withdrawal fees go down when the Bitcoin network isn't congested, then you save some money when you withdraw. On the other hand, you pay the same amount on casinos with fixed fees despite there not being a reason for the players to do that.

Ok, but shouldn’t someone be innocent of any allegations until proven guilty.
I think we need to take a good stand on this, it will help eliminate abuse of the trust system, if someone is accused of an offense or is suspected to have done something wrong, no matter the situation he or she should not be given negative feedback until evidence of his wrong doing or crime is provided.
If we don’t have a law or rule that forbid DT members from giving negative feedback without evidence then why do we complain when a DT member is abusing the trust system, so I think their should be a rule against giving negative feedback without evidence. what do you think.

There are ways to make it work more precisely, and one of them is by making a professional prompt. I will work on that prompt this week to make it more accurate with the OpenAI models. A prompt with hard rules could detect spam and no-sense on the same scan, which could be a nice feature.

It’s a good one if it is being executed, a lot of DT 2 members should not be a DT member because they are really not doing anything useful as a DT member, they don’t even visit and contribute to scam accusation thread and they really don’t care about keeping the forum clean, such persons should be removed from DT.

LoyceV I will love to ask you this question, is it right for a DT member to give a member a negative feedback just because he or she suspects the member of doing something wrong, without good or solid evidence.

This sounds like a good idea. It would weed out about 90% of the accounts that are on DT2 for self-scratching purposes.

The biggest F.U. I see to the trust system right now are the (handful) of DT1 accounts that will include anyone in their list so long as they received a positive feedback from them.

I understand the convinence behind your idea. Those quick reactions are very useful in social media. Just like you, I prefer using emojis to typing in social media. Such reactions prevent short replies like "lol", "omg" etc. But here in the forum, the merit works, although partially because it is only the merit sources that would have smerits to spend on a post that barely requires a laugh emoji.

But I think the big picture is this, the forum is for discussion, discussion about bitcoin and other new ideas. Having a quick reaction button could just shift the forum culture to engagement metrics like the social media. Who knows, it could affect the merit system. People could tend to be making funny post to rake all the laugh reactions thereby shifting the attention to popularity contest. If LoyceV has more merits, my posts should have more likes lol.

I never used any AI crap in my posts, unless I clearly stated that in my posts, and that happened only few times.
That being said, I would be interested to see what percentage of AI tools is shown on my posts, since I don't have API keys to check them myself.
This tool could be useful for busting AI spammers, but I am not sure it would ever be precise enough.

The problem is that even though there are many DT members, only a few actually take actions (I don't have precise data on that  ).
But since there are no better suggestions, this is better than the old DT system.

290 some-odd DT2 members only being there because one DT1 member decided to include someone who left him a greenie is way too many.  It's basically abusing the system, and shouldn't be allowed.

Ok, so here it goes.

I'm just wondering how tricky it would be, or whether it might cause any problems, to have reactions on the posts? I really like the idea of being able to express my opinion with a simple emoji, without having to write a new post about it.

I've put an arrow on the right side, suggesting where the emojis could go. Forgive my poor drawing please, but normally it's even worse.

Example:

I liked this post below from LoyceV:



Apparently, I don't think I should merit it, but I find it funny and I'd like to tell my friend Loyce that I laughed reading it.

Some thoughts:

- I don't think my proposal will make the forum into a social network like the others.
- I don't think it will stop spammers from replying just to get paid or to become annoying on purpose.
- I do believe it will be beneficial for some of us who read and want to quickly show our thoughts.


I think, most likely, that my suggestion will be discouraged, so if anything, just let me say: "LoyceV I found your post funny!"