Yep because those were ''restricted exchanges'' and this one is the first of its kind, a ''restricted counterparty list'', which contains not only exchanges, but private equities, custodial wallets, political and military parties, as well as wallets associated with certain darknet merchants and hacker groups.

In a sense it's not so grounbreaking as one has had to be extremely aware of what addresses they deposit on a CEX from for years now and the names in the list are mostly well known, except for smaller private equities but in case of those, the people associated with them must be well aware of the sanctions against them.

Probably the only one I was surpised and upset to see is ''Freekassa''. It is a payment service associated with a few digital goods marketplaces (i.e. possibly the largest is https://plati.market/) where you can pay with crypto.

Anyway, it's been clear that if you want to interact with the large CEX platforms you better to keep the wallet you interact from as sterile as possible. After all, it's not possible to keep track of everything that gets ''sanctioned'' these days. And you never know which CEX will get draconian about this stuff out of sudden.

It looks like they have published a list a few days ago[1]. I'm not sure what did it contain before this, but it looks like it has much more than what Kucoin and Binance has published so for anyone using the exchange, it's definitely worth looking into.

[1] https://www.bybit.com/en/legal/additional-terms-and-disclosures/Restricted-Counterparty-List

If the government wants and the administration is active, then it will not be very easy to do any illegal work from any country, moreover, it is not very easy to do any illegal work in European countries, rather it is very difficult, because the law-making system is developed in developed countries. Illegal gambling sites are being run by evading the government and they are providing various benefits to the customers, but all illegal casino platforms that do business by evading the government can be caught by the government at any time.

I completely agree with you. No gambler is going to read long, drawn-out articles. They look at news reports about the casino, read comments from other gamblers who have played there, and decide whether or not to use the site based on that.
The most important factor is the speed and ease of depositing and withdrawing money. If a site offers that, a gambler will use it.
Let's say we win a large sum of money: does the site pay out immediately, or does it make things difficult for the gambler by demanding a mountain of paperwork and imposing burdensome requirements? That is also a crucial point.

Same here, if it's not broken, why fix it? Sure, updates always also provide some "security update" but if everything went well the whole time then often enough I don't see the necessity to update, it just brings some risk coming with it in my opinion.

As long as i have no issues and the wallet works perfectly fine (and I don't need to touch it) I just keep it where it is, often that's the best thing to do in my experience.

It is not easy like that. Some of the gambling sites are not easy to deal with because they may not really be known and they are not in Europe. Even if the government want to go against them, the major one among them will be gone for, not many if them. Bit if there is no major among them that is well known and recognizable, it will be difficult for the government to do anything. If they go for the major, that also does not mean other ones will not continue operating.

Honestly this is what I also don't understand. Lets say they penalize those illegal casinos, how can they really enforce that if the casino is operating in another country?

How can they force them to pay the penalty if they are outside their jurisdiction? If it was that easy, I don't think we would still see illegal gambling growing this big and many gamblers still using those sites. So maybe penalizing them sounds good on paper, but enforcing it against overseas operators is another problem.

So, if i want to go and play i don't want to read articles, i want to play.
If you do them for SEO i don't care, i don't read them.
I don't look for casinos on google or bing, i don't look for them, i don't trust them.
I only trust the casinos that run signature campaigns here and for a long time, like rollbits or duelbits, in short, you understand.

You have hit the nail on the head, but it is partial truth!
Most affiliate site actually pile up generic SEO fluff using cheap $5 content writer.
People who probably haven't even deposited any single dollar at any online casino in their live!

However, it would be mistake to lump all long form article together. Real problem isn't SEO article itself, the issue lies in how much fluff is included instead of actionable intelligence.

If the review is not coming from someone who has actually used the casino then there is no way I'm going to even bother with reading it, there are paid reviews now, someone even posted about a service they were offering here on bitcointalk, you pay them and they give you product/service good reviews (I don't think it ended very well for them).
Infact it a find out that you are paying for false good reviews (people can pay for you to review their site and stuff, just like review campaigns as long as you are writing true and not just lying to make them look good) then I'm not even going to want to use your service.

Yes, it is. Therefore, in some countries, people have so little faith in their national currency that they prefer to keep their savings in dollars. Although the dollar is not perfect either, people choose, as they say, the lesser of two evils.

I hate Ledger Recover and its implementation was were a lot of people drew the line with Ledger and their devices, and that's completely valid. In the future, it could lead to loss of funds, but right now it hasn't and that's why people don't really talk about it, but Coldcard that fucked their customers over. Yeah, it is a stupid idea to split a seed phrase into three fragments and send them over the internet, nobody should subscribe to that rubbish.

That's the reason why i was so upset with the Coldcard hack, like it or not, it was a big blow to self-custody and those victims didn't deserve to lose their funds. Now people may be thinking, which hardware wallet manufacturer is next. I store my coins only in self-custodial wallets and that's all i recommend, but truth is, i don't usually have a good response when people ask me: 'what of the Coldcard incident'
Security of funds has always been something that should be taken seriously. Yeah, i understand that attacks have gottem more sophisticated, but it has always been a rule to protect your BTC from attackers and never expose your seed phrase.

This is an important observation. You pointed out another aspect of trust. Along with voluntary trust, I would call it something akin to sympathy or benevolence. If we trust government money as much as we trust the government (in general), then in the case of Bitcoin, no such trust is required at all, since Bitcoin is inherently reliable. This is where what you identified as voluntary trust comes from. You’re right that this is the incentive for investment and the driving force behind the network effect.
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By the way. There’s an interesting question here. Bitcoin’s volatility exists because of its "infection" by the market structure, or, more precisely, because of its emergence and development within a market economy. Where Bitcoin is forced to behave like a commodity and follow the course of a market economy. But how would Bitcoin behave as a means of payment in an economy without inflation and without loan interest? That is, simply as a measure of value?

I believe it wouldn’t be as deflationary as it is now (its deflation is, as it were, "amplified" by the surrounding inflation). It would be a fixed measure of value, and its deflation would be merely a measure of excess production in the economy. In such an economy, Bitcoin would no longer be a commodity and would not be subject to volatility. It would be characterized only by a gradual increase in purchasing power.

The point of this reasoning is this: Bitcoin is an alien element for a market economy. Bitcoin emerged within this economy, but it can fully realize its potential (and purpose) only in the economy of the future (perhaps neo‑feudalism or some other unknown formation). That’s why we see, for example, volatility now.

Real problem is they think that having a key is enough, but the problem is they are actually still exposed for exploits and other issues.

So even if there's no methods could guarantee them 100% protection, still they could do something like setting up multiple safeguard to lessen their chance to hit by an exploit.

Better aim doing things that can enhance their safety and don't join with wrong opinions, because that might give them a painful lesson which for sure they don't want to experience.

Beginners who fantasize about building something on Bitcoin because Bitcoin itself is clearly not enough for them, and who also forever regret missing the opportunity to buy coins for a few $ and sell for a few hundred million - is this the new adoption they're talking about?

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There is some truth to this, but we should also not forget that many people in underdeveloped countries use Bitcoin as a currency because it is their only option since they do not have a bank account. The general impression is that Bitcoin is digital gold, but it is much more than that for those who know how to recognize its potential.

Perhaps it's the illusion of being in control. People tend to be complacent with their chosen methods, but the truth is that there's no perfect way to secure your coins. There will always be vulnerabilities and risks associated with any setup, and the human factor is always the weakest link.

I know your worriness on halal standarization implementation, we see many phenomenon of quality standards devolving into a just a bureaucratic checkbox exercise, simply to secure a piece of paper is inevitable when an industry becomes massive and involves giant corporations. But we also should admit that in the modern era whats make difference are the existence of legal regulations and demands for digital transparency plus a very astute online society (influencers).

Government in many requiring the industry to implement continuous auditing system powered by IoT sensor and blockchain in their factory,  becuase relying on regular auditor visit does not sufficiently guarantee. With digital tracebility system can ensure realtime supply chain monitoring and establish different compliance standards. In my country but i also find news in other country that non compliances after get certification will bring legal risk and brand must be worried about real action not only threat on immediate market boycotts even only noise about doubts regarding the halal status of a product can lower sales figures simultaneously.

I think that for something humans consume and its scope is massive, the stricter the certification process, the higher the level of security, due to to standardization and multi layered oversight but its only for specific parameter which tested and identified as a critical point.


Assessing whether a halal product is much better than other certified products or non halal product will be depends on the criteria we use (compare apple to apple). If the parameters for determining are its raw materials, its processing methods, and traceability as halal standarization (every details requirement fullfilled) plus commitment and responsibility from producer and there are as well as strict oversight and evaluation. Then i can surely stated that halal product is better than non halal product


where there is market there is supply. Your surprised on other halal sector beside food are proof of how agressive non moslem business owner are seizing the opportunity. They can disregards the beliefs, they son't need to adopt moslem beliefs just simply by comply on halal technical regulation to earn profit and becoming part of halal ecosystem.


As long as the official halal certification body has approved it, specialized mechanization technology invested by large scale international corporations can be a solution between high volume efficiency and meeting ethical halal quality standards. A premium price always serves as an incentive, global supply chains will always find a way to provide the correct process as part od strategy to win the market share. Global certification authorities automatically answer the operational misconceptions you are concerned about.

For brief information, human are the machine control, machine lacks the awareness to form an intention. which bring requirement, machine operator must be moslem and before activated the machine, its operator must say basmallah, when the machine stopped temporarily due to technical issues or a break, The basmallah must be repeated before machine powered back on. For stunning methode, must be ensure it is reversible, it must be ensured that the animal is still alive, merely stunned, not yet dead, and that its heart is still beating when the mechanical knife severs its neck. For the automatic rotating mechanical knives, it shrapness must be maintained and its position must be precisely to completely cut the animal airway, food pipe and two major blood vessel in single cut.

https://hmacanada.org/hma-guidelines/
https://halalification.com/knowledge-base/food-beverages/meat-products/machine-slaughter-vs-hand-slaughter/are-machine-slaughtered-animals-stunned-prior-to-slaughter/
https://www.halalrc.org/images/Research%20Material/Report/Processing%20of%20Halal%20Food.pdf