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1. Post 65953264 (unedited backup) (by Vaculin) (scraped on Wed Oct 22 13:48:02 CEST 2025) in When did government involvement start to feel like Bad News for Bitcoin?:

Quote from: LogitechMouse on Today at 02:33:20 AM
Well, that's the consequence of what we want to happen. Regulation. Wink

We want cryptocurrencies to be regulated, right? Of course, there's an exchange to it and here it is. TBH, I haven't feel anything negative with the government being involved with Bitcoin. The problem is that, Trump is looking like he's manipulating the market because of his decisions. I mean we just saw a massive dump because of tariffs then a few hours ago, he posted a positive thing about it then after that, he posted a negative one again that caused the market to dump yet again to it's previous prices.

Like others said here, there must be a balance between the two, but it seems like that's not happening at all. Regulation is good, and we're already seeing the positive things of it. It's just that there are some things that needs to be sacrificed for it to happen. Well, it is what it is now. Let's not forget that there are always pros and cons to everything. Smiley

I don’t really have a problem with price manipulation .. it’s been happening even before Trump. The only difference now is that it’s the government doing the manipulating. But we have to look at the bigger picture. Why are we even here? Why are we investing? It’s because we believe in the future.

These manipulations are only temporary. Even bad news can cause a short-term dump, but Bitcoin always finds a way to recover, just look where we are now. If we think back, how many times have we heard people say the market’s dead? There’s even that “Bitcoin obituary” site that’s been counting how many times Bitcoin was declared dead  yet here we still are.


Quote from: traderethereum on Today at 02:58:10 AM
The government changes their minds when they sees Bitcoin grow fast especially after Covid-19 attacks. They see Bitcoin as a new way to make money and the number of people who use Bitcoin has increased. They think that they can get more income from the tax they impose on the crypto user.

Besides that, the government doesn't like the nature of Bitcoin because they can't control it. They can't do something like what they do with fiat but they can control their citizen to pay more taxes. So that is why they seem to want to tighten the regulations for crypto users. We can only watch what they will do later.

Even before COVID-19, we already knew this was the direction things were heading. We kept asking for regulations, remember? We were all hoping that one day an ETF would finally get approved and now, look how many ETFs there are.

But did it really benefit us? Not really. It’s the institutional investors who gained the most. Instead of individuals buying and holding their own Bitcoin, they let these big companies handle it for them, just buying shares that represent the value of their supposed investment. It’s not real ownership anymore it’s just paper Bitcoin.


Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 02:59:51 AM
It seems the government changed for the better as far as its treatment of Bitcoin is concerned. Restrictions are lifted. Traditional financial institutions can now offer various products on Bitcoin. Banks are now allowed to offer custodial services. Regulatory bodies are now embracing it. Businesses and even government offices accept it as payment. Top officials are even speaking positively of it.

But there will always be compromises. You can't expect the government to give absolute freedom to Bitcoin supporters and Bitcoin-related entities. Whatever happens, governments represent regulation, control, taxes, surveillance. That's what they're for. I'm afraid the reality is that you can't completely reconcile the two. There'll always be conflicting points, therefore, trade-ins. The good thing is that Bitcoin's code remains beyond any government's interference.

Then they might as well create their own coin if they want full control and regulation. It’s honestly hard to watch Bitcoin being regulated so much that it’s starting to lose its true nature and purpose.

Bitcoin was meant to be free from that system but now, it’s slowly being dragged back into it.



2. Post 65952908 (unedited backup) (by DubemIfedigbo001) (scraped on Wed Oct 22 11:42:49 CEST 2025) in ''Is gold the biggest threat to bitcoin?'':

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 12:25:33 AM
China isn't trying to bring down Bitcoin. The US isn't investing in Bitcoin.  
True because China still holds bitcoin and US is only confiscating illegally obtained bitcoin and adding to their reserves, no direct buys. 

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As for the threat, as a fan of Bitcoin, I don't feel threatened. I don't even know of a single establishment in my entire country that accepts gold as payment. Bitcoin? Quite a number. But I don't think Bitcoin is directly competing with gold. Bitcoin supports revolutionary features that gold doesn't.
This is because Bitcoin is more divisible than gold, at least I can buy something worth $30 and use LN to send bitcoin to you, even on chain if I wish as against paying with gold that no one can guess the actual fraction of a whole gold bar is equivalent to your $30 pay. Gold also have existed for a longer time before bitcoin came into place so let us give it time, with the advancement of technology and digitalization, bitcoin would always be more desirable.



3. Post 65952896 (unedited backup) (by fullfitlarry) (scraped on Wed Oct 22 11:38:19 CEST 2025) in Do you believe Casinos with fancier User Interface made you more addicted?:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 12:03:13 AM
A good interface probably helps keeping gamblers coming back, but I believe it's the experience that matters more. If a casino doesn't have the best UI but offers the best experience, gamblers continue to play. But if the casino offers the best UI but the experience is bad, gamblers leave.

Both are mutually inclusive, if the UI is good and gamblers get that much great experience that I think they will come back for more and play that game. Specially those theme games that I have seen in land base casinos.

Imagine if you are a DC fan and then seeing a Iron man theme slot games. For sure you are going to sit down and play along. Or any other theme for that matter. So with that I think it's important that a fancier UI, a well designed one can attracted more gamblers.




4. Post 65951843 (unedited backup) (by blockman) (scraped on Wed Oct 22 01:18:56 CEST 2025) in Places where you can travel with Bitcoin in 2025:

Quote from: Darker45 on June 30, 2025, 01:49:56 AM
Bitcoin-accepting restaurants, accommodation, spa, stores, and others are sparsely found across the country, but if you want a specific place where you can easily spend your Bitcoin on pretty much everything, it's gonna be Boracay Island or what they're now calling the Bitcoin Island.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boracay#/media/File:Boracay_White_Beach.png

I was there 2 or 3 years ago and, indeed, you can easily find 'Bitcoin accepted here' stickers all over the place. You can find a place to stay, eat, get a tattoo, have a haircut, grab a drink, get a massage, and everything else using Bitcoin.

I forgot where the rest of my photos are, but here are some of them. They're not great photos, though. Nothing fancy. Was just walking around, quickly taking photos at those stickers. 


I'm about to take a vacation here with my family and I think this has been known maybe 2-3 years now. It's not that marketed at all but a team named "Pouch" did all the job in making most stores in becoming a bitcoin-accepting store in the area. It's a tourist spot in our country not just for the foreign visitors but also for the locals and that's why someday, I'd be there and won't let it pass that I won't be able to spend a couple of mbtcs for paying our food.



5. Post 65949587 (unedited backup) (by avp2306) (scraped on Tue Oct 21 14:48:49 CEST 2025) in Manipulation at its peak:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 01:47:48 AM
Nothing weird when it's already a pattern. Many might cry manipulation, but intention is hard to prove. I don't think Coinbase, Binance, and other major exchange have ever been investigated for this. But if there's one to be conducted, I think it's easy for them to respond citing technical reasons. A frenzy of activities usually follow sudden pumps and dumps. Such surges easily overwhelm their servers. Crashes could happen when traffic goes way beyond their capacity.

However, despite this behavior going on for many years already, despite repeated complaints, people continue to use Coinbase and Binance and the rest of the market manipulators.

What happen recently is bothering and that draws lots of concern especially that many of those supposed to be reputable exchange encounter those issues.

And maybe this is the real reason on why Binance came out then announce that they compensate those people got liquidated by recent flash crash.

But right now those issues brought up by OP are been silence now and I think people already move on then didn't think or talk about those recent bad situation happened in the market. I guess people continue to use them its because they are still one of the biggest exchange in the industry.



6. Post 65949002 (unedited backup) (by wiss19) (scraped on Tue Oct 21 11:16:55 CEST 2025) in To be the best, not just lucky at gambling ‎:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 12:48:18 AM
You cannot treat all gambling activities as skill-based. If you want to be the best in gambling in that particular context, go with games like poker, or focus on mastering the sports leagues you're betting on. As to the rest, it's always luck that matters most. Gambling will always be associated with luck more than skill. Strategy and focus won't make you win. But they at least make you manage your bankroll responsibly, and that's probably the most important thing to consider for a gambler.
If that is what we want then why not? I already saw lots of guys that has a pattern when playing slot games. I in fact tried it once and it seem to work decently. I think changing bets and bankroll management can also be part of the strategy and they are much surer to at least have a control of our selves.

There are two types of gambling, that are: one is skill-based and the other is luck-based. So skill can matter the most on skill-based games while luck matters the most on luck-based games. Strat and focus can also matter a lot in skill-based games. Luck-based games are the same as playing for fun,  so it is fine if there is no bankroll management involved on here.



7. Post 65948825 (unedited backup) (by ABCbits) (scraped on Tue Oct 21 10:14:43 CEST 2025) in Earning Yield on Bitcoin Without Leaving Bitcoin”:

Quote from: julerz12 on Today at 05:16:14 AM
OP is full of shit, and is only here to shill for YieldBasis.
He has some history of doing that, so the question is, does this merit a negative tag? 'cause I feel like some newbie would still fall for this "btc staking" shenanigans and a negative tag could warn them about it.

If those newbie don't bother reply on this thread, i doubt negative tag will prevent such newbie fall for it.

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 04:12:17 AM
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I've heard of Babylon and Core DAO. I used to consider them, but eventually decided not to proceed thinking the rewards aren't worth it. They don't require depositing your funds. Your BTC stays in your non-custodial wallet. You just have to sign a transaction locking it for a certain period.

However, although the private keys are indeed in your possession, it remains misleading to say you have full control over your funds during the entire time because you can't unlock or spend it anytime you want. Also, as scripts may be flawed, your BTC could remain inaccessible despite the time-lock expiring. So, even though you aren't transferring funds to a centralized entity, there might still be the risk of losing control over it.

I certainly hope there's no bug on the script, since Bitcoin scripting isn't that complicated due to non-turing complete nature. And for babylon, there are additional risks people may not aware.
1. Bitcoin getting slashed.

Quote from: staking.babylonlabs.io/btc
What is slashing and can it happen to me?

When you stake BTC in Babylon Genesis, your BTC remains locked in a self-custodial Bitcoin script — you do not transfer custody to Babylon or any third party. However, staking carries slashing risk. When you stake, you pre-authorize a slashing condition within the Bitcoin script. If a cryptographic offense occurs — such as a Finality Provider (FP) you staked against double-signing — a predefined percentage of your staked BTC can be slashed (burned) without needing further authorization from you.

2. You need to use certain wallet or some technical knowledge in order to create the staking transaction. It bring some risks since you either need to move your coin or able to create staking transaction semi manually.



8. Post 65948473 (unedited backup) (by Rashlyowl) (scraped on Tue Oct 21 07:36:44 CEST 2025) in To be the best, not just lucky at gambling ‎:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 12:48:18 AM
You cannot treat all gambling activities as skill-based. If you want to be the best in gambling in that particular context, go with games like poker, or focus on mastering the sports leagues you're betting on. As to the rest, it's always luck that matters most. Gambling will always be associated with luck more than skill. Strategy and focus won't make you win. But they at least make you manage your bankroll responsibly, and that's probably the most important thing to consider for a gambler.

Actually, I think your opinion is neither wrong nor right. Because luck & skill in gambling are closely related. For example in poker & sports leagues, it really requires skill in developing the best strategy to see & estimate the best opportunities that can be obtained, you can't just rely on luck because it requires skill & strategy to be able to play it optimally.

But, sometimes when you already have the skills & strategy, you can still experience defeat caused by various factors, one of which is being too reckless in developing a strategy that comes from the skills you have, therefore this is where the luck factor has the same role which is expected to make the strategy from the skills you have get the best results. so it feels like skill & luck are balanced factors in gambling.



9. Post 65948414 (unedited backup) (by Belarge) (scraped on Tue Oct 21 06:59:37 CEST 2025) in Which is easier to predict, local basketball or the NBA?:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 02:18:19 AM
I think the bottom line is familiarity. Whichever league you're more familiar with, that's also where you can make more accurate predictions. It doesn't have to be the local league. International leagues could even be easier to predict than local ones considering how every piece of information is easily covered by so many sports media. There's even more coverage on popular foreign leagues than local ones. But, again, it's always about the level of familiarity.
It's matter of choice to stick around games that are favorable. Generally, I do have a little clue about NBA and local Basketball but that's not my focus, where I find pleasure is European football. It'd very competitive and I'm acquainted with every single teams in Europe. Knowing these teams history and giving me more time to analyzed my stats, in which way wagering is made easy. Everyone do have a choice when it comes to games. It'd been selectively a major category to follow the path that's best suitable for one.

That's exactly what we're talking about, familiarity with this club is our goal and main target. Everyone wants to watch NBA because it's more like universal and standard, everyone get easy knowledge about this particular game.



10. Post 65945107 (unedited backup) (by ultrloa) (scraped on Mon Oct 20 12:41:55 CEST 2025) in Overseas aid; a tool for developing, or a source of dependence.:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 10:32:05 AM
It depends on the beneficiary country. If aid is used to strengthen institutions, develop vital infrastructures, invest in the people, and the like, it's good. It means the aid doesn't have to be needed forever. At some point, the receiving nation can stand on its own. Singapore is an example.

On the other hand, if aid is just being stolen by government leaders and officials, used in unsustainable programs, fund substandard projects, and so on, it's useless. And the country would forever be dependent. My country is an example.

But unfortunately foreign aids has became prone to corruption especially if the leader has weak governance and auditing towards those what they receive from other countries.

That's why its hard for the country to achieve their target especially if those aids didn't go on the right beneficiaries. We've seen lots of money flowing to help those countries in need but it seems that those countries still struggle because of corruption.

Singapore made a great changes and their country became sustainable now and lets hope more country leaders aim the same then try to bring good changes in their nation.




11. Post 65941690 (unedited backup) (by cryptomaniac_xxx) (scraped on Sun Oct 19 16:30:01 CEST 2025) in Member card in physical casinos, better or worse? :

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 11:41:44 AM
If a membership card means you will have to provide personal information, that must be bad. Having a membership card means you'll have an account in the casino. Although aliases are a common thing--even the casino itself would facilitate your membership with fake identities--it's probably giving you problems in the long run. It could even be used by the casino against you in the event of conflict.

I wonder why everything has a membership card nowadays, even stores and pizzeria have it.

Probably it's the same as having mandated KYC on most crypto base casino right now, your provide your name, and personal id.

And you won't believed that there's even this superstitious belief that having a card, the casino's doesn't want you to win. So it's better not to apply one. And I do agree on some comments that is this card is to track you. It will not mention how big you have lost already, but casinos knows what games you always played and so they can concentrate on that and then started to offer you games that you want to try and so you will comeback on them.

Maybe they can used it against you if let's say they find you cheating and then totally ban you from entering their premises.



12. Post 65936104 (unedited backup) (by FinneysTrueVision) (scraped on Sat Oct 18 09:49:38 CEST 2025) in binance is now safe for spot trading or not?:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 12:24:03 AM
Black swan events are supposed to be rare, but exchanges suddenly dying, abandoned projects, coins completely losing value, big hacks, and so on, are a common thing in the market. But it seems many of such kind of events happened within the Biden administration. There was the Luna collapse, FTX bankruptcy, the fall of the likes of Voyager, Celsius, BlockFi, and others. And then there were the largest hacks in the history of crypto like the Poly Network, Ronin, even Binance bridge, and more. They all happened within Biden's presidency. So far, within Trump's term, there's the largest hack ever, worth $1.5 billion.

Binance, as with the rest of the centralized exchanges, in a way, is a time bomb.

The difference between Trump and Biden is that Trump is directly causing investor panic with extreme policy decisions around tariffs. There hasn't been anything as bad as Luna, FTX and the surrounding chain of events, but constant instability and open corruption everywhere creates conditions that could end up having a long-term negative effect on cryptocurrency.



13. Post 65932125 (unedited backup) (by Iamgoat) (scraped on Fri Oct 17 12:10:49 CEST 2025) in Losing by half a point or one basket, should we just treat it like a normal loss:

Quote from: Darker45 on October 15, 2025, 12:01:57 AM
I agree. It hurts more. Perhaps it's a normal emotion considering that you're almost winning, your team or player almost made it, but came just a little short. The frustration from this kind of loss is certainly stronger than when your bet is clearly losing. It's because you have a clear chance of winning, but you didn't in the end.

I've experienced this many times whether on moneyline or handicap or over/under. But it's just a temporary feeling. I can easily move on from a losing bet.

And in most cases, it is not even about the money but how hopeful you were, you were close to winning, how you thought you were coming close to the end of the game in your favour then the whole calculation changed suddenly. The feeling is different from when it's a clear loss which you saw coming in such way your mind accepts it faster but when you lose when you least expected possibly because you feel the game is coming to an end in your favour, it can bring cardiac arrest in worse cases.

I will try to advise myself as much as I advise everyone else to always expect anything at anytime because a loss is still a loss whether it is at one point or thirty, it doesn't matter. Just train yourself to accept loss whenever they come and get use to it since you are the one who opted for it in the beginning.



14. Post 65931527 (unedited backup) (by henmark) (scraped on Fri Oct 17 08:35:55 CEST 2025) in You think holding make you a Bitcoiner?:

Quote from: Darker45 on October 15, 2025, 02:29:59 AM
If that's your definition, no problem. You're free to define a Bitcoiner however you want. The problem is when you impose your definition on others. They, too, have their own definition. Let them be.
What do you mean? The definition of a Bitcoin miner, if you are mining a Bitcoin? Or a Bitcoin hodler, if you are investing on Bitcoin? Or a Bitcoin trader, if you trading using Bitcoin? And so on... That is also correct but saying Bitcoiner is only more on the general side. I agree with your sentiment right there, but for me, what makes a Bitcoiner is when they are regularly obtaining a Bitcoin, preferably by using a faucet or through mining it.

Quote from: Ketesnuko on October 15, 2025, 10:36:43 PM
Holding bitcoin makes anyone part of the movement and no one should be telling others to do something else to be part of bitcoin movements, miners and even traders are all part of this bitcoin movements, know this and know peace OP.
As long as an activity involves Bitcoin no matter what it is, then yeah that it makes you part of this movement or earns you a Bitcoiner title. Yeah that we shouldn't forced anyone else to get involved on Bitcoin because Bitcoin is not mandatory. It is only created as an alternative to fiats. It is only sad that some people are hard-headed or selfish enough. They think they can benefit more as an early Bitcoiner if they can refer a lot of newbies onto it.



15. Post 65928319 (unedited backup) (by Iranus) (scraped on Thu Oct 16 14:58:43 CEST 2025) in Institutional adoption, good or bad for btc long-term?:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 01:24:24 AM
As with almost everything else, it's neither completely bad or good. It has both good effects and bad effects. It's good in terms of price increase, streamlining adoption, regulatory acceptance, and so on. It's bad because large accumulations in the hands of a few could expose the market to manipulation and instability. Not to mention that these institutions don't even truly subscribe to the philosophy of Bitcoin.

But it's actually pointless to brood over this. This is inevitable. The market is an open market. Anybody can join. We may feel disappointed, but it's something beyond our control.
If I remember correctly, before the bitcoin ETFs was approved. Many Bitcoin OGs have also spoken out against the involvement of institutions as it could have a negative impact on the Bitcoin ecosystem as well as the crypto industry. But other than complaining, what more can we do? Indeed, thinking about this is just a waste of time and pointless because it is beyond our control.

Everything has its pros and cons, and once it is out of our control, we should look at the positive side.



16. Post 65927601 (unedited backup) (by PostQuantumBTC) (scraped on Thu Oct 16 11:03:31 CEST 2025) in binance is now safe for spot trading or not?:

Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 02:51:33 AM
Certainly, however, your funds aren't safe parked on that exchange. If you're trading with long intervals in between, it's probably a better option to take your funds out during periods of inactivity.
Perpetual Dex will also be better for more privacy, different from the centralized exchanges that will give you little privacy which most people will not even regard as privacy at all.