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Sharon dear, you must take some free time and read this article...then you can know and understand what Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency is. Just read those few paragraphs that explains each item, or you can read the entire abstract to get a better bigger picture. That goes for anyone else too...who don't quite know what those 3 words are all about...nope...I don't mean those 3 words of 'I love you'...and nope...not BBC either!

There are so many of you that do not actually know how Bitcoin first came to life, or what cryptocurrency is, or what Blockchain is all about, so here’s a very interesting abstract from ‘Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble’: You can read the entire long article at this link from The New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits By STEVEN JOHNSON JAN. 16, 2018 layer innocent nothing argue pottery winner cotton menu task slim merge maid The sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they’ve been generated exclusively for me, by a software tool called MetaMask. In the lingo of cryptography, they’re known as my seed phrase. They might read like an incoherent stream of consciousness, but these words can be transformed into a key that unlocks a digital bank account, or even an online identity. It just takes a few more steps. On the screen, I’m instructed to keep my seed phrase secure: Write it down, or keep it in a secure place on your computer. I scribble the 12 words onto a notepad, click a button and my seed phrase is transformed into a string of 64 seemingly patternless characters: 1b0be2162cedb2744d016943bb14e71de6af95a63af3790d6b41b1e719dc5c66 This is what’s called a “private key” in the world of cryptography: a way of proving identity, in the same, limited way that real-world keys attest to your identity when you unlock your front door. My seed phrase will generate that exact sequence of characters every time, but there’s no known way to reverse-engineer the original phrase from the key, which is why it is so important to keep the seed phrase in a safe location. That private key number is then run through two additional transformations, creating a new string: 0x6c2ecd6388c550e8d99ada34a1cd55bedd052ad9 That string is my address on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum belongs to the same family as the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, whose value has increased more than 1,000 percent in just the past year. Ethereum has its own currencies, most notably Ether, but the platform has a wider scope than just money. You can think of my Ethereum address as having elements of a bank account, an email address and a Social Security number. For now, it exists only on my computer as an inert string of nonsense, but the second I try to perform any kind of transaction — say, contributing to a crowdfunding campaign or voting in an online referendum — that address is broadcast out to an improvised worldwide network of computers that tries to verify the transaction. The results of that verification are then broadcast to the wider network again, where more machines enter into a kind of competition to perform complex mathematical calculations, the winner of which gets to record that transaction in the single, canonical record of every transaction ever made in the history of Ethereum. Because those transactions are registered in a sequence of “blocks” of data, that record is called the blockchain. The whole exchange takes no more than a few minutes to complete. From my perspective, the experience barely differs from the usual routines of online life. But on a technical level, something miraculous is happening — something that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago. I’ve managed to complete a secure transaction without any of the traditional institutions that we rely on to establish trust. No intermediary brokered the deal; no social-media network captured the data from my transaction to better target its advertising; no credit bureau tracked the activity to build a portrait of my financial trustworthiness. The first hint of a meaningful challenge to the closed-protocol era arrived in 2008, not long after Zuckerberg opened the first international headquarters for his growing company. A mysterious programmer (or group of programmers) going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto circulated a paper on a cryptography mailing list. The paper was called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” and in it, Nakamoto outlined an ingenious system for a digital currency that did not require a centralized trusted authority to verify transactions. At the time, Facebook and Bitcoin seemed to belong to entirely different spheres — one was a booming venture-backed social-media start-up that let you share birthday greetings and connect with old friends, while the other was a byzantine scheme for cryptographic currency from an obscure email list. But 10 years later, the ideas that Nakamoto unleashed with that paper now pose the most significant challenge to the hegemony of InternetTwo giants like Facebook. The paradox about Bitcoin is that it may well turn out to be a genuinely revolutionary breakthrough and at the same time a colossal failure as a currency. As I write, Bitcoin has increased in value by nearly 100,000 percent over the past five years, making a fortune for its early investors but also branding it as a spectacularly unstable payment mechanism. The process for creating new Bitcoins has also turned out to be a staggering energy drain. History is replete with stories of new technologies whose initial applications end up having little to do with their eventual use. All the focus on Bitcoin as a payment system may similarly prove to be a distraction, a technological red herring. Nakamoto pitched Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic-cash system” in the initial manifesto, but at its heart, the innovation he (or she or they) was proposing had a more general structure, with two key features. First, Bitcoin offered a kind of proof that you could create a secure database — the blockchain — scattered across hundreds or thousands of computers, with no single authority controlling and verifying the authenticity of the data. Second, Nakamoto designed Bitcoin so that the work of maintaining that distributed ledger was itself rewarded with small, increasingly scarce Bitcoin payments. If you dedicated half your computer’s processing cycles to helping the Bitcoin network get its math right — and thus fend off the hackers and scam artists — you received a small sliver of the currency. Nakamoto designed the system so that Bitcoins would grow increasingly difficult to earn over time, ensuring a certain amount of scarcity in the system. If you helped Bitcoin keep that database secure in the early days, you would earn more Bitcoin than later arrivals. This process has come to be called “mining.” The blockchain world proposes something different. Imagine some group like Protocol Labs decides there’s a case to be made for adding another “basic layer” to the stack. Just as GPS gave us a way of discovering and sharing our location, this new protocol would define a simple request: I am here and would like to go there. A distributed ledger might record all its users’ past trips, credit cards, favorite locations — all the metadata that services like Uber or Amazon use to encourage lock-in. Call it, for the sake of argument, the Transit protocol. The standards for sending a Transit request out onto the internet would be entirely open; anyone who wanted to build an app to respond to that request would be free to do so. Cities could build Transit apps that allowed taxi drivers to field requests. But so could bike-share collectives, or rickshaw drivers. Developers could create shared marketplace apps where all the potential vehicles using Transit could vie for your business. When you walked out on the sidewalk and tried to get a ride, you wouldn’t have to place your allegiance with a single provider before hailing. You would simply announce that you were standing at 67th and Madison and needed to get to Union Square. And then you’d get a flurry of competing offers. You could even theoretically get an offer from the M.T.A., which could build a service to remind Transit users that it might be much cheaper and faster just to jump on the 6 train. Like the original internet itself, the blockchain is an idea with radical — almost communitarian — possibilities that at the same time has attracted some of the most frivolous and regressive appetites of capitalism. We spent our first years online in a world defined by open protocols and intellectual commons; we spent the second phase in a world increasingly dominated by closed architectures and proprietary databases. We have learned enough from this history to support the hypothesis that open works better than closed, at least where base-layer issues are concerned. But we don’t have an easy route back to the open-protocol era. Some messianic next-generation internet protocol is not likely to emerge out of Department of Defense research, the way the first-generation internet did nearly 50 years ago. Yes, the blockchain may seem like the very worst of speculative capitalism right now, and yes, it is demonically challenging to understand. But the beautiful thing about open protocols is that they can be steered in surprising new directions by the people who discover and champion them in their infancy. Right now, the only real hope for a revival of the open-protocol ethos lies in the blockchain. Whether it eventually lives up to its egalitarian promise will in large part depend on the people who embrace the platform, who take up the baton, as Juan Benet puts it, from those early online pioneers. If you think the internet is not working in its current incarnation, you can’t change the system through think-pieces and F.C.C. regulations alone. You need new code.

...nice try mate...that is, if Lukas can trust you...or anyone else with HIS money!

Well, The Legend Of Shangri-La Cluster Pays, in my personal opinion, is slightly better than that expressionist Aloha Totem Pole thing. As for Twin Spin Deluxe...I'll stick with the old original game anytime!

Eluding detection for the use of VPN is okay...but the depositing part cannot be avoided...it must be done by the registered account holder...otherwise, some other improper manipulation may need to be use, which not only breaks the casino rules, but also include collusion, and probably even criminal activities! It may be an easy way to earn money from someone...but...it just doesn't seem right!

Okay, so you managed to use VPN without the casino detecting it...but how about the depositing part? You cannot change the registered Neteller account...so do you send the money to that person's Neteller account and ask the person to make the deposit? Or do you register another Neteller account? One person can only have one Neteller account!

Hi Lukas. If you are asking who would want to make easy money from online casinos, I guess ALL of us would want to! Hahaha. But of course, what seems to be an easy task...is actually an almost impossible thing to do! There are many reasons for saying that, but just let me point out 1 or 2 reasons for starters... Firstly, anyone can open a new account, get it verified, ready for you to use it. However, the casino, any casino, isn't a stupid bloke! Hahaha. The person who registered that new account uses his/her own personal IP address, based on his/her country and location. When you try to log into the casino, using that person's account and login details, you are logging in from your country, with an IP address different from that registered. Chances are you won't be able to log in, simply because the casino's system would detect a different IP being used by you and therefore deny you to log in! Secondly, only the registered person can make a deposit or withdrawal from that account. You cannot make a deposit because the account isn't under your name! Hehehe. Yes, you can send the money to the person to make a deposit on your behalf...but can you trust that person??? Never mind about the other reasons...those 2 are already sufficient to prevent you from doing what you want to do! The thing is, Lukas, you are not the first person to want to do such a thing! I personally have been blocked out of a few casinos for winning too much too...just like you...and I too have tried to find a way to get back into that casino, but without any success. Casinos can detect your IP address, and they can detect when you are using a VPN service too - either way, the casino's system would deny a login! If there's a logical, legal way to do it, I certainly would want to do it! Hahaha.

That, my dear, is typical of all Play'nGo games! When they are cold, they can go hundreds of spins without giving anything decent...but when they are hot, they are saying "PLAY...WIN...and GO!!!" You just have to catch them when they are hot... Most other providers games..."PLAY...PLAY...and CRY!!!"

Looks like it's still a tornado to me...

A deposit bonus is nothing but for fun??? That is a totally outrageous and an absolutely ridiculous term!!! This must be a RTG casino...they always have ridiculous terms!!!

Hi there Katrine! My first outing at Wild Tornado caught me in a real tornado!!! The platform dragged and lagged...some games wouldn't load at all...NetEnt games took 30 minutes to load with my 3G connection (it wouldn't load at all with 2G)...and it all got me so fired up in a rage! I was totally disappointed with Wild Tornado! I wrote a bad review in the casino section, then your casino manager replied back, not really accepting my 3 Stars rating simply because of the connection problems that I had...but when a casino gets me all mad and angry, wasting hours and hours of my time trying to load up my games...what can anyone expects to get...a 9 Star rating???!!! I don't know what was wrong with your casino platform...because other casinos all worked well on that same day! I would only come back to play at Wild Tornado if and when the platform can run as smoothly again.

This is becoming such a common excuse given by lots of casinos everywhere - duplicated account and self-exclusion! Let's go one thing at a time. Duplicated account: Any casino system would have instantly detected your same email address, or your identical personal details, or even your same phone number, so it wouldn't allow you to complete another registration! As an example, I have tried making a new account at several casinos which I have closed my accounts years before, but when I keyed in my email address, a notification would come up indicating that the email address is already in use. In some other cases, an 'account locked' message would appear. However I tried, I could not make a second duplicate account! However, not all casinos have this tracing system, so making a duplicate account may still be possible at a few casinos! Self-exclusion: By far, this is the most common reason caught out by so many gamblers! When a player self-exclude from a casino, the casino regards this as an addiction to gambling - a very serious reason not to be taken lightly - and require stringent actions to be taken by any responsible casino. So any self-excluded player would automatically be banned from that casino, and from any other casinos within the same group! You may not have self-excluded at Casino Of Dreams, but perhaps you did at any one of their sister casinos, so you automatically gets banned from all their casinos! A duplicated account, or a self-excluded account, may not have been made by you, as you have so mentioned, but perhaps by another member of your family, using their own separate account, but both accounts using the same IP address! This is also another possible reason for casinos to catch players out! If none of the above applies to your case, then you may choose to make an official complaint using the AGCS form here in Askgamblers. As for a refund, that is entirely at the discretion of the casino. They may refund you all of your deposits back, or just your last deposit amount.

Yes indeed my dear...interesting read...and one that showed how wrong I was about big jackpots! Mega Moolah hit twice in 2017...and so did Mega Fortune...and both with 'Mega' game title...making me Mega embarrassed! Hahaha. Ah well, I cannot be correct all the time, right? But all winners are yet again Europeans! Oh geees...maybe I should move to Europe!

Sorry Miami5th...but where Bitcoin is concerned, there is ABSOLUTELY NO CONSUMER PROTECTION for its users...neither can any law-enforcing authority intervene with any cases concerning cryptocurrencies - because cryptocurrencies are not governed by any law! Cryptocurrency users have been warned about this lack of any consumer protection for its users, so the risk is all on the users themselves. When a cryptocurrency is lost...in one way or another...it simply cannot be recovered, reimbursed or be claimed back...so it may be that your Bitcoin payment is lost forever! I may be wrong, but I doubt it!

Now this is yet another NEW problematic issue regarding the use of Bitcoin! How is it possible that the casino is saying that they haven't received the Bitcoin payment, even though it was clearly confirmed by the wallet provider? Can't the wallet provider claim the payment back from the casino? Can't the wallet provider do something for you to get those funds back? If this transaction was using Neteller or Skrill, for example, they would certainly take this issue into their hands and do a proper investigation. They need to confirm if the casino really didn't receive the funds, or that the transaction had been intercepted by a hacker and the funds sent to another address! Anyway...Bitcoin users should take a very serious note of this! All the hype and lies told that Bitcoin/Blockchain transactions cannot be hacked or intercepted - to me, this is just one of the many lies about cryptocurrencies now coming to the surface! In fact, I read last week that a few other wallet providers had been hacked into and users coins (not Bitcoin) stolen - but everything was kept hush hush!!! Bitcoin wallets may be lucky so far...but for how long???

That would be superb my dear!

I guess you just like to get ANY free spins offer anywhere...regardless of what caps are in place, right my dear? In all honesty, I like and do that too...playing those free spins just because they are free! Hahaha.

FUNtastic win that, Guru! A 1000x congrats!

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Aaah...thank you my dear!

Oh yes...you're correct my dear! I can remember something like that...like 2 or 3 times in that particular year...2015 or 2016, if I'm not mistaken...but that was an exceptional year, I think. However, it would be good to have some sort of reference point on big jackpots like Mega Moolah, Hall Of The Gods, Mega Fortune...and even on Divine Fortune, which seems to be won quite frequently!

OOOOPSIE DAISIE! Thanks for pointing it out my dear. Sorry Zenekk...my bad!!!

Heeeey...welcome back Zenekk! If you're posting those screenshots for the Game Of The Month Contest...then I have bad news for you mate! Please read the NEW RULES...only participants that have posted 300 posts are eligible to enter for the contest now...not like before mate. Sorry!