Same here with two support tickets so I opened up a third one and that did get their attention "Apologies - we will fix that soon. "

I am curious as to what the thoughts are on what the fallout will be like once the governments of respective countries begin to take real notice/interest in these sites. It's only until very recently the any form of spotlight has been shed on the fact the Bitcoin is becoming a prime currency for online gambling; and also is a huge way to hide earnings and skim from the house. How easy would it be to simply tweak server settings on any site and "allow" a player to win "huge" amounts and simply claim it as a loss. While "untraceable" as it can be made out; I wouldnt underestimate a tax agency of a government's ability to make the target of such accusations life very difficult.

I know people mentioned that many sites were beginning to restrict usage of their services within jurisdictions where laws are violated (one such example is PD no longer accepting deposits from US IP addresses). However it's no secret a $20 per year VPN connection completely circumvents any such restriction.

The fact that most of these sites require no age verification whatsoever other than checking a box; which was, up until only recently implemented; likely leads me to believe that dice sites in general are havens for teenagers and literally kids gambling off faucet payouts. (They've got nothing better to do).

As the owner of Seals with Clubs is now facing charges; I suspect more investigations will follow suit. These will be driven by the agencies of government to collect illegal earnings/revenue/taxes on undeclared income (no accusations at all here for PD; just generally speaking what their motives will be).

The IRS for instance is simply a business and will look at it as matter of fact: Was the business operating on US soil (did it have relays/servers/cloud flare connections); if yes; there will be a case made that the business is thus subject to the laws of gaming as well as the tax laws of the USA.

As the IRS acts as a business (which most people don't realize); they look at all cases as risk/reward. If they can seize large amounts of money; and make a strong case; they will simply assemble the team to do what is necessary.

The major corporations and banking institutions which finance and back the casinos and gambling venues within the USA will soon I imagine be deploying serious offerings into this arena; either here or offshore. Any existing Dice Site IMO won't stand a chance in terms of competing against these enterprises who guarantee provably fair with real people/real faces/board of directors/stock holders/and a business address. It's only a matter of time. They also have the financing to literally pour funding into these launches that would simply not be possible by even the all the dice sites combined.

It's just a matter of time until they pull the trigger. They are watching the numbers. Waiting for the right entry point. As soon as the metrics add up; not only will they launch a big time endeavor; they will at the very same time lobby every government with an endless budget to make it a legitimate only industry.

At one point I thought owning a Dice Site would be a great money maker. I'm sure there are a few out there, including PD's investors who have made profits which would shock us all. But I also imagine they sleep with one eye open at all times. Because eventually, someone is going to come knocking for their cut. I mean just look at Kim DotCom... the guy is in lockdown, perpetually, just waiting for more bad news every day. I'm sure it takes it's toll.

Just my two cents on the subject. It will be interesting to see how the SWC case in Nevada plays out.

What if bitcoin miners are being used to generate rainbow tables for cracking password hashes. It is a known fact that with a rainbow table you can crack a password hash in seconds rather than years, and in big-O notation brute-forcing passwords takes O(n²) time which would also take years for a 14+ character password.

Now to generate a rainbow table with character set 0-9, a-z, A-Z, + all special characters (@!#$%^&*(){}/*-+_=) would also take years to generate in advance if you don't have access to a distributed grid of computers dividing the processing power between themselves. And it costs quite abit of BTC to buy processing power from the cloud. And coming to think of it, aren't the bitcoins miners doing just that?

Here's the genius part. What if the CIA/NSA devised a way so that the bitcoin miners are actually generating the rainbow hashes needed to crack any password up to 64 characters in length. Wouldn't that practically give them access to any corporation + home wifi + any account needed?

I can think of a multitude of applications to the bitcoin distributed network, not excluding DDOSing, generating hashes for different types of decoding algorithms such as MD5, SHA1 (which are the most commonly used to protect passwords in databases), etc. Even the term that miners are generating hashes gives you the slight doubt that, what if?

Alright you might argue that now developers are using salt mechanism, but still...its food for thought. Any fanboys who read the code, care to give their opinion? Now don't get me wrong, I'm just inserting the notion of what if? I quite like the uses of bitcoin myself.

Here's the genius part. What if the CIA/NSA devised a way so that the bitcoin miners are actually generating the rainbow hashes needed to crack any password up to 64 characters in length. Wouldn't that practically give them access to any corporation + home wifi + any account needed?

Wouldn't that practically give them access to any corporation + home wifi + any account needed?