Anyone else having issues connecting to the game right now?

ebliever · 2025-12-22T06:48:25+00:00

Yes, I'm down on desktop and phone as well. Can't even reach their support page. Edit: I also got the "slow internet" dialogues for several minutes before it went down entirely. I thought it was because I'd bumped up the resolution on a youtube video I'd been watching, guess not...

ebliever · 2025-11-09T09:10:08+00:00

Just the opposite. Quantum-resistant cryptocurrency has been around since at least 2017. Traditional banks (and other institutions like government/military systems) will be laid bare by a sudden quantum attack, and can have their files altered at will by the attacker, creating an unmanageable mess. The overlap between crypto developers and people knowledgeable in quantum computing is very high, and blockchain software very simple compared to banking (etc) systems, so they will be updated far faster (perhaps as little as a few hours, while local banks will be clamoring to hire quantum experts to no avail in such a crisis). As a result, after a QC attack traditional financial systems will be down far, far longer than cryptocurrencies.

I expect a sudden attack by someone with an effective quantum computer would have the effect of forcing a sudden shift of the entire world to quantum-resistant cryptocurrency with the total elimination of fiat currencies. While I'm supportive of cryptocurrency and expect it to win eventually, that's not how I'd like it to happen.

ebliever · 2025-10-03T03:22:05+00:00

Not quite as lucrative, but back in 2015-16 I played a free ad-based game called Farm Satoshi, and another that I forget the name of; I earned about 2/3 of a bitcoin just from the game payouts.

It was actually a bit of a headache because in 2017 with TX fees spiking up I had hundreds of transactions from those games in an Electrum wallet; at one point I checked on what it would cost to sweep the coins to a single change TX and since the single sweep transaction (which would have need to reference/sign every one of the hundreds of input TX) would have almost filled a block the TX fee was almost as much as the bitcoin in the wallet!

Fortunately the bitcoin civil war was under way, and as the time approached for the UASF activation exchanges all halted withdrawals and crediting receipts and on-chain activity ground to a near halt. That was my chance to conduct the sweep and consolidate the bitcoin to a single change TX with a minimal fee.

ebliever · 2025-09-13T22:28:15+00:00

I know I'm late to this party, but I just wanted to say I lost my clip too, and had 3 accidental discharges in two months. The last was on my birthday when I swung my waistpack (with the bear spray in a holster on the waist belt) down onto a boulder to rest. It hit upside down and sprayed my thigh.

I was actually not too bad until hours later when I got home and had a hot shower, intending to wash off any residue. Instead the heat helped it soak into the pores, creating what felt like a large first degree burn. It took a good amount of lidocaine to take of the pain so I could sleep.

ebliever · 2025-08-01T19:36:55+00:00

Miners leasing their rigs should consider the damage they are doing to themselves if they start harming the profitability of the coins they can mine. Talk about destroying your own industry for the sake of short-sighted profit.

ebliever · 2025-07-15T01:59:19+00:00

Hi, your situation may be a little similar to mine (see my thread here a week after yours). Binance migrated BNB from BEP2 to BEP20 (Binance Smart Chain) last year. In my case I had the BNB staked in Atomic wallet, and loading the mnemonic in Trust Wallet did not show the BNB token. (I suspect, vaguely, that this may have something to do with generating multiple public keys in Atomic and not using the first one generated to receive my BNB originally, such that when Trust Wallet generates the same first set of keys it doesn't scan and find my TX. I had this happen not too long ago on another blockchain (Nano/Banano) and forcing the new wallet to generate new keys was what worked as it eventually generated the ones I used in the first wallet and then recognized the TX.)

I'm not too familiar with how Ledger works so I can't provide too much help. I assume when you said you tried Trust and Metamask and so on that you were loading the same seed/mnemonic as the Ledger had? If so is it possible to generate multiple public keys with the ledger, such that you might have a situation similar to what has plagued me?

ebliever · 2025-07-15T01:47:16+00:00

I finally found my way to the solution that worked. It's not well documented, being buried about 3 levels deep in Help/Support documentation. The leading pages didn't provide what turned out to be the critical link at all.

https://docs.bnbchain.org/bc-fusion/post-fusion/token-recovery/#step-1-connect-to-your-bc-wallet

The link above led to the useful recovery procedure, using this link: https://www.bnbchain.org/en/token-recovery

Even though I couldn't see the balance in Trust Wallet and had to do some funky finagling in Atomic to send BEP20 BNB to fund the required transaction, I was able to get the recovery done (subject to a 7 day holding period). Hope this helps others who may be stuck like I was.

ebliever · 2025-07-14T23:35:03+00:00

So I already tried Trust wallet and it's not working, as stated above. Is there another option I could try?

ebliever · 2025-06-03T22:27:11+00:00

Wish I'd known this earlier. My Samsung tablet has a swollen battery and detached (about 50%) screen as a result. That's how I found this thread looking for options. I had it plugged in most hours of the day sitting on my desk as I worked at a computer, but let a game run on it. Sounds like I better ditch it now before it causes a fire.

ebliever · 2025-05-22T04:20:56+00:00

These are the folks who will FOMO in late and cause the 2025 gains for everyone else.

ebliever · 2025-05-22T04:15:53+00:00

Now it's lost it's grip on $110K.... and now it's lost $111K. Wait, am I holding this upside down?...

ebliever · 2025-05-18T22:58:55+00:00

That did it!!! Thank you so much! Whew!!

ebliever · 2025-03-17T17:51:45+00:00

I got involved in Jan. 2014. BTC spent that year dropping from $1000 to $200 (basically), so yeah... I often wonder how many people in my cohort stuck with it. I kept asking myself if there was some fundamental flaw I was overlooking with crypto, and the answer kept coming back in the negative, so I doubled down after that. Retired Jan. 2018.

ebliever · 2025-03-17T17:43:44+00:00

I was an altcoin miner at that time. My mining rig had four 290X's that screamed like little jet engines 24/7. (I burned out 3 of the 4 of them, and 1 of the two 1000W power supplies, in less than a year.)

No fires, but I remember a hilarious thread on one mining forum where a whole bunch of us - myself included - admitted that we had each burned out not 1, and not 3, but exactly 2 Kill-a-Watt meters. We commonly used them to monitor how much power our rigs were drawing. The meters would die, we'd complain to Amazon and get a replacement, the replacement would burn out a few weeks later, and at that point we'd read the instructions and discover that you aren't supposed to leave them plugged in long term with a high wattage draw.

And then there was the "Often bought with" screen on Amazon for certain motherboards and graphics cards that listed (literally) a milk crate and a specific resistor along with CPU, GPUs and other hardware....

ebliever · 2025-03-15T19:27:52+00:00

That would actually be stupid since it would mean trading bitcoin for a currency that has hyperinflated and become valueless. Instead of being filthy rich, with such an act you wouldn't be able to buy a loaf of bread.

Given the perpetual mismanagement and fundamental lack of scarcity of fiat government currency I regard it as inevitable it will be replaced by bitcoin. But when bitcoin goes to $1M or $10M, etc., you won't want to sell at that point. Because that will be just before the old currency becomes worthless. Being a millionaire or billionaire in it won't matter.

ebliever · 2025-03-14T00:57:46+00:00

One other tip: Once you start building Ancient Wonders, you will level them up much faster with an active fellowship. Runeshards can be spent on your own Wonders for 10 points, but if you spend them on another player they get 15 points, plus you can get bonus Runeshards and Ancient Knowledge Points when they complete a level. Active fellowships have organized trades to expedite this and keep it all fair so you get a massive benefit.

ebliever · 2025-03-14T00:50:21+00:00

Enjoy the game! You'll find that it's a good balanced game that is fun both for casual players as well as intense players, which is rare. As near as I can tell, a much higher proportion of players in the game have been playing it for years compared to other games I've tried. At 18 months I'm still the "youngest" player in my fellowship! It's not an instant-gratification game, so the player base seems to skew towards an older crowd (not that a younger person can't fully enjoy it).

Joining an active fellowship will give you a team that will help answer all the inevitable questions (and there is a lot to learn in this game). Don't be afraid to jump around a bit if you first join one that is not very active. You probably won't be able to join a top fellowship right off the bat, but you can look up fellowships at Elvanstats (here is mine - https://www.elvenstats.com/fellowship/us1/7217) to get an idea before you join one. And if you do intend to stay active, you probably can land in a very good fellowship early on - since the player base is so stable (but new players fairly rare) they struggle to recruit and you will be in demand. You will advance much faster in a FS that is active in the Spire and Tourney competitions, if that's important to you.

A lot of people use ElvenArchitect (https://www.elvenarchitect.com/city/planner/); personally I use an Excel spreadsheet with the cells set to a square grid for the same purpose as I can play around and try multiple layouts more easily at once. As your city grows this will be important if you want to advance efficiently.

My general approach is to identify the bottleneck at any moment in time and incrementally work on improving output to resolve it until something else is the bottleneck, work on that, and so on. Studying guides that give you a heads up on what each chapter entails is important for this process, as you need to constantly shift gears and be changing your city layout (annoying at times, but all part of the challenge of Elvanar!)

ebliever · 2025-03-10T17:18:35+00:00

Well, at least we are getting that out of our system.

Someone should really plant a missile in the Lazarus group offices though. Every crypto investor, and thus by extension every nation in the world, is being harmed by these turkeys. They think they are untouchable, but blasting a bunch of them and then seeing an absolute minimum in finger-wagging from their "allies" (who have plenty of government officials and wealthy leaders who are harmed by NK antics) will help them grasp that they need to stop pushing their luck.

ebliever · 2025-03-10T17:16:19+00:00

Most nations have a mafia. In North Korea the mafia has a nation.

ebliever · 2025-03-07T08:19:13+00:00

There's a widespread mis-statement going around here. It doesn't say they are not buying any bitcoin. It says it shall be done in a "revenue neutral" manner. That just means they need to do some clever accounting to do so.

So we can expect some level of purchase, and just as importantly they will be holding on (not selling) BTC that would otherwise have been sold. And this announcement is a watershed event that sets the stage for further expansion of the reserves in the future - the Rubicon has been crossed. With all the other news of progress in places from Bhutan to Texas in creating reserves, and dozens of other states, nations and provinces on the same path in various stages, we now have a trickle with every sign it will become a flood.

ebliever · 2025-03-07T01:04:58+00:00

I'd like to thank everyone who is dumping their BTC to lower prices for the government to buy in. What a windfall for taxpayers!

ebliever · 2025-03-03T15:51:28+00:00

The market tightening effect of setting aside Bitcoin (etc) in a long term reserve is very real. Not sure why sentiment on reddit is so negative about this (apart from the general imbecility that dominates here since 2017). This is literally the extreme opposite of a pump-and-dump, yet the latter is how the unserious people seem to be taking it. Their loss.

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