The gas fees today (02/05/24) have been the lowest I've seen for ages. Sent 2 separate transactions as they were so low so I'd get in before each vendor's cut off while sorting customs.

Where are you buying from that it's such an issue? It's Coinbase taking the piss again?

Kraken by depositing via bank t probably.

For KYC;
Kraken - 3.75% CC/DC, 0.5% bank t
Coinbase - 3.99% CC/DC, 1.49% bank t

For non-KYC;
Moonpay - 4.5% CC/DC, 1% bank t
Banxa 2% - CC/DC, 1% bank t

Network fees are the problem right now tho...

Oooh it’s a hot potato this one! 🤔😜

There’s a few variables here….

You can certainly vape hash but it’s going to need higher temperatures than weed. Not that high for soft or powdery hash, but higher for hards.

Many would say you can only achieve this with butane lighter heat source and you are certainly going to get any heat you want that way. The best examples of butane vapes are probably the DynavapM and my preferred choice - the tiny Vapman.
But butane devices are imo as fiddly as fuck and the hit for me at least is inconsistent.

Then of course there are the Extraction Beasts. These guys want to suck the life out of any hash…or anything really, preferably in one lung crushing draw!😲😶‍🌫️. They are the Pros. Check out the BAKx series if this floats your boat.

Me?…I’m a refined sipper dontcha know?….and actually 210c in a dosing capsule in the Mighty will heat all soft hashes to a glorious state. Hard hashes?- you just need to grind them down and add cotton bacon to the capsule. Or weed…

What devices do you have if any?

Honestly, you’re gonn love your non-combustion hash journey😍👍

You can session a bakx

Bakbakbak

Look who’s BAK

Spot on as always polly

We should all keep a copy and paste on this one 🥔

Thanks 😊
I use a mighty+ with dosing capsules but I find it makes my mighty stinking dirty I like welds my dosing capsules shut 😆 I might try a vapman but I hate using butane as u say its inconsistent as f unless you're a pro at it.

Polly is right as per. The Dynavaps do have a learning curve to get that sweet spot, and I would recommend getting the plus latest version which has a bigger chamber ideal for hash. As Polly said get the cotton bacon/wadding BUT always go for the unbleached as a lot of the cotton is pre bleached and not good for the lungs. EBay is the place to go…
You can get an adapter for the Dyna chamber that’s about £25 which also works well for hash without using the cotton.
You will also need a good quality butane ‘torch’ style lighter to apply the max amount of heat to the chamber.
Other than that, enjoy 😉

This official coil? This gets super clogged quite easily, or I'm an idiot. Tips on cleaning this and recoiling it appreciated. It's very tough, and spiky.

Other than that, the Dyna is a great device for hash, if you can get the hang of it.

I take mine out often and torch it. Everything that’s not metal turns to dust. Leaving it in methylated spirit overnight with a good bit of shaking works quite well, also finished off with the torch before using it again.

Awesome, thanks mate. I obviously have access to a torch, hence the Dyna, but none of this stuff is mine. Always hated it when you'd lend stuff to friends and they wouldn't care for it, and I'd never want to be that guy when returning things.

Iso or meths is probably best for longevity if it’s a loaner, not as effortless as the torch. Overnight soak is good for inner tubes and bowls with a few cotton buds. Come up like new

Cotton to keep the oven clean 🧼 for green

Thanks. I'll have a look at the torch, as if you'd do it for your own stuff but not for a loaner then you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

You’re not an idiot. It’s shite a well machined pice of shite but due to you comments that’s why people don’t use them.

Another incarnation of dynavap cashing in on customers.

You need Cotton Bacon my friend 👍….keeps capsules and oven spotless and is a heat conductor…

I would add my 10p worth but if butane is out then the best vape I’ve used so far for hash (dynavap) is out.

I’ll be honest you’re missing out and yea a leaning process but so do all devices to make them work for you.

Ice bong all day everyday day 😂

But a lot of customers are using Dynavape..but that’s too high tech for me lol

😆 yeah Im not a fan of dynavaps. Don't u still have to light the cone on a bong?

Use very sparingly imo. I lay a wispy bed in the bottom of the capsule. Soft hashes I roll into a thin sausage and then coil into a snake, lay on top and then put to bed with another very thin layer on top. Hard hashes I tease with a lighter and grind up before doing the same.

Moonrocks and hash/extract mixes work just as well. Never had anything seep either way through the capsule. Anything left on the insides of the capsule you can soak them in ISO to clean occasionally. Enjoy👍

Cheers Polly, do like my hash and smoke it in a pipe as was worried about clogging up my mighty, will get some and give it a go! 👍😁

I take it you just use it once then replace it the next time?

Oh yeah, the hash remains will be stuck to the cotton so just discard. But one pack will literally last years👍

I just wrap the hash in a small piece so that it is completely surrounded by the cotton bacon. Then I push it into the dosing capsule, there's usually zero mess as it all sticks to the cotton.

👍 nice1!

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Does me every time 😂😂😂

All advice that I would have said has been dispersed

I only use hash in the dyna but same principle. Just makes life so much simpler and cleaner

Was just looking at this, what’s best, prime or v2? 🤷‍♂️

I think the V2 is organic but I’ve no idea what difference that makes, but as it’s the latest I’d probably buy that one! 😉

could you or one of the others link me to a v2, I am clueless when it comes to vaping hash but I need to start somewhere. no clue what I'm looking for

Amazon my friend- just type in Prime V2 Cotton Bacon, five or six quid a pack and one pack will last a lifetime👍

Cheers, I meant for the actual vape itself as well, I have no idea what to get! The Mighty is the only one I've looked at

No worries….we’ll it depends on your budget. You can vape hash with bacon very well in the DynavapM which start at about £60 but use a butane torch lighter and a certain technique. Joint lovers like the learning curve best.

The tiny Vapman is a very cool big hitter but also needs butane and technique.

If you are lazy like me you want the battery to do the work. Some believe that battery vapes don’t get hot enough for hash but I don’t agree. Because the Mighty uses a combination of conduction and convection oven with a dosing capsule option it’s very versatile and can take hash and extracts as well as weed.

Loading a capsule with hash and bacon and dialling up the temperature will produce a great sipping experience.

By contrast the TinyMight 2 reaches much higher temperatures, does have dosing capsules but they are just not very good. I don’t know anyone who puts hash in the TM2.

The current Pro device is the BAKx series which uses a box mod of your choice (you buy it separately) for virtually any temperature you like. They come direct from Switzerland with a sign up and hope waiting list.

The others mentioned are available from vapefiend…. Let us know what you decide!👍

Nice one thanks mate, I haven't used a vape since the Magic Flight Launch Box about 2 decades ago, maybe I should see if the little fucker still works!

Just type in cotton bacon n eBay, literally just bought some

I use the prime cotton bacon for hash in both the Dynavap and the mighty. Wrap it and pop it in. Works a treat. Still can’t resist returning to the glass tho. Hash is meant for bongs. Just saying. The vapes are great but just don’t quite hit the spot for me. Fancy trying one of those ball vapes tho. Apparently it hits just like a bong! Pricey though.

Do you have a bittylicious account? I made an order the other day it cost me £106 to buy £102 worth of bud so not too bad considering.

That's not bad at all I'll make an account there. 👍

They’re not as bad anymore but still higher than they were previously

👍thanks for letting me know.

Good cheap option here.

Make your own with this! Tenner a bash and just add some wax liquidizer https://littlebiggy.com/item/uHP0yiw1u9jdpkxrgMn1WX2R/view/p

FOR

Although I wouldn't hold your breath, it's been requested several times. Here's a post from over 18 months ago that suggests the admin had already agreed it would be integrated.

I know init, it’s a shame really I originally thought it was a community based site but it’s just not the case given the fact vendors and customers are all shouting from the roof tops we need an alternative but the approach seems to be grim and bare bitcoins volatility

yeah been watching this a everyone has been asking for a new payment processor. this seems the farthest its got they are looking for devs

FOR.
Fuck these fees and all the cunts with big money manipulating it.

For.

Although I've seen this all before. An old vendor Super Hans tried extremely hard to get Litecoin/Monero etc introduced a couple of years ago. Had the backing of all the vendors and biggas alike and it never happened.

It does seem like jackwright might be making some headway, but many of us that have been on here a while won't be holding our breath.

Good luck though buddy. It's probably the single most important improvement to the site, and is long overdue, so I really do hope this time it works out.

Cheers BB 😊👍🍻

Yeah I’ve got that the overall response is For but it’s literally not even worth it given as someone already pointed out initiative Borg ain’t been active in a while.

Yeah I think our only hope is someone picking up the project, I’ve had a quick look at what it entails and although am literally studying that issue at the minute I think it’s probably best someone with experience take on something like that.

Hopefully though someone sees the opportunity and takes it!

Hopefully someone from admin still looks.

FOR

Chances are they’ll probably need to rewrite Transaxe. If it’s hardcoded to support Bitcoin it’s not going to be a small job to change the payment method.

FOR

Although we have been through this loop many times before without any meaningful dialogue from the Borgs. Ho hum...lets all pretend we are robots, such fun!
(But don't worry, they are 100% on top of shutting down those bastard competitions and offers so we can all sleep safely at nights! lol)...

Literally all they can do since their, most-likely at this point, ex-devs have clearly abandoned them to 3 year old processes. Which nobody quite knows how to work on or fix.

One day Biggy will just fail. Mostly because of it’s clearly hideous technical debt.

FOR

Won’t buy anything with bitcoin at the mo due to fees…

Reality of this means I buy else where….

This is something I REALLY dont want to do as love this site and want to support my go to vendors… 💚 but have no other choice until something changes…🤷‍♂️😢

Totally get that, I was gutted when I had to ask my old dealer when I seen the price of the bitcoin fees but I can’t justify paying upwards of €15 just for a fee.

It’s not as if it’s happened before the only difference now is people are going to find alternative sites which sucks as LB has been awesome.

It was $120 when I tried to purchase on the 20th 🥴

Yes think alot of us are in the same situation. Looks like I'll be digging some old number up to ring then till this is sorted. Feel for the vendors on this site.

FOR

I for one love this site but it’s becoming harder and harder to utilise the brilliant products on here and community due to bitcoins instability and proven track history of being unreliable on this site.

It is also getting to the stage where it’s becoming too expensive for vendors and profits are being eaten up by transactions fees alone.

Instead of little biggy being that website everyone remembers as being “imagine how good that could have been” and continue to expand the community by allowing better accessibility for payments.

Surprised no one has suggested BCH instead yet. Seems like the likely one to move to if fees are the issue.

FOR
Or im off back to my old dealer up the road .
I dont think the admins of this site give a toss about anything except hiding topic posts that call out whats going on tbh .

Hope they can at least sort this out . Its not exactly dificult to do is it lets be honest here .

I get that feeling, it’s I’ve just noticed that this topic isn’t updating on the wall regardless of votes.

FOR, how long do we have to put up with paying ridiculous fees while there's alternatives. Obviously couldn't care less. How many times has this been talked about

Count me in - For

The transfer fee's are killing LB.

FOR

The fees for customers obtaining a joke from the administration need to be addressed. Might need to another alternative cryptocurrency.

Initiative borg last online 417 days ago.....

no reply or anything from any borgs or admin on any single one of the dozens of topics on this subject this past couple weeks, yet posts exposing dogshit fraudulent dangerous vendors like gamechanger will get immediately removed from the wall

used to be so passionate about the idea of community and gradual improvements to the site via an alleged democratic process of initiatives but that's long gone for me now

we are all pissing into the wind but it's really fucking windy out and the piss is just going directly back into our faces, you can't stop pissing though because you've been holding it in for an age

yes i totally understand that perhaps in the backend they don't have the resources to implement currency changes but they should at least use the topic wall manipulation in a productive way and actually pin a topic about this to the top of the wall permanantly till a solution is achieved, even if that solution has to be bought, paid for and implemented by biggas and not the borgs

Zero-Intiative Borg at this point.

That was when their last decent dev left them. 400 odd days ago. Nothing has been done since then really.

They need to open source the whole platform. All sensitive data aside.

But that alone is probably 6 months work. To go through everything. Upgrade all the dependencies. Fix all the broken ones. Clear the technical debt.

About a year on from starting that. We are looking at then maybe considering how to approach adding a new payment system into Transaxe. Which has obviously been only set up. From literally the ground up. To support Bitcoin.

It’s like working with the old MySpace. It’s just oldschool code on oldschool code.

Not many of us left who even understand those processes. Those approaches.

But this is where it is.

If they open-sourced the fucking code it’d be fixed in 2 weeks.

Plus all the other shit that pisses people off.

But no. It’s someones little earner. Doesn’t take a huge team to run a site like this.

Runs itself. And that’s the clever thing about the site.

Just needs modernizing. Christ. If it was worth building in the first place and it’s still nearly working. Then why not spend some of the considerable cash in improving the quality of life for your users?

I mean it’s SAAS 101. You keep users by reducing barriers to entry. The less barriers the customer has to get their outcome. Exponentially will your sales increase as convenience and novelty combine into one beautiful package. Where you can just buy some fucking nice weed without needing a PHD in nerd-dialectics to do it.

Removal of new-user barrier to entry = growth.

I wish I could do graphs. It would seem obvious.

Literally losing thousands a month, Biggy are. Potentially. 5X what everyone on here earns with a modern platform in place.

You’d double your money in 6 months with a couple of half-decent devs working on it.

Fuck. You could just have it as a full-on API. Then anyone could build a frontend for it. Just have the keys and you are away. Biggy as a service.

But without the source of the service itself. There is no easy way to add payment methods.

Not without middleware for the middleware. Which is where it then starts getting silly, and hacky, and people start losing money, or it’s all backdoored to fuck.

It’s a Transaxe core change. The only people who should be responsible for that stuff is the core Biggy team. They need to change it.

Meh. Whadda I know. I’m an idiot 😂

🤷‍♂️📢📢📢📢📢

BORGS!

Sort your lives out.

Borgs… hahaha.

If only.

Yeah I think I’m at that level where the hype was too good to be true kind of thing.

It is a back end issue by the looks of it, I suppose all I can do while I’ve got my hyper focus is keep the topic relevant and in hope that it gets picked up one day that or until my hyper focus runs out 😂😂

I gave a reply earlier mainly because inwas out and about and didn't want to to lose this topic again.

I really hope they switch up and offer using monero and eth bitcoins got its usesn but. It's a terrible coin for the job.

It baffles me that there's an escrow service presumably raking it in but something as simple as a password change on transaxe takes a week. I feel like it's one person working part time so that being said there is no chance of more currencies being added.

Its a shame because I can only see bitcoin getting worse for fees and like others have said leaves LB exposed to competition.

Transaxe have been good at times, such as taking the hit in the high fees back in May (not sure if they have during this November spike).

I just hope we get to use monero and eth soon.

FOR!

For

FOR

I’d recommend LTC litecoin. Sends are so much faster and fees are minimal. Can buy from all the usual places can’t see how that’s not a win win

I found ETH to he lightening quick too

FOR
On-line sales need a reliable payment method Or its back to on-street sales!

FOR

FOR
👍

For

Ive had to go back to an unreliable street source.

Wake up LB ✊🏻

I have a post up looking for a dev in this matter. It's been up months with no replies. I spoke to admin, I have the requirements they say is needed before testing. The Admin are more than happy for alternatives if they can be proven. Anyone know how to write smart contracts in solidity with immutable logic?
I would try using wrapped trx stablecoin. It's shielded, so private, and most of all stable.
If you have the skills to do this I can help fund the project.

Ah right that’s good to know, so basically we need someone with experience in this area to push it on the way.

I will find your post and see if we can get it some traction am sure there’s someone with that sort of experience.

I for one ain’t that person 😂😂 hopefully one day though!

I'm the same. I've even had a look at what's involved and it's way above my pay grade. If I can get a good dev, I can probably get the mods and run it. There's obviously a monetary incentive through the fees.
Whatever is used has to integrate with LB too. That could be another road block, even if you had the system.

https://littlebiggy.com/link/EzmSNU

This is a link to devvy borg. There's a bounty on there to complete a contract that will allow vendors to specify a currency. It's under react/js post.

Thanks for that 👍.
I’m gonna try get me head around it over the next couple of weeks for my own development but will also try to keep that topic relevant somehow am sure someone here has the skills for such task.

Appreciate your input and what you’ve tried so far, so it’s not so much LB not wanting to allow it it’s more it needs someone to implement it.

Slowly but surely we will get their! 👊

Probably not enough to just have the frontend code though.

Transaxe service itself need modifying.

It’s probably not a complex job. But where is the Transaxe source?

Impossible to fork this and work on it. That’s the issue.

It’d have been done ages ago if Transaxe was open-source.

Trivial to use the existing platform to add new payment methods. If we had the source to work from.

Been a software dev for the last 20+ years. Couldn’t see the repo for the Transaxe service. So impossible to make core changes.

FOR

22 pounds for a 200 pound transaction. That’s where I draw a line with this. Love this site and the vendors but there really should be an alternative token not just because of this. Had one crypto/bank account shut down due to bitcoin issues also.

I probably make at least two transactions per week here but I won’t be with these fees. Maybe once a month. Hopefully a resolution which suits both sellers and buyers can be found. This really should be a priority considering how it could adversely affect sales.

FOR.
Times are hard enough without these crazy btc fees.

FOR

please implement monero

FOR

Street weed for me until this madness ends.

USTD is the way forward, price never fluctuates and I don’t think the fees are mad, correct me if I’m wrong

FOR The BTC madness needs to end. Spent over £40 in fees for a £200 transaction today!

FOR

USDC stable Coin

Count me in - FOR
last spend for me cost £34 in fee's buying and sending for £196 purchase, fuck me its getting to expensive to buy. hope this changes and admin sort this out. Love & Light

Init! Hopefully the fees comes down soon and gives enough time for devs to get an alternative tested and running to give people an alternative when the fees go high again.

FOR

Let us use $FTT

Add $BNB to this list of highly reputable Internet coins

FOR.

Bitcoin is out of control. Many other platforms prefer LTC. It’s quicker and cheaper to send. No brainer in my opinion.

I'm not an expert in Blockchain by any means but isn't this what the bitcoin lightning network was introduced to fix?

Could LB not integrate lightning network into its payment system? I'm sure last time I sent via lightning it was like 30p or less for the transaction and didn't involve anything complicated

This is a good point, there's been a few upgrades to the blockchain which haven't been done on transaxe

FOR

Monero should be an option on here - one of the most anonymous cryptocurrencies. Seems like a no brainer

Yeah seems like a no brainier until I gets hacked again.. lol

Literally got hacked a week ago 🤦‍♂️

The cost of an 1 hour 51% Attack on Monero is Roughly $16,600 per hour

Compared to Bitcoin it’s
$1,694,830 per hour

Damn, I wasn’t aware of this. Not as plugged into crypto news as I used to be.
Thanks for the info!

FOR
Feels a little like being held to ransom with BTC at the mo. This place is such an ace community - needs to move with the times…

FOR. 21/11/23
These fees are ridiculous atm and i’ve taken the hit but i won’t be able to continue using LB until they calm down or an alternative payment method is implemented, which i’m very gutted about as I love LB and since i’ve been on here it’s genuinely changed my life and I’d love to keep using it, however, these fees are going to price me out

Yeah feel that! Love LB not just for the herb but the community it’s one of the few communities we got here in the UK!

FOR

I wonder who is the actual owner of this site?

FOR

FOR

Suggest BCH as alternative. Fees are tiny.

Crazy netwrok fee as vendor was charged $10 on $149 whats happening on blockchain? GAW

FOR i think the only way they will add new payments is if the Vendors went on strike, especially the big vendors on here, if that does not work nothing will, but i think thats what should be done for the greater good, if it means after all parties either save or make more money in the long run it surely is worth the sacrifice.

I dont know how LB hasn't got multiple crypto options by now? I'll order on here when BTC fees are low but when they are high i have to go eleswere.

Just hurting customers & vendors, it needs to be a priority.

FOR
About time lb sorted this one out I can’t even buy at the moment not with the fee’s so hi 😳 lb needs another payment method like lyte coin no fees 🙏 might have to look 👀 elsewhere if this carries on 😭😭

For

FOR - more customers through this

FOR

FOR

FOR
unfortunately won’t happen and will be forgotten in a few weeks when btc fees calm down the previous threads and initiatives have always been ignored by any admin sorry to piss on the parade they obviously aren’t bothered