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Title: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 03, 2018, 08:09:41 AM
EDIT: 50 sM being giving away in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0.

EDIT: Great! We have one outta four six following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry. <this announcement was originally penned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.msg31466554#msg31466554>

The rules are simple. Quote in this thread what you believe is your best most current post on this forum, whereupon I, only, will judge if it warrants at least +1 sM.

Others, feel free to follow my lead including your attempt having a quasi-snazzy thread title.

Let's make maxing out BitcoinTalk's resources great again.  ::)

Ready? GO!

Bruno

PS: Don't blame me if others opt to also give you sM for your scintillating prose thanks to this thread.

PSS: I might as well plug my sig while I'm at end, or visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131.


Title: Re: [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available
Post by: Canis Majoris on March 03, 2018, 08:13:42 AM
Please check this post and thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2983956.0

This thread may be worth your attention too:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3006226.0

You may also look into my post history. TY!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 03, 2018, 08:17:14 AM
Please check this post and thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2983956.0

You may also look into my post history. TY!

+1 sM sent. I love the fact that the OP I read didn't contain any grammatical errors.

See how easy this is, guys?

Who's next?

Bruno


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: BTCforJoe on March 03, 2018, 08:21:28 AM
shameless plug.




Welcome to Joe's Signatureless Challenge.

Starting Monday, March 5 at 9:00PM (GMT -6), a weekly challenge will commence, awarding one winner with the following prizes:


$20USD* (http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/20) or $25USD* (http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/25) via PayPal or BTC

and

1 Merit (given that I have sMerits available to give)


*read this post in its entirety for full payment details.



Who can enter the challenge?
This challenge is available to any and all English-speaking members (Newbies thru Legendary) of BitcoinTalk. Negative trust members are permitted.

However, there is one small catch: you must not be wearing any signature that belongs to any paid signature campaign. You can have your own signature, or you can choose to wear my signature below (for a chance at an extra $5), but you cannot be a part of an existing signature campaign.

This challenge was designed to help eliminate spam and shitposts from the forums. In return, you could be rewarded for posting quality content and contributing to BitcoinTalk. As it currently stands (March 2, 2018), there will be one winner selected every Sunday. The first winner will be chosen on Sunday, March 11 at approximately 9:00PM (GMT -6). Participants are eligible to win multiple times throughout the duration of this challenge. Participants must apply for the challenge every week that they wish to enter.

The cutoff for entering is every Monday at 9:00PM (GMT -6). Upon posting your application prior to the cutoff, you will be eligible to participate for that week. If you apply after the cutoff, your application will be valid for the following week. YOU MUST POST YOUR APPLICATION IN THIS THREAD EVERY WEEK THAT YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE.

How do I win the challenge?
You simply have to have the most substantial posts (according to me) for the duration of the week. There will be a minimum of 10 posts required for the week, and no maximum. Posts will be allowed in any topic on any board, as long as the board is English-speaking. Off-topic? Sure. Gambling or Micro Earnings. Go ahead. Ivory Tower? Yup. Altcoin Discussion? Sure, why not? As long as your posts are knowledgeable or contributive to the given dialogue of the topic, you'll earn points in my book. I won't disclose my criteria, but I will commit to going through every participant's post history for the week to ensure that a winner is chosen fairly.


Here is the application format:
Code:
BitcoinTalk Username:
Starting Post Count (including this one):
BTC Address:

Note: You do not need to submit a BTC address at this time. You can always submit it if/when you win the challenge. The same applies if you would like your winnings via PayPal.



Click here to view the challenge spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12ITbgScwqraCTgirTJoXIkNtcPfgwA6yNAcFS7iPzTI/edit?usp=sharing) (updated weekly)



Good luck, everyone, and thanks for doing your part to help make the forums a better place, even if it is via having a chance to win some cash and merits! :D


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: hugeblack on March 03, 2018, 08:21:38 AM
topic:
Lightning Network (LN) and Segwit are separate protocols.

Lightning Network utilizes time lock contracts inside of multisig wallets to allow multiple tx's for 1 tx fee.

Segwit fixes a tiny bug called "transaction malleability" and unintentionally increased the # of tx's a bitcoin block could load into it as well.[1] (https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/7z2qu8/are_segwit_and_lightning_mutually_exclusive_or/)


Do you think the Segwit protocol is it enough to ensure cheap transactions in the future?Or do we need more "LN"?
we notice how the mempool is completely empty after using the Segwit, So how  it will be after apply LN?
Do you think the Segwit transactions will be deactivated in the future?

Source:#1 https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/7z2qu8/are_segwit_and_lightning_mutually_exclusive_or/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/7z2qu8/are_segwit_and_lightning_mutually_exclusive_or/)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: alisafidel58 on March 03, 2018, 08:23:00 AM
This is one of my latest post.

Im memeber sience 2016 i m jr member but i have to be memeber becouse already have  70 post but i still dont get 10 merit my question is how to get it ?

In order for you to receive merits, here are the things you should be doing.

1. Learn to properly write in English. So that the ones reading your post wont have a hard time reading. Just look at how you pronounce the words its horrible.

2. When posting, remember to read what you are writing first so that you can correct the misspelled words, before you click the "Post" button.

3. Read and practice English. Majority of the forum member here can speak and write English well. If they cant understand what you are saying then there`s not a single chance that you can get merit.


Contributing and/or answer the question/problem of a forum member will also help you get merits "but" they need to understand you first. So my suggestion for you is to learn the basics of English then everything will follow.




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 03, 2018, 08:24:28 AM
Great! We have one outta four following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry.

Bruno


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: onrise on March 03, 2018, 08:25:13 AM
Couple of post which if deserve can be looked upon.

Edit : As now post is required so posting the original post below those link.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2968050.msg31424157#msg31424157

Indeed today we all are connected on this forum is also due to the Satoshi firstly and then very obvious Theymos  as well. Let me tell you what I was couple of year back did not not matter much to people as they mostly ignored or dint meant anything me in their life. Though felt really bad but I always knew one thing that hard time passes by and need to wait for the opportunity and grab it when it comes.  Bitcoin was that opportunity when I was introduced to it by my friends and from their things have definitely become much better personally and also around me and it has definitely changed the lives of millions of people across the world and made them self depended too now. This would have not being possible unless we had Satoshi to create something like this and then by Theymos to bring all under this forum. So yes my life changed for better and for my family and credit goes to founder of Bitcoin.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2890450.msg30138662#msg30138662

Yes I agree with you. To hodl is the best thing that we can do. By the way, do you know what HODL abbreviation means? Hold on for deer life! Do it, friends!

We all know that holding will actually help people only to get the better value. But this unfortunately people do not understand and they keep selling and thus this leads to the more fall in the market especially during the panic trading. When some news come instead of holding majority start selling and thus it keeps falling. Instead if they do not sell price would rise as more and more higher buy prices quotes would be placed to get the btc and prices may not crash which happens due to people continuously sell due to their fear.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2939625.msg30417434#msg30417434

Bitcoin would be one of the best coin to invest for long term. And there are some coins that are good for long term investments but you need to do some research first whichever coin you are comfortable with investing your money in.

Consider BTC as an evergreen coin which can be invested any time whenever the market falls . Also along with this even their are few altcoins which if bought now could also help you to build a good portfolio for 2018 and you will not be just depended on btc alone. Make a portfolio comprising of few altcoins as well for the good rise and making some decent profits throughout the year.



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Canis Majoris on March 03, 2018, 08:57:38 AM
Thanks for meriting me. Here's another post which may be worth meriting:

Trading is gambling after all

Well, sort of, at least for the majority of ordinary and wannabe traders. It is relatively easy to earn money on a rising market but it becomes a completely different matter when a sideways market sets in like it is now in the cryptoverse. There are two major factors that turn trading into gambling for most players in this type of market which are presented below.

First, in any financial or speculative market, where Bitcoin rightfully belongs to, you can earn only if you take money from someone else. It could appear as if everyone earns with the rising price but things reveal their true nature when the price stops rising. It is kind of obvious but accepting this is necessary to understand why you can be the one losing the game in the end.

Second, some market participants have an unrestricted edge over the rest of the pack which means that under no circumstances they will be losing. These are arbitrageurs, insiders, exchanges and their likes. For example, it is impossible to beat exchange since it is 100% sure money for them when they can front run your orders and do a lot of other nasty things which you can't.

Given these two circumstances, it is easy to see that if you do not belong to the group of market participants mentioned above, trading pretty quickly turns into gambling for you. So your only chance to win is pure luck. But luck is not a friend of consistency, therefore the only consistency you can reliably expect is losing to someone who has an undisputed edge over you and the market.

Feel free to comment and post your thoughts and ideas here.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: safariwave on March 03, 2018, 10:11:47 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3034907.msg31424858#msg31424858


Of course you may not like the KYC, and you are free not to do it. But calling it a scam is ridiculous, I would say it's totally the opposite...

I have given my personal details to a lot of fantom airdrops and got anything. This is a serious project and Eidoo/Ubiatar are rewarding users that want to partecipate to this and other ico... that's why the ask to register and do KYC to icoengine!




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Oulay on March 03, 2018, 11:01:00 PM
Thanks for the help, much appreciated! Now to the posts:

My idea to easily flag some of the shitposters using the current system:

While I was in the frog pond I came across this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1659648
He posted +600 posts yet failed to get any merits! He even  started a thread just to say this:
Today Bitcoin is at $11,000.

If you buy Bitcoin at $1,000 after the price falls, you get/save $10,000. That's profit.  :)

When Bitcoin goes $1,000 to $2,000, you get $1,000 profit.  ;)
I reported the post and it has already been deleted...

So... My idea is that all members with a post count that is more than 100 times - or whatever the staff see fits - their earned merits should have their post history checked by the mods for a possible ban. I guess it could be implemented so those accounts automatically appear for the mods to check them.
Edit: Based on TheQuin suggestion, you can add time to the equation so that it only gives members with +X (eg. +100) posts in the last month.

Why wait for the shitposters to stop using the forums? Lets take action and start banning them!


My list of currently active merit giveaways:

Open:
Post Reviews:
TMAN's Level up challenge.-- UPDATED... (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2825523.0) for Newbies and Jr. members only.
sMerit Post-Review (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2819141.0)
Merit System Upgrade (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827596.0) for Full members, Sr. members and Hero members only.
Topic & Post Review (Specific Areas) - sMerit to give (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2850321.0)
14 merit bonus for quality users [Jr to Sr. Member] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3046992.0)
😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.0)

Altcoins Related:
open again: Merit System Upgrade in Altcoin Section: Receive Merit from me (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2832127.0)
New merit give away thread. For alt coin mining. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2982593.0)
Altcoin Discussion Topic Review and sMerit Giveaway (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041356.0)

Signatureless Challenge. If you think you are a good poster then join this challenge, everything you need to know is in this thread:
Joe's Signatureless Challenge: Win up to $25 + 1 Merit every week! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055616.0)

For reporting alts, merit abusers, rule breakers, etc. :
Joel_Jantsen's Merit Distribution Thread (Newbies Welcome) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2971165.0)
Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2018 Q1) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2832127.0)

A Bitcoin Q&A, they ask, you answer. This is actually a pretty good thread to learn something new about bitcoin, give it a visit even if you're not here for the merits:
A simple bitcoin Q/A. Learn new and interesting stuff about bitcoin. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2968050.0)
A Simple Bitcoin Q&A:
Common Q&A about Bitcoin:Non-Technical Edition (Earn Merits) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041155.0)

Merits for creating art (image, gif, video...) that helps others understand Bitcoin or other related stuff:
sMerit for art ! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2957836.0)

Merits for providing certain information, like a guide on how to open a Lightning Network channel:
Provide information and receive merits from the most reputable source. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2992219.0)

Temporarily Closed:
Post Reviews:
Anti-spam Merit Giveaway - For Junior Members Only - updated (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2828412.0)
Merit giveaway for Jr Members and newbies (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2843413.0)
Merit review free service (READ OP) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896975.0)

Probably not gonna last for long:
Post Reviews:
Point me to undermerited posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3040494.0)

I'll try to keep this list updated. If I missed a thread please post it in the replies, I'll be adding it asap.
Good luck on the merit hunt ;D

PS: Those threads are nice to get you started with a small merit boost, but you can't rely solely on them. If you really want to get merits, the best way is to get out there and participate in this forum ;)

Man those merit giveaways are springing everywhere! I would really love it if the mods where to tell us of the best board to start such threads.  ::)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 04, 2018, 01:49:55 AM
Thanks for the help, much appreciated! Now to the posts:

My idea to easily flag some of the shitposters using the current system:

While I was in the frog pond I came across this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1659648
He posted +600 posts yet failed to get any merits! He even  started a thread just to say this:
Today Bitcoin is at $11,000.

If you buy Bitcoin at $1,000 after the price falls, you get/save $10,000. That's profit.  :)

When Bitcoin goes $1,000 to $2,000, you get $1,000 profit.  ;)
I reported the post and it has already been deleted...

So... My idea is that all members with a post count that is more than 100 times - or whatever the staff see fits - their earned merits should have their post history checked by the mods for a possible ban. I guess it could be implemented so those accounts automatically appear for the mods to check them.
Edit: Based on TheQuin suggestion, you can add time to the equation so that it only gives members with +X (eg. +100) posts in the last month.

Why wait for the shitposters to stop using the forums? Lets take action and start banning them!


My list of currently active merit giveaways:

Open:
Post Reviews:
TMAN's Level up challenge.-- UPDATED... (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2825523.0) for Newbies and Jr. members only.
sMerit Post-Review (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2819141.0)
Merit System Upgrade (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827596.0) for Full members, Sr. members and Hero members only.
Topic & Post Review (Specific Areas) - sMerit to give (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2850321.0)
14 merit bonus for quality users [Jr to Sr. Member] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3046992.0)
😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.0)

Altcoins Related:
open again: Merit System Upgrade in Altcoin Section: Receive Merit from me (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2832127.0)
New merit give away thread. For alt coin mining. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2982593.0)
Altcoin Discussion Topic Review and sMerit Giveaway (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041356.0)

Signatureless Challenge. If you think you are a good poster then join this challenge, everything you need to know is in this thread:
Joe's Signatureless Challenge: Win up to $25 + 1 Merit every week! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055616.0)

For reporting alts, merit abusers, rule breakers, etc. :
Joel_Jantsen's Merit Distribution Thread (Newbies Welcome) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2971165.0)
Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2018 Q1) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2832127.0)

A Bitcoin Q&A, they ask, you answer. This is actually a pretty good thread to learn something new about bitcoin, give it a visit even if you're not here for the merits:
A simple bitcoin Q/A. Learn new and interesting stuff about bitcoin. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2968050.0)
A Simple Bitcoin Q&A:
Common Q&A about Bitcoin:Non-Technical Edition (Earn Merits) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041155.0)

Merits for creating art (image, gif, video...) that helps others understand Bitcoin or other related stuff:
sMerit for art ! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2957836.0)

Merits for providing certain information, like a guide on how to open a Lightning Network channel:
Provide information and receive merits from the most reputable source. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2992219.0)

Temporarily Closed:
Post Reviews:
Anti-spam Merit Giveaway - For Junior Members Only - updated (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2828412.0)
Merit giveaway for Jr Members and newbies (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2843413.0)
Merit review free service (READ OP) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896975.0)

Probably not gonna last for long:
Post Reviews:
Point me to undermerited posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3040494.0)

I'll try to keep this list updated. If I missed a thread please post it in the replies, I'll be adding it asap.
Good luck on the merit hunt ;D

PS: Those threads are nice to get you started with a small merit boost, but you can't rely solely on them. If you really want to get merits, the best way is to get out there and participate in this forum ;)

Man those merit giveaways are springing everywhere! I would really love it if the mods where to tell us of the best board to start such threads.  ::)

Wait, you're seeking sM from a dude you've weeded out? FUCK YOU! Okay, I did it.  :P :P :P

Later, bud.

Bruno

PS: In the spirit of Monty Python, I'm this close

Code:
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to starting a thread depicting threads that lists other threads.  ::)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna take a silly walk to the loo.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: lucario21 on March 04, 2018, 04:43:44 AM
Hi, kindly check my few suggestions:

I'll came up an idea to have a Sticky Recommendation thread.
Is there a possibility to have a RECOMMENDATION MERIT THREAD?

I thought with help of that thread those high-quality post/topic will be recognized, by linking those meritable post here and give a brief explanation why should be given a merit on that post.

Some of us doesn't have an ability to give a merit right now but we can help our fellow member to commend a quality post. However, no one shall recommend his/her own post and that thread were specific for post recommendation only then let those kind hearted members to validate your suggestions.

And if possible to have within each local section.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg30206870#msg30206870

I'll edit the last part about capable of giving merits.

Is there a possibility to add THANKS BUTTON ?

Instead of replying with Thank you, all we need to do is to click that button and we can maximize the essence of our post/activity.

In merit system only member upto higher rank are able to give it but in thanks system all ranks are allowed to give it and the counter for this doesn't matter for our ranking unlike merit.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3011975.msg30960928#msg30960928


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Hell-raiser on March 04, 2018, 05:16:15 AM
Hello!

You may like this post:

There are numerous people here on the forum who make shitty posts in signature campaigns and bounty campaigns just to earn some crypto. Lately, the forum was filled with a good number of shit posts which annoyed many people and this is why the merit system was introduced. I can notice the difference as well since the number of people in the campaigns are getting decreased. Although there are people trading merit, it wont take longer to eliminate such users and I am sure the forum will then be cleansed.

The problem is people are not inclined to give merits to junior ranks, apart from a few "altruists" springing up here and there from time to time. You can check many DT1-DT2 members' profile pages and see that they are busy rewarding each other with dozens of merits for meaningless posts in Meta, while there are quite a few decent posters in lower ranks who are unlikely to make it to the next rank just because no one gives them enough merits even despite the fact that their posts are oftentimes more insightful than those of who probably think themselves as forum elite. I mean much of the Economics board, for example, where these elitists and highbrows are not heard of simply because they have nothing to say.

That said, I don't like it. The main problem is there's no incentive to give merit to good posts, and that's probably why you see so little of it. It's a poor attempt to solve the real problem of low quality posts, and I don't necessarily see it doing a good job of it.

Strongly support this opinion.


Title: Re: [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available
Post by: Oulay on March 04, 2018, 09:27:01 AM
Wait, you're seeking sM from a dude you've weeded out? FUCK YOU! Okay, I did it.  :P :P :P

Later, bud.

Bruno

PS: In the spirit of Monty Python, I'm this close

Code:
-

to starting a thread depicting threads that lists other threads.  ::)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna take a silly walk to the loo.

Hahahaha, gave me a good laugh! Man you're great! ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: YuTü.Co.in on March 05, 2018, 01:20:41 AM

Why isn't BTCtalk mods stepping in and ending this serial fraudster with an ip ban


I respectful disagree with your sentiment even though fuzznuts has both unstoppable oars in the water while his boat's on shore moored to an immovable object (To Say Nothing of God the Dog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat)).

https://i.imgur.com/tFqkx8l.png
"We woud like to speak with you about the power and glory of the almighy excrement, and invite you to our Kingdom Hall of AGM76's Witnesses. Here are free copies of recent issues of AwakeConnect and The All Along the WatchConnectTower. Do you have any questions as to why we don't vote, salute the flag, or masturbate in public?

Can we pray together after we sing this hymn?

"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
Though this is not our faith
So let us not talk falsely now
It's time to masturbate"

Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
"


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 05, 2018, 05:38:16 AM
Anybody mocking the Jehovah's Witnesses will not get any sM from me regardless what's in their sig.  ::) ::) ::)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: shahzadafzal on March 05, 2018, 06:00:12 AM

Here is my post for consideration, I did a thread summary by going through all the comments in thread


I invested some time to go through all the comments in this thread one by one.
I took a positive comment as "Yes" and a negative comment as "No"and in between as "Maybe".
Here is my  summary

Q. Will Ripple (XRP) ever go back to $3 again? Can it recover?
Yes: 83 (55%)
No: 53 (35%)
Maybe: 15 (10%)

https://i.imgur.com/qAByK1j.jpg




Now some highlights from this thread as pro and cons towards XRP and Ripple as a company :

Pro:
- "Ripple (the company) may have a lot of success"
- "Technically, (ripple) coming close to the real world, believe in xrp."
- "This coin, despite being completely centralized, has a very good chance of success."
- "Ripple has huge potential"
- "Ripple in gaining back the price value to $3 USD is absolutely a big chance"
- "Ripple is a good coin, they have new development in this year it will grow up to 5$"
- "this coin has many supporting from different countries and companies."
- "It's a corporate coin that might convince people/banks to start using crypto currency. "
- "XRP can be used with major banks for easier transactions"


Cons:
- "Ripple is not a crypto currency"
- "XRP is highly manipulated"
- "Ripple had a quite a run that is finished for now"
- "A lots of FUD's and negative opinion about this coin "
- "It became little bit unpredictable"
- "100% pure pump and dump"
- "driven by hype.  Hype normally don't come back"
- "XRP has an out of control coin emission"
- "Ripple is good on papers but not in market value."
- "Ripple project will not be able to rise , this project is not ready for further development and it harms other crypto-currencies"
- "this coin , it was created using banking structure of the banks"
- "FUDS and fake news coming from these bankers"


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: athanz88 on March 05, 2018, 06:23:37 AM
Here is my shot at this chance, hope it can take away some of your sMerits  ;D ,pardon me if i made something wrong

Quote
Chill guys, it is me again, athan88, if you enter this thread please read until the end before doing anything.

As i said chill, what i mean was "Lets Break Up The QuestionAuthority Merits Giving Activity" as He/She/It is the most generous merit giver right now.

As we know, Measurement Entity of Readable and Interesting/Intelectual Talks (that is how i see MERIT in case you cant see my bolded letter) was implemented on 24 January 2018 (or 25 January 2018 i forgot) and the implementation brings a lot of feelings ( you can see how people feels about merit in my topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2822349.msg28909933#msg28909933) , actions, and new threads on meta section. Some of members think it as a positive solution and some think otherwise. There are lot of members who think they wont get merit easily, yes of course it wont be easy but it is not an impossible task too. So with this statistics that i got from looking and gathering data from QuestionAuthority merit page, i hope it can change their perspective to be more positive into this merit system, as this system just only running for about 2 weeks 3 days. So lets look into it.

(Statistics made based on QuestionAuthority merit page, February 14, 2018, 10:06:25 AM)

https://i.imgur.com/TeoVfAp.png

If you want the numbers of merit per rank that has been given by QuestionAuthority, here it is :

Quote

Newbie           : 3 merits                       Full Member            : 328 merits                    
Jr. Member      : 13 merits                     Senior Member        : 147 merits
Member          : 86 merits                     Hero Member          : 303 merits                          Total : 907 merits


https://i.imgur.com/elLIdJy.png


So from this two statistic of QuestionAuthority merit activity, i (and you can too) can conclude some things like :
Quote from: my conclusion
1. Merit is given to all ranks, even though the Newbie and Jr. Member doesnt get a lot, they dont need merit too much in the early time ( newbie --> jr.member doesnt need merit, Jr.member --> Member only needs 10) , and look at member ranks, it starts to get a lot of merit, and so on for the next rank and it decrease again in legendary rank. I conclude that this is the great pattern for merit distribution, because each rank needs different merits to rank up.
2. Merit is given to not only in popular and special board. Bitcoin discussion is the top board that this person/bot  ::) gives merits at. Invites and Account at second because QuestionAuthority made a thread for rewarding a good poster, but He/She/It gives merit to the merit request post instead of giving merit to the post which the link has been given by the requester. I guess this kind of thread can help worthy people to rank up, you can join His/Her/Its thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827596.0
3. If you look closely, people have their own active time to give merit, so if you want to increase the chances of getting merit, try to make a good post on their active time.

So, with this statistic, do you guys still feel the sMerit is not given accurately? I know that QuestionAuthority is the number 1 giver right now and not all people are like him/her/this bot  ::), but later people will be at his position and this man/woman/bot  ::) will even give a lot more, merit will always be dynamic object, and of course the number distributed will be increasing in the future, give it time (its not even 3 weeks) and better stop whining and start increasing our quality so the potential merit giver acknowledge our posts.
I dont know if QuestionAuthority do it intentionally or not, but the best thing to adopt from this statistic for all people that can give merits is the giving pattern based on people rank, and i hope people can adopt the pattern.

Feel free to comment and discuss about it below. Thanks guys !


Thanks for your attention.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: TheHas on March 05, 2018, 06:31:43 AM

Just stop and think about the complexity of what MCO is trying to achieve. It is one thing to have a debit card in fiat, but quite another to have a card which can change crypto to fiat at the payment terminal.  This single action will take considerable development to work smoothly.  They may not be meeting their self-initiated schedule, but are probably close.  The simple solution for the people waiting for the card is that if the interfacing of crypto is not important to you, go get a regular debit card from a bank.  If the feature is very important to you, wait for a fully tested & functional system. 

My understanding is that their first card will actually be more like a travel card, where you 'load' fiat currency onto it based the exchange rate at the time for the crypto you're swapping, and then whittle that away and 'reload' the card when you think exchange rates for crypto are favourable/you run out of money.

Also a later product alluded to by Monaco is a more traditional credit card, where you get a credit line based on the value of crypto you hold, and you can pay that back as you would a normal credit card.

It is also possible this credit card could instead reduce your crypto value by the equivalent of your purchase on your account/app - I recall they mentioned (I think in a Q and A) that under this system it won't actually convert crypto to fiat at the payment terminal every time you swipe your card. Instead, it will be 'off chain' and only be recorded on Monaco systems, and only be put 'on-chain' when you want to withdraw your money from your Monaco account/app. Part of the reason for this is converting crypto to fiat everytime you want to buy a coffee would lead to substantial fees (think of the bitcoin fees for example).

I'm pretty sure large exchanges do something similar, so you don't get charged huge fees every time you trade some random altcoin for bitcoin as long as the coins stay on the exchange. You only get slugged the large fees when you withdraw your crypto to your personal wallet as this is where the crypto definitely has to be put back 'on-chain' to your personal address.


This is a tough one! Well one of my more popular (and still recent) posts was the above on Mco - There are some others that got some attention, more because they referenced one of my blogs that had a bit of detail but they are quite a bit older. Hope you like my post!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 05, 2018, 07:02:03 AM
Shameless plug - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131 - while I dole out some more sM like candy from a ... (okay, I won't go there  :P).

You have to admit that it's pretty ingenious of me in not having to hunt posts worthy of sM - I make the posts warranting sM come to me.  8) 8) 8)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: fxstrike on March 05, 2018, 07:36:28 AM
Helping Newbie finding their Profile ID URL

https://i.imgur.com/XiyOp6S.jpg

Right Click on your username and then you can copy your profile ID link address





https://i.imgur.com/hCqLpF2.jpg

Mouse over your username on your posting you will see the profile link a the browser status usually at the bottom left.
Click on your username and you go to your profile page, now your profile ID link is at the browser address bar, you can copy it from there


Title: Re: [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 05, 2018, 07:58:48 AM
Wait, you're seeking sM from a dude you've weeded out? FUCK YOU! Okay, I did it.  :P :P :P

Later, bud.

Bruno

PS: In the spirit of Monty Python, I'm this close

Code:
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to starting a thread depicting threads that lists other threads.  ::)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna take a silly walk to the loo.

Hahahaha, gave me a good laugh! Man you're great! ;D ;D ;D

Okay, I did it! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3068555.0.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: thescimitarr on March 05, 2018, 08:03:46 AM
I think this is an issue which needs to be dealt with :

I just don't know if this is a good step towards the future of this forum, but there is one problem with this system.
Most of the helpful post go unnoticed by most of the users. And the one's who find it helpful aren't able to merit it because they simply can't.

I'm even doubtful if the creator of this thread will notice this post looking at the number of replies already to this post. This is the problem which needs to be taken care of. I hope someone could put some light on this.

I don't know if this is the right way to put it here   ???


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Toughit on March 05, 2018, 12:43:42 PM
Just to stir up some fun...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3039477.msg31278204#msg31278204

theymos,

Please create a level above Legendary.

My vote would be to call it Mythical.

Why:
-   Legendaries are bright, energetic, experienced (quirky, opinionated) people, if they don’t have something to work to, they will turn their energy to other distractions
-   Legendaries have a lot of experience, a new level will help pull that out.
-   Its human nature to compete
-   I have found people need to be motivated to perform best
-   Everyone needs a goal to work to
-   A lot of legendaries exist simply because of time momentum, this will bring out true leaders
-   Merited post of legendaries could be used to create a BOK (Book of Knowledge)
-   Their merited posts would serve as models to lower ranks

Requirements
-   Merit required 2500 total
-   No added activity requirements (then it’s all about quality, not quantity)
-   No automatic level up. Once hitting the required merit, it should be voted on by a panel created by Theymos
-   No ‘race to the top’.  No more than 10 merits allowed from one account to another per month
-   No merit awarded for work previous to February 1, 2018 would count in the 1500 new merits (legendaries already received 1000 merits for that work, the new rank would be forward looking)
-   Leveling up to Mythical is a privilege that you need to work to. Smerits are meant to be spent.   Encouraging ‘merit-worthy’ posts is part of the ‘job’ of a Mythical. As such, if a legendary has not awarded a minimum number of merits per month, the remaining amount should be deducted from accumulated Mythical merit. (Sort of like a signature campaign, you want Mythical, you work for it)
-   Minimum merits never drop below the 1000 historical merits awarded
-   If the average user (me) has to use a dictionary, no merits awarded for that post (nullius) (just kidding)

Logistics
-   Might need a second merit tracker for Legendary only: Mythical Merits
-   Would need a page to show the top 10 in the ‘race’ and links to their merited posts

Questions
-   What to do about negative trust, related or not. (my take is the panel would judge)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: al1n on March 05, 2018, 02:46:13 PM
Not rocket science or genial thoughts, but I believe this is useful info to avoid being scammed

Leonardo is a well known trading bot for cryptocurrencies. Even the demo version works good enough as analysis software.

However I found this topic in Romanian forum and it looks fishy to me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3058407.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3058407.0)

First of all the official site of leonardo is http://marginsoftware.de (http://marginsoftware.de)
The one from the thread is http://marginsoftwares.com (http://marginsoftwares.com)
Whois data is completely different for the sites, first returns real owner data, second returns hidden owner data.

The pages look identical in both sites with small differences:
official marginsoftware.de
1. pages end up with .html
2. product page has 2 options: buy and demo
3. pricing page has 3 offers: 129$, 249$ and 39$ and the buttons actually work
4. rebranding information is visible on all pages: News: leonArdo is rebranding as margin

fake? marginsoftwares.com
1. pages end up with .php
2. product page has 3 options: buy, demo and try license key
3. pricing page has 3 offers: 89$, 179$ and 29$ and the buttons don't do anything
4. rebranding information is missing

On a closer look I found out that the guy who posted the topic did the same thing in a lot of other boards.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=122290;sa=showPosts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=122290;sa=showPosts)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Alone055 on March 05, 2018, 06:41:50 PM
Merits are always welcome  ;D thus, quoting a post of mine I believe is worthy.

I'm definitely happy with the new system. By close observations, a person can clearly see that the majority of the people on this forum don't even know what a quality post is. Most of them think "more characters = higher post quality", and just because of this false assumption they start making much more longer and way more useless posts to make them look like quality posts, while the quality of a post has nothing to do with its quantity of length.
Merit system can be (if not used with partiality) a permanent full stop for all those accounts created for nothing else but joining Signature Campaigns. And that thus leads to less spam, IMO.

I mentioned on the main thread that a downfall to this sort of system is that people who start the topics are going to get a lot more merits than anyone posting in existing discussion. This will likely lead to people posting new threads which are duplicates from others in attempt to earn more merits.

People creating duplicate or useless threads in order to get Merits would not get any, because that is why this system is implemented. If the duplicate or spam threads start to get Merits then there is no use of the system as there is no restriction for anyone from any rank on creating threads.

I think merit is an unofficial judgement where most of the people gives merit to those well-known campaign managers to make sure that those managers will include them in their next signature campaign . and how about those newbies and junior members who have quality post . are they eligible to rank up?

Hopefully in future the campaigns will require Extra Merit Points (Beside the ones already given for each rank on implementation of the system) to join along with the rank. And if that happens, there will be no use of Meriting well-known signature campaign managers to get into their campaigns if you yourself have none.
About newbies and jr. members with high quality posts; you can already find them having Merits. My profile is an example of that. So yes, we can rank up if we deserve to, and if we don't, we won't.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Flying Hellfish on March 05, 2018, 11:02:56 PM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 06, 2018, 04:02:13 AM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join

+2 sM because your post was 100% grammatically correct with a hint of humor.

Please note: No more sM will be doled out based on grammar and humor only.


Title: Highlighting my Newbie-ranked debut in Development & Technology Discussion
Post by: nullius on March 06, 2018, 10:29:54 AM
Ignoring the principal rule of this thread, I here present not what I claim to be my best post, but rather, the post which constituted my debut in the Development & Technology Discussion forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2469397.msg25696091#msg25696091).  It is the ninth post in my account’s history, made three days after I actively started posting.

Let us see if this post be truly Nullian:

  • Pro-Segwit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2905590.msg29896057#msg29896057)?  Check.
  • Quotes Greg Maxwell?  Check.
  • Like, technical and stuff?  Check.
  • Explains that miners have exactly one function, Byzantine fault-tolerant ordering of transactions?  Check.
  • Insults the stupid and the Btrash of the world?  Check.
  • Sprinkled liberally with informative hyperlinks?  Check.
  • “Diatribe (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3009430.msg31088075#msg31088075)”?  Check.  Alternates between solemn seriousness and scathing sarcasm (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2945878.msg30449546#msg30449546)?  Check.
  • Asks, “Cui bono?”  Check.
  • Uses two spaces after a full stop (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2869862.msg31081316#msg31081316) and Unicode fancy quotes (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3009430.msg31198307#msg31198307)?  Check; and, check!

I suppose it’s mine!

Though I am quoting it per the rules, I do hope that this link will be clicked (hint, hint).  The post feels so lonely, now sliding down to page 40 of my post history.  It has not been awarded any merit—none!  This is my first time ever hitting a merit faucet; and thus, now is my chance to whine justly complain about how nobody notices Newbie-ranked posts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2469397.msg25696091#msg25696091

So why all the hate on segwit?

The short answer:  Ill-informed nincompoops who overestimate their own competence enjoy voicing opinions to which they are not entitled; and all which cannot be explained by stupidity, is caused by malice.  Cui bono?  “Follow the money.”

Longer answer, for those who wish to actually understand this issue:

The following told me all I needed to know about the anti-Segwit agitation and later, the so-called “Bitcoin Cash” scamcoin.  For more technical details, see also the references listed in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database under CVE-2017-9230 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9230), or the high-level description (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2469397.msg25576726#msg25576726) by Test User earlier in this thread.  N.b. that without Segwit, covert ASICBOOST is still wide-open for exploitation in “Bitcoin Cash”.

With boldface added, from this bitcoin-dev mailing list post on 2017-04-05 21:37:45 UTC (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/013996.html):

Quote from: Gregory Maxwell
A month ago I was explaining the attack on Bitcoin's SHA2 hashcash which is exploited by ASICBOOST and the various steps which could be used to block it in the network if it became a problem.

While most discussion of ASICBOOST has focused on the overt method of implementing it, there also exists a covert method for using it.

As I explained one of the approaches to inhibit covert ASICBOOST I realized that my words were pretty much also describing the SegWit commitment structure.

The authors of the SegWit proposal made a specific effort to not be incompatible with any mining system and, in particular, changed the design at one point to accommodate mining chips with forced payout addresses.

Had there been awareness of exploitation of this attack an effort would have been made to avoid incompatibility-- simply to separate concerns.  But the best methods of implementing the covert attack are significantly incompatible with virtually any method of extending Bitcoin's transaction capabilities; with the notable exception of extension blocks (which have their own problems).

An incompatibility would go a long way to explain some of the more inexplicable behavior from some parties in the mining ecosystem so I began looking for supporting evidence.

Reverse engineering of a particular mining chip has demonstrated conclusively that ASICBOOST has been implemented in hardware.

[…]

Due to a design oversight the Bitcoin proof of work function has a potential attack which can allow an attacking miner to save up-to 30% of their energy costs (though closer to 20% is more likely due to implementation overheads).

Timo Hanke and Sergio Demian Lerner claim to hold a patent on this attack, which they have so far not licensed for free and open use by the public.  They have been marketing their patent licenses under the trade-name ASICBOOST.  The document takes no position on the validity or enforceability of the patent.

Observe that a purported patent on a 20+% economic advantage threatens to give certain parties a substantial centralized influence over who has the most hashrate.  It is not only cheating:  Overall, covert ASICBOOST opens the way for a direct attack against the Byzantine fault-tolerant security of the Bitcoin network.

So as for ulterior motives to oppose Segwit.  What overt arguments are advanced by the anti-Segwit side?

On the presumption that Segwit-haters must have at least some plausible excuse for their position, I have spent far too many hours searching the Net and reading what they say.  My objective:  Find even one good reason to oppose Segwit on technical grounds.  Yet despite my such efforts, I have never seen a valid technical argument against Segwit.  All the anti-Segwit pseudo-technical arguments are unsubstantive handwaving—yes, it’s a moderately big patch; of course, it’s a big feature!—or bald-faced lies—e.g., the claim that miners could collude to grab “anyone-can-spend” transactions; no, Segwit full nodes would reject such such blocks as invalid, making such miners waste all their effort.[1]  (This last is not even a Segwit-specific matter:  Any soft fork will result in similar scenarios, which is exactly what makes the fork “soft” even when introducing radically different validation rules.  The alternative is a hardfork.)

The rest of the anti-Segwit arguments are nontechnical.  Some make menacing insinuations about Blockstream:  Very well, assume arguendo that Blockstream is pure evil (facts not in evidence) and totally controls Core (which they evidently don’t).  What is so bad about Segwit?  The question remains unanswered.  The remainder of anti-Segwit spew is merely moronic:  Insults devoid of all substance, at the puerile grade of “Segwit makes you a doodie-head”.

Meanwhile, in so-called “Bitcoin Cash”, almost three and a half months of EDA fluctuations made something tantamount to a premine of fake-Bitcoin.  In that time as well as afterwards, any party exploiting covert ASICBOOST could and can reap BCH at 20+% under the energy cost paid by other miners.  Oh.  Suddenly, it all makes sense.  Cui bono, indeed.  Follow the money.


1. Miners have exactly one function:  Byzantine fault-tolerant ordering of transactions.  Important and valuable though that function may be, it is strictly limited in technical scope.  Miners do not have authority over validation:  All full nodes are responsible for enforcing validation, and will reject invalid mined blocks just as if rejecting random garbage.  Such is the power of each and every individual full node.  This is a point of common misunderstanding amongst ignorant fools who imagine that miners somehow own the network; and the misunderstanding is encouraged by persons with material ulterior motives for pretending that miners be Bitcoin gods.


Title: Re: [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available
Post by: Canis Majoris on March 06, 2018, 10:43:46 AM
Please review this post. It didn't receive any merit, though it spurred plenty of discussion down the line and may be worth a merit:

Many people have reported that they noticed a lot of shady behavior on the part of exchanges, and here I want to discuss specific methods which many, if not all, exchanges employ to steal our money. I know of at least 2 risk-free methods which are in the store ready to be used on trading folk:

1. Exchange sees a big sell or buy order entering the system which would fill a lot of orders in the orderbook at prices higher or below the price set by the trader. In this case, exchange can itself sell or buy all these orders first and then fill the entering order at its specific price. The effect is that the exchange earns profit while the trader gets his order filled at maximum or minimum possible price. This method works exceptionally well with market orders filled at the current market price. Guess what price it will be.

2. Exchange can set arbitrary delays while adding new orders. For example, WEX (former Btc-e) officially sets a 2 second delay within which a trader doesn't know what's going on at the exchange. In this case, if exchange sees a big order, it can delay adding it waiting for another big order to arrive. If these orders are offsetting each other, exchange can then fill them itself and put the spread in the pocket. This approach works particularly well with exchanges that have lots of liquidity.

If you know of other dirty tricks that exchanges use, share them here.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: thescimitarr on March 06, 2018, 11:33:14 AM
This is a great idea and I completely agree on this.
Nowadays because of the signature bounty campaigns and the minimum post count in a week, most of the users post just to increase their post count. I've seen some post with replies which are not at all related to the thread.
Right now, the forum is flooded with such users. This will bring a halt to this.

Or maybe instead of directly blocking the user, it would be better to put a limit on the number of posts so that they are still active on bitcointalk.

Most members agree that if you're here to spam signature campaigns then you have no place in these forums. At the same time bans don't have to be permanent and a second chance can be given to those spammy users.

By the way, if you see posts not related to the thread they're being posted in, go ahead and report them. I'm sure the mods will be deleting those posts.

I completely agree with you. But the problem is that most of the helpful posts go unnoticed most of the times. So even if a user is not spamming around, it may happen that no one merits his/her posts. But yes, eventually such users will come to notice in the long term


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Pvt-snafu on March 06, 2018, 12:27:52 PM
Hey there,

Would you like to see some investigation?)

Good day there, I was going through the Blog spreadsheet of Debitum and was quite shocked.

Debitum spreedsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TkIkv4i9RBzg0c1HmPr4fwYTFqPnLNx6z5eP6mgazNQ/edit#gid=1326654035)

#377 932 1044 they just copied mine article, and pasted it as their own, no hesitation no shame, even the topic name is the same (that's how I found out this)  

My article is signed "by pvt-snafu" so I would say this is some sort of the author proof.

freedivers (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1276419)

Pamela Jobelle (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1317465)

aray80 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1324910)

I already contacted bounty manager in regards to this.


So I decided to go deeper and checked the etherscan.  

Connected accounts:  bitlove007  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1132389) ; freedivers (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1276419)

Proof: Debitum spreedsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TkIkv4i9RBzg0c1HmPr4fwYTFqPnLNx6z5eP6mgazNQ/edit#gid=1326654035)
          eBit spreedshet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E1IFqnfYPXAiimwont2Y58t3AiMilfcRBEHEpNQbJp0/edit#gid=41913838)

The both accounts were using this ETH: 0x9A733d6675982628d636448c2265f8725AFD877b


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Flying Hellfish on March 06, 2018, 01:24:16 PM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join

+2 sM because your post was 100% grammatically correct with a hint of humor.

Please note: No more sM will be doled out based on grammar and humor only.

Whats grammar??  Merit from the legendary scam buster (and goat fucker iirc!) P.G, as the great Mel Brooks said in a movie once, "it's good to be king"!!

Hey P.G did you ever find out what happened to Sonny K, I'm still a little worried about that motherfucker!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 06, 2018, 06:28:58 PM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join

+2 sM because your post was 100% grammatically correct with a hint of humor.

Please note: No more sM will be doled out based on grammar and humor only.

Whats grammar??  Merit from the legendary scam buster (and goat fucker iirc!) P.G, as the great Mel Brooks said in a movie once, "it's good to be king"!!

Hey P.G did you ever find out what happened to Sonny K, I'm still a little worried about that motherfucker!

That was so clever of Sonny Vleisides pretending to be a Sonny K of BFL, coming off as there being two Sonnys there.

I'll say it again. Of all the thieving and fiasco connected with BFL, there was only one person convicted of a crime. You're correct if you guessed it's the person who penned this post. Now I'm forbidden to come within so many feet of Josh Zerlan's BTC-House because he fears for his life. Hey, maybe with any luck Josh will extend my restraining order for another year while he fondles little boys at the skydiving arcade in KC.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 06, 2018, 07:11:33 PM
I fight cheaters and I hope someone will pay!

Hello I don't know if is allowed or not this kind of service but I think not so, what do you think about it?

Found not allowed
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Almost every account is full member/senior/hero with no signature ??? ::)
Some senior member and hero accounts also
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Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Flying Hellfish on March 06, 2018, 09:23:04 PM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join

+2 sM because your post was 100% grammatically correct with a hint of humor.

Please note: No more sM will be doled out based on grammar and humor only.

Whats grammar??  Merit from the legendary scam buster (and goat fucker iirc!) P.G, as the great Mel Brooks said in a movie once, "it's good to be king"!!

Hey P.G did you ever find out what happened to Sonny K, I'm still a little worried about that motherfucker!

That was so clever of Sonny Vleisides pretending to be a Sonny K of BFL, coming off as there being two Sonnys there.

I'll say it again. Of all the thieving and fiasco connected with BFL, there was only one person convicted of a crime. You're correct if you guessed it's the person who penned this post. Now I'm forbidden to come within so many feet of Josh Zerlan's BTC-House because he fears for his life. Hey, maybe with any luck Josh will extend my restraining order for another year while he fondles little boys at the skydiving arcade in KC.

I don't want to derail your thread but oh man those were the days eh!  $25 mil in investomers money, buying AR-15 for protection, "we will mine on the test net for burn in. We will not mine on the bitcoin network", JZ firing customers, BFL having foam pitchforks actually made "BFL why you no ship",  Slok the mod on the BFL shout box oh what a dreamboat he was!  And of course last but not certainly not least Blue Crappy pants.  Who could forget that shill, now that was real shilling, not like the kids today try to shill!  ;D

I think the kids scamming today should go back and read the old school scams.  Now days any old retard can make a coin or token and spew out a scam in minutes.  The new kids on the block aint got nothin  on the OG old school serial scammers of days gone by, those fuckers knew how to scam but good!

Anyways sorry for the derail bud, but there's still a few of us here and we remember so I just wanted to give a shout out!  ::)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 06, 2018, 10:07:08 PM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join

+2 sM because your post was 100% grammatically correct with a hint of humor.

Please note: No more sM will be doled out based on grammar and humor only.

Whats grammar??  Merit from the legendary scam buster (and goat fucker iirc!) P.G, as the great Mel Brooks said in a movie once, "it's good to be king"!!

Hey P.G did you ever find out what happened to Sonny K, I'm still a little worried about that motherfucker!

That was so clever of Sonny Vleisides pretending to be a Sonny K of BFL, coming off as there being two Sonnys there.

I'll say it again. Of all the thieving and fiasco connected with BFL, there was only one person convicted of a crime. You're correct if you guessed it's the person who penned this post. Now I'm forbidden to come within so many feet of Josh Zerlan's BTC-House because he fears for his life. Hey, maybe with any luck Josh will extend my restraining order for another year while he fondles little boys at the skydiving arcade in KC.

I don't want to derail your thread but oh man those were the days eh!  $25 mil in investomers money, buying AR-15 for protection, "we will mine on the test net for burn in. We will not mine on the bitcoin network", JZ firing customers, BFL having foam pitchforks actually made "BFL why you no ship",  Slok the mod on the BFL shout box oh what a dreamboat he was!  And of course last but not certainly not least Blue Crappy pants.  Who could forget that shill, now that was real shilling, not like the kids today try to shill!  ;D

I think the kids scamming today should go back and read the old school scams.  Now days any old retard can make a coin or token and spew out a scam in minutes.  The new kids on the block aint got nothin  on the OG old school serial scammers of days gone by, those fuckers knew how to scam but good!

Anyways sorry for the derail bud, but there's still a few of us here and we remember so I just wanted to give a shout out!  ::)

I've never had any qualms with anybody derailing my threads. In fact, I most the time welcome it.

Blue Crappy Pants aka Bruce Peterson was a BFL shill prior to being employed at BFL all thanks to my efforts, I being invited to tour the plant and Bruce asked if he could tag along. I agreed and we shared a hotel room together the night before. We went to the plant and had lunch with Josh and David, BFL picking up the tab. Later that night there was a meetup where Goat and his wife attended. Back to the plant, I left after lunch to meetup with an ex-BFL employee (didn't pan out, for something came up on his end) and Bruce stayed behind for more of the dog-and-pony show. He was hired then. During his interim, he stole from BFL. Later, he, too, had his local police contact my local police to cease stalking him on this forum.

Do you remember the following that cause Sonny to go totally ape shit at the office upon being made of aware of it? (I'll you three guesses as to who nibbknot IS, the first two don't count)

I left most recently, and since I'm no longer under their control I can now share with anybody interested two important things.

One, bcp19, whose first name is Bruce, DOES work for BFL. Ask him and I'm sure he'll say yes, but if he doesn't, I have no problem with linking to pictures of him while employed at the plant. He's been there since last fall. I seriously don't know what game he's playing on this forum and what he's trying to accomplished, but I'm pretty sure it ain't good. To be fair, he is a nice guy.

Second. BFL received chips months ago that were intended for what you guys consider the Monarch. Thousands of miners have already made at BFL's plant using those new chips. Ask Bruce that also. He knows. Since you're now curious as to where all them miners went and are continuing to go, here... http://www.coinware.io/. Moreover, HashTrade, NimbusMining, LiquidBits, and Netsolus. The lead guy for CoinWare is named James (I'm not stating his last name because I don't want to get in trouble, but I'm sure you smart guys can figure it out). James visits the plant a lot, walking around assembling unescorted then heads to the offices of management to discuss whatever.

This post is valid https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262052.msg6877963#msg6877963 because I was there when two guys from HashFast (don't get the name mixed up with HashTrade) walked the plant with Sonny, David, and Josh.

I honestly don't want to get mixed up with this mess because I have a family and all. BFL treated me pretty fairly while I was there, but feel it important for you guys who have millions still tied up and waiting for equipment to be aware. It's a shame that you guys who ordered first will probably be the last to get your miners. At least when you do get them, you'll make your money back, even if it takes longer than you planned, if I understand correctly how the whole thing works. Still, it's a screwed up deal.

One more thing, for what it's worth. Everybody in the plant knows about Sonny's past, and some not mentioned here, and we all joke about how we are (was for me, now) working for crooks and scumbags, most the time in Spanish when management is not around, of course.

Heck, I might as well add this tidbit, even though it doesn't matter none except to Sonny's girlfriend. Sonny has been screwing one of the pretty Mexican girls in assembly since early last year. I'm not going to mention her name for obvious reasons, but everybody at the plant knows it except Sonny's girlfriend who have a son together. I don't see that relationship lasting too much longer due to them fighting a lot, where then Sonny may start seeing the Mexican girl full time then.

Sorry if I said too much. All I wanted to say was about Bruce and CoinWare and how you guys are getting screwed big time.

Peace.



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Heisenberg_Hunter on March 07, 2018, 03:31:30 PM
Kindly review this...

Segwit addresses are nothing but soft fork which solves the long debated scalability and malleability issue of the bitcoin. They just segregates or takes away the signature out of the transaction data, so that the signatures can't be changed at a later time to prevent the losing or stealing of btc. By this way a size of the transaction becomes lower and hence more transactions can be filled inside a block and increasing the transaction speed and there by reducing the fees.
Many of the wallets are opting for segwit day by day and the latest one being the Core wallet.

Wallets which support segwit addresses:

Hardware Wallets:
Hardware wallets has been a great deal of storage for people using cryptos. Nano Ledger and Trezor are the best wallets out there to store your crypto assets safely and first and quick in implementing newer stuffs. Not only they support segwits, they also allow you to change the fees of satoshis/byte.

Desktop Wallets:
When coming to desktop wallets, the best one will be the classic core wallet. But Core adopted segwit just this week and it is pretty new. You can also use Electrum for segwit supports, as they adopted segwits prior to core. Just go the official Core/Electrum website and download the latest version and set up the wallet.

Web/Mobile Wallets:
Green Address and Greenbits has been an early adopter of segwit and they are really secure. Greenbits was the first mobile wallet to implement segwit and if you need to try web wallet, go for Green Address.

Paper Wallets:
The classic way of storing coins in earlier days were Paper. If you are a paper wallet user, reach out for segwitaddress.org (https://segwitaddress.org") where you can create your own segwit wallet.



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: thescimitarr on March 07, 2018, 05:29:07 PM
Hello everyone,
I've got an idea worth sharing

The ones who received merit in this thread may merit the quality posts of other users quoted here. I'm starting with the recent posts and giving away all my spendable merits.
Cheers.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: thescimitarr on March 07, 2018, 05:31:52 PM
Hello everyone,
I've got an idea worth sharing

The ones who received merit in this thread may merit the quality posts of other users quoted here. I'm starting with the recent posts and giving away all my spendable merits.
Cheers.

Okay, I just realized I had only 2 spendable merits, but gave them away anyway.  :)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 07, 2018, 05:38:40 PM
Hello everyone,
I've got an idea worth sharing

The ones who received merit in this thread may merit the quality posts of other users quoted here. I'm starting with the recent posts and giving away all my spendable merits.
Cheers.

Okay, I just realized I had only 2 spendable merits, but gave them away anyway.  :)

Last two sM sent was not a mistake. Now get the fuck outta my thread, prick!  ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available
Post by: Hell-raiser on March 07, 2018, 05:54:02 PM
Hello,

Please take a look at this post, it may be worth a merit:

I would say that fighting drugs, terrorists and money scams really is a good thing. So far I agree with Mr. Gates.
But putting all that on crypto currencies is a little far fetched in my eyes.
From what I can remember all those things have already existed long before bitcoin was created. And I am not aware of an increases of those activities since we have crypto currencies.
By the way, I am missing the positive effects that crypto currencies offer the world in his statement. Like creating jobs, for example.

It doesn't really matter if Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies actually have anything to do with these dirty things. You can rest assured that they do have after all. But the true question should be how much really? And this is where things get complicated. Or should I rather say nasty? It doesn't matter if only a small percentage of cryptocurrencies is used in such activities because the financial elites such as banksters and their likes will be more than happy to jump at this opportunity to defame crypto. They will find a few cases where Bitcoin has in fact been used in money laundering, terrorism financing, or whatever, and they will make a scapegoat out of it, blowing it completely out of proportion.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: thescimitarr on March 07, 2018, 05:59:55 PM
Hello everyone,
I've got an idea worth sharing

The ones who received merit in this thread may merit the quality posts of other users quoted here. I'm starting with the recent posts and giving away all my spendable merits.
Cheers.

Okay, I just realized I had only 2 spendable merits, but gave them away anyway.  :)

Last two sM sent was not a mistake. Now get the fuck outta my thread, prick!  ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Flying Hellfish on March 08, 2018, 01:35:52 PM

I've never had any qualms with anybody derailing my threads. In fact, I most the time welcome it.

Blue Crappy Pants aka Bruce Peterson was a BFL shill prior to being employed at BFL all thanks to my efforts, I being invited to tour the plant and Bruce asked if he could tag along. I agreed and we shared a hotel room together the night before. We went to the plant and had lunch with Josh and David, BFL picking up the tab. Later that night there was a meetup where Goat and his wife attended. Back to the plant, I left after lunch to meetup with an ex-BFL employee (didn't pan out, for something came up on his end) and Bruce stayed behind for more of the dog-and-pony show. He was hired then. During his interim, he stole from BFL. Later, he, too, had his local police contact my local police to cease stalking him on this forum.

Do you remember the following that cause Sonny to go totally ape shit at the office upon being made of aware of it? (I'll you three guesses as to who nibbknot IS, the first two don't count)

I left most recently, and since I'm no longer under their control I can now share with anybody interested two important things.

One, bcp19, whose first name is Bruce, DOES work for BFL. Ask him and I'm sure he'll say yes, but if he doesn't, I have no problem with linking to pictures of him while employed at the plant. He's been there since last fall. I seriously don't know what game he's playing on this forum and what he's trying to accomplished, but I'm pretty sure it ain't good. To be fair, he is a nice guy.

Second. BFL received chips months ago that were intended for what you guys consider the Monarch. Thousands of miners have already made at BFL's plant using those new chips. Ask Bruce that also. He knows. Since you're now curious as to where all them miners went and are continuing to go, here... http://www.coinware.io/. Moreover, HashTrade, NimbusMining, LiquidBits, and Netsolus. The lead guy for CoinWare is named James (I'm not stating his last name because I don't want to get in trouble, but I'm sure you smart guys can figure it out). James visits the plant a lot, walking around assembling unescorted then heads to the offices of management to discuss whatever.

This post is valid https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262052.msg6877963#msg6877963 because I was there when two guys from HashFast (don't get the name mixed up with HashTrade) walked the plant with Sonny, David, and Josh.

I honestly don't want to get mixed up with this mess because I have a family and all. BFL treated me pretty fairly while I was there, but feel it important for you guys who have millions still tied up and waiting for equipment to be aware. It's a shame that you guys who ordered first will probably be the last to get your miners. At least when you do get them, you'll make your money back, even if it takes longer than you planned, if I understand correctly how the whole thing works. Still, it's a screwed up deal.

One more thing, for what it's worth. Everybody in the plant knows about Sonny's past, and some not mentioned here, and we all joke about how we are (was for me, now) working for crooks and scumbags, most the time in Spanish when management is not around, of course.

Heck, I might as well add this tidbit, even though it doesn't matter none except to Sonny's girlfriend. Sonny has been screwing one of the pretty Mexican girls in assembly since early last year. I'm not going to mention her name for obvious reasons, but everybody at the plant knows it except Sonny's girlfriend who have a son together. I don't see that relationship lasting too much longer due to them fighting a lot, where then Sonny may start seeing the Mexican girl full time then.

Sorry if I said too much. All I wanted to say was about Bruce and CoinWare and how you guys are getting screwed big time.

Peace.


I remember when the nibbknot account posted, it was epic!  I will be totally honest, I had no idea it was you until you revealed such!  The BCP news was pretty big to me.  I couldn't understand why BCP was suckin off BFL so hard.  It made no sense, people had asked him if he worked for BFL and (prior to him working there) he said truthfully no.  No one I guess asked him AFTER he actually started working there if he did or not.  It was all such slimey word fuckery that was so typical BFL, one couldn't help but chuckle just a bit!

I remember Miss Pierce, the poor lass in charge of Sonny K's V's parole!  It really is to bad the judge never made good on his toothbrush comment!

I remember the barn wood stories, did you steal any good wood lately?  All the hard on jokes, while your humour could be a little different at times, I always laughed because it's my kind of humour as well!

I remember something about goat fucking, or was it llama fucking, or was it a goat fucking a llama, no wait it was a 3 way with a goat, llama and and old dude in a pink tutu, oh hell I can't remember but you get the point!

In the end the FTC swoops in to protect everyone.  I will say, it's nice to see BFL out of business, it's nice to see the people (that's you my friend) made a difference (however small it was), it's nice to see we were right about BFL and there illegal business practices and how incredibly stupid and short sighted JZ and BFL's attitude to miners was, it's nice to see JZ get tossed to the curb like the garbage he is, its nice to see Sonny and his crew are not on this forum sucking off millions of dollars from would be stary eyed newb miners.

It's a little less pleasant to think about the fact that Sonnny et al basically "got away" with it.  While I guess one could argue something like justice was served with the FTC case, I always hoped for a bit more so for me they kinda "got away with it".  It's not pleasant to think it should have been relatively easy with the amount of coins handled (from internal mining as well as sales) for these donkey dick licking scamming thieving cunts to hide some coins.  These fucks could possibly be sitting on a nice chunk of change currently...  It's also very unpleasant to think they could be here right now pulling the latest greatest anonymous ICO scam, I mean Sonny K would never do such a thing but Sonny V boy that's right up his fucking alley...

Anyways thanks for the walk down memory lane.  You did make a difference and there are still a few people left here that remember and appreciate it even if we don't say it!  ;D

Based on your distribution of merits in this thread I doled out a few sM upthread to the worthy posters as well.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 08, 2018, 07:23:17 PM

I've never had any qualms with anybody derailing my threads. In fact, I most the time welcome it.

Blue Crappy Pants aka Bruce Peterson was a BFL shill prior to being employed at BFL all thanks to my efforts, I being invited to tour the plant and Bruce asked if he could tag along. I agreed and we shared a hotel room together the night before. We went to the plant and had lunch with Josh and David, BFL picking up the tab. Later that night there was a meetup where Goat and his wife attended. Back to the plant, I left after lunch to meetup with an ex-BFL employee (didn't pan out, for something came up on his end) and Bruce stayed behind for more of the dog-and-pony show. He was hired then. During his interim, he stole from BFL. Later, he, too, had his local police contact my local police to cease stalking him on this forum.

Do you remember the following that cause Sonny to go totally ape shit at the office upon being made of aware of it? (I'll you three guesses as to who nibbknot IS, the first two don't count)

I left most recently, and since I'm no longer under their control I can now share with anybody interested two important things.

One, bcp19, whose first name is Bruce, DOES work for BFL. Ask him and I'm sure he'll say yes, but if he doesn't, I have no problem with linking to pictures of him while employed at the plant. He's been there since last fall. I seriously don't know what game he's playing on this forum and what he's trying to accomplished, but I'm pretty sure it ain't good. To be fair, he is a nice guy.

Second. BFL received chips months ago that were intended for what you guys consider the Monarch. Thousands of miners have already made at BFL's plant using those new chips. Ask Bruce that also. He knows. Since you're now curious as to where all them miners went and are continuing to go, here... http://www.coinware.io/. Moreover, HashTrade, NimbusMining, LiquidBits, and Netsolus. The lead guy for CoinWare is named James (I'm not stating his last name because I don't want to get in trouble, but I'm sure you smart guys can figure it out). James visits the plant a lot, walking around assembling unescorted then heads to the offices of management to discuss whatever.

This post is valid https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262052.msg6877963#msg6877963 because I was there when two guys from HashFast (don't get the name mixed up with HashTrade) walked the plant with Sonny, David, and Josh.

I honestly don't want to get mixed up with this mess because I have a family and all. BFL treated me pretty fairly while I was there, but feel it important for you guys who have millions still tied up and waiting for equipment to be aware. It's a shame that you guys who ordered first will probably be the last to get your miners. At least when you do get them, you'll make your money back, even if it takes longer than you planned, if I understand correctly how the whole thing works. Still, it's a screwed up deal.

One more thing, for what it's worth. Everybody in the plant knows about Sonny's past, and some not mentioned here, and we all joke about how we are (was for me, now) working for crooks and scumbags, most the time in Spanish when management is not around, of course.

Heck, I might as well add this tidbit, even though it doesn't matter none except to Sonny's girlfriend. Sonny has been screwing one of the pretty Mexican girls in assembly since early last year. I'm not going to mention her name for obvious reasons, but everybody at the plant knows it except Sonny's girlfriend who have a son together. I don't see that relationship lasting too much longer due to them fighting a lot, where then Sonny may start seeing the Mexican girl full time then.

Sorry if I said too much. All I wanted to say was about Bruce and CoinWare and how you guys are getting screwed big time.

Peace.


I remember when the nibbknot account posted, it was epic!  I will be totally honest, I had no idea it was you until you revealed such!  The BCP news was pretty big to me.  I couldn't understand why BCP was suckin off BFL so hard.  It made no sense, people had asked him if he worked for BFL and (prior to him working there) he said truthfully no.  No one I guess asked him AFTER he actually started working there if he did or not.  It was all such slimey word fuckery that was so typical BFL, one couldn't help but chuckle just a bit!

I remember Miss Pierce, the poor lass in charge of Sonny K's V's parole!  It really is to bad the judge never made good on his toothbrush comment!

I remember the barn wood stories, did you steal any good wood lately?  All the hard on jokes, while your humour could be a little different at times, I always laughed because it's my kind of humour as well!

I remember something about goat fucking, or was it llama fucking, or was it a goat fucking a llama, no wait it was a 3 way with a goat, llama and and old dude in a pink tutu, oh hell I can't remember but you get the point!

In the end the FTC swoops in to protect everyone.  I will say, it's nice to see BFL out of business, it's nice to see the people (that's you my friend) made a difference (however small it was), it's nice to see we were right about BFL and there illegal business practices and how incredibly stupid and short sighted JZ and BFL's attitude to miners was, it's nice to see JZ get tossed to the curb like the garbage he is, its nice to see Sonny and his crew are not on this forum sucking off millions of dollars from would be stary eyed newb miners.

It's a little less pleasant to think about the fact that Sonnny et al basically "got away" with it.  While I guess one could argue something like justice was served with the FTC case, I always hoped for a bit more so for me they kinda "got away with it".  It's not pleasant to think it should have been relatively easy with the amount of coins handled (from internal mining as well as sales) for these donkey dick licking scamming thieving cunts to hide some coins.  These fucks could possibly be sitting on a nice chunk of change currently...  It's also very unpleasant to think they could be here right now pulling the latest greatest anonymous ICO scam, I mean Sonny K would never do such a thing but Sonny V boy that's right up his fucking alley...

Anyways thanks for the walk down memory lane.  You did make a difference and there are still a few people left here that remember and appreciate it even if we don't say it!  ;D

Based on your distribution of merits in this thread I doled out a few sM upthread to the worthy posters as well.


http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cp1t01-640x330.jpg
"You mean to tell me that Bruno had a three-prong attack (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=246826.msg2623626#msg2623626) with a llama and a kid and didn't invite me and Ed?"

After Bruce admitted that he worked at BFL, Josh Zerlan posted that everybody knew he worked there, inferring everybody on this forum knew not those who worked at BFL. Speakin' of Josh, remember when we tore him a new asshole on his birthday, accusing him of stolen valor, whereupon he changed his bio on BFL's website that very night? Shortly thereafter was when he quit posting on this forum, but still posts on Reddit using a nym, mostly espousing about sex related matters. And let's not ever forget Josh's infamous tag line: "I am furry, hear me roar!" (Google it)

Read my latest posts where I've evoked BFL as it pertains to a currently running ICO. Those Investards don't have a fuckin clue.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: al1n on March 09, 2018, 02:34:20 PM
There were some problems yesterday in Binance exchange, I'm quite sure everyone knows about them by now.
But with these problems another scam attempt is rolling currently.
Somebody (possibly several users) is trying to impersonate binance CEO on twitter and he is offering a giveaway (but user must first to send eth).
He is using same name and same picture in twitter profile and usually replies to the actual tweets of original account of the CEO.

See picture bellow.

https://i.imgur.com/Wtva1Kk.png (https://i.imgur.com/Wtva1Kk.png)
https://i.imgur.com/Wtva1Kk.png


PS: if the picture is not visible, the link will work


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Jitra on March 11, 2018, 03:33:48 AM
Shameless plug - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131 - while I dole out some more sM like candy from a ... (okay, I won't go there  :P).

You have to admit that it's pretty ingenious of me in not having to hunt posts worthy of sM - I make the posts warranting sM come to me.  8) 8) 8)

It is actually quite ingenious.  I'm curious as to how do you select a worthy person or poster to send the sM to?  Is there any specific criteria, randomly or out of a goodness of your heart.  I wish more people would do this.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coly20032003 on March 11, 2018, 06:46:36 AM
Hi sir, thank you for offering this giveaway! Could you review my post? This is a simple tutorial for adding image/resize image in post. Thanks  :)

Adding image in your post is not that hard, you just need to follow these steps (please note that you need to be in a position higher than Newbie):

  • Step 1: Upload your image to site like https://imgur.com/. Then there are two ways:
    • For image that are not in ".png", you can simply right click on the image to Copy Image Address/Location. You will get some link like this: https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg
    • Another way works for all image format, you can click the dropdown list on the right of the "Copy" button, then choose "Get share links", and copy the one for "BBCode(Forums)".
  • Step 2: Use the following code in your post, your image will show:

Code:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg[/img] 

This is what you will see after you insert the above code in your post:
https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg

 ******************************************************************************************************************************

HOW TO RESIZE YOUR IMAGE?

You can add width and height to the code to resize image, the code will look like this:
Code:
[img width=200 height=150 alt=image loading...]https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg[/img] 

What you will see after resizing:
https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg

You can also add alt property to the img tag so that even if your image is still loading, it will show some text so that the user knows there will be some image appear later.

 ******************************************************************************************************************************

HOW TO MAKE THE IMAGE CLICKABLE?


If you want your image to be clickable (once click redirect to another website), you can use the following code in your post:

Code:
[url=https://bitcointalk.org][img]https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg[/img][/url]

This way once you click the image, it will take you to another website (in my example bitcointalk homepage). You can try below:

https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg (https://bitcointalk.org)



Note:
- Newbie CANNOT post image.
- imgur link MUST have a jpg/jpeg/png extension. Also link to an album in imgur will result in proxy error.


Hope this post will help a little bit. Thanks!  :) :) :)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: YuTü.Co.in on March 11, 2018, 01:23:35 PM
Shameless plug - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131 - while I dole out some more sM like candy from a ... (okay, I won't go there  :P).

You have to admit that it's pretty ingenious of me in not having to hunt posts worthy of sM - I make the posts warranting sM come to me.  8) 8) 8)

It is actually quite ingenious.  I'm curious as to how do you select a worthy person or poster to send the sM to?  Is there any specific criteria, randomly or out of a goodness of your heart.  I wish more people would do this.

<FUCK ME! Doled out sM from the wrong account - no prob>

You don't really believe that I've read the posts of users seeking sM, do you?  ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: LogitechMouse on March 11, 2018, 02:15:48 PM
Let me try and maybe I can get some of your merits :) Thanks.

If one creates an altcoin today, what are the 3 most important factors that would make it valuable? Or 3 activities that would do so?
There are many factors that makes the altcoin valuable.

First is the team behind it including the advisers. In my experience, the one who has a highly reputable person in their team are those who are reaching their hard cap easily in their crowdsale. I'm not saying that all but most of them.

Second is the project itself, if it helps people or if it is working. If their project is good and if it benefits the people then definitely they will invest.

Third is the transparency of the team. They must show their true profile and they must not hide something because if they will do it then it will be a bad sign for the investors.

Fourth is their roadmap. Fifth is their technology. How many tx per second their coin will do? What will be the use of the coin in their project? In their platform etc.

Last for me and one of the most important is their marketing strategy. How they can market their product in the online world.

This will help them in achieving their goal in the future.  :)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Jitra on March 11, 2018, 06:26:56 PM
Hi sir, thank you for offering this giveaway! Could you review my post? This is a simple tutorial for adding image/resize image in post. Thanks  :)

Adding image in your post is not that hard, you just need to follow these steps (please note that you need to be in a position higher than Newbie):

  • Step 1: Upload your image to site like https://imgur.com/. Then there are two ways:
    • For image that are not in ".png", you can simply right click on the image to Copy Image Address/Location. You will get some link like this: https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg
    • Another way works for all image format, you can click the dropdown list on the right of the "Copy" button, then choose "Get share links", and copy the one for "BBCode(Forums)".
  • Step 2: Use the following code in your post, your image will show:

Code:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg[/img] 

This is what you will see after you insert the above code in your post:
https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg

 ******************************************************************************************************************************

HOW TO RESIZE YOUR IMAGE?

You can add width and height to the code to resize image, the code will look like this:
Code:
[img width=200 height=150 alt=image loading...]https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg[/img] 

What you will see after resizing:
https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg

You can also add alt property to the img tag so that even if your image is still loading, it will show some text so that the user knows there will be some image appear later.

 ******************************************************************************************************************************

HOW TO MAKE THE IMAGE CLICKABLE?


If you want your image to be clickable (once click redirect to another website), you can use the following code in your post:

Code:
[url=https://bitcointalk.org][img]https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg[/img][/url]

This way once you click the image, it will take you to another website (in my example bitcointalk homepage). You can try below:

https://i.imgur.com/lUr20xA.jpg (https://bitcointalk.org)



Note:
- Newbie CANNOT post image.
- imgur link MUST have a jpg/jpeg/png extension. Also link to an album in imgur will result in proxy error.


Hope this post will help a little bit. Thanks!  :) :) :)

This is an excellent and well written post.  Thanks for the clear instruction.  I was able to use it to resize the pic on imgur and make it clickable on bitcointalk.  I think you deserves an sMerit.  Keep up the good work and keep 'em coming.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coly20032003 on March 12, 2018, 04:15:30 AM
Here are some images I made regarding forum rank/activity/merit faq, etc. Thanks  :)

I made some images regarding the rank system, activity, merit and some FAQ on bitcointalk. Hope can help new users a little bit.  :)

https://i.imgur.com/171gKg9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pNCXaGC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/JnWRQUR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Rx84kCO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1Na33OE.jpg


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coolws on March 12, 2018, 05:37:32 AM
Here is my post for Estimation, I did a thread summary and ICO Estimates for 2018 which may be worth meriting.

https://oracletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ico.jpeg

I try to list some of the popular ICO projects. If you think there are better ones or missed, you can reply to this post, I will continue to update.

⭐ Name: DIW
Description: DIW aims to ensure secure storage of confidential information such as identification documents, passwords, bank accounts and credit card information etc. The platform will also allow account holders to share their data partially or fully among them. In addition, Wordpress would be a payment system that can be easily integrated into open source CMS systems such as Joomla. It is recommended by many people around the world.
Link: https://diwtoken.com (https://diwtoken.com)

⭐ Name: ArcBlock
Description: Unlike its predecessor, ArcBlock is a platform service rather than an independent software package or API set. ArcBlock is a comprehensive solution focused on combining blockchain technology with cloud computing. As a result, different platforms can easily collaborate with each other. Can this one be next FLAG? Let's look forward to it.
Link: https://www.arcblock.io (https://www.arcblock.io)

⭐Name: Telegram ICO (TON):
Description: There is no website yet. However, it is expected to be announced soon.Within the scope of the project, a faster telegram messenger is targeted based on the blockchain infrastructure.
Link: https://icodrops.com/telegram-ico-ton/ (https://icodrops.com/telegram-ico-ton/)

⭐ Name: Ezpos (EZT)
Description:As a SaaS provider in Asia, it has about 10,000 sales each year for nearly 1 billion dollars. They will introduce a new crypto currency into the marketplace to strengthen the marketing and loyalty platform for the retailer network.
Link: https://ico.ezpos.io (https://ico.ezpos.io)

⭐Name: Firelotto
Description: As the name implies, the system is related to lottery tickets. Since it has an open source (transparent) algorithm, there will be no trust problem. At first, there are 4 types to choose from. Lottery price is about 2 dollars. They tell the token owners that they will distribute profits from every sale.
Link: https://firelotto.io (https://firelotto.io)

⭐Name: narrative
Description: The creators are aiming to give prizes to the token. Markets will reward content tailored to the audience.
Link: https://www.narrative.network (https://www.narrative.network)

⭐ Name: Cibus (CBT)
Description: They are trying to create a new, non-central, blockchain-based platform for food and nutrition balance. It will help users follow and process food and dietary supplement products with good quality, safety at the low cost.
Link: https://cibus.world/ (https://cibus.world/)

⭐ Name: Daneel
Description: This is a reliable, encrypted project involving money news, signals and market analysis. IBM Watson with artificial intelligence will help you make daily investment decisions. This kind of ICO seems to be used in business.
Link: https://daneel.io (https://daneel.io)

⭐ Name: Confideal
Description: Confideal: Ethereum is an ecosystem for fast and secure agreements through intelligent contracts in the block chain. It does not require any programming skills and has a user-friendly interface for creating complex smart contracts. In case of disagreement, the parties may resolve them through qualified arbitration. Confideal has made an agreement with about 13 companies.
Link: https://confideal.io/ (https://confideal.io/)

⭐ Name: Blocklancer
Description: This is a fully self-monitoring platform for finding customers/projects to ensure that things are completed efficiently and fairly. Blocklancer is turning freelancers into customers and gradually changing their working way, focusing on building a solid, reliable platform that all stakeholders can trust.
Link: https://blocklancer.net/ (https://blocklancer.net/)

⭐ Name: Rentberry
Description: The decentralized home rental platform improves the entire long-term lease process by using blockchain and intelligent contract technology. It removes the necessity of being a fleet of agents, where it is possible for tenants and landlords to complete all their rental tasks on the platform. This system is now working in the United States. It has a good number of notices and members right now and  their aim is to work in more countries with their investment.
Link: https://rentberry.com/ (https://rentberry.com/)

⭐ Name: Medicalchain
Description: It is a decentralized platform that allows safe, rapid and transparent exchange and use of medical data. They aim to hide the patient's health records and protect the patient's real data. Doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists and insurers can access medical records and interact with medical records. Each interaction is auditable, transparent and secure, and is recorded in the healthcare chain. And there's no privacy leak in the process. Patients can control who can see their records, how much they see, how long they can stay.


List continue to be updated. Of course, you can also get in the following website.

1. http://icorating.com/ (http://icorating.com/)
2. https://www.coinschedule.com/ (https://www.coinschedule.com/)
3. https://cryptorated.com/ico-reviews/ (https://cryptorated.com/ico-reviews/)
4. https://icodrops.com (https://icodrops.com)



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: bakasabo on March 12, 2018, 10:27:09 AM
Dear topic started, could you please go through my topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3051837.0

The idea was to find signature campaign for newbies. Since most of the bounty campaign starts from Junior Member, i went through bounty topics and find most recent campaigns for them.

Thanks  ;)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 12, 2018, 04:32:47 PM
Dear topic started, could you please go through my topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3051837.0

The idea was to find signature campaign for newbies. Since most of the bounty campaign starts from Junior Member, i went through bounty topics and find most recent campaigns for them.

Thanks  ;)

Dear topic poster, could you please follow the instructions in the OP, namely post the content in this thread. I don't want to click any suspicious links that may or may not open in a new tab.  ::)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Pvt-snafu on March 12, 2018, 05:11:32 PM
And here we are again.

Cheating.

Bounty campaign cheating.

Good day there, I was going through the Blog spreadsheet of Skyllz and was amazed by the laziness of some individuals.


Long story short:

#138 #168 both just copied mine article, and pasted it as their own, the even left the topic name the same (that's basically how I found out this) 

My article is signed "by pvt-snafu" so I would say this is some sort of the author proof.

 HenryRoo  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1078985)

btw quite a big account.

 dumiya  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1316360)

Proof:  Skyllz spreadsheet  (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18vD63LEbWdDVfuQSoWcuTnL_JEE-TE4OXTgZLUJY5B0/edit#gid=1711203591)

Should they be banned from participating?



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: cavaBcoin on March 13, 2018, 01:25:27 PM
Please check my topic, Topic about Price technical analysis BTC and Altcoins
My topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3116663


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: virendarnagpal on March 13, 2018, 04:02:54 PM
best form me

Excuse sir i am wish reviw your mine posting is posting for good quality please sir i learnt for her many great thangs after merit sir is airdrop for join

+2 sM because your post was 100% grammatically correct with a hint of humor.

Please note: No more sM will be doled out based on grammar and humor only.
So luck also plays role in getting merit?


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 13, 2018, 11:47:07 PM
The fight against cheaters will continue, I will update this 3d weekly, kill them all!

Hello thanks to the file shared from the boss I made a huge exel file where eveyone can click eveything to check merits, order from highest to low.

If you want the file save it and you can change whatever you want
24.01.2018 - 03.03.2018 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IxGZsbItpO59fVGaaIKSqMebRVDhvbHhpmeKOeo922w/edit?usp=sharing
04.03.2018 - 10.03.2018 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zQN0e0M6Teu-KCDQM71Jvokf-1t6goa_Du_jrAZmono/edit?usp=sharing

If you find cheaters report to mods here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg31441438#msg31441438

So far checked 58 accounts, with 50 smerit points transactions, 7 cheaters reported (xxx) on my link, 23 suspicius (x) 28 seems fine.
200 accounts 22 repots for merit abusing 53 for others reasons 40 suspocius, rest seems fine

Sadly the link to the post with merit can be no working, but the links for bitcointalk users are 100% working
So you need to click on profile, and see merit history


Abusers Reported: 87

Merit/alts 34 sor far
3 users - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg31440432#msg31440432
4 users - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg31441438#msg31441438
9 users - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg31000543#msg31000543
3 users - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg31743256#msg31743256
5 users - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg32093079#msg32093079
12 users - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg32104784#msg32104784

Ico bumping 53 so far
53 accounts - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3063184.msg31554397#msg31554397


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Quickseller on March 14, 2018, 01:27:43 AM
As an FYI, links to the bitcointalk.org will be green when your mouse hovers over the link.

TheGambler (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=152722) has run many HYIP/ponzi sites over the years. Research into his identity has caused me to believe that he has been running scam sites since at least 2012, however I think they probably go back to ~2010. He is known by some as moreia (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=147832), by others as Spoodermen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=366423), he seems to think his "main" account is TheGambler. He has scammed at least 15 BTC on bitcointalk, however the amount is likely at least 4 times (by my guesstimate) as much considering it is difficult to know the exact amount he scammed on most of his HYIP/ponzis. He has been described by some as the plague to the community, he is a serial scammer.

What happened:: On or about April 30, 2015, a highly reputable member of the community gave me a tip saying that dzeros (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=508301) is an alt of TheGambler and that he was attempting to sell bitcoin in the currency exchange section, as well as the fact that him selling would make a unique opportunity to find out his real life identity.

Scammers Profile Link: dzeros (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=508301) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=508301

Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1035970.0;all
Amount Scammed: At least 15 BTC, however I would guesstimate it will be closer 60 BTC, maybe over 100 BTC
Payment Method: TheGambler has stolen both bitcoin and altcoins
Additional Notes: Below is blockchain evidence that dzeros is an alt of TheGambler. Based on dzeros posting history I was able to find his real life identity with a good amount of certainty. The identity that I found matches what I reasonably believe was provided to people he was attempting to sell bitcoin to.

I am however going to hold off on publishing TheGambler's dox until dzeros has the opportunity to refute the below evidence (as well as anyone else who wishes to do so), as well as to receive any good reason from dzeros (or anyone else) to not publish his dox (I highly doubt there would be one).

Below is blockchain evidence that dzeros is an alt of TheGambler. In order for one transaction to be signed by two addresses, one person must control the private keys of both addresses (with few exceptions, however I don't think any of these exceptions apply here).

On this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1035970.msg11173785#msg11173785) (archive (https://archive.is/rwep0)) post dzeros sent .34 BTC to goose20 from 16HseYWh9AoaqkoWHszHgEEMin5Zzqh9u5 (http://blockchain.info/address/16HseYWh9AoaqkoWHszHgEEMin5Zzqh9u5) via txid 8372e634e5b1501abcc6a7625bbf51cd16624a1b1c3ab73132631ba47a116987 (http://blockchain.info/tx/8372e634e5b1501abcc6a7625bbf51cd16624a1b1c3ab73132631ba47a116987)

Both 16HseYWh9AoaqkoWHszHgEEMin5Zzqh9u5 (http://blockchain.info/address/16HseYWh9AoaqkoWHszHgEEMin5Zzqh9u5) and 1GKjFaEoEsCh9wQJGH5JeP6uv6FUFXjpwj (http://blockchain.info/address/1GKjFaEoEsCh9wQJGH5JeP6uv6FUFXjpwj) signed txid 3c0745ad1a6a5eed153b73134b16914c700c17f1e1a94503484e7c89e390b8e5  (http://blockchain.info/tx/3c0745ad1a6a5eed153b73134b16914c700c17f1e1a94503484e7c89e390b8e5)

Both 1GKjFaEoEsCh9wQJGH5JeP6uv6FUFXjpwj (http://blockchain.info/address/1GKjFaEoEsCh9wQJGH5JeP6uv6FUFXjpwj) and 18jgzTkNBTDc6CLek7CKYPapnTz1kwDiqf (http://blockchain.info/address/18jgzTkNBTDc6CLek7CKYPapnTz1kwDiqf) signed txid 2251901d8c05f7dbf39ec5efc5164651ed5c9daf6b9d394f69d39539c578da11 (http://blockchain.info/tx/2251901d8c05f7dbf39ec5efc5164651ed5c9daf6b9d394f69d39539c578da11)

Both 18jgzTkNBTDc6CLek7CKYPapnTz1kwDiqf (http://blockchain.info/address/18jgzTkNBTDc6CLek7CKYPapnTz1kwDiqf) and 1K9VP3NC75mZP8RiugP43DyvCB4d5mLaMs (http://blockchain.info/address/1K9VP3NC75mZP8RiugP43DyvCB4d5mLaMs) signed txid 53eb2a4ef3f5f87143735d0750fe9d62c69937010343a8879abf482f63c19717 (http://blockchain.info/tx/53eb2a4ef3f5f87143735d0750fe9d62c69937010343a8879abf482f63c19717)

Both 1K9VP3NC75mZP8RiugP43DyvCB4d5mLaMs (http://blockchain.info/address/1K9VP3NC75mZP8RiugP43DyvCB4d5mLaMs) and 1vtUh2Mw57ybm2b72Wg9SsqKzRyPdXYxL  (http://blockchain.info/addrress/1vtUh2Mw57ybm2b72Wg9SsqKzRyPdXYxL)signed txid 12972d307be00c564710553b024a1bb0fa2b0f63912bb382410f2963f58055bb (http://blockchain.info/tx/12972d307be00c564710553b024a1bb0fa2b0f63912bb382410f2963f58055bb)

Both 1vtUh2Mw57ybm2b72Wg9SsqKzRyPdXYxL (http://blockchain.info/address/1vtUh2Mw57ybm2b72Wg9SsqKzRyPdXYxL) and 1NekdBBkjzjrbRM3rnTtruCDbA4hSoYsWJ (http://blockchain.info/address/1NekdBBkjzjrbRM3rnTtruCDbA4hSoYsWJ) signed txid 68db84599ca8e78ae03b4389f392c7d6c2d070eb2a608f2d09b7d8a7f35f2d3b (http://blockchain.info/tx/68db84599ca8e78ae03b4389f392c7d6c2d070eb2a608f2d09b7d8a7f35f2d3b)

Both 1NekdBBkjzjrbRM3rnTtruCDbA4hSoYsWJ (http://blockchain.info/address/1NekdBBkjzjrbRM3rnTtruCDbA4hSoYsWJ) and 19SEvQkaRguSrujqsy9rDfwWvQt5nNGPwS (http://blockchain.info/address/19SEvQkaRguSrujqsy9rDfwWvQt5nNGPwS) signed txid ba6ce401ee3ae428bc79e6d4cc3b48dafad8bf943ffcf41a0ba98917ce1768c6 (http://blockchain.info/tx/ba6ce401ee3ae428bc79e6d4cc3b48dafad8bf943ffcf41a0ba98917ce1768c6)

Both 19SEvQkaRguSrujqsy9rDfwWvQt5nNGPwS (http://blockchain.info/address/19SEvQkaRguSrujqsy9rDfwWvQt5nNGPwS) and 13SHyKDR46Yng4V1M8ACo6Vmqz8TwPc8hy (http://blockchain.info/address/13SHyKDR46Yng4V1M8ACo6Vmqz8TwPc8hy) signed txid 5629ee41edfedb525e03098a00e174220814f88f103c2346c5287baa883f4756 (http://blockchain.info/tx/5629ee41edfedb525e03098a00e174220814f88f103c2346c5287baa883f4756)

The address  13SHyKDR46Yng4V1M8ACo6Vmqz8TwPc8hy (http://blockchain.info/address/13SHyKDR46Yng4V1M8ACo6Vmqz8TwPc8hy) was posted by TheGambler here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303230.msg3929439#msg3929439) (archive (https://archive.is/1pezR))

Known alts:
moreia - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=147832
spodermen - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=366423
Plutonium - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=399356
silvercane - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=351921
dzeros -  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=508301
gambler_appeal - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=340934
NextPonzi - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=410356
NextPonziV2 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=412768
fastponzi - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=413326
bit-dividends - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=496639
bit-dividends.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=434420
Crypterest - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=487999
CryptoSplit - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=503558
dmugetsu - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=408040
Filasco - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=324783
InvestCryptos - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=507340
BtcGains - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=351936
kerimk2 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=359682
BitcoinPonzi.io - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=412415
sergiom - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=148888
(total of 20a lot of known alts)


Known scam sites he ran:
#bitcoin-stocks.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=906261.0;all
#bit-investors.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=682143.0;all, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703436.0;all
#NextPonzi - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=921851.0 - Looks like they scammed for ~12.5
#PonziFast v2 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938671.0;all - looks like they scammed for ~2.6
#bit-dividends.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=947235.0;all
#Crypterest.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1002314.0;all
#Cryptosplit.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1016501.0;all
#InvestCryptos - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1032537.0;all
#BTCBackers - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=824055.0;all
#BTCgains - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=761797.0;all
#BitcoinPonzi.io - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=927412.0;all
#autoponzi.com - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=924997.0;all
(total of 12 HYIP/ponzi scam sites)

edit: added blockchain.info links to all addresses/transactions
edit2: I don't see any harm in listing all his alts and scams that he ran, so they have been added.


Title: Luck & Merit
Post by: nullius on March 14, 2018, 02:21:02 AM
So luck also plays role in getting merit?

Luck also played a role in selecting which sperm got the egg, resulting in you.

Such is life.  Deal with it.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: tspacepilot on March 14, 2018, 03:53:35 AM
I wouldn't have come across this if it hadn't been for the long saga of quickseller abuse I've been suffering.  But recently he's started using a new alt/sockpuppet to try to attack me and I started looking more closely at the situation.  I realized that it seems that Panthers52 has done several deals which were escrowed by Quickseller.  The fact that Quickseller is escrowing for himself seems like a scammy behavior.  I'm not a trader here so it may be that there's nothing wrong with this.  But in any case, I'll go ahead and present some quantitative evidence here and you guys can discuss it as you please.


I happen to have some training in Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing so I know a thing or two about how people use language and how to measure it quantitatively.  Although QS does a few funny things to try to disguise his use of Panthers52 as an alt (he doesn't use a sig-ad, he signs each message with "Kind Regards", etc), these techniques are not very robust---they don't disguise QS's style of writing at all when looked at from a big-picture perspective, and this is just what language modeling allows us to do.

One reason that I set out to do this experiment is because all of the pieces are there.  QS has written a pretty large corpus of posts under his main account.  And there's a secondary account as well (one of his alts which was outed only a few months ago) to do model checking on.  So, here's the big picture set up.  We're going to download the corpus of posts of Quickseller, ACCTSeller (his outed alt), Panthers52 (his accused alt), hilariousandco, dooglus, and me.  We'll then build language models using maximum likelihood parameter estimation for all of the ngrams in each corpus up to n=3.  For those who don't know, 1-grams are all of the single word tokens in the corpus, 2-grams (called bigrams) are all of the word pairs, 3-grams are all of the word triples, etc.  The reason I don't use 4 grams or any higher n is that the data just gets more and more sparse the higher you go, unless you have an incredibly large amount of data.  For this project, a 3 gram model seemed appropriate (and the 3-gram section wasn't terribly sparse).  So, step one, I downloaded all of the posts of theses members as raw html.  I used this script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
u=$1
outdir=$2

curl --data "action=profile&u=${u}&sa=showPosts"  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php > $outdir/page0.html
dend=`cat $outdir/page0.html | sed -n -e 's/.*>\([0-9]\+\)<\/a> <span class="prevnext.*/\1/p'`
# dend=`cat $outdir/page0.html | sed -n -e 's/.*Pages:.*\.\.\. <\/b><a class="navPages" href="https:\/\/bitcointalk.org\/index.php?action=profile;u=[0-9]\+;sa=showPosts;start=[0-9]\+">\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/p'`
end=`echo "$dend" | head -n 1`
echo $end

i=1
while [[ $i -le $end ]]; do
  start=$(($i*20))
  curl --data "action=profile&u=${u}&sa=showPosts&start=$start"  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php > $outdir/page${start}.html
  ((i= i+1))
done

What's going on here is that you pass in a UID and a output directory and then use curl to get the first page of the "recent posts" of this member.  You then use sed to grab the last page of the post history, then you loop and do curl on each page and save the entire html into an output directory.  After doing this, I had a directory called rawhtml/ with subdirectories for each of the accounts in my experiment.

The next step was to strip out all of the irrelevant html stuff.  Thankfully, the html has a class "post" which contains people's posts.  And has another class for quotes and quoteheaders so it's pretty easy to load a page into beautifulsoup html parser, strip out the quotes and quoteheaders.  Here's my short-n-sweet python script to leave you with what I call "rawposts".

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

indir = sys.argv[1]
outdir = sys.argv[2]
for infile in os.listdir(indir):
  soup = BeautifulSoup(open(indir+"/"+infile),'html.parser')
  quoteheaders = soup.find_all("div", "quoteheader")
  for qh in quoteheaders:
    qh.extract()
  quotes = soup.find_all("div", "quote")
  for q in quotes:
    q.extract()

  posts = soup.find_all("div","post")
  f = open(outdir+"/"+infile,"w")
  for p in posts:
    print>>f, p
  print("done writing "+infile)

So, I ran this script to create a subdirectory for each account in the experment and I end up with a collection of posts, still as html, but without the embedded quotes.  The next step was to tokenize the file and to do some final cleanup before building the models.  By tokenize, I explicitly want to deal with punctuation and other funny stuff.  Imagine, if you leave periods and question marks stuck to the sides of words then you get some really funny counts which misses generalizations.  In fact, a period is a really common token at the end of a sentence so you want your model to have a high count of "." as a unigram, of ". </s>" as a bigram.  But if you leave the periods stuck to words you'll end up with lots of singletons "something.", "do.", "find." etc.  I also realized that the smiley html tags would be better replaced by single tokens so that we could see how they play into sentences.  Finally, I wanted to replace links which still showed up as <a href="..." target="_blank">link text with only their href value.  The rest is just constant and gets in the way of measuring what urls are actually being references.  This latter point could be important in identifying authorship.

So, I made a sed file and tokenized the corpus.  Here's my sed file:
Code:
# change smiley html for a tag
# remove <div class="post"> and <\/div>
s/\(<div class="post">\)\|\(<\/div>\)//g
s/<img alt="[A-Za-z]\+" border="0" src="https:\/\/bitcointalk.org\/Smileys\/default\/\([A-Za-z.]\+\)"\/>/--\1--/g
# change <br> for a real line break
s/<br\/>/\n/g
s/<hr\/>/\n/g
# do sentence breaking after . and ! and ? when space cap
s/\([?!\.]\)\s\+\([A-Z]\)/\1\n\2/g

# cleanup links, just use their href as if it was text
s:</a>\|<a href=\|target="_blank">::g
# punctuation stuff
s/\([,\.?]\)\($\|\s\)/ \1 \2/g
s/'s/ 's/g
s/\([()]\)/ \1 /g

# cleanup any spurious space at the end of the lines
s/\s\+$/\n/g
I also piped the output of this through "sed -e '/^$/d'" to remove any blank lines.  After doing this, I had what I thought was a pretty useable, tokenized, once "sentence" per line corpus of each of the accounts in my experiment.  Hand inspection of the corpus showed that there was still some noise in there, but crucially, all of the corpora were run through the same preprocessing and tokenization scripts, so any noise wouldn't be biased.

So, the next step was to do ngram counts over each of these models.  To do this, you simply count all of the 1, 2 and 3 grams in the corpus and create a counts file that you can use to create language models.  Note, I'm quite happy to share these count files for anyone who wants to see them.  The thing is that I guess they're a little too large for most pastebin services.  The quickseller counts file is approximately 8MB, for example.  I can tar these up and email them to anyone who's interested.  Or if anyone has a site they don't mind hosting them on then I could send them to that person.  Just let me know.

Code:
tspacepilot@computer:~/lm/counts$ ls -lah  
total 43M
drwxr-xr-x 2 tspacepilot tspacepilot 4.0K Sep  4 12:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 tspacepilot tspacepilot  16K Sep  4 11:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tspacepilot tspacepilot 1.3M Sep  3 10:40 as.count
-rw-r--r-- 1 tspacepilot tspacepilot  16M Sep  4 08:21 d.count
-rw-r--r-- 1 tspacepilot tspacepilot  12M Sep  4 08:20 h.count
-rw-r--r-- 1 tspacepilot tspacepilot 617K Sep  3 10:41 pan.count
-rw-r--r-- 1 tspacepilot tspacepilot 8.2M Sep  3 10:38 qs.count
-rw-r--r-- 1 tspacepilot tspacepilot 5.8M Sep  3 10:40 tsp.count

The next step is to generate language models from the count files.  I used Good-Turning smoothing over an MLE parameter estimation in order to generate plain text files that include the models.  These models are in the standard NIST format.  Here's the top of the file from tsp:

Code:
tspacepilot@computer:~/lm/lms$ head tsp.lm
\data\
ngram 1: type=21218 token=294893
ngram 2: type=117148 token=287741
ngram 3: type=215034 token=280589
\1-grams:
9787 0.0331883089798673 -1.4790148753233 ,
9243 0.0313435720752951 -1.50385151060555 the
8592 0.0291359916986839 -1.53557019528667 to
7152 0.0242528645983458 -1.61523695785429 </s>
7152 0.0242528645983458 -1.61523695785429 <s>

What you're seeing thereis the counts for each ngram type.  So the tspacepilot model has 294893 tokens/word instances, which fall into 21218 types.  To be clear for those who don't have a background in this, if I say "the" twice, that's two tokens and one type.  Then, you see the start of the 1 grams section.  You can see that I used a comma "," 9787 times and that the comma represents 0.033... of the probability mass of the unigram model, the second colum is that mass converted to a log value.  Here I reused a perl script that I had made some time ago.  It's short enough to show you the entirety here:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 
# Build ngram LM for given count file
# tspacepilot
use strict;


#setting up the input file handles
$#ARGV != 1 and die "Usage: $0 <ngram_count_file> <lm_file>\n";
my $ngram_count_file = $ARGV[0];
my $lm_file_name = $ARGV[1];
open(DATA, "<:", $ngram_count_file) || die "cannot open $ngram_count_file.\n";
open(OUT, ">:", $lm_file_name) || die "cannot open $lm_file_name for writing.\n";

my @data = <DATA>;

my %unis;
my $uni_toks;
my %bis;
my %flat_bis;
my $bi_toks;
my %tris;
my %flat_tris;
my $tri_toks;

#here we build up the hash tables that we'll use to print the answer
foreach my $line (@data){
my @tokens = split(/\s+/, $line);
my $l = $#tokens;
if($l<1){
print "error on this line of count file:\n$line\n";
print "l = $l";
} elsif($l==1){
#print "this is a unigram\n";
$unis{$tokens[0]}=$tokens[1];
$uni_toks += $tokens[1];
} elsif($l==2){
#print "this is a bigram\n";
$bis{$tokens[0]}{$tokens[1]}=$tokens[2];
$flat_bis{"$tokens[0] $tokens[1]"}=$tokens[2];
$bi_toks += $tokens[2];
} elsif($l==3){
#print "this is a trigram\n";
$tris{"$tokens[0] $tokens[1]"}{$tokens[2]}=$tokens[3];
$flat_tris{"$tokens[0] $tokens[1] $tokens[2]"}=$tokens[3];
$tri_toks += $tokens[3];
}  else {
print "error on this line of count file:\n$line\n";
print "l = $l";
}
}

print OUT "\\data\\\n";
print OUT "ngram 1: type=",scalar keys %unis," token=$uni_toks\n";
print OUT "ngram 2: type=", scalar keys %flat_bis," token=$bi_toks\n";
print OUT "ngram 3: type=", scalar keys %flat_tris," token=$tri_toks\n";

print OUT "\\1-grams:\n";
foreach my $uni (sort {$unis{$b} <=> $unis{$a} or $a cmp $b } (keys %unis)){
my $prob = $unis{$uni}/$uni_toks;
my $lgprob;
$lgprob = log10($prob);
print OUT "$unis{$uni} $prob $lgprob $uni\n";
}

print OUT "\\2-grams:\n";

#compute output for two grams
my @two_gram_output;
foreach my $flat_bi(keys %flat_bis){
my ($firstword) = $flat_bi =~ m/(\S+)/;
my $denominator;
foreach my $secondword (keys % {$bis{$firstword}}){
$denominator += $bis{$firstword}{$secondword};
}
my $prob = $flat_bis{$flat_bi}/$denominator;
my $lgprob = log10($prob);
push(@two_gram_output, "$flat_bis{$flat_bi} $prob $lgprob $flat_bi\n");
}

my @sorted_two_grams = sort{(split /\s+/,$b)[0] <=> (split /\s+/,$a)[0]} @two_gram_output;

#print output for two grams
foreach (@sorted_two_grams){
print OUT;
}


#compute output for 3grams
print OUT "\\3-grams:\n";
my @three_gram_output;
foreach my $flat_tri (keys %flat_tris){
my ($first_two_words) = $flat_tri =~ m/(\S+\s+\S+)/;
my $denominator;
foreach my $thirdword (keys % {$tris{$first_two_words}}){
$denominator += $tris{$first_two_words}{$thirdword};
}
my $prob = $flat_tris{$flat_tri}/$denominator;
my $lgprob = log10($prob);
push(@three_gram_output, "$flat_tris{$flat_tri} $prob $lgprob $flat_tri\n");
}

my @sorted_three_grams = sort{(split /\s+/,$b)[0] <=> (split /\s+/,$a)[0]} @three_gram_output;
#print output for 3grams
foreach(@sorted_three_grams){
print OUT;
}

sub log10 {
my $n = shift;
return log($n)/log(10);
}


Okay, with the language models all built (again, email me or PM me if you want to see the models themselves, I don't mind sharing them) we can start to get to the fun stuff.  The goal of the experiment is to use the language models as predictors of the other accounts texts.  The typical measure for this is called "perplexity" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity).   One nitty-gritty detail about this is what sorts of weighting to give to the 1,2,3 gram portions of the model when calculating perplexity.  Intuitively, putting more weight into the 1 grams puts more value on shared single-words, ie, the basic vocabulary of the person.  Putting more weight onto the 3-grams puts more weight on how that person puts words together, what three-word phrases they tend to use.  I ended up using weights 0.3 0.4 0.3 (uni,bi,tri grams) in calculating perplexity.  For each language model, I calculated the perplexity it assigns to each of the corpora of the accounts in the experiment.  Here comes the fun stuff, then, the results:

As plain text, checking the QS language model against every corpus:
Code:
==> qstest-acctseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=2722 num=57708 oov_num=1393
logprob=-119405.183085554 ave_logprob=-2.02254828472914 ppl=105.329078517105

==> qstest-dooglus-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=48667 num=827638 oov_num=108735
logprob=-1963318.24588274 ave_logprob=-2.55783608776103 ppl=361.273484388214

==> qstest-hilariousandco-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=42799 num=636455 oov_num=53676
logprob=-1514039.01569095 ave_logprob=-2.42022420176373 ppl=263.162620156841

==> qstest-panthers52-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=1663 num=25359 oov_num=1093
logprob=-53775.973489288 ave_logprob=-2.07397020669089 ppl=118.568740528906

==> qstest-tspacepilot-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=7150 num=280589 oov_num=29664
logprob=-666393.992923604 ave_logprob=-2.5821718218487 ppl=382.09541103913

Well, as you can see, qs' model predicts my corpus with a perplexity of 382, predicts hillarious with 263, predicts dooglus with 361.  But crucially, predicts the posts of ACCTSeller and Panthers52 at 105 and 118!!!!

What this means is that QS's posting style, when measured quantitatively shows through his attempts to hide what he was doing.  This isn't too surprising for anyone who knows how language works, but it may be to others.  For fun, I also ran each model as a predictor against each of the other corpora.

hillariousancco against all:
Code:
==> htest-acctseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=2722 num=57708 oov_num=2260
logprob=-136595.372784586 ave_logprob=-2.34820994988114 ppl=222.951269646594

==> htest-dooglus-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=48667 num=827638 oov_num=109662
logprob=-1934327.44440288 ave_logprob=-2.52311368446967 ppl=333.513704608138

==> htest-panthers52-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=1663 num=25359 oov_num=1828
logprob=-60634.1796607556 ave_logprob=-2.40669126223528 ppl=255.088724501193

==> htest-quickseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=24371 num=503617 oov_num=25750
logprob=-1193959.69530073 ave_logprob=-2.37727869117974 ppl=238.384871857193

==> htest-tspacepilot-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=7150 num=280589 oov_num=26006
logprob=-662995.55023098 ave_logprob=-2.5330988076818 ppl=341.270546308425

So, we can see that hillarious doesn't really have a style predicts any of the rest of us better than another.   At least not significantly.  However, it is interesting that hillarious' model assigns perplexities to all three of quickseller's accounts which are in the same range.  This provides an oblique suggestion as to the similarities of those corpora.  Here is dooglus' model predicting each of the other accounts:

Code:
==> dtest-acctseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=2722 num=57708 oov_num=2518
logprob=-141009.183781008 ave_logprob=-2.43488713532615 ppl=272.199382299313

==> dtest-hilariousandco-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=42799 num=636455 oov_num=44764
logprob=-1532563.94318701 ave_logprob=-2.4154264735252 ppl=260.271415205445

==> dtest-panthers52-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=1663 num=25359 oov_num=1752
logprob=-61358.7835651667 ave_logprob=-2.42812756490569 ppl=267.995538997277

==> dtest-quickseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=24371 num=503617 oov_num=26384
logprob=-1223316.26268869 ave_logprob=-2.43880882666145 ppl=274.668481585288

==> dtest-tspacepilot-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=7150 num=280589 oov_num=20198
logprob=-680500.394458114 ave_logprob=-2.5435368577456 ppl=349.572175864552

here's my model predicting all the other corpora

Code:
==> ttest-acctseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=2722 num=57708 oov_num=2850
logprob=-139530.390079984 ave_logprob=-2.42324400972532 ppl=264.998862488461

==> ttest-dooglus-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=48667 num=827638 oov_num=99717
logprob=-1946265.50900313 ave_logprob=-2.50617510057216 ppl=320.756230152803

==> ttest-hilariousandco-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=42799 num=636455 oov_num=50287
logprob=-1518909.27782387 ave_logprob=-2.41492682099994 ppl=259.972147091511

==> ttest-panthers52-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=1663 num=25359 oov_num=2043
logprob=-61310.1514410114 ave_logprob=-2.45446781060136 ppl=284.752673700336

==> ttest-quickseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=24371 num=503617 oov_num=30864
logprob=-1209678.28851218 ave_logprob=-2.43335322477326 ppl=271.239680896164

Finally, we can also use the acctseller models and the panthers models to predict the other corpora.  These models are a bit smaller than the qs model, so I think it's not as impressive as the results from the QS model.  But they do demonstrate the same pattern.

Code:
==> atest-dooglus-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=48667 num=827638 oov_num=158655
logprob=-1864342.35403158 ave_logprob=-2.59784345298067 ppl=396.135216494324

==> atest-hilariousandco-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=42799 num=636455 oov_num=87812
logprob=-1444217.53179264 ave_logprob=-2.44185825794015 ppl=276.603873729012

==> atest-panthers52-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=1663 num=25359 oov_num=2433
logprob=-54938.2415881704 ave_logprob=-2.23426091293548 ppl=171.498731827101

==> atest-quickseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=24371 num=503617 oov_num=36302
logprob=-1072293.35965131 ave_logprob=-2.18084989129508 ppl=151.652610771117

==> atest-tspacepilot-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=7150 num=280589 oov_num=47163
logprob=-623320.832692272 ave_logprob=-2.59095185177354 ppl=389.898758003026

Again, dooglus, me and hillariuos are all above 270 whereas the other known quickseller account is at 151 and the "suspected" alt is at 171.  And with the panthers model:

Code:
tspacepilot@computer:~/quickseller/ppls/ptest$ tail -n 3 *
==> ptest-acctseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=2722 num=57708 oov_num=5835
logprob=-126943.515020739 ave_logprob=-2.32518573167395 ppl=211.439309416701

==> ptest-dooglus-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=48667 num=827638 oov_num=200298
logprob=-1733046.66220228 ave_logprob=-2.56365194769031 ppl=366.144021870075

==> ptest-hilariousandco-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=42799 num=636455 oov_num=110187
logprob=-1420281.45120892 ave_logprob=-2.49580708635173 ppl=313.18942275869

==> ptest-quickseller-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=24371 num=503617 oov_num=55974
logprob=-1089757.40317691 ave_logprob=-2.30873957801444 ppl=203.582094424962

==> ptest-tspacepilot-3.4.3.ppl <==
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
sent_num=7150 num=280589 oov_num=56725
logprob=-602993.466557261 ave_logprob=-2.61020313295844 ppl=407.570866725746

Again, the panthers model is actually the smallest in terms of input data, so you can see how it's a little less robust for that reason.  Nevertheless, the similarities with the acctseller corpus and the quickseller corpus really stand out when comparing to values assigned to the dooglus, hillarious and tspacepilot corpora.

Lets summarize this in a table:

qsacctspan52dooghilarioustsp
qsX105.3118.1361.2263382.1
accts151.6X171.4396.1276.6389.9
pan52203.5211.4X366.1313.1407.6
doog274.6272.1267.9X260.3349.5
hilarious238.3222.9255.1333.5X341.2
tsp271.264.9284.7320.7259.9X

So, one thing I want to be clear on.  Perplexity measures how well a model predicts a certain corpus.  The first row shows us that the QS model predicts the acctseller and panthers52 corpora at approximately equally well, and far better than it predicts any of the others.  Most of the other rows here are just providing prespective to you.  You can see that the dooglus, hillarious and tsp models don't predict any of the other corpora very well (nothing anywhere below 250).

For completeness, here's the script I used to calculate perplexity:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 
#Build ngram LM for given count file
#
use strict;
use Try::Tiny;

#setting up the input file handles
$#ARGV != 5 and die "Usage: $0 <lm_file> <l1> <l2> <l3> <test_data> <output>\n";
my $lm_file = $ARGV[0];
my($l1,$l2,$l3) = ($ARGV[1], $ARGV[2], $ARGV[3]);
my $test_data = $ARGV[4];
my $output = $ARGV[5];
open(LM, "<:", $lm_file) || die "cannot open $lm_file.\n";
my @data;
if ($test_data eq "-") {
  @data = <STDIN>;
} else {
  open(DATA, "<:", $test_data) || die "cannot open $test_data.\n";
  @data = <DATA>;
}
open(OUT, ">:", $output) || die "cannot open $output for writing.\n";

my $lmstring;
while (<LM>){
$lmstring .= $_;
}

#build up the lm data structures for quicker retreival
my @lm = split (/\\data\\|\\1-grams:|\\2-grams:|\\3-grams:/ ,$lmstring);
shift @lm;
my @data_lines = split (/\n/, $lm[0]);
my @one_gram_lines = split(/\n/, $lm[1]);
my @two_gram_lines = split(/\n/, $lm[2]);
my @three_gram_lines = split(/\n/, $lm[3]);
my %unis;
foreach (@one_gram_lines){
my($prob, $w)=$_=~/\S+\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\s+(\S+)/;
$unis{$w}=$prob;
}
my %bis;
foreach (@two_gram_lines){
my($prob, $w1, $w2)=$_=~/\S+\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/;
$bis{"$w1 $w2"}=$prob;
}
my %tris;
foreach (@three_gram_lines){
my($prob, $w1, $w2, $w3)=$_=~/\S+\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/;
$tris{"$w1 $w2 $w3"}=$prob;
}


my $sum;
my $cnt;
my $word_num;
my $oov_num;
my $sent_num;

for my $s (0 .. $#data){
  if($data[$s]=~m/^\s*$/) {
    next;
  }
$sent_num++;
chomp $data[$s];
$data[$s] = "<s> ".$data[$s]." </s>";
my @words = split /\s+/, $data[$s];
print OUT "\n\nSent #".($s+1).": @words\n";
my $sprob = 0;
my $soov = 0;
  for my $i (1 .. $#words){
$word_num++;
if($i==1){
#w1 given <s>:
my ($w1, $w2) =($words[$i-1], $words[$i]);
my $onegramprob;
my $twogramprob;
my $unknown_word;
my $smoothed_prob;
if(defined($unis{$w2})){
$onegramprob = $unis{$w2};
} else {
$unknown_word = 1;
}
if (!$unknown_word){
if(defined($bis{"$w1 $w2"})){
$twogramprob = $bis{"$w1 $w2"};
} else {
$unknown_word = 1;
}
}
if ($unknown_word) {
$smoothed_prob = "-inf (unknown word)";
$soov++;
} else {
$smoothed_prob = log10((($l3+$l2) * $twogramprob)+($l1*$onegramprob));
$sprob+= $smoothed_prob;
}
print OUT ($i);
print OUT ": LogP( $w2 | $w1 ) = $smoothed_prob\n";
} else {
my ($w1, $w2, $w3) = ($words[$i-2], $words[$i-1], $words[$i]);
my $threegramprob;
my $twogramprob;
my $onegramprob;
my $unknown_word;
my $unknown_ngram;
my $smoothed_prob;

#the trigrams
if(defined($unis{$w3})){
$onegramprob = $unis{$w3};
} else {
$unknown_word = 1;
}
if(defined($bis{"$w2 $w3"})){
$twogramprob = $bis{"$w2 $w3"};
} else {
$unknown_ngram = 1;
}
if(defined($tris{"$w1 $w2 $w3"})){
$threegramprob = $tris{"$w1 $w2 $w3"};
} else {
$unknown_ngram = 1;
}

print OUT ($i);
if ($unknown_word) {
print OUT ": LogP( $w3 | $w1 $w2 ) = -inf (unknown word)";
$soov++;
} elsif ($unknown_ngram){
$smoothed_prob = log10(($l3*$threegramprob)+($l2*$twogramprob)+($l1*$onegramprob));
print OUT ": LogP( $w3 | $w1 $w2 ) = $smoothed_prob (unknown ngrams)\n";
} else {
$smoothed_prob = log10(($l3*$threegramprob)+($l2*$twogramprob)+($l1*$onegramprob));
print OUT ": LogP( $w3 | $w1 $w2 ) = $smoothed_prob\n";
}
$sprob+=$smoothed_prob;
}
}
my $sppl = 10**(-($sprob/($#words-1)));

print OUT "1 sentence, ".($#words-1)." words, $soov OOVs\n";
print OUT "logprob=$sprob, ppl=$sppl";
$sum+=$sprob;
$oov_num+=$soov;
$cnt += $#words-1;
}

my $ave_logprob = $sum/($sent_num + $cnt - $oov_num);
my $ppl = 10**(-$ave_logprob);
print OUT "\n%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\n";
print OUT "sent_num=$sent_num num=$cnt oov_num=$oov_num\n";
print OUT "logprob=$sum ave_logprob=$ave_logprob ppl=$ppl\n";

sub log10 {
my $n = shift;
return log($n)/log(10);
}


In sum, we know that Quickseller is adept at checking the blockchain to reveal transactions signed by particular accounts and to link them.  So it makes sense that he knows how to cover his tracks there and to use mixers and whatnot to make it difficult to detect his alts in that way.  He is an expert in this, so while I haven't tried, I suspect it would be difficult to link any of his accounts on the blockchain.  However, presumably, he's not an expert in forensic linguistics and statistical NLP so he didn't realize that providing a corpus of 552365 word tokens would actually give someone who wanted to detect his alts a reasonably reliable way to find the statistical fingerprint which is right there in the statistics of how he writes.

There's plenty of other circumstantial evidence that Panthers52 is an alt of Quickseller, but I'll leave that for others to talk about and discuss.  Also, I'm not a trader here so I'm not really affected by QS giving escrow for himself, but perhaps others who are will have more to say about whether this practice is truly a scam.  I opened this thread here because it seemed like scammy behavior to me, and I wanted others to be aware of it.

Here is a screenshot of QS feedback taken today: https://i.imgur.com/wIWClyf.png

Again, if anyone has any questions about this experiment or wants access to the particular data I ended up using, just let me know.  I believe I've provided all the tools in this post in order to replicate these results for yourself, but if something's missing, let me know about it.



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: cryptothief on March 14, 2018, 01:33:43 PM
Here's one of my recent posts. Not on the technical end of things, but reckon it's half decent.

When I first started to invest I used to panic whenever the market dropped by a few dollars, now I've started to enjoy the drops. It provides an ideal opportunity to average down, something I really should have learned about earlier, but glad I did eventually. For those who don't know what 'averaging down' is, it is buying more coins (in this example anyway, but works in exactly the same way with regular stocks) when the price drops to bring down your average buying price, therefore lowering the price at which you can cash in a profit. Using Bitcoin as an example...

1. Bought 1 BTC at $18,000 back in January (aaaarrrgggghh, unlucky...)
2. Price of Bitcoin drops to $9,000 (aaaarrrggghhh, why me...) - your $18,000 of Bitcoin is now only worth $9,000 and you cannot make any profit until it gets back above $18,000 - or can you??
3. Buy 1 BTC at $9,000 (clever, buy the sh*t out of that dip) - your average price paid for 1 BTC is now 'only' $13,500
4. Cash in profit at any point above $13,500 (champagne corks popping)

Obviously there are additional factors to work into this, as it would normally be worth making more than one extra purchase as the price drops to get a better average and to cover any sudden bounces back up, but it definitely makes market drops easier to swallow. It also emphasises the need to not put all your eggs in one basket and make sure you have the funds to buy 'if' (translates in cryptospeak as 'when') the market falls. Deciding when you make these averaging down purchases is the key, as no-one has unlimited funds to keep buying more if the market keeps dropping, but plenty of research and use of technical analysis will go a long way to helping pick out buy points.


Couple of others I wouldn't mind posting, but I'll stick to the rules of one post, hoping I picked the right one.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 14, 2018, 04:26:59 PM
posting this one also cause it took around 2 hours to analize it
USER PROFILE :  wangxiaoyan888666  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1274393)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1274393
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFD3p/5a4dd47f27.png
MISCELLANEOUS: rank up in 1 day, exactly 90 merit from jr to menber

USER PROFILE :  yeyz20171031  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1267831)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1267831
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFDpT/baa240de0b.png
MISCELLANEOUS: rank up in 1 day, exactly 90 merit from jr to menber
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1241053

USER PROFILE :  SKMoon  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1315135)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1315135
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFDyb/572a4d463e.png
MISCELLANEOUS: rank up in 1 day, exactly 90 merit from jr to menber

USER PROFILE :  whisee   (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1241053)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1241053
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFEJw/7c1d82d057.png
MISCELLANEOUS: rank up in 3 days it can be possible (ok almost no without abusing) also need to check the Source of merit received for this user but look the user  atileture   (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1241330) 
is the one of the key here, the account linked with

USER PROFILE :  atileture   (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1241330)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1241330
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFF4m/e17955c26f.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Great but why report? (besides the fact that gives merit at the same alts and received from the same guy) Now become interesting this account is linked to

USER PROFILE :  stanforders    (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1084353)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1084353
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFFea/2bed64c90c.png
MISCELLANEOUS: linked with cheater n1 of this list

USER PROFILE :  Ricsung   (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1055007)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1055007
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFFiJ/630ddb6980.png
MISCELLANEOUS: linked with cheater n1 of this list

USER PROFILE :  democity   (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1082792)
MERIT SUMMARY :https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1082792
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFFqF/19b4fb766e.png
MISCELLANEOUS: linked with cheater n1 of this list

Accounts involved
USER PROFILE :  zhouyc  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1283512)
MERIT SUMMARY: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1283512
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFDML/b4079c2734.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Ranking up, linked with previus account got merit from same people under 1 minute on different 3ds

Merit seller/main account and main alts?

USER PROFILE :  10000usdperbtc  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=182922)
MERIT SUMMARY: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1283512
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFDwd/b51a953d11.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Merit seller/main account? 1  legendary Same signature 10000usdperbtc - zcxvp

USER PROFILE :  007eminem  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=344090)
MERIT SUMMARY: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=344090
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zFDDA/3122abb8aa.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Merit seller/main account? 2 Hero

USER PROFILE :  zcxvp  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=170897)
MERIT SUMMARY: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=170897
PROOF:
 https://puu.sh/zFEeP/51fb5f041c.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Merit seller/main account? 3 Hero Same signature 10000usdperbtc - zcxvp

Others possible accunts involved
USER PROFILE :  coin2.0  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=337973) SR. Member linked with devilzero ->(linked with atileture  & SKMoon). Same signature 10000usdperbtc - zcxvp
USER PROFILE :  devilzero  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1053730) -> linked with atileture  & SKMoon

Final Thought: 90% of accounts seems linked but is very very long to report every nebwie linked, can be someone with 20 alts in my opinion
A lot of newbie accounts are envolved with around 10 merits received in almost every case from one on the list above
90% of small accouts are linked= giving merits each others in diffentents 3d in under a minute time-frame, also Jr ranked up using same signature.



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: RivAngE on March 15, 2018, 02:19:42 PM
Hello! Thanks for this chance Gleb Gamow!
I believe I'm worth more merits than what I have not because of a single post, but because of my general attitude which is only visible through my post history. But based on this thread's rules, here's one of my posts,

eth-claymore use all gpu instead of listed in config
Yep, it's easy to fix though. I'll try explain it to you but I'm from my phone at the moment, so I won't be able to tell you the exact steps.

1. Go to the folder where you've placed NemosMiner
2. Find a .ps1 file that includes "Claymore" in its name
3. Right-click and edit
4. Somewhere on the first lines, about 4th to 6th line I think, you'll see the text ethash= " ". Inside these quotes after the ethash you type extra arguements, but make sure you leave a space before you type.
5. Type in the arguement manually, that'd be ethash =" -di 12" for 2nd and 3rd GPU or whatever else you want.

I hope I helped, please let me know! :)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: msprof1d on March 15, 2018, 03:59:33 PM
Hi, the author of this topic my friend, he really wants to earn the title of Member, has created a very useful post for beginners but almost no one appreciates, a lot of comments where people are grateful, but newcomers have no Merita, if he will get his reward for the work done, it will be very nice to look at further work
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3077313.0
In a short time, planning to translate your topic to English


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: ezavarov on March 15, 2018, 04:17:37 PM
How to save a key for Google Authenticator

Quote
If you properly configure the security of mail / wallets / exchanges, you must install two-factor protection (Google Authenticator). During the configuration process, you need to scan the QR code so that the Authenticator application starts to generate unique 6-digit codes. And you scanned it, you added the key to the application, and everything seems fine.

BUT there is a moment - but what if your phone / tablet breaks, or you lose it, as on the new device to restore the codes Google Authenticator ?

1. You can make screenshots of QR codes when attaching two-factor codes, and hide printouts in the storage room (why not)

2. Use the online version of Google Authenticator, but if you break the laptop / PC, everything will go into oblivion (a bad option)

3. After losing the device, make a million tickets on all exchanges / wallets / mails, and spend months with technical support (very long, and not always efficiently)

4. And you can use special official programs that will help you decrypt the QR code and show you a unique secret key (a set of numbers and letters) that you can enter with the pens on the new device, thereby restoring access to Google Authenticator codes

For Android device owners

Application: QR Droid
Play Market: https://goo.gl/o8d9BH
How to use: run, scan the QR code when connecting two-factor protection. Next, you will see a text consisting of numbers and letters, eg secret=twwolj564uf7x4se6ft7t2hhfjh1c33v&issuer=Google

When setting up Gmail, all that's in the text after "secret=" and up to the mark "&", and there is your secret key.
When setting up other services: everything in the text after "secret=" and there is your secret key.

For Apple Owners

Application: QR-Code Reader
App Store: https://goo.gl/5VuLxh
How to use: run, scan the QR code when connecting two-factor protection. Next, you will see a text consisting of numbers and letters, eg secret=twwolj564uf7x4se6ft7t2hhfjh1c33v&issuer=Google

When setting up Gmail, all that's in the text after "secret=" and up to the mark "&", and there is your secret key.
When setting up other services: everything in the text after "secret=" and there is your secret key.

_______________________________________

Keep your keys separate from passwords, always have multiple backups, both on physical media and in print. In this case, in case of force majeure (loss of your electronic equipment), you can quickly restore access to your accounts on different services

P.S. Who helped to understand, you can click on +Merit


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: allahabadi on March 15, 2018, 05:53:03 PM
Hope these posts merit some sMerits :


1.
One persons oppressive regime is another persons bid for freedom.

btw - which country is stll a democracy? It certainly isn;t the UK, the US or the EU.

The answer very much depends on the definition you apply for a democracy and the context that you use.

I see shows like Our Cartoon President and feel that US (I'm not from USA) is still a democracy where you can criticize people freely in a justified manner, irrespective of their stature which is not available in the Asian/African countries.

2.
This

We should find them and have a review of their posts and merit them if they have merit worthy posts. not everybody here has a few merit source friends to notice their contribution.

This

Why should someone lose signature privileges because they don't post very often? Or because they're inactive for a while? Or because there's not enough merit to go around? Or because they're not in a social group that customarily merits each other (like Default Trust cliques, the Wall Observer regulars, etc)? How do you even know that merit distribution is adequate to begin penalizing those who don't earn it?
-snip-
And you can be damn sure that no matter how meritorious a post is, you will not receive merit if your opinions are not agreeable. Nobody hits the "like" button when Debbie Downer is bringing everyone down. But this is a fucking forum. How popular you are (or the extent you're willing parrot popular opinions) shouldn't decide whether you can display a signature. It's fundamentally problematic to penalize people on such an uneven, subjective basis. That's the opposite of what a forum should be.

And This

I think, that I am not the only one:
I did not receive a single merit since this new system started.
Maybe its because I am not making friends here. Maybe I am posting in the wrong threads. Maybe my postings don't reach that high quality which is needed for earning merits ... I don't know. I don't take care about it. It doesn't matter. In the meantime, I have said goodbye to the idea of being able to ascend again at all.
Again: That doesn't matter.

But getting a spammer's stamp on my account ... nah ... that matters.

So please take care, that you don't hit the wrong members when you try to solve a big (yes! it is!) problem here.

Regards!
McW


edit:
You should take a look here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3121688.0

It is very hard to earn merits. And when you let them drop every months, you will leave a lot of frustrated members behind...


Possibly I've been wrong, but most merits are distributed among coteries and groups. The posts that tend to belittle others and point fingers are the ones that have been receiving merits as well. Posts like ICO ANN and Bounties ANN by Bounty managers are receiving merits( WHY ???).

I've rarely tried to please people and have also tried to increase the quality of my posts in the past months, but I've rarely received merits from unknown sources, just people that know or those I have merited (dunno if it was a gesture or anything but I never asked them for it).  

A lot of people have been harping on the Sig campaigns thing. Here are a couple of things:

Q1. Why do companies have Sign Campaigns?

A. To
    (a.) To grab eyeballs so that people know about them and invest or use those services.
    (b.) To pay posters who make good posts on BCT.

I think it's the (a.). (Correct me if I'm wrong or have a wrong notion anywhere in this post.)

Q2. Do people make decisions to invest in ICO or use a service based on the Sign Holders?
A. I've seen people wear the Signature of a Mixer, I have looked into the service and it looks AWESOME. I wouldn't care if a racist half-wit is wearing that signature and spamming endlessly (actually someone racist is wearing it), I have and will use the service.

I've also seen many good posters wear the sign of a Mining company and I have looked into it again, will I invest, HELL NO!

Q3. What's the use of merits and such regulations then?
A. I hate to say it, but the winners are ICO Bounties that need to pay less (Sorry Satoshi, but Centralized Institutions are winning), because people won't rank up. I think the only useful system is the TRUST, that too when u are trading and not proselytizing your political opinions. As for rest, all Ranks and Merits should be abolished and each Bounty Manager shud be made to count posts and assess the quality and pay for them. ICOs are happy to have 100 Jr. Members Shit-Post and say Good Project while grabbing attention to their projects, because that also is a form of marketing. Why do the PAUL BROTHERS and their gangs have Millions of views when all they make is SHIT, because even cringe is appealing and makes for good marketing.

Q4. What's my proposed solution?
A. Read the BOLD part up.
EDIT : Initiatives such as SMAS list by Lauda is a good reference point and I applaud them, although I'm on the list (Rightly so!) and believe that it has little utility in term sof marketing. (Again grabbing eye-balls is more important !)


My 2cents : All of us can agree that Sign campaigns pay well, but why do they pay to make good posts or to grab eyeballs. If it was to make good posts, add that in Article Bounties. I hope someone points out valid loopholes and assumptions that I made.

Thanks.


P.S. Can some marketing veteran point it out that my logic has fallacies, but remember that most investors in ICOs are extremely clueless and not a reformed crowd that they would care for quality of adverts or advertisers. We also have instances in the past to prove it. MIOTA raised a small seed on forum and was being called a SCAM all the time. The marketing was shit, but most of us can agree that the project is doing good today.

3.
I was reading the whole thread expecting this viewpoint, but failed to find or overlooked it.  ???

The person might be a revolutionary or radical activist waging war against some imperialist nation or oppressive govt. and hence resorts to these measures.

Also, these crimes aren't immoral unless u state the context as well.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: stein888 on March 15, 2018, 06:26:47 PM
Please check this out:)

Hey guys! I'm making this thread to help those guys who wants to start trading but don't know where to start. And if the higher ranks members of this forum want to share their ideas that will contribute to the knowledge of newbies please feel free to write a reply to this thread.

To start trading, you must first learn this things that are commonly used in trading
1. Candle stick reading-Learn how to read the Candle sticks chart because it is the chart that is used in movements of stocks in crypto.
2. The Support and resistance
3. Chart formations, Patterns and structure- this will help you whether to buy or sell, but keep in mind that rhis is not 100% accurate.
4. The technical indicators in the chart.

You can do your own research, Google, investopedia and youtube are the most helpful sources that can help you improve your knowledge in trading.

Read news, updates and background of the coins you want to trade with.

 BUY LOW SELL HIGH and stay away from pishing sites!

I hope that this will be helpful!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: s2break on March 15, 2018, 06:39:12 PM
Hi Gleb!
Can check my post?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3115013.0
My post for newbies, beginners need helps.
I'm trying to do this everday.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: slankoi on March 15, 2018, 08:30:46 PM
Hello Gleb!
Please, check this out. Hope I deserve some merit. Thx.

Despite current fall on crypto and altcoins market there are still some ICOs which are potentially good for investments. I would recommend Kickcity, Open Collectors, Effect.AI, TrueGame as they have real working projects and solid advisors.

You can check some spreadsheets with ratings as well (DiddyCarter (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I3SCazxzVBlo5gBwEvXPOg55HUqd3i8q688tHDa5p3A/edit#gid=643510543) and another consolidated (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1O9l9IfMHju3MKsE6WVuQ4N3RETl-ewaxM9s0s5Znikk/edit#gid=0) one).

Also have a look on some ico rating websites. My favorite is https://icobench.com/. It provides very flexible filter system, so you can choose ico which meets your own special criterias.


And this one is another candidate post for merit:

Dear Bitcointalk forum members!

I decided to share some interesting AIRDROPS with you in this topic constantly. Only airdrops which, in my opinion, have potential in the future will be listed here.

Topic will contain both referral and non-referral links. In case you like this topic, you can use referral one :)

For the upcoming week I have list of 3 projects. As I've said already, I will update the list as I find something interesting.

04.02-10.02

  • CURRENT

    http://i101.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0204/b6/4dad8cf7117c366371547ae7454bd2b6.jpg (http://fastpic.ru/)

    Current is an incentivized, blockchain-enabled streaming ecosystem that lets you choose how to stream and pay for your media.

    Earn up to $100 in free CRNC by inviting friends. You'll earn 5 CRNC for each friend you invite to the network. Up to 400 CRNC, valued at $100.

    Referral:
    https://referral.current.us/?mwr=6402-75ef8226
    Non-referral:
    https://referral.current.us/

  • LINO

    http://i99.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0204/91/b2bc407eb586f75116642c56afbceb91.jpg (http://fastpic.ru/)

    LINO is decentralized autonomous video content economy. One of the hottest in 2018.

    Share your referral link to friends and for each verified referral you will receive 15 LINO tokens. Also, you will receive an additional 5 LINO tokens for each person your friend refers!

    Referral:
    https://drop.lino.network?code=mXr4wkM9 (https://drop.lino.network?code=mXr4wkM9)
    Non-referral:
    https://drop.lino.network/

  • DOCK.IO

    http://i102.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0204/91/e58fffa841a20298707d7b558e057f91.jpg (http://fastpic.ru/)

    DOCK.IO is decentralized professional data exchange.

    Earn 3$ for referred friend! Up to 3$ for retweet! Up to 150$/week for signature campaign.

    Referral:
    https://app.dock.io?r=ivanslanko:aaaaPPWe (https://app.dock.io?r=ivanslanko:aaaaPPWe)
    Non-referral:
    https://app.dock.io/


So that's what I got for you for the first week. Please, share your thoughts and feedback on this initiative. I will try to make the topic better!
Good luck in becoming rich! ;D




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: BitcoinTurk on March 15, 2018, 08:59:35 PM
Hello,

Here is my some topics;

i) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3052737.msg31429170#msg31429170
ii) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2947670.msg30280501#msg30280501
iii) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2928045.msg30065657#msg30065657

Thank you so much.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: r1s2g3 on March 16, 2018, 04:03:38 AM
Hi Gleb

Please find my quoted posts.

1. Awareness against scam.

Hi All.

Increase in the  popularity of crypto currencies attracted lot of investor but also lot of scammers too.

Below is the common  traps/scam in crypto currencies that should be avoided and safeguard your crypto investment.

1. Free Bitcoin generators:
 I came across the variety of sites that say that they have find security flaw in bitcoin code/or bugs in mining pools and they are able to generate the BTC for free. You put your bitcoin wallet address and they will generate from 1 to 3 BTC within minutes.The real scam starts now, when they say to send .2 BTC to them as miner fees to claim your generated BTC. I never tested them but it is clear scam when someone is asking you to send BTC to give you back the BTC. Why do not they send that generated BTC minus miners fees in BTC instead of asking  first to send miner fees?

2. Cloud Minings:
There will be variety of sites that promise you to provide hashpowers to generate/mine bitcoins,litecoins/ethereum and in return of some 30 to 40 Dollar packages. These sites will be newly created and offering promising returns.But they last for few weeks only(A quick cash grab and shutting down the business). Even the sites that were existing for years , not all investors are happy.So investing in Cloud mining as a newbie is a big no.


3. Fake Twitter/social Media accounts:
a.) These fake account impersonate a famous personality in crypto world (like John McAfee) and will ask you to donate some small amount of BTC to them and in return they will promise  greater amount of BTC(Like you send me .02 BTC and in return this impostor promise to send .2 BTC).
b.) Sometime it will be fake account of some popular website/exchange to scam the users.

4. Scam airdrops.
Although airdrop looks safe bet but in scam airdrops you will be requested to give some donation to receive the airdrops (like .01 Ethereum). Be careful in these airdrops and do not send your money to them.

5.) Scam coins and ICOs.
Although a full proof method cannot be guranteed to identify the scam coins and scam ICOs, but still following point can be taken into consideration before investing.

a.) Developers promise very high returns on investment, Giving too much referral bonus or whole setup look like a ponzi scheme.
b.) Coin/Token is ready without any whitepaper or poorly written whitepaper.
c.) Coin is not solving any problem or implementing any new idea.
d.) Website look poor, Hosted in free platform like "Wix" or there is no https for website.
e.) Dev reserved too much coins for them, or too much premined or any other scheme that is giving undue benefit to development.
f.) No source code available.
g.) Roadmap putting emphasis on listing coin in exchanges instead of doing some real development.
h.) Team members are not known at all

6.) Do not beleive others without DYOR .
It is quite possible that person advising about coin/token is associated with pump and dump, or getting some personal gain like referral bonus so it is better to do your own research.

7. Precautions while buying coin/token in Exchanges.
a.) If you have no intention to trade your coin in near future then it is best deal to transfer your coin to your own wallet.
b.) If coin is forked recently then also check that exchange is having coin from new fork.
c.) Do check if exchange wallet is available or in maintainence mode before buying coins.
d.) Check the exchange withdrawal fees beforehand the purchase of specific coin.
e.) Send small amount to your wallet to verify transaction instead of sending all coins in one transactions.

8. Password security.
Create strong passwords by using combination of letters (uppercase/smallcase) numbers and special characters.If possible then use 2FA authentication.

9. Phishing attacks.
Do not open the suspicious links. Bookmark the original links, instead of searching the internet for link of sites.

10. Wallet safety.
a.) Do not give your wallet private key to anybody.
b.) Always backup your wallet.dat in some external device.
c.) Private key of wallet should be safely stored in some other place or external device. Do not save private key in same device (In case of Trojan or virus attacks). Save your key in other device/place because if you forget your key then you will lose your investment forever.
d.) Keep your wallet locked if possible offline too.

11. While copy pasting your wallet address , recheck the address that is pasted is same what you copied. (you might be affected by Coin RPG malware)


Last but not the least, Never invest the money  that you can't afford to lose.

2. Awareness against cheaters.

Here are five tips for turning the inherent volatility of Bitcoin trading in your favor:

1. Become fluent in technical analysis
2. Adopt a sustainable pace
3. Stay aware of news items
4. Implement stop losses
5. Use prudent leverage

Are you related to Daniel? https://www.danielstrading.com/2017/12/11/5-key-bitcoin-trading-tips

Hi Q.E.D /all

If you come across any copy/pasted post here, please report in below thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2855895.60


3. Playing my part against spammers.

I have been thinking how to utilise my merits in the most constructive way possible and I came up with this idea.


(Note : Merits will only be given if the reported account is banned/temporary banned by a forum moderator thereby considering it as a successful report)

• Bonus merit points considering the time and efforts put in to find the shill accounts.
                       _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________


3.Reporting accounts abusing the Merit system:  Suspected users that are abusing merit 3.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.0)

(Note : Merits will only be given if the reported abuse is verified and accepted by the maintainer of the thread)

• Amount of merits given will depend on the number of abuses successfully reported and your rank.
  _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________




Hi Joel

I once reported a user and his threads were removed too.
I directly reported in mail to moderator and got positive response too (That his started threads were removed).
Will I am eligible for merit, If require I can personally pm that mail as evidence.
I am bit susceptible in publishing in open to avoid any kind to retaliation.


Hi Joel .
I have not heard back  from you regarding my mail.

Anyways , I believe more in "Report to Moderators"  instead of creating threads about it .(I think it help me to preserve my identity ,retaliation and effective as request directly goes to the Moderator's queue ) 
 Please find below the my stats for the "Report to Moderators".
https://i.imgur.com/5PngBFz.png

4. Helping the community member

Anyone have a resolution for that ?

Every time i want to find latest topics , i just know the way checking last comment by people . It takes me to much time .


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0;sort=first_post;desc;

Here board=39.0  is Beginners&Help Board. So you need to add "sort=first_post;desc;"  only , after you reached your desired board.

5. Providing my honest opinion.

Hey Guys I really like the Steemit network. Ive always felt that there should be some sort of compensation system built into likes, and shares and all that stuff. I am interested in finding other people that have and write original content on steemit because i want to see what they have to say. So i dont really want a bunch of re-posters, i want to read blogs people on here have written.
 
Also, what are your thoughts on Steemit? Do you think it has some fatal flaw?

The social media that is more commonly used is being monitored and censored more and more, and quality content has no choice but to adapt to the new networks. I feel like any real information that will come out in the future will do so on platforms like dtube and steemit.
What do you think? Do you still trust what you see on FB and Twitter?

I'd love to hear what you all think.

I am in steemit network for more than 2 months and they have lot of information but I think they are only horizontally diversified. (Jack of all trades,master of none).  If you want to further dive in a topic , I think it might not be an ideal platform. So Bitcoin talk can be your one stop for gathering/understanding for all your crypto currency curiosity but steemit will offer something of everything (like cryptocurrency, photography, story,nature ,funny, food etc. and list can go on.)
I think you can find original content because they have a "@cheetah" bot that is able to determine copy and pasted content and people can flag the content but real catch is that a member of higher reputation can destroy the reputation of member that is having reputation lower than him but reverse is not effective.

Now coming to question of fatal flaw, I did not understand the context.
If you are just login as a another social media site then just make sure never to lose your password.
If it is for earning from steemit, then you have to ready invest some steem of your own to succeed. (Either as a curator or Author) so I can say platform has flaw that you need to invest before succeeding in most cases. (Authors are using/paying bots for upvotes, so real audience is much less)



About any social media they work on same principle "Fire is a good servant but a bad master" so we have to filter the information.
I think information originate arise from steemit platform will be real  because no one like to put own reputation in stake.





These are few post. Your feedback is also very welcome.




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coly20032003 on March 16, 2018, 05:29:56 AM
Please find my new post for forum search guide:  :)

I believe a lot of you have used the search function in bitcointalk before, but maybe not all people know all the tricks to make your search more accurate/effective. Today I will try to write a simple tutorial about more details on bitcointalk search.

You can access the search easily by clicking the "SEARCH" tab on the top of the forum. There are two types of search that is available on bitcointalk, Google Search and Forum Search.
(If you directly use the search bar on the top right side of the forum, it is default to be forum search.)

https://i.imgur.com/05aA535.png

Google Search

Advantages of Google Search:
  • Google search is generally more accurate.
  • The forum's own search engine are rate-limited, if you use google search it won't cost a lot of forum resources.
  • Google search has a lot of predefined search parameters which you can use.
  • Google search does not have time limitation between different searchs


Disadvantages of Google Search:
  • You will only be able to search public sections using google search. For non-public sections, such as Investigations, you won't see in google search.
  • You cannot search within a specific board using google search.


Some Tips for Using Google Search:
  • To search for exact match, you can put a word or phrase inside quotes. For example:
    Quote
    "earn bitcoin"
  • If you want to combine search, you can use OR. For example:
    Quote
    bitcoin OR litecoin
  • You can use  * in your word or phrase where you want to leave a placeholder. For example:
    Quote
    best *
  • If you want to exclude certain word from your search, you can put - before the word you want to exclude. For example:
    Quote
    earn bitcoin -faucet




Forum Search

https://i.imgur.com/38cVqoq.png

Advantages of Forum Search:
  • You will be able to define which board to search in. Just click the "Choose a board to search in, or search all" link on the search screen, you can select one or multiple boards to refine your search.
  • You will be able to see non-public sections using forum search, such as Investigations.
  • You will be able to define search order and message age using forum search.


Disadvantages of Forum Search:
  • Sometimes forum search is not as accurate as google search.
  • If you search too quickly using forum search, you will get an error like "You are searching too quickly. Wait 6 seconds. "


Some Tips for Using Forum Search:
  • You can use the "Message age" option to define the age of the messages you want to search. For example, you can define the search to be within 0 and 10 days.
  • You can also set different search orders to suit your needs. Search order available:
    • Most relevant results first
    • Largest topics first
    • Smallest topics first
    • Most recent topics first
    • Oldest topics first



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Nikkolodeon on March 16, 2018, 06:46:18 AM
please check this. :)

Online traders of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin tend to speak in impenetrable jargon, heavy on acronyms, slang terms, and hashtags. Some of it is borrowed from traditional finance, but the digitally native generation of self-taught traders has additional vocabulary all its own. Some useful terms to get you through a conversation — or message-board fight — include:

Bags: Cryptoassets being held, generally as longer-term plays; sometimes used self-deprecatingly for soft or losing positions one should close, but can’t for whatever reason.

Bitcoin Maximalists: The truest believers in bitcoin’s original mission and design, often paired with a disdain for altcoins.

#BTFD: “Buy the Fucking Dip.” Advice to other traders to pick up a coin that’s presumably hit its bottom. “$GNT Golem making moves. Underpriced @ 7.5K If U are buying GNT under 10K still a good price 3 X LETS GO $ETH #CRYPTO #trading #BTFD”


#DYOR: “Do Your Own Research.” The trader’s caveat that advice shouldn’t be taken at face value. “$BCY has an appealing risk/reward here. Could take a few months to play out, however, and will require patience. #DYOR”

Exit Scam: Traditionally a term for darknet markets and vendors that, after building up a good reputation, accumulate bitcoins and disappear; exit scams are also feared by ICO participants who worry that, once they’ve raised hundreds of millions in hard-to-trace money, the developers will take the money and run.

Fiat: Government-issued money.

#FOMO: “Fear of Missing Out.” When a coin starts to moon, dumb money rushes in. “$LGD on a TEAR right now!!! It has major highs right now! Some major #FOMO going on!!! Sell while it’s high. It WILL drop before fight!!!”

FUD: “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.” Another non-crypto term that describes attempts to scare weak-handed coin-holders into selling their positions, often with rumors of exit scams or hacks; the cheap, dumped coins are then picked up by the FUD-ers.

Hodl: The intentionally misspelled word hodl has its roots in a December 2013 post on the Bitcoin Talk forum, “I AM HODLING”; when the author, GameKyuubi, couldn’t be bothered to fix his typo, the community instantly turned it into a verb: to hodl. Along
with other terms, hodl is an effective litmus test for sussing out newcomers, carpetbaggers, and tourists.

#Lambo: A running joke among traders, you’re cryptorich when you can buy a Lamborghini; though absurd, it’s not unheard of — when Alexandre Cazes, the suspected founder of a major darknet marketplace, was found hanged in his Bangkok jail cell, Thai media reported that he owned four Lamborghinis.

#Moon: A rapid price increase.

Pump: A rapid price increase believed to be the result of market manipulation, a.k.a. pump and dump.

#Rekt: Wrecked. “I never sell because of #FUD, and I never buy because of #FOMO. That’s the easiest way to get #Rekt”

Shitcoins: Pejorative term for altcoins, especially low-cap coins, often affectionately used by shitcoin hodlers.

Sats: Satoshis, currently the smallest unit of a single bitcoin, useful for tracking coin prices. “At the rate $XRP’s moving, I wouldn’t be surprised if it hits 10K sats by the end of the day.”

Whale: Anyone who owns 5 percent of any given coin, often used as a boogeyman to explain unwanted price movements. “Nice support $NEO. Clear whale manipulation.”




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Sergeymedia on March 16, 2018, 10:58:23 AM
Hi, Gleb!
Please, check this out. Thank you so much!

Probably, you are faced with the problem of KYC registration if you participated in the bounty or airdrops, and also if you invest in any ICO at any stage.
   Reliable companies always notify you of the need for KYC at the very beginning. This is indicated in all project documents. So they give you the right to choose whether to open their personal data or not.
  You can consider as scammers those companies, that did not report the KYC procedure at the beginning, for example before the beginning of the bounty, and then put you before the fact. In such projects, I recommend not to participate. But the choice is always yours.
    KYC - is a very important point, which can not be ignored. Many large (small too) investors do not want to show with their personal data. After all, why was the cryptocurrency created? As a means of anonymity payments, that's right. Why should investors open their personal data? Especially when they have already invested their money, the KYC requirement is equivalent to a catastrophe! Surely you saw the reactions of such people in the chats of different projects.

    Before you send your personal information, such as passport scan, you need to answer the main question: whether to do it? Think carefully before giving an answer. Let's think together.

YES
   You get paid for your work (And this is your time - the most valuable and irreplaceable resource). You deserve a reward for the time spent, for example in the case of bounty. If you are an investor, you have already made your funds, and KYC for you is an important step for getting your tokens. You are ready to take risks by sending your personal information to the company.

NO
    You send your personal information to those with whom you are unfamiliar. What will happen to your personal information in the future - you don't know. Third parties have access to your documents, and nobody is responsible for distributing documents over the network, except for you. Have you ever seen an agreement on the non-distribution of personal information?
    There is always a possibility that the file with the data of the participants can be hacked, stolen, resold to third parties. As you know, hacker attacks occur regularly, especially in the field of crypto-currencies. And the project administrators who collect the data are tempted to sell them and become richer at the same time. And to prove the sale is almost impossible.
    You participate not in one project but in many. And the more you distribute your personal data to all companies, the more chances are that they will fall into the hands of scammers.
    It's not new that fraudsters can commit many illegal acts with your passport data. I can advise all people who scatter their personal data, be cautious and attentive. Do not be surprised if you are already on the wanted list abroad...

    As far as I know, there are people who send fake documents for KYC or are processed using graphics programs. There you can change the appearance, hide the numbers, codes or fix them to nonexistent. You have the right to do what you think is right. But in many countries, faking is considered a criminal offense, for which you can sit for a long time. So, do you think it's worth risking your own freedom for 1-2 thousand incomprehensible tokens...
Many will say: I did it 100 times, and there was no problem. Believe my experience, problems can suddenly occur 101 times.

I can confidently answer the question: "Do you send personal documents for KYC?" - NO.

If this message was useful to you or saved you from a fatal mistake, you can share the merit, I will be very grateful. Thank you.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 16, 2018, 03:53:33 PM
ban them all!

Accounts Connected:

 Yhan-yhan  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1433732)
 mikaeala15  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1542861)
 Annmika815  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1698624)

Proof:
http://archive.is/pYdRz
http://archive.is/7Dww4
http://archive.is/Z2anR

https://etherscan.io/address/0x177db1e10c8b82bbaedcfabfd1a49189fa8cb4a9#tokentxns
Related Addresses:

Code:
0x177dB1E10C8B82BbAeDcFABfD1A49189Fa8cB4a9
0x768B0Eb23c175eFbd85ED435D3b7899B76a3d4B0
0x31291200Bb7a18e2d13A705421F872E06a9b3d7B

Proof:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0fe61c933a3c36559fcf7d2c74516118602eabd57a3c253189efc54d8e4e0415
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x346877850b397cd879a35fb4d279b080a29270633015f60c3928348b5b794f41
https://etherscan.io/address/0x768b0eb23c175efbd85ed435d3b7899b76a3d4b0#tokentxns

But there is a loooooooooooooooooooooot more

Experty io abuse related addresses
ADDRESS collection
Code:
0xd5A42a670efc318D3D76A536E0a8cA23aEa651A3

Code:
0x3ff1463d6EC9354642C8599C7a84BE01ed49eC50
0x3bE700284048dCAEbB9612965243b43207ceeC6C
0x2BCB5569d38aDb8954320523A8250529Cb23391e
0x5343D6fCF198Ad5aa59E9A471b3415C9b6cf4e94
0x591CD549312344c65C0e1F5De127f00c157d27Fb
0xfb643e05802aC5B1bfd84104B0E75a59AD2C9C7b

https://etherscan.io/address/0xd5a42a670efc318d3d76a536e0a8ca23aea651a3#tokentxns

EQUAL abuse related addresses
ADDRESS collection
Code:
0xA7175eb2f1dfd6fF1A5d7d6c6a7fc34b5b465385

https://etherscan.io/tokentxns?a=0x177dB1E10C8B82BbAeDcFABfD1A49189Fa8cB4a9&p=2

Code:
0xD61De6B052b70f06fd58D05cD5EE8E41F28479B2
0xcd16c9e06E40CB6aa470Cf77144df1Ca306Bb35c
0xD17f52399b65115bFc6e60a2e835a53fe1bacB88
0xBeA04D2ac55D76D24e3448754B0b37f6fA6C331F
0x31291200Bb7a18e2d13A705421F872E06a9b3d7B
0x5343D6fCF198Ad5aa59E9A471b3415C9b6cf4e94

Miscellaneous:

Abusing bounties this is can be the dirtiest account fuond ever,
https://etherscan.io/tokentxns?a=0x177dB1E10C8B82BbAeDcFABfD1A49189Fa8cB4a9
keep investing if u can already spent 1 hour on it
There is a lot more but is too much for me


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coolws on March 17, 2018, 06:53:40 AM
Please, check this out. Thank you so much! :)

Know that there are several posts about some infographics to explain the merit system, so I create a video, try to attract attention in a relaxing way to describe rank system and how to level up their rank for members.

Here's my little piece of work:
Describe rank system and how to level up their rank (https://youtu.be/PcBkudISgQM)

Here is the snapshot for video.
https://i.imgur.com/gMLeXpS.png

------------------------ March 10 updated ------------------------

Thanks for comments and advice, already updated.
By the way, any comments and advice are welcome :D



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: khai29 on March 18, 2018, 04:18:53 PM
Hoping all the high rank members more smerit they have create their own thread or forum about SMERIT and offer to the lower rank to give them a merit if they can give or contribute a post  that make very useful  idea,in that case lower rank can share their idea about that topic,in this thread is one of the example what I mean,hoping more high rank create their own thread so that they can give opportunities to the lower rank to have merit even though there is other ways to get merit like doing a posting or create their own poat but it's sad to say that no one will notice such that way,hopefully the high rank will help the low rank to rank up and they will be the bridge to be able to rank up the low rank to be like them someday.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: mandibleclaw on March 18, 2018, 04:37:27 PM
I don't know if it's merit-worthy but anyway, I'll leave this here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3140295.msg32524338#msg32524338 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3140295.msg32524338#msg32524338)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Speculatoross on March 18, 2018, 05:48:20 PM
Hi Gleb!
Can check my post?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3115013.0
My post for newbies, beginners need helps.
I'm trying to do this everday.

I'll give you 1 of my last smerit for that post:)
I'm trying to improve the forum by using this merit system in the better way, and it's good to see someone jr member trying to help and creating useful post and not only spam to get more activity.
(Saw you often do that in your comment, as you said, so worth it merit )


Plus, i've tried to answer some of the question on that 3d, add those to the main post if you think this will be useful:)

Questions for the OP, which may be helpful for a Newbie interested in bounty campaign participation:

I'm not the OP but i think i can help answer. If OP want can add this list to the main post!


Quote
(1) What's the benefit of joining a bounty campaign?
A bounty campaign is basically a way to support a team / crypto project.
By doing that you will get rewarded with tokens (tradable for other altcoins or $)

Quote
(2) What does a bounty campaign cost me to participate?
The rules are specific for each different campaign so you should carefully read the ANN 3d.
Anyway, usually to partecipate in a bounty campaign you will be asked to write a number of constructive post (eg 10 post) per week (there could be other rules like min 70/80 words, only in specific forum sub-section, ....)

Quote
(3) How many tokens do I get, what's the bounty?
Each campaign works with different rules, so again read carefully the ANN 3d!.
There may be a "token prize pot" that you will share with all other partecipant based on number of stakes you earned, or there may be a pre-determined number of token you get for each week joining the campaing.


Quote
(4) How long does it take to get the bounty?
You can be paid each week or at the end of the campaign.

Quote
(5) How quickly can I sell my bounty after it's given to me? And where do I sell it?
If the tokens are not locked for some reason, you can trade your token as soon as they go to an exchange.
Refer to the specific project to get updates and/or search for the token on coinmarketcap.com


:)
hope this can help



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: 1993jochico on March 19, 2018, 06:03:52 AM
I would like to take this opportunity to earn some merits.
First of all, WHY merit is released?
-In my own analysis, merit system is released to reduce the spam of creating account and also to reduce spam/trash post but to gain many QUALITY post.

As a newbie it is so hard to gain merit points for me too because of lack of knowledge of cryptocurrency that is why many newbies cant create a QUALITY post like me.
Even when you post a Quality post some people will not appreciate it and dont send merits.

TIPS FOR NEWBIES
-Make reading a habit so that you will be able to relate on the topics of cryptoworld. If you are new here and all you know about this forum is that you can earn from here start FIRST on reading topics/news about crypto for you to be able to relate to the topics in this forum.

-Another tip is dont expect a merits on your post for you not to be disapointed if no one gives merit on your post.
(not all quality post gain merit).

TIPS TO GAIN MERIT
1. Always post a Quality/Useful post and can be use by other people here in BCT.
2. Make a reply to other people that needs your help or make a reply that is related to the topics post.
3. Make sure that your thread is related to the section where you will post it.
4. DONT EXPECT MERIT ON ALL YOUR WORKS.

EDIT: In every merit you receive you also get 0.5 sMerit (sendable merit), so you need 2 merit to get 1 sMerit.

Let them appreciate you.

Hope this post helps you and you learn with me.
If you have any suggestions to my post feel free to reply/qoute my post.

What should I do to improve rank ?
write messages, leave comments, be here more time
This is not the right way to do it, you just encourage them to spam the forum and then eventually get banned.
You must make all of your post to be constructive, understandable, and useful dont just post make your self a good contribution to this community.
It is better to suggest them to read and study about cryptocurrency and the forum rules and regulations.
I suggest to all of you to read all those sticky thread because it can help you a lot, read and search before posting.

For the OP I want to help you to get some merits on your work if its your own original work try to post it here it is reasonable to be rewarded.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2957836.160


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coly20032003 on March 19, 2018, 06:21:23 AM
Hi Gleb, could you check my latest post regarding forum thread sorting? Thanks!  :)

In bitcointalk forum, if you go to a board, the default sort behavior is to sort by most recent reply, but sometimes you may want to sort by most recent thread that is created, so that you can view the latest topics easily. It is pretty easy to do so, here is how:

First, go to that board, for example, in Meta board, the URL will be:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

Then, append the following to the end of the board URL to sort by most recent topic that is created:
Code:
sort=first_post;desc

Also, do not forget to add ";" after the board URL, so the new URL will become:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;sort=first_post;desc

This way you will be able to view the most recent thread that is created. Some people find it helpful using this code to find the latest announcement in bounty or altcoin board. In the code:
  • first_post means sorting by the first post of a certain thread
  • desc means sort from newest to oldest




A little more to thread sorting:

1) If you want to view oldest thread first, add:
Code:
sort=first_post;asc
 or
Code:
sort=first_post
Actual URL (for Meta board): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;first_post;asc  

Note: By default it is always sorting by ascending, so it is fine to not put "asc" here.

2) Sort by most replies:
Code:
sort=replies;desc
Actual URL (for Meta board): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;sort=replies;desc

3) Sort by most views:
Code:
sort=views;desc
Actual URL (for Meta board): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;sort=views;desc

4) Sort by thread starter (the author of that thread):
Code:
sort=starter
Actual URL (for Meta board): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;sort=starter

5) Sort by thread subject:
Code:
sort=subject
Actual URL (for Meta board): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;sort=subject

6) The default sorting behavior of the threads is in fact:
Code:
sort=last_post;desc

This is because the forum is default to be sort by latest reply, if you try https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0;last_post;desc, you will in fact view the same sorting as https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0.





Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Diacris on March 19, 2018, 03:53:10 PM
Is not exactly a comprehensive post, but gets the point.

He's not 'moving', he bought some NANO....
I find it for normal Charlie Lee to invest in other projects and alts. What do you want, a man with millions to not spend some on alt investments?!

Also, I completely agree with him, that NANO is one of the best now, despite the BitGrail 'hack'.

That's the same logic as Warren Buffet not investing into other companies only because he owns Berkshire Hathaway  ;D

I find it very tiresome that people often misinterpret other's intention and their decisions.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 19, 2018, 04:37:33 PM
hoping someone will get red trust....


Those 6 accounts are clearly linked, also the minors accounts are linked too I saved them for when they rank up
Probably almost every single account on this post is envolved on merit trade/sell/buy or alts

USER PROFILE :  1kodumtek7  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1217914)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1217914
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zJWtv/c639a7931c.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Exactly 90 merit to rank up traded (given and recived with same users) in 2 waves

USER PROFILE :  emrecemsan  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1217918)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1217918
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zJWEu/fdf314d039.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Exactly 90 merit to rank up traded with users (from last account of this post)

USER PROFILE :  crazy1204  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1207946)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1207946
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zJWL1/eb24c3b731.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Exactly 90 merit to rank up traded with users (from last account of this post)

USER PROFILE :  Mavilcposeti  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1233301)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1233301
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zJWWn/de16855075.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Exactly 90 merit to rank up traded with users (from last account of this post)


USER PROFILE :  mehmet312  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1229152)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1229152
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zJXha/ba9141262e.png
MISCELLANEOUS: 90 merit in 1-2 days, from users in this post to rank up



Merit giver/seller

USER PROFILE :  deepocean  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=685117)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=685117
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zJWRn/f24ca5ba7e.png
MISCELLANEOUS: gives merit only on accounts for ranked them up, this is main account of one guy or merit seller



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 19, 2018, 04:44:00 PM
I have no words left

Accounts Connected:

(Where possible put UID's in numerical order) They are not in numerical order cause a lot of links involved following the order post on the bounty 3d

Pai92 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1216463)
Kimk1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1282408)
Maror1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1283508)
Teeer90 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1229498)
Rofov1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236867)
Perpor22 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1237587)
coddor92 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1238834)
coi21 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1249027)
spuror22 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1253836)
Nyior (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1257036)
comp1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1254724)
pulor86 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1281820)

Proof:
What are the odds those 12 Newbie accounts posted in 15 minutes on the same bounty with the same format , 3 days after the last day of the week time? and last activity in one hour gap? 0%

Pai92 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1216463) -> http://archive.is/Kl9gl  LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1216463;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/xOrEV
Kimk1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1282408) -> http://archive.is/9GKBl LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1282408;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/zTLGj
Maror1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1283508) -> http://archive.is/s36Wx LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1283508;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/clLil
Teeer90 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1229498) -> http://archive.is/REMlc LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1229498;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/ONKUn
Rofov1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236867) -> http://archive.is/Od4eL LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1236867;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/yynBg
Perpor22 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1237587) -> http://archive.is/02Jrr LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1237587;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/mMnph
coddor92 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1238834) -> http://archive.is/dRoD7 LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1238834;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/a0ndi
coi21 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1249027) -> http://archive.is/Qjof9 LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1249027;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/Zem1j
spuror22 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1253836) -> http://archive.is/HFm6f LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1253836;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/hglhs
Nyior (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1257036) -> http://archive.is/VwHjC LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1257036;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/5uk5t
comp1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1254724) -> http://archive.is/JKG7D LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1254724;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/HWkHv
pulor86 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1281820) -> http://archive.is/9n1wZ LAST POSTS -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1281820;sa=showPosts -> http://archive.is/IYZIc

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32470271#msg32470271 -> http://archive.is/GjY1c
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32470493#msg32470493 -> http://archive.is/vADPU
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32470579#msg32470579 -> http://archive.is/jODDV
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32470681#msg32470681 -> http://archive.is/wDiQB
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32471229#msg32471229 -> http://archive.is/QKA78
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32471313#msg32471313 -> http://archive.is/r9VJt
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32471505#msg32471505 -> http://archive.is/EYAV9
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32471679#msg32471679 -> http://archive.is/4BVlv
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32471797#msg32471797 -> http://archive.is/lBeAX
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32471941#msg32471941 -> http://archive.is/W0zci
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32472287#msg32472287 -> http://archive.is/zsyOk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.msg32472570#msg32472570 -> http://archive.is/oJdC2

Related Addresses:

Code:
0xe2fD6c3ee931a267CD4b241bF80828aF48d1c068
0xf6f29Ed566042bb2B3Dcd20829605456ADCE1ACA
0x594DF0e3db5DfFc6b82b467D5e00960E4354Fb4f
0x813A73601477F53b76e58f3c5a122B8FA0292457
0x5C9d01C61076F0Aaa8b783709a5735E2F625193b
0xB92D3506C3B4d4D5ecb27CfeFFBa9b84Cc53DB0B
0xa3D09EA7291847b99693BA38DA209e72B24dC07B
0x9016b453De5F6932668bB4d686614017C8b33Ba9
0xa1be2F3E8C1A99b669b15edFdDD3D25f28D72df6
0x466c1C9f206Adffc0cAb97bfccbED2676EE2FDd9
0x4CD302C1c4AA1d92c48DA9bd0e3Aea74c1674851
0x8046883aEdc074cC98B56e97eC84B1ec3Be0CE1f

Miscellaneous:

12 newbie accounts, probably same persone abusing bounty
Bounty relaterd:
KRYLL https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2792957.0
AKAAIITO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2804960.0
FORTY SEVEN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2225653.0
DOCECAEMIC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2770283.0
AWOKER https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2321373.0
TV TWO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2895348.0
NODE https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2518585.0
VISO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2999028.0
GRONDIGITAL https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2858989.0
QYKBAR https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2851126.0
AMON https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2875712.0
VARYCRYPT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2727037.0
AITHEION https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2836062.0
COINVEST https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2398996.0


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: RYXES on March 19, 2018, 11:25:26 PM
Hey, I am the helper for all mining newbies!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3078792.msg31780099#msg31780099
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3078792.msg31780099#msg31780099)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3080455.msg31779804#msg31779804
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3080455.msg31779804#msg31779804)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3068124.msg31621932#msg31621932
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3068124.msg31621932#msg31621932)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3117369.msg32215844#msg32215844
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3117369.msg32215844#msg32215844)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111271.msg32178112#msg32178112
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111271.msg32178112#msg32178112)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111149.msg32178012#msg32178012
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111149.msg32178012#msg32178012)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3106853.msg32177822#msg32177822
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3106853.msg32177822#msg32177822)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3110572.msg32177640#msg32177640
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3110572.msg32177640#msg32177640)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3107942.msg32130861#msg32130861
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3107942.msg32130861#msg32130861)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108860.msg32130449#msg32130449
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108860.msg32130449#msg32130449)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3037085.msg31778339#msg31778339
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3037085.msg31778339#msg31778339)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3063895.msg31572884#msg31572884
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3063895.msg31572884#msg31572884)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3023468.msg31561599#msg31561599
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3023468.msg31561599#msg31561599)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3034586.msg31331079#msg31331079
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3034586.msg31331079#msg31331079)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3003548.msg30911497#msg30911497
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3003548.msg30911497#msg30911497)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2163949.msg30911165#msg30911165
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2163949.msg30911165#msg30911165)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2985340.msg30689120#msg30689120
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2985340.msg30689120#msg30689120)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.msg29322665#msg29322665
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.msg29322665#msg29322665)

PS I know you said no links but it is 11:35pm here and I am all BTCtalked out! night night!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: steve_rogers on March 20, 2018, 12:48:37 AM
Hello, thank you for such opportunity!

Here are just my thoughts,but unfortunately I´m not strong enough in English


Three Whales of Bitcoin
Quote
I have a theory according to which the currency exchange rate, in addition to the speculative component  is on the necessary factors to the world community, elites and businessmen (whales), they release a huge flow of funds where like on the island there are plenty of altcoins and bitcoins. Let's try find out what caused the crazy growth of cryptocurrency during the last year's .

   The first whale is actually what for what was created bitcoin - fast, convenient and safe implementation of the transactions, the replacement of traditional banking. Previously I've submitted an article about little Chinese city in Moscow, and how they use bitcoin to avoid customs control and taxes. Involving any currency in large cash flows is the reason for it´s pumping , increasing of the capitalization. There you can also add the sale of all the iron from Bitmain for bitcoin, and in general, there are a lot of places in China where  bitcoin is a very simple and convenient financial tool. What are the negative aspects of this "whale", what can lead to its sudden death? Apparently, the pressure the United States, a country that now, can not only resist China's actions, but also actively oppose them, if within the summit of G20 or any others, the US manages to push through "sanctions against bitcoin," and it will be prohibited any kind of use, exchanging. Then it will completely kill its ability to quickly and easily move money from point "a" to point "b", respectively, we will expect a strong fall in rates, down to self-cost, or even lower.

   The second whale is the speculative effect of insane volatility and pump, for reasons mentioned above, people who bought bitcoins for $ 20,000 are already heroes of memes and stories (like a man who bough pizza for 20k bitcoins). In fact, when bitcoin falls, there are much less people wanted to buy it, dump is the object of interest only among professional traders who can play on dumps, but not even so long as cryptocurrency will not reach the bottom and it's stabilization.

   The third whale is the most stable and reliable. Crypto-currencies are a simple, convenient and profitable way to keep money safe, even if the first two whales die crypto-currencies will continue to exist thanks for drug traffickers, drug dealers, corrupted bureaucrats, law enforcement officers and businessmen. Nowhere labeled money has grown many times, that's why the work of the FBI has become much more boring, instead of photo of pallets of cash, lambos and mansions, the FBI reports on seized crypto-currencies. Then they will be auctioned off. In the Russian Federation with its corrupted militarists, technical progress has not reached them yet, but I think more and more of these citizens make  the appropriate conclusions and instead of pallets of cash,they will keep everything in the cryptocurrency, because it is so easy to escape, go to any place in the world, and to hide from everyone. This category of citizens do not give a f*ck about the increasing rate, ideally the cryptocarrencies were stable and got rid of the frenzied volatility, and that it could easily be cashed anywhere in the world, or at least among its owners with a higher percentage fee. It is almost impossible to win this battle, if bitcoin has been learned how to be tracked already with the help of special software, took all the stock exchanges under control, then decentralized exchanges, special exchanges, special networks will be created, if the rounds for miners start and the transactions cease to be processed, but what will be the course of the bitcoin in this case, large question.
     So what do you think?

The original of my post is here


https://pp.userapi.com/c834103/v834103214/f76ad/5fTPjudrfvs.jpg


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Wheelige on March 20, 2018, 04:08:11 AM
I'll had a dig with these bad boys.

Whether a company decides to issue a utility token or a security token really depends on the business model they are looking to achieve and how they intend to tie in to regulations in the states they will be operating in.

At one point in time you could get away with an ICO that would pay out dividends (clearly a security) and there wouldnt be too much fuss because the ICO phenomenon wasnt big enough. But now with the crackdown of global regulators on securities and making sure that any company selling securities complies with local securities regulations genuine consideration should go into whether or not you business model can support a utility token.

Some organisations, Paypie for example went the route of a utility token, and are now having to actively work with their local (Canadian) regulators in order to show that it is a utility token and therefore exempt from security regulation. In order to do this they are essentially needing to complete their platform and show the use case of the token. The whole concept revolves around how their token will be engaged in the platform.

Another example would be Caviar, they have decided to release a token that will pay out dividends based on performance of the organisation. As such they dont need to focus on a use case of the token as it is only there for passive income. They do however have to put further consideration into the markets they are going to be allowed to sell their tokens to (they were pinged by a US state regulatory office for having sold a security to a US citizen). They are now having to complete a full KYC audit in order to ensure that no tokens were sold to persons in states which the sale would not be legal. Every country has a different regulatory framework for securities and the level of regulation of/interference with the market is different, therefore there can be a lot of work to protect your business from attracting unwanted attention from regulators.

As noted to a degree above why does there need to be a defined 'good', 'right' point of market dominance for Bitcoin. That is something for the market to determine and plays both off what other coins have to offer and what bitcoin has to offer. Bitcoin is still has the biggest share as it is the household name, with a strong support, following and direction, but that doesnt mean it needs to hold 50% of the market. It can do its thing at any % (though I guess it may lose some of its shiny appeal if it is 2nd on CMC).

Think about where Ethereum was in January last year. I'm sure most people didn't see the huge potential and the massive crypto explosion (token-wise) that would be caused as a result of the eth network. So at the start of last year there was a bigger market dominance by bitcoin because the other players in the game were weaker, but that dint stop eth from executing its plan and becoming a star player that has earned its slice of the market.

When I got into Bitcoin it was the easiest thing to buy with $$ and therefore was required in order to purchase eth or other coins, some of which may or may not be shit (im sure future me will give me a lecture in time). This added to its utility and thus gave it a bump in market dominance. If you go on any major exchange you can now pick up around 5-10 crypto assets which has eroded the 'gateway' effect that bitcoin had.

I don't think there is a perfect, right or good market slice for bitcoin to hold on to (nor do I see a need for there to be one), but I see it being the big boy on the block for some time.

Dear Experts, kindly inform:

Shall an company registered in Hong Kong make KYC and ALM for its Utility token sale (ICO) and at the same time prevent US, China, etc. citizens from doing contributions?  

The Overall Risk Score is 10 from 100 due to "The Howey Test".




This is not legal advice whatsoever. The reason why ICO issuers do this is to exercise extreme caution in fear of future regulations by the United States that currently aren't in place. They are showing legal due diligence to make sure that they are not in violation of any potential ruling. KYC and AML requirements became rampant after the SEC's DAO report. The Howey Test is a good place to start but there are so many factors that can deem a ICO/crypto a security. Even if it's token is no where near considered a security, how it's sold, marketed, amongst other things could still define it as one. In my opinion, it will most likely come down to a case to case basis in determining this.

There are securities laws in the United States that would prevent the sale of an unregulated/unexempted security from being sold to someone in the states. The issue for the state or federal regulator would be getting the entity to appear in their jurisdiction, as its quite easy to just ignore them if you do not operate or have a place of business there. Caviar.io is a recent example of a company that got pinged, even though they had anti-us measures in place they still sold to a US person and got in trouble for it. The principal operated out of a US state and so they were able to slap his wrist easily. Now they are having to do a full scale KYC audit to show the regulator in which ever state the principal operates out of that they are willing to play ball.

I think KYC and AML precautions show a capable and risk averse team which in my opinion is a good thing. If they are willing to play ball with global authorities and have done their research about how to conduct themselves then that shows at least they care.

On the utility token point there are a number of concerns with proving that the token has actual utility and isnt just a non-dividend bearing security. My understanding is that Paypie is having to wait until their platform is 100% operational in order to show the Canadian authorities that their token has genuine utility and should be exempt from securities regulations. Voting rights on platforms, staking rights on platforms & proper use cases are what your after. Simply swapping a token for something that money could buy can mean that the 'utility' of the token is questionable (ie you can buy stuff from X using x token isnt really utility because why cant you do that with $).


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 20, 2018, 04:56:43 AM
Hey, I am the helper for all mining newbies!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3078792.msg31780099#msg31780099
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3078792.msg31780099#msg31780099)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3080455.msg31779804#msg31779804
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3080455.msg31779804#msg31779804)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3068124.msg31621932#msg31621932
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3068124.msg31621932#msg31621932)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3117369.msg32215844#msg32215844
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3117369.msg32215844#msg32215844)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111271.msg32178112#msg32178112
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111271.msg32178112#msg32178112)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111149.msg32178012#msg32178012
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111149.msg32178012#msg32178012)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3106853.msg32177822#msg32177822
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3106853.msg32177822#msg32177822)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3110572.msg32177640#msg32177640
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3110572.msg32177640#msg32177640)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3107942.msg32130861#msg32130861
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3107942.msg32130861#msg32130861)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108860.msg32130449#msg32130449
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108860.msg32130449#msg32130449)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3037085.msg31778339#msg31778339
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3037085.msg31778339#msg31778339)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3063895.msg31572884#msg31572884
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3063895.msg31572884#msg31572884)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3023468.msg31561599#msg31561599
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3023468.msg31561599#msg31561599)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3034586.msg31331079#msg31331079
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3034586.msg31331079#msg31331079)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3003548.msg30911497#msg30911497
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3003548.msg30911497#msg30911497)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2163949.msg30911165#msg30911165
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2163949.msg30911165#msg30911165)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2985340.msg30689120#msg30689120
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2985340.msg30689120#msg30689120)https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.msg29322665#msg29322665
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.msg29322665#msg29322665)

PS I know you said no links but it is 11:35pm here and I am all BTCtalked out! night night!

Exception made, bud.

Aside: I've been deathly sick the past few days, most likely due to something I ate. If it wasn't for drinking massive amounts of apple juice, I would of ended up in the hospital for dehydration and hooked up to one of them drip machine thingies. Been there - done that, umpteen years ago, so knew what I needed this time. Ass is still sore but that, too, will pass.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: goodlucktoyou on March 20, 2018, 06:58:28 AM
This thread may be worth your attention too:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=225690.0


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Arian247 on March 20, 2018, 06:58:46 AM
I would like to take this opportunity to earn some merits.
First of all, WHY merit is released?
-In my own analysis, merit system is released to reduce the spam of creating account and also to reduce spam/trash post but to gain many QUALITY post.

As a newbie it is so hard to gain merit points for me too because of lack of knowledge of cryptocurrency that is why many newbies cant create a QUALITY post like me.
Even when you post a Quality post some people will not appreciate it and dont send merits.

TIPS FOR NEWBIES
-Make reading a habit so that you will be able to relate on the topics of cryptoworld. If you are new here and all you know about this forum is that you can earn from here start FIRST on reading topics/news about crypto for you to be able to relate to the topics in this forum.

-Another tip is dont expect a merits on your post for you not to be disapointed if no one gives merit on your post.
(not all quality post gain merit).

TIPS TO GAIN MERIT
1. Always post a Quality/Useful post and can be use by other people here in BCT.
2. Make a reply to other people that needs your help or make a reply that is related to the topics post.
3. Make sure that your thread is related to the section where you will post it.
4. DONT EXPECT MERIT ON ALL YOUR WORKS.

EDIT: In every merit you receive you also get 0.5 sMerit (sendable merit), so you need 2 merit to get 1 sMerit.

Let them appreciate you.

Hope this post helps you and you learn with me.
If you have any suggestions to my post feel free to reply/qoute my post.

What should I do to improve rank ?
write messages, leave comments, be here more time
This is not the right way to do it, you just encourage them to spam the forum and then eventually get banned.
You must make all of your post to be constructive, understandable, and useful dont just post make your self a good contribution to this community.
It is better to suggest them to read and study about cryptocurrency and the forum rules and regulations.
I suggest to all of you to read all those sticky thread because it can help you a lot, read and search before posting.

For the OP I want to help you to get some merits on your work if its your own original work try to post it here it is reasonable to be rewarded.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2957836.160
This is a good post for it details why the merit system was implemented


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: timoshani on March 20, 2018, 08:46:22 AM
Please check this post and thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3151786.msg32572803#msg32572803

It is my thoughs about merits and future in forums. Only thoughts... Thank's for your review


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Neelix on March 20, 2018, 09:44:41 AM
Thank you very much for this opportunity. Threads like these build more trust to the merit system which is inevitable.
Great job!  :)

I would highly appreciate if you could review some of my recent posts.

Exposing of a Scammer's alt + merit abuse:

I was browsing through the marketplace while i found this:

What happened: Abuse of the merit system; recognition of a scammer's alternative account

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1940492 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1137488

Reference Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3127836.0
Amount Scammed: 10 Merit
Payment Method: Bitcointalk's Merit
Proof of Payment: See Scammers Profile
PM/Chat Logs: None
Additional Notes: Merits have been given for an absolute nonsense post. Red DT to scammer's profile was given about a week ago, so probably the scammer now wants to take the last advantages of his previous account djeezer12.

In another Thread the user tries to sell 15 ETH what possibly leads to scam as well: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3129321.0




Helped a user with a question regarding uploading images on Bitcointalk:

You did nothing wrong. The problem is on the backend of bitcointalk or the host of the images. Which service did you use to upload those pictures?

Usally, if you refresh the page a couple of times, pictures will show as normal again. Other users might either see the pictures, or the same error like you. Nothing to worry about.


Thank you a lot!! I use host which is used for my site.

No problem mate. I think most people here are using https://imgur.com/upload for uploading - there seem to be less problems.

If this is the thread you're meaning: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3132637.msg32399268#msg32399268
I can see all of the pictures.  :)



Helped a user that got scammed by phishing (unfortunately local / german board, just FYI):

Wirklich sehr ärgerlich! Immer unbedingt die URL checken bevor es ans kaufen geht.
Über eine einfach Google Suche "Domain Info + URL" findest du die wichtigsten Infos:

Code:
Raw Whois Data

Domain name: antminers-bitmain.com
Registry Domain ID: 2232936362_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2018-02-27T16:05:50.00Z
Creation Date: 2018-02-27T15:19:34.00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-02-27T15:19:34.00Z
Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: email@namecheap.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Reseller: NAMECHEAP INC
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: addPeriod https://icann.org/epp#addPeriod
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Registrant City:
Registrant State/Province: Panama
Registrant Postal Code:
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.8365503
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +51.17057182
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: email@whoisguard.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Admin Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Admin Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Admin City:
Admin State/Province: Panama
Admin Postal Code:
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: email@whoisguard.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Tech Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Tech Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Tech City:
Tech State/Province: Panama
Tech Postal Code:
Tech Country: PA
Tech Phone: +507.8365503
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +51.17057182
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: email@whoisguard.com
Name Server: brad.ns.cloudflare.com
Name Server: rose.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: unsigned

Quelle: https://www.whois.com/whois/antminers-bitmain.com

Unbedingt bei der Polizei Anzeige erstatten. Geringe Change auf Erfolg für dich, trotzdem ein nötiger Schritt um in Zukunft in einer besseren Welt zu leben.

I am always open for constructive criticism & feedback. Thanks in advance!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: kraterion on March 20, 2018, 12:47:21 PM
Just giving some knowledge to people


Other cryptos just hold, but cryptoflix will be the most traded and transacted coin if people starts watching movie everyday. More transaction more utility

will cryptoflix have own chain ?  i don't want spend $1 gas on every transaction

No no no way, you don't have to spend $1 to transact erc20 tokens, but you know what? FLIX is an erc223 token, which is even way cheaper to transact because it use one function (transfer) instead of two (approve and transferFrom, that's the case of erc20. I copy paste from Dexaran page on github:

  • ERC223 transfer to contract consumes 2 times less gas than ERC20 approve and transferFrom at receiver contract.
  • Allows to deposit tokens intor contract with a single transaction. Prevents extra blockchain bloating.
  • Makes token transactions similar to Ether transactions.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: timoshani on March 20, 2018, 01:14:00 PM
Let's remember the last joke from strong the world (G20 summit) to the market of cryptocurrency.


You have already forgotten, then you must look at pictures.


https://i.imgur.com/I8lJ4XJ.jpg


It was pleasant?! Than - that we after the summit became similar to hedgehogs.

Bon Appetito the lovers of cryptocurrencies!!!




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: mithrim on March 20, 2018, 02:52:14 PM
I posted a suggestion in regards to Signature Campaigns, unfortunately, people started to discuss the necessity of Signature Campaigns in general instead of picking up the topic, which is sad because I think that this would really improve the forum and utilize the new Merit system in a positive way.


Hey all,

as most of us now had some time to get acquainted with the new Merit-System, I thought it would be a good time to try and utilizes this great new forum feature.
To be more specific: Utilize it in Signature Campaigns.

But why in Signature Campaigns?
My reasoning here is the following: Merits mainly were introduced to reduce spam.
Signature Campaigns are responsible for a lot of spam, even if many of them try to encourage their participants to produce 'quality posts'.
Obviously, the majority of those posts aren't, else most of them would get merited. The threshold for a post to qualify as a 'quality post' in most Signature Campaigns
is extremely low hence there is no incentive to make really good posts.

The main problem here is, that if a member has a certain level and is 'stuck' there due to the Activity-rule, there is almost no reason for this member to create valuable posts as he can't get more stakes.

This is neither good for the forum, nor for the campaign itself as advertisement done by members who really post quality is also more valuable than by those who just 'get by'.
I already saw some hesitant suggestions to make Signature Campaigns solely based on Merit. While at a first glance this sounds feasible, I think that kind of change wouldn't work mainly
due to the fact that the higher the Rank, the better the ad space, so to speak (better signature).

That's why I attempted to find an easy system that allows for Rank and Merit to be regarded in Signature Campaigns when it comes to the calculation of stakes.
And because I like visually pleasing things, I made it a bit more colorful  :D

                            https://i.imgur.com/XHix8Ca.png
                            Alternate layout (https://i.imgur.com/5p2g78q.png)



This might look more complicated than it is. As most Bounty Managers already use Spreadsheets, it's really easy to use prepared formulas like the following (first example).
It needs to have some more levels/nested conditions though, but I didn't want to make the example too complicated:

       https://i.imgur.com/gqwKlA9.png

       =IF(C2>B3;D3+(C2-B3)/(B4-B3)*((D4-D3)/4);D2+(C2-B2)/(B3-B2)*(D3-D2)/2)



This is just an approach and an attempt to get the Merit-System transfered to Signature Campaigns because I think that this would really benefit the forum as it creates the needed incentive to even
make good posts if you can't rank up due to missing Activity. With the Merit now factored in, members get more stakes even if they stay the same Rank but they never get that much more Stakes then a member with a higher Rank
(IF that member also stays active and creates value).

A more sophisticated way could be to count the earned Merit (last 120 days) based on the forum stats. There are also many other variations (Merit/Rank/Activity), but that's something for another thread.

This took more time than I thought and now it's getting late here. I hope that I didn't make any grave mistakes :P
I'm really curious what you think, would you take a different approach to introduce Merit in Signature Campaigns? Hopefully, there will be some Bounty Campaigns that will include Merit in their Stake-distribution.
Cheers!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: TheBeardedBaby on March 21, 2018, 01:27:21 PM
Difficult to choose the best one but lest say is this one I love most, it was created before the Merit system. It's still under construction but a lot of useful info there.Proud of my Activity calculator:

Don't Panic:
 The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the BTCitcointalk Galaxy

 
Here you will find everything you need to know regarding the forum structure,ranking system and trust.Please take your time to read through this post and check the bottom section for additional resources. If you still have questions, try using the SEARCH OPTION (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search) first,/if you don't know how to use the search follow this link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3127909.0)/ and if you still can't find what you are looking for ask here.
Let's keep the forum clean and tidy.

My rules on this thread:
Rule 1 > NO SPAM and NO SCAM, I will report you and there will be consequences!
Rule 2 > Reading the Extra info links is a MUST!


Let us begin with the ranking system in Bitcontalk. This is an overview of what you need to achieve in order to rank up as a member.

_____________________________________________________
RANK
Activity
Merit
Brand new
0
0
Newbie
1
0
Jr Member
30
0
Member
60
10
Full Member
120
100
Sr. Member
240
250
Hero Member
480
500
Legendary -
 Random in the range
775-1030
1000


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Link to the Rank, Activity and Merit points calculator, v2  (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1khSA28Ab6miwyknp3JvStcL0Yu05SIbGBDZDKcOLO6s/)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Easy calculating your Activity based on your registration day.



Regarding the Activity points system >
Explanation:
  • After your registration you have 14 days cycles in which you can gain up to 14 Activity points.
  • Every post generates you 1 Activity point but in 14 days time span you can gain up to 14 Activity points even if you have more than 14 posts.
  • On the day 15 the cycle restarts and you can again collect your 14 points.
Interesting thing is if you have posts over the limit from the previous cycle, with the first comment in the new cycle you get the Activity points from the old posts you had in the previous cycle.
Example:  I had 28 Activity points and 33 comments before the end of the cycle, with my first post in the new cycle my Activity points went up to 34, the same amount as my posts.

Extra info here >
Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0)
Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0)



Regarding the Merit points system >

From 25.01.18 you have to collect Merit point together with the activity points in order to Rank-up. This was done to increase the quality of the posts and to prevent the spam.
Here is the new requirements for ranking up according to the forum Administrator- theymos. This is the copy from the Merit & new rank requirements topic, links you will find in extra info section
"In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks."
For reference see the table above.
I hope you will find your answers in the Q/A section. I'll try to list as many as possible.


Q/A Section:

Q: Well, how to collect Merit points?
A: "You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts. Additionally, when someone sends you merit points, half of those points you get as sMerti (sendable Merit) and they can be sent by you to other people."

Q: Who is giving these points?
A: There will be certain people called "merit sources" which will give points to quality posts. They are 57 at the moment I wrote the , see Merit Statistics link below. In addition according your rank and the merit points you have received you can also give to posts you like, so we can say that everyone can give sMerit.

Q: OK but c'mon, how to get Merit points on my posts?
A: There is no recipe for collecting merit but here are some guidelines. The most important is to try to contribute in some way to the forum. Stay away from breaking the forum rules, learn proper English in order to communicate effectively with the community, be helpful and creative, and the last advice is: don't push it too hard, you just gonna stuck on your current rank. Improving yourself will improve your rank too, I'm sure.

Q: How many Merit points I have ?
A: Follow the link Check your Merit, there you can check your points and there will be listed also the points you have received and for which post and the points you have given.

Q: I want to know more about the Merit Points System
A: You have to follow the Merit & new rank requirements link below, it's a long discusion there.

Extra info >
Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0)
Check your merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit)
 Merit Statistics  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats)



Regarding the Trust system >

Here is how theymos explained the system:

Quote
Trust: 1: -0 / +12(3)
The first number is the user's trust score calculated based on how consistently they've received positive feedback. Probably no one will get a score above 0 until the system has been around for at least a month. The second number is the number of reported scams. The third number increases with the number of positive reports, as does the fourth number in parenthesis, though the fourth number is more resistant to abuse. This text changes color depending on the score. Users with a negative score (attainable through scamming) get a red warning attached to their posts.

These scores are taken from your trust network. They are not global scores. You can edit your trust network here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust
If your trust depth is set to 2 (the default), you will trust feedback by people you trust, people they trust, and people they trust. I might change the default in the future; we'll see how this works. Your trust list is public.

On feedback pages, you can leave trade feedback. There are no rules for this, but here are some guidelines:
- List all of the trades that you do with people (or at least the major ones). This is not like #bitcoin-otc where you give people just one score.
- Do not rate people based on the quality of their posts.
- Older ratings count for more, so don't delete old ratings if you can avoid it.
- "Risked BTC" is how much money you could have lost if the person you're rating had turned out to be a scammer. Or, if they are a scammer, it's how much you lost. Use the BTC value at the time of reporting.
- It's OK to post a rating about the person in general, not tied to a specific trade.
- If you want to make a rating stronger, increase "Risked BTC". 50 extra risked BTC is equivalent to an additional rating.

If your trust list is totally empty, you trust "DefaultTrust", which includes some trustworthy people that I'll select. But if you add anyone to your trust list, even if they don't trust anyone, DefaultTrust will no longer be considered part of your trust list.

Note: Information is taken from the Trust rules post.

Extra info>
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=211858.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1066857.0


Infographic - Merit & new rank requirements, all the credit goes to 8Habits (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=874477):
Link to the original thread.
 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2830205.msg29010824#msg29010824)
Click for large view (http://https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.ibb.co%2FnLRpjG%2FUpdated_How_Long_WILL_YOU_RANK_WITH_THE_NEW_Merit_new_rank_requirements.png)
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.ibb.co%2FnLRpjG%2FUpdated_How_Long_WILL_YOU_RANK_WITH_THE_NEW_Merit_new_rank_requirements.png (http://https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.ibb.co%2FnLRpjG%2FUpdated_How_Long_WILL_YOU_RANK_WITH_THE_NEW_Merit_new_rank_requirements.png)



Additional useful and entertaining threads

Note: will rearrange them sometime soon.

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0)
Newbies - Read before posting  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0)
Useful Crypto Terminology (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126798.0)
List of all Bitcoin forks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2777849.0)
Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2836875.0)
List of Campaign Managers Latest Post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2842283.0)
BitCoinTalk hidden pages  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=964593.0)
 Satoshi Nakamotos' profile (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3)
The pizza thread /10000btc for pizza (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0) in addition,the actual pics of the pizza  (http://eclipse.heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/)
How to sign a message guide (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0)
I AM HODLING or where did the HODL term came from (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643)
Theymos's list of altcoins with some technical merit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2095328.0)
LIST OF THREADS GIVING AWAY MERIT POINTS FOR QUALITY POSTS (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2832127.0)
List of Merit Reward Threads (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2964968.0)
Joel_Jantsen's Merit Distribution Thread (Newbies Welcome) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2971165.0)
OVERVIEW OF SERVICES (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2727673.0)
Bounties the managers (spreadsheet) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3051158.0)
One (1) Merit point to Rank-up Service, Jr. to Hero Members Are Welcome. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3108981)
[LEARN] BBCode Lessons & Tutorials [+tutorial videos!] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1727100.0)
[Tips] Guide for forum search (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3127909.0)
Your Total Beginners Guide To Cryptocurrency and Bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3113022.0)


I'll will keep updating this topic, if you want me to add more info, please let men know.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: vlad230 on March 21, 2018, 10:46:28 PM
Thanks for the time you invest in this!

Not sure which one to pick but how about my thread on a new forum feature, I think it would deserve some more attention, maybe it will be implemented  :) :
I have a new feature proposal for the forum software. I don't think I saw this in the features.

Maybe we can have a new section in the forum header along side "Show new replies to your posts", "Watchlist" called "Show new quotes to your posts".

This feature will display all the posts that quoted your posts and you will be able to reply faster especially in multiple page threads.

What do you think? Would this be helpful for you?


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 22, 2018, 09:59:38 PM
One of these days I'm gonna read them posts I've kindly remitted sM to.  ::) ::) ::)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: rajurathod18 on March 23, 2018, 12:51:00 PM
EDIT: Great! We have one outta four six following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry. <this announcement was originally penned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.msg31466554#msg31466554>

The rules are simple. Quote in this thread what you believe is your best most current post on this forum, whereupon I, only, will judge if it warrants at least +1 sM.

Others, feel free to follow my lead including your attempt having a quasi-snazzy thread title.

Let's make maxing out BitcoinTalk's resources great again.  ::)

Ready? GO!

Bruno

PS: Don't blame me if others opt to also give you sM for your scintillating prose thanks to this thread.

PSS: I might as well plug my sig while I'm at end, or visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131.

Hello everyone my post is about diversification of cryptocurrency investment portfolio and why diversification is important. i have also mention my favorite cryptocurrency.

Quote
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3122969.msg32287970#msg32287970

Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Diversify Your Cryptocurrency Portfolio - Altcoins for future    on: March 14, 2018, 12:04:26 PM
The experts generally agree that the future of cryptocurrencies is up in the air. It's still being written and we don't know where it will all go. Bitcoin may not be top dog forever. It would actually be quite surprising if it did! There are new innovations all the time and one of these innovations may render Bitcoin useless or irrelevant. To protect your investment it is advised to diversify across between 6 to 12 different cryptocurrencies. This way, if anything happens to Bitcoin you won't lose everything. Not only this, but it allows you to take advantage of some stellar returns on the newer, more speculative altcoins. As we all know Market is in the bearish trend now and its a awesome opportunity to diversify portfolio. If u are involved in cryptocurrency there are some undervalued altcoins which have good tech and future.

following are my favorite cryptocurrency

1. Bitcoin

Last year bitcoin crossed 19345$ on market and on of the most dominated cryptocurrency on CMC. Still there are massive number of people who don't know what cryptocurrencies are. When they do, the first they hear about is Bitcoin. If they were to invest, they would most likely invest in Bitcoin first and foremost. For this reason alone, I believe that Bitcoin is going to experience amazing growth in 2018.
Current Price: $8751 USD
1 Year Prediction: $50,000 USD

2. Ethereum

More than just a cryptocurrency, this is the premiere blockchain which processes Smart Contracts. Used extensively in ICOs. Has some issues, but there are very intelligent people working on solving them. Once people learn about Bitcoin, the next crypto they find out about is generally Ethereum. This alone will help prop up the price in 2018.
Current Price: $657 USD
1 Year Prediction: $2500 USD

3. Litecoin

This is one of the original Alt-Coins. I've been a huge fan of Litecoin since the early days. Let's compare it to Bitcoin. Litecoin is more innovative, faster and requires less electricity to mine compared to Bitcoin. Litecoin is designed to have four times as many coins as Bitcoin. It's much more practical as a medium of exchange than Bitcoin. It has been said that Litecoin is to Bitcoin as Silver is to Gold. It should probably be valued at at least 1/10th the price of Bitcoin but price doesn't always follow functionality. You have to take popularity into consideration too.
Current Price: $300 USD
1 Year Prediction: $1000 USD

4. Monero

This one is a solid alt-coin as well. The main point is that Monero is way more anonymous than Bitcoin. This will obviously appeal to a certain demographic. In the past year it has increased in value by over 15x.
Current Price: $233 USD
1 Year Prediction: $850 US


Which cryptocurrencies and new altcoins do you like to add to your portfolio in for 2018 and why?



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: RivAngE on March 23, 2018, 01:14:23 PM
So I readed your 1st post and I didn't notice any rule about only 1 entry. Is it ok then if I submit a 2nd entry? I hope I'll get to Member rank within 2018 ;D

Bellow I tried to clear what I believe is a confusing misconception to many people new to trading.


Here's what I am seeing on coinmarketcap.com:

Crypto prices all going up and down in almost 'identical' patterns. Percentages of the top 100+ market cap coins that mirror each other and go up and down almost in unison.

To me, this tells me there is BIG money, possibly by one or a few whales in a lot of these tokens/coins. Their bots or traders put money into all or most of these coins at once, creating an illusion of a bull market return. For all of these coins/tokens to go up on so many tokens, in unison, and then go back down in unison, is pretty obvious what's happening.

Yes, the market is driven on news and emotion, but look closer - these patterns of up and down prices on coinmarketcap.com and Coinbase are following each other too tightly to be just news driven.

Plus, there are 'Pump and dump' groups pumping a lot of coins, then dumping for profit.

Please allow me to point a misconception that exists about "identical" patterns.
If you're viewing the crypto prices against fiat currency (EUR/USD etc) then there's a technical reason why almost everything is going either up or down every day. Since the price of every coin is relative to the price of BTC (the altcoins are translated to an xamount of BTC, which is then translated to fiat), even if the 99% of the market doesn't move and only BTC increase by 10%, then coinmarketcap will show a 10% increase of every altcoin.

e.g.:
ETH = 0.064 BTC
BTC = 7400€
so 1ETH = 470€
If no one trades ETH for 1 day and BTC goes to 14800€, then ETH will still equal 0.064 BTC, but 1ETH = 0.064BTC = 940€ (it doubled as well)

TL;DR,
If you want a clearer view of altcoin's movement, check their price against BTC.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: deevan on March 23, 2018, 03:32:23 PM
Please, can you check this my recent post how to secure your 24words key phrase?

I will give you some different idea to store your 24 words seeds step by step. :)

1. Take any English dictionary, for example, online Oxford Dictionary, note down its (Author name, Date of publication) I'll tell you why at the end.
2. Now you have your 24 words seeds phrase for your nano ledger, for example, it can be like below
(1st.cat, 2nd.light, 3rd.bag, 4th.candle 5th...........................................24th. orange)
3. Since all seeds phrase of your Nano S will exist in the Dictionary so what you have to do now is find on which page no. of online dictionary the words are listed for example the 1st-word cat is listed on page no. 7, the 2nd-word light is on page no. 9, the 3rd-word bag is listed on page 12, the 4th-word candle is listed on page 17, & so on for all words, till 24th-word orange is listed on page 34, note down all the page no. & highlight the words till 24th word in a dictionary & save it.
4. For example, your result will be like (7,9,12,17,...............34)
5. Now the numbers & dictionary will act as a private key if you want you may throw away your card on which 24 words you have noted down.


Now no one knows what is your strategy for keeping safe your Nano S keywords, so you can just store above nos on your computer, on mobile or anywhere if some steal it they can't understand what is the meaning of these nos. Only you and only you know what is the meaning & which Dictionary you have used to encrypt it in this case i.e Oxford Dictionary. If you accidentally delete that online Dictionary, no worries you can also find it online, I told you above to note the Author name & date of publication so it will be easy for you which version of Dictionary you have used to encrypt your seeds.

Okay, one more thing if you accidentally deleted the dictionary with highlighted keywords from your PC or your window fails, & you have the numbers but now how will you know what was the word you marked even if you know the page no. of the word. In this case when you are noting down the page no. also note down the line no. & place no. of that word against each page no. 8) Ultimately your result will be like below.


Page no.   Line no.   Word Place no.
7               eg. 5              eg. 2
9               eg. 14            eg. 6
12             eg. 2              eg. 4
17             eg. 16            eg. 1
.                .                      .
.                .                      .
.                .                      .
.                .                      .
34             eg. 1              eg. 7






Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Daboy_Lyle on March 24, 2018, 05:53:31 AM
Question #9:
A bitcoin transaction with 6 confirmations is usually considered to be secure. Why is it so?

Answer

With one confirmation you are vulnerable to the 51% attack. There could also be a miner with a lot of hashing power who could get a couple blocks in a row, so three confirmations removes most of them.

With six confirmations it is essentially mathematically impossible for an attacker with less than 51% of all mining capacity to get six blocks in a row. and still surpass the longest block chain. With 51% or a lot more than 51% the attacker can get six confirmations by creating a parallel blockchain in which only transactions approved by the attacker get included in blocks.

Therefore 6 confirmations are needed to prevent the attack from attacker.


Although this question could have been answered better, this the best that has been posted thus far. Enjoy the merit.

With that said, I think the question is a bit dated now. Not many exchanges require 6 confirmations these days, and theoretically, it’s almost impossible with the amount of hashing power spread across miners for the possibility of a 51% attack to be conducted successfully. One hasn’t happened yet, and it’s theoretically improbable. But that doesn’t mean that you should ever, I repeat ever, treat an unconfirmed transaction the way you would one with a couple confirmations.
Each block is stacked on top of the previous one. Adding another block to the top makes all lower blocks more difficult to remove: there is more "weight" above each block. A transaction in a block 6 blocks deep (6 confirmations) will be very difficult to remove.After a transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network, it may be included in a block that is published to the network. When that happens it is said that the transaction has been mined at a depth of 1 block. With each subsequent block that is found, the number of blocks deep is increased by one. To be secure against double spending, a transaction should not be considered as confirmed until it is a certain number of blocks deep.Note that unconfirmed transactions do not expire. Just wait until the transaction be confirmed. For my experience 10 minutes is enough for the transaction to be confirmed.
My answer about bitcoin transaction with 6 confirmations.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Skaveve on March 24, 2018, 02:22:27 PM
Post which if deserve can be looked upon. I apologize for not being word-perfect in English.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3189825.msg33053330#msg33053330


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 24, 2018, 04:52:29 PM
Weekly update

As usual:
If you want the file, click on flile top left corner and make a copy;
The link for direct message with merit sometimes cannot work, but the link for users is 100% working.

18.03 - 24.03 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMMilTdBWJsFkORXm8e82SI-O5UeK36YtdXoOM6gxWM/edit?usp=sharing

If you find Abuser report to mods here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2896910.msg31441438#msg31441438

Avarage merit is decreasing again around  by 10% weekly
Editig 1st post also



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: steve_rogers on March 24, 2018, 09:33:27 PM
Positive attitude of bitcoin

Quote
I was thinking about current situation. Couple days ago there were news that binance is under the pressure, and their CEO immediately told that they would open an office in Malta. And blockstream immediately told that they have an office there
As I understand, serious people from crypto-world, at thegoverment level with officials make laws for themselves. Miners, meanwhile, are sitting in Canada with their farms and somewhere else. It turns out that the entire bitcoin infrastructure is safe: devs can still code, investors still could invest, miningfarms are also under protection with a reliable guarantor. So technically now there are no critical threats for bitcoin.

   But with bitcoin we have an interesting situation. Firstly, it was just digital currency, then it became "the store of value", and now it converts into programmable platform. Honestly, nobody will pay for beer or coffee with bitcoin, people are too greedy, and buy something big is still a problem, also because of high volatility. I cannot say that it won't work, but the time hasn't become for it, nevertheless there are already things like houses and cars that you can buy for bitcoin, but this position is till too weak. We have a couple really strong positions : corruption, black market, semi-legal schemes for taxes and guys that buy everything if it is in trend. I think it is pretty cool, but still not enough for full common life integration, cause crypto-hipsters don't have enough financial volumes, and illegal world has its own structure, that could increase the volume, but not to the moon.

   And and seemed like there is no light at the end of tunnel, if bitcoin hasn't started to transform in programmable platform. Recently there was an announcement from FileBazaar
   And today the new word appeared LApps - applications on lightning. FileBazaar is the first one LApp - in couple of words, it is a platform for digital content, for which authors are paid in bitcoin via the lightning channels. And it is undeniably cool, because recently were invested 1.5m$ in lightning.And it is not a funny project like crypto-kittens. And as you understand, there are no tokens given in exchange for anyone or anything. Those, this is a really considered decision.

   Bitcoin is almost completed technically, some issues are still remaining, but there is a much strong need in marketing, promoters and sales managers. We need to adapt it for common people, we need contracts for use, paying terminals, possibility to buy everyday products. In this way bitcoin cash has higher rates and possibilities. But today it seems to be almost impossible due to unpredictable laws, and inconvenient transactions. With value storage we also have problems, because different officials and event mass media can drop the bitcoin´s exchange rate, hamsters and dummy investors start panic sell. Centralized exchanges the only place where the rate is established - are under the pressure of whales and big corporations, the real liquidity of the market under big question. Hence we have problems with bitcoin´s usability, hamsters cannot continue provide the fuel for bitcoin, and other population of  our planet is still too uneducated in cryptoworld a lot of people still think that it is a kind of pyramid or soap bubble), they cannot understand it and sometimes even hate it. And the new breath of bitcoin is a wonderful way around all these problems - the programmable platform does not let developers to go down (their investment is invaluable), at the same time, as we noted above, at the levels of closed meetings with the heads of some countries, new economic zones are opened for the further work of firms. Devs have something to work on , companies still receive their benefits,  conservative investors can invest in real propety, miners are in safe position also. It could be real the second breath of cryptocurrencies , and much stronger, binance at the state level reveals an economic zone with the size of the country. Lets see what will be on Malta in next couple of years.

   Let's not forget that bad guys can also help survive the cryptocurrencies. After all, this is a great way to "launder money", from illegal sources, which sinful high officials of all heads of state. So I would not be afraid of special sanctions, because there is someone to resist and fight. And if you say that bitcoin is not so anonymous, then there are still anonymous altcoins, and if there will be a strong need, there will be guys who will sponsor completely anonymous protocols that can be defeated only by disabling the Internet.

   All in all I think that lightning with proper marketing can give the second breath for bitcoin. What´s your opinion guys?


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coinlocket$ on March 24, 2018, 11:45:39 PM
 ;D
USER PROFILE :  doudou1110  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1206752)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1206752
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zOPRn/e4d1db36da.png
MISCELLANEOUS: Quite strange so far but you you will understand better at the end of this post cause those accounts are linked and trade merit each other, pobably the hero account is the main account and others are alts

USER PROFILE :  juicejoyce  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=114902)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=114902
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zOPUN/0e0751fbf5.png
MISCELLANEOUS: same people, HERO RANK ACCOUNT, spent 2 times merit lifetime on those linked accounts, what are the odds? ::)

USER PROFILE :  colacat1111  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1206033)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1206033
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zOPYx/903531f25b.png
MISCELLANEOUS: same people, short frame of time RANK UP to full meber (SAME SIGNATURE AS  allowance1219  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1205985) )

USER PROFILE :  allowance1219  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1205985)
MERIT SUMMARY : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1205985
PROOF:
https://puu.sh/zOQ8N/0e6272705d.png
MISCELLANEOUS: same people, short frame of time RANK UP to full member (SAME SIGNATURE AS  colacat1111  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1206033) )


SO FAR REPORTED 200 ACCOUNTs FOR ABUSING BUONTY ALT, MERIT TRADE, ico bumping noone has red trust >:(


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: slankoi on March 25, 2018, 01:31:22 PM
Hello, Gleb. I will be very glad if you have a look at my posts below if they deserve some merit. Thank you.

I can suggest a forty seven and debitum network, but I'm not sure if the debitum network ico is still going.  Btw- where i can see most popular upcoming ico? except coinschedule.
I like to use Disclaimer's spreadsheet. He chooses not much hyped ICOs and describes why he believes they will be successful in future. You can find it by the link. It's not advertisement, this sheet is really useful and popular among crypto enthusiasts already ;)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I3SCazxzVBlo5gBwEvXPOg55HUqd3i8q688tHDa5p3A/edit#gid=1587433441

I also look at following websites, but most of them contain quite similar info:
https://icobench.com/
https://icorating.com/
https://icodrops.com/
https://www.icoalert.com/

This website contains info regarding bountys as well:
https://bountylord.com/

Hope it will help!




Great useful bot, thank you! Maybe for those who has visited this thread bot below will be usefull too:

https://t.me/ETHtokenExplorer_bot

It provides information on your ERC20 wallets: what tokens you have, what's their price right now.

And here is the same wallet but NEO based:

https://t.me/ETHTokenExplorer_BOT




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 26, 2018, 02:45:52 AM
here's mind bro hope i get some merits

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3193182.msg33133587#msg33133587

Dude, I'm leery of clicking that link, for there might be malware awaiting me at the other end.  ::) ::) ::)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: EzBreezy on March 26, 2018, 03:05:51 AM
I have some here.

will the bitcoin disappear after 5-6 years?  
No one can predict the adequate time when bitcoin last. Bitcoin will run until the last satoshi be mined. Yes because the supply of bitcoin isn't infinite nor it is limited. The problem is the bitcoins volatility. Do you think bitcoin will loss immediately? I think no because when the supply is becoming smaller the way to get bitcoin is becoming harder.

Some one says that jr members can also give merits for quality posts but i do not have any smerits is that's true?
Yes it is possible if the Jr.Member has an sendable merits. If you have been merited 1 you will have 0.5 sMerits in short if you have 2 Merits you have 1 sMerit.
Some one says that jr members can also give merits for quality posts but i do not have any smerits is that's true?
I still do not really understand how to get merit
Just be creative on making post because that's the way how you can get merit. Make your post useful and meaningful. Used correct terms on posting to avoid being a shit poster.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: intoy_victor on March 26, 2018, 05:07:59 AM
I wonder what happen if the government will find a way to make btc rendered up to the goverment system. Imagine the possible events of btc after being controlled by the government. This is somehow i guess the possibility that will likely to happen in the near future. As it is like more on it is happening now especially here in the Philiplines as we the people embracing the btc system. As the Philippine government notices it, the government now are trying to make a study out of the btc system and it will be a matter of time that the government will decide and interfere in the system. the question is what could be the result if the government will interefere in the btc system herr in the philippines? what could be the possibilities to happen with btc system here in the philippines?

If government take over the control of bitcoin maybe it will be stricter than now. And also they could manipulate the price of bitcoin. Also maybe the government implement there country or Philippines that  bitcoin will be there salary someday.

Bitcoin will help the Philippines to improve there economy and also bitcoin could reduce the poverty in Philippines.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: knight20 on March 26, 2018, 05:11:29 AM
I am new here bt don't understad how improve trading. I am already loss many altcoin.Now I am improve my trading.give some tips about this

Any kind of or what you want to improve is usually they say is study first and focus on what you want to improve then practice it. It's just like on trading, if you want to improve try to canvas first for some sites or trading sites that has a low fee and easily to trade.
More over if you have doubt in trading try a little first then if you see your improvement start to trade bigger and bigger funds.

I want some too😁


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: allahabadi on March 26, 2018, 06:52:02 AM
Here it is...
1.
Buddy .Just now the party had begin.It had long way to go on.It may reach till the 11,000$ and more than that.It's just the estimation based on the previous price chart and market.I think this may continue till this month end.After this April,we can expect the price will reach back to 15,000$.To get profit from raise,you need to hold the bitcoin.

I have a slightly different take on this post-April Bull run theory, in many countries, April is the time for new economic season and it usually pumps fresh money in the market. BTC and cryptos can be a good investment opportunity for many who have yet to begin trading.
2.
How many of you have used Bitcoin for more than just a simple payment mechanism?

I barely use it as a payment mechanism.

-snip-

What you just described is actually a form of payment mechanism too, albeit involving overseas or cross-border transfers.  :)


P.S. Also I have invested in BTC as a speculative investment too, although many people find that it belittles the original concept.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 26, 2018, 07:33:33 AM
50 sM being giving away in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: steve_rogers on March 26, 2018, 10:57:30 AM
My recent that correlates with our new token giveaway ;)

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Hey crypto-buddies,
 I decided to create checklist for scam ICO´s

100% profitability - Guaranteed yield: any funds, ICO projects and investment platforms, that promise a stable interest are likely to be scammers. These are, as a rule, projects of cloud mining, casinos and projects related to binary options, as well as those where the sale of tokens is carried out according to the principles of net marketing: existing investors attract new ones. And, of course, the pyramids, in which old customers receive payments from the contributions of new customers, until the pyramid bursts ...

Celebrities: musicians, athletes, actors who can not know anything about the blockchain and the cryptowrold, and even more to be the guarantors of the fact that this is not a scam, seems exactly the opposite.. Celebrities are used to distract investors from the essence of the project, which is most likely dummy.

Team analysis - It is suspicious that a project team can not be found in social networks or when team members are not connected with each other.

Unintelligible concept - to check the concept you need to study white paper – document, where described the idea of the project and the purpose of raising money. In 90% of cases, scammers compile several documents, and the originals can be easily found in the Internet.

Structure of project costs - If 10% of the investments are reserved for team, 10% will require development, and for marketing will go 80%, then this is a guarantee of the scam. It is also strange if there is no plan for future "monetization" of the project, also a bad signal if there is noticed a lack of investors protection.

Token description - If it has less than two-three functions and it can be replaced by any other altcoin or bitcoin, then this is another bad signal.If the token is not integrated into the project economy, then probably its purpose is simply collecting money. While choosing a coin, you must first think about its use - who and why will buy and use this coin. The second - about the problems that this coin solves. If it does not have these signs - do not invest.

Project Code - It should be uploaded on GitHub and a simple research in the Internet can check the code for plagiat. If the project does not have a link to GitHub or topics on the Bitcointalk, it's a reason to think twice.

Legal structure - should be described in details and easily understandable (at least about the persons issuing tokens)

Investor´s rights -The rights of investors and their guarantees should be described.

The issue of tokens should be within reasonable limits and controlled


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: timoshani on March 26, 2018, 11:43:37 AM
Quote from: timoshani on March 18, 2018, 08:41:51 AM
Briefly about merit - his reality and an opportunity (my thoughts)!

     The issue system of the merit  receiving on the idea is good, such as initially Nakamoto thought of bitcoin. But unfortunately it isn't in the such fact, I think so.
      First, future writing of content doesn't guarantee  diligence from author will be in hundred percentage applications  and consequently also his quality Therefore flood in a branch will remain.
      Secondly,so far the order of distribution the merits, doesn't allow to exclude completely multiaccounts and its tranzactions from the account on the account.
      And the third point,it will be as a question. Many new users of bitcointalk are engaged not the first year in crypto currency and have, thoughts which can be discussed on the parity rights with experienced users of a forum. But the rank of a their profiles doesn't allow this. Though the person even earlier, than many could create him?
      But in general the system of merit honours will be working. May be later we will  see a some changes in it. Having looked at activity of the user and the maintenance of posts, perhaps somehow it will be transformed by sMerit.
     
       I hope that the pursuit for merit won't become a main objective of writing of posts, and will remain the purpose of receiving useful information about the world of cryptocurrency!


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: 1993jochico on March 26, 2018, 12:58:53 PM
I just want to know if I can join here again, if yes this is my entry but if not its okay just to spread awareness. I just post the link because this is too long I hope its fine to you. Thanks Gleb  :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3182306.0


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: EzBreezy on March 26, 2018, 01:33:39 PM
I was wondering if I can join again.

But what does that decentralized technology really do
To infer what the intrinsic value of bitcoin
I haven't been able to do it maybe somebody else can.

Can bitcoin change our world?I want to learn from your opinion.
Bitcoin cannot change the world but it can improve the world. Chnaging the world is not easy bitcoin will only improve the world or it will only helps our generation to change the world. Bitcoin is only a thing that helps our generation to improve this world.
I believe bitcoin will change the world as we know it. It will revolutionize buying and selling and making transactions as we already know. there is so much potential when it comes to bitcoin.
Yes everybody believes in bitcoin to change the world.
Of course, maybe I think I already changed it. Many people have already changed with the advent of bitcoin. The level of the digital economy has grown several times.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: selezneve on March 26, 2018, 06:25:45 PM
I would like to apply :

If we see the activity here, carefully,  a lot of members are involved in merit abuse at small scale as well. I was checking recently merited posts and came across one such case.

Profiles involved:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1100353
His merit summary : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1100353

He gave and receive merits from the profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1100122

Both the profile are registered on August 08, 2017

Other profile that may be involved

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1501634
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1501624

Both these registered on December 23, 2017

Many profiles may be involved. I am sure that if I give just one hour on this, I can point out at least 100 such more profiles.

it is actions such that deprive newbies (who honestly make valid contributions) from gaining merits,the merit system should be improved upon to make it fairer especially to new comers

Yes, we are  missing an important point related to merit abuse. It is good that genuine members are giving their time to find out remembers abusing the merit system and then reporting it but what about:

1) The merits which got wasted in the whole process. Is there anything being done to compensate for those merit points ? I am sure that the admin must have thought about creating a system in accordance with the number of merits required to be in circulation. Did he consider these abuses cases while panning that ?

2) Why not have some restriction related to the maximum number of merits allowed per post ?

Thanks for your time.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: timoshani on March 27, 2018, 08:31:23 PM
My post about new policy from socail network. Gleb, can You review please
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Future of altcoins after block ads by twitter tomorrow. Recommendations to avoid blocking!
   All of us know that tomorrow (3/27/2018) restriction of advertizing ICO and cryptocurrencies by twitter will come into force.  That's why a nost cryptocurrency exchange websites instead derive their traffic from coinmarketcap.com, which tracks market capitalization numbers, not from paid ads.
   What  the bounty hunters and other participants of a bounty campaign must be doing in this situation ? The answer is rather simple! They must be using the following rules:

    1. When make a retweets or tweets don't use a such hashtags: #blockchain, #ICO, #Money, Cryptocurrency and such others;
    2. In the own tweets don't leave obvious advertizing about ICO or cryptocurrency;
    3. Don't use a advertize of the brand, it is necessary to describe qualities of goods or feature of the idea of the project. Therefore, such phrases as a campaign, the project, excellent and others, can also be the cause of filtration from bots of Twitter;
    4. To exclude the projects from the list of bounty, which are obviously sent spam about a cryptocurruncies and other same things;
    5. Not to exceed a daily limit of operations on twitter - 2000 actions. In this list include tweets, likes, retweets and also addition of new followers, which you joined during 24 hours;
    6. To try to diversify the chronicle of posts. To dilute publications about ICO and cryptocurrency with using a neutral information from news feeds;
    7. To break the own tweets against ICO into three-four parts within a day.

    Observance of these simple conditions will allow to take part  in campaing of ICO and the corresponding altcoin successfully. To exclude a possibility of blocking of the account in Twitter and to receive the award for work which was made by Bounty Hunters. At the same time, limits from social networks will allow to reduce number of a scam. Now hunters will become more legible and they will not take project with spams and ambiguous content. This fact can hepl to eliminate campaings from Bounty with low level.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: r1s2g3 on March 28, 2018, 05:15:03 AM
I would like to apply for this post. (making user aware to check the project is legitimate or not)


Manna is distributed by the People’s Currency Foundation as a basic human right that every person in the world is eligible to receive, for free.

Swift is a digital currency disigned to provide basic income.
Members receive basic income at the rate of 100 swifts per day.


Manna and Swift are claiming to give Basic income to all in world. They are giving there own printed crypto-currency not the actual currency . I think the value of Zimbabwean_dollar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar) would be more than these crypto currencies.

Do you saw any legit business model from them for generating income/money that they are distributing for free?
What is the real worth of their currencies outside their ecosystem?

I hope you did not shared any of your personal information to them in greed of free Basic Income.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: sncc on March 28, 2018, 10:41:14 AM
Thanks for your review, below is an infographic I created:

I have checked infographics listed in the OP of Merit & new rank requirements (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0),
( paxmao's infographic (https://i.imgur.com/n4IkACk.jpg), ibminer's infographic (https://i.imgur.com/Ig2u5Un.png), 8Habits's infographic (https://preview.ibb.co/nLRpjG/Updated_How_Long_WILL_YOU_RANK_WITH_THE_NEW_Merit_new_rank_requirements.png), JetSet11's infographic (https://preview.ibb.co/f67DTb/Bitcointalk_Merit_Guide.png), zentdex's infographic (https://i.imgur.com/1NKR2hA.png), alia_armelle's infographic (https://imgur.com/a/jWrTB) ),
but I was wondering if one could depict the current system more graphical and intuitive way.
In the following infographic, I tried to make the logic clear and simple as much as I can by using graphs, screenshots, and public domain materials.

All pages in a single file:
https://i.imgur.com/WmwTxaT

Separate pages:
https://i.imgur.com/3eM9kbc
https://i.imgur.com/3eM9kbc.png (https://imgur.com/3eM9kbc)
https://i.imgur.com/XtznZED
https://i.imgur.com/XtznZED.png (https://imgur.com/XtznZED)
https://i.imgur.com/SeXIgTr
https://i.imgur.com/SeXIgTr.png (https://imgur.com/SeXIgTr)
https://i.imgur.com/QYmV9pf
https://i.imgur.com/QYmV9pf.png (https://imgur.com/QYmV9pf)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: steve_rogers on March 28, 2018, 06:41:09 PM
My fresh morning article

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Previously I have written my opinion concerning bitcoin in Positive attitude of bitcoin

  I have the same positive attitude about altcoins, seriously, contrary to popular opinion that 90% of altcoin is scam, that they are not necessary,  I've been thinking about how many there are "noname" or not so popular software in IT sphere?

  I´m sure even we do our best, we could not name even 3% of total amount of software... There are a lot of highly specialized b2b soft, about which you did not hear. The same tendency could be with altcoins (it is clear that not here and now, but within 20 years...)
It is clear that we need to choose authoritative teams like binance, those who have an active github profile. Although easy money are leaving the market, new obstacles appear in the crypto industry for all its members, but also it comes the understanding that the crypto won´t die and everyone will be dealing with it. Everyone understands it, from devs with hamsters to whales with giant corporations (note how many centralized IT businesses invested in blockchain). And this niche is not filled yet, there is enough space for everyone, the margin is stunning, fun and dynamic - what else do we need for happiness?

  Also think about the lately tremendous news: tweeter, facebook, istagram, Google, Yandex and others prohibit crypto advertising  - but the world does not work this way.... if people are interested in something or they need to talk somewhere, it is clear that will appear corresponding resources (yeah it´s possible that we will see crypto-analogies of facebook,twitter and etc.) And we will receive more ICO's, tokens, rat races and possibilities to make some profit.....but......they will never replace bitcoin!  And as you have understood, if the crypto is ignored by the old platforms, then obviously there will be new platforms, that will get a big piece of pie. And as you can guess, facebook is almost the state offices that supply a bunch of data about citizens. And if everyone runs to other platforms, then money will run after them, because the data is the most valuable thing in the world, and money is just a piece of paper and an intermediate link...............................Data is a new gold

  I'm almost sure that now all the data bases with KYC are actively buying up, the forums are being monitored, a lot of information is being sucked out of social networks and so on. Anonymity is again in trend. Today people are buying everything to get deep into crypto, so think 5 times before you will show somewhere your passport data, because right here and right now, the nameplates are hung over the btc-eth-addresses. I won´t be surprised if  in next 5 years some "Edward Snowden" will public something like that.

  As a result, the world changes, and old paradigms will be buried, crypto becomes a common thing and a niche that gives a job, like YouTube or Instagram. It's nice to realize that while everyone is running in panic through the streets and trying to understand what's going on, you're looking at it all from the side drinking your cup of coffee.


Title: Re: [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available
Post by: Denlv on March 30, 2018, 12:03:49 PM
Please check this post and thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2983956.0

This thread may be worth your attention too:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3006226.0

You may also look into my post history. TY!
hello!Please,Check my top 3 projects! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3221865.0


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: 1993jochico on March 30, 2018, 04:25:41 PM
What should I do to improve rank ?
write messages, leave comments, be here more time
This is not the right way to do it, you just encourage them to spam the forum and then eventually get banned.
You must make all of your post to be constructive, understandable, and useful dont just post make your self a good contribution to this community.
It is better to suggest them to read and study about cryptocurrency and the forum rules and regulations.
I suggest to all of you to read all those sticky thread because it can help you a lot, read and search before posting.

For the OP I want to help you to get some merits on your work if its your own original work try to post it here it is reasonable to be rewarded.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2957836.160


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: 1993jochico on March 30, 2018, 04:27:03 PM
I posted this here because I know that there are many beginners here that will benefit from this post, and beginners and help section are full of topics about merits.

Are you still confused? depressed? losing hope?

Here's a very special and useful tip for you to gain some merits.
-This tip is DYOR or Do Your Own Research, if you are going to follow this tip you can use this for a long time.

Always look at this list of recent merits that sends by everyone:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=recent

In looking to some merited post that you agreed also that that post deserves a merit.
Try to think that why this posts deserve's a merit, also look at the last posts of that person...

Also this thing will help you to be updated to some event that gives merit to a good quality post, you will comment the link of your post that you think deserves a merit.
And dont hesitate to ask if your comment dont get merits, They will answer why your posts dont get merits and what is missing.
In that way you learned something from them and for sure in the next time you join you can get some merits and if still not try and try again until you get the meaning of High Quality Content.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: slankoi on April 01, 2018, 07:18:09 PM
Hi Gleb!

I will be very thankful if you have a look at my posts below. Hope they deserve some merit. Thx.

11.02-17.02

As I've promised here are another 3 airdrops which I find interesting and promising.

  • Ethereum Cash Pro

    http://i102.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0211/77/fa0e56ade0c9032eb8e0138619f93177.jpg (http://fastpic.ru/)

    Ethereumcashpro is an ethereum based token, that will allow users to make and receive payments using their platform and ethereum’s smart contract technology.

    Today is the last day to earn 100$ via their airdrop. Hurry up!

    Referral:
    https://www.ethereumcashpro.com/ref/slankoi
    Non-referral:
    https://www.ethereumcashpro.com/

  • Friendz

    http://i100.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0211/b5/1689f653191156fbc87ee1867e357eb5.jpg (http://fastpic.ru/)

    Friendz is a fast-growing company whose main goal is to connect brands with their target audience, taking advantage of the most powerful marketing tool ever: the word of mouth on social media.

    You can earn 5000 tokens by completing a simple registration and subscribing to social media. Get 70 tokens for inviting a friend!

    Referral:
    https://steward.friendz.io/go?r=MTY0NTIy
    Non-referral:
    https://friendz.io/

  • SUCHAPP

    http://i99.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0211/d2/7c879d5a406d9c9dda95d0e5eddb46d2.jpg (http://fastpic.ru/)

    Blockchain-enabled, multi-channel messaging platform. Complete the actions in the links below, refer to friends, and WIN rewards!

    Referral:
    http://vy.tc/eaMdU47
    Non-referral:
    https://vyper.io/c/2486dlrhg


These are interesting airdrops for this week. See you in a week. Good luck!

And this one is another candidate post for merit:

Despite current fall on crypto and altcoins market there are still some ICOs which are potentially good for investments. I would recommend Kickcity, Open Collectors, Effect.AI, TrueGame as they have real working projects and solid advisors.

You can check some spreadsheets with ratings as well (DiddyCarter (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I3SCazxzVBlo5gBwEvXPOg55HUqd3i8q688tHDa5p3A/edit#gid=643510543) and another consolidated (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1O9l9IfMHju3MKsE6WVuQ4N3RETl-ewaxM9s0s5Znikk/edit#gid=0) one).

Also have a look on some ico rating websites. My favorite is https://icobench.com/. It provides very flexible filter system, so you can choose ico which meets your own special criterias.




Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: SaoAccel on April 02, 2018, 04:14:41 PM
I think I'll just try :)
Personally I joined this forum because it is open to communicate with each other and read knowledgeable things about crypto currency. With this forum we can exchange ideas about market speculations, what to stay away from and all opinions about gaining profits. The fun thing also about this forum is that you can also gain a passive income while being part of this community.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: GaretJohanKay on April 03, 2018, 06:00:09 AM
Hello I want to request your review please

Quote
I know this has been already answered but i believe I can add something important

Q: Will bitcoin make me rich?
Beyond the fact that the supply of bitcoin is less than the dollars of even gold and market capitalizacion. I think is determined by in partly by government
. I mean recently FBI are taking account about holdlers of Bitcoin and they are connected with government and they have taxes... Besides this there is a fact, the world has changed and the conditions that made possible that Bitcoin reach $18000 has gone. I mean this fluctuation of Bitcoins has the origin in regulations that before doesnt existed before.So basically the future value of bitcoin rely in the amount of people that is going to invest. But what people?  Im  principally referring to Latin American market in those underdeveloped countries the regulations are more weaker thant  developed countries  so people can invest and expect gain something.And not only they it depends on people awareness about cryptocurrency around the world

Sources:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/fbi-publishes-psa-about-tech-support-fraud-targeting-cryptocurrency-holders
https://www.coindesk.com/us-judge-rules-cryptocurrencies-are-commodities-in-cftc-case/
https://www.coindesk.com/colombian-financial-watchdog-joins-r3-blockchain-consortium/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3041155.msg33810281#msg33810281


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: MJK_Anfaenger on April 03, 2018, 09:33:45 PM
Hey there, this is not mine, but someone else's post that I found incredibly insightful. I'm kinda saving my smerits because I'm planning to do something similar to what you're doing... but if you could step in, I'd appreciate it.

Even worse, I think this kind of censorship could seep over into everyday life, for average Americans as well as for anyone else. Would you criticize, say the US government if you had reason to believe that any political comment online could somehow affect your personal life or your career? I don’t know about you, but this sounds like the beginnings of a surveillance state to me.

What do you think? Am I overreacting? Do you share my concerns?

Hi MJK_Anfaenger,

With all due respect, I believe that the "Subject" that you chose for this thread was in error.  I've corrected it for you in my reply.

Everything we do is capable of being tracked.  Twenty years ago, people talked about being forced to be implanted with a "microchip" and tracked.  There's really no need for that since we've voluntarily submitted to tracking.  We all carry tracking devices, mostly made by Apple and/or Samsung, that can do more than any form of microchipping with today's technology could.  We have Alexa, Siri, Google, and Cortana listening to us, to assist us in our daily tasks.  Our Fitbit's track our every move.  Our watches record our pulse.  Our televisions can listen to and in some cases see us.  Many of us cover our laptop cameras for a reason.  There is no reason to believe that this tracking power has not been used extensively.  In fact, there is much evidence that it already has.

Facebook is just one of many actors that abuse the information that we provide to them.  Google, YouTube, Twitter are others.  There are MANY others as well, consider cloud services such as a Google or Microsoft account.  Also consider cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute, etc.  I assume that anything I do online is being profiled by someone for some reason.  There is every incentive for these businesses to cooperate with the three letter agencies.  They often do so without requiring a warrant, usually the "Terms of Service" we agree to give them the right to basically do whatever they want with our data.

Consider the scenario that occurred in Austin, TX last month.  The person that was distributing bombs, how did they locate him?  They filtered through Google searches in the Texas area looking for keywords matching components in the bombs.  That gave them a pool of suspects.  Then they cross-referenced that with payment records showing that the suspect purchased a specific kind of battery from Alibaba that was used in the bombs.  Following that, they began surveillance on the suspect (which I believe was assisted by his phone geolocation records) which led to a confrontation in which he was killed (unclear if it was from one of his bombs detonating, a self-inflicted suicide, or a police kill).  While it is, of course, good that the person that was bombing innocents is no longer doing so, the privacy implications of this are very serious.  Think of how many innocent people had their search histories gone through to hone on in that one suspect.

Is it worth it?  That's a tough call.  I do not want to trade liberty for security.  I also don't want innocent people killed.

What I do know is that centralized 'gatekeeper' platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, etc., etc., are dangerous.  Just as centralized money is dangerous.  Just as centralized 'gatekeeper' news sources are dangerous.  I support next-generation decentralized platforms for social media that cannot be censored.  There are several out there, and several more in development.  My organization is crowdfunding one approach that aims to resolve a number of problems in the space.  What emerges from these will hopefully be services that cannot be censored due to their design.  Obscene and illegal content can be moderated without limiting free speech.  Privacy should be up to each user, with the defaults set on full lockdown.  A way to monetize it without ads that profile you, such as ethical ads, distributed computing, and/or subscription models, need to be developed so that people that produce great content can move off of platforms such as YouTube that can make them penniless by demonetizing their videos.  There's a lot of ideas to improve this.  They all start with decentralized networks, strong encryption, and build from there.  Not everything is ideal to store on a blockchain, but there is certain parts of such a solution that would be best done with a blockchain approach.  When our project begins incubation, it's going to reach out to several different other projects that are working on some of the problems (identity, advertising, distributed computing, and distributed storage projects).  These are the building blocks of next-generation microblogging (obsoleting Twitter/Gab), social networking (obsoleting Facebook/LinkedIn), image/video sharing (obsoleting Instagram and YouTube), messaging (obsoleting Messenger and Telegram), distributed search (obsoleting Google and Bing), and live streaming (obsoleting Periscope).

I am not a fan of social media.  I have it because of my business dealings and now BTRIC.  I would trust it more if I had more control over my own information, and I knew it couldn't be used to track and profile me.  I'll be much happier when these better platforms are the norm.

Best regards,
Ben

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3230143.msg33783497#msg33783497


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: petyang12 on April 07, 2018, 06:45:17 PM
EDIT: 50 sM being giving away in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0.

EDIT: Great! We have one outta four six following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry. <this announcement was originally penned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.msg31466554#msg31466554>

The rules are simple. Quote in this thread what you believe is your best most current post on this forum, whereupon I, only, will judge if it warrants at least +1 sM.

Others, feel free to follow my lead including your attempt having a quasi-snazzy thread title.

Let's make maxing out BitcoinTalk's resources great again.  ::)

Ready? GO!

Bruno

PS: Don't blame me if others opt to also give you sM for your scintillating prose thanks to this thread.

PSS: I might as well plug my sig while I'm at end, or visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131.
This topic is helpful to those who want to recieve merits like me, i'll try my best not to disappoint you sir but take a look at my post if it is good enough for a chance to recieve merit.
Here are my links.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3254613.msg34141055#msg34141055

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3036536.msg33695633#msg33695633

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2997288.msg33652897#msg33652897
Hope it helps.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: nakamura12 on April 07, 2018, 07:03:09 PM
EDIT: 50 sM being giving away in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0.

EDIT: Great! We have one outta four six following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry. <this announcement was originally penned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.msg31466554#msg31466554>

The rules are simple. Quote in this thread what you believe is your best most current post on this forum, whereupon I, only, will judge if it warrants at least +1 sM.

Others, feel free to follow my lead including your attempt having a quasi-snazzy thread title.

Let's make maxing out BitcoinTalk's resources great again.  ::)

Ready? GO!

Bruno

PS: Don't blame me if others opt to also give you sM for your scintillating prose thanks to this thread.

PSS: I might as well plug my sig while I'm at end, or visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131.
Your thread would help us junior member to rank up. I would like to take this chance to earn merit. Nowadays i always see users complaining about the merit system but i think it's fair for it is to create better bitcointalk forum.
here are the links:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3166073.msg34154331#msg34154331

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3217605.msg34054382#msg34054382

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2634061.msg33606463#msg33606463
I hope i'd be able to share some information that might helps other users in this forum.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: zool2003 on April 07, 2018, 08:20:24 PM
Could you consider one of these 3 posts?

1.
I use OVH for lots of different projects.

You can get VPS half price at the minute

https://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/#ssd-discover (https://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/#ssd-discover)

Web Hosting packages

https://www.ovh.co.uk/web-hosting/ (https://www.ovh.co.uk/web-hosting/)

Or play with a full dedicated server for about $6 or $7 a month.

https://www.kimsufi.com/en/ (https://www.kimsufi.com/en/)

2.
Hello
I am looking for VB.Net documentation and code examples for using Exchange trading APIs. I found something in C but not in VB.Net.
I wish I could read the info from my account and place trades.

Code:
    Public Sub coinprice()
        Try
            Dim request As HttpWebRequest
            Dim response As HttpWebResponse = Nothing
            Dim reader As StreamReader
            ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = True
            ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12

            request = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("https://stocks.exchange/api2/ticker"), HttpWebRequest)

            response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
            reader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())

            Dim rawresp As String
            rawresp = reader.ReadToEnd()

            Dim array As JArray = JArray.Parse(rawresp)

            For Each item As JObject In array
                Dim name As String = If(item("market_name") Is Nothing, "", item("market_name").ToString())
                Dim email As String = If(item("last") Is Nothing, "", item("last").ToString())
                If name = "SUM_BTC" Then
                    Console.WriteLine("Name: " & name)
                    Console.WriteLine("Email: " & email)
                    coinpriceLabel.Text = email & " BTC"
                End If

            Next
        Catch ex As Exception
            Console.WriteLine(ex)
            coinpriceLabel.Text = "Too Many Connections"
        End Try
    End Sub

This works for me. The initial code was on stack exchange I think and I did some alterations myself. Its not finished so don't punish me for it looking hacky.

It also deals with too many connection attempts through an exception.

You will need to add this

Code:
Imports Newtonsoft.Json.Linq

and the appropriate reference

3.
Accounts Connected:

1: NetFreak199 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=819793)
2: alexberezov (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1066970)


Accounts Connected:
chixka000 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=821846), netfreak199 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=819793), Camus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=319059), visionary (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=58779), alexberezov (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1066970), identifyuser (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=227450)

Proof:

6 of the accounts joined the PECUNIO Signature bounty. At the time they joined in pairs within 5 - 15 minutes of each other and when I looked at the profiles they signed out at similar times
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8pBrPNw5gkpwCYLbr-ggqL3HBGSGCud_bUz-gojAfI/edit#gid=1761784155 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8pBrPNw5gkpwCYLbr-ggqL3HBGSGCud_bUz-gojAfI/edit#gid=1761784155)

I looked at chixka000 & netfreak199 first and noticed that they made posts at a similar time and they logged out at similar times. I then looked at another campaign that they were in and found their ETH addresses.

This was just one campaign that I looked at and discovered that all of these smaller accounts were contributing to one account at similar times too.
Netfreak transferred    3,191.48936170213 MWAT to chixka000 15 days ago
lehard transferred    3,191.48936170213 MWAT to chixka000 15 days ago
alexberezov transferred   4,851.359064618577 MWAT to chixka000 16 days ago
identifyuser transferred  3,538.009719773167 MWAT to chixka000 16 days ago
Camus transferred  47,285.45675578803 MWAT to chixka000 16 days ago
visionary transferred  47,285.45675578803 MWAT to chixka000 16 days ago

If you look here chixka is asking about a bounty that he isn't involved with

This has been a long campaign, one I've very much enjoyed. Looking forward to the final spreadsheet being shared
is there any information about calculation of stakes for bounty? at least approximate date? I didn't find announcements from bounty Manager.

However alexberezov was and if you look above alexberezov has transferred bounty earnings to chixka

They have also been connected through merit

Merit summary for alexberezov,
January 25, 2018, 03:58:00 PM: 50 from chixka000
January 25, 2018, 03:39:16 PM: 50 from NetFreak199

MWAT Campaign all 7 names in the youtube campaign and 4 of them joining within 30 minutes of each other.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_63IbIczvWvAE33b-QgpgfmlN2FzMK7TuTWUpytXds/edit#gid=1724170213 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c_63IbIczvWvAE33b-QgpgfmlN2FzMK7TuTWUpytXds/edit#gid=1724170213)

Related Addresses:

ETH addresses that link the accounts together.

alexberezov
Code:
0x55515EDbe90d7d8f29De195E13D02bB43f9Ee8f0
Netfreak
Code:
0x822d9cd5b86391cdb5e4743089b8cc9f964195bf
lehard
Code:
0x8d25806367854781767728Ec23E9d2d9cF13A9E6
identifyuser
Code:
0x8Ede1DbeeCde0AE2859f9735cA0470c8210c0e0C
Camus
Code:
0x84D547a3D8F70857801EA98654Df62258d5ea3ae
visionary
Code:
0x52683d2A38676De03D1029cdAe1f2729473b8b7F
chixka000
Code:
0xAaEedA078AcF2e037FFf742c564dc11eBa815b7f


Miscellaneous:

As it stands I have messaged the PECUNIO bounty manager twice and he didn't respond and the spreadsheet still says that they have been accepted but they have moved onto another signature bounty
Thrive Signature bounty
6 of these accounts joined up and what I also noticed is that these accounts are joining in at the end of the campaign each time.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10-0pamtd_CjyZjmmFZ5Q_0HSNhrRC2i-E5HqVokTEjo/edit#gid=1453105285 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10-0pamtd_CjyZjmmFZ5Q_0HSNhrRC2i-E5HqVokTEjo/edit#gid=1453105285)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: sadmaster on April 30, 2018, 09:22:24 AM
Good day sir, could you look on to my post whether it's worth it :)
Thanks and good day!
Quote
[Buy The Dip]
- Buy the Dip - is a slang phrase referring to a practice of purchasing coins following a decrease in prices. After a significant dip in coins and alt coins, investors most likely increased their stock of different coins to gain advantage from what is seen as a potential upward trend.

- This is a strategy is used by some investors and traders when the market suddenly drops and reaches a very low point or what they call a Dip. Some also call this Discounted Coin/Token Sale.
https://i.imgur.com/yI1w6Fq.png


Why to buy at Dip?
-The idea of buying the Dip is based on the movement of price in the market. By purchasing coins after a dip, investors are essentially going at a low entry price or at a discounted sale price. Like all trading strategies, buying the dip is not a sure thing, because some coin price drops are due to negative changes underlying the company's fundamentals of the Coin. Example of this is the investors who followed this strategy on the coin BITCONNECT(BCC) (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitconnect/). The coin popped earlier this year because the coin is found to be a fraud after they pulled the GREATEST EXIT SCHEME IN CRYPTO CURRENCY (https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/01/17/bitconnect-bitcoin-scam-cryptocurrency). Buying the dips seems to work when the market is oversold.

I would like to end this with a quote saying "A little learning is a dangerous thing" :) Hoped this helped you


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Moiyah on May 02, 2018, 04:41:29 PM
Hey, Gleb!

If it's not a burden, can you take a glance on my posts?

Newbie Guides: Pinned Threads and frequently asked questions

Before everything, let us differentiate THREAD vs POSTS.

Here is the great explanation of greg.harvey (https://www.drupal.org/node/293679).

-THREAD is the initial *starting* post.
POST is a reply to a THREAD or a reply to a post within a thread.
POST is a form of COMMENT

What is pinned thread?
-An important thread thay may serve as a guide for all the newbies and members. It should be read by everyone as this may help a lot of members when, where and how to start posting in the forum.

Why is this pinned threads are important?
- Sometimes, we are unconsciously breaking the rules. To prevent that, pinned posts are usually located at the top of the section and it may include forum rules. This is to seems the awareness of everyone.

This is an example of a thread that is pinned:

https://i.imgur.com/6jarXLY.jpg


Been reading a lot of repeated questions from newbies and they are seem lazy to use the search bar and only bump in didferent sections of the forum creating the same topic all over the forum. It just added spam posts/threads.

I've decided to start this thread to help especially newbies and guide them eventually with thier journey in this forum community.

Newbie must read this before posting (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0)

- I registered here in btalk forum and this is the very first thread I have read. It really help me before exploring deeper here.

Activity and merits explained here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0)
- This explained when you are confused as why activity stopped at 14 and why merits is needed to ranked up.

Accounts hacked/unexpected loss passwords (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0)


General Forum Rules (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0)
-For me, this is the most important thread because forum rules and regulations are here. We can avoid breaking the rules by reading and following this thread.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q1.I am a newbie. How can I upload an image?

A1.This explains in a simplest way.  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3398258.0)

Q2.How can I earned in bitcoin?

A.Read this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1629118.0)

Q3. Why are my posts deleted and got a message from forum moderator?

A. This is why  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14356.0)

Q4.What is merits, how can I earned it?

A.If you want to know more about it, this may clear things up in more comprehensive way.  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2534500)

Q5. How to improve my English?

A1.Tman's encouragement words (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3376729.0)

A2.Jet Cash's Advice  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3081595.0)

All credits:
theymos (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14356.0),iasenko (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2534500), mprep (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=51173),
 Lauda (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=101872),  hilariousandco (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=164822), Tman (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=98986
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3376729.0), Jet Cash (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=698159), Coolcryptovator (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1980983)


You may also take a look at my latest post reply.


Do you guys feel the same thirst/hunger to buy/add more fiat to the crypto world. And when is enough ?


Yes, I'm one of those like you who are greedy to take advantage of the red market. But when is enough? It's your money/capital  which will decide if you're gonna stop or continue.

Quote
Because of the long downtreand we have been withness to now. Do i start to be positive to what i see right now. And want to take a loan in the bank 50k to buy more of the coins that i have mantion in this thread. The plan is to make 2-3x and sell some and pay back the loan. I know this sounds crazy to most of you and i know it is.

I have heard so much about getting a loan, having a debt or even using a credit card to just invest in some altcoins. But I don't recommend such behavior because it is indeed a risky act. You may not know if the market will dance your moves always. Also, the interest can affect the target profit and the ROI will not surely return in a span of time.

But anyway, it is your own strategy on how you will react to the risk and it is your optimistic side that depends on your success.
 Goodluck, buddy.

Thanks in advance  :D


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: vlad230 on May 04, 2018, 06:39:18 PM
Didn't know which one to pick, went with this one:

I think the best IDE you can use for Bitcoin/Crypto development is IDEA Intellij.
It's cross platform (you can use it on Ubuntu, Mac or Windows) and you can use the community edition for free. Anyone who has ever worked in software development appreciates a good IDE like Intellij.

As the programming language used for the blockchain is C++, you will need to get a plugin for it to be able to use it in the IDE. You can find some useful info on it here: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1373-c-c-


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Raskolhnikov1 on May 04, 2018, 09:08:25 PM
Hi my post is from local section, but I think it worth a try, why not  ;D

I did a compilation of all ppl of bitcointalk forum who is offering merits:

Here is the compilation thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2841480.0 - Please take a look :D

My last post adding you =D

17.O membro @bitcoin_revo está oferecendo 120 merits. Ele vai analisar seu histórico de posts, e então vai meritar de 3-10 posts seus com um merit cada. Ele quer posts de alta qualidade. Há também umas regras simples para aplicação. Leia antes. [HOT]

Para aplicar, escreva simplesmente: "please review"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3540767.0


Esse Gringo tá distribuindo 120 merits galera. . É uma pena que só vai meritar posts em inglês, mas sei que tem membros aqui que participam muito no fórum global, então, para esses, vale a pena tentar =D


18.O membro @Gleb_Gamow está oferecendo 170 merits em dois tópicos distintos. [HOT]

No primeiro é mais do básico: você poê um post que acha digno e ele vai avaliar se merita ou não.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943

O segundo é bem mais interessante e mais fácil, a meu ver. Você posta uma notícia de criptos relacionada a alguma celebridade, se for uma celebridade nova ele te dará merits. Por exemplo:

50 Cent: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/01/25/50-cent-becomes-accidental-bitcoin-millionaire-forgotten-investment/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0



PS: para lista completa: 22 tópicos (alguns fechados). veja OP


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: caotringhia on May 05, 2018, 08:11:30 AM
Hi Gleb!
Can you look through my posts?
I posted this article to guide the basics for beginners .
Thank you

Hi everybody.
I am Nghia, I have been in this market for nearly 6 months and also have many difficulties in finding the basics. I want to share what I know and I hope it will help you.

1. The first thing you need is a Bitcoin wallet:
- You can read more at this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0
- Or you can register here: https://blockchain.info/
2. Where to buy Bitcoin?
You will find where you can buy Bitcoin by choosing your country of residence here: https://www.bitcoin.com/buy-bitcoin/
3. Where is the Bitcoin Exchange:
You can join these popular exchanges:
- Binance: https://www.binance.com/
- Bittrex: https://bittrex.com/
- Bitfinex: https://www.bitfinex.com/
- Huobi: https://www.huobi.pro/
- More here: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
4. You can see the total market statistics here:
https://coinmarketcap.com/
5. Technical Analysis Tool:
https://www.tradingview.com/
6. About Bitcoin forum:
You can read it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0
7. Can I make money with zero capital?
Yes you can.
If you are new and have no initial capital, you can join the Airdrop and Bounty campaigns.
In order to be able to receive money from these campaigns, you need to have an Ethereum wallet address
You can register here: https://www.myetherwallet.com/
- About Airdrop: You can join this Telegram to update your new airdrop: https://t.me/Airdrops_Token
- About Bounty: You can find information about all Bounty campaigns here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0
Before joining the Airdrop and Bounty campaigns, you need to evaluate the development of those projects and you will also need to have social networking accounts in order to participate. The most popular are Telegram, Twitter and Facebook.
You can refer to these two ICO review sites:
+ https://icobench.com/
+ https://icorating.com/
However, these assessments are for reference only, the decision to participate is up to you.

Important: Absolutely never disclose your personal key to anyone, which will result in your property being stolen. You should use 2 factor authentication on your wallet.

I hope the basics above will help you.
My English is not good, expect you to sympathize.
Good luck.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: bitmover on May 05, 2018, 11:33:46 PM
Hello, please take a look at this one.

I discovered bitcoin while studying about how to protect my privacy on the internet.

Crytpocurrencies and privacy and closely related. This way many people here care about privacy, however I still see many users in this forum who are not using basic privacy tools, like an ad block.

This simple guide is for those people.

Usually people who think they don't care about privacy say: "I don't worry about  privacy because I have nothing to hide."
When you go to the bathroom you close the door, even if you have nothing to hide.

While surfing on the internet here are a few tools that will help you protect yourself against tracking and privacy invasion.

  • Avoid any Google product. They are not to be trusted as Google will track your data to ad services.

  • Browser recommendation:
    Firefox / Brave browser / Tor Browser

  • Browser Extensions: (works even on Firefox Mobile)
     UBlock (https://www​.ublock.org/) (an adblocker)
    Decentraleyes (https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/) (blocks content delivery)
     HTTPS Everywhere (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/)

  • E-mail provider:
    Consider changing to a encrypted e-mail service, not U.S based
     ProtonMail  (https://www.protonmail.com) /  Tutanota  (https://www.tutanota.com)

  • Search engines:
    I know how it's hard to not use Google. The best private alternative is  Duckduckgo  (https://www.duckduckgo.com).
    If you find very hard to stop using Google, consider using  Encrypted Google (https://encrypted.google.com)  (I really don't know if it is truly encrypted)

  • Encrypt your Android Device (https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-encrypt-android-device-326700/) - Protect your music, photos, personal data that can only be read with a password.

  • Fix Windows 10 privacy configuration (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/windows-10-doesnt-offer-much-privacy-by-default-heres-how-to-fix-it/), to avoid Microsoft data collection.

  • Some good VPN (protects your traffic data and enables geo-restricted content):
     Proton VPN (https://protonvpn.com/) - Free version available.
    Tunnel Bear (https://www.tunnelbear.com/) Free version available.
     Nord VPN  (https://nordvpn.com) - Free version available.
    To use full time you will need a paid plan on a good VPN service.

  • Private cryptocurrencies:
    Monero (the most popular), PIVX, Dash, Zcash, Particl, among many others.

Important note: Privacy is a never ending task, as you can always do something more. Start doing what is easier for you. There are also many other useful add-ons, programs, etc. This is just a very basic guide, as I see many people who don't even use an adblocker

If you want more information about privacy, go to https://www.privacytools.io/ (https://www.privacytools.io/)



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: loicuagio1979 on May 06, 2018, 06:36:06 AM
Dear sir
I would like you to take my post into your consideration:
Quote
Quote
not everything is about fees and how much you pay, it is about security of the network and the coin that you are using too. otherwise there are free coins like NANO (old name RaiBlock) that don't even have a fee.

As you can see, the payment channel is based on the HTLC protocol. For more information, you can track the wiki link: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts. In short, the acceptor/ receiver has to confirm that he has accepted/ received the payment in a given time and the sender has the sum automatically without having confirmation from receiver. Moreover, L.N has its own code of committed transactions. They are are security despite a sudden conflict or other party turn into unresponsive. To better understand why L.n is safe, you can track this link: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=462

Regards


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Steamtyme on May 07, 2018, 03:47:26 AM


There is always a right place for a topic.

I disagree. There are many times where the topic you are starting has already been started 100's of times. Use the search function, and do not ask things like:
What if 
Code:
BTC is 1 million
it moon
you lose all coin
government ban exchange
satoshi was named sayoshi
you never hear about bitcoin
bitcoin goes to 0
yadi yadi yada

Quote
Reply with relevance to the topic, never spam, try to give a quality statement that might earn you merits.


The reply you are about to type may have already been posted to the thread. A nice rule of thumb is if you can't take the time to read the thread then you probably shouldn't post in it. Do not just go out posting looking for Merits (unless it is a thread offering post review).

OP your post is well laid out, but seriously this is the last thing that should be taught to Newbies. If the only reason they are in this forum is to join a Sig campaign, then they are not going to benefit the forum, and are the reason the Merit system exists. You should start this post by telling them to go out and gain knowledge read up so they can be a valuable contribution to the forum, then maybe join a Sig campaign. This way there won't be another 25 post min. of garbage

As a side note glad you and hellfish, had that trip down memory lane. I'm like a crypto toddler, so I like seeing anything about the old days. I still can't believe some of the shit you vets have been through. I'm going to try and follow some of your mentions and quotes for some light reading during this week of nightshifts. If you have any more good reads post away. I've also been reading through old trust references sometimes you come across some Gems.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: theyoungmillionaire on May 07, 2018, 02:50:25 PM
Hi, Gleb, can you please check these posts:

The Silk Road seized, and the downfall of Mt.Gox

Silk Road is the first modern darknet market. Derived from a historical network of trade routes, which started during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) between Europe, India, China, and countries on the Afro-Eurasian landmass. Started in February 2011, a booming online marketplace, and founded by Ross Ulbricht, a darknet market operator, known alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”. Ross as some article say American former drug trafficker, some people say he is a visionary who wants anonymity, maximize political freedom and independence, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, and individual judgment; they believe in every individual rights. He also has some business failures before Silk Road.
It produced millions of dollars in revenue, secret was simple: ensuring the anonymity of its buyers and sellers. You can access it through Tor, software that renders anonymous on the internet and as a tool for uncensored communication to Internet users. Primarily, buyers could register free, but there were a limited number of new seller accounts available; new sellers had to purchase an account thru an auction. Later, a fixed fee for each new seller account to mitigate the possibility of malicious individuals distributing tainted goods, the site had 10,000 products for sale by vendors see (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)).
Bitcoin is the primary mode of payment, fiat to bitcoin then btc to Silk Road account, if there is a transaction the buyer’s btc will be escrow; when the buyer confirmed the legitimacy of the purchased, seller’s account will be credited. Despite its highly anonymous features, in October 2013 the U.S. Government shut it down. Intersection between the Bitcoin housed on the site, valued at tens of millions of U.S. dollars, and a key crime-fighting tool: the federal asset forfeiture program. As soon as the United States seized Silk Road, it also, by virtue of technological fiat (and, apparently, some clumsiness on the part of Ulbricht), seized the bitcoins housed therein.
This included Ulbricht’s staggering personal bitcoin supply (about 150,000 BTC), accumulated through the healthy commission Silk Road took from all sales, as well as all of the bitcoins held by its many users or housed in the aforementioned escrow accounts (about 30,000 BTC).  This meant that if a drug-seeking Silk Road user tried accessing the site after the shutdown, he would, to his likely dismay, be redirected to an FBI-generated shutdown notice. In addition, all of the bitcoins he may have stored on Silk Road would also be gone, seized by the government as part of efforts to forfeit all of the bitcoins held in Silk Road accounts. Short discussion by the federal asset forfeiture program, kindly see (https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/the-silk-road-and-mtgox-lessons-in-law-for-bitcoin).

Silk Road Seize lessons: Ross was just clumsy: agreed to be interviewed by Forbes, under the show of the Dread Pirate Roberts, in the summer of 2013, revealing enough of himself to law enforcement to pierce Silk Road’s veil. As Michael Neilsen suggests, the claim that Bitcoin can be used anonymously—the claim that drove the very formation of Silk Road and other marketplaces that specialize in illegal goods—is a myth. “The block chain is public,” Neilsen argues, and “although Bitcoin addresses aren’t immediately associated with real-world identities, computer scientists have made a great deal of progress figuring out how to de-anonymize ‘anonymous’ social networks.
If FBI agents can trace the flow of the Silk Road bitcoins—or, simpler still, exploit civil forfeiture to make such tracing unnecessary—proponents of Bitcoin (particularly those who seek to use Bitcoin to facilitate criminal activity) will be forced to adjust accordingly. By virtue of the blockchain, the backbone of the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitcoin may never be as anonymous or untraceable as it purports to be. Ironically, as Neilsen aptly suggests, Bitcoin is “perhaps the most open and transparent financial instrument the world has ever seen.” The Silk Road episode stands as evidence that existing legal structures such as asset forfeiture currently have the power to contain Bitcoin. U.S. Marshalls auction off the bitcoins from the Silk Road forfeiture, we are left to question whether this newfangled crypto-currency is any different, from a legal perspective, from an old fashioned pile of cash.

MtGox downfall.  MtGox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, as the largest bitcoin intermediary and the world's leading bitcoin exchange. MTGox stands for "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange” founded by Jed McCaleb, now the most controversial figure in cryptocurrency and hated due to its issue with XRP. The exchange handled millions of dollars’ worth of transactions a day, just like a traditional “forex” trading platform. When BTC is sent from one public key address to another (sender used private key), funds cannot be retrieved unless the receiver physically sends the funds back (using own private key). This feature of Bitcoin is the core of its almost-totally protected transaction system, while MtGox’s exchange system avoided this security feature for the sake of accessibility and speed. This arrangement, called a web wallet, is the similar as Silk Road, meaning the private keys is with MTGox, and the only thing keeping MtGox from stealing the funds was, ironically, the prevention of legal action on the basis of contract law or criminal law. It is considered “the worst of both worlds” since it joint the irreversibility of BTC transactions (once you sent your BTC to MtGox, only MtGox could ever send it back to you) with none of the highly developed regulatory protections of the traditional financial services system. Even though users “owned” the BTC they had sent to their MtGox wallets, their claim to ownership was secured only by a simple contract—the user agreement.
In early 2014 it dramatic collapse. In February 2014, Mt. Gox suspended trading, closed its website and exchange service, and filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. In April 2014, the company began liquidation proceedings. The disappearance of more than $400 million worth of bitcoin from MtGox, and its subsequent collapse, many Bitcoin users left with no option other than to trust the traditional legal system for relief. Whether the collapse triggered by hacking or mismanagement, its effect on customers is the same: they are unable to retrieve their funds.  Mizuho had been trying to shut down MtGox’s account for months before the collapse, and now that it is theoretically liable for the exchange’s errors, other banks who deal with Bitcoin businesses are proceeding cautiously. Bitcoin’s largest exchange and its customers have become involved in legal actions is clear evidence that the traditional legal system will continue to dominate dispute resolution for Bitcoin users.
Like Silk Road case, it proves that current legal tools like asset forfeiture can be adapted to Bitcoin’s supposedly cutting-edge usage, and MtGox case displays that bankruptcy and class actions can be applied to Bitcoin denominated business disputes.  Some developers are moving forward with systems based on Ricardian contracts (“smart contracts”) and multi-signature cryptography, application of these technologies would be a peer-to-peer exchange.

Bitcoin, in order to continue its challenge to our old financial system, it must cope up with and react to our traditional legal structures; either that or it must progress beyond them. As Bitcoin grows in popularity, so does the law’s interest in being able to reach it just like Silk Road and MT.Gox.  

Your thoughts? If you have more knowledge about these historical event, kindly reply. Let us learn together.  

RSK is smart contract technology that can be used to bitcoin blockchain. Smart contract is a procedure that implements the terms of a contract; this is not unique to ETH alone, as BTC allows using smart contracts in building services to add suitable on bitcoin transactions. Even though these facilities use bitcoin, it is naturally centralize since their smart contracts should be present on a centralized server. RSK arises from “rootstock”, it is like a flat, underground stem that frequently sends off roots and shoots from its nodes”. It is the first open-source smart contract platform with “a 2 way peg to bitcoin”.
Bitcoin miners can also earn rewards thru merge mining, which allows miner to join in the Smart Contract revolution. RSK enables the execution of a smart contract(see Smart Contracts (https://blockgeeks.com/guides/smart-contracts/)). Developers are attractive to these because they offer extra scripting opportunities thru the use of smart contracts. Bitcoin’s scripting system is limited on purpose (security).
The best thing about RSK, it can run smart contracts in a platform capable of scaling up to 2000 transactions per second on chain and 20,000 transactions per second off chain.
As the RSK.co official website explains, that’s how RSK is “providing the scalability needed for global financial solutions.”
Another edge is that it does not force users to choose between ETH and BTC when they want to take benefit of smart contracts, allows developers to implement smart contract solutions onto the bitcoin blockchain; it is BTC Friendly, does not compete with Bitcoin, security, scalability, instant payments. In non-technical language, means developers could issue an app into ETH and RSK similar to the way developers release an app into iOS or android, platforms are different, but work in a similar overall. It will greatly affect ETH and ETH enthusiast. See some of their comments:

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killerstorm
RSK is essentially an Ethereum clone which uses federated consensus model (blocks are built by pre-defined authorities, not by miners) and uses Bitcoin as a currency. It really has very little to do with Bitcoin itself.

They can have "almost instant transactions" and "better scalability" because blocks are built by business nodes and they don't care about users being able to run nodes.

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DiachronicShear
In addition to what's been said, one exists, the other doesn't. That matters when someone like MasterCard wants to use a blockchain in their business. They can either wait an undetermind amount of time for a politically tumultuous system to hack on a quick fix for smart contracts OR they can start now with a system that actually works and has leadership.

Ethereum is also not static. The longer Rootstock takes, the further behind it'll be. If it takes 2 years (as you postulate), it'll be competing with PoS and Sharding, not to mention Plasma chains.

Oh, also, IF BITCOIN HARD-FORKS, ROOTSTOCK STOPS WORKING. So any upgrade to the Bitcoin network will break RSK.
Read more:RSK vs ETH (https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/78leax/what_differs_between_bitcoin_upcoming_rsk/)

Is it going to change Bitcoin forever? Or there will be something that will emerge from inside the Bitcoin ecosystem? Your thoughts.

Since we are the future of financial system, there are some issues with bitcoin scalability, why? Because, blockchains are slow & expensive. If you have notice, when you send some bitcoins to exchange, they would receive it like 10mins. or more & you have paid a high transaction fee just to speed it up. If you apply it in a real world, it will not work. I will just use my visa to buy then.  That is the problem of our bitcoin, and lighting network is the idea that can solve scalability of the blockchains. Its idea is not all of your transactions are recorded on the blockchain.
If you would visualized, we can bypass the recording process on the blockchain and help it by carrying them off the chain. In layman’s term, we will open a payment channel between us and record its opening on the blockchain. Imagine a SDB (safety deposit box) wherein two people deposited amounts of money “and” each put a lock (sounds like a “bank”, right? SDB plus joint account). After the account opening, we can transact anytime thru our payment channel, it will stay for decades, unless we will end our contract or close our channel (that’s the time we will touch again the blockchain).
By then we can write our final rights of transactions that happened thru our channel on the blockchain, we are bound with promise of ownership. So, we only go to the blockchain upon account opening & closing of our payment channel.

Simple example:
theyoungmillionaire bought a phone worth 1.7 BTC from Daboy_Lyle and payment will be done via BTC, since:
theyoungmillionaire & TMAN have a payment channel, and TMAN & Daboy_Lyle also with a payment channel. theyoungmillionaire can pay Daboy_Lyle thru TMAN.
TMAN will send 1.7 BTC to Daboy_Lyle and theyoungmillionaire will refund TMAN with 1.7 BTC.

By these, we can offload transactions on the blockchain, thus, we can release up the chain’s bandwidth. Transactions is going to happen at lightning speed (That is why it is called lightning network), By means of a network of payment channels, millions of transactions occurred, and that too without a heavy transaction fee (NO FEE FTW).  

Thanks.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: bitart on May 07, 2018, 09:38:53 PM
Applying for a review, thanks for your time:
1.
I have an idea (again :) )
Maybe this would be just a kind of symptomatic treatment like the painkillers, but anyway painkillers also help, at least for a while...
Somewhere I have read to let users to ignore complete topics (spamming megathreads, etc...) to have an easier overview of the new topics and posts in this shitpost ocean, where the quality posts are as rear as desert islands...
So, my idea is the following:
If someone, someday will decide to start to ignore the spam threads and the spammer users, and works hard on it, after a while he/she will have a decent list of the topics/users to ignore.
In the current situation, each and every user have to do the same, search for all the topics/posts to ignore, if they want to have a clearer view in the end.
I would propose a kind of 'filter' which is similar to an adblock addon, like you can input a list of threads/users to ignore and that would apply for you only, and after the forum would list only the relevant topics, posts for you.
Everybody would be able to set the ignore list up for himself/herself, but there should be an option to 'load' a list from someone who you trust/agree with/like/etc... or from a central repository.
Just and example:
I know that e.g. JetCash has a quite long ignore list, so if some users are happy with JetCash's ignore list, they could apply that filter for themselves as well, and they would save the effort for themselves...
I know it's hard to develop and to implement, but this is only an idea...
If people would start to use a solution like this, this would cause that spammers and shitposters won't bother the majority of the forum, but only each other and the few remaining users who won't apply any kind of 'filter', because this would only be optional (I don't want to force anybody to do anything...)
Let me know your cons :)


2.
So, I had enough trying to locate a working neutrino compatible node for the LN mainnet (I don't want to run a full node on the raspberry PI, because this is the point of the neutrino node).
So I switched to testnet and voilá...
Code:
 lnd –bitcoin.active –bitcoin.testnet –debuglevel=debug –bitcoin.node=neutrino --noencryptwallet --neutrino.connect=faucet.lightning.community
It's running (OK, still "Catching up block hashes"), but at least there's no problem with finding proper nodes to connect to.
So I'll start now with testnet and later on with the mainnet...


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: CarlosCorreia on May 07, 2018, 10:02:10 PM
I didn't find anything in the rules against bounty posts...
So, here goes!

I have created a topic to gather the existing Steemit Campaigns.
I keep the topic up to date and with a good visual appeal.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3095567.0

Being built on top of a cryptocurrency blockchain, I'm really focused on Steemit!

We need to grow the community over Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc...

But all new projects have bounties on those platforms! It's very hard to find some Steemit Bounties.
So, I created this topic to find what Steemit campaigns are out there!

I will start with the few I know and will update the topic with your feedback.
Feel free to point out some information to add as well as new Steemit campaign that may start.

This topic can also be used to talk about the campaigns, good/bad feedback, doubts, possible changes, etc...


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https://i.imgur.com/SzfgB1H.png

STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@friendup
BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2962099.0
VALUE: 125k FRND | ~5k USD
END DATE: April 15th
JOB'S: UPVOTE & RESTEEM
REPORTS: After work on Bounty0x

NOTES: Campaign moved to Bounty0x Platform. More info at https://alpha.bounty0x.io/bounties/host/FriendUP


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https://i.imgur.com/OSD6w6U.png

STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@spotcoin
BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3173867.0
VALUE: 404k SPOT | ~202k USD (For All Social Media Bounties)
END DATE: June 4th
JOB'S: UPVOTE & RESTEEM & COMMENT
REPORTS: Every two weeks on Bounty Thread and G0blin Form

NOTES: Upvotes and Comments are valid for every post about Spotcoin, not only from official account.
     Bounty campaign is being managed by g0blin. More info at https://www.g0blin.com/spotcoin/

LINKS: WEBSITE (https://spotcoin.com/) | ANN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3173859.0) | REDDIT (https://www.reddit.com/r/Spotcoin/) | FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/spotcoin/) | TWITTER (https://twitter.com/therealspotcoin) | INSTAGRAM (https://www.instagram.com/spotcoin/) | YOUTUBE (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpNwYXK1JMJpaRBKyYqqDIQ) | LINKEDIN (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18247336/) | TELEGRAM (https://t.me/spotcointeam)


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https://i.imgur.com/bkER00R.png

STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@smartcontainers
BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3211636.0
VALUE: 75k SMARC | 20k USD
END DATE: ?
JOB'S: RESTEEM
REPORTS: Weekly on Bounty Thread (Week end on Wednesday)

LINKS: WEBSITE (https://smartcontainers.ch/) | ANN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3058528.0) | TWITTER (https://twitter.com/SMARC_ICO) | FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/Smart-Containers-157874458234951/) | TELEGRAM (https://t.me/smartcontainers) | REDDIT (https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartContainers/) | YOUTUBE (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4NaVoE-RNhpvmSPN04Teaw/featured)


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https://i.imgur.com/IHZ5yxt.png

STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@asuracoin
BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3019383.0
VALUE: 8.75M ASA | ~175k USD (For All Social Media Bounties)
END DATE: June 15th
JOB'S: UPVOTE & RESTEEM & COMMENT
REPORTS: Every two weeks on Bounty Thread and G0blin Form (Sunday)

NOTES: Upvotes and Comments are valid for every post about Asura Coin, not only from official account.
     Bounty campaign is being managed by g0blin. More info at https://www.g0blin.com/asura/

LINKS: WEBSITE (https://asuracoin.io/) | ANN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3290541.0) | FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/asuracoin) | TWITTER (https://twitter.com/asuracoin) | REDDIT (https://www.reddit.com/r/AsuraCoin/) | MEDIUM (https://medium.com/@asuracoin) | GITHUB (https://github.com/asuracoin) | TELEGRAM (https://t.me/asuracoin)


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https://i.imgur.com/VqAFj8P.png

STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@countinghouse
BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3392579.0
VALUE: 50k CHT | ~30k USD
END DATE: ?
JOB'S: RESTEEM
REPORTS: Weekly on Bounty Thread (Friday)

NOTES: All Bounty hunters must go through KYC in order to receive tokens.

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STEEMIT: https://steemit.com/@uncloak
BOUNTY THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3384452.0
VALUE: 10.5M UNC | ~115k USD (For All Blog and Media Bounties)
END DATE: May 20th
JOB'S: FOLLOW & RESTEEM
REPORTS: Weekly on Bounty Thread (Sunday)

NOTES: US Residents are not allowed to participate in Bounty.

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Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Walang-kekek on May 08, 2018, 04:27:15 AM
EDIT: 50 sM being giving away in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3199334.0.

EDIT: Great! We have one outta four six following the rules so far - QUOTE YOUR POST!!! I'm no longer following links. Sorry. <this announcement was originally penned here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055943.msg31466554#msg31466554>

The rules are simple. Quote in this thread what you believe is your best most current post on this forum, whereupon I, only, will judge if it warrants at least +1 sM.

Others, feel free to follow my lead including your attempt having a quasi-snazzy thread title.

Let's make maxing out BitcoinTalk's resources great again.  ::)

Ready? GO!

Bruno

PS: Don't blame me if others opt to also give you sM for your scintillating prose thanks to this thread.

PSS: I might as well plug my sig while I'm at end, or visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2580003.msg31607131#msg31607131.


Kind to review my thread. im helping raise voice to scamers project who lied to their communty by not paying their bounty.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3633576.msg36635105#msg36635105


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: topkhai on May 12, 2018, 01:50:21 PM
Maybe this can help newbie and others understand about merit system.
Flowchart diagram Guide to earning merits (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2901152.msg29880354#msg29880354)
How do you think ?


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Get_Rich on May 19, 2018, 03:11:21 PM
Hi, I have a question, how to get the next status - member?
I know that it is necessary to respond in detail, to help ... but who puts this status?
If you want to be a member you must have merits. This Merits is a new system that is applied in this bitcointalk world that aims to reduce one's spam. If you want to get merits, you must make a quality post and must be in accordance with the international language of English.
Can you give me merits ??


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: acidburn14 on May 28, 2018, 02:46:46 PM
Here is my post regarding tips for the beginners who are trying to engage in crypto trading.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4326841.msg38790303#msg38790303


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: bill gator on May 28, 2018, 03:12:17 PM
I'm wondering if you have had any difficulties maintaining this thread, Gleb Gamow. I have a thread that was extremely similar, and it was moved to the off-topic, because apparently it didn't belong in the marketplace without a BTC transaction. There doesn't seem to be any BTC transactions taking place within this thread, and it appears that you've maintained your status within a reasonable board.

My old thread can be found here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2819141.0 , where it is lying dead on the floor, because off-topic is too rambunctious.

I might as well submit it in the format you are looking for, so here goes -


Quote
In spirit of the new Merit system that has been released and in an attempt to get a feel for the guidelines that have been laid out I am offering a new service to see how you guys feel about it.

Official Merit Announcement Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0;topicseen

It seems to be the case that
It is not allowed for merit sources to sell their merit.

therefore, under the proper circumstances it would seem appropriate to offer this service. I do not have malicious intent and if there is anyone with any reasonable objections to this then I will cease or adjust accordingly.

I am willing to review posts that you link within this thread; I will look at the posts and if I see them as helpful/informative I will merit you based upon that. It's obvious that I cannot view every board/post, and therefore it would seem reasonable that those that feel their post is heavily under-merited should have a place for even a minor "appeal".

I do not have very much sMerit to go around, but I will be taking a look at the linked posts where you believe yourself (or others) to have posted helpful, informative, interesting or high-quality content that is undervalued merit-wise.


Please leave your posts, thoughts, comments, complaints and concerns below; I am very interested to see how this plays out. If this is not allowed, I will stop, but as I understand it this is acceptable and shouldn't be frowned upon unless my intentions are misunderstood.

Please submit your links similarly to :
Code:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2821849.msg29568566#msg29568566
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2879021.msg29577405
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2850347.msg29800445#msg29800445
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2843315.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2850321.0

You can write a comment, a request or whatever else, but leave the links plain, one per line, without any numbers, bullets or tags in front of them or behind them. If a link is on that line, nothing else should be.

Do not post useless comments or unproductive posts here; they will be deleted and go unanswered.
Are X posts eligible? : I don't know, link the post you believe to be helpful.
I plan to delete spam and posts that I have reviewed, however if I do grant merit I will leave your post for reference, comparison, etc.


* I will occasionally be meriting the threads I have already merited with more merit.* If I have spare merit and it seems to be the case that I can afford it with the pace of this thread, I'll slap a +1 on all those I've reviewed and accepted.

This is not a sale of sMerit, this is a review service offering the potential at sMerit to those that have earned it
Local-Rule : Do not format your links with tags, hyperlinks, lists or line-breaks. I will delete/reject your submissions instantly.
Local-Rule : Do not post more than 5-links in one post, do not post another submissions until I have responded to your first.
Local-Rule : Only submit posts written in English.
It is encouraged to send posts of another user, along with your own so we can spread the Merit properly and pay it forward.
I do not want Merit as a result of this, I simply want to use my sMerit as meaningfully as possible
3 sMerit currently available.


Very interested to hear your input, feedback and comment on my post and the situation that seems to be treating us differently.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: coly20032003 on May 29, 2018, 05:27:55 AM
Hi,

Could you check my below post? Thank you very much!  :)

I made some images regarding the rank system, activity, merit and some FAQ on bitcointalk. Hope can help new users a little bit.  :)

https://i.imgur.com/171gKg9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pNCXaGC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/JnWRQUR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Rx84kCO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1Na33OE.jpg


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: zerosoul on May 30, 2018, 08:12:28 AM
I would like to propose my topic for consideration at the forum. Only topic in Russian language.  Judging by the author's name and surname, he must understand this language :). But maybe I'm wrong.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4050633


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: JungleBadman on May 31, 2018, 10:58:08 AM
So I decided to write an instruct-able blog post to try and help some bounty hunters to optimize their time and save potentially hours of searching through social media posts and saving links. I have been using this method for over a month now and it has saved me time and made the weekend less stressful (most of my bounties report on Sundays).

The blog post covers 2 methods for automatically tracking your social media posts and saving them in a spreadsheet in your Google Drive. Method 1 works for Twitter and Method 2 works for both Twitter and Facebook but is a bit more complicated. Both methods may also work for Linked In but since I don't have an account I haven't tried it.

This is copied from my steemit account and the original post can be found here https://steemit.com/bounty/@badman-crypto/badmans-tips-n-tricks-1-automated-bounty-tracking (https://steemit.com/bounty/@badman-crypto/badmans-tips-n-tricks-1-automated-bounty-tracking), and if you like this post go to the link and drop me an up-vote and follow (a little merit wouldn't be refused either :D).

Quote

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNg6LKzymVqJrsQtxEVgJvy7Exkar8vUpzWWvWNVZzyke/Badman%20Top%20Tips.jpg
Crypto Bounty Auto-Track
Crypto bounties can be a good way to earn some new ICO tokens for free and with the sheer amount of bounties available at the moment, it can be difficult to keep track of the work you have done and can be an absolute pain when it comes to the end of the week and you have to search through your twitter feed to get links for all your posts. Well, fret no longer my token loving amigos, as reading this post could save you literally hours over your bounty hunting career!

I am going to cover two methods that you can use to auto-track your twitter and facebook posts and make your weekly report a breeze! The first is more straightforward and simple to use but as far as I am aware, only works with Twitter and not Facebook (feel free to mess about with it and let me know if I'm wrong). The second method works for both platforms but has the drawbacks of being slightly more complicated to set up, and having a limited amount of actions per month unless you pay for an account.

Method 1 - IFTTT
IFTTT - an acronym that stands for If This Then That - is a platform that allows the development of automation apps to integrate with a whole host of different services. IFTTT is extremely easy to use to tract your twitter tweets (it also tracks retweets and comments as well) and all you will need are your Twitter account and a google account as we will be integrating Twitter with Google Sheets.

Step 1
Sign up for IFTTT, as we will be using our Google account for Google sheets it will likely be simplest to just sign in with your Google account, although you can also use your Facebook account or sign up with an email address and password.
https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaemeRdA7JRc4rNBVxNnCNBYWQj5qUUuP7R4R62Mh8MYo/IFTTT%201.JPG

You will be met with the following screen and can either choose 3 or more applications that you use regularly and want to receive suggestions for or you can click the cross in the top right corner to skip this step for now.

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUxd6LazJMuuLGZkJagpHm3wXWZUB7KohZPk4kbHAJyTi/IFTTT%202.JPG

Step 2
Click the search option at the top of the page...

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...and type "Keep a simple spreadsheet of every tweet you post".

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZFK5qny86GaY8BxRqdqqrnrc31qJM6xsKYTdbpwLkYek/IFTTT%204.JPG
https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXkeqQBv4xaw4Xf8pk982jo5xxdnePMjca86Wdot4dBVZ/IFTTT%205.JPG

Step 3
After selecting the app, turn it on...

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...and allow access to your Twitter account and Google account.

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Step 4
Configure - the applet only has 2 options and they are whether or not to track Retweets and Comments and this is up to you.

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The applet creates a spreadsheet in your google drive and auto updates it at regular intervals with all of your Twitter activity.

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVdAywrEmocHKrmUUET2XRzUhghamD5aKaTMxdQYLB9dK/IFTTT%209.JPG

There are other applets available through IFTTT that do the same thing but offer other options such as the location and name of the spreadsheet as well as another app that can track the posts that you "like" on Twitter. It is up to you to search around the site and find which applets are useful to your individual needs.

I mentioned earlier that this method does not work with Facebook, and although Facebook is supported by IFTTT, I have not yet been able to find an applet that tracks facebook posts and saves them in a spreadsheet. Please let me know if you find a way because method 2 has its drawbacks.

Method 2 Integromat
Integromat is an ultra customisable integration platform similar to IFTT and is a useful tool for many applications. The major drawback to using it to track your tweets or Facebook posts is that its free account has a limit of 1000 operations per month which can quickly be used up if you participate in multiple campaigns. It is possible to sign up for more than one account although I wouldn't condone that.

Step 1
Sign up for Integromat. As before, it may be easiest to sign in with your Google account but feel free to use any method you want.

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNMFCUt3ZbKmrLivvxuQiA1dzdr1tcoPhRStKHh2ns3oW/Integromat%201.JPG

After signing up you can either take the tour of the platform or skip it and afterwards, you will be presented with your dashboard where you can click at the top right to create a new scenario.

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on the next screen press skip and you are ready to begin creating.

Step 2
Click the big white question mark and type Facebook (or Twitter) in the search bar and select it.

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Then select Watch Posts from the triggers options.

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Step 3
Create a Facebook connection by clicking "Add", "Continue" and then allowing access to your facebook account.

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You can then edit the number of posts that will be recorded per action and this number will depend on how many posts you make per day and the frequency that you want integromat to activate. For now, it can be set anywhere between 2 and 10. After clicking ok you will be given options as to when the scenario should start tracking and again this will come down to personal preference but can be edited later so just press ok.

Step 4
Log into google drive and create a new spreadsheet with headings for "Date", "Post" and "Link".

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Step 5
Go back to integromat and click to add another module, search for Google Sheets, select "Add a row" and then connect your Google account the same way you connected your facebook account in step 3.

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Step 6
Select your spreadsheet from step 5 in the file drop box and fill in the rest of the options like the screenshot below. The boxes for Date, Post and Link are multi-choice options when you click on them. Note that your link will be recorded in this format "https://www.facebook.com/1807123102689998/posts/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" where the "1807123102689998" in my case is my Facebook profile numeric ID. This can be replaced with your named profile ID ("Philios.Stephenios" in my case) if you want but the link will function the same either way.

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Step 7
Click the play button in the bottom left corner and your scenario should run, find a post, and store it in your previously created spreadsheet. Click on the clock button next to the Facebook logo to set the frequency at which your scenario will run in minutes. This will depend on how often you post, how many posts you track per operation (see step 3), and how quickly you want your operations to be used up. I would set it to run at least higher than once per hour but it is up to you.

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbEBVzqP2Z15qFCbDMecsosNMTJ3pSdF8VHFoGR7RUh9q/Integromat%209.JPG

BONUS TIP!
To filter your posts on your spreadsheet, and make reporting your posts a breeze, select your "Posts" or "Tags" heading and press the filter button in the menu bar (Ignore my extra columns in the spreadsheet).

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Click on the inverted triangle that appears on the heading row to open up the filtering options. Click the clear button to deselect all posts and then search for your tag of choice and press select all.

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You have now filtered all of your posts and provided links that can be copied and pasted straight into your weekly report. Sorted!

https://cdn.steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUBeDTL3e8bCB9BWms1mNKiGmJUZHzc5YVAic2aUHGzEZ/Bonus%203.JPG

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Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: wvizmanos on June 02, 2018, 11:24:15 AM
I rarely write, but managed to compose some paragraphs to tell the crypto world how proudly I am in welcoming the development of our government's acceptance to fintech industries tring to invest in our country, the Philippines. Merit worthy for the message this tries to bring to the world, not the post itself. There you go.
Thanks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4201774.msg38350336#msg38350336


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: Team - gstar.ai on June 08, 2018, 05:49:12 AM
Hi! Do consider this post of mine and let me know what you think of it  ;D

I think the main problem is that many ICO projects care more about the hype, rather than the business model or the technology behind it. Nowadays, investors are getting smarter and they do a thorough check on ICOs before committing any capital. So, I believe the core business model must be good and have a good use-case first. When this is true, then you must care about the hype of your project. To me, a successful ICO would be determined 60% by the business model & technology, and 40% on the hype created for the project.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: mindmastering on June 19, 2018, 06:14:16 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3355944.msg39575424#msg39575424
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3885454.msg38194860#msg38194860


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: TheBeardedBaby on June 19, 2018, 10:43:39 PM
Just wondering, who is giving merit now since Bruno is no longer in control (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4476583.0) of the account? Suchmoon/Gleb is this service still available?


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: crypmike on July 18, 2018, 12:51:42 PM
Hi Gleb!
Why Futures don't affect on Bitcoin price (explanation) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4692346)
Portfolio management. Rebalancing. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4604646.new#new)


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: escalante28 on August 01, 2018, 05:37:49 AM
To admins, high rank members and members,


We should have the right to give negative trust to a bounty managers or rate their records. This must be the answer to prevent wasting our time and efforts. In that case this will push them to examine their project carefully before they're going to post their thread here. Or else they will put their name on shame. As what I had experienced as a newbie member here, I had wasted so much time and efforts creating and sharing those project just to promote them but it ended up on nothing. I like what I'm doing but it is very stressful when you ended up on nothing! Maybe some of the Bounty manager here really know from the beginning that their project was really a scam but because of the shares they will have they intended to make a newbie account or use their secondary account just to make money through scamming. For me it is acceptable if the project ended on not reaching their soft cap rather than ended up on a scam project that's hurt a lot!

NO TO SCAM PROJECT!!
PREVENT A SCAM PROJECT!!!
NEWBIE MUST NOT PUT THEIR EFFORT IN VAIN!!!!


There are so many bounty managers here but do we know who to choose? I am suggesting here that what if, bitcointalk.org must have an accredited "Bounty Managers" ? Those bounty manager must under go on,

1. Verification, the purpose of it is to know if that person really exist.
2. Capable,  in managing the project and has a complete team members because he/she can't handle it alone.
3. Membership, bitcointalk.org must set a requirements to become a "BM", rules and regulation to be among the most trusted and accredited BM in bitcointalk.org.

1. The purpose of this suggestion is to lessen the scam project so that no efforts will be wasted.
2. To prevent blaming the BM if the project will ended up on scam. ( The BM must face consequences, like for ex. He/she is not allowed to conduct a new bounty project for 2 weeks.)
3. Participant that put the blame to the BM must also face the consequence because of disrespecting.

I hope this will help us and notice by the Admins here.

Everything starts with the project’s whitepaper.
[/b]
Examine the Team

- Must be verified if that team really exist.
- A solid team will be composed of members with verifiable industry experience, both in business and blockchain development.
- I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale.
- It’s important for the project to have achieved some milestone to demonstrate the ability to execute.


The project must compliant with the law

-  Ask for legal opinions clarifying the token’s nature.
-  ICO’s token may be considered a financial instrument and could thus be subject to financial regulation.

Evaluate ICO’s market potential

- Analyze the entire plan, especially whitepaper as the project’s core document.
- Compare it with similar projects and determine what makes it so different from others, both positively and negatively.
- Never trust developers who promise you a huge return on investments. They probably just want to take the money and run away.

                        
ICO campaign has a different purposes, you need to learn how to recognize the ones that really have market potential
                             
I HOPE THIS WILL HELP



Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: YuTü.Co.in on August 01, 2018, 01:21:46 PM
Just wondering, who is giving merit now since Bruno is no longer in control (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4476583.0) of the account? Suchmoon/Gleb is this service still available?


With apologies, safely assume that this giveaway has ended.

Bruno aka Gleb


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: jamesblue1 on August 15, 2018, 04:23:11 PM
Bitcoin is a unique and trendy topic when it comes to mind especially when it comes to profits and earnings that many of us can get. Therefore many
newbies get interested and becomes prone to scammers. So here are some of the tips I learned from my friend that I wish to share:

Tip #1 Fake and imitation wallets and exchanges
To start with, as someone who is new to bitcoin you will have to deposit your money, right? Therefore you must exchange your $$$ to BTCBTCBTC. But how do we deposit w/out being scammed or hacked? Well, for me it's best to use the well-known exchanger. Here are some w/ their own pros and cons:

Coinbase
 + easy to use and set up, gdax is a friendly interface
 + seem to be fewer problems withdrawing money than other exchanges
 - tends to go down during traffic spikes
 - limited to BTC/ETH/LTC
 - randomly shutting down accounts/customer service

Poloniex
 + highest volume for many coin pairs
 - lots of complaints about withdrawing money
 - goes down periodically (went down for 3 days in August)

Bittrex
 + lots of currency pairs
 + reliable, never goes down
 - clunky interface

Kraken
 + seem to be fewer problems withdrawing
 - slow to get verified
 - very slow during peak traffic

Bitfinex
 + nice interface
 - seem to be withdrawing problems
 - customer service
 - no support for USA customers after October 2017

Gemini
 + low fees
 + available in more locations (Washington state, New York)
 - takes long time to register

Liqui
 + easy to use
 - can't withdraw fiat currency
 - seem to be problems withdrawing currency sometimes

Binance
 + good customer service
 + low transfer fees
 + gives gas for neo
 - slow under heavy load

Source: Reddit user lepuma.

Tip #2 Never trust anyone
Someone would probably chat you through various social media. Well, don't trust anyone, it's best to block them ASAP especially when they will teach you how to earn a lot easily. There's no easy money here. And lastly, don’t send money or bitcoin anywhere unless you know exactly who you’re sending it to.

Tip #3 Virus and malware downloads
This is the most common and the most easy way of hacking today when we download applications that contain malware and virus. As always, you shouldn’t click on unknown email attachments or potentially dangerous links.

But there are ways to secure your security even if you have downloaded malware/virus in your PC or phones.
-Use two-factor authentication
-Use a “cold” offline wallet. A “hot” wallet is one that’s connected to the Internet, while a “cold” wallet is one that’s held offline.

you should be able to know about these two ways if you want to secure your bitcoin wallets.

Tip #4 Common sense
This is probably the best tip I can give, always use your common sense before making your decision. If you buy, then know what or how you should be able to buy it safely, or even trading money. Never believe on too-good-to-be-true opportunities and lastly, always do a research about everything you haven't known yet. Bitcoin is very complex and requires you to keep on learning, avoiding to get scammed is part of it.

If you have any addition to these common tips i gave please let us know .Let's help each other especially those who are still new to this environment.

Here's my best shot sir. I hope you'll take time to read it. Thank you for this opportunity, if I cant get any I'll do better.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: GinXenPhengz on August 16, 2018, 03:18:19 PM
I posted a suggestion in regards to Signature Campaigns, unfortunately, people started to discuss the necessity of Signature Campaigns in general instead of picking up the topic, which is sad because I think that this would really improve the forum.


Title: Re: 😎 [ANN] The Utmost Epic, Totally Tubular sMerit Giveaway ~ 170 sM Available 😎
Post by: canwithme on August 18, 2018, 06:28:44 AM
I already contacted bounty manager in regards to this.