The best thing would be to get rid of signature campaigns. They should be made illegal on this board. That's the problem right there; 95% of posts by sig whores are absolute fucking NPC-tier rubbish, zero contribution whatsoever; if there's an intelligent and original comment, it always disappears covered by mountains of rubbish.

That's the one and only solution to make bitcointalk great again; Merit is just a palliative with severe drawbacks.

you guys share same thought ......?

I wish you guys would stop posting about your bad financial decisions in the white nationalist observer thread.

Same with Tradefortress, made a big deal over calling out scammers and trying very hard at building up trust with people.
He started an investment site, where people could invest in Bitcoin startups, but then he did a runner with 3.5K coins.

Who is MnW?
DeathandTaxes' scam thoroughly disappointed me.  He was such an insightful guy, one of the smartest and most knowledgeable posters around imho.  I thought he came across as a standup guy, but clearly my judgement of him was very flawed.

Prices have been on a constant decline ever since this year began. There's been FUD all over the place, and governments have been cracking down on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In addition, there have been several hacks which have also contributed to the decline in the value of the whole cryptocurrency market. As such, many people have lost their faith in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, as they've lost a lot of money.

Despite this, it seems that most holders would not give up on Bitcoin no matter what. But, if Bitcoin keeps declining in value until it becomes worthless, then long-time holders (like me) would become disillusioned. For those who want to protect their investment, there's the option to sell Bitcoin into USD or exchange it towards a stablecoin like Tether. However, even Tether has lost its peg (although in some occasions it heads back to $1) sometime this year, which means that not even stablecoins can be trusted.

Nonetheless, what are your thoughts about this? Will it be Game Over for Bitcoin? Or will everything go back to normal soon?

Not quite. Richy_T left for The Forum That Shall Be Named about the same time frame, and for about the same reasons that adam did. ChartBuddy left with Richy_T.

Getting bitcoin into the hands of the 1% easiest is to create a specific avenue for only the 1% to buy large quantities...


oh but...the bitcoin price! How great it will be!

I think he got increasingly big blocky and increasingly drunk so went off for pastures new. I don't think there was anything nefarious.

some moderator got tired of the complaints, so locked it. the original op had fucked off, so wasn't modding it.
theymos (may Cthulhu save and protec him) let us pick a new op (mCsaph), relaxed the rules and unlocked it.

You are probably reading too much into the matter becuase I don't tend to hold grudges, especially with actual humans who can deal with relatively provocative engagements and differing opinions - that do not necessarily devolve into personal attacks.  I even tend to forgive those who engage in personal attacks, though I might reciprocate a bit before letting the matter go.


O.k... so when was the boat? Was that December 2014?  December 2015?  December 2016?    or some other date?

That could have been the incident to which I am remembering.. because I seem to recall that there were a few folks (and you might have been one of them) who were gloating over their BTC profits, and really was not a good time to be selling BTC or encouraging others to sell.  It's almost like a kind of trolling - even though it might make some sense on a personal level.

Of course, if your cost basis for the BTC is really low, then you could still end up doing quite well on a personal level, even though the timing was not so great overall and even not really good timing for many others who might be considering what to do regarding their own BTC allocation(s)/investment.


I have my doubts about how much anyone could really count on further downward BTC movement from here, but of course, the odds for downward BTC movement from here seems to be greater than it was a few weeks ago.. Yet, on the other hand, the level of our current BTC price correction, might also leave a BTC price situation that is just too oversold.. and there could end up being a decently sized upwards movement from here that causes the bottom to already be in... and no more down is really feasible.. even though it appears that down is coming?  It seems that we will see something in the coming week, especially with a decent amount of trade volume, it is usually more difficult for the price to stay in the same spot, but you never know.

It's a shithole out there man.  A cesspool of sig campaigning google translate feces.

Stay in this thread.  It is the only reliably decent place on the forum.

I don't know if I am making the same point as you, but I thought that if a forum member is going to publicize some smerit distribution plan, that it would be good for the member to set forth some criteria, and I actually appreciated that initially the criteria that QA set forth, at least initially, was mostly a kind of bitcoin maximalism preference.

On the other hand, even though I saw a lot of members set up threads in which they could set forth smerit distribution criteria (not referring specifically to QA), I did not really consider that setting up such smerit distribution threads to be a fair method to distribute smerit or extra smerits - because I would think that such a set up seems to encourage a kind of self-promotional merit begging.. at least that was something that I considered to be a problematic dynamic, yet surely such practice of setting up such smerit distribution threads was not considered against any forum rules and surely giving smerits has a lot of subjectivity, even for merit sources.

I guess part of the point that I am attempting to make is that the subjectivity aspect of smerit distribution might cause a considerable amount of variance, including just lucky or unlucky timing.

I write every single one of my posts.

One thing, so far, is that i have not been accused of plagerism... hahahahahahaha.. because almost every little word that I type flows through my fingertips.... believe it or not?

Hey QA... since I got you on the line.. I seem to recall that I was pissed off at you for a certain amount of time around December 2015 because you were bragging in the thread and proclaiming to sell a decently large stash of your BTC for christmas shopping.. something like that.. so I recall that presentation from you as being an irritating set of interactions and circumstances because it seemed to be a kind of rubbing in, and even encouraging BTC sales at an inopportune time.  Like gloating.   

 Am I remembering correctly or was that a different year or perhaps a different forum member?  Could have been 2014 or even 2016.. but for some reason I seem to recall the situation as 2015.

Both of the reason you mentioned are true. To me, I still believe in the price of bitcoin and I also don't want to lose money anymore.