It is actually, because it's an official endorsement unless there are 400 subforums added for any coin.

In a community this size, especially a religious one with people being fanboys of their favorite cryptocoin they were early adopters of, you will piss people off if you set a criteria. The better solution would be to not set it in the first place, and again, this is bitcointalk, not cryptocurrencytalk.

I have spent many days of this week chatting with our friend here until wee hours of the morning and decided to be a good samaritan to him since he genuinely seemed to be in a place I was when I was younger.

• I offered him some advice on how to get back on track with life, including a stellar job offer (since I need to hire quite a lot of recruiters for a job I'm working now anyway and he seems stuck in a rut). He agreed to entertain the offer and thanked me for my motivation, that's good.
• I offered to help find him a place to live, I involved some friends who live near him, and before they could find a place he found one, so that was good.
• I offered him some food but he said he was good for now, so that's good.
• While discussing getting his GED, I pushed him to find prices and offered to pay the fees for him, he is still trying to set that up. That's good.
• While discussing how to get him to come overseas for a job offer, I instructed him on how to get his passport, and he said he could apply as early as tomorrow, that's good.
• I asked him where I could send him funds to help pay for his costs of making the passport and applying for GED (he can pay me later when he gets his job), and he gave me the Paypal address supposedly of his girlfriend's dad. A cursory internet search showed it belonged to what seems like a 12 year old scammer and emails associated with that only corroborated this.
• He instantly goes on the defensive and suddenly *I'm* the one who can't be trusted, that my "untrustworthy" tag from Theymos regarding a bad bet that I'm paying everyone for suddenly means he can't trust my sincere help (and refuses to speak logically and admit that I know absolutely nothing about him).

I hope he's just emotional and confused right now, because if it's not that, then he's a scammer. Keep this in mind before helping him anyone. I'm not saying *don't* help him, I'm just saying that you should most definitely get some kind of proof of who he actually is first. I hope I'm wrong (prove me wrong mate), but when you are a random name, no address, no face, etc, (doesn't matter if you can supply an ID, I've been scammed by many before with IDs up the ass) on the internet, the burden of proof is on *you*, not me, and you need to be logical if you want to continue moving forward, not emotional.

Good luck in the future, I hope you get out of your rut.

Easy way to figure out.

I'm gonna start deleting majorly long posts like those garbage "build a quite pyramid" ones.

edit; here goes nothing. 574 activity, now deleting a pyramid quote.

edit2: nope, didn't change shit.

edit3: still deleting huge posts of nonsense, not seeming to affect score at all.

Can edd, Scott J and Matthew post their posting habits?




You all registered in 2011 but Scott has about the same activity than post count, edd gets a /2 and Matthew a /10...

A legal attack on the forum because people talk about Bitcoin? Wth are you smoking?

Well what odds are you looking to lay? etc

Hmmmm, well not Mt. Gox since that is never happening and if it does it's not anytime soon.

I think 6 is tough because it did just pump and dump to 5.55 before or whatever. What are the odds you're laying on it? Does it just have to peak over 6 one time? And it could the value it be adjusted to maybe say 7 or 8 (Fixing the payout ratio etc.)

I am interested, BTW. PM if you like.

We want to reward positive work. We gave to the last dev fund and it was umm... lost.

I have explained just below your post, thepiratebay uses vps with their O.S. running only in RAM (no HDD is used) and they proxy connections to the real server.
If a server is shutted down only the proxy (vps) is shutted down, no data lose.

There is actually another reason for all this money, which theymos has been trying to keep under wraps. As bitcoin is becoming more popular, it is now being targeted by government agencies, like FinCEN, NSA, etc. and more government meddling is expected. There is expectation that main communication hubs, like this forum, will become major targets for governments to take down, in order to try to disrupt bitcoin itself. So the plan is to use this money to move the server into a location that will be impossible for governments to raid and shut down. Specifically, theymos is going to be buying a small drone that will be carrying a lightweight server, and will stay in the air almost 24x7. The large amount of money will mostly be used to pay for a satellite data connection, and refueling costs to keep it aloft.

Your looking for somebody to lay even money against your bet? Good luck, somebody might do it but not for me thanks.

Might be worth asking somebody to lay you odds and discuss a price

What happens if everyone agrees with you?

Yes, but bitcoin is never more or less scarce. The same amount of bitcoins are mined every day no matter what.

Helps is the key word. Gold is also pretty(jewelery), doesn't corrode, and conducts Electricity well (electronics).