Thanks for the payment.  As promised and on-time.  Good job on this campaign!

That link is just to his profile page and gives no evidence that he's trust farming.   I did a deal with him recently, and it was a PP deal which hasn't been charged back.  I changed my positive to a neutral after Hilariousandco said he was adding me to his trust list, but he seems like a straight shooting type of guy.  When we did our deal, he didn't stand to gain much by doing it and getting a positive from me.  

You have to actually catch someone doing something wrong here.  The fact that this user got some positives from DT members just isn't enough IMO.  Trust is looked at as a status symbol, for better or worse, but seeking it out doesn't necessarily mean a user intends to scam.

This dude is still spamming bearish threads all over bitcointalk, I see.  Top reason for me (even though I'm not selling right now):  You don't own that Lamborghini until you actually cash out bitcoin and buy it.  Lots of people have tremendous paper profits, but that can all be gone in an instant. 

You haven't actually made money on an investment until you sell--except with bitcoin, it is currency, and it is money, so that complicates things.  However, once you sell for fiat you lock in your profits. 

I suspect many folks aren't going to do that and will hold on when the bubble pops, which it will do.  The only question in my mind is when that's going to happen.

Yes, definitely.  If I'd been as tight-fisred as I should've been these past 2.5 years, I would've easily saved more money in crypto than I currently have in stocks, and it would have needed far less of an initial outlay.   I totally regret selling and spending bitcoin right now--and the reason I did both is because I didn't have enough faith in bitcoin. 

I figured it'd be years before we hit $16k. 

And I never figured Dash would be close to $1000.  These are crazy times we're living in.

Your post quality is so poor that you ought to be banned, not to mention your red trust should never be removed.  You add absolutely nothing of value to bitcointalk. And again, I can't speak for Lauda but good luck (I don't mean that) trying to get that feedback removed.  We'll all probably run out of bitcoin addresses and the universe will have expanded and contracted fully multiple times before that happens.  People like you and OP are the reasons why bitcointalk is currently sucking the way it does, and both of your types need to be purged from the system before it can be restored to greatness.

The evidence you provided doesn't mean much of anything, and it wouldn't hold up in the heavily-biased, well-intended but fatally-flawed, unbelievably unreliable court of bitcointalk innuendo & opinion.  And despite Quickseller's cries of anguish about Lauda's ill-advised sting operation, nobody would care if they were alts of each other.  Neither one is a scammer, and I have respect for both of them. 

I also have a hard time believing that OP is anything but an alt of Quickseller.  That may not be true, but there are very few people on this forum who would grasp onto such flimsy straws to link these two users together.  He's obviously an alt of someone--that I have no doubt of.  In any case, what was written is nothing more than imitation at worst.  I've seen that happen and write in a similar style and used phrases that other members have.  Doesn't mean I'm an alt account of whoever.

 Bitcointalk Username: The Pharmacist
Bitcointalk Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=487418
Rank: Hero
Expected rate (USD) : Whatever the going rate is with everyone else.  I'm not much of a haggler with money & prices.
Avatar will definitely be available.  Will await your reply and I'll finish up the campaign I'm currently in with Aventhe.  Thanks!

No offense, but I deal with alcoholics & drug addicts all day long who say the same thing:  I won't do it again, I promise.  They tell their mothers, wives, husbands, everyone this same thing.  And then they go out and get drunk or die of a heroin overdose.  Promises are empty words I'm tired of, and on the internet those promises are even more worthless if that's even possible.  Any story about a sick relative is 99% of the time going to be interpreted as complete bullshit by most people--it's one of the most overused excuses for everything.  I wouldn't buy it, Lauda probably isn't going to buy it, and your sick g-mother would probably laugh in your face, too.  So good luck trying to erase the red.

This is not still open, right?  I assume from aTriz's last post that it isn't.  I was reluctant to apply, since I only have access to a phone at present and am unsure how my post quality is going to be until I can get a laptop or something.

Sounds like a nice deal, and it's nice to see such selectivity in a campaign--they should all be this way.  Good luck to those who did get accepted.

That's precisely what I was thinking.

I remember there used to be an anti-drug PSA in the 1990s where Michael Jordan said "and if you're doing drugs, stop it".  And guess what?  Didn't have any effect whatsoever on people's drug use.  It doesn't matter if you're the president of the USA or fucking Michael Jackson/Jordan/LeBron James.  Criminals & drug addicts are going to continue to do their thing until incarcerated, successfully reformed (rare), or dead.  Just asking for the kind cooperation of scammers isn't going to accomplish anything except raising your post count by 1.  I assume that's the point of this thread, right?

Would be nice to catch some of these scumbags and make them squeal.  Wish there was a good, reliable way of doing so.  *Mwah-ha-haaaa!!*

You've got to be fucking kidding.  If you rely on sig campaign money to support a family, you're a lazy 3rd world scunt and are probably going to get booted for sheer ignorance of language skills/copypasting/some other shenanigans sooner rather than later.   And if bitcointalk has come to this, we're in deep shit.  Those of us who can and want to communicate properly.   This is a sad, sad post right here.  You idiots should not be procreating--stick to porn and leave live, breathing females alone.

I just bought some pretty dope-ass headphones the other day, and they were paid for by bitcoin earned from the signature campaign I'm in.  I often hear people saying "these A-holes are shitposting for pennies" or some such, and that isn't true.  Sig campaign rates are crazy, though I'm sure they won't stay this way.  Anyway, that money was real and it was bitcoin, so I was very happy to get some wireless headphones.  That was a nice addition to my big pile of nothing.  Not exactly life-changing, but a very positive thing. 

Now, if I'd actually saved all the bitcoin I'd earned from way back in 2015 when I started doing the sig campaign thing...oh, man.  I don't even want to go there.  I probably would have ended up earning more money from all that than from my real job.  That's insane to even contemplate.

Lauda does care about the forum, which is why the feedback heshititweyouthey left is not likely to be removed.  Account selling is a cancer to this forum, which has metastasized to many, many users.  There are no good outcomes from selling accounts, and it's basically people just looking for an activity/rank that they did not earn themselves and it usually leads to either 1) Scamming, or 2) Shitposting in a signature campaign.  Enjoy your red trust, buddy boy.

It is NOT against the rules to sell accounts, but that doesn't mean it's trustworthy behavior.  It is not.  And there are DT members who are taking it seriously and tagging buyers & sellers of accounts.  It is a laudable action, IMO and I applaud anyone who negs an account farmer/buyer/seller.

YES.  If you're a noob to this, welcome.  Don't shitpost on bitcointalk, that's number one.  Number two is:  Hold onto your socks, dude, because crypto (bitcoin and all the altcoins) is more volatile than any other asset I've ever seen.  Up and down constantly, and by extremely large percentage points.  You've probably seen the rise from $2000 to $15,000 in the past few months, correct?  Well, it can fall just as drastically. 

My take on it is that the overall trend is upward, but it remains to be seen whether this is a long-term thing or if we're in a bubble that's going to pop.  It could go either way, which is why you see a lot of short-term traders taking their money off the table when they make a profit.  But get used to it.  You'll see that when we get corrections in the bitcoin market, they're extreme--more extreme than in the stock market, by far.

Holy crap, do they actually own that much?  That's freaking incredible.

I would assume they'll sell at some point; they're not stupid people by any means, and investors usually take their profits eventually--and MAN, did they ever profit!  Bitcoin isn't listed in any financial columns in newspapers (yet), but I'm assuming it's outperformed every other asset and even index of assets for the past 2 years at least.  It's definitely beat precious metals and the S&P 500.  But yeah, if they sell all at once, which I don't believe they're dumb enough to do unless there comes some bitcoin-destroying news, the market will crash.  No one is stupid to sell everything all at once and crash all their profit, too.  That would be crazy, and they have evinced no form of insanity yet.

That is absolutely the worst section on bitcointalk, and though I have no data, I agree with you--just from glancing at what's posted there.  Most applicants are noobs, and there are many, many of them.  The probability of all these noobs NOT being alt accounts and NOT abusing those bounties has got to be infinitesimal.  That script sounds very interesting, though I won't claim to understand how you do what you do. 

I would be very interested to see what the results are.  I do think that the campaigns that are in the Services section--the ones which pay in bitcoin--are pretty well-run and have fewer abusers (though they're certainly not free of shitposters).  Good luck on your project, dude.

No fucking way I'm going to download an app that was pretty obviously shilled for by some random noob.  You've seen the meta section, yes?  Notice how many "My account is hacked! " threads there are?  And it's because people jump all over shit like this and willingly get socially engineered into giving up their login info.   It damn sure would bw nice if bitcointalk was mobile friendly, but until someone trusted vouches for an app's safety, I'm not using one. 

Assuming this doesn't mean agencies like the FBI and whatnot, and only means the IRS, isn't it usually a crime to hide assets?   I have not read the legislation referenced in the link bit might do so later.  This is not the same thing as having to report crypto ownership to the government, right?  That would have a grave impact on bitcoin, I'm afraid.  And it goes against the spirit of what bitcoin stands for, and the mindset of many bitcoiners, including me.

The campaign I'm in doesn't pay for posts in meta, you dumbass.  I've been concerned about this problem for quite a while.  I'm not part of the problem here--but my opinion is obviously quite biased.  I've reported a lot of posts, and I don't get paid for that.  Ignoramus.

Why do you keep creating semi-shitty topics with short, vague questions?  That's shitposter-bait right there, so be careful.

Having said that, apparently a lot of people are indeed cashing out, because we're getting a nice correction right now.  A healthy one.  A lot of noob bitcoiners freak out when there's a 20% (or more) drop over the course of 24 hours (or less), but that's business as usual in crypto.  I'm not concerned in the least, because my frame of reference is $400 for bitcoin.  Where we're at is astounding, even if we're at $13k.  That's incredible growth in a very short time span--and cashing out is normal when you make huge profits, which a lot of people have.
That is true.  I didn't even think of that.