I love how all the people who jump in to give advice about issues like this are the absolute worst members of bitcointalk, and are the least likely to ever gain positive trust.  Some of what was written isn't wrong, but in general don't listen to these clowns.   They're just shitposting in order to get their post count up and don't know what they're talking about.  

This isn't a hard question to answer if you look at those members who have green trust.   One of the factors I don't hear mentioned is time.   DT members will likely not trust you if you haven't proven yourself by being active here.  I think OP should search out the answer from another thread, because this has been addressed many times.

Dude, this forum has jumped the shark.  Officially.

I realize you probably can't read, but maybe a larger font will call attention to a mod's suggestion:

Contact one of the Russian mods for further clarification.
Edit:  Meh, you're the one who got banned.  Do it or don't.   I could care less.

And I hope mods will make you wait forever.  You don't deserve a response.  The ban itself is the response to your bullshit.

You wroteBut before that you wrote
I think you ought to take your own advice, whatever it was.

This is what disgusts me about this forum, post like this, which are obviously written just to increase post count as soon as possible.  This garboon is in such a rush to crank the post out that he writes nonsense. 

OP, what are you so concerned with trust for?  This kind of question makes a lot of older members here a bit suspicious.  You do realize that people often leverage trust ratings into scams, right?  Quite a few have done it, which is why the buying & selling of green-trusted accounts will earn the seller, and the trusted account, a negative.

Probably because it's in the middle of a pump & dump operation, which I assume is why OP started up this thread.  These things are so transparent, I feel like I need an anti-nausea medication when I read them--like the occasional thread that says "Hey guz, Reddcoin is mooning!!".  I don't buy any of it.  I think waves might not be the worst shitcoin in existence, but would I own it?  Hell, no.

But I've been wrong before, and I do know it's possible to make money with total garbage coins.  I don't dip my foot into that pool very often, as I get nasty toe fungus infections (that's a metaphor).  I could be wrong about waves, and it could be the next ethereum for all I know.  But my gut is telling me it doesn't have much value and that it's just riding the momentum that a lot of other shitcoins are riding right now.  Props to all of you who managed to make some cash out of it.  You ought to sell it all and take your profit now.

As stated in title, I need exactly 0.01BTC and am paying Preev 1:1 via PayPal, friends & family or however you like it.  You can send it with a very low fee, as I don't mind waiting, and it's not a very big amount that I'm buying.

I prefer to only deal with trusted members and/or people I've dealt with in the past.  I will send first only with people I trust, and that is at my discretion.

Local rule:  If you are below full member, don't even post here.  I'm not doing PayPal deals with noobs, so don't even ask or post here.

Please post here as opposed to sending me a PM, though you'll have to send me your PP address that way.

I'm currently at work in the boob hatchery and there may be some minutes' delay, but I'll be checking this thread and my PMs throughout the evening.  Thanks!

Edit: deal done with LeGaulois.  Thanks!!

Wolf of Wall Street:  Fantastic movie!  That scene where L.D. tries to crawl into his car at the country club cracks me up just thinking about it.

But it was a movie and was also set in the 80s & 90s if I'm not mistaken, and I believe Switzerland has changed some of their famous banking privacy laws since then.  They probably still have the most relaxed set of policies in the world (aside from little islands like the Caymans), but the IRS has gotten them to cooperate in prosecuting tax dodgers.  And that's all if I'm interpreting what I've read and remembered in the past 10 years.  That dude would never get away with stashing money offshore these days.  Remember, the computer networks back then were nowhere near as developed as they are today.

Can't you buy bars of gold at Swiss banks?  That's something I'd freakin' love to see in the states.

Dude, your English sucks and your posts suck.  Aside from trying to cheat campaigns with alt accounts, there's no way you should ever be paid for posting here.  It's users like you who are responsible for the extreme avalanche of shittiness that's hit bitcointalk.  Anyone who visited bitcointalk and didn't know what was going on would doubtless scratch their heads and wonder why a bunch of foreigners would waste their time writing unintelligible one-liners that obviously contribute nothing to any discussion.   Not only should you have a neg, you should be permabanned.  So IMO you got off easy.

Lauda isn't a scammer, however.   Quickseller is, though he seems to have given up his scammy pursuits for the moment.   

Calling hilariousandco "scum" is not likely to win you any arguments or love here, and I would suggest you reflect on your own feedback, which tells me you're the scammer.  I love it when scammers bitch about legitimate negs and thereby call attention to themselves. Not that you probably care, but have another one on the house.

Why do you keep posting your broken English bullshit in this section?  You're not helping anyone with your posts.

OP, forget about it.   Not only are you not trustworthy with a PayPal deal, but our foreign friend is correct.   The fee to send $11 is way too high from a lot of wallets.  But anyone sending you bitcoin could pretty much count on getting a chargeback.   Have you looked at your trust page lately?   Not going to happen, buddy.

This depends on how old you are and, most importantly, how much money you have saved up for your old age.  Would I recommend some 70-year old man to buy bitcoin with his pension check?  Hell, no!

Every single one of you, whether you can muster the words to so state, knows how risky bitcoin is.  And if you say it's not, you're either lying or sadly delusional.  If this 70-year old had money to play with, I'd say go for it.  But it's just like the knuckleheads on this forum who say they're going to commit suicide--if you're investing your food/rent/utility/etc. money, you shouldn't be playing in this or any other market.

It's a moot point anyway.  I seriously doubt there are many geratrics out there who either know about crypto or want to invest money in something as speculative as bitcoin.  It just ain't gonna happen.
Unless you're Warren Buffett, 86(?) years old and a financial genius with money to burn.  But he, like many other old folks, follows a paradigm of stock investing that isn't going to change.

Sadly, I do believe you're correct.  Hell, with the one campaign I'm in I can cover a good portion of my living expenses--and that's all due to the generosity of the campaign managers and the price of bitcoin being so damn high.  I definitely can see why these people create all these alt accounts to enter them in campaigns.  I really get it.  The problem is the effect they're having on the forum, because the shit they post is of such low quality (language skill and content of thought) that it contributes nothing. 

In my very un-humble opinion, these idiots are undeserving of spots in campaigns, so when they complain that they won't have a way to feed their whole family, I just don't care and don't agree with it.  I do not suffer fools easily, and that's what most campaigners are. 

I could care less if they participate in airdrops until their keyboards explode, or if they spam Facebook & Twitter with garbage ICO crap.  At least that stuff doesn't get translated to garbage posts here on bitcointalk.  But the other thing is that a lot of them are ranking up accounts in order to participate in airdrops and/or to farm accounts to sell them.  No sympathy.

I won't even pretend I understand the technicals of this project--but from what I'm reading, it sounds like it may actually have a use (unlike 99% of ICOs and such).  Hope it goes well for you guys, glad to be part of the sig campaign.

Man, bitcointalk is in dire need of a new trust system.  Again, I'm not a computer science geekarooni and don't know cryptography from the back of my elbow, but it seems like something of this nature could be implemented instead of the broken-ass system we have now.  Ignorance is not bliss!  I wish I had the math background to understand all of this.

Love the U.S., but sometimes I think I'm living in a country where the cost of living is too damn high--and the weather sucks.  Do mansions exist in the countries where $1 can pay a month's rent?   Seems to me that I could be living like a pimp if I just saved up enough and then immigrated to a place in Africa or wherever.   

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if there really was an office in Russia where all they did all day was shitpost on bitcointalk.  The boss probably outsourced the shitposting work and pays them in vodka.  It's sad, but since the time of hilarious's linked thread, sig campaigns have gotten even more lucrative as the price of bitcoin has skyrocketed. 

I've no sympathy for their starvation stories, either.  That's no way to earn a living.

Hopefully you reported this idiot, because I have no doubt he'll at least get a temp ban.  Hopefully he'll get nuked completely.  Good catch, too.  Since I generally tune out bad English posters I would have missed this turd. 

The amazing part of this is that these people think they're going to get away with it, but they never do.  You can't hide this type of shitpost for long, not even if you bury it in the biggest mega spam thread imaginable.   Eventually a native English speaker with a good nose for bullshit detecting will stumble across it and do exactly what you did, which is to call it out.  Props to you, sir.

Just curious if you got this deal done.   I'm looking to buy 0.01BTC or thereabouts for preev 1:1 via PayPal.   If you're interested, shoot me a PM or post here.  I can send f&f or whatever you like.  Thanks!

Edit:It's quite late where I am and I'll be asleep in about 1.5 hours, but I'll be around in the morning.

That's the first thing I thought.   Government can regulate securities, not a commodities exchange.   

I do find the whole situation interesting, since I can vividly recall 2008 when these derivatives got the whole banking system in trouble and lots of people lost their homes, jobs, and a lot more.   I do think this will have a significant impact on bitcoin but I'm not savvy enough to predict which direction bitcoin will go.   But seeing as we're in a raging bull market, I think we're going higher--and that's not blind hope talking, it's momentum.   I will be watching with great interest.

That whole section of bitcointalk is nothing but one giant clusterfuck of scammers, shitposters, and desperate, dirt-poor idiots who are trying to support themselves by basically doing the laziest non-job you could ever have, posting nonsense on the internet.  They're probably too lazy to go out and beg on the streets--so this is the digital age version of that.  It's disgusting.   

I do think most of these projects are either scams or have so little value that they shouldn't exist.  I'm not an altcoin enthusiast, and I honestly don't understand how they work, but I've read project descriptions and also the subsequent scam accusations for quite a few of them.  So I've no doubt they're scammy as shit and need to be avoided.

Um, just FYI the stock market has been wildly popular for a few centuries at least--the 20s were just one boom period among many.  And because stocks represent real companies and most pay real dividends out of real earnings, it will remain popular probably until the end of capitalism.   Crypto is new and popular, but it remains to be seen whether it'll have long-term success.   I think it will, but you never know.   Millennials are more tech savvy than us gen x'ers, so this doesn't surprise me.   But crypto is a currency/asset whereas stocks have companies behind them.  They're really,really different.

I have a feeling I'm going to be in the same boat as OP, but it makes me feel good to see that I'm not alone.  Lol.  I believe you should get legendary within two activity periods at this point--this Tuesday or two Tuesdays from then.  That's what the end point of 1030 means, if I'm not mistaken, that you won't have to wait any longer than 1030.  Hell, most people I've seen have gotten it somewhere in the late 800s-early 900s.  But there are many more I haven't seen, too. 

Good luck OP.  Let's hope both of us (or at least you) get legendary next week.