the last ones said the same thing, i would say this is a ponzi just off of that statement.

legitimate companies (bit-x) have similar prices for actual mining power, and more for purchase as well, there is no reason for people to go over to your ponzi.

its strange to me how earning from a  sig  campaign and not getting boosted or flagged for spam is an actual topic discussed on the forum, just have a meaningful, on topic conversation about a topic in several threads and there shouldnt even be a need to consider such things. with an actual discussion taking place, theres no need to worry about being either off topic or having posts of short length.

this exactly, can you at the very least provide a mining address as well as a signed message from that address? pictures would be nice, but a video would be nicer for you to show.

that might end up being 100k bits lost in the end unless you set a limit for yourself to stop in the case you profit in the short run. without setting yourself a limit, your greed will take over until you end up busting, which is inevitable if you let the autobet run forever.

accounts can be sold in the digital goods section, but be sure to take a signed message from the borrower to verify their ownership of the account as well as to ensure the account will be under your control and irrecoverable via a hacked account claim if they should default on the loan.

with enough market knowledge and experience, secondstrade can be profitable for some people that can predict the price of bitcoin/whatever currencies are tracked on there. this possibility to gain an edge is also the reason why seconds trade has such a high house edge which is visible on the win multiplier.

looks like you learned your lesson the hard way, but be glad that you only lost 200 dollars chasing your greed. also, know that gambling will more then often have you go bust, as people dont know when to stop since there isnt a limit they usually set to stop gambling. unfortunately, there is a limit on how much you can lose, which is what prompts people to finally stop.

its more or less the media that's  primarily glorifying the image of "thugs, gangsters, drug dealers, etc." the teachers likely arent too motivated to stop or teach the kids otherwise either, as tenure is handed out more often these days and in their view, that "20 years from now" wont affect them all that much.

that because that is an onion link, which your browser cant open. youll need TOR to view the site, which you probably shouldnt trust. and to op, you should try not to use a web wallet, try using a HD wallet instead.

im guessing turtlehurricane was banned for excessive spamming OT posts/ trolling, which i saw coming seeing how he was spamming "omg qs trust abuse pls remove from dt now whine whine whine" in every thread that even mentioned QS. this would put ban evasion up on there too, which would probably double whatever ban he got on his main account.

cloud mining wont cut it imo, regardless of the investment put into it, which would have to be ridiculously large to sustain a living off of that since the profits are razor thin anyways, and roi is going to take even longer tha nif you were mining by yourself with hardware.

10k either  way i think, wouldnt be enough to sustain an income off mining alone either. you would need several times that initial investment as well as cheap internet, a well ventilated and cooled location to house the miners, and most importantly, cheap electricity. it would be extremely hard even with something like a 30k investment to sustain a living, as miners can and will break, and the difficulty will always be rising. not to mention that hardware is constantly improving as well.

the document's permissions can be edited to allow only certain people to edit it i believe, also iirc hilariousandco offered to maintain the post as being a moderator, he can edit the post.

i think the accounts are put in a "blocked" status and if the borrower does not respond or make attempts to repay the loan, their documents they used to verify themselves on the site will be released to the lenders so that legal action can be pursued if the borrowers choose to do so. however, the cost of litigation falls onto the borrowers, so action isnt taken most of the time. having your personal info released to the public is fairly compelling enough though.

people are hesitant not because its a long term loan, but because you do not and cannot offer collateral for this large loan youre attempting to take out. if you dont mind the high interest rate, a p2p lending site like btcjam might be your best bet. having no collateral will get you nowhere on this site.

good point as well.

words dont really mean much to people in this section, especially when youre asking for a couple thousand dollars upfront.

the grounds for leaving negative trust is you feel the person is shady/shouldnt be trusted. thats the point of the trust system.

thats one of the biggest issue i see; if our universities are reinforcing that idea to these graduates that their university is going to hold their hand hand make their environment a safe place for them, those graduates will naturally come to draw the correlation that their employers will do the same. even if there is no correlation forming in their minds, they become men tally weak and unable to stand up to their so called 'traumas' and return to normalcy. crudely put, that shit doesnt fly in the workforce. an employer/boss will not put up with some bs from one of these graduates along the lines of "oh it reminds me of the time my dad hit me so i cant do this job sorry go find someone else." unlike the university that might have catered for them unquestioningly in the past, that employee would be fired on the spot. granted there are enough cases of something like this, we would end up with an incompetent and inept workforce as time progresses and more of these coddled students enter the real world. kind of rambling with my thoughts here, but that article really put something that seemed trivial/a joke in a different perspective.

well we got the submission part down already...

its possible that the real borrower in that case used a stolen identity rather than falsified information/documents, and it might be prudent to investigate that case more in depth. im suspecting that is the case because the fake borrower is going around in the comments gloating as he believes that he will not be blamed for the issue; if the documents were faked there would be a larger investigation for falsifying legal documents.

rather than the possibility of a "big win" being the main thing driving people to keep on gambling (dont get me wrong, it does), i think the bigger influence is the notion that money can be made with minimal effort, which i think the the fundamental idea that attracts people to gambling in the first place as well. what's better than doubling your money with the click of a button? or even just being dealt a blackjack and having 1.5x of your bet given to you on a silver platter? bonuses such as rake backs, loyalty/rewards programs are nice, but theyre not the driving force that has people gambling.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

Mostly based off this article (which is an amazing article by the way, and is worth the read), the issue is focused mainly around the american youth enrolled in colleges and universities (USA). The issue is perceived as a joke here on the internet (see reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction for one example) where sensible people ridicule what seems to be the overly entitled expectations of a handful of individuals complaining about needing "trigger warnings." The writer of the article did a great job of defining it as well, linking the term to the work "microaggressions."


imo, the fact that a normal, college enrolled individual with no real history of severe trauma claims that a simple microaggression, which may be as innocuous as asking an asian student "arent you supposed to be good at math?" can illicit a response similar to victims of shellshock/PTSD is ludicrous.
The loud minority that  claims to be affected in life changing ways by these microaggresions are affecting campus life, to the extent that what can be said in the classroom is limited in order to turn it into a "safe space" for the few that think they are really affected by these innocuous, everyday comments.

what is the point then, of going to college, which is supposed to prepare students for the 'real world' if the universities reinforce the idea to those few that they will hold their hands and restrict what can be said if the students dont like it?

there's no problem with that in my opinion then. i think its mostly frowned upon in the case that quickseller pointed out above:

if youre intending to just sell off the account when it hits full member status posting occasionally, i dont see a problem with it, but the mods might if the posts become spammy. minimal effort for a bit of pocket change.