Ik heb toch zo'n 25 à 30% BTC. Ik heb geen enkele aankoop meer gedaan sinds de crash van begin dit jaar. Ik zie het nu als een spaarvarkentje en ik zie wel welke kant het uitgaat. Als de boel op de fles gaat, heb ik tenminste iets om aan mijn kinderen te vertellen. En als het goed gaat ook.

These predictions are based on nothing. Maybe they were useful in 2017 but not anymore.

Right now, we are starting to see real development and real interest from outside this closed community for projects that started years ago (think SYS, KMD, WAVES, etc but also just blockchain technology in general). The time of jumping in without thinking something through, being sure some pump will come soon, has gone. This is where you will have to begin looking into projects and their products seriously, because the real life adaptation will be more and more important, as opposed to the cliché (and empty headed) "value-supply" factors that have been used up till now.

This guy is begging for a wall of shame nomination!

If we put all critical remarks about the past aside, I still wonder how this new ebtcx platform could be different from anything we have seen up till now. What will create its unique position and how are you going to restore the horribly bad reputation the coin has right now?

No volume in the last 24 hours. This is about to become a real success story. 

The countdown on the website has reached zero 15 minutes ago. Woooow!!!!

(I'm kidding: nothing happened)

Look at this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5023825.msg46859622#msg46859622

PAAAAGES full of spam coming from Newbie accounts, all registered around 2-3 September, all with 0 Merit and all with 14 Activity and all in the same campaigns. This is clearly one and the same robot. Some of these bounty campaigns have ended weeks ago.

I have been reporting this for days now, ONE BY ONE, I feel like a clown. Really, I've got a life, you know. This could be a full-time job and I am always interested to help cleaning, but in that case, I want a salary or I'll talk to the Union.

Why haven't these accounts been banned???

So please: MASS BAN!

Great. Newbie posting 2 "great" coins without any info or motivation whatsoever about why we should invest in them right now.

Let's trust this blindly and be rich tomorrow.

Yeah. Of course, it's not up to me or us to decide how to run a bounty campaign properly, but they should at least keep their own threads clean. By reporting, self-moderating, closing threads, just any way that works. I am sick of cleaning up other people's mess by hitting this "Report" link one by one. We've all got more useful things to do and if nothing happens, well-meaning members might get demotivated and eventually leave the forums sooner or later. That would be a shame.

I have been following SYScoin from the very beginning I started following crypto. It is a complete mystery as to how its value is lower than half of its last year's value. This project is bursting with ambition and potential, there's constant and impressive development, transparency and good communication. It consistently appears in the top hit lists and blockchain leaderboards, yet it fails to raise. That is, of course, if you assume that value reflects content.

I have started a Merit give-away topic for Dutch-speaking people in May 2018.

I have not been too difficult about it: if someone sent a somewhat coherent link with a topic or a reply, proving he was not a plain spammer or nonsense poster, I gave him at least 1 sMerit.

We are months later, in my last post, I almost have to BEG for people to want them.

They have a website: https://yolofamilytravel.com, so you can follow their travelling adventures on their blog.

Please allow me the pleasure of leaving a souvenir of the roadmap of this world-shocking project for our children and grandchildren, before they quickly change their website again.

    Roadmap

    End of Q4 2017

    Website

    Q1, 2018

    JavaScript Chain testnet and development

    Q2, 2018

    Decentralized Blockchain and mining in browser

    Q3, 2018

    Implementing the best practices:
    raiden and casper from Ethereum,
    multiclet and mining solution
    web app & mobile app

    Q4, 2018

    Sharding, beta release of the merchant API,
    web app & mobile app

    Q1, 2019

    Virtual machine

    Q2, 2019

    Smart-contracts on JavaScript Chain

    Q3-4, 2019

    Scaling perfomance and global integration

I sure do hope that Protech Global will not be responsible for the English translation of your website.

"What you obtain?"

Je moet van Merit alleszins niet je levensdoel maken, al was het maar omdat die campaigns je vaak maar een paar schamele dollars opbrengen. Maar ja, je weet natuurlijk maar nooit dat je toevallig op die ene ruwe diamant valt...

Ik zie dat je verder bijna uitsluitend in de thread van die privacy coin post. Dat is inderdaad niet de goede manier om aan Merits te komen, en al zeker niet als je je beperkt tot het Nederlandstalige forum. Maar van mij mag je uiteraard posten wat en waar je wilt - wie ben ik.

Ik post zelf maar een paar posts per week maar ik bezoek en lees het forum - ook het Nederlandstalige - meermaals per dag. BTCtalk staat steevast in mijn top 3 van meest bezochte sites. Misschien kunnen jij of andere members nog interessante topics bedenken om wat meer leven in de Nederlandstalige brouwerij te brengen.

Ik heb intussen een hoop sMerits weg te geven en mijn voorstel in de OP geldt in elk geval nog steeds. Ik geef ook nog steeds het liefst voorrang aan Nederlandstalige members.

Hmmm yes. That's spectacular investigative journalism, man. Did it occur to you (even for a second) that replying to these nonsense posts with complete sarcasm was exactly the purpose?

Surely you did notice that, back then, I couldn't even participate in signature bounties, because I was still a Newbie. Eventually I quit the sarcasm and started reporting these posts. Mostly not because it was spam, but because people like you didn't understand my replies were meant to be sarcastic.

Oh but please go on with your list. Surprise us.

Nothing mentioned on Twitter, only talking about some bounty campaign. For a change... Where's your source?

Here is a nice one from the PR Manager of Syscoin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1466445.msg45655560#msg45655560

Instead of reporting the spam message (which I did in his place... ), he thanks the guy for his support.

I considered adding ANN threads to my OP, too, but then I thought we really can't expect people to follow up their ANN threads for months or - if the project is successful - even years. Or can we? At least, for a bounty thread, the final date is already known from the start and the manager will (or should) be there during this whole period.

I am only talking about the posts made in the bounty thread itself. It's not at all "hundreds" of posts, and if you close the thread at the end of the campaign, you'll hardly have to clean up a thing.

If they have the time and energy to manage, calculate and distribute hundreds of bounties, they really won't mind spending one minute a day to keep their thread clean and the community happy, don't you think? And if they don't want to self-moderate, they simply can hit the "Report to moderator" link and the cleaning will be done by the mods.

If they don't, the cleaning will have to be done by other members and especially by the mods. And then, indeed, we won't be talking about hundreds but about thousands of posts, which is exactly where we stand today.