0:35 is the best where the monkey is on the goat and holding the smaller goat's tail while hanging on to the bigger one. PRICELESS!!!   

I love this forum!

I will definitely help out with some kind of donation to the forum as soon as I have amassed a bigger stash of BTC. The vibe here is good, even with scammers scamming scammedly.

One day PayPal might adopt BTC as one of its currency choices, and see an enormous opportunity in doing so.

PayPal doesn't HAVE to be the enemy.

Remember, once upon a time, PayPal was the "cool" competition to eBay's old cumbersome homegrown payment method they called "Billpoint".  Instead of fighting it, eBay put their money aboard and jumped upon the train with it.

PayPal is in a unique position where they could offer the world the opportunity to transact in bitcoin units while maintaining, for a fee, the consumer protections that go along with the ability to do chargebacks, which aren't inherently evil, just costly (and there are times, like buying things from strangers over the internet, when that cost is worth paying).

What we really should be asking ourselves is: what are all the reasons PayPal would NOT want to offer BTC as a currency option (whether it's legal, technical, lack of experts, fear of reprisal, etc.), and work on attacking those, rather than attacking PayPal as the enemy.  Their forbidding of using PayPal to buy bitcoins makes business sense from their current perspective - that doesn't make them an enemoy.  PayPal and Bitcoin can co-exist in a win-win relationship one day, and it will be an awesome day if and when PayPal ever decides to make that sort of move.

@aura.flux explain? I'm not at fan of being told to **** off without a reason.
And i don't wanna post a PIC of myself. Sadly. I'm only 13 and take privacy seriously.
However i need someone with a high trustworthy rating to look after donations.
MY rating is 0 so i would rather i don't look after people money.

Could you link to my website please?

I have read the google webmaster guidelines and I think as long as I don't offer monetary compensation it's ok to ask if others can link to a website.

Please link to mine. I would appreciate it and maybe I'll send you a digital hug. Ah, wait, no cannot do that, that would be a reward and perhaps against google guidelines : )

The link to the website is http://bitcoinfreelancing.t15.org

If you put a link to the website on your site, it would be awesome if you could send me a link to your erm... link.

And to round it off with a little pun - here's another Link (ask me if you don't get the joke):

Anybody have some elephant crap they want to unload?

Yuck.  Nasty razor stubble.

I'm in the USA, but have a development office in Ahmedabad.  I'm there several times a year and am working on getting around the country more when I visit.  I'd like to have a network where we could grab dinner and talk bitcoin (and other things) when I'm sightseeing.

(Psst, if you're an awesome dev, we could meet at my office :-))

Item 1: There is no presumption of free speech on a forum, unless and only if free speech is an enumerated rule of the board. Other than that it is a private discussion arena that has rules and policies that are governed and controlled by the arbitrary decisions of those that are in the position to moderate. There is no Bill of Rights that applies. There are standards of courtesy, but these are just courtesy and not binding rules, and can be changed at will by administration, because that is the very nature of their position.

Item 2: All Admins and Moderators have agendas, and often those agendas will be at odds with your thoughts or agendas. In this case a user has gone full tilt at various Authorities, but has done so without any concept of discussion or debate but with the intent to complain and hurl abuse and threats. If Goat had actually participated in a discussion, or presented his thoughts or even his outrage in a civil manner and then defended his feelings he would probably still be here cranking out posts at the rate of three per minute. Instead, he merely repeated the same bizarre ramblings and insults time and time again without displaying the slightest ability to learn from the conversation. As such he is functionally unable to participate in a conversation and the conversation losses nothing by his removal from it.

Item 3: Patience and Questioning Authority. Sorry kids, but this is not a constitutionally organized playground, and the rules are as fluid as the morals of the folks here. Administration was abundantly patient in this case (almost 5,000 posts worth of patient!) and yet one user refused to add anything meaningful to the conversation. There are plenty of others, including myself, who have challenged the GLBSE/BitcoinGlobal ownership group in the matters of the past several weeks, who have not been banned, suspended or warned. Our criticism has been constructive and part of the on-going dialog, and as such has been a valuable contribution as the bitcoin community feels it way through the minefield of business responsibility, trust and integrity. Demanding answers as to why another user has been banned is not germane to the discussion, and probably the outrage is better reserved for a private message to the Admins if your curiosity is really that great. If it is more of a matter of wanting to stir up shit and make a production to advance your side of a discussion, post your own thoughts in a thread of your own, don't use tired and inappropriate censorship dogma. Hitching your wagon to a sinking ship is just not effective.

2. He lost about 40,000 BTC with PirateAt40's Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST)

It seems the wishing well has some messages! Please, forgive my potentially crummy decoding.

Starting at 2012-09-11 05:07:12:


"btcs a scam"

and, somewhat less informative:

Starting and ending 2012-10-14 12:18:45:


"utn"

Noone knows how many bitcoiners are. Let's try to assess this number. Send 1 satoshi to 1HLoD9E4SDFFPDiYfNYnkBLQ85Y51J3Zb1 (but only once), so we'll have some info we could take into account.

PS: This is the address from block #2, addresses of blocks #0 and #1 are already used for other purposes.