I don't understand what's the point: 1. Sell items on bitcointalk in Digital Goods section or 2. Just sell items online.

In the case of the first one, absolutely, you can sell items as long as you carry legal product and your "business" doesn't violate laws. If you sell cracked/stolen keys, then - no.
You can't sell the "virus", it's against laws and is illegal!
You can just open "Thread" and offer the listing to bitcointalk members.

In the case of the second one, you can sell items online too but before doing this, you have to do deep analyze of your niche. You have to consider SEO (keywords, difficulties, available domain names, budget for marketing, etc). Long story short - you have to learn digital marketing, SEO and website management before thinking about this.

When it comes to live BlackJack, you actually see what they are doing in live. On another hand, they have thousands of employees, for example Evolution has up to 3K employee in a country where lives up to 3.5 million people, so, I hugely doubt all of them are so professionals to cheat customers online. In overall, no, live casinos and in this case, Evolution, doesn't cheat, the game is 100% provably fair. The problem is that people lose and think that game isn't fair while in reality games are mathematically made to be profitable for casinos in long term. Also, in most cases, governments regulate casinos and it's prohibited to cheat customers (I know a case when the government was checking the casino's fairness).

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We implemented merit system back in January 24, 2018. Personally, I think that merit played an important role in partly improving the posts quality but seems it’s still not enough.
Recently, there are a lot of complains regarding to low post quality, more newbie restrictions, etc.

Since theymos doesn’t want to apply more restrictions on newbies (and that’s logical) and wants to keep this forum newbie-friendly, I came up with an idea to implement “Reactions on posts”.

We can have:
1.   Like (good post)
2.   Dislike (bad post)
3.   Haha (not spammy but funny post) or any other idea for neutral comment.

The positive side of this implementation can be that bitcointalk members will be able to react on each-others posts. In overall, we will create statistics of high quality and low quality posters that will help us to identify spammers. When there are a lot of dislikes on posts, it will automatically alarm the moderator to remove the comment.

Users will be able to leave positive and negative feedback regarding to post quality (i.e. likes and dislikes) on user’s profile. How will it work? Well, it will help users to rank up along with activity and merit. Of course, requirements to rank up will be much lower compared to number of mertis and activity. This scheme is similar of invite system but very different, you are able to register without invite but you have to gain recommendation in order to rank up. What will be the advantage of this action? In order to increase your ranking, you’ll need to get likes on your profile from Full Members+. If someone decides to lie and falsely leaves positive feedback on alts, we will be able to identify alts and abuser users.

First of all, 3rd party apps shouldn't be trusted, it can be made for fun but not used for serious cases.

The author can also state that app is made for fun and he isn't responsible for any damage caused by this app (related to bitcointalk).
Btw even if the account is hacked and bitcoins are somehow stolen, it has nothing to do with an app. It can happen via social engineering or the user mentioned his keys in PMs.

Btw, for me, bitcointalk's app UI/UX will be a lot of fun and good experience.

I think we won't see anything like this before epochtalk and to be fair, I don't even think we will ever see apps for bitcointalk.

This forum needs good UI/UX designers, who will consider all the details of this forum (features like merit, report, etc) and design a website that will be simple and user-oriented. Also, good web developers who will build a responsive design that will be low in size and fast, optimized for every device.

I think, if theymos really wants, he can easily collect talented guys on this forum and finally do this job but idk what's happening. If we want to move on epochtalk, then this development should be finished more quickly and if we want to stay on SMF, then we should create a new template and suit it to SMF.

In reality, it's true that the design is very out-dated, it's not a huge problem for me but I think we should follow the modern trends.

Maybe theymos wants to use forum funds for other good things? Check this!
I amn't 100% sure what theymos said about signatures but one thing that comes to my mind is that signature campaign drives a huge traffic on this forum and is the major part of forum's ecosystem. By removing sigs, forum will lost traffic and high traffic = profit. Also, I remember that Roger Ver wanted to add signature campaign on forum.bitcoin.com in order to boost the website's traffic and make his forum more popular.

We need more users like DannyHamilton, he made the huge ignore list on this forum.

Also, direct answer to OP's idea (quote from theymos):

Theymos said that no limitation will be implemented on this forum for newbies and registration will be as easy as it was and is right now.

It has it's pros and cons. We can't request this action from theymos because he wants traffic on this forum and such members generate huge traffic of bitcointalk. High traffic means higher cost of ads on the website, i.e. high revenue for theymos. Forum runs on servers and has costs, moderators need money too (I remember hilariousandco said that they are paid according to their work).

Btw this forum has "ignore" function. I think the best alternative will be if theymos adds "hide" function and we won't even see users and their posts once they are hidden for us.

Again! Need a developer for a small task (who has been in touch with SMS gateways).

For more, PM!

Edit: Deal was done! So, locking this thread again.

It's a very good initiative. I don't have much hope that people will really consider this advice and get interested in what does "not your keys" mean but I still hope that we should try, if it can rescue at least one man, then it worths!

Not your keys - not your coins!

Yeah, Riot Music Team is amazing (thanks to mako), love their:
1. Piercing light (mako remix)
2. Rise
3. Legends Never Die
4. Warriors (not actually them but Imagine Dragons wrote it for lol)
5. Phoenix

Bitcoin can be promoted and adopted in musical industries that way, especially it can push apple to accept bitcoin on iTunes.  A song that will be as amazing as those that I wrote and will have millions of views and active listeners worldwide, what can be a better promotion for adoption? And for spreading the message?

Like most of the others? Casinos similar of 1xbet hold a license in different countries in most cases and don't operate from Curacao, well, in reality, it doesn't mean isn't the huge indicator of whether the casino is a scam or not but we all should agree that 1xbet/bit is a scam. Like 1xbet, they hold a Curacao license but it's very bad that they don't state that on their website, idk why people gamble on website that doesn't even say anything about the license, sounds very curious for me. I don't even know if I have to blame 1xbit or not because people's silliness plays a huge factor in their success.

I remember when the price of btc was high in 2017, theymos had an idea of seasted, a place for bitcoiners.
I know my idea is very far from it but something came to my mind after listening to Arknights 2021 Song
Long story short, Starset is my favourite rock band, I know their lead singer Dustin Bates, just met him in concerts and always had some conversations. He is very interested in science and technologies... Well, he wrote a song for the Chinese mobile game - Arknights. What about if we spend some of the forum's funds on this and write the official Bitcoin song?
I am into marketing too and love the way League of legends promote their product via songs, one such an amazing thing for btc by starset or imagine dragons or another popular band? Person? Not a bad idea )))

Despite the fact that I disagree when people say: Don't invest what you can't afford to lose (because otherwise you won't see good, noticeable profit), this is the case where I disagree with OP. First of all, when you take loan, it means you don't have a lot of money to spend on something or you are taking serious amount of money and put your house or other assets in loan. The problem is that it comes with huge risks, yeah, reward may be high but the risk will make you to lose everything. There were a lot of people who took a loan and invested back in 2017 and end up very bad, reddit was full of these kind of posts, so, please, don't give this advice to others.

I think even this won't solve the problem in altcoin sections. People have spam in their blood, veins. Idk if it sounds funny and illogical for you but personally I think that people will spam with the same rate even if we remove signatures.

But at the same time if we remove signatures in altcoin section, then the wave of spammers will invade the other four sections. As I mentioned, we can't fix the problem and even if we try to fix that way, then it will cause worsening of the situation in other sections.

Also, huge traffic comes on altcoin sections and theymos knows that. The traffic of this website generates revenue, higher traffic = more money. It should cost a decent amount of money to keep this forum (servers, etc) and moderators, we shouldn't blame theymos.

To be fair I haven't heard about this one, seems it offers the service similar to Rakuten but pays in bitcoin. It's affiliate marketing, they bring customers to certain companies and in exchange of this, they give some percentage to these companies. First of all what I would say is that it seem great bitcoin supported analogue of Rakuten and that's welcome for me. On another hand, you are right, these companies earn money from us + use us for their statistics to further develop the marketing of their products and that's bad. I think it's disrespectful but they pack it like they take care of us.

Do you seriously say that? If anyone is into crypto, I have no idea why they shouldn't know anything about a website where the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto was posting.
It's unimaginable especially when it comes to business. When they hire marketers, project managers, PR and other staff, some of them should know bitcointalk, especially marketing manager cause it's their duty to make the business popular. If they don't know btctalk, then they are bad managers and shouldn't be in marketing. If they ignore bitcointalk, then it's their choice, maybe they have other and better marketing strategy but I highly doubt there are casinos as popular as those who are active on this forum.

I know case when one company was buying a lot of bitcoins from miners and in this case, it was BitFury if I am not mistaken.

OTC transactions will affect bitcoin's price but wait, it's not direct impact that it has but the psychological one. When "Joe" reads on website that PayPal is interested in bitcoin and hears that omg, PayPal buys thousands of bitcoins, then Joe will think that oh, if PP buys bitcoins, it means that price will rise. At least, the major payment service provider is interested in it, this should have a huge positive impact on bitcoin's price. And then Joe starts to sell bitcoin in high price while PayPal will have their own agreement with providers and price and negotiation will be different from real one.

There isn't similar service and won't be. When it comes to insurance, you pay a fixed amount of money. Years may pass and you won't have a need to use insurance (health, auto, etc), insurance covers the things that are unlikely to happen from you (Do you want a car crash? No). It happens like money is collected and spent on those who need it at the moment in different things. Gambling addiction is a thing that needs treatment. When you pay for example $100 in gambling insurance while losing thousands of dollars, it's can't be a profitable business. You gamble and it's mathematically guaranteed that you'll lose on long term and since insurances work on long term plans, it won't happen.

That depends on some factors and what kind of miners you mean. There is a rise in the number of people who mine at home at the moment and that's why GTX1080, RX580 and others are pricy lately. But, when more people join the mining process, the higher the difficulty gets. But, average Joe can only buy miners and GPUs that companies manufacture and here we will the declining number of "at home" miners. Companies like Bitmain, BitFury and others will manufacture better equipment for them (everyone knows how shady Bitmain is), on another hand, mining has turned into commercial business, so, the number of miners will decrease.