Can you point towards that thread? That seems plain weird to me.

I'm terrible at handing out merit but on the special occasions I do it's only ever on the quality of the individual post. I don't care who it is or what's in their sig. I'd actively prefer to not merit someone already swimming in it, which means most people involved in this campaign, but they're often the ones who justify it.

I have no idea how margin trading a totally unpredictable asset at ratios that are illegal in most markets on markets that openly trade against their own customers ever became accepted as the norm, but that seems to be how it is.

Get a better job and buy it back.

Why have you so fervently nailed your colours to this particular mast? And why keep it up for almost every single post that says the exact same thing for months now.

It's turned you into an intolerable shrieking knob. Shake it up with another subject I dare you.

If there's a spike in earned merit after someone joins up I'd assume that's because they're motivated to up their quality and possibly their quantity at the same time.

I would be more than slightly appalled if someone merited someone because of what was in their sig.

I don't recall anyone last week predicting this move. Now it's here no doubt they'll pile in and tell us exactly what's going to happen next with the greatest of confidence and everyone who does not agree is a peon and they knew all along this would happen but decided not to tell anyone.

They're all full of shit. None of them are worth listening to and they're all wasting their time and your time. You'd be better off asking your lucky octopus.

I thought the little guy became toast about 6-7 years ago. Mining is certainly not something that ever crossed my mind when I arrived and it hasn't done for a second since either. Mining is pure Darwinism so I will not shed a tear for anyone who can't cut it.

I don't really care what type of person is present at present. More than likely they'll come and go or be converted into someone who recognises that it has elements worth fighting for.

As long as there's a hard core defending the base tenets it has the chance to be what many hope it will become.

Even so ultimately Bitcoin is what the collective decides it should be. It may not be what the early arrivals wanted, but it is the will of the users.

I wouldn't expect it to last and it's exactly the type of thing buyers want so all it would take is one person to spark it and then they sit back and let others do the running.

All the same it's a bit of fun so I'll take it. Any sign of life is better than watching a poo sitting there on your bathroom floor.

I can't see a new ATH until halfway/late into next year at the earliest. Even then that might seem like ludicrous optimism considering the world has barely begun to digest the effects of all the viral strife.

We may get a further pump from here and then perhaps downhill after the halving. You only get the true effects quite a lengthy time after the actual event. The current stuff is buying and selling the news.

There were probably higher paying campaigns back in the day. I joined the Bitmixer campaign long ago when that was pretty much the lowest paying campaign of the lot. It was a pathetic 0.035 BTC per week which was often $10 or less for long stretches in 2015.

I recall waltzing straight into the Chipmixer campaign so it can't have been that big a deal at that point. These days it seems easier to become the next pope, and less holy an event too.

Please point us towards this fact.

If there was huge demand there would be someone ready to meet it. There isn't so there isn't.

All the facts I have to hand point towards merchant adoption shrinking for several years and continuing to shrink. The peak of acceptance was probably in 2014 when huge name after huge name announced it and since then they've been quietly shutting down.

Most people who own Bitcoin don't want to spend it. People who don't own Bitcoin will never buy something to buy something.

Why not? Why anything?

Unless you have desperate financial need you're better off staying put and seeing what happens. So far those who do so have been richly rewarded, though they were certainly made to work for it.

I choose to have faith in the idea and its future. If I hadn't I'd be long gone and probably consumed with bitterness like so many others.

The people on here who are most vocal about their price predictions and the timing they announce almost always balls them up and go down in flames with them.

What if they PM you unsolicited burger shots alongside the plea?

I think I've only had a couple at most. I have had a few thanking me for making their bones which wasn't necessary but pleasant all the same.

Could you post in your native language then we can pay for our own translation if we feel it's worth reading? This is possibly the most nonsensical post this week.

If it means what I think you want it to mean then it's still totally meaningless.

Then you're a better man than I.

If I had to use the full version of this forum on a phone with manual scaling I would have to end it all. Quoting is fucking unbearable. It can take nearly an age to trim a quote and I usually hit the wrong button somewhere and have to start again.

I've come across quite a few people who only do it through mobile. I've no idea where they find the patience. It's almost always PC for me.

Very interesting. A trip down memory lane. I had zero memory of when I joined.

One of the most interesting stats is how many people have been and gone. I had no idea there were that many. Does anyone have a vague idea of the ratio of people who got the boot vs left of their own volition? I seem to recall Darkstar doesn't publicise who's left or why, he just says new slots are open.

Someone I knew had a very successful Ebay business drop shipping toys from a local company. Then one day the company must have gotten a monster order from elsewhere because their drop shipping ground to a total halt and they were told it was a two month wait for the items they'd already sold - cue a lot of very pissed off customers and one dead business.

I've noticed that crypto items often have large and sudden delays in supply and they don't seem very good in keeping customers informed of that. They seem to appear out of nowhere.

That would be my main concern if I were doing something like this and your customers would be extremely quick to jump down your throat if it happened.

Another vote for Opera mobile. It does a really good job of scaling on the fly, usually catching up in fractions of a second when you zoom in.

Most of the time I use this version for mobile https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?;wap2 but when you need to quote then it has to be the full fat version. No way could I ever use the full version of the forum on a phone without Opera.

If you're taking a maximum risk without maximum intelligence and skill then you're a prize twat.

It seems rather obvious to me that you need to be bold to benefit. Allocating 0.01% of your net worth to Bitcoin is not going to get a maximum return. You need to apply boldness with foresight and care but your returns will only ever be bunch of what ifs if you pussy foot around. Sometimes you have to throw it down and duke it out.

The main thing I don't see when people are taking risks are their escape plans if it's the wrong one. That's what gives you the ability to fight and benefit another day.

I can right now do a deal with someone anywhere on the planet and pay them in Bitcoin. No one can stop me. No one can take it away from the person I sent it to. They can then turn around and do the exact same thing with anyone of their choice. The core of Bitcoin's purpose is intact.

Where is gets sticky is when the government's turf is encroached on and fiat is the the government's creation. If enough people take the leap to abandon fiat and properly close the loop most things the average person panics about will be gone. Almost every single gripe and problem that comes up is the result of having one foot in the old system.

Whether we ever get there is another matter. No one said it would be easy or quick.

Satoshi did his job. It's every subsequent arrival's job to see it through if they can be arsed.

As for the getting rich thing, if it wasn't present we wouldn't be having this conversation. No one would be mining or would have mined and no one would have played beyond 2010/11.