Let's keep the flaming down and talk about the OP's topic. Scam or not, it is still a good idea to involve unemployed street kids to do the work. I would want to see some proof of that to buy into this, with all the scam accusations flying around. The hooded scarfs looks nice and cosy. ^hmf^

If I do support this, I would want to see my money going to a good cause.

So you saying, someone or a group of people created self moderated threads all over the place and then decided to delete 22 posts in one shot? Why would they want to do that? I do not disagree with your statement shorena, but I do find it strange that it would be such a big coincidence.

I will be looking at that closely from now on, because I cannot waste my time and energy, I could have spend with my family on creating constructive posting and it getting deleted for no apparent reason.

I only post a couple of times during the week and I skip weekends, so I am no way spamming or doing something wrong. 

Something is definitely fishy here. I just checked and someone deleted 22 of my posts in one day. I have read through all of them, and I cannot see why it was deleted. I always post on topic and all of them, have the same reason < Self moderated topic..... > This is definitely not the case with all of them.

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A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by the starter of a self-moderated topic. There are no rules of self-moderation, so this deletion cannot be appealed. Do not continue posting in this topic if the topic-starter has requested that you leave.

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They could not have chosen a better partner, Naspers is huge in South Africa and on the forefront of technology. They have interest in cellphones <MTN> and subscription/pay television <Multichoice> and news papers and loads more.

I've never heard about them. Do you live in South Africa?

I am a international citizen, but I spend a lot of my time in Africa too. The company I work for sends us all over the world, and we work for 4 to 6 months in a country and then we move location to the next. I am currently working in Africa, but our Head Office is in the UK.

My company did some work for the NASPERS group and we used a internet service provider called Mweb for our internet access. They have shares in some of the biggest roleplayers in Africa and are very well placed as a stepping stone for eCommerce / Print media / Television / internet within the African continent.

This is a huge partnership for BitX and will open up a lot of Bitcoin business opportunities with huge potential.

Watch this space, Bitcoin is going to grow a lot faster and bigger in Africa with this partnership. I see their shares price is good too, so I might invest a bit after this news.  Grin 

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I am clueless to what I did wrong and how to improve, if it was in fact a legitimate reason why it was deleted. I read every thread from top to bottom and post something new and constructive, when I do decide to reply.

How can we improve, if we do not receive any explanation on what we did wrong?

I have the same thing. From the last payment date < 23/11/2015 to 30/11/2015 > I posted 25+ posts and I got paid $1.06 US.   All posts was within the rules stipulated by this campaign. Where did things go wrong? None of the rules has changed, so it must be something wrong with the bot.

Can you please look into this?

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I figured it out, there are nothing wrong with the bot. A legendary member of the forum deleted whole self moderated threads, when he/she did not get paid for his/her signature campaign and took all of our posts with him/her. This influenced my final statistics read by the bot.

Sorry for the panic, but I thought I was doing something wrong.  

It just shows you how centralized entities can govern their own rule and make decisions that benefit them. This is a wonderful example why decentralization is very important. No single service can make stupid decisions to stop or block any services. M-Pesa is a competing technology and it has been around, even before Bitcoin was developed.

Let's just hope the courts finds in favor of Bitpesa. ^hmf^

It's not just with mobile phones, it happens with other hardware platforms too. Lenovo, the notebook manufacturer has been caught for the 3rd time, distributing spyware with new notebooks. The Superfish malware assists hackers to gain access to your computer.

http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html 

I think, I must have over 150 addresses to date... I create a new address for every new service I use and I test all
wallets online, with a unique address. How can you evaluate a service or a wallet provider, if you have not tried all of
them. I also created 100's of paper wallets and then destroyed the computer it was created on.

I also use some honey pot addresses, to trigger traps on my desktops. {unprotected addresses with small amounts of coins}  

My favorite bar did not accept Bitcoin, until I got some friends together to "lobby" for Bitcoin acceptance. They had
to bend under severe pressure from us for weeks.   If there is a service or a merchant that does not accept bitcoin, you must get people in your meetups to phone them and harass them until they accept it.

They will not do it on their own. I wanted to buy my favorite draft beer with bitcoin and I forced for it.

You have any proof of that? In my country, you can buy a gun on the streets without a credit card or PayPal and
nobody will ask any questions. How would a gun shop owner know it is a stolen credit card, if it is accompanied with
a fake ID document? All these things can be bought online.  

This is not going to last long. The Black Friday event will definitely have a downward pressure on the price today. I predict at least a 10% drop in the price over the weekend. Lots of people are already gearing up to buy lots of stuff for Xmas and you will have a over supply of old coins on the exchanges.

Please people, only spend within your limits and keep some for the predicted spike in 2016. 

I think it might be a pump before the Black Friday event running in the USA. The higher the price, the more things you would be able to buy. Or it hedge against a possible drop in the price, when more coins come back into circulation on the exchange. Let's hope those coins get absorbed quickly. ^hmf^

The question would be, if there is a big enough market for this? The true Bitcoin enthusiast will buy this as a must have gadget, but the normal consumers will not see the value of this. They have no interest to secure the network.
In it's favor are the fact that it is fairly cheap, so it can fit into everyday gadgets, without the users even knowing that they buying into this. They simply buy the appliance with some extra features.

Just as long as you pay what is due, you should not have any problems. We have a different system and it is a lot less complicated than yours. I find when people exploit loopholes, these types of things are quickly picked up by the IRS and they close those gaps over time.

It's like a Anaconda - It push, every time you breath out, and you die slowly. 

I handled my first bitcoin very poorly, because I just bought it and I got quite paranoid on where to store it safely. There were a lot of hacking going around and people were complaining about breaches in online wallets. Yes, I did store my first coins in online wallets.

I still have those coins and they safely tucked away in cold storage.

Congrats, it feels good because you worked hard for it, I presume. Now onto the next 20 and you would be set for life.  Just make sure that you use a better method to store your coins. Have at least 50% of you coins in cold storage.

There is always a risk with third parties. ^hmf^

That is very good news. At least one bank can see the danger of investing in a highly insecure and untested environment like the permissioned / private Blockchains. Bitcoin is far superior and it has been through serious testing to be able to do the job.

Let's hope they follow the call to support Permissionless Blockchains.

Nigeria have a crazy history with corruption and to make things worst, major oil deposits have been found in that area, so it's natural that the corruption levels will go up. Politicians making these decisions will accept bribes and the easiest thing would be to find a way to get that money out of the country as soon as possible.

They do use other digital / mobile payment methods like M-Pesa, but it's linked to mobile phones and could be traced via the centralized cellphone operators to the corrupt officials.

Merchants who accepts Bitcoin as a payment method, have a advantage over other companies. They can use the lower fee's associated with Bitcoin payments to fund these massive discounts. The other companies still have to pay these high fee's and take a cut in their profits to enable them to offer these discounts. ^hmf^

A wall of text that makes no sense at all.  You saying a person who use this service, has to be a bitcoiner? You get a lot of people who have been unbanked by banks, who would use this service and some users that ran into difficulties with other services like PayPal, but still need to buy something. I have only mentioned a few of the examples, why people might want to use this service, there is much more.

When someone blocks you from using your credit card or your PayPal account, what other options do you have? Currently there are very limited options and a service like this, could be the answer. ^hmf^

That is just the thing, we never know what these merchants will do. I saw in another thread that over 150 merchants will be taking part in this and possibly even new retailers like Wallmart. If this happens, you would see a massive coin dump and these new companies would not hold on to their coins. They will convert everything to fiat and the price will drop. ^hmf^