Very simply. Animated GIFs for Avatars that exist today are left over from when they were once allowed.
At one time in the past, everyone could have animated gifs for avatars , until it was discovered to be used as an hacking attack vector.
Because of that gif attack, all animated gifs for accounts have been disabled.

Any animated gifs on avatars you see today are the originals, prior to when Theymos disabled the ability.
If you now remove your animated gif on your account, you can not get it back and will be like everyone else.

It has nothing to do with size of the gif data or ranking of the account.
Shorena is correct.


Edit: added "for Avatars" to be more clear between animated gif pictures and animated gif for avatars

For some reason my friends think its untrustworthy and shady. Not sure why.

Its a very good idea to introduce bitcoins to the Kids. But before that kids should need proper guidance.
They should be taught of the uses of bitcoins and where to use them and not to invest them in gambling etc.
It is the responsibility of the Such toys companies that they should create awareness among parents and kids before being actually creating this.

I struggle to think of a (hands-on, physical) toy that would be cheap enough to be realistic, but somehow teach about bitcoin specifically. I think a better approach would be child-oriented software (Android, Windows, etc.) that teaches about cryptocurrency.

I think there is a lot of room for this kind of activity, for any creative programmers out there. I've been interested in Piggycoin and used it to pay my kids on occasion for the past year, but even Piggycoin with its explicit focus on children, has little to show so far in the way of child-centric aps and games. They have a decent website that helps introduce kids to crypto, but even there, a lot more could be done. Someone could create child-centric websites for bitcoin too, but I've never heard of one.

I say dropping is fine as long as it is not too low as you mentioned. I think that's what we're looking for in this thread.

People are always moaning about the amount of coins they would have to donate to become a 'Donator' or 'VIP'.
Yeah some members donated 10 & 50 bitcoin's back when the price was a lot lower.

Who cares though?

It's just the way it is, nobody is begging you to donate anything now.

#1 The admin is theymos
#2 all avatars had been disabled for security reasons
#3 I highly doubt the forum is running out of disk space. There are simpler solutions anyway, e.g. dont store all deleted posts ever created.
#4 Newbies are no longer allowed to post pictures because some used it to spam
#5 If you no longer want animated gifs, is it fair to remove the few already established over the years?

Well we know its always depends in demands and supply if you just want to rise and there's no fall why don't you try to buy bitcoin every time around 200 btc a day i think you can control the price and the price will continous increasing..

Aside from the demand scene, remove other alts so the exchange will only focus on bitcoin trades.

But this is impossible. So better forget about it.

Definitively not advertising like TV ads and so on, it must be mouth to mouth advertising wih very well, secure and reliably working payment method, not speculative get rich advertising.

With hardware wallets you can already get the most secure payment method today beating CC, paypal, online banking - far better than 2fa with phone or email. Reliability needs more confidence transactions get confirmed in timely fashion which become problem currently, but scaling is in the work.

But biggest point using Bitcoin is no else can confiscate your funds, if you ever received paypal money and later the ballance was removed becuse it come from stollen account you know what Im talking about, the same can happen at your bank account, but not with Bitcoin.

you can't controll the bitcoin user, people will have the ultimate control over their bitcoin, simply when the supply is higher than Demand the price will be fall, when the demand is higher than supply the price will be rise

As long as people need to do things like pay rent, pay mortgages and pay taxes, in fiat, there will be sellers of bitcoin.

That's the way it is. Work on getting your local govt to accept bitcoin payments for taxes if you want to prevent sellers.

What happened? Why aren't animated avatars allowed anymore?

Animated gifs used to be allowed in the past. They are no longer. Those that have an animated gif as avatar now, have had it for a very long time.

Bitcoin toys? Funny idea. Not sure how clever this is, children shouldn't be focused only on material things and these days they mostly are from their early age.

The biggest problem would be finding a company that is willing to mass produce these types of toys. You still need to sell them somehow to people, and kids usually want "cool" toys, or toys that their friends also have.

Bitcoin is not cool to have as a toy yet, as hardly anybody knows it and hardly any kid will have toys of it. This can really take off once bitcoin grows more popular, but until then, the market is probably too small.

The piggybank on kickstarter is really cool though. Smart parents can still buy it for their kids as it is not a toy but rather a way to get them saving some cash (in a potentially very lucerative way!).

It is based on how many people know about it yes, but it's also based on when people are holding it an when they're not. There has to be a set "pumo and dump" schedule as a method to grow your Bitcoin and then sell then. Then of course there's the whole restarting positions to take.