These arguments always make me laugh. "How can global warming be real when it's snowing outside?" is as stupid as saying "How can people be starving when I've just eaten lunch?"

The whole "chemical" v "natural" nonsense that you see pedaled a lot in advertising, particularly with organic foods, GMOs and MLM scams, is equally nonsense. Arsenic, cyanide and flesh eating bacteria are all natural. Water, oxygen and table salt are all chemicals.

It's not just due to a lack of education, but also a lack of interest in education. People are all too happy to be willfully ignorant.

According to Vod's BPIP, and obviously ignoring theymos and satoshi, there is currently 1 self-made legendary, 21 self-made heroes (of which 5 don't have the activity requirements), and 93 self-made senior members (of which 7 don't have the activity requirements), but at least a couple of the seniors are clear cases of merit abuse.

Ahh nice. The "God did it" fallacy.

1) Present an argument
2) Your opponents prove your argument is obviously false
3) Simply state "You are wrong because God did it/God can do anything"

It is impossible to argue against, because we can break the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, maths, space, time, even logic, by simply stating "God did it". Every argument presented can be refuted by simply stating "God did it".

"How come all the evidence proves the Universe is >13 billion years old" - "Ahhh, God did it"
"How come all the evidence proves evolution" - "Ahhh, God made it that way"
"How come fossils exist" - "Ahhh, God put them there"

It truly is the last bastion of the stupid and ignorant.

Congrats, and I like the Self-made Legendary text. Would it be bad form to use "Self-Made Hero" (once I get another 9 merits) despite not actually being a Hero for another 3-4 months?

No, but posting three times in a row is breaking the rules, which you would know if you had read them.



That would be Bitcoin Discussion. However, a thread that just serves as spammy advertising for your website, with no discussion or original posts, would likely be locked again as uninteresting and low-value.

You are right - I meant privacy. A slip of the tongue, so to speak. I had to download and install Chrome just to use Ledger, and wiped it as soon as I was happy Ledger Live was running smoothly. Chrome is a privacy nightmare.

Thank God my ratio is 3.233! Although I didn't read any of this thread before posting, so I think I may just have demoted myself. Bummer.

Banned for breaking the rules, doesn't read the rules, wants moderators to let him break more rules, and then breaks the same rule again in this thread. Amazing.

That entire thread is/was pointless. Not only were you breaking the rules by multiple posts in a row (since barely anyone else commented at all) and multiple bumps per day, but the thread served no purpose other than advertising your website. There was no discussion and no conversation. We don't need every article you publish posted here - if people are interested, they can just bookmark your website.

The press board is for notable Bitcoin press. The articles that you link to, such as "Investor Insight: Dogecoin (DOGE) and Reddcoin (RDD)" and "Steem Blockchain down a Week Before Hard Fork" are neither notable nor about Bitcoin. Spamming the press board with such nonsense will likely get you banned again.

I doubt such papers exist.

The answer to the question depends on repetition, though. You can commit a 12 word phrase to memory relatively easily, probably in under an hour. You'll remember it for a day or two, no problem, but you'll have forgotten most of it in a week or two unless you practice it a few times every day. There's no way most people will remember something like that for >10 years unless you are repeating it at least a couple of times a week.

And then, as I mentioned, all you need is a mild blow to the head or a bad infection and you've forgotten it.

There is no such thing as a betting system with guaranteed returns. You are either naive or lying.



Oh my god, can you imagine!? It would be glorious.

I can fully accept that, but we are now over a year down the line. It took 6 months to hit 30% SegWit transactions, and another 6 months to climb from 30% to 40%. If we just sit and wait it could be 5+ years before we reach anything near full adoption.

This isn't really new - the majority of the world has been laughing at the US since he was elected.

Yes. Their altcoin can't stand on its own merit, and so their entire business model since day one has been trying to trick newbies that don't know better in to buying "the real Bitcoin". I still chuckle whenever I see that ridiculous phrase.

Rory MacDonald was sponsored by Dash earlier in the year to the tune of $250,000, so it's safe to assume BCH have offered him at least as much. Calling him a "fan" is a bit of stretch, no more true than saying that Harry Kane is a "fan" of AIA Life Insurance because they sponsor the Tottenham football club shirt. But hey, as we've learned, BitcoinCashers love to bend the truth or outright lie if it helps their trash coin stay afloat.

Still, I'm sure Rory's day job of picking up repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries has made him a sound financial investor.

I've been think about it a bit more, and my definition is inadequate, as it would include things like fire as being alive. We would need to add an additional clause about maintaining homeostasis or performing metabolism.

Even without this clause, I don't think a blockchain can be classed as alive, as it needs external input to be sustained or furthered.

You've already moved it to the local language board, ergo the issue is now resolved. We can lock this topic and move on.

It's become worse in the last few weeks since the change to the merit system. Shitposters suddenly find themselves in the need of a single merit, but they don't know anything except shitposting. Instead of spending 5 minutes to read a thread and formulate a coherent reply, they generally are just resorting to plagiarism +/- text spinning. We have even seen some legendary members selling a couple of paragraphs of plagiarism to one-line shitposting newbies, who will post them, and then receive a merit from the legendary.

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From a thread on Meta earlier today:

Turns out he's made some pretty dubious claims about his betting system:





Strange that he claims the system will make you $17 million in two years, and he's been using this system for 3 years. Using his calculations, 3 years is enough to make $2.18 BILLION. With so much guaranteed income with no fear of loss (his words), I find it strange that he's still wasting his time doing Italian translations for trash ICOs.

There's not really much open to interpretation there.

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You are taking this way too personally. Just write it in drafts or post it to the local language board as suggested. It's not a big deal.

I agree that a forced conversion will be disruptive, but I can see why they are doing it and props to them for taking the initiative on this.

I think the real issue here is education. I would wager that a significant proportion, probably even a majority, of Bitcoin users don't understand the difference between legacy and Segwit, and even less know the difference between Bech32 and P2SH. I was certainly guilty of this when I first got involved in crypto - it's easy just to buy from an exchange and send to a wallet without having really any idea about what you are doing.

And the number that have a working product and a real world use is in the single-digits.

What a joke the altcoin market is. 2000 coins/tokens, 100 billion dollars, and barely a competent team or working product between them. And more scam ICOs appearing every day, and more newbies losing their money by blinding sending it to the next project that promises impossible returns.


No it isn't. Bitcoin dominance is between 52-56% this month, which is the highest it has been all year.