Well how bad is it with Ethereum today?

**checks poloniex**

Holy dogshit!!

I dabbled briefly, got in and out and made nothing resembling a profit.  Didn't risk too much bitcoin, not regretful.  Twas a learning experience.

I don't mind these topics at all, though I don't really participate in them much.  And yeah OP, some people definitely hate religion and those who practice religion, and people in certain ones hate people in other ones.  It's a gigantic Christ-wiping mother of shitfuck going on in the world today with all of the religious violence.  So people need to speak their minds and what better forum for this than on bitcointalk 

OP, there's a saying in the rooms of AA that "one is too many, a thousand is never enough".  And it applies to gambling as well.  If you're to the point where you're asking how to quit for good, then stop placing bets all together.  Don't visit casinos and stay away from the gambling section of bitcointalk.  Just stay away.  If that requires help then get it, but if you keep testing the waters then you're going to keep having the same problems. 

Fixed that for you.

Technical analysis is a bunch of woo, to use JREF-speak.  You'll notice that people like Warren Buffett and all those other zillionaires who've made their zillions in the stock market are not technical analysts.  If TA worked, this would not be the case.  It's just guesswork.  Sometimes trends are apparent, I won't argue this but the rest of it is a steaming pile of horsezit.

Ugh.  It's definitely done in this forum but in certain circles it is definitely frowned upon, and some users will give a negative trust to the sold account if the fact of the sale is discovered.  So it's risky.  If an account with green trust is sold, that's even worse.  Those are the ones I worry about, because it's easy to leverage that trust to scam people.  I think Master-P did this.

OP, how did you find bitcointalk if I may ask?  Did someone suggest it as a place where you could get a loan?

There is definitely a lending section here, but you would need some sort of collateral, like altcoins or something digital that has value.  120% of the loan amount is the general rule.  But it's not easy here.  People definitely do not like parting with hard-earned bitcoin.  Good luck.

Those who voted 20-30% are being wildly optimistic, I think.  There would have to be major reasons for owning bitcoin, e.g., currency collapse or some such, and I do hope that doesn't happen.  Also it's going to have to be accepted at far more outlets than it is and it's going to have to become easier to understand and/or use.

I voted 2-5%.

OP, this is a good thread idea I have to say.  I honestly never liked the name Bitcoin, but it is what it is.  However, my level of acceptance of most things is generally high and I've never considered an alternative.

Encrypted, I like your ideas here--those are good names.  It's really too bad that btc won't get renamed.  Even Ethereum is a better name I think.  LOL

And that does get you a negative rep around here, like it or not.  Ponzi schemes are scams and being tied to one makes you a scammer in most folks' eyes.

OP, I checked your trust and it looks like it was given correctly.  It appears you tried to cheat that Twitter campaign and got booted off.  So what can I say?  You may not like the trust feedback and you may love bitcoin (me too), but you're going to have to deal with it.

This is way too risky since you already made it clear you want to sell that account.   There's nothing guaranteeing you won't just run away.

Legal or not, benzos are far more addictive than most people think and are dangerous when combined with opiates and/or alcohol.   And the effects of this one are not as well-known as others,  so potential buyers be careful.

It's either just random fluctuations or it went up because I sold some.  Lol

Probably noise or speculators pumping it due to the halving.

That is absolute nonsense and ironic coming from a Yobit campaigner.  You can certainly make 20 constructive posts and more per day if--and this is a big if--you take your time and think about what you're writing.   But a lot of posters obviously don't.   But that doesn't mean it can't be done, it just means some folks are lazy and like to do the absolute minimum ( or less).

You are not being criticized for no reason, and in fact there is very good reason to criticize you. All you've given so far are excuses why you can't repay your loan and attempts to deflect this criticism by playing the victim. You're not a victim. You're late is what you are.

Lutpin, take it from me.  If I meant it the way you think I meant it, I would not be afraid to tell you.  I am not playing mind games with you.  I was making a general statement about what I see as a shift in tone in some of the threads that senior members participate in, with this thread being just one of them.  I was not talking about you in particular by any means.  And if you're on DT I have no problem with that, nor Mexxer.

Sir!  I'd say gold is holding its own pretty well, and silver is not faring poorly either. 

I'm thinking about buying some sort of gold coin with some spare bitcoin, probably through Provident.  Like a Mexican gold 5 pesos or some such.  Gold dipped a little, but I think it's just that, a dip.  I don't think it's getting killed.

No, I didn't mean it that way.  I have no problem with Mexxer at all, and in fact I think he does a great job around here.  I'm not as familiar with you, but I don't have a problem with you.  What I wrote was just a straight observation and I'm wondering if others see it the same.  I guess it was the SebastianJu thing where he seemed to be getting attacked from all sides in a tone that I don't often see used with trusted members like him.  And there were other threads too.  But as I said, I could be totally wrong.

Blazed, I realize this thread is not about QS but I'm just going to say this:  I realize QS has done good for the community.  I've seen that.  But after watching him try to defend his self-escrow thing, it's quite obvious he does not realize exactly what's wrong with what he did.  And therefore I don't trust the guy.  This is a forum about money, right?  It doesn't matter if QS can spot scammers and call them out--a scammer can very easily recognize a scammer, and he will point them out to potential scamees in order to gain trust.  QS has proven that he can't be trusted in a deal that involves money.  He took two out of three sides of a deal whilst allowing the outside party to believe the other two sides were independent of each other.  And they were not.  That is fraud, and his rationalizations after he got caught were breathtakingly dishonest.  And he hasn't learned from that.

What's there not to understand?  Like me, he posts on this forum because he wants to.  Like me he wants to get paid for that, because why wouldn't you?  It's a way of supporting the bitcoin economy and it is a feature that I've never seen on any other forum, that is, renting out signature space.  I don't know how sig campaigns came into existence, but it seems a little unfair that people who make quality posts get criticized for participating in them.  They are, either explicitly or implicitly, endorsed by Theymos.

I have no problem whatsoever with signature campaigns.  As I've said in other threads, it's a neat concept and seems to be unique to bct.  It's the people who shitpost that ruin it for everyone else

Is it just me or has the mood around bitcointalk darkened since these adjustments to the DT list happened?  I see a lot of sniping--more so than usual, and I realize I'm not one to talk, as I can rip new anuses with the best of them.  I don't know, I could be wrong.  Seems like some of the senior members who usually adopt a neutral tone have gone on the attack. 

I think OP realizes his mistake of giving out a rep loan and hopefully he won't do this again.  The question is at what point can these things be forgiven?