I just activated a secret question in my account and for some reason, I'm not quite sure whether I did the right thing or not, because the page simply reloaded without confirmation or whatsoever. -Any questions in the "Secret Question" field will do, right? -I see that the secret question that I chose was already saved in that once text box when I reloaded the page. Does that mean that the process is finished? -Last question, why is it not recommended? Activating a secret question in my understanding means adding another layer of security in an account. But why isn't it recommended in this forum? Anyone who guesses your secret answer will have access to your account. It's like a second password. Does that mean that anyone who guesses the answer to the secret question will already have access to my account if he/she put it into the login text boxes? I'm kinda confused. Any reply will do. Thanks!  |
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The canon you're claiming is not without its exceptions.
I have never claimed that *all posts made by ad sig users are crap* but simply that *most are*. Although it can always be said to be subjective (in terms of what is "crap") I think that the majority of accounts being banned in the last six months are from ad sig posters which would support my claim (any mods who have the actual stats about which accounts have been banned in the last 6 months please correct me if I am wrong by posting the actual figures). Fair point. I agree. That would be an interesting datasheet to review. Nevertheless, I suspect you're right. Just for the story though, most "serious" ad campaigns check every participant about the "constructive" posts they make and in many cases they reject the members if they fall into the "crap" post category. Again, it's pretty subjective to be honest. Indeed. The quality of posts in this forum drastically dropped due to the "spamfest" done by the users who are enrolled in a signature campaign. I'll admit that I once spammed my way to those btc, but seeing that other users are affected by what I was doing, I just reply and follow a thread in which I think I can participate to. Also, there is no problem in the number of posts a user makes; it's the content that really matters after all. Was it helpful in the discussion? Did the comment shed light in some darkened points? Was it knowledgeable enough for other users? Subjective, and it should be like that. |
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Holding now if the price goes double digits: Can take that.
Selling now and the price going 5 digits in 10 years: Guaranteed suicide.
Choose your poison buddies.
I'd rather see it set foot on double digits than to sell it on a loss. I haven't invested that much money in bitcoins, but still I have a pretty good balance which I think will save me from this sick life in case bitcoin hits a new high. But I do not rely my life in hodling bitcoins only, and if ever I did, that would be a stupid mistake because in these kind of world, the risks are always high, and the market may change within a wink of an eye. |
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If it was me, I'd save about 50%, invest 25% in Bitcoin, and invest 25% in Gold. This is because the 50% you save would be 'safe', but the investment has the potential to grow, or not do so well.
50% is too high given the riskiness of Bitcoin. Most planners recommend 0.5-1% in bitcoins. It depends on your personal situation. As a family man yes, you want to avoid putting much of your portfolio in Bitcoin. As a college guy living with his parents... I would say go apeshit and go 50%+. No risk no big wins. Saving your money will be low on risk but it would take a time. How about diversifying your investments and keeping a half of your money in savings? This is a good plan for me, seeing that it's either win or lose in investing. At least you still have money in case something bad happens. Also, before planning on investing, you might as well allocate some money for expenses and utilities? But before going on to that, see to it that you'll have your savings ready first and the rest should go to expenses and, well, investments. Having a diversified portfolio sure helps, in case one of your investments failed to do you good. |
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Hi Bitcoiners,
I'm looking for a reputable cloud mining service which I can pay BTC to have them mine for me towards a pool.
Sadly google searches can't help me too much with this one.
Does anyone here use any of these services? Which ones do you use or have you used, how would you rate them?
Cheers.
Afaik, cloud mining services have their own pools to mine. There are no services such as the one you're talking about exists (at least in what I know). Or maybe you're referring to renting mining rigs? Because renting one will allow you to point the miner to your specified pool at a given period of time. But I doubt if you'll profit from these. Better to buy and trade rather than renting. But who knows, maybe you'll be lucky in renting a rig and make a good profit.  |
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Anyway, OP is running out of time, unless someone wants to dump a couple million dollars before 48 hours lol.
Highly improbable. Someone who would do this is either plainly dumb or stupid. $160 is kinda far as of the current times. Support is still holding on. A single whale wouldn't be enough to crush the actual buy supports on that area. It would take several whales and panic sellers following in. And also, even if the whale dumped a big load, the price will soon recover because most of the traders do have a buy order in sub-$200. Even if we reached that level, we will not remain in there for too long because the buy pressure will always be there, considering that the coins are cheap. |
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Only a fool believes bitcoin is anonymous. Bitcoin users have all their financial history on the internet for anybody to see
We've already had this discussion. It is pseudo-anonymous. If you know what you're doing they won't know you're tax avoiding. I guess people need to be more careful when using Bitcoin. Everything is in the public ledger after all. I agree. On the other side owever, if the tax authority sees that you have a new house and car and private jet on your name, they might come knocking and ask what you do for a living. I think it can get messy, especially if you want to make a full income/living from bitcoin and pay no tax. It might raise some eyebro Even if it's an ill-gotten wealth or not, the authorities would still raise their eyebrows. Taxes are vital to every nation. Without it, the whole nation wouldn't survive trying to help its inhabitants. But sometimes, the authorities are just too much--too much that you don't even have the right to buy the things you want, especially costly things, because they'll think that you've done something that's "against the law". Very true and evident in my country. |
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And yet you seriously need to "sell your sig space" for some tiny fractions of BTC?
Anyway - the whole point is not the "ad sigs" themselves but the "stupid pointless posts" that are being made in order to "earn that tiny amount of BTC". If you are not making stupid pointless posts then you should have nothing to be concerned about (and no-one is forcing you to ignore anyone).
I do it as a pass time and I am not obliged to answer anyone what I do and what I don't as being a part of a sig campaign isn't a crime. I don't earn my living being a part of a signature campaign as I have a full time job. Being a part of bitcoins is in itself not a good thing as it isn't a recognized currency and considered ILLEGAL. I would rather argue about how to make bitcoins worth talking about and LEGAL rather than Sig campaign spammers. But unfortunately, I don't find anyone interested in making bitcoins a LEGAL currency or working on it as some people are happy about using it for gambling, money laundering, selling illegal goods and hence they don't want bitcoins to be regulated. Errm, you do realize that there are only few countries who consider bitcoins as "illegal" right? And if you say that being a part of bitcoin is not good, then why the hell did you even involve yourself and joined this forum in the first place? Also, what do you mean when you say "legal"? Under some regulations and authority? |
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Anyway, OP is running out of time, unless someone wants to dump a couple million dollars before 48 hours lol.
Highly improbable. Someone who would do this is either plainly dumb or stupid. $160 is kinda far as of the current times. Support is still holding on. |
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Well the thing about signatures is that they very often contain very useful information so it is unlikely that many people will disable signatures outright. It is more likely that people will come up with things like grue's ad block that blocks only certain signatures they do not want to see. Avatars don't really have any use other then to identify certain people. If people started selling their avatar space then people would likely start to disable them which defeats the point of having an avatar campaign in the first place. Also the price for avatars is likely to be low because they are not clickable so all it can really do is build brand recognition. I don't think there's that much difference between signatures and avatars to be honest and you can make most arguments against avatars for signatures too. As I've mentioned before billboards or TV adverts aren't clickable either but they have a purpose. An avatar can be like a tiny billboard or advert and you could also utilise the Personal Text and weblink beneath for extra effectiveness it if you wish. There is a huge difference if you would ask me. Signatures often contain useful information and further references for such a service, while on the other hand, avatars contain only an image which is solely used for representing a brand/service. With this links and texts, a user can already know what the service/product is all about, thus making things easier on the user's side. Signatures imo is a better advertisement for a product/service than an avatar. |
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Probably some connection issues. This scenario also happens to me whenever I'm trying to load a webpage with a slow connection. Not all the layouts and the features of the page are shown--only plain texts and hyperlinks are there to see.
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A plan release of a site, where Bitclever Post 1, Dabs Post 2, and ZypheronBits post 3. I came back 5-10 mins later to find out the thread has both been deleted, and removed from my history. This was going to be the final release of 64Blocks after beta. I am wondering if its possible to have this thread restored? I am not sure why it got removed by a mod, or deleted. Dabs is also part of this, and he's a trust worthy member of the community. Between us. Any help would be appreciated Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1022090 (Deleted)  Came back 5-10 mins and got the below:  Well you should put some information first before you decide to post any thread that you want to create. There's nothing to see there, literally, and what "update" are you talking about? None of the members of this forum actually knows except you or your comrades. If you did at least put some solid information on that post, the thread could have stayed in this forum. |
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If you want to quote other users' replies and want to avoid double posting but is hesitant to do so because it will make the thread "long" and difficult to read, why not cut the portion or the point that you want to reply and not the whole reply of the user per se? That might avoid the long reply because of quoting and can be a good way to avoid double posting. |
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Anyone can disable avatar right ?
Well this forum ..gonna not be same again just like early years
How is it any different than disabling sigs? If someone disables avatars or sigs it doesn't effect how you see the forum. Yes you are right but as I said previously there will not be a problem if the "promotional ad" go to the left or right side of the avatar. Everyone will keep his personal avatar and no one will be wrong to identify the user (remember there is always the username).
Having an additional image advert edited onto the avatar won't be very effective from an advertisers point of view nor do I think it will become popular. I just think marco wanted to keep his current avatar as that's the one he was known by whilst promoting Bit-x. Maybe he will change it in the future though. I chose to add Bit-X to the side to keep my known avatar for other members to easily recognise me. As for if I started an avatar campaign: I'd think of other ways than having every member wear the same avatar. That would be plain annoying, boring and people would get confused. Currently, the best option is something like mine. This might solve the problems on seeing the same avatar on threads. It may also be a means of recognizing who the user is by just looking at the avatar that is retained and is beside an avatar that might be a logo or something. Given that the px size for an avatar is too small, I suggest that the campaign managers should determine first the size of the avatar they want to use, or how large they would like the avatar to appear. |
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If avatar campaigns will be implemented by any service out there, I think it would be too annoying to see the same avatar over and over again. If campaign managers would accept their logo to be placed beside the original user's avatar, then I think it wouldn't be a problem at all. I personally wouldn't participate to an avatar campaign because I don't want my avatar to be removed (it's kinda cute lol) and at the same time, it's annoying to see that each and every user has the same avatar as yours.
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Hi everyone,
I bought a Full Member account 10 days ago. But I do not know if that account has been banned in the past or not ?
Because I heard reputed members here said the account had been banned in the past then it is easy to be banned permanently .
So I want to ask you is :
Is there a way to know the account has been banned in the past or not , and how to handle in case it was banned ?
Sincerely thanks !
To be able to at least get a hint of whether the account was banned in the past or not, look at the post history. Usually, a ban that was caused by a spam tend to last for 14 days. If a user doesn't made any posts within that time-frame, you can at least infer that the account was banned. Well it isn't a surefire way to know what you're looking for, but that's just the idea that I have in mind that I think would be a possible way of determining whether the account was banned before or not. You need to sift pages by pages for you to get some information. It's better to be sure before buying an account. 10 minutes would probably be enough to find those because you're only finding for a "gap" in which the user hasn't posted for a period of time. |
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I wasn't surprised by the news at all. Only paid once and never paid the company again. I wonder how much money did Josh got from doing this, because if it isn't a lot, he would probably continue the mining operations with hopes of getting more money. Well, after all it did happen. Pity to those who got scammed by this man. They've been GAWed.  |
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If you're asking for passive income everyday, then I'll tell you that there is no such thing like that, unless you're a really good trader or you have a solid referral under you that's always active (referring to faucets). Given that you are already a Full Member, why not join a signature campaign and start posting? Well be reminded that posting means you should create constructive posts, not those that-will-do-it posts just to boost your post count and get a high payment. Doing so may result to a ban--which I think you wouldn't like. Also, try offering a service that you excel with and ask for BTC in return.
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Sometimes, I hate BTC. It's awful that each time there's a big transaction, there's someone to report it. What about the right to privacy?
You can't blame bitcoiners on noticing and reporting big transactions that are happening within the network, because it may either affect the price e.g. someone dumped x amount of coins or someone bought x amount of coins. Also, big transactions can sometimes indicate a big player entering the ecosystem. If you're worried about other people's privacy, then maybe you're forgetting that there aren't any personal details attached to a bitcoin address. The anonymity feature of bitcoin does that. |
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I was just thinking this morning, about the reward halving upcoming sometime 2016. Most ppl here are pretty assured that when the halving happens it will guarantee that BTC will increase in value. There have been plenty of guarantees over the last year or so and none have panned out so far. If BTC remains at its current performance level, wouldn't the halving merely drive any miners operating at a thin margin out, make mining not profitable enough for new miners to get in the game and basically slow the network? I understand supply and demand, but demand drives that, not necessarily supply. If no one wants a 200$ btc, it doesn't matter how many there are or how hard they are to mine?
just a shower thought, what's your take? and please, limit your "BTC CAN NEVAR DIE and you sir are a cock!" statements to provable truths, not opinionated speculation please. BTC could die and very well might. I hope not, but that isn't the point of this thread.
What do you think will really happen when the halving comes? anyone thought through any scenarios?
Keep also in mind that companies have invested tons of their resources solely for mining bitcoin. It may be true that the miners that do not have the specialized hardware to profit will leave the mining scene, but still we can't deny the fact that the majority of the hashing power of the bitcoin network are distributed to large mining companies. Also, there had been a lot of money that has been invested in btc lately. This might reflect in the future, making bitcoins a valued asset by many people and large companies as well. With it, mining could be profitable--at least for those who have the equipment. Bitcoin would sure end if all the miners shut down their hardware, but I highly doubt that it is possible, as there are still people who sees mining as a profitable business. |
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