Forum members have frequently raised the idea of antimerits (or demerits), and I personally believe that it is very unlikely that theymos would introduce such a system, especially when looking that the trust system and having the trust and untrust features. 

In my viewpoint, if such a system of demerits were introduced, it would result in a lot of unnecessary and petty squabbling and likely bring out the worst in members.

theymos did actually mention "demerits" when he introduced the merit system, and likely he has made some subsequent post on the topic that continues to show reluctance to entertain proposals to add "demerits" to the forum.

Below are theymos's words in his original merit system introduction post:

O.k.  No problema.   

There are no sorcerers in this price direction matter, even there are a lot of curious folks about the topic, and even if the wannabe sorcerer are otherwise either bitcoin/market smart or have a lot of status.

I am not sure how the intention could be good if the objective is completely unnecessary.  There is absolutely no need to re-distribute Satoshi's coins, even if we believe that Satoshi had mistakenly lost access to his keys and died or something very unintentional that changes the initial conceptualization of total supply.  O.k.  So, instead of 21 million coins, there are now 20 million coins. 

If there ends up being a shortage of liquidity because all 7 billion people on the planet want to get themselves some coins and to use them, etc etc, then the most obvious solution would be to move the decimal point further to the right. 

Another conceptual problem is the issue of too much BTC scarcity because almost inevitably coins are going to be lost, that would not justify reviving those keys, but there could be some justification to some kind of ongoing BTC inflation, such as 1% a year or perhaps less, even though, from what I understand, such a change to add constant inflation would require a BTC hardfork... Currently, there is a natural around 3.6% inflation, that reduces to around 1.8% at the 2020 halvening.. So BTC's inflation rate is still well over 1%, until after the next halvening in 2024.

I figured that Jack has been in a kind of mindset in which there would be ways to connect the three - twitter, square and bitcoin.  Again, go jack, and thanks for highlighting that, Hairy.

Hey Globb0.  That seems pretty close to fitting the bill.  Thanks for that image.

This is not the longest bear period in history.  Dumb shit renditions of the facts want you to believe their rendition of history and description of what is going on and the status of the market.  You can look at the charts yourself and compare, and figure out those various misstatements depending on price reference points.

Furthermore, there is a lot of drag on BTC in the shitcoin space... So BTC bearwhales are going to manipulate BTC as much as they can (alongside with the shitcoins).  I am NOT saying that the bottom is NOT "in" for bitcoin, but there is surely NO guarantee that such bottom is in.  By the way, the current "bottom" is at $3,120-ish in mid-December.

Don't be such a diptwat.  You are the one who made the dumb comment that invited my response.  Hello?  You start something, but you cry about follow through?

Why?  Jack is a bitcoin maximalist, and considers other coins to be shit/scams.  He is the owner of twitter, but also Square.  So many of the references that he is making is regarding square, rather than twitter, even though there may be some overlap in the future, too.  

In other words, his bitcoin maximalist stance seems to be following a similar ideology as the vast plurality of active participants of this thread.   No?  What's strange about that?

I thought yesterday that I said that I come here for the lulz....

hahahahahahaha

Don't need any crypto in the square app. and don't need no other personal crypto... Bitcoin get's it done, even if considered as boring...

hahahaha.  Go Jack.

Fair nuff, good sir.


 

Bitcoin is not very seasonal.. so we are in a different point, especially looking at least year, specifically.

Assuming that you are around the same age as me, but maybe not as socially fitting as I am, but you want to reflect JayJuanGee shares in the financial side of your investment, then you would be about 1% or 2% shitcoins (4% at most), about 5% to 8% cash, and then the rest 90% or so, in bitcoin. 

Now, if you want to include traditional investments, to reflect a JayJuanGee balance that would be a bit more complicated, because there remains some ongoing traditional investments that nearly balance out the total crypto package (and bitcoin-available cash referred to above). 

Regarding PMs such as Gold and Silver, JayJuanGee is not very tolerant of those investments because he (that is me) considers bitcoin to largely have supplanted any justification for holding any PMs because, in essence bitcoin serves as a similar kind of dollar or traditional investments hedge that PMs had traditionally been serving.  But, if you cannot shake such PMs from your psyche, because you are kind of stuck in the past, JayJuanGee would tolerate up to a 6% or 7% holding in such PMs, while advising against them.

Regarding dumping JayJuanGee shares?  What you gonna do?  Gonna get screwed up?  You going into cash?  I imagine you are already too heavy in PMs?  Perhaps real property would be o.k. if you don't mind being tied down, geographically.  I recall that you, Roach, were leaning towards an Island, earlier, but I am not sure about the practicality of that kind of direction, and really it does not seem to be very divisible nor portable.. I suppose depending upon how much you have to work with.

If you look at various shitcoins, they are continuing to bleed a lot more than BTC, so this seems to be an ongoing means to purge additional froth out of many of the various shitcoins.  Of course, that does not mean that BTC is done dumping, but if there still seems to be weakhands in the various shitcoins, that factor could continue to contribute to the ongoing downwards price pressures on BTC.

In other words, I don't know anything regarding BTC price direction, except for concluding that we remain in a bear market.  Give me a three-sided coin to flip that has a slight advantage towards the downside, a lesser advantage towards sideways and the least advantage towards up.

Gosh!!!!  What's this world coming to?  Even Roach is making a little bit of sense.  

Can you analyze the interwebs claims of "most" gayness too?  

And the interwebs claims of  "most" "fabulous"? and

the interwebs claims of "powertop?"  hahahahahahaha      

Weak evidence on that.   

You are French.   

Right... Let's make assumptions based largely on an avatars.  

You need to base your conclusion (and public statements of such) on more than that, no?

A quote from Mark Twain seems to fit this situation:



A retard quoting another retard.  Go figure.


No.  You are just childishly giddy about irrelevance. 

I got a short video of you here:

My 6 posts in that thread that you deleted, H8bussesNbicycles, were relatively innocuous.  They were not signature spamming (I have no signature) and they were not merit whoring because I have plenty of merits and I was just attempting to make experiential observations on the topic, and even largely substantively neutral posts, since I was not trying to get deeply involved into the politics.

I am a bit skeptical about your deletion of my posts, whether that rises to the level of deception on your part or merely a heavy deletion finger remains somewhat unanswered, at least from my perspective.

You should get a grip, bob.

Playing a couple of made up victim cards... Poor lil tinglie...

Also, engaging in "success" assumptions.