It's supposed to be a currency and it's supposed to be boring.  Personally I don't care for litecoin but I've used it and it works well and serves its purpose.   It's not dying.

Holy christing mother of fuck, that's a shitty thing to do.  Seriously, as a community we need to vet who runs these exchanges so as to avoid debacles like this.  Exchange owners should not be able to take the money and run. 

And I would suggest that this needs to change.  Scammers don't need to be in signature campaigns--if they've done the community wrong, they should be sanctioned for it, within limits.  And I think whatever limits there are should be defined by staff.

Oh dear god, don't compare your negative trust rating to rape.  That's just so egotistical, insensitive, and wrong-headed.

Everyone's pretty much said it all, bitcoin is the OG in cryptocurrency.  I might also add that in being the first, it was the first to have a massive price increase, which brought tons of people into it.  As it sustained much of those gains (it's at $390 as I write this), people have stuck with it.  It's the one that always makes the news--when you hear about altcoins on CNN or MSNBC, then you'll know they've arrived.  Til then, they're just wannabees, even if some of them can be very useful.

You have a great suggestion about restricting sig campaigns, and I think the details of your suggestion are also very good.  I try very hard to contribute something when I post, and it has always driven me nuts when people get paid to shitpost.  And if you're creative and talented enough to make a bot with AI to automatically post, just think how much you could add to the forum!  But no, people are 1) Lazy, and 2) Greedy. 

So I strenuously agree with this.  I wouldn't even change a word of how you suggested this.

OP, please address the escrow issue explicitly.  I understand you disagree with Vod's trust but you ought to learn from this and also learn from your last attempt to sell your account that what you're asking is probably way too high.  The market for bitcointalk accounts is somewhat saturated, and even if someone could earn back the sale price through a signature campaign, there's just no interest right now. 

Start lower.

Quickseller did this with his Panthers52 alt, and it was so uncomfortably, painfully obvious when he was grasping at straws trying to defend his "self-escrowing".  He didn't get a ban, though he did lie about getting banned.  It's a fucking stupid, dishonest thing to do.  Having an alt is one thing, but using them to talk to one another is deceitful.

You sound like an angry man.  You have negative trust for refusing escrow.  Just saying, I wouldn't do business with you.  People around here--including you--need to work on their attitudes when trying to recruit business.  Few people want to deal with assholes.

Calm down you fucks, this is nothing.  This wouldn't even qualify as a good pump.  This wouldn't even qualify as decent random noise.  So stick that in your levels and smoke it, though I agree OP you probably should just suck it up and buy some bitcoin.  Chances are that you're wrong up to level 99 and beyond.

OK to answer that specifically, I haven't heard any news myself.  This might be a rebound from the drop that happened after Hearn made his comments and nothing more. 

I tend to think it's just random movement.  Even in the most stable utility stocks there are days when price action goes crazy.  I don't think it has anything to do with news right now.

Are you kidding?  Welcome to the world of bitcoin.

I remember when I was first following bitcoin back in 2013, I was blown away when it went exponential to around $1200 and then fell back to something like $600 in a day.  Think about how crazy a price movement that is, and you'll realize that what we've seen in the past 24 hours, while significant, is not much to start a thread about.  For a while there last year I thought we were going back to zero.  That was when bitcoin had dropped to below $200 briefly.

So many good ideas here, and this is one of them.  I definitely like the idea of exclusive sections of bitcointalk, and I wish I'd been here at the beginning to donate whilst bitcoin was cheap.  But for members who've been here for longer than a legendary member--they should have their own section.  The language problem I think can be dealt with.  Most members write English pretty well but the non-English speaking ranks would fill up eventually.

This.  There's not a college student in the entire world who has to resort to begging in an online forum for a loan.  You don't need a loan and I doubt you're even a college student.  Shut the fuck up and stop trying to scam the honest folks at bitcointalk.

You're selling a knockoff of a phone that's about 6 years out of date with no photos that prove you actually have said piece of shit phone.  I can tell you must live in an undeveloped country that wouldn't stand a chance if ww3 broke out.

Amazing sales pitch, I'm sure you're going to get Agrentinians lined up at your doorstep by the millions. 

I'm definitely not a gambler.  I've become more of a buy and hold type of person,  because any time I've tried to actively trade anything I've not made money.  Don't know if you've made money ir not but I don't believe in TA.  Never have.  But if it works for you, more power to you.

Not true,  in the vast majority of cases it's quite obvious that the person on the receiving end of the paint job has scamful intentions.  I don't know about selling these keys but if it's against Microsoft policy then that's why he sprayed you.

I don't quite get what your poll is supposed to be here.  Didn't click on the link, but I don't use a lot of faucets anymore.  As I'm sure you're aware a lot of them chopped up their payouts into tiny fragments of what they used to be.

Just to add to this list,  Yobit is 0.0002 btc.  I don't find that too bad.  I don't remember exactly but I think Cryptsy was more than that, R.I.P.