Out of all the people who've posted in this thread thus far, I'm probably the least knowledgeable about the machinations of these things, i.e., what makes these so-called DEXes tick.  But goddamn, I've lived long enough to develop a keen sense of smell, and I can recognize the scent of bullshit from a mile away.  Sometimes I visit various altcoins' websites, and they all look very similar, with similar bewildering jargon (the second-layer, web 3.0, blahblahblahblah stuff), and without even knowing what the hell is being said I'm 99% sure it's designed to impress pants-shitting monkeys with little-to-no frontal cortex activity.

Oh, and it took me a while to realize just how centralized PoS altcoins are.  Those "community funds" a lot of them have seem to be just a big piggy bank that the devs and whoever else can use as their personal ATM.  Un-fuckin'-real.

Yeah, I actually heard that on some news program.  Smart of those ETH-rich troublemakers to do that, because involving celebrities is probably the most efficient way to expose all of this nonsense.

This part of the quote made me roll my eyes so hard, my optic nerves are probably damaged:


So they're basically declaring their innocence on their home page, which I find to be bizarre at best (in addition to the brief explanation about some rogue member of Hotbit management).  If this isn't sketchy, then there's no definition of the term.

And what's up with this generic corporate-art piece:



Everything about this reeks of being unprofessional, and that's not even including the fact that they don't give anyone any idea of when customers' funds might become available for withdrawal, just that they're "safe". 

Didn't some similar crap happen with Hotbit a year or two back, or am I confusing them with Hitbit or another similarly-named exchange?  I remember posting something about it, because I'd used the exchange once for an obscure altcoin (but I'd have to do some serious sifting of posts to find it, and I'm way too lazy for all that).

It isn't sufficient proof, period.  There have been many examples of this kind of error being made by sloppy bounty hunters when they sign up.  So unless there's some other blockchain evidence linking these two accounts (which I wouldn't even bother looking for, because of what I just wrote), case closed.

Lol, I didn't realize you banned noobs from posting in that thread.  Probably a good call, though.

Great fuckin' words of wisdom there, dude. 

I'm reading the last page of this thread, and it's filled with shitposts talking about bounties or in extreme generalities such that there's no meaning to what's being written.  OP, you might want to lock this thread up.

As for the protesting, I'm not sure what it's accomplished in the month since this thread was started, although I'm all for people's right to take to the streets and make noise.  Unfortunately, that might be the only effect it has.  Whether the people behind the monetary policy in any given country are elected or not, the average person who gets hit the worst by inflation has very little power or influence and can't do much to help the problem.

But what else is new?  The world has been through many inflationary cycles before, and this one will have an end point eventually.  How much financial pain we all have to endure in the meantime is anyone's guess.

Yeah, if you take a look at my merit-giving history you'll often find that I'm meriting one member up to the limit of 50, and that's usually because someone has taken me up on my offer to do a post history review.  It'd be much, much easier if I were to simply give all 50 merits to a single post instead of spreading it out the way I do....but then I'm sure people would get suspicious or bitch about how "that post didn't deserve 50 merits!!" and such.

Thankfully the members who have reached out to me for post history reviews aren't shitposters and there's only been one or two times where I've had to tell someone to really step up their effort before I'd give them any merits.  Back when actmyname and a couple of other members had threads where members could basically ask for merits for posts they'd made, many of them were straight-up shitposters.  *Whew*  That was a long time ago, now that I think about it.

I probably should start giving out a higher number of merits per transaction, because I'm not running into the problem of being short of sMerits anymore, and I've accumulated enough earned ones that I could probably give 4-5 merits for an average post instead of 2-3.  Nobody would object to that, right?

I chuckled inside when I read this:


Admittedly, I don't visit the altcoin section that much, but do people actually advertise coins like the above (with the exception of Libra, which died in the womb)?  I'm assuming it's the hyping up of shitcoins that's frowned upon, but do members do that to the point of it being annoying?

And oh, that pyramid-quote suggestion....that's more important than you think.  I swear, if someone quotes a bunch of text that need not have been quoted, I'll often not even consider meriting that post, even if it's decent.  People don't like to scroll through shit they shouldn't have to, so that's an excellent point.

Overall, this is a great initiative and I wish you guys luck with it.  I'm glad you defined "Denglisch", because I had no idea what that is, and the link to the wiki page is all in German (which I can't read).

That's likely because most people who really care about this issue have been around a long time and realize how futile polls are.  

At this point I'm almost indifferent about the trust system as a whole.  It's so broken, so unnecessarily complicated with flags and red/green/black feedback, trust lists, default trust, etc., that I just don't care anymore.  I'm not sure if Theymos designed it or what, but the whole thing is like some Rube Goldberg contraption an engineering student made as a project to impress his teacher.

Plus I'm pretty sure nothing works as intended anymore.  Bounty managers don't even care if their participants have red trust, and that ought to tell you something about how the system is viewed by the average user who doesn't give a flying fuck about bitcointalk.  

I think I'm going to clear my trust list tonight.  Just wipe it clean.

Hear, hear, my dear.

Wow....that's not that many compared to the US, and I'm kind of surprised there aren't more than that.

As to OP's question, I've visited a few BTCATMs around where I live (they seem to be everywhere nowadays), and I'm pretty sure all of them have a camera pointing at you.  Even if its function is to scan an address's QR code, you'd have to assume that it's also taking a picture of you as well unless you know otherwise.  There was one I used that required a picture ID, but the rest of them didn't. 

The whole BTCATM scene is kind of a grey area right now, at least as far as I can tell, and whether a certain machine will require KYC docs basically depends on who the operator is--and there are many of them.

No, you're definitely right about that.  I have an extensive ignore list, and I just added 325btc to it because of all the vapid, stupid threads he's been creating.  I'm 99.9% sure he's an alt of Polo7 and a few other accounts, all of which I have on ignore as well.  Aside from that I don't add too many members to it anymore, because I found out through time and experience that I just can't keep up with all the new accounts posting idiotic nonsense.

Ideally, if you're an active reporter and want to use the ignore function, you can report a few posts by a shitposter and then put that member on ignore.  After that, you've done your part and the person is either going to get banned or they're not.  It wouldn't make sense to keep reporting their posts if the mods aren't going to take action.

Say what?  I've got mad respect for Hhampuz, but the fact that he manages bounties/campaigns really shouldn't be a factor in this discussion--nor is it Hhampuz himself who's scamming those members you're talking about (whoever they are).  If a project ends up being a scam or doesn't pay out its spammers bounty hunters, that's not his fault, nor is Hhampuz the only manager who's been in that situation (even though I'm not even sure which situation(s) you're referring to).

Ah, that might explain the bitterness even if I'm still unclear on the details of what happened.  Nevertheless, I doubt Hhampuz is to blame for whatever happened to PaperWallet.

Merit sources come and go, I would imagine.  Some of the ones that Theymos tapped back in 2019 might have become inactive, as they never applied to be merit sources--and then there's always the chance that some of them simply aren't as active on the forum anymore or aren't as active in spreading merits around.  I don't even know when the last time Theymos made someone a merit source, but I really wish he'd create some more--especially on the local boards.

Lol.  Why do people draw attention to themselves like this?  And yeah, a better question would be about why OP's even still posting anything at all.  Hopefully a mod will see this and take appropriate action.

Nice analysis--and not just because you included me in your list; few members would take the time to write out detailed explanations for a question/poll like this.  All of those people who whine about not earning merits should take note of posts like yours.  They're the ones that catch the attention of merit sources (and other members who like handing out merits).

Excluding myself, I'd say your list is pretty spot-on.  Everyone is influenced by different people, but in general those members you listed have strong personalities and make their presence known--and they have well-earned reputations, too.  I'm not particularly fond of OgNasty, but I'm not going to deny his influence on the forum.

Have you seen the movie Eyes Wide Shut?  Damn fine flick, one of Kubrick's best (IMO) and his final one, too.  If you have seen it, think of the Cycling Club gatherings as similar to the one Tom Cruise snuck into and nearly got gang raped to death.  Foxpup's role is akin to the red masked character--and I'm going to leave it at that.  Should you ever get an invitation, you'll need to find an excellent costumer.

OP, it's obvious you put a lot of thought into your proposal and I appreciate that, but it seems like your idea would make the DT system more complicated than it is, and if I understand it correctly, would require people to vote regularly.  If that's correct, it'd be a huge turn-off to me.  I much prefer a system that runs by itself and doesn't require active participation to keep it running.  There's no way in hell I'm going to update my trust list every month, especially if there are 100 members to be considered. 

In fact, aside from me contemplating doing what Yahoo62278 did and blanking my trust list altogether, I'd rather not make any changes to it unless something happens that necessitates a change.

And honestly, I think Theymos ought to just go back to the way things used to be, once upon a time when the default trust list meant something, and being added to it was far more of an accomplishment than it is these days.

Hate to bump a dead horse, but since I was fooling around with a Frankenstein build consisting of old parts I had sitting around (including an RX 550 2GB GPU) I tried searching for DAG sizes of coins and found this thread.

So anyway, just wanted to add that Neoxa can easily be mined with a 2GB card.  I have no clue what its prospects are--though I suspect it'll end up in the Yobit 1-satoshi graveyard eventually--but it's been on people's radar lately since it's one of the more profitable coins to mine with 4GB cards.

Too bad it's only listed on a couple of crappy exchanges, but whatever.

I just reported a couple of posts by mm2543363580 which consisted of "..", so obviously this shit is still an ongoing problem.

Oddly enough, the main reason I noticed this was because I browse the forum by looking at my unread threads page, and the above joker had been the last poster in multiple recent threads and that prompted me to take a look at what he was doing.  Anyone else noticing members posting ellipses as placeholders?

OP, I'm convinced you start up all these threads so that your alt accounts/friends/family members have some place they can drop shitposts in.  What you wrote is nearly incomprehensible, yet the first three replies just treat your post like it was just a totally normal one--which it is NOT.

What does any of that even mean?

Again, what the fuck are you blabbering on about?  None of what you wrote makes one lick of sense.  You're going on my ignore list, just like the rest of your alt accounts.

Seriously.  I'm just waiting for the big Indian to tear the sink out and throw it through the window so we can all escape this nuttiness. 

The flag is a valid one IMO, and I think I stated as much previously.  And to 16xypjnxlrew, you can argue your case until hell freezes over and you're still never going to get support--so just quit now while you're only a little bit behind.  If you keep drawing attention to yourself, it's only going to be bad attention, and I say that based on experience with other members who keep blabbering on in the face of no support and an untenable argument.

You could be right about that, and it might just be a language misunderstanding (on my part), but BitcoinGirl.Club did lump me in with the rest of what I thought they were saying was the group JollyGood considered trolls and/or abusers of the DT system.  Regardless, that's not something that'll eat away at my soul or cause me to lose a minute of sleep.  Spine of steel, don't you know.

You compared JollyGood to a status-seeking politician, which I found interesting, as I'd never considered he came across that way.  I figured he might be trying to gain a reputation by tagging a bunch of members who may or may not be involved with shady stuff, but I've never observed him to curry favor with anyone.  Even after our communication, he continued to do the same old stuff that led me to remove him from my trust list, so it isn't as if he listened to whatever I wrote (which I don't remember and haven't checked to see if I still have our PMs).

I'm still pondering whether I should follow Yahoo62278 and clear my list.  It's not a small decision to make IMO. 

I hope I'm not included in JollyGood's list of cliques and trolls, serving my own agenda by manipulating the system.  For one thing, I don't have an agenda with respect to my trust list other than to do what I think is best for the forum.  I've communicated with JollyGood since I excluded him, and if I recall correctly I explained to him why I did it and that there were no hard feelings, just that I thought there were too many questionable feedbacks he'd left for others. 

And I certainly don't think I'm a troll, and hopefully JollyGood doesn't see me that way.  I haven't done any trolling lately, and if I had a list of targets of trolling he wouldn't be on it.

There have always been groups of members who tend to see things (like JollyGood's feedback-giving accuracy) the same way and are pretty vocal about it.  It was that way when Lauda and Vod were active, but it's not like there's any behind-the-scenes collusion AFAIK.  I'm definitely not included if there is.

"Export explosions"?  Dude, did you understand anything about the quote in the OP?  I don't think there's a language misinterpretation on your part; I think you're just shitposting.

This thread was from May, and I haven't been keeping up with what's going on between Russia and Ukraine, but by no means have I heard any horror stories about famine in Russia (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, and I'll admit I haven't read all the posts in this thread), so I don't think their economy imploded.

I also agree with those who said the article was a political one more so than a typical academic economics piece.  Whether there was a Polish author or not, it's hard to keep personal worldviews out of an article like this one.  Not impossible, though.