You won't leave the airport unless you agree to a very high price (such as 10x what you'd pay in Bangkok) if you go about it that way (they are not at all "desperate for your business" as there are far more "arriving suckers" than there are taxis on the island).

Your link is to an "address" not to a tx.

Here is the link to the tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/df670128549c92ea31dd54289f8c0e9aca8403a9b1ff80aefcba0dca88af1fdc

You'll see there are five other "inputs" which is where the large amount actually comes from (the 0.00000001 is just one of the inputs).

If you look closer you'll see that the vast majority of the funds came from this address: https://blockchain.info/address/1LagHJk2FyCV2VzrNHVqg3gYG4TSYwDV4m

Whilst technically that is probably the best way to proceed I think that unfortunately that would simply "overwhelm" someone that is entirely new to Bitcoin.

IMO a "face to face" uncomplicated BTC tx is the best way to get someone "started" (that is how I did several of my first BTC txs with strangers).

As I reside in China and I know that Thailand is becoming a very popular tourist destination for Chinese I think it would be great for BTC to be an option but for safety I think an escrow would need to be used or just use a credit card for deposit and then do BTC after you arrive (if that is possible).

There are several escrow services available from this forum that have high trust but when you are dealing with people that are very new to the whole thing then trusting even those could be an ask (but if you can help "blaze the trail" then that would be a good thing).

In regards to escrow I think the problem is going to be the other party (if he is brand new to BTC then he is probably unlikely to trust anyone).

I would recommend using a credit card for the deposit - and if you decide to pay for your stay in BTC then do that when you arrive (assuming they are happy to do this). Bitcoin is still rather alien to most people so the more relaxed the better.

In regards to the airport pickup thing you'll regret not doing that if you don't organise it (that happened to me).

You should have probably thought about using a trusted escrow before trying to work out the deal (but perhaps that is now too late).

This is actually where Bitcoin *sucks* for spenders. My advice would be not to pay the BTC until you actually arrive at the venue but quite likely the provider will not want to do that (and you won't know if they will even then have a suitable room for you).

So assuming they won't agree to an escrow and you don't want to trust them I'd have to say "use a credit card" or "paypal" (at least those can be reversed).

Also - best to get a "pick up" from the airport as the "so-called taxis" are the biggest ripoff there (you will get burned with that - having been there myself I know).

For some reason it just doesn't seem to "sink in" that "you cannot double-spend Bitcoin at all".

If the Bitcoin system "actually allowed double-spending" then it would be 100% *useless* and would not have ever been known to anyone (as it would have solved *nothing at all*).

What is often called "double-spending" is just a problem of vendors wanting to accept txs before they have been confirmed enough times (the minimum being once although small re-orgs do happen regularly which is why more confirmations are generally recommended).

The blockchain will never accept a "double-spend" and the "best chain" is always the one with the most work so it will be up to the miners to end up deciding which txs are legit or are rejected in such scenarios (but you'll never find one single "double spend" in the history of the current blockchain).

Try surrounding each entire argument with unescaped quotes and use backslash escaped quotes within those like this "createrawtransaction" example:

Agreed - it is pretty hard to imagine Mike Rowe creating a bitcointalk.org account with an ad-sig as a "dirty job".

Whether it will gain any popularity is actually of little concern to me as my interest is in simply creating the technology (so basically that will be up to others if they think the technology is something they want to use). Also whether something is "superior" is a very "subjective opinion" so for sure it won't be being promoted as that.

I agree that you are probably right that getting rid of ad-sigs won't bring this forum back to what it was like in 2011/2012. A lot of people that used to contribute a lot of interesting stuff have left between 2013 and 2014 (whether they left due to the poorer quality content is hard to say).

Why is that "obviously untrue"?

If you read most of the "ad-sig" replies to most posts they clearly show "a lack of any reading of the posts".

Perhaps I have "exaggerated" in saying "no-one" but I would not be wrong in saying that "the majority of posters" (which I think you'd have to agree *are ad-sig posters*).

So why not just correct my "no-one" to say "most people" rather than post stuff about being "butt-hurt" (my butt is feeling fine by the way - but thanks for your interest in it).

Interesting that you have suddenly become some sort of "qualified psychotherapist" (or are you not really qualified but just think you are?).

My interests are in getting rid of centralisation (that includes this forum) rather than whatever Freudian stuff you might think to be the reason.

Being "popular" is not of concern - if my P2P forum isn't used that actually won't bother me as my goal is simply to create the technology (maybe someone else will work out how to make it "popular" - as it will be open source they will be able to clone it to do so).

Also the "forum software" was built back in late 2012 (it has been used in http://ciyam.org/open since then) so it isn't anything "new" (it is simply going to be adapted to work over the CIYAM Blockchain system).

Great - and for sure it won't be so easy to get noticed as the design is purposefully "search unfriendly" (i.e. search engines can't index the content even if the application server is hosted publicly) so about the only way people are going to find out about it will be "word of mouth".

This is just a typical tactic of the "ad-siggers" to "protect themselves" by using all of their alts to "justify via a poll" that we should all "respect their spam" which is 99% of the content of this forum now.

Seriously - when you allow as many alt accounts as you want what exactly is the point of even having "polls" on the forum?

The CIYAM decentralised forum will not have polls for a start (they actually about the most ridiculous "feature" that I've ever seen on such a forum).

Visits by who - other ad-sig posters that add more rubbish?

Seriously - no-one is visiting bitcointalk.org to read the posts anymore (that finished a long time ago).

I tried that - and my "report accuracy" rapidly went down from 90+% to 40+% (so the mods seemingly "approve of rubbish").

So I would *not* recommend anyone to do that (unless they want to see their "report accuracy" tank). You might want to check your "report accuracy" after doing that for a while.

Unfortunately no matter how many times this is repeated it will be followed by some stupid ad-sig poster response that is basically saying "don't take away my income".

(to them their tiny income for creating rubbish posts is worth far more than the forum itself)

The "rewind" implementation has been completed and tested (so far no problems found).

Some time was lost reworking the way that blockchain applications are supported but now this work has been completed a single CIYAM application server can run both traditional and blockchain applications concurrently.

This will allow for a first blockchain application to be demonstrated on ciyam.org whilst keeping http://ciyam.org/open running as is (although that will probably still be a few months away from completion).

I will announce it in the CIYAM topic in Project Development (link is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=598860.0 for those that want to add it to their Watchlist).

It will work much the same as the CIYAM Open forum currently does (http://ciyam.org/open) although there will be numerous changes made to suit the P2P Forum implementation.

It is most likely that I'll make it accessible from ciyam.org just to make it easy for people to "have a play" before they decide to install any software on their computer.

Unfortunately it is obvious that no improvement is going to be made and that the new forum won't even be worth joining (I am not going to bother).

Personally I think it should just be left to the ad-sig posters to keep posting their rubbish posts to one another until finally the ad sponsors realise that no-one who has any funds to actually buy or invest in anything is left (then the entire forum will simply be abandoned as a forum whose entire purpose is "making money from everyone else in the forum" is actually rather boring for those who actually care about something other than money and for those that don't I would think it would be more entertaining to use casinos where you can just click one button to "play" rather than waste time "typing").

Oh - btw - I will be announcing a P2P Forum soon that won't have signatures and will have an "ignore" system that actually works properly (rather than you seeing a topic updated by an ignored user and seeing "this poster is currently being ignored" posts). Having a "proper ignore system" will also mean there is no need for moderators (and there will be none).