Not all developers are equal and not all "investors" are equal. There are several developers behind which serious investors poured a lot of money in form of BTC or Ether. The problem is the easy "marketing" that is available now. Most of these projects market only to the so called bounty hunters who only bring behind them another set of moon hopefuls.
Back in 2017, when this was all very new, people flocked like crazy at the combination of BTC Ann thread, Whitepaper, Website, Telegram and Reddit channel. A lot of us bought our first BTC or ETH to "invest" in these. The lucky ones got them from Signature campaign here when there were still a few serious devs left. That "flock of hopefuls" has kept decreasing and i guess only the scammiest of them remain in the market still offering bounties and airdrops.

If the Alts are to have a future, everybody should simply stop rehashing old ideas into new whitepapers and stop with inventing bullshit names for their website. Most of all, people looking for bounties should stop giving these people the cheap, free marketing from thousands of FB and twitter accounts. Its a losing game with diminishing returns for everybody in the space. Just focus on the few serious ones and get involved.

Thanks for choosing BCT forum for the promotion. I read the blog posts and your thoughts on wallet being closed source. You also mentioned about plans to add on further services. It'd be great if we can have a discussion on the ANN thread about your plans for the future.

This is a very important consideration that people should have some respect for the work they put in. Its customary to look down upon these "bounty hunters" because they do shit work for shit tokens. If everybody actually decided to just stop accepting peanut tokens, the situation would greatly improve because only serious projects would have this form of "marketing" available to them.

Right now, everyone and anyone can start a campaign and offer airdrops. Maybe if the bounty hunters insisted to work only for those projects which give bitcoin as a reward (however small it maybe), this in itself can improve the situation. I have just been back to the alt-coin section as i am wearing a signature for a multicoin wallet. Excited to look around to see if anything has changed through the crypto winter.

I actually loved it. Adhoore pyaar ki bhi alag hi baat hoti hai though its a hurtful bitch. Also, I think in such cases where your innermost feelings remained unsaid (due to circumstances or plain pussification of Indian boys in the 90s who had to score and get into engineering..lol) are basically just a huge waste of emotions and memory as a man.
The best option is to find another person who is worthy enough and then pour all these ज़ज़्बात onto her, if there is still time and the kavi has not stumbled from one mistake to the next..

Hello. Thanks for choosing Bitcointalk for the promotion of your wallet and your plan to onboard further services around this. I have joined your Sig campaign and have a few questions.

In the beginning of the ANN thread there was a talk about wallet being closed source to which you had been quite candid in accepting that due to the competition and the way crypto is working (especially for Alts), this is not possible. I followed that thread and OmegaStarscream shared this post where you have mentioned that you will open source some part of the code. Do you have any tentative time line for that? In the meantime, Do you think a third-party security audit would be way to do it?

The bitfinex announcement page has also mentioned that they have partnered with OWNR wallet. Can you shed some light on who are the people involved in this process in case they have a public presence or are recognizable from their contributions as developers. I understand that starting a service in crypto is a huge task with the challenges of trust and security. A service HAS to start somewhere and a history of great user experience is the only way to build trust. Good luck for the endeavor.

Your bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1107844
Your current posts count (including this one): 908 + 1
Your earned merits amounts in the last 120 days period: 94
BTC Address: bc1q58fyah8t0k3qz8u66g33ryl3x6d4n809p8hckf

Hello sujonali. I will update signature on your acceptance. Thanks..

Edit: LOL, I wrote activity instead of posts earlier.

Ahh...What a thread this was. Me and Carlton started with discussions on environmental costs of Solar power plants vs Fossil-fired power plants, the economic implications of Kyoto protocol and climate accords, the possibility of powerful petroleum lobbies being the driving force to push through such legislation.
It was all going fine. How the hell did we get hung up on 0.01%...LOL..Ohh yeah, it was Banks' fault.. (Told ya, Banks are the worst)

All in all, this was indeed a good discussion on climate change although the original question is about "Who to trust?" That important philosophical debate is getting sidelined due to petty arguments over climate change.

I love Jet Cash's theories though. When it comes to climate change, he is the in-house conspiracy theorist's theorist. It was amusing to see the "Cows farting Methane into atmosphere" argument coming up..Haha, gotta love all you crazy people here.

Maybe he isn't accusing Gavin of being outright dishonest. Gavin's ambivalence is being touted in that tweet(and countless other places) as "proof" that CSW is Satoshi. The sheer damage potential of such misinformation closes any case to give him the benefit of doubt.
Gavin is not being "morally neutral" when he chooses not to call CSWs bluff but rather take the chance of being labeled by history as Satoshi's first apostle or something.

Hey allahabadi..We had an ongoing spat back in the day sometime and i put you on ignore. Have removed it for a while. Extending the olive branch..lol..

So do you camp around your UID?

Hello jpareek. Glad to have you here. People with real businesses are what we need most.

I see you just registered so do check the forum around and especially the India sub. We are looking to promote an active crypto community in the India sub and people with experience are most welcome.
What is that reference to "mrweb007" in your post? Is that some account you know?

J, if you have any instance of this being a completely copied message, please do share. And yes, plagiarism is considered a pretty serious offense and it can result in a complete ban from the forum.

Can you offer SHA-256 miners? Do give an idea of the hardware you have available and the prices you are looking for?

See, if you do understand and have yourself gone through being scammed then you should also understand that the intention here is not to hurt your sentiments. Unfortunately, there is a bias against newbie accounts looking to sell valuable hardware as other new people can easily be misguided. I tend to be extra skeptical myself. Please don't take it personally.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1805691.0

It must be sad to have that kind of opportunity cost lost. I hope you did use them to mine since 2018 or so and recovered some investment. You see most people who were here at the India sub from beginning have mostly gone away. There are no success stories but scams galore in the media. Then there are the GPU/ mining rig scammers on OLX who popped around the same time. That is why it is hard to believe if someone proposes to sell mining equipment to us newbies who joined the forum after BTC popped. Most people active in India sub as of now are newbies themselves as far as it comes to mining. Even, Bitmain stopped delivering to India a long time ago.

Yeah, please do upload the pictures with a current day tag, your username and this topic. I wonder if @Heisenberg_Uncertainty could help to verify this through some friend's friend. Also, try to take my comment on being professional positively. Read the bold part in context without taking offense. I would hate for the India sub to sound so unwelcoming. I even said "we would be glad to have you".

Glad to have you here Sharmaji. I hope you will find a lot of similar minded people here. We are all looking to increase the entropy in the India sub. Welcome..

Its not the ego Dear Hyderabadi. There are enough people here who have been scammed by such accounts claiming to be newbies so the first reaction is skepticism to such posts. Granted that you said, "come, see and test". People looking to buy such stuff are generally excited noobs themselves who will possibly go to any extent to believe you.

Its not about what you have done to UltraElite. Its about someone else getting scammed through PM's. Even if you meet in person, there is no guarantee that it cannot be a scam. Scammers in India are smarter than average and you can't be skeptic enough in this space.
 
You are selling antminers and you are a poor guy?? Now that is just dishonest and typical scammer behavior of trying to act all needy.

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See the thing is, if you have those antminers, someone would love to take them from you even if they are unprofitable. Say for purely academic purposes. I would if i was in Hyderabad. If you really care to make a deal, you should upload a picture of the miners and PSUs. Put a white paper with your bitcointalk name and Date clearly visible on it beside the equipment when you take the shot. Upload them to imgur (its free). Post the URL here and we will repost it for you so the images can appear.

Basically just try to be professional. If you have those miners you must be old to crypto. We would be glad to have a new member who knows about mining.
To anybody looking to actually make such deals through PM's, My advice would be to not trust the said person till you can personally meet them in a neutral place somewhere. The market for Computer parts, miners etc is stock-filled with scammers who will go to any extent to fool you. These are generally smart people and I have enough of a bad experience to tell you not to trust anything other than a public reputation which shows a history of successful transactions or an actual personal trade.

Also, it shouldn't be a problem for you to send them packaged to somewhere else if we cover shipping etc. Lot of bubble wrap and a good courier service should do. Any plans to do that? If someone can demonstrate that they are trustworthy, I'll be willing to buy one or two of these depending on how much you want for them.

Do not send anyone crypto else till you have a way to ascertain there reputation. Much less to women with exotic names who give off an air of importance without anything to back it.
Plus, your partner is just a novice to have trusted her. Her experience says "INTERNATIONAL COMPANY"..How much of a red flag he needed?

Akram, Did you read the OP?

I think this merit-source excuse should no longer be the reason for people to not be active in their own sub. We are doing this just to be helpful and bump interest. My expectation is that it makes people want to be involved in the space and contribute, rather than waste time only looking for pennies in the altcoin bounties.

I see that you joined around the time when merit was introduced. You said in a post that you post from mobile which tells me that you really are interested in crypto. Like everyone else, you were looking for altcoin bounties. If they still work, do what you want but I'd like to see the useful posts and contributory discussions.
Your first post says you wanted to "invest" in bitcoin. So, How about an intro then? Of course not your actual information. I have mentioned a few talking points in the OP. We can start from there..and Welcome..

Hello jsk. Can you share pictures of the miners?

Have you ever had any successful trades on the forum? Are you a miner yourself because if you are then we'd love to have some of those back in the Indian community here.

Good to see you Rohan. checked both of your threads and you are offering a service that has a lot of competition. Yet, from what i have seen other managers do on forum, perseverance is the name of the game. Someone was asking for a free vouch on your whitepaper design page. Not sure why they think its free though.

That is awesome if you are taking trading seriously. The good thing is that it can be applied as a skill outside too. I have never gotten into the nitty-gritty of candles and what not but it is always good to have members like you who are trying to be productive here at the forum. Hope to see you around often.


Hello akram. We do have a few merit sources now waiting to give merit to newbies who would like to engage. Granted its not much, but it is non-zero for sure.