What I meant by that (I wish I could edit my comments instead of reposting ) was do you let opportunities left untouched whenever there was poor judgement involved? What if Satoshi had lied about one of the aspects of bitcoin? Would that make the entire community not worthy and bitcoin a sham? I'm just saying, everything good in my personal life has come from seeking out opportunity despite the presentation.

All you need to do is go look at a thread where a newbie is asking for Paypal transactions and you'll see another newbie backing him up like clockwork. I suppose there is significantly less self promotion here than on the /r/Bitcoin reddit though since the userbase is more transparent here and needs to be held accountable for their actions as a community whereas on reddit, they can hide behind down/up-vote spam bots etc.


Harsh. Does poor judgement close doors so easily for you?

Well, I suppose since it's all software anyway, a single client could be modified to just include all the chains in an array of sorts (not sure what the space/calculating requirements would be for that though) and just automatically update your account as such, and use the chain-specific addresses as you specific from a dropdown (or potentially automatic). Why do I suspect this is the future of bitcoin once the governments get involved? We all agree that they can't stop bitcoin, but governments never really stop anything, they just screw things up, and they do that very well.

I know, right!

That's a good point, kind of like why MintChip is *good* for Bitcoin.

At that time I hadn't really grasped the importance of open source so everything I had made last year is closed source, one track minded, and for-profit. Having a much different opinion on things now, I think I'd totally want to put it up on gitHub if I ever get back to work on it again.

This being the bitcoin forums where potentially a majority of accounts are sockpuppets of other users, it might be a better question to ask "Why are you so bad at this facade?" instead. Everyone does it.

It was one of my projects last year actually! I hope to have it finished sometime in the future if no one else takes a stab at it first. I hope someone else does though because the task is rather daunting and it will take a lot more dedication than I can spare at the moment 

I wonder if Silent Circle has ever heard of Cryptocat (http://bitcoinmagazine.com/review-of-cryptocat/)

Could you just run 2 clients using different chains and live in both worlds?

No worries, I will be tortured for it for the rest of my existence I'm sure, and I deserve every bit of it.

You are right of course, there are some bizarre situations here. For example, people who were running "legitimate" businesses but failed to pay when they were hacked or their own investments failed may also be wearing a 'scammer' tag currently. I wouldn't be surprised to see BFL, Avalon, bASIC, or any other major tech name on the forum sporting a scammer tag here soon if they keep failing to deliver for example. It doesn't necessarily mean someone is out to hurt you, but it does do a sufficient job of making you stop and think twice.

On that note, anyone intending on doing a bet with me absolutely must stop and think twice, and that's okay. I admit my fault and own my mistake.

The ignore banner was commissioned by yours truly because at the time I thought it would be comical to see how many people have me on ignore. Right now it's up to 26+. Before the bet I made, it was only 5.

It was given to me by Theymos when I made a bet with specific rules that anyone who lost and didn't pay would get a scammer tag, then I lost and didn't pay. Basically I asked for it. In hindsight it wasn't as funny as I thought, lots of people got hurt from it, and I'm trying to make it up to them this year religiously.

I chose this avatar and title.

Perhaps a website where people needed to answer captchas on one end for instant delivery of escrowed funds upon API approval, and on the opposite end a group of sites/services/individuals who need captchas solved for specific services?

I agree with the proposal for Bitcoin Pizza Day. As a huge pizza lover, I will celebrate it religiously and buy any other local bitcoiners a pizza!

People should have to do some basic work for bitcoins, not look at ads. I might as well start a website that requires you to perform mathematical calculations in order to get a bitcoin payment. Those calculations could be hashing the blockchain. I'd be rich! (I'm joking)

Doesn't Google use cookies to bring ads relevant to your searches up? I don't know if cypherdoc's browser choice/settings permit such a thing, but that would definitely explain why I get weird Japanese tentacle porn advertisements on Home and Gardening's website. (Just kidding)

I find it interesting that chargebacks only seem to work when they are in the best interest of the credit card companies. A decade ago the owner of an electronics store in my hometown was hit with an Amex fraud where someone bought $20,000 worth of plasma TVs and had them delivered across the street from the business in a grocery store parking lot at midnight (after hours). Amex claimed that the chargeback could not be done because the delivery was made and confirmed (even though it was a different location).

I lost all faith in credit cards since then.

I believe you are smart. I just meant, do you think that it's possible BFL could be considered a scam in the sense that they have honest intentions but may not be able to deliver? That is a possibility I have not outruled yet for anything related to ASIC (including Avalon).

In what sense? Do you include the scenario that I am also a "scammer" (i.e. defaulting or being unable to deliver even with good intention)?