I'm too selling my sizzling hot Audi if anyone is interested
Is that your way of sneakily disclosing a radiator problem?  |
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The rules are, if you dont like a coin, dont use it. If no one uses it, it dies. Vote with your hashrate.
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you buy gold jewelry?
See this is why I make these threads  I hadn't thought about it before this moment, but I'm more than willing to see what you have to offer, please pm me with more details. |
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salty you on the east coast usa?
Yes, I'm sorry I was thinking I should mention that but I didnt, I shall update the OP. I am indeed on the east coast of the U.S. |
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Hey guys, this is sort of the standard thing for me, every so often I just get that itch that can't be scratched (or treated with penicillin) so I start looking to invest a few coins into precious metals. I order from Amagi quite frequently, however I do like opening up my buying to the community at large, as sometimes people have some cool pieces for sale, so if you have any gold or silver for sale, be it generic bullion or numismatic pieces, shoot me a pm, or leave a query in this thread.
I'm perfectly happy to use escrow if you would like, however I do ask that you pay any escrow fees associated.
In your offer please include what it is that you are selling, condition, and if you have a set price, that would be appreciated as well. If you dont have a price in mind, of course we can discuss. I also have my own holdings of metals, so if you are looking to trade, I'm interested as well.
I should mention, that I'm a hardened professional when it comes to these things, if you want to send me gold painted rocks, or pieces with tungsten/lead inserts, I will know immediately, and will ask that you pay return shipping if you would like it back. I test metals in non destructive ways ranging from magnet testing to the use of ultrasound machines looking for inserts and abnormalities, I will never destroy your pieces when testing, however if I do find them to be fake, I will return them to you in a reasonable fashion.
Thanks.
*edit* I am located on the East Coast U.S, I don't have a problem accepting shipments from outside the country, however for convience sake, it definately is a plus to buy inside of the U.S. That said, I have purchased from Canada/Mexico no problem, as well as most of the EU and parts of Asia. I have found that Australia and Germany have sort of strict import/export laws for precious metals, so please make sure that you look into protocol for shipping precious metals if you are outside of the U.S, I dont want you getting in trouble with the taxman or law on my account.
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You've never received any deposits to that address, but he claims to have sent funds to you. You have feedback from him but he's never actually trusted you with any money. You both also offered about the same amount of PAND as collateral for a loan. It's very likely that he's one of your alts.
I would agree with this assessment, we will know soon enough. |
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That would be meta, which this thread is posted in.
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i suppose, but whatever. Faith in humanity is still lost. Hoping to find it one day  but still i mean i have my real legit account in this website soooo your probably never going to know what that account is and hoping for more opportunists. haha but either way how did you get all the bitcoin you currently own? *cough, telling me you have multiple accounts probably wasn't the best thing to do* Anyway, I got my bitcoins by working for them. I helped businesses innovate and market, and once I had my foot in the door, I started doing whatever I could to make a few coins (asside from stealing them) You lost your faith in humanity, and you were trying to scam? Am I reading this correctly? |
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haha that is true. probably gonna stay away from scamming. i guess what im really looking for is someone to be nice enough to donate to me. Thats a whole other story though. Already lost faith in humanity a while ago. hoping someone will prove me wrong there hahaha anyways thanks for the advice
I highly doubt anyone would donate the money to you, especially not now. Mayhaps a better attempt would have been to get someone to "invest" in a new camera for you. People sell photography here from time to time; had you proved that you were a decent photographer, someone may have bought you a camera in return for a return based on revenue generated from your photography. I still wouldn't say that would be incredibly likely, however with a proper business plan, proof of skills, and a backup plan in case your photography didn't take off you may have been able to get some investors. With the scam attempt you more than likely lost that opportunity, but had you actually ended up scamming someone, you could have lost out a lot more. I'd consider it a valuable life lesson. *edit* Life lessons being dished out all over the place here. its not my fault you dont understand the true depth of my passion. yes your probably looking at all this is BS but thats not my problem. the point is its very very hard being a high school student and having work and all, but still wanting to do something very very much. Either way, i said sorry and cant that be enough? sometimes when one is truly blinded by something they will do anything to justify it.
No, get out of that mindset. Plenty of people here know exactly what it is like, if you have a passion that strong, you should have the motivation to save up your own money for it. If you don't have the source of income, get some entrepreneurial calling so that you can make the money you need to persue your passion. 100% of the blame is on you, if you can't take ownership for your mistakes, you aren't truely learning from them. What you did, was shut out a bunch of opportunities for instant gratification. |
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Requesting: 1 BTC
Returned to You: 1.2 BTC
Time Period: 1 Week
Collateral: 40 LTC
Thanks!
I'd provide this loan, if you are actually looking for a 1 BTC loan with 40 LTC as collateral, pm me. i wish i could but i just dont have money. the whole reason i tried to scam for 1 BTC is so that I can buy a new camera. I have a deep passion for photography and videograghy. its just that im limited in my financial ability to pay for this stuff being that im still in highschool. so please look at it from my perspective. having a passion for something but not being able to get into it. ive been trying to get at bitcoins for a few months now but its just not working so this was my last resort. im sorry everyone but again just look at it from my perspective. i wish i could be the one having to wrorry about scammers instead of being a scammer. but its just hard so im sorry everyone. Word of advice, do without the camera. Its not worth constantly watching over your back for either the police or whoever it is that you scammed. You steal from the wrong person, someone who is motivated or has just had it up to the top, you could end up not having to worry about your camera ever again. The fallacy that scamming Bitcoins is without concequences is starting to disappear, as people do go out of their way to collect information, file lawsuits, or worse. |
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Requesting: 1 BTC
Returned to You: 1.2 BTC
Time Period: 1 Week
Collateral: 40 LTC
Thanks!
I'd provide this loan, if you are actually looking for a 1 BTC loan with 40 LTC as collateral, pm me. |
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New user here. I am in the wholesale vehicle business, interested in testing trading a 1992 Black BMW 325i for bitcoin. My thought is that if you were wise to pick up coin at the $300 mark, or at a good exchange rate, trading 2 coins for the car could land you a 325i for $600. javascript:void(0); Any ideas?
You might want to list some sort of info about the car, location, mileage, condition, service history, etc. |
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I have a single 1 BTC Silver Casascius coin left, the Gold/Silver have been sold.
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We will do our best. I've completely surrendered my public presence and dedicate immense efforts toward this project. For clarification, I use Twitter for thoughts that encompass our maker/hacker community here. The comment about security was about messing with Yubikeys. Assuming I'm a newbie at anything is a valid concern which is why I need everyone to survey our work in the future. This is definitely a test that most software companies probably don't need or want to do. But I'm very excited to be closely work with this community in the future to develop this product. Like SaltySpitoon mentions, let's stay positive about things everyone.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against you or your company personally, but I wouldn't say I'm positive about much of this. Logistics were handled poorly so my expectations aren't quite that if had everything been handled ideally. That said, I don't know about you, your company, nor what you and Theymos have already worked on, so I have no say on your work quality. This should be a good opportunity for you guys to build something fantastic to put on a resume and your website. That way your next clients wont be just looking at a NDA. I'll applaud when its done and fantastic, or yell if its crap. Whats done is done, so might as well let you get to work so you can prove everyone wrong (or hopefully not right). |
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So how much is it for the Gold/silver coin?
2.35 btc or 2.75 btc?
And how much for shipping to holland.
2.35 BTC pmed about shipping. |
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I respect that the staff are getting paid because of all the hard work they put in for this website to function correctly, but spending money on a automated auction system sounds silly to me, this isn't going to get more adverts to be displayed it's just a fancy system which is only going to benefit Theymos so he doesn't have to post now and then the auction.
Of course there are some promising features being discussed for example two factor authentication but, that is still pretty standard in most forum these days, this feature has been requested for a long time now and we should of had it implemented sooner he has the money to pay someone to implement this into a simple machines forum, yet he hasn't. That's something which I would support spending money on, but even that doesn't cost a lot for someone to implement. It's just ridiculous that one of the only mentioned features has no benefit to the community.
I hoping theymos has made a wise decision, but even then he hasn't got by it the right way. The staff should of been involved in such discussions and decisions even asking the communities feedback as we as Bitcoin users rely on trust, I don't understand why this has been kept a secret from A) the public b) the staff. Also, I don't quite understand why we can't see what James Wang sent to Theymos, considering he's a business owner I would of thought he would want to advertise as much as possible but, he has not given out anything.
I see the staff are making more effort than Theymos himself in trying to resolve the issues that the forum is having, you can slowly see the community getting tired of all this secrecy and there has already been people leaving the forum. Even Tysat a moderator (which I respect highly because of his high workload and friendliness) doesn't quite understand what is going on and looks like he doesn't support the decisions being made.
We have a wonderful community yet if these decisions keep on happening I fear that there will be drastic changes but, all it takes is a little communication and community involvement. Thank you SaltySpintoon for trying to answer everyone's questions even though you don't fully understand yourself because of the lack of communication, although it does seem Maged and maybe Badbear knows a little more than you do.
For a million dollars, I'd expect the forum software to have all of the features we could ever want and more. I don't disagree with having an automated Ad system, however I would have thought far more things would take precident. I also hope Theymos made a wise decision, frankly, the community has no idea what is going on, Theymos could have spent $1M to get $10M worth of features, I dont think there is room to critize content yet, because we haven't seen the content to be produced. We can somewhat criticize his decision making process, but we also don't know how many people he spoke to about it, and who they are and their levels of expertise on the matter. For all we know Theymos may have contacted the world's authority on forum software, and they may have pointed him to Slickage. What we can undoubtedly criticize is the lack of transparency that is going on. While the community isn't entitled to know everything that is going on behind the scenes, it probably would have been a good idea to hold an official Q&A and fill us in on what he could prior to now. Moderator's aren't employed by Theymos, we are welcome to question his every decision and flat out disagree with him at any point we want. Of what I know of him, I like the guy and expect that he would have done a better job handling this than he has, however I will be giving him the benefit of the doubt until he gives me reason not to. If the work produced is subpar, then I'll complain then. Theres no point in complaining now, the money has been spent, we can either support slickage and try and help get things done in the form of suggestions, or we can continuously badger them and slow whatever work is being done. I move that we withold badgering until after they have proven themselves incompetent. If they prove themselves competent, then we will have no reason to complain. |
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There is no gold, silver, or copper of crypto currencies. The Gold:Silver analogy to describe BTC:LTC was just used as an example of relative scarcity. Crypto Currencies are far more closely related to fiat than they are to metals.
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I would like to ask some questions and also express some of my views on the matter in hand. Obviously, a big issue is the automated ad auctions, why do we need this? Haven't you expressed enough times already that the forum doesn't need any more money, yet you are 'investing' in a module which is going to increase the income of the forum. Another question, is what do you plan on doing with this money that you have gained from this new auction module? Do you plan on keeping the new forum software up to date and fixing vulnerabilities with it or do you plan on paying staff members with it or anything else? Isn't the new automated auction going to run into problems too? You can still donate 10/50 BTC for Donator/VIP status. It isn't really emphasized anymore though because the forums doesn't really need more donations. The amount is not being changed, because 10 BTC has always been 10 BTC, and the dollar amount is irrelevant. Theymos had thought about adding smaller increment donations, however did not because no more money is needed. Here's a quote from a staff member stating that the forum no longer needs money, and let's be honest even though you are spending a awful lot on this forum software you will still have a lot left over. Now, why would you want to focus on this and implement this into the new forum if you don't require any donations, because ad revenue is basically a donation to the forum but you pay staff members a percentage of it. Another question: Why did you pick James Wang to develop the software for that amount of money? It seems that a lot of others at the forum would be willing to do what you are asking him to do for much less, and maybe these people are more qualified. I want to know why you didn't communicate to the forum about this, why couldn't users at this forum get involved and create a open source forum software between each other. Gweedo is more than qualified for this along with several other programmers at the forum. I've decided not to create an official announcement thread today. But I will answer some questions. If this project really is open source then why are you not answering all our questions? You have to convince us that this is a good idea because lets face it there hasn't been much communication between the administrator team and the community. Even staff members are ill informed and are not sure what is being done. According to CrunchBase Slickage Studios have 4 employees and founded in 2012. Surely, in 2 years there isn't enough past work present to show they are the company for the job. Established companies or well known people which have done big projects are normally the people to hire because the big projects are normally known by a lot of people. But, such a newly created company which has I personally have never heard of and I'm sure others haven't either are now working on a one million dollar project, which will probably turn out to be more because of vulnerabilities found and other issues. How long are Slickage studious going to continue support after the software has been handed over. What I don't like about this whole thing is we don't even know if they are capable of doing this, it seems either not a lot of research was done or you like to gamble. If you have reasons why Slickage Studios is the right company for the job then please send us some references so we can have a look personally too. In many peoples eyes I can understand why they think you might want get the money out of the forum and into your pocket by hiring someone who you personally know or have a mutual friend. I have seen the IOS apps that they have posted and I'm less than impressed, their design and functionality are not impressive one bit. All I do know about him is that he learned was learning Python in March 2009. James, I have a question. You have tweeted previously on twitter this: Why are you working on a startup? Is it for the money? If it is, you're doing it wrong. If that's your philosophy then why are you requiring 1 million to start this? Or do you lie much? Also another tweet: I am going to become obsessed with security pretty soon. You tweeted this on march 2013, I hope you have done your home work in less than a year my friend. I'm also glad we are hiring Wang because he is always productive. I was texting whales to Julie all weekend. LOL I have nothing against Wang or Theymos, but you have stated that you have been transparent and are doing the best for the community yet we have not had many answers or have we been involved in any of the decisions (Although I strongly disagree with this), maybe normal users like me shouldn't be included in the decisions but donators and people who have helped you ie. the staff should at least have a say in this. First about ad auctions, yes the forums no longer needs donations because it is now self sufficent because of the Ad Auctions. Staff are paid based on advertising revenue, but as you said a bit later in your post, we were not in the loop either, so no staff members had any say on that feature, nor do I understand why it would be one of the first things to be implemented. Sure, for a million dollars revamp everything, but I would have thought more important features would have come first. Theymos did discuss who to pick for creating the new forum software, but with people he trusted and thought were qualified, privately. He said that Wangbus was recommended to him by Warren, who's opinon he valued. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=81508 I don't know the details as to why Wangbus in particular was picked over others, but we the public also don't know their qualifications, which I'd hope Theymos got before hiring them. Maybe their NDA that they are talking about is something incredibly major. Theymos was aware that they were a new company and that the $350k downpayment would be used to hire more people. There weren't any kickbacks for Theymos. If he wanted to embezzle money, I'm sure he could have thought of a far easier way than to introduce this kind of controvercy. |
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May I ask where you got this coin from? It very much looks like a fake. The words and image are more sharp and prominent, and the back of the orginal coins doesn't have that additional slot where the sticker goes.
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One Gold/Silver coin sold, I have One Gold/Silver and 1 all silver coin remaining.
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