Very embarrassing.  I feel so bad to have even mentioned any of this in public.

BobLawblaw might not have enuff bitcorns to buy each of us a drink. 

Not only is that an interesting question about bones261,




that is also an interesting question about BobLawblaw.

I must ponder in a naked baby kind of way:

After my years of extensive interrogations within this WO thread (and other threads on this forum), analysis of the BTC holdings of respondents (without their knowing it) and comparing their slimy and repulsive responses with my own notes, memory and my own skepticisms concerning their representations, I have narrowed down my answer at this time to a concise assertion and concluded that I hold a quantity of bitcoins that has largely and continuously floated somewhere between the precise quantities of bitcorns held by bones261 and BobLawblaw.   

It does not matter regarding my supposed curiousity regarding the holdings of other posters, because I could give a ratt's ass about that.. in spite of your supposed astute presumptive observation(s)...

By the way, this is the interwebs, and I am merely attempting to rhyme with as BAD of a resolution that I can muster.. ok?  rhapsypoxitee capsielockitee?

In order NOT to go too deeply into discussion of the merit system rather than source replenishment question(s), I responded to your above post in the other thread.

I'm going to attempt to respond to the immediately below post, and also I have attached a post of yours from another thread, which is related. 



Yes... limited ways is to either receive from another member or to be designated as a merit source.  You may be correct that the merit system and the posting on the thread could devolve into a kind of "sucking up" to the sources, and maybe that is partially by design rather than a fluke.  Of course, theymos owns the forum so he could tweak the system to the extent that he believes it is needed, but we also know that members who are receiving merits are also going to be generating .5 smerits to go out to others.  So if you do the math for the halfening of the smerits that originate with the designated merit sources, then 100 smerits becomes nearly 200 smerits by the time you continue to half it down to nothing.. even though the original 100 smerits started with the sources.


Sure, that might become irritating, because some folks might be seeking merits directly but others are more subtle about it, and in any event some of the forum dynamics change.. .. and you are not really limited in your posts in any kind of meaningful way because it is likely true that some folks are going to merit you for taking an opposing position... as long as you back it up or say it with creativity and/or humor.. and bring some value... so perhaps the benefits of improving post quality will outweigh some of the disadvantages.. and might take months to figure out some of the dynamics and tweak and perhaps years to figure out if the system is causing malignments of incentives.




The merit system was introduced to address a forum spamming, troll and shit posting problem, so maybe if the new system helps with its targeted objective(s) then some of the other side effects might be considered less important? perhaps?


There might be a bit of a puzzle there to figure out which threads have more generous merit givers, but if you are participating in threads that you find interesting and you contribute interesting ideas, then wouldn't logic follow that you are more likely to receive merits because you are truly enjoying what you read and what you post?


From the other thread:

Maybe theymos will change this in the future, but for now, it seems that there is going to be no replenishing of smerits except for designated merit sources.  Of course, theymos could do an airdrop or very vastly expand the number of merit sources, but I doubt that he is going to take any revolutionary steps until some time passes to see how some of the merit system is playing out with his already designated merit sources and how they are distributing merits and also with spending the initial distribution of merits.



Yep.. dynamics are going to change, yet many of the old dogs are still going to have an initial distribution of merits that they can give out.  And, yep dynamics are changing, so ranking up is not going to be the same, but lucky for you and for some of the others (legendary) we have already ranked up to legendary... but it is also possible that a new rank could be created (a bit of further speculation coming out of my brain and also based on discussions in other threads/posts that I had seen).



Perhaps you can budget some of your smerits, and if you remain active in the forum you are likely to earn more smerits as time passes.

Sometimes, a friendly bet can be made for fun, and such bet could be used as a hedge against other market positions that are taken.  I would not mind some small bet but sometimes it can be difficult to frame such a bet in a way that each side is willing to take the opposite position. 

You actually asserted a fairly high level of confidence that BTC prices would stay within a range, such as between $5k and $20k for the next year (or it's going to take more than a year to sort out), but you seemed to also give decent odds that BTC prices would stay within even a more narrow range for the next year, so in that regards, you are asserting that the price would not come close to the outside of those outside price points of $5k and $20k. 

There could be room for a bet there if you are willing to narrow your prediction range, but such bet, if we did it, would be merely based on my thinking: 1) the odds of going outside your range are greater than you think and 2) you are premature in your calling such a lengthy consolidation period for the BTC price.   THIS IS BITCOIN, by the way... hahahahahaha...

 If you are willing to state a more narrow range for the BTC price for the next 12 months, I might be willing to make a gentlemen's bet with you regarding your prediction.. that is maybe the closest to a level of conviction game that I could consider at the moment... and especially if we are both coming off as a bit wimpy in what we are willing to call.  The best bets come from folks who take stronger positions, but if you are willing to take what I consider to be a strong position regarding a relatively narrow consolidation period within the next 12 months, I might be wiling to oppose you with mula.

You touched all the corporate shill bot bcash fudster talking points.  Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

You party poop pessimist, explorer poorer.  

Why not call it "action Jackson" or something more animated because it is surely likely to report that we are becoming richer and richer with the passage of time?  Perhaps call it "Lambo Generator?"    

At this point, I don't have a problem of taking you at your word that you truly believe bitcoin to be bearish at this moment.  I just believe such bear assessment is premature.  There just is not enough evidence or time yet.  By the way, I am not the one making any kind of prediction here, I am merely criticizing yours as too much too soon.

By the way, even though many of us understand that there is no exact historical mandate that would cause some kind of exact replication of what had happened previously; however, we can still have approximations and rhyming... So recently, there have been a lot of assertions about whether we are more likely to be in an early 2013 like price scenario or in an early 2014 like price scenario.

Personally, I think that it is more likely that we are in an early 2013 like scenario, and mostly I am of that belief based on the length and slowness of the overall trend and how we got to our present point and even the $20k top.. which I do not assess to be a blow-off top, yet.

However, I surely could be wrong, and I am merely stating that there is not enough evidence yet that we have either already reached the blow off top which would support a conclusion that we are closer to a early 2014 like scenario.

I am not sure what kind of game can be made of this, because the evidence seems premature to be coming to rash conclusions, even though it is also possible that in the longer run, you could be correct - even though to me, it seems that you are prematurely calling something that is not yet reasonable to call.

I cannot really think of any reasonable games that are not just rising to the level of speculative gambling because I, personally, buy more bitcoins if the price is going down and I sell if the price is going up.  I might tweak the amounts a little bit here or there, and my overall belief in bitcoin and my overall bullishness shows in my tendency to attempt to accumulate bitcoins rather than dollars.. So do you have something in mind regarding a game?

Actually, I did not conclude you to be complaining because you do generally seem to be employing the right strategies and you seem to be overall prepared for UP....

I suppose that I was reading into your statement that you thought that $3k would be a good thing, and I really question the truth of that.. because even though on a personal level each of us can set up systems to prosper from such dips, if we are largely BTC HODLers and accumulators - we do better with upwards BTC price movements - and really we have experienced enough correction (70%) to refuel the whales.

On the other hand, if lemons come, then making lemonade is not a bad thing.. and there may be some ongoing desires of BIG (and smart) money to attempt to shake more of the alt coin leeches... so if we are currently done with our correction, then it is remains quite likely that the snot-nosed 12 year olds have not left the scene, yet... and we will likely get another ICO/Altcoin pump that accompanies the next bitcoin pump.  More purging might be helpful, but I am thinking that at least one more pump of BTC and alts might be in the cards, even though the shitty alts worry quite a few of bitcorn maximalists (if we can reasonably label ourselves that way?).

I am not sure if you are NOT a FUDster merely because you attempt to explain your conclusion a bit more that the averabe FUDster.

You have determined that we are in a "downtrend" and you have made a pretty strong statement to cover all of 2018, which seems a bit FUDdish because you are implying to have some kind of decent knowledge or expertise without knowing and predicting a negative outcome without really backing up your claim with any kind of substantial or material evidence - besides your mere statement.

I believe that level of correction to $3k is not really necessary and could cause more bearish results than it actually refuels.. but bouncing off of $6k again might not be a bad thing -  or even $5k - but I understand that if we go below $6k, then certainly $3k becomes a much greater possibility.. even though $3k seems quite low from this place.

Anyhow, we gots to get our little selfies below $7k first.. and recently that has not happened yet....    

To quote an infamous variation:   "go real bitcoin go"

There are a lot of merit threads, but this one is where theymos introduced merits, and I suppose is the main starting point merit thread.

Regarding replenishing of spendable merits, the basic answer is that you only get more spendable merits by receiving merits from other members (at a rate of half a smerit for every merit received from another member) - unless you happen to have been designated as a merit source.   So far, theymos has only designated 80 merit sources, and you can see that here.

Theymos did state a plan to increase members who are designated as merit sources, such as 100s of merit source designees in the future, yet it remains unclear what kind of specific merit source target number he has in mind or the exact timeline for such, but I would think likely under 1,000 merit source designees in the coming year or so based on what he has already stated on the topic, but that is largely inferential speculation on my part.

O.k.  Granted exchanges are not necessarily trusted entities (at least not 100%);however, I think that the BIGGER problem would likely be a variety of user "errors"... Can you imagine someone like Rosewater programming a bot, even if he gets a template to work with?

Ok.   for example, give him a template to buy on the way down and sell on the way up, and the next thing you know he develops a dollar cost average selling strategy on the way down.  Next thing you know, Rosewater is back in the cupboards with chocolate on his face.   


Looking like this:

1) maybe they be runnin out of coins (edit: btcbeliever beat me on this one)

or

2) maybe this is a fake out to the UP (and partially a recharging for dee bears)

Naked babies?  Hm?  Newborn in the midst of just being born?  

That's an umbilical cord you know?  You should be able to tell the difference between an umbilical cord and a penis, no?  I don't see the problem with seeing a naked baby (there is no sexualizing of such image), except perhaps over-prudishness absorbed from mainstream brainwashing.

In other words:   " GET A FUCKING GRIP, WHIMPY/SOFT OVERLY-PRUDISH PEEPS!!!!!!!"

O..k... My last post was about naked dolls... that are almost like kids, I will try to accommodate, but naked kids can be cute... not in the sexual way, but in the "this is where we came from way"...

Anyhow, the topic was Rosewater's account coming into being

and if we see rosewater with clothes, the question is whether we have reached a bottom, yet?



Is that you rosewater?  All grown up?

I treat every user name like a different peep.


These naked babies are not alike: