Confirmed, this is the official BTCVegas texture pack and is required to make it look correct.

EDIT: Texture pack is now auto-install.

Thank you to all of those who have shown their support in the BTCVegas project so far.

We are currently running on the VPS of a member who would be staff but has instead decided to opt out and become a VIP. Note that no funds will be kept on that VPS so you do not need to trust him, his identity will be kept a secret unless he decides to reveal it.

As of now I have lifted the whitelist on the server, you can connect by connecting to the server IP "starbound.li". Your Minecraft must be updated to the latest version. We have tried to make the beta design as simplistic as possible, so you should not experience any lag! No game plugins are currently running so the only function of the server at the moment is to give you an idea of what BTCVegas will be like

Again, the IP is starbound.li. The official texture pack for BTCVegas (inspired by BitVegas, some of BitVegas' old textures currently still reside in the texture pack but it will soon be removed) will soon be posted below, so you can see what it will look like - connecting to BTCVegas without the texture pack will result in you seeing a lot of randomly placed blocks.

In my honest opinion you can condense the problems that bitcointalk faces into three things.

First, spam. By "spam" I mean, not only signature advertisements, but just the general influx of spam from the removal of newbie jail, etc. Secondly, scams. Take a look at the Lending section. We need some regulation and badly, we need guidelines made, we need moderators put in place. Every day people are being scammed and the section is filled with pages of loan requests from people who are here simply to scam. Lastly, trolls. This is pretty similar to my first point but trolls fill this forum and we desperately need more mods from all timezones to handle this.

Raise your suggestion in the Meta section. I do think that would work, but obviously I am not an admin and telling your ideas to me won't make anything happen.

You just needed a 2 BTC loan, now you only need 0.04 BTC - I'm pretty sure you're just trying to scrape up whatever BTC you can from bitcointalk. If you have an $80 VPS and it can be sold for $50, then go sell it for that and buy 0.1 BTC with the cash.

I'm aware, I was just answering his "statement" in a way that makes his troll posts look ridiculous.

Well yes, if you were me you wouldn't be a mod because I'm not a mod, makes sense, no?

I'd imagine that the moderation team would be looking for people with report counts that are in the 3-digit area, that make reports fairly frequently, not just 1 a week for 3 years.

That was accidental and nothing to do with the current staff team. However we are currently on whitelist so you can't access the server.

Anyway guys, we may lift the whitelist today or tomorrow so you can preview the BTCVegas beta design

Now that's a face I'd trust with my Bitcoins:



On-topic though, OP, how can you guarantee that you wouldn't just recover the wallet?

Server will be ran on a small VPS at launch as it seems we have not gathered enough interest for any sale of ranks yet, so we will need to rely on rake. It's likely rake will be higher than 1%, maybe 2% or so. At launch we predict interest will not be as great as BitVegas was at it's peak so we will predict a cap of about 15 players.

Q: "OMG YOU'RE GOING TO GET DDOSED"

A: If we get DDoSed we will deal with it as it comes. Withdrawals will continue as usual if a DDoS occurs.

That's my point, because signature adverts will in most cases create spam...

Ah, unfortunately, that's what I'm here to do. However this proves my point: If the vast majority of page 14 is being ignored by you and the vast majority of page 14 is by people with signature ads, surely there is a correlation between signature ads and low-quality posting?

Ban evasion means you're dodging your ban by making new accounts. Usually it gets your new account banned and your original ban extended. And after being banned for ban evasion, you're doing it again - bad idea.

No, not all, but I do agree there should be criteria put in place (information, etc.) rather than some of the 10 word loan requests we get which are basically spam.

You have a brand new account and you're asking for a $1,000 loan - just backtrack and think about that. $1,000 is a decent amount of cash.

Refer to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.0

It is a sticky, yes. Now I wouldn't ban users who do that but I do support actually moderating the Lending section and putting criteria in place for a loan, and deleting clear scams (sympathy loan scams etc.) instantly. Posts that clearly ignore the criteria could also be deleted just as the Giveaway threads are. Of course until theymos sees the issue in the Lending forum, that's not gonna happen.

"No Spam" is basically a wide term for "No annoying/stupid/low-quality posts". I also doubt you were banned for just 1 low-quality post, more like lots over a period of time.

It's common sense, really. When someone sees those lower quality posts it'll probably be dealt with by a mod.

People do get banned, there just isn't a massive ---BANNED--- header above someone's name if it happened. I guarantee you that if you're the only person on bitcointalk to be banned for this...you wouldn't be banned.