I looked at your posts, and they are pretty shitty... there is no real substance to them except you seem to be searching for ways to make money...on bounty or whatever.  So yeah, you been here a very short period of time and did not contribute anything that would really inspire anyone to give you a merit, right?  Can you see how I see that in the posts that you have made, so far?

Actually, in another thread, a member repeated the concept of a "negative merit," and I had a kind of "ah ha" moment.

Here's my earlier post.

I was initially against the idea of negative merit, but I thought of a way that it might work.  Here it goes:

It seems to me that if there were negative merits, the poster should need to feel so strongly about giving the negative merit that it would subtract from his/her regular merit bank.

Therefor, if the member gave someone a negative merit, then that person would need to have at least 5 merits because it would remove 5 merits from that members regular merits in order for that member to give the one negative merit to the other member.  Under such a system, we would be able to have negative merits, and members would only employ such possible negative merit feature sparingly and after giving some considerable thought to it.

Actually, I thought that the idea of negative merits would be a bad thing; however, after reading your post, I just had an "ah ha moment." 

If there were negative merits, you would need to feel so strongly about giving the negative merit that if you gave someone a negative merit, then it would remove 5 merits from your regular merits in order to give the one negative merit to the other person  - then members would only employ such possible negative merit feature sparingly and after some considerable thought.

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grn = dumbass

 

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I pretty much accepted that your intentions were good and bullish all along..  yet I think that your chart was "lacking,"  and sure I was employing some drama in my response to exaggerate my position, especially when you were kind of inviting me to yell.... hahahahahahaha

I am all calm and settled, yet my proclivity for violence just comes out... in a kind of exaggerated form, like this:




Even though on the inside, I am really feeling like this:


  ...... (if you know what I am saying, Toxic Moxic?)

Could you be a bit more realistic... come on, 15million? 

Why don't we start by attempting to find out who gets to 10k first and then 100k.. perhaps, witnessing the  reaching BTC price parity first would be a more realistic merit received target?

So far, Theymos is in the lead by quite a bit, but perhaps some posters will catch up to him and pass him up?  Perhaps?

I, for one, appreciate your seemingly aptly placed humor and the associated imagery, and I suppose if posts are going to be deleted, then the deleting powers that be gonna have to delete this one, too.    




hahahahahaha... ultimately actions speak louder than words, and frequently it takes a while to engage in threads in meaningful ways, so it seems to me that if Sliki is going to live up to his/her/its words and work his/her/its way up the bitcointalk ranks, then lots of post quality improvement would be necessary..   just my off the cuff, first impression.

I don't know.

He's kind of dug himself into such a giant crazy ass hole (pun intended) that will allow less and less humor.. and his emotions have come out so intensely, that it seems that he cannot even recognize that bcash is a pretty cool name... but he just strives so much to control the narrative and even self-contradicts that he appreciates the concept of decentralization, while at the same time he wants to define what decentralization is, and he has his own little coin (aka con) for that.

More and more peeps are catching on that he is a con artist and the more that people recognize that and spread it, the more pissed off he seems to become.  I wonder how many years they can keep bleeding credibility and seemingly cash through this coin.. one or two more years, perhaps?  Sure there are more suckers out there, right?  Roger that?

Didn't we already have more than two weeks to buy below $9k, why would we have any kind of desire to go below $9k again, or why would we even be hoping for such, unless we just found out about bitcoin or some other unusual reason like that?

Don't get me wrong.  I am certainly ready to buy more bitcoin if the price goes below $9k; however, it seems to me that this fun little correction has already played itself out enough, and it's time to return UP.. get this train back on the rails and choo choo'ing.

Regarding your point to sell at $11k after any supposed dip below $9k, it sounds like you are too heavily involved in a bearish kind of thinking about bitcoin, and perhaps you believe some of those bullshit assertions that we are entering into a bear market that is like the 2014 bear market.  Sure there is some possibility that you could be right, but it seems that the odds are against you if you believe that is what kind of market we are in right now, after merely a couple month 70% correction that was largely only based on momentum rather than any kind of meaningful negative news, so still seems to me that we are more likely in an early 2013 kind of scenario rather than an early 2014 kind of scenario and if you are playing around too much with your little bear assumptions, there are pretty decent odds that you are gonna be chasing the train and buying at $17k or something like that, after you sold everything at $11k.. .. sorry about that..     

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or Rogers

"Roger that"

You are really distracted and grasping at straws in your ongoing attempts to bring up all kinds of irrelevant bullshit topics and to attempt to put some kind of burden on me to have to defend various random ad hominem points that you are making.  I am not going to play your little game and pursue your seemingly stream of conscious fantasy discussion.  

Let me repeat my point one more time with some possible hope that your seemingly pea brain might begin to focus on the topic of this thread:   if you believe that the merit system needs to be changed in some kind of way, then you have the burden to provide evidence and logic for the position that you are taking and perhaps clarify what the fuck position that your are taking, in the first place, regarding the merit system.  

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Willis?!!!!!!



 For some reason, I felt prompted to yell....

 Your subsequent explanation seems to concede that we are in the early stages of bitcoin's adoption; however,  I conclude, to my own health detriment, that your chart seems to suggest that we are past the hype cycle in BTC and all matters are downhill from here.. I can see it visually on your chart.   And, from my perspective, I doubt that we are going downhill from here whether we are talking about hype or we are talking about adoption, or we are talking about development or we are talking about financial.

Even for a newly implemented system that is less than a month old, there is a decent amount of information that is publicly available, including a large number of threads on the topic of merits.  

Of course, with some more passage of time, more data will generate to clarify how it is being used, and you may be correct that there are some parts of the forum that use the merits less and likely there are going to be some issues around getting merits down to lower ranks from the upper ranks. 

Some threads have been created to attempt higher ranked members to assist lower ranked members to earn merits to rank up or to at least to petition attention to posts that might not have received as much merits as they might seem to deserve.

Further:  Have you looked at the thread announcing the new merit system?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0

Or, have you looked at the merits stats page that is available to everyone through the merit link that is in their profile page?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats

Woops, my bad!!!!   In part, hey if I would have seen "Blockchain" on the first glance at the chart on the other side of the hype peak, I might have rebelled a bit more strongly.. and called your the bear...  

Anyhow, whatever the various relationships between technologies, there is going to be symbism between them and they are going to likely feed off of each other in various ways that cannot be predicted with any kind of precision regarding possible winners or losers, including attempting to determine where they are at, exactly, in their own hype curve.

Yeah, there is going to be hype and over hype and under-appreciation of various technologies and their contributions to society and their potentials, but clumping bitcoin in  with "blockchain" and then trying to clump it in with various other technological innovations misses A BIG CHUNK of something that is differentiating about bitcoin specifically in the way that bitcoin is a decentralized system that has NEVER  ever been seen by the world.  That is called paradigm shifting in such a way that various other technologies are going to be playing off of bitcoin - and not really the other way around because bitcoin also has been bred with a honey badger, and does not give a fuck.

Anyhow, before I have an aneurysm, as you implied to be within the realm of possible reasons why you were holding back on my delicate nature a little bit, I will yield for a moment in the event that I may not need to rant any more on this point.. that bitcoin and blockchain are not the same thing.....



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o.k.. couldn't help myself..

I'm good..



I'm good.

Hahahahahaha.. jbreher... I don't mean to pick on you or to be stalking you, too much, but are you confessing that you are gonna run out of BTC if BTC prices were to go straight up to $1.28 million?   

I could not really blame you for running out of BTC in that kind of a scenario because seems that no matter what there are going to be some price corrections along the way.. there is almost no such thing as straight up, even going up 5x without a significant price correction wold be quite amazing, but going up from here to $1.28 million would be more than 110x, and surely there would be several pretty decently-sized price corrections in there to help any of us incrementalists to stack up our holdings in order to prepare for BTC price destinations higher than $1.28 million.

Yeah, you raised me into a near total state of bewilderment in my attempt to understand what your chart means in terms of Bitcoin price discussion and analysis, and what is the significance of the bear warning?

Seems to me that we got's ourselves no bears hanging around in these here territories.. They all be hiding under the cupboards, but surely they will be back to spread a little naysaying bear doo doo as soon at there is any kind of sign of this bad boy slowing down.  When?  I have hardly any clue, as usual, but looking good to me, and looking really good.

Ultimately, you have to be prepared for the possibility that your buy orders will get left behind forever and ever, and that you are mostly emotionally neutral to the scenario that they get left behind forever and ever.  

If you are not mostly emotional neutral that your buy orders get left behind forever and ever, then you likely are "playing" (trading) with too large amounts, and you need to reduce your amounts until they reach such a level that you are largely emotionally neutral about them getting left behind forever and ever.

The reality of the matter is that in a large number of cases, your buy orders are not going to get left behind forever and ever, but you should not care nor think too much about it...  

By the way, recall that the first time around on the way up from $890 to $19,666 (that took about 9 months to play out), seems like we had a fewer than 5 retracements that were 27% or greater, and I believe that the maximum retracement was 40%-ish in mid-September from $4,980 to $2,970.  So under that actual real life application, there were a lot of folks who left a lot of buy orders on the table on the way up - however, there are ways to deal with such including from time to time, the increments and the amounts of those left behind buy orders can be shuffled around in order to make them much more profitable in the event that a downturn comes and, especially during what ended up being our 70% retracement from $19,666 to $5,921.  And, also, sometimes you can decide to use some of that money and just completely take it off the table in a practice that Rptiella had referred to as "raking" in his SSS thread.

I think that it is overcooked bear, perhaps?   

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From my overview of the situation (whatever the fuck I know?), BTC trade volume looks pretty great, especially for a weekend!!!