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If any of you were early adopters you wouldn’t be posting here anymore.
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No, you’re not. The early adopters were mining 100 or more coins a day at Deepbit, Ozcoin, BTC Guild and Slush’s pool. Those people cashed out long ago to buy Lambos, houses, and luxury items all over the world.
You’re not actually even in the second wave after the early adopters. Those people could no longer mine fast enough to become famously wealthy so they created the grand scam phase. The grand scammers were members of the Bitcoin Foundation (like Mark Karpeles, Charlie Shrem etc.), Pirates Ponzi pass through operators, Trendon Shavers himself, Michael Moriarty, Erik Voorhees, the 17yo Zhou Tong and hundreds of others. Many of these people became very wealthy and escaped. A few went to prison.
You are actually in the VC wave now. Investors with more money than brains (like the Winklevoss twins) were convinced to invest tons of cash by criminals (like convicted felon Charlie Shrem). These VC investors were left holding bags of bitcoin and are now desperately attempting to figure out what to do with it. I wouldn’t be surprised to find one of them online selling Bitcoin receding hairline tonic or Bitcoin erection pills. Most of them are desperate to keep the exchange rate from falling long enough for them to recover at least some of what they invested, especially since many of the altcoins are making headway into former bitcoin strongholds.
You’re not early adopters coming to bitcoin at this point. In fact, you’re way late to the party, most of the good booze is gone and you’re going to spend the rest of the night drinking cheap wine from a box. LOL
You know your history. I fully agree. Everyone else now who is trying to cash in are bag holders compared to those who already cashed out. I am curious where people think we are on something like this chart. https://i2.wp.com/cryptohustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hype-Cycle-General.pngWhen people are talking about Bitcoin being outdated and replaced by other cryptos it is hard to say you are an early adopter. We are somewhere off of that chart on the extreme right. |
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No, you’re not. The early adopters were mining 100 or more coins a day at Deepbit, Ozcoin, BTC Guild and Slush’s pool. Those people cashed out long ago to buy Lambos, houses, and luxury items all over the world.
You’re not actually even in the second wave after the early adopters. Those people could no longer mine fast enough to become famously wealthy so they created the grand scam phase. The grand scammers were members of the Bitcoin Foundation (like Mark Karpeles, Charlie Shrem etc.), Pirates Ponzi pass through operators, Trendon Shavers himself, Michael Moriarty, Erik Voorhees, the 17yo Zhou Tong and hundreds of others. Many of these people became very wealthy and escaped. A few went to prison.
You are actually in the VC wave now. Investors with more money than brains (like the Winklevoss twins) were convinced to invest tons of cash by criminals (like convicted felon Charlie Shrem). These VC investors were left holding bags of bitcoin and are now desperately attempting to figure out what to do with it. I wouldn’t be surprised to find one of them online selling Bitcoin receding hairline tonic or Bitcoin erection pills. Most of them are desperate to keep the exchange rate from falling long enough for them to recover at least some of what they invested, especially since many of the altcoins are making headway into former bitcoin strongholds.
You’re not early adopters coming to bitcoin at this point. In fact, you’re way late to the party, most of the good booze is gone and you’re going to spend the rest of the night drinking cheap wine from a box. LOL
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Apologies to all concerned, I will no longer be handing out merit in this thread. Theymos removed me as a merit source because he disagreed with the way I spent my merit. I will leave this thread open and you can continue to post merit requests here if you like; however, I won’t be answering them.
Good luck to all.
CBH
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It will never go below $6,000 unless it does and then it will.
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This is the kind of crap that makes me want to stop using BTC altogether in case I get arrested for unwittingly distributing offensive content under UK laws (I don't wish to get jailed for using BTC just because some idiot decided to post CP messages in the blockchain).The only thing I like about BTC is the easy way of sending money to and from other people (using only an address rather than typing in IBANS,card details,giving my address,etc with normal banks)
If this is true (and not just a rumour) then I'll have to stop using BTC in UK which is a shame.
I have questions about this:
Does the code actually load the offensive sites?
If this code can load these sites,how could the developers fail to see this happening and apply appropriate measures to remedy this issue?
How is it possible to post messages in the blockchain as I'm rather confused as to how this can work?
From what i've heard, all they put in the blockchain were URLs; and i'm not even sure if they are in plaintext. The fact that it's URLs means that I can get arrested for unwittingly distributing or relaying CP content simply because of what some person thought was funny to put in there.Whether it's plain text or not,it'll still be enough to get me in trouble if I continue to use BTC simply because of the CP message in the blockchain. Thanks for clearing that up.I think it's time to finish earning BTC (by working or selling things off),then cashout for good and delete all my BTC clients/accounts to stay out of trouble then. I'm not a lawyer, but the URLs themselves are just directions, they aren't the actual child abuse images. Though i guess some countries are really fucked up and might make even directions to where criminals can be found be a crime... Btw, if you're leaving Bitcoin, please send me your coins before you delete your wallet. Yeah send them here too. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_numberThank you for using the term child abuse images. Associating media containing evidence of inhumane violence.and rape can't be fairly called pornography by a level headed person. Seems this is successfully alerting people to specific evidence. Being able to expose human trafficking and child abuse without implicating yourself is probably not very easy. One might idly wonder about whether the content we're all blindly ranting about is actually objectionable or blown out of proportion. It's probably the literal string "Child porn".  |
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I’m not really sure you can say a guy from Cracow, Poland holding a pink alcoholic beverage wearing a 1970s Afro is publishing anything for a “leading scientific journal”. LOL Take a look at this dumbass. I wouldn’t let him park my car if he was a valet at a restaurant. Doesn’t anyone on this forum know how to do any research? You’re investing real money here people - look shit up! https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stanislaw_DrozdzQ: How do you sink a polish battleship? A: Put it in water. Q: Why did the polack put ice in his condom? A: To keep the swelling down. Q: What happened to the Polish hockey team? A: They all drowned in spring training. Q: Why don't polish women use vibrators? A: It chips their teeth. ROFLMAO |
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Meh, Microsoft announced they would accept bitcoin and that did nothing for the price. Microsoft stopped taking bitcoin and that did nothing to the price. I don’t think it really matters at all.
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Oh, I am going to do one thing before I sign off for now. Since most people are off work/school today because it’s the weekend, and there should be more people on line than during the week and I have too much merit laying around, the next 5 people to respond to this thread get 30 merit.
wow. it's cool I don’t know why but I just got this message trying to give you merit: “You can only send 50 merit to a given user per 30 days. You have already sent 40 merit to that user.”. I don’t remember giving you shit but whatever. Memory refresher - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827596.msg46510381#msg46510381LOL I guess I did already give him merit. Well now I don’t have to feel bad. Thanks  |
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Late for the merit party. Pity. Could use a few  Well, now you have a few. Good bye for now. |
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30 merit left
See what I mean! If I had done this 4 years ago any day of the week this thread would already be at 10 pages after my post.
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Oh, I am going to do one thing before I sign off for now. Since most people are off work/school today because it’s the weekend, and there should be more people on line than during the week and I have too much merit laying around, the next 5 people to respond to this thread get 30 merit.
wow. it's cool I don’t know why but I just got this message trying to give you merit: “You can only send 50 merit to a given user per 30 days. You have already sent 40 merit to that user.”. I don’t remember giving you shit but whatever. |
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Oh, I am going to do one thing before I sign off for now. Since most people are off work/school today because it’s the weekend, and there should be more people on line than during the week and I have too much merit laying around, the next 5 people to respond to this thread get 30 merit.
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Thanks for the replies. You’re all correct I guess. Bitcoin isn’t new and exciting anymore and activity is pretty flat so no people. It just seems kind of weird. When you go to forum stats and look at recent posts you would assume bitcoin is dead and buried. Long live the altcoins I suppose. I’ll try back again in a few months and see what’s happening. Later,
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I just have a quick question. Does anyone other than scamcoin supporters come to this forum anymore?
This seems to be the only active thread besides the scamcoin announce threads in the alt section and even this thread is only moderately active now. I remember a time when Wall Observer would move four pages by the time you could post a response. Not anymore. I haven’t been here for months I was just wondering if this forum is still relevant for more than con artists looking for a pigeon.
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Warren Buttfart 
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Completely fabricated news! So is that with this forum boils down to now? Every thread just complete and udder bullshit. You know OP, it’s not real difficult to track volume on something as transparent as bitcoin.
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The whole market follows and depends on Bitcoin, thus Bitcoin can't pump unless something new happens. The word on the street is Bitcoin is a dead project. Will BTC death free all the markets or will BTC take down everything with it. Do people really believe that Bitcoin has a demand from institutions with all the manipulation and no adoption going on? How do we get all the norms to demand the supply and get a bull run going again?
People are talking on the street that Bitcoin is a dead project? Never heard anything similar of that. Maybe Bitcoin is surviving the slump in prices this year, which leads to a decrease in people's interest, but Bitcoin is not dead, because too many people are holding massive amounts of him. I suppose it depends on how you define dead. Since the last major criminal money laundering exchange BTCe was crushed by the USA there is no one exchanging massive amounts of btc. Money laundering was the best destiny and most realistic market for bitcoin. The months of $6,500 btc price is major terrified investors using bots to prop up the price for fear of losing it all in a crash rally. Most of the major businesses that were accepting bitcoin have stopped. Other than some crazy people in a very tiny country (Japan) using bitcoin I can’t see any major sales market developing anywhere in the world. People buy bitcoin to hold like it’s a gold bar that will go up in value even if it’s never used for anything. That’s simply not true. If it’s never used it won’t go up in price. Bitcoin is still very difficult to use compared to your debit/credit card. The exchange cost and transaction fee adds an expense to routine purchases that makes sales tax and shipping look cheap. Many countries have outright made bitcoin illegal or like Canada imposed a banking ban against it. In another “Trendon Shavers” style major bitscam, billions in bitcoin were lost in an India Ponzi scheme effectively turning off a huge country full of potential users. Monero is more effective for bitcoins previously huge market sector - criminals. If your definition of dead is not used or held by anyone anywhere in the world then no, bitcoin will never be dead. I still know a guy that uses 8-track tapes to play music. If a couple of people are still using bitcoin then it’s not dead. If your definition of dead means slowly becoming little used and obsolete in favor of newer and better options then yes, bitcoin is dead. |
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I have been very busy lately. Sorry for not keeping up as diligently as I should have. I skimmed the history of everyone that posted since I was last here and awarded merit accordingly. Altcoins have become such a big part of this forum I thought it appropriate to ignore the coin and award based on post quality and structure. I hope you all keep this idea alive and award merit based on actual discussion and not solely on agreement with the post.
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You qualify, 20 merit awarded. |
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