Despite that, I have mixed feelings about the merit source application. I think QS knows what constitutes a good post and he might not use his sMerits for political reasons. The only concern with him (and all potential merit sources) is trading/selling it. With his spotty past, which includes account selling in addition to the escrow stuff, I just don't know. But hey, it's not up to me. Good luck, QS. I won’t sell any merit, I don’t need to, if I was going to sell merit I would earn it myself, and have shown the ability to earn a lot of (in top 100), and have not sold any merit. I do believe that the forum selling merit would probably get the desired effect of improving post quality because people would be forced to pay to wear paid signatures and would have skin in the game when posting and would be risking losing what they paid if they post junk, but that is off topic here. I won’t use merit for political reasons even though other sources have given merit for likely political reasons for posts that are not objectively high quality posts — they are just not as transparent as stingers was, but that is also off topic here. I do wish for people who put in effort into their time and posts here to be rewarded and those that junk up the forum to not be. You can review my sent merit history (I have sent a lot, more than most people ) to see that I have a history of giving merit to objectivity high quality posts. |
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We already have a section that has signature ads (actually all signatures) disabled. It is the serious discussion section. Anything is allowed there except advertisements and posts requesting a response from the administration. Sections like meta and scam accusations are important and this is why they are moderated less strictly than the rest of the forum. |
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I think TF and Master-P should also apply. We need more scammer sources.
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1 - avirunes has no need to "collect" merit because he is already a legendary member. I will also repeat what I said in your other thread, at least the important part: If there appears to be a credible accusation against someone, it is not inappropriate to leave a provisional rating against the person while they wait for additional information to come out.
If you present evidence to show your innocence, OR the accuser (or anyone else) cannot provide sufficient evidence to show that you are a scammer or that you tried to scam someone (or will likely do so in the future) then the ratings can be removed.
The reason for this is so that others will be warned about dealing with a potential scammer.
The purpose of the trust system is to give an assessment of a potential trading partner's ability to trust someone.
It is not uncommon for a scammer to be trying to scam multiple people at a time, and a quick negative rating may prevent additional people from getting scammed after the 1st accusation surfaces if they have not sent the scammer money or property yet, or it will at least cause them to ask questions and take additional precautions to protect themselves.
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If you want to compare the trust system to the legal system, then I would tell you that if there is probable cause that anyone committed a crime, the police can arrest them, and can hold them in jail for a period of time without charging them. The standard of probable cause is very low, but has not been defined by the US Supreme Court to my knowledge. In many jurisdictions, if there is a 51% chance that a crime was committed, the standard of probable cause will have been exceeded.
It is absurd to say there should be a delay from the time when you (allegedly) scam someone until when you should get tahhed. |
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I have been running my merit giveaway thread for some time, but have unfortunately run out of sMerit, and have not earned enough merit to keep up with being able to process all the "applications" to receive merit. As such, I would like to apply to become a merit source. I do have concerns about the merit system, primarily that I believe it will cause groupthink, and if made a merit source, I promise to do my best to stop that by awarding merit for objectively high quality posts of others, that a lot of effort was put into, is the 1st (or one of the 1st) correct answer to an inquiry (especially when there are multiple incorrect answers/nonsense posts preceding it, and/or demonstrate interest and/or knowledge in topics I believe those who are interested in Bitcoin are often interested in. I will do my best to make bitcointalk great again by awarding merit to those who put effort into posts, and who wish to contribute to the forum ecosystem, or are otherwise helpful. I have always put in a lot of effort into my work here, and although mistakes have been made, I have always done my best to provide good work product. As of now, I believe I have sent merit to 130 profiles, and on average have given ~3 merit to each profile. Despite not being in a position of power, I have received the 98th most merit out of every forum profile. Each of the below posts has at most 1 merit as of ~10 minutes before creating this thread (note that I may have sent merit on my thread in response to people submitting these posts to me in order to demonstrate their knowledge of one of various topics). Some quotes have been shortened. Over the Counter (OTC) cryptocurrency trading is becoming increasingly popular across the globe. Here’s how it works, who the major players are, and its general pros and cons. What is an Over-The-Counter MarketA decentralized market, without a central physical location, where market participants trade with one another through various communication modes such as the telephone, email and proprietary electronic trading systems. An over-the-counter (OTC) market and an exchange market are the two basic ways of organizing financial markets. In an OTC market, dealers act as market-makers by quoting prices at which they will buy and sell a security, currency, or other financial products. A trade can be executed between two participants in an OTC market without others being aware of the price at which the transaction was completed. In general, OTC markets are typically less transparent than exchanges and are also subject to fewer regulations. BREAKING DOWN Over-The-Counter Market[...] OTC market sizeIn April 2018, Bloomberg reported that the daily OTC market was anywhere between $250 million and $30 billion per day. This is compared to around $15 billion per day on crypto exchanges. [...] Why use an OTC broker (and not a crypto exchange)?• Lack of liquidity - Crypto exchanges have low liquidity in their order books. OTC desks are good for pushing through large trade orders searching for market liquidity. • Price protection, Anonymity - OTC is good for moving large orders which avoids impacting the price, e.g. 1,000 BTC. Order depth will not show up like it does on an exchange. • No fiat onramp - few crypto exchanges have a fiat onramp (though Binance is working on it and already have some solutions in place in Asia). • Avoid price ‘slippage’ - price slippage occurs on exchanges when the executed price is different to the expected price. • Avoid prohibitive crypto exchange limits - The majority of crypto exchanges have prohibitive trading limits. For example, Coinbase limits purchases to $25,000 per day. Kraken only lets you withdraw $2,500 per day and $20,000 per month. Circle imposes a withdrawal limit of $3,000 per week. Who are the main buyers and sellers?[...] The main participants trading crypto OTC are:[...] Which geographies are driving the majority of OTC trading?[...] OTC trading types explained[...] How are the buyers and sellers finding each other?[...] How is the off-exchange market executing?[...] What are the problems with OTC?[...] KYC regulations can be a deal breaker[...] Is emerging software solving these problems?[...] Case study: Enigma Securities[...]
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124817https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_(finance) https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/16628/otc-crypto-market---at-a-glancehttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/over-the-countermarket.aspWhile reading and scrolling through some topics and some replies here I just notice that there are so many Jr. Members or the ones who enter the Third Circle of Hell (well that's just a site that I read "The Nine Circles of Hell" that I think is made by satanslave that I saw from a thread of Fittotalk) going back I also see the struggle of the Jr. Members to get the 10 merits required to get out and to be promoted to a new rank I know that you already read some guides on how to have some merits this is the same just the same but this shit topic of mine is more like a psychology guide and tips and tricks something like that so lets go to the first one
1. STOP THE BOUNTY HUNT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE FORUM
-Well, one that I notice that some of the Jr. Members that have 0 merits and 200+ activities is that they are only doing bounty reports basically you cannot get merits from that 13 pages of posting of facebook and twitter shits just go out to the Bounties(Altcoins) thread and explore the forum more there are some people that need your help or maybe some information that you might know just help the others.
2. STOP PUTTING YOUR CAT OVER THE KEYBOARD
-I also notice that some of us cannot construct a good English sentence or paragraph properly[...] if you don't know the difference between your/you're, there/their, these/this fuck you need to go to school.
3. DON'T BEG FOR MERITS EARN THEM
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That's all well I experienced all of that but it will help you though I think I will update it if I think of another reason don't be mad at me just sayin'.
First, you need to choose what kind of indicators you need to develop your own Strategy
What type of indicator a trader uses to develop a strategy depends on what type of strategy he or she intends on the building. This relates to trading style and risk tolerance. A trader who seeks long-term moves with large profits might focus on a trend-following strategy, and, therefore, utilize a trend-following indicator such as a moving average. A trader interested in small moves with frequent small gains might be more interested in a strategy based on volatility. Again, different types of indicators may be used for confirmation.
WHAT IS TRADING INDICATORS?- An indicator simply manipulates price data using a mathematical formula. The indicator shows a visual representation of the mathematical formula and price inputs. To a skilled chart reader or trader an indicator often won't reveal more than what is visible just by analyzing the price chart (or volume) without any indicators.
- That said since there is so much to be analyzed on a price chart an indicator helps simplify it. This is why indicators are so alluring to new traders. Instead of learning to how to identify a trend on the price chart, they try to find an indicator that will identify the trend and trend reversals for them.
- Indicator based trading is relying on indicators to analyze the price and provide trade signals. Many indicators provide a specific trade signal which alerts the trade that now is the time to take a trade.
TYPES OF TECHNICAL INDICATORSTREND- Moving Averages
- MACD
- Parabolic SAR
MOMENTUM- CCI
- Stochastics
- Relative Strength Index
VOLATILITY- Bollinger Bands
- Average True Range
- Standard Deviation
VOLUME- Chaikin Oscillator
- OBV
- Rate of Change(ROCV)
TREND INDICATORS
MOVING AVERAGES - A moving average (MA) is a widely used indicator in technical analysis that helps smooth out price action by filtering out the “noise” from random price fluctuations. It is a trend-following or lagging, indicator because it is based on past prices.
- Moving averages lag current price action because they are based on past prices; the longer the time period for the moving average, the greater the lag. Thus, a 200-day MA will have a much greater degree of lag than a 20-day MA because it contains prices for the past 200 days. The length of the moving average to use depends on the trading objectives, with shorter moving averages used for short-term trading and longer-term moving averages more suited for long-term investors. The 50-day and 200-day MAs are widely followed by investors and traders, with breaks above and below this moving average considered to be important trading signals.
- Moving averages also impart important trading signals on their own, or when two averages cross over. A rising moving average indicates that the security is in an uptrend, while a declining moving average indicates that it is in a downtrend. Similarly, upward momentum is confirmed with a bullish crossover, which occurs when a short-term moving average crosses above a longer-term moving average. Downward momentum is confirmed with a bearish crossover, which occurs when a short-term moving average crosses below a longer-term moving average.
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First:I want you to come with ideas what a newbie can do to help and popularize bitcoin.Use your imagination and don't copy the suggestions before your post.
Not sure why do you use "Newbie" in this question. Do you mean that those ideas only applicable within this forum? For me, in my hometown, bitcoin are widely known but under a form of multi level scam. There's fact that a lot of people were scammed to poverty here. When I hear people talking about bitcoin, I usually drop by for a couple of minutes and join their talk. There were a lot of amateur talks of amateur people and I'm so glad I enlightened them by my knowledge range: explaining that bitcoin was not borned a scam, it's just people use it to take advantages of others; telling them what's the real revolution behind bitcoin and how can it be mass adopted. Not all of the talks that I've joined are lack of knowledge, some of them included real experts. I learned a lot from them. Second: In addition I want to know what is your mission here in the forum. Just a few words, but let them be honest.
That's all. Good luck.
I am not sure if I can call it "mission" but I remember saying it somewhere: There were some times, I was against the merit system like you are right now. But now I see things differently: merit is the measure of how other people pay respect to you.
I'll try to earn merit in order to win people's respect. Hello, I'd like to share what I know and I think this might help to lessen the chance of you from phishing, virus or even malware in telegram app. This is not proven but I think it might help and there will be no more groups that you didn't joined in once you open your telegram app. Best choice is to leave the channel/group as soon as possible if you don't know what it is or you don't know if it is safe or not. How to change or how to block? Just refer to the instruction below: 1.) Go to settings. [img width=400 height=500 ]https://i.imgur.com/slNffnM.jpg[/img] 2.) Press Privacy and Security. [img width=400 height=500 ]https://i.imgur.com/Nteee82.jpg[/img] 3.) Look for group in the Privacy Tab. [img width=400 height=500 ]https://i.imgur.com/GAVcRnx.jpg[/img] 4.) Change the settings from "Everybody" to "My Contacts". [img width=400 height=500 ]https://i.imgur.com/3AVvywn.jpg[/img] In that way it will lessen the chance of you getting virus, phishing or malware in telegram from other users. Exchange name: crex24 Website link: https://crex24.comBitcointalk ANN thread link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2101721.0Profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1113444Today I am going share some information about a crypto currency exchange which name is crex24. I can't take my decision what to call them "Scammer" or "Shelter house of scammer". This exchange have listed lots of scam ICO projects and their listing process still going on. They don't care about fake team, plagiarized whitepaper or other scam evidence of any projects. Just for letting everyone know i am going to share information about 2 ICO projects which are proven scam but get listed on this exchange. Those 2 ICO have already proven as scam and got valid proof against them on bitcointalk scam accusation section about their fake team and plagiarized whitepaper. please take a look on below accusation links, EJOB scam accusation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5045327.msg46645882#msg46645882ALCUP scam accusation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5122859.0It is to notify all that our forum member made report on their ANN thread about the scam accusation against these scam ICO but they don't feel it necessary to give appropriate answer. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2101721.msg50364300#msg50364300I can't believe how could a exchange do something like this. Its really concerning that they don't care about investors safety. Those listed scam ICOs volume is so negligible on their exchanges. Its completely a clear example of encouraging scam IMO. I hope our community user will stay far from this exchange and whereas they have ANN on bitcointalk so proper actions should be taken against them. In general, IEOs might be a little bit safer than ICOs.
Especially IEOs come from well-known, reliable exchanges, like those one you listed in the OP.
In contrast, for IEOs come from un-known, young, new-born, small volume exchanges, they are more risky and it is difficult to judge that invest into such IEOs is safer than invest into ICOs.
Exchanges can make scam exits, can get hacked and go into dead/ bankcrupted, so it is obviously risky too.
Additionally, it is hard to say IEO invesment is safer, because even exchanges don't got hack, or scam exit, investors can get losses too.
Buying at highs, selling at lows, and eventually get losses as ICO's invesments.
everyone please guide me, how can I understand which will be the legit and profitable project. Leave your comments here to help.
Cryptocurrency is a venture capital area, so no one is sure that you will make a profit from the projects you join and the profits earned from projects that you choose bitterly are also difficult to say, because it depends on many different factors. I have a little experience in evaluating projects and hopes that can help you! I often evaluate projects based on the following principles: 1. Basic things like: development team, project concept, white paper, long-term development strategy must be clear 2. Evaluate project potential based on ability to apply and solve problems in real life. What does it solve for life, how does it apply blockchain technology? 3. How to build community, organize events, meet, conferences. A good project must have a strong community and a large ecosystem 4. How to protect investors: it is best not to have bounty, airdrop, gleam programs. 5. The most important thing of a project according to me is the technology and the financial potential behind the project. You can see a lot of good projects like Steemit, NEM are in top 50 CMC projects but they have a lot of difficulties when the market goes down. Therefore, a project that wants to develop in the long term in the bear market conditions must have a lot of funding. Bakkt just announced a physical delivery bitcoin futures contracts on their platform and investors knows when this goes live, institutional investors will create a huge demand for bitcoins, so they are stocking up on bitcoins now, before the price goes up when the institutional investors jump in.  I do not know if this will be the trigger for a Bull market, but it is a nice change from the boring bear market that we had for months now.  <Just a pity that I sold some coins yesterday>  Why do you call him the president interim? I thought his 30 days had expired.
Is there anybody who could run for president? Guaido has said he will sell off everything to Washington, and that can't be good for Venezuela. I would have thought that the assets should be used to rebuild your country, and not to feed the globalist war machine.
Perhaps "someone" hasn't allowed that part of the constitution to go on? Perhaps someone usurping the power? What do you think? This "someone" and the other guy prosecuted abroad for his relation with a drug cartel must go away and this mechanism activates the exact same way. Guaidó is the President of the National Assembly, elected by popular vote, unlike the usurper in the executive who refuses to leave office and keeps an entire country hostage at gunpoint. But that time will come, sooner than later. The roadmap is: - Cease usurpation
- Transitional government
- Free elections
Those points are nonnegotiable, and must be accomplished in that exact order. PS: Just had another 20 min blackout... edit: I have a long history of finding those who make "objectively high quality posts" that extend well before the merit system as I advertised my own business via a signature campaign that I ran personally, and those that participated generally ended up making objectively good posts during the specific duration the campaign was running. [/list] |
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If there appears to be a credible accusation against someone, it is not inappropriate to leave a provisional rating against the person while they wait for additional information to come out.
If you present evidence to show your innocence, OR the accuser (or anyone else) cannot provide sufficient evidence to show that you are a scammer or that you tried to scam someone (or will likely do so in the future) then the ratings can be removed.
The reason for this is so that others will be warned about dealing with a potential scammer.
This is EXACTLY my point. I am not even willing to say I am Honest/Innocent, because that's not in my hands to decide but I am just pointing the thing you said. The thread accusing me was created and within following hours, I had a "NEGATIVE" feedback. Even a murdered get opportunity to response/reply before pushing them into guilty zone, but here with my case I did not even had THAT OPPORTUNITY. The moment the thread was created, my fate was sealed as SCAMMER/CHEATER/FRAUD. While should it not be responsiblity of the person leaving feedback or opening accusation thread to just ask the person for 1 response before proceeding? Is it not done because people want to get into limelight and get "MERITS"? Is it so easy to damage people's credibility? I know I am a useless JUNIOR but still I do have feelings and reputation that can be HURT! While once again, it's FINE and sensible to add the feedback AFTER 24 hours and if the response is not there but how exactly is it sensible to leave it straight away? The purpose of the trust system is to give an assessment of a potential trading partner's ability to trust someone. It is not uncommon for a scammer to be trying to scam multiple people at a time, and a quick negative rating may prevent additional people from getting scammed after the 1st accusation surfaces if they have not sent the scammer money or property yet, or it will at least cause them to ask questions and take additional precautions to protect themselves. If you demand a delay in others giving you negative trust once an accusation is made, then others will not be warned. If you have a negative rating immidiately after an accusation surfaces, but before you have had a chance to respond, you can address the situation with anyone you are dealing with privately, and it will be up to them to decide if they want to trust you or not. If you want to compare the trust system to the legal system, then I would tell you that if there is probable cause that anyone committed a crime, the police can arrest them, and can hold them in jail for a period of time without charging them. The standard of probable cause is very low, but has not been defined by the US Supreme Court to my knowledge. In many jurisdictions, if there is a 51% chance that a crime was committed, the standard of probable cause will have been exceeded. I do have other concerns about the trust system, but yours is not one of them. If anything, it took too long for a negative rating to be applied, but there may not always be someone reviewing the various marketplace sections, nor the scam accusations sub for this type of thing. |
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Their mini update was somewhat timely to the recent price surge we have had earlier this day so, coincidence?  Their update was immidiately prior to the recent surge. I think it is probably fair to say that many people who had USD(t) on exchanges, bought crypto after reading about the update. Whoever is thinking that Bakkt will help bitcoin economy is not correct. Bakkt is just trying to ride on popularity wave of BTC.
Why a bitcoin user will like to submit him/herself to more regulation and under more control of agency?
It is just a false speculation that bakkt will help BTC.
I don't think it is realistic to think bitcoin will not go mainstream without additional regulation. Ideally, any regulation will be modest and will not impede on users' freedoms too much. |
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Conpanies like Facebook, apple and google have reputations to maintain and if they give out your personal information in ways you have not agreed to they will suffer financially. No they won't. Facebook gave millions of users' data to Cambridge Analytica. They were fined $500,000, which is chump change to Facebook. Google Plus revealed that 438 different third party apps had unauthorized access to your data. No punishment. Similarly, Apple have plenty of third party apps which sell your data. No punishment. And that's only if you think that these companies aren't selling your data themselves, which I find very difficult to believe. I am not sure what government fines have to do with anything. After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook lost over $130 billion in market value, however they recovered after implementing changes to prevent this from happening again -- and the outrage was more about the fact it marginally helped the Trump campaign than the amount/type of data leaked IMO (it was mostly public information, but in mass quantity not easily available to the public). The Google plus data leak was the result of mistakes in regards to data security, and not malicious intent -- anyone who stores data is going to have the potential for leaking data, I am also not sure what data Google Plus has, but I would presume it would not be much more than what is shared with connections, but may not be public. If these companies repeatedly misuse and/or mishandle customers' data, their customers will not give this data in the future, and advertisers may not want to advertise on their platforms. Over the weekend, Zuckerberg wrote an editorial in the Washington Post arguing for more internet regulation so he can hide behind the regulations (and blame the government) the next time he has a similar screwup. |
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If there appears to be a credible accusation against someone, it is not inappropriate to leave a provisional rating against the person while they wait for additional information to come out.
If you present evidence to show your innocence, OR the accuser (or anyone else) cannot provide sufficient evidence to show that you are a scammer or that you tried to scam someone (or will likely do so in the future) then the ratings can be removed.
The reason for this is so that others will be warned about dealing with a potential scammer.
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If two addresses both sign a transaction then, with near certainty, both addresses are controlled by the same entity. The addresses may be deposit addresses to a business so a customer that provides the address to send bitcoin to may not control both addresses.
There are some instances in which two people/entities will sign one transaction but they are currently rare.
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-When browsing through someones posts I'd like it if there was a sorting feature so that I could select a specific board and see all the posts the user has made on that board.
You can go to IgnoreBoards, check all the boards you don't want to see posts in, and click 'change profile' at the bottom, then visit the person's post history. Those boards will be entirely unavailable to you until you unignore the boards you selected. I use my account LoyceBot in a different browser for convenience for counting campaign posts. If you have different campaigns with different requirements, you could just make a few more accounts so you don't have to adjust the list of ignored boards per campaign every week. A private browsing window and Captcha bypass code can help. If you have a bot counting posts, you might as well program the bot to exclude posts in certain sections (or only include posts in certain sections). Someone could also create a script to efficiently change the ignore list. Had not thought about ignoring boards, but then again there are times when I only want to see one specific board so if that would mean me ignoring all other ones it would be quite annoying (although nobody is active in all of them) You probably could get the desired outcome if you only ignored the most popular boards as you are unlikely to see any posts in ‘new forum software’ regardless of if you ignore it or not. |
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the vast majority of people they're seemingly happy to have public Instagrams and accept any facebook friends request they get and so forth. It's far worse than that. People are completely happy to give away all their personal data to companies like Facebook, Google and Apple, but it gets even worse in the crypto space. People are not only willing to give away all their details, but also to upload documents, passports, selfies, selfies holding said documents or passport, etc. in exchange for an airdrop or bounty campaign for some token that is quite literally worthless, or for some 2 bit exchange filled with fake volume just waiting to exit scam. Quite literally everything someone needs to steal their entire identity (financial, tax, credit, medical, criminal, social security, etc.), and people are willing to send it all to a complete stranger. It boggles the mind. Conpanies like Facebook, apple and google have reputations to maintain and if they give out your personal information in ways you have not agreed to they will suffer financially. The information provided to them, in theory also gives you a benefit as their services will be tailored to you. The people running ICOs often have little to no reputation and will probably have little consequences if they give out information they shouldn’t. I would not be surprised if many of the people behind the ICOs who require KYC end up selling personal information of their customers. This is one reason why using a third party platform can be beneficial for everyone involved when a company wants to raise money. |
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-When browsing through someones posts I'd like a button at the top/bottom which takes me back to the users profile without having to backspace.
You can change the URL in your browser by removing "sa=showPosts;start=20" and you will get back to the person's profile. It would be nice to see additional information about a profile on the post history page.
-When browsing through someones posts I'd like it if there was a sorting feature so that I could select a specific board and see all the posts the user has made on that board.
You can go to IgnoreBoards, check all the boards you don't want to see posts in, and click 'change profile' at the bottom, then visit the person's post history. Those boards will be entirely unavailable to you until you unignore the boards you selected. This is currently setup in a way that is difficult to select/deselect many boards at once. Perhaps it would be helpful if there was a 'select/deselect all' button, or a way to select/deselect all child boards of a parent board that someone wants to ignore.
All of these features are likely to help campaign managers weed out poor posters (by making it easier to review their post history), which ultimately will benefit the forum. |
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I don't believe these people are doing any kind of harm to anyone, even if the "TOS" of the campaign is along the lines of "one account per person".
[...] Also, in my opinion, this is a "harm" to who wants legitly join a signature but he can't since people like this one do it with a ton of accounts, even if they can be good posts [...] I don't think it is fair to say that someone is doing harm to others (in a sense they are scamming) if they are so good at something that they are crowding out other people from being able to participate in a trade. Logically speaking if someone who can make a lot of posts that are very good, a smart campaign manager will give a custom deal requiring more posts that pays more than a "normal" spot, and multiple "normal" spots would be removed from that campaign. I think if one person enrolls many alts in a campaign who post a bunch of garbage, I think it would be more accurate to say the campaign manager is scamming the company ultimately paying for the advertising, more than the person who enrolls the alts because it is the campaign manager not doing what they are being paid to do -- screen and vet campaign participants. |
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People are free to do what they want, and if they do not value their privacy, I don't see any problem with them posting actual pictures of themselves. This could actually be a way to locate alts of some of the dumb signature spammers. When I saw nyoach post his picture, I thought the guy on the right looked familiar, but I couldn't find him on the 1st 16 pages of the KYC selfie thread, although there are a lot of image proxy errors, and the pictures posted by newbies no longer appears in the thread. |
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- For money, such as joining campaign, managing campaigns, doing Escrow services, making graphic designs
When I think of people making a living off bitcointalk, usually what comes immediately to mind is signature campaigns. I think there are a decent number of people in third world counties that earn money via signature campaigns (and as of somewhat recently, bounty campaigns). The reaction of some people to this year's April fools joke, makes me somewhat believe there could be people organizing others to "work" in ways that would resemble an employer-employee relationship. The problem with many of the people from third world counties making a living off of signature deals is that they often do not have any real knowledge of bitcoin or cryptocurrency and don't appear to have any real interest in learning. I suspect that some of the people who run signature/bounty campaigns do so for a living, as they are doing so many that I cannot see them having time for a full time job. I believe shdvb at least used to make a living from the forum, although he doesn't seem to be very active anymore -- perhaps he realized sufficient capital gains in 2017 that he doesn't need to work as much anymore, same with zazarb. In 2014 and 2015, there were more people that at least appeared to make a living from currency exchange section trades. I suspect the majority of 1st world people that conduct business here do so for side income, or is also in school. You certainly are not going to make enough money in signature campaigns alone to earn a living in the US. There are many doubts of people when it comes to signature campaign earnings tax-wise. In the US at least it's probably self-employment income (using the USD value at time of payment), reported on schedules C & SE. The IRS has offered tips on how to determine if income is "self employment" income or "hobby" income, and is based on 9 factors: Whether you carry on the activity in a businesslike manner and maintain complete and accurate books and records.
Whether the time and effort you put into the activity indicate you intend to make it profitable.
Whether you depend on income from the activity for your livelihood.
Whether your losses are due to circumstances beyond your control (or are normal in the startup phase of your type of business).
Whether you change your methods of operation in an attempt to improve profitability.
Whether you or your advisors have the knowledge needed to carry on the activity as a successful business.
Whether you were successful in making a profit in similar activities in the past.
Whether the activity makes a profit in some years and how much profit it makes.
Whether you can expect to make a future profit from the appreciation of the assets used in the activity. There is a regulation that governs if a venture is "for profit" (and subject to self employment taxes. According to this article by H&R block, hobby income is reported on line 21 of your 1040 and is not subject to self employment taxes. |
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I clearly have more trust in Quickseller than in CSW. Congrats for the recognition, (Real) Satoshi!
Thank you. |
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So you both are CSW's alts.
Thats a negative ghost rider |
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If one is to believe every thread created against me, this would not end well for me. Where are those damned pills when you need them.  Love all the genders listed on there. Perhaps you could admit to your crimes. Your verification ("Verified Snowflake") fits you well considering how you try to silence anyone who ever criticizes you with negative trust. It is too bad theymos did verify you as a "Verified extortionist" |
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