It depends on how much you have got. I doubt if I have got more than £5,000 worth, so it isn't a problem, and it is part of my asset diversification programme.  You can reduce the storage requirement by flattening copper pipe, and "top and tailing" copper cylinders so that you can flatten and store the sides. Stripping copper wire is a simple and mindless task, and you can do it whilst you watch Bitcoin videos on YouTube. There is a slight downside - if you strip copper wire, then you end up with bright wire, and this is probably the most valuable category for scrap copper. Unfortunately if you store it, then it dulls and drops a category, and this is slightly less valuable.

Stealing copper that is part of the infrastructure creates massive costs for the community, and you should do everything you can to reduce it, and to ensure that any thieves are caught.

I've been HODLing copper for a few years, and I've even posted about it on Bitcoin Talk.I also save lead. It isn't as valuable, but the weight/volume ratio is good. It's called urban mining, and I've got some tips for separating copper/aluminium radiators and a few other things as well.

I've also got a few dustbins full of old circuit boards and hard drives, and I keep meaning to huntfor Bitcoin wallets on the hard drives.

Is it the camera, or the settings that cause the noise? For example, an incorrect ISO setting can introduce noise. Also, I'm told that the noise can be removed by using Lightbox, although I have never tried this.

Some of the charity shops in England just dump stuff that hasn't sold in a month, in the rubbish bin. It was in a box that they asked me to dispose of. I bought a charger on Amazon, as I mentioned above, and the camera appears to be working, but I need to do a white board teat when I get a lens and memory card. It didn't sell because it had a dead battery, no memory card, lens or charger, and it was not possible to confirm it was working.

In my opinion, the camera is not the most important item when creating commercial images. I would rank it fifth in the following list

1. The business acumen of the photographer
2. The creativity and knowledge of the photographer
3. An ability to use image editing software to enhance pictures.
4. The lens
5, The camera.

I hope that this project can build a community to help members with items 1, 2 and 3, and that it can provide suggestions for the acquisition of Items 4 and 5. Maybe we can look at repairing broken equipment to reduce costs.

Buying the most expensive camera, and taking auto pictures of cats, babies, clouds or the tower of London is unlikely to get one listed, let alone make sales. At a basic level, one should switch to aperture priority the enhance of blur backgrounds, or to shutter priority for night shots. It is also useful to have a reasonable command of English to add descriptions, keywords, and the EXIF data.

John Bercow is the MP for Buckinghamshire. I don't understand why his constituents have him removed, and then he would no longer be able to act as speaker. No person other than the rembrancer ( the representative for the City of London, which is now a separate country) is allowed into the parliamentary chamber, unless he has been voted in as a member of parliament.

I don't want to get involved in any money or other financial transactions. That's when you need KYC, and government permissions, and of course it creates tax liabilities and possible scam accusations. I hope that it can become a small group of members helping each other to find cheap kit, and to improve their photographic skills. Maybe some of the members will work together to help with exchanges, but I would prefer to keep out of that.

BAT is a crypto for content producers, and Steemit offers crypto payments as well. Maybe those sites could be used for people to get started.

That's something that I need to research.My feeling is that if one can find an exchange that will allow payment into your account in dollars, then they could be used to purchase Bitcoin. The idea is to collect Bitcoin into a savings wallet, and use this as an investment for the future. I got the impression that some members had problems in accepting payments in their local currencies. The project is also a way to learn a new skill, and maybe one could earn Bitcoin by taking wedding photos, or some other local event reporting.

When one of the great investors was asked for the secret of his success, he replied "Selling too soon".

I've seen many threads asking about methods to gain a passive income in Bitcoin, and most of the replies seem to be based on faucets, trading or sig spamming. I thought I would see if I could build a passive income from free or almost free, camera equipment. I've started a project in Fit to Talk, and I chose to run it there for two reasons. I have complete control over the thread, and the project is aimed at Bitcoin Talk members who may be in countries with "challenged" economies, and they may not have English as their first language. This is the link -
https://fittotalk.com/english-talk/index.php?topic=380.0

The project is aimed at helping members to create images that can be submitted to sites such as Shutter Stock, and later on, I can post links to instruction videos on YouTube, but first I have to manage to build a camera system that is as close to free as I can get it. Please feel free to post comments and advice in this thread. I've almost managed to build a working system based on a Canon EOS 350D, and I will post comments on testing and tuning it once I have obtained a lens and memory card.

I'm trying to restrict this project to the purchased items and free software, and I'm not using any of my more expensive still and video cameras, except for photographing the equipment of course. I'm also avoiding the use of mobile phones, as members may not have phones with suitable cameras included. Maybe that could be a future project, or perhaps somebody else could start such a project.

I don't agree that merit is just a matter of pride for legendaries. The actual count is not important to me, as I will never be able to compete with the stats reporters. However, individual awards are useful, and they give me a feel for the general opinions in the forum, and they help me to "tune" my posts and threads.

Well thanks for the kind words.
It might be that I'm not pushing any projects at the moment. The photographic project to help people in low income countries is starting to grab me. I thought of Venezuela, but Nigeria might be another country where members could benefit. I think that projects like this to help members to earn Bitcoin could be useful.

I've noticed that my received merits have tailed off a lot recently, and I'm not sure if that is the result of a change in the community approach to merit awarding, or a reduction in my posting because I felt that I was becoming out of touch with current forum interests. I use merit awards and replies to my posts to judge the value the community places on my posts. A drop in either, or both, means that I have to rethink my posting behaviour.

If there is a shift in the awarding of merits, then obviously this will affect the time taken to achieve legendary status.

Thanks Diamond - This thread was a bit of an impulse post, and it may be that trying to crowdfund would be an attempt to start a community, and that would be an immense amount of work. It might be better to sell some property, and just make it a personal project. I helped a guy with a large personal agricultural museum for many years, and he just had an annual show, and a few private viewings. I think the blockchain bit is just me trying to create a project to experiment with the creation of a tokenised security. The Crypto Coin Tree would probably be more suitable, and maybe I'll try to revive interest in that next year.

I'm concerned about the current obsession with electricity, carbon dioxide, and pharmaceuticals, and I would like to try to influence people, and persuade them to adopt a more healthy lifestyle. It seems to be that in the South East of England, it is everybody's ambition to cut down trees, and I believe they should be preserved and replanted. Hence my woodland trust ambition. I'm becoming interested in my budget photography project, and I may post that as a separate concept. It would be interesting to see if old camera equipment could be acquired and used in countries like Venezuela.

Thanks for the replies and advice. One of the difficulties will be the initial publicity, and I have started a supporting project in the Fit to Talk forum - https://fittotalk.com/english-talk/index.php?topic=380.0
The idea behind this is to help Bitcoin Talk members in countries with low earnings potential to earn Bitcoin by selling photographs. I'm trying to build a camera system at minimum cost, and I'm basing it on a Canon 350D. I use FujiFilm and Sony equipment for my main content production. So this is a stand alone budget project.  I don't need any donations or investments for this, and anyone interested in joining should invest in themselves, and not in others.

I'd be interested to know if any members outside England are able to pick up cheap photographic equipment.

So how will this help Wild Brambles? If I can get some exposure for wildlife and the natural environment, then I can link it to Wild Brambles.

Bulls and bears are short term speculators. I'm more interested in the foxes and squirrels. I tend to think of myself as a fox, but in reality I'm probably just a simple squirrel.

I was fortunate enough to spend a year or so in a school run by Victor Kan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kan
He trained with Bruce Lee under the instruction of the great Ip Man, and one of the things I liked about his school was his different attitude to paying respect.  I had a brief period when I started Karate, and at the commencement of the lesson, I paid my respects to my Sifu. With Victor, I paid my respects to his Sifu , Ip Man. One other major difference was the manual dexterity that Victor had retained, and he was able to use a fine brush to form small and intricate Chinese characters. This was the result of using contra exercises to preserve natural dexterity.  If one spent 20 minutes punching a bag full of ball bearings, one needed to spend the next 20 minutes avoiding the loss of mobility.

Bitcoin is following in the footsteps of gold. It will/has become a store of wealth, and will only be used as a currency for high value transactions in my opinion.

Vaccines have changed, and they are no longer a part of so-called health care, but are now part of the global eugenics programme, The brainwashing is performed by false propaganda based on manipulated facts, and a lack of stats based on anything other than very short term results.

It looks as if disaster may be looming. There seems to be a shift away from the very beneficial true Brexit, and towards some deceitful remain variant. Boris Johnson seems to be following in the footsteps of the treasonous Theresa May, but what do you expect from an Eton/Oxford banker.

Here is an interesting video about solar cycles and climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOgWeTAas0

It contains some interesting facts such as global warming preceding the rise of CO2 by about 600 years. It illustrates this with facts such as the colonisation of Greenland around 850AD because of its verdant pastures and warm climate, and how this changed 100 years later to become the freezing country we know and love. It reminds us of the ice age that caused the Thames to freeze over a few hundred years ago.

Man certainly does have a major impact on the environment, but the misuse of water, which is causing the drying up of underground aquifers , and the leeching of minerals from arable land as a result of corporate ownership of farms, and far more significant. Don't let us forget the massive deforestation that leads to desertification either.