Wikipedia is a "non-profit" website that puts real businesses out of business. They have effectively cornered the online information market and instead of using advertising-based models (which create revenue from the non-enthusiast users), they ask the enthusiast users (who already contribute countless hours of work maintaining pages) for donations.

A few years ago I ran a very large online forum. All revenue was ad revenue. I disabled all ads for all registered users, because they're already contributing content to the site - you don't need to take their money, too. Instead, I let people who were not contributing by posting (unregistered users) contribute financially by littering the site with advertisements for them.

I strongly feel that this is the correct way to run a business (or even a nonprofit website), rather than ask your very best members to contribute money. Wikipedia should partner with Google's advertising and serve advertisements to all non-contributors. Google already puts them #1 for every search term (which pushes the informational sites on specific topics from real enthusiasts out of business), so it would only be natural.

If you want to donate to a site in that space, I'd recommend archive.org. The primary monetary contributors are going to be the users who utilize the resources they provide the most extensively, so asking for donations seems reasonable in their case.

Tails is okay and probably more worthy than archive.org. However, there are lower-funded privacy and anonymity projects you can contribute to that don't constantly have security holes. Properly configured TBB plus FDE is likely significantly safer than Tails.

Do you have reason to believe that Satoshi was/is at a significantly increased risk of death compared to the average person? If not, I don't view it as reasonable possibility - it's incredibly unlikely for the average person to die in a several year timespan.

1. Open incognito mode. You're safe now.
2. Google "buy stolen credit card numbers".
3. Click on the first good link and make sure to pay via a secure and verifiable payment method, like your personal bank or PayPal account.
4. Go to Starbucks.com and buy e-gift cards with the credit card numbers.
5. ???
6. Profit.

MEGA BONUS 8x multiplier: Do this all from Starbucks WiFi, specifically the hotspots where you have to sign in via your real identity.
MEGA BONUS 32x multipler: Use these stolen credit card numbers to pay off your newly increased income taxes.

You can send the $700 to the address in my profile. If you insist on using Teamviewer for some reason, I'd be more than happy to install malware on your computer for you. Hope I helped.

Likely hacked accounts or carded, but of course he's never going to say that.

It's highly illegal to counterfeit U.S. currency (Morgan silver dollars), but the laws are a little more blurry about something like this. Sort of similar to normal counterfeit goods, legality-wise.

Yes. All these boards:



Categorize it within one of those, then specify whatever you need to specify. So, if for example you're looking to buy BTC locally in NYC, just post in the Currency Exchange forum with a title like "Looking to Buy 2 BTC with Cash in NYC".

People were new to the concept back then, though. When the news first broke nobody thought the market could handle 30,000-200,000 bitcoins. The relief when they were sold for somewhere around market price to a hodler caused a foolishly bullish pump, which clearly didn't last long.

These auctions are routine now. Nobody thinks it's the end of the world each time a new auction is announced. Therefore, there will be no relief and a pump when sell near market - the only thing that can happen is they sell lower than people expected, which could potentially cause a price decrease.

This is of course ignoring any possible pre-auction manipulation.

There are so many questions marks. We have 170,000 BTC to go from the US Marshalls - it actually doesn't seem like the market is handling these auctions very well, considering we're at 2/3 of the price when the first auction was announced. Unless the overall trajectory of the market goes from bearish to bullish (face the facts, we've been in a pure bear market since the double top last winter, despite a few bumps here and there), these auctions are just going to continue to significantly push the price down.

Satoshi is mortal. Say what you will, but almost nobody is throwing away that much money. Do people here really expect his coins to never be sold or used for their intended purpose [currency]? Is that realistic or just wishful thinking? Sure, maybe not this year, or next year, but someday it will happen. Until it does, his coins will remain a question mark scarring the decentralization of Bitcoin.

I honestly would feel more bullish about Bitcoin long-term if he dumped just dumped all his coins on the market in one fell swoop. Sure, the price would suffer short-term, but it could recover long-term.

1. If you think a price movement (down) in a market like this which has been happening for an entire year is purely manipulation, I don't have much to say to you.
2. I guess someone on Bitfinex is looking to buy. It shouldn't be seen as overly suspicious.
3. Bitstamp sucks. High fees and no liquidity.

Kind of incredible how things happen...

The point is to make it so ridiculous so that only the dumbest of the dumb respond.

Let me explain.

The Prince sends out 200,000 spam emails with something that is plausible and makes sense. He may receive real responses from 1,000 people, all of which will take a significant amount of time to converse with. However, maybe only 1/500 people will actually go for the scam after that.

The Prince sends out 200,000 spam emails with an absolutely ridiculous explanation. He may only receive 50 real responses, but 1/25 follow through. He's able to get the same number of victims while spending time only conversing with 50 people instead of 1,000.

The pure stupidity of these emails filter out all reasonable people immediately, which is the Prince's goal.

I don't think they're volunteering offhand, but I'm sure he makes sure everyone who does a deal with him goes the whole nine yards with vouches, posts, trust, etc. He's requesting that his customers post in his thread - they're obviously not just doing it randomly. It doesn't seem out of character for him to do this with every customer to get his thread bumped.

I'd like to see him explain himself.

People seem to have forgotten how badly bitcoin tanked last time there was an auction. It was only shortly after the auction completed that the bitcoin price went up a bit.

Yet, this time the price did not decrease because of the news of an auction. A sell order like this should move down the market, but it hasn't really so far, which means we may be having a little bit of a correction here. I do not expect much positive movement between now and when the auction is over, as positive movement as a direct result of a sell order is a complete nonsequitur. I also don't expect much positive movement right after the auction, as there is no ground to make up - bitcoiners are treating this auction like some big investor will just buy them all up like last time, so a good result is already priced in right now.

It's a bad week to be long, with one exception: if you think the price is being artificially deflated so that someone can buy the coins at auction for a lower price.

A lot of people don't really bother making posts on forums. However, they may still be interested in purchasing bitcoin, so they'll check out the services of someone who advertises himself constantly, like Shdvb. I bet Shdvb tells buyers to leave a vouch for him after their purchase, so the result is a bunch of newbies leaving vouches.

Having customers post in his thread after every transaction may just be another segment of his extremely spammy way of doing business. Of course, that's not to say they aren't alts.

It's empty anyway.

I can set 25 BTC at 1-5 CNY above the ticker price and it will get picked up within a minute or two nearly every time on OKCoin, with zero fees. You would not believe how much easier trading is on a liquid, zero taker-fee exchange - you don't have to worry about someone filling your order - you just put in the order, take a quick bathroom break, and then come back. 9 times out of 10, your order will be filled.

People don't seem to understand what volume even means. Volume does not define the size of an exchange - it defines its liquidity. Fake volume means it's either entirely BS or people are buying their own sell orders and vice versa. Trading back and forth all day does not constitute fake volume - it's just something that is only possible on a modern and liquid exchange.

I will never use any of the low volume exchanges you listed ever again. They are not made for trading - they're made for entering and exiting the Bitcoin market and that's it.

It's not technically a scam, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was an intelligent purchase.

Clickbank offers an excellent refund policy. You should try to get a refund.

The issue is, for every 30 guys making a post like this, there may be 29 scammers and 1 guy who is legitimately trying to trade. Do you kind of see where he is coming from, now? I'm sure he'll remove the negative trust after he sees that you've completed a transaction with a real member, have funded an escrow address, or have signed an address containing the coins.

It's your right, but that doesn't mean you're right. Do you think TomatoCage would have a good reputation if he scammed people?

Sending unsolicited PMs is actually against the rules.

A screenshot doesn't prove much.

Should have checked his trust.

Do you have evidence of this, though? This will hold a tad more weight with screenshots + blockchain. Then set the reference URL in your feedback as this thread.

Most of them do offer stop losses in some form or another, actually.