It seems the PR or admin of the site is no longer interested in this thread and it's largely due to the increase in their client base which have ranked them as the third largest peer to peer exchange platform in the world while the growing is still there with expansion to other countries of the world.

The concern I actually have is concerning the high transaction fee which is fixed at 0.0008btc irrespective of the amount being sent and regarded as the miners fee, the question is, are the miners that static that they only focus on one fee alone at all times. This should really be looked at.

For a while 5 years and you didn't win, I guess you must have been carried away with the idea that you will win one day and recover all your losses but that doesn't happen. Now that you have learnt your lesson, I hope you have decided to move on and understand that gambling is not meant for everyone especially the ones that are based on probability rather than skills and dice is key example to that.

On those that are winning big, its either of two ways I see it.

1. Those people are that are winning are just one of the several that have lost their money and the 10btc+ might just be a payback of the 100btc+ that have been lost.

2. The 10btc winnings might just be a bogus one with the site creating account to gamble with their same money whether its lost or won, it does not matter so far its showing on the dashboard and giving 'hope' to someone playing with real money to gamble and lost.

For you to know your way to the forum And also to know he way bitcoin mixing services works, means that you are really not a newbie in the crypto world and that is the reason why I would be somehow harsh. The closing down of bitmixer is not something that is hidden to any whether you use it or you do not except people who decided not to feed themselves with the goings around the forum. But its a lesson though that always check again any services you used for a while to be sure the trust you have before is still being maintained.

However, there still other reputable services you can check out. A click on my signature can do the magic.

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Its so annoying the calibre of people we share the forum with that a developer or manager will be in charge of that campaign after which  the project would scam and the noise will be all  over when its obvious from the beginning that something as simple as this cannot even be done the right way.

I have seen several people complain of plagiarism and I have always supported the diplomatic option in a case of someone who made an honest mistake but this, is definitely over board and the name of the project even say a lot on it. I hope they have not launched a campaign with this stolen codes

I will want to take a contrary opinion on that simply because those other coins that you purported to have robbed bitcoin of such amount of dollars, actually contributed to that portion bitcoin got. For example, several people got to know about bitcoin because of one alt or the other that they want to invest in but could not do so directly so they had to come in through bitcoin.

Also, bitcoin is equally not doing badly considering one coin contributing 45% of the entire coins in the crypto world while the remaining others are  grappling for the balance, I think its something that shows that the position is not being threatened for whatever reason.

This bolded part didn't prove a lot of problems in the trust system in my opinion, it even then give more solid to the system because it shows that we can not always agree on everything even though most of the times they agree.  Higher rank members have reason to disagree and the trust system is an expression of opinion. It would be better if we all know the reason for that before taking a decision regarding that person rather than taking it on the surface.

What happened in this case could have happened to any manager and that is why I won't be assigning blame to the manager because he couldn't have known everything. However, its a clarion call to managers that he has rightly noted in his response that we are all responsible and anything or project your name is attached to, do well to be sure its the right thing either as participants or as managers. I am sure if one of the participants has done a further due diligence, brought the attention of the manager to it, it could have been a different story entirely.

Its beginning to GWR annoying on this various forks that is coming out every now and there. But the question I am still finding difficult to understand is that how big exactly is the problem of bitcoin that all of the forks that have come out could not solve once and for all. If all the forks coming out could not solve this 'problem' then there is no assurance that this new fork will solve it.

Its just another way to pump the price from all I can see and thereafter lure people to put in their resources after that, they look for the perfect time to exit the market.

I understand the joy you can feel here because I could relate with the effort of having to wait for like 6 minutes to respond to a message or send a PM after the last one. If I had the opportunity then, I would have taken it as well. What we can hope for is that its not been abused by people because no matter how innovative an action is, some people will always look for ways to exploit for their own selfish reasons just like the notification via emails that was introduced only for people to use that as a means to lock their account after they must have sold it to someone else.

The people I see benefiting from this and if possible restricted to them is developers who wants to post the announcement threads and start looking for someone to do if for them all over the forum. Aside that, in few months from now, this might not abate any of the clamouring issues we have around here.

I have seen a project like this which is even currently running its ICO if I am not mistaken Propethreum and its about raising fund for real estate just like the same way you have proposed here which is an area that is people are currently looking into because the housing gap is still very much high in major cities of the countries of the world.

The $1.2m is really not w small amount of money depending on the country you are looking to do that and the way people are making opinion based on where they are saying. Over here, that amount when converted to fiat can conveniently build apartments that people can rents even in choice locations of the city. The concern here is the book keeping aspect in other to guarantee investors return because real estate involves a lot of paper works and record keeping in which I personally won't trust a developer who only has idea about.

I don't think there will be need to look for someone to help you post the ANN thread because the only reason I see is the images that is being disabled for newbies basically other than that, I see no reason. But there is a provision already for that all you have to do is to pay a certain fee to the forum admin to enable that feature.

This should be seen as an advantage because you would have contributed to the forum and you can take charge of your project rather than a disclaimer on the front page about not being the owner of the project and questions should be directed to another person.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104.0

The good effect is enormous and its already here with us. You can imagine an airport runway being constructed over night in less than 24hrs that can only be possible with machines which if we look deeper, is also a function of a robot. But comparing a robot like the one Sophi who was recently granted a citizenship status in Saudi Arabia or the dolls created to satisfy sexual pleasure  or even the several ones created to work in restaurants in China, they don't get tired, they don't close work, they reduce cost of doing business etc...

Now taking a look at the disadvantage, it simply bothers down to the myriads of people who will lose their jobs because of that and the moment people start losing their jobs, they cry to government who in turn  regulate business acclivities to the use of robots and we are back to where we started from.

The same question you are asking is what someone who have asked at the beginning of the year when the price of bitcoin was below a $1000 and becuase of that did not buy just because he thought otherwise. The same person will come and cry foul on thread such as 'when did you first hear about bitcoin?' 'what is your regret about bitcoin?' 'what happen that you come in late into bitcoin?' and the most annoying thing is 'what is your greatest bitcoin regret?'. The answer to all this have one thing in common and that is what you are asking now.

The way out is, its not compulsory you save up $8200 because you want to buy bitcoin neither do you need to sell your belongings to have one. If its a $1000 you can afford, go for it. If its only $100 worth that you can spare just settle for that. Just be contended to the returns you get in six months time which will be proportional to the amount you have put in.

You are actually in the best position to answer depending on the job you are doing currently and your aspirations in life. For someone whose aspiration is not to build career or get to the top of his firm or profession and everything is about money then what else are you looking for, when the money you are seeking is what bitcoin is making available in more easy way, then I don't think you need a sooth sayer to tell you what you need to do to be in charge of your life rather than wasting away serving another man all in the name of job.

On the otherhand, if what you seek is more than money, maybe recognition in your chosen field, then I would suggest you find a way to combine the two rather than dumping one for the other because when you get the money, you will be thirsty for the recognition you seek.

If this article is anything to go by, it shows that Japan has surpassed any country in the world that I have read about which is open to bitcoin. It also shows that the country is a trail blazer while other countries follow suit. What is most surprising is that even after they witnessed the fall of the biggest exchange site, they have all te justification to ban bitcoin forever but they decide otherwise. I now wonder why countries that have not even faced any disadvantage of bitcoin effect going fully against it.

The Japanese government have opened up themselves to the future and getting ready for the next phase of action at the same time a phase of new tourist centre because rather than going to a country while I could be labelled a criminal for owning or spending bitcoin, I would rather move to Japan and enjoy to the fullest. Other countries should start learning to follow this trend.

The issue is that there are more than few ways for the improper use of bitcoin so far its money. People all over the world don't take morality as others have taken it. A lot of people even on the forum can scam for as low as $50 and still get away with it and most times, the newbies are the one that fall prey of such unscrupulous actions.

On the part of account management sometimes that is beyond individual control because you don't know who is targeting you and other times, it might be on the platform of people who you hoped that they would keep your funds safe ended up betraying you.

Another improper way are the ones who asked for ransom in bitcoin just because they don't want to be traced and made to pay for their unholy activites.

The only rumour that is good are rumours about the acceptance of bitcoin pending the time when people will start seeing the fruit of such rumour. Negative statements as much as it brings promotion to bitcoin, it makes more people to further stay away especially if such statement is coming from a person in position of authority. Considering the fact that the mentality large number of people have about bitcoin is still wrong and primitive, only few of them can take the bold step of finding more information then make their conclusion while the remainder of the others rely on the opinions of people like the bankers in Op statement about confirming what their mind is telling them about bitcoin.

Bankers are known to be against bitcoin while those who are not vocal about are always sitting in the middle by not being for bitcoin, and not against bitcoin. The reason is because, anything that might displace you from your revered position whether now or later, you don't take it easy for that to happen.

I have been faced with such issue before and its not only on Electrum but also sometimes on blockchain.info where you send an amount and you just see another ridiculous amount showing as going to another wallet that is not even part of where you send the coins to the moment you verify on blockchain. In my experience, I was always skeptical to know what's going on but when I check my balance and see that the amount is reading what should be there and the ridiculous amount could sometimes more than my entire balance, I just conclude that its a dummy movement.

I am still open to learn what really caused that to happen though.

I think there is a misconception around here because from the look of things, it seems the person answering Op is someone who does not have idea about the campaign or he is just coming in and not duly briefed on what has been done so far. If he been in the know or maybe his explanation was not clear to OP. He would have explained to Op that 'Oh we had a campaign but it has ended. The ones available now is for those who wants to develop or something like that''.

Of the managers we here, Edward is one good dude that does not even go beyond his capacity of 30 members or so. And if Dmarket didn't sanction the campaign, how did he get money to pay the participants and himself because to the best of my knowledge, nobody opened a scam accusation thread concerning the manager that he/she was not paid for participating in the campaign.

The people waiting for bitcoin to increase are not only the NewYorkers rather the millions of people all over the world who have n=one way or the other come across with bitcoin, believed in it and own some of it. A quick look at the speculation section of the forum would give a glimpse that the percentage of NewYorkers waiting are just a tip comapred to the ones we have on the forum here.

The percentage of people here is still quite high and I dont expect it to ave been happening in a country such as the United States and not even NewYork which is most likely the bedrock of every activities in the country. However, I believe its a gradual process and as we move to the next year, the percentage gets to reduce gradually.

The percentage that have invested are the real believers which I am happy to be part of even though they are less than those who generally believes that bitcoin price will increase above (43% ie 16%+27%). For those who dont want to, its your loss in few months from now.

For this set of people, we can only suggest that they are more careful in the investment decisions they want to make so as not to spoil the goodwill attached to crypto-currency.

There several ways to cash out bitcoin at this time and other new ways are opening up every day. A peer to peer website like paxful will give you the myriad of options that you can make that happen without necessarily having to convert into cash or bank in other stay away from the prying eyes of government or its agencies.

On website such as the one I said, you can convert to AliPay, bank cash deposits, western union, Itunes card, gift card, wired transfer, movie tickets, Payooner, Perfect Money, Square Up, and a whole of options you can choose from depending on which one suits your need. Just look at the internet and there are answers there for you.