I wonder if it would be a good idea to also issue these 'merit points' for actively reporting low quality, spammy posts?
That way forum members have some incentive to clean up the forum themselves. Is something like that feasible with the current amount of mods on the forum, or would the workload be too high?

I also like the idea that topic starters wouldn't have their signature displayed in the OP, but something needs to be done about these existing 20+ page spam threads.
I've always wondered why these spam threads aren't closed entirely, they don't add anything to the discussion and most signature spammers use these threads exclusively.

Another idea would be to only allow people who have been registered for x amount of time to join signature campaigns.
Aren't most of the spam problems caused by new-ish members who can just join any bounty/signature campaign?

Edit:

Something that I've also noticed is that a lot of these signature spammers still get accepted into many different signature campaigns, this is the root of the problem IMO.
It shouldn't be too difficult for campaign managers to weed out these people.

Though they might just switch over to account farming instead.

Crypto-Games Nickname: eternalgloom

Thank you and happy holidays to all the mods and admins!!

Woohoo, best news I've heard all week!

Will you support segwit addresses in the future? I've looked at the crypto-games blog hoping to find an announcement, but there's nothing yet (I think).
I know we can already use segwit addresses to send funds to our CG wallets, but will we have a segwit address on CG in the (near) future?

Thanks!

The drop wasn't as sharp back in 2013 when Mt. Gox went down, but you should also keep in mind that the price wasn't rising as much and for as long as now.
This correction was bound to happen, no way that this kind of growth was sustainable in the long run.

Add some bad news to the equation and it all seems much more understandable.

I don't know if it's such a good idea to buy Bitcoins right now, the network is awfully congested at the moment and the price is dropping.
Maybe it's better to wait until the price has dropped even lower? You'd make a bit of extra profit that way.

That said, you can always use a desktop wallet like Electrum or Armory to store your Bitcoins, do make sure you install these wallets on a computer that's not infected by malware.

A paper wallet is also an option, if made correctly it's very secure, there are tons of guides to be found on how to make one.

I wouldn't store any coins on exchanges!

No, we shouldn't stop sending Bitcoin, we should start using Segwit so transaction sizes go down.
You'll also pay far less fees if you use Segwit to send your Bitcoins, so if it's an option to use Segwit, please do.

I've made a topic about this, but it got buried pretty fast, I'll share it here anyways.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2628386.msg26744871#msg26744871

It as easy to lose money gambling in Bitcoin as it is in USD, doesn't matter.
A problem gambler will always find ways to spend his last few coins, you can't make a ROI if you have nothing left at the end of the day.

I'm willing to bet that there are people who buy Bitcoin just to gamble all of it, they're definitely not profiting from Bitcoin.
Heck they might even choose Bitcoin to gamble with because it's not regulated.

Anyone who's also subscribed to the Bitcoin subreddit might have already seen this post, but I feel it should be shared here too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7l9tda/day_2_i_will_repost_this_guide_daily_until/

Here's the most important quote from the post, but go and read the whole thing yourself, it's definitely worth it!



I would suggest everyone to look into segwit addresses and use them, you'll save a lot on transaction fees, as the size of segwit transactions is a lot smaller than that of a regular transaction.
There's a list of segwit enabled wallets and exchanges in that Reddit post.

What wallet are you using? Kinda difficult to give you a solution if we don't know which wallet you're using, you know  
If you really can't set the fee, which I doubt unless it's an online wallet, you might still be able to add more fees.

I've personally done really well with Bytecoin, which is hovering around $0.005610.
I'm a big fan of cryptonote coins in general, but some are better than others. I'm probably a bit biased because I've generally done really well with either Bytecoin and Monero.

I'm not sure though if it's a good idea to invest 500 dollars in coins that are only around 0.001 dollars in value. You should also include some other coins imo, there are a few good ones for around 1 dollar as well.

Yeah there's another way to get your transaction confirmed faster, it's called CPFP (Child Pays For Parent).

Say you received a transaction with too little fees and you want to get it to confirm faster. You basically have to send another transaction with those coins and put a higher fee on that one.
Miners will now also confirm the transaction 'above' yours because they want the fees from the transaction you've sent.

I'm sure someone else could explain it better, but that's the jist of it.

More information here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fee_bumping
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4odi90/can_someone_explain_cpfp_child_pays_for_parent/

It's pretty easy if you use the timelock function on a transaction, so you can't spend it before a certain date or block height.
The downside of this is that you really can't access your coins if you suddenly want to sell.

This is a great method for people who are having trouble controlling themselves.

How can you even write something like this? Explain how it would be possible to make something like this, without getting most of those accounts flagged for fraud and deleted?
Most of the stuff you're saying doesn't even relate to the OP. Why would he make an ICO for this?

It's a bad idea, end of story. Unless you can come up with some decent arguments for it, don't spam nonsense like this.

In that case it's really better to talk to an accountant, preferably also get a second opinion.
You might be able to get advice here in this forum, but you're not going to get anything 100% trustworthy here.

If your friend has 40 BTC, she can spare a few hundred dollars for a couple of consultations.

Investing is indeed actually starting to look like gambling, but I don't really think it's a good replacement for it.
It's just not the same, you don't see the results as fast. If anything, it's comparable to sports betting, profit or losses can be made in about the same timeframe.

Do note that most of these outlandish profits are purely driven by speculation, so the risks are also quite similar to gambling.

I think that I would not have too much fun gambling if I owned more than, say, 1 million euros.
Gambling seems rather pointless if you have that much money and I'm not really looking to become a high roller, gambling with a few thousand euros per bet or anything like that.

If we're talking about BTC exclusively, I think around 20 BTC should be enough

Yeah there's actually a forum that's exclusively for discussing Bitcoin and crypto gambling.
Their website is pretty slow for me at the moment, so I hope it's a bit better for you.

https://forum.bitcoingambling.io/

It's not dead, but it's also not that active, just so you know

Otherwise you still have: https://forum.bitcoin.com/gambling/

But that's obviously owned by a company, one that I'm not particularly fond about at best...

I only play at online casinos, I generally don't really like the atmosphere at real casinos, at least not the ones in my country.
Most of the casinos over here are either kinda sketchy or look like they're only for rich people.

With online gambling, especially on provably fair sites, you know what the odds of winning are and you know that you're not being cheated.
I have my doubts about that in real casinos.

Yes! I would still have use for it as a method of payment and storage of wealth. It would actually be very useful for me to have something that didn't change in value.
For me it's also much easier to use than a bank account for example, and more secure than a credit card.

I'm not using Bitcoin purely because of its ever-increasing value, otherwise I would have left back in 2013 after Mt. Gox crashed.