Your words are exactly what people are arguing.  Every single criticism people have levelled at you is based on the words you have written here.

LOL @ the "dodgy" vanity address.

I think he's insinuating that Mt Gox doesn't have sufficient reserves on hand to cover all user deposits.

So is the JackieChonk Twitter account another account which someone "gave" you?

And why don't scammers put any effort into their flounces these days?

Just want to say what a pleasure it was to read such an informative request for funds.  Other borrowers should take note and endeavour to provide a similar level of information upfront instead of forcing potential investors to try to drag it out of them.

Good luck!

There have been but most of them don't get a lot of traffic.  I think that in the future we'll see more specialised boards rather than general ones, and that those communities will reflect the primary interests of the various market segments which make up the Bitcoin community.  As that happens, reputations for allowing or disallowing scammy shit will emerge.

A solution which has been suggested before is moving the whole of the Marketplace forum off this board.  As that's the forum in which the majority of scams seem to be born, I'm finding that idea more attractive as time passes.

And yes, I think that multiple message-boards would be a great idea.  People approach Bitcoin from many different directions and the community is now large enough that one message-board doesn't need to be try to be all things to all people.  I think this will happen naturally as people disassociate themselves from the scammy side of Bitcoin which is now endemic in this forum and as service owners move away from using it as a primary means of communicating with their users.

Didn't BFL say that they'd already planned to increase hash power in the future via a firmware update?  That would imply that the units were built to handle the higher specs from the outset and they were keeping that increased power in reserve in case a competitor emerged with better specs/lower price.  In fact, had no such competitor emerged, they could have not given the firmware update to the initial purchasers and simply released a "new" rig with the higher specs for no additional cost to them when sales started slowing down.

Baby formula isn't just about the number of calories.  More protein isn't necessarily better - only about 10%-15% of a baby's calories should come from protein and that's about what breast milk provides (the composition of breast milk actually changes over time to meet the needs of the nursing infant - this is one reason why there can never be a perfect baby formula) - the majority should come from fat.

And baby formulas are heavily fortified with vitamins and minerals in the amounts which are appropriate for infants (which isn't the same as the amount which is appropriate for adults).  There are strict standards set down for the manufacture of baby formula to ensure that it provides the right amounts of fat, protein, carbs, vitamins and minerals for infants.

Also, what ratio of evaporated milk to water are you using to make your calculations and what ratio of Enfamil powder to water?

I don't really have a problem with the whole "couch surfing as a way of life" thing.  What I do have a problem with is people who've chosen that way of life expecting others to bail them out every time they run low on funds for essential life expenses, especially when those people admit to being thieves and have said in the past that they spend the majority of their BTC on Silk Road products.

That said, people get sick of pan-handlers very quickly so Jackie's likely to wear out the empathy of people here sooner rather than later.

I'm more and more inclined to believe the same.  I'll take it a step further and say that I think "dank" is posting as more than one user in this thread.

Seeing scanned ID honestly wouldn't count for much as it's so easy to fake.

Good thing you're not trying to raise money from people on the internet then or from other people in general.  

And don't talk about yourself in the third person.  It makes you sound like a pretentious twat.

Perhaps dank can set it to music.  It moved my soul.

This is why soundcloud or youtube hits can't be the metric for dank's musical success - every link he posts gets goon-rushed by people looking to see whether it's something they can redeem through parody.

Ouch.  

You managed to elicit venom from an accountant dank, a profession known for their Vulcan-like detachment.

And please don't tell me you're not materialistic because you only bought one item of clothing.  The only reason you haven't bought the other things you've wanted people to fund for you is because no-one gave you the money to fund your wants.  You didn't even need the motorcycle to get around - you just wanted something nice.  There's nothing wrong with wanting nice things, but don't claim that you're not materialistic when you not only want those things but you want other people to fund your purchase of them so that you don't have to wait until you earn and save the money to afford them.  Buying stuff you can't afford with other people's money is the very essence of materialism.

And yet all of your requests for support on here are financial and you always talk about how much money your ventures are going to make.  You go so far as to talk about making millions and becoming a billionaire from your ventures.  I know a great many people who truly don't care about money.  Not a single one of them talks about how much money they're going to make from their craft.  They might talk about wanting to play a certain venue, to perform with a certain artist, to have an exhibition at a particular gallery, to have their book picked up by a major publisher, but they never talk about how much money they might make if they're successful because they don't define success in financial terms.  You, on the other hand, never shut the fuck up about money - whether it's how much you want from others or how much you're planning to make.

Look at your posting history here and then tell me you're not materialistic.

OK, let's start defining "famous" and "greatest musician".  "Greatest" isn't a title which can be self-awarded.

I don't want to set you up for failure, so I don't think records sold or top 100 lists are a fair benchmark.  Even if you were picked up by a record company today, there's simply not enough time for your work to be recorded, engineered, produced, distributed and promoted before the end of the year.

Live shows is a "maybe", but I don't think you should be able to count performing for free at your local college bar.  I'd be willing to count paid gigs where you can provide independent proof that your show has been promoted by someone else, though - so the ads promoting your gig plus a youtube of the gig itself showing the size of the audience is evidence I'd be willing to accept.

dank, what are your own suggestions for benchmarks for "famous"?

I'd like to ask other posters to keep financial bets out of this so that dank doesn't back out simply because he doesn't have the funds available to meet a bet.  Let's not set him up to become another MNW if he doesn't achieve his goal.  We already know that he doesn't have unlimited funds at his disposal.

The benchmarks you choose need to be objective.  Obviously our opinion of your music and your "greatness" doesn't count and neither does yours.


If it's totally free then he can just download stuff himself any number of times.  There's a site which goon musicians use where there are a number of free downloads but after that people pay for the music (the name will come to me).  If dank's as great as he claims, people will be willing to pay for his music even if it's only a token amount.

So you're not willing to be held accountable in any way for your claims that you'll be one of the "greatest musicians" by the end of the year, or any of your other claims for that matter.  You're just going to on making outrageous claims and when they don't work out you'll either blame other people for not having faith in you or you'll say that your reason for not delivering is that you had a better idea.

You expect others to believe your bullshit but you don't even believe it yourself - if you did, you'd risk the scammer tag.

This forum needs toxx clauses.  How about you agree to be labelled as a scammer if you are not one of the greatest musicians by the end of 2012?  Let's start talking about how to define "greatest musicians" so that determining whether or not you've met that goal is a simple matter.