Who cares?

Who cares?

Also, who cares?  Plus the documentary did mention that the IRS does audit art donated for the purpose of tax write-offs, though only a small percentage of them get audited.  But what do you expect?  The art market is relatively small (which the video states right in the beginning), and there's not a government agency in the US that audits every single transaction or company that's within their purview.  

Here's my impression of that video:  It's made by a professional Youtuber looking to create a "This is an outrage!" type of video, though he's not exactly screaming into his microphone.  He's probably another one of these zoomer/millenial Youtubers so common on that site who think they've stumbled upon something that no one else knows, while in reality he's just telling people what's been known for many years.  

The art market is small; caters to wealthy people; there are only a few auction houses; value is in the eye of the beholder; there's possible corruption (though the video creator doesn't provide a good argument that it's significant); centralization, life is unfair, blah blah blah.  So what's new?  And who benefits from a video like this?  The guy who made it.  And that's why he made it, because he wants to be a Youtuber instead of doing something to really help people (though that's an assumption on my part that this is the only thing he does for a living, but I see these professional Youtubers a lot and it's not unreasonable).

Oh yeah, video sponsored by CuriosityStream.

Yeah, that's one of the few idiotic features of Kucoin, which I wish they'd just get rid of (having separate main and trading accounts is another).  If I'm not mistaken, though, you must have set up a trading password when you registered your account, and I don't think they would have just assigned one to you.  Do you remember entering anything like that?  I forgot it once when I hadn't logged in for a long time, but I was able to recall it eventually.

Not having a good enough pic has also happened to me on multiple exchanges that I tried to register on, and I think the pic you send these places has to be of such high resolution that you'd need a super-duper-high-def camera just to satisfy them.  It's bloody ridiculous if you ask me--but I'm surprised that Kucoin is asking for that, since they're one of the very few exchanges that's basically non-KYC.  Maybe it's different because of where you live, but I doubt it.

Don't give up, because Kucoin has pretty decent customer service and most issues can be resolved without much hassle.  Read what Potato Chips quoted and try going that route or something similar.  Hopefully Kucoin will be flexible.

This makes me wonder if any other users of Bitvest are having withdrawal issues that might be related to lightlord's alleged illness--or rather, whether the two issues are related.  If so, there's no way a gaming site should depend on a single person, but I didn't think Bitvest was run that way (not that I gave it much thought, not having used the site myself).

I would encourage any forum members who've had similar problems to post them in this section--with details--because we could be seeing the beginning of some massive drama if this isn't an isolated event.  While I hope that's not true, I'm very familiar with the problems lightlord's campaign participants have been having getting paid, and I wish they would all just drop Bitvest's signature.  

If anything could rouse him from his silence, that might be it.  As it stands, he's getting a lot of free advertising and there's now one complaint that a user's funds are frozen (though there's no evidence presented yet).

Edit:

Oh!  I must have been typing when you posted this, and I wasn't aware that he'd paid them.  That's a good sign, and I'm glad they got paid.  So if lightlord is back, I suspect OP's issue will be handled appropriately.

No, that wouldn't happen.  You're completely ignorant of DT members as a whole and of the history of conflicts between some of them.  If Yahoo62278 started managing a campaign for 1xbit right now, the community (including DT members) would turn on him so fast it would make your clueless little head spin so fast that it would probably improve your cognitive function.

1) Wrong.  I don't even know half the members who are in the Chipmixer campaign.  You obviously haven't even looked at the spreadsheet, else you wouldn't have written what you did in your point #3, because it states how much participants make per post.  Same for DT; there's no united front aligned against...whoever you're talking about.  But if you mean they tag scammers, that's mostly true.  Obviously you're still upset about your negative trust, but I'm sure in time you'll get over it.

2) Well, you got tagged.  But that doesn't mean DT members strive to tag as many members as they can.  And don't you realize how many scammers there are on this forum?  What have you done about any of that?  Most likely nothing.

3) Addressed.

4) Yeah, OK.  That's a made up statistic based on your resentment at having bright red trust.  And please, if DT members tag people because they've received criticism, they're going to be excluded from trust lists and most likely won't be on DT for long.  I've excluded JollyGood for doing that and similar wrongly-left negs, and I'm on DT.  Do you think I'm in cahoots with him or anyone else?

See, that I disagree with.  Yobit was going to be here regardless of having a campaign manager, but the problem was that they were hiring hundreds of participants, and there needed to be someone to control the amount of shitposts.  That isn't the case with 1xbit as far as I know, i.e., they have a cap on the number of participants in their campaign.  If Yahoo62278 started managing their campaign, I know I'd have a problem with that.

I don't pay attention to who manages what campaign/bounty, and certainly not who's in them.  I'm assuming The-Devil is a participant in one of CCB's bounties, or am I off base? 

Either way, it might have been better had you either found the solution to this by communicating with CCB directly or created a thread like this after you have more than just a suspicion, because right now it looks to me like you're just trying to sling mud in a backhanded way by insinuations and questions that cast aspersions on CCB's reputation.  That's not a great thing to do; if you find sufficient evidence that there's some wrongdoing on CCB's part, feel free to bring it to the community's attention.

No problem, man.  And I've made the offer a number of times here, but I'll repeat it: Feel free to send me a PM once a month if you want me to do a post history review.  I'll be happy to do it, just ask.  I have a feeling that you haven't gotten enough merits because of the section(s) you post in.  Not having enough merit sources might be part of the problem, but another is that any good posts are buried under a mountain of garbage, so even if a source was reading a thread you posted in they might not even see it.

Keep up the good posting.

It might be too early in the morning for my brain to be functioning correctly, but are you talking about Yahoo62278's request for feedback from the community prior to him taking on the job as Yobit's campaign manager?  If so, I'm pretty sure he was trying to protect his reputation as well as doing right by everyone.  Yobit was going to run a campaign regardless of whether he managed it or not, and there was a lot of talk about Yobit needing a manager IIRC, because we all knew what was coming--a flood of shitposting.

I wasn't in the campaign; I just supported Yobit having a manager who'd be strict as far as shitposting is concerned.  As I said, they were going to run the campaign anyway, so it was basically a damage control situation. 

I might add that Yobit's reputation wasn't always what it is today, and during the time period you're talking about I don't think I was convinced they were a scam exchange (which I do believe now).  I'd used them many times for very small trades and never had a problem, though I certainly was aware of their abominable customer service and of the many scam accusations against them (many of which were never followed up on, though).

Man, great list this week!  I just sent out a ton of merits, so much that it's left me with fewer sMerits than I've had in quite some time.  As always, I'm grateful you keep this thread updated, DdmrDdmr.  Without it, I'd have a much harder time finding undermerited posts, especially those of Apocalipsa and kaggie (who I had on ignore for some reason).  Not surprisingly, great posts made in the altcoin section don't attract the attention of many merit sources, and I wouldn't have found some of those had I not been pointed to them.

I was one of those members who was for Yahoo62278 managing Yobit's campaign, and if you don't like it, too bad.  The issue was that Yobit was going to be running a campaign anyway without a manager, which meant there would be no quality control as far as monitoring the participants' posts.  It was better to have someone run it for them as opposed to them doing it how they used to circa 2015.

And Christ, did you have to include all of those repetitive quotes?  Are you the new pain in the ass on the block or what?

Why is this suddenly an issue for you now?  Did you get booted out of a campaign that Yahoo62278 was managing or something?

I'm going to give you one reason why I'm not removing my feedback (which is only a neutral, as pointed out to you).  Here's a thread started by a member who had a problem with his mobile Electrum wallet, thinking he got hacked.  Strange that he never responded in his own thread after that, but this is what he wrote:

So the person is obviously looking for very specific guidance for what looks to be a very serious problem.  And this is what you chose to write:

Let's take this post sentence by sentence.

Sentence 1: A vague reference to some statistical fact about malware on smartphones, which isn't helpful at all, nor is it backed up by any reference.

Sentence 2: This has already been mentioned by Charles-Tim, sunsilk and a few other members, and it's what the OP of the thread already said he suspects has happened.  It's a dipshit thing to write.

Sentence 3: "If not it is impossible to make a transaction from electrum wallet." This makes no sense whatsoever, nor is it helpful.

Sentence 4: You repeat that OP was probably hacked, and you even state that it's already been said.  This is followed by "following any of the footages seems to be the end decision".  What does that even mean?

I took the time to analyze that one post of yours so that you'll know why I'm not ever, ever removing your feedback. 

In fact, I would encourage other members to leave additional neutrals on your profile so that if any bounty/campaign manager ever looks, you'll be denied a position. 

You're a shitposter.  You were one in 2019 and you haven't changed since.  Your posts might have gotten longer, but the quality of them hasn't gotten any better.  What were you thinking by starting this thread?

Great answer to OP's question.  I have a question for you, though I understand if you won't or can't answer it: Is what you wrote above advice given to you by Theymos, or is your reluctance to delete posts or to be a strict moderator in the Spanish section a personal choice?  Theymos rarely gives his thoughts on forum moderation to the community, so I'm just wondering.

And the Spanish section doesn't have a dedicated ANN section for projects if I just looked at the list of sections correctly.  Where are these threads being posted?  Is it in the Spanish Tokens section?  If that's the case, I'd say ignoring the whole section is a good option if altcoins and/or tokens don't interest you--which is the case for me, and I've got the whole altcoin array of sections on ignore.  I know it's not an ideal solution (as OP even pointed out), but if altcoins aren't your thing, it's the next-best one.

Welsh, I'm sure you're doing a good job moderating the Spanish section, but it'd be nice if Theymos did appoint a native speaker as a mod.  It's hard for me to imagine that there aren't any good candidates around who'd be willing to take the position.

Edit: Csmiami, I've hit my 50 merits/month limit with you, else I would have given you far more than 2 merits.  I owe you.  If you want to remind me via PM, I'll be happy to recheck your posts.

I haven't seen any of those Youtube competitors, and I don't know if they're on par with Youtube, but I suspect that the reason they haven't caught on is because content creators can't make money on them.  It's the same reason cryptotalk.org never caught on (or at least one of the reasons), and why a lot of forums dedicated to specific, popular altcoins don't generate tons of traffic, i.e., bitcointalk is a place where you can make money by posting.

If those competitors do find a way to get the content creators' videos monetized, no doubt they'd become much more popular....but then they'd end up under the thumb of the advertisers, just like Youtube is.

Was that Soon trademarked after becoming a response to "When is the new bitcointalk forum software coming out"?  If that's the case, I'd be scared as well.

Jesus, it's about time--and they're just now forming a group to study crypto?  That doesn't seem right; even if they haven't planned to get involved with bitcoin until now, I would have thought they'd at least have done some analysis on it since 2009.  Not sure if I believe Bank of America.

Whether this is good news or not, a worse situation is happening in the US, where it's being proposed that Americans are going to be under even more financial surveillance.  Nancy Pelosi and her cadres are planning on having the IRS looking into bank accounts with more than $600 in them, and having them watch PayPal transactions and so forth.  And you'd better believe the banks are going to be in on that, so regardless of what they do with cryptocurrency, we're in trouble if the democrats stay in power.

Glad I'm not the only one who's extremely skeptical of BoA's statement.  They were thieves and liars back in 2008 (and earlier), and they're thieves and liars now.

Who are you?  You're you.  And we're constantly judging things and people every day, whether we like to think of ourselves as judgemental or not--it's just the way humans are.  And if you think NFTs are stupid, I say acknowledge that thought or else you might up thinking the emperor is wearing clothes when in fact he is not.  Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade.

Exactly.  When bitcoin was created, a lot of people saw immediately that it was a form of money far different than what the world was used to, and that it might possibly be world-changing.  A lot of people thought (and still think) it's worthless, but the fact is that adoption has grown in the 11+ years of its existence.  I strongly suspect NFTs are not going to follow the same course; they're going to go the way of Beanie Babies and all the other crapola you mentioned.

Fuck that, let's just go in, shoot Flock of Seagulls and take a bite out of the Big Kahuna burger.

OK then, on a serious note.  People are obviously looking at the word "cycling" next to the word "merit" and drawing the conclusion that merit is being sent back and forth between the oversexed members of Foxpup's clubhouse.  That isn't the case, and I'd encourage anyone to take a look at who I've sent merits to (I don't know about other Foxxxxy cyclers' merit habits off the top of my head).  You'll see that there's nothing of the sort going on.  In fact, since I have avatars ignored I don't even know for sure who my fellow Cycling Club members are (though I know who a couple of them are).

Further evidence: Foxpup used to send me a ton of merits, but that stopped abruptly once I joined the team.  That's a Fox with integrity right there.

OP has no fucking idea what he's talking about, and I could almost swear that his post was written by some kind of text spinning bot that can create paragraphs with certain words and ideas in it.  Does anything like that exist?  If not, there's no excuse for such an astounding display of ignorance.  I'm also pretty sure his merits haven't been earned**edit: I take that back after looking at BPIP**--and he's going on my ignore list pronto.

Assuming OP is just uneducated and simpleminded, I would suggest to him that he start reading about economics to get a grasp on the basics before even thinking about creating threads in the Economics section, because all I see is drivel.  

And he says this:


If that's not a face-palming head-slapper, I don't know what is.

Edit:  In the process of putting OP on ignore, I noticed his personal message space filled with this:

He might try reading some of them instead of complaining about the lack of time to do so.

I'm not really sure that is or is going to be a concern for people, since most transactions are digital and it'd be kind of hard for a war to put a big bank out of business.  People might start hoarding cash and other things, though, and that might include bitcoin.

Anyway, I don't watch the news much--it just makes me angry every time I do, and I try to keep my stress level low.  I may take a peep and see what the situation is right now, because I'm really hoping a war doesn't break out.  Not because of anything related to bitcoin, but I just hate to see neighboring countries at each others' throats.

Seriously, that could happen.  There are so many people out of work right now, whether it's because they're choosing to be unemployed or not, and I can imagine manufacturing making a comeback in the US.  It's been a very long time since the US manufactured its own electronic components, but stranger things have happened.

You already got some great answers to your questions, and there's nothing really that I can add to them except to second o_e_l_e_o's recommendation that you look into hardware wallets if you really want to keep your bitcoin safe.  Personally I'm a fan of Ledger devices, but those and Trezors are the big two and are the most reputable.

If you just want to store your bitcoin on your computer (or phone), I'd go with an Electrum wallet over any other software wallet.  You always have to keep your private keys safe, whether they're in the form of a 12-24 word seed phrase, QR code, or whatever.  You can stamp the words into a piece of metal or buy a pre-made metal wallet on Amazon or some other site.  Bitcoin Merch is a decent place to shop, and they accept crypto, as does the Ledger website and I believe Trezor does a well.  Coinkite sells Opendimes, which are pretty cool, and the ColdCard wallets, which I've never tried.  And the bottom line is that if you lose those private keys, you lose your coins--so be careful.

Welcome to bitcoin!  You're in for a wild ride.

I disagree, and it was probably appropriate for Bitmain to make this announcement.  They're telling the public and China that they're complying with Chinese regulations, which is important for their public image.  It isn't exactly front page news, but it's information that miners might wonder about had Bitmain not made the press release.

I'm wondering what all those Chinese miners have done since the stupid Chinese ban on mining.  I don't follow crypto news all that much, so I don't know if there's been a story on that.  Anyone know if they've packed up and moved to a different country or sold their mining equipment and moved on to other things?

Hey, Texas is apparently the hot new spot for bitcoin mining (literally, too).  I haven't heard much lately about the big mining farms that were planned, but Texas is a huge state with lots of open land and sunshine.  I think solar power was going to be a part of those farms.

Uh, yeah....no.  There have been enough complaints by enough individual accounts with no discernible connection that there's enough evidence that 1xbit is straight-up scamming people.  I don't usually visit the gambling section, so I'm not familiar with you or most of the personalities here, so I'm left wondering why you're vehemently defending 1xbit. 

In addition, much proof has been presented in multiple threads in Scam Accusation that real people really did get scammed.  Suggesting that they're alt accounts is just downright ludicrous.

It's rare that signature campaign participants get tagged for promoting sites/services, and 1xbit is one of those rare instances.  That alone should tell you something.  DT members don't just do that on a whim.