More humans is bad. As automation and robotics increases, then most of them will have no function other than that of consumer.

The other problem is that most of the world is still controlled by the Eton/Oxford elite that have morphed the old British Empire into a new supra-national entity that is run through trusts, derivatives and holding companies that are managed through the City of London. The origins go back to a creation by Cecil Rhodes, the Rothschilds, the English Crown, and some other dynasties. Washington, Westminster and the EU are just the fronts to act as fall organisations to protect the City of London.

There is hope though. UK politics used to be split vertically between, Conservatives and Labour, and the US had a similar structure. Recently the split has been horizontal with leaders like Clinton, Obama, Blair, Theresa May, Margaret Thatcher, and many others controlling the decision making in the "democracies", and the junior back benchers only having a minor role as noisy protesters. Nigel Farage's Brexit party is collecting those populist back benchers into one political group, and this poses a real threat to the Eton/Oxford elite. Countries auch as Italy that want to remove central banking, and the creation of debt, are another hope for the removal of the  banking slave masters.

I don't open the threads.

We have to have a topic of the moment. So far we have had -

Sig spamming
Merit
Trust
Reputation
and now we have Merit source applications.

does anyone want to run a book on the next topic?

I'm posting this via the old desktop PC that I recovered. I'm using a 10" screen, and it's really challenging.
I'm also using Firefox, and the usual text adjustment doesn't seem to be available. I need to look into that. The good news is that I can actually read the text, so there can't be much wrong with my eyes.

OK - I've found the text size adjustment, so that makes life a bit easier. I don't really need a larger screen, as I just want to use this PC for penetration testing. There isn't any WiFi at the moment, so I need to buy a receiver with a suitable chipset.

I've got a load of crypto domains that I'd like to sell for Bitcoin, but I've given up trying to sell them on Bitcoin Talk.

My problem was in securing the coins on the real Bitcoin blockchain. I didn't want to run the risk of leaving them vulnerable. I still haven't decided if I want to support Bitcoin Cash. I'm more interested in Basic Attention Token, and I've been playing with Bit Blocks. I won't have much to claim, and if I am going to do the work to claim them, it will be because I want to use B Cash, but I'm still not convinced that it is viable in the long term. There seems to be too much controversy surrounding it. Also, as has been mentioned, it is pretending to be the real Bitcoin, and it isn't - that seems to be a bit scammy to me.

I still haven't got round to claiming my Bitcoin Cash coins from the fork. I've probably left it too late. I put it off because I didn't want to run yet another node.

A market can be bullish for a week or even a month, even though it is in the middle of a long term bear trend.

Just a quick note - as you can see, I sometimes use the subject to refer to the post, and not to the complete thread. I believe that this may help with topic searches through the search engines.

As has been mentioned, signatures associated with bounty spamming are the main problem. The "correct" use of signatures are a bonus, and a thank you to responsible posters. I believe that the ability to include ref links would be an alternative way to improve post quality. If members were rewarded by results, it would mean that low value ( and low reputation ) members would not be as successful with sponsors as the high quality posters.

It doesn't really affect me, as I use my own domains for signature links. As long as visitors and Google can read signatures, then one can reap the advantages. The odd member disabling them doesn't make a great deal of difference. Well the ignorer may miss out on some offers and info links of course.

As others have mentioned, there are risks in using any 3rd party service. I spent $10 to evaluate the service, and maybe use it for small payments. If they stay honest, they could make some income from the project. The dangers are hijacking by some dishonest investor, or the failure of the service. Another reason for spending the $10 was to protect the Jet Cash name.

I'm moving ahead in the clearing of my baggage from my past, and hopefully I can spend some more time to rake advantage of the exciting changes in the world of crypto. It cost me less than $8 to register Bitcoin Patron and that is under my control and sole use. I'll use that in future for multi-coin receipts, and payments will go directly into my wallets. This means that receipts will be available for public scrutiny.

I put a link shortener on one of my domains - g8s.com, but I haven't used it for over a year. I used it to post links to images on my Jazz Pics site because the url is quite long. An example is
http://jazzpics.com/_data/i/upload/2016/10/02/20161002015142-3eab40b8-me.jpg

That is a picture of a McLaren car, so nothing untoward there. The software allows for the inclusion of an interstitial, and those can be really annoying.

A forum is a living entity with a wide variety of members and opinions. Mods have a difficult job in trying to steer the forum through some choppy waters, and they have different ideas about the dangers of floating logs and crocodiles. I've had posts deleted and moved, and If I feel strongly enough about it, I've complained on the Meta board. This doesn't do much for the post or thread in question, but hopefully if my protest has some merit, then the mod who took action will consider the opinions in the threads about the editing, and will not repeat the action if it is not in the interests of the community. Once you have had a whinge, it is best to forget about it and move on. Life is a rich kaleidoscope, once you have twisted the tube, then enjoy all the new colours, you can't recreate the old pattern once the pieces have been shaken.

Note - this post was inspired by the success of Nigel Farage in creating the nascent Brexit party.

Bitcoin Talk has to take a hard line on plagiarism. There is a major attack on the freedom of speech on the Internet at the moment. This means that forums and content hosters have to be especially careful, and take a hard line to avoid legal and other actions.

From a moral point of view, plagiarism is theft, and it is completely unnecessary . You will gain just as much credit by finding a good article, quoting a part of it, and providing a credit an a link. It also gives you a chance to add your own opinion. Take care though, the EU is trying to ban quoting and linking, but hopefully they won't have any success.

Browsers seem to differ in some of their interactions with service providers. Because I use a mix of public and private connections, I have started to learn the characteristics of these. I use the following.

Chrome
Firefox
Firefox with privacy
Brave
The Brave Tor window.

Brave doesn't always register with a WiFi provider, so sometimes I start with Chrome of Firefox to establish the initial connection. If Bitcoin Talk is the first connection, then it can cause a security problem. I find that a basic site such as xe.com gets me started, and it tells me the current price of Bitcoin. Once the connection has settled  down, I can switch to the other sites I want to access. I'm coming to the conclusion that some of the ISPs have very unskilled staff. For example The Morrisons supermarket provider has banned the Morrisons splash page as having unsuitable content.

I don't have many members in my trust list, but most of them seem to rank high in the most distrusted list. I guess this is why I tend not to use the trust list for much.

I've got a couple of sites where I post my images, and I allow other people to use them on their sites, or in posting. The software adds a watermark to the image, and I don't mind people cropping or resizing the images. However, I do require them to ensure that the watermark is included in the modified image.
The two sites are - Jazz pics and Mobile img.

I understand the risks, but if the system gains a reputation for honesty, the fees from running it should be higher than the one off hit for stealing coins.

My preferred option is a page of links on a domain that I own. When I get time, I'll try to write some software to simplify the use of such domains. Right now I'm trying to take advantage of the summer to convert my van into a camper.

Bummer.

Hopefully they will expand the service in the future.

I own BitcoinPatron.com , and I plan to use that to help people send payments to me. That will be a bit conventional though, and just use URLs and QR images.

I'm assuming it isn't a wallet, but it is just an URL shortener. If I get the chsance, I'll do a bit more research.  I'm a bit cautious about preregistering domain names for new TLDs. In the past, some of the registries have taken the fee, and then put the name up for auction, or sold to a higher offer. $10 seemed worth the risk though, as it could be a useful service.

They maintain that this cannot happen, as the address is registered on a permanent blockchain. I still don't believe that the wallet matters. Surely if you send a transaction to an address, then the wallet is not relevant. I guess it comes down to the creation of the address. If they insist that you have to use an address of their creation, then the transaction is insecure, and should be used with caution.

I'll try some transactions when/if I get confirmation of the domain registration.