It depends: take my neutral feedback on this account for example. If you trust me, you'll know this is true. I couldn't create a Reference link, it was confirmed by email. Screenshots would be bad for privacy and don't add evidence anyway since they can easily be edited.
If you don't trust me, ignore this feedback.

What would it take to add a small ASIC miner into this? Would it be possible to take 1/1000th of the chips of an ASIC miner, and instead of 3500W run at 5W (a bit more per hash but still small enough to run off USB power)? It would be great for decentralization to have millions of people do some mining, but I guess the market isn't big enough to make production economically viable. You'd have to produce many millions of them to get the price low enough to sell them, and still they'd have to compete against millions of ASIC miners that are a thousand times more powerful.
I'd like it though! It would still be not for profit, but at least there would be some chance to find a block.

It really sucks that laws of scale made miners so large, power hungry and loud to be efficient.

Hey, I've seen this one before:

And 2 years earlier, he did the same:

The scam and misleading only gets worse. Those "BKB tokens" he claims to be refunding expired years ago:

I've seen the new topic. He's trying the same every 2 years, somehow using his previous scam to convince gullible people he's the good guy now. Lol.
If people still fall for his scam, despite a big red Flag banner, -11 and a self-moderated thread, they can't be helped.

See:

Of course not, he's a scammer.

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He's still using one post Newbie sockpuppets:

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Why is he advertising his "token refund" on the Gambling board anyway? The rules are One thread per site ONLY. I've reported his topic:
Update: a Mod locked the topic.

It must suck to live in a place where you think government is hurting you through tap water. I've seen old pipes in the water supply dunes: they were calicified for about 70%. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't drink it, it's natural and totally fine. The water reports are fine too, tap water is approved for new born babies. Even better: bottled water is not recommended for babies, unless it states so on the packaging (which I've never seen).
The only exception is old houses with lead plumbing, that's toxic.

The quality of water comes with colder climates. In Nevada, tap water smells worse than swimming pools, and hurts my eyes. In France, they have signs not to drink it everywhere. In Belgium, it's probably still safe to drink, but smells like chlorine, so I realized how much we drink after buying 60 liter for a few days. In Luxembourg, it tastes great! In Denmark even better. In Germany, it's fine. In Austria and Switzerland too. New Zealand tap water tastes great. In the Netherlands, it's high quality everywhere but the taste depends on the water hardness, which varies strongly throughout the country. In Norway, I've been drinking straight from ice cold mountain streams (although that's not always safe). The tap water is great. In Asia, I'd even use bottled water to brush my teeth, and drinking tap water (thanks to a bad restaurant that served it) means sitting on a toilet for a week

See Countries with the Best Drinking Water to see what you're missing out on.

I'd still like to try the tap water in Iceland. It comes highly recommended.

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Rule of thumb while traveling: do as the locals do. If supermarkets have long aisles filled with bottled water in large packages, you should probably not drink the tap water.

I assume OP is talking about referral links, not his own faucet. That's not allowed on any board.

@mallman: faucets are remnants from the past. Forget about them, there are better ways to earn money. It's up to you to find them.

It was 10 BTC, right?

Assuming you still have your wallet, it's easy to sign.

Or this. If you don't know how much you donated, and can't sign a message, maybe the account wasn't yours in the first place.

Bounty Manager: Hhampuz
Platform: casino contest
Highest Payment (BTC or USD): $1200

I like to think outside the box a bit I'm totally okay with not qualifying.

I've been in touch with several campaign managers once in a while (unrelated to this competition), but I like to avoid conflicts of interest. That's why I went "outside the box" with Hhampuz' casino design contest instead of signature campaign.

A few years ago, when I created my account, the limits were much higher (after only registering an email address). It's been lowered a few times, probably because of regulation. Nowadays it is indeed quite useless if you don't want to go through KYC.

That's incorrect. There may be time travel involved, but:

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Bitcoin is designed to be electronic cash. With cash, you can't really schedule payments, unless you create some automated payment system for it.

And that's a good thing! The protocol doesn't need to do things that can be done in another way. The protocol has locktimes, you can for instance create several transactions that will only become valid in the future. Or a wallet can be coded to do exactly this, it could have a separate balance that isn't locked with a password that can be used to schedule sending funds. Even better if that's LN enabled.

This could easily be implemented in a wallet, say in Electrum. The fact that it hasn't been done yet makes me think there's no demand for it: anyone who wants to schedule payments (and those are mainly businesses) has another system to process payments from their wallets.

Spending the funds before the locktime can be seen as a way to cancel your subscription.

When using Locktime, the transaction is not valid before it reaches a certain block (or date). No miner can change that.

Another thing to consider: the amount. If it's $100, it's not really a problem spending it anywhere. But if it's $10 million, you're going to need a car wash in Albuquerque.

That's (kinda) my point: what if they make Bitcoin illegal, they find out you used to buy Bitcoin on Binance, and then ask you where it is now. Can you have a plausible story (other than "a boating accident")?

For me, it's the opposite: banks want to know where the money came from, and the more anonymous it is, the harder this is to explain. Using P2P in combination with a bank account raises more questions than using an established exchange. P2P in person has a whole set of different risks (for $5 wrenches and for privacy).

Is this really worth all the transaction fees, just to "not have KYC coins"? Depending on who you're hiding from, the exchanges you used in the past will still have a pretty good idea you own crypto. They may not know your addresses, but that's it.

I just tested it, and the case doesn't matter. Electrum is smart enough to still understand the word.
OP must have made a different typo.

This famous quote comes to mind:

The amount may not hurt much, but it will hurt a little bit for a lot of people if you're trying to reach $3000.

Bitcointalk isn't the right place for fundraising, there are crowdfunding sites for that.

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You did come to the right place to discuss the idea though, but you'll have to do better than showing a fake picture. You'll have to be serious, which you are not. If you'd be serious, you'd know not to use a legacy address for receiving small transactions. If that's how you think you can run a Bitcoin vending machine, fees will eat up any profit you had.

If you'd be serious, you'd come up with a business plan, cost break down, expected customers, locations, and profit sharing for your investors. Asking for donations for a commercial project is just bad.

Back to the idea of vending machines: If I see one that accepts Bitcoin, I'll buy a cold beverage just to support the initiative. But most potential customers won't have Bitcoin, so you're fishing in a small pool. I also wouldn't use it often: I think we all know the feeling of paying a vending machine, seeing it move, and the product getting stuck up there. I've come to strongly dislike vending machines for this reason, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. Besides, those convenience-products are generally overpriced. That's great for your profit margin, but makes that I'm usually prepared to not need to buy those items on the road.
So it's a higly competitive market, and if your only USP is accepting something that most people don't carry on them, you may be promoting Bitcoin but you won't be making any money.
And don't even get me started on the inconvenience of waiting for a confirmation, or the risk of accepting zero-confirmation payments.

I misread your post, and didn't realize "Hodl wallet" is a wallet name (and not just referring to your long-term storage). Glad you've solved it already.

If that's the case: what's stopping you from (manually?) finding those few users, and checking their feedback?

I think there may be a bigger source to find though: users who left accurate (negative) feedback, but never made it to DT.

That's a terrible suggestion for privacy! The company behind ChatGPT built a business around plagiarising other people's text. By sharing your PM with them, you can bet they keep it and may at some point share bits and pieces with other people. Or sell it.

Fixed that for you

Thanks again for your flawless timing