Exactly.

Bitcoin does not care about its price.

Congratulations to the incoming class (outgoing class?) of Merit Achiever Scholarships. You have demonstrated promising potential that you are not only willing to achieve but able to achieve.

Unfortunately I ran out of certificates so you're all going to have to share one:



According to my calculations BIT-BENDER only needed 20 merits to level up to Hero, congrats! Everybody else got 50, and can get up to 50 more in a month. Just remind me when the 30 days are up.

And we are now at full scholarship capacity so I must lock the thread for the time being.

For those who didn't get accepted, just remember this quote from our spiritual leader, Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski:

"Strong men also cry."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEmKXm9eCE

Please leave.

Really this is what the forum has come to now where this kind of stuff gets to stay up... because the poster found a way to brainlessly shitpost without breaking any rules.

I'm starting to think this forum should be called Merittalk.

Nobody's saying you can't be here. I'm not stopping you from asking away about anything. You don't seem to be interested in anything other than forum mechanics and telling people what they should do. And you're definitely not a newbie.


It can only be the result of one thing.

Isn't it great that we have this leadership-charged generation of newbies  incoming to remind us of what we should or shouldn't be doing. 

I'm bleedingly late with work but this is too weird to just ignore. This is your first post.


Why would you do that? You weren't even a Newbie at that point as you hadn't posted yet. You were Brand New.  Not only is it highly unlikely as a Brand New user that you have advice to give "old members" of the forum, but you should realize that coming hot out of the gate with this approach

1) reflects a dismissal of the knowledge or competence of every single forum member with one or more posts
2) suggests you're not actually a Newbie.

Here's a couple secrets for not getting caught right away next time:

 - Don't start posting instructions on what the forum should be doing right out the gate, in your very first post. Usually a first post is something like "Titcoin to the moon!" or... "Why won't my Electrum wallet connect to the internet?" or even "Hey what the hell happened to my shipment of Black Arrow miners???"
 - Don't start posting in Meta right away or engage in obvious merit-seeking behavior. It means you have developed an understanding of where people post and what they post in order to get merits, in all likelihood due to prior experience with the forum.


OK KingsDen, I will take your message to heart. You sir, however, are no Newbie, sir.

Good Day.



Haha actually I'm not mad if you want to carry on, its entertaining. Couldn't quite find the GIF to express myself but close enough.

Whatever you say bud.

If you actually supplied them with your personal information, you're gonna have a lot bigger problems than a red trust to worry about. Hope it was worth it.

No, you weren't new then. You keep coming back under new accounts. The first thing you do is look for merit.

Your (new) first post is telling another member with 480 posts what they should be doing.

Your second post is telling people not to copy/paste.

You haven't spent enough time learning about Bitcoin or the forum to add anything of value here.

Try harder.

IT TURNED ME INTO A NEWT.







Well I got better.

Earlier you said - multiple times - that you had lost 1 BTC. Now you're settling for 5700 USDT and referring to it as "50%." Sorry, nobody here believes you. If you don't have time to explain it, even better.

Why would you care, you didn't participate in the bounty.

Does this not look like a face you can trust?



Projects like Bitconnect are douchebag magnets. They draw the worst society has to offer all together under one roof.

Really no different than 95% of all ICOs: just a chance for con artists to work together and really shine. There's gonna be fallout in the form of criminal charges for scams that took place in 2017-2018, for years to come.

Yes I understand that and just mentioned those parts because its part of what makes it a fascinating tale. Sorry to hear your "friend" still hasn't quite gotten over his loss (after 10 years) but at least they stopped harassing you.


Sure, glad things came to a peaceful resolution.

Wait a minute, aren't you the guy who repeatedly posted a link to that fantastic site for Livecoin victims to upload their personal information so they can get their funds back? Why yes indeed, you are.

Why did you delete most of those posts when they paid so little of what they owe you? Let me refresh your memory, earlier you said you had lost 1 BTC on Livecoin. It was a lot of money for you, you couldn't sleep, had a bad Christmas, etc.

Now all the sudden 5,702 USDT is considered "50%" of your payout?

Can you explain to the readers why getting back less than 1/6 of what you are owed is something that you are "proud to announce"?

Just curious.

He answered most of your questions in this thread already, though some of it is a bit convoluted. Obviously this is a serious matter to this person. You should inform yourself of what is going on. There's a ridiculous amount of information on what happened out there. I spent at least an hour refreshing my memory on the subject before writing a post here.

This is your starting point:

I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25,000 BTC stolen)

It's a rather amazing story worth learning about. Treachery, obsession, international espionage, the takedown of an Anonymous sect, it has a lot going on.

Meanwhile allinvain hasn't logged in yet, so there's nothing new to add to the tail end of the saga.

Yep I hacked it but the code was so genius that I just let it be and didn't change anything.

Don't worry bro. You won't hear from me anymore. And you're welcome for the free bump.

Yep MLMs are pretty awful and unfortunately a lesson best learned first hand.

Herbalife has been in business for pretty much all of my adult life. I would never have anything to do with them, but at least they're not Bitconnect, which created nothing. You can't even rub Bitconnect on your skin.

I was in the mood to watch this, or at least part of it, and I have to say, I forgive Carlos. He's pretty human, made a mistake, and we should forgive him... Last I heard he was into Herbalife, which is a step in the right direction, if only a baby step. Its hard to be mad at him after this though.

He's contributed so much joy to the world in the way of meme form after all.

This one gets my adrenaline going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5nyQmaq4k4

This type of douchebaggery in crypto needs to come to an end. It encourages the wrong people to get into crypto for the wrong reasons and gives the rest of us a bad name.

You've done a lot of great work here and I hope to expand on it a bit when I have some spare time.

This isn't a "parody" of Dogecoin, its an extremely lazy ripoff.

You just copied the Dogecoin website word-for-word, replacing the word "Doge" with "Dingo".

This has already been done 10 times this year.

OP should be tagged as a scammer on principle, but if someone is actually stupid enough to buy this coin, well they would have lost their money pretty quickly anyway, so have at it retards...

You're actually on to something here.

squall rage quit after being insulted by TECSHARE during a bidding dispute.

The two accounts have a lot of interaction:






This one is funny.


It's kind of like he's being clever to himself. He was also using his alt to drive bids up and vouch for himself.  


Also, squall could be a "she", sorry for misgendering you.



Ooh... here's squall bidding on a HardyGoods auction.


Also, both accounts like to start posts by saying "hiya all"... both are from Midlands UK... both don't like to capitalize beginnings of sentences... It's worth checking to see if HardyGoods has any alts bidding on his current auctions. After a cursory glance I found none. But I pass off the torch to someone else at this point.