You did not need to create another thread in Dev & technical discussion board - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5343800.msg57233080#msg57233080
Multi posting is against the forum rules, and this is the appropriate section for your post, the other is wrongly placed.

I like the idea of an escrow service, to mediate transactions, especially if it's trustless, as that's one of the major objectives of Bitcoin.

You mentioned a smart contract being one of your long term goals; what should users trust on till then, before putting your funds at stake one needs a certain level of assurance or some sort of collateral. Basically, why should I trust you or your website?

The OP does not specify what currency this campaign is payed in. AFAIK, binance pay supports a number of cryptocurrencies, but this service section is strictly for campaigns which pay in Bitcoin and nothing else. Can the manager specify the mode of payment? And move this thread to the appropriate section if needed.

Edit: corrected in the post below

Bitcoin spikes a little and Elon Musk posts somewhat in favour of it, most likely for clout and to give the impression that his opinion has an effect on the Bitcoin value. He's trying to stay relevant in the Bitcoin space and build on that publicity.

No one cares (or should care) if Elon musk accepts bitcoins for Teslas or not, or if he believes mining is damaging to the environment, news agencies would use it to sell articles and publications, but it should become old news after a while.

Theymos has posted about the evil units decay on the forum a couple of times, the one linked above by @hosseinimr93. I however could not find any reference on how to calculate the decay time. Although, I have to admit, it will be quite difficult to calculate without raw data, considering that an IP is usually shared by a number of people, so the evil points may constantly be added up.

This link contains a visualization of the global map from 2018 and one from 2015, you can use it as a rough reference to check decay time.

Alright, that explains it.
I'm not sure of the exact terms of dual citizens, but I would advise you not to store funds for long periods on either of the exchanges. Centralized exchanges own your funds and can flag/restrict you from sending out funds at any time if they find a reason to do so.
Also, if you've not used your accounts in a long time, then do test run in with a small amount first to make sure you can receive and send out successfully.

If I may ask, why not just use a decentralized exchange?

As I used to say; the problem is partly from the way the forum is being sold to people. Some people are convinced to join the forum by spammers and they tell them the forum is for earning not learning, and you can create multiple accounts and join several bounties to cheat the system because ranking up is difficult. They come in with that mindset and already has a biased view of the forum.

I believe the creating the forum welcome message would give newbies a succinct idea of what the forum is about which would get them thinking. Everyone has the quality to contribute positively in this forum, but are limited by their mentality.

They are aware of the pandemic and initially cancelled the tournament when it was meant to be held, reason why 'EURO 2020' is being played in 2021. They also organized it as best as possible to reduce movement of people and players. So, it's being played across 11 different countries, rather than just 1 and players are being constantly tested. Fans were also only permitted back into stadiums when it became safe for that.

About the England - Croatia game; despite the overwhelming odds in favour of England, I'll call that game 50-50. Croatia used to the dark horses in major tournaments, but they are slowly coming together into a formidable team that can defeat any other European team. England boosts of a lot of stars and are major contenders for the title. I expect a very interesting game.

If I understand, by users, you mean you have two separate accounts on the two platforms and wish to know if you can transfer between them?
Are you a U.S citizen, cause I remember U.S citizens had their binance.com account blocked and needed to transfer funds to the U.S based platform.

Yes, ideally transfers can be made between both platforms as normal.

Bitcoin already has a strong culture, or something related to it. A community where everyone is free to make their own choices and use it the way they like. There is no group of elites who can make decisions or create sponsored learning groups. Bitcoin is already a global topic and anyone who desires freedom would gravitate towards it.

The Bitcoin whitapaper may be a bad place to start. It contains lots of complex information and calculations that would be gibberish to a complete noob. Bitcoin wiki would be helpful, but the user would also benefit from being a part of a group, like this; where they can freely ask questions and learn from discussions.

Asides the fact that these ideas are pretty bad and goes against the ideologies behind Bitcoin, the forum has enough funds and the donation option has been disabled for a while now, cause the forum does not need donations.

You've made quite a number of threads about how you feel the forum should be run, I understand this is a community driven forum, but allow the admins to do their job and focus more on the purpose of this community; a platform for discussing Bitcoin and crypto related topics.

This example doesn't show that the evil points decayed, as it happens very slowly and your friend would be waiting a long time to be able to freely open an account. As you said he switched from using a public WiFi to a more personal connection, which means changing IP address, so he simply moved from an IP with evil points to one without.

Note that evil points associated with a particular IP reduces with time, but when an account is already created from that region and associated with some units of evil, the user needs to pay to enable posting as the evil points linked to an account does not decay with time.

No question is stupid and everyone always has something to learn from every discussion.
About changing the protocol, this can not possibly be done by any single person, if it could, then Bitcoin would have little or no value as everyone can create their own. Each coin is immutable and non fungible.

Changes in the protocol are possible, but it's first out forward as proposals and requires consensus to be valid and to reflect on the Bitcoin chain, otherwise a split chain might occur.
Each transaction is first validated by nodes to ensure the inputs involved are valid, before becoming available for miner's confirmation.

Saying the forum is banned in a country is wrong. Evil IP works to restrict users from creating new accounts if they get banned, so if an account gets banned, a certain level of evil is assigned to the IP address to discourage newer accounts being opened, this units of evil also affects neighboring IPs so nearby users may need to pay a fee to post on the forum, but a whole country does not get banned, it could simply be that a large number of people from a region has been using the forum wrongly.

Note that the level of evil decays overtime.

To an extent newbies are restricted, because due to the ease of creating an account on the forum, spammers and bots can scale through and post on the forum, this group makes up a number of new members. Forr this reason, posting/pm limit is reduced and newbies are restricted from joining campaigns.
This does not mean they are less preferred, any member who joins the forum for the purpose of learning would not be bothered about the restrictions, which reduce with time and increased activity.

I've not noticed any abuse against newbies, since newbie jail was removed the admins has made efforts to make the forum welcoming to newer members. Maybe more merit sources in designated boards are needed as well as the newbie welcome message, but there's no stringent restrictions.

This is not a problem with bisq or any other P2P network. It's rather a result of people's choice to more frequently use centralized platforms with growing user reach, limiting decentralized exchanges. If more people used such platforms, it would increase market acceptance.


It would be unfavourable and difficult to sell such amounts on low volume platforms.
There are also OTC options on centralized exchanges.

Trusting a third party to mediate between Bitcoin transactions goes against the idea of a trust less system which Bitcoin was created to be. Binance has a good reputation like some other centralized exchanges, but functions almost like a bank;
• Requires user data,
• Answers to the government and can submit your details to them,
• Can restrict users from transacting at any point in time, etc.

Platforms like bisq which are decentralized does not need any form of trust, you simply need to understand how Bitcoin works and what a multi sig wallet is.

No one needs to save enough cash to get a full bitcoin, you do not need to save in fiat at all, DCA is an ideal strategy to build up your Bitcoin stash according to your income rate.

You do not need to get one full bitcoin, it's a target people like to talk about, but when investing you work with your available capital using risk management. If Bitcoin goes up 50% every one holding Bitcoin regardless of the fractional amount gets 50% growth in their investment.

Did you click on the - icon besides the meta general board. Clicking that would hide all the boards under 'other', such as meta, beginners and help etc.

You'll have to click on the + sign to restore it.

You could have also changed your settings to hide meta board. To change this setting, go to your profile, click on 'ignore board preference' and untick meta. Although, I believe in this case, meta would not show up in forum searches.

I agree. It could be seen as perks for early adopters who were very influential in supporting the Bitcoin network to get to what it is today, lowering the bar to accommodate more people is not ideal and not necessary in my opinion.

But it's not really a rule, no one has to become a donator or VIP except they want to. Donations are also not needed by the forum anymore (partly due to early donation, besides funds directly generated by the forum).

Fully agree, I didn't state that power greed was specific to China; control is a part of ruling a group of people. I was only trying to correct the idea that developed countries are receptive to Bitcoin as opposed to underdeveloped ones, cause there are many examples which proves otherwise.