Congrats @fillippone, well deserved buddy! After all, its only natural that Italian wins pizza bake-off contest.

As the title says, PayPal is finally allowing their users to move their Bitcoin to their own wallets. PayPal went a long way, from getting people banned for buying Bitcoin using PayPal ( I know few people that lost their PayPal accounts due that) to now this. I am just curious how many PayPal users will actually go for that option and start taking responsibility for their own money. Somehow I doubt that number will be huge, bits its a good thing to have that option and is a step in the right direction.

Maybe because chances of Italy going into civil war/coup is much lower compared to African countries and its logical to assume that poorer and more unstable countries are hit harder? And no, inflation rate in Italy is not at the all time high, it was much worse in 70s. No matter how shitty situation is in Europe, its immensely worse in Africa. And no, I am not saying that we should be thankful that we are getting fucked less in this situation and be happy with it, but imho no need for this doom & gloom attitude.


Italy and other European countries can't solve shit.

Doesn't sound like a piece of mind at all to me, someone else being in control of my crypto.


Tell it to the people that lost bunch of money during MtGox fiasco, and many other exchanges that failed miserably. Even though it may seem like Binance is at the top since forever, they are around only for a couple of years and there were other exchanges like them that went bust so if you think that Binance/Coinbase are too big to fail, think again. Also, there is soemthing called selective scamming, you might wanna check it out.

Once shit hit the fan (and it will eventually), "your" money won't be safu.

Because huge amount of crypto investors are nothing but a degenerate gamblers that are into all this to get rich quick and nothing else. They don't care about decentralization, being your own bank thing or whther altcoin have any utility. It's not like we didn't have bunch of examples in the past, like ETC that had several 51% attacks yet people are still somehow hodling (even mining) that. There are other well known altcoins that fail miserably like Luna did. My guess is that one of them will be ADA.

Saw recently the meme that explains this Luna 2.0 situation perfectly



 

Who says anything about advocating for them? When I said that you are hired, I of course meant your signature space/avatar as that's the thing that you offered to them in exchange for money. I don't know about you, but for me being hired doesn't equal to someone owning me.


One of the rare long term signature campaigns that accepted Member rank was Bustadice, I was accepted as a Member rank but one of the problem was that you were essentially stuck at your initial rank even after you ranked up, as I remember being Sr Member and still getting paid Member fee. Nevertheless, I do agree that more campaigns should lower their requirements as there are always couple of quality lower rank members around but

We get similar attempts on the daily basis so that's why people are so suspicious about your real motive here.


That is oldest trick in the book and  is proof enough that its a scam website and that should be avoided at all cost.

Care to share where are they registered with "e-money license? Unless they are registered with FCA (Financial Condust Authority, where all legit UK business that offer some type of financial service are registered) but somehow I doubt that. And even if they are registered there it doesn't mean that they won't scam people. Best case scenario they are registered with Companies House but that means nothing really.


Of course they can. People scam other people using their own name all the time so I don't know why are you so surprised that someone like Criptodebit who provided very little info about their own business ran with people's money.

So far I've been part of 4 different signature campaigns and all were going on for quite some time so honestly I didn't do in-depth check ( I did check briefly though) as if there was something seriously wrong, someone would have discovered long time ago it as this forum doesn't lack good detectives.


I would definitely check brand new casino/exchange signature campaign before joining. I even busted one brand new bitcoin signatures campaign that had some fishy things going (iirc it was some wallet and they copy/pasted their whole content and concept from another project) and that was hosted by a known manager so in case of a new campaign I would recommend to do proper due diligence and not to rely on manager to do it for you.


No matter how you feel, they did hire you. Then again, that doesn't mean that you have to defend them and no reputable signature campaign will ever ask that from people that they are wearing their signature. With that being said, people do tend to defend the business they are promoting (in case of a long term campaigns), but I think that has more to do with the fact that they are either using that service or it has good reputation on the forum rather than just because they are paid to wear their signature.

I stopped thinking like that long time ago, how much would BTC be worth now if I didn't spend it long time ago because chances are that  if you didn't buy VPN back the, you would sell your BTC year or two later, for a fraction of a current price.

This reminds me of a friend who tried to tease me year ago, asking me whether I feel stupid that $100 worth of BTC that I spent on VPN now worth like $600, not knowing that I bought that Bitcoin when price was ~1k and used to it buy VPN when it was around ~10k. So yeah, that was really stupid move from me, according to him.

Mislim da odabir Discorda nema veze sa jednostavnijim glasanjem nego vise sa time da se taj bitcointalk Discord server pokusava odrzati na zivotu jer izvan tog tradicionalnog contesta i nema previse aktivnosti tamo. Taj contest i je poceo tamo tako da mi se nekako cini da ce se i slijedece godine odrzati tamo a ne na forumu. 


Slicna stvar je i kod mene. I dok sam na pocetku jos malo i bio aktivan na bitcointalk Discordu serveru, jednostavno nemam volje ni vremena biti jos aktivan tamo, pored bitcointalka, telegrama i par drugih foruma. Na papiru  je Discord dosta dobra platforma za komunikaciju ali se jednostavno nikad nisam navukao.

Evo i mjesecnog pregleda naseg lokalnog boarda, uz nikad vece zakasnjenje ali jebiga bolje ikad nego nikad. Pregled je napravljen uz pomoc @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda and @TryNinja Ninjastic.spacea

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Broj postova za Travanj 2022.

Pad se nastavlja; tijekom 4/2022 u nasem boardu napisano je ukupno 296 postova sto je solidan pad u odnosu na 3/2022 kad je napisan 351 post. Za ovaj pad ja najvise krivim slackovica koji nazalost nije bio clan ni jedne signature kamopanje a bez njega aktivnog nema dobrih rezultata.



Na ovom dolju chartu taj konstantni pad se jos bolje vidi, koji traje vec najmanje godinu i pol i iskreno ne mislim da ce se nesto promjeniti u buducnosti.



Situacija doduse nije nista puno bolja ni na vecini ostalih boartdova koji takodjer biljeze rekordno niske rezultate tako da smo unatoc slaboj aktivnosti i dalje u sredini. Lokalni boardovi samo prate trennd ostatka bitcointalk foruma tako da ovo sa lokalnim boardovima nije izoliran slucaj. Zapravo je nevbjerojatno da cak unatoc nikad boljoj situaciji sa signature kampanjama broj i dalje konstantno pada sto govori koliko su forumi opcenito popularni.



Ovaj chart sam prvi put napravio nedavno tako da evo ga opet. Nema nekih velikih promjena kad se gleda ovako na mjesecnoj bazi ali mislim da bi razlika bila poprilicna da usporedim brojeve od prije godinu dana i danas. Mozsa bas to i napravim u slijedecem pregledu, cisto da se vidi i to.



Jos jedan od novih chartova koji nam otkriva logicnu stvar da sto neki board ima vise postova, tako su i sanse da ce prosjek biti veci jer je jednostavnije pisati ako ima veci broj drugih clanova koji su aktivni.

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Analiza merita za Travanj 2022.

Tijekom 4/2022 u nasem boardu podijeljeno je 186 merita sto je super broj s obzirom na nasu aktivnost, a pogotovo kad se usporedi sa 3/2022 tijekom kojeg je podijeljeno samo 118 merita. Nekako mi se cini da ce 5/2022 biti slicniji 3/2022 ali budemo vidjeli.



Kad se uzme u oizbir da smo imali rekordno nizak broj postova u kombinaciji sa jako pristojnim brojem merita, ne cudi da je smo u 4/2022 imali prosjek od cak 0.62 merita po posto je skoro duplo vise nego u zadnjih 12 mjeseci. Ako se ne varam mislim da nam je to i rekordni prosjek, samo mi bilo puno bolje da je to ostvareno sa puno vecim brojem postova.

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Lista aktivnih clanova naseg boarda tijekom Travnja 2022.

Slackovic je naravno i dalje najakticniji clan naseg boparda, unatoc cinjenici da je vecionu vremena (ako ne i cijeli mjesec) proveo bez sig kampanje, tako svaka mu cast. Broj aktivnih clanova je nazalost i nikad manji, ima nas mozda svega desetak koji koliko tolko redovno pisemo, ostali samo ponekad navrate.

1. slackovic [52]
2. Trofo [33]
3. Daniel91 [32]
4. casperBGD [30]
5. dkbit98 [25]
6. Pmalek [21]
7. CroBoy12 [20]
8. FatFork [19]
9. cryptofrka [17]
10. Rikafip [16]
11. Domchi [7]
12. jojo_surf [4]
13. ivek2021 [3]
14. stretchw [3]
15. Franczeck [2]
16. ruleset [2]
17. sbogovac [2]
18. 101st [1]
19. BitGoba [1]
20. Bitconia BIA [1]
21. Branko [1]
22. btcltcdigger [1]
23. icopress [1]
24. joker404 [1]
25. seljo [1]

Yep, I think that we are still not there yet and I will gladly take a 2nd best thing, using 3rd party service to spend my crypto. Just 3-4 years ago that was much harder to do, unless you wanted to pay using one of those debit cards with very high fees so who knows what will happen in the next 3-4 years.


As a matter of fact they do have promo but it's nothing special, only 10% off during promotion period.



Me neither, but I heard so many people complaining over that, saying stuff like "why businesses don't want to accept bitcoin directly, are they stupid" while in reality they never own any business and had that kind of responsibility. Talk is cheap.

As the title says, one of the more popular fast food chains in the United States started accepting bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies). One may say that it's not a real deal as they will do it via 3rd party service (in this case Flexa) but its a good news nevertheless and a step in right direction. Expecting that these big chains accepts bitcoin directly is kinda naive, but the way things are developing I don't think that its out of the question in the relatively near future. After all, who would have thought 10 years ago that bitcoin would be in situation like this?

Ninjastic counts deleted posts so you get inflated numbers and that's the main reason why I was trying to avoid it while making these overviews, but since Russian board numbers got consistently screwed due high amount of deleted/moved old posts I started using that instead of merit dashboard. Unfortunately there's no perfect solution for this, and majority of local boards don't have a lot of spam anyway so in the end numbers are not that much inflated.

Yep, interesting chart. Maybe issue with Chinese and Russian board post deletion could be sorted by using data for those two boards from ninjastic space?


Tbh, weekly overview was an overkill so good decision to do it on a monthly basis instead. Since you are failing that as well maybe you should think about doing it on a bi-monthly basis.


It sucks when real life obligations get in a way of our forum activity. I always had an issue with finding the balance when it comes to forums as for me was either I'll spend few hours every day, or I won't show up for a couple of days at all. Lately its been the latter for me.

I don't think that Russia is in much better position, it's just that their government doesn't really care how an average Russian citizen lives so maybe they are in better position as they don't have to worry about public opinion.


Sanctions won't work due simple reason that Putin doesn't give a fuck about his own people, and it's not like they can overthrown him on elections like in the west so in the end it's just a waste of time(and money). After all, we saw how sanctions worked in North Korea, Cuba etc. And it's not like Russians don't have a history of dictators making their life miserable so for them that's business as usual.

Ditto. It's like someone is forced to join this forum and be active here or like its some sort of a job and you need encouragement. Its just a forum, where people come to ask questions or talk with like minded people. But since this is the only forum I know of where you can actually make decent amount of money it evolved into this ridiculous thing that you can't find anywhere else.

Seriously, if you go to any other forum and open a topic like this you would get seriously ridiculed while here you often get merit. Not in this case, but if OP was more eloquent I have no doubts that he would scoop at least a few and as long these type of topics get merited, people will keep creating them.

Ah, now I get it. Not a bad idea (and something I would like to see too) but goal of this topic is to compare local boards and not to compare how they perform against the forum in general. As I said before, I wanted to to keep this overview brief and its already kinda too big so I am not so inclined to add even more charts. But I will definitely think about it and maybe include it in one of the future overviews.



Yeah I saw, our local forum is not the same without him being all over the place.

I read it like 10 times and honestly I do not understand what kind of chart you have in mind. To compare total amount of posts in local boards vs general board as a whole or local boards vs all other boards? Or something completely different?