After taking an inspection of Loyce's most recent DT list for the first time in a year or so, I noticed that we're now up to 441 DT members (it was actually at 486 last month). This seems like a lot, but a significant portion of them are inactive accounts and haven't contributed for years. Others have only ever left 1-2 ratings.

We all have different opinions when it comes to "quality control" issue as its applied to trust ratings, but I was hoping to get some input on whether DTs would include, exclude (or neither) the following accounts, just to get a general opinion of what they think standards should be for DT inclusion.

I'm not accusing anybody of anything or trying to start a fight, just trying to gather opinions.

Would you include the following users in your trust list?

I think these are worth debate, but probably OK:

icon73
pasrical
btcapollo
fyoung55

These don't have a trust list and have left 2 or less ratings:

Iwtym
daraghna

Trust list with 1 inclusion, 1 trust rating:

coinminerdotcom


Again, just looking for opinions, no flames are necessary.

I've also supported the flag. I held out hope that it wasn't Vareole communicating with the OP, but he admitted that it was, and now it looks bad. Vareole was helpful in outing scammers but of course that doesn't necessarily mean that he's not a scammer himself. A shame.

I watched all six games but I really only liked the ones that I won. The other two were severely disappointing, how could they throw the game just because they knew I bet on them. How dare they.

Ty's been quiet, wonder who he likes this weekend.

I'm gonna be rooting for the Rams but in no way betting on them.

Baltimore/Buffalo will be the most exciting game IMO... looking forward to that one as well.

I don't know what to make of the spread on the Chiefs/Browns game; I think its probably a little high but it doesn't attract my money.

For a bet I find Bucs/Saints to be the most interesting game. I don't know how I'm going to play it yet but I like the idea of only betting on the last game so I don't sulk through the remaining games of the weekend.

With record-high hash rates being set all the time, I don't think the's any danger of miners slowing down or losing revenue. Mining is still incredibly lucrative and IMO the amount of energy thrown at mining is wasteful. However, its set by market forces beyond anyone's control.

The miners will never stop mining, even as rewards approach zero. Even if its just Satoshi booting up his desktop from 2010 and solo mining to keep the network alive after society has collapsed, mining will never stop completely.

So long as Filipinos are getting paid to Coins.ph addresses, bitcoin remains a currency for at least hundreds of thousands of people, as they make sending it and converting it within their system pretty seamless... I think wallets that service customers in countries whose governments have a similar hands-off approach to crypto regulation also remain unaffected; of course we are now relying on a 3rd party. But there are some wholly capable companies out there, and so long as the cost of moving money through them remains lower than conventional systems, bitcoin will remain a viable currency for millions of people around the world.

Where's Lambie?

Tulsi Gabbard was in a local commercial just now and she was looking pretty good.

She'll still look good in 4 years; maybe by then some crazy shit will have happened and she'll be elected as the hottest president ever. We can only hope.

I'd also settle for AOC.

Oh yeah, I said it. It will happen eventually so prepare your retented anuses.

That's funny. That's exactly how I feel about your take on the subject. I think you are being intellectually dishonest for continuing to claim otherwise. Even removing the tons of evidence I have provided, you're still left with evidence suggested by hilariousandco about them using the exact same words while writing reports. And then you've also completely removed the aspect of common sense.

I don't care what kind of deal Lauda had with Quickseller to pretend they're not the same person. You should have just let Lauda's words on the subject speak for themselves instead of trying to re-interpret their legacy.

That's my final opinion on the subject.

So long as the mempool is crowded and fees are high, bitcoin isn't dying. Lack of usage is what kills things. I do agree with your underlying sentiment that more emphasis should be placed on using BTC as a currency and not an investment.


I understand what you're saying here but do you really believe that bitcoin can be as boring as gold? I think bitcoin will always be more interesting as it is dynamic and capable of a lot of things gold isn't. As far as price volatility is concerned, gold has a several thousand year head start... not sure BTC will ever be as stable in price.

I don't do it for others, but there are a handful of people that are compelled to send me a merit after I send them -- in all likelihood they think they are performing a common courtesy.


suchmoon has given out more merits to more forum members than anybody else on the forum:



#1 in Sent and Circle... you literally won't find a more open-minded merit-giver on the forum.

Did this happen today, or yesterday?

They paid good money for that account and are frustrated it hasn't been paying off.

The original account owner was Filipino:


Then at some point in 2018, probably April or May, it becomes owned by a Bengali:


I'm leaning towards thinking the same person owns it now as they are still using the same Telegram account.

Like The Pharmacist I don't see a problem with leaving this guy a red tag because of what he did to you, but its up to you of course.

Roach got offered a job fudding stocks to keep prices low for post-covid crash buyers, so he had to take it up as it was more lucrative than working here. Unfortunately he died at the hands of literal neo-nazis, who had mistaken him for a government plant and bludgeoned him to death with his own 40 lb bars of silver.

I followed this thread for a long time. Not surprised by the way things turned out.

Here's the interesting thing: aliser is still receiving payouts from freebitco.in at an old address of his:



Here's the most recent one, sent Dec. 14:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/c0ab541977cdd3206ccfc2d97d4037c5f93c7a68b73c8b97f595f37232fbef1e

So if I were a victim I would try to stop this guy by contacting freebitco.in and letting them know what's up. His payouts are small but there's a chance they might be able to help identify him.

BNB has always been an attractive coin, even when it was just a token. It's done better than most alts, ever, and while the actual usefulness of Binance Chain is debatable it maintains some value because of the credibility of the brand behind it...

TBH I sank a bunch of money in a poorly-performing alt, it having been on my radar since last spring. So, I forgot about this thread.

I keep thinking "tomorrow will be the day" that some new rich bitcoin money finds its way into it. Probably a lot of people holding out the same hopes for their personal bag right now.

No, I'm not interested in anything related to defi whatsoever. Having said that, I read through your white paper and was glad to see original concepts being presented for a change, compared to the average trend chasers that advertise projects in this section.

I don't think its going to work but since I've now commented in this thread I'll receive updates on your progress, and you're more than welcome to prove me wrong.

The question I want to know is what kind of guarantee do your investors have that the oracle for vSPY will remain up and running, connected to a DEX to help keep the proper price peg? I would be afraid of going in to this project only to see the oracle disconnect from the DEX a month or two into it, leaving anyone holding vSPY with a bunch of worthless tokens.

Bitcoin is one of the only assets in the world where the price of transacting is rises along with the price of the asset. So 20 sat/byte today is 4x more expensive than it was in July, and that's actually far below what it would take to secure getting a tx in the next block (currently 40 sat/byte).

The network itself is fast; its getting the confirmation that is the lengthy part. I transact in BTC 4-5 times a week and most of the time I'm not in a rush to receive the BTC, neither are my recipients in a rush to get their BTC. So cheap fees are fine with me. 

The 2nd layer architecture is there. More exchanges need to follow in Bitfinex's footsteps and accept Lightning and Liquid BTC, allowing customers to convert between the different 2nd layer solutions without having to pay a fee. Eventually those serious about transacting in BTC will find ways to incorporate these solutions in order to save money on fees...

Sky's the limit for BTC once more txs are offloaded from the main chain.

Do you guys have any respect for reality, whatsoever?

Of course Trump isn't going to invoke the Insurrection Act, and of course FEMA has nothing to do whatsoever with that. Of course whatever source that says otherwise is hot garbage.

It's a bit ironic that he caused the disaster he is declaring to be an emergency, but it's better than nothing.

Because Vareole has locked this thread about elmanchez alts:

I had my eye on user JasonClauch for a while because he was trying to milk merits in a couple of pretty odd ways. I suspected he was the alt of a scammer but didn't know which one. In November, Vareole posted this:



I was skeptical about the screenshot but when I looked up JamyNRK on Telegram, this is what I saw:


The reason why I bring it up now is to let @DireWorldM14 know that elmanchez is around and also because he just started posting again after a 3 and a half month break.


Probably trying to build another account, starting with small trades...

What the actual f-burger

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit