I do in fact remember Xtrabytes being shilled all over several internet boards a couple of months ago. I haven't heard of it ever again after the dump. Looks like the usual pump and dump cycle. It's difficult to estimate if everyone pumping an altcoin is a paid shill or not. I think shilling happens organically when critical mass is hit. We get people convincing other people to buy, then these people, without being paid and as vested speculators, tell other people to buy, this creates the classic bubble scenario with the consequent dump. Paid shills may be at the initial stages to "get the ball rolling" but the rest is just organic internet speculation. Kids these days are becoming addicted to altcoin gambling. But hey, if you can extract some value from them, no hater here.

But are you forced to deliver a phone number or can you bypass the 2factor authentication? I would rather not have to enter a phone number since that is anti privacy and i don't really need 2 factor authentication, not to mention the whole thing is just retarded and exploitable, anyone that isn't stupid doesn't need anything else but an email a password and a recovery email in case you lose the used email.

Just because a battle seems lost doesn't mean you should stop fighting. By your logic, let's just stop banning spammers then? because there will be spammers with or without merit system.

And yes, you are right, a lot of people forget to report even the most obvious spammers, but what makes you think people aren't going to forget to give merit points as well?

And as all merit systems, they will be gamed/exploited. Namely, now we'll go from some broken-english shitposter trying to reach Legendary to some broken-english shitposter trying to reach Jr Member (which is achievable with 0 points of merit) in order to put a bunch of Jr Member accounts in signature campaigns, so it may even increase spammers as they will assume it is simply impossible to get higher ranked accounts anymore and instead of focusing in one account, they will focus on bulks of Jr Member accounts. I don't think it solves the basis of the gross volume of spammers which are the lowest value ones. I can tolerate the less obvious spammers, but ultimately the hardcore shitposters will still remain active.

No matter what, you are going to need mods to get care of that, it's a constant work that needs to be done. You can't ruin the forum for everyone else by adding anti-privacy friendly requirements on the registration for instance.

Other potential exploits include "merit sources" giving merit to other accounts which they control (impossible to prove), or someone negging you because you give merit to someone that you like but they hate, or someone thinking you are giving merit to an account you control when you aren't and so on.

This is nonsense. This forum is privacy friendly, Tor friendly and so on, theymos doesn't mind people using Tor or the use of other accounts. Bitcoin within itself is privacy friendly and goes against the concept of KYC. What's next, requiring a selfie ID to open an account?

The point of this system is that since you have 0 merit points by default, you cannot get high level accounts to spam 400 times a day on sig campaigns by mere farming. Now let's just see how it works in practice, because these kind of systems are typically gameable/exploitable and potentially unfair, as in such an huge high volume forum, good quality posts may keep getting unnoticed and not valued enough for people to rank in a reasonable time, or people just forgetting the system even exists and not remembering to rate a good post and so on.

I would like to see more mods banning the obvious spammers and third worlders (nothing against third worlders, but just stick to your native language section or learn some basic english) and more efforts put into the account recovery problems to make it faster rather than this tbh, but we'll see how it goes.

Only if you actually send them the info they know. You have your right to refuse to do so and search for another exchange. There will always be people hosting exchanges somewhere where the KYC thing isn't required.

There's people saying here that Binance doesn't require anything and has a 2 BTC withdraw daily which is pretty good. I will give it a try.


So they require a phone number? that's still annoying. I could get around it tho, but is there a way to just enter an email and password and be done with it?



Only if hosted in a country which requires KYC.

I think it's still possible a revisit to $7500 ish happens, but it's also possible that it doesn't happen and $9227 was it... let's see if it doesn't go below the former dip of $10487 otherwise I would start assuming that it will not hold above $10000 for much longer.

If you believe in Bitcoin long term, then the entry point from the current price to $7500 is not that big of a deal compared to the potential prices 5 years from now, so I would go and buy right now with half the money, and save half in case it goes under $10000 and dips harder, then buy with the other half. If it starts mooning for an ATH, then buy the uptrend.

Bittrex used to not care if you didn't provide any info, then they started freezing accounts randomly asking for ID scans, phones, addresses... yeah no thanks, im not going to give my dox to pontial scammers, I just want to trade some altcoins (and some people have their money frozen even after entering details)

I was using Poloniex, but similarly, my old account is now considered "Legacy" and is now a matter of time where they will freeze it and not leave me do anything unless I enter all kind of details which I consider unsafe. $2k withdraws a day anonymously used to be enough but now these times are going to be over soon.

What do we have? Livecoin and cryptopia are some exchanges im using to speculate with some altcoins but their volume is really low. Can you register in Binance and trade anonymously? Never tried to get in there.

Stipe drained Ngannou's energy after the 3rd round by using his weight mostly as Ngannou tried to get him off his back but he couldn't because his big muscles were completely depleted, then he just ended him with repeated short range punches as the guy couldn't even walk anymore.

Draining energy like that is a defensive approach, just like what casuals call "hugging" in boxing. If he wasn't defensive he would have gone for the KO but he was cautious.

Im a casual UFC fan as in I only watch the big title fights or fights in which I know who the guys are, but I am not a casual boxing fan so I know how the fight game works which means I understand why Miocic didn't want to do anything stupid. It's like when casual boxing fans trashed Mayweather in being "too defensive", as if being too defensive against world class boxers was easy and not an art in itself, and you don't win 50 fights with 0 loses by being "too defensive" only.

There are tons of forks out there. I have lost track of them, so basically I don't know what the exact amount of total BTC I own now because of all these stupid forks. I cannot be bothered to move my private keys around to access coins which could be scams as in the clients having malware and whatnot.

Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Super Bitcoin, United Bitcoin, Bitcoin Silver, Bitcoin Platinum... I reckon I must have a decent chunk from the sum of all these coins, eventually I will get around it and access them and sell them all.

While it is fair, it is a very negative trait and will most likely ruin your project. "Pre-mine" is an instant alarms trigger in the cryptoworld when it comes to scam. Ideally, you want to be able to find other ways to get money yourself out of your project. Typically, no one believes in your project or few people do, so just like satoshi, you should mine your own project right at the beginning of the launch, or whatever other method to quickly obtain tokens but do it after it's released for everyone to see. While some pre-mined coins like Darkcoin succeed, it is a very strong burden to carry in the long term. ZCash for example is ruined because of the stupid coin distribution where devs get a % from.

I just said in another thread how incredibly stupid is to take a selfie while holding your ID card and uploading it into the internet. GPG is a think so we don't need to do that anymore. If ICO's cant take cryptographic proof then they shouldn't be on crypto. If they have legal problems they should host their ICO somewhere where GPG ir bitcoin address verification is enough to get involved in the project. Im not giving my dox to crypto scammers. And stay away from exchanges too. You never know where the database will end up once it gets "hacked".

I wouldn't bother. I don't trust any exchange to give them my dox info and I don't trust any ICO to give them my dox info as well. The point of crypto was to avoid having to do ridiculous things like having to take a selfie holding your ID, which can easily end up in the dark web and can easily be used by criminals posing as you. It's completely retarded and im not going to take that risk to invest in some ICO which most likely brings no real value into the field.

I never doubted Cormier winning, he is a world class fighter, Olympian with several gold medals... it's another level. There's no point for him to keep fighting, Jon Jones was the only guy that could match him and he is out indefinitely because of the drug tests.

Ngannou has no ground game.

UFC 221 has no big stars that I can identify other than Mark Hunt, will not stay awake to watch it live, as a casual UFC fan I have no idea about these guys so will not bet anything.

My prediction went on pretty smoothly. Cormier's age and shorter reach was not a problem and he kicked ass easily, made a cool 200 bucks on that bet.

Didn't bet on Miocic's win but could have won too. I gave Ngannou a chance for an early KO but didn't happen.

This is why I never gave a single exchange my ID. Back when I still bothered with trading, you could go to any exchange and trade altcoin to altcoin back and forth without any sort of information, the withdraw was small but enough to get some altcoins that I was interested win without giving my dox to some exchange controlled by god knows who.

Poloniex used to be like this too, and suddenly now it seems you need full verification for crypto to crypto too.

Luckily I got my funds out of these exchanges before these policies got put in place.

Now if I want to trade and get some altcoin, im forced to either do a full verification or use some of these low volume shitcoin exchanges that still don't require verification.

I will never feel safe giving my ID to crypto exchanges, so get your coins out into a wallet, and hold them until you want to convert them into something else. Everything else is a needless gamble.

How do the forkers (as in these trying to fork Bitcoin) sit within your theory? We have for example the theory/conspiracy of Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen (and now Craig Wright as well) being hired by the CIA to promote the several amounts of Bitcoin fork attempts that have taken place (XT, Classic, Unlimited, and Gavin also supported Bitcoin Cash).

So what role do the forks and the forkers play within your model specifically?


And about the name, you already talked about Verify using the CRED token... will this be a problem? I mean it's already on a couple of exchanges.

There's also "Decred" and another one called "Credo" (whatever that is). If CRED becomes huge enough I don't see these being a problem, but with so many alike names you really want to stand out to not confuse noobs.

Just made a thread on this on the economics section. I think yes that is the case. The public perception is that anything that makes a government seem less robust will make the price of bitcoin go up, and "government shutdown" fears are always a nice bullish trigger for nation neutral assets. Gold went up $4 dollars in the past few hours lol.

I remembered how some people claimed Monero sounded like a mexican name or something, I then realized that "dinero" means money in spanish so that must be the connection to some claiming "it sounds mexican", not sure fluffyponny was aware on that.

fluffy doesn't indeed seem to care much about marketing. I reckon he once trolled people into thinking there was going to be some huge reveal in a conference, then he just played some comedy video making fun of ICOs and the market tanked (after the pump, so could also have been insider trading). Then again pretending not to care about marketing and the project's self image is also a form of marketing.

The news of a potential US government shutdown seem to be in sync with this 8% bitcoin rise. Coincidence or not? It was going up anyway and this seems to have triggered a pretty nice green candle. There's US government shutdown fears almost yearly but it has only happened 4 times in 25 years, I wonder how bitcoin will perform if it actually happens, I assume it will perform very well.