Yeah, I'm not sure it even works very well because every other website that uses it seems to have a lot of downtime and cloudflare errors. There's seemingly no difference between when we had theymos' own version and it's been especially bad today. Barely been able to use the site at all, so not sure how effective the service really is if the forum is still going to be unusable.

I've suggested that it be pegged to fiat to avoid the same situation that happened with the current donator ranks.


Yeah, they should be separate from the current member ranks. Activity is actually a great system and you should have to earn that naturally over time, but I don't mind people paying for the perks. It's much better than them either just shitposting to rank up or buying an account from a shitposting farmer or hacker.

Because there's only two admins with the power to do so and they are both swamped and don't have the time to look into everything that needs sorting. It's a shit situation but only theymos has the power to do something about this. I've told him that he should either promote someone else to admin or consider paying himself a reasonable wage and do admin duties full time because it's badly needed.


Some sort of 2-factor is also badly needed but I get that there's not much point implementing it on this forum with the new one in development (though if the new forum is still 1-2 years away still it probably should be put into place here in the meantime).

Added all you guys to the op:

LTU_btc
Rinsend
Welsh
unyil

16 players so far with the current potential pot at £320. I'll probably start collecting money on the 28th or so. Spread the word. If we can get 20 players we'll likely do 5 place payouts. We're also going to be doing a bonus prize for the person who gets the most points from one round so even if you're pretty far down the table and it looks like there's no chance of you winning one of the top prizes you'll still be able to potentially win something by getting the most points in one week.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

Follow the instructions there if you want it locked but you're going to have to sufficiently prove it's yours first. If you post the signed message in here it can be banned but if you want access to it restored you're going to have to PM an admin about it.

Crystal Palace screwed me over in the 89th minute not only for 40 points on a perfect score but they also cost me £170 from a ten pound bet on the Skybet enhanced crowdboosted threefold. Absolute bastards. Only ended up with ten points from the first three games.


I'm not going to do it every week. There'd be no money left in the pot if we did that.


No. I said above that I wouldn't be starting it this week. I will let everyone know when I do.

Have you tried local bitcoins? I think there's minimal verification required but I think it's the sellers that can choose what sort of verification they require. You can easily buy there online with your debit card and it has a built in escrow for protection. Alternatively, you can just try find someone through there locally and meet up with them for either cash or direct bank transfer.

This one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2575281.msg26230482#msg26230482

If you can see it's then it's obviously there but it's not going to be on the first page any more seeing as it got no replies.

Wow thanks. That's exactly what I needed. Looks like I've got some research to be doing.


The fees are how you make your money though. I think they benefit newbies who are scared of using exchanges and they will often pay a premium to avoid them. With that being said, I would try to keep the fees reasonable but I'd want the machine to actually pay for itself as well as bring in traffic to the store.


It would be a sports nutrition aka protein/supplement and/or vape shop, unless I think of anything better (though both are two of the fastest growing industries in Britain right now). I just want to invest my money into my own business of some sort but I'm certainly open to suggestions for other avenues.

You were making multiple posts in a row which are both unnecessary and against the rules:



And this is the problem right here.


You're welcome and encouraged to do that. Just don't try to meet those requirements by multiposting and posts won't be removed. You can edit the removed posts into your previous one if you wish.

What ones did you try? The only one I can recommend is Kraken and it didn't take me that long to get verified as I recall, but waiting is probably something you will have to do on most exchanges due to the huge influx of new users trying to jump on board and buy bitcoins. I know you said you didn't want to use Coinbase and I wouldn't recommend them either, but their verification process is quite fast and computer processed I believe. Whether you'll be able to very your bank easily with them is another matter though and their customer service is terrible and has likely probably only got worse recently unless they've hired hundreds of new reps.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2570995.msg26185805#msg26185805

That one? Maybe one of the local mods locked it if they felt the question has been answered or asked a hundred times. Or perhaps you locked it yourself accidentally which happens from time to time. If you locked it yourself then you can unlock it at the bottom left, but if you can't then contact one of your mods about it for an explanation.

Not surprisingly he's copy and pasting as well, as do the vast majority of those Politics & Society shitposters:





18 year's old and from the Philippines (as the vast majority of copy and pasters are, sadly). I bet he's not even 18 either but just said that because he's scared you have to be an adult here or something.

Gonna go through that thread and ban/nuke all the other shitposters. I often wonder if there's some site that is telling people to sign up here and just copy and paste posts or are they just smart enough to figure out that's all they have to or can do if they can't speak English or be bothered to write original content? Or maybe, as I mentioned before, the news of this forum must be spreading like wildfire through the playgrounds of schools in Asia and I guess they just get told to copy and paste an older post if they can't speak English very well which I'm guessing the majority of Filipino teenagers can't. 


It really is. I honestly can't tell whether theymos is oblivious to the problems here because he's not that active at all or just doesn't care or can be bothered with all the headaches.

No problem.


This one is UK based? I will definitely be buying at least one for myself but I don't mind potentially buying a bulk lot to try resell them on depending on mark up. I'll PM you shortly on my main account. Thanks.

I'm actually thinking of opening up a brick and mortar retail business sometime next year and if I do I will definitely be putting a bitcoin ATM in it. Will be interesting to see if many people use it but hopefully it will garner quite a bit of interest because there's not many in the UK and especially up north. Does anyone have a list of companies that make them? Preferably European based. Need to start doing some research.

There's a spreadsheet with all the upcoming activity start dates in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=582736.0

Yeah, I'll almost certainly do this as it gives everyone playing a chance to win something even if it's just their money back (though that 0.01 is worth a lot more than £20 now haha).

I was also thinking about a prize for those that get the most correct scores from one round but I don't think there's a way to easily and simply verify this as a person's individual choices don't seem to be revealed anywhere.

Any wallets are only as safe as you are. I would usually recommend keeping coins offline in a physical hardeare wallet like a trezor or ledger nano etc but sometimes these are not the best options for a newcommer to bitcoin. If you're a newbie with little knowledge I would actually recommend blockhain.info. You can either use their web wallet or download the app for your phone and it's basically like Paypal but for bitcoin. If you set up all the security features such as 2-factor authentification and a second password/pin it is very safe. In fact, there's actually more security features on the blockchain app/website than there is on either my paypal or online banking accounts. Just remember to write your recovery seed down and keep it safe so you can still restore your coins even if you forget your password etc but also take note of my very first sentence.

Nothing. You actually only need to make one post in an activity period to be able to collect all the activity at a later date, so no need to spam or try force yourself to make the posts.

What does everybody think about a small additional prize to the person who gets the most points from one round? There's enough cash to go round and I think it will make it worthwhile for those that feel they've got no chance of getting in the top five to keep on playing?

If I do it I'll probably start it from not this round but the next one maybe so we can keep track of who get the highest points from there onward.