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.

I nuke/permaban many people who are shitposting exclusively in there, but I'm just wasting my time really as they're like flies round shit that have laid eggs everywhere. You ban one account but they'll very likely spawn elsewhere from their stockpile army of alts that just carry on as if nothing ever happened. Having a few accounts banned is probably just accepted as an occupational hazard right now.
 

Yeah, you can really tell the age of a lot of these kids (which is what they are). Imagine how stupid the average person is in their early teens - myself included - then imagine someone who can't even speak English very well and add on top of that a person who probably has very little knowledge or understanding of bitcoin other than his school mates told him you can earn a decent wage here just by posting and it's a recipe for disaster.


I've used the phrase playing whack a mole with ghosts before. It's also like trying to plug holes on a sinking ship whilst you've got multiple other submarines torpedo-ing even more holes into the side constantly. How can you compete against that? It's pretty much pointless even banning people at this point because often times they just keep evading their ban on their numerous other accounts and admin's never look into alts.


We either need to really go gung-ho and crack down on all the abuse with very strict punishments for spammers and those that pay them to do so or just get rid of essentially 99% of the rules and just let the forum run itself into further into the ground. The latter is not something I think we should do but I can't be expected to try clean this place up all by myself.


I've messaged theymos about some solutions and I'm hoping he'll get back to me soon but he rarely acts on these things as you well know. The signature guidelines was meant to be a way to put a stop to all the nonsense but it's futile if theymos won't enforce it. At the bare minimum crappy ICO campaigns that do nothing but pay spammers to post or copy and paste whatever crap they can be bothered to make need to be hardly punished. Once their accounts start getting banned and threads get trashed they'll soon get the message once their cash cow is threatened.

We should really start making family trees of bitcoin users when their brother/mother/sisters account are banned. And by brother you mean "brother", right? Because you have the exact same way of typing and you are also copy and pasting like he was:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/14/how-is-ethereum-different-from-bitcoin

You know the rules.

Yeah, I also got just 60 points and none at all from the Sunday games though I needed Man city to just score another for a perfect score. Hopefully none of the bastards above me got m/any points cos I'm gunning to at least temporarily take the top spot.

Also, don't forget to put your scores in for the next round as the games start on tuesday.

It's completely normal unfortunately. Just keep bumping this thread every so often and you might get lucky but it's not uncommon to be waiting weeks/months/indefinitely.

You can post the signed message in here for others to check it verifies. If it does I can PM an admin to try get them to look into it.

I've been saying the exact same thing for months. It has become off topic v2.0 because most campaigns don't pay for off topic posts but they do in politics. I've literally seen people create threads in there such as 'do you prefer mountains or beaches' and 'would you chose your wife over your mother' etc. This is what happens when the forum is over run with south east asian shitposters who can barely speak English but need to find somewhere they can easily churn out rubbish to get paid.

Also, there is no mod of that sub forum but this is also something I've been urging for months.

Yes, you can report them. I don't usually ban them if they've properly sourced the article but if all their posts are just posting articles to obviously and easily farm their account then I tend to give them a warning to stop first.

If you don't make a post in each activity period then you'll lose out on that activity forever. You can't just abandon your account and when you come back expect to collect all the activity points as that's not how the activity system works. In fact, it was designed to stop people from doing that as by its very name it is a measure of how active you have been here, not just how long you have been registered.

Which account? Depends what it was banned for but if it's permanent for breaking a rule there's nothing you can do. However, create a thread in Meta about it if you want clarification on a specific case.

They mentioned something about it on the previous page here:

Giroud is always a super sub and I have no idea why he doesn't start. I was really hoping he'd get another in injury time as I also needed Arsenal to get a goal for 1-2 on my predictor. Wonder if any others got that result? Arsenal have become pretty weak away from home so it's risky backing them.

I believe theymos has posted the info before in previous years and I think somebody else requested it (maybe redsn0w) within the last year or so (and I think theymos may have said he will release it once all the accounting is done (though don't quote me on that)). I also would like to know how much the forum takes in and actually profits on.

Mods are paid around ten to twelve thousand usd a month (divided between all active mods).

Mods are usually added as and when needed. I wouldn't be against promoting one or two of the top active reporters but I think a better solution first would be to distribute some of the workload between current staff (though that can be done in addition to making new mods).

Exactly and this is the sort of abuse it will prevent. They'll be able to scrape together a hundred dollars or so to invest in an account and if they want to invest their hard earned sig money into more with their monthly earnings then be my guest. I think people will take better care with their accounts once they treat it as an investment and make better posts from just the one or two as opposed to creating as many as you want for free currently to bleed lazy crapcoin campaigns dry.

No, I don't think some sort of annual membership fee is a good idea and doubt theymos would go for it. Yes, some people will happily pay the fee on a few accounts if they can afford it, but the point is it severely restricts the number of accounts people will make because nobody is going to pay $100 for each of their dozens to hundreds of accounts (and if they do then fair play and the forum benefits financially). At the moment anyone can create an unlimited amount of accounts and this is a huge problem especially when people try be sneaky and farm them with bots or just shitpost which is easy to do in certain sections.