About two months ago, 4chan, one of the largest and best-known forums on the Internet, began a subscription service where for $20/year, users could bypass the requirement to enter a captcha when posting.
I've not been on 4chan much, but I'm surprised at the $20 to avoid captcha! I wonder how popular that option is! |
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it would literally take them about 1 minute to copy this HTML code form from our blog to their site. in the meantime you can donate here. we have already paid them $1100 worth of bitcoins. http://blog.bitpay.comI doubt it'll be a coding issue they seem to have a capable team - and especially as you made integration so simple. It'll be an internal policy from one of the seniors there for sure. |
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Here's the anti-climatic response I received: Hey seal, look at our respective responses. One day apart and it looks like they have softened their stance. Or is it my wishful thinking? Looks like you got it more polite than me RodeoX. This is going to take some persistence, it'll be a good idea if people keep emailing them about it. At least that way bitcoin awareness will remain high amongst the 'Donor Services Managers'. We'll slowly change their views  |
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It is a scam site.
Its not a scam site. It does however have scammers who operate on it, so be careful. So it's a scam site then. If it doesn't say it on the tin then what does it contain? Dummy. ... scammers operate on this forum, so by your logic this forum is a scam forum? Learn what btcjam's product is before you criticise it. Yes, scammers do operate on this forum - but then I am not recommending people to go about using them and taking them for their word, am I?  ? I'm sorry but whoever you are, you are encouraging people to put themselves in financial jeopardy on a site like that. I am testimony to the fact you will get 'don in' on that site as I am already owed at least 15 payments amounting to about half a dozen BTC. Thanks for contradicting me on this... Have a re-read TheDarkNight... I have not made any statement 'encouraging people to put themselves in financial jeopardy', neither am i 'contradicting you' so no need to feel insulted. FYI for the record, I am also owed more in defaulted repayments then you are owed, way more than half a dozen BTC. What BTCjam does is called peer to peer lending, its a business model which is well proven and is not a scam which you claim. You sound very disgruntled at the fact you took the financial risk and lost out. Accept it and move on and see the site for what it is instead of labelling it because of your own misfortune. That is slander. |
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Here's the anti-climatic response I received: |
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Hi there Wikipedia!
I love the site and use it all the time. I appreciate the service you are providing to the internet… and the world!
I'm wanting to make a generous donation however would like to do so with Bitcoins, do you accept them? If so, please send me your address.
Many thanks I'll post their response if I receive one. |
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Reward halving kicking in.
When will we know the affects of the difficulty change from miners turning rigs off? |
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It is a scam site.
Its not a scam site. It does however have scammers who operate on it, so be careful. So it's a scam site then. If it doesn't say it on the tin then what does it contain? Dummy. ... scammers operate on this forum, so by your logic this forum is a scam forum? Learn what btcjam's product is before you criticise it. |
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It is a scam site.
Its not a scam site. It does however have scammers who operate on it, so be careful. |
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I think monitoring the listings will be GREAT. By now you have more experience than we, the stupid  . I will follow your actions with interest. Its good to know. Perhaps a voting system that will bring listings up or down, similar to Reddit. I don't think anyone here is stupid. There is room for improvement and constructive criticism is welcome. Also, perhaps you should take a look at some of the lower risk listings like https://btcjam.com/listings/725 and https://btcjam.com/listings/584. Thanks for the consistency Tulkas. If I leave negative feedback for a user who is defaulting, I'm dubious that it will put them off paying even further... Should I, a. leave the negative feedback anyway. or b. not for now. |
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FYI, CityAM is a free newspaper distributed widely around London. Its target audience are commuters who work in finance in the city at rush hour... which is pretty much everyone who's riding the underground at that time. This is a VERY popular paper.
... also by the looks of it, the author is a regular trawler on the forums here. Anybody care to step forward?
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Hmmm, there is an unexpected twist taking place with the block halving. The tenor of the articles (and quantity) has changed, become more curious, positive even maybe. It is like there is an audience that has so far only taken a superficial interest in bitcoin is now saying, "wait there is something else going on here ...." and then the bitcoin protocol with its regulation of inflation and "working harder for coins" meme takes hold and the nagging doubts about bitcoin=ponzi FUD starts to get blown away completely. Encapsulated well with these two quotes, first the "bitcoins are hard to get" ... and then the "very widely used digital currency". People trying to profit via the bitcoin electronic currency will soon have to work harder to mint the digital coins. Since the creation of the bitcoin network in early 2009, bitcoins have grown to become a very widely used digital currency. Agree with you. This article is a great promotional piece to spread awareness of bitcoin. Regardless of whether it is painted in a neutral or positive light, the benefits will come from the bbc's wider reach (in audience). |
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I've made an experiment on your site. I lent 100BTC, only to people with a score of 8. I might get back 60 at maximum. What do you do about the scammers? you invested 40 btcs in learning to not go with the numbers and do more hw Wasn't this the job of the owner of the site? His verification methods are bad and he should fell bad. He lost a lender. I understand it is hard to prevent fraud, but he is not doing anything. He should make public the actions he take against scammers, but I'm afraid they amount to 0. They can only verify identity... they can't verify integrity... They also aren't responsible for taking on all the risk themselves, for the lenders' choices on who they lend coin to. Even brick and mortar banks deal with defaults... There is no such thing as a no-risk loan. -- Smoov Yes, I agree, nobody can prevent fraud 100%. But 40% fraud is huge. He should make public his actions, if he wants his website to have a future. First off it isn't 40% cause you said you invest 100btcs unless you gave 1 btc to hundred loans, it is based on loans and paid off loans. Second most sites that do p2p lending are just matching services they open you up to the people who needs loans and how have money loan, so since he is trying to do everything by the laws, you getting a sweet deal use his site and he allows to you basically use his law team. So I think many people here don't understand what p2p lending is and should read about it before using this type of site otherwise you will be screwed. 4 from 8 lendees have disappered with no payment whatsoever. Tell me more about his law team. I've had similar experiences. I've lent to a number of individuals all with seemingly good BTCJam ratings and scores and two of them are defaulting on their debt repayment schedules. As it stands I am set to receive back less then I invested originally.Judging from experiences shared above, this is a common story. |
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I don't remember the link but somewhere there's a web site that will calculate the price movement that a large order would cause based on the existing order book. The widget on bitcoincharts almost does this (but there's a better version somewhere), and using this I got that you could spend almost $5 million by buying 120020 BTC on Mt Gox.
MtGoxLive will show this: http://mtgoxlive.com/ordersExcept a $5mill order would make it go off the scale. $1mill is enough to shift the price to > $14 a btc I call BS. Cross referencing the last month: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg30ztgSza1gSMAzm1g10za2gSMAzm2g21zvFor daily volume, with any two week period he would have made up the entire period's trading volume to acquire $5mill (if he was trading USD... which is the biggest BTC market) |
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15% in Bitcoin
The rest is split up between cash and equities (shares)
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I had a similar story to others on here. I used them in the early days a lot... due to payment delays I lost faith in them as an exchange and stopped trading on their platform a long time ago.
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Any movement on this Dooglus?
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I love how the skinny guy looking at his balls is too afraid to look up until its too late... and I love how the fat guy pushes the skinny guy to get a head start when running off. lmao  |
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It seems that you can vote as many times as you want. I was able to vote for up, click to vote again, then vote for down.
Some sort of IP analyzer only allowing one vote per IP would be good to protect the integrity of the poll.
IP alone is a poor indicator of unique users. Many schools and businesses have a single public IP. Combine it with a user agent string at a minimum. +1. Otherwise vote-rigging will happen. |
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