Probably just a lot of heavy traffic or ddos-ing, though the forum has just recently switched to Cloudflare so maybe there's some transitional issues with that because it's been on and off and laggy all day for me as well (as have a lot of bitcoin related websites/exchanges).

  I doubt they're trying to scam anyone but they're obviously having growing pains right now and are struggling under the weight of all the traffic of users trying to desperately buy/sell.

They just can't handle the traffic unfortunately. Most exchanges have similar problems. Coinbase seemingly don't even have any customer support at all and their bank verification system never worked for me. I haven't found a perfect exchange yet but up until recently I haven't had any issues with Kraken and hopefully they're working on it behind the scenes and will get sorted soon because they probably will lose a lot of customers if they don't. I'm probably just going to start selling coins for either cash or straight bank transfer with people to be honest though cos with fees and all the hassle it's not really worth it to be honest.

You will need 30 activity to become a Junior Member, so 30 posts over three activity periods which will be about a month. You can work it out exactly by checking the activity period start dates on the spreadsheet here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=582736.0

Staff decide, but of course it is subjective. Staff aren't going to remove posts just for the fun of it though so it really needs to be a worthless contribution for it to be considered for removal. Lots of people report posts that they think are pointless and sometimes the staff agree and sometimes they don't, but users here aren't banned just for 'anything' and are done so for breaking a serious rule. This forum is probably one of the most liberal on the internet and in fact many would and have argued that moderation here is too lax.


Just because it is related to the topic doesn't make it relevant or important. Stating an answer that has already been given is pointless and should be removed even if you put some effort into the answer.


Not if it's permabanned. However, you can create a thread in Meta requesting unbanning on specific accounts.

Hilariousandco is a Gold Member and Mprep is a Diamond Member. They are only available if you perform certain sexual favours to an admin.

Silver and Gold Memberships may or may not become available for regular users. Theymos has stated that he may or may not add more ranks in the future but I for one hope he does as the benefits are numerous.

I described exactly how you can do it in the very post you just quoted. If you can't be bothered to work it out manually just wait for the site to be up and running again but I doubt this is something that is that urgent.

Yeah, I finally managed to get an address up, but there's so many backlogged transactions it wouldn't surprise me if it takes a day or more to go though and the price looks to be falling as people panic that they can't sell. Had to pay a £30 fee on a £2k transaction as well. I guess these are just the growing pains of bitcoin and are something we'll have to learn to deal with but hopefully these exchanges will plow some money into making their services more efficient because it'll only get worse as more users get involved.

Uggh, finally managed to load the bitcoin deposit page up and it's now saying:

This action is not available for tier level 3

Your current funding tier level (3) is insufficient for this functionality. Please further verify your account to increase your tier level and funding limits.

What the hell? I've had no issues before.

You can use this site:

https://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/

Or just work out how many two week periods you've posted in since you signed up (which could be tedious and time consuming ). check  this spreadsheet for dates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA

I'll add you to the op but looking at your feedback I hope you're serious and not just trolling. If anyone else is still interested please let me know. Not long before the end of the year but hopefully we can get 20 users involved for at least a couple of decent prizes.

I couldn't even get through to sell my coins due to cloudflare errors never mind make any withdrawals. I'm guessing it's going to be quite difficult to make any successful transactions until everything calms down which could be a while as there must be lots of users desperately trying to cash out continuously.

ICO scammers have been botting the forum spamming users en masse trying to promote their crapcoins. Staff were getting hundreds of reports of unsolicited spam so it was a necessary step unfortunately. This is why we can't have nice things.

Would it not be possible to peg it to fiat (out of fairness and so we don't have another vip/donator rank situation)?

Are there any plans to implement more ranks yet as the Copper one seems to have been fairly popular and higher ranks with bigger and better perks I'm sure would be even more so?


The address given is unique to you, hence how we know you've paid.

There's certainly a chance if you repeatedly break rules, but there's no number of posts deleted equals a ban rule. I'd suggest you read the rules and work out what you're doing wrong though to minimise the risk of any bans.


If they're spammy/pointless posts then there's certainly a chance. Posting 'joined airdrop' or 'interesting project' etc are good ways to get yourself banned though.

You won't really find a decent/legal exchange that doesn't require some forms of ID verification. I've had success with Kraken and would recommend it, though their site is a little laggy at the moment due to obvious increased traffic.


Coinbase is terrible. You'll likely never get verified at all. I had money stuck on there for months with no answers  to dozens of emails to support, though I was selling coins so maybe it's easier buying.

Yeah, site has become pretty unusable to me. Shame, because it's the only exchange I've had any success with and Coinbase was an absolute nightmare and I really don't even want to attempt to sell there again.

What's silly about them? I've been pretty consistent overall and been hovering around the top five for quite some time.

I'm predicting a lot of draws this week. A lot of very evenly matched games.

Added all you guys to the op: BetAdviser bhadz slaman29

Participants so far:

cicciobtc
iluvbitcoins
hilariousandco
tba
zuckerberging
buwaytress
marlboroza
leea-1334
Lionidas
BetAdviser
bhadz
slaman29

Current pot: £240.

Any more joiners?

Added you all.

Current participants pledging £20:

cicciobtc
iluvbitcoins
hilariousandco
tba
zuckerberging
buwaytress
marlboroza
leea-1334
Lionidas

Current pot: £180

Wonder if we can get more players than the original game? Spread the word as the more players = the more money for the winner(s).