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4241  Other / Meta / Re: my total post tomorrow was 57 and know 56 why ? on: December 02, 2017, 09:00:40 AM
Because you posted in a thread that got trashed recently. Your posts are all crappy one liners and posts like these are both pointless and against the rules:

Good project.
I think it will achieve success.

good name i think you get grate success.
thanks for given this opportunity good project
Interesting project good wishes for your project.

If you continue you'll be banned so I'd concern yourself with the quality of your posts rather than the number of them.
4242  Other / Meta / Re: About using VPN? on: December 02, 2017, 04:46:58 AM
Yes, it's fine to use a vpn or even tor.
4243  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitstamp, coinbase, kraken are down - coincidence? on: December 02, 2017, 04:44:19 AM
They'll just be struggling under the weight of all the traffic brought in by the rapid price increase. Can you imagine how many new users are desperately trying to buy coins and older ones selling them as fast as they can? Bitcoin has been all over the media the past couple of days and these exchanges just struggle to keep running in hectic times.

Yes but it's still not acceptable, especially when it happens quite frequently.
They are supposed to be proactive and not to just watching the chaos and to wait if the problem will be fixed alone. I know it's more than buying a couple of servers but sometimes it makes us think that they just don't care about it or don't know how to resolve.

Imagine your bank website going down every month because most of the customers received their salary the same day.

I agree and it's something they're going to have to work on, but I guess it's just the growing pains of a fledgling industry.


I think that none of these exchanges is not actually ready for such a large increase in the number of users(Coinbase say 33 000 new accounts is open every day)and it has been shown at this time when most of them go down.

Coinbase certainly can't keep up with the demand and their customer support is practically non-existent. It took them six months to reply to just one of my ten plus messages to them. I would use Kraken over Coinbase any day.
4244  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Kraken.com CloudFlare on: December 02, 2017, 04:39:04 AM
They're obviously struggling to keep up with the demand due to the recent interest in bitcoin with the price spike. Kraken has been the only exchange I've managed to use without a hitch so I can take the occasional downtime (which is usually very brief albeit annoying), but they should obviously look at upgrading whatever it is they need to do to provide an efficient service because it must look bad to new users when sites are constantly laggy or go down.
4245  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Clarification on a few topics on: December 02, 2017, 02:48:53 AM
In regards to privacy and blockchain, say I was to purchase a rug from someone in person and was paying with bitcoin. We would need to exchange wallet addresses to make the transaction which would link me to that wallet address. The merchant could then even see my balance correct? I'm having trouble understanding about how to keep your privacy when conducting in person transactions.

He could see your balance of the address you sent the coins from, yes. You should use a new address for every transaction if you're concerned about privacy, but remember bitcoin is a public ledger so all transactions can be linked together. You can use services like bitcoin mixers to jumble your coins to make the source harder to find if you're worried about privacy or people knowing how much money you have in a specific wallet.

I was also questions as to how prices stay stable. With the volatility of bitcoin and all crypto currencies, how does a merchant expect to keep prices stable? If I buy a rug for .00000500 btc, this amount could be worth much more post-transaction leaving me as if I over paid.

You can use merchant services such as bitpay which will give the business owner the cash equivalent straight away to protect against fluctuations. Otherwise, bitcoin always has a risk of volatility so I would treat it as a foreign currency in that respect in as much that you could exchange your Dollars for Euros and then see the exchange rate has shifted either up or down moments later. It's the same with bitcoin, but on a more unstable scale given that it is being used as an asset as well as a medium of exchange. If you choose to accept bitcoin directly without using a service like bitpay volatility and price fluctuations are something you will have to take into consideration, but you can choose whether to hold as a speculative investment or just cash it out asap but that's up to you.
4246  Other / Meta / Re: Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?) on: December 01, 2017, 07:58:16 PM
where to find my unix time ? because i didnt see my name or profile number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

I wouldn't concern or confuse yourself with that too much. All you need to know is to make a post in or after the new period and you'll get your precious activity.
4247  Other / Meta / Re: [Suggestion] a way to clean up those junkers and farmers? on: December 01, 2017, 07:20:01 PM
I appreciate your suggestion and concerns about all the shitposters here but this would only put off genuine users who wanted to come here to ask a quick question or post something else of value. Sadly, the only people willing to jump through those hoops would be the spammers themselves so it wouldn't really do much other than annoy everyone else whilst slowing down spammers just a bit. If campaign managers actually did their job though and only accepted and paid for quality posts you'd soon see an increase in quality site-wide, but sadly the forum is over run with crappy ICO campaigns who do little to nothing about spam and only care about getting as many users on their campaign as possible, hence why the forum is such a shitshow for everyone.
4248  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to become a Bounty Manager? on: December 01, 2017, 07:13:55 PM
Hello all,

I'm a rookie here therefore I decided to ask you about it.

What should I do for become a Bounty Manager?  Grin

Why do you want to become a bounty manager? You can offer such services in the Services section (or Alt Coin Marketplace). I would first try become a trusted and respected member of the community though because you will struggle to get work. Also, I don't think being a bounty manager is for everyone and there's a lot of half-assed ones currently doing a shoddy job and are only in it for a quick buck so this is something you should only offer once you've proved yourself to the community.
4249  Other / Meta / Re: Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?) on: December 01, 2017, 06:31:24 PM
Brother, so this 5th december i will get my full member right?. just to double confirm. as at now 240 post

You will get 14 more activity when the new period starts. You can find a list of the new periods and what times they start on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA/edit

i dont know how to read the spreedsheet

please help  Huh

What don't you understand about it? The dates and exact times of the new periods are all listed on the right. If you can't work that out then there's really no helping you.

How many posts do we need to embed pictures? 30??

Yes, you need to become a Junior Member.
4250  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bitcointalk English Premier League Betting Pool v2.0 on: December 01, 2017, 06:29:34 PM
Hello. I would like to join this game, it seems very interesting with a lot of players! I have some bitcoin to the amount needed. What do I need to do?

Just wait. Save the bitcoin and we will start collecting the money in later this month so everybody pays roughly the same price due to fluctuations. I'll PM all proposed participants nearer the time.
Ohh, what a shame .. I've sold the bitcoin I have. Is using money can or not to join?

Not really sure what you're asking here, but no, it's not free to join. It's a gambling pool. I'm sure you can easily earn £20 by the end of the year from a signature campaign or in some other way. Feel free to create your own league on the BBC site though if you want to play for free/fun.
4251  Other / Meta / Re: Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?) on: December 01, 2017, 05:22:07 PM
Brother, so this 5th december i will get my full member right?. just to double confirm. as at now 240 post

You will get 14 more activity when the new period starts. You can find a list of the new periods and what times they start on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA/edit
4252  Other / Meta / Re: Donator and VIP tags. Still for the same amount at current price? on: December 01, 2017, 05:06:18 PM

just wondering any chance of updating these pricings and to get these status for a lower amount in Term of BTC as today when BTC price corssed 10,000$?



No. This has been asked and answered numerous times. Theymos won't lower them because it would be unfair to the original donators who paid at the lower price.

However, more donator ranks may or may not be added in the future like the recent 'copper' rank (Silver/Gold etc).
4253  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is there a way to MARK trusted/credible members? on: December 01, 2017, 03:22:49 PM
Not really. You could just bookmark their profiles I suppose. Alternatively, you can leave them positive feedback if you feel they're knowledgeable users stating as such.

Also, you can choose to ignore users who you feel contribute nothing or very little so their posts don't show up to you in future.
4254  Other / Meta / Re: Moving to Cloudflare on: December 01, 2017, 02:36:18 PM
Well there's always room for competition but I'll have to check it out as well like you, but if that meets all our needs then great. Maybe theymos could donate some funds to the development of that instead.
4255  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bitcointalk English Premier League Betting Pool v2.0 on: December 01, 2017, 12:05:17 PM
Hello. I would like to join this game, it seems very interesting with a lot of players! I have some bitcoin to the amount needed. What do I need to do?

Just wait. Save the bitcoin and we will start collecting the money in later this month so everybody pays roughly the same price due to fluctuations. I'll PM all proposed participants nearer the time.
4256  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Forum moderation policy on: December 01, 2017, 12:01:18 PM
The policy to not remove anything worked when the forum was small. Now that we have thousands of posts a day, we can't afford 50% of them being junk. The moderators are now instructed to be less tolerant of low-value posts.

Some guidelines:

1. Free speech - you can say anything as long as it is relevant and presented in a calm and polite manner. Swearing, SHOUTING etc. make your post more likely to be removed.
2. No zero value posts or threads, like "SELL SELL SELL"
3. No pointless or uninteresting threads.
4. No referral code spam
5. No NSFW content
First point is actually correct. I have seen my friends accounts  getting banned for posting irrelevant posts and over postings. For a newbie, there should be only 1 post a day. and the content should include from 50-100 words. Otherwise, there's a possibility of your account getting banned from signature campaign and from bitcointalk as well.

Allowing only one post is overkill. We have the Activity system in place to prevent abuse so you can't spam your way through ranks. Making a post meet some minimum character or word count would also be counter productive as people will just ramble on needlessly. Users will also find a way to cheat it as they have done with signature campaigns by adding obscured junk into their posts by changing the colour and font size etc.
4257  Other / Meta / Re: Relevant Post and Activity to Rank up! on: December 01, 2017, 11:24:00 AM
Moderators are deleting posts on Local Forums.
Is there any parameter in making a relevant post?


Posts and/or threads will be removed if they contribute very little or have been asked 100 times before in every possible combination. Don't post in unsubstantial threads and put some thought and effort into your posts and you should be fine.
4258  Other / Meta / Re: Moving to Cloudflare on: December 01, 2017, 11:21:02 AM
Have you thought about maybe creating your own ddos protection service as from your concerns it seems like there'd be a gap in the market for a trusted product? ... Could even use the money we get from any potential new donator ranks we implement to invest in it. Something to consider at least.
This is something that I would happily support with my BTC. Please consider this, theymos.

Same, as I'm sure many others would also. Most ICOs are just hollow get rich quick schemes run by greedy scammers but I'd happily support one for a valuable service created by reputable people and it could actually be one that makes a lot of money as a business which we could give back to investors as dividends. Maybe bitcointalk could create it's own coin and give that out for promoting the ICO and bonuses for helping out the forum as well.
4259  Other / Meta / Re: Post Allowance And How to make a Good Stable Profile In bitcointalk on: December 01, 2017, 11:15:40 AM
Op, can I ask why you joined this forum and why you're so concerned about being banned?

But in the meantime this is all good advice:

I want to know about The post allowance and need to know about how to make a good profile without banned.
Please Help me guys. any ideas ?

1. Improve your English (Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation) to a standard at which your posts can be understood by other English-speaking Bitcointalkers. Note that there are local boards, but English is the "universal" language of Bitcointalk.
2. Start posting in posts relevant to Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies: Signature Campaigns want to advertise their service/product to crypto-fans, not to Politicians/off-topic nerds. Try limiting your posts in Off-topic.
3. Start posting quality content: Instead of posting noob'ish crap, post quality. Look at my posts, or the posts of other quality Bitcointalkers. Signature Campaigns are becoming more strict and that's a good thing. It does mean that you must up your post quality to be able to join them though...
4. Avoid Mega-Threads: See a thread with hundreds of replies about something you can easily answer on, just like all the other newbies before you did? Avoid it! Mega-Threads are Post-Farms. Post-Farming is bad and you shouldn't do that. Therefore, avoid Mega-Threads.
5. Don't ever scam someone, advertise a scam, use alts to make more money, trade accounts, etc... Although those things are allowed, it will yield you negative feedback. And negative feedback means you will be excluded from many Signature Campaigns and you'll have a hard time finding one you can join.

And don't think you can just spam your way to a higher rank, as that won't work. You're going to end up in the SMAS blacklist or banned from Bitcointalk. You can gain only 14 activity per 2-week period anyways.
4260  Other / Meta / Re: Newbies mass starting new threads, mainly with useless topics on: December 01, 2017, 11:12:12 AM
None of the options listed.

I think most of them are idiots from Asia who've heard that you can come to bitcointalk and earn money through signature campaigns.

This. The news that you can easily earn money from this forum for merely posting crap or copy and pasting posts or content from elsewhere must be spreading like wildfire through South East Asia. Not only do they sign up with multiple accounts each but they then get their wives/children/cousins all involved, hence why the forum is such a shitshow of barely readable crap.

One of the rules lately has been to not post in spam megathreads, so a lot of these noobs create their own--for themselves AND for their alt accounts to post in. 

Even though there's stickies in Bitcoin Discussion and Off Topic prohibiting this, day after day we still get threads created like "do you prefer mountains or beaches" or "do you prefer sex and chocolate" (those are actual threads posted here).

There was a guy a couple of weeks ago who started a thread basically asking "Hey I started posting here, when is the bitcoin going to show up in my wallet??".

I've seen those sorts of threads numerous times. They obviously just read online somewhere that you can get paid to post here and think it's the forum that pays you to do so.

A lot of noobs are just trying to rank up as quickly as possible, because they know the higher-ranked their account is, the more money they'll earn.  Look in meta and you'll see how many noobs are extremely concerned about posts being deleted and how to become a Jr. member.  It's fucking ridiculous.  None of them can write proper English, and most of their posts say the same thing--extremely positive comments about how bitcoin is life-changing, it keeps increasing day-by-day (that's my favorite), and blah blah blah.

Yep. Sometimes you'll see users who's entire post history here is just posting in the same type of crap threads over and over again. "I heard about bitcoin because you can make profit for daily needs". "I like bitcoin because it helps me with my daily needs". "I heard about this forum because you can make money which helps with my daily needs". Seriously, just search "daily needs" in bitcoin discussion and you'll see what I mean.

Don't know about any of you, but I report posts that are shitposts.  I'll leave it to the mods to decide whether the posts get deleted or the user gets nuked.

Colossal one liner shitposters will be permabanned or nuked, the others given a temp ban as a warning.
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