I'm not very much into politics, but one thing I do know is that politicians often make pre-election promises that they either have no intentions of keeping or are unable to keep because they meet resistance in the House or Congress.  Therefore, I wouldn't presume to predict what's actually going to happen.

However, it's no sweat off my back if people earning over $400k/year have to pay more in taxes (though I think that's unfair for them to be targeted).  As long as taxes for the average working class stiff don't increase, I'm fine with that.  But what I'm really concerned about is how all of this money printing and stimulus relief and everything else is going to get paid for.  I don't see how that can happen unless everyone's taxes are increased dramatically.  And if the government has a plan for that, I certainly haven't heard a word about it.

Why should they be required to spend it?  Would you like it if your government mandated that you had to spend X% of your earnings in order to stimulate the economy?  Probably not. 

Yeah, I'd meet that requirement, but you're not talking about addresses staked on the forum are you?  It sounds like you're asking whether someone could sign a message from any address with one transaction within 90 days and one after 90 days. 

What project are you working on here as far as "combating multiple accounts"?  It's possible I'm missing something obvious.  I've had one hell of a stressful day.

Did OP PM them to you?  That might be a stupid question, but it wasn't stated anywhere.  And I think it'd be nice to post the PMs here considering a negative feedback was left and the community (including DT members) ought to have a look-see.

That doesn't surprise me in the least, but I'd like to see the evidence for myself.  I think I already have peloso excluded from my trust list, but I'll have to check.  

Peloso isn't on the DT list, is he?

Sorry to hear that and I hope things improve for you.  It's been a crazy year so far, and a lot of people are suffering right along side you.

What freeze button are you guys talking about?  I just logged in to Yobit and I don't see a button like that anywhere.

Nope, their customer service is notorious for being shitty--or nonexistent.  And as far as trying to get help from Yobit by creating a thread on bitcointalk, forget about it.  I'm pretty sure they've abandoned this forum entirely after their last signature campaign debacle.

OP, I hope you can figure out how to solve your problem without having to rely on Yobit for assistance, because it isn't likely you're going to get a response from them.  Good luck.

For an individual living on his/her own with no kids and little or no debt, that yearly income isn't too shabby.  But if you're talking about a two-income family totaling that amount, it's definitely not enough to live comfortably on--depending on your lifestyle, of course.  And if you've got children and debt on top of that, $68k/year is going to be tough to live on.

Interesting data, but it makes me wonder what the true cause of this is.  Inflation in the US isn't exactly out of control, and I'm not sure if all the rampant money printing has anything to do with rising wages--I'm not an economist, never wanted to be, but sometimes I wish I understood a little bit more about how the economy functions.

One thing that might result from this would actually be an increase in inflation.  More money being earned means more money being spent, driving up the demand for goods & services and hence the prices for those things.  Guess we're going to find out.

OP, without knowing what threads you're referring to, there's no way for anyone except the mod who deleted them to know if there was good reason to.  You're right, selling accounts isn't against the rules unless there's something illegal about it, so I doubt that's the reason for your thread deletion.

Man, I hope nutildah isn't correct in saying you're an alt of Rambotnic.  I had so hoped he'd gone away for good and for all.

Hey, it's a discussion forum where anyone can post.  You didn't make a local rule in your OP that only moderators could respond here, which you could have by the way.

That's the first thing I thought when the article mentioned his "liquid portfolio".  To me, that basically means cash that he hasn't found anything worth investing it in--until now, when bitcoin caught his eye. 

I don't know how bullish this is for bitcoin in general, but I think it's kind of cool that people who are presumably smart with money (and have tons of it) are investing in it.  That's definitely a big step toward mainstream acceptance of bitcoin (and maybe some other cryptos as well, who knows).  The one thing that worries me a little bit is the potential of a lot of bitcoin being dumped on the market if these big investors decide to sell at or near the same time, like if a panic happened.  That could sink the price tremendously.

I find that seriously hard to believe, that you woke up to get involved in this drama given how inactive your account has been.  How in the world were you made aware of this so quickly?

In any case, this drama that should involve three members at the most has turned into an escalation of the Vod/OgNasty feud, alt accounts giving the illusion of independent support for positions, and the involvement of DT members who should probably just be innocent bystanders--or oppose inappropriate flags at most. 

As far as kroneko goes, I have little doubt that he's an alt of OgNasty, but what doubt does exist is preventing me from excluding him from my trust list.  He hasn't left any abusive or wrongly-left feedback, which is my criteria for an exclusion.

You're talking about investing in stocks, I take it? 

I'm not sure what the new Tesla/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon is going to be, and that's not how I invest anyway.  That entails way too much risk for my blood.  I prefer to invest in companies that pay good dividends and are stable.  Tech companies tend to have nothing in the way of earnings, don't pay dividends, and have P/E's of infinity or at least much higher than average.

Everyone makes their own picks (and should), but personally I'm bullish on pharmaceutical companies right now--and have been for years, actually.  They're usually cash cows, pay high dividends, and are generally recession-resistant.  The need for medical care doesn't stop when the economy tanks, and the big drug companies just keep cranking out their tablets, injectables, and other great products.  My top picks have been AbbVie, Pfizer, and Zoetis if anyone cares to know. 

That's a nice goal, but it's impractical because the big pharmacy chains have everything locked up (depending on where you live).  I love independent pharmacies, but they're a dying breed and I'm not even sure how much money is to be made by starting one.

Didn't check, but I think I posted in that thread.  Why?  Aw hell, I don't know--Meta has always been one of my favorite sections, but as of late it seems like there haven't been that many interesting threads, and if I remember correctly the OP of the above thread didn't come off as an obvious troll but an ignorant newbie (I haven't checked, so I'm going by memory).

Some trolls aren't so blatant, some are.  I put cryptohunter and the rest of his alts on ignore, because I don't think trolls should be fed.  But sometimes posters are just idiots and hey, if you've got nothing else to do why not get in a few barbs?

I'm concerned that there haven't been as many threads that have stimulated my interest lately--and by "lately" I mean probably all of 2020.  I used to have no problem finding a post I wanted to reply to or a thread that I found interesting, but it hasn't been like that for quite some time.  Maybe that's why I'm willing to lower my standards to the basement and reply to morons posting about merits and other assorted nonsense.

I'm curious as to whether OP is going to keep arguing after you pointed all of these facts.

My advice to him in any case is to shut the fuck up and move on with some other endeavor that doesn't involve illegal stuff.  Everyone here has told him why his thread was deleted, and the rules aren't going to change to accommodate him, so there's no point in trying to convince the mods they were wrong.  The only thing that might do is prejudice them against you should any issues arise in the future.

Have a nice life, OP.  Try to remain un-incarcerated.

Although this scares me a bit since I don't use Tor or a VPN:
I might just try it anyway, because it seems like a damn good extension--and I totally missed the thread where the above quote was taken from, so I wasn't even aware such a thing existed.

Yeah, I'm with you on that.  I know there's a way to do it, but I so infrequently have a reason to quote from locked threads I always forget how to do it.  Yeah, I think I'll give this one a shot.

Seems to me as if I've heard all of this before--maybe not by Citibank, but nothing in that statement is original.  Pretty much every bitcoin bull has been saying the same stuff since the beginning of bitcoin.  Same goes for gold bugs, too.

On the other hand, even though I'm unimpressed by this, that doesn't mean other folks won't be or that it's not a bullish thing for bitcoin.  In fact I do think this is pretty bullish that a major bank's analysis of bitcoin's future is positive, because a lot of people who might otherwise not have given it a second thought are probably going to read this.

And wouldn't you know?  Bitcoin is above $16k as I write this.  Yowza!

Yeah, I recall the latter raid.

I have no feeling about this either way, because I'm expecting there to be a lot of consolidation among the exchanges all over the world.  There's just no room for all of these little ones that exist--the ones most likely to fake their trading volume. 

Think about how many stock brokerages there are available if you want to trade stocks.  In the US, there are a few but there aren't hundreds.  In cryptoland, I don't know how many exchanges exist, but I'm pretty sure the number is in the thousands.  So in the coming years, I'm expecting some of the bigger fish to gobble up the little ones.  Binance will probably be one of the gobblers, but I'm not sure what other exchanges have enough cash or credit to acquire smaller exchanges. 

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what happens.  Hopefully somebody buys Yobit and transforms it into something respectable--or just acquires their customers and ditches the Yobit brand altogether.

I hope not.  On the other hand, I haven't seen many complaints about it in Meta lately.

Makes me wonder how many members are really concerned with earning merits and/or ranking up these days--plus if I'm not mistaken forum traffic has decreased significantly as of late, and I've certainly noticed a dearth of interesting threads in the past few months.  Don't know what's going on, but I'd sure like to.  Are people losing interest in the forum?  Bitcoin?  Dunno.

As for me, I've been seriously slacking this month and have been a piss-poor excuse for a merit source.  I'm going to try to make an effort to distribute more merits, but lately I just haven't had the time.  That also makes me curious as to how active the other merit sources are, since we don't get any data on that that I know of.

In other words, "meet the new boss; same as the old boss" as the song goes.

Admittedly I did not click on the article, as I suspect that was OP's primary goal in creating this thread, but I would agree that technology has and will continue to change finance.  That might mean the elimination of bank notes and coins eventually, but I hope we're not fully committed to that path.  There are so many things that can go wrong with technology when the power goes out. 

Governments creating their own digital currency is not progress IMO.  I'm not sure if any countries have actually done that yet, but I know China is seriously considering it.  That form of money is not crypto and will only decrease people's privacy when it comes to their spending habits.  IMO it's a lose-lose for everyone involved. 

This is a suggestion I wouldn't mind being followed through on--but I know it's not going to be, as Theymos was basically throwing the altcoiners a bone when he created the Altcoin boards.

Personally I'm a fan of PoS coins, and I've created a couple of threads in the Altcoin section asking very specific questions that I needed help with.  And you know what?  I got absolutely dick as far as helpful responses.  Thus I have a feeling that even if there were a child board dedicated to staking coins, it would likely be infiltrated by bounty-hunting shitposters offering nothing of value.

If you're into any particular PoS coin, your best bet is to find out if that coin has its own forum--and chances are, it probably does.  I've joined a couple of them, but they're nothing like bitcointalk.  Most of them are barely active as far as discussion goes.  That also makes me think that a staking subsection here would either be dead or filled with garbage posts.

Eh, maybe.  The quickest example that comes to mind is Dash, but I have to say that some altcoins would work much better as a method to buy and sell things than good ol' bitcoin, whether they were made to enrich the devs or not--so they're not all useless or worthless IMO.

I've never heard of this Hex thing either, and since I have signatures blocked I haven't seen any advertising from its campaigners.

I agree, and I've also voiced my opinion that the campaign manager shouldn't be held responsible if the project turns out to be a scam.  And it's not like this would be the first signature campaign that's advertised something shady--we've had plenty of that over the years involving a number of campaign managers (or the absence of one in the case of Secondstrade and the first Yobit campaign).

Except that PayPal customers haven't actually purchased any real bitcoin that they have control of.  PayPal has custody of all the bitcoin you buy through them, so I really don't see the point of them doing this.  It's not as though people are crying out for an easy way to buy bitcoin simply in order to spend it on things they couldn't buy with PayPal.

I would never use this service unless I was able to deposit and withdraw bitcoin.  Somehow I suspect that the US government would not allow that due to money laundering concerns.  I'm pretty sure that's why Circle no longer provides that service and why Robinhood is offering basically the same thing as PayPal is.

Not your keys, not your coins.

Nice catch on that one, and if you see more instances of blatant plagiarism in the future just report it to the mods and they'll take care of it.  Likely the entire thread will get nuked.

As to why people keep replying after you've pointed out that the OP was plagiarized:  Most members here don't read anything except the thread title before making their own post.  Why?  Because most members are being paid to post here through sig campaigns/bounties, and thus reading posts is just wasted time for them.  I'd imagine everyone who posted after you pointed out the plagiarism didn't even see your post.

That's how bitcointalk is, and it's been this way for years.  It's frustrating when you know your posts are being ignored, but that depends on which sections you're posting in.  The Economics section has been teetering on the edge of being a spam section (like Bitcoin/Altcoin Discussion).  That's unfortunate, because there's some really good stuff there, but that's the reality.

That's what I've seen, too.  So all of those members who posted in the thread OP pointed out wasted their time by doing so.