How about having two categories of subfora: "New Schemes" and "Proven Models"? Any investment scheme has to be vetted through the "New Schemes" forum first via user base voting and reaction over the course of a few months. That's reasonably long enough to be able to gauge the overall honesty of the players running the show. If they prove to be for real, then they can post in the "Proven Models" forum.
IOW, any new investment idea HAS to be posted in "New Schemes" so we can all keep an eye on it rather than burden admins with the task. After the community knows they're for real, they can post to "Proven Model". It's not scamproof or foolproof by any means, but it might help a little.
Pirate would have made it to "proven models"... It was around for a long time and had the support of a lot of highly-respected members. I don't want the forum itself to tell readers what to think. Readers should make up their own minds. |
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The easiest way to weed out all the scams would be to require lenders to provide proof of identity, location, current employment etc etc
Yeah. But have third-parties do this and accredit the investments. |
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this is not the correct name for high-interest borrowing scams
The section is for long-term offers, not just HYIPs. Having forum staff decide whether specific investments are dangerous is definitely something I don't want. Exact rules for what constitutes a HYIP could be defined, but services that don't meet the HYIP definition probably won't be that much safer than HYIPs. And interest rates in the Bitcoin ecosystem are much higher than traditional interest rates, so it's difficult to determine the correct limit. I think a policy of caveat emptor makes the most sense. |
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I'm pretty sure Bitcoin accepts scientific notation.
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That was always the case for Blitz. He preferred the "donator" title over "staff". |
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Another moderator is needed for the Russian section. Who should be made moderator?
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If a block must be found for a single confirmation, then assuming a constant network hashing rate, each transaction is confirmed six times per hour. Due to difficulty being adjusted to counter changes in the network hashing rate, the number of confirmations per hour will always remain near six. Is this correct?
It's always somewhere near six, though it's not too rare for a confirmation to take an hour or just a few minutes. |
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It's illegal to spend a generation transaction until it has 100 confirmations. The network disallows it. For other transactions, the recipient can choose how many confirmations to require.
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I didn't know if I was the one who accidentally locked it.
You were. |
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What are your thoughts about Pirate if he pays back some accounts and not other. Like what if he claims he needs a list of information about people before he sends coins? Would that be scamming?
That's scamming. |
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What do you think of sticking them in "games and rounds"?
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Legality aside, decency would suggest you should put a notice on the "private message" page stating that the messages are not private and may be read by moderators.
They're "personal messages", not "private messages".  I think it's obvious that the administrators of a site will check PMs when necessary, but I added a note to the page. |
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What is the limit? Zhou Tong stole close to half a million dollars, but you actually took steps to make sure his privacy was protected.
Zhou Tong hasn't been proven to be guilty yet, and the Bitcoinica people have started legal processes to pay back the BTC. If pirateat40 doesn't work toward paying back within a few months, his case will be very clear. |
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Theymos do you mind my posting (making public) the few PM's we shared on the topic?
Please do. I've been getting annoyed with you constantly saying that I asked you to do it as a favor. I suggested it. It'd be cool if you or someone else with a BS&T account created a GLBSE asset that's more pure/direct than PPT. You could offer 6.5% weekly interest and keep the remaining interest as a fee.
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