I see my thread about capitalised titles has been moved to reputation, which is pretty useless. By starting that thread, I hoped that i could encourage new and not so new members help us to keep cleaner and more professional looking index pages. I don't know who reads the reputation board, but I bet most of the juvenile capitalists don't.

Where should these advice threads be posted? I believe that there is a need for them if Bitcoin Talk is to regain credibility in the crypto world.

You need to think before you block all advertising. Content producers rely on advertising revenue to reward them for their creations. If everybody blocked advertising, then it would be the end of much of the free Internet. You would have to pay to access content. This is already starting to happen, and the demonetising of many YouTube accounts is causing them to move to other platforms. This is not quite the same as ad blocking, but it has the same effect.

It's the global persective that makes it difficult to control signatures. Individual members ignoring posters or signatures don't really make much difference. The search ranking, and guest views are far more significant, and are the reason that scammy signatures and spammy posts are so damaging to Bitcoin Talk. If a guy hunting for crypto information clicks on a a link to a rubbish thread, as a result of good SE placement for his search phrase, he is likely to ignore BT in the future as a result of its apparent low grade content.

If you arer starting this thread in an attempt to gain merit, then can I draw your attention to this thread -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4656342.msg42042165#msg42042165

btw - the word is " phishing" not phising.

Why do we need an app, wouldn't responsive code be sufficient?

The problem is not the UK, but the Eton/Oxford elite that have taken control in so many countries. Don't forget that Clinton was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and Obama has a British Commonwealth background. Many of the ruling elite in other countries have Eton/Oxford backgrounds, or other associated conditioning such as Sandhurst. The European Union is no longer a German creation, but is one of the operating subsidiaries of this elite. The reason that so much artificial hate has been generated against Donald Trump is that he supports America, and not the Deep State.

I use templates from themeforest ( and some other sites), and they are usually fairly easy to modify as long as you stay with the basic theme. If you don't like the theme, then it's easier to choose another one, rather than get involved in heavy customising. It can become complicated if you want to play with the css for a responsive theme, but if you just want to change to content in a basic theme, then it's pretty easy to do it yourself. There are quite a few good html guides to help you with the process.

Members should take responsibility for their signatures. Promoting a product in your signature implies that you know the product and believe in it. If it is a scam, then people will think of you as a scammer, and that can tarnish your reputation for a long time. A scam signature in a know alt will tarnish the primary account as well.

It seems that most members rush into a sig rental scheme without bothering to make any checks, but just see the promised payments for promoting an inferior product. The saddest part is that many scamming promoters scam their affiliates as well. In this case you have killed your reputation for no financial gain.

I think ther recommendation is that you should report such posts. I think that ICOs may have run their course, and it may be better to avoid the whole concept as a waste of time and/or money.

I ignore them as well, but I didn't include the comment, as i don't want to be known as Jet Cash - the ignorant.

Already got him on ignore.

Sometimes I think I'm too extreme in my attitudes, Bitcoin Talk is a mature crypto forum, and it must be a prime candidate for the serious discussions that we will need when the new government payment systems are announced. e-Estonia ia already here, and some people consider that to be the planned replacement for the European Union when it disintegrates. We don't have many discussions about it here, and we are going to have to escape from the shackles of the TwitBook bounty hunters, if we are going to get any credibility in the emerging economies.

The initial posts are often formatted, and usually contain little of value.  By ignoring the initial poster, the thread is deprecated in the index, and it gives a much cleaner page. Do you think this action is too draconian, after all, it means I won't be opening the thread, so nobody posting in it has a chance of receiving any merits from me. Capitalised titles makes the forum appear to contain a bunch of newbie amateurs.

I'd use the DVDs to back up the blockchain and other data, chuck Windows, it's insecure, and drags everything down to its own level, and use an external SSD for the blockchain. I run a node on a celery netbook with an external SSD, and another node on a Win 10 notebook with a core i5 and a HDD. The celery syncs at about 4 times the speed of the i5.

You need to rework you original post. For example - what do you mean by a physical value? Do you meant an equavalence with the Dollar, which is also a virtual currency, or do you want to link it to the heavily manipulated 'price' of gold?

If you have a business selling holiday homes, and you decide to provide a free lunch for marketing, you need to restrict the people attending. If you allow the room to be filled with people with no money, and who throw the food around and insult the prospective buyers, then you need to get rid of the free loaders, and prevent them returning. Bitcoin Talk is in much the same situation at the moment.

That's why you need to introduce posting restrictions, or to ban bounties.

I don't think a single merit requirement is of any significance, it's too easy to feed into an alt and bot network. I've mad a number of suggestions in the past, and some of them are.

- Newby thread starting restricted to an intro and an account recovery board. Newbies and juniors restricted to beginners and associated boards.
- Merits associated with posts deleted by a mod, or by  the poster should be removed.
- No merits for trading, bounty, ICO or similar posts.

I think there were a load more, but that will do for the moment.

If you allow account sales, then trust is no longer useful in trading. The trust system has morphed into a reputation ststement, and I think this is more useful. It allows for the flagging of sold accounts for example.

Alexa is now owned by Amazon - a major globalist organisation. Bitcoin Talk is a major self-help community to help people free themselves from the Gobalists financial system. Can we really trust their analyses and reports any more?

I believe that the current fiat monetary system is coming to the end of its life cycle. This could be the cause of an inversion of the yield curve. If an efficient and stable alternative is created, then it could lead to a period of economic growth, but it is also likely to trigger a substantial transfer of capital away from the current banking elite.