@Rahar02 @1Referee The easiest solution to satisfy both kinds of customers would be to run two subdomains. E.g hot.Bitfinex.com and cold.bitfinex.com where on "hot" You could withdraw instantly but would know the risk that is involved. As for users who want to play safe, They could use "cold" which would process the withdrawals manually. If you ask me these exchanges should partner up and build a bunker of sorts. Where they would store/create their cold wallets. I am sure these exchanges are making millions they surely can spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars on a bunker. This would ensure almost 0% risk for the high rollers/whales. I am surprised why no one has thought of something like this before. I guess scamming people is more profitable than running a sustainble business. 

And shitty journalism continues... These websites really don't have content to write upon.  I Guess crypto has no future... :/

Well, that's how its supposed to "work", The owner who will replace the job of the "human" with an AI/Robot will technically pay the wage of the human worker as the tax. The benefit being that AI/Robot will be able to work 24/7 and 365 days a year. Will have almost zero downtime and errors. Thus increasing the productivity of his business. Once his productivity increases, his 'profits' should increase too. So its a "win" for the people who own the means of production. But this is a theoretical scenario. we won't see government intervention for a good few years. Businesses will keep replacing humans with bots. Just look at Amazon warehouses or other warehouses which are automated. Have the government taken any action "against" them? We all know the answer to this.

I believe there will be a "transitional phase". This "phase" is the challenge we will face in the coming next 2 decades. The Transportation industry will be the first one to experience this change on a large scale. All these people becoming jobless can't develop new skills instantly. They will most likely get employed by other labour industries. But most will suffer through this change. With all these debt issues going around I doubt any sort of government will try to implement socialist policies. we will most likely see training centres pop up everywhere. Teaching these people basically the new skills in demand. Those who will resist the change will fail and will eventually be eliminated.

Good thing is that we have time and the whole transitional phase will be a slow one rather than a sudden one. I am sure many different solutions will come to light once we are in the mess itself. For now, we can only speculate and hope for a better future for everyone. UBI imo will only come into play once this transitional phase completes.

Lol, This is equivalent to a scammer vouching for his own services... Do people really trust these ratings from these shitty websites? I know people can be gullible but are they this naive? Like I don't even trust reviews which show up on Google and these people think a random website will do all the hard work for them? Jeez! We are indeed living in interesting times.

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BTW the evidence is quite a conclusive one, They deserve a red tag iyam. @Coolcryptovator You should make a list of these websites who rate scam projects as legit ones. So we can make a sticky in the announcement section for a list of "fake review/rating" websites. Should be quite helpful for many newbies.

Alright since we are feeding the troll. I will get to it. I kept away from this thread but looks like I have to jump in. OP claims that GPU miners are "selfish Butthurt Gamers". I have been a gamer for like a good decade now. I am your PCMR guy, who believes in the superiority of PCs but I never bought a high-end card for my gaming purposes. I frequently jumped ship from Nvidia to AMD. Depending on whoever created the better GPU for the mid-range gamers. I never bothered SLIing or Crossfiring. But as a Miner, I bought over 30 GTX 1070s. So your claim of "Butthurt Gamers" isn't valid for me at least.

As for being "Selfish" Who the fuck doesn't want to make some money? Why are you into ASIC mining? Let's not be hypocritical here. You are in for "Ez" money. You don't give a fuck about the network and would ditch mining the day your ASIC stops making you a profit. If you aren't "Selfish" why not donate all of your Hashing power to a charity or something?

Hey if they come here just to whine about the system then fk them! But if they Present ideas or solutions to the "problem" they think there is, I will gladly hear them out.


Exactly! People weren't making money back in the day through signature campaigns. I remember there was only one campaign of primedice. People used to spam more than 100 posts per week to get their 0.25 BTC. People hardly cared about the signature campaigns as there were far better ways to make money by offering different services. I don't know why people have this mindset of making "Ez" money by posting garbage which isn't true btw If you post garbage for a few weeks you won't get accepted into a decent campaign as far as I know. But these guys think its otherwise. I mean look at how many users got blacklisted in SMAS. Wish Lauda got back to the "managing" business. He was doing a fantastic job if you ask me.

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Lol, Each time I read or type the word Legend wait for it "dary". This Dude comes to my mind.

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Hmm interesting. It would be interesting to find out what is the average time for a post to get 'merited' and what's the chance of getting 'merited' after that average time has passed out. Obviously this stat will vary to different boards but still would be interesting. I hope DdmrDdmr can figure something out for this.

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You got that wrong, that's not what he suggested. He is asking for sort of a small "div" to appear when he clicks the merit button and send merit directly from the same page, instead go going on a separate page to merit the user. Just imagine reddit opened a new tab each time a user had to upvote or downvote a post.

I don't get this part from all the butthurt farmers. How is not getting merit preventing you from participating in discussions? There is a whole marketplace section where you can earn way more than you will earn for mere shitposting and promoting useless ICOs. THERE ARE FAR BETTER WAYS TO MAKE MONEY!!! Jeez! How hard is to use your brain for once? Just look at all the people who are providing goods etc. I bet they are making even more than the user who is in a well-paying signature campaign. Get Creative if you want to make money and before doing that develop skills. Cuz in the real world bounty hunting will only get you through your day. You won't be able to make "good money" in the long run iyam. Bounty Hunting is a waste of time IMO. I am sure that time can be spent on developing a new skill which will help you earn many times more than a signature campaign or a bounty would.

@coinplus You sound too negative. Look on the bright side. philipma1957 would become the most trusted person in the world if he distributes the prize afterwards. Like this story would break the internet for sure. There will be songs written about him and would go down as a legend in the history of the internet. BTW I am down. I wouldn't mind sharing my reward with the pool members. $32 Million dollars will set me for life.

Exactly, I got 1000 merits from the airdrop and the sMerits I received were around 70 if I remember correctly of which I only have 12 remaining. I doubt these heros got 250 each.

I can sort of without even needing to google.

The URL of the first user on bitcointalk

Just make a loop function where you replace the value of "u" and you have got the profile link of the first 200 users.

As for the first 10000 accounts deleted. I am sure there will be a table in the database with the list of deleted accounts. Just sort it by timestamp and you will have access to the list of "first" 10000 deleted accounts. But I wonder what purpose will this serve? The link in your spreadsheet is of user accounts deleted below the UID of 10000. They might not be the "first" 10000 accounts that got deleted.

That is why I said that we can't allow butthurt people to dictate terms but we as a community need to acknowledge that a system can be improved and we should be open to hearing everyone's thought. Just take your community suggestion thread as an example. 1 Merit rule came out of it and I am sure theymos will bring out another membership soon. We can't block out people who are genuinely interested in making the system better.

I don't think we need it. A simple google search with "bitcointalk" in the title lands the correct result almost 99 times out of 100. Here check this as an example.



It has already been suggested to replace the default forum search with the google one, as it is way more accurate. Most Newbies don't know about this, hence why we see countless new threads on the same topic ( Not saying they aren't spamming but can be the case sometimes ) which have been already discussed upon.

What you are suggesting is an indexing of sorts, but no one can beat google if you ask me.

Lol, I would suggest doing a "check-up" with a "developer". You may need "re-programming" of sorts. I have heard "Beer-drinking" algorithms can be quite harmful if not "re-programmed".

This clearly shows what lack of funding can do to the sport. Both countries had their own issues. West Indies cricket board got in trouble with the players not getting their pay while Zimbabwe went through a total economic collapse. It's a shame that the International Cricket Council couldn't do much for them. I am totally against the concept of big three. They have a valid argument about the viewership but if we want to develop cricket in other countries, someone has to make a sacrifice. Else we won't see any progress.

To prove my point further, Just look at IPL. They throw away the money and the talent rises through the chains. PSL did the trick for Pakistan and Big Bash is doing for Austrailia. Any League with International Stars performing in them will yield the country some results. We hardly see players from these countries getting picked up in these leagues from around the world. What I was thinking was that ICC should introduce a sort of a law, which will enforce a participation of few players from these countries. This could give them a big boost iyam.

Anyway back to the discussion, India and Zimbabwe should win their respective matches quite easily.

I guess you are talking about this? http://2045.com/ I haven't followed them lately. But it looked interesting in 2013 to me. I will do some reading on how far they have come.


Well, have you considered about "FPGAs"? They can be "programmed" to be better at almost any algo. Same is happening with AIs. Have you seen Baxter? How it can be taught to perform any task? General purpose AI's are right about the corner and you should be worried if you don't own the means of production.

Lol. Well, he created the world's first decentralized "Currency" I am sure he can pull off another miracle by saving the GPU mining community.

Yeah, Lets reset the whole bitcoin network itself too, I missed out in 2010, I could have mined shit loads of BTCs for myself. These whales don't deserve all those BTCs they mined for merely contributing their 'CPUs and GPUs' to the network, just because they were at the 'right place at the right time' isn't fair. I want a reset...  

According to @kingzee people who visit this forum are only interested in making money, So a whole Network Reset will be much better, no? Everyone will get a 'fair' chance at mining those BTCs.

The whole reset thing is silly and we can't let butthurt people dictate terms iyam.

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I like your idea, this is something which can be further worked on.

Merit Sources are just as 'centralized' as the 'Default Trust'. Plus if you take into consideration things like bias, time spent by merit sources on the forum etc. It isn't the best way to distribute merit or the efficient one, to say the least.

What I had in mind was a sort of stake system... So Let's say 20,000 merits monthly would be distributed to people who 'contribute' to the forum. Each 'upvote' will get you X amount of stakes, Depending on the rank of the member who upvoted your post. To prevent spam, You could exclude upvotes from newbies, jr.member and members. The "sMerit" will function the same way as it does now.

You would get 1 stake if a Full member upvotes your post.
You would get 2 stakes if a Sr Member upvotes your post.
You would get 3 stakes if a Hero Member Upvotes your post.
You would get 4 stakes if a Legendary user upvotes your post.
You would get 5 stakes if a mod upvotes your post.
You would get 10 stakes if an Admin upvotes your post.

This sort of system will consolidate for things like bias from merit sources and time which is required to 'lookout' for merit-worthy posts. Let's be honest here, Many boards are 'under-merited' because of the reasons I mentioned.

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It is indeed simple but that doesn't mean its functional or the most efficient way to distribute merit. Let's give the man some credit for at least presenting something out of his "ass", instead of just whining and trolling like others do.


Stop trolling! That would be a good start.

@btcdevil are you fucking kidding me! LMAO! Austrailia had plenty of experience on their team. Khawaja, Finch, Lyon, Starc, Siddle and more. The side was well 'experienced' More experienced than Pakistan IYAM. What i find interesting is that they didn't get out to the spinners, but rather a fast bowler dismantled them on a dead pitch, twice in a row. While Starc and Peter Siddle couldn't do much. But what's even strange is that Pakistan lost wickets to spin. It's funny how the tables have turned. I remember Saeed Ajmal used to be their goto guy to get wickets and today they haven't got a decent spinner on the team. Time does funny things. Lol.

There are no 'realistic earnings' for keeping a healthy GPU mining community. There are just too many factors/variables involved. How does a guy who has an electricity cost of 0.15$/Kwh compete with a guy who has 0.08$/Kwh? How can you satisfy them both? The answer is a simple one. You can't. That's what happens with the free markets.


You can't dictate the Free markets. There is no way to ensure this. There will always be a guy who has access to cheaper electricity than you and you can't ask him to sell his coins at a lower price cuz for him, he still will be making a good 'healthy' profit. Hence why we are in this situation. People who have a cost of 0.02$/Kwh are still making a decent amount and their ROI is in your suggested timeframe.

You don't need self-aware AI's for helping doctors or doing advance diagnostics accurately. Look into Watson from IBM. It is already helping doctors around the world, especially in the field of cancer. Plus the markets are already controlled by bots. You should really look into AI more. You will be surprised what AI is already doing. I will recommend you to watch this video by CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&t=1s

The society will go through this 'change' too, I have hope in 'humanity'. As long as AI will ensure that the elites have control over the masses you have got nothing to worry about. You will see things like UBI and other welfare systems get traction. The future currency maybe data itself. Cuz whoever controls/owns your data basically will own you. You should be more worried about the corporations who will own you in the future.