It's probably more of a publicity stunt or attention seeking by the fantasist who created it than a traditional scam, but I think they might have charged people a fee to review their applications and they're selling merchandise etc but regardless of their motives one thing is for sure it's not going to happen as there's not the money or technology for it.

If you build your reputation over time there's a lot of different services that you can offer from loans, escrow, to managing threads and things for people etc.


That's why you take collateral. If you take their account as such and only give them half or less than what it's actually worth you could make a decent profit if they default but if they don't then you make a little on the interest instead.

Yeah, I think it should state the title of the thread it was removed from or be directly clickable (though this may be difficult seeing as the post was removed - though even if the post has been deleted when a quote is posted on the forum it usually takes you back to the top of the thread). It's not a massive issue and you can usually work out where its from but I suppose every now and again it may cause an inconvenience.

Yeah, he's clearly wanting to be revealed as innocent. Even having an admin check is not always conclusive either way so that's why they usually don't get involved not to mention it takes up too much time for them and is a hassle. Maybe BadBear will offer his input but I wouldn't count on it and even if he found no traces to other accounts blockchain or other evidence could suggest otherwise.

If scammer tags were removed then these features aren't going to be added. Who is going to want to take the time to investigate and dish out badges for trolling or spamming? Imagine the crying in Meta when people are branded with such a tag as well? If they're breaking the rules in whatever way then they should just be dealt with in the existing ways of negative feedback or bans etc.

Age doesn't really matter much to the people who are buying them (might increase their value marginally but not by much). Age has no real additional benefits to people on signature campaigns at the end of the day and Rank is still the prominent feature over it.


These seem mostly accurate. I think the accounts going towards the lower end of your estimates only do so when the ownership of the account cannot be proven though. Accounts with good posts tend to fetch more towards the higher end still as well. I think people would probably get more for them if they didn't offer such low prices in the first place. Most seem to come straight out and ask for a price of 0.5 or whatever for a Hero but if everyone asked 0.8 from the get go they likely wouldn't get such lowball prices but people will snap them up at 0.4-0.5 and I guess most want a quick sale rather than waiting for a bigger one.

The forum was very laggy earlier on but it's been working ok since. I'm sure it'll be up and down every now and again until the forum gets back on its feet.

It says why, but formatting and colouring your posts in such a way doesn't do you any favours either.

I'll take a FM slot, thanks.

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It annoys you when threads are moved into the correct sections? Most members know that Meta is the place to look for such things relating to the forum so it's helpful having them in the right place.

You need to check in Meta which is where this thread belongs. Please move it there at the bottom left.

Whether you change your email or not is up to you and it should be ok but remember it has been exposed now so take that into consideration.

If you're banned then you shouldn't be posting outside of meta or you'll likely have your ban extended along with this account.

I'm not sure if an exact date was ever given other than 'early next year' (said last year) but people kept mentioning February for some reason. It's being tested now so it hopefully shouldn't be too long but I'd rather it be extensively tested and made sure it's secure because releasing it with bugs could be disastrous especially if people's accounts are easily compromised in some way.


Just to be an improvement and a forum tailored to the needs of the admins. The specifics of what was requested can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=523070.0

I'd say no because I'd immediately assume that I was on one of these type of hidden camera shows.

Gambling is a huge industry and bitcoin is currently untapped by the mainstream sites. They could actually save a lot of money by accepting or paying out in coins over PayPal and other such money transmitters. As for creating your own site if you can come up with something unique go for it but the market is pretty saturated with run of the mill dice sites and basic casinos at the moment so don't just do another one of them.

I think he's saying that if bitcoin loses much of its value then companies who have invested money into bitcoin or use bitcoin to operate may face difficulties. Some cloud mining companies went bust when the value dropped significantly and had to cease operations (though of course they could have just been ponzis but I think at least one 'legit' company suffered because of the fairly recent price drop). I'm sure there have been other bitcoin businesses that suffered a similar fate too.

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I think what he's saying is people need to secure their coins because when they get stolen they then get dumped and it has a negative effect on the bitcoin price.

For what? To artificially inflate the price? I'd rather have a slow but steady growth over time than a massive rush because it'll only cause another bubble and eventually burst again.

I haven't seen either Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones yet but at least I've got something to look forward to. The UK series of The Office is my favourite sitcom of all time and I think it's far superior, though I've only seen the first few seasons of the US version. Completely different in terms of tact and humour and I'd take quality over quantity any day.

Ross made many mistakes all of which ultimately contributed to his demise. The biggest error he made that tied him directly to Silk Road was using his own personal details to set up Silk Road in the first place. From what I gather it was good old fashioned detective work that got him caught but once he was there was plenty of evidence to seal the deal. Had he not used his personal email address and not got caught red handed operating SR with logs of his activities on the laptop amongst other things it might have been a much different story. I don't doubt that he is a very intelligent person but he did some ridiculously stupid things. If he was such a genius though he wouldn't be currently sitting in a jail cell right now.