Apparently T-mobile Poland started to accept bitcoins. Just came across this post in press section:


That's pretty big.

You should remove Mycoin, that info is plain bullshit, not to mention they did scam mostly fiat investors who didn't have much clue of what Bitcoin is. They used BTC as a con to justify ridiculously high ROI they promised.
That $387m is based on the exaggerated number of investors provided by MyCoin themselves to attract new victims.

Let's see:

Suggested searches for "is bitcoin ...":

... mining legal
... legal
... mining worth it
... safe

Only slightly better. I guess most of people searching for "is bitcoin" don't have much knowledge of what it is.

Bitstamp implemented multisig after the hack. And after what happened to Bter, there will be a major pressure on every exchange to do the same. And there's no really excuse not to do it.

So it seems to be a last call for any shady exchanges to "get hacked".


+1, but I'd like to see a comprehensive list with all the hacks, not just the recent ones (with short description). I'm sure there have been ~20 over the years.

I think you mean "shouldn't"?

I agree, but it's not possible for Marco to go not only through every post, but through every thread the post was made in. Therefore such spammers will likely get paid anyway.

The only sensible solution seems to be doing some random quality checks. If certain poster gets caught on duplicating replies he should get a warning, if that happens again, he's removed from campaign (or maybe 3 strikes policy?).

Well, technically "+1" post can be constructive. I didn't notice that many one-worders from sig camp participants (since they all know they won't get paid for such). "Thanks" can be just good manners, may not be constructive but doesn't have to be a spam.

I think there's more problem with people not reading replies already made by others (or purposely ignoring them) and posting the same answers all over again. Example, a newbie starts a thread asking where he can buy bitcoins and suddenly there's gazillion of replies with the same answers, same links etc.

At first glance, such post looks helpful and constructive, but looking at the entire thread, it's nothing but a spam.

Promising 1.x%/month return is definitely a red flag.

But what I wonder is since they offered fiat/BTC trade, the owners must have been known and not anonymous, therefore can they be prosecuted in China for fraud? Or can they just claimed to be "hacked" and close the business without any liability?


Some people need to learn the hard way, and some will never learn...

Same here.

I also noticed that 18 of my posts have been excluded, so I have a question on how this bot works. Posts in which boards are auto-excluded? I understand posts in this thread and off-topic board don't count - fair enough. But is 'games and rounds' section also not counted (even if posts are constructive)?

The rules in the first post are not very clear on this:


The way I understood this rule was that any bets/giveaway participation posts are not counted (such as username, BTC address etc), but any constructive posts (ie any discussion around the subject) are allowed.

Marketing stunt? If they did, they'd be just another business accepting BTC and wouldn't get such media attention.
But if you show there with fiat only, you can still make a purchase, you'll have to convert to BTC first (they have bitcoin ATM).

If you signed up through W-D's ref link then you're probably in (as far as I understand). But since that BTC0.15 won't make much difference to you, maybe you should let orryde win  

Not sure whether this number of bitcoin users is reliable assumption, but anyway 2 millions out of 8 billions is 0.025% not 2.5%.

Nice thread btw. I'm sure there's much more quotes of this sort. Found this article (from 2011):

http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2011/11/11/top-10-terrible-predictions-about-economy

I tried to give you some competition, but didn't stick to my system and got busted. I'm tempted to deposit 1BTC and wager total of ~4 but promised myself not to 

But don't be surprised if someone else steps in in the last minute and takes the 1st place. After all, your ~BTC2.4 is not that high.

Depends on what's BTER's situation, but doing things Poloniex style simply could not be an option.

You do have a point, it's not easy to divide altcoins, but it would be similar to any company going bankrupt, creditors would just split the remaining assets accordingly.

Btw, what did they do when NXT got stolen?

And probably anyone who had BTC over there can't see any reason why he cannot get compensation from whatever funds Bter has left (including hot wallet and altcoins).

Why bitcoin holders should be penalised, after all it's Bter's fault not theirs.

Thanks for that!

The deposit issue came around the time loljosh (escrow for W-D promo) sent out the giveaway payments. He sent them out to the deposit addresses (not as tips). So many people that complained referred to those deposits, although some other deposits (not related to promo) may have been affected too.


Yup, that's the one.

My account (hkloss23) got credited 0.005 but I think it should be 0.006 as per this W-D's post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=949266.msg10465043#msg10465043

I also didn't get any compensation.

But thanks for sorting it out.

Lol


Since only BTC wallet got "hacked", maybe you'll get your DOGE back... Stay positive.

It's free, it's online, so nothing to lose. You can just request a ticket, attend (if you have a time) and if it's not fun, just leave.

It's apparently blockchain's 6th bithday party.

I wonder how many of those who objected the "secret" Satoshi Roundtable meeting will show up and contribute.

He's still around because he started a promo campaign for safe dice (escrowed the funds). The promo is still ongoing (to be ended on 20th Feb), so he's just checking/updating on it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=949266.0

Hopefully when it ends, he'll cool off and will stick around on the forum.

Have you checked your deposit address on blockchain? Was there any weird movement?



My funds were moved from my address (1KuZ...) to 19ao..., together with funds from 1EVT... (panjul070) and 1LbF... (orryde).