I think exactly the same.


I'll leave it open a little bit more, in case someone else wants to reply/add something to the selling merits issue.

If the thread doesn't die by itself, and I see that the replies (if any) don't add much to what has already been said, I'll lock the thread, as I have done other times.

I don't agree with that at all. Theymos explicitly prohibited merit sources from selling merit. That does not mean that he allows others to sell them. I saw this discussed on the forum in some thread in the past, but I can't find it now.

I'd like to share a case that I'm not 100% sure it's plagiarism.

This user replies to a thread I created:


I was about to report it as low value, because he is not adding anything.

But then I realized that the style sounded too journalistic. I googled it and saw that he took a reuters article that I had already quoted in the OP and simply copied bits and pieces, changing a little bit here and there, without citing the source.

The only thing he has written without copying is the last sentence.

What do you think?

Hey! How have you discovered that? Googling it? I doubt you have gone through all the post history of the three accounts comparing.

EDIT: Answered via PM so as not to give scammers any clues..

I've had to rewrite this post because the article you link to is misleading. The title says:


And then it says:


That's actually a 450% increase. If that's true we are heading to hyperinflation non-stop, but given how the info is presented I'll wait until I see more evidence. And even more so when all I had heard so far was that 20% of the total had been printed by 2020:

STRATEGIST: ALMOST 20 PERCENT OF ALL U.S. DOLLARS WERE CREATED IN 2020 ALONE

As for the dollar losing its status, we cannot know a priori, but it is more endangered than ever since the Bretton Woods agreements. Bitcoin enthusiasts say so, that Bitcoin will be the world's reserve currency, and I would like that.

Hi, welcome to the forum, I like your nickname


I haven't used exchanges for a while but you have the answer on their webpage:



Quite likely. Can you give us an example?


I'd say so. I would just get a hardware wallet for storing but if you prefer a paper wallet, just do it right, in a secure way.


Unlikely if you just want to buy and sell through exchanges and you can prove your ID.


I don't know but someone else might help you on this.

I was trying to find a lower-ranked member to give him some merit, when I came across this case:

User wsxqaz123 has 10 merits. In January 08, 2021 he created a thread, Lost in my life:


It turns out that on March 15, user sanada.motokage gave him 4 merits for 4 different posts (3 in Chinese or Oriental language). This user is atm with no negative trust but Lauda, who is no longer in DT but I think she was before, left him negative trust as an account trader.

Apart from that, in May 5, cherry11800 gave him the 6 merits he lacked to be promoted to junior member. This user woke up recently from a long period of inactivity. He hadn't posted anything in a year and just wrote two posts the same day, May 5.

What do you think of this? As in another case I discovered, we cannot be 100% sure but personally I am 99% sure that he has bought the merits he needed (in the other case, the user confessed).

I've left him negative trust.

The problem I see with that is that sometimes merits are given to a post simply because you agree and I don't think that was the original intent of the system.

I understand that merits should be given for a thoughtful post or sometimes for being helpful or funny. Sometimes even a one-liner, if what it expresses is a key idea about what is being discussed is worthy of merit.

But giving merits simply as a like, as is sometimes done, I understand that it should not be done.

Anyway, the system is not perfect, but I understand that it is quite good.

Hi Brainboss!

I would like to change my payment address to a native segwit one.

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Best wishes

Yes but the point is how long that will last because it's already back up. Let's wait for a sharp rise in price, or a fall, and we'll see. The strange thing has been that today and yesterday we have had some hours with fees as cheap as on Sunday. Let's hope that in the next few days it keeps like that and we can consilidate small transactions. I've got one still pending.

Hi, thanks for you work!

Remember what I was asking?


I've seen how people have ranked up and it seems to me that it depends more on how long they have been waiting. Is that right? Just to clarify for next time. I wasn't really expecting to rank up as I already did last week.

I do hope you get accepted in the CM campaign btw.

Kind regards.

EDIT:

Brainboss must be still having connection problems. He's replied to me via PM:

Of course. We must also think that the US is more capitalist than Venezuela, of course, but it is not the paradigm of free market and absence of regulations.  There are many things I don't like there, and some of them have been mentioned by @dezoel, but communist style redistribution always ends in disaster. As I was saying in another thread:


And then, someone who lived in a comunist country added:

I do not believe the news as it is told.

Newspapers live by causing emotions in people, both positive and negative, and the Mirror even more so.

The way the story is told, it seems as if the protagonist had an ideal life, without any previous problems, and suddenly, overnight, he developed a serious gambling addiction problem.
maybe drugs as noted in a comment:


Bold is mine.

Yes, I think it is quite likely that that is the previous hint to an announcement. I think Musk did something similar, right? I don't remember exactly but he like tweeted something which implied that it may have purchased Bitcoin before Tesla formally announced that it had done so.

You have made a good mini summary, I would say. What I don't agree with is that


I know some announcing the death of the dollar, Max Kaiser, for example, but even Saylor, who was on that line, lately I have seen him saying that the Bitcoin will survive and that the ones that will disappear will be more inflationary currencies of countries like Argentina or Turkey.

If things get too far out of hand, they will end up raising interest rates, no matter how much it could negatively affect the stock market and economic growth.

I'd say so but there are other reasons as well:


"6 Reasons to Run a Bitcoin Full Node:

1) Helps the Network

2) Keeps you safe

3) Allows you to choose

4) Gives you a higher degree of privacy

5) It’s not that hard

6) It’s not that expensive"

For more visit:

https://bitcoinist.com/6-reasons-run-bitcoin-full-node/

It is the old idea that in a communist world everything would be wonderful, when the pure reality is that if all the wealth of the world were confiscated and distributed equally, the next day there would be rich and poor again, because some would save and invest and others would spend it all immediately on whores and drugs (to give extreme examples).

The only way to ensure "equality" would be, the day after, to confiscate again those who save and invest to give it to those who have spent it on whores and drugs.

And we would all live happily ever after.

Sure, sure franky. On the one hand you take things that I say and twist them to contradict me and on the other hand it seems that you want to contradict me in things that we agree.


According to today's nutritional guidelines, if you have a basal metabolic expenditure of 2,000 Kcal per day and you eat 1,800 Kcal of coke and MCD, you will lose weight. That is the problem. Not that a Pepsi is not the same as a Bigmac.

The effect on insulin, ghrelin or leptin of that food is what's important.

And for the other thing you say, I don't bother to answer you because I have already done it before, and you keep on going on and on:


LOL. 

Yes they say they are not offering that service this year. They also ask you to stay informed by subscribing to their newsletter. In theory it seems that they will offer the service again next year but only time will tell.

Yes, easier said than done. Someone who is addicted to gambling, the moment they recognize it, will make rational plans to stop gambling, but it's not as easy as just making a decision and doing it. He will usually relapse and it is because his emotional state will dominate over him, even though he knows that what he is doing is not the rationally right thing to do.