There's a problem somewhere and that problem is that you do not know your purpose in this group. If I may ask, is you purpose here to earn merits? Secondly, people asking you how much merits you have earned do not also know their purpose here. Merits can be earned by crooks but that cannot be said about knowledge. If you look around, you will discover that there are some merit give away threads but there's no knowledge give away threads. In terms of earnings, there are three things you can earn;

• First you earn knowledge
• Your earned knowledge will help you make quality posts to earn merits  
• Your earned merits will enable you join signature campaign to earn bitcoin  

Threads were something substantial is discussed and not a random thread like "I love Elon musk". There are also give away threads like that of fillippone if it's what you are asking about.

I have successfully deactivated my telegram group, although I have some plans to reactivate it. I have seen that I do not make money through telegram and I do not also offer services or promote goods with my telegram, and yet I am exposed to some scammer who go.on by sending unsolicited to messages to individuals. This is worse when you are a in a group where the admin is not strong and it seems that nothing is regulated. People send in messages, pretending to be admin or working with admin to Sam people.

With what OP presented, it is enough reasons for we to understand that nothing is free anywhere even in Free Town. If you are asked to claim any amount of money you didn't work for, know that it is a scam. No one gives random people that don't know money.

Manchester city is going down the table gradually

I am very happy that crystal palace was able to ensure that Manchester city lost 2 points in this week English premier League. When I look at the standing and see that Manchester city is going down the table, I am always happy. Liverpool is ahead of Manchester city with 3 points and if they win against Manchester United tomorrow, it will be 6 points difference and I am confident that Liverpool is not the type of club like Arsenal who will gap Manchester city with much points and still not win the league. I am a Manchester United fan but I do not mind that Liverpool should my club tomorrow in order to give them advantage of winning the English premier League title.

The best Manchester United can achieve this year is to quality for the champions league and we all are witnesses to Manchester United poor performance this season in the champions league. They wasted a slot of the English side. If this is the same performance they will offer next season, they should leave the spot to another English club.

Someone doing a job of 9am to 5pm, will not have time to manage or supervise a business unless they have to quit their job for their business. This is a way to draw a balance. Starling a business is not an easy thing, business needs attention and more attention to be nurtured in the early time. I am not discouraging anyone from doing business but I want to tell us that business needs attention.

People who has a secured government job should be somehow stable and plan their lives while depending on pension for retirement. By this they won't be scared of being laid off at anytime and plan their lives very well.

You got me right. When it's against men, it's not discrimination.

I expected to read, mister bitcointalk was removed because fillippone wins it all the time.


Lovesmayfamilis is another person I am sure is a woman. I have had a chat with her, her tones and emotions are femalike

philipma1957 voted today and in the last category voting which is for Miss Bitcointalk , which I don't know if it has been discussed before. He said,

The question of why a female get a reward for being a female while there's no corresponding reward for the opposite gender demands an answer. Is there a kind of discrimination which has been overlooked for years? To the best of my knowledge, such an award of Miss goes in pair with Mr. Should Icopress consider including this in next year award or we live it this way which looks like a gender discrimination issue.

Anyone who uses google translator or any other available translator to translate a thread verbatim ought to be banned according to the forum rules. The act of using a translator to re-write a quality thread that consumed knowledge and time to produce is fraudulent. If it is done with the intention of obtaining a fraudulent merit, I think the user deserves a tag from you (it could be a neutral tag). That is the best way to prevent abuse and maintain quality. If using a translator is what is needed, it wouldn't be a problem for you to use the translator to write your thread in different languages without the involvement of anyone.

There are probably more reasons, but laziness and greed summarize it well. Once a user has the mindset of cheating, they automatically become mentally lazy to do things the right way.

I remember I have read in the past when google declared a total ban in cryptocurrency related projects, articles, advertisement and more. But I do not remember when they gradually ease off some bans. That is common with Bitcoin. Even some countries who initially issued a total ban on bitcoin in recent years have revisited their decisions.

One thing I noticed about google is their gross inconsistency and about their personal gain. They actually do not protect the people, if not they would have been paying their customers some dividends for using their data for commercial purposes for many years. The reason the war was severe was because they didn't understand the essence of bitcoin decentralisation. They thought it would interfere in their business. Now that the unbiased purpose of bitcoin and cryptocurrency is gradually sinking into the society, there's need for readjustment.

I understand too well that the actions of theymos is geared towards protecting the forum as he has said so many times about the forum domain being hosted in US and as well the activities of this forum is subjected to the decisions of the US government. I knew that a day like this will come when chipmixer website was seized and its activities were highly linked to the forum for advertisement. The negative activities of any mixer directly impacts the US government in the case of money laundering, sales and purchases of arms and more. But the activities of casinos doesn't impact the government much as the common negative effect is gambling addiction which is somehow personal to the citizens.


Gambling industry is that one industry that embraced cryptocurrency wholeheartedly by making cryptocurrency as a means of payment and means of gambling. This did not make gambling more popular but also increased the adoption of cryptocurrency. It will be difficult to ruin the relationship between casinos and cryptocurrency.

I see, that was much on, and knowing too well that design demands precision which is time consuming to achieve. I also did not know you promoted chipmixer. From when I joined the forum till date I have always known you as a Bestchange promoter. Maybe, by Jan you will return to the green family.

Never heard of these names and for them to disappear means there was a decline in signature and avatar design demand.

This is tedious. Presently, designers could go two weeks without anything to design. There was a signature campaign boom then, no doubts.

Wow! For more than my 2 years in this forum, I have never known that hugeblack is a designer. Great to see nice designs in OP.
Hope 3 years out of service wouldn't retard your performance.
I wish you the best and will recommend your services.

I do not actually understand google and some of their advertisement policies against cryptocurrency. I remember that I have downloaded some scam apps from play store and got scammed. Why won't google scrutinize such projects and determine that they are scam if they be such strict.

Google knows it's time to readjust because bitcoin is no longer a new player in the industry. Perhaps, they were waiting for adoption and ETF is the perfect signal of mass adoption they have been waiting for.

There's one thing with history;
But the major thing is the people that make the history. We cannot successfully take out FUD and FOMO from bitcoin and cryptocurrency investment. Even if everyone has mastered the behaviour of bitcoin, the uncertainty will still be there. For instance, people are panicking that Bitcoin will drop below 40k. It is the same group of people that will jump in when bitcoin makes a new ATH, they will join not to miss $100k and in the end bitcoin will dump on them.
We all are victims in different dimensions. Atleast I have seen bitcoin in the region of $15k this year. What stopped me from taking $15k worth of loan to invest in bitcoin. Today I would have paid off the loan and will still be 100% richer. The industry is dynamic, unpredictable and confusing and that's why I don't blame people in any kind of decision they want to make.

I am surprised to understand that there's abuse of translation. How does this happen? More than one user translates a thread?

Quality is the key. The translated version of a quality post should remain quality. Besides, it's same post, the only difference is the language.

I also do not understand the purpose of the post. But from your comment I did understand the area the Op is coming from. But as you said, good and quality posters have greater chances to second chance than an unestablished random newbie.
Maybe OP is saying because of the recent activities of Ratimov or something like that...

The concept of DYOR that you explained in this your article has a bigger connection with altcoins and shitcoins investment and has little or no connections with bitcoin investment. We can all agree that there is no research needed on bitcoin investment. All that is needed is good timing of the market and you are good to go

Diversification is fine and what you explained above is diversification of portfolio and not that of investment. There is a question of who is wiser between he who invest all in BTC and he who has 50% of BTC and spread the rest 50% among altcoins.

 Very necessary... Simply be informed. One positive fundamental can make you rich and one negative of it can crash you.

Yea, I understood the Op and yourself inclusive. Theymos has the right to stop any project from promoting here including casinos, or in the worse scenario ban signature campaign totally. But then, I believe very much that theymos will not ban casino because;

• Casinos are highly regulated and licensed unlike mixers
• Casinos are not notorious bad players like mixers. The reason they are prohibited from promoting in some places is just ethics and believes
• Finally, before theymos banned mixers, there was a sign (when he instructed the staff members not to promote mixers). As of casinos, there's no such sign yet.

Op, now that you only received 1 vote for your project shilling, what are you gonna do? Create another poll? You had a smart way of shilling and that would have worked if those tokens are atleast known. But those tokens are totally strange to many of us. And that is why you are getting suggestions, not relating to the poll.


Do you mean buying ETH with X2 leverage? Please why would you do that, why not on spot?

Op, your idea will play fine and it's what the government can do, but there's an extent to which they can do it. Meanwhile, some trade and prices of goods are set internationally. So, since there's no government that is totally independent and unreliable to other governments, your idea will not work. Even talking about internally, the discrepancy between public and private sector will not allow your proposal work hence the private sector pays tax.

The only way the government can intervene is to subside the price of goods for her citizens.


The government of different countries behave similarly. But the difference is that while some government has people that think for their country and make laws to better the economy for the sake of the citizens, your own country has nobody strategizing for it.

What apple is trying to implement will not eliminate totally the risks associated with KYC, especially data leakage. But then, their proposed solution will only centralize the data in one central server of the government thereby having only one point of failure. This obviously has some advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage will be the legal implications of it, which will try to protect the right of the person who is completing KYC.
While the disadvantage will be risk of attack. Since there's only one central point of KYC, hackers and criminals will channel all their energy to that point and who knows, they can hit the jackpot.