Too bad you'll look back at that as being way too expensive in a few days.

Actually those threads were from about a year ago, and I only recently discovered them when I google'd my username.

I'm pretty sure I'm not in the same country as the people responsible for the slander (or libel), so that's probably a no-go.

Interesting point. I guess there is some truth to this as it's easy to 'change' this identity on other fora by simply deleting your account and moving to a different username.


I think it is considered slander though, as you're only a criminal once convicted for a crime. By your definition, everyone is a criminal - but speeding and the likes, while it is a breach of the law, is not a crime - it's a misdemeanor and something you won't get a criminal record for. Therefore mentioning one's identity and stating for a fact he/she is a criminal without him/her ever being convicted of anything, is slander.

I was wondering what the policies regarding slander / defamation are forum-wide. Are there any paths to follow to request rectification and/or removal?

I am asking because there are two slanderous topics regarding my nickname on here, one calling me an outright criminal and the other calling me a scammer. I can handle unfounded abuse by other people and they have their right to free speech, but things get more serious when one-liners like "Boxman90 = CRIMINAL" start showing up on Google.

On the flipside, bears clearly had plenty of reason to be bearish.

Where's fallllling when you need him? He didn't warn us this time

And you can generate infinite numbers of addresses and cycle your coins through them, if you want to up that statistic. Any figure that can be manipulated that easily, cannot be used as an indicator for anything.

^ This topic.

I mean, this can't be serious, right?

This was not common knowledge yet? C'mon guys.. It's literally on their site

https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-exchange-rates

"Spending to keep the economy alive" only works when inflationary currency is being used.

Sorry.

Why would you now suddenly buy Bitcoin first, to then immediately spend them on Ebay?

Right now, only if you already own Bitcoin, will you use Paypal's feature. For the short to semi-short term this will mean added selling pressure. Once word got out, and people are using Bitcoin more widespread, other people will think about getting into Bitcoin, but this is not something that happens in the next few weeks.

Now that Bitcoin is accepted by Paypal, which uses BitPay, I expect increased selling pressure. Every purchase made with BTC through Paypal will effectively equal selling those Bitcoin for FIAT. As the recipients of the transactions through Paypal will have to receive USD (I think 99.9% of vendors / ebay users does not have a bitcoin wallet anyway), every transaction paid with Bitcoin will be dumped on the nearest exchange immediately, so that PayPal (or rather, Bitpay and Coinbase) can pay out the recipient.

Therefore this is good for Bitcoin adoption, bad for Bitcoin price.

Go on then, state your point?

You don't have the slightest clue what quantum physics is about, do you? Science is most definitely not a religion, it's a method. A very successful method towards generating understanding and technological progress from that understanding. Quantum physics has fuck-all to do with 'belief', to put it bluntly.

You almost sound smug beforehand, as if you're being a better person by deciding to go somewhere where people are poor, and already portraying yourself as 'being humbled' before you even went.

Except science is not a religion, thank you, and it is the only thing that can produce 'miracles' with actual reproducibility.

Well it could be a short discussion as well;

There's no way to tell if there is a divine entity, and there is no scientific reason for it to be there, nor any evidence of it existence. THE END!

Victimizing yourself will not make your arguments any more or less valid, that's all I want to say about it really.

I already figured it'd be best to leave religion out of this for the sake of not putting a bomb under this topic.

I'm not even saying wanting to make money is bad, I mean we're all here, are we not? I'm trying to make as much money as I can too.. I'm just using you as an example to the forum for how you can make buttloads of hypothetical money and then still lose most of it due to tunnel vision and stubbornness in your beliefs.


I hope you learn something from it, and if not you I hope someone else will. You've put all your money on one horse, and that's foolish.