Drugs = Harmful to society, person who use and person who sell.
Accounts = Harmful/Helpful to forum and person who use.
-MZ
Drugs are not harmful to society if used responsibly. Look at the Netherlands, for instance. |
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Pretty cool!
But does Azure allows this if they get to know?
Why wouldn't they? |
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They are in the same negative limelight to me. But that's my opinion.
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Also, banknotes have serial numbers, and I see nobody saying that the dollar is not fungible.
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Definitely, what they are doing is crazy.
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But this thread is about traveling backwards in time, which is impossible.
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I guess there's nothing to debate about. They ask for accounts, you sell accounts. Supply and demand.
It's just that I think this whole system is immoral.
Most people that use bitcoin believe in a free market, I find it very interesting to see that you are not a believer in this I believe in a free market. I'm not asking anybody to ban account selling. It's just that I'm not OK with this, as well as there are people that are not OK with drug selling, but not actively try to ban it. |
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I guess there's nothing to debate about. They ask for accounts, you sell accounts. Supply and demand.
It's just that I think this whole system is immoral.
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So now we're buying respect. This just gets worse and worse.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
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So, basically, it's a pay-to-win scheme. It's not that this is literally a game, but buying reputation instead of earning it is basically what pay-to-win games do. If you have money, then you just skip the difficult part (there's a reason why new accounts can't be trusted: trust needs to be earned) and you just get to the last part and get your trophy.
This can only result in an elitist system, and you are OK with it because you're the one selling the accounts, but it's harmful to the community, because ironically, buying trust means losing it.
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I think a more interesting scenario is , imagine bitcoin was never invented (satoshi never existed) but you have the knowledge you have bout it. would you try to invent bitcoin? write a white paper? would you do it anonymously? what would you do?
You publish the white paper and the source code, becoming Satoshi and fulfilling the bootstrap paradox. |
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The most common is to participate in signature deals. I know that you are going to say that this contributes to additional spam, and this is probably correct to an extent, however it also attracts additional people to the forum (and to bitcoin) that would not otherwise be here. This overall will increase the adoption of bitcoin and will overall increase it's chances for success.
Having new people just for the sake of isn't necessarily the best idea. The ability to say something potentially controversial without associating your "main" forum identity/reputation with such message. For example if someone decided one day that they thought they found a reason why Bitcoin is going to fail but they are not 100% sure if they are correct, they may wish to purchase an account in order to force the discussion of this potential flaw without risking the embarrassment that would follow if they were wrong. Granted someone could just create a new account to do this however people tend to not take brand new accounts that make these kinds of statements very seriously - they are often almost automatically written off as trolling. There are other numerous examples of what could be said with purchased accounts. This is a pillar of freedom of speech. To truly have free speech, you not only need to be able to speak what is on your mind but also be able to do so without your identity being revealed
I can say something without revealing my identity. I just need to create a new account. Using other people's account, however, is not just not revealing my identity, but rather replacing somebody. And using the new account's activity and reputation is deceiving to say the least. I'm sorry, but I don't see this point as legitimate. For avatars. This is somewhat less common, especially as the percentage of overall accounts available with avatars is rapidly decreasing, as well as the fact that the new forum will likely have avatars.
This is circumstantial. To get around the 360 second posting rule and other newbie restrictions
The newbie restrictions are there for a reason. This is not a legitimate reason to buy an account. To have the prestige of having a higher ranking account. Some may think this is somewhat dishonest and may be against this however it is a source of demand for accounts.
I'm not sure if something can be both dishonest and legitimate, but if it can, then there's a problem with our society. |
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The threads in this forum are becoming more retarded every single day.
What if nuking the Eath's core kills Bitcoin?
What if an Asteroid kills Bitcoin?
Relax, it's just for entertainment. |
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So this is why the page seemed to be different on my phone.
Thanks for the quick fix, but the truth is the site still doesn't have a mobile design. However, I'm just waiting for the new forum to be released, hopefully with mobile (or responsive) design.
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Stop misspelling words.
On purpose or not, it makes the rest of the world think you are retarded.
I disagree. |
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Guess that time traveling is impossible so in my opinion answer is no.
Obviously, but this is a “What if” question. It's just for fun. |
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Is there any legitimate reason to buy an account?
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Something like this?  I don't see any harm, as long as it provides no major benefit to the post. Something like this is ok:  And prevent spam thanks, like a user trying to +1 all of someone elses posts. I've seen both of these, but I think “Thanks” is different than “Like”. I may like a post without thinking it was actually helpful to me. |
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SWF is insecure, there are a lot of 0-day exploits out there. HTML5 on the other hand is better, maybe only allow HTML5 videos for the tag?
YouTube embed code is an iframe. I don't know if we can control whether it will load an HTML5 player of a Flash player. |
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Hi,
I am a beginner in using bitcoin but the event is worrying.
What do you think of what happened with this bitstamp and MtGox?
Thank you for your help
It's people's fault for trusting a centralized amateur exchange. I only trust Gemini (winklevii) and its not out yet. You shouldn't trust exchanges more than necessary. I always empty my exchange accounts. |
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