I actually closed out the groupbuy and refunded the 3 souls who were brave enough to invest in me and gave them a little bit extra as a token of thanks for their trust.  Sadly - its not even certain if they are a scammy company or not at this point 

LOL - I just read 'without collateral'

Double 'it aint happenin'

usually that is one of the only ways to secure a loan - half of the amount as collateral in a different alt like litecoin.

Thats the pot calling the kettle black.  Look, you, getting a loan, here? Zilch, no chance whatsoever.  If you can put together a good enough reason for needing the personal loan, and you feel confident in that you'll pay it back, then try out btcjam.  You'll have better luck finding 'investors' there.

I simply used your Losses Tab and summed up the top losses (I know I know, there could have been A TON of 'lose' transactions under 3.8 million IFC), I was simply running the total payouts to the biggest losers.  20-25 BTC worth is a LOT of alts. 

Your point on Litecoin is reasonable - however giving your backstory to justify the high purchase price for the site simply so you can have collateral for a loan is not.  I'm sure that to run this site well you have to sink in at least 500 to 1000 a month on advertising to get alt-coiners in and gambling.  Your market, like the Asic Technology market is now flooded with competitors all trying to score a piece of the market.  If you sold this back in September-October of last year, I would have probably not questioned your price - but as things stand now, the entire market landscape is different and there is no way you'll get that.  This game does let you use different alts, but its at best a clone amongst a sea of *dice clones.  I'm sorry I got onto this tangent with you about it, I wish you the best of luck with your new endeavor and hope you can secure funding without needing to sell this.  Try to put together a kickstarter, you never know.

I know reddit was sworn off by them but what about this place, did they swear off BTC talk too?  I'm one of those that put down a deposit but when I requested a refund was told I was too late and to pay or piss off.  They spent literally 3 weeks to get back to me to tell me to piss off which is totally bothersome to me. 

Whose competing for the "new bfl" title here?  Black Arrow or Alpha-T?

Chiming in on What he said ^^^ without volatility we would be stuck with some stable crap number that no one wants - imagine its 2017 and BTC value is still at .40 cents.  Those said ASICS would not exist and likely neither would coinbase|bitpay.  

For that matter most of the alts would ceast to exist as well   

Is it really necessary to stay under the radar.  Do you feel like your rights are violated SOOOOO much that you spend excessive time using Tor ir i2p or freenet?  I tried them out and honestly the deep web has been an underwhelming waay overrated experience.  I want BTC to go mainstream because I'd like to see everyone pass on the savings of using BTC with lower pricing (yes a pipe dream probably not going to happen)  and I want to see companies give kickbacks to users who use btc over other currencies (sort of like what isis is trying to do - they feel threatened by cryptocurrency so this is an attempt to keep users incentivized to continue using consumer debt attached to high interest rates.)


Not all BTMs require you to 'sell your palm print|ID|DNA|etc'.  I think they do more good than harm because it draws attention from those who have no idea what it is and it makes those who DO know what it is smile because they see that cryptocurrency is becoming more accessible to the mainstream.

sllll ouch!  Can he show a velocity earnings so we can have an idea of ROI?  Give me 3 minutes people and I'll do some investigative analytics for myself to help draw more conclusions for everyone else.

My own gripes:  Takes forever to load (to his credit, once its loaded it runs relatively smooth)  It uses a flash counter - this doesnt play nice with google chrome when you have flash disabled by default (I suggest you do this if you don't it - works great for blocking ads in addition to standard ad-blocker) 

Seems like the site LOSES money - I could be mistaken, but it looked like someone lost .1 ltc and the site paid out like 3.47 LTC.  for IFC it paid out 6.8 Billion but took in less than .437 Billion.  Sure the code and hardware are worth something - maybe 20 ish BTC, MAYBE.  Alexa shows 52 sites backlinking towards the domain with the following topping the list:

Site   Page
1.   reddit.com   reddit.com/r/JackpotCoin
2.   secureserver.net   ip-173-201-142-193.ip.secureserver.net...
3.   blogspot.ch   colossuscoins.blogspot.ch
4.   cryptsy.com   wiki.cryptsy.com/net
5.   overclock.net   overclock.net/t/1464933/noblecoin-the-...

hmm in a nutshell your easiest (free) bet is to install chromium on the raspberry pi image.

Login to the antminers at your friends house. 
Go into the networking settings and set your WWAN setup (click edit) to be 'Static' and not dynamic.  Make them a new IP address (192.168.1.129 for instance)  Save and restart.  Now repeat again for the next antminer - but be sure to make a different IP address.  (if you use wifi setup then simply change your wifi ip to static and repeat the above.

 
Now, from home|work|ufo|wherever chrome remote desktop connect from your pc to connect to your chromium browser on the pi within your friend's network!  To remotely change settings simply login to chrome remote desktop on your pi and open a new chrome browser tab and administer away!

hmm- why can't a person simply setup their mining hardware to seek out the 1st transaction and submit it as a complete block with just the 1 trx immediately upon receipt? 

Doesn't probability of finding an accurate block increase substantially as the # of transactions goes down?

Figured it would be healthy to bring these up again as I think they are an inexpensive way to spread bitcoin awareness.

http://honeybadgerofmoney.com/product/1st-class-bitcoin-stamps/

I sell them for 59 89 cents, but if you pm me, I'm willing to sell just one by itself without the postage fee so it goes onto an envelope addressed to you.  



Promoting this one for the week, looking to see if anyone is interested in buying some.  Thanks for your time BTCTalk!

edit: admitted mistake, I need to reflect my pricing to not take a total loss on selling these. FWIW I've paid 82 cents per stamp I will only be making 7 cents per stamp sold - that would put the total profit motive for my stamps endeavor to a whopping $14 dollars (if there is a demand for them I will certainly make some more)

Doubt that they sell all in one go like that.  Makes more sense to sell half, buy them back to gain from the short play, then go long and sell them gradually so as to not disrupt the price abruptly - never completely exiting the position.

Here are my conclusions:

• purchased 1800 dollars worth of hardware.
• in less than 60 days - one of the blades actually died from burning out the ferrite bead
• the other 3 blades (I have two units) no do not work for whatever reason.  [no matter which psu i use they refuse to load up like there is no power]
• ZH tells me " no warranty - no refurbished units available " just a discount for new merchandise since my 'new' merchandise happened to fail just after the warranty period. 

Take your own conclusions from my experience.   

I'll buy them   LTC will always be that '2nd chance' mkt that people will flock to once btc flourishes.

I just saw this - FWIW  I wouldn't sell them had I just turned my funds into fiat instead of keeping them as BTC like I had initially done - greed its a hellava drug

I've my remainder still and if BTC price does a surge north back to december levels (1000-1100ish) then I should be fine and will call off the groupbuy (refund initial buyers of course). 

Wow - if anyone is interested in participating - I sell skyhook atms!  Be the 1st 2nd skyhook atm in the wild today!!!!!

Coinatmradar == really friggen cool!

Also if you own an BTM - I sell 2ft x 2ft window vinyl decals that say show the BTC logo and say ATM inside!

I'm going to begin sharing my sales data with Coinatmradar (with consent and confirmation of course) to keep this list up to date!

Ideas are cheap, dirt cheap.

its easy for someone to come up with an idea - its another thing to spend the time planning a solution which includes every intricate detail, how much it costs, how much is realistically expected to be yielded from the plan, and a milestones timetable for project completion.

If your ideas do not include those things - don't expect to be able to market them for money.

These other folks here are telling you to invest in the ideas yourself - while you may not have the exact solutions to your ideas, I would recommend that you try your best to find what particular modules and methods are required to make your desired functionality work.

nice throwaway 

I LOL'ed from this one, in concurrence - "we can't MINE btc, WE CAN'T!!!!!! It sets the tone that we consider BTC creation as legitimate as USD printing"