Some of the news we have been hearing here at the UK:

15:23: More on that decision by Ukraine's parliament to dismiss President Yanukovych. MPs declared him constitutionally unable to carry out his duties. After the vote, some then stood, applauded and sang the national anthem.

15:26: BBC Monitoring reports that the vote to dismiss Mr Yanukovych was broadcast live by the parliamentary TV channel Rada. The decision was passed by a majority of 328 votes although it was not clear whether any MPs voted against it or abstained.

BREAKING NEWS: Ukraine's parliament has voted to dismiss President Viktor Yanukovych and set elections for 25 May.

"Ukraine's parliament has voted to release jailed opposition figure Yulia Tymoshenko, but it is not clear when she will be freed" - bbc news

I think it will be interesting come the date of May 25th to see what will exactly happen. Seems there has been a lot of progress since the last 3 months and it's nice to see that there is some progress being made, of course I'm sure some of the news that we are being delivered over here will be inaccurate, but the images and the news we have been following over here as been rather surprising and difficult to follow as some of the acts which both government and people have done has been immoral.

Taking a look at some of the people being interviewed by our news reporters, even the people are unsure what is exactly going to happen and what action they are prepared to take.

This is a idea I do support, although I would suggest that the new foundation should be registered as a non profit. Donations will only be used towards Bitcoin projects which benefit the community. The books would need to be open and every part of the foundation would need to be transparent.

Some key problems which it would face:

• Who would decide who wins the election
• Anyone associated with a Bitcoin should be disallowed or allowed to run for election
• Who owns the domain and the non profit organisation?

I would think that the community would elect who become board members of the Bitcoin foundation, however how would this be done? Most votes? Most votes could be manipulated by using such services as Tor to register many votes.

Allowing Bitcoin business holders could cause a few problems such as conflict of interest. But, not allowing business holders defeats the " Anyone can run for election" statement.

The foundation would have to register as a non profit therefore would require someone to actually register it as a non profit, therefore the person who does that will always be part of the Bitcoin foundation, unless the person is willing to not be part of the board and has simply registered it as a non profit organisation and owns the domain. That being said we would also need someone to run the election process and assign new members their positions.

I wouldn't introduce donations to become "lifetime members" because what's the point of that? That's just encouraging people to donate for no reason other than to get status of being part of the foundation.

Another question is, why does Bitcoin need a foundation at all? No one owns Bitcoin therefore, no one should be representing it's community.

My personal opinion on the matter is that we don't need a Bitcoin foundation to represent us as a community. That's not how Bitcoin works no one controls Bitcoin and no one represents Bitcoin. Satoshi is the one that created it but, he doesn't represent us because that's not why he created it. What if they make a bad decision it will reflect on the Bitcoin community. No one likes to be controlled and to be spoken for because we are all our own person. What makes the foundation to be correct in it's decision making process? Nothing, because they would take the option with the most votes which could not be the necessary the best decision, as well as some members of the Bitcoin community will disagree with any decision that is made by anyone.

I won't be supporting or claiming that any Bitcoin foundation represents the Bitcoin community even if they do achieve great things.

They'll learn one day that after reporting a post is beneficial to them and it normally gets resolves within a few minutes.

That's a excellent idea. That way we wouldn't have any issues like the one in hand, we need to keep things like this separate from business members. I know a lot of the users here who would be doing a better job than the current members of the Bitcoin foundation. This process could also be continued as those who were previously elected go onto other things such as Bitcoin businesses would get removed by newly elected members, the election would have to be decided by the community though and not by a few certain people.

You have copied a incorrect url, this is the code you should use:
In future make sure you right click on the image and select "Copy image URL" this is a direct link to the image, what you were inputting was a link to the web page it was hosted on.

Explain what you exactly doing and what image you are trying to upload to the site, are you sure you are entering the image url and not the page url? Also, if the image exceeds 1.5mb (I believe it may have been increased to 2.5mb) the image will not display and will need to be made smaller.


Here's a quote from theymos which explains this feature:

Why has user "I_am_a_nerd" given you positive trust is the question, have you made a deal with that user? Which was successful as there is no reference included in the trust. I'm thinking it could be a possible alt account unless we have some confirmation that these two users have made a deal.

The user claimed to receive Bitcoin from you here:


Although, the address you have listed in that thread has had no transactions.

Moderators have stated that if posts have been made after a bump they will delete the bump.

These are the main causes for this issue:

• High amount of people connecting to the site.
• The settings.php isn't configured correctly.

It's a common problem for people who have a host which simply can't keep up with the users connecting or because of a misconfiguration of the settings.php. However, I should imagine the forum is reaching it's max connections which is causing the problems because it's not happening constantly which would indicate to  the settings being configured incorrectly.

Both are easily resolved by either upgrading the host or by using this documentation: Here

By submitting a W-9, you are certifying that the tax id number you are providing is correct and accurate. Wangbus is going to need this to file for income tax.


That's a good question which I forgot to ask, I should imagine the tax on such a fee will be rather large which would require additional funds to be used. I'm sure the government will not miss this large transaction, they will want their cut.

I personally think a good start would be to look at the thread Viceroy created a while back: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244678.0

There's some solid feature suggestions and discussion among the community there and I think there are some respectable members who contributed some good ideas. I see where you are coming from and understand a lot of us were to quick to judge. (Guilty) although, even if this decision was a good decision on the behalf of Theymos I still believe there could of been better communication between Theymos and the staff, it seems that you and Tysat had no involvement in this decision, I don't know what you specialist in and if you would have had any good feedback to provide to Theymos on the decision but, I'm sure on of the staff members would of suggested asking the community because that's where the money came from in the first place. The lack of transparency was a bad decision but I'm hoping the forum software will not be and I will be eagerly waiting for the release.

Theymos, could of contacted people privately but, no one has expressed this as of yet.

I respect that the staff are getting paid because of all the hard work they put in for this website to function correctly, but spending money on a automated auction system sounds silly to me, this isn't going to get more adverts to be displayed it's just a fancy system which is only going to benefit Theymos so he doesn't have to post now and then the auction.

Of course there are some promising features being discussed for example two factor authentication but, that is still pretty standard in most forum these days, this feature has been requested for a long time now and we should of had it implemented sooner he has the money to pay someone to implement this into a simple machines forum, yet he hasn't. That's something which I would support spending money on, but even that doesn't cost a lot for someone to implement. It's just ridiculous that one of the only mentioned features has no benefit to the community.

I hoping theymos has made a wise decision, but even then he hasn't got by it the right way. The staff should of been involved in such discussions and decisions even asking the communities feedback as we as Bitcoin users rely on trust, I don't understand why this has been kept a secret from A) the public b) the staff. Also, I don't quite understand why we can't see what James Wang sent to Theymos, considering he's a business owner I would of thought he would want to advertise as much as possible but, he has not given out anything.

I see the staff are making more effort than Theymos himself in trying to resolve the issues that the forum is having, you can slowly see the community getting tired of all this secrecy and there has already been people leaving the forum. Even Tysat a moderator (which I respect highly because of his high workload and friendliness) doesn't quite understand what is going on and looks like he doesn't support the decisions being made.

We have a wonderful community yet if these decisions keep on happening I fear that there will be drastic changes but, all it takes is a little communication and community involvement. Thank you SaltySpintoon for trying to answer everyone's questions even though you don't fully understand yourself because of the lack of communication, although it does seem Maged and maybe Badbear knows a little more than you do.

I would like to ask some questions and also express some of my views on the matter in hand.

Obviously, a big issue is the automated ad auctions, why do we need this? Haven't you expressed enough times already that the forum doesn't need any more money, yet you are 'investing' in a module which is going to increase the income of the forum. Another question, is what do you plan on doing with this money that you have gained from this new auction module? Do you plan on keeping the new forum software up to date and fixing vulnerabilities with it or do you plan on paying staff members with it or anything else? Isn't the new automated auction going to run into problems too?

 
Here's a quote from a staff member stating that the forum no longer needs money, and let's be honest even though you are spending a awful lot on this forum software you will still have a lot left over. Now, why would you want to focus on this and implement this into the new forum if you don't require any donations, because ad revenue is basically a donation to the forum but you pay staff members a percentage of it.

Another question: Why did you pick James Wang to develop the software for that amount of money? It seems that a lot of others at the forum would be willing to do what you are asking him to do for much less, and maybe these people are more qualified. I want to know why you didn't communicate to the forum about this, why couldn't users at this forum get involved and create a open source forum software between each other. Gweedo is more than qualified for this along with several other programmers at the forum.

If this project really is open source then why are you not answering all our questions? You have to convince us that this is a good idea because lets face it there hasn't been much communication between the administrator team and the community. Even staff members are ill informed and are not sure what is being done.

According to CrunchBase Slickage Studios have 4 employees and founded in 2012. Surely, in 2 years there isn't enough past work present to show they are the company for the job. Established companies or well known people which have done big projects are normally the people to hire because the big projects are normally known by a lot of people. But, such a newly created company which has I personally have never heard of and I'm sure others haven't either are now working on a one million dollar project, which will probably turn out to be more because of vulnerabilities found and other issues. How long are Slickage studious going to continue support after the software has been handed over.

What I don't like about this whole thing is we don't even know if they are capable of doing this, it seems either not a lot of research was done or you like to gamble. If you have reasons why Slickage Studios is the right company for the job then please send us some references so we can have a look personally too. In many peoples eyes I can understand why they think you might want get the money out of the forum and into your pocket by hiring someone who you personally know or have a mutual friend. I have seen the IOS apps that they have posted and I'm less than impressed, their design and functionality are not impressive one bit. All I do know about him is that he learned was learning Python in March 2009.


James, I have a question. You have tweeted previously on twitter this: If that's your philosophy then why are you requiring 1 million to start this? Or do you lie much? 

Also another tweet:
You tweeted this on march 2013, I hope you have done your home work in less than a year my friend.

I'm also glad we are hiring Wang because he is always productive.


I have nothing against Wang or Theymos, but you have stated that you have been transparent and are doing the best for the community yet we have not had many answers or have we been involved in any of the decisions (Although I strongly disagree with this), maybe normal users like me shouldn't be included in the decisions but donators and people who have helped you ie. the staff should at least have a say in this.

How activity is calculated:

These are the ranks:

You can read the thread relarted to your question for discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0

Search the forum with the search function when asking questions because it has a high chance of being answered already, either through official documentation or unofficial. Reading 'sticky' threads on every sub-forum may be a great start, especially here in the 'meta' section has it has things
related to the site. This question has been answered many times and has a lot of threads which are duplicates, including this one.

Because it doesn't need a tipping function inside the forum itself. It's rather easy to copy and paste a Bitcoin address, adding a built in tipping function is one more thing which can go wrong, and at this moment in time to forum doesn't need anything else to go wrong. If you want to tip people look at their profile, signature or contact them about it I'm sure they won't say no.

Also, I would appreciate it if you didn't use such annoying text and edit your previous post instead of replying to get your post count up.

Discussion is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=237597.0

Everyone should have been using their brains before, everyone who sent money in the first place was promoting a scam. These sites have been done and we all know the outcome, people try out the service and think it's great when they get their money back with the stated interest and every body is happy, so they vouch for the owner and therefore more people get interested and want to make a quick buck. Then, eventually when the owner doesn't payout all hell breaks out. People need to stop promoting these and stop using them otherwise, eventually people will get hurt with the perfect example of this.


It's irrational to invest in the first place, do you really think this can carry on with everyone getting their money back AND more? Ponzi's are never successful only a select few don't end up in scamming are closed within the first month. History is repeating it's self once again.


A related topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=453344.0

I refuse to use paypal because they have always been a very dodgy company and haven't really been very loyal to it's customers, I always read that people keep getting their accounts frozen. Once I found out about Bitcoin I totally forgot about paypal and other payment processors and haven't used paypal since.

As more stores and online stores are accepting Bitcoin I doubt many people will find the need to use Paypal and Paypal will soon change their mind about this policy if they want to keep their customers.

What's your percentage of reported posts on now?

I'm sure they aren't for any price. They used to delete accounts back in 2012 though but, I think they stopped doing it.


There isn't any real need to delete a account, what's the reason? You could just forget about the account and never log in again.