What else can we do, it's too late to quit. Personally I'll continue being optimistic remembering those who bought bitcoin in 2009 and HODL until 2017 saw massive profit and the possibility of that repeating itself is there. Also the technology behind bitcoin is the reason i do have faith in bitcoin becoming more successful.

Not a curse but more of an easy come easy go process. If you have participated in ponzi related business you'll understand that money you don't work for goes easily without been used usefully. Lack of planning is the reason those millionaire become poor in future.

When they don't have plans for their money before it comes they spend it thinking that's how more will be coming. You can succeed as a gambler by investing in yourself, make useful plans for your money before you receive them. In gambling yesterday's success doesn't determine tomorrow success.

As a Nigerian i can't say no to this. Even if we can't get our own local board, the Other languages/locations board should be opened to new topic so user who don't have local boards especially africa countries can make use of it. I have sent PM to board moderator asking why board was locked and if it can be reopened but got no reply.

Africa is one of the continent embracing the blockchain technology, theymos please look into this issue. Give some Africa language (country) a board  especially Nigeria or reopen Other languages/locations so we can start new topics.

That's very true, i watch a documentary once on how crypto gambling is breaking barrier in Africa country like kanye and uganda the youths can now gamble freely wthout the fear of getting arrested or traced. The blockchain technology in collaboration with cryptocurrency makes everything it get applied on looks more attractive, easier and dencentralized, gambling is benefiting from that.

5% profit of 0.25526623 bTC = 0.0127633115 Btc
Sell at 0.000042 will give you 5% profit

Explanation:

0.25526623 bTC ÷ 100 x 5 = 0.0127633115 that's 5%

Buy price; you have 0.25526623 btc buying altcoin at 0.00004000 = 6,381.65575 altcoin
Sell price: you sell  6,381.65575 at 0.000042 = 0.2680295415btc

Total earned btc after selling (0.2680295415) minus Owned btc (0.25526623)  = 0.0127633115 btc (5% as seen above)

Funny reply, so what about those using trump's image without his knowledge all over the internet?. If you want people to stop using your photos on the internet without your permission then you need to stop posting them on the web and better still avoid using the web. Like previous users have said, i don't see any of the claims above as plagiarism, when you commit plagiarism you steal people's work and claim it as yours and fair use of your picture isn't plagiarism period.

For you to send more smerit than earned merit that means you have to be a merit source or hoard smerit received from current month and then merit user in the next month so your smerit sent will be more than your merit receive that doesn't sound fair to me and as for the merit sources aspect, it is more of a duty. Don't you think the formula needs reviewing?

This January stats isn't correct, for starters I'm not included in list when i sent out about 50+ smerits I know that because currently I'm out of smerits and at the start of January I had just 56 merit but now have 168merits that means I received 112merits and 56smerit and I have sent all. Don't enjoy hoarding smerit I see them as iability.

With this stats I have provided, you mean I don't have a spot in the most generous users giving smerits? I doubt so.

The idea behind this suggestion was to help fight false comment and btc risked feedbacks. As of current the risk btc feedbacks doesn't affect your account that much so people tend to leave false feedbacks there but with this my suggestion it'll force users especially DT members to leave accurate figure or risk been blacklisted and red tagged too. The option to disable it from showing on some board could be enabled for privacy reasons but it'll always show on your profile. Not saying the idea is that great but i am seeing some positive outcome.

Lol this is the funniest post i have read today, what are you even saying?. After reading everyone replies i believe the suggestion isn't welcome by majority although this user below gets it.

 
Yeah maybe a better explanation is what the nay sayers need to understand better. If it can be implemented and managed properly it'll add more value to the trust system

Still need escrow service provides to drop there view though.

i respect all your decisions.
Note: For risk amount to show on your profile it has to be from a DT member not just any forum user and if DT member are caught giving false risked bitcoin amount they'll be blacklist from DT and get red tagged by other DT members. Multiple tagged from the same scam won't count toward risked btc value

These might help reduce the level of false feedback from DT members and those tagged can alway appeal their cases if the risked btc value is a false one.

Got some extra cash (after buying some major coins) from selling all my altcoins found in my alt ETH address thought about lending them on forum or use a lending site. For the past 3hours i have been searching through forum for the best escrow to use. It took me sometime to calculate how many BTC each escrow have successfully handled then this suggestion came into my mind, What if the forum displays the total risked bitcoin amount on users profile so it'll be easier to choose who to transact with based on amount.

Example;
Positive= Trust: 150: -0 / +20 BTC: 250
Negative=Trust: 50: -5 / +0 BTC: 0.5

Yes i know the amount can be manipulatd, so is the trust scores too but we still use it. Showing the total risked amount on profile will make it a little easier to decide if to trade with that user not just because his trust scores is green but for his total risked btc amount.

Although theymos advice not to depend totally on the trust system i.e always carryout personal research  that been said, displaying it on profile adds more colour. What do you think?

Edit:

I laugh at my continent when foreigners call us poor. You make a statement online about the continent or any country in it and the first thing that comes to people mind is "That poor country or poor continent". Who is to be blamed for all these, it isn't just the leaders anymore but the people are to be held responsible because they voted those leaders into power.

The image below shows you how wealthy Africa is and if she wasn't being raped she would had been the richest continent on earth.

        

What my continent have failed to realized is that power won't be given to you unless you fight for it. If the world was a fair one most African countries would had been among world leading country but instead we get treated like slaves and our wealth is been enjoy by other continents. What a shame

From the marvel movie "Blackpanther" i believe the solution to the continent (Africa) problem is to act as the past Kings of wakanda did with their natural resource: Vibranium, they should learn to manage their resources themselves and later they can sell finish products to the outside world.

@The_Pharmacist, I got no issue with your feedbacks that's why you're included in my trust list.

@Gunthar I'm not scared of getting distrusted, I haven't even left that much of a impacting feedbacks to be distrusted. Still new to the trust systems and I'm taking my time to understand.

About speaking out, isn't that what I'm doing? I choose not to mention names unless it's really necessary. When elephants are fighting as an Ant it's best advice to stay on the sidelines and observe not jumping right into such a fight. That's exactly what I'm doing. When the time is right I'll jump in. For now just like the Ant don't think anyone will take me seriously for what I have to say. I'm still new to the system.

Reading their feedbacks you'll discover they're letting their emotions get the best of them so what I was saying is, I'm trying to stay safe who knows I might anger them then they leave a negative feedback of wrong quoting or not starting my sentence with capital letters 
Anyways the trust system is improving and we'll get there someday.

Hate is such a big world although, I don't just agree with some of their feedbacks but again the trust system isn't moderated so one may say you're free to not trust another user for any reason but for me if it isn't a trust related issue it isn't worth the RED TAG.

For protection, I can't leave names of those I disagree with before I end up on their blacklist. When it comes to the trust system, we aren't there yet but OK is a good word to describe it.

Very true, that's a valid concern although you guys have created a very strong reputation for your team that anyone from forum will believe such an accusations but inexperienced guests of forum could.

When a fund is sent to a donation address it's considered as a donation irrespective of what the motives behind the transaction was. So again, scammers who'll try to take advantage of the donation address for wrong accusations will just be wasting their time and it'll earn them more RED TAGS.

Personally I'll say it's appropriate to red tag user because from your topic and his OP he looks untrustworthy. He opens a service thread bump thread and locks it, asking interested customers to PM or chat him on telegram thereby taking their transaction off the public space isn't a trustworthy practice and has scam written all over it. Next he already has negative feedback although they're untrusted ones that doesn't mean they're wrong. This could be people he has already scammed through the PM's and on telegram. I'll say you should go ahead and tag user to prevent potential scam.

OR

You can leave neutral tag, asking forum users not to trade with that account and ask him to defend his negative feedback and carryout his transaction openly on the forum also PM the users that have already left feedbacks for valid reference if they were scammed. If he's not found guilty and agree to carryout open transaction then all tag should be lifted, in the spirit of this

That isn't plagiarism but spamming and i bet moderators didn't ban that user for plagiarism (for that particular post) but could be for spamming or any other offends after investigating the account but since they dont give direct reason we can't conclude.

This is what plagiarism is Source

 The key word their is "another author" can you steal from yourself, answer is NO.

Simple answer, No. They shouldn't be ban for using well know proverbs or sayings without providing reference. Most communication in this forum uses informal writing format therefore users shouldn't be ban for not using a formal format of writing such as providing reference to famous quotes. Although "giving credit where credit is due" is something that should be encourage on the forum.

That's poor from me, I thought I would have helped about 30+ newbie to rank up by now. I received over 100+merit that's around 50+smerits just in January 2019. I have been very active in Beginners and help board trying to find newbie with quality post and post history but so far it has been discouraging. I'll start exploring new boards to find those newbie with quality post aiming to hit a target of 50+ helped newbie by December 2019. For the newbie that must have missed check this thread out "UPDATED [01/02/2019]: List of Active Merit Giveaways threads."

Is this suppose to be something to debate about? A projects that knowingly employ proven untrustworthy individuals is technically an untrustworthy project. When you associates with well known criminals chances are you might be one of them. And when the police (DT members) comes for them, you'll also be arrest (red tagged) later you can appeal your case in court (Reputation board) and after investigation if project not found guilty you'll untagged. The tagging is to prevent any scammers attempt. It's as simple as that.