I'd love a vouch account if possible please

Hi all.

I am fairly new to BitcoinTalk.org

I am, however, a genuine person that is honest and trustworthy.

To build my reputation on these forums, for a very short time, I am prepared to offer small loans at 0% interest, you simply pay back what you borrowed.

Here's the rules I am setting out.

1. You must be a reputable member and have at least 3+ feedback, if your feedback is negative or red I reserve to right to note deal with you.
2. You must have a good post count and history on the forums, your profile will be fully inspected, if you're account is recently made or you've come back from a long break you're not likely to be accepted. Again, I reserve to right to refuse anyone without giving a reason.
3. Your loan request must be under $30 the lower it is the more likely you are to be accepted.
4. The repayment date must be within 28 days, under 14 days you are more likely to be accepted.
5. No collateral is needed
6. You must provide me with a reason you want the loan and the day you intend to pay it back

This is being done to help establish myself on these forums, as such I will be very picky on who I choose to deal with.

I reserve to right to decline people as I see fit, even trusted or good standing members will be turned down, please don't be offended it's just because I'm going to be very selective on who this is offered to.

This would be best for reputable members who are short on cash and need a couple of $$ but know that they can pay it back rather quickly, if you tick all of those boxes you will likely be accepted.

AGAIN: I can't go over this enough, please don't be offended if I turn you down. Even if you're reputable and a member in good standing, if I decline you it doesn't mean I think you're a bad member or too risky, I have my own criteria for dealing with people and I'm not taking on everyone who meets all the terms set out in this post, I'm going to be selective about who I choose.

It's purely to build myself up on these forums while also offering a small lifeline to needy members who may need just a couple of $ or so at short notice.

Yup to reference the comment in the scam report, a user claims that after emailing @andrewflames, Andrew asked the user for their bank details as he needed them to 'put the loan in their bank account.'

So beware, I wouldn't deal with this guy it seems he's trying to get personal information at best and bank & financial details to clear your account at worst.

Wouldn't deal with him/her/them at all.

You need to replace the pictures, they don't work!

Come on man BNB and ETH are not even closely alike, they are two totally separate projects and platforms and do very different things.

BNB will be successful in it's own right, Binance is easily one of the best exchanges and if it carried on making waves will continue to be the biggest and best exchange around, that will lead to the success of BNB coin.

ETH though is a whole different ball game, the Ethereum blockchain is behind the success of many others coins and has so many other uses.

It's like night and day comparing them, two totally different and separate things in their own right.

If I had to choose one over the other though it would be Ethereum hands down, it just has so many additional use cases.

Just some input on this.
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It's not what we can do, it's what the coins can do for us.

You say that it's sad so many coins are almost valueless, who's fault is that?

Any coin that is worth mentioning has value attached to it, those no worth mentioning have little value for good reason.

Now there are many shit coins that have value attached to them that is over hyped and over inflated but that never lasts, we've seen that this past year or so with so many coins vanishing off the face of the Earth but the coins that add value stand the test of time.

You name me 5 coins that have ground breaking technology that are leaders of innovation, that are doing revolutionary things with great solid teams, that aren't in the top 100 coins.

Sure you may list some that you feel are all those things as people are biased especially if they have a holding in a coin that they were persuaded to believe in but that doesn't make you right.

There's tons of projects that are GREAT and AMAZING in their own right but just don't need an independent coin to function and are only saying they do to make money.

Substratum I'm looking at you but that's just an example it's only one of many, many coins.

So here's the deal ask not what we can do for Crypto but what Crypto can do for us, that is the thing that will help, if a coin solves a problem and is revolutionary it will do well whether we as individuals promote it or not because stuff like Ethereum is literally revolutionary and game changers.

Those coins that are worth next to nothing more than likely deserve to be there and you trying to do anything to promote those coins will be just be another shill among the crowd.

Here's what we can see from the past year. Bitcoin does well = every alt coin doing well so as much as some may hate this, we need to see Bitcoin do well to see the success of other coins, most coins are attached to the pricing of Bitcoin and that's just the name of the game right now. I believe one day this will change but right now the best we can do is try to promote and will Bitcoin to do well if we want out other investments to also do well.

New money entering the market means all coins doing well, most of the new money from new investors comes in through Bitcoin, nearly every person on this forum first started with Bitcoin before branching out and getting passionate about blockchain, crypto and altcoins. If new investors lose huge money from Bitcoin doing well, that can do significant damage to other Crypto's and put new money and new investors off crypto altogether.

We've seen this from the crash from $19k to a few thousand dollars, it's been so difficult to pick back up since then and it's because most people who aren't experienced with Crypto who entered in a couple of years ago, are now telling their friends, family members and everyone else who will listen not to touch Bitcoin or Crypto.

We know not to lose faith and we know it's not the end for Bitcoin or Crypto but those new investors who got in just because they heard from their investment advisors or from a friend that someone they knew made it BIG from investing in Bitcoin, don't. Those people never understood Blockchain and the technology and the power of it, they entered to get rich quick and are scarred and scared to bring new money in or to dabble in crypto again.

So year things we can do:

1) Tell people about Bitcoin
2) Tell people about Crypto in general and the other coins
3) Explain to people the technology behind Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto and explain why it's so amazing, powerful and revolutionary

These are the true things that will see people get fired up, see new money come in and see all Cryptocurrencies to do well, but like I said shitcoins will always do poorly and are doomed to fail.

We need to get people to understand that Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto isn't something to enter to get rich quickly and to make huge $$$$ but it's about something revolutionary that can change the world we live in and help us advance technologically. Once people get fired up about stuff like that, the rest will be history because people wont care about making huge wads of cash, that will just be a bonus, they will wont to throw money at projects because of what it stands for and how revolutionary they are.

Personally, I'm not that optimistic about Litecoin's long term success, it's what the silver of crypto so people say while Bitcoin was the gold.

Now, there's other technologies out there that do what Litecoin does but better, Bitcoin Cash, NANO, the list goes on and on.

Like I said, it was the Silver of Crypto but it serves nothing more than being a peer to peer transfer of cash. BCH has already taken over it in every way and is more globally adopted. I don't ever see BCH taking over Bitcoin and as such, for that reason, I believe that it will always be better than LTC.

I could be wrong, it's all speculation at this point but for me I just feel Litecoin is very stale, there's been nothing that 'excites' me that has come out of the project in the last year or so.

For me, while it's cheap I may hold a little but it's not something I'm going to have a large position in because personally I just don't believe in the project anymore, there was a time I did and I have a rule of thumb to only invest in coins that get me excited and Litecoin just doesn't do it for me any longer.

Ethereum for me, it's the leader of innovation, it shown the true power of Blockchain and took Crypto from being just a peer to peer store and transfer of value to a technology that has unlimited potential.

Had this domain for awhile.

Just sitting around and not doing anything with it.

Let me know your offers, if I see one that tickles my fancy I'll take you up on it.

Not really desperate to get rid of it so may hold onto it however if the right offer comes along I'll let it go.

Let's just change your thread title to How do you make money?

Because there's little difference, the making money from Crypto bit can be answered easily, the only current way to make money from Crypto specifically is trading, investing, HODLING but they are all a gamble. No matter how many people tell you that you can learn to read charts and candles, it's all complete BS. Everybody and their aunt and uncle made huge money off Crypto a few years ago because the price of entry was so small and the returns HUGE, it was difficult to go wrong, as Bitcoin soared so did alt coins and everyone was a winner. Now these trading companies piggybank of that past success and play it off as 'good predictions' and claim they are able to predict the market and know which coins are a good investment.

It's all a gamble. Even investors in Bitcoin now, it's a gamble. All investing and trading is somewhat gambling and a risk.

So then if you're question is how to make money in general and get that money in the form of Crypto, well the answer is the same as asking how to make conventional fiat.

Offer services or goods, start a business, accept Crypto for your goods and service and advertise specifically on Crypto related sites like this one.

Literally, Google is your best friend, so many websites are dedicated to money making give so many methods, take your pick and just replace fiat cash for Crypto or accept both.

Your question is way too generalised.

It all depends in what you believe in, if you believe in 'the secret' and that thoughts have power and the power of thought can literally mteralise things in reality, then sure.

Personally, I don't believe in such things, to me gambling is gambling pure and simple and the house always has an edge and most times you will come out losing, eventually, if you gamble enough. Not many people make successful gamblers as a career or for a full time incomes, 9 times out of 10 in the end, no matter how lucky a gambler gets, they will eventually come out losing.

I just don't gamble, well I do but for leisure and VERY sparingly. I gambled the other week for the first time this year, bet £30 on roulette and won £125 as soon as I won that I walked away and cashed out. The rule I set for myself is never gamble with more than you can afford to lose and NEVER get greedy.

I think it's VERY unlikely but anyone expressing complete certainty or faith on either outcome whether it will or won't be valueless is naive.

There may come a time when Bitcoin is dethrones and something far superior comes along in the future.

Back in the early days of the internet people couldn't imagine MySpace ever being dethroned but it happened.

I think it's very unlikely personally as I feel there will always be people using the infrastructure.

Coins like DOGE have failed to disappear and still have users even though it's mostly seen as a novelty coin with limited uses.

Nothing is impossible but if I had to hazard a guess I think Bitcoin will always have value and at this point with the amount of people invested into it as a store or value, I personally can't see a future where Bitcoin is ever worth an insignificant sum of money, but like I said, never say never and don't go all in on something because no matter how strongly you believe in something or hold faith in something, crazier things have happened! 

ETH has first mover advantage.
It's like all these coins popping up trying to dethrone Bitcoin, never going to happen.
ETH is a good bet, not saying EOS isn't good, it does have major differences but don't give up ETH for EOS
With EOS being cheaper have a healthy share in it and HODL don't be selling you're ETH you'll regret it

Can I get a vouch copy if available please.

What's your price? How much would you want for all three?

I thought the issues with China would have caused a bearish run for the long haul, I was quite surprised to see that it picked back up again.

It just goes to show that Bitcoin is much bigger than China or anyone country.

The issue I see right now is the scaling, there's so much BTC caught up in the system and it's taking ever longer for BTC to pass through the network.

A number of times now I've been waiting close to 24 hours and that's with increasing my payout fee.

If they don't fix this soon, that could be the death of BTC. Another crypto could easily come along and take it's place if the community don't agree on implementing something to solve the scaling issue.

I personally believe in BTC with my heart and soul and hold about 2.1 BTC atm in the hope it will double by the end of the year, however the scaling issue is the biggest threat to the value of BTC right now.

So when do you guys choose to go in for an investment into BTC?

I've just purchased abother 0.5 BTC today.

I've been waiting and waiting thinking that after the spike and breaking $1k we'd surely see a downward trend in Bitcoin and was hoping to invest when it took a dive.

I especially thought that dive would come with the latest reports in the media that there's thousands of transactions caught up in a back log in the blockchain.
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When this bear trend didn't occur I decided that I might as well just dump 0.5 into BTC now as didn't want it to increase and increase and be further and further behind.

When do you guys choose to dump money in? Do you think I made a poor decision and should have been more patient?

I'm not a short term investor anyway, I'm in for the long run because I'm passionate about BTC and what it stands for, that being said I'm a little bit worried right now with scaling issues.

My worst fear would be that my investment becomes valueless (unlikely) or that it drops to $700 or below again.

Over the past few days I've had to wait in excess of 6+ hours for transactions to clear, for me this spells huge trouble for Bitcoin.

Hear me out here, I know many will be saying hey just pay a larger mining fee and that's all good and well, but the core principles that had me passionate about BTC, investing in it are:

1) Low cost fees that beat banks and other payment processors
2) Money without borders
3) Low international fees and the speed of transactions throughout the world

I mean there's tons of other benefits and principles BTC was built-upon but those 3 there are right now at a huge threat.

If Bitcoin doesn't/can't scale upwards and the bitcoin community can't overcome there differences then I see this as a major threat for Bitcoin and something that could see another alt coin overtake it.

I know people will think I'm stupid saying that but look at MySpace and how un-defeatable it thought it was before FaceBook came along.

From my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) the only people that are stopping lightning network and other fixes to the congestion issue are the miners, but if the miners don't budge on solving this then they're going to lose out in fees anyway when people begin to jump ship.

There's no way in it's current format that BTC can ever become mainstream and something everyday businesses use (grocery shopping etc) with these congestion issues.

Thoughts? Anyone else worried?