I do understand the butt hurt and the "I just don't fit in" kind of thing going on with you. But these people are not liars at all. As a matter of fact, I'm making 0.042BTC on my signature campaign per week but now the price of bitcoin has blown up so they lowered it to 0.031BTC per week.

You can take a look at the signature campaign table and see how much you can actually make in signature campaigns. If you never found signature campaigns appealing, that's alright. Maybe you're just looking for a job that requires actual skills. Signature campaigns require nothing but knowledge and the time to share them.

Please tell me you're being sarcastic. Gone are the days when bitcoin has fast transactions and low fees. You're not going to buy 3$ worth of coffee and then spend 2 more dollars for the transaction fee in bitcoins. And even with this amount of transaction fee, you'd still have to wait a couple of hours before the transactions comes through. Plus, it's not convenient since the store owner has to wait before he can ever get those coins. We're still not at the point when a store looks cool when it says "Bitcoin accepted here." since we're so far away from mass adoption.

Fiat is still the best when it comes to microtransactions. No transaction fee. Instant confirmations. That's fiat for you.

Unfortunately, you don't have to lose your card in order to lose the money in it. Someone only has to take a picture or even just memorize the numbers written on your card and he can use it on online transactions. Your pin code or your pass code is not needed for online transactions. The only thing that's needed are your card number, the expiry date, and the 3 digit code at the back of your card. There are websites that require the name of the card holder too.

In the black market, there are people selling stolen credit and debit cards. It's pretty obvious that someone will not carelessly use another person's card and have the bought item dropped off on his very own home. They even use a service where the stuffs you bought with the stolen card are dropped off to somebody else's place.

Then congratulations to you. You must have got lucky on investing and trading. Signature campaigns usually pay 0.015BTC a week for your rank. Multiplying that to 10,000,000,000, you have 150,000,000BTC per week. Wow. That's even higher than the total supply of bitcoin which is just 21 million.

Kidding aside, I get your point. You're trying to say that you've made much more money on some other ways. Signature campaigns might not be the best way to make money, but it surely isn't the worse way since you'd see other people doing faucets and PTC sites. Signature campaign gives you much more than that and for a layman (a guy who doesn't specialize on anything), it's quite a good pay.

I would really appreciate it if you elaborate more about saying that bitcoin is not as secure as we think. Did you ever get hacked? Did someone lose their bitcoins because someone successfully cracked their private keys? I don't see any people claiming that. If someone has such algorithm to do so, he'd probably hack someone that has the most bitcoins (or at least a good amount of it) but you don't see any news about that at all.

Other than your own negligence, I don't see how can someone get their bitcoins stolen.

Maybe you even meant the security of the network? Oh God, it's as secure as you need it to be because otherwise it should have been destroyed by now.

I apologize Edwardard I didn't notice the last statement. I was just updating the table of signatures thread like yahoo said.

Just wanna ask if the Legendary payrate is actually 0.001125BTC and not a typo for 0.00125BTC because staff position is 0.00125BTC and most of the time they are the same rate. Thanks!

Too bad the rates has changed. 30 posts used to be around 0.042BTC now it's just 0.031BTC. Some other campaigns are paying the same rate for just 25 posts a week. As of now, at least. They probably would lower their rates too. This campaign is still the best though because it's one of the longest.

I bought all the 5 colors for dice sets because I thought they look cool. I also bought my first physical coin. 1 brass cryptopods! I will update once I received them. Thanks, minerjones.

Escrow status?

When both bitcoin and altcoin price is going down, it only means one thing. People are cashing out their money. You can see the ecosystem going on. When the price of bitcoin in terms of dollar is increasing, then altcoin prices are going down (in bitcoin terms) and vice versa. But if both of them are going down, then the fiat money supplied is going down.

Apparently someone sold $839K worth of bitcoins. (Source) It's pretty annoying seeing people talking that ETH is starting to take over when in fact ETH is just crashing as much as bitcoin does. There's no competition going on at the moment, really. People are simply cashing out huge amounts of money.

A lot of my friends are into doing things that make them earn money, apparently. We're all about to graduate college and it's not that all of us have a job waiting for us. Plus, having a decent job is not exactly an option for us. We have to work for a while and get paid in minimum rate in order to have a job background to put in our resume/portfolio.

A lot of them are asking me about bitcoins. If I sense that they are just doing it to throw shade at bitcoins, I just smile and simply go away. I don't have time to hear other people's opinion about bitcoin since it'll just be a shitty conversation and they are pretty much not going to base it on facts but rather their feelings about it.

Uhmm, and then? They can hate bitcoin as much as they want but it would not make a slight difference. I think it's absurd to convince them. It's also absurd to even think about their hate of bitcoins. The ransomware guy doesn't have any other choice. He has to use bitcoins to remain anonymous. All other payment methods such as Paypal, Skrill, etc. if he used any of those payment method, he should have been traced by now.

If you look at the bright side, what he did was a free promotion for us. A lot of things (even people) get hated and that makes them even more popular.

I heard that programmers get pretty decent pay in the real world. Apparently, if you live in a third world country, that's not the case. You'd be much better off looking for clients and making websites for them rather than having a job and get that minimum salary someone who's below your level also have.

I guess this is where the power of the Internet comes in. A programmer's skills can only go up. As time pass by, he'd encounter more and more problems to solve and more useful syntax of a  programming language. In no time, he can finally compete with the freelance programmers on the Internet and have an actual "decent" pay, not some third world country minimum rate.

I'm actually thinking of learning how to program and then offering my service to companies that are starting to bloom in my place. None of them have an ordering system online and I think it would be a big advantage for them to have one.

One thing that should have been clarified here, what is the concept of the bitcoin bank. In a way, all exchanges out there are already bitcoin banks. They just don't have the physical bank. You can exchange your bitcoin into digital fiat anytime you want with exchange and vice versa. You can also issue a cash out to your bank account whenever you want. The only thing, though, it will take a couple of days to most exchanges.

So, how is the idea of bitcoin bank any different to these exchanges? People here hates not having bitcoin totally decentralized but exchanges (and web wallets) surely are not decentralized.

How so? India is a poor country and if they get to be known as a country that's using bitcoin, they can give a bad name to large investors because they would probably think that the coin is for poor people. But all these can result as a good thing as well. If bitcoin finally resolve scaling issues and the Indian people are able to do microtransactions, then that means smaller business can adopt to bitcoins as well.

Unfortunately, none of these are going to happen in the foreseeable future. SegWit will never be activated. UASF? I don't think that will be a success at all. When you take a look at the global scale of the game, no one cares about microtransactions, only people that are outpriced for bitcoin which are just a bunch of small players.

Not really sure if that's a good strategy to say right now because those that bought bitcoins at $2900 surely are losing their minds right now. Bitcoin is going down like crazy because of the bitfinex incident. People are expecting bitcoins to go down up to $1600. Some even believe that it will go lower. If someone were to check the price difference 12 hours in the past as oppose to bitcoin's current price, he/she surely will be devastated especially if they are just a newbie.

On the bright side of things, it's a good time to wait for the deepest of the dip and buy some bitcoins.

I just checked the spreadsheet. The last payment was months ago and the participants have already removed their signature code. Time to remove them from the signature campaign table.

Bitcoin surely is secure but web wallets aren't. The to-go wallet of newbies are web wallets but hackers surely are low-key penetrating those websites. There are also people that are looking for bugs of a website. You don't know what might happen to the website. Moreover why you shouldn't use web wallets is the fact that the point of using bitcoins is to remove trusted third parties. Web wallets can be seen as trusted third parties since you trust the people behind that website that they aren't going to run away your funds and at that their website is secure enough.

Bruh, that actually makes fiat's value go down. You're talking about the quantity of the the two. In bitcoin, there would only be 21 million of it but it can be divided in much smaller portions. Fiat, on the other hand, is almost as if is infinite. When the government needs some money, they just print more and more fiat. You'd see commodities go up in price but in reality, it's just that your currency has lower value than yesterday.

One example why the amount of fiat money makes it have a much lesser value is the case of Zimbabwean dollars. They printed really high denominations of their money so they ended up having a hyper-inflated currency. In other words, their currency has become worthless.

And it will continue to be like that for a very long time. The government will not start using crytocurrencies because the nature of cryptocoins alone, which is being decentralized, is something the government don't want. And there's basically no point for them to create another cryptocoin for their local currency since they already have digital fiat. It will just be a waste of time and resource to their end as well as to their people's end.