That's a funny graph and I get the gist of what you are saying, but the fact is both healthcare and education are completely fucked in the U.S, and they weren't always subsidized by the federal taxpayer (at least not at the levels they are today).

Health insurance in the U.S. is a travesty. Doctors are the new lawyer class, simply existing to rake in as much money as they absolutely can at the expense of the unfortunate. University/college regents rake in 6 figure administrator jobs, along with their department chairs which never give up their reigns until death, even though its at the expense (both literal and figurative) of those they are supposed to serve.

Any time there's a general pool of money that can be easily accessed because the professions doing so are deemed noble or necessary, it will absolutely be taken advantage of and milked dry by those who figure out how to do so.

As a result, education and healthcare are far more expensive than what is reasonable, and the quality of both is on the decline.

Waves in itself is not a scam platform. I've been using them on and off for 3 years, and despite occasional hiccups I have always managed to withdrawal and deposit everything just fine.

It is not the fault of the platform if you buy tokens from it that turn out to be a scam. That's like saying Ethereum is responsible for all the fraudulent token-based ICOs that have come and gone from it over the years.

You should have made the scam accusation against LuckyCoins, and then posted some sort of evidence backing your claims. Simply posting the transaction ID proves nothing in this regard.

Cool, let me know if you do, I can give you some suggestions.

Mic went (is going) to some really beachy / tropically locales, which are all quite nice. I'm more of a city person myself.

In marco's signature:


Oh man. Now you are advertising a Ponzi telegram bot in your signature? Not a good look man.



That's a Ponzi scheme, or else straight up scam. There's no doubt about it.

Really as a Legendary member you should know better.

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Now I'm beginning to feel like you're a scammer too. Why else would you advertise this bot?

As evidenced by what? I never thought it was a good idea to leave red trust over opinions. As has been explained to me, trust also shouldn't be left for situations that could be handled by moderators.


... And what position is that? Your trusted member iCEBREAKER is clearly engaging in behavior that goes against your standards, which seems highly hypocritical coming from the guy who wants "objective standards" for ratings. Seems like he should be the one explaining himself, or else you should explain why you are keeping him on your list.

Our main disagreement stems from the fact that you think there should be a body that enforces "objective standards" for ratings while I think having a fluid system which attempts to regulate itself is more beneficial, as the regulators of the regulations are also only human and therefore prone to subjectivity.

A lot of people still trust them, it would appear, with a $24.5 million BTC/USD daily volume. But you're likely right -- it exists for a reason, such things always do. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Oh man. Well don't forget to take some sort of vitamins and/or iron supplements! Lest you get weak and soft, make you want to dump your BTC as a side effect of vegetarianism...

I still don't understand what keeps Bitfinex steadily above the other exchanges by about $100... I know they are the biggest Tether exchanger, but it seems like people should have been able to find non-USDT ways to arbitrage their price down to an equilibrium after all these months.

Current prices

Bitfinex: $4003
Bitstamp: $3893
Kraken: $3895
GDAX: $3897

something doesn't add up here

I thought your view on trust was that it should be reserved for trade-oriented issues. Leaving trust feedback for opinions was something you were thoroughly against. iCEBREAKER also left a negative trust for Evan Duffield, the developer of DASH, which I think renders his judgment pretty unsound. But that's just my personal opinion. I also have a negative trust left by somebody who neg trusted Vitalik Buterin. Maybe I can attract someone who neg trusts Satoshi next.

it is bizarre to me that he would be honest enough to put "risky" in the thread title, not sure why anybody would take him up on his offer. also 2 things to consider:

- 2double0 has an open loan with him (and another member)
- his activity is pretty spotty, went from managing campaigns to applying for them, giving loans to taking them

Not certain he's an outright scammer but even he knows its "risky" to do business with him, probably a red flag, lol.

Thanks tranthidung for posting this. Hhampuz had a good point about not leaving "back and forth" trusts, so I won't do that going forward. The situation seems to be resolved. And thanks to everybody else for coming to my Reputation thread.

I don't quite get what you're saying here: the guy took a >50% pay cut, or his 0.015 BTC campaign expired?

Its true that campaigns are also in a bear market, along with BTC, but its not unreasonable that BTC will triple in price before the year's end, which would make them relatively profitable.

Aw snap, you beat me to it! Not only are the team members fake but their white paper is also plagiarized, mainly from a white paper for Medicalchain:

From the Medicalchain white paper:



From their white paper:



They even copied the mission statement, word for word. Definitely a scam.

How is Duffield a scammer? Whether or not the instamine was planned, how could he have possibly known at the time that his coin would go on to achieve the level of success it did? At least he never claimed Dash was "the real bitcoin."

This is pretty different than what is in here. Maybe something changed between today and yesterday.

Thanks, I appreciate it. iCEBREAKER doesn't like bcash either, but he also gave Evan Duffield a negative trust rating, so, I think he's a bit off his rocker.

Oh well, shit happens.

Its just an example of a coin that also went up. You're right, I should have picked a coin that went up more and is also dying. Titcoin is up 10% for the week, it must be thriving!!!

To claim that BCH is not dying simply because it went up by 6% is absurd, is the main point. It most certainly is dying and if Ver had any sense of decency he would remove the word "bitcoin" from its name.

Here's a graph of BCH average block sizes over the last year, more indicative of a coin that is being manipulated rather than having real growth:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-bch.html#log

The same could be asked of you.

There are several coins up more than BCH, take for example Binance Coin, which is coming close to passing BCH.

The point the comment you referenced is making is that BCH has been falling to the wayside for an entire year now and there's no reason why this trend would ever shift. It was created and marketed based on the idea that it was "the real bitcoin." This narrative has been proven to be false. And now you have a fork draining your support by a lunatic claiming to be "the real Satoshi," which some of the less intelligent of the community continue to entertain to this day. Though its surely driven by rational thinking and not ideology, I'm sure.  

As homer pointed out, you're wearing a gambling sig so you are directly supporting this "sad behavior." Is the irony totally lost on you?