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821  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] CryptoSource.org Launches Earn & Be Heard Program! - EARN Bitcoin! on: November 15, 2013, 10:05:09 PM
This is merely a program so people can write about what they are passionate about and earn a few bucks while doing it. Simply by looking at the numbers, it simply wouldn't make much business sense to pay out more than the article would generate. Also, we're simply asking for a 400 word article here, we're not looking to award anyone a Pulitzer prize Wink

Explain why you think bitcoin needs or would somehow benefit from excessive mediocrity.

That which is worth doing is worth doing well, why are you promoting halfassedness?
822  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: BitcoinsareSexy.com - Get PPUSD, PPEUR or Amazon gift cards for BTC! on: November 15, 2013, 10:01:47 PM
Hi. See here.
823  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: PLAYTIN Wallet on: November 15, 2013, 10:00:37 PM
Ignoring questions ? Check.

Don't even know who registered the very own domain you are using ? Check.

Ayup.

Back to the drawing board, OP.
824  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Ukash, CashU, iTunes , Playstation ::: Bitcoin Now Accepted at PCGameSupply.com on: November 15, 2013, 09:53:21 PM
DON'T USE THIS SITE.

SCAM ALERT
SCAM ALERT
SCAM ALERT


I repeat, do not use this site. They have horrible customer service and an all around bad staff team. I made a purchase on their site and left the codes untouched for about 1 month. When I went to use them they weren't valid, and my account got locked. I messaged the support teams for awhile until I eventually was directed to one of the manager's (BITCH). All I got from her was that the codes have been taken off my account for suspicious reasons, even though they were on there for 1-2 months. And it was bought with a Pre-Paid Credit Card, I never received an answer why the codes were taken away and my card was NEVER refunded, even though they say they did.

BAD COMPANY. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THESE GUYS. BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Ouch. Nice heads up.
825  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] A Challenger Appears: SKYPIEA, a Privacy-Friendly Exchange on: November 15, 2013, 09:46:32 PM
Who's this "we" you speak of? Are you in the WoT?
826  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Cash out your Bitcoins to Paypal via CashCrypto.com! on: November 15, 2013, 09:36:39 PM
See here.

Paypal is a veritable swamp of bitcoin scams, chargebacks, and various other refuse that nobody actually planning on coming out of a deal without missing limbs and a fresh psychological condition would consider. Piling your presumptive "we"s and "us"es on top of all that in tandem with the failure to explain what it is you're doing and how it's sustainable is like rimming an ipecac cocktail with rat poison.
827  Economy / Securities / Re: Risk Free Bitcoin Bond - BITCOINBOND on: November 15, 2013, 05:30:03 PM
1000 satoshis per day GUARENTED risk free income

One doesn't even know where to start with you. The alphabet would prolly be a good idea.
828  Economy / Securities / Re: Solid Securities Thread on: November 15, 2013, 05:19:04 PM
OP, you might find this thread of interest.

Anyway, this bleak sort of outlook resurfaces when play exchanges fail and it becomes more obvious that hopeful kiddos are behind the greater number of shady operations masquerading as "securities". This has little bearing on the actual securities being traded, on the actual exchange.

At this point you either have to be a gambler or a fool to hold securities. The smart money has already left.

At any and every point you had to be a gambler or a fool to hold "securities" on play exchanges. The smart money has been on MPEx. It has never been wading through the flotsam. This is an opportunity to recognize what doesn't work, and why --make sure you understand this lesson in its entirety or you'll likely end up in the same spot again.
829  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: ITTY BITTY EXCHANGE on: November 15, 2013, 03:59:44 PM
I've already responded but it appears the answers weren't read or ignored.

No, you didn't answer. You listed lame excuses for being "unable" to answer the very, but very basic questions, those absolutely required of any business wishing to establish itself.

It doesn't matter what entity with which title told you about the excuses, it doesn't matter how much you'd like to be able to answer, it doesn't matter if you think the reason is alright or not. This is bitcoin, not grade school; you don't get a hall pass. You want to present a business, you want people to trust you with their money, you follow the steps and you do shit correctly, no excuses, no pauses, no maybes.
830  Economy / Securities / Re: [CryptoStocks][Bitcoin Arbitrage Fund]Get lots of profits by arbitraging now !!! on: November 14, 2013, 01:32:11 PM

The interface is also alot more familiar to those that have used BTC-TC/LTC-Global.  It is also not US based/owned/hosted and will not have the problems that those exchanges and bitfunder had.  It offices are located in Hong Kong, which may be of some convenience for you as well.

Like other exchanges it also will allow you choose how much information you wish to provide to back up your identity with eg: passport, address, phone, social networking etc and the users will be able to see this info on site and make their decisions on whether to invest or not.

Head, meet desk.

The idea that anyone would actually encourage yet more citizen finance just boggles. It is not the fact that play exchanges were "in the US" that caused their shutdown. It is the very fact that they were run by unqualified people catering to anyone and everyone imagining themselves capable on the basis of passion and nebulous "hard work" that caused, and will continue to cause, their demise.


Serious question, been hiding in a cave the last few months...what's so bad about cryptostocks?

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All this aside : you can’t invest with Cryptostocks for the same reason you can’t swim in the desert, you can’t invest with Cryptostocks for the same reason you can’t sunbathe at night. You can’t invest with Cryptostocks because it can’t be done, nobody can do it. It’s a gamble, and as my PR aptly pointed out for the benefit of the forum muppetry long long ago, if gambling is your idea of “investing” then you’re much better served “investing” in one of the dice games. You can roll for “dividends” as often or as rarely as you can stomach it, you can set your “dividend” ratio in advance, and most of all you are actually playing a provably fair game. Which is a much better deal than the sort of crap computer-illiterate dorks with a ready software package and zero business experience can ever offer.

Full text on Trilema, chronicling for those of you who either missed it or weren't paying attention Cryptostocks' subconscious spelling out of why investing does not and cannot take place on its "platform", from the guy's defective self-IPO all the way to the recent listing of Dragon's Tale by some random scammer with no actual affiliation with the game.
831  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: ITTY BITTY EXCHANGE on: November 14, 2013, 12:23:26 PM
We are currently running a 50% off fees promotion on our Facebook page. Please PM me for a code!

Right. Ignores the relevant questions, makes various vague assurances about "our research" and "our team", and stuffs in calls to action aimed at noobs.

You're officially in scammer territory. Get lost.
832  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: PSA: Bitcoin needs you on: November 14, 2013, 01:33:12 AM
The OP here is probably due for a bump.
833  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: How big is bitfinex? on: November 13, 2013, 06:27:02 PM
Please point out where this was done.  I've done a ton of reading, I see the allegations.  I have acted accordingly, as I said you saved me $ on labcoin, but the bolded statement above suggests there was constructive criticism given on this issue, please point me to the post where you suggest what they should do instead of just pointing out the flaws.

It's the third in the list of reasons I just linked to. Here, I'll save you a couple of clicks (literally, two):

A. That is the worst most laughable pathetic excuse for a "contract" I've ever seen. There is a reason you solicit the help of experts when drawing up contracts, and pay for this benefit. That reason is so that your contracts look like stuff on MPEx and more importantly work. The alternative is the mountain of fail depicted above.

B. You're no better than the other scammers involved.

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"it wouldn't be the same and probably it couldn't be existing any longer, because it was a bucket shop."

versus

-the trust issue: yes, MPOE lady you are right, this is a big issue. At this point I don't see what I could do more than exposing my full name, address and photo, and being as transparent as I can. For those who feel this is not enough (and I understand you), maybe you can wait until we're a registered company.

3. Besides that is required an audit for the entire bitfinex platform,
the platform tempered/adjusted twice, first with mister Tang and was
credited from him 150.000 USD, that he didn't deposit in his account,
the second time when mister Devasini was credited one million dollars,
money that he didn't have deposited in his account. Because of this I
cannot be sure if the current losses are real or not.

You knew it was a bucket shop just like I knew it was a bucket shop. You knew it was running a joke of a codebase just as I knew it was running a joke of a codebase. You kept quiet about it, as long as you were an insider. You are no longer quiet about it, because the other thieves involved locked you out.

Yes please, scammer tags. For all those involved:

the OP
Giancarlo Devasini <g.devasini@gmail.com>
J.L. van der Velde <jlvdv@hotmail.com>
Raphael Nicolle <raphbot@gmail.com>

Once that's done, let's re-read historical posts:

-the trust issue: yes, MPOE lady you are right, this is a big issue. At this point I don't see what I could do more than exposing my full name, address and photo, and being as transparent as I can. For those who feel this is not enough (and I understand you), maybe you can wait until we're a registered company.

The problem here is that you seem to be starting from a point of "I shall be doing this" and then consider what could bolster your position. This is completely wrong and wholly unacceptable: you should not be doing this. At all. It is a horribly bad idea to be doing this. It can't end well. It's running with scissors as a four year old with a bad knee and a broken ankle on an old stairwell made of long-rotten pinewood which has lots of ice splotches on top of it during an earthquake at sea in rough weather on a wet deck with hurricane level winds blowing portside.

Maybe one day you might find yourself in the position of being a world-renowned acrobat who can run with scissors up and down an old stairwell made out of rotten pinewood with ice splotches in rough sea etc. Maybe. Provided you are born tall and lanky and with a talent for ballet, and your parents send you to the proper schools from a fresh young age and you are muchly interested in all that's required to become thusly acrobatically accomplished and are very disciplined and get lucky enough to amass the right sort of experience then possibly, maybe, sometime, one day, you might meet this opportunity of your life and thus dance on the proverbial rotten pinewood stairwell (with ice on it).

So, practically: forget about this project. Close it down. Go read up on finance, go read up on computer programming, on security, on business management, on law. Start small, prove that you can correctly handle fifty bitcoins over the span of A FEW YEARS. Then move into larger and larger things until one day you can maybe, if you're still inclined and it's still fashionable, try this.

Nobody cares that you register a company. It makes no damned difference, in the time it took me to type out this I could have registered five. A monkey with a funny hat can register a company. It's a fifty dollar expenditure in most US states, it's the practical equivalent of organizing a dinner with your ex who happens to be visiting your town. It adds precisely zero to your overall chances to not end up in a sad, sad position a few months down the road.

Why drag a bunch of people with you?

Prosperity is in general the result of the working of free markets. The one caveat to this observation is that market participants have to be responsible. It doesn't matter so much if they are intelligent or not, it doesn't really matter if they're good christians or devout muslims or anything else, but they do have to be responsible.

When some people behave irresponsibly the result is that they lose their money, which flows, albeit indirectly and circumvolutedly but nevertheless unerringly, to more responsible participants.

When a small majority* of participants behave irresponsibly however the net result is not just pain to their own fortunes, but pain spread across the board. All of a sudden you have to be very intelligent, and very experienced, and very well informed to manage to keep your money safe, and often enough even that's not going to suffice.

Giving over half a million bitcoins to a random idiot has the unpleasant effect of creating a high powered idiot. He can now wreak havoc on the exchange rate, which increases volatility and on the long term hurts everyone involved in bitcoins, because volatility is, much like inflation, an indirect tax on users.

Giving over half a million bitcoins to a random idiot has the unpleasant effect of creating half a million bitcoins' worth of valueless receipts, which are pretty much indistinguishable to the naked eye from valid receipts. Thus, if you pay on anyone's credit you are basing your judgment not on actual fact, but on an unknown and pretty much unknowable mixture of fact and hogwash.

Giving over half a million bitcoins to a random idiot is a bad idea. There are people whose personal responsibility in this matter is greater than that of most everyone else, people who have in effect acted as lieutenants for the random idiot. This thread is a convenient spot for all of them to avoid the indignity of being called out, and instead freely and willingly admit their mistake, and by admitting it learn from it. Specifically, learn that they aren't nearly as qualified as they thought to play the "banker", and by this make one step towards maybe one day actually being bankers.

The wanna-be bankers are not alone in their hour of humiliation. There are plenty of others who spend their entire day spouting nonsense on this forum, either under the guise of being "journalists" for some monthly magazine that does a couple issues a year or just as random internet experts in everything. Obviously they won't be learning anything on this opportunity as they haven't learned anything on any of the previous ones in their lives. That's after all fine, what would a mining town be without the drunks and general scum?

Aside from these practical considerations, there are some more general points to be taken home by anybody who wants to be a little smarter today than last month, and possibly have a little better shot at actually making money than before.

1. Learn the pecking order. All opinions are not equal. Some people are to be respected. Learn who. Some people are irrelevant and easily ignored. Learn who. More importantly than the who, learn why. Is it just because "everyone else seems to think so"? That's no good, forget it. Is it because they were right when everyone else was wrong? That's perfect, especially if it occurs with any sort of consistency.

2. Business means something very specific. Only the permanently poor imagine business = "anything to do with money". There's no business without a business plan. If something purports to be a business but "it can't" or it just won't share its business plan it is not a business. This means you can't be investing in it. Sure, you can throw money at anything you wish, as for instance the toilet bowl, Ponzi scams or scantily clad girls. However, in order to invest you absolutely need a business first.

3. Learn how to deal with your own mental limitations. If you think you don't have any you find yourself most likely in the situation described here:

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If one skims through the psychological literature, one will find some evidence that the incompetent are less able than their more skilled peers to gauge their own level of competence. For example, Fagot and O'Brien (1994) found that socially incompetent boys were largely unaware of their lack of social graces (see Bem & Lord, 1979 , for a similar result involving college students). Mediocre students are less accurate than other students at evaluating their course performance ( Moreland, Miller, & Laucka, 1981 ). Unskilled readers are less able to assess their text comprehension than are more skilled readers ( Maki, Jonas, & Kallod, 1994 ). Students doing poorly on tests less accurately predict which questions they will get right than do students doing well ( Shaughnessy, 1979 ; Sinkavich, 1995 ). Drivers involved in accidents or flunking a driving exam predict their performance on a reaction test less accurately than do more accomplished and experienced drivers ( Kunkel, 1971 ).

In short: if you're not aware that there's anything wrong with your judgment of "business", "finance", "investing", "money" and so forth that is almost certainly due to the fact that you are very weak on all of these topics, likely significantly below average. You should spend a good deal of time reading and a greater deal of time testing things out methodically before you promote yourself mentally to "average", or even "crummy". This means years. Years.

The advantage of BTC is that it's a very cheap and very clean way to learn about finance. The disadvantage (if we can call it that) is that it's much akin to falling in love: very, very, very hard on the knees. Vitriolic to the ego.

4. Step outside of your ideology. You might have been brought up in a very repressive social milieu in which some particular ideological slant was drilled into you. This is working to your disadvantage, get rid of it. Are you sticking up for your friends because they're your friends rather than because they have a point? Great for facebook, horrible for BTC. You will lose money. Are you following the crowd like a welfare state lemming? Great for the white collar slave, horrible for BTC. You will lose money. Do you think form is above content and as such it's okay to invade foreign countries and slaughter civilians just as long as nobody says shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker or tits on TV? Great for being an American, horrible for the free world. You will lose money.

5. Re-read this entire post. It probably didn't fully sink in on the first pass. Seriously. Alternatively it is always easier to just not like me. You will lose money.

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* This term of... art, let's say, will go down in BTC history.

And perhaps learn something from it all. This time, the Nth time.

Now I get that you've done "a ton of reading", and I know it's a lot of work, and that there's seemingly endless miles of stuff to sift through. The fact it's been sitting here since September 7th of LAST YEAR at the earliest and October 28th of last year at the most specific to the "service" in question should be a pretty good clue that this "ton" isn't yet optimal. If it makes you feel any better though, it's more likely an issue of structure and organization than amount.
834  Economy / Marketplace / Re: So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right? on: November 13, 2013, 05:02:26 PM
@Maurya78, cdtc: My pleasure.

Just-Dice rightly demolished S.DICE.
"Doing it right" won this time.

(of course since it's not listed on mpex you'll come here crying that they are incompetent and stuff)

Who demolished what now? Listen, imagining that things work the way you'd want them to rather than as they do is a fine way to ensure you're never challenged by anything, never have to learn, and never do anything useful. It's a bit ridiculous to insist on it around people actually involved in finance, however. Just hang out on your couch, nobody cares.

As for your delusional expectations, MP openly played at and praised Just-Dice since the beginning. What now? How much lead dropped on your skull does it take for you to get that you're not only wrong, but wildly out of line, and that the very emotionally-driven nonsense you accuse me of practicing is in fact your own MO?

Snap out of it, otherwise back to the couch.
835  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: ITTY BITTY EXCHANGE on: November 13, 2013, 04:33:27 PM
Cute robot. See here.
836  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: How big is bitfinex? on: November 13, 2013, 12:39:41 PM
I have no idea if you are right or wrong here.  I can say that I have had money in this site and have never had any problems collecting interest and getting money wired to my personal bank account.  Never had issues buying BTC and sending it either.

However, you were right on labcoin, it just seems like you come in here with allegations and no hard proof, and as stated in the case of labcoin you were correct and saved me some $$

But wouldn't it be better for you to offer constructive feedback.  For example, let's say that it is not a scam, what kind of proof / documents would you like to be seen?  For all we know there is something that can be provided that would give us a bitcoin success story to talk about.

Scam warnings are a great thing for the community, but better feedback will help the community learn what to look for in certain situations.

Just my $0.02, thanks for reading.

Those who act according to the habits and principles of scammers, whether because of their own deliberate intention to scam, or through their ignorance of how to act in a manner consistent with honesty and professionalism (and especially in spite of being told what they'd need to do to comply with this), shall be treated as scammers.

The "community", inasmuch as you mean forum users here who insist on not reading or glossing over what I say because it's too long, too painful, or includes words they don't like or don't understand and won't learn, would know precisely what to look for simply by reading my post history. It's been said countless times. It's been listed by numbers, it's been argued and substantiated. People who don't want to read still don't want to read, people who aren't threatened by it learn and go on to master the ownership of their coins, what can I say.

Reject the actual evidence brought in favor of some mystical "hard proof" at your own peril. I understand the world'd be easier to navigate if things were put into your preferred form and fit your expectations of what things ought to look like, but we're not here to make things easier for everyone. We're here to do things correctly.
837  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] Pro Robocoin ATM Operation Services now available Internationally! on: November 12, 2013, 08:28:45 PM
Our business plan for the Robocoin BTC ATMs is listed in the details of this thread. It's simple and straightforward: you buy a BTC ATM or a few through our company, and we do our best to give you hands off and hassle free ownership of said BTC ATM for as long as you'll have us as your ATM Service company.

That is not a business plan. That is a sales pitch. As for the rest of your reply, you'll have to come to terms with the fact that so long as you hide behind repeated bouts of enthusiastically proclaiming the "pro" ness of your unsubstantiated "businesses", and the "5" ness of the "company founders" involved in that "pro" ness, and so forth, you're not presenting anything worthy of the actual time or consideration of people with a clue.

It may take quite a bit of time, and quite a few re-reads, and quite a lot of research to get to the point where you're able to make a worthy presentation. It's worth your patience. This "in the meantime we'll try" stuff won't cut it.
838  Economy / Securities / Re: [ANN] Crypto-Trade now allowing users to create their own securities! on: November 12, 2013, 08:17:00 PM
Users can now create their own securities on Crypto-Trade!

- Currencies for securities include BTC, LTC, PPC, and XPM.
- All users are welcome to create their own (there is a fee to deter scammers and spam)
- The system is similar to BTCT and Litecoin Global, so security owners from there should feel at home!

To check it out with a logged in account, you can access it from your drop-down menu or go here!

Questions or concerns? Feel free to reply to any of our threads, or come join us in chat!

Because bitcoin really needs yet another instance of citizen finance destined to screw the new and the lazy out of money.
839  Economy / Securities / Re: [CryptoStocks][Bitcoin Arbitrage Fund]BAF lauched ! on: November 12, 2013, 08:10:59 PM
CryptoStocks site shows your verification level as "None", and this gets you nowhere.
I like the idea but unless you do provide certain provable ID documents to CryptoStocks and also to the public, the only people who may jump ahead to buy would be drunk or the newb fool. You should provide documents and full verification first!

Not that "verification" matters there anyway.

OP, see here.
840  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: How big is bitfinex? on: November 12, 2013, 07:58:42 PM
Do you know if Bitfinex is legit?

I have an account, but am about uneasy about the latest news of an exchange in Hong Kong scamming their customers.

Anyone have any info of the credibility of the owners?

Bitfinex is a scam.
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