I think you've been reading way too many idiotic posts on this forum, and I suspect you're taking advice and getting financial information from the wrong people.

There's no way for anyone to give you any solid advice without knowing how much bitcoin or altcoins you own and what price you bought them at.  If you're currently in the red, I'd probably just hold onto what you've got.  If you sell, you're going to lose money--and that's a certainty if you bought at a price higher than where the market is at now.  And yes, if you hold you might have a chance of recovering and even making a profit. 

But remember, I'm just a random internet person and what I just said should not constitute sound financial advice.  That's true of everyone else here, too, but it's important to realize this and not put too much stock in what the hype-sters and FUDDers tell you.

Pfft.  I'm quite happy with the pay rate staying the same.  Chipmixer was extremely generous when bitcoin was worth a lot more, and this balances it out.  I'm grateful just to be a part of this campaign, because it was hard as hell to get into it in the first place.  0.0075BTC/post is still incredibly generous now that bitcoin is in the crapper.

Well that was a good lesson for you to learn--and for any noobie to learn.  I wish I could have held onto all the bitcoin I've earned through campaigns, but I had to sell a lot and I bought a lot of stuff too.  It's not a huge regret, just a minor one.

It figures that these cock smokers would resort to these tricks in order to circumvent the noob restrictions.  Hopefully they'll get banned on sight.  Jesus, all you have to do is pay for a Copper membership and boom, you can advertise.  But nope, they'd rather cheat and think they're being so clever.

Lol at Digipharm.  I thought that loser project was already finished imploding.

I would absolutely love to sit down and discuss your views on that over coffee or something.  It's too damn bad we live on different continents.

Or you could take my view and think that the bitcoin market is becoming a bit more rational.  $20,000 for an asset that doesn't get used for much other than trading seems insane to me--and I'm a bitcoin supporter, by the way, not a hater.  It could be that where we're at ($3666 as I write this) is more of a level-headed price.

Would I love it to be much higher?  Hell, yes.  But maybe all the weak handed morons and other speculators have been shaken out of the market and it might be time for some new--and hopefully slower--growth.

Wow, LoyceV you get all the respect around here, don't ya?

Everything OP wrote, title of thread included, was confusing.  It was only that link to Coolcryptovator's post that cleared things up for me.  

I don't know what kind of ban you get for bumping threads, but it doesn't look like you were doing that--and now that I look at your OP here it makes sense.  You posted in a thread that was obviously getting professionally bumped, but it doesn't seem like you were a part of it.

Hopefully a mod will take a look at this and review it mercifully.  You probably got banned wrongfully--if it's for paid bumping and not something else.

Agree with LoyceV here.  Make the title clearer, and what he suggested above is a good thread title for your purposes.

Fill out a proper scam accusation form with all the details, including chat logs and whatever else you have.  Not sure if this is worthy of DT tagging him, but in order to make that decision we kind of need to have all the evidence.  

That is 7 days worth of pure hell in the crypto markets--yikes!

I agree that it's probably a good buying opportunity for bitcoin, but I don't have any faith in BCH so I'd stay away from that one for the long-term.  Some of the other ones that might be useful in the future might be worth buying, but I still think bitcoin is where it's at. 

However, even with Bitcoin Cash, you probably could make a decent profit by trading it short-term.  I don't think it's dead or dying even if I lack the aforementioned faith in it.  Other investors probably DO have faith in it and thus will cause it to rebound.  I keep saying this, and it hurts:  If only I had money to buy!!  This is the kind of volatility that can make you big bucks by day trading.

Dammit, I don't start a lot of threads here, but I started one the other day in Reputation about Dig Bicks and his beef with me--and I completely forgot to make the thread self-moderated.  You're right about this, and I know it's been discussed that people should be making self-moderated threads....I just keep forgetting to do so.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's time to lock up my thread I made.  That's another thing people should be doing once everything that can be said about something has been said.  Keeping threads open too long leaves them vulnerable to spammers.

I wouldn't give a neg to someone who sold their account in 2015, if that's what went on here.  That's too far back and was at a time when account selling was still tolerated and wasn't such a problem.  I don't see anything here that looks worthy of a DT tag unless I'm missing something.

It drive me bonkers when I read snippets like this, that bounty hunters are only earning a few pennies/satoshis/whatever.  It's not an insignificant amount, which is why people are driven to keep doing it.  I don't exactly know what bounty hunters are earning, but for a bitcoin-paying signature campaign, the rewards can be incredible--especially if you're living in a country where the cost of living is very low, i.e., poverty-stricken countries.

I sometimes wonder how well I could live if I had a few alt accounts in campaigns and was living in a place like Indonesia or the Philippines (just for example).  My point is that it's not pennies people are earning.

OP obviously has some alt accounts and is having trouble with the merit system.  No surprise there; lots of people are.  But the worst thing that could happen to bitcointalk right now would be to revoke the merit system, even as an experiment.  If you have any sense of bitcointalk history at all, you realize how bad the forum had become and why Theymos decided to implement merits.

Also, I'm not quite grasping the
part of OP's post.  I'm not feeling attacked whatsoever, and right now I've got plenty of sMerits to give out.  I'm not some moron who can't judge a good post and who's going to feel pressured into handing them out....to these vague "attackers".  I'm fairly sure other merit sources feel similarly.

This is something I vehemently disagree with.  You're absolutely right--there aren't a lot of bitcoin-paying signature campaigns anymore.  How does that excuse a campaign manager for making his participants wait weeks for payment, not even sure they'll be paid at all? 

Desperation has made a lot of these people submissive in the face of some massive bullshit on the part of Lutpin, and I don't think that's right.  I know Lutpin has an excellent reputation as a campaign manager, but we're talking about the current situation.  If you people don't stand up for what's right, you're going to have to keep dealing with this nonsense of not getting paid and not being told what's going on. 

I think many people are too afraid to speak up, because they think they might get blacklisted.  I'm NOT saying this is what would happen, but I know the mindset that causes people to just keep waiting and defending a campaign manager who obviously doesn't care anymore.  I was in Lutpin's 777Coin campaign for a while, and he did a great job while I was in it.  I don't know what happened since then, but you guys need to wake up and see that the situation has changed.

Here's where my ignorance of blockchain tech comes in.  It sounds revolutionary--but I'm concerned about patient confidentiality.  There are already centralized databases in my state that track controlled substances and who gets prescriptions for them.  That sort of thing can be abused in ways you can't even imagine.  How could you keep a decentralized database of patient data and keep it secure and yet useful for the medical professionals who need it?

A guy gets injured in Indiana, but he's from Rhode Island and all his medical info is in R.I.  How does the blockchain help the doctors in Indiana treat the guy at their hospital?  I could think of systems where blockchain tech wouldn't be necessary at all, so would it be any safer for the patient and/or more convenient for docs/nurses/pharmacists to have a blockchain solution?  You have to be very careful how medical information gets shared because of HIPPA laws.

Yeah, and no thanks to you it might indeed get to that stage that an automated plagiarism check will have to be instituted before posts get published.  It's doubtful Theymos would want to implement something like that, but you didn't help anything by plagiarizing and then being so cavalier about it.

And on top of all that, you know exactly what you did and why you got banned, and then you waste people's time while they search for examples of your dirty work.  You got some balls, guy.

Ouch.  You might as well just brag about the size of your genitalia while you're at it.

These deleted posts of yours, are they in self-moderated threads or what?  I can't tell from your list whether it was mods or self-moderators who deleted them.

In any case, LFC_Bitcoin is correct.  You're not going to get anything deleted simply because it's bearish.  That'd stifle a lot of conversation these days, and I don't think that's what's happening.  

OK, I'm ready for your troll attack now, so bring it on.

P.S. those posts date back to April.  I probably have at least half that many posts that have been deleted in that time frame.  It's nothing to blow your nut about.

First of all, I cringe whenever I hear "this time it's different" when someone says that about financial markets--any of them.  As I write this, preev has bitcoin at $3759, which is a damn good drop from where it was, but if there was no "support" or people buying at all, bitcoin would be headed toward zero--and it's not.

I don't believe in TA.  I think it's a bunch of voodoo unscientific approaches to predicting prices based on past price behavior.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it's a bunch of randomness IMO, just like the market is.

The fact is that none of us know what's causing this bitcoin battering, i.e., who's selling.  But Jesus, just be patient and things will probably get better.  Assuming you bought bitcoin above $3700, what are you options right now?  Sell at a loss?  That's a sucker move.  Let the weak hands in the market do that and pick up the scraps--because those scraps are going to be worth quite a bit more in the coming months (and this is just my opinion).  I don't claim to know what any recovery is going to look like.  Hell, we could drop lower too.  It's anyone's guess.

That was a good thread, I'll admit that.  As far as those rules are concerned, that's what the "report to moderator" button is for, and I think more people should use it instead of making threads about rule breakers in general.

If they made worthy posts, I'd be all for that--but I suspect that if B&H became known as a section where merits were handed out freely, it would become much like Meta is nowadays, with people just trying their luck but mostly writing nonsense that they hope will earn them a merit.

For me, it's a sanity-saving device keeping sections like B&H on ignore.  Last I heard it was mostly people talking about how they can rank up, earn merits, and earn more money.  There isn't much input I could give without flying into a rage.

I'm also of the opinion that boards like Bitcoin Discussion ought to be given priority as far as getting cleaned up.  That should be the cornerstone of the forum, but it's currently a big spammy mess of nonsense.

Just FYI, it wasn't DT members who started the DT system--I think it was Theymos who came up with that, and in the early days scammers were labeled as such right under their avatar (if I'm remembering correctly).  Some members have negative trust from "oldscammertag" which was a way of grandfathering in the red-trusting of scammers.  My point is that this forum has been centralized from the start, and I'd also like to point out that there's no reason whatsoever that a forum has to be "decentralized".  

Decentralization is not a god that I pray to, unlike some other members here.  I've given some real-life examples from the field of pharmacy where centralization works a lot better than decentralization (nursing home and prison pharmacy were the examples I gave).  Frankly if the trust system were any more lax, we'd have even more anarchy here.

And again, a dig at people's understanding of bitcoin vs. their ability to contribute constructively.
Who exactly are you referring to and how does any ignorance of bitcoin impede a DT member's ability to fight shitposters/scammers?

I know you have negs from some DT members, but I did not take that into account when replying to your post--nor would I neg you for something I disagreed with.

I forget if there's a spot on the plagiarism bingo sheet for "It's your fault/how can you punish me like this?" but here we go.

You're not going to get an e-mail for your appeal, because the "attitude" here is one of zero-tolerance toward copy/pasting, which is what you did, multiple times.  So sorry your account was hard waged (or whatever gimblibberish Engrishly thing you said), but it's useless now.  All you're going to get in this thread is more of the same, so lock it up and turn out the lights when you leave, eh?

Almost had me chuckling on that one, dude.

Word up.  As we say in the states, if you can't stand the heat, get the F out the kitchen. 

Why it is that people don't see this as a fire-sale opportunity to buy bitcoin is beyond me.  All I hear is bitching, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over the recent drop.  Yes, it's a severe one, but it's not the end of the world.

It's not the end of the story.  If he's having problems paying his campaign participants--and he's got a history of this now, he ought to not be doing it.  I don't trust him as a manager anymore, which is why I left the feedback.  We've all seen good members suddenly change for the bad, so his past contributions compared to mine are irrelevant. 

The fact is that I've got people PM'ing me about the matter of BitBlender participants not being paid as well as 777Coin ones.  Would you still trust him?  How long would you wait?  People like you put way too much faith in trusted members around here, because that can change in a heartbeat.

All these people who keep applying to Lutpin's campaigns deserve to be warned.