in the present day world, i couldnt really say that the current international tensions would result in a third world war anytime soon, but its not wrong to say that the tensions from the various problems all over the world are in general, increasing, which leaves up the possibility for a third world war in the future. not sure i worded that the best, but i think it gets the point across, sort of.
now, with nuclear weapons in the picture, of course, no one really wants to end 95% of life on earth, but if one were to break out, a fallout game-esque world in the future might be possible. as for the china issue, there's nothing for a country / nation to fear if there arent any others left to sanction them or whatever, the world would be a wasteland by the end of the first bombings.

I know these guys exist: https://bitquest.co/
they host a minecraft server where the ingame currency, emeralds, can be cashed in for the equivalent value of 1 bit (100 satoshi). i checked their server out a long time ago for a few minutes, ill tell you the basics of what i saw:
upon entering, the server prompts you to link your MC username on that server to a xapo email address, and every time you 'cashed in,' the bits would be sent to your xapo account. from this you can safely assume they used xapo's api to integrate bitcoin. i didnt really check it out to the point where i could see if you could use bitcoin to buy in game currency or not, but if this is along the lines of what youre trying to do, try shooting the devs over there an email, see if theyre willing to help you out or point you in the right direction.

i can somewhat agree with just this statement, but for entirely different reasons. the fact that a potentially inhabitable planet exists out there is great and all, but it shouldnt be what the space program should be focusing on; we should be focused more on how we might get there in the distant future. sometime in the distant future when interplanetary travel becomes commonplace (maybe even never), we can think about colonizing other planets and exploring different worlds. however, with our current technology, even a 1 way trip to the moon costs a sizable fortune, and relocating ordinary people would require them to undergo training for space travel. bringing luggage / anything along for the ride would cost a ridiculous amount as well. until a solution to all of these problems can be found, we should stick to advancing our current technology instead of dreaming.

the fact that you had a signature and put out 20 posts in a few hours isnt the problem; the problem is that you had the signature on, and spammed 20 posts that were either insubstantial, redundant in respect to previous posts, or otherwise did little to nothing to contribute to the discussion of the topic at hand. ill say it again, youre not special, just wait out your ban. there's no way theymos / badbear are going to lift the ban on you, short of a miracle.

also, don't post from this account or any other potential alt accounts you control, that would be ban evasion and would only further lengthen your ban duration. just. wait. it. out. unless its a permaban. if so, then please leave, as youve likely received multiple warnings prior to this.

if you were banned, accept your ban. youre not special, and neither are the dozens of people that are banned every day. saying "sorry i wont do it again" doesnt work in the real world, and neither will it here. unless the ban message on your other account doesnt specify a ban duration, it's a permaban. in the case it does, just wait it out.

http://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-starcraft-2-legacy-of-the-void-cd-key-compare-prices/
the lowest is see on there is listed at slightly less than 27 euros.
27 euros is about ~30 usd from what google tells me.
30 usd is also slightly under 40 CAD. less than 43.

feel free to drop me a tip in the address in my profile.

its great that the ones in this post are banned from the campaign, but could you guys do more than just ban whoever gets posted in this (and any other sig spammer shaming) thread? like actively monitoring your enrolled users and banning those who start to spam, or hiring someone to do so? this list here is just the tip of the iceberg; just about anyone can join your campaign and get away with spamming if you leave it up to the forum's anti-spam minded people to pick them out and post them here. please, take it on yourselves to do something about it. not paying for posts in the off topic section would be a fantastic place to start, seeing as how probably 80% of the posts in that section are from yobit spammers posting mindless drivel in the daily "what are you drinking, what song, etc" threads.

I helped lauda with the code and payment was received.

mexxer was pumping out something around 40-50 posts a day when bit-x had no limits on posts, so i guess you could say its ironic / hypocritical.

yeah it happens everyday, with just about every user on this forum that's enrolled in the yobit sig campaign.
just report one of their posts detailing the spam and they should pass the info along to the admins if they feel a ban is in order.

im rather against the idea of a forum-ran campaign; it would give the idea that the admins of the forum openly supported or had ties with whatever site / service was being advertised. the closest we could get to that is having a staff member (ie one of the mods) running either the campaign itself or overseeing quality control of the posters. as for the issue of a campaign manager, it would be up to the site / service owners to step up and find suitable managers that will uphold strict standards in terms of post quality, for example, i see this tidbit still on hilariousandco's sig making for a perfect example:

hire people that hate spam as much as he does to manage most of the campaigns on the forum and spam should decrease drastically.

however, manual quality control takes a lot of time and effort, and still wouldnt solve the problem of the spammers in the bot-based campaigns (bit-x, bitmixer, yobit).

if youre as good as you outlandishly claim to be, you wouldnt need investments of a meager 5 dollars; go take a loan from your local bank and do whatever it is you claim to be good at. that, or you could sell one of your farmed alt accounts to get the 0.015 BTC you so desperately need to make a fortune. in fact, you could probably sell this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=124136
for a nice 0.03 or so.

then again, it seems you use most of the coin you get into that wallet for gambling on secondstrade, so i doubt youll have much luck "managing investments." https://blockchain.info/address/1CYoaBJ9pSHnRFM69aFh2xq5UPQCn2hHX1
for those curious, check trust profile for details.

spot fucking on. kinda scary that, as exaggerated as that 10/10 skit was, universities are actually trending towards this "equality / safe space / sjw haven" ideology.

also, south park was pretty spot on as always, pretty much predicted the future with what went on over at mizzou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQkXXBqj_U

it might just be an account that was freshly bought, and the new owner is spamming nonsense to cash in the banked activity. if their spamming gets bad enough the mods will just ban it, no need to pay it that much attention.


their trust page.

because the local mods / other local board posters that can read the given language can tell if the content of the post is actually on topic and contributes to the discussion or is just nonsense / brainless drivel that was thought up of in a whole 2 seconds. the mods look at more than just the length of a post before deciding to take action you know.

i like this idea quite a bit; positive reinforcement for good behavior has its advantages in the long run over punishment (negative reinforcement) for bad behavior; psychology and stuff. The only problem i see with this is the demand to be included in this exclusive group. to maintain this exclusive campaign, appropriate amounts of manpower would be needed to constantly monitor the posts of those enrolled. not only that, with people that would constantly be requesting to be included in that group, manpower would need to be dedicated to screen those as well. to top it off, as we know, spammers are quick to adapt, and may do so just to have a chance of being enrolled in these exclusive campaigns. but then again, that would be fixing their spamming problems in a way.

on the other hand, i dont like this one quite as much; even if those posts are "hidden" for the rest of us, that data (for the posts) has to be stored somewhere, and it might cause problems when the user's "silent ban" is lifted, and then suddenly we see a flood of posts in meta along the lines of "my posts arent showing up on ___ account help" or "my account is bugged ive sent theymos / badbear 500 pms no reply help." maybe if all those posts were deleted at the end of the ban period? idk. seems like a headache to implement though.
besides, that idea is just an enforced ignore; if other users were annoyed by the spam already, they can just ignore the user and not see their posts.

posting in a different language doesnt give them a free pass to spam whatever they want. even if we, the outsiders, may not understand what theyre saying, its spam to the members that might actually be using that local board to discuss whatever.

being a senior member doesnt mean much when you take into account that 80% of those accounts are more than likely bought off account farmers solely for the higher sig campaign payouts.

a few on my list i didnt see yet, guitarplinker's post covered most of it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=508819
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=536017 (excessive trolling)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=341745
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=357365
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=548993

id imagine that this would still hold somewhat true for an average spammer, even considering your typing speed is more than triple of what is considered "average."
consider an average person with a typing speed of ~40 wpm and spamming spammy, redundant 1 liners in whatever thread, and you might be looking at similar or even greater values of payment, considering a 1-liner might not even take a minute to write out. the only limiting factor would be topics / posts to constantly reply to if one did this for hours on end.

the price increase has nothing to do with it; its more likely that the casinos / services that used to run campaigns just dont see the need for advertising, or see the advertising as ineffective, and have decided to discontinue their campaigns.