Dude...I'm not saying gold or silver is entirely useless, but if there's an EMP from, say, a nuclear airburst there's going to be more useful items than precious metals--assuming you're alive to use them.

And if we're talking about a relatively simple case of the internet crapping out, I think cash would be a lot more useful.  If you're thinking of a case where fiat would be worthless, then I'd say again there are more useful things.  Land, food, water, guns and those kind of things are going to be your best friends.  In a real disaster, I highly doubt people are going to be resorting to precious metals bartering.  I don't care what the goldbugs say.  That's all hype, trying to get you to buy metals.

What am I missing here?  Is it even relevant whether OP was accepted to do the translation?  It looks like he did it and then Hang Vivian stole it--though I don't speak Vietnamese and can't totally verify the theft myself.  What it appears is that he created the page first and it was copied a day later.

I don't hear Hang Vivian mounting any sort of defense against this.

Edit:  No answer to my question, so I assume either he doesn't understand it or doesn't have a valid defense.

I feel you, but you couldn't have been all that concerned about rank, given that your account was registered in June 2014.  I'll keep an eye on your posts and if I have any spare sMerits to give, I'll keep you in mind.  You're not a shitposter by any means, but I can see why your posts haven't earned a lot of merits so far, or at least why they'd get passed over and buried in the morass of garbage on the forum.

But hey, at least some members are ranking up.  I think the process is probably a little bit too slow, which is why I think there should be more merit sources.  That's a Theymos problem, unfortunately.

"Paper money shortage"?  I've never heard that term before, and I think it's a pretty ridiculous concept.  Paper money isn't pegged to gold anymore, so it's not like governments can't just print more.

We're in for a cashless society I think.  I have little doubt about that, and I don't even think it's something governments have to push very hard.  People, from what I've seen, much prefer to use their debit card or smartphone to pay for even the smallest transactions--especially the younger folks.  That article made a good point about the elderly being squeezed out of the economy, but that's a problem that should work itself out with time.  As far ask I know, China has not yet eliminated physical money so those geriatric folks can still spend their paper money.

I don't think Chinese businesses ought to refuse cash payments.  That's nuts in my opinion, but then again China is a nutty society.

As I've said before, I have mixed feelings about going cashless, mainly because of the lack of anonymity with electronic payments.  I don't like that at all.  Plus you're screwed temporarily if you lose your phone or debit card.  It's happened to me when I didn't have cash on hand, and it sucks.

I don't think I've ever learned anything important by posting on a discussion forum, much less been dependent on one specific forum for knowledge.  In other words, being banned on bitcointalk likely doesn't preclude anyone from learning whatever it is they want to learn.

But come on, guys.  This guy isn't desperately trying to recover his account so he can continue "learning".  More like "earning".  It's the same story we see in every ban appeal thread.

Ka ka boogy blaw.  READ:
In other words, you fucked up and you're permabanned.  You, the pair of eyeballs behind the keyboard.  You, who owns the unique DNA of the person who did the plagiarism.  You, the person, are permabanned.  No more new accounts, and the old ones won't be unbanned.

Is that clear enough?  You godzilla mechawanker.

I did, but my comment was specifically about his responsibility as a bounty manager, not the other questionable stuff you pointed out.  He did stop the bounty once the project was exposed, and I stand by my opinion that it isn't the manager's responsibility to vet the project before starting a bounty.

That said, I'm going to change my feedback on him to a neutral, since in the deal we did he was the one to send funds first and thus I didn't really risk anything.  There's enough doubt in my mind about his other actions that I don't think he needs a DT positive for that.

We had this exact discussion a while back, i.e., is a bounty manager responsible for vetting the legitimacy of the underlying project.  If I recall correctly, the results are much what we're seeing here--managers shouldn't be held responsible if a project turns out to be a scam but that the manager is responsible for terminating the bounty as soon as the project is exposed.  Other managers in the past have done this, including yahoo62278 and some have not, like aTriz.

I think Woshib is a stand-up guy, and I don't think he's to blame in any of this stuff, so I'd also respectfully disagree with marlboroza's feedback.  I do think there's way too much shenanigans going on in the ICO world, based on the number of fake projects and whatnot, but I don't think the bounty managers should share the responsibility for that unless they either had prior knowledge of a scam or allow the advertising to continue once the scam is uncovered.

That's a bunch of bullshit, typical of what gets posted in the OP of these types of threads.  And somehow it's always the garbage English speakers who do this, which actually makes it much easier to catch.

That's correct.  And you're not allowed to use any other account here.  You are banned as a person.  Good luck in your future endeavors.

Of course it's just speculation.  This is the Speculation section after all.

People start making really bearish predictions when bitcoin starts to fall.  The reverse is true when bitcoin starts to rise rapidly--and you see the same mentality in every other market.  People look for what they see as trends, when in reality it's probably just normal market fluctuations.  Could bitcoin drop to $3000?  Sure.  I don't think it's going to happen, though.  Do I have any evidence to support my feeling?  No.  It's just what I'm speculating.  Nobody on bitcointalk or anywhere else has any credible evidence about what the price of bitcoin is going to be at any point in the future.

I think we'll see $10k before $3k, but I don't have a clue as to how long that's going to take.

I wouldn't consider this grounds for a ban or anything, though I do think the member ought to be schooled as to how to properly cite his source.  The way he did it isn't just lazy, it's the absolute wrong way to cite a website from which you're quoting something.  The right way to do it is to provide a link to the exact page the quote comes from.  This should be obvious, but who knows what level of education this knucklehead has, not to mention where his moral compass points.

That's my opinion, but I could see how others might think this is at least borderline plagiarism.  I just don't think it goes that far, because he did make it somewhat clear that he isn't the original author of the post.

I don't know what you're blabbering about exactly, but I would point out that the word is "pederasts".  At least get that one right.

Now, if you're calling out someone for scamming you, start up a thread in Scam Accusations with all the evidence.  If you don't, you're basically just screaming into the void and no one is going to listen, much less help you.

I don't know if I fully agree with this.  I think a lot of inventors are looking to get rich and not just to advance technology--history is full of people like that.  Fame and recognition also are factors, but money is a huge motivating factor for a lot of people.  I'd also point out that great advancements in tech or anything else generally make a LOT of money for whoever ends up buying whatever it is we're talking about, a patent, a device, whatever.

Economists would also have a field day with OP's argument, as they tend to think solely in economic terms.  I don't think everyone is motivated by money but you can't deny the importance of it.

There are a number of members here who don't agree that account buying & selling should be allowed, and Theymos is apparently indifferent about the dissenters expressing their opinions through negative feedback.  That's what accounts for the "paradox" that you see.

I would ask if OP has any evidence of someone getting scammed, and I'd suggest he encourage his friend to open up a scam accusation if he does.  Just saying someone got scammed doesn't really mean anything, though I pretty much don't doubt it happened.  Scammers know how desperate people are to get their greedy, shitposting hands on a high-ranked account and they can and do take full advantage of that.

I'm not going to give CNN any clicks, so I'm just going by what was quoted here.

I'm indifferent.  He looks young, and it also sounds like he has a job that will allow him to make a financial comeback, so it isn't the end of the world for him.  Plus it's his own fault for buying something like bitcoin back in 11/2017 when it was rising so fast.  He just wanted a piece of the action, which is understandable, but he got in at the wrong time AND put too much money into it.  Then he compounded his mistake by buying BCH.  That's on him, and hopefully he learns from this.

If the ban is temporary and gets lifted in 7 days or whatever the time is, the member can either keep using the newly created account or can abandon it.  It can't be deleted.

If the ban is permanent, the member isn't allowed to keep using the new account unless it's to appeal the ban in Meta.

I'm wondering if any new members started off lurking like I did.  I was reading stuff on bitcointalk for months before I actually created an account, and this is in 2014 or so when the whole Mt. Gox situation was unfolding.  I have a feeling that most noobs haven't started off this way, that they've heard about the altcoin bounties and come straight here for that.

Because they've done no reading, they jump in without knowing anything about the rules of the forum or of the culture.  They think this is a work-from-home website, and then they're surprised when they get banned or negged or don't rank up because they can't get merits. 

So Jet Cash, as I've said before, your expectations are way too high.  You're doing a good job by trying to help the noobs, but in the end you're going to keep being disappointed.  I have very low expectations from people, so I'm rarely shocked by the idiotic BS that you mentioned.  I do think members ought to have the common sense not to keep quoting huge infographics or gigantic blocks of text.  What can you do.

Tagged him.  Next time, just drop me a PM about it.  I think I'm the only DT member who's consistently tagging account sellers, and even then it's pretty inconsistent since I have Invites & Accounts on ignore.  I'll un-ignore it soon (temporarily) and have a look around at some point.  Good catch.

I gave that account a neg just in case he decides he wants to keep posting with it, though I'm sure there are others with which he will.  If this somehow turns out to be a temp ban, I'll remove the feedback.

And yep, looks like merit abuse to me, though I can't view the posts in question.  Makes me slap my head thinking about why these people want to call attention to themselves.

One's English being not bad doesn't really count for much if we're being realistic, unless you're doing something really useful for the forum, like busting scams. 

OP ought to take note that the users with the most merit tend to be fairly decent writers who can not only make sense but are organized in their thoughts and keep the reader's attention.  People who don't really understand the language in which they're trying to write tend to write posts which are extremely bland and often repetitive. 

In other words, in a forum where 90% of posts are poor-to-mediocre, you really have to stand out in order to get merit.  And I'll admit there probably is a bias against noobs, since the motivation to be here is often just to get "work".  Kind of like OP here.