Is there a way to know if someone is getting paid referrals off my bitcoin-relate actions.

I know we can see when a link is a referral link, but how do I know if I've clicked on a referral link and my activity is paying someone money? Think of all the gambling or faucet sites you've clicked on, who's making money off of you? Who are you making money off of?

If we all have referrals and we've all been referred, we could all make money if we all got active - if you're a subscriber to a gambling site, a faucet, or a dice game...get active...maybe we'll all get some nice referral pay as a result!

The Bears have been predicting this crash for a few years now, no?

What's the real reason this guy believes it will happen in 2016? Why will it take that long for the bottom to fall out?

I agree we're in for a pull back, we've been up and up for too long. However, this could be the effects of the Quantitative Easing being nearly halted last year. Growth is slow, but cautious...

If the market does fall out have some money in cash so you can buy in on the foundational companies, those that core to a working economy and have sound financials. A drop as your guy predicts is once in a lifetime and a fortune can be made on the return of all the sound companies that lose share price value as a consequence of he real break down in fundamentals.

@Nas, read the thread posts before posting non-constructive, repetitive posts! (Bitstarz shouldn't count your post...)

@ the OP, The Forum makes the calculation of activity more complicated than it needs to be: Activity is the lesser of the number of days you've been active in the forum or your count of posts. To be considered active you need to make a post at least once every two weeks.

BUT, if you ever go inactive for a while your activity will catch up once you become active again and start posting again. Finally, if your account is ever suspended you won't earn activity and cannot catch up those lost days.

The first thing people should do is read the "unofficial list of Bitcointalk.org rules" here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

Knowing those rules will keep you out of any trouble ad save you potential frustration learning the hard way

I enjoy seeing the things I'm interested in outside of bitcoin merge with the bitcoin community. I enjoy spending time here during my free time. It keeps me up-to-date on what people think about recent Bitcoin related news.

Money is real online just as much as it is face-to-face.

Cool story, I'm glad bitcoin provided another example of convenience for all of us to share.

I can see the potential reason for their confusion, they were talking to a guy from Bitcoin Brands, which is some bitcoin related company, and could have mis-understood that Bitcoin Brands is not an entity that created Bitcoin.

Step away from all that you know about bitcoin for a moment and try to think what someone who's never heard of it would think if you said "some guy created a new form of currency, and you can convert your fiat for it, and spend it places." It would be easy for that someone to assume that the guy did this through his business or a corporation, after all why do most people go into anything related to business, investing, or currency? To make money. Obviously Satoshi's objectives were a lot more lofty than generating some revenue, but rather he wanted to change the world.

Perhaps the real tragedy is that more people don't believe that anyone can have an idea that can change the world...the immediate skepticism drives me crazy.

So how do we participate in this sweepstakes? There's no link in the Coindesk article, there's no instruction in the graphic attached to one of the posts, etc.

Sounds like a great sweepstakes, I'd love to join, but I don't know how and I'm not a regular Bing user.

P.S...maybe this is a sign that I shouldn't be a Bing user...

The answer to your question is quoted below, it's the second post in this topic...

I'm with this guy although I say it a bit differently: Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered. "Earn free bitcoins fast" sounds like a pig move. If you're not willing to trade something for your earnings you're either not earning much, scamming someone, or being scammed.

Be careful out there!

Coins that are still in circulation (and without error) are worth their face value, nothing more. What websites from google told you that the coins you own were valued at $300-1000?!?!

Try to ignore the negativity here but you kind of set us up to think we'd be looking at 100 year old Morgan silver Dollars or something! Proof sets from the last $10 years aren't worth more than the cost the Mint sold them to you for.

You should try to sell these for the mint sales price to another person that wants to collect recent proof sets.

Hahaha, this a really funny comment.

More funny today with the tally at BTC134632.37 or $37,697,063.60...It's amazing to know that this is the current value of all the bitcoin identified in this topic as lost.

It's also pointless to dwell on it...like thinking about how much gold has been thrown away, lost, or destroyed since the beginning of it's collection.

Knowing that a finite number of bitcoin will ever exist and understanding how much value people think bitcoin will be worth, do we all have a very serious duty to protect what we've mined, earned, or bought so as not to lose it? We're stewards of Satoshi's creation right? We shouldn't let it go to wast by forgetting wallets, losing keys, being careless - anyone else agree?

Great thread topic, I'm glad I don't have anything to contribute to the balance!

That's the consequence of trying to put order to chaos in a region of the world that is lead and ruled by tribes rather than governments. There's no loyalty and there's no predicting who will align with who in year to come. McCain was doing something in 2012 that at the time had likely zero implication what could have happened. Hell, he could have been getting played by these tribal leaders (most likely!)

What the US needs to do is let the people in the Middle East figure their shit out on their own for a while...remove the money...remove the forces...just keep a close watch and make sure the fighting doesn't venture outside of their backyard.

"Iraq"..."ISIL"...pretty similar. Seems very plausible the President, who's crazy fucking busy with 20 priorities going on at once, could have just mis-spoke. I mean he didn't even realize he said it which supports the fact that he may have been just going through the motions of a press briefing, reading notes, and trying to get through everything quickly.

I mean there's no way that that shit was written on the notes he was reading from, you know?

As for your John McCain comment...I have no comment. The US aided Afghani forces long ago which people say lead to Al Qaeda...

Yeah, OK, started 3 tonight but I see 6 topics started by you on the first page of this board and 4 of them in the first ten lines...so let's agree that you've been busy tonight.

OK, no agenda just spreading controversial or shocking news, yes? That's fine, great.

The topics are very interesting, compelling. But the content in the topics are so dense that it's really tough to read everything and have a discussion about it. If you could summarize your point. OR the point of the article you find so compelling it would help many of us digest your thoughts and discuss them (or at a minimum think about them on our own.)

Just a thought...

The next winter olympics is in 2018, South Korea.

@msc_de, this is very interesting, I love the graphics. What do you want us to do? If we believe in your cause, how can we get the word out? How can we express our voice or frustration or moral dedication or all of the above?

It's SO funny that Kazakhstan was the only other final candidate and the Beijing only won by 4 votes. And it SUCKS that Kazakhstan lost out by only 4 votes, seriously. Have any of you seen pictures of the proposed ski hill? It's like a dessert mountain! There's no snow on it and there's never any snow on it, what a waste.

There is a great article about the cost of the Olympics is going to leave us with increasingly fewer candidates.

MakingMoneyHoney, what's your agenda?

You've started more than 5 topics tonight (let alone other nights), all are accusing public figures or countries and some are conspiracy theory in nature.

What I can't sort out is what the common theme is for this assembly line of new topics from you. What's your agenda? What points are you trying to convey? What do you want to convince us of?

Maybe if you're just direct we could get a discussion going about whatever it is...

P.S.: It IS odd that the wikipedia entry for Larry Nichols bears NO mention of these accusations...either because they're absolutely not true or because someone's trying to keep Larry's record clean.

How often do you think these people travel? They don't travel as much as a frequent business traveler... and quite possibly much less. Poor plane maintenance might be the culprit, but it's the only sensible reason.

Plenty of business men and women travel weekly for work, commuting to other cities or even commuting to multiple cities in a single week for months and years on end. You or I NEVER hear about business travel commuters dying in plane crashes frequently? And especially not three separate crashes for the same family! And a common relative uses planes as a weapon to kill over 5,000 people...it's crazy!

$0.10!?!?!?

How many people did you get to sign up for this? How much money did you make in the referrals of people to sign up for a giveaway? How much is the giveaway giving away that you are getting entries for a dime for from us?

What a cheap scam, you insult us!

Technically 5 years ago the guy didn't order a pizza and pay with bitcoin, he paid a friend to order him a pizza for him and that friend paid with fiat. Clever gimmick that earned a nice nostalgic story for Bitcoin, but technically not really something that represented any significance in bitcoin adoption or progression in use.

I could pay you BTCxxx equal to the amount of my Federal taxes. Then you could pay my taxes. Does that mean that the Government accepted bitcoin for payment of taxes? No.

Now I want to eat pizza and cheesey breadsticks.

You're right that bitcoin can't be printed when more is needed.

You're wrong that bitcoin has real value. The value is perceived because all of us place value upon it...just as we do fiat currency.

There is no tangible thing that supports the value of bitcoin, that can prove there is value to it.

There's no Gold, no Silver, no other tangible item that exists in the world...just the promise that only so much bitcoin can every be mined and that the validity of transactions and balances are verified by the community that uses it.