I feel like I'm being set up for a twenty-fingered slap in the face.

Why, may I ask, haven't you yourself tagged these people?  I would advise doing so if your conviction is strong--true, the feedback will not carry weight, but I think it's appropriate for you to do this.  I'll take a look at the list later tonight or tomorrow.

The pervading sense of paranoia here is getting stronger by the minute.

Oh, you know why.  Even my frigging' alts are paranoid <joke>.

You are mistaking skepticism for negativity, and there's a huge difference.  I agree with him, because I recall a time, almost 20 years ago, when a stock analyst was predicting Amazon stock would hit $400.  I forget what it was trading for at the time, but it was significantly lower than that. 

It was madness (though IIRC Amazon did hit that target after the prediction, and didn't have the earnings to justify it), and people were predicting the Dow would hit 36,000 (in 1999).  So anyone can make wild predictions.  That doesn't mean there's any substance there. 

It's even harder to guage what crypto is going to do, because you can't analyze any business underneath it like you can with stocks.  You're basically trying to predict what people's sentiment toward bitcoin is going to be x years from now, and I say that's impossible to do.  Something better might come along; new regulations may make it more or less attractive; and any number of things might happen to affect the price.  There's no telling.

I would disagree with this to an extent--look at where we're stalled at.  We're relatively stable at $7800-$8200, and in 2015(?) we were stable at $420 for months, and yes we've been volatile in between.  I'm not saying penny stocks are similar to bitcoin in any other aspect, but the price volatility and even the characteristic of temporary stability in between spikes are traits they both share to some extent.

I hate penny stocks, by the way.  Someone very close to me got burned on one that has an actual company behind it that he believed in.  Lost a small fortune.

OP, with all due respect, it's stuff like this I've been hearing ever since precious metals came on my radar in 2011.  Gold & silver are always getting ready to explode--IF ONLY another war is started; IF ONLY stocks crash; IF ONLY [insert variable here].  And yet metals have been flatlined ever since then, which is 7 years now. 

I've said this in other threads:  If you're looking to park your money somewhere and want to protect it against inflation, metals might be an option, but if you're looking for an investment that's going to make you some money, look elsewhere.  Metals are dead, dead, dead.  I understand that the best time to buy something is when it's been beaten down to the point where it's a bargain, but I don't think there's going to be any great interest in metals for quite a while.  Stocks and crypto are going to be the hottest investments for some time to come--and remember, this is a forum about bitcoin.  You won't get too many people arguing against bitcoin being the better option here.

The other reason to buy metals is if you actually like coins.  I do own a couple of gold coins that I like, and I have a number of silver coins that I don't plan on letting go of.  Those aren't considered investments, however.  Not in my book.

Just stop the blabbering.  I'm not trying to give negs to people who don't deserve it, and frankly your English is much better than the average shitposter, so I wouldn't be chagrined if I had to remove my neg on you.  However, your story about how you reclaimed your account is fishy at best, the claim of "I got hacked" is hackneyed, your inability to sign a message is suspicious, and I'm still waiting for what LoyceV has to say and whether you sent that PM regarding your account.  

You got blocked from PMs because it was clear you'd keep spamming my inbox if I didn't.  And I'd much rather have people defend themselves out in the open than by PM.

I fully respect both your opinion and what you did here for Msile, so the feedback will be removed.  I apologize to Msile for the inconvenience.

I agree with the second part of what you wrote here--he deserves to get tagged, and I've just done so. 

The first part is idiotic, and it's nothing less than what I'd expect from a person like you.  Just because KeithBeeCham turned out to be an account farmer and giveaway cheater, that doesn't mean his reports were invalid by any means.  In other words, the situation that emerged with him doesn't make you all innocent.  You sound young and logic-challenged.

I'd be interested to see what the result of this is.

Funny how user "Winner" just sent me 20 merits out of the blue for one of my earliest posts from 2015.  He's in this farming ring.  Don't know what to make of it.

Yeah, how's that working out for you?

You're a total shitposter, as evidence by the repetitive, zero-thought post above.  If you think anyone is going to give you merit for that shit, you need to dunk your face in some ice water and wake up.  Not gonna happen.

Really?  You have to practice it here?  Guaranteed if you weren't getting paid to be here, you'd have no interest in either learning English or in crypto.  Also, your post has nothing to do with this thread.

You are a dumbass.

This is the reason why I've put the altcoin/bounty sections on ignore, but I've visited there to report some of these kinds of posts, and it's ridiculous how many of them there are.  Mods can ban the accounts one by one if they're reported, but there's nothing stopping the spammers from creating an unlimited number of them.  So how can we stop that, short of requiring a fee for registration?  I don't see an easy answer to that.

I do agree with that.  It's a tough problem, where it seems that every possible solution sucks.

Glad you called that one, because I suspect people like OP just read words and don't understand what they mean--at all. 

My question is, how do you even begin to perform fundamental analysis on any cryptocurrency?  I've pointed this out before:  Crypto isn't like a stock, in that there are no earnings, no dividend, and no business at all behind a coin like there is with a stock.  Therefore it's pretty much guesswork as to whether bitcoin or any coin is going to go up or down.  In other words, what exactly are the "fundamentals"?  They can't be the same things analysts use to analyze stocks.

Second, I think technical analysis is a bunch of bullshit.  The list of the wealthiest individuals in the world does not include any technical analysts--that's evidence to support my claim.  Watching charts does nothing, since price movements are mostly random.

Un-fucking-believable.  Makes me wonder if there are any genuine, honest people on this forum.  I do thank KeithBeeCham for reporting all the accounts that he did, but now I'm questioning whether all of that was a scheme to eliminate his competition or something.  We'll see what he has to say about this.

This is what fosters this sense of paranoia that I get on bitcointalk.  There's a good reason for it, apparently.  Props to marlboroza for connecting the dots here.

Look at that guy's trust--the same phrase "Very good businessman!" by two different users (on the same date and with no reference thread, no less), Noojna & VonSpass, who are most likely alt accounts.  I wouldn't trust this guy to take care of a dead cat.

Also, I'd suggest that if you think he's scamming, leave him a negative trust and don't just rely on DT members to do it.

I'm thinking the same thing--people here don't read anything, but it's not just a matter of skimming and not reading thoroughly (which I'm guilty of ever since I got a smartphone).  People don't read on bitcointalk, because they're not paid to do so and most of them don't have a genuine interest in bitcoin anyway.

This guy's attention was obviously piqued by the mention of merit, which I'm sure he's well aware of, as it's the only thing standing in his way of ranking up and thereby earning more from whatever bounty he's going to participate in.  I would bet money on the fact that he wouldn't normally care about what's posted in Meta, which is a section that was usually devoid of spammers before merits were introduced.

I fully agree with the first part here--bitcointalk would indeed dry up.

The second part I vehemently disagree with.  We need people like Jet Cash much more than the bounty participants.  Desperately.  Can you imagine if bitcointalk turned into simply an advertising machine?  It would cease to exist as a forum for discussion, and all we'd have left would be the shitposters.  I don't want that, and I don't think anyone else does either.  Not even Theymos.  If this forum stops being a place where intelligent discourse happens, it becomes useless.

Jet Cash is a good guy, too.  Don't drive him to a intellectual ghetto like reddit, where intelligent chat goes to die.  No offense to the fine folk at bitcointalk who happen to frequent there.   

I don't use social media myself, so there's no way I could check out that story even if I wanted to.  More importantly, there's no proof that you people are all separately using these different accounts on bitcointalk.  The sharing of addresses is good evidence that you're not.  Since you're all garbage shitposters, yes I'm biased toward not believing your story.  The feedback won't be removed.

Carlton Banks's suggestion sounds like something an academic economist would suggest--or something overly complicated that Theymos would have thought of.  Either way, I'm in favor of the wait-and-see approach to the merit solution, and part of that is because I don't think Theymos needs to be charging people to use the forum, even if it's a super-small fee.  I don't think people would leave in droves, but an idea like that amounts to gouging people, and I'm against that.

It's not quite been three whole months yet.  I've run out of sMerit, and I'm sure a lot of others have, too, so shitposters have less chance now than they ever did of ranking up--and I can see very clearly that people are having a hard time doing so in general, so the spammers aren't going to advance.  That's a victory in itself, and I'll take it.  Gladly.

How exactly can you prove that these bitcointalk accounts that were entered into bounties here had different humans behind them?

You guys are a bunch of shitposters anyway, and your cries of "we're friends!" falls upon deaf ears here.  Believe me, if it was within my power to nuke these stupid altcoin bounties, I would.  You all should take this as a lesson at least not to get caught using the same addresses.  What kind of person does that, anyway?  Do you all share the same bank account and skidmarked boxer shorts?

This is a generic, rah-rah bitcoin type of shitpost that gets written in a million different forms in hundreds of threads in Bitcoin Discussion DAILY.

The question is about the problems that bitcoin solves, and the last two posts didn't even come close to answering them.

I've always asked myself why anyone would want to spend bitcoin over fiat, and I still have not found a satisfactory answer to that.  Right now bitcoin is a pain in the ass to buy, there's network fees that can be stifling, there's confirmation times, and there's the possibility of getting scammed.  I would much rather hold bitcoin and spend the money that's in my checking account.  At least what's in the bank isn't going to skyrocket like bitcoin might.  It's rare that people even try to argue those points here.