[devthedev]

Recently I was left a negative feedback by devthedev based on his personal dislike toward me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1696031.msg17388605#msg17388605

This forum has always attracted me with free speech - it is one of the places where it's possible freely discuss different things/issues which other "free speech" forums do not tolerate. Well, maybe I'm a bigot and racist but it's not a reason to leave negative feedback for it because it's supposed to be used to show one's trust, not political/religious views or personal dislikes.

What if I leave someone a negative feedback for being a feminist just because I don't like feminists? I conciser this movement harmful.  Would it be fair?

What do you thank about such "feedback"? Any comment from mods/admins?

"Something you don't like doesn't mean bad."

[Race Differences in Intelligence]

Heya everyone. Today I want to discuss with you an unpleasant subject. The subject is racial differences in intelligence. Let's be honest - black people are the dumbest race on this planet. Some time ago (I swear to God it was good times!) they were classified as animals. How can YOU think we are equal?

Race Differences in Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SJNVb0GnPI

[The methodology]

Hi guys, I want to share with you my simple methodology (beta) of spotting ICO scams.

The methodology

There are criteria with various risk points. Summarize all the points of the criteria that the ICO meets to get total score. Total score represents a risk grade on which you can lean to take a risk or not.

Scam points and criteria:
1 point: minor suspicions (for each)
3 points: anon devs; no code snippets, videos, or beta; rushing
5 points: unrealistic goals; fuzzy whitepaper; self-mod topic
10 points: bought account; no escrow

Risk and total score:
low (0-5)
medium (6-10)
high (11-15)
very high (16-20)
extremely high (21 and more)

Example

Let's imagine there's an ongoing ICO of Supercoinxxx in which you want to invest some money.

The topic is self-mod (5 points) with devs that have unrealistic goals (5 points) like creating a decentralized stock market in 2-3 month and a fuzzy whitepaper (5 points) with no technical details. Also you found two minor suspicions (2 points) based on your experience. Which gives 17 points in total. Based on that score you conclude that risk is very high and skipping this ICO.


Updated: added "no escrow" criteria.

[Zcoin]

Hey guys I'm looking for a Zcash fork without blatant robbery. Is there one?

What I've found so far:

Zcoin - the devs get 20% of the reward in each block (1440 XZC daily = ~7000$). 7k$ daily for a fork? That's two and half of a million dollars annually! I mean 2,500,000$ USD annually! Are you fucking kidding me? No! Fuck no. First I didn't know it and bought some but gladly I knew that later and sold all my coins (with a good profit btw).

Wrapper - ICO; not released yet.

Zcash itself  - well this one with a reasonable donation to the devs but not released yet.

Вбросы и «карусели» на выборах можно доказать математически — впервые об этом рассказал физик Сергей Шпилькин в 2011 году. Тогда далекие от математики граждане впервые узнали о «кривой Гаусса» — графике, который показывает нормальное распределение вероятностей, в данном случае — распределение явки по избирательным участкам. И в 2011-м, и в этом году сначала специалисты, а затем и все остальные заметили ненормально большое количество участков с очень высокой явкой, причем именно на этих участках больше всего голосов подано за «Единую Россию».

Сергей Шпилькин, физик и лауреат премии «ПолитПросвет», считает, что это — однозначный признак фальсификаций, а не случайность. В интервью «Новой газете» он объясняет, что не менее 45% голосов за «Единую Россию» были фальсифицированы, явка была искусственно увеличена на 11%, а Москва и Петербург, показавшие самую низкую явку, — упустили возможность изменить ход выборов.

Продолжение: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/74630.html


Я вот думаю как бы людям рассказать про блокчейн-голосования с полной прозрачностью и математическим отсутствием фальсификаций?

[ИДЕМ НА ВЫБОРЫ И ГОЛОСУЕМ ПРОТИВ ЕДРЕСНИ!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMVJxTcU8Kg

Секретная дача Дмитрия Медведева в Плесе огорожена 6-метровым забором, но для Фонда борьбы с коррупцией это не проблема, и мы готовы показать вам эту усадьбу площадью 80 гектаров (три территории Кремля) и стоимостью не меньше 25-30 млрд рублей.

Шикарную резиденцию лидеру списка «Единой России» оплатили газовые магнаты из компании «Новатэк», перечислив эти деньги как «благотворительность».

На эту сумму можно было бы сделать платные операции вообще всем, ВСЕМ нуждающимся больным детям. Но деньги пошли на дворец Медведева.

Такая у нас благотворительность, такая у нас власть. Голосуйте против «Единой России».

ИДЕМ НА ВЫБОРЫ И ГОЛОСУЕМ ПРОТИВ ЕДРЕСНИ!

[Bought account - check]

Another day another scam: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1552176.0

Why?

Bought account - check

@niktitan132 used to be some poor Croatian kid:

Message in Hrvatski (you can find more):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25215.msg3524004#msg3524004 (https://archive.is/7MqPL)

Complaining about stolen 0.00143581BTC (OMG!):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=305815.msg3277889#msg3277889 (https://archive.is/iWYS2)

Begging for free 0.001BTC:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=280487.msg3160745#msg3160745 (https://archive.is/KFDjM)

Meanwhile current @niktitan132 is not a poor Yugoslavian kid: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stas-nikolaev

Bought account + ICO = 99,(9)% SCAM!

No real whitepaper - check



The whitepaper (I can merely call it a whitepaper) is utter bullshit with no technical details. And according to that whitepaper the decentralized cloud system is, I quote, a group of nodes ordered by geolocation.
You can find more nonsense in this 'whitepaper': https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8VJa9S_WxSSSHJhN0o0QkVPN1E


Unrealistic - check
The devs want to deliver: a) CLOUD-BASED BLOCKCHAIN b) DECENTRALIZED TRADING / STOCK MARKET c) FLEXIBLE PLUG-IN SYSTEM within 1 fucking month!
Read more about the key features: https://web.archive.org/web/20160818041108/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1552176.0
Also custom tokens, smart contacts, and other (see  whitepaper 3. CORE FEATURES).

Ethrereum is a half of it and it took 30M USD and 2 years of development to create such a system. All these things declouds devs are gonna develop with 300 BTC and one dev. Fucking genius!

So let's conclude: declouds is no ordinary but bad-prepared scam. Well, scammers you evolve so do I...


What do you do if you invested?
1) Ask for a refund (you will likely need to be REALLY persistent to get it)
2) Be smarter next time and do your own research.

ALSO: Refundable ICOs now must be a good practice. Welcome to the world's first refundable ICO (AntShares): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1571738.0

[bought account]

READ FIRST: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1426466.0

I created the thread because the dev is censoring every message he doesn't like.

TLDR: Lannister is a bought account from an asian kid, self-mod topic to censor any 'unwanted' posts, no demo/working prototype and less than 1.5 months until the release, no funds/team to build the project, the repo is a just Novacoin fork (later the dev forked Cryptonite) that has NOTHING to do with the decentralized supercomputer, no escrow or miltisig wallet with trusted partners.

Original thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1396233.0

[Anon dev (no dev team)]

I found out that Elastic is a scam. Why?

Anon dev (no dev team) - check
Scammers always find some reasons not to disclose real names. No real persons = 99% scam.  PRO TIP: never deal with devs that don't have working history or at least verifiable public profiles (facebook/linkedin/ect).

Bought account - check
If you read old messages you'll find that they are completely different from what the OP's posting now. Btw, it's a new trend scammers no longer use newbie accounts so always double check accounts with history.

No code snippets or videos - check
Scammers can never provide any proofs like a demo or a working prototype, or at least code snippets or videos of the product.

Self-mod topic - check
Scammers don't like any critics and are never open to a free discussion because they are afraid of their scam will get exposed. Also, the dev removed my message where I was requesting screenshots.

Far from reality - check
Scammers always do unrealistic goals like creating a decentralized supercomputer with a minimum budget of 100 BTC and one-man dev team.

Also, scammers are almost always in a hurry. (not this one)

I've been on this forum for a while and participated in many IPOs/crowdsales and got some experience. And according to that experience I can sadly say Elastic is a scam with 99.(9)% probability.

Why do people deny such a obvious thing as racism (inequality of the human races)? People don't deny if someone says that one is smarter than other one. But when you apply the rule to the races this is a crime.

[In 2016...]

Here are mine:

In 2016...

• Bitcoin price will fall below $200
• New altchains will start taking over Cryptoland
• Bitfinex will likely go bankrupt
• Altcoins maket share will grow significantly
• Meanwhile Litecoin price will fall below $1
• And ETH price will touch (or will be close to) its pre-sale
• At least one Chinese exchange will be shut down
• First altcoin w/ market capitalization > 1M BTC

Make yours. Time will tell who is right...

[TLDR]

It belongs here, not the speculation section.

I was always selling during this fake pump (you really never know when it ends) and will be more as it goes up and I'm not re-buying later even if price goes below $200. I won't regret even if it goes above $1000 someday when I sold two times cheaper. I think it was the last big pump we could ever see.

Someone might say that "I lost faith" but there should be no faith, common sense should be. Let's be frankly. Banks/governments will never use Bitcoin. Instead they will create own scalable blockchains. Normal people will never use Bitcoin. They simply don't need it. This means that bitcoin won't go mainstream and price won't get that high.

Just think how the US government/JP Morgan/BoFA will adapt a currency which majority of emission is held by some kids and cryptopunks. Also 1/21 of coins is held by some anon who calls himself "Satoshi". This is no serious. This is fucking ridiculous.

Comparing bitcoin capitalization with gold's is fucking ridiculous, too. Gold has got history of thousands of years and a lot of applications. Meanwhile Bitcoin is just a virtual asset that's been known for about 7 years and has got very poor applications. What is worse is that bitcoin is not really scalable.

Again. Comparing bitcoin capitalization with facebook's is even more ridiculous. Facebook is a large company that connects the entire planet. Holding Facebook stocks generates huge revenues. Meanwhile BTC is just a speculative virtual asset. Not scalable. Old. Always bloating. Not stable. It's even not decentralized!

Also, such a risk as banning Bitcoin in many countries must be considered. First of all, in China. Chinese government is a totalitarian one and they will finally ban bitcoin if it becomes a problem for them. Just like here, in Russia. European Union will likely ban using of bitcoin someday "to stop ISIS/terrorism financing". The US is not the world. The rest are weak/poor/small countries.

What about the upcoming block halving - price went down when the Litecoin halving happened. Expect the same when the Bitcoin's happens. Don't put into this hype or you will most likely be eaten by whales.

This all doesn't mean the whole crypto scene is doomed. No, absolutely not. I'm sure we will see new much better truly decentralized applications in the near future that will dominate/replace bitcoin. And not just bitcoin.

TLDR: Sell out your BTC; don't rebuy it. Invest in other blockchains. Also, don't get fooled by the "hodl" propaganda that makes you never get a profit while whales do because YOU buy&hold.

Looks like there's a dump coming. My guess is it will start cashing at the double top (4-5 days until it happens). What do you guys think?

La’Zooz: Decentralized Collaborative Transportation Web (more info)

The ZOOZ tokens trading thread goes here.

Post only offers here. Offtopic/discussion will likely be removed.

Hey guys I want to sell my Genesis Card for the Spells of Genesis game for 0.49 BTC (I accept BCY, XCP, and ETH as well). The card is also tradable on the DEx: https://sogassets.com/dex/ (lowest ask is about 0.56 BTC).

PM me if you are interested. Newcomers go first / I will go first for a trusted member.

This thread is for upcoming/being funded crowdsales. I will keep updating the list with new crowdsales if I see some interest from the community. Here's the list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SM7vSi-6nZgRgwGnMg99A6n2bgdrEPlHzr2m7CookpU

If you want to contribute post in the topic crowdsales that are not on the list. Please post in the following format: project name / short description (100-150 chars) / crowsale date / website/twitter (any URL related to the project goes ok) / note (optional).

Also for devs: Software Token Sale Best Practices

To mods: really dunno if the thread fits the section; couldn't find a better one.

[Bittrex:]

AMP is now listed on both Bittrex and C-CEX. Please move your orders.

Bittrex: https://www.bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-AMP
C-CEX: https://c-cex.com/?p=amp-btc


What are Synereo and AMP tokens: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=995987.0

There is an exchange where AMP listed on but it's pretty slow and has no volumes. So the thread might be actual unless we have a better exchange with AMP listed.
Since AMP is not listed anywhere there will be a trading thread.

Place your bids/asks in the thread I will be updating OP with them.


Orderbook (format: username / price / amount / total BTC (not cumulative)):

Asks (selling):
yuvalgov / 1 000 sat / 80 000 AMP / 0.8 BTC
SalimNagamato / 2 000 sat / 50 000 AMP / 1 BTC
mladen00 / 6 000 sat / 50 000 AMP / 3 BTC
canth / 9 500 sat / 50 000 AMP / 4.75 BTC
richwang01 / 10 000 sat / ??? AMP / ??? BTC

Bids (buying):
DecentralizeEconomics / 121 sat / 10 000 000 AMP / 12.1 BTC
fartbags / 120 sat / 1 000 000 AMP / 1.2 BTC

Last trade: n/a

Orderbook last update: Oct 28, 2015


10/28/15 update (NB!): Please post your orders in the following format: order type (buying or selling) / price in satoshi (eg. 1 500 sat) / amount you want to sell/buy (eg. 10 000 AMP) / how much it will be in BTC (eg. 0.15 BTC). Orders like "WTS 10k AMP" won't be added. Thanks.

[Чайка. Главное расследование-2015 от ФБК]

Чайка. Главное расследование-2015 от ФБК: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYQbgvzxdM

Мы хотим, чтобы каждый посмотрел этот фильм. Тогда быстрее понимание придёт: какая на самом деле происходит катастрофа в России. Власть худших и разрушение государства.

Помочь нам просто: отправьте ссылки друзьям и знакомым, посоветуйте им посмотреть/прочитать. Бросьте ссылки с свой мессенджер или корпоративную рассылку. Поделитесь в своих социальных сетях и напишите пару слов о том, что сами думаете об этом.

50 миллионов человек ежедневно выходят в интернет в нашей стране, неужели мы не сможем донести нашу историю до 20 миллионов из них. Этот блог читает 1,3 миллиона пользователей в месяц — пять минут работы и 10 кликов с каждого и мы достигнем своей цели.

Не ленитесь. Помните: всё, что нужно для торжества зла — это бездействие добрых людей.

От себя: фильм однозначно стоит посмотреть, волосы дыбом встанут. Все знают как в стране все плохо, но чтобы настолько - никто даже и подумать не мог. Помогите с распространением, поделитесь ссылкой с друзьями!


Почему еще не обсуждаем будущего президента РФ?

Алексей Навальный — российский политический и общественный деятель, юрист, инвест-активист, бывший член совета директоров компании «Аэрофлот». Автор одного из самых рейтинговых общественно-политических блогов в «Живом Журнале». Известен своей борьбой с коррупцией в России. Создатель и руководитель проекта «РосПил», заявленной целью которого является борьба с коррупцией, а также других проектов схожей направленности («РосЯма», «РосЖКХ»).

C 17 ноября 2013 года возглавляет Центральный Совет либеральной политической партии «Партия прогресса».

Участвовал в выборах мэра Москвы 2013 года, на которых занял второе место, набрав 632 697 голосов (27,24 % от общего числа проголосовавших).

Блог: https://navalny.com/
ФБК: https://fbk.info/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/navalny
Вики: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич

[Дополнительно по теме:]

Столица политического троллинга или кто такие кремлеботы

В Петербурге расположено агентство, которое, по меньшей мере, за 20 миллионов рублей в месяц рисует карикатуры на «Обамку» и снабжает комментариями сайты всех популярных медиа страны. Мы впервые публикуем фото, видео и документы из нового «логова троллей».

Продолжение: http://www.mr7.ru/articles/112478/

Дополнительно по теме:

Где живут тролли: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/59903.html
Анатомия кремлеботов: https://lurkmore.to/Копипаста:Анатомия_кремлеботов

I wonder if it's possible to make some kind of crypto container using blockchain technology which I can only decrypt after sometime (eg. 1 year). I know there are some methods depending on Moore's law and weak cryptography but this is not what I need. In brief, I'd like to have a time capsule.