It's going to be impossible to impose ICOs/bounties to pay in ETH, especially if they don't have the funds. This is why most ICOs pay in tokens - to reduce their costs. In a way, it's like free promotion and advertisement for them. I get the sentiment but it will be unlikely to enforce this even with forming a bounty management team. This may be the most viable option:


Which may be hard to achieve because most of those who want to join campaigns are desperate and resort to creating fake accounts and spamming just to earn extra.

Establishing when "long-term" begins is another thing.

I imagine for those who acquired bitcoin a long time ago and are now seeing how much they have gained must be having a hard time whether to sell or to keep on hodling. A year may be considered already as term while others plan on selling their coins by the time they retire.

Long term hodling will be worthy despite of the market depending on the coins you have. It's really the hodlers responsibility to determine which are worth for long term investment. The unpredictability should not be a factor if you plan on selling once the price hits a desired amount.

Actually, many of these scams make people think that bitcoin/crypto = ponzi scam or hyip schemes. Even when there many other form of these scams found in different areas or with the use of fiat, and is hardly any different with the ones used with crypto, most people get the wrong idea. These kind of news get associated to crypto negatively and it does give a bad reputation.

Some great businessmen and CEOs are successful because of the experience they’ve had. Not only do they know how to be good leaders, but they know how it is like or have experienced how it is down the lines. I don’t see anything wrong with being taught to be a good employee.

From what I know, in Uniqlo (famous retail store) you’ll first have to go through sales first before getting up the ranks. No one gets to be manager before going through those levels first.

Of course, having your own business is different altogether. The hard part of entreneurship is coming up with something that’s unique or new to the market, and of course making it survive. There are a lot of businesses that fail because of poor management.

That’s quite true. Many here in this forum don’t even know the other components or functions of bitcoin or cryptocurrencies itself because they mainly focus on how to generate money from it.

Hopefully this new school requirement in the Netherlands would lead to more scholarly discussion about bitcoin and crypto. It’s not a surprise that not many have knowledge about it because there’s not that much sources of information to get from. Aside from some websites or blogs, there should be scholarly articles and journals related to crypto for people to take it seriously, and not think of it as merely a scam or easy way to get rich.

It wasn’t just a correction. We have been experiencing a bearish trend for quite some time now, but it’s fortunate to see that the price has gone up. Since the price has been down, the price may still increase for the upcoming days. Still a long way before hitting about $15K again or another ATH. Anything could still happen at this point, so we should still expect the best and the worst.

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Unfortunately, other countries would just prefer to impose a ban rather than to deal with these cryptocurrencies. It's sad that they don't even make the time first to understand or learn about crypto which potentially would benefit their country instead of ridding it totally. A nation's government should have the prerogative to make decisions for the betterment of their country, and sometimes making a ban is not always the best.

Yes, it's great that you're trying to help by creating some awareness but I'd have to agree with this:


Even with all the education or awareness made, it's not going to help if people will keep on believing that there are easy ways for them to get rich. These kind of people will go through extreme extents just to have money and this is why they fall for scams.

If they had the intention of running a signature campaign for 3 weeks, they should have at least had some funds set aside. I don't see how paying for the one week that was already consummated should be a problem even if they have suddenly decided to stop the signature campaign (which is very unprofessional by the way since it has already started - even if their findings were that other marketing strategies are more effective or profitable, they should have researched on this before starting the campaign).

They should at least pay the btc equivalent of what they owe to the participants, and not with their tokens since it does not equate with value. The users didn't participate in this campaign just to be paid in tokens and it wasn't what was agreed upon. Even now that there are delays with the token payments, it shows how unprofessional they are since they do not stick to their word. Who would continue to deal with such people/dev team?

The campaign hasn't even started yet it's already paused - and the campaign manager didn't even give a good reason why. He didn't even fulfill his word of updating the spreadsheet or let us know who the accepted participants are within 24 hours as he has promised, then comes around only days after. Wearing the signature shouldn't have been a requirement in applying if he wasn't planning on announcing the participants immediately as he had said.

His other campaign has problems with payment too. Lot of red flags here. It's a good thing thing it hasn't even started otherwise we might encounter even more problems.

It's crazy how they have the time to participate in that many campaigns. They probably use bots because it's just physically impossible to handle that much accounts in several different ICO/bounty campaigns. It would have been fine for people to earn from bounties but this has made others spam everywhere (not only in this forum but in other forms of social media such as "tweeter") and they have taken too much advantage of this earning mechanism.

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I have to admit that it’s actually stressful to check the price every  now and then especially if you’re itching for the right time to make a sell. To cope with the stress, I check out the recent news on crypto and see what may have affecred the price. This allows me to understand why the price behaves the way it does. If there are any good news about btc, I can expect the price to go up and it helps me ease up a bit even while the price is low.

I don’t see how this is good for BTC, or good for anyone in fact. If the world debt continues to increase and the government is unable to spend, then this would affect everyone even for those who use bitcoin and maybe bitcoin itself will get affected badly. When it reaches up to the point where the govrnment runs out for public spending  then many sectors of society will be affected such as education, infrastucture, industries etc. then shit hits the fan when this happens.

Finally, the blockchain is being utilized resourcefully. Other companies should do so as well, as there are many uses for blockchain tehcnology. It’s nice to see that Mastercard has embraced this technology instead of just shunning it. This would facilitate towards the improvement of the security of the data of their customers, which has been a problem these days. There are too many frauds and scams these days due to how easy it is to recover data.

Other than just sponsored ads, it's possible that even posts from users which relate to promoting or advertising ICO content. There's no verification to this but Facebook has not specified.

Also, Facebook may have some bots that automatically shuts down a post with banned content. The post would eventually be put down in just a matter of seconds or minutes, just like when a video is put up with copyrighted music. It would be useless to check even within the span of 2 days.

He's probably trying to say that Bitcoin is only a figment of one's imagination, making it psychological. I don't see where he gets it from and what makes him think that Bitcoin has no application in computer science, but it's obvious that he lacks knowledge about bitcoin. Many even suggest that it's the other way around and that bitcoin has nothing to do with economics but is more technological because it involves coding. Before making such statements, he should do his homework first.

Other than theft, it's possible that another illegal activity may be underlying to this transaction. It could possibly be money laundering or money to be used for the purchase of illegal material such as drugs etc. The amount is too huge, even for a big time investor. Even if it were in fiat, the authority would find the amount to be suspicious and even if the theft did not occur, it should still be looked into.

Yes, it may be too early to "denationalizing the production of money". Even when it's positive news for crypto and bitcoin users within the country, it may not be possible to adopt this at a nationwide level. Germany may be trying to advance however they may be jumping a bit too far. Fiat is still the most convenient to use as of the moment and unless technology immediately advances and develops to help facilitate the use of crypto as a currency, then it may not be realized yet for the moment even if their government wants to.