I had no idea. This is damned brilliant mate I think I've noticed some names I've been reporting in the last months, which is quite funny.

Looks like the CVT project won a community award on a startup event in Germany.

https://nextrealitycontest.de/gewinner-2019/

Since I am not from Germany, could any of the German members of the boards give us more information about this event/award? Is it important/meaningful and could it have a positive influence on the evolution of this project?

Well your horrible logo seems to have disappeared so could you please define "perfectly"? It does look better now, I'll give you that.

Be warned about this possible SCAM project, people. Do not invest without DYOR!

Damn mic dat is verdomd interessant. Heeft je vriend een website waarop we die analyses zelf te lezen kunnen krijgen? Zoniet zou ik vriendelijk bij je willen aandringen om van deze maandelijkse updates een gewoonte te maken.

Ik had mij overigens voorgenomen om mijn uitgedeelde Merits voor Legendary members wat te beperken, aangezien het toch wel de bedoeling is vooral lower ranks een duwtje in de rug te geven, maar bij deze post kan ik toch niet anders. Je verdient er eigenlijk 10, vergeef mij dat ik mij tot 1 beperk. Ik houd de rest voor lower ranks.

Om on-topic te gaan. De stijging wordt ons nu toch al een paar maanden aangekondigd, maar ik zie eerlijk gezegd momenteel geen grote oorzaken die BTC opvallend kunnen doen stijgen. Als Jingping over het belang van blockchain spreekt, haal ik mijn schouders op. Ik weet niet of er überhaupt (nog) een correlatie bestaat tussen BTC als munt en blockchain als concept. Onwetende beleggers stuwen de koers dan wel 40% hoger, maar die koers bestendigen is veel moeilijker. Ik zie ook steeds minder invloed van macro-economische factoren, en als ze er zijn, dan dus ook steeds van korte duur (Syrië? Fed? Brexit? Nouja...).

Ik duim natuurlijk wel met iedereen mee en van mij mag de prijs morgen naar een miljard euro. Dan spreken we af voor een cocktail onder een paar palmbomen (zal dus niet in de Nederlanden zijn).

I guess it's better when they delete the posts themselves. It means that we don't have to waste our time and energy reporting them, and the result is the same.

I mentioned before that the sad thing about reporting and "cleaning up" someone's spammy mess, is the fact that after everything has been reported and deleted, those guys' profiles look like they've never spammed in their life.

I think this would make the whole idea of discussion boards a bit useless. What's the use of writing new posts if they're not visibly marked? No-one would even notice they'd been posted. I see no harm in bumping or even necrobumping as long as people are not spamming or abusing. I prefer necrobumping to people opening several threads for the same subject or project. When I'm searching for information on a certain subject or coin, and notice there are over 10 threads for the same subject, I even don't bother reading any of them anymore.

I think you are confusing spam with messages of which you dislike the content. There is a difference between the two, you know.

Feel free to report my posts and we'll see if you're right or confused.

I already told you that you were spamming, but instead of listening to the advice of an older member, you had to call me a sig spammer, and then closed the thread in a hurry, to make sure I couldn't reply. In French we call this kind of behaviour "petit". And now your posts got deleted. Allow me to find this quite ironic.

And btw, I considered reporting some of your posts, but I didn't. So I guess I'm not the only one who thinks you're spamming.

Cheers from your favourite sig spammer.

Well, things do have changed a bit though. Back when I was a Newbie, these kinds of threads were used to shill all kinds of obscure eBTC eLTC eXRM SEX XYZ LAMBO SHIT and thousands of other exotic coins, which were - if you were lucky - P&D coins or - if you were unlucky - nothing at all.

At least in the last months and year, I see a lot of people (even Newbies) who prefer BTC, ETH, XLM again, as well as other (trustworthy) projects who have been with us for such a long time. I'd even dare to say that this is one of the most interesting developments of 2019.

And since I don't want to add up to the shilling: there can be only one Number One and that is - of course - Bitcoin.

That's one of the responsibilities that come in a free market: be very careful and know what you buy.

No idea if anyone cares about anything on these boards, since it's the Altcoin section after all, but I've written a modest guide quite a long time ago, of which I think it's still up-to-date. Feel free to hit the link, join the discussion and add your own point of view to the checklist.

Even though I think the guide is still up-to-date, I must say it seems like the heyday of scams lays behind us. Hopefully my feeling's right.

Allow me to come back to this thread. First of all, Joan Baez is specialized in singing other people's music, which makes me think a bit about the copypasters in the Altcoin Section. Not sure if that's a compliment.

Second of all, the sad thing is that sometimes, there really are quite a lot of interesting topics (and yes, there are still some interesting blockchain projects) in the Altcoin Section.

But every time you try to add something to the discussion or some point of view or ask a question, after a few hours already, your post has been completely snowed under by "yes i agree" and "great project sir" posts from activity pumpers. Most of them only read the OP. I can tell ya, that's horribly frustrating.

It really can't be the intention of this forum that the Serious Discussion and the Ivory Tower are the only places left, were you can discuss (in a serious way) blockchain topics and projects. I can't imagine opening a thread about a project I believe in, in the Serious Discussion boards. Even if I did it to avoid all the spam, I'm quite sure I'd be nuked to dead.

So yes. We need some adjustment and need to get rid asap of those spammers.

Uiteraard mag je er op terugkomen, en zelfs als het lukt mag je er op terugkomen, zodat mensen met een gelijkaardige vraag er ook iets aan hebben.

Ik heb overigens zelf ook nog wat rondgezocht in de voorbije dagen, en naar ik begrijp staat Electrum weliswaar bij Tails, maar werkt het niet en heeft het tot op heden nog nooit gewerkt. Dus misschien is het antwoord wel eenvoudiger dan we dachten: het werkt (nog) niet. 

6 months later... How is it going, Jet Cash, still having fun? I'm a bit disappointed I didn't discover this thread earlier. To be honest, I really thought the Ivory Tower was exclusively for crypto-related discussions.

I've switched to Linux since Ubuntu 7.04. I'm quite shocked to read on Wikipedia that this version was launched over 12 years ago, damn man, time flies...

That being said, I never got used to Unity. No idea how it looks nowadays but back then, these giant buttons on the side felt kinda... well slow, maybe? Undynamic? Dunno how to describe it but it didn't feel nice. I switched to Kubuntu... Later Linux Mint... And right now, I've got 2 different distros running.

I'm on MX on a 10 year old 4GB RAM laptop (which will be replaced by a brand new one, well... around Black Friday probably ). Mind you, I did replace one of the HDDs with an SSD. I also want to add that I am changing the laptop because this is the second time the battery's dying on me (meaning I had already bought a replacement to avoid buying a new laptop), there are some dead pixels, and one of the keyboard's buttons came loose. This thing works as smoothly as could be, but I am starting to lose friends who are embarassed to be seen in the proximity of my laptop.

I would love to hear your experience with other distros. I must admit I have no idea what reputation MX has when it comes to privacy and spyware. Truth is, I simply changed to the most popular distro on distrowatch (as long as it didn't have Unity).

The only things that disturb me (a bit) are the problems with (some) devices and peripherals. For instance, ID card readers are recognized, but not working.

My Brother laserjet works only if I ask it very nicely. Meaning it does the job but has a hard time with options, like "Print Selection" or "Grayscale" etc. I use my wife's PC if it doesn't work. Or I change the settings manually on the printer. Which is a pain in the a...

My Canon scanner doesn't work, even if I ask gently. So then it's back to the wife's again.

Secondly, as a musician I use some USB interface devices. I have a separate laptop for this (a supercheap 4GB Ram laptop), which I use exclusively for the music stuff. Also replaced the HDD by an SSD. This thing is 3 years old, cheap as hell, but works like heaven, even upto the most recent updates. [edit: This second laptop runs on Debian. It's the only "fairly common" distro that got my USB devices running.]

So, what's new, JC?

I've seen this kind of practices before. The same people bumping each other's threads, sometimes to keep the ANN thread alive, but also because they want to pump their activity.

Although I'm no member of the Spambusters Club, I've been welcomed to report these user IDs on the SpamBusters Club's thread. Simply send the IDs to LoyceV who will convert them for you, like in my quotes above.

Just a friendly suggestion, Rikafip. (edit: and by the way, good job  )

OK, dus de hoofdreden is mobiliteit van je wallet en niet de privacy van Tails. Want in geval van privacy-overwegingen zou ik echt wel voor de omslachtige oplossing van hierboven gaan.

Als je eerder praktische overwegingen hebt zijn er wel andere opties. Tails is immers niet de enige Linux-distro die je rechtstreeks van op een USB-stick kunt laten draaien. Aangezien dit geen Linux-forum is, zou ik je aanbevelen gewoon even "linux from usb" te googlen (of DuckDuckGo'en ).

Let wel goed op dat je bij elke nieuwe installatiepoging STEEDS de eventuele nieuwe seeds ergens opslaat. Je mag er niet aan denken dat er onverwachte persistentie-problemen opduiken... En dat je je seeds nergens hebt staan...

I will not claim that I have enough economic knowledge to have a solid idea about how to launch BTC globally. But I do know that BTC has been launched as a libertarian concept of decentralization, and so I am 100% sure that of all the possibilities that Satoshi had in mind, regulation and legalization were definitely the last.

You know, I don't really agree with your point of view. There's the scams and nonsense projects which obviously have failed during recent times, because well... they were scams and nonsense.

So if we're talking about becoming ridiculously rich, I am quite sure that - indeed - that didn't succeed for most people and projects.

If you're talking about the blockchain as a concept of data decentralization, and not about sticking fictitious values onto tokens from useless projects and then pumping them and hoping to get out when you've gained 3 dollars - which is actually why 95% of the people on this forum are here, then you're wrong. We are not only talking about the projects which you read about on this forum, but about the daily life use of blockchain. As a matter of fact, I do have friends who create blockchains for private companies, to process data/documents/information/internal communication etc. "à la carte". I can tell you that these projects are very much alive.

Blockchain as the concept of pump and dump projects you're talking about, has become quite rare. Blockchain has become mature and it's about time some members of this forum do, too.

What is this nonsense and why did I receive this EBK without asking? Quit airdropping your sh*t on people's ETH addresses. No-one cares.

Omslachtig ja. Maar is dat niet een beetje de bedoeling van Tails? Namelijk, omslachtig equals veilig (eerder omgekeerd)? Een beetje zoals geen cookies opslaan: je moet elke keer inloggen en elke keer weer de juiste taal kiezen en elke keer de privacy policy aanvaarden, maar in ruil krijg je extra privacy (ik ben een van die gekken).

Eerlijk gezegd, als je Electrum als persistent programma wilt gebruiken, kun je het net zo goed op een gewone PC gebruiken. Tails lijkt me dan meteen zinloos.

A reward (maybe financial but not necessarily) could be a temporary solution, for instance, only for a week or a month. Or only during a certain period of time, f.i. for a few days every 4 months or so. Just to avoid leaving people the time to consider a way of abusing the system.

I can confirm that spam reporting is a time-consuming activity and not exactly satisfying since the quantity of spam doesn't seem to go down even a little bit (which explains my eternal respect for the Spambusters club who do this on a daily voluntarily basis). Some sort of reward from time to time could motivate people to report more and might actually (and hopefully) result into a really visible diminution of the spam on these boards.