Forum is wel aware that newcomers do not search for the rules when they join, that is why there is an active initiative to make a welcome message with the most important information to educate the new members.

Altough you have some valid points about the availabilty and the pay of the signature cmapaigns regards the poor people , thus making this a easy way for them to make money while samming this forum, the merit system is working and new rules are implemented and then analysed to ultimately stop new spammbies and farmers.

This one! It is annoying as hell.

" Sir" for some reason tends to go together with "Dear" making this phrase: " Dear,Sir" the king  off all annoying phrases of all time.
Also words" exchange" " update" and " moon" together with "When"  is hugely annoying.

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It seems that we have some answers that are repeating, perhaps a poll would be a good idea after some more answers are collected

Agreed, the timing alone is not a solid criteria for abusers.



It seems that puppet masters are rushing to regain control of their puppet army after new rules and this most likely will be their downfall in anycase

If you havent yet seen it, I suggest you take a look at this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5034141.0
It shows the top users who have given merit to Newbies.

It is very nice to see that this new system is working even with all the abusers.
This was a rational way to  reduce spam in this forum. Thank you, theymos!

I imagine that we will see similar situation as when the merit system was introduced, abusers sent merit  to their alts back and forth till merit run out and then if mods will have time, they will catch the abusers one by one.

Gave them a  quick look and it seems like a huge farm atleast for some of them.

I do not think that these posts could be considered as good even if we strecth it:





Allo the intervals between awards is suspucious.


The past red trust, the change of merit awarding behaviour shortly after new restrictions and the timing of merit awarding with 20 sec intervals is enough factors for me to think that it is farming after all.

The real question will the mods have time to investigate these kind of cases , will this behaviour reveal big farms or let them be,

This is not have manipulation works nowadays, in recent months BTC has become more and more stable regarding news and FUD.
The real manipulation is done by taking various positions on marging trading platforms and then selling or buyng large amounts of BTC in exchnages, this makes the price go up or down fast and then they get to meet their leverage targets and make nesseceraly actions on exchnages as well. This is done by so called whales.

Not realy, almost all of the altcoins are shitcoins, they dont take away anything from BTC, they are made just to make invstors belive that they will get their money back with some profit, that is it.
Other popular coins are private coins, these also are not a threat becasue decent vendors wont use them anyways.
Then there is protocol coins which have their own gae, which also does not impact BTC.

I see that the biigest impact of altcoins to btc ir that they are giivng BTC a bad name.

There are other players which are also trying to become a cryptocurrency hub.
From the top of my head - Malta, Estonia, Latvia.

Switzerland is so rich because of their financial services , so it is not a big surpise that they are also trying to get in crypto game.
It is hard to tell which country is th ebest, only serious professionals which have been involved in different projects at management level can answer this question.

You are a Sr.Member in this forum how it is possible that you have missed this situation before?
There have been numerous accasions when this have happen:
1)Some country in South Africa, matbe it was  Zimbawe
2)And how you did miss Japan prices while in the bubble?

I have considered it but if you read the post carefully , you will notice that i use different approaches and the information is different not just more data thus i think this more appropriate.  

a)The data is considerably newer as I mentioned at the start of thepost
b) Last time I used last month and this year. This time I went with 3 months and this year.
c) Added lower ranks to activity graphs.

P.s. After I estabilsh the best statistic base and represantation I will eventaully change te manner for example to thread  -Statistics of forum and update it periodically or to outside page.

Hello!
In my last post I looked at first 2 million users and their rank distribution and at user activity. This time I will show more complete distribution of user rank ad their activity in this forum. I have scraped users with their ID's up to 2312500. The complete distribution is shown below. I did not not just scrape IDs above 2 million and merge them with old data, I have completely re-scraped all the IDs for more accurate representation of situation.

I have not shown deleted skipped users in this distribution. The amount of deleted/skipped id's is 19113. Skipped ID amount depends on the errors while scraping data and in addition there is some amount deleted users, which is estimated to be around 16'000 users .

To compare 2 million users IDs to 2'312'500 ID's there is little surprise that the biggest addition to statistics are to Brand New users (230k) , Newbies (66k) and Jr (12k) .


In my last post there was a lot of discussion about the activity and how to define it. One of the best ways to define it would be by using time of the last post of any given users but this is technically challenging since it requires scraping users last post, this option right now is not supported by current scraper version. While I or anyone else haven't yet made these modifications to scraper in order to achieve this, we will have to get by with "last activity" data which is scraped from users profile. This time i decided to show also the activity of lower rank user activity. It seems to me that it is a good practice to define the activity as "last activity" in last 3 months in addition i thought it would be interesting to see activity within this year.


The total number of users who have had "last activity" within last 3 months is 425584. If we exclude Brand New's and Newbie's the number drops significantly and the number then is 82056.

Further lets look at the activity charts regarding this year.


The total number of users who have had "last activity" within this year is 985811.  This year represents approximately first 7 months of this year. If we exclude Brand New's and Newbie's the number then is 102186.

Since I just showed activity in 2 different timelines, I think most of us would like to see comparison also:


Links to some of my other posts:
 '2 million users and teir stats ' : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4901670.msg44145551#msg44145551
'Lets go deeper in "brand new" and " newbie" statistics ' : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4759325.msg42983972#msg42983972

Those who thin kthis way are a) very new to this market b) how a very narrow view of things. Possible some of them have lost moeny recently and now are in panic mode. I for one see this market as normal conseqences after a huge bull run, we have fluctuations and constatnly haveing lower highs . But the good news is that lfluctuation is getting weaker this means that we are close to bottom and will see new cycle emerging relatively soon.

First of all isnt this " High risk results to high rewards"  obvious ?
But your story is werid since forex traders basically live off violaty and one of the chracteristics of forex traiding is the possibilty to leverage your  trades. And this is needed if one wants to make money on daily or even weekly basis, without leverage you have to have a ton of liqudity in order to make some money. Since usually forex markets have low violaty they need to use this leverage. Now to contradiction, how they can tell that crypto is to much fluctuations when they are forced to use leverage in Forex in order to make some money from calm markets.. for me it seems the smae thing.

1.I wont trust these platforms because they do not show how the stakes are calculated and i have red that some users have good reason to believe that there are some shady bussines going on.
2. I believe this is what you are looking for https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3953664.msg37702167#msg37702167

Bitcoin ETF has been discussed on so many ways and levels that I am starting to get sick from seeing 10 news articles a day about BTC ETF. The truth is that it wont be accepted any time soon because the main reason behind SEC rejection is that BTC market is being manipulated my uknown players, Since SECs main goal is to protect the consumer form markets which are manipulated easily, they will not accept any BTC ETF any time soon  and it does not matter if they decide to review rejections .

Completely agree with you, was expecting lower high again soon, and here it is.
Good for you that you are takeing advantage of this market, i dont have the nerve right now to do so . I thin kthat we will have chance of entering new bullish cycle when market will calm down.

I think that he is still drunk on last years BULL RUN, I dont hink that we will see another BULL run so soon. Market still is full of speculators and people who are desperately trying to get back what they lost during the hangover of crypto party. I will start to belive in next wave of bullish pattern when we i will see calm market with slow gains. For short term my prediciotns is that we are going below 6k.

I suppose it is a matter of the goods one is going to purchase and also a big deal is trust. You have to have good reputation in order for customers to use BTC or have to care about your repuatation also there is the jurisdictiono factor, if the vendor is under certian jurisdiction , it could be safe to use cryptos. Or vendor coulduse crypto gateway, but in this case fees rise and then crypto payment could potentially  be even more expensive then CC payment. This is for online payments.

i can imagine that payments on the spot with crypto POS could be much more effective since you see the merchandise and have much more trust in the seller.

First of all , I suggest to NOT go trough bounty section, this is a very messy place.
There are several ways to go about this problem.

You can go trough all the campaigns of respected managers like Arteezyx or Sylon. This way you will know that you will get paid but most likely the pay will not be big.
The other way is to search for projects which have already raised some amount of money preferably in Pre ico stage and the filter out hose who
a) has a bounty
b) has good % allocated for bounty
c) has as little as possible participants

In anycase this takes time and effort.
Good luck.

I too had some problems with acces to forum, was thinking that it could be beacause of increased bot traffic. It seems that everything is working well at the moment.


As far as i have heard that this is one of the methods how hackers could gain acces to information which is stored to server..? like passwords.
Also as others have mentioned before, it could be an attemt to extort webpage owners if the server or admin cant handle the attack.