Sure, there are a few examples if you care to google a bit. One of the ones that are more studied is the Great Depression, not on why it happened (bubble + leverage buys) but also because the wrong monetary policy led to a deflation.

As you may know, deflation is due to scarcity of money and creates a preference for savings againts spending that depresses the economy.

I agree with you, it is quite dangerous and it is prone to create many problems for the regular Joe out there. I wish it did not happen, but it is there so we need to find adaptation and survival strategies. Hodling is not goin to get us out of the issue.

Any ideas?

There is surely a way of trading-off speed and fees, not that I am a technical expert in how, but having to wait for a few hours does not seem competitive with Alts. I think Bitcoin is not competing with forks, but with other coins.

I am not going to say names, but there are two campaigns right now that ask for 50 and 100 posts minimun. 20 posts is three a day (roughly) I honestly doubt that many members here have three relevant and well thought things to say a day. Even two.

Following that route would be unwise for several reasons, but I will just mention a couple:

- Campaigns done properly bring funds to the crypto community and support the value of Bitcoin since it is paired with alts in markets. The main use of bitcoin today is trading,  not "hodling".

- You would be ignoring the real trend in crypto (see the dominance graph). Do you notice that Bitcoin is no more than 36% of the total value?

But above all, you would be harming the value of this forum. Alts are no longer "alts", they are as relevant to the cryptocommunity as Bitcoin if not more and you may get rid of some spam yes, but you will also be loosing talent, new blood and new ideas. If you make the forum and "old boys club" that is what you will get, old boys taking about old topics and eventually becoming irrelevant.

IMHO and in many peoples opinion, many one of the main sources of spams are Signatures Campaigns. I am not in favour of suppressing these because they do provided finance and develop the world of cryptocurrencies.

I do participate on these campaigns because I can support a project that I like or think is good for the community and get a few tokens along the way, even if sometimes they are worth nothing   

However, many of the campaigns set a minimum of posts that I have to make a week. Some of these ask for 20 posts a week, so I am faced with the dilemma of either having to say no to a campaign that I really like or having to post on low quality threads without much interest.

I know that many people here would say that I should not take the campaign,  but that is not a good solution as I do want to promote the projects I like.

For this, my proposal would be to limit the amount of postings required in any campaign to 1 a day or no more than 7 or 10 a week.

Any new campaign on the forum would have to follow this rule or risk not being accepted / be banned / muted.

I think that your marketing still is interesting. Having the support of certain investor is not bad, but is not the criteria to choose a good investment. Large investors can afford lots of risk, I can't.

It does not get much obvious that this, look for a good technical opportunity to sell and then... buy again because this market is going to grow for sure and you cannot afford not to be here.

I was asking about the commercial rights also, I understand that I can buy merchandise in eBay of almost anything, I just wanted to be prim and proper... this time lol

Oh, how cool, so you can actually use it without restrictions even for commercial purposes. It is pity that such an incredibly powerful brand is there loose in the wild like that.

Oh well, just try to become full member not to mention hero. But don´t despair, read my post above. Depending on the issue rate for the "merit" you may  be able to eventually be a member in a reasonable time.

It seems that the merit curve is very steep. Basically, to go from member to full member you would need "90" merit. On the other hand, merit is quite expensive. For each "merit" created by the sources we can make a geometric series sum:

Sn= a1 (1-r^n)/(1-r)

with r= .5 and a1=1, results if summed to infinite in ... two. So, for 20 people to progress in one year from member to full member you would need to generate 1000 merit points on the sources (not counting other promotions, like to hero or Senior).

May I ask what is the generation rate that you are considering? If it is too tight this forum may become a private club for an elite as far as ranks.

I do agree that is good to have a system to curate the content, and this is not bad, depending on how it is regulated.

Yep, if you have a great product and want to sell it for the right price you need to build a stream of followers and dedicate time to promote it, otherwise it will go into oblivion.

That is more or less ok, if they invest first so be it. The problem with futures is that is makes it worth to purely manipulate the market and make profit from it.

The thing is that volumes are relatively low and easy to manipulate and most of the alts seem to be too correlated with Bitcoin so is one ring to rule them all.

So you don´t care if it is one year or three, is just a question of the price. I think that you need to consider the time that it takes, because is not the same x2 profit in two months than x2 profit in one year if you know what I mean.

I am not vegan not vegetarian, but I do respect people who are. I have gone vegetarian during some periods of my life and enjoyed the experience.

Do you know if there is any shop out there that has Bitcoin merchandising or Alts stuff? I assume that many of the logos are registered brands, but not so sure about BTC.

It is a nice post and quite true. If you had the vision, knowledge or just plain luck, it is your turn to give back. It is not that you owe anything to anyone, is just a question of reaching a higher level of humanity.

I have read some posts and comments by senior members related on how the futures on Bitcoin are controlling the whole crypto-currencies market. Do you understand the effects? What your view?