Well , self moderated threads are great when you are trying to stay on topic , when discussing your product or website or idea.

But a theory or opinion should not really be self moderated. This means he can delete any post that goes against his point and the small banner showing that this is self moderated makes any argument he makes pointless , because any valid counter-argument has been deleted.

These results are surprising.

Chrome was an obvious winner , but on a Bitcoin forum I'd have expected that more people would use Tor than IE...

The tor users are surprisingly low , especially when you consider that most Bitcoin users are really into anonymity.

Login time is very important ?

I'd say reported percentage gives an idea of who the better reporter is and more so , it incentivises reporting , even with just a number , it is pretty effective.

On the other hand , login time does nothing except provides another stat for people to spam on the off-topic subforums

Alternatively , and much more feasibly , just have an admin/mod put a flowchart  in the Meta forums.

Most posters who really have something to say try their best to find the appropriate subforum.

A flowchart guide or even more simply , a list of all subforums and a short description would take a short time to make and would save a lot of moderating time.

So , I go around offering a few microloans , end up with a couple of trust points and then I can insta-ban someone from the Lending forum ?

This will give huge power. The trust system is a guideline , not a true indicator as trust can be bought quite easily

1000$ is a more likely point.
It had dropped to around 650$ the last time it hit 1000$ and then started to stabilize at 700-800$

I know that the Bitcoin protocol is the future and not many released altcoins have had better fundamentals.
The only reason I can see for Bitcoin to drop is if a new cryptocurrency is innovative.

I mean innovative as the new currency x being to Bitcoin as Bitcoin is to centralized yet anonymous digital currencies.

I don't see that happening right now , but in a couple years , what if it supercedes BTC ?

4200 CNY was the price at which it started dropping.
Coincidence ? I think not.

I think it will end up over 1k$ but under 2k$ by the end of this year , I guess mostly around 1500$

I wonder if theymos would be annoyed if everyone started asking for their individual stats.
Maybe it could be added with an asterisk or something saying 'Warning : Not an actual indicator of forum activity' or something ?
Without anyone knowing it , it seems to be a pretty good indicator.


You can use a more positive term , since you are a global moderator.

You are not that creepy lurker who knows what everyone is saying at all times while never uttering a word, but the benevolent overseer who keeps peace across the forums , the silent guy with the banhammer.

Exactly.
He isn't that much different from Ron, in my opinion.
In fact, Ron Paul was more hardline on national defense, abortion and the like.
His post 9/11 positions were hardly a good defense of civil liberties

With Muhammad Ali, I think he earned a lot of the aura around him through his rebellious attitude. His courage in shunning his accolades for the civil rights movement was what was commendable. Not sure how successful he would have been as a political figure though, assuming we're talking about leaders here

Police in South Asia are known for their PR disasters really. Their original intentions are usually lost in translation as well. I think they weren't trying to undermine the killing, they were only talking about the frequent nature. That said, in a majority of cases, the police there is complicit in a number of crimes and to an extent, they seem to treat honour killings as familial issues rather than ones the state should intervene in, and this is a failure of the government machinery itself.

Wow , that seems really accurate to the odds.

Mathematically , what would the average error % of the odds be ? That seems too close to the given odds to be true.

The Libertarian party quite effectively summed up Rand Paul when they said he betrayed the core libertarian principles. There's a reason Paul caucuses with the GOP. His so called social libertarian positions (as far as marijuana is concerned) are only a compromise to pander to the younger GOP support base. In reality, he's far from libertarian views on society, and his views on same-sex marriage prove it.

I want it to be such that if my computer gets destroyed , I can have a copy stored on cloud storage.
But this would need to be such that it could be encrypted with a simple password.

Any ideas or guide links ?
Thanks,
Jambola2

I tried using it but it links to a chain of random pages.

Does this work for anybody else or is it down ?

This website seems similar to something else...

I decided to do a comparison.

The whois info showed that this and one other gambling website are the only two Bitcoin gambling sites (that I know of ) to use the same anonymous website registration proxy.
I compared their posts and their formatting is really really similar.
Yes , it is RitzGrandCasino.
Comparing even their names , their style is distincly similar. Their formatting on their post is extremely similar , with stars in the post name all caps free giveaway info and a habit to write "PLUS" in bold.
They post their website link over and over in the intro post

This is no true evidence , but I believe they are the same person.

LINK FOR COMPARISON
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630083.0

I'm currently in Dubai and have been trying to convince some of my friends to buy BTC.

I've gotten some attention but most of them are asking me for Bitcoin for physical fiat (the currency is AED)
I can decline and tell them to just try to buy it online , but I'd rather help them.
How can I do this ? How exactly can I purchase Bitcoins in Dubai , with fiat ?

Any suggestions ? There are no great offers on localbitcoin either , most have really high fees as compared to current USD cost.

How much money exactly do you need and how soon ?
That information would help more.

Can you deal with 0.8 BTC ? Is it for rent or irl expenses or do you need anonymity on this topic?

How fast do you need it , ie , is it a real life crisis that needs it immediately ? If so , how much time do you have ?

Google Glasses any day.

Firstly , the Google glasses cost less than half of these and that is only the dev edition.
The consumer edition is planned to start at way lower prices.

I don't really want to cover most of my field of vision , I want to be able to walk around , see normally and also have a nice side smart computer in my glasses that can help me. Meta Space Glasses cover too much and would probably not be safe for using on the move. The Google glass has shade implants and corrective lens implants are in development ! This will make it a near invisible computer which will be on the corner of your normal looking glasses , while Meta Space Glasses will be larger, bulkier and will have to be worn seperately.

What they don't seem to get correctly is , I don't want to mine alt-coins when I'm out nor play hard core video games. I want a simple , light device that can help me while not making my wallet too light.