There should be a rule for making escrow threads.
Maybe a minimum positive rep of +1....

A transaction may go unsecured , between two newbs , but it usually is a small amount
But a newbie offering an escrow service is really funny.

Not really necessary. They are not a shady casino which can be taken down at any moment.

The biggest collateral they are offering right now is their reputation. If they scam their signature campaign members , they will lose all reputation in a month and won't be able to get users to trust them to maintain their contract.

Basically , if they scam people out of the signature campaign , they will bring the axe down on their own business.

TLDR; Their collateral is their rep , no escrow is needed.

<3 theymos.

I drew three conclusions:-

If there is any topic , there is a one in six chance that malevolent has gone through the topic already.

Most posts on the top pages would have been read by multiple moderators already. If a post falls in the ethical grey area , it is not report worthy unless it is relatively new.

Phin is one of those people who can't keep their mouth shut in real life and just say whatever first comes to their mind.. He has almost 1.4 posts per topic visited. That implies that he posts on almost every topic that he has ever checked and multiple times on many.

Actually , I think that forgoes the point.

Let's say I buy a bitcoin from any exchange , which is a pretty popular location.

I then go to my favorite shop and spend it to get 600$ worth of stuff. They use bitpay and it gets converted for them in fiat.

Bitpay levels their stock , maintaining the amount they want to keep , by selling it back to exchanges.

Overall : I bought products that were made from intermediate products that costed fiat. It was instantly converted and the storeholder got the money finally in fiat. I also converted the Bitcoins spent into fiat spent. This process shuns Bitcoin as a currency on a whole and just uses Bitcoin as a round about way to use fiat.

Well , gyft.com fulfills 2&3 to an extent.

It provides gift cards for a multitude of locations , Target , Sears , Gamestop , Amazon.
You get a 3% cashback on any gift card you purchase.

This is not a suggestion.
I just wanted to speculate who would have read the most posts on the forum.

Whose would be the highest ?

Phinnaeus Gage seems like a good guess because he has the largest post count (IIRC) , Vod seems to be everywhere , but more than that , what about the Moderators and Global Mods and Admins. It is their job to look at as many posts.

So , come speculate with me. Please refrain from a single username , try to tell me why you think so.

EDIT: If it is not clear , I mean an indicator showing the total percentage of posts read out of the total posts on the forums.

That makes sense.

If you had some hypothetical method which made it possible for you to perfectly ban people who traded accounts , with no gaps , do you think it would be used ?

Not focusing on the means and problems arising , if we could stop this account trading , should we or should we allow it ?

When will people spend BTC as easily as fiat , not seeing it as an investment opportunity but a better currency for them to use ? Most of my friends that I have currently told about Bitcoin are most intrigued by its rapid rate of growth and not its outstanding features as a currency. They don't really care that it is free from government control , but are more focused on the fact that it has risen xy%

I don't really spend much of my Bitcoin , because I am always in fear.
I am not talking about cashing out , but for digital goods.

How do you spend 10 mBTC on a 5$ digital good when you believe that the same 10mBTC is worth atleast 15$ , probably more.
How much of your Bitcoin have you hoarded , and how much have you really spent ?
I am under the impression that people tend to hoard more with BTC than with fiat , considering it an investment more than a currency

I don't know how to make a poll here , so :- http://strawpoll.me/1793917
This is not referring to your blockchain.info statistic , which includes money you have moved around. I am looking at money you have truly spent vs total amount of BTC you have received.

Overall , I'm trying to look at how much my guess is true by the poll and your estimates of when majority of people will start looking at BTC as a currency.

EDIT : I'm not sure this is the right section , tell me if this should go in General Discussion or so.

We should really check and see how many Altcoins were first announced by Members and above.

I think majority of the coins , even the ones that are larger today were announced by Newbies and Jr.Members.

To all of the users reading this thread , this is complete useless bullshit.
He basically told you to spend all your money buying stuff from his ref link.
You will lose all your money , or see only a little of it ever again and he will get a tonne of commission.

Thankfully a moderator removed all his reflinks.
If I was the moderator who moderated that post , I would have deleted it or banned the user.
Kudos to the mod for being patient enough to handle those hundreds of ref links.

We really need to sticky this.

There are tonnes of rules that are really ambiguous. They are not well defined and even if they are , they are not instantly obvious to users.

Also , can we get the signature limitations to be put in the forum ranks thread ? Maybe on the first page.

Cheese tastes awesome with everything.

It may be unhealthy , anything but natural , but who cares when you are in 'murica ?


They have something they call "pizza fries" which is cheese (pure fat) , pepperoni (which is anything but pepperoni and actually pure fat) on fries (which have more oil than potato)

When did scammer tags go o.o
You look so much better without it , free in the Bitcointalk.org world !

Dangerous dave was (and still is) awesome.

http://www.xtdos.com/game.php?id=39

The martingale system doesn't work.

As time passes , you risk an ever increasing amount while having a chance to win only 1 unit.

So , if you've lost 27 bets in a row , your next bet will have a 50% (actually 49.5% chance) of winning , while costing you 1.342 BTC and may win you 1 satoshi on total.

Now , you will realise that you will win 1/134,200,000 of your input , but having a very very low chance of losing till then.

TLDR ; Martingale is a slow system. You basically increase the input continually to reduce your chance of losing everything. It doesn't really ever make you win , the house always wins.

I have applied your code
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I look forward to advertising your company , now and in the future

Thanks,
Jambola2

Thank you.
I shall change the signature now and will send you trust.

Okay , take it as 6.3 trillion , assuming there are all 21m BTC mined.
That will still be 300k , which is much lesser than necessary to cause a problem resulting in need to further divide Bitcoin.

It is unlikely that Bitcoin will ever cross a million $ , but I expect it to definitely hit the 10k range.
People who expect it to reach 1m in a few years are extreme fanatics.

Comparing Bitcoins future growth to the 300x boost it saw ages ago is stupid.
If Satoshi told 2 people about BTC when he first envisioned it and tripled the Bitcoin enthusiasts in a minute , we should not expect that to happen again in a minute.

TLDR; Bitcoin will rise , but even if it becomes as big as USD is now , it will be under 40k$ per Bitcoin (of todays USD value)
We will not need to further divide BTC in a long long time and if we do , we will have far more capable devs waiting to do so.

In today's economy , there are around 5 trillion dollars , if you consider all economies.

Let's say 15 million BTC are mined , that will mean that even if the entire economy is only Bitcoin , each Bitcoin will be worth 5,000,000,000,000/15,000,000 = 333,333$ in today's money.

Bitcoin will never be worth a million $ of today's money. Sure , it may happen one day when USD has inflated so much that it is worth a cent of today's money. But in comparison to the money of now , Bitcoin can not cross a million.