Do you have any proof that you're actually holding these funds?
I'm always a little bit wary of people giving away coins for competitions like these, it's just so easy to cheat everybody out of a prize.

You could just have a friend 'win' the competition.

How will the winners be decided? What happens if multiple people solve the quiz?
Are the fund in escrow?

I still see a lot of people using Medium, to be honest, I had no idea that cryptocurrency topics should be avoided there.
Is that something new?

I personally just use Steem to write crypto-related blogs, I imagine the earnings are a bit less, but it's also less daunting to start writing there.

Ghello, i am new to this forum and i think ive contributed a lot to htis place.
i cant undrstand why i havnt receved any merit, good sir.

that's Y i have to make thisd long ass thread, in order to let people know that i am devervant of a lot of merit.

i relly tink that senior legendary membrs are just givin merit towards each other, not evn considerin new members of tis forum.

pl0x gief merit to thoos wo are deservant of htem merit points, it wuld go a long way to feed they're family.

i have brother, sister, mom on this forum. all got banned because of dubble account issues, relly not fayre at all :C
nun of them receved any merit ether.

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Okay, I'm really sorry for posting this, it's just my completely whacked-out sense of humor.
Do you recognize any of the behaviour presented in this post?

The spelling errors might have been a bit too much, it's barely readable, but it kinda adds to the vibe I get from these sorts of posts.

Disclaimer: this is a shitpost, intended to make fun of all the merit beggars on this forum.

@ poster above

I think you need this thread, as CG has mentioned: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5085531

Good thing that you mentioned it here, because I definitely would have missed it
Hope I didn't write too much on there, you'll see when you read my response on that thread.

My Crypto-Games nickname: eternalgloom

I like Crypto-Games because:

Oh boy, do you mind a short story?

Firstly, I appreciate what Crypto-Games has done for me, by supporting me on Bitcointalk since 2016 through their signature campaign. I know this story should probably be about the Crypto-Games website, but I would feel bad if I didn't mention this too.

Second, aside from being a signature campaign participant, I've also played on Crypto-Games for a long time. Look, I might not be a high-roller, but I've consistently played for small amounts on your website. Sometimes losing, sometimes winning, you know how it is ;-).

I very much like the fact that you support so many altcoins and that you guys have such a low house edge on your games. All your games are easily playable on just about any computer, no need for Flash or anything like that (if that's even a thing on other websites these days).

Just go look for any scam accusations on Crypto-Games, you probably won't find any, or rather, you won't find any trustworthy ones (I've checked ). Crypto-Games is pretty much the most honest crypto gambling website out there, I really think they deserve that title.

Withdraws are instant (by instant, I really mean instant) and all games are provably fair.  

Enough with my little serenade, go check out Crypto-Games if you haven't already!

Noted and I completely understand.
Amounts in BTC were getting a bit too high, I reckon Or the value of forum advertising isn't what it used to be.

Let's hope the Bitcoin price doesn't drop further

Thank you for another payment! received and confirmed

Already found a better solution. I just made a post in Scam Accusations and I'll just point people towards that post whenever I see this scam again.
No need for me to copy/paste that entire message

Locking this topic, since it's solved.

@ AdolfinWolf

I wouldn't count them out just yet though, I think that ETCDEV quitting could have a profoundly positive effect on the development of ETC
I've been part of a group of software developers who've been ready to take over development of ETC, completely overhauling the foundation of ETC development from the ground up.

I've briefly talked about this in another thread of mine, it's an interesting read:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5084397 (ETC - Time to stand up against hostile centralized actors (Hostile Takeover) )

What does patience have to do with it? You increase your bet sizes and you can still win decent amounts...

That said, I do think that over the long term, you're bound to lose some time.
This might be a very low risk way of betting, but it sure isn't 100% guaranteed.

I really doubt that this is actually +EV for the player.

Definitely take a look at either Musing or eSteem, those are pretty great dApps on Steem!

https://musing.io/ & https://esteem.app/

Dunno if you've ever heard of them, but I've been using both for ages. Great communities too!

it just looks a bit empty to me, a little bit unfinished. But it's working though and there's some quality content on there as well, I'll give an example of a question I've asked there:



This is the top answer I've gotten:




I mean the guy clearly put a lot of effort into that and got rewarded accordingly. System working as intended, I'd think?

No, any questions can have an unlimited number of answers, but they do seem to have a specific window in which earnings from the @musing account are given.
The biggest upvotes come from the @musing account, I've seen single answers get around $10 in upvotes in rare occasions.

The gibberish answers are definitely not upvoted, I've noticed that. They're actually pretty good at curating content, so good answers and questions will appear on top!

Lately there have been a lot of messages like these posted on this forum:


This is a scam where they supposedly offer you a free bonus and say that you can withdraw your winnings after sending a message through their live chat.

When you place a bet on their roulette, you will always win a big amount. Then, if you contact them on the live chat, they will ask you to either send 0.01 BTC or ask you to 'verify' using a credit card.
After you've done this, they just remove your account and you don't receive anything.

Don't fall for this and don't even create an account on this website.
They will use your login data to check whether they can access other websites with that data.

Be careful!

Yeah will do, I'll also just add a small disclaimer at the end. That should probably solve it as well.

@LoyceV

Yeah I know, I've been seeing that same thread pop up almost every day for the past week or so. They do get removed eventually.
Now, I didn't actually find much information about the scam itself through Google, that's why I went through the effort of actually pretending to join.

You basically always win like $500 dollars worth of Bitcoin with your first roulette bet and then they try to scam you through the live chat.

I'll definitely make a dedicated thread about this in Scam Accusations.

@Xal0lex

That seems like a very literal interpretation of the rules, I tend to agree with LoyceV on this one, but I don't know, you're staff...

Edit:

To respond to @Veleor

I don't count these posts myself for my signature campaign, since I 100% expect them to be removed when posts are counted.
Guess I can actually write a unique comment every time, it's definitely worth warning people for it IMO.

@TryNinja

Aha okay, that's good to hear! I just wanted to be safe doing this, since copy/pasting is just about the biggest offense here on this forum.
Don't want to risk losing my account over it.

Not really a service, but it's somewhat related.

I think a lot of paid dev teams will start running out of funds, you're already seeing it happen.

Steemit Inc. laid off 70% of their employees.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/steemit-a-decentralized-sharing-system-lays-of-70-of-staff/

ETCDEV went completely bankrupt and just quit their operations.

https://cryptobriefing.com/etcdev-ethereum-classic/

I'm sure that there will be many more to follow and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.

I mean, the replies will just end up being removed with the thread altogether anyway.
Just want to make it as hard as possible for these scammers to reach possible victims.

I'll just mention that it's a copy/pasted message, that should have me covered.

Yes, of course I'll also report them, that's a no-brainer. But before they get removed, there could still be victims

I think you're going to have trouble finding someone willing to provide you this loan, even with a miner as collateral.
What kind of miner is it? Can you prove it's not broken?

Are there even escrow providers that are willing to accept a miner?

At the end of the day, you're still a newbie who's asking for a huge loan. red flags everywhere, even if you're willing to send a miner as collateral.

Could also be a ploy to sell your miner.