Well, that can vary a lot; as a quick example, up to about a week ago, I was already making close to $0.80 a day, through work alone (which takes a couple of minutes; working itself consists of pressing a single button, so in reality you spend that time searching for, and buying, the energy in the market) - since then, I've been making about $0.20 a day.

However, the reason for that discrepancy is perhaps more interesting than the raw values: salaries, item and energy prices, taxes (or their absence), bonuses, and so on, are all set by the players themselves - either individually, if you own the company, or the item you are selling/renting; or "socially", in a game-wide voting system. Of course, all this affects the in-game budget and, when players get too greedy, or can't agree on a common, sensible economic policy, the whole thing comes crashing down - which has been a periodic occurrence so far.

Oh, I guess that part would be pretty simple then.

Still, I assume (maybe incorrectly) that other such services won't be as easy to identify; and in the end, I'm not sure it even makes sense to pursue that.

Out of curiosity, was that from when he changed his username from bitcoininformation to Mitchełł? (because, if I remember correctly, Mitchełł simply created another thread when he took over from Rannasha last year)

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Hmm, don't they have a dedicated thread for their site or, perhaps, a user that can be contacted when problems come up (either with the signature campaign, or the site itself)?

Thank you.

I also voted "No".

I don't usually engage in many trades (in fact, I think I only ever did one trade so far around here, signature campaigns apart), but I imagine I would be pretty unhappy if I caught someone doing that to me - not only would that be an abuse of the trust I had placed in that user, but it would also expose me to unnecessary risk, in case things went wrong (because, as pointed out several times so far, there would effectively be no escrow).

Careful there - he'll sue you!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5347989/Donald-Trump-sues-writer-for-calling-him-millionaire-not-billionaire.html

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Well, maybe not - it wouldn't be the first time he backtracks on something he said; in fact, I doubt he even remembers who Snowden is (assuming he actually ever cared enough to know what he was talking about in the first place, and wasn't just going with the flow).

Hmm, currently, only PipsTycoon - it's still in Beta and fairly recent (maybe 2 months old?), but I was able to get about 0.05 BTC from it so far (playing a couple of minutes a day). Before that, I used to play GoldenTowns and MarketGlory (though this last one didn't actually have a way to withdraw BTC directly).

Another game I would like to have tried (and ended up never trying) was MineCraft in a server that supposedly paid players per unique block they mined - does anyone know if that is still active?

My feelings exactly - I had heard of Bitcoin relatively early on, and even went on to mention it to a couple of friends but, unfortunately, between the little I knew about it at the time, and being too lazy to learn more (and having failed to convince any of my friends to look into it), I ended up forgetting almost all about it until late 2013, when the price took off.

But, even if things had gone differently, I'm not convinced I would be a millionaire by now; between the temptation to sell along the way, or perhaps through investing in some "too good to be true" business/scam, I would probably have lost most coins anyway.

Well, if it's free...

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Thanks.

EDIT: got it. What is the occasion, by the way?

Faucets aside, my first Bitcoins also came from PrimeDice (0.03 BTC), but back in December 2013 in my case.

From then on, I've been participating in signature campaigns in order to accumulate more coins (as well as a couple of online games that pay out in Bitcoin, and a little in trading), while doing my best not to sell them - I haven't been as successful at that as I would like though.

As RodeoX pointed out, the independent third party to hold the collateral would be an escrow - several trusted members on this forum provide this service.

Take a look at the following thread for an updated list (well, last updated late last month) of escrows: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855778.0; and also, this post/thread for what is usually considered to be safe collateral, and what isn't: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577765.msg6311902#msg6311902.

I'm by no means an expert when it comes to faucets, but I'm under the impression that faucets never pay as much as they get from each visitor to the site - am I wrong? (that is, assuming a well managed site, with adequate revenue sources)

I suppose that, when it comes to signature campaigns, you're right: not everyone can participate in them. But at the same time, the more participants there are, the more activity the whole forum gets, and the more it might be profitable to advertise within it, creating the space for more campaigns to show up. Then again, this might just be wishful thinking on my part.

I also suspect that is the case, if the seller wishes to do so.

According to "Reclaiming a Stolen or Hijacked Steam Account", from Steam Support, to recover the account, the seller would need the original email address used to register the account (though I imagine one can claim it was hacked as well), and proof of ownership, in the form of Credit Cards or Bank Transfers associated with the account, CD Keys, or Steam Wallet Codes. All in all, this seems a risky trade.

I haven't tried it myself, and it isn't 1:1 but, if you don't find someone willing to do this trade, you can try using https://www.coinimal.com - they apparently take a deposit fee (into Neteller) of 2.5%, and have a daily limit of €500 for unverified accounts¹ - it seems to be limited to EUR, although you should be able to convert it to USD in Neteller (probably losing a bit more in fees).

1 - based on a post by TwinWinNerD, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1001714.msg12373438#msg12373438.

I think you're referring to when he was asked if he knew who Hassan Nasrallah, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Mohammad al-Julani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are (you know, from Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, ISIS), to which he admitted he didn't know, and later complained those were "like, history questions", and that in his "first day in office, or before then, the day after the election, I'll know more about it than you will ever know" - adding also that "I will be so good at the military, your head will spin".

Please don't vote for this guy...

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I'm not so sure Billary will win the Democratic party nomination - Bernie Sanders has been getting a lot of attention, even as the mainstream media tries to ignore him.

Hmm, if I understood it correctly, the forum can't exactly detect whether someone is using TOR; rather, it simply keeps a list of often abused IPs (TOR exit nodes being prominently featured there).

But, even if it was possible, there are a couple of issues with that idea: even if those users weren't flagged, they could still be using a previously unknown proxy/TOR exit node/whatever; anyone relying on that information could thus be mislead (be given a false sense of security); and more important, personally, I don't think there is anything wrong with trying to hide your IP in the first place - sure, scammers probably do it, but scamming isn't the only reason why you would want to do it.

Well, it might be possible to transfer ownership of a thread and/or post from one user to another, but I suppose it would be better to create another thread (probably still following the format Mitchełł has for the OP) - a post could then be left here redirecting to the new overview thread, while this one could safely be locked, to avoid confusion.

As --Encrypted-- explained, you'll have to wait until November, 24, before you can become a Full Member (and that, assuming you post at least once in every two week period, and make at least 120 posts in total). For reference, the next two week period starts this Tuesday, the 15th of September.

To clarify, and repeating what others already pointed out, your forum rank doesn't depend on how long ago you registered, or even on your post count alone; it depends on your activity, which normally increases at a maximum of 14 points every 2 weeks, as you make posts. In your case, as you have not posted enough to gain all the activity you're entitled to, you'll be able to get a bit more (up to 42 activity points this period).

Well, no, that's not really how it works. In this case, computer programs rely first and foremost in their capacity to quickly look ahead through the large number of available moves, analyzing every possible course of action and its consequence, within a set time frame (optimized with some clever algorithms, so they don't actually waste time checking any and every move) - something that a human player just can't really do as well, or as fast (even if they know how that process works in theory).

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There are at least a few ways to overcome the advantage computers have: one way could be to increase the number of possible moves in a game; another could be to avoid perfect information games (where both/all players have access to all available information on the status of the game).

I'm using Firefox, and I also experience a few slowdowns once in a while - the latest a couple of hours ago - but no 502 errors recently though. These don't usually last very long for me (maybe about a minute) but, despite my already sluggish net, everything else seems to be working fine at those times.