I take it you've never played GoldenTowns then? I'm afraid lots and lots of bugs in that team's games is a given.

And yes, unfortunately, they added the phone verification requirement a few weeks ago - supposedly because of players abusing the referral system. I don't know if the issue you encountered may have been some sort of country limitation, or perhaps a mismatch between what they perceive to be your country (through IP) and the number you gave them - but yes, it's probably none of those, and just another stupid bug.

In relation to their reputation (and, I guess, whether or not they will pay out), the team that made PipsTycoon also made GoldenTowns and, I believe, worked on MarketGlory initially before it was sold (or so I've been told; I haven't actually looked into that). As far as I'm aware (and pokerowned may disagree here), it doesn't seem like there have been any great issues with them so far in relation to deposits/withdrawals.

You may want to check out PipsTycoon (http://www.pipstycoon.com). I've only recently started playing it, but it comes from the same team that made GoldenTowns, and is very similar to MarketGlory. And of course, you can deposit BTC into the game and, I assume, withdraw BTC as well (I haven't gotten to that point yet: I've only won about $3 so far).

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Well, Aleator did ask for online games where you could "spend or earn bitcoins" - most of those games fit the bill (as vague as it is).

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Hmm, I've played GoldenTowns up until last year, and had no problems when withdrawing - granted, it wasn't exactly a lot of money, and I only made one request in total, but I still had no issues whatsoever. Other players I've talked to, both here and elsewhere, also made no mention of problems (and some of them withdrew far more than me). Have I missed out on any major news?

Não sei a resposta mas, se for como no MarketGlory, depois de criares a empresa tens de mandar dinheiro para lá (através de uma parte do interface dedicada à empresa) - só depois é que podes comprar matérias-primas com esse dinheiro.

Já agora, aproveito também para fazer algumas perguntas. Até aqui tenho apenas trabalhado no jogo (sempre que me lembro, pelo menos). Há alguma vantagem em comprar comida, ou roupas para já? Não estive a fazer as contas, mas parece-me que não seria rentável para já. E para além de trabalhar, abrir uma empresa, ir fazendo trades no jogo, ou comprar game shares e esperar que subam de valor, há outras formas de lucrar com isto?

As crazyearner and ardani332 mentioned, it would take you a while to get a return on your investment - over 12 months, according to the site*, and this not considering difficulty increases. So I suppose whether or not it is advisable for you to invest in it depends on how long you're willing to wait for ROI, how you expect the BTC price and difficulty to move, and how long you think eobot will stick around. It may just be safer to buy BTC directly, as crazyearner suggested.

Out of curiosity, would you mind going into detail on how you're getting free power? Or rather, on how the bill will be getting paid.

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The IRS isn't evil, or even particularly effective... well, not if you have a lot of spending money, that is: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/sunday/the-irs-gives-up-on-dark-money.html?_r=1 - but I guess this is off-topic here.

Congrats. Keep us updated if you hit another one.

So, how much from that is going into buying more miners?

Hmm, are you sure the video is recent - that is, that the difficulty at the time of shooting wasn't significantly lower (maybe early last year lower)? Or perhaps the video was referring to those 0.22 BTC daily as coming from more than one miner, or within a pool?

Using the www.coinwarz.com calculator for the Terraminer model you posted above, current difficulty, and assuming I'm not missing something, I don't see a single miner as getting more than about 0.015 BTC daily - not considering the costs to run the miner.

Well, you do have to take into account the cost of setting up that source of power - if you factor in how much that will cost, ROI will likely be much harder to get. As several other users have pointed out already, it would make more sense to just find a place with cheaper electricity.

I'm sorry Allution but, as whywefight pointed out, the amount doesn't seem to matter to scammers around here: profiting a few cents will do just fine for them, if they can get them for free - your willingness to drop the loan request to 20, or even 10 cents, isn't helping me feel this isn't just another scam attempt.

Another issue is, of course, that each loan that is provided with no collateral (or if you will, where the collateral isn't valid / worth as much as the loan) encourages others to make similar requests and expect similar treatment - and we've already seen an increase in such requests in the forum lately (most of them likely scams).

You should probably include the repayment date, if you intend this to be a loan, and not an account sale.

Also, ideally you should use other forms of collateral, such as altcoins - not everyone is going to be interested in accepting a forum account as collateral.

This seems like a bad idea for both sides: on the one hand, it should be fairly easy for you to recover the account, if you were so inclined (it is a verified account after all); on the other hand, if the account were to be sold, and then implicated in some sort of shady activity, would you really want to have any connection to it (they would obviously have your personal details; certainly Paypal, and likely the buyer as well)?

Also, there is always the possibility this is simply a hacked account, though it should be possible for an escrow to verify this and protect the buyer.

I've never had any problems while withdrawing funds from Payza to my bank account (in Europe), and I've been using their service since they were still called AlertPay (though, to be fair, it wasn't exactly intensive use ). You do have to pay a flat fee of about €3 for the withdrawal however, which makes small transactions not worth the cost.

Hmm, have you tried using Payza (https://www.payza.com)? You can use BTC deposits directly to fund your account with them, and the rate is usually decent (and there are no deposit fees, supposedly) - you can then proceed to withdraw the funds to your bank account. Payza does require you to verify your account before you can do this though; on the other hand, no risk of chargebacks.

BitStarz has restarted their signature campaign this month. As far as I can tell, there are only a couple of changes since last month that are worth noting though: the link to the campaign thread should be updated to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1141216; and Neotox is no longer managing the campaign - bitstars.net is now doing so (and monbux is still the escrow).

Bitstarz.net : (Thread)
Payment period: Monthly
Minimum posts: 50 posts
Payments: F: 0.06BTC per month, S/H/L: 0.12BTC per month.
Escrow: Escrowed by monbux.
Miscellaneous: Maximum participants: 10 Full Members, 20 Senior/Hero Members. One account per person. OP has the right to cancel your participation if your posts are considered useless or spam. No other signatures allowed. No negative trust. Bonuses offered to top three posters.

If I were you, I would think twice about this cryptosun - between sipredrica's trust feedback, and the way accounts like Freelancer work (and their limitations on withdrawals, and so on), this seems like a risky deal. If you're still willing to take the chance though, at least get an exterior (to freelancer) escrow to hold the funds for as long as possible.

You were banned for spamming while participating in a paid signature campaign.

Except for posts in Meta, you shouldn't post again (with any account) for 2 weeks, otherwise you risk a permanent ban of all your accounts for evasion.

Pretty much; essentially, only you as the buyer would end up being protected in that case, not the seller (since Bitcoin is not reversible, and Paypal is) - the escrow will ensure both BTC and Paypal payments are transferred to the other party, but there is basically nothing he can do to protect against chargebacks.

Hmm, maybe I'm missing something, but CEG5952's trust rating seems to be quite positive - not default trust positive, but positive nonetheless. He has no negative feedback on his account that I can see; maybe you are confusing his "sent feedback" with the feedback he received?

At any rate, if you do find someone willing to take the risk of trading BTC for Paypal, and you do want to deal with that someone, be sure to contact an escrow (contact one of the users featured in the following thread, for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855778.0). They will guide you through the process (and it should be fairly simple and straightforward: the seller sends the BTC to the escrow; you send the Paypal payment to the seller; escrow sends you the BTC).

There are a few, apparently reliable, poker sites that accept BTC - and there are at least a couple of threads on this already.

Take a look at this thread, for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1128785 (includes a poll on everyone's favorite poker sites ).

Hmm, it seems you missed one 2 week period: the first, going from when you registered on June 5, up to June 9 - so you missed out on the initial 14 points, and can only get the maximum of 56 activity points, corresponding to the 4 periods you were active in.

In other words, the activity calculation doesn't exactly involve how long you've been registered, but rather, on how many 14 day periods you've been active (posted).