You're grossly misunderstanding what random is. Putting them down "in no particular order" based on whim isn't random (and if they are in no particular order, you should remove the numbers, as numbers mean that they are in order). You likely put yourself 4th because you wanted to put yourself as high as possible (as a result of both voluntary and involuntary personal biases) without it being overly obvious that you were putting yourself higher than you should be (it's pretty obvious to me, though). Even if you didn't think this, you did so without realizing it.
TomatoCage likely wouldn't be first if it was random - he's known as the most trustworthy. haploid23 likely wouldn't be second if it was random - he's proven to be a trustworthy lender and has been a good member for awhile. You go down the list and most of it makes sense based on the reputation each member has here (I can't comment about my own ranking, as while I know exactly my level of trustworthiness, it's impossible for other people to). The one guy sticking out is you - a relatively new member and lender, conveniently placed in front of a handful of more experienced and trustworthy members.
This is an entirely different topic, but true randomness does not just mean something is unsystematic and indiscriminate. Humans are incapable of true randomness. Most cryptography might even seem random, and for all practical purposes can be considered random, but it truly isn't. Randomness is very hard to achieve.
If you want this to be an unbiased list, you're going to have to change things. There's nothing inherently bad about something being biased, but that's what this list is. Considering you say that this list is unbiased and we can be sure it isn't, the only thing you've achieved is a loss of trust.
So, what actually you want ?? Your name on the top of the list ?? Or anything else. Okay, then tell me at what number your name should be at ?? I wasn't going to respond because I didn't want to bump this thread, but no, as I said, I do not care where I am listed. I care where you're listed, which is way higher than what would be considered fair. i am not there too..
Don't worry about it. This is not an an official list and is really just an advertisement for the OP. This hadn't even been replied to for 10 days before a post count spammer responded and bumped it back to the first page. |
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My previous posts have been in the gambling section mostly. But before that i had lent 0.5 BTC and now i am back on lending. : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=785659.0if there are any lending escrows, as far as i am aware, i haven't seen a recent transaction by escrow. Most loan requests either doesn't get a reply or gets a loan without collateral (usually). Maybe it is the same. And if it is, i would like to join them Just because you give out loans doesn't mean you're trustworthy. And I'm saying this from someone that has given out dozens of loans. When you give out loans, you're not given the chance to scam someone. But when you act as escrow, you have the opportunity to scam the borrower's collateral. Personally I sure as hell wouldn't trust you, given your gambling nature and lack of prior transactions. Other escrow services offer escrow for loans as well. If it's physical items, you'll just have to ask the escrow provider first. Just because i posted in the gambling thread for the past month, doesn't mean i gamble everything i have. I gamble with under 10% of my btc and that too just for fun. And i absolutely do not gamble with other people's money. When you give out loans, you're not given the chance to scam someone
Well, you are if you receive that collateral yourself. While you seem like a fine member, you are not well known enough to be an escrow for anything more than small transactions. If someone needs an escrow for a loan, they can just use any normal escrow - there's nothing particularly special about escrowing a loan. |
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How about an option for Full Members+ (or the equivalent) to be able to preview a newbie's post (like an optional toggle button). They could vote rather it adds or takes away from the topic. Eventually, once a newbie starts getting pretty decent amount of good quality post overall (outside the newbie board), they can post regularity ?
This would take quite a strain off the moderators as it'd be community driven.
To prevent abuse, a vote against the post counts a lot more than a vote FOR the post (the reason being, is if I were to create a 'smurf' or a 'new account' for myself, I'd just login to my main account and give a 'for the post' vote. Maybe need a quality ratio (at least 10 votes @ 80% approval) ?
Sounds like Reddit. People shouldn't be approved nor disproved based upon whether or not other people agree with what they're saying. This would hurt the integrity of the forum and would assist in creating an atmosphere where everyone agrees with each other. That hurts innovation and is against the philosophy of both Bitcoin and this forum. |
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This idea kind of works against this forum. You know what it essentially sounds like? An altcoin. You can't integrate an altcoin into a forum which is based entirely on the concept of Bitcoin.
It sounds like a fine idea for gaming forums, but isn't viable in a forum like this. People aren't buying and selling little games here or selling the latest hack - BCT is at least a semi-serious forum, where people are looking to make money and/or create something of value.
Just because a pufferfish can live in an aquarium, doesn't mean it can also live in the tiger's cage.
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Sorry for the dumb questions but it's just to be sure;
when the new forum software will be ready, all the current accounts will be transferred to the new forum or we have to register again?
Activity will be resetted?
Thanks
Everything will transfer to the new forum. There of course could be some changes to stuff like the way activity and trust works - we'll probably have to wait for someone working on it or a staff member to respond for that one. |
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It's always some brand-new account  With brand new accounts trying to buy. Who gets scammed if a scammy scammer sells scams to scammy scammers scamming by the seashore? |
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If I was a girl I Would post pics of myself naked for BTC, its that fucking easy if you have a good body.
Meanwhile as a man I have no fucking other ways to own BTC beyond risking my hard earned fiat money. T...thank you bitcoin.
Why don't you get a girlfriend and post pictures of her for BTC?  |
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Posts like this really make me wonder how he ever got loans in the first place...
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can you do PSC ?
Yeah, I guess. It only seems to be available with smaller amounts though, right? Never used it before, but there's a location reasonably close to me so I can do it as long as you're paying fees. |
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Fair enough, I get it, I'm reading the "I'm in love" thread right now.
Ps. Who the hell is King Vod and how do I get him to verify me as legit?
You can click a pic of yourself with your username and some message on a piece of paper. You may or may not reveal your entire face but show off something so that it looks legit and members can trust you. This is just a suggestion. And yeah my friends (boys cause I am a male) also listen to the whole BTC thing and act as if they understand everything but at the end it always turns out that they didn't even listen to even 1/4th of the lecture.  I'm not gonna take advice from a newbie who joined 10 seconds ago and has 1 post. If a senior member asks me for a pic, I may do it, however, if those are the rules, I want every guy on here to take a pic to prove who they are as well, fair is fair. If I was you, I wouldn't mention you're a female again, unless it's directly relevant to the conversation. I've been here for awhile and I've never mentioned my gender. There are a few good members here who actually are females, but you wouldn't know, because they don't talk about it all day long. Nobody on this forum needs to prove they're a guy. It's assumed, since a good 98% of people here are male. The world doesn't revolve around you - if you feel like proving you're a female, do it. Otherwise, stop worrying about it and just keep running along like everyone else in this gender-irrelevant forum. |
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I can do this at Bitstamp rate and you cover fees.
No thanks. Ok well what would you do? BTC-E rate. How much are you looking to sell? |
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They won't be traded for discount, but for a premium.
Bulk orders have the power to move the market, and might be too noisy on ecchanges
Meh, depends on the market and the buyer and seller. 100 bitcoins is like OKcoin's transaction volume every minute. That's not moving the market. |
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doge puzzles me a lot.weak future has pushed doge and lite to integrate into one huge community and currently dogeparty has launched with less supports from investors .hardly do i know why doge has gone rocket except for being pushed by chinese money.
Because despite all its shortcomings, people actually use it. That and pumps. |
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I'm actually just making fun of the response he got from Redditors when he tried to sell it on /r/Dogecoin. That's why I said "Fuck Reddit" - Reddit is filled to the brim with hypocritical, anti-capitalistic sheep. What do you think happens when the content you see is based upon what everyone else likes? Everyone starts thinking the exact same way. There are only two websites on the Internet I really have a problem with: Reddit and Wikipedia. Reddit because of its hypocritical group-think and poor advertising model and Wikipedia because it hogs the top of every search result, requests donations instead of just serving ads like every other website (and hence wasting its contributors' money), and hurts small businesses/websites tremendously. Wikipedia killed all the small websites about specific topics from real enthusiasts which were so popular back in the day. If they're going to hurt the small guy, at least make money off of it, rather than pretending to be some sort of philanthropic non-profit. haha I got your humor  Fuck Reddit! 95% trollin & 5% sales pitch! I really do think it is a killer domain and I had the idea far before the DOGE foundation today. I even offered to them, but for whatever reason they didn't want it! The Dogecoin community in December and the Dogecoin community now is just....different. It has bore no resemblance to the original community ever since the Wolong pump. December people (who didn't cash out immediately when it hit Cryptsy....for whatever reason, like in my case, their stinkin' deposit lag) either cashed out during Wolong pump (or waited a couple months afterwards for it to drift down to like 75 before dumping it...that would be me) or cashed out before the pump when it was slumping, causing a personal aversion to the coin when the price shot up higher than ever before. Everyone was effectively filtered out. Then, the whole Josh Wise fiasco. Some weird new site which wasn't really around back when Dogecoin started essentially funds a race for him, gets the entire subreddit to be their best friends, and proceeds to make Dogecoin = Josh Wise and Josh Wise = Dogecoin. (And Moolah = god, of course.) The price becomes tied to Josh Wise and it's all people care about anymore. Then, all the "shipes" on /r/Dogecoin work their ass off for a month to win some stupid award, burning themselves out. When that All Star race happened Dogecoin was at 100. A little while later, it started plummeting (which was when I sold) because there was nothing left. Josh Wise wasn't going to be in representing Dogecoin in races anymore thanks to immature shipes who were trying to seem mature by saying stuff like, "we need to work on improving Dogecoin and its use, rather than spending all of our time on Nascar." Unfortunately, they didn't realize that it was too late (and that use has never been an issue with Dogecoin - it had more transaction number volume than bitcoin and litecoin put together back in December) - by that time, most of the Dogecoin community didn't know a Dogecoin without Josh Wise. He was the face of the brand and it devastated the community when everything died down. It's kind of like how by 2036, the majority of Americans will be too young to remember 9/11 - the Dogecoin community at that point was too young to remember a time back when Dogecoin wasn't about Josh Wise. Who ruined Dogecoin? The very people that shipes consider their heroes. The devs and everyone involved in Doge 4 Nascar. How is that relevant to DogecoinFoundation.com? Well, I tried to register it back then, but some asshole had already taken it. I'm pretty sure DogecoinFoundation.org was available, though... I miss the 3-week period of time when doges.org was a cool site and the go-to place. When miners were mining a few million per day with a couple $200 video cards. When people with 15 posts who joined 2 1/2 days ago were considered long-time members and less likely to scam than the people who joined a half-hour prior to posting a trade request for $2K. When I got flat out scammed on my second transaction with some miner for 6 million DOGE, but still made money on our trades together overall. When some guy spent 15 minutes creating a tipbot for a 10 million DOGE bounty. (Subsequently becoming an important figure in the community that people looked up to for some reason, despite never doing anything other than being like an hour faster than the next guy in building a a simple tipbot.) When the price was 30% more on the forum and 300% more on eBay than CoinedUp. When CoinedUp went all the way up to 89 satoshis and right back down to 30, even before it ever hit Cryptsy. When it hit Crypsty and it took 2 days for my deposit to confirm, thanks to a Cryptsy issue. When that subsequently cost me so much money due to provable and documented chain reactions that no one would ever believe me - that has a negative nostalgic factor of course, though. I know the feelings I have regarding Dogecoin are the same feelings that Bitcoin people from the early days have regarding Bitcoin. They must feel so out of place talking with people who have only been in cryptocurrencies for the past year or two, let alone a few months. I felt out of place in the Dogecoin community in March, and especially now in September. I have never had anything in common with anyone in the community, but now I can barely even relate. This is why it particularly bugs me when a bunch of shipes from Reddit got on BAC's case for trying to sell DogecoinFoundation.com. He has more right to that domain name than the Dogecoin Foundation ever will. He was there when it started, he was there on doges.org, he was here on this thread 8 months ago arguing the same damn point about the ridiculous never-ending coinflation (which didn't even exist when the coin was created, by the way).....it's his fucking domain name. You can add dogecoinfoundation.org and bitcoinfoundation.org to the list of websites I really hate. |
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I can do this at Bitstamp rate and you cover fees.
No thanks. |
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1. Meta tags do not have any effect on SEO anymore.
2. As BadBear said, personalized search will affect search results. Use some form of private browsing or set your preferences if you want to check without personalized search.
3. Forum threads with lots of fresh content rank pretty well.
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Aha. Thanks for reply. I don't suppose you're also in SE Queensland?
Nope. Ask TradeFortress. He has 4.1K BTC he can sell to you and he's in Australia. |
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I'm actually just making fun of the response he got from Redditors when he tried to sell it on /r/Dogecoin. That's why I said "Fuck Reddit" - Reddit is filled to the brim with hypocritical, anti-capitalistic sheep. What do you think happens when the content you see is based upon what everyone else likes? Everyone starts thinking the exact same way. There are only two websites on the Internet I really have a problem with: Reddit and Wikipedia. Reddit because of its hypocritical group-think and poor advertising model and Wikipedia because it hogs the top of every search result, requests donations instead of just serving ads like every other website (and hence wasting its contributors' money), and hurts small businesses/websites tremendously. Wikipedia killed all the small websites about specific topics from real enthusiasts which were so popular back in the day. If they're going to hurt the small guy, at least make money off of it, rather than pretending to be some sort of philanthropic non-profit. |
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Rate is 30% $1,000 Vanilla received, $700 worth of BTC sent
917-873-8649
United States only
Ask for Mr. Anglo
Are you sure, you want to take 30% discount with Vanilla. I do not think you will ever find anyone on this forum. Who will sell Vanilla at 30% discount. Fraudsters, scammers, and suckers, mostly. |
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People probably aren't going to accept a bank transfer for those amounts from an absolute newbie - or at least they shouldn't. This is especially the case when you say "Only bank transfer!!!!" in bold.
Why? I think this is only way to send +/- 45k USD to people!Where are you located?
I can do this for cash depending on location.
I am from Europe! If you have access to someone else's account or are scamming, it's a pretty easy way. Meet up with someone in your area and do a cash transaction, face-to-face. Either that or do cash deposits in the other guy's account and write "for bitcoin from _____" and send him a picture of the receipt. |
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