I think a little bit more respect would be a great thing. Calling names was never a method of solving problems. I totally understand it is annoying to have a mess in special boards, in the english section there are also lots of spam posts and it's hard for the few mods to clean this up.

I hope this problem will be solved, so from me too: Bonne chance!

I think it can be useful in normal discussions too, if I know about the reputation of my discussion partner. The trust rating is a good factor to have a reference. But I agree, the main thing is about trading to get an impression of who is trustworthy and who not.

Maybe irritated is a wrong word for this, but I think you agree, reputation is something related to the forum and therefore I thought the place where you can find this board at the moment is not apparent. First, I thought trading discussion is about crypto trading / trading platforms and so on. Like Altcoin discussion about Altcoins, Bitcoin discussion about Bitcoins and trading discussion about crypto trading.

It was only a suggestion because I wondered about the place of this board. Sure, there are more challenging and important issues, but after all I think moving a board is less complicated if it is really necessary.


Yes, that makes sense... It could be that this section was originally planned for that and nowadays all the scammy ICOs are reported there (Scam Accusation) and in trading discussion also a little bit off-topic or low-effort threads.

1. Make sure you read as much as possible to avoid beginner mistakes. Make you familiar with the technical aspects at least the basics. Things about safety (never share your private key and keep it safe, offline), to choose a good wallet (never store a big amount of coins at your exchange wallet). And read how to avoid phishing sites.

2. Don't trust anyone. There are many scammers out there hoping for unexperienced newbies and they hope to stole their money. If an investment opportunity sound to good to be true this is most likely a scam. Remember of Bitconnect? Lots of investors were scammed because they didn't beleive this was a scam. The most frequent errors are those you can avoid from yourself by doing your own research. If you are not sure, stay away. Somitimes not lost money is also a profit.

3. Only invest what you can afford to lose. This point seems to be the easiest but also the most challenging one. It's important to think clear even if you are very optimistic about this coin or project. It's wise to go for slow but constant profits. Don't fall for FOMO or FUD  

I'm just irritated a little bit about the place of the "Reputation" board. Actually you can find it integrated in "Trading discussion" and I think it has nothing to do with trading. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=8.0

For me it would be better if it gets removed to a child board in "Meta". "Meta" is about the forum in general and "Reputation" as a child board fits in well there for special issues about reputation. Actually in "Trading discussion" this board seems to be a little bit lost...

Good question! I've divided my answer into these two points

1. Effect of lower prices on Bitcoin miners

If the price per Bitcoin drops, there will be a point when mining gets not profitable anymore. This break-even is difficult and depends on the individual costs of each miner to mine one Bitcoin. The first miners getting problems are those having high electricity costs and high salaries to pay for their employees. The cheapest conditions are actually mainly in China and Russia, where energy and salaries are low, but also renewable miners, which have special contracts to get a surplus of enery from hydropower stations (like in canada).

The result of miners leaving the network means a decrease of hashing power (if in addition more miner leave the network as new miners coming in) and the decreasing of hashing power wil result in a lower difficulty (the difficulty is a result of all miners confirming transactions and the more miners join the higher the difficulty gets (the difficulty is updated every 14 days to adjust the difficulty for the avarage blocktime of 10 min). Also the block rewards (12,5 BTC per block) are divided among more participants, if more miners join). If the difficulty decreases the block rewards will be divided among less participants and this means every miner gets more BTC.

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2. Effect of lower BTC prices on transactions

The transaction fees will decrease most likely as we have seen this in the past. Remember in January 2018 it was other way round: increasing transaction time and costs due to a very high BTC/USD rate. But there was another issue: the unconfirmed transactios. So the miners confirmed the transactions first who had a high transaction fee and the others had to wait. Now we have only around 2.000 unconfirmed transactions, in January 2018 we had around 200.000 unconfirmed transactions.

Lower transaction fees also mean that the miners (who are getting the transaction fees besides the block rewards) earn less BTC as if the transaction fees are higher.

Maybe this topic is better for the off-topic section or do you want to discuss whose players have the most Bitcoins?  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=9.0

But regarding your question: Brazil will be very successful I think personally. They have still a good team and every time you have to notice them.
What do you think?

Since Bitcoin was created in 2009 there were lots of speculations about the founders. There are several versions but no one of them was ever juistified.

A possibility is, Satoshi Nakamoto is only a synonym of a group and the single person "Satoshi" never existed. They gave the name to hide their identity like Bitcoin was designed itself: a private currency sharing no information who the sender and the receiver are - just peer to peer without a middleman - without banks!

On the other hand, this forum was founded by "Satoshi" himself, his account has the user-ID number 3 and you can still read his comments!! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3
His activity ended suddenly in December 2010 and his account never entered the forum again...

Somewhere I read an analysis about his posting activity and the time he did his posts. It is possible that he is from the American time-zone and only choose this asian name to cover his tracks, but it's also possible he's from asia now living on a different continent. There is so much space for interesting hostories and if Bitcoin will be a success history (that's very likely as it's already close to one) there will be much more versions of new details and maybe we'll discover the truth - who knows  

Regarding your question: there were several people claiming to be Satoshi or "accused" of being him. I believe this is another try to make some noise.