What does stating facts and serious issues have to do with trolling? You want to deny that a system providing 7tps to a global economy is not a serious problem to the core idea?

Denial seems to be extremely persistent with some people here.

I'm telling people to be careful. TROLL ALERT!!
Right, who's the scammer/troll now?

I put myself in the group of "slow and steady growth".  The reason I say that is because volatility is great for traders, but the average Joe wondering where to park his money needs confidence in some kind of stability on annual returns, and they are also the majority of the population.  $2-3 gains per day would be fantastic imho.

theres more then 5000 nodes.
that bitnodes site that meant to list the 5000, misses out sooooo many nodes.. i know of 10 people that have full nodes running and none of their IP's show up.

even if 1 out of 10 people i know was actually listed.. then thats roughly a 10% visability. meaning there would be potentially 50,000 nodes.
but because none of the 10 show up. i think the odds of visability are much lower.. so lets say it was 1%.. it would make the potential nodes 500,000.

short story
dont beleive all statistics, some key data may be missing

@brg444: Not just South Africa, desperate poor everywhere. Bitcoin is the fastest, safest way to rob people anywhere in the world!

Some of those dust xactions are colored coins and timestamps carrying far more than their nominal value.

apparently "media" ruined his life, or so says many compassionate people that actually care about privacy.

the simple thing is, if your not compassionate.. ok, no promlem keep your hands in your pockets and get on with your life. concentrate on something that makes you happy. but if you want to know why people are compassionate.. well it takes more then a few posts to teach that moral lesson.

no one is asking you to put your funds anywhere. so i dont see why you negative posters are getting pissy about donations.. if you dont understand the cause, or dont want to learn a few things.. then skip this topic and find another topic

The guy never did nothing for bitcoin. I actually don't understand why the hell would somebody do a fundraiser for him. There are much more important things the community could be supporting... so why the hell this?

he's not a lawsuit troll..
ok.. i think we should dox you, and then report to the media that you are... a drug dealing paedophile, who shoots up schools. then let media knock on your door and hassle you for months. then have all the forums talk about you and want to question every inch of your life.
like speaking to your former employers. research what schools you went to and contact your teachers.
contact your family and ask them personal questions about you.

let me guess, your going to pretend that its ok to make a wild accusation that is false and which would cause millions of people to look at you in a different light. and them millions of people recognizing you

I think that he wants to sue the journalists that made him the "creator" of bitcoin, and when you sue someone you usually need money for it so... he is fundraising money for his expenses.

“What we’re building is the largest early-stage investment portfolio in the digital currency and blockchain ecosystem,” Silbert explains. “We’re also going to start high-growth businesses of our own, and develop a global platform and network to support our companies.”

DGC is structured as a company rather than as an investment vehicle, in part because Silbert hopes to someday take it public. To that end, he has raised what he refers to as a “very large” new round of funding.

Among the new investors is MasterCard, which seems to be making its first formal foray into the bitcoin space. The others are: Bain Capital Ventures, CIBC, CME Ventures, FirstMark Capital, New York Life, Novel TMT, Oak HC/FT, RRE Ventures, Solon Mack Capital and Transamerica Ventures.

I will be reach again  

Could I ask where, specifically, tens of extra billions of capital are going to come from though. Tbh I don't think such sums are ever chump change.

   
With an available supply of 14,771,150 BTC it takes $4,351,964,840 to yield a price of $ 294.63. To move the price to $8k where are all of these extra billions coming from. Tens of extra billions. You know something we don't?

Bitcoin is over-pumped as it is.

There's no way Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is 6 foot.
On a serious note, I still do not understand how big blockers still don't seem to get it. We already have centralized mining, im still waiting for a convincing explanation of how centralizing the nodes would be a good idea (and this is what would happen once the blocks become too big and they will). Having to rely on offchain transactions isn't ideal, but the world isn't ideal, and it's certainly better than a group of 4 or 5 private companies owning most of the nodes.

he was hounded and harrassed by media.
stalked and publicised.

all because a media outlet decided he was the creator of bitcoin. this has been disproved but media has affected his life. and as a bitcoin community we found that because the media shitstorm was about the supposed creator of bitcoin. we thought we should do something positive to help this guy out.

no one is forcing anyone to donate, so relax you dont have to do anything if you dont want to. but many people who enjoy their privacy do not like to see another persons privacy being invaded due to wrongful allegations, and thus people feel sorry for the poor guy