https://www.youtube.com/user/FlexYourRights <--- this is probably what you are referring to (I am not affiliated with this channel, but I do think it does give a good explanation as to how to deal with police encounters that an average person can understand).

The police in China act differently because the people of China have much less rights then the people in the US. 

This does make sense to me. Most of the witnesses have claimed that Brown had his hands in the air, but no one has come forward with any proof despite the unlikely changes that no one would bother to record a confrontation with the police. There is evidence there was a fight between Brown and the police officer so it would only make sense that someone would want to record that if the community hates the police so much

You would be lucky if you were to make ~6,000 satashi (.00006000 BTC) over ~10 hours of "earning" from faucets. To put this in perspective this works out to ~2.4 cents based on an exchange rate of $400/BTC.

If it is anyone's best option to earn ~0.24 cents per hour then they have a very big problem

They are allowing companies to have bitcoin wallet apps in the app store again. They never restricted any bitcoin news or bitcoin price tracking, or store that accepts bitcoin locator apps in their app store.

Just because a transaction is 0/unconfirmed does not mean that the inputs are not able to be spent. For a transaction this small, the taxi company would likely accept it as well.

The bitsmart transactions will likely never actually be part of the blockchain because they did not pay a high enough fee. The transactions will only stay in the memory pool of the nodes for a few days. If they did have their transactions confirmed then they would have paid for this privilege just like other people do. If the transactions take up a lot of space on the blockchain then they would need to pay the miners a lot for this.

The "tagged" address is likely only one address used by the business. I would doubt that all transactions that the business would hold would go through such address

Even if you have a logo peeps people would not blindly scan a qr code. You need to have more content then a logo to get people to want to visit what is behind a qr code. You need to get people "hooked" on your content, wanting more (the more would be the site behind the qr code)

Ross had accumulated ~144K bitcoin from commissions from SR in only ~2 years. He likely paid the site expenses and his living expenses out of the site commissions so the 144k bitcoin is the site profit (after Ross's living expenses).

I think it is safe to say that SR was a significant portion of bitcoin related commerce up until it was shut down

The alleged crime involves the current administration, and the DOJ is headed by a member of the administration, therefore it would never be unbiased. The only appropriate response in this kind of situation would be to appoint a special prosecutor or a special investigator to pursue potential charges.

He has sold gift cards for as much as .08 BTC each (which represents a deep discount). The reason he does not sell more is due to his "limited" supplies of gift cards. He could easily sell for less of a discount and in higher amounts. Another thing is that he has previously limited people to only be able to buy one from him period (once you buy a gift card from him you cannot buy another). The likely reason for this is to get as many people to "trust" him as possible. He could easily remove this rule to get repeat business. He also gets many people to ay him at once, and only after all payments have been received he sends the gift cards. He could easily say something along the lines of "when I was banned for 30 days I have accumulated 100's of various gift cards worth $100 each send .08 to 1bipolarbobsaddress and post here to claim your card", if he were to get 100 responses from 100 members (this would not be unreasonable IMO) then he would get 8 BTC (~$3,200) which I would estimate would be more then he has given away. if he were to take away the "one card per user" limit then he could potentially get many more responses.

In reference to your comment about escrow, most escrow services are free, and could easily be streamlined with one escrow service. Also since the cost of the gift cards is so low, the buyer paying for escrow would still result in a very deep discount on the gift cards.

When the government spends an additional dollar, the private sector will spend some amount less. The reason for this is because when the government borrows money the private sector will need to lend to it. US government debt is generally considered to be near risk free, and can be used as collateral for loans at almost 100% of it's value. Since the private sector can not borrow 100% of the value of government debt, the amount below 100% that cannot be borrowed against is the amount of lower economic output due to additional government spending.

I think you should use some "editorial" discretion (to use a newspaper analogy) when deciding what paid signature to "wear". To answer your question, no I would not display either a pedophile website nor  a "murder for hire" website in exchange for payment (or otherwise). Both of these examples are 100% clearly illegal in the US (where I reside).

To make the conclusion that either of these kinds of sites would be illegal, I could look at what services the website is offering, and look at the relevant laws and see that without question both of these examples would be 100% illegal.

Cryptominer on the other hand was not as clear cut. Yes, the chances of them being a ponzi were well above 99% (it turned out they were one), and yes the chances of them scamming eventually were well above 99% as well. However in the event that the less then 1% chance of them being honest and were going to actually pay investors what was promised then they would simply be making a very bad business decision, and it is not right to try to sensor that.

I also think that a reasonable person would be able to conclude that the returns being offered were that of a ponzi. I would consider investing in a ponzi to be similar to gambling. I would argue that the investors put their money into the ponzi with the hope of being able to make money off of the "interest" for some time and withdrawing prior to the operator running away with investor funds. I would consider this behavior to be similar to gambling at Prime Dice, however the "house edge" is likely much greater, but it is known that the house has an edge prior to people putting their money in.

He always asks for money upfront. He asks people to send him very small amounts of bitcoin to his address first and to contact him to get the code for the gift card he is selling. His posts always say that he is not willing to use escrow and people are willing to do this.

I also do not see why he would not be willing to use escrow. If he is giving these gift cards away for very small payments then I see no reason why he cannot do this, other then to set people up for scams in the future.

I would not be personally surprised if he were to offer a great deal for users once he gets unbanned and ends up running away with 100+ BTC from people who "trust" him

I still think there would be a risk involved. If the SIM cards are in his physical possession then his RL identity is almost certainly somehow associated with those SIM cards

Why would this "spam" need to be stopped/reduced? Your statement is similar to you saying "I do not want people depositing random quarters into my bank account". It is money for you that you would not otherwise control.

Microsoft is not just saying they are fighting it, they are actually fighting the search request. The search in question is also not regarding anything to do with the cloud, it is regarding the search of an email account.

I would disagree that people are "signing" their posts with their signature. They are simply "wearing" their signature in exchange for payment. This is the exact same arrangement that theymos (via the forum) has with a number of advertisers (see this post. Unless you have ads disabled you will be able to see these ads after the first post in each page, you will also see a disclaimer that advertisements are not endorsed by the forum.

This is also a very similar arrangement as to how newspapers and TV stations make their money....via advertisements, I would say that common sense would dictate that advertisements are not endorsed by these channels of information

EDIT: unless you personally endorse something you are not "signing" your messages with a specific advertiser

There are several people on this forum (franky being one of them) that seem to treat bitcoin as a religion and satashi as a messiah (many of them crazy). I would speculate that this was at least part of the reason why satashi "left".

I also agree that satashi likely did not know that bitcoin would become as successful as it has become to date. I know that he had said that bitcoin will either have a lot of transactions in 20 year or very few, but he likely did not imaging it having this large of a market cap

I would personally recommend against investing in a hardware wallet. They are very new and relatively untested against attacks. Even if the company that makes them claims for them to be safe, they are likely not (IMO).

If you are stone set in buying a hardware wallet, then I believe that the trezor is the biggest manufacturer to date.

You have shamed dicebitco.in, but now they apparently have made good on their "misdeeds" (see this thread)

You also have displayed interest in participating in the dice.ninja signature campaign.

I have two questions:

1 - are you willing to reverse your stance on dicebitco.in now that they have refunded all users' "losses" as a result of the skipped nonce issue? You previously said you consider them to be a scam because they have not repaid all of their users' money that should have been owed to them.

2 - Can you please describe your relationship between both yourself and dicebitco.in and between yourself and dice.ninja? Have you played at either site (if so how much did you win/lose)? Have you invested in either site (and if so how much do you have invested, what is the most you have had in either site, and what is your gain/loss on your investment)?