But aren't you contradicting yourself here? First you said that The Fabelmans will probably win, while the actual favorite at the moment is Everything Everywhere All at Once (and you said that favorites usually win). Honestly, despite it being a favorite, I simply don't see them winning Best Picture award. Maybe I am biased because I disliked movie so much that I couldn't even finish it, but I just can't bet on it ot see it winning via preferential vote.


Despite being nominated in many categories, I don't expect this one to actually win many Oscars as there is some tough competition in each one of those. After all, their are the favorites in only the Best International Feature category, and even there they are not the 100% locked.

I plan to watch it this weekend to finally see how good it is compared to that 1930 masterpiece.

While I do agree that Ukraine massively attacking infrastructure on Russian soil wouldn't help ending this war and it would probably make Russia retaliate via tactical nukes if they feel very threatened by it, I am not so sure that it would automatically cause ww3 and nuclear holocaust like everyone is assuming. Its easy to think that US or UK would automatically nuke Russia who would then nuke them, but when you think about it a little bit more, are you sure that they would be willing to sacrifice their almost entire population for the sake of another country? I honestly don't think so.

You are the one who came here and claimed that 1xbit paid you 10 BTC, therefore burden of proof is on you. After you failed to do that, you got negative feedback.

People around here are especially sensitive when it comes to 1xbit because they are regularly scamming people and using paid shillers, so when a member like you with no reputation here says something like that, people will ask for proof.

Even if you are not on DT (which you will probably never be if you continue leaving feedbacks similar to the one you left me) your feedbacks will be visible, but only under "Untrusted feedback". The only ones who will see that under "Trusted Feedbacks" are those who include you in their Trust list.



You should listen to your own advice. I tried to explain you how Trust system works around here, yet you behaved like a spoiled brat and left me that nonsense feedback. What you don't understand is that even though you are free to leave any feedback as you want, it will have some weight only if you are using that system correctly. Otherwise, everyone will just ignore it and will be worthless, like the one you left me.

Koliko se ja sjećam (jebiga prošlo je par godina pa nisam više ziher) kartica je stigla običnom poštom i to mislim iz Njemačke. Također, meni je kartica došla dosta brzo, mislim u roku od desetak dana.

I told him that he can leave any feedback he wants to anyone and that he won't get banned for it or mods remove it so I guess that he is checking it by leaving that nonsense. What he obviously doesn't know is that if he keeps leaving such feedbacks he will end up excluded from trust list, like he just did from mine.

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@MrBrightside1 you might wanna read LoyceV's Beginners guide to correct use of the Trust system.

Imam jedan prijedlog za tebe, iako pretpostavljam da ti se nece dati jebat sa tim: prijavi se da budes merit source sa fokusom na gambling board. Fino skupis 10 postova napisanih u zadnjih par mjeseci za koje milsis da zasluzuju vise merita (sto ne bi trebalo biti tesko na gambling boardu) i napises da zelis unaprijediti gambling board dijeleci merit za postove radi kojih je taj gambling board i napravljen. S obzirom na tvoju reputaciju u gambling boardu, vjerujem da ce te svi podrzati te ce ti theymos dati merit source status kad slijedeci put bude podesavao situaciju. Ako me sjecanje ne vara zadnji put je to bilo prije cca godinu i pol tako da bi moglo uskoro biti opet.

Znam da je to tlaka, ali uvjeren sam da ako dobijes merit status te pocnes redovno dijeliti merit za postove koji se zapravo ticu gamblinga da ce samim time biti i vise takvih postova sto moze samo unaprijediti board. Bit ce naravno i merit fishinga i bullshit prognoza i analiza, ali mislim da se isplati probati.

I said that you are whining, not them. Or you maybe consider yourself part of 1xbit?


That''s your assumption. Why don't you sign the message from that address (its like 2 minutes work) and prove your theory? I would if someone called me out for bullshitting while I had tools to prove him otherwise.


Exactly. You can claim whatever you want and leave feedback to anyone and no mod will remove it or ban you (as long as you follow forum rules).

The only one whining here is you. Bitcointalk is not like other places where you can just claim something (like 1xbit sending you 10 BTC) without any repercussions. People around here are less naive and will call you out and ask to show some proof for your claim. And no, txid is not a valid proof.


This bolded part is the problem here. You don't know how things work, yet you cry for admins to help you.

Afaik, part of his his bail agreement is that he is on the house arrest meaning he can't fly around and hold meetings. Sure, everyone would like him to sit in prison cell while waiting for trial  but that's how it goes for rich people even for bigger scammers than him, like Bernie Madoff for example.


If they manage to to make at least users of FTX US whole I can see them trying again. They are very well aware of the fact that an average crypto user has the memory of a goldfish so in a few years barely anyone will remember this fiasco.

Hm I don't think I follow you. I didn't say that forum will die, but rather that activity will most likely keep decreasing as it was for the last ~5 years.


Yep, their numbers are very good. And its not like that for the last few months because if you go back ~2 years ago when I include them into this overview they were already more active than many other local boards. I think that them getting their own local board is just a matter of time, but I do hope that they won't have to wait as long as Nigerians.


But I already made yearly overview a week ago, I don't know how you missed it. Or you meant some other type of yearly overview?

We have something similar to that in Croatia going on for years, and unfortunately all that achieved is that real estate prices went up so in the end the only ones who benefited from it were people selling apartments/houses while government keeps losing money. All the experts warned them not to meddle into market as they will just pump the price, and of course they didn't listen as they saw it as another way to buy votes with someone else's (ours) money.

Buying your own place is certainly a risk and it depends on the number of factors like what kind of job you have/how easy is to find another one, where do you live etc. For me personally it is worth a risk and basically all people I know are choosing that option rather than giving someone else your money for 30 years and not owning it in the end. I don't know how big are pensions in Greece, but in Croatia 95% of pensioners are not able to afford the rent so that's another reason to get your own place while you can.

Since I don't like to change things that work, the only reason why I would change the wallet is if there's some serious flaw with it or if it becomes unpractical to use. Example of that was blockchain android wallet I used in the past but after constantly having issues with it I switched to Electrum years ago and I can't complain about it. And no, I wouldn't be interested testing wallet that is new on the market no matter whether its open source or not and I would rather leave that to people that are more knowledgeable than me to thoroughly check it out.

As a fellow gamer, I fully understand the addiction and its a perfectly legit reason for slacking with the overview.


Hah tell me about it. I used to love playing online pvp games (and was pretty good at it) but since my reflexes (and eyes especially) are not what they used to be, I got tired of getting ass kicked by 14 yo kids so now I only stick to single player games mostly RPGs.

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Well those are the numbers over period of one year, not one month and keep in mind that ninjastic.space counts even deleted posts so those numbers are probably inflated a little bit. I personally count those that wrote 100+ posts backbone of their local board and regular posters.


Bitcointalk numbers may keep decreasing, but I don't think that it will ever die in the sense that there won't be any people writing on it, no matter happened. It was an important part of bitcoin history and as such will always have enthusiast willing to spend some time on it.

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Its not really that consuming as it takes me maybe 3-4 hours spread over few days. I can probably make it much faster but I usually do something on a side (like watching football) while making it and that makes process longer than it should be.

Guys and gals, Oscar 2023 nomination list is out and from what I could see, there's no major surprises. Everything Everywhere All at Once is leader with 11 nominations, followed by All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin each getting nominated in 11 categories. Here is the full list https://variety.com/2023/film/news/oscar-nominations-2023-list-1235495072/

Actually, if I can call something surprising (at least for me), that's Avatar getting Best Picture nomination. I saw the movie last weekend and it was a big disappointment. Yeah it looks good, but that's all there is to it, nothing else really. But I guess since movie made 2 billion dollars already, it made sense for them to include it.

edit: now I see that odds on Everything Everywhere All at Once went even more down, probably caused by being the leader when it comes to amount of nominations. Despite being favorite, I simply can't bet on a movie that I couldn't even finish so I will probably got for a surprise and Banshees instead.

Its time for a yet another brief monthly overview of local boards activity, this time a little bit later than in previous months as I was busy with yearly overviews. All charts and table are made with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards yet but hopefully that changes soon.

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Post activity per local board during December 2022

During above mentioned period, 13499 posts were made across 18 local boards, which is a 9% decrease compared to November 2022 and 14823 posts written. It is a quite a big decrease, but I think that its just temporary and  might be connected with holiday period as people have better things to do that write on the forum.

As always, Russian board is far ahead the others, making 2x more than the 2nd most active board (Turkish), followed by German and Portuguese and pretty much the same names occupy the bottom of this chart. Majority of boards had fewer posts written when compared to November, but the one with biggest decrease (percentage wise) was Italian board that for some reason had 45% decrease which is a big change for such an active board.

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Number of active members per local board during December 2022

During December last year, 1165 members wrote at least 1 post in their local board, which makes it a slight decrease compared to November and 1204 active members. That slight decrease is not a surprise given the noticeable decrease in the amount of posts written.

I thought about separating members in several groups according to the amount of posts made like I did for yearly overview as that would give clearer picture but it will have to wait for the next month's overview as I've been busy in the last couple of days and it will remain the same until the end of the month. So, if you have some idea how to divide groups, let me know pls.

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Merit shared per local board during December 2022

Even through posts written decreased significantly, amount of merits shared increase a lot; from 5469 merits shared in November to 6347 in December which makes it a 16% increase. Majority of that 16% overall increase goes to Russian (1209-1687). Turkish ( 588-843) and Spanish (382-643) boards, while some like Portuguese (293-228) had a significant decrease.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during December 2022

Despite the big increase in the amount of merit shared, number of senders/receivers didn't change drastically: during December 354 members sent merit while 478 received, compared that with November that had 375 merit senders and 431 merit receiver.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for December 2022

And for the end of this month's series of chart, merit/post ratio. Since number of merits shared increased while number of posts decreased, its no surprise that almost all local boards had increased ratio compared with 12 months average. As a matter of fact, I don't remember ever having 4 local boards with more than 1 merit per post ratio, like it was during December.

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The most active members per local board during December 2022

Last but not the least, list of the most active members in their local boards. Once again title of the most active member goes to joker_josue [246], followed by DdmrDdmr [171]  at the 2nd place and Ratimov [170] at the 3rd. Congrats guys, keep it up!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
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1. Ratimov [170]	|	1. mole0815 [114]	|	1. mandown [154]	|	1. fillippone [146]	|	1. joker_josue [246]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [171]	|
2. klarki [134]	|	2. willi9974 [100]	|	2. eightdots [102]	|	2. Ale88 [107]	|	2. TryNinja [181]	|	2. darxiaomi [49]	|
3. Snork1979 [121]	|	3. 1miau [96]	|	3. Bthd [93]	|	3. babo [76]	|	3. bitmover [145]	|	3. Hispo [45]	|
4. Smartprofit [119]	|	4. Buchi-88 [78]	|	4. gospodin [87]	|	4. Lillominato89 [67]	|	4. Disruptivas [71]	|	4. Porfirii [41]	|
5. Olgacom [98]	|	5. Lakai01 [68]	|	5. Phoenix Anka [86]	|	5. hymperion [50]	|	5. rdluffy [65]	|	5. famososMuertos [41]	|
6. xandry [97]	|	6. bct_ail [68]	|	6. bobita [86]	|	6. Paolo.Demidov [48]	|	6. Lucasgabd [39]	|	6. Don Pedro Dinero [35]	|
7. Galina1006 [89]	|	7. Soonandwaite [59]	|	7. kriminall [86]	|	7. duesoldi [45]	|	7. sabotag3x [36]	|	7. seoincorporation [27]	|
8. lutik378 [78]	|	8. Unknown01 [59]	|	8. ZekiBeyy [73]	|	8. bitbollo [44]	|	8. alegotardo [35]	|	8. Artemis3 [21]	|
9. Klyubov 86 [77]	|	9. cygan [57]	|	9. meser# [73]	|	9. mendace [41]	|	9. Jayjones [32]	|	9. d5000 [10]	|
10. Vadi2323 [74]	|	10. Koal-84 [55]	|	10. wolwoo [71]	|	10. Plutosky [34]	|	10. Paredao [10]	|	10. Silberman [9]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Arabic	|	Nigeria	|
_________________	|	____________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	____________________________	|
1. Husna QA [47]	|	1. GrosWesh [60]	|	1. blockman [46]	|	1. slackovic [50]	|	1. Kavelj22 [46]	|	1. CryptopreneurBrainboss [20]	|
2. masulum [45]	|	2. Danydee [31]	|	2. Jemzx00 [44]	|	2. Pmalek [38]	|	2. Ulven [30]	|	2. Agbe [16]	|
3. Chikito [44]	|	3. elma [27]	|	3. Fredomago [34]	|	3. Daniel91 [27]	|	3. yhiaali3 [30]	|	3. Obari [12]	|
4. blue Snow [44]	|	4. Saint-loup [24]	|	4. bisdak40 [28]	|	4. Trofo [27]	|	4. OmegaStarScream [24]	|	4. Hyphen(-) [11]	|
5. mamesso [38]	|	5. LeGaulois [22]	|	5. serjent05 [28]	|	5. dkbit98 [23]	|	5. GxSTxV [18]	|	5. Charles-Tim [10]	|
6. len01 [35]	|	6. kopi72 [15]	|	6. mirakal [23]	|	6. SirJohnVonSlotty [19]	|	6. Bybit Arabic [11]	|	6. Frankolala [10]	|
7. arimamib [30]	|	7. Halab [12]	|	7. Baofeng [22]	|	7. casperBGD [19]	|	7. NotATether [4]	|	7. Coyster [9]	|
8. Luzin [27]	|	8. F2b [11]	|	8. acroman08 [21]	|	8. Rikafip [15]	|	8. Shymaa-Arafat [4]	|	8. Pokapoka124 [9]	|
9. MAAManda [27]	|	9. iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 [10]	|	9. arwin100 [19]	|	9. cryptofrka [15]	|	9. Husires [3]	|	9. igehhh [9]	|
10. abhiseshakana [25]	|	10. Becassine [7]	|	10. Johnyz [17]	|	10. FatFork [12]	|	10. abderrazak belkhir [3]	|	10. sokani [9]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Polish	|	Pakistan*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. NeuroticFish [37]	|	1. EXMON [4]	|	1. cryptosize [15]	|	1. Tytanowy Janusz [28]	|	1. ThemePen [37]	|	1. Crypto Library [14]	|
2. GazetaBitcoin [30]	|	2. HunnyFinance [4]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [11]	|	2. wwzsocki [21]	|	2. UmerIdrees [34]	|	2. Ridoy5567 [12]	|
3. PrivacyG [20]	|	3. libert19 [4]	|	3. HmmMAA [7]	|	3. PawGo [16]	|	3. Gladitorcomeback [27]	|	3. tjtonmoy [9]	|
4. MrLiveSupport [4]	|	4. teosanru [3]	|	4. chek2fire [3]	|	4. cygan [7]	|	4. MusaPk [26]	|	4. mmrrkk [8]	|
5. grandman58 [3]	|	5. JuliaCobb [2]	|	5. Dimitris [1]	|	5. malevolent [3]	|	5. Unknown Op [26]	|	5. Little Mouse [7]	|
6. 1miau [1]	|	6. maikrothaman [2]	|	6. baywatch10 [1]	|	6. Samanta Fox [2]	|	6. ZAINmalik75 [26]	|	6. Review Master [6]	|
7. HrN [1]	|	7. sagarbansal21 [2]	|	7. chrisvl [1]	|	7. SosSpagetti [2]	|	7. Hamza2424 [23]	|	7. Mamuncrypto49 [5]	|
8. IonCreanga [1]	|	8. JoyMarsha [1]	|	8. hellasOne [1]	|	8. falekp [2]	|	8. WatChe [23]	|	8. Magpie99 [4]	|
9. Rizzrack [1]	|	9. Trinhbcoin [1]	|	9. olesg13 [1]	|	9. pawel7777 [2]	|	9. shahzadafzal [11]	|	9. TOXIC-ZY [4]	|
10. cygan [1]	|	10. aakash0202 [1]	|	10. smc_masters [1]	|	10. traditionalfee [2]	|	10. TOXIC-ZY [10]	|	10. mahedi8217 [4]	|

Ma nije stvar u tome što će kasino/kladionica profitirati od toga što će ljudi izgubiti dio love koja im je isplaćena, nego što će samim time što im se članovi kampanje malo zakockaju postati možda postati malo bolji gambling posteri jer će automatski imati više materijala za pisanje.
Pa im onda neće svaki post biti o tome tko je koga pobijedio neko će povremeno i napisati neki kurac o klađenju i kocki. A dodatni bonus je što će dobiti još kojeg korisnika, što im je uostalom i cilj oglašavanja ovdje. Uostalom ko zna, možda se netko od članova kampanje navuče i krene igrati jače i ubacivati svoju lovu.

Eh da nam je domaći moderator pa da prebaci sve ovo u odgovarajući topic.

But why would they do that, what would be the benefit for American film industry to "improve the film world"? Oscar is first and foremost American movie award, and one of the purposes is to award and protect American film industry. And later it developed into what we see now, with finally non-American movie winning a Best Picture award.

Don't get me wrong, I would like if foreign movies have the same chance of winning like American ones (good example of that Roma which is a vastly superior to Green Book, but latter won the award nevertheless) but I also understand why they are doing it that way. Less American movies winning award means less money poured into American movie industry equals less money for actors, directors etc and exactly those people vote for the awards (afaik 80% Academy members are Americans).

He is aware of it, we talked via PM about the issue.

 
Since they showed no remorse or willingness to sort out the whitepaper (and other plagiarized content), I don't see how that campaign could be reopened.

Tehnically it is allowed to run a bounty for a project that plagiarized whitepaper/had fake team members or any of the other major red flags because scams on bitcointalk are not moderated. Thing is, by doing that you are risking your reputation and getting tagged by other members.

I can't speak for other DT members, but unless Royse777 doesn't stop their bounty campaign, he can expect getting tagged by me but I do hope it won't come to that.