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461  Other / Meta / Re: Merit earned on deleted or short posts on: December 10, 2023, 04:42:07 AM
Hmm... perhaps average/median/standard deviation/etc might be useful here. I have no idea if my percentages are good or bad. Not that it matters much TBH, I'm not gonna start writing longer or shorter posts because of this.

Also top 50 would be interesting.

I join the request, although I thought that since you have done the work of creating this thread, another presentation would be more enjoyable, such as ordering them from highest to lowest, or alphabetically, to better find who we want to look for. In this case we would see how unusual some cases are:

Ratimov (2627711) received 2023/11946=16.93% Merit for deleted posts and 4290/11946=35.91% Merit for short posts:
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More than 50% of his earned Merit lost it's reason.

Can you explain what was the ordering criteria?

Apart from that, curious to see that even JJG is able to write short posts, lol.
462  Economy / Reputation / Re: Should Ratimov aka Symmetrick be in DT1? on: December 09, 2023, 06:00:00 PM
- His account was recently red tagged for switching hands.

I have to clarify this, as it is not accurate.

The red tag is because from both your thread and this one I don't trust whoever is running the former Ratimov now Symmetrick account to make financial deals. And I want to warn the rest of the people of the same. Either it is not the same person who is managing the account, or if it is the same, all he has done since you created your thread until today make me think that there is a high risk if economic deals are made with him.
463  Economy / Economics / Re: Flash Mob Theft -> closure of brick and mortar stores -it's economic impact? on: December 09, 2023, 05:39:19 AM
The OP doesn't explain it all, and that is that these robberies happen mostly and massively in Democratic states that are lenient on crime, critical of police and have lowered penalties for all types of crimes, including these. Take California, for example.

California Democrat frustrated by rising theft admits liberal crime bill was 'big mistake'

As it usually happens, they have made the problem they said they were going to solve bigger.
464  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Investing - DCA on: December 09, 2023, 05:29:51 AM
For now, I will stick to using 70% of the money I have left over from my salary to purchase BTC and put 30% into bank savings to use if something unforeseen arises.

You seem to be doing well. Cash in the bank should be no more than 6 months of expenses for unforeseen arises.

Apart from that you can have sinking funds, for example if you plan to change your car or take a trip, save for that.

And then the rest to invest. Obviously in this part of the forum we are inclined to have it all in Bitcoin or most of it and forget about shitcoins. But another thing you can do is diversify out of the crypto market, for example by contributing £50 a week to a good index fund like the S&P 500. Anyway, you seem to be doing well.
465  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: IRS Criminal Investigation Unit Is Taking on More Crypto Tax Cases on: December 09, 2023, 05:22:25 AM
As a gameplan, they have now started disturbing common people with regulatory hassles. Now if a common person is constantly pushed with legal things, they will get fed-up and probably turn away from crypto totally. That's what IRS wants it seems!

It is not that, with the regulations what they want is to control the cryptocurrency market in the same way they control the stock and mutual fund market. I don't think that will push back many people, just the people who were operating under the table will have to look for new ways (the scarce ones) or declare everything.
466  Economy / Reputation / Re: Eulogy for light_warrior. on: December 09, 2023, 05:10:40 AM
Should every user need to open a new thread to give his condolences to light_warrior? no offense, just asking.

I am not too much into poetry but the poem seems nice to me and the truth is that it has a much better exposition here than on page 7 of the condolences thread.

I think you are right, however, that when one dies this section should not be filled with threads as competing with the main condolences thread, and hopefully this will not happen.

Therefore, I would recommend the OP to lock the thread, because it seems to me that he will continue to receive more criticism for opening a parallel thread than for having written a poem to the deceased.
467  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Niger State Government About To Adopt Bitcoin As A Trade Subject on: December 08, 2023, 04:37:12 AM
Hey congratulations for what you have achieved, man. Despite the difficulties placed by the central government in Nigeria, or I do not know if thanks to them, I see many people in the forum very active with initiatives to normalize and popularize the Bitcoin. Receiving such recognition in the state of Niger is not a minor issue.

A question for those who do not know the area: I imagine that Niger state, part of Nigeria, is completely different from Niger country? I guess if they share name is because of the river.
468  Other / Meta / Re: Letter to Theymos: Provide medium for the forum in the face of the mixer ban on: December 08, 2023, 04:27:51 AM
"Staff" members can't delete posts. Xal0lex is a Moderator on his own boards, not on Meta.

Well, thanks for the info. Again. Now that you mention it, I sounded like that, but I hadn't thought about it when I wrote the post.

I could be wrong (I have been in the past about many things) but it seems as though by creating what could be seen by others as some form of misconstrued legitimacy by being the creator of a security board will probably help bring in some extra customers for the $42 he charges for a service based on what he copy/pasted in the OP of this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5434404.0

Of course, that's what I think too, no matter how much he denies it.

Yeah I have lived in the USA and the laws are complex and vast.

50 sets of  state laws
Hundreds of county laws
Thousands of city laws
and federal laws.

on three levels tax, criminal , civil.

I am at my desk looking at 45 plus federal tax books which are just for some of the federal tax laws.

That not only happens in the USA. In the EU you have laws at the EU level, at the state level, and depending on the state, at the regional level, sometimes more than one level of local laws, county laws, and so on. There seems to be no end to the voracity of the public authorities and the growing regulatory complexity.
469  Economy / Reputation / Re: Light_warrior / Memorial thread ... 🕯️ on: December 08, 2023, 04:00:33 AM
Sorry to hear that icopress. Can you send my payment for this week's campaign directly to that address? It will be much better than me receiving the payment and then sending it to that address in the current high fee environment.

@suchmoon   @ibminer   Time to rethink a RIP icon on BPIP?

That seems like a good idea to me.
470  Economy / Reputation / Re: Response to Icopress on: December 08, 2023, 03:55:43 AM
I expect Poker Player too.

Not really. I mean I come around but not for what you seem to expect. Just to reiterate for the umpteenth time that I never contacted any of your clients, even though one of your clients told you that I did, which at least to this day I know you at least doubt.

For the rest, I'm tired of this shit. So I'll leave you and icopress to argue if you want. Just to say that Hhampuz's answer seems to me to be extremely reasonable.
471  Economy / Economics / Re: COVID is dead, "long live the new COVID". World economy get ready? on: December 07, 2023, 04:49:50 AM
Let us hope that this is not the case and that it does not end up becoming a new COVID, a new epidemic that affects the whole world and we go back to the restrictions and all the measures that were in place.

- An "undiagnosed respiratory disease" that causes pneumonia in children is spreading widely in China.
...
According to Chinese non-state media, pediatric hospitals in some parts of the country are overflowing with sick children.
Chinese authorities attribute the spike in flu cases this season to the lifting of anti-vaccine measures.

Hopefully, if this is the cause, normal vaccination will be resumed and cases will be reduced.
472  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Jamie Dimon said he would close Bitcoin down if he was in government on: December 07, 2023, 04:40:00 AM
It has not occurred to him to say that if he were in charge he would have the Bitcoin CEO arrested as well? He could add this one too.

Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan have ridiculous history against Bitcoin.

And they insist on continuing to make fools of themselves, we should not pay too much attention to this nonsense from the forum, rather than for entertainment purposes.

I don't think he is serious and have no idea on what he is about to do. I think it is just a media hullabaloo to woo in his supporters especially those who he knows have sentimental bias over the abdoption of Bitcoin over there.

I think you are right on this.
473  Other / Meta / Re: Letter to Theymos: Provide medium for the forum in the face of the mixer ban on: December 07, 2023, 04:32:08 AM
Wonderful thread this, I laughed a lot. You have to see what you can see lately in Meta.

First we have our friend BenCodie who takes advantage of the mixers ban to push his much loved Cybersecurity and Privacy board, which seems reasonable to me, and more considering the positive votes it has had in the forum, but it seems to me that the promotion of this topic is not purely disinterested but has quite a lot to do with this:

[Consultations available] Personalized Cybersecurity & Privacy Report for $42

Then we have our dumb friend Shenanigan saying a stupidity of his own and making a fool of himself, which leads to the first 14 comments of the thread having nothing to do with what the OP is saying.

To top it off we have a staff member who acknowledges the following:

Instead of offtopic and trolling, better do some forum research if you're so interested.

But who does not take action on this, such as deleting the ridiculous off topic garbage replies from Shenanigan on the subject.

Of the rest of the comments, only nutildah has an on topic reply, with which I agree.

According to the above, my conclusion is the following: hey BenCodie, please change the thread title to something like: "Discussion, LoyceV powers on the forum." so at least this thread in Meta will look like an on topic one, although what will be weird is the OP, I recommend you also to edit it to match the main discussion of the thread.


474  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Looking to sell a computer to raise money to invest in Bitcoin. on: December 07, 2023, 04:14:29 AM
I'm 19 years old, living in Korea, and I'm thinking of selling a computer to raise money to invest in bitcoin. I think I can sell it for about $600. I get about $100 a month as an allowance from my father. $100 is only for personal use, not for living expenses. I've been using these $100s to buy bitcoin for a few months now. It's ridiculously small money, but I believe it could be quite a lot of money if I keep saving it steadily. Is selling a computer the right decision?

Without having more data, it doesn't seem like a good idea to me that at 19 years old you are obsessing so much about it. That $100 that your father gives you should be spent on hanging out with friends and your girlfriend, which it looks like you don't have, and if you don't have a girlfriend, at least try to pick one up.

If you don't spend anything, and the little you have you want to sell it to invest in Bitcoin, it looks like you spend the day at home, and that doesn't seem to me a good plan at all with 19 years old.

It's not bad if you dedicate a small part of what they give you to invest in the future but at that age the biggest ROI will be in studying something usable in the marketplace. When you have a good job you will be able to invest regularly.
475  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin and me, how I discovered the greatest human invention after the internet on: December 07, 2023, 03:58:56 AM
The idea was just to tell a story about it, if in the beginning it was something with a financial intention, maybe so... But I don't blame myself for that, because you were probably also behind the profit in the beginning or you will tell me that it was because because of technology?

From the very beginning I understood that what made Bitcoin go up in price was precisely the properties that make it unique.

Today I fully understand the power of decentralization and all the fundamentals that make BTC unique. And the title was very bad, I agree, but be patient, we didn't get everything right.

That's fine but don't forget to separate your ideas into paragraphs for future threads, they make the reading more enjoyable.

I think that if this thread has not had more responses it is because we see too many threads in this section of the same style (personal history centered on profit) and because of the cumbersome reading.
476  Economy / Economics / Re: Gold is up to new ATH, silver is up, BITCOIN IS BACK BABY!!! on: December 06, 2023, 05:27:00 AM
Gold and silver has lose many customers to Bitcoin when the price of Bitcoin hit $69,000 last two years for long term and short term holders to used the opportunity to achieved a lot of income that gave other people mind to withdraw their money from gold and silver investment and invest the money in Bitcoin.

In my opinion that is not exactly the case. Part of the market cap of gold and precious metals in general that was used as a store of value has been absorbed by Bitcoin, but not at that specific moment of the ATH, it has been a slow process that has lasted years from the moment Bitcoin was launched. If we compare the profitability of gold versus Bitcoin in that period we will see that gold has barely been profitable, the opposite of Bitcoin. That we are on the verge of ATH in gold is another indicator that the best is yet to come with the price of Bitcoin.
477  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin and me, how I discovered the greatest human invention after the internet on: December 06, 2023, 05:16:29 AM
To be honest with you, you have chosen a terrible title for your thread, as it is reminiscent of Hal's, who neither you nor your story can keep up with.

Then separate the text into paragraphs, please.

Finally, you go from telling us how you are interested in Bitcoin only for the pure economic interest (nothing about decentralization, hashrate security and things like that) to saying that it has made you a better person, which in principle has no causal relationship, Well, there were famous people on the forum who ended up scamming, for example.

Surely you expect merits or congratulations for your story but for my part you are not going to get them because of the above.
478  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bad news always brings some good news! on: December 06, 2023, 05:09:03 AM
It is too simplistic to take an isolated event like CZ and Binance and think that alone should have had a negative effect on the price. That bad news is counterbalanced by the approaching halving, the loosening of rate policies or the ever closer approval of a spot ETF in the USA, as rat03gopoh has commented. So that causal relationship that the OP makes of saying bad news (CZ and Binance) bring good news (the price rise) does not hold.
479  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: D. Batten's call against the European Commission's flawed environmental narrativ on: December 06, 2023, 05:02:47 AM
Are you very surprised? This is business as usual, the EU putting obstacles to innovation and more with the Bitcoin that in principle was created as an alternative currency.

There is a reason why companies like Google or Amazon emerged in the USA and not in the EU. If any European entrepreneur had thought of doing something similar to Amazon, they would have been drowned in taxes and regulations and as soon as their plan was clear, they would have put all the obstacles in the world to supposedly protect the workers of Tesco (UK was in the EU before) and Carrefour.

With Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies more of the same. Legislation is aimed at stifling business instead of promoting it. In this case of mining we have the environmentalist assumption so many times dismantled, but I am not surprised in this global context.
480  Other / Meta / Re: (Any Guesses?) Are there many real (unpaid) people still posting here at BCT? on: December 06, 2023, 04:52:57 AM
I agree in general with the previous answers but I would like to point out that we all know what would happen if for example signature campaigns were banned in the forum, and that is that the traffic would decrease enormously. The WO people would continue as they are now, the other members mentioned who do not wear a paid signature and are not regular WO members would continue as they are now, a small percentage of those who wear a paid signature now would continue to post on the forum, although less, and most of the traffic would go elsewhere.

Just look at what happened to some members of the old CM campaign as soon as they stopped wearing a signature or went from being in a signature campaign that paid for a maximum of 50 posts to one that paid for a maximum of 25 posts per week.

And I'm not criticizing it, eh? It is largely a logical consequence.

The WO's are a case apart because most of them are loaded with Bitcoin, and I would say that most of the other cases cited as well.
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