I think Satoshi and the elite bitcoin members have been reclusive because a lot of people bug them and they don't have time to respond to everyone. In fact, they are probably sick and tired of anything unrelated to the bitcoin client. They probably trade private emails and we don't know what is going on.
I am suggesting a new private topic where only the elite are able to post in. I don't care if I am not in the elite. I just want to know what they are talking about instead of having them talk in private. So all members would have read only access while the elite, chosen by Satoshi or whoever, would be able to read or write to this special forum topic.
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When one Bitcoin reaches $1 we need to celebrate...I call it "The Parity Party". What will you do for your party? We need to be Slashdotted again. One dollar is off the hook!!! It's gonna be another wild ride!!
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So my point is this...if you catch scammer user4 then you have to ban the entire tree of users down to user1. So anyone underneath user4 would be banned including user1, user2, user3, and user4. I think this is the safest way to allow PayPal. Can you do this?
Yes, that is the idea. Walk up the trunk by suspending/banning until the scamming stops. As Nanotube mentioned, this will be just one tool for using PayPal. The others will be rating, time, and maybe manual approval. I understand the frustration of making it too hard to use PayPal. We'll try to strike a balance. i think taking it slow rather than fast is not a bad idea. also, consider requiring verified paypal accounts, and doing email confirmation for the primary email listed on the paypal account, as extra steps to avoid fraud. also, daily paypal spending limits for users just starting without much of a reputation, is probably a good idea as well. that said... starting with a core of known and trusted users... you already can easily have dozens of approved paypal users to start with, and go from there. just throwing out some ideas. One thing that bugs me is that scammers work by stealing other people's paypal username and password. They could steal the credentials of a member who has a good rating. This is very hard to stop/detect. One way a lot of companies do to protect users from this is to have a RSA keyfob. Maybe you can look into this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID
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It is, just click on it. I posted some guys willing to do this for 5 bucks.(16 BTC) I can put down 10 BTC for the NBCS guy. Someone better get him a flier(or other promo material) he can print. Also, i am not able to pay in dollars, can someone step up and do that for us?
I'd be willing to pay $10, but for the flier I'd like to have www.bitcoinblogger.com on it (along with other info). Also, I don't watch that show so maybe if I could get a youtube vid or screen cap somehow of him on national tv.
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Maybe. I was also thinking about a guy getting naked with the words "Bitcoin", "Bitcoin", "Bitcoin" on his chest. He get's within earshot of the President and yells "Bitcoin!" three times. I don't think I have enough bitcoins for someone to do this. It worked for BattleCam.
This is probably the most retarded idea of the century. You can now claim the prize: http://www.hare-hill.co.uk/pics/bunnies/previous%20bunnies/Pancake%20bunny.jpg (bunny included). it's so retarded it just might work. also I stole this idea and it wasn't originally mine. look up battlecam on youtube surely someone can think of something even more crazy
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Maybe. I was also thinking about a guy getting naked with the words "Bitcoin", "Bitcoin", "Bitcoin" on his chest. He get's within earshot of the President and yells "Bitcoin!" three times. I don't think I have enough bitcoins for someone to do this. It worked for BattleCam.
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Hey, Lighten up a little. threads of this nature ought to be simply locked when it gets to this level of silliness. This sounds very authoritarian. Just ignore a thread if you don't like it. Don't try limit others free speech. It's not easy to take you soapbox elsewhere as this forum is the major bitcoin conduit. When your speech crosses the line of being at the expense of somebody else, you have crossed the line. Yes, I realize this is a small thing, but small things become big things. I'm just asking you to grow up a bit, but perhaps I'm hanging around a bunch of kids here who don't give a damn. So be it. BTW, this is a personal attack, regardless of how you are trying to disguise this as a joke. It is also a relatively new participant on this forum who is the blunt end of the joke, which only makes this worse. If you are so clueless as to not notice that, you and those on this forum are simply in a hopeless situation. It isn't about silencing speech here in terms of stopping the spread of an idea, it is about showing some respect to others... something I'm not seeing on this thread. The fact that you are now (admittedly lightly) turning your attack against me only goes to show that is an issue. What I'm attacking is that this humor has gone past the point of simply a crude joke which isn't really discussing anything of substance at all. Now you are saying we are attacking you? By your definition almost anything can now be a personal attack. To me a personal attack is, "So and so is a moron! So and so is so stupid and lame!" This is the Internets and there are more vile things out there than jokes, for instance, bitcoin scam artists. You want me to respect someone who is advertising a Ponzi scheme? Yes, he is new here but respect is earned, not automatically given. I respect that he is a forum user, but not the fact that he is trying to mislead people with a scam. And I respect you too but I just don't know if we have the same sense of humor.
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It is not a personal attack. It attacks the idea, not the person and therefore is not personal. I am just glad I got some laughs out of this and brightened some people's day. The world is dreary as it is. Speaking of humor have you seen the Bitcoin protester? http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2011/01/power-of-bitcoins.html
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I'm just glad that at least somebody had the guts to call this a scam. It is, of the most basic and illegal variety... with a good reason why stuff like this is usually declared illegal in most countries. As long as Bitcoins are seen as play money and not worth anything, I suppose this is a harmless diversion that I'd still recommend against, but it certainly shouldn't be something encouraged.
If you want to be rich, provide some goods or services that do something others need. You can build a better mousetrap and make far more money than scamming somebody out of their money, and do something positive for the community at the same time. Threads like this simply are not helpful and IMHO it should be locked, but that is just me.
Yes, I get the humor being poked at with all of the various polygon and polyhedron references. Such is happening because this shouldn't be a serious discussion, but I argue even that is a waste and is sustaining a thread that shouldn't get attention in the first place. Such humor is also indirectly a personal attack on the original poster... something I think is also awful decorum and something that should be stopped for its own reason too. I suppose there are a bunch of kids here that want to play, but it is time to grow up kids!
Nothing wrong with a little sarcasm to tell the truth. Look at how CNN, MSNBC, etc. has failed to counter FOX News while 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart' is the only show capable of countering Fox's exaggeration with their own humorous slant. Quite effective IMOP. The Internet is full of wrong info and one just need some good B.S. filters. You are probably an older guy but a lot of kids and teenagers would fall for this Ponzi stuff. I fell for one once when I was a teenager.
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Ok, I suppose what I thought was a negative could be a positive.
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Right now there is one major cooperative miner. He has about 9000 Gh/s. Does this means he controls a lot of the network? What if he hacks the bitcoin client? Couldn't this be a potential problem? Or, do everyone who contribute to the cooperative server help the integrity of the bitcoin?
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creighto, could you please pay him your bounty? thx!!!
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I was honest. The site is not mine. I'm just a member. I paid nothing to join and I've only spent 1 Bitcoin which currently is about 30 cents. I will never need to invest more than that to make a profit. A Ponzi scheme is where the money from later "investors" is used to pay earlier ones and there is no underlying investment which is what people think they are investing in. The guy running the Ponzi scheme, like Madoff, keeps the money. Here there is no question that there is no underlying investment and that people who come in later at the bottom of the chain will not get as much, or anything, but that those at the top of the chain make more money. This is typically called a Pyramid or Multi Level Marketing. And, besides, this is a Trapezoid. FOUR CORNERS. And, my bad, I forgot to explain how it works. First it doubles. Then it splits. Then this happens again. And again. That's what it means to be a trapezoid. With this there appears to be not two, but a three pronged split. Very well thought out by the programmer. Instead of 1,2,4,8 we have 1,3,6,12 ... already a 50% increase by just the fourth step. WOW! This is so old. I am involved with the a type of marketing called the Pentagon and it is waaaay better than your Trapezoid. Don't listen to him and listen to me. I will send you details of the Pentagon Multi Level Marekting if you PM me! Next year I plan to come out with the Hexagon Multi Level Marketing. You see, it is time based and when one gets old a new type of marketing must come out! Send some bitcoins to me and I will tell you how it's done. Don't do the Trapezoid, do the Pentagon and soon to be Hexagon.
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It's also first come-first served. First person to have a nice pic will get the bounty.
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I'll pledge 18 BTC, to bring the bounty to 50 BTC.
Nice thx!
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A video would be great too though not required.
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