Wow, that's a dramatic difference.  Were there more bounties/sig campaigns available then, or was it just that the market was much more bullish then than now?

It's been a long time since I've actually read through threads in sections like Bitcoin Discussion (which has been a magnet for shitposters ever since I've been a member), but I can totally see how low-value posts could have dropped in the past few years; there don't seem to be as many in sections like Economics and Meta, and it's likely a forum-wide phenomenon. 

But what happens the next time crypto heats up and bitcointalk once again starts attracting all of the illiterate spammers who want to enroll as many alts as possible into bounties?  We'll probably exceed 280k posts/week and you better believe at least 80% of them are going to be complete crapola.  I like OP's suggestion, but I doubt the boss is going to go for it.

Having some job experience is important, and IMO it doesn't even matter what it is.  If you've got little to nothing on your resume, an employer is going to look askance at that and probably will put that resume at the bottom of the pile (assuming there are enough candidates for the job).  Even if you worked as a cashier at a grocery store, you've picked up customer service and communication skills in addition to showing someone that you can hold a job.

What's worse is when you've trained for a very specific job and for whatever reason have to change careers.  Employers definitely see applicants with advanced degrees as overqualified, and they expect he/she is going to be looking for a new job as possible if they hire them.

Job hunting sucks.  There's no two ways about it, and that's why books have been written about the process.

Am I off DT altogether?  I've neither been added nor deleted, so....

Yeah I've been here for a hot minute, but when it comes to utilizing the finer machinations of the forum I've been full retard from day one--so I knew, but forgot, how to check each member's status without visiting BPIP (and I'm going to do that, but I'm not sure if that data is updated in real time).

Yep, scams are best posted in the altcoin section.  Unfortunately Theymos hasn't created a specific section for them yet, although "investor based games" is close. 

OP, I'm going to give you my take on your situation, which might be much different than the opinions you've gotten so far.

Your channel basically consists of videos in which you shill various crypto projects, and it's the same thing innumerable Youtubers are doing since they're paid to.  Just watching the first 30 seconds of your second video, you can tell you're reading off a script.  I've got no sympathy for you whatsoever, as much as I detest scammers.  All of these bounties for shit projects attract people willing to sell their integrity for some crappy token that's likely to be worthless--and that's if they have any integrity to begin with.

Too bad, so sad, stop clogging up Youtube's search function with these asinine videos.

Ehhh....I'm seeing a lot of that in this thread (or maybe it's just my extreme cynicism from years of exposure to members who'll do pretty much anything to rank up).  I'm not sure if people think this is a thread where you'll get merits if you post about how many you need to get to the next rank, but there's obviously a few.

I much prefer the thread where members get to toot their own horn when they actually rank up instead of this one, which seems pointless.  Your merit count is visible, right there for everyone to see, so why would anyone need to post something that's obvious?

Presumably that would be true for an exchange with a ton of overhead, but like Rikafip and dkbit98 I'd never heard of BitFront before, and they're based in the US where I live.  They couldn't be that big, right?  **edit: I just read dkbit's whole post, including their pathetic trading pairs** And it's either that or their trading volume was absurdly low, kind of like that small exchange that used to list Curecoin.  I think it was shorelinecrypto or something similar, and they also went out of business a while back.

This has nothing to do with the other bankruptcies in the news, however.  And I'd point out that there have been a lot of fly-by-night exchanges that have come and gone over the years, because of not being profitable or through exit scams.  Unless the crypto exchange space consolidates and we're left with a handful of big players, I have no doubt we'll be seeing a lot more come and go.

And how the hell is it that shitty exchanges like Yobit are still in business?

When I joined the forum in 2015, people were learning this fact the hard way.  Here we are in 2022 and people are still learning the hard way.  How much you want to bet this is never going to change?

I always assumed bitcoin attracted people who wanted a trustless form of money, but what I'm seeing is that a lot of people end up trusting complete internet unknowns, often with large sums of money.  I've even fallen prey to scammers because of this, so I'm not casting aspersions on anyone--it's human nature to want to trust other people, but in crypto you really shouldn't.  If you're doing deals on bitcointalk or anywhere else with someone you don't know, follow the advice given here and in so many other threads: use an escrow!!

To some people, that's life-changing money.  And even though it wouldn't even buy a decent bicycle where I live, it'd still piss me off to no end if I got taken for that much.  Fuck these scammers.

I didn't read the article, but I'm assuming all of it is here, and I'm wondering if workers' hours per week are going to be reduced or if they're going to be kept the same but with longer shifts per day. 

Either way, I've worked 40 hour weeks spread out between both 4 and 5 days, and I much preferred only having to work 4 days even if I had to work 10 hours/day.  It's definitely nice to have three days off a week.  I assume the UK workers are going to be putting in fewer hours, else there wouldn't be a news story about it, and if that is indeed the case more power to them.  Most people in this world are worker bees (myself included), and a lot of us hate our jobs, our bosses, coworkers, and/or the company we work for.  With technology being as advanced as it is, a lot of work could be done by robots--and should be if it isn't already.

It then comes down to a question of whether to keep paying existing employees their regular salary, and I suspect a lot of companies might have a problem with that.

It's not clear if you're referring to the post OP made here or whatever post(s) he got deleted.  Probably doesn't matter much, as he's a complete newbie (presumably) and if he's a shitposter he's quickly going to find out that the environment here is hostile to him.

And OP, assuming you're ever going to look at this thread again, most members have had some of their posts deleted (assuming they make enough of them).  When I was new--and even for a year or three afterward--I had plenty of mine get reported and nuked, and that's on top of the ones that were deleted in self-moderated threads.  Good luck or good riddance.

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That sounds like a whole lot of nothing to me--and mind you, in the context of the SEC regulating crypto I'm not complaining.  If they don't end up meeting those extremely generic and vague goals, hopefully they were too busy tackling the real issues in the financial world, which mostly happen in the stock market.  There might be some serious chicanery in crypto, but all of the scumbags getting rich at the expense of investors do so behind corporate walls and everywhere else in the business world.

They probably made this announcement to give the appearance of them doing something instead of nothing.

Nigga, please.  I haven't been active in busting spam since the merit system became a thing.  My reporting has dropped off a cliff since then, and the crusade a lot of us were fighting back then to keep the forum reasonably clean has long since ended (or at least it isn't as intense as it was). 

Why....?  Did you guys just pick a familiar name or is there something you think I'm currently doing to fight spam?  'Cause I ain't.  I hate it, but there's no fight left in me.  On the other hand, as a merit source I have some input as to who ranks up, since that's what merits basically function as--a vote.

I love reading these nominations.  Anyone want to bet on the winner of the biggest fail category?

Join the club, man.  I'm not sure how big a club it is, but I know I'm a VIP member--just be sure that if you do become a merit source that you don't offer to review members' posts on request, as you'll never have enough sMerits to keep up.

I looked through your trust page and saw a lot of negs, but all the ones I checked had invalid reference links or were in German, so I'm assuming they're all retaliatory.  Assuming you're a fine, upstanding member of bitcointalk I support your application.  That said, my support means jack shit--same for anyone else's support.  Theymos is either going to tap you to be a source based on your application or he isn't, and at this point it's anyone's guess as to what his thoughts are on adding to the merit source count.

I wish he would, and I wish you luck.

Jesus, that's a pretty retarded scam.  Presumably the only people who would fall for it would be those who don't know much about crypto and probably wouldn't even know how to go about sending the "withdrawal fee".  Anyone who's been into crypto for a while and knows what they're doing would see this as an obvious scam.

I'm wondering if this made headlines just because the state of corruptitude in crypto is popular in the media right now.  Wouldn't doubt it.

People are so divided and angry and many can't even definitively call themselves a man or a woman--so it's no wonder nobody's fucking.

If I could get my sig-campaign castle going, I'd happily impregnate all the females who'd want to get down with the likes of me.  It'd be like a madhouse, worthy of its own television series.  What is wrong with the youth of today?  I see tons of Youtubers pretty much deriding any sexual jokes or references to sex between partners who might be years apart in age, and in general I get the impression youngsters are kind of prudish.  That's a generalization, of course, but if I'm at least partially correct then my guess is that there's going to be another generation gap; once those 20-somethings get older and finally get that gigantic stick out of their asses they'll figure out what they've been missing.

Fuck 'em if they don't want to breed.

Ah, never mind.  I've been able to create an account on XT, and it's actually not bad.

The price jumped quite a bit, but as far as I've seen there's been no real news or anything about that buyout.  Oddly enough, Neblio did recently get listed on MEXC and I'm assuming someone would have had to make that happen.  And just as an aside, if anyone is looking for a great PoS coin in terms of frequent stakes, Neblio is it.  Not that many coins in circulation, either.

That's important no doubt, but if we're talking about FTX, CZ, and SBF I'd say there are massive issues that dwarf that pearl of wisdom.

The move CZ pulled in selling FTT was ruthless, and initially I thought it was even villainous, but after learning about all the shit SBF was up to and how FTX was run I've changed my tune about that.  All that money he donated to the democratic party....what a complete tool.  But I'll bet there's not much that's going to be made about that particular aspect.

On a side note, as I'm writing this I'm listening to MSNBC news and some jackoff is declaring crypto dead since there's been so much damage done.  He must not be aware of crypto's history.

I don't know about liberalism, but it's definitely an attack on people's freedom to choose.  Funny enough, in another thread I wrote this:

And wouldn't you know, here we have an example of such a knee-jerk reaction.  I haven't read the details of this proposal, but I seriously don't think the government (which is taxing us to death and producing massive inflation) should be telling people how to invest their money.  Saying they're trying to protect people from the risks of crypto is a fucking joke.

Hear that, New York?  A fucking joke.

I've always wondered why it's necessary to publicly list all the campaign participants' addresses--and I'm not just talking about Chipmixer; every campaign I've ever seen has had some kind of spreadsheet with that data on it.  Is there an obvious reason I'm just not thinking of?

I don't know, man.  It seems like a very short leap from banning/restricting privacy coins to banning/restricting any cryptocurrency up to and including bitcoin itself.  Makes sense, right?

These fucking government bureaucrats aren't at all concerned about money laundering in the context of privacy coins.  Do they know there's a problem there to begin with, and how would they even get the data on that?

Just like in the US with its brand-new 80,000 IRS agents, the EU wants control over the money you spend whilst keeping their octopus hands in every pocket their citizens keep money in.  My only question is how to fight this nonsense.  Is anyone even trying to?