I would buy one, no questions asked (assuming I could afford it, and even then I'd most likely find a way to afford it); I'm not looking for a freebie.  I strongly think a 15 or 20-year anniversary coin or just a general bitcointalk commemorative coin ought to be made, because there are a lot of members to whom this forum means a great deal--and I'm one of those, and that's the reason I'd buy one.  It'd be for keeps, not for resale.

You all know I'm not a regular in the Collectibles section, and my knowledge of the creators of physical bitcoins and such is lacking, but I definitely recognize Casascius and Kialara as being top-notch.  Smoothie I recognize by name but not reputation--but in any case I agree that if a bitcointalk coin gets made it should be done right, and your suggestions are probably spot-on (with the sliver of uncertainty based on my aforementioned ignorance).

Agree(1000)^21million

I'm not sure how to interpret either the tone or meaning of that.  I assume you're referring to your comment regarding my reading comprehension deficit, which I agreed with.  Where is this hostility coming from?

Seriously, please don't tell me you're referring to me.  If you are, just say so.

You did say that, and yet my question about the fate of the chip holders wasn't answered.  Right now you have very limited outside funding (0.005BTC), but you said that if there's no escrow, there's going to be no outside funding.  My question was whether the already collected funds would be returned to the chip buyers or if the buyers would still be in the revenue-sharing pool--just to refresh your memory.

Thank you for the update; the project is still a go, and I'm still hoping it succeeds.

Edit:

OK, no problem.  I figured part of this had to be misunderstandings due to language.

Noted; that was the question I was asking, and thank you for addressing it.

Is this a new alt of Polo7 and the rest of the usernames I can't recall at the moment?  The writing style and content look very much like it is--and I'm sure as soon as people tune out to Editbar, there's going to be another account popping up in the Economics section spouting the same stuff.  OP, your response?

That may well be true, but I don't think either one of us is going to have to worry about the entire fiat system (and I'm talking globally) collapsing in our lifetime.  I've been hearing predictions to that effect for years now, and I'm sure such predictions were being made well before I was born.

I don't know if things were better on the gold standard or not, but it doesn't seem like there's any way to go back to something like that, where money is backed by something more valuable than a country's word or the size of their military, if you know what I mean.  Then again, nothing is backing bitcoin and it's a form of money, an asset, and a store of value....so who knows?

If CBDCs become the norm and the government has unrestricted access to everyone's financial records, that's just one step closer to the world becoming a dystopian pit of misery straight out of George Orwell's imagination.

Eh, my grasp of violations and fines involving banks, brokerages, and other Wall Street institutions isn't great but I'd be willing to bet that if a company like JP Morgan got hit with a $1.1 bln fine, they'd take the hit on their balance sheet for the year, their stock price might drop a couple of points, but in the end they'd move on.

In this case, that $1.1 bln fine is spread out over 16 companies, most of which are huge Wall Street players.  Needless to say there's not much pain that's going to be felt by those companies.

I'm really glad the SEC has their eyes on those firms mentioned, because I always had the impression that they were all in bed together and a dipshit violation involving the use of social media platforms to discuss company business would never be noticed, much less prosecuted.  Then again, it could be that the US government is so hard up for money that the SEC got orders from on high to sniff out whatever wrongdoing they could and levy some juicy penalty revenue.  Sort of like a municipal government sending cops to ticket as many speeders as they can find.

Don't know if that's true for you, but it's true more often than I'd like for me.

And right now what I'm not understanding is whether this project is still a go, or if it's been scrapped.  I've been keeping an eye on the IBCO wallet, and it's obvious there hasn't been anybody buying chips since those first five, since the balance has been pegged at 0.005BTC.  Nor have there been any updates here.

I don't use telegram, so my bad if any updates have been posted there.

I didn't reply to your post previously since you were obviously in a defensive mode, but I was wondering exactly why you were being so defensive.  You stepped down as an escrow, and nobody made a big deal out of that as far as I know--and there's no reason to make it a big deal.  You're entitled to not participate in a project anymore for whatever reason, and though you're correct that those reasons are your business, I don't think anybody asked what they were.

So:  Any updates?

Now, believe me I'm happy Twitter is being bought by someone so ostensibly pro-free speech as Elon Musk, but man....I would have busted one in my pants if he'd purchased Youtube instead.  As far as social media platforms go, Twitter is extremely popular and one that IMO needs to be overhauled.  But seeing as how I don't use it and do watch videos on YT quite a bit, it would have probably made creators on that site a lot less skittish about what they say and what topics they can and can't cover.

But still I'm pleased with this.  Maybe soon Twitter will become less of a left-wing stronghold, but we'll see.  Elon Musk is not only impulsive, he's unpredictable, so it's anyone's guess as to what changes are going to be made.

Bro, I still can't stand you but it sounds like we're both on the same side of the political spectrum--or at least we appear to detest the way this world is becoming.  "Nonbinary" as a thing has got to exist strictly in a small number of countries, because I can't imagine some dirt-poor people in Africa, Asia, or even South America suddenly realizing they're neither male nor female....but that's a separate topic for P&S.

So Musk did end up buying Twitter?  I thought I was keeping up with that situation and last I heard he'd backed out.  Did that change recently, or did I miss a whole bunch of details?

If that is the case, let the Twitter leftists strangle on their own tears.

I figured there probably was, but I did initially grasp the part you explained--I think I got sidetracked in my brain thereafter.  T'was too early in the morning for me to be critically reading and posting on the forum.

Thanks for your effort to clarify things; I get what this is about now.

I'm just curious, as I don't know how old you are: do you remember that crisis and how it all played out?  I remember it well, especially the absolutely devastating hit the stock market took, which can be plainly seen on a 20-year chart of the S&P 500:



People were losing their houses because they couldn't afford them anymore (though many shouldn't have bought them in the first place), unemployment skyrocketed, and every day in the news you'd read about banks in the US shutting down.  It was a triple threat crisis, with the housing and stock markets getting slaughtered, as well as the banking system. 

Following that, the brilliant idea of "Quantitative Easing" was carried out, and the printing presses at the Federal Reserve went BRRR for years, in part leading us to the inflationary spike we're seeing today.  I'm not really sure if the economy of 2022 is nearly as bad as the 2007-09 crisis, but it certainly could get there quick.

That whole thing baffles me.  And I'm not sure how the US would respond, but if it was with nuclear weapons, that would be suicide. 

Well that's awfully nice of you to say, and I'm sure you meant it, but if you knew me IRL you'd know that neither of those things is in my future.  I'm sort of fantasizing about those right-hand drive mini pickup trucks they manufacture in Asia, like the Honda Acty.  Dreaming about buying one is the best I can do right now, that's how little my wallet is, so to speak.  If you were to give me a Lambo right now, I'm sure I'd somehow manage to fuck it all up within a month.  That's me.

I must have missed your post, but you make a good point.  Not sure it matters a whole lot at the moment, as it doesn't seem like Casino Critique is going to get off the ground.

So the situation's fucked no matter what anyone in the community does. 

Someone refresh my memory: Why did Theymos nuke the entire Yobit campaign the second time around?  Was it just because they had no maximum as far as how many members could join, or was it something else?  I distinctly remember the quality of the forum dropping precipitously right after Yobit launched that campaign, and I'm kind of wondering why 1xbit is being allowed to erode that quality due to their lousy campaign management and/or policies.

We're talking about LCC, right?  I'm having a hard time following what exactly it is that's going on because of all the links and links to other links OP posted, but LCC as an altcoin doesn't have anything unique about it except for that hive functionality that operates like a mining/PoS feature, I guess.  Its price is low, as are a lot of altcoins that have a supply of hundreds of millions to billions, but like the rest of them they'd be useful if merchants would take them as payment.

I've seen that "unnamed exchange" place pop up a lot whenever I'm browsing new cpu-mineable coins just for fun.  That scam accusation from examplens is well over a year old, and it looks as though the exchange is still in business.  Anyway, none of that has to do with OP's problem, which I'm still not comprehending 100%.  It sounds like he's been locked out of the LCC discord....?

OP, could you give a TL;DR to a feeble-brained member like myself (who's probably not drunk enough coffee as well)?  I'm curious, because LCC is one of the small number of altcoins I'm interested in.

Yeah, so the question OP posed is essentially a speculative one, although DdmrDdmr dropped those numbers to give a general sense of how long it would take a member who's an above-average poster (presumably) to get to Hero status.

For the average newbie who's only here to earn money through bounties, or the ones who just want to be part of the community without focusing on rank?  Yikes.  It's going to take a long time commitment on their part if they're even thinking of getting to that rank.  But you know what?  Hero Member is the penultimate rank here, and it's not supposed to be a piece of cake to become one--especially not since the merit system was implemented.  All of those people who start threads in Meta asking how they can earn merits or rank up should realize that fact.

Thank you for using my preferred moniker; I see it as a sign of respect--and also that you pay attention to things, unlike so many members who just drop post after post without ever reading.  Good on you, sister.

Big daddy T can smoke the chocolate for all I care, but it'd be so nice if he did me the smallest of favors (you could even consider it my reward for being a merit source) and changed my username.  Or, failing that, at least increase my sMerit allocation.  I've got a waiting list for post history reviews that stretches around the block and no merits to give.  Hope you're reading this, my man.

And congrats to you on reaching Full Member, Sandra!  It's obvious you put a lot of effort into your posts, strange and amusing as they often are.  Your personality is distinct and comes across in your writing, and with the vast majority of members here that's not the case.  Pick any thread in the gambling section, or even Bitcoin Discussion and you'll see so many posts that indicate nothing about the person writing them.  They're all so bland and cookie-cutter, so it's refreshing when a character like you shows up.  Keep up the good work.

I haven't used the search function on Ninjastic's site before--could it serve as a replacement for the one OP is (rightfully) complaining about?  I'll have to check it out.

And yeah, everything about the search functionality here has been ridiculously broken for years.  It's not just that it's slow; it lacks useful features like filters and often turns up only slightly relevant results.  And I'm pretty sure you can't do a forum-wide search for anything, but somebody correct me if I'm wrong about that.

I don't know how search engines are created, but am I correct in assuming that there was one coded into the software (SMF?) bitcointalk is using by the creator of that software?  If so, can that code be tweaked?  I would assume the answer would be yes, but I don't know how any of that works--but I'm curious.

The simple fact that you created an ANN thread to promote your shitcoin shows that you're suggesting (at the very least) that people should invest in/mine/use your coin.  So yes, you did tell me and anyone else reading this thread to invest.

I surely can; can you understand an insult when it is written?  More to the point: could you possibly have come up with a worse name for an altcoin than this?  There's already a Theta, and on miningpoolstats they even link to the wrong coin on coinpaprika.

I never made that claim, so I'm not sure why you wrote that.

In other words, your big innovation is the wallet, which allows people to pay for things using cryptocurrency?

Yeah, and that would start with the decision as to how to allocate block rewards.  And oddly enough, all of these new ghostrider coins do something like this:


This coin is for charity?  Why give 3% of every block to the devs?  What foundation are you talking about?  Are you telling us Babacoin has its own foundation?  That would be laughable if it weren't so fucking stupid.

Just like all the other new cpu-mineable coins, and those exchanges will be risky, fly-by-night ones that specialize in listing shitcoins that no reputable exchange would.

BS.  Your goal is to make money, so you're not helping your case by being a bald-faced liar.  If what you said were true, the block reward system wouldn't be what it is.  Furthermore, what charities accept Babacoin?  Why not allocate part of the block reward to any of them, if there are any that accept this shitcoin.

That statement about religion, language, and race sounds very much like the devs are deciding on what charities would be donated to--and that doesn't compute.  It doesn't make any sense at all.

Your shitcoin wouldn't ever have gotten any publicity after you dumped a bunch of coins onto the market if you hadn't created a thread here. 

That second sentence makes no sense.  Who told you to create this thread?  Also, you know damn well why announcing the newest shitcoin via an ANN thread is of utmost importance, hence the thread we're having this nice little conversation in now.

Speaking of innovation, theta shita has none.  These are your main selling points from your website:



So please tell me how theta is any different from other coins using the ghostrider algo and why anyone should invest in it over other gr coins or any other altcoins for that matter.  Seriously, tell me.

Dude, OP....you're asking for trouble by starting threads like this after posting stuff like what LoyceV linked to.  Clearly you're just fishing, hoping some sucker will take pity on someone who just can't figure this big, complicated merit system out.

You don't need a higher rank.  You're doing just fine right where you're at.

Oh, and on top of all that, the core wallet is just a straight copy-paste of the new Raptoreum wallet.

This is just one of those new cpu-mineable coins that's profitable in the very beginning and then falls off a cliff within a month.  I don't see how Jagoan offers anything that adds to what RTM can already do.

I've been looking at all the new CPU coins for a while now, and they all start off with the same mining pools and the same low-grade exchanges that I wouldn't trust not to pull some KYC shit right when you want to withdraw.

Edit: Ah, I see it was forked from Yerbas, another hot CPU-mineable coin at the moment (with a 5% dev fee rewarded each block, which is a joke since it's just another fork coin). 

Someone please explain why "3% Dev 1% Exchange 1 % Community Reward" (source: Github) is built into the block reward.  The devs need 3% for what?  Doing copy-paste work?  Look here, from the website:



There's no mention whatsoever what the "community reward" is.  And how does rewarding the devs "maintain the security of the network"?

And lookie here:



Hands-fucking-down that has to be the worst slogan for any coin, project, or anything else a slogan can be applied to.  You can tell this was generated by non-English speakers who have no sense of what these words really mean.

By the way, I am an editor-for-hire and can make websites like this read so much better than the devs can manage, assuming they're not native English speakers.  But even then, I'm pretty sure I could write circles around them.

One last thing.....using a telegram bot for staking?