Nope, there's no harm, although that's the kind of feedback one would hope could get removed before the person who left it died or abandoned the forum. 

Views on genocide aside, this is one of the reasons why I think the trust system needs an overhaul.  It's acceptable to leave neutral feedback for disagreements like this one between TECSHARE and OP, but the fact is that they're notes that should only be viewable to the member leaving the feedback.  Why have the ability to broadcast something about someone for all to see on their trust page?  Sure, most people won't care....but you never know.

Anyway, what's the point here, OP?  I don't think that feedback is going anywhere.  I can't remember the last time Theymos or a moderator stepped in and deleted a feedback.

Yeah, that's pretty much been the state of things for years, and the issue Little Mouse brought up here has been raised a number of times since I've been a member--and every time the discussion just dies down and goes away.  So unless Theymos suddenly starts implementing suggestions like these, I don't think anything is going to change.

I just noticed the (OP) tag was added, so maybe there's hope, because that was a pretty recent suggestion if I recall correctly.  But that change is a minor one compared to making changes in the trust system, which is mind-bogglingly complex and almost irreparably broken.

OP, I support you with this one.  The fact that anyone can leave anyone else any kind of feedback for any reason should tell you that things need to change.  But I've gotten so used to it that it's only mildly aggravating these days.

I agree, and even though "yield" is mentioned, that shouldn't automatically target it to be moved to the altcoin section.

Great thread, by the way.  It's from last year, but I've never seen it and it looks like a fantastic guide for anyone who's new to crypto and isn't aware of how scammy the entire space can be.  Definitely belongs in B&H for good and for all, eh mods?

Eh.  Those "brain gains" you mentioned happen over an extremely long period of time, and nature gives us no guarantees that the trend will continue, right?

I don't believe people are or ever will become smarter in the long run.  Science will always give the world more knowledge as long as there are scientists, but if we're talking about intelligence....that won't happen unless it comes about as a result of long-term evolution.  And even then, it would have to be the frontal cortex that enlarges for that to happen.  If other parts of the brain become more functional/efficient, people might become more emotional, have greater dexterity, or have other gains related to brain function.

But that's all speculation.  I think technology is making a lot of folks less interested in learning and more focused on themselves and their image.

I've heard of them but never tried them.  I'll have to look into it, although I'm not dead-set on buying any BTX, as the coin is practically dead.  Except that it's not completely dead, because their website looks like it's being updated and the price could be much worse.

If you look at the recent price action of Neblio, you might find an answer--although I'm not sure if it's just being manipulated or not.  There aren't that many coins in circulation (relatively speaking), so it wouldn't be difficult for someone with money to pump it up.  

But aside from that, noooo, I don't think it'd be a good idea for any coin to have partners, get bought out, whatever.  The less centralized, the better.  When I heard that apparently someone was buying out Neblio, the first thing I thought of was CBDCs or Ripple.  I have no interest in any crypto which has someone or some group running it.

Interesting.  I never really got interested in...whatever you call the thing that encompasses swapping and Pancakes and such.  DeFi, is it?  I may have to look into that as well.

Hmm.....I'm doing a post history review for the above member, and his account was registered in early 2016.  Either there's a big language issue here, or something else--and I'm becoming suspicious about what that something else might be.  I think I'm going to take a close look at his past posts to see if the account might have changed hands.

Not accusing imamusma of anything, just speaking out loud.  When an account that's a few years old writes things that would usually be written by a complete noob (except for when my dumb ass does it), there's reason to be suspicious.

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There's an enormous gap in imamusma's posting from 2016 to 2021 from what I can see, as well as a serious improvement in his use of English.  In the past, I've created threads in Reputation asking for help in research, but that seems to be a no-no these days.  Can anyone tell me what I ought to do now that I strongly suspect the account changed hands?  I don't have time to dig any deeper into this right now, but I'm reluctant to do nothing.

Sorry to have gone off-topic, but if anyone was going to merit imamusma's posts, let this serve as a warning until what I think is a dilemma gets sorted out.  And yes, I just gave him a bunch of merits, but it was only after reading Z-tight's post that I looked into imamusma's history.

Well, like human healthcare I think the animal health/pet supply industry is fairly recession-resistant, though not completely.  Nothing really is that I know of, and there are limits to which people are going to care for their pets.  In times of famine, people have been known to....well, you know.  Animals are a good source of protein, let's just put it that way.

But if OP or anyone else is looking for a good stock to buy, a company like Zoetis that specializes in making animal medicines might be a good choice.  I probably wouldn't invest in anything in the retail business, like Chewy and the like, because I think they would see their profits decline during a recession--but my opinion is that you just can't go wrong with healthcare, whether it's human or animal.  People have loved their pets for centuries and veterinarians aren't going broke, I can tell you that.

Ain't that the truth.  I have no sense of how active the local boards are, since unfortunately I don't speak any language other than English, but the Turkish board for example has made their presence known (though not in an entirely positive way) in the past when some members posted in the English section.  And I know damn well that bitcoin is popular the world over, so it makes sense that some of the local sections are buzzing with activity.

OP, I definitely support your application, and I hope Theymos considers it.  We lost a merit source somewhere along the way, and we probably needed to add a few anyway.  Even if your merit-giving is targeted primarily at the Portuguese community, I think that's a good thing.  More merit sources, Theymos!!

Obviously not; the government considers all of those activities to be economically productive but crypto mining...not even close.  Their goal isn't to completely eliminate greenhouse gasses and whatever else, which they couldn't do even if they took every automobile off the road and unplugged the power grids.  They think they're trying to eliminate what they perceive as unnecessary energy consumption--and bitcoin/altcoin mining certainly does use up a lot of electricity, no doubt.

But fuck them anyway.  Utilities are offering electricity for sale and have for decades, and without questioning what people are using that electricity for.  The government should keep their grubby little hands off the law book and let the market be free. 

Where's a republican president when you need one?

I've written with my emotions before, and yet I still correct any errors that jump out at my from my spell-checker.  In addition, I don't think he meant to write "tackle".  I think the word he might have been looking for was "heckle", but then again that's not a common word people use whose native language isn't English.  Anyway.

Good point and an obvious one at that, which I should have pointed out to OP.  There aren't any leaders here, except if you consider the members who are working for the forum (mods) or Theymos or Cobra(?). 

The rest of us have varying degrees of influence, but Theymos seems to run bitcointalk with a laissez-faire approach and lets people do pretty much what they want to do.  Last I checked, nobody here has claimed to be any kind of leader of the forum.  If someone were to do that, they'd probably get slapped harder and more publicly than Chris Rock at the academies.

You know what I think?  There shouldn't be a so-called blockchain capital.  It's nice that there are municipalities around the world (cities/states) who've touted themselves to be crypto-friendly and that some of the larger cities have been host to big conferences and other get-togethers, but that "blockchain capital" title just rubs me the wrong way, as it goes against the decentralized nature of bitcoin--and it's that decentralization that makes it so great.  Well, it's one of the reasons anyway.

Besides, any place could claim that title but it doesn't mean everyone would agree on it. 

Sweetheart, you've got that entirely backward.  The culture of bitcointalk was well established before I got here, which was in 2015, and it's not only unreasonable but extremely self-centered and egotistical to expect that culture to bend to your wishes simply because you got your fee-fees hurt. 

Translation: If you don't like how people here are, you leave the forum.  I don't know how many times I've told people they need to grow a spine if they're going to last as members here.  If you can't take criticism, or even a bit of hazing, you're in the wrong place.

"hacle".  Well, my guess is that people saw what you wrote before they had a chance to ignore you, so they responded however they did.  I'm posting first and reading this thread second, so I don't know the whole story, but I'll tell you that it's not uncommon for relative newcomers like yourself to get shit if they post something stupid/illogical/troll-y/whatever.  I guess I'll have to check your posts.

Despite everything you wrote in that post, there's no way in hell you could convince me that Kucoin's system isn't unnecessarily complicated.  Example: I can deposit coins into my trading account but can't withdraw them from it.  I have to manually transfer the coins to my main account and then go through all of those maddening steps I mentioned.  No need for any of that bullshit.

Look at SouthXchange or TradeOgre or even CoinEx.  There's none of that, so obviously exchanges can offer a whole bunch of services and function just fine without having that dual account nonsense.  I'm beginning to think Kucoin is going full retard.

Well how many fucking times do they want you to click on a popup to confirm that you really, really, really(!!!) want to make a withdrawal?  And I'm not sure I'm buying your argument that exchanges don't want you to withdraw coins, because some of them (and Kucoin in particular) make hefty profits via withdrawal fees that are way above network fees.  They're not afraid you're not going to come back and trade again, believe me.

Yes, because I still don't understand what that has to do with the part of your quote that I bolded, but let's move on.  Obviously there's an enormous language barrier present here.

My point was that I'm going to read both of your posts more closely if and when I do more post history reviews for the two of you.  I might not have expressed myself as clearly as I could have, but again, I get the feeling that you don't understand English--how to read it or write in it.  That would be perfectly fine except for the fact that you're posting in English, not to mention that you're getting paid to do so. 

Yeah, you can just slap me silly right now.  Try this: congratulations on earning enough merits to achieve Hero and then Legendary when you get enough activity points.  It's just a waiting game for you, which is a nice problem to have.

You don't have to thank me--you made the posts that earned the merits.  I'm just a helper in the process, a cog in the big merit wheel that keeps a-cycling.  It's a Cycling Club thing, you know?

No problem, buddy!  If you were drowning in a lake, I'd probably find it an excellent spot to take a piss whilst smoking a cigarette and laughing.  Simultaneously.

I wouldn't be laughing at your plea for gambling money disguised as some sort of security (that is what section this is in); I'd be laughing at the fact that there'd be one less cretin stinking up the hallways of this fine institution we call bitcointalk.  No offense intended, and I'd wish you luck in your endeavor but that would be disingenuous of me.

Man, that wallet sucks big time.  It is, hands down, one of the worst, least intuitive wallets I've ever come across.  In addition to that, I've lost coins (or at least can't find them) twice for who knows what reason.  And sometimes coins other than VRSC show up in it, sometimes not.  There's no obvious way to make a backup or to restore a wallet....the whole thing is just a big mess, and it's turned me sour on VRSC completely--and I like the idea of the coin a lot, too.

I've seen similar complaints on Reddit as well, so I know I'm not the only one who's frustrated.  Oh, and if I were the dev team I'd seriously be looking into getting the coin listed on some reputable exchanges.  Safetrade is as much of a clusterfuck as the Verus wallet is.

To the first statement above, I would tell you that I'm not making up conspiracy theories about Saylor.  As to the second, if you're implying that my opinion is invalid because I'm less educated and/or sophisticated than Michael Saylor....you know neither him nor me, so you know not whereof you speak, sir.  That's a silly argument to make, and it makes me wonder how this man has you so much under his spell.  If you don't like what I have to say in this thread, please skip to the last sentence of this post.

I'm not making anything up.  That's in your head, not in my words.  I speculated about what Saylor's perception of MSTR is--and I could very well be wrong about that, which is why I made it very clear that it was my own opinion.  What is clear is that MSTR is a public company and as such it has the obligation to do everything in the interest of its shareholders.  Saylor's decision to buy bitcoin was an extremely risky one to say the least, and not one that I've seen any other company do.  And what has it accomplished for those shareholders so far?  A stock price that peaked in 2021 and promptly fell back to where it was in 2020 (though it's higher than that now).  Do you know why other corporations don't replace the cash they keep in their treasuries with bitcoin?  Because they'd be engaged in gambling with company funds.  If you can tell me with a straight face that Saylor's bitcoin buys weren't gambling, you ought to take up poker as a profession.

You sure?  You know this how, because you haven't yet heard any of them complain about it?  Tell me, I'd love to know.

I'm sure all of those large institutional investors did indeed read all the relevant documents.  After all, they make up the majority of shareholders, not whoever it is you think you're referring to in such a juvenile manner. 

I have to think you don't comprehend the English language very well--and I'm not saying that to be insulting.  If I knew shareholders and how they felt, I wouldn't have have written "I wonder how they feel right now..".  Your response to my post is overwrought to say the least.  I don't think I've ever slammed Saylor in this thread, though I've been critical of his moves with respect to purchasing bitcoin. 

If that's something that makes your blood boil just put me on ignore, OK?

Are you saying what I think you're saying?  And by that I mean are you suggesting that the US might find a reason to invade Afghanistan again in order to pillage their lithium?  Either way, that was the first thing I thought when I read the blurb about them having so much of it.  You know the good 'ol U-S-of-A wouldn't think twice about lying to its citizens about sending troops to a country to fight; it's been done before, and I'm sure it'll be done again.

On a less dark note, maybe lithium will become the next precious metal (or at least its price will make it appear as such, sort of like nickel).  But I'll tell you, if you have bipolar disorder and lithium is the only drug that works for you, you better watch out.  The drug companies that sell lithium carbonate and other salts of Li are probably going to start running low on the key ingredient.  There could be an outbreak of some really off-the-wall people coming soon if electric cars do suddenly become all the rage.

I don't know why I merited the above post.  Actually, I do.  Because effort was put into it, and I was being generous--but I don't understand the bolded part and it's obvious I should have read it more closely.  Shoot me now, someone.

_BlackStar, congrats on ranking up.  I like that pic you posted of your top merit-givers; I like it so much, I should probably download it just to stroke my ego when I'm feeling blue.  Happy to help you out, and I hope you help out lower-ranked members with any sMerits you have, as you know how important it is to people in the ranking up process.  Pay it forward, my man.

Are you being serious with that statement?  I'd like to know, since you've asked me for a post history review, and if you are indeed serious then I'm going to judge your posts relative to _BlackStar's, who very clearly puts a good amount of thought into his.  Same with indah rezqi above.

Um, sure....but how many companies have we seen over the years that weren't looking out for their shareholders, weren't honest about their business practices or accounting, and/or that engaged in blatantly illegal activities that their shareholders couldn't have known about? 

I'm not saying the above statement applies to MSTR; my point is that corporations often don't heed obligation you mentioned and will take their chances with lawsuits in order to take unwarranted risks in order to boost their profits (and the compensation of the head executives, mainly).

I really don't know how Michael Saylor thinks, but with respect to his purchases of bitcoin by MSTR, it could very well be that since every other shareholder except him is a minority one, he believes it to be his own company to do with as he wishes.  The truth is that it isn't.  If he wanted it to be, he should take it private.  Again, I haven't heard any outcry about his bitcoin purchases but I can't help wondering if MSTR shareholders would have wanted him to sink so much of MSTR's money into an extremely volatile, relatively new type of asset/currency.  I also wonder how they feel right now with bitcoin sitting under $19k and the stock continuing to slide.