Has everyone been paid yet? Those people that are in the first weeks and didn't get paid, have you got your payments? I'm posting so I can remove the red asterisk on this campaign's name if so.

Yes, it is still running. It is managed by Avirunes and the funds are escrowed by Lutpin.

There are certain aspects where cash is better than bitcoin like cash can be used offline, and you can transact instantly. But these features would never beat bitcoin's features. First of all, bitcoin is something that is not subjected to inflation. Cash, you don't have the assurance that tomorrow it has the same purchasing power as yesterday. Although it's really unlikely that your country will have a hyperinflation with your currency, your currency is constantly inflating anyway.

Bitcoin was designed to deflate (read bitcoin's supply decreases over time) and so the price continues to go up in the long run. Bitcoin also do not depend on the economy of a certain country. We can have wars and whatnot but bitcoin wouldn't be so affected unlike the fiat currency of the countries involved.

[1] The most undervalued coins are shit coins which are at 1 satoshis each. I don't think that you can maximize your earnings by buying those because they are never going to be revived in the market. Coins come and go. If the coin dies, it doesn't get noticed by others at all because there's already a new coin in the market being hyped.

[2] Honestly, that's not "diversifying" at all because when bitcoin is down, all the other coins are down as well. It was just recently when that has happened. All the coins went down and even if you invested in 10 coins, you could not have saved yourself from the dump. Diversifying is more like investing on two things that are completely different from each other.

I would say that one of the "flaws" of a regular guy is that we always feel that we have to always deal with negativity. They talk behind your back, there's a reason why they are behind you. Remember that. They are behind you not only physically or figuratively but they are behind you in life. You have bitcoins, that's all that matters. Their opinions and how you fight your battle against them isn't relevant. I think that you're just going to stress yourself if you start facing these people. Just continue being low-key about the things that you do (that's how it should be anyways) and let the bitcoin haters hate.

It's possible that they are actually jealous of you for living ahead of them and having an advanced way of earning money. People hate themselves so they cope with it by throwing hate to other people too. Nonetheless, it shouldn't matter.

One problem of people is their desire for instant things. They want to earn money? They want to earn it now. So even when the earnings is really low, they are going to go for it just because it pays right away. Smart workers will not do the same thing. They will study and learn for themselves so they would have something to offer to the people and to the community, and ultimately get paid for it.

Just freelancing work alone requires a lot of time. You have to learn a skill and be good at it. You don't have to be just only competent, but you have to be one of the best out there. A lot of people are already competent and being simply competent isn't enough anymore.

I would never come to understanding why there are people that think bitcoin is hard to use in their daily lives just because they can't use it to pay directly. It is believed to be one of the biggest issues of bitcoin but I believe it's not. You simply have to convert your bitcoin first into fiat before you can use it. It's not that hard since the money will go directly to your bank account when you cash out your bitcoins.

There are also online wallets that have partnerships with large companies. They implement their system so bitcoin users can pay their bills online with a receipt that you actually paid. So it's not so bad after all. You can still use it as payment but not for all merchants.

Funny because the "stupid" games that you are referring to are actually needed by a child. They need to be physically active so their mind and body would develop well. Someone who's immobilized right from childhood will be morbidly obese. It's just a matter of time. They are letting their kids play "stupid games" (maybe sports) because it's what people are used to make kids do.

Tablet and PC are great. But little kids don't really need them. I have a niece that's really into gadgets and at a very young age, she's starting to gain weight. You will always see her watching TV and using her very own cellphone, do you think that's a good idea? The parents that you are talking about are probably just trying to avoid this to happen to their children.

I certainly doubt that will happen. The scenario that we currently have with the banks is that if your money gets lost because of them, then they are refunding your money. In some countries, when someone hacked you or when you get scammed by someone or just some "theft" stuff has happened, they are refunding your money as well. But the only reason why they do that is because they have unlimited supply of paper money. Yup, unlimited, they are just printing out all the needed paper money and then that's it. Remember, paper money is nothing but paper that people believe it has value.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, once lost is lost. Let's say that the government's very own bitcoin bank gets hacked, they can't do their magic of making more money. Bitcoin is different. They can't just mine instantly these coins and refund their people.

I'm certain that in case ICOs don't reach their minimum target, then they are burning their coins and they are refunding the money to the investors. This rarely happens specially on ICOs here on bitcointalk. Very little of them do not reach the minimum target but very few as well have reached their maximum target.

I think the reason why people wait for an ICO to reach the minimum target is so that they aren't going to have to wait for a coin that they aren't certain they aren't getting (if that makes sense lol). Imagine if you invested in a coin and ended up just burning the coin and refunding you, then you just wasted your time.

The price of bitcoin will surely not go down as the value of dollar goes down. Let's assume the worst case scenario which is USD going hyper inflated. Bitcoin might even go up because Americans know of bitcoin and just a little bit of research and they will find out that it's good store of value. Bitcoin isn't dependent on USD, let alone the whole fiat system. Bitcoin can stand alone and even all of these fiat money gets hyper inflated (AKA dies), bitcoin will continue to live.

Most of the time they are all denied and there's only few accepted on every batch of enrollment. They have been running for years now and they surely are active.

I honestly think it's a good idea because it will weed out those people that don't know how to listen to others. These people that hates bitcoin don't fully understand what bitcoin is so they think it's a scam. Oh boy, if you're the kind of person that won't even try and do basic research with Google, then you're better be not here. You are just going to be spoon fed and you're just giving the moderators a job to ban you.

Simply searching "Is bitcoin a scam?" will negate all your negative feelings towards bitcoin. One thing that I learned about the world (by living in it lol) is that there are people that refuse to hear new things and they embrace thing that makes them hate something more. They only accept the things that they want to hear so when they heard someone say "I heard that bitcoin is a scam." they will rush into joining that conversation and throw their hate altogether.

Not necessarily "poorer", the currency simply will have lesser value. The ones that will be really affected are the people that live in that country. Without knowing at all, the prices of the goods and services go up because their fiat's purchasing power has went down, and in most places, it's constantly going down.

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There might be some news in your country about people printing out fake money by themselves but this topic is not about that. This topic is about the government printing more and more fiat currency (dollars) in order to solve financial problems of the country that they govern. And the answer is that the purchasing power of their currency will go down and it will go down even more as they print more.

This is basically what you have said:
"Bitcoin is a good investment in the past, therefore, it's a good investment."

Along with long term thinking, we should also learn how to diversify and how to get out of the market once things are going bad. Maybe it's not yet the time for bitcoin but sooner or later, bitcoin will go down. It might be in the far future but the fall of something is inevitable. Something better will always come along the way. We might not be able to imagine it by now, maybe because we still don't have the technology for it, but it will surely happen.

Learn how to get out of an investment that's starting to go bad and diversify so you have a plan B. For example, you can be doing bitcoins today but you can start diversifying your money by investing on a business in real life. It's really hard to find out which businesses are profitable so you have to start talking to people that knows these things. You can't just go straight to the owner of a store/business and ask them straight ahead how much they are making. You have to do research without them knowing that there's a potential competition coming up.

You can as well claim that life is difficult because life has constant drama in it. Just like in life, drama doesn't really affect you that much. Jihan Wu has tweeted again, did not reading it affect you? Did not knowing about Vitalik's opinion affect you? I believe not. I stopped reading about the drama in bitcoin when I realized that it's nothing but drama. There's nothing especial about it. If you start reading about drama, you will just be depressed and anxious about what might happen.

In reality, these things don't affect you at all. If the price went down and it's because of a popular Bitcoin user, does it matter? You couldn't have prevented that from happening. The price will always fluctuate as it may.

tl;dr: Drama will never affect you. The price will go up and down and that's all normal.

Hi! I just listed your campaign in the overview of signature campaign thread. I just have one question. Do you hold funds for this campaign or is the company themselves going to be the one to send out payments? Thanks

I put "No" in escrow status in the mean time.

Looks good to me, thanks for the info. I'll check it via developer tools next time.

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Try to do portrait view and then zoom it out just like actmyname's screenshot.

It's 0.0048 BTC not 0.048BTC. You're missing a zero. Thanks for the comment by the way, I'll edit the WorkingForBitcoins tomorrow to WorkingFor BTC

Edit: Actually I'll do it now. Please leave a comment about it again.

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Thanks, my primary concern was people that use a phone or tablet to browse. People that are using a phone will do a landscape mode to view the table but can they see it without having to scroll left/right is the question.

The Internet connection doesn't matter that much anymore because Internet is available almost everywhere. This is certainly true especially when you live in a first world country or at least you live in a city in a third world country. For the high transaction fee and long transaction time, well that's just the case for bitcoins. This topic is for the whole cryptocurrency so you should start using altcoins.

There have been campaigns in the past that have changed from paying with bitcoin to paying with ETH because of the high tx fee. I suggest you start doing that. It's obvious that you weren't aware of that.