I could see some traffic here but really, there are already so many scams stuff like irc and private chats just makes scamming easier for the scammers. Generally, if I actually need to speak real time with someone I've met online, I've already vetted them and I just use Skype
If you get lots of features on your site, and if you monetize it you might do ok

Aren't these things illegal? If you did the same thing with fiat you would get locked up.

I'm content with my ledger. The price got me and it's easy to use, is run by trustworthy people. I'm surprised it isn't more popular. I guess people want to pay too much?

I don't like trezor- too many moving parts (led screen) I always feel it could break. I much prefer ledger. Much simpler. Fewer worries. Ledger also costs a lot less. I'm not sure why trezor is so popular, I guess people think more money = better product... Worked out pretty good for Mac (which is garbage, but expensive therefore amaze balls)

It is well past the date when the fines ken owes are due. Now men is wanted by the federales and will be put in jail. I'm pretty sure he hasnt bothered to pay any fines. Shawn Haggerty told me its up to the FBI to track down people who refuse to pay. If anyone knows where he's at give the gmen a heads up.

I've been pulling for this for years. It just makes sense. Btc is the only real innovation in economics in decades. I'm sure if satoshi was not pseudonymous and anonymous he would already be a laureate and the problem of "who do we give the medal to?" Is what holds them back

Yup PoS coins are like bubbles (or ponzis) you can make money providing you enter and exit at the correct times. And the money you make is directly related to the money someone else is losing. I would say that sort of unethical approach to taking profit is NOT sustainable. If it hurts an individual it hurts the whole community.

There must be be sustainable investments in the btc world (I'm watching coinsilium right now) but they are not listing in these boards. Bitcointalk securities reputation is so bad no self respecting company would even bother.

Btc is only worth discussing with people who have at least a little understanding, otherwise it's just Greek to them and you bore them/ wear them out. I've dropped the notion on people, informed them of what btc is, but unless they are receptive you risk confusing even alienating them. Finance and economics are not child's play not simple concepts. If you don't know 100% what you speak of you can do more damage than good.

That said, I drop my subtle hints, let them know what's up, and sooner or later they are coming to me with inquiries. Seems I'm the only guy they know who knows anything.

I don't want to evangelize and thump bibles but I can help you if you want.

I think the number one idea for coming here (for me at least) was to learn. When I joined in 2011 there really were no other places to learn about and discuss btc. I needed knowledge.

During my stay here I've had ideas. I've seen others with bright ideas. I've seen them come and I've seen them go. All sorts of bright ideas. Maybe 1% actually took hold and were useful the rest were just pissing in the wind. Sorry guy, but the worlds full of brilliant thinkers with great ideas. The road to hell is also paved with good intentions.
You will have to excuse me now because I need to lead my horse to water...

typical Russian hubris. Admits he's a crook, but wants everyone to thank him for being such a great help to the community.

arent there any anti-ponzi laws in russia?

the only thing i am interested in buying right now is more bitcoins.

my brother is probably the most interested family member regarding btc. he is a far left libertarian, conspiracy theorist dope smoking nutcase who has over 100k worth of silver bars buried... somewhere...

i kid you not. he's all 911 was an inside job and everything. i know for a fact he has all that silver too, ive seen it when he bought it (yeah he bought most of it all at once... i didn't say he was smart) i have no idea where he buried it, but i do know he has guns, so i wouldn't go snooping.

anyway, when i first got into btc he was the only person in my family who would have any sort of discussion with me about it. he wanted me to buy him ONE (1) btc and store it for him....

I basically told him that that is not what btc is about. i could store his btc, but i wont because HE should be HIS OWN BANK. I pointed him at all the relevant info (here, bitcoin.com, bitcoin wiki) and told him to read up and educate himself

a month later he comes to me and says hes got it all under control, but is a little leary of the exchanges. too much ID required plus it was just after gox.

I was gifted 0.25 btc years ago when i first joined this forum by a very generous user, so i paid it forward and sent my bro 0.25 btc.

the next time i talked to him, a week later, he had already forgotton his wallet, where it was, what his password was and where he put his private key.

fuckin idiot threw 0.25 btc down the toilet.

NEVAR AGAIN

you dont have too research very deep to see that faucets do not pay well. pennies at best. no one is going to get rich and only a fool thinks otherwise. what faucets ARE good for is proving how great btc is for MICROTRANSACTIONS!

there are PTC sites that pay cash money. they pay a fraction of a cent per every click to your account but you can not withdraw until you reach a minimum for payout. i've only looked casually once years ago but i seem to remember the minimum was something like 5 dollars. you would have to make tens of thousands of clicks to reach minimum. I am sure many suckers went in thinking they could squeeze a quick fiver out of these sites only to waste a few hundred hours to make less than a dollar before giving up and letting the site keep the money already earned. site just got many many free clicks. brilliant!

with btc faucets there are minimums too, but they are much lower. around 10 thousand satoshis IIRC. if a faucet pays 1000 sat per hour you can conceivable make payout threshold in a day or two of casual visits. not hard to do even if you only earn 4 cents worth of btc, it is still achievable to actually get paid those 4 cents.

the whole thing is a great illustration of the value of btc as a micro payment system. it also shows the potential of btc as a content reward based advertising system. if you like my post/article/comment... you can easily send me a few bits (AND DONT EVEN MENTION CHANGETIP! %^&^$#)
just throw your wallet address around and maybe someone will make it rain.

oh yeah.... 1EPWs2GwcAkt2zoLS4M6bz59h9Piy5fDwr

so, in a nutshell... faucets; educational YES, profitable NO

bad for bitcoin? thats like saying giving a begger a penny is bad for money. it doesnt reflect on btc at all, just further proves it has enough value that some people will chase the tiniest amount.

hi, i would like to participate in this campaign.
here are my details;
a. User ID in www.cloudmining.website - 11028
b. Bitcointalk.org User Name - gogxmagog
c. Bitcointalk.org Total Post Count - 1905 (including this)
d. Bitcointalk.org Forum Rank - Legendary
e. Bitcoin Address that you have used to sign up in www.cloudmining.website. - 16CbDSRRfJ6G9vJsATS6nTaeEHbfP5qWzu

thanks

I can give everyone free advice on how to do better than OP for free. First make a blog and get Adsense. Next download jingling flow SEO helper (fake traffic generator) next make friends from around the world. Make them get blogs and traffic. Now visit each other's blogs every day. Open at least 20 pages of each blog visited and click one tasty looking .edu or legal or medical or finance ad. Everyone change IP every night. Clean cookies and bleach bit in between each blog visited.
If you have 20 friends participating you will get 20 clicks every day. You'll still get banned eventually but so will you get banned using OP's bogus click-farm, why not DIY?

most processed foods are unhealthy. processed meats are disgusting (except bacon) but the WHO is a sham. its like the UN of health care.  not worth listening to

OP you need to learn to ESL

Also, the 21 million limit can be changed but it would destroy the value of all btc. Since it could only be changed by consensus no one will do it. Even if some entity could buy up enough coins in 2140 to steal consensus it wouldn't be worth it. It would be like throwing billions down the toilet.

Same reasoning why a 51% attack will never happen

The secrecy and evasion is enough for me to call scam. I was almost interested but I looked into setting up these sorts of things and if you have the game coded you only need servers and promotion really.
If your mmporg is any good you could just sell it to any number of game companies for big bucks. They'd even give you shares.
Let us play the game and see if it's any good.
Come on it'd be fun

yeah it looks like a game of pure chance, but i'm not adverse to that. I'm going to try my luck on a few bets and see what happens. i will report back here with my results... guessing there wont be any amazing win stories

this is a great list, added it to my watch list. thanks very much for putting it together. i feel like it should be stickied here, but i guess that's up to the mods. good work mate!