The iconic threads should be required reading for noobs, and they should also have to pass a test on the content before spamming their low effort sig campaign ads.

Looks like a SCAM.

Why??

• No Team, No faces on the website.
• Bold claims of 0.4-2% returns per day.

• Newbie Profile.
• Whitepaper with images. Takes 1 hour to make.

STAY AWAY, GUYS.  STAY AWAY.

My question was more related to two rules conflicting that anything illegal will be removed but ponzi schemes remain on the forum and won't be removed by moderators. I'm pretty sure that almost all countries find ponzi schemes illegal. I can't find a list of countries that have banned it

Excuse me, but in which country is investment fraud legal?

Unless the forum changes a post and or specifically endorses it courts have for the most part regarded forums as distributors.

Vod is correct and it is not a loophole it's put in place to not restrict freedom of speech, if the distributors had to vet and take responsibility for everything they distributed they would ultimately sell significantly less material for fear of liability in any area they sold (which could be wildly different).  This puts the liability exactly where it should, the person making the statements and not the person/company distributing the information.

I believe it does not apply since the forum didn't create the content - it just hosts it.

Ripoffreport has been using this legal "loophole" - successfully - for years.

In March 2017, the Italian Data Protection Authority affirmed that Ripoff Report's activities — namely, Ed Magedson's requests for money to edit web pages — are illegal in Italy. The Italian authorities also noticed that Ripoff Report's web servers are occasionally not reachable from Italy in order to evade controls by the authorities themselves. Besides, they noticed that some web pages — which were being investigated by the authorities — were deleted out of the blue by the website owner, despite the claim that Ripoff Report does not remove reports.

Hello guys!

Bitcointalk forum is a great large community.
I think it has sens to create an icon for Bitcointalk forum as other media resources have (for ex. Medium). It would be obviously useful to place such icon on web pages in some cases, isn't it?
If yes, let's discuss ideas.

PS. Of course, if the forum administration does not mind


 

Is there also a list of current 10 and up Bitcoin donators?  If so the Title can also be revised as Bitcoin millionaires. Imagine when bitcoin peaked almost 20k last year and on that time there is some who donates.  Whew.

People who have been tag as scammer or untrusty is because this occurred before Theymos implement the Trust system.

That is, it was up to him to tell anyone who was not trustworthy. With the implementation of the system, this became decentralized. But it seems that some remained with a tag as is the case of Matthew N. Wright.

Matthew has an interesting story. At one point, he bet that the famous Trendon Shavers, aka "Pirate @ 40", would return the money he had stolen, and then, with the absurd value that the bet would cost, he said it was just a joke.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101751.0


He still paid some people. But I do not know how much he has pay for the settlement.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140654

Hi, yesterday I stumbled upon this great payment option.

I read my way through many sites but now I have some questions that couldn't get answered.

1. Is Bitcoin really anonymous? I mean totally and completely? Is my ISP able to detect, that I have sent or received a Bitcoin payment? Maybe he is even able to see that I am running Bitcoin right now?

2. If I understood this correctly, my payment partners are not able to see who I am. Does this mean, they can not see my real IP adress? Only the Bitcoin-adress? Even if they monitors their network connections and stuff?

3. If there is a way for my ISP to tell that I am running Bitcoin or for my payment partners to find out my IP, would it be more safe to tunnel the network traffic through a VPN (payed with Paysafecard for example)? Could this be dangerous, because the VPN provider will be able to capture my payment?

4. What files need to be backed up for not losing my "money"? Only the wallet.dat or the whole Bitcoin AppData directory ?

5. Isn`t it possible to multiply a wallet and use it on different machines? This way you would double your money without doing anything for it.
Are there security measures for this case?

6. When someone loses his wallet, will there be a way to recreate the lost coins in the system ? Else the 21 million maximum will not be correct.
(I mean not to recover the lost coins for one person, but if all the 21mio coins were created, and someone loses his wallet with 1mio coins, will the the others be able to create these 1mio coins now or are they totally lost for the bitcoin network?)

7. I have read that there currently are about 130k blocks out there. At my pc it only shows me about 24k. Is there something wrong or is this a normal behaviour ?

8. I`m afraid I didn`t understand everything about the bitcoin creation. How many coins are created by a machine in 24h in average?

9. I know that port 8333 should be forwarded to the bitcoin-running machine. Now I ask myself if this goes for the TCP or the UDP.
And is this port required for generating coins? Or only for payment transactions?

10. I`ve seen that the source code for bitcoin is open for everybody. Can this be an actual danger? If the code is manipulated people can create more bitcoins than others, can`t they? This would be a massive leak of security.

11. I`ve seen a formular to clalculate the coins that will be created in a certain amount of time. It had something to do with the maximum cpu speed and the availabe. Can`t find it anymore, so I`m asking you to explain me the coin creating. Do slow machines produce as much coins as high-end ones?

12. Are there any other exchanging systems or potential payment partners except for new liberty standard?

13. What happens when my system crashes? Is the wallet saved automatically or only when bitcoin gets closed manually? (Maybe even real-time saving when a coint is created or payment is made?)

14. Is there a way to see how many bitcoins have been generated this far? And how old is Bitcoin already?

I know .... Many many questions but I am really interested in your service and want to know everything before I start using it more frequently.


(Sorry for my bad English...)

EDIT 2014-10-31: grammar and typos

1-3:
For that level of anonymity you need to connect through TOR, which will be possible with version 0.2, which is only a few weeks away.  I'll post TOR instructions at that time.

4:
Version 0.1.5: backup the whole %appdata%\Bitcoin directory.
Version 0.2: you can backup just wallet.dat.

5:
Nope.  The whole design is all about preventing that from working.

6:
Those coins can never be recovered, and the total circulation is less.  Since the effective circulation is reduced, all the remaining coins are worth slightly more.  It's the opposite of when a government prints money and the value of existing money goes down.

7:
It's currently 29,296 blocks.  The circulation is the number of blocks times 50, so the current circulation is 1,464,800 bc.  

If you only have 24k blocks, it must not have finished the initial block download.  Exit bitcoin and start it again.  Version 0.2 is better/faster at the initial block download.

8:
Typically a few hundred right now.  It's easy now but it'll get harder as the network grows.

9:
Good question, it's TCP.  The website needs to be updated to say TCP port 8333.

The port forwarding is so other nodes can connect to you, so it helps you stay connected because you are able to be connected with more nodes.  You also need it to receive payments by IP address.

10:
No, the other nodes won't accept that.

Being open source means anyone can independently review the code.  If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security.  I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.

11:
Slower machines produce fewer coins.  It's proportional to CPU speed.

12:
There are more coming.

13:
It uses a transactional database called Berkeley DB.  It will not lose data in a system crash.  Transactions are written to the database immediately when they're received.

14:
For now, you can just multiply the total blocks by 50.  The Bitcoin network has been running for almost a year now.  The design and coding started in 2007.

> Can nodes tell which bitcoin addresses belong to which IP addresses?

No.

This is an interesting archive fact finding chronological layout of the events that took place. Long but interesting to read. I recently read a nice post on the same topics by theyoungmillionaire called The Silk Road seized and the downfall of Mt.Gox (Bitcoin Discussion section), from early May 2018. Both approaches are different in style so reading both is no issue at all.

I did not expect that a lot of donations were in 2017, it turns out that the minimum donation was $ 7900 and the maximum could be 200 000 $, and in 2018 there no donations at all, although half a year has passed.

It seems to me that spam is just a symptom, and the reason is the crazy popularity growth of crypto currencies, everything is changing, perhaps at one time only constructive dialogues were conducted on this forum, but now there are plenty of newcomers, most of whom understand little about smart contracts, decentralization and crypto currencies in general and aims only to earn, is it bad? Of course it's bad, but maybe in a year or so, these people will start to study those things, and in five years they will be able to bring something of their own into the crypto community, in everything there can be positive sides.

Those donators have all been the quality this forum had at that time and we realize that when we read the threads from that time. They being missing is one of the reasons why the forum is in such a situation where spam is the first thing you see when you open a section to read something good.

I really wish they didn’t allow altcoins on this forum at all. There is nothing that can be done using any altcoin that can’t be done with bitcoin. You can make bitcoin private, you can make bitcoin faster, bla, bla.