I'm also getting tired of all the "bitcoin is banned" threads. I've been reading threads here for like 2 months already and I haven't really found news of any country of significance that has outright banned bitcoin. Most of those in the news are either countries trying to put up some form of regulation, like in China's case (which I welcome) or warning their citizens to be careful in using Bitcoin, like India. In fact most of the news I'm seeing is starting to be promising. For example the Philippines is starting to regulate bitcoin.
http://www.philstar.com/business/2017/01/30/1667297/bsp-regulates-bitcoin-usage Though it might sound a bit threatening regular users really need not worry. Some people are already using it to send remittances, the gov't regulating it might encourage other workers abroad to use it due to trust. Who knows business might become more willing to accept bitcoin for payments here, after all foreign remittance fuel consumption here (makes up at least 10% of gdp).
I read that many times and I am always quoting it that it is not really banned, and just "not being endorsed by the government"... Maybe signature campaign posters/farmed accounts are the ones always stating that it is being banned...
Maybe they just lack the time to research and just focuses on earning in campaign... Get used to it, there are much worst post than that that I encounter everyday...
On that topic it's really getting annoying, the general discussion page is just 50% newbies posting generic or controversial topics followed by a flood of people spamming the same message for their sig campaign quotas because they never bother reading beyond the OP. Bet those newbies are all alt accounts made for this purpose (sigdumping) *puts on tinfoil hat*. But yes, there are worse, still doesn't excuse them though
I've been reading stuff in this forum for some time now and have never started a single thread, mostly cause I'm still trying to learn more and most threads have enough answers (of course unless there's like 50-80 pages to scroll through, hard to read all that). I just find it a bit weird that newbies are allowed to start threads. The worst that I've seen are those that would just post a url. Not a single sentence, not even a word, just a url. IMHO members should be at least Jr. Member rank to start their own threads. That should probably reduce the amount of spammy threads since they'd actually have to hang out for some time here to reach Jr. Granted, some Newbies do post interesting stuff but they are outnumbered by the spammers.
