The Community Test

[calme]

Tomorrow I will post the private key for a wallet holding 10 BTC.

Then, I will check the balance after ten days.

That will tell me if this is a community I want to be a part of.

[tarmi]

why dont you leave your wallet on a public bench for 10 days and see what will happen?

[Evilish]

You can do the same with just 0.1 BTC and the result would be same.

[dbshck]

No need to wait for 10 days, it'll be emptied within a minute no doubt! :p

Why would you do something like this? This is very unnecessary. We're on an internet forum which don't even require an email verification, and you expect no one would "claim" this 10 BTC?

[calme]

why dont you leave your wallet on a public bench for 10 days and see what will happen?

Maybe I will. If the wallet on the public bench holds more money after ten days, I'll know it's a good community.

[Elwar]

why dont you leave your wallet on a public bench for 10 days and see what will happen?

Maybe I will. If the wallet on the public bench holds more money after ten days, I'll know it's a good community.

What community are you talking about? There is no community, just a lot of individuals with their own thoughts and ideals who happen to share an interest in Bitcoin.

[NeuroticFish]

Tomorrow I will post the private key for a wallet holding 10 BTC.

Then, I will check the balance after ten days.

That will tell me if this is a community I want to be a part of.

Unless this is trolling (these days such claim is more likely to be trolling, but I'll assume it's not), for your own good, 0.1 or even 0.01 BTC will do the job.
If you will publish the private key in plain, with no tricks / puzzles, you can check back in minutes, it will be already emptied.

[Honeybooboo]

You can do the same with just 0.1 BTC and the result would be same.

Someone might hand it in. Also depends on how much or what was inside it, but we alll know what would happen if op did this (though I don't believe he is going to).

[neoneros]

Good news everybody/// Tomorrow I will put an envelope on central station holding 200 dollars, if it is gone within ten days I do not want to live on this planet anymore.. allready booked my flight, so goodbye to you all!

[NeuroticFish]

Tomorrow I will post the private key for a wallet holding 10 BTC.

Then, I will check the balance after ten days.

That will tell me if this is a community I want to be a part of.

Unless this is trolling (these days such claim is more likely to be trolling, but I'll assume it's not), for your own good, 0.1 or even 0.01 BTC will do the job.
If you will publish the private key in plain, with no tricks / puzzles, you can check back in minutes, it will be already emptied.

Minutes? You are being generous, I say someone already coded a small script to watch this post history for any private key string and transfer all the coins in a glimpse

If I would still not believe that he's trolling, I would make that script myself.
10 BTC is a great prize for some 1-2h of work (that much because I lack experience on this yet).

[funtotry]

Haha this is a terrible idea, Maybe if there was a private VIP section with only long or trusted members it would be a better test to see if the trusted people break, but definitely not in the public forums 2000$ just sitting there. It will be gone in seconds...

[Elwar]

You should PM it to me to see how trustworthy I am first.

[Brad Pitt]

Tomorrow I will post the private key for a wallet holding 10 BTC.

Then, I will check the balance after ten days.

That will tell me if this is a community I want to be a part of.

Unless this is trolling (these days such claim is more likely to be trolling, but I'll assume it's not), for your own good, 0.1 or even 0.01 BTC will do the job.
If you will publish the private key in plain, with no tricks / puzzles, you can check back in minutes, it will be already emptied.

Of course he is trolling. He's not going to do this but it is obvious what would happen. Someone would take the money. Though maybe someone decent could take the money then send it back to you to prove a point.

[ChuckBuck]

Haha you might as well as well run through a corn field in the pitch dark naked to see if you get poked in the hiney!  It's gonna happen.

Posting such non sense in a public forum, where they maybe a couple of bad actors amongst thousands of visitors each day is a bad example of what the community represents.

Just like if you walk through a bad neighborhood alleyway where murders and rapes took place, and you come out unscathed, doesn't mean it's not a bad alleyway.

Not a good measure of what a Bitcoin community is all about.

If you really really want to know what the community is all about, you'd go to those Bitcoin meetups, conventions, meet with developers, meet with people near you:

http://bitcoin.meetup.com/

Not stupid stunts like this!

[DannyHamilton]

You should PM it to me to see how trustworthy I am first.

Exactly.

I can provide a list of a dozen forum members.  You can send the private key to all of them via PM.  Then 10 days later you can check to see if the funds are still there.

This forum is open to the entire internet.  With your current plan, if your funds are taken, it's quite likely that someone that is not a member of the forum took your funds.  If you make your private key available to the entire internet, then you aren't really testing "this community" are you?.

[vennali]

why dont you leave your wallet on a public bench for 10 days and see what will happen?

Maybe I will. If the wallet on the public bench holds more money after ten days, I'll know it's a good community.

Dafaq did I just see?? y would anyone put more cash into a unknown wallet? a good community is that..which would give it to lost and found..n they give it back to the owner with the same cash..not more cash..lol.

[Q7]

Whether your bitcoin is still there or not after 10 days how will that help to tell you whether this community is where you wanna be. What's the logic behind it?

[calme]

y would anyone put more cash into a unknown wallet?

To make it a good investment. The more cash is added, the more new wallets can be placed around town for the community to fill.

[rememberme]

lmfao

[dothebeats]

Tomorrow I will post the private key for a wallet holding 10 BTC.

Then, I will check the balance after ten days.

That will tell me if this is a community I want to be a part of.

You can't trust people in the internet, trust me (wait, what?)
Jk, really? Why leave 10 btc sitting in public, waiting to be emptied? There are few good men in the community but they are outnumbered by greedy people to. 10 days? Seems like forever. 1 hour or even 10 minutes would be long enough.