What did theymos do with 200K?

[Bitcoin_BOy$]

1.5 million dollars thats is a high amount and also how could the new forum be  ??
also can this be an investisment really ? can the Roi back in 1 year ?? and also we won't see
the sdite down for ddos ever ever ? and could i know that how u invest 1.5 million dollar and the
project will be open source , really u (The forum ) are very generous . Respect

Bitcoin Boy

There is no ROI. There doesn't need to be one. The forum wasn't indeed to make a profit.
It was just something needed for the biggest Bitcoin community, since the free alternatives are 'bad'.

Thanks i didn't mean exactly ROI but the community could even start other project not just developing the thread

Kind Of Respect ,
Bitcoin Boy

[Wardrick]

What do you mean like eBay? Like an online store? I'm confused, sorry.

I'm talking about the general upgrade that ebay has gone through and a lot of other sites. It would be nice to have a couple of their market features too. eBay upgraded there site awhile back from the lay out they have been using since they first came out. Im talking about things like a thread manager, a place where you could go to see all your threads and click and edit them without going to the actual thread and message folders where you can move certain messages into folders you make.

[Equinoxx]

What do you mean like eBay? Like an online store? I'm confused, sorry.

I'm talking about the general upgrade that ebay has gone through and a lot of other sites. It would be nice to have a couple of their market features too. eBay upgraded there site awhile back from the lay out they have been using since they first came out. Im talking about things like a thread manager, a place where you could go to see all your threads and click and edit them without going to the actual thread and message folders where you can move certain messages into folders you make.

I agree. I would prefer that this forum was a lot more broader and not just 'view posts' . it would be nice to view the threads that you and others have created. I have looked for my design thread for a while sometimes just going through the pages and not finding it irritates me.

[funtotry]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

[Wardrick]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

[Quickseller]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

The forum could use one major exchange to display the price, or an index of various major exchanges. I would say that I do like this idea.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

The 2FA really should be via with either a PGP signed message, a bitcoin signed message or with google authenticator. There are simply too many places in the world that the forum would need to send text's to for it to make sense to have 2FA with text messages.

We already have the ability to get notifications on your smartphone. All you need to do is have your email address on your forum profile set to an email that your smartphone has access to. Then anytime you get a notification it will be on your smart phone. You could even use a dedicated email for this function.

[Bitcoin_BOy$]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

the main idea isn't really needed everyone could convert away , also it can slow little the page load ;
* we can use the api of blockchain.info or even user could choose between five or six exchanges  

Kind Of Respect ,
Bitcoin

[funtotry]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

the main idea isn't really needed everyone could convert away , also it can slow little the page load ;
* we can use the api of blockchain.info or even user could choose between five or six exchanges  

Kind Of Respect ,
Bitcoin

Everyone can convert of course, but most sellers sometimes say that they do bitstamp + 3% or something for the price, or basedo n fiat, so this would make it faster. Hopefully bitcoin reaches the point where we measure it in btc and not usd however.

[Wardrick]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

The forum could use one major exchange to display the price, or an index of various major exchanges. I would say that I do like this idea.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

The 2FA really should be via with either a PGP signed message, a bitcoin signed message or with google authenticator. There are simply too many places in the world that the forum would need to send text's to for it to make sense to have 2FA with text messages.

We already have the ability to get notifications on your smartphone. All you need to do is have your email address on your forum profile set to an email that your smartphone has access to. Then anytime you get a notification it will be on your smart phone. You could even use a dedicated email for this function.

I was thinking that having an index of exchanges could work. If you were able to go into your account settings and change the exchange or have it somewhere accessible on the forum it'd be very convenient to have. There's several times I've wanted to use this as I'm always going back and recalculating the costs when I'm buying/selling something.

[funtotry]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

The forum could use one major exchange to display the price, or an index of various major exchanges. I would say that I do like this idea.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

The 2FA really should be via with either a PGP signed message, a bitcoin signed message or with google authenticator. There are simply too many places in the world that the forum would need to send text's to for it to make sense to have 2FA with text messages.

We already have the ability to get notifications on your smartphone. All you need to do is have your email address on your forum profile set to an email that your smartphone has access to. Then anytime you get a notification it will be on your smart phone. You could even use a dedicated email for this function.

I was thinking that having an index of exchanges could work. If you were able to go into your account settings and change the exchange or have it somewhere accessible on the forum it'd be very convenient to have. There's several times I've wanted to use this as I'm always going back and recalculating the costs when I'm buying/selling something.

Yea you can check off "overall average" or check each individual exchange to take an average from. I usually use winkdex.com when checking the current price. As they have a nice website and good graphs

[funtotry]

What about something like automatic btc price updating. Theres a tag like [btcprice]20USD[/btcprice] and you can have the btc amount updated automatically so that the value in fiat stays the same. Also automatic btc link formatting, address formatting, sign message verifier, lots of cool btc features could be used here.

People use different exchanges to price Bitcoin so although it would give a ballpark estimate, it wouldn't be the same for everyone. How much this would effect the usage of it I wouldn't be able to say.

The forum could use one major exchange to display the price, or an index of various major exchanges. I would say that I do like this idea.

Having phone notifications and 2 factor authentication would be nice. With phone notifications you could link a smartphone to your account and receive notifications on the posts or topics you choose. For instance you could create a thread and you would have an option that you could tick that would notify you by phone of a post. You could do the same with personal messages or anything you wanted to be notified on. I'm unsure how efficient this would be if there isn't a mobile version of the site.

The 2FA really should be via with either a PGP signed message, a bitcoin signed message or with google authenticator. There are simply too many places in the world that the forum would need to send text's to for it to make sense to have 2FA with text messages.

We already have the ability to get notifications on your smartphone. All you need to do is have your email address on your forum profile set to an email that your smartphone has access to. Then anytime you get a notification it will be on your smart phone. You could even use a dedicated email for this function.

An option for address signed (or pgp) 2fa would be pretty great but I would assume only the "better" accounts would use this. Its quite a hastle to sign something everytime you want to sign in, but if I owned the Vod account or the theymos account I would use this as my account would be worth the time it took to keep it safe.

[Muhammed Zakir]

An option for address signed (or pgp) 2fa would be pretty great but I would assume only the "better" accounts would use this. Its quite a hastle to sign something everytime you want to sign in, but if I owned the Vod account or the theymos account I would use this as my account would be worth the time it took to keep it safe.

It doesn't matter whether I am a staff or not, I don't feel comfortable when someone scam using my account or sell it to other person. 2FA isn't forced by the forum but it will give high security to your account. When people^[1] think my account isn't worth, they will care less and when the account is gone, many threads will rise in Meta telling "my account is hacked", "theymos not responding", "admins are lazy" etc... "Try to avoid in situations like this" all what I can say.

[1] In general.

P.S. You can use Google Authenticator or use Authy^[2] instead of PGP/Bitcoin 2FA.

[2] Authy supports Google 2FA.

[Sarahiko]

a good update from the admin will clear every doubts you have,  but having to spend that much of money for a forum design it will really make some eyebrows goes up.

[onewiseguy]

Theymos, in no way am I doubting you or your ability to manage the forums funds. This is just a little "Thinking out loud".

https://blockchain.info/address/1M4yNbSCwSMFLF9BaLqzoo2to1WHtZrPke

Last two transactions, 350 BTC each, moved. That is a total of $194,000. Hmm, any guesses on where that went?

This is going to be a very very awesome forum. 1.5 Million for a brand spanking new place to community would be a very good thing for bitcoin.

[Muhammed Zakir]

a good update from the admin will clear every doubts you have,  but having to spend that much of money for a forum design it will really make some eyebrows goes up.

Check the DOC in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=523070.0.

[funtotry]

a good update from the admin will clear every doubts you have,  but having to spend that much of money for a forum design it will really make some eyebrows goes up.

Check the DOC in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=523070.0.

Yea I read the document and its really going to be a great forum. However we need some more btc features, like I stated before maybe automatically converting dolars to bitcoin with a special tag, and people can choose what currency and exchange they wan't from a settings part of their profile.

[Jakez]

Anyways i think its going to be a great forum. Lets wait for it. But i have a doubt.? All current database will be imported to the new forum or it will be a brand new forum ?

[hilariousetc]

All data and forum accounts will be inported and carried over. Would be a bit silly to start afresh.

[picolo]

He was most likely using those funds to pay slickage, the company that is designing the new forum.

That was my first guess. But 200K for a website? Holy Crap, this is going to be amazing 

Well they have been in development for several months so we can expect something good. My hopes are high.

It should be very good !

Slikage twitter : https://twitter.com/slickage

[QuestionAuthority]

He was most likely using those funds to pay slickage, the company that is designing the new forum.

That was my first guess. But 200K for a website? Holy Crap, this is going to be amazing 

Well they have been in development for several months so we can expect something good. My hopes are high.

It should be very good !

Slikage twitter : https://twitter.com/slickage

That's true. Not many people have Twitter accounts.