Indeed

theymos once floated the idea of having Reporter Badges on profiles for a set number of successful Reports. Fir whatever reason, it never happened.

#1 Pages unable to load

I try to fill the offer from this feature on home page


after clicked go to exchange I'm redirected to this page


Pages url: https://bridgoro.com/user/explore?inputAsset=ETHEREUM_GWEI&outputAsset=BITCOIN_SATOSHI&amount=0.001

but, after clicking Explore Offers menu from the page, it wan't load the page,

even the url success being updated to https://bridgoro.com/user/explore?inputAsset=&outputAsset=&amount=0

the pages still not redirected or not loaded the default explore page



From other pages its working properly only after following that way the explore offers won't load.

#1 Pages unable to load

Tested using chrome v142.0.7444.176

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#2 overpayments stuck on buffer address

overpayments are not sent back to the sender.
Offer ID: 8da3f6b9-6b10-4fa7-afa7-532e476538a7
order amounts: 0.00359622 ETH
payment amounts: 0.005

Buffer address: 0x446AAcD5b1CedfE466bC4CF065e2350CC4e11441

From docs mentioned

To make sure this is not a bug, i tried to make another transaction with detail:
Offer ID: 8da3f6b9-6b10-4fa7-afa7-532e476538a7
Amount sent to buffer address: 0.01 ETH
ETH needed for transactions: 0.003595788 ETH
Buffer address: 0x8cda83eA8ee74e6c61eBA16F0adC7abAf051E366

The remaining tokens should be refunded right? it's need a minimum? if yes how much the minimum? since in sepolia, if not a bug, it should be enough to refund

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0.00015294 BTC sent to you.
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In my country (Brazil), I have two options: Amazon.com in the US and Amazon in Brazil
Not everything in the US is available here, but luckily Trezor is

I have a Safe 3 and I really like it (bought on Amazon)
(Is it also vulnerable like the other two mentioned?)

Although the Trezor One is outdated and more limited, I still consider it a good option for someone who is buying their first hardware wallet and has few satoshis
In addition, it can still serve as a second option for those who already have a hardware wallet

Responding to a report from someone on Telegram stating that there are connected accounts in the Rainbet Campaign that are operated by the same person, I became curious and decided to conduct research on these accounts. Below are the names that were reported to me and what I found:


Here Are My Findings:

• woez - Full Member - (Rainbet Campaign)
• NewRanger - Sr. Member -(Rainbet Campaign)
• Lamkuthang - Member - Last Active: 23 November 2025, 13:19:13
• Freddie Boyer - Member - Last Active: 10 November 2025, 09:15:03
• martinex - Full Member - 2 Netral Tag - (Cybet Campaign)
• Gayong88 - Member - RedTrust - Last Active: 08 June 2023, 05:37:36

woez, Gayong88 and siniminomorocomunisakito have been tagged Neutral because they are alt accounts here.
NewRanger and viananda2525 have been tagged Neutral because they are alt accounts here.
Gayong88 and rokok local have been tagged RedTrust for cheating in bounty programs here.

TXHash Proof:
https://bscscan.com/tx/0xc7906cc289703441ad2be172a5e88c92b7e5c821050a973cb1a5764468a91a72

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x98550b999a455075f01b211bcd64048e33f81318a8a9f4ed9464fc6da65c04e3

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https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5be3ab22c160d6fa457f8d156f6e4dfe041efe9d436c30c6b560c62c6f56c009

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe90fae3480af05597889a907694f8205c08cf36ab7b9c7eb130b480100fe0d2e

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x03b9f16a6277250df9556d6f8dfb5601a6cb7610ee10ebace67e29d7d5854811

https://bscscan.com/tx/0xf186bc75ba9cd1741f824934d5cfec4dc9accb40a208a14a3108b037d710c1d3

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Up to this point, it means there are more connected accounts than the ones mentioned above:
5 Connected Accounts: woez - Gayong88 - rokok local - siniminomorocomunisakito - Dorjoy Khan
5 Connected Accounts: NewRanger - viananda2525 - jambul_kribo - BitTraderCute - Helpme_please

Proof of Merit:
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?from=woez&to=NewRanger
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?from=NewRanger&to=woez

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If the above image is not enough proof, How about By Data LoyceV
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/2390454.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/972476.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/3483476.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/3460861.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/299937.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/1261405.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/2336972.html
https://loyce.club/Merit/history/703004.html


Proof of Joining the Same Bounty: Popkitty Bounty Campaign

furthermore how can he not notice a trust until after years and years?
This thing stinks to me too, I think it's a hacked or sold account at this point

it also shows a lot of lack of experience, which obviously seems a bit "strange", not that it's possible... I was a real newbie for years as I read and didn't do anything special
but two coincidences raise suspicions

Thanks for bumping ... Yeah, it took waaaay to long to upload the images again... I don't really like grunt work, and searching drives and backups for old images, uploading to imgtalk and modifying old posts is not really fun, but since i do refer to these posts once in a while, i took up your advice to use the internet history database and uploaded these ones...

Yeah, true indeed, but it's very much possible (I strongly believe) that OP isn't a part of the team. If OP were experienced, he would have included a warning/footnote/disclaimer that he isn't a part of, which we did when we were asked to create an ANN thread. OP was noob and had no idea how it might backfire on them.

It would be fair if Despairo removes the feedback. If OP were a part, then Coinsaga's official account wouldn't have a reserve post either.

Well if not for the data you gave up I think I would have had the same thought too. however on the other hand if you consider how long SEGWIT has been around plus how long more wallet have switched from using legacy addresses to using SEGWIT then there's you could still consider the possibility of funded SEGWIT addresses topping the chart.

If you look up the mempool you'll most likely see more transactions with segwit and I guess it's obviously because they are way cheaper fee wise.

Would not recommend refreshing like a bot, since you'll most likely get rate limited 

Our anti abuse system is quite sophisticated because we don't collect and therefore can't use users' IP address. It's hard to pinpoint a specific reason for getting rate limited, but generally if you just use the service normally you shouldn't get rate limited.

With that said, we'll relax the rate limit a little. Thanks for the feedback

I understand you GoT, I think there are situations you should use the "we" and the ones you shouldn't use it, no matter what.
If you are talking to a client and ask them when "we" are going to start a signature campaign, it is understandable why you are using the language of inclusiveness.
Again, if you are managing the thread of your clients, you can use "we", but with your personal account don't use the "we"

Always find a way to make a disclaimer, separating your brand and that of your clients in the signature campaign thread. It is necessary. You can ask your senior colleague - AB De Royse777 why.

If you are not part of the team, then you shouldn't use language that would make others feel like you are a part of the team. You are a "manager" nothing more so you should try create confusion and make yourself potentially liable if a scam happens.

That was some kid which needed fresh data but didn't made any proper research.
Usually you have him once again from another IP address but now more frugal.

In reality when you use the word 'we' and 'our', it means you are including yourself in the aftermath of what comes out of it. This made me to recall the time of 1XBIT scam, i learnt that some forum members who were advertising the casino got red tagged, were they part of the casino? NO.

If you accompany a culprit to a crime scene you will be tagged an 'accomplice' of which a punishment is expected even though it might not be same as that of the culprit.

Regardless of whichever brand you are representing, you can't be so sure about their services and if they don't have intention to scam when you are not an insider. If you are representing a brand that you are not part of, the best is to attach a disclaimer to whatever information you are relating from the company.

As a campaign manager, I always use the terms "we" and "our." It's because it will make me feel more connected, and they will consider me part of their team, even though I am not. I have a few potential clients in contact, and I always follow up by saying, "when do you think we can come to the forum?" If I get assigned to create an announcement thread on behalf of the brand, I "think" I will use these terms as well when I reply to potential customers on behalf of the brand.

When I generally reply to people, I usually mention the brand name instead of saying 'we' or 'our'. However, as I mentioned, if I am assigned to handle the announcement thread, then "we or our" would be more suitable, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

People are coming here without the intention of staying and later finding it more interested to stay, some are coming with the intention of staying and at arrival see it as not being possible again and leave, human decision can changed at any time and can be influenced as well, most of us here today never new we could have been here to this time, so this idea is not a go for me.

If you close your eyes for the bad ones to pass, you may not know when the good ones will also join and pass while your eyes still remained closed, we are humans and are bound to change, anything can happen at any point in time for a change in decision.

Both uncompressed and compressed legacyaddresses start from 1? And there is no difference in both address formats. Or am I wrong? Probably he may not include it because both addresses starts from 1.

But in transaction fee, uncompressed legacy addresses is the earliest (with public key that's tarts from 04, and private key that starts from 5, unlike compressed legacy addresses that public keys start from either 02 or 03, and private key start from K or L) has higher fee than compressed legacy addresses.

But the addresses starts from the same character which is 1.

Now you made me curious as well, so I did some digging. (Apparently, it was originally proposed as the merit circle jerking club)


This seems to be the starting point, if I'm not mistaken.
IS THE MERIT SYSTEM being used correctly by a small clique of individuals here

And these are a few other relevant threads:
Posting in forums with moderators who give no smerit? Solutions?
Top 200 Merit Receivers without Merit from the Top 200 Merit Receivers
cryptohunter's problem with the top 200 merit receivers

@LoyceV has a thread dedicated for this vanity address before which you can see a lot of requests for a customized address like this.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1813624.0

It’s a pretty wallet address but with some minor limitations on character that you can use.

When my friend asks me to replace her at the store, I also say <We>.

But the casino thread was published under this user's name. In my opinion, the tag should remain negative at least until the OP is edited (blocked and renamed, and information about the funds confiscation incidents is added to the OP).

I just want to be at ease about my Samsung SSD. They may promise high endurance for the cells, but in reality it can be lower than advertised due to various technological and manufacturing factors. Even tiny uncontrolled contamination can affect semiconductor behavior. The striking case in point is some batches of Intel’s 13^th generation CPU, which crash for no apparent reason.

@Faisal0007
I suggest you also contact LoyceV and TryNinja. Even if you edited the post with the sensitive and identifiable information about yourself, those images are still online and easy to find. Ask LoyceV and TryNinja to delete them from their scrappers. They might do it themselves when they see their names mentioned here.

You can ask the same of joker_josue. He owns TALKimg. If you can't delete the images, he should be able to do it.

Motivation for this: while surfing around the meta board I saw a thread from an excellent member of this forum @LoyceV. This thread was specifically focused on newbies who just registered in the forum and start making a one line post especially in the technical board, another interesting user @Mia Chloe was on the opinion that most of these accounts were created by them to ask useful questions This part made me think, what if the sign up page of the forum can be modified to differentiate newbies who came for inquiries and those who come to add value to the forum.

Design:
All other protocol in the sign up page will remain the same except that an additional label and radio buttons will be added.

Label content: Reason for signing up?
First radio content: Need answers to my question
Second radio content: Contribute to community

Here comes the twist, when you click on the first radio you will be registered as "seeker" and only if you click on the second radio will you be able to be registered as "Brand new". N/B: A seeker account can only be used to ask questions.

I strongly believe that this improvement will help us to easily track genuine users and those who have come here to spam the forum. I'm not entirely sure how effective this will be, it's just a suggestion and I am open for criticism and new ideas, thank you.

Your local board shown a lot of merit abuse and whoring that enrolled on a single campaign like Rollbit and Rainbet.

If this campaign will required casino account to received the payment instead of BTC wallet without allowing the use of VPN I’m sure that this campaign will reduced a lot of multiple account cheater.

Those jerker are just confident enough that they will not be connected due to circumstantial evidence only available. I’m sure this farmer are controlled by a high rank member with good experience here in the forum.

And it's wild that some bitcoiners recently spread the idea of reducing blokcsize to be even smaller
It's obvious that corporations are getting all the bitcoin from people and they are only speculating with it, not actually using it.
I wouldn't be surprised if in near future they start forcing everyone to verify identity for every bitcoin transaction, or they will blacklist it...and I am sure many would accept it 

Participating with ones alt in a particular campaign is cheating - that is where the definition of cheating is drawn. If your proposal is adopted, what then will be considered as "signature campaign cheating". It therefore means there won't be any signature campaign cheater.
I think projects want to see one unique user promote their signature at a time. If there is actually nothing wrong with your proposal, it means a campaign might decide to hire only 5 users and make 1 person drop 200 posts per week.

With the current rule of not participating with ones alt, there are alot of cheeaters, think what will happen if it is allowed to enrol with alts.

You may have misunderstood this current scenario between the two accounts due to Rollbits having two signatures campaign running,  the Rollbits Solana sig and the main Rollbits campaign,  if hard it been a user A get into Rollbits Solana campaign,  and User B belonging to same user get into the main Rollbits campaign,  the case could have been relatively easy to say he not subscribed with multiple accounts as against the managers rules here.

But on his case, aside from merits abuse, AI usage,  he abusing the same Rollbits campaign with his both accounts,  so this is a xlear case of him cheating and there is no evidence he can use here, the reason why any of them have not put up a false defense.

In general yes. I don't exactly know when I will need - maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, so, it's more convenient to always have active subscription. 3 main things where I need it is streaming services, Youtube videos with geo restrictions and access blocked bookmaker website.

Windscribe deal looks great. For $29/year I'm going to take it, no matter whether I will exten NordVPN or no
I checked my email and didn't got any offers from NordVPN yet. Maybe they will send something closer to subscription expiration date.

I didn't heard about such cashback and seems that in my country they're not offering it. Though, I must admit that privacy isn't main reason why I need VPN. I mainly need it to bypass various geo restrictions. But I wouldn't want to become product as you said.

Good work as usual, lovesmayfamilis. As is often the case in these situations, these types of accounts not only cheat by joining the same campaign, but they also tend to exchange merits or use AI as if it was content generated by them instead of quoting or other acceptable uses. Given this, the red tag is justified, and depending on how things develop, I may add a red tag as well.

But this reminds me of what I mentioned in another thread: I don't quite understand why multiple accounts belonging to the same person are prohibited from participating in the same campaign. That is, in the past I participated in the same campaign with LoyceVmobile or something, and in this case, managers usually agree that LoyceV and LoyceVmobile cannot participate in the same campaign A, but it is OK for one account to participate in campaign A and the other in campaign B, both run by the same manager. If he adds value and isn't a cheater, I don't see why he shouldn't be allowed from participating in the same campaign.

Firefox v145.0 should support that according to the release notes, and I see they also provide more syntax and usage examples.

Guys, thank you for your honest feedback regarding Telegram. We will consider your input and come up with a solution on how to expand the environment for submitting reports. We may also allow users to share their feedback directly here as well.
We just need some time, and we will return tomorrow with a proposed approach.
Hope to see you soon in Beta TWO.

Hello.

I want to participate in the beta test, but I dont have telegram.

I made a few posts in reddit to help the new subreddit. I can share my experience there too after making tests.

How can I participate without telegram? Do you use simpleX?

I'm somehow convinced that none of the mentioned members use Telegram, I guess that's the main reason why you don't see them in this testing phase.
Perhaps the limitation to Telegram was not the best choice, I am sure that the response would be much better if you included other platforms as well.

Yeah, thanks to him we were finally able to create the subreddit, and it's still functioning well and hasn’t been banned.
We can definitely consider him part of the team.

And thank you as well for supporting us on Reddit.

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You can easily access them through the links provided on the GitBook page dedicated to the Beta Test.
If you encounter any issues with any of the faucets, please let us know.
We can also send you testnet tokens directly, just specify which tokens you need and share your addresses.

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Hey Bitcointalkers,
We still haven’t seen you participating in our OPEN BETA. I'm just curious about the reason for not joining (@dkbit98, @LoyceV, @bitmover).
Maybe there are some aspects of the OPEN BETA that you aren't satisfied with?

First post - Copyleaks, Stealthwriter and ZeroGPT = No AI detected
Second post - Copyleaks = No AI, ZeroGPT = No AI, Stealthwriter = Human-Written 67%, AI-Generated 33%

If he uses AI, he knows how to disguise it.

Thank you for letting me know, Ive changed the title and the first post.
Sorry for that as i saw some topics with USDT.

this will never happen again.

Ofcourse those are old respected members who have good reasons to use alts and declare them

But in most cases it will be some sort of abuse intentions behind it, and they would never declare

Unless the forum admins themselves do some alt detecting and announcing, but thats a slippery slope
I do think there could be many alts undetected as the weekly signature amounts are pretty decent amounts for third world countries giving them huge incentive to perhaps work this as a job with multiple alt accounts

Maybe some experienced respected members could work with admins to figure out a way to bust alts that would improve forum massively

Waooooo. I must commend you and all the board members of this great forum who dim it fit to bring all this into record. Sincerely I am impressed, it's a great work and efforts you put in here, to have come up with this. Because as a newbie, it encourages and motivates me that no effort is small, and shows rewards of good works. In you part it's an evidence of accountability, accessibility and flexibility. I wish this years data are published to encourage others. More grace to your elbows for good work.

There are a few that have a mobile alt account and aren't using them for malicious purposes. Off the top of my head LoyceV and Little Mouse are 2 that come to mind. I know hilariousandco has his alt known and it might be a mobile alt, other than those 3 I don't recall anyone else.

I know another user that has an alt account that he uses to fuck with people, but again just a troll account nothing really malicious.

Yep, that's the one. Basically, he explained to me that the sitemap is organized into many smaller sitemaps, presumably to avoid generating a single giant sitemap. The main sitemap.php contains topic/page boundaries, where p= and o= denote the topic and page inside the topic (such as .20) respectively.


The XML looks like this


From this data, the most important are the loc and the lastmod. These basically tell you whether a page has been edited or deleted. Deleted posts will cause subsequent pages to appear modified as well.

I guess the other two parameters can be used to gauge how frequently to check for updates, but I don't use those in my current implementation - I am performing a full sweep over the sitemap first.

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This process is also causing regular indexing to slow down because I am throttling the indexer speed in order to avoid breaching the rate limit. New posts should now appear instantly though (but only because I am using the recentposts page, nothing to do with the sitemap). But edits will appear to be much slower.

That may not be necessary anymore - theymos suggested I should use the sitemap.xml page. It's a little convoluted, but I managed to hack together a script that will check for deleted/updated posts.

There is one big pass I have to make first, before I can revert to tiny passes from the past day or two.

Permit me to come in here, Loycev. I was thinking 5 people can actually share the device with only one Bitcoin core application installed. This is my idea;

5 people, 5 external hard drive, each having their own wallet.

1. Each person should plug in their personal external drive when they want to access Bitcoin core app.
2. Launch Bitcoin core
3. Load their wallet from the drive
4. After they are done they should Bitcoin core and unplug their drive.

Dont you think this could work, let me know your feedback, im learning. Because I think since each wallet is separate in the external drive, they wont have problem of security.

LoyceV asked about inactive users wearing avatars related to mixers when theymos announced the mixers ban.
And here is theymos' response.



The same answer probably applies to inactive users wearing signatures related to mixers.

And I have been using this half dead A4TECH OP-730D mouse that comes with laptop as gift, cost less then $5. Though I have build a very high config custom PC, I'm/was too lazy or should I say sentiment to let go this old friend. Hence I'm still using it for years now and it never failed me. 

You are probably remembering the Binance rollback from years ago.  Any Blockchain a centralized entity has authority over is useless and like LoyceV said before, it is nothing more than a data base I or you can have too.  Convince enough people that it is worth any thing and there you have a competitor for all these 16 other Blockchains.

1, I didn't set my notifier and I wasn't checking my messages too that is why I didn't notice the warning until I was ban.

2, I got tired of the whole thing and don't even know where to start from, so recently I make research before I know that I can appeal for my banned account, that's why I had to appeal now.

Apologies if I was wrong, this is to tell you all that I'm not doing anything intentionally. I'm still in my learning era. If I'm to be given a second chance I will make things right.

Thank you for helping me know all my mistakes.

The both of you are right. I got ban for plagiarised. But at same time I was still using AI to post.

Yes I was using both AI to post and same time plagiarizing.


Just kliss which is banned and kliss2 which I'm using to make this reply.

That's what unites us


May I ask who is LauraV? By the way, only the best foxes do drink ouzo.

I meant the original cycling accusation as a starting point, but sure thanks.  I see the start of the campaign as "history" but that is insufficient/

Foxes drink Ouzo or just LauraV does?

If you're fine without typing sounds, why don't you get a keyboard with just haptic feedback? I have this keyboard and mouse, and I'm quite happy with them.

TMI! 

You can douche it out with isopropyl (90% solution) and let it dry for a few minutes.  If you can pop the key off, and douche the soft board and the bottom the key, even better.

Mukhang hindi talaga advisable ang meet-up kabayan, kasi baka sa huli ma-ipit pa tayo sa scam kahit wala naman tayong ginawa. Pag nagkataon pa na sa atin tumuro ang ebidensya, pwedeng ma-expose yung totoong identity natin at baka mapahamak pa tayo.

Kung naalala niyo pa yung issue noong 2021, diba gumawa si Yahoo ng scam accusation sa charity program dito. Lumabas na hindi masyadong transparent yung paggastos, kaya pati mga kababayan natin na sina cabalism13, crwth, at bl4nkcode nadamay. Nagpaliwanag naman sila, pero yung naging conclusion talaga is kulang sa transparency, kaya possible na nascam yung pera. Resulta, nawala yung dalawa, si crwth na lang ang nandito.

So imagine kung may meet-up tapos may nag-leak ng totoong identity ni crwth. Hindi mo masasabi kung may masamang tao na mag-iisip gumawa ng kung ano man, either uutusan or siya mismo ang gagalaw. Delikado yun para sa kababayan natin. Kaya medyo alanganin talaga ako sa meet-up, kasi may mga possible scenarios na ganyan na ayaw nating mangyari.

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Bitcointalk Charity and its funds Bitcointalk Charity and its funds

Hey all.

     I wanted to talk about something that interests me for my first post, and that are the many ways one can make money here. I feel like nowadays, many people around the world are finding themselves sitting at home and using a search engine with a query similar to "make money online", "how to earn income online", or some variation of that. A quick search on my own yielded results that took me to platforms that I can fill surveys out for pennies, watch ads for pennies, things like that. (ugh  )

The internet also suggests that you can:

-become an influencer
-build websites
-freelance work
-dropshipping

     You get the idea. The possibilities are limitless, but people want consistent, risk free, rewarding-for-their-time income. The thing that blows me away is that this very forum, bitcointalk.org, is such a good source to make money if you know what you are doing. It's not like any of it is gate-kept to my understanding, you just need to not lose the trust of the community in one way or another by scamming. From what I have seen by lurking here for a while, the community here is incredibly open to teaching people that are willing to learn the proper etiquette here to conduct business, and reap some serious rewards over time.


     I'd like to discuss my take on all the different ways you can make money here, mostly because it is fascinating to me and I feel it is a fun meta-subject to talk about. I also feel like I can get some pretty good fun facts and tidbits of information from more experienced users. If anything I say can be added upon, please do! If anything I say is in some way inaccurate or wrong, feel free to correct me.

You can make money on this forum by:

Managing or participating in signature campaigns:

This is definitely the most popular. You can operate signature campaigns for popular services or participate in them. Most people here from what I see stick to casinos like Stake.com or BC.game or exchanges like eXch (rip) or BestChange. There are a few niche ones such as the Foxpop merit cycle club and things like that, but something like that might be rather difficult to get into. There used to be signature campaigns for cryptocurrency mixers such as Chipmixer but they are no longer allowed on this forum. Signature campaign rewards are based on your current rank, and I've seen legendary members earn around $70-$100 USD a week paid in bitcoin! Not too sure how much signature campaign managers/operators earn.

Referral link marketing:

Most people put some sort of referral link alongside their signature campaign banner if they can or if it's allowed. There's other spaces for advertising text-based things such as links or websites that you can place under your profile picture avatar or in your profile information in a section like "website" or something like that. Some reputable users here even rent the space in their signature/avatar, like LoyceV for example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121375.0 He has rented out his space for a hefty amount of time (300+ weeks!), but not too sure how competitive this market is here. It appears Foxpup has made the most consistent payments to LoyceV's avatar space service. LoyceV always comments on her flawless timing. Kinda cute/funny, lol.

Providing escrow services:

Escrow services usually operate by charging a fixed percentage based on how much money is being held. For example, some people charge 1%. Escrow seems to be very important here, but opportunities to become an escrow are very limited due to how trust-based this service can be. Minerjones and MoparMiningLLC seem to be the most active/trusted escrows here from what I understand. The sky is the limit when it comes to potential earnings, because it's all based on how much they are being asked to hold while a deal goes down in one way or another. Kinda cool.


Selling physical goods or collectibles:

Pretty straightforward. There is a place here to sell physical things. Most people don't buy random junk, and the serious deals go down in the collectibles section, for things such as Casascius coins and other bitcoin/crypto themed collectibles.

Selling digital goods:

Also straightforward. You can sell digital goods like a Steam video game key for example.

Offering loans:

This one is tricky, because there are many many trusted options here that offer loans with no interest, or very little interest. It seems to be a service that is provided with profits not particularly in mind, but that isn't always the case. Collateral in the form of a different currency is usually accepted, and asking for a non-collateral loan will get you ignored or red-tagged pretty easily.

Selling a website or forum tool:

Not sure if this has been done a lot, but I'm sure it has happened before.

Holding coins for the forum:

I know this place used to have forum treasurers holding community donated funds, but I don't know if that is the case anymore.

Completing security bounties:

See this page: https://bitcointalk.org/sbounties.php They have paid $25,000 USD in bounties so far!

Crypto exchange services:

Some users here opt to be their own exchange. For example, NotATether runs a Tron ($TRX) exchange: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5536031.0 It seems temporarily closed but he did charge small fees for his service so there's another source of potential income for members here.

There are also these but I'm not too familiar about 'em:

-Operate or participate in forum-based mining pools
-Managing auctions

I think all of that is kinda neat, and insanely impressive that you can accomplish one or multiple of these at a time given you build good trust with the community and be consistent with the quality you deliver. Did I miss any? What other ways have people here tried to make money? Any fun historical info about possible income streams here?

Haha - You are wordy man full of shit and totally meaningless innuendo...

yeah the handle over the few days was way more.

100 billion or more.

No it is not. $1.3 billion is nothing for the size of an asset like Bitcoin. There is plenty of liquidity to absorb that.

That "slaying" took place at $300 per BTC, and the BTC price largely stayed below $300 for the next year after the purported "slaying."   The BTC price for most of 2015 was in the mid-$200s and even spending a decent amount of time time the lower $200s.. so there would have had been plenty of time for anyone selling for around $300 in October 2014 to buy back in, even though who knows if such buying back in had actually taken place for folks who were selling their cornz around $300 in late 2014.


In some sense, you seem to be referring to an aspect of opportunity costs, since sometimes the "what ifs" and the "could of" "should of" become difficult to quantify - so then with bitcoin over the years we have not ONLY accumulated and compounded value, there have also been a lot of ups and downs along the way that tempted us to sell too much too soon and/or to fail refuse to sufficiently prepare our holdings for UP that may or may not end up coming.

In the case of bitcoin, the UP did end up coming, and those who ongoingly took action to accumulate bitcoin and/or at least not to sell too much too soon, ended up profiting quite stupendously  - even though at the same time, arguably there are some of us who might have had chosen to take decently large profits at various points along the way and perhaps even did not accumulate nearly as many BTC as we could have had accumulated, yet even with some whimpiness and/or some mistakes in our bitcoin accumulation, we still ended up doing quite well with our bitcoin, seemingly largely because we were erroring on the side of accumulating bitcoin and/or holding most of our coin rather than taking large profits.

So for example, even if we might have had chosen to take 10% or 20% of our bitcoin off the table after the price had gone up 10x, it surely may well have had seemed like a lot of money to be taking off of the table, yet at the same time, we largely ended up preserving the overwhelming majority of our holdings, and perhaps we were able to engage in such "shaving off" of profits at a few stages in our bitcoin investment journey, and we still ended up doing fine, even if we could have had more BTC, our shaving off of "profits" was mostly reasonable and tempered in terms of our deciding to hang onto a large majority of our holdings.

Of course, on a personal level, I likely have not shaved off as much profits along the way as other guys, even though I do frequently talk about some of my inclinations to sharve off more profits from time to time... and there are also some guys here who are not so excited about the idea of selling any of our bitcoin holdings, but then it seems that if we want to enter into lending relationships, then we might be putting our bitcoin at risk in those kinds of arrangements, too, even though I understand the advantages of not having to pay taxes on the various sales of the cornz.


You are quite the smartie pants in your grappling with the topic, since you really told cAPSLOCK.   Didn't you?

In essence, you (BTCETFInvestor) have shown yourself to be a bit of a purposeful idiot in terms of not really understanding bitcoin very well (and promoting views in that direction to show your lack of understanding and/or appreciation of the value of the actual product rather than the derivative product).

You seem to believe (which I doubt that even you believe such nonsense) that investing in the derivative product brings value to the space in any kind of meaningful way (beyond allowing various third parties and likely status quo rich to attempt to manipulate the underlying), even though surely there are various ways that folks (institutions and governments too) are enticed into buying the derivative product rather than buying the thing that actually has value and is designed in such a way that you (they) don't need a third-party custodian in order to be able to hold it - even though ongoingly, quite a few folks are lured into such inferior product that might partially be an attack on bitcoin, to the extent that those various third-party custodians might be given undue weight in terms of their manipulation of the price with bitcoin that they don't have and/or might they at some point not get caught up on the wrong side of their manipulation attempts?