Quote from: mercistheman on June 06, 2016, 01:16:24 AM

I used to post on this forum... now it's too heavy handed.
What is with all the threads asking questions. It's like some kind of phishing scheme. No other forums have nearly this many probing threads.
Have fun with your gestopo... off to a better experience

what do you mean by this statement, do you have BTC? if so, how many and where do you keep them? did you like the Nazi's? you mentioned gestapo....i was just playing with you and i realize it is a pretty useless reply, but sometimes you gotta loosen up a bit.

there are way too many threads on here to really stick them all in one category of "probing" or "scamming" or "phishing"

sometimes i hit the forum here just to read about the tech and what people are doing with the same code to produce new effects.

think about the original satoshi code, nothing in that set of scripts was new or is new, crypt hashes and cracking them, network protocols sending to multiple "servers", storing the full data in the stream and on all servers was a little new, but much like the way that the cell carriers first started moving sms and email data....all mundane boring bits of code that had been used for years, combined with the virtual currency thing, which never caught on with the social sites other than within the site itself, mix it all together and it created a brand new completely self-contained, self-reliant and even self-updating of sorts system of security and currency creation and exchange.

and now, look what people have done with that original concept and code, new forms of crytpo, new algorithms forms and a brand new way of doing business that will one be the main form of currency whether each person likes it or not, all from a handful of separate boring code libraries

i even think some of these altcoin/community based currencies have breached new forms of self-enhancing commerce, where bitcoin was and is a pretty straight forward, value based commodity for open trade.

it is like looking at the world and only seeing the bad stuff, this forum has some pretty annoying people, pretty useless and annoying threads and some downright evil people straight up using it to steal from others, but there are also new concepts that would have never been found if not for the thinktank conversations that a forum of this size and nature can produce., just saying