Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 14, 2017, 12:21:34 AM

Perhaps I'm really old school, but I don't get why people use the @ symbol here. Is that a Twitter thing? I honestly don't know what it means.

It is an ad hoc convention to tag that a term is a username as opposed to alternative meanings of the term in prose. Also some systems (e.g. Steemit, Github, and Stackexchange) will automatically link the username to their profile if prepended with @. For example, some usernames are English words.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 14, 2017, 12:21:34 AM

This is just a frigging forum, and it's just a silly, broken trust system on that forum. I don't view it as anything even close to a crisis, and it doesn't keep me awake at night. If nothing changed, I'm totally OK with that--and look at all those red trusts fuckers left me. I'm so past it.

I would agree with you, except that red text plastered on every post in Altcoin Discussion on the person who was abused (for readers using the default trust list which is virtually all the new users that altcoins target). IMO that is a crisis for those afflicted.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 14, 2017, 03:18:29 AM

Other than that, this is just a chat forum with a feedback system that allows anyone to neg anyone else, and overall it should be a very small part of anyone's life and shouldn't be a cause for ear-smoking. Kiklo went off the deep end, just like mixan did. I'm not surprised he got banned.

This is an official forum for Bitcoin (and thus for the crypto ecosystem including altcoins, with 46% of the marketcap in altcoins and increasing rapidly) and there are $millions (soon $100s of millions and then $billions) at stake here and for altcoin developers to be slandered/banned on a whim is a serious crisis from our perspective.

I am sorry but this clusterfuck is not going to stand very much longer. There are many forces that need a decentralized, trustless, permissionless system for communication with this $billion (soon $trillion) market.

This is a big deal.

Essentially BCT is cutting off his own future by not adapting.

Edit: some weeks ago @micreanity mentioned that many investors from outside our crypto-currency ecosystem were approaching him asking about Bitcoin. Then we see lately that $billionaires are investing in Bitcoin and even altcoins (see Tezos). And this week Martin Armstrong who had been very pessimistic about Bitcoin, suddenly recognizes that it could be the alternative global currency after the coming collapse and monetary reset due to the sovereign debt crisis and dollar short vortex with even central banks buying USD-denominated equities.

Armstrong is now starting to understand some of my thesis about the future of Bitcoin:

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/bitcoin-criminals-authorities/

But he does not seem to understand that Bitcoin was designed to push the masses off chain into regulated scenarios (e.g. Lightning Networks on
Litecoin) by rapidly rising transaction fees (see links below for the math), because the technologically the blockchain can not be regulated by any non-global government (Armstrong is still apparently ignorant of the most important technological facts about blockchains):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887077.msg18859434#msg18859434
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887077.msg18878987#msg18878987
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887077.msg18888361#msg18888361
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887077.msg18903670#msg18903670

The regulation of Bitcoin comes when the world government takes form and the few elite on the hills in Jerusalem want to enslave the $billionaires. Bitcoin is very much part of the 666 plan and outcome coming, but it comes in stages.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 14, 2017, 03:18:29 AM

Quote from: criptix on May 14, 2017, 03:13:56 AM

You dont need to use the default trust.
You can make your own trust list.
Majority of people here are just to lazy to do it.

I do this myself, great idea to do so.

I never bothered to do it because I do not use the trust system.

The red and green text on avatars caused me to realize there is some corruption in this forum because most users see the same as what I see, because we all do not give a shit about the trust system. We came here for the forum discussion.

I hate kissing ass to centralized authorities. No way. Never will be.

Quote from: criptix on May 14, 2017, 12:42:30 AM

Uhm lauda doesnt rule over anyone.
You people just give way too much credit to the trust system.

Effectively (aka pleonasmically de facto) he does, because of the red text plastered on the avatar for every reader using the default trust list, which is virtually all readers.

And that includes anyone else on the default trust list who is gains pleasure from dictatorial actions.

Quote from: AztekPhoenix on May 13, 2017, 11:34:21 PM

@The End is Near, has been the only other one with a will strong enough to argue with the peer pressure exerted against @kiko because of a defective trust system ,
and many of you attacked in force after @kiklo was banned and no longer able to be here to defend himself, (what does that say about you?)

Because I do not need those (non-)peers in order to succeed. And also when I know I am the correct side of the future outcome, then I am not concerned about losing. Humans herd together in what they (mis-)perceive to be the dominant paradigm, because they do not want to be losers (yet the majority is eventually always wrong).

P.S. your explanations were touching on points that I did not make or did not explain as well as you did. Thanks. And no you are not my sockpuppet!

What is going to be very hilarious is when the scammers learn to game the trust system and turn it into a total clusterfuck.