Nice - I'm in London a few times a year. I think I'll seek you out!

Yeah, dude. You'll have to do a bit better than that lol.

What's to say you wouldn't cave the seller's skull in and steal their btc, then sell them into sex-slavery.

You should definitely check out localbitcoins.com if you're looking to make a transaction like that. There are sellers on there willing to do those types of transcations.

Riley Reid did an expose on YouTube with Logan Paul on his podcast on YouTube a while back. Was SUPER interesting.

https://youtu.be/6bKNDxmaQUI

Hmm. For me it would have to be to take all the good things from the society that we have and mesh it into one functioning society.

For example I don't want people dying on the streets so for the people that are unemployed and don't want to work then I'd make sure they earn enough to live on - but on the flipside I'd also like for those that want to work 90 hours weeks and churn in the money like wild to be able to do so too. That way we have the good parts of everything.

You ask how I would fund this? Easy, get rid of needless government services. Scrape back government to a voluntary, not-for-profit civic duty that everyone has to participate in at some point in their lives so that it survives. That way it functions without people making a career out of it. Scrap lobbying, scrap any sort of financial incentives that involve the decision making in any country. Make Politics about the good of the nation and not about the deep pockets of Politicans and how far they will sell their souls to get their pockets deep.

Scrap any sort of centralisation. Banking? Out with it. No-one needs bankers. Fuck 'em. People should learn to manage their money.

And now I hear you rolling your eyes - but the people will never be able to do that.

Hell they would. Start with the youth. Educate them on responsibility and accountability. Stop them high tailing it to a government official anytime something minute goes wrong in their lives. Teach them self-respect, ownership, all that sort of stuff.

Okay, Police are needed, but not for things we've brought on ourselves.

Hey man. I'm always up for anything - so I gave it a read and here's what I thought.

Explain it like I'm five years old: I'm neither a mathematician or a statistician. You need to fully explain what's happening with my funds, and provide me with a working in depth example - not the basic one you gave
You need to be unique: What differentiates you from the thousands of other projects that have tried the exact same thing and failed? If your answer begins with: "the only difference" then I'm out.
Whitepaper is far too short: What sort of poverty are you trying to alleviate? Anything in particular? The world is so full of nasty shit these days, just saying "poverty" isn't going to cut it
Why aren't you on Kickstarter? If you can adequately explain to your audience how you couldn't possibly copy this project and put it on kickstarter using real-world money then you're probably onto a winner. Why is crypto integral to this project?

I could think of a few more but I think these need addressing first!

Hope that helps

Meh. If it's shitty, I'll call it out. My $3000 investment now sits in my wallet 2 years later right now worth about $40. I mean what are they realistically going to do? Ban me again? Make my $40 even less? lol. I think they've already fucked me up the arse sideways.

I blame myself for investing in crud, and the ICO for producing shit

No, no, that was at least two years ago and I was swimming in btc & eth back then. So it wasn't a huge loss. I only give away what I can afford to lose if that makes sense. I think that was also the last ICO I really put anything substantial into.

That wasn't the coinstarter ICO perchance? I lost $3,000 in Eth on that and got banned when I questioned their communication. It was a bugger that one because it had all the signals of a good, solid project that was unique and could possibly do well. The team were super communicative at the beginning too.

I've put that 3k down to bad judgement though. I still have my coins.

Disagree. I've seen in the past some terrible projects that require KYC. I put 3 eth into one when in the days when eth was at its peak and it lost more than 80% of its initial value.

I fear this. Even small trade on localbitcoins.com - I've had in the past people asking for my passport. Um, no! I'm not giving away my most valuable information to a single end-user. That's like daylight data robbery. Even if their intentions are good how do I know that their way of keeping my data is secure?


It's not just for bounty the KYC process. They ask for ID on exchanges, ICOs, small trade, you name it. Mostly when it's not needed either.


Right. How did they manage before KYC? Quite easily if I remember.


I think the lesson to be learned here is seek out smaller decentralised exchanges


I think this holds water in my eyes. KYC for the necessary things like big centralised projects and exchanges. No KYC for smaller projects and exchanges. AND no KYC for anything decentralised. In my opinion

Not much of a bounty hunter myself!

My signature is prime real estate. It'll have to be an awe inspiring project to get in the bottom of my posts that's for sure

Thanks man. I appreciate that advice! Always nice to have some good solid advice from hardcore forumists!

I'm trying Currently I have about three of my own threads open, and I'm participating regularly in another three or four other threads that interest me

Because very few people understand the pure concept of decentralisation yet, mixed with the effort of having to figure things out for yourself.

I've had some real conversations over the last few days on this forum with people that have told me stupid things like "crypto is just money" and that sort of ilk. I mean I don't blame them per se - a lot of people entered into this industry when Bitcoin was flying high and ICOs were pitted on ANN threads in their hundreds per week. A lot of folks here I'd hazard a guess wouldn't know what it was like to have only Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin as the main three coins and when someone had the balls to make another coin it was like a whole month event. Hundreds of people would flock together to throw their hard earned money at another coin that promises to do exactly the same as what's currently available but BETTER, and in the end the devs would just give up and run away with our bitcoin. Innovation was non-existent. But boy anonymity was integral - and we valued that above all else. Even if it did mean losing a btc here and there. It wasn't much anyway at the time.

Now we've sort of entered some weird alternate reality where it's all about the money and nothing about the vision - no-one cares about the original vision of satoshi anymore. Most projects pitted to us today are more or less centralised, as are the exchanges, and the people that run them.

But that's people I guess. Never underestimate the human need for control.

Okay. I've been in the industry for a long time. I've invested in my fair share of ICOs. Here's what I saw from this:

1. Their revolutionary new method of making coffee was not shown. Why? This is was their main selling point. From the video I saw it was a guy sitting beside a big machine - the machine could have been anything.
2. What does it solve technologically? I mean maybe it's just me because I like to put my crypto into unique projects but I saw nothing here that couldn't be solved with cold hard cash. Why don't they just join kickstarter? Why do they need crypto? - something to think about.
3. Did you see the marketing video? Whilst I usually give leway for bad marketing videos because not everyone can have an awesome photogenic picture with awesome acting skills. But there was zero passion in that.
4. Pictures looked like stock photos from istockphoto or somewhere.

Tip: When you're investing in ICO's think to yourself - how does crypto solve this problem? And can money solve it if they listed it on kickstarter or somewhere else? If money can solve it then drop it like a hot rock - they are using our new unregulated space to attract eager beavers to fork out their cold hard cash when realistically they shouldn't be - also, good luck with them keeping track of market prices and trying to help with it.

Hope that helps!

I've been in this game for nearly 6 years now. Would I consider myself a crypto professional? Probably not. I think you'd have to narrow it down far more to become any sort of professional. Perhaps a blockchain specialist, a marketing consultant, or an ICO advisor, who knows? There are many professions out there. But Crypto professional? I think that genre tag is too broad. But the good thing about this sphere is there is something for everyone. From artists to scientists, the crypto world is invasive as it is revolutionary.

I think once you get the hang of only using money you can afford to lose, and not sweating when your coin takes a 80% nosedive -- I think then you can say you're perhaps a bit more experienced than some others

Yup! Definitely a total hindrance. I loved anon investing. I still do

I agree with this. This is what I've found too.

Crypto isn't just money my friend. I think you need to go back and read Satoshi Nakomoto's whitepaper on Bitcoin lol

Haha! Good answer

https://hackernoon.com/the-amazing-story-of-cryptocurrencies-before-bitcoin-fe1b0e55155b

He made a strategic move. If he/she was named and doxxed the government could discredit, villify, grab his private keys, who knows? Waterboard him? God knows. After hitting $19000 in December 2017 I bet the authorities have been hunting his ass down with a hardon for a long time.

He did himself and the general public a favour. By being a John Doe then there is no central authority. No one to turn to. No one to blame. If we immerse ourselves in the technology then we have to take ownership of our own actions

I quite admire him actually. Something I couldn't do.