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Seeing that nobody else has asked it, I guess I will.

wangbus, are you John K.?

Also, since you are Staff, thus allowed to peruse the entire forum's back-end database due to you needing to know what this one encompasses so to better build the next one, do you have access to our private PMs? If you don't, get it, for there's a wealth of information that could be gleaned there to augment a $1M USD payday.

~TMIBTCITW

PS: I devised a formula to determine the "intrinsic value" of this forum: IV = IV/F x F in which IV stands for intrinsic value and F represents BitcoinTalk. Somebody check my maths please, for I'm prone to errors after eating an entire 16" pizza from Rosati's (or sometimes on an empty stomach).

A plug and play open source forum in Node.js might actually be worth $1 million dollars. Most of the widely used forums today are built in PHP so this could be just as big for Node.js as it is for the forum. Additionally, if this code is open source and integrates with BTC, it has wider applications.

*Puts on his tinfoil hat*

Since Augusto and Goat aren't directly saying it, I'll just be blunt so folks know why there is some flak about spending the money...

Federal (specifically DoD, but others as well) projects often come with an NDA for the developers to not share government work in their portfolios. Whenever I hear someone talk about NDAs, I assume government work. Given that this is going to be an open source forum that has some form of BTC and Trust integration, it would likely be highly valuable to various entities within Darknets as well. If designed intentionally with exploits in the open source version that are patched in the live version, an aspiring three-letter agency could use the success of a Node.js forum to promote adoption in some of these remoter areas of the web. Then, at a specified integration-point, they could exploit said software causing turmoil for hapless Darknet administrators.

*Takes tinfoil hat off*

Regardless of whoever is designing this software, security should be the primary focus or else you're going to get some really bad (and IMHO, quite-deserved) flak. I'd highly recommend keeping the existing security bounties and possibly even integrating or accounting for them during development of the project.

Whatever happens people will still complain, unless it is completely revolutionary in forum technology, but whatever it looks like people will probably be disappointed. How can a million dollar years in the making forum live up to the hype?

I could do it in a weekend for $25/hr. Just saying.

I think we can expect some delays with such a big project but I think it will be worth it when it comes out even if the money was a little high its welll worth it if we have the best forum around.

Around a year they said.

I can't wait for the new software are we expecting to see this a year from now or some time next year?

\o/

Well when you work a full time job, you get a w-2. In freelancing you don't have that cause you are bouncing from job to job. w-2 is for income tax. So a w-9 is for consulting companies and freelancers that shows you are doing for work a company basically. They should have a w-9 as an S-corporation if memory serves me right.

TLDR w-9 is how you file for income tax when you are freelancer or consulting company which this job is.

Source?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/get-donator-status-by-donating-10-btc-38071
https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

contain nothing of what you say.

Where is it apparent that the BTC I donated are explicitely for the purpose of creating a new forum? Theymos is free to make use of the funds as he best sees fit, in my view.

I hope that the new forum will not be to complicated otherwise it would just be a waste it be usee friendly otherwise no matter how much fancy features it will be hard to navigate and extremely annoying.

Speak for yourself! Personally, I actually like the current forum and I hope the new one will be as "clean" in its design.

I am sure most of the donators/VIP could do more than a forum if they were properly reimbursed to remedy the situation. That amount of funds would much more productive in the donators/VIP hands rather in the hands of the current administrator.

that 50k vip investment could of made you one hell of a forum for your own site.

Good god someone is getting ripped off here!!!! I would have made a completely scalable system from the ground up for 350k and it would be tighter than mother gooses ass!!!!

I'm not sure if this was answered already or within the scope of the project, I think it is important for Theymos to allocate funds towards design rather than only the back-end of the new forum. Would be nice if we had a really well designed forum to use. I could point you towards a few good firms if interested.

I also don't understand why use some no-name development studio when the pay is that high.

For $350k, it's going to want to be a pretty fricking amazing forum.  

Happy to be proven wrong, but to me it just looks like Theymos hit the jackpot with all these donations and the rising price and is just enjoying the cash.   There's no logical reason why things have taken so ridiculously long to get done, and this whole "give shitloads of cash to a random group with no history" doesn't exactly inspire a lot of confidence.

Honestly I'm not particularly happy to have this place attached to Bitcoin in a big way (as it is) as it just comes across as amateur hour.

EDIT:  Wait, he's spending a million dollars?   I don't even know what to say to that.

EDIT 2:  And what of the other 5 million dollars that's sitting around "doing nothing".  What are the plans for that.   If the forums costs are paid for by ads, then that money should be distributed back to donators at the very least (just to be clear, I haven't donated).

nothing's gonna get done on the forums.  people donated when the value of BTC was low because they wanted a rank to show off.  the donations are likely redistributed to the top team or theymos is enjoying the money.  who doesn't like all that money.

I wasn't speaking literally. Didn't think I'd have to state that.