Topic: Ban Appeal RegulusHr and discussion on topic "good for the forum as a whole". - page 8. (Read 6288 times)

While preparing for the forum hangout, I finally visited the Bitcoin store exchange in City Centre East. I arrived by car so I parked at the garage and I saw that I parked right in front of the entrance next to which the exchange is located – as can be seen by the big billboard. There were no other customers inside the exchange so I explained to the girl working there how much approximately in BTC and ETH I'd like to sell. After she told me how much I would be getting, I rounded it down and she turned the monitor to me so I can scan the QR code (address). She read the BTC amount (8 decimals) out loud once again and after another check I completed the transaction. Both transactions were completed in less than a minute, because I paid attention that the network fee is high enough. They paid out my kuna, separately for each transaction. All went quickly and elegantly.
Between the transactions I wrote the current BTC and ETH values from CoinMarketCap so I have exact values for future analysis.
The analysis is as follows:
At the date of conversion, the HNB's exchange rate for USD was 6,393771.
1 BTC on CoinMarketCap was worth 6.574,53 USD, when we change that to Kuna we get 42.036,04 HRK.
Based on the receipt from Bitcoin Store the BTC exchange was done at a price of 38.837,58 HRK. Based on that, the difference ammounts to 8,24%.

1 ETH on CoinMarketCap was worth 209,31 USD, when we change that to Kuna we get 1.338,28 HRK.
Based on the receipt from Bitcoin Store the ETH exchange was done at a price of 1.233,51 HRK. Based on that, the difference ammounts to 8,49%.

I intentionally use the word difference instead of fee, because these percentages include all the fees (besides the network fee) and not only the Bitcoin Store fee. Basically, I was really happy with these percentages because here you can sell whenever you want to and when you search for a buyer yourself, it is hard to find one at a moment that suits you best for selling.
I recommend everybody to inform themselves about network fee prices before visiting the exchange to make sure they are choosing the fee that is high enough for instant transaction. My fees for instant transactions were 0,14 USD for BTC transaction and 0,02 USD for ETH transaction.
ETH fee: https://ethgasstation.info/
BTC fee: https://bitcoinfees.info/

At the very beginning, the girl asked me whether I want to leave my e-mail address and telephone number but she said it is not a requirement.
Another important thing to add, the limit for cash transaction without leaving personal info has been lowered from 15.000,00Kn per person to 7.500,00Kn.
I was also wondering if they control the incoming address when checking the limits but I forgot to ask. All in all, that's not that important.

i doubt that anybody uses your keyboard neither consuming your computer resources to post here, and you are certainly not forced to visit the thread, so stop whining and ignore the topic if you have nothing important to add.

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I have gone through OP's posts (used dear google translator indeed) and I can clearly see that he was a decent poster, way too far from the average Joe who would copy and paste just for merit or post count.

is un-banning him "good for the forum as a whole" ? i say indeed yes.

notice that i don't know this member, can't speak his language but I do believe in second chances.

it's true that tons of spammers are being banned everyday, and being a good poster does not give you the right to break the forum rules, but this is not a court-martial and i believe theymos is open to exceptions, given the fact that good quality members make a very small percentage here, they should get some exception when things are not related to direct harm or scam.

As a newcomer to the forum I recommend you to first view the topic register in Croatian sub forum where there are many topics dealing with mining.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/registar-tema-u-glavnoj-sekciji-foruma-3718248

Since I have analyzed today the state of the mining market my shortest answer would be don’t buy a graphics card for mining because I do not see the justification of such investment at this time.

I started mining about ten months ago and I bought 5xGTX1070 because it seemed to me the best decision at that time. Otherwise I'm a fan of nvidia cards and I always choose them first if it's even justified. Today I would not recommend nvidia cards for mining, their main advantage was that they could profitably mining many different algorithms and were simple to start mining (they do not need a fleece bios). Disadvantage is that they are expensive compared to AMD's RX series.
AMD cards were also good for mining the Ethasha algorithm (ETH is the most known currency that uses this algorithm. Currently the Ethash algorithm is most resilient on rush from ACIS machines but there is a great disadvantage what's in the announcement that Ethereum, which today have highest number of miners, all types of graphics cards soon pass to POS and it will no longer be profitable to mining. So I do not see at this point the profitability of mining graphics cards.
Calculate that the price of the currency, you are mining, in the future will increase so that you will earn for me in not some option.
Than better invest now this 1000 euros in some coin and wait that price of this coin increase. The point of mining to the small should be to adjust mining and check it once a week and not that you are standing over it all the time. Options to find a coin that may explode in the future or constantly changing in, at that moment, most cost-effective coin are not profitable for one of the miners and they require a lot of time and knowledge.
If you just decided and determined you're gonna start dealing with mining then I would recommend you to buy ASIC Antminer Z9 mini.
In my account he costs around 1000€ (ASIC 850$ + power supply 100$ + 50 $ postage + 250 $ customs).
With its features 10.0 kSol / s with 266W consumption current return on investment is under 90 days.
The guarantee is 180 days

This thread is starting to become annoying...

Of course it is, there's no reason to post if there's no one there to merit them, right?

You only care about your local section, that's what bothers me and that's what each and every one of you are saying indirectly...."F the rules, he's better, forgive him", yet, at some point, he knowingly did something against the rules.

In my opinion, the power of example is the best one. With him as an example, all of you will know better next time you'll want to increase your post count by stealing someone else's work!

Also, don't you think that a mod/admin would have replied if they would have considered unbanning? Silence is also a pretty clear answer...

Almost four months later, you're still dumb enough to not notice we DON'T CARE
if his merit source status is removed, yet you feel urge to post here

Let me do it for you

Almost four months later, still the best thing i've read in this thread...

Regarding the community support - I can understand reservations there as well. You can test it easily - revoke Regulus's ban, remove negative trust but remove him as a merit source.
We as a community will progress a bit harder but if we are honest, we will be pleased because a member we cared about is back in our community.

This would not be fair too because he was actually a great merit source and did the job thoroughly but would serve as a way to show that we support the man and not the milking cow.

...local forum seems like 50% less active than before he was banned

All I see is users which are hungry for merit whining that their merit farm source is dead due to stealing posts.

I'm really shocked that after more than 3 months of waiting, admins still didn't answer this request.
I know that RegulusHr several times sent personal messages to admins but also didn't receive any answer.
You could see from previous posts that RegulusHr is well respected member in the local community.
Also, I think that we all shared a lot very good arguments why this permaban should be removed.
We know several cases when admins removed permaban for some other members on the forum.
Because of this we all had great hope that RegulusHr will come back finally but still there is no answer.
Because of this, many members in our local community feel that Regulus didn't have honest treatment and equal chance for forgiveness like some other members on this forum.
Some members feel like ''second class'' members on this forum.
I hope that admins will do right thing here and remove this permaban after more than 3 months.
We will not give up from this case because we feel that RegulusHr also deserve second chance, even if he was active only in the local section on this forum.