Topic: Bitcoin Social Experiment - page 3. (Read 12026 times)

Me too.  LOL

I find myself coming to the forum just to see what starman22 is up to.

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...

First off I would like to thank all of the donors to this little project. *Begins Rod Serling voice-over* – You have all become unwitting participants in a little thing we like to call life. You have all agreed to play the game for various reasons not knowing what is before you, is it simply an elaborate scam, an actual experiment, or some other devilish plot? What is known, is this is no ordinary forum thread, you have just entered the Twilight Zone….

With that feeble attempt at a dramatic introduction out of the way, I will first try to set some expectations.

Keep in mind that this is a long-term experiment and there will be many phases, this is just kicking off phase one. The experiment will likely draw out over several weeks or months, perhaps longer.
Due to the nature of the experiment, there may be long periods of time between updates.

At some stage, the experiment may require input from the participants. I will PM directly asking for any information that will need to be kept private. Sometimes I will ask for information publicly in the thread that I will also ask you to PM me your response. Other times I will both post in the thread and ask that you also respond in the thread.

To designate the type of response required I will prefix [PM response required] for the responses that need to be kept private and [Public response required] for responses requested to be made as forum posts. If you accidently respond the wrong way, (i.e. post PM response in thread) it won’t necessarily break anything, but realize we are dealing with human psychology and thus the direct and indirect influence of others will play heavily into this.

Also, since there are multiple participants, please allow time for everyone to complete any required actions. Again, this will probably take quite some time so things may, and will, appear to stall at times.

I also want to point out that you are obviously free to not participate and can drop out at any time, all that I request would be a PM so I don’t end up waiting for a response from someone who decided to quit.

One last issue, since this seems to be of great concern to many in the observation deck, if anyone wishes to opt-out right now and for what-ever reason wants their donation back please let me know now.
 
After the first phase begins, I will consider all Bitcoin received an inter vivos gift and make it available for use in the experiment. After this point all funds in the wallet are considered mine to be freely used however I wish with no conditions or expectations set upon how I use them.
 
The funds will be transferred around and used in a manner deemed appropriate by the experimenter (me) and any others who may work for, assist, or are directed by me on how to handle the funds. I make no promise, claim, or guarantee of how the funds will be used, they may or may not be used in a manner you agree with. Since the funds will not always be under my direct control, at some stages the funds could simply disappear for many reasons including, but not limited to; fraud, transaction errors, theft of wallet, mistypes, etc.

Once the experiment begins, I cannot accept any more participants or deposits to the wallet address. If any funds are sent to the address for whatever reason after this point, they are also considered gifts and will be used in the experiment with no expectation of any participation by any who sent such funds, either intentionally or accidently.

The first phase will kick-off within 48 hours of this post in order to give everyone time to be sure of their decisions and opt-out if so desired. I can accept new participants for the next 24-hours, but after that time the signup is locked and any funds sent to the wallet address become forfeit and are subject to the above conditions.

Could be but I would expect more weird things to get the tension levels up.

Hmm, maybe the experiment was to see how long till donors get pissed off?

I used to be a real estate broker, in California. I diligently studied the market reports put out by my associations (like The National and California REALTOR associations) and mistook them for facts ;-) I began to participate in Zillow forums in 2007 (now almost as nauseating to me as Trulia)  and learned where to find real information from there (also a Patrick.net fan). You can find just as much information here in this forum about the state of bitcoin as any media outlet, with both you have to gleen your "truths"

 


  

 
  
 

Looks like starman22 has 700% more donations than requested.

Like your signature - any miner knows - there is more FUD than truth in this place however.

I've got a few free dust amts to send from the likes of cex.io referrals...so no harm no foul for me.  He's legit - no one wastes this much time for so little gain...he could've made out better with scamming ebay at this point over wasting time here.

Here's my contribution

https://blockchain.info/tx/0b688e09b21d5e92c2eb94e6dc0238f57e9a135a3fdac6016f27c2cc00de60f6

I think Starman22 is counting on that, it's why I'm interested.

Wrong place for a social experiment

The bitcoin community is the most special part of a social in the world, any conclusion get from a social experiment done here will most possibly not apply in the real world 

I actually have a swamp out back behind my house I should see if he could sell it for some BTC for me.  LOL

Ok, looks like we are nearing completion. I need the last few participants that have sent deposits to PM me the details, as of right now I have more people than deposits.

Once this is straightened out I will post a bit more information before beginning.

There is still time to jump in, 10 total participants would be a nice amount, could possibly go up to 12, but after that I will be closing the sign-ups.

I'll be sending money.

Ok, thanks for joining!

Can you each PM me your sent from addresses so I can match up who is who?

Thanks!

I forgot to mention that I sent some earlier. I did not know we were supposed to post in here about it.

WOW Starman22 you just sucked in another senior member 
Hey, more power to ya.  If I ever need someone to sell something for me, I know who to call.

Just contributed. How many more donors are needed?

Actually 6 donors and two dust transactions from other sources, as mentioned earlier. Just want to keep the number of active participants straight.


I wouldn't quite go that far...


Hard to determine at this point, but it will be more based upon the so called "active participants" or those who have a vested interest via their donations.

Everyone is free to comment, but it would be nice to keep it on track and not just turn into a bunch of people yelling scam, scam, scam. Thus I too apologize if anything I said came across as snarky or demeaning.

It is funny I like social experiments.
This does seem like an MTurk type as well.  I know another poster said that as well.
I hope this will be something fun and interesting that is why I donated $1 to the cause.
Believe me as well, I do not have much BTC and even less cash.  If I was not so embarrassed I would actually ask for BTC donations for myself as I am disabled from an accident 1 1/2 yrs ago and really want to keep building in BTC.  I talked about what happened in another thread on here so I will not do so here.
So please do not be a scammer and hopefully this is enjoyable as every penny of my money means quite a bit to me.
Thanks