Topic: [Interviews] with Bitcointalk members - page 28. (Read 30762 times)

I was just kidding, I'll compile it myself and post once I have some free time

Yes, and he still not given me my prize for answering a question about the avatar he was wearing here; http://archive.is/3NE42 


I'm still waiting !   

actmyname (Legendary)

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Questions:
1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?

"I think it was around late 2014 or early 2015 that I started hearing about Bitcoin, probably due to some loose news from post-Gox FUD. One of the first things that I tried was a faucet (of course) since we all love exchanging electricity for fractions of pennies, and I wouldn't find Bitcointalk until months later. Even after experimenting with it shortly, I had no desire to tinker with it any more since I only had a very rough understanding of the technology: I knew how to spend Bitcoin, and I loosely knew how blocks were handled and mined. It wouldn't be until far later in the summer of 2015 that I actually decided to look into the technical details of Bitcoin's design. After reading the Developer Guide on Bitcoin.org? I was fascinated."

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?

"It wouldn't be until late 2018 that I actually decided to spend fiat for Bitcoin. Most of the coins that I held up until that time were all from services, contests, or sales and profits. I decided that I wanted to buy some more collectibles. Shiny rocks have aroused the curiosity of mankind for ages, and it won't stop even if we digitize our money."

3. How did you get on the forum?

"Honestly, I can't remember the reason I ever joined. I took a huge break from before I decided to actually start posting anything significant."

4.1. You actively participate in the discussion of reputation issues on the forum. In your opinion, is the DT system fair or has flaws?

"Fairness, justice, it's difficult to define these terms so those pedantic peters will have to excuse the lack of rigor when I say, the DT system is unfair, flawed, and absolutely chaotic.

Imagine you are developing a society and you consider the options. Your previous attempt at a government was a small group - a selected council of members hand-picked by yourself. These members were the absolute measure of trust when it came to your society, and thus those that they trusted directly were deemed to have a holy judgment. Those secondary members too became powerful rulers of the society, and you had a three-layered structure for how the average citizen trusted others.

Now, you have changed the system. Rather than self-appointed rulers, you decided to create a popularity system. This system was designed to create a numerical value for the popularity of individuals, to determine if their opinions were worthy to be appointed a new rank. This was weighted by a factor of 1:2. For each point of popularity you gave to someone, they could only give out half back to someone else. To create a parallel to the previous system, you decide to appoint popularity leaders which can generate popularity points to send to others. However, the generated points cannot be directly sent to themselves.

The second part of this is now to determine your new government: The Tribune of the Hundred. It is difficult to shift members onto a new status quo, but you can do it by forcing participation at the risk of being shunned: to have a chance to be elected to the tribune, you have to take part in the trust experiment, by trusting others and being trusted by popular people. You also force these members to remain active on your main platform to generate more activity, and add in a clause that allows you to exclude members so that you can go back to the old system if necessary. It has been 20 months since the start of this government, and you notice that the number of people that are given absolute trust has grown massively. In fact, the old system which allowed you to view a detailed listing of all members in your government has grown in size to such a degree that you fail to load the list. No problem!"

4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?

"Gambling as an industry is a net negative. I think anyone who advocates for gambling without being aware of that is being absolutely willfully ignorant. It's a zero-sum game, and it's favored towards the house: it's an incredible form of wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich. I think, though, gamblers are a sticky bunch. They enjoy losing and they enjoy the culture of gambling, which can serve as some consistent traffic - it also does help that the forum gets a lot of ad money from those sites.

But let's not stop at gambling. What about the fact that the forum has an Investor-based games board? It's like saying, 'yeah, but I had to give my kid a chocolate bar or else he wouldn't stop crying!'

Right..."

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?

"Merit, no. Signature campaigns, yes. It's obvious, and people can try to equivocate and try to distance themselves from the whole spam front, but if you take a look at most of the forum discussion threads, they are so abhorrent that if you gave a 1.1x return on if a random post was spam or not you would be broke within hours.

The altcoin bounties need to be scrapped. They are a 0-cost way for developers to make a quick dollar and spam up the forum. Seriously."

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?

"[EDU] How to spot a scammer (Read this before doing any transactions!)

Why this one in particular? Because the people that need the most help are the ones who don't know how to avoid scams. This covers 90% of cases.

@LoyceV is helpful but his oceans of data threads take up all the space on my screen.
@marlboroza is helpful and meticulous in investigation, but his quote spacing is like that of a child.
@mprep is helpful and one of the most valuable members of Bitcointalk. I think the forum would be significantly worse without their presence. That being said, he banned me once so we clearly have to be arch-enemies for eternity.
@TwitchySeal is helpful but his incredible skill with scam-busting is obviously the development of an obsession which was catalyzed by a childhood event: probably something involving clowns!"

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?

"You need to maintain privacy standards on the forum, which I respect theymos for doing. Additionally, the security concerns are valid and preventing those features from being problematic makes sense in their disabling. I miss that stats page, though - you could sleuth out some suspected alts with more circumstantial evidence, keeping track of their activity.

I would make the search function better. The current way it works is at a thread-granular level, meaning that it cannot comb through individual messages within a thread that contain your key words. That's absolutely unacceptable.

Better mod and reporter tools would probably help to curb spam more. After all, the 4 second delay has already impacted my efficiency.

And the Bounties section is going to go."

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?

"No. Trading is for gamblers or wealthy people and investing in someone else's business means that you're taking the opportunity cost of not doing exactly what they are."

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?

"It's hard to come up with a particular situation, since most of my movements are very shallow - I try to play +ev positions without embracing too much volatility. There have been a few times, however, where my team's card counting equity was 8x that of the statistical expectation for the week. I suppose those would be the big profits. No amounts, sorry "

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?

"Possible to function but you need clever engineering to reduce the cost. Not I nor the 99.9% of people in this forum that don't have deep technical knowledge should be inclined to start appraising it."

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?

"In a perfect world, anonymity would be no different from reality. In such a world, anonymity would be a vital necessity for society to function. For this world, it is a precaution. However, truly think to yourself whether anonymity being a precaution dictates a situation that is better than it being a necessity."

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?

"Mastering Monero."

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?

"BTC. XMR. The other coins I have deemed either irrelevant or I have insufficient knowledge of their (hopefully) useful protocols to determine their value."

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?

"I am expecting 12600-13800 levels. Fairly optimistic."

15. P.S. (Optional)

"Read and be forcibly pedantic to yourself, but charitable to others. I may have been quite cynical in this one, so I look forward to corrections."

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Do you think this party is only for senior members? NO

If you want to give an interview, write to me in PM. You don't even have to write me a PM. If you notice that all questions are the same except for 4. You can come up with questions for number 4 and publish your interview.

I still don't understand why so many people do not want to express their opinion.
I have plans to interview more people, maybe soon the holiday season will end, and there will be more people willing

A new topic in Archival works well.

So many senior members and only 2 Full ones, this thread seems to give off some intimidating aura, eh

Regarding my interview, I liked it so much I am at your disposal for additional questions. I don’t want to clutter the thread, but we can find a nice format (PM to @zasad@,  or Just post on the thread and delete the message when I answer appending the answer in my interview post).

youve found my spirit animal.. well a glonk would be more accurate but i couldnt find an image in a quick search.

sorry for off topic

I am always for freedom of opinion, so there is no problem.
Most people are not public person and it is very dangerous to give any interview in audio format. Modern voice technology allows you to find any person, so I'm unlikely to find anyone who wants to. There are programs that allow you to change your voice, but this will cause even more problems. I can't ask all the questions in one interview, but I don't need to. You can ask any questions in this topic, or in the user project topics.

this without a doubt is an idea that I believe that hundreds of members will not want to participate, but I wonder what it would be like if we had a video conference interview, it would be something very incredible at least we left anonymity and we would know each other better... I imagine that many members would be desperate just to hear this idea

I'm already imagining the scenario:

OP turns on the camera and sees on the other side a mouse and says oh my god, there is a mouse on the computer of member X and member X says: "man it is me, don't be afraid... can we start the interview?" and OP think: "my god, this mouse typing on bitcointalk all the time and has become a reliable member of DT? oh my god Is a lot to deal with... my head is not managing to deal with it"

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maybe now they realized the size of the hole they were in and are scared, I am still waiting to see more interviews

I agree. Having no back-and-forth conversation makes this more of an announcement, rather than an interview.

Some members can elaborate their answers and articulate them well, but it doesn't mean they'll exhaust all of the queries that people have.

Initially, I really liked the idea of interviews of various bitcoin talk members, but there is something that it a bit sterile about a written interview format.. so I cannot bring myself to read them, even members who I want to get to know better.  

I am thinking that starting a podcast might be a better format... but at least some kind of audio format... ...audio can be a  bit more spontaneous and a bit more tone based, even better if there were some options for voices to be disguised....

I understand that my comments might be coming off as a bit annoying.. but just saying what I am thinking about the likely difficulties that members (besides yours truly, perhaps?) might be having with written interview dynamics.  #justsaying

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To everyone who promised to give an interview, remember, I have not forgotten about you and I am waiting for you!

Thanks @zasad for invite me for the interview.
Coolcryptovator - Self Made Hero Member.  

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
To be honest I noticed bitcoin on 29/05/2016. Are you wondering how recalled the exact date? Then have a small story. At the beginning of 2016, I was looking for "how to earn online", then learn from YouTube about the PTC site. Then first joined was on Paidvert, and from there I noticed payments method bitcoin. Just now I logged in and discover my joining date from there. Although I didn't become interested in there, but I start research from there what is bitcoin. You can say I was stupid at that time, I avoid bitcoin to use on paidvert once I discovered its volatility. Then slowly I start joined a few more similar sites earning dust by using fiat money PM (perfect money). After approx e month, someone invites me to join rev-share, honestly I wasn't aware that time that rev-share just a Ponzi scheme. Believe it or not, I learn the "Ponzi" word after joining this forum. However, I become interested in bitcoin from the rev-share sites, I made deposits using Payza and tried to withdraw in BTC. Because Payza had a dispute option if incase Ponzi run out within 40 days. So if I withdraw in bitcoin then they can't dispute my funds. That's how I become interested in Bitcoin.

2. When and why did you when you buy your first bitcoin?
No, I hadn't bought bitcoin. As I told above, I withdrew bitcoin from rev-share and start using it. Very rarely I buy bitcoin, even can't remember my last buy. You can say bitcoin favor me, once I start using it then I had profited from it. I will describe below since that's related to your other questions. But of course, I won bitcoin in the middle of 2016.

3. How did you get on the forum?
Good question, after the end of rev-share there was a trend of ICO like lending platforms and so on. Since I learned about the rev-share scam, so before buying any ICO token I had to bother to read their social media feedbacks and comments since I wasn't an expert during that time. So you know very well Bitcointalk ANN thread link also attached with social links on the ICO website, so I read also comments from the forum and that's how I found this forum.

4.1. Why did you start working as a bounty manager? Is this a hobby or your main job?
I will be honest about it, some of the forum members inspired me to become a bounty manager. Then I had been trying to get campaigns and got a few small campaigns as well. Most likely some of you may know I have been working abroad (KSA). So I have managed a bounty campaign as a hobby. It's been 14 years since I am working on KSA, and recently I am leaving my jobs due to bad conditions and have a plan to start my own business in my own country. Probably the next week I will be in my home country. So still bounty management will be my hobby or you can say passive income. It was never my main job and it will remain as same. I have some capital which is more than enough to start my own businesses.

4.2. How do you pick out the projects you work with? Do you agree to work for payment in project tokens?
In the beginning, I had contact with the project and convinced to run a campaign on the forum. Few projects contact me as well to run their campaign. If I believe the project is potential at the beginning then I pick the projects to run their campaign. I didn't work for tokens, a brand new token is worthless for me. So, I will not work for worthless token and will work for bitcoin payments.

4.3. Tell us what parameters of candidates do you look at when recruiting them for a signature campaign?
First I notice their posting behavior, earn merits, reputation, and contributions. Spam on the mega thread is an immediate red flag for me because it's just a repeat of other answers. I always try to avoid such as participants who are just made a post to get pay instead of constructive discussions. Usually recruit participants according to projects expectation. For example, gambling sites look for participants who are posting on the gambling section. So I recruit who usually making posts on that appropriate section with the above criteria.

4.4. What is the risk of a bounty manager and what is his responsibility?
Risk is losing reputation if the project turns in to scam. Responsibility is to choose the best project and ensure participant's rewards for the campaign. For the forum, its manager's responsibility to keep the forum spam free, make sure that my participants aren't spamming on the forum and encourage them to make quality discussions.

4.5. Does the forum need to set additional rules for signature campaigns?
I had proposed few guidelines for the bounty campaign/managers although it wasn't only for the Signature campaign.

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
It was a real-time decision made by the forum admin about implementing the merit system to prevent spam from the forum. Merits are filtering brilliant users from thousands of spammers. For the merits system, good contributors getting advantages from the Signature campaign which is desirable to me. Merit is encouraging to create quality content on the forum, so it wouldn't harmful for the forum in any sense.

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
The most useful topic to me is, [GUIDES] on Bitcointalk. Index thread . Most useful members? Those help others always.

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?
A) Increase the security system of the user's accounts like 2FA or something similar. B)Add some new moderators where necessary like Beginners & Help boards. C) New ranks who have earned more than 3000 merits.

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
Did both at a time. But for now, nothing. Holding some shitcoin and waiting to recover.

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
I have remembered, I had bought some lending ICO token which was approx $100 worth and I sold then after a month for $1800. But lost more on the trading, bought some shitcoin approx 1.4BTC and now become 0.1BTC and that's the reason I am not trading now.

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?  
Just now learned about DEFI ecosystem. So, in short answers, DEFI could rule the future financial ecosystem although I am not sure after how many years it will happen.

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
For me, you can say vital necessity, because where I am staying (abroad) currently, bitcoin is illegal. In my home country, bitcoin is illegal. So, where anything related bitcoin I have to hide my identity somehow. You can ask, why I have mentioned my current location then? Because I am leaving this country within a week. So I feel there wouldn't be a problem.

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
Book? Never read.

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
1. Bitcoin, 2. Bitcoin, 3. Bitcoin

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
I am not a good predictor, but the price would be between $10K to $14K. I am not expecting more than $14K at all.

15. P.S. (Optional)
"If you want to be the happiest person in the world, lower your aspirations"

TheBeardedBaby (Legendary)

1.   When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
First time I heard of bitcoin was in 2010, when a friend told me about it, and was joking that we must invest, I should have listened to him. I came into the deep in 2017.

2.   When and why did you when you buy your first bitcoin?
I got my first satoshis in 2013, there was a website trybtc.(something) where people got some bitcoin to try it. Later in 2013 we were mining with a friend but when he tried to sell the btc he got scammed. Lesson learned. As many others in the same situation we just left the crypto field until 2017. This is when I bought my first satoshis, in the summer when the price surged to 3K$.

3.   How did you get on the forum?
After I bought my first satoshis I started reading more about bitcoin, in 2013 we just mined them we did not understand much about it. I end up on the forum while looking for a captcha solving service, I don't remember why I needed that captcha thing. But I fall in love with the forum and all that history hidden in the pages. 

4.   Have you ever overstepped your principles in the forum?
In or out of the forum I’m always being myself and following what I feel is right. Sometimes I see things I don’t like, and I try to oppose, I try to rise a voice and make changes which will benefit others, same with the forum. The forum has a very complicated political kind of structure, which creates parties with different interests and businesses, confronting each other, which generates only a negative effect on the forum, and I don’t like that, but I can’t change it. I really don’t want to participate in any party (maybe I'll move to Switzerland).
Sometimes my understanding does differ with those of the mods, so I got some of my posts deleted as being spam or off-topic. The interpretation of the rules is a funny thing.
 
5.    What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
The merit system was one of the best things that happen to the forum. There were many who had account farms, developing, and selling accounts with bots, which created a ton of spam and the forum was drowning in it. After the merit came in place, those who were worthy posters got a bit ahead of the others. The system did put a break to many newbies coming for “free money”.
This leads to the next question regarding the signature campaigns. As every other thing they also have positive and negative sides. The pros are that many good projects get exposure, the forum traffic is higher and there is some extra income for the regular users.
The cons: Some of the campaign managers don’t do their job properly allowing spammers to join the campaigns and make money for spamming, which drags more of those spammers.
Since there is no better control over the credibility of the projects, sometimes people promote a lot of scam project and many loose their money. Those who get scammed often label the cryptocurrencies as scam, sad story.

6.   The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
Every section has its own useful topics, I can think of at least 50 now but it is no need to list them. Many people are making lists of those topics, so no one needs another one 😊. It’s exciting when you find them, tho.
Regarding the users, I personally got help from many nice people during those years, the forum is full of nice and helpful people, it’s amazing. I won’t mention particular users because again I have to create a long list, but you can easily recognize them.
 
7.   3 things you would implement on the forum?
That’s a thought task if you don’t want to cross the forum (Satoshi and admin’s) principles. Let’s try:
- New clear Official Rules.
- Migrating to Epochtalk ASAP
- Create a new rank after Legendary

8.   Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
I trade but not so actively as I do not have enough time for that, I open positions once a month or two depending on the BTC price swings.
I do not invest in projects as this takes way more time to research a project than to trade.
 
9.   Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
There are no big profits nor losses, I slowly generate some satoshis, that’s all.

10.   What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
   This is the right way to go, we need to see the current financial system developing, combining it the possibilities of the blockchain will have a very interesting outcome. But what is most important is to keep following the the bitcoin legacy – Be Your Own Bank, have a financial freedom, and control what you actually own.

11.   Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
It’s more precaution, I’m not whale

12.   The last cryptocurrency book you read?
Don’t have time to read crypto books unfortunately, but I love to listen to some of the work of people like Andreas Antonopoulos, for example. Basically, podcasts and YouTube videos.

13.   Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
I don’t follow the alt market so I can give only one suggestion - BTC  😊

14.    How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
1 BTC will cost exactly 1 BTC. Fiat are unstable.

15. P.S.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” G. Michael Hopf

--- thanks @zasad, it was fun.

fillippone (Hero Member)

Let's start

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?

"Long time ago. I think that, being an internet addicted nerd, I “always” knew about bitcoin. But I never really looked into that as I considered it “drug dealer money”. Then in 2013, I read about bitcoin somewhere and given the rise in price I discovered the mining: of course I didn’t understand anything, but I distinctly remember cluelessly setting up an excel spreadsheet considering to buy a bitcoin miner by Bitmain. When BTC spiked from 100 USD 120 USD and difficulty consequently exploded, I decided I missed the boat and closed that spreadsheet for years. The idea of actually buying a bitcoin on an exchange never crossed my mind. Worst decision ever. Sliding door moment. Then, the following year in 2014, a friend of mine, who got into the bitcoin rabbit hole, did some kind of “elevator pitch”, explaining to me the basic concepts of the white paper. Understanding what bitcoin was about clicked something in my heart: since then I am in the “bitcoin rabbit hole” too, with a given percentage of my brain constantly allocated to BTC."

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?

"It was years after that episode. Back then I bought the vast majority of my bitcoins. I bought what I decided was the “right” investment for me. Actually I made an error converting USD and EUR, so I ended up buying something less than I wanted to. I never bought anything more, bar some “pocket money” buying. Again, the worst decision ever. "
As per the "why" part had to do as an hedge against the current fiat system. I do agree with Jameson Lopp: "Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick scheme, it's a don't get poor slowly scheme.". As an European, I was worried about the credibility of the Euro, the fiat currency I was paid with in my daily job, and even if the Euro system were able to survive somehow, I was sure the inflation would get a large chunk of my earnings: if the dollar lost 40% of his value during the last 20 years, I can't see the Euro losing less than that in the next 20. So I decided to take action and protect myself.

3. How did you get on the forum?

"Oh, Oh, here comes the shameful part. I have to admit, I registered here for a shitcoin airdrop. If you research into my first post, you can actually discover which one. Funny thing: I already had a clear idea about shitcoins. I remember knowing about bitcointalk.org, but I never bothered to register and discover what it was about. I was focused on other “things” at the time.
Third and fourth worst decision in three questions. My story looks so sad.
So, when I registered, I remember I struggled to gain my first 10 merits to be eligible for the shitcoin airdrop. Then the love story started."

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?

"Laziness. Bitcoin is a difficult matter itself, in addition to that it requires responsibility taking care of your private keys. People don’t want this responsibility, they want to delegate banks to manage their own money (which ultimately becomes the bank’s money, due to all the KYC/AML rules). Also, thinking about Bitcoin as a MoE, we have to admit user experience with Bitcoin has a great margin of improvement, but as long as paying with bitcoin is worst than paying with a contactless credit card, I can’t see a major mass adoption. LN is a great advancement in the right direction, but it is still technically cumbersome."

4.2. Who do you think will win bitcoin or banks?

"I think there is a bit of misunderstanding here: Bitcoin is not against banks, as commercial banks, it is against banks as central banks. Bitcoin is not against credit: bitcoin is against the unlimited, irresponsible money printing by central banks, who ultimately induces a moral hazard in the whole banking sector. So I think surely banks and bitcoin can coexists. Of course banks will have to radically change the way they are doing business. For sure there is enough space for everyone."


4.3. What is your opinion about the economist PlanB  and his Stock To Flow model?

"I distinctly remember when I first read the seminal article by PlanB. I was already familiar with the Stock to Flow concept, but seeing it so well developed and tested surely was a life-changing moment. I spent the following weeks studying it, desperately trying to find an error or a flaw on it. I submitted that paper to some academic friends of mine, who dismissed the article with an ad-hominem attack on bitcoin, not on the math itself. I opened a threadthread on the forum also, trying to get as much information as possible on it. Still, I am waiting for the first serious flaw. So I do believe it’s going to hold, for the moment, and next halving. The interesting thing is what is going to happen in the following halvings: I can’t see the model to materialise without major disruption in the financial system. Either the model, or the US Dollar is going to break. Interesting times ahead."
 

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?

"You must be kidding me, aren’t you? I am a firm believer in the merit system, and I am fully committed to the merit system, in a way that could also be considered excessive. I must admit I have no idea on how the forum was before the merit system was introduced, but I think spamming and account farming, two very deleterious activities for every forum has been greatly reduced. But the big positive side of the merit system is the boost in idea and knowledge circulation system it helped to bootstrap. This is the idea I tried to expose in my infamous merit thread.
Regarding merit signatures, I think it is a good way to spread the idea for good projects, but ultimately it is advertising. This is something that it is a responsibility of the owner of the publicised service and of the campaign manager to select the right quality standard of the poster in the campaign, with different targets.  Obviously poters in the campaign will try to keep a good posting standard, but as we saw, it is not always the case."

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?

"I came here on the forum late, because i thought I could learn more outside it. But I was wrong (how many times I called myself wrong in this interview?). The level of competence in this forum is incredible. If this was not the case, it would not be the forum used by achow101 or gmaxwell until today. I had very insightful discussions about very different topics on many boards and many users. I think I cannot compile a list: I truly believe every user in this forum has her own competence to bring. Also the most trollish users (bar the minimum “ignore” threshold), has a value, constantly challenging your ideas."

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?

"I am good with the current forum. I think it has been stable for a long period of time, so “if it works ain’t fix it". The reason to upgrade might come from the competition by other media. A lot of newer users resort to instruments like Telegram/Facebook/Youtube and completely disregard forums. I think each medium has his own prerogatives but the big advantage of forums is the “persistence” of knowledge. You can easily find an answer in the forum: good luck with it with a Telegram channel (where, actually, questions are answered over and over).
I think that new forum features would help to attract more new users.
1.EpochTalk/whatever new platform @theymos deems correct. Giving the forum a 2020 look and functionalities might help in the above mission to attract more “new” users. This should include some more statistics (to say the least include all the bpip.org project).
2. Mobile version. This could be part of point one, but it deserves a specific point. Navigating the forum via mobile is really difficult. I post A LOT through mobile, and I often struggle at it. A dedicated version would help a lot, also, again, to attract new users who usually use their mobile only.
3. As others have suggested: clearly mark a banned user, giving also the possibility to “auto ignore” them. I don’t want to engage in a discussion with/regarding/started-by a banned user, and as a merit source I don’t want to incur the risk of meriting a banned user."

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?

"I don’t trade in Bitcoin, I think they are a vital resource to me, and I am not so greedy willing to increase them. Regarding bitcoin I am totally risk averse. All I do is stashing sats, buying a bit here and there when I have some spare funds.
Regarding projects, where with that term I refer to “projects helping the bitcoin ecosystem growth”, I would really like to. But I am not that Bitcoin rich (let alone fiat rich) to afford to invest in them. I have a great respect for all the bitcoin early investors who didn’t just hodl their stash, but spent them in good projects: they now might be richer, but for sure they contributed to help bitcoin become what it is today. Investing in bitcoin projects, not hodling, defines the first class bitcoiners.
Other projects like [ANN] Project! I really don’t care about them."

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?

"I am not a trader, I told you. The only time I traded a little bit was back in the fork season in late 2017, 2018. I remember willing to get rid of all thise stupid forks as soon as possible. So I was trying to extract all the scammy forks from my BTC stash and getting rid of them at the first possible time. Bitcoin Pizza, Bitcoin God, SuperBitcoin, all gone. Of course my biggest trading decision was the timing of the sell of BCH. So, I will forever be grateful to Roger Ver who allowed me to increase my BTC stash of over 20% for free."
 
10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?

"If bitcoin is a Far West, DeFi is a (FarWest)^2. It really reminds, as a general attitude, the ICo frenzy of 2017. No one really understood how an ICO worked, or what was that particular ICO value proposition, or business plan, but nonetheless everyone was ready to throw dollars at them. I think DeFi could be a very interesting ecosystem to develop new services based, or rather pegged to Bitcoin. DeFi could potentially help to bootstrap a new “Gold Standard” based on Bitcoin, where the new Gold is Bitcoin and the new banks are DeFi smart contrat. This is a very futuristic scenario, but I think that the interaction between Bitcoin, DeFi and Banks will be a very interesting one to observe in the future."

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?

"Both. It is very true what @LoyceV said: privacy is a very underrated feature, and once you give it away, it is not possible to claim it back anymore.
I think there are 10 people in the world who know who I am, and I told them my username on the forum when I was still very junior. I don’t know If I would do the same now, and I have instructed them not to disclose my real identity."

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?

"I justread again the “Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous. It is a very good book and it first applied the stock to flow model to Bitcoin, defining it as a hard money. I've read that book again because I started to re-evaluate Saifedean Ammous assumptions based on some of his opinions, in other fields than bitcoins, namely some of his opinions on the COVID- imposed lockdowns. I just wanted to see if some of those bias were present in his book. Fortunately those didn’t, so I still can trust him (while he speaks about bitcoin stuff). I strongly recommend giving this read to any nocoiner: if he doesn’t fall in love with Bitcoin reading that book, he never will.
Another book I would recommend is “Mastering Bitcoin'' by Andreas Antonoupolos, which has a completely different target, focusing on the technical aspects of bitcoin instead of the monetary ones. With a very subtle analogy: understanding a little bit how the engine works, can help you be a better driver. "

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?

"I told you before I landed on the forum because of a specific altcoin. Please don’t be fooled: I am a Bitcoin supremacist. In my third ever post on Bitcointalk.org I made a clear statement I still consider valid. I have no clue about the other cryptos/tokens, so to me it is Bitcoin/Bitcoin/Bitcoin."

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?

"I wouldn't be a PlanB Zealot, if I didn’t take the Stock to Flow seriously. So I take this answer from digitalik.net: 25,500 USD.
Also be warned I wouldn’t be a PlanB zealot if I take the model as a literal future prediction tool. "

Thanks to fillippone for the interview!

The end.

Thank you @zasad@. It was a fun interview, and also nice memory trip down the road. I do hope reading these line you understood my true love for bitcoin, and also maybe you get curious about something. Bitcoin is so much learning new things. So while I learned a lot of new things being here on the forum, interacting with a lot of different users, I tried my best with my own threads, to give back something I think I knew better, from my personal history, studies and real life.

After the recession of 2003 and as a member of the financial industry I began researching for a project I was calling, "The Race to Debase" which was writings about how expanding government debt would lead them all to massively print their currencies as a way to devalue them and artificially lower their debt load.  Fast forward to the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and this became more and more clear to see.  I decided that the world's single biggest problem was central banking and began looking into ways I could help combat the problem.  When I found Bitcoin in 2011 it was clear this was the single best solution to the world's largest problem that had been made available to date. I bought into Bitcoin being the way to end banks and restrict government debt expansion.  I wanted to get involved and help grow the infrastructure as a way to spread the word.  I finally had somewhat of an answer to all those who asked, "but what can I do" while debating the disastrous consequences of ever expanding debt loads.



I was involved in Bitcoin for many years before ever purchasing any.  I actually believe that my first Bitcoin purchase was earlier this year as a result of a falling Bitcoin price leaving me under allocated to crypto in relation with my other assets. 



Back in 2011 there wasn't many options if you wanted to discuss Bitcoin.  The forum was the heart of all Bitcoin activity and all Bitcoin projects had active developers that were easily contacted here to exchange ideas.  Sadly, most developers in the Bitcoin community no longer stay active here as the community nowadays is full of disrespectful users only worried about inflating their forum ratings and influence to profit personally.



I started mining the day I discovered Bitcoin back in June of 2011.
It has always been a hobby and a passion to me, but one I felt was important to engage in. 
I pay around $0.07-$0.1 per kilowatt from the grid depending on the time of year, but also operate a solar array in order to further reduce costs and promote sustainable mining.
Looking back, I would say that video cards have had the most potential for profit with the least risk, but for the good of Bitcoin, ASICs are the obvious choice as being "better" for mining.
I don't sell any of my mined coins.  I don't mine for profit, and donate all coins I mine to NastyFans.org to be distributed to seat owners.  This way I am not contributing to the selling of Bitcoin and instead am trading my electricity for Bitcoin that I get into the hands of many to be held.
If you do anything for profit, there is always risk.  I personally think mining for profit is bad for the industry, and people should be mining to help the Bitcoin project grow and secure the blockchain.  Profits are nice, but changing the world for the better is the goal I wish more members of the community had.
Solar energy is still fairly expensive.  While I think sustainable mining is important for the future, it isn't something I see for-profit operations being willing to spend money on.  There is just too many ways to use that potential investment to immediately profit and those who seek profit don't tend to care much about global sustainability.  I hope I am wrong, but I don't see solar being widespread in the mining industry anytime soon, perhaps not in my lifetime.



I think they are good for forum views.  They keep people here active and posting.  The problem is that it overpopulates the forum with typical internet forum users, and not Bitcoin users.  People here value stats on posting and who is earning merit, and don't care about projects that exist on the blockchain or try to advance sustainability in the industry or create innovative Bitcoin use cases.  I am certain satoshi would not have cared which posters have the most merit and would have been very interested in posters that were using the transparent and decentralized qualities of Bitcoin to innovate new use cases.  So I think those things are good for the forum, but bad for Bitcoin.



I don't think there is a single "most useful" forum topic.  I could probably dig and find some topic about Bitcoin banking the unbanked or giving people the opportunity to live debt free but there are so many things Bitcoin could be useful for, it's hard for me to pick one.  I have found there are many helpful users in the Bitcoin Technical Support section and am impressed that they have stuck around to provide this free tech support.  If there were one section of the forum I think satoshi would be happy with, it would be there. 



I don't like the way merit sources were chosen and think that doomed the new DT system from the beginning.  I don't like that members can get into DT1 by social engineering and not their contributions to the Bitcoin community.  I don't like that the forum isn't in control of signature advertising.  I would probably implement some sort of system to make merit sources more fairly determined, remove members from DT1 that have not made any contributions to Bitcoin visible on the blockchain, & have signature campaigns be an opt-in setting where payouts are managed by the forum thus eliminating signature campaign managers and the need to compete for spots in signature campaigns by making as many posts as you can with as many different alt accounts as you can create.



I do not trade on exchanges, nor do I think it is wise to do so.  I handle my traditional investments the same way.  I do invest my time, and energy into projects I think could have a positive influence on mankind.  For example, I think Ravencoin has some lofty goals so I have promoted, invested in, and mined that to help the cause.  I have also spent nearly a decade donating to, developing for, investing in, and promoting the NastyFans project, which I think is a project that is perhaps ahead of it's time and under-appreciated. 



People seem to enjoy hearing about losses more than profits, so I could talk about the time I spent 90 BTC on an order of honey roasted almonds from the Bees Brothers (best almonds I ever ate) or the users I've donated a BTC to for telling a good joke.  Probably the loss that hurt the most was my order with Butterfly Labs.  I was one of the first to order and receive their first ASIC miners, leading to massive BTC profits.  When they started taking orders for their second generation miners, it seemed like a no brainer to be at the front of that line.  Unfortunately, the government got involved after many customer complaints about company mismanagement, causing absurd delays that cost those who ordered nearly everything.  I personally lost about 180 BTC on that deal, and the orders were made on behalf of NastyMining, causing NastyFans to lose out on a significant amount of hashrate that should have boosted donations for seat owners far beyond what was realized.



I think DeFi has a lot of promise, but have yet to see anything truly utilized.  Projects like Namecoin could have had a profound effect on government censorship, yet are ignored because a majority of the community seems to care only about profits, and not bettering the world.  As Bitcoin becomes a tool to collect fees for Wall Street fund managers, I can only hope that something brings this community together and focuses us all on what we can do to make the world a more transparent and prosperous place for all human beings.



I've never been anonymous.  I was ordering things from forum users with my real name and address for probably the first 4-5 years I was a member here.  It wasn't until I started seeing jealously and threats from members who coveted things I felt were worthless, like my DT status, that I decided to start taking precautions to limit the use of my identity.  I don't think it's a necessity to be anonymous, but do feel that being anonymous avoids headaches from immature forum users.



I honestly can't name one.  I've been given a few as gifts and have read excerpts, but from my experience many of those books are written for those who weren't around to see Bitcoin mature or for extremely talented developers, of which I am neither.  When I do try to read articles that come out of places like Stanford I tend to smack my head at how horrible their takes on Bitcoin are.  I try to, "listen to all, follow none" but think seeing the community evolve and how individual projects and users react to circumstances is more valuable than reading a self described "professional" individual's opinion.



The best investment one can make is to pay off their debt.  Bitcoin is a nice second.  I think tokens that return funds from operations to investors could also be interesting, but I don't know of any.  I am always on the hunt for projects that return anything to investors, but have a hard time finding any besides the one that I currently support.



I wouldn't be surprised to see it hit the $20K range, but the real fireworks will be towards the end of next year.



A few things I'm involved with...
NastyFans - A club of Bitcoin users who work together and support each other's innovations to generate and share donations with each other.
Trusted BITCOIN Escrow Service - The most popular escrow service on Bitcointalk.
Minted Seats - Physical coins that earn BTC from donations made to NastyFans.
NastyMining Green Energy Project - Sustainable Bitcoin mining project.
NastyShop - Place to purchase Minted Seats & other products I've created.

arielbit (Legendary)


Let's start

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?

" End of 2013, since it is "currency", it is also a form of money, humans inherently like money, that includes me. "

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
  
" Didn't buy, I mined when bitcoin is just starting to get ASIC'd and proceeded to mine shitcoins and trade to BTC."

3. How did you get on the forum?

" I read an article about BTC, googled, end up here at bitcointalk."

4.1.When did you start mining? Is this a hobby or your main job?

"  The day I learned about BTC in 2013 that's the day I started mining with my single 5830, then later on I purchased r9 290, and then 280x's.
  
   It was supposed to be a quick money grab, but then it was really a fun thing to do with computers while earning money, I end up not experiencing being in a job."

4.2.What is the power consumption of all your devices? How much does 1 kilowatt of electricity cost?

"  Price and expenses doesn't matter if you have another stream/s of income, let's say someone is paying you 200$ for rentals, when you pay that 200$ to the electric company and you use that 200$ worth of BTC or
   shitcoins as savings or speculation or gamble. Besides I'm small scale miner my mining is just another stream of income. and my total power consumption is blended with the other I things use here in this area.  
 
   This mining thing is global, things are different in each area, people can asses their situation and be the judge of their own actions. bull market brings gains, bear market brings pains."

4.3.What is better for mining: ASICs, video cards, FPGA?

"   Video cards only here since the beginning, so I can't speak about what is better for mining. Typically mine-able coins start with CPU or GPU or both, what surely is better is to get as much coins as you can   "
  
4.4.How to properly dispose of the mined cryptocurrency (how much to hold, how much to sell)?

"  It always depends on the coins, sometimes you have to dump it quickly, hold it, trade it, or save and forget."

4.5.They say that mining is a constant sense of risk (the rate will fall, the lights will be turned off, the equipment will burn out), is it so?

"  It is always a risk, the question is can you afford the risk? If yes then go on. Only people with passion in computers get to last in this game."
 
5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?

"  Noticed the merit system, didn't use and don't care. harm? people are still talking, scammers still scamming, people still gain and lose money here LOL"

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?

"  It really depends, If you are mining then it is the mining section, if you are gambling/investing your BTC, then it is the altcoin announcement. Mining devs are helpful since they make mining software but they are getting paid by fees."

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?

" I don't know and I'm not an expert on platforms. I'm only after Ideas and Profit."

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?

"  Yes, crypto will be boring as fuck without them."

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?

"  if you sum it all up the big loss are the shitcoins, and also if you sum it all up the big profit are shitcoins too. you win some and you loose some too  
  
   I'll share only 1 big profit since people love happy stories. here https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/salus/ look at the ROI. BTW thank you Kushedout https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/kushedout-104052
for this ICO, thought this was just classic shitcoining, I dunno.. will try the software when released. "

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?

"  I heard you can be your own exchange with DEFI, why become an exchange? hmmm..that means you can use multiple shitcoins, that is a good idea, how about the profit?, I will take a look, we'll see... "

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?

"  Anonymous when needed and not anonymous when needed.
  
   Generally, random people in the internet should not know who you are, when BTC is 100-300$ that's a bit okay. Now at 10k it is a bit scary, when and if hits 100k? it is really scary. I even stopped using an exchange where I can't make another account and KYC it because of the BTC address there that is connected to my name, you don't know other people's mind so always take precaution. "

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?

"  Who reads books these days? you have the internet LOL. If ever I encounter a cryptocurrency book I'll just skim through it I guess, since a lot of info there will be an easy understanding for me. "
 
13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?

"  Anything that looks like litecoin in 2015-2016, small cap, fair launch..grin maybe? (but the emission..   ).
  
   Hey I don't want to cause losses on investards it is like trying to hit the 1% (maybe less lol) a lot are really really shit and there are thousands now unlike then when you can sift through a 100 or less shitcoins. "

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?

"  BTC may break the ATH or at least return to somewhere around it, halving already occurred and the inflation made fiat less valuable."

15. P.S.

"Making life changing profit should make cryptocurrency people venture outside of crypto and use it as currency. That's what this is all about and I believe it is more viable now and the near future compared to at least 5 years ago."

Thanks to arielbit for the interview!

The end.

things are happening outside this forum, we should keep a sharp eye out there .. well.. profits!, you'll never know, might hit something, always be on the look/hunt.  

yahoo62278 (Legendary)


Let's start

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?

"Prior to me coming to the forum I was a poker dealer in a number of private cash games around my area. A buddy of mine introduced me to Seals with Clubs poker in 2013/2014, which was a poker site dedicated to bitcoin users. I started playing there on my off days and started to become interested in this bitcoin project."

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?

"I personally have never purchased a whole bitcoin. I bought a little here and there to play poker on the Seals with Clubs site. Bitcoin was pretty cheap then, my biggest purchase was somewhere in the .1-.2 range late 2013."

3. How did you get on the forum?

"I had stumbled across a site called Luckyb.it in late 2013 and got into plinko. Users were always talking about bitcointalk in their chat, so I finally took a look mid 2014. In the beginning, I really wasn't too interested in the forum as I was pretty much clueless about bitcoin and the conversations going on here. It's a lot to take in as a 1st time visitor and easy to feel lost when browsing."

4.1. Why did you start working as a bounty manager? Is this a hobby or your main job?

"When I 1st came to the forum I was looking at ways to make a little bitcoin to fund my online poker playing during days I was home. Wife(GF at the time) told me she didn't care what I did as long as I wasn't blowing the money in our bank account.

Carra23 was 1 of the big signature campaign managers at the time and I was always curious as to what a manager might earn in terms of how hard of a job managing might be and how well the pay was.

I had stumbled across updownbot site and had been talking to the owner a lot on private chat when he mentioned he might be looking to promote his site, did I have any ideas? So mid September of 2014 I took a shot at managing his sig campaign on the forum along with a couple giveaways.

At 1st it was definitely a hobby. I was dealing poker 5 days a week and making pretty decent money. Wasn't ready to be a stay at home worker and had no clue if this bitcoin idea was gonna net more or less money if I decided to do it full time.

Took me a couple years to really go full time with managing. At 1 point I was managing 12-14 campaigns at a time and employing well over 700 forum users per week some weeks.

I don't really consider myself as a "bounty manager" as I have only managed 4-5 bounty campaigns. Yes I will manage a bounty campaign for the right people, but overall 90% who have came to me looking for a manager have been rejected."

4.2. How do you pick out the projects you work with? Do you agree to work for payment in project tokens?

"Most signature campaigns that I have ran have been for fairly reputable sites. If a site has any sort of confirmed scam accusation I had usually passed on the offer(yobit and Betnomi being the exceptions).

Choosing a company requires doing some research on the particular company(especially bounty campaigns). Talking to the owner and getting a feel for what kind of person/company they are is pretty big as well. If they act a little shady in our initial conversation I usually pass.

I'm always willing to give new companies a chance, but the second they start holding customer WD or anything like that a manager should stop any and all advertising for them until a valid explanation is given as to why and it is rectified.

Do I accept tokens? I will accept some sort of split in payment x amount of btc/x amount of tokens in some cases but I usually expect a larger amount of tokens to make up for a poor market. I will not accept tokens that are not listed."

4.3. Tell us what parameters of candidates do you look at when recruiting them for a signature campaign?

"Prior to the merit system being introduced, I open every applicants profile and check if they are even active in posting. Then I look at the boards they post on. Will they be helpful to a company? Do they do a lot of posting back to back(Burstposting)? Do they post across multiple boards? It's really useless to hire a bunch of users that only stick to the discussion boards(or as I like to call them, the spam boards).

With the merit system being introduced, I like to look for users who are actually earning merits each week or within the past few weeks when a campaign opens. That helps to gauge a little as to whether or not a persons posts are actually read and gives a company a better chance of their signature being seen IMO."

4.4. What is the risk of a bounty manager and what is his responsibility?

"Any bounty/campaign manager has their reputation at risk at all times. Every move you make is watched.

I remember master-p was my preferred escrow in the early days. Guy ended up stealing something like 30+ btc from users, 6 of which were mine for 3 campaigns that were running. A new account popped up realmasterp or some bs and paid some of us back. I ended up losing around 2btc from the whole deal and paid participants from my pocket. My biggest fear at that time was people wouldn't trust me, which pushed me to make it right with the users.

That is when I decided I would hold funds for campaigns from that point on and companies would pay in advance for any services.

A managers responsibility is 1 to make sure they check out the company before taking a job. Don't just accept any offer that comes your way trying to make a name for yourself. You'll likely find yourself in the shit manager category doing that. If you make rules in a campaign, stick to them 100%. I don't care if it's me in your campaign or some lower ranking unknown Sr member. Treat everyone the same. It's not about being friends with everyone. You have a job to do, do it.

Actually look at users posts each week and determine if they're doing the job you are paying them for. If not, remove them and tell them why they were removed. If you get a message about a particular user, look into it. Some messages are going to be malicious attempts to get someone removed from a campaign so a spot opens, but some are good reports. Always look into a report and act accordingly.

When a company gives you money, make sure you pay participants in a timely manner."

4.5. Does the forum need to set additional rules for signature campaigns?

"I think if a manager is doing their job, then there would be no need for the forum to step in. Companies need to do better research and hire a good manager vs just hiring the lowest rate offered. You get what you pay for in this business.

Companies risk money, reputation, and character by taking a chance on new managers who haven't proved they're even able to do the job."

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?

"Trick question right? The merit system has probably made a few users leave the forum( heartbreaking I know). There are a good number of users that could care less. I believe it has done what was intended and filtered out some shit users. Although I also believe some have found ways to manipulate the system by buying merits, but they'll be caught eventually.

As far as signature campaigns, I think they're great for the forum. Let's not get in to the spam they can create. We all know there are users that come here just to earn money. Let's think about the fact that Signature campaigns generate users for the forum. How many users would be here if they didn't come looking to earn a dollar? How many companies would come here to advertise via signatures or forum ads if bitcointalk wasn't the biggest bitcoin forum around?

I think having campaigns has also increased awareness of bitcoin. 3rd world, 2nd world, or 1st world country doesn't matter. Campaigns generate a revenue stream and help in all economies.

You take away campaigns, you lose half the users if not more. You start losing advertisers because they start feeling like it's useless to advertise on a dead forum.

I've seen multiple respected users that would love campaigns to go away, but I think all that would do is kill the forum and eventually there would be 100 users visiting here cause there wouldn't be very much new content being provided. If you guys want a place to hang out alone, make your own forum IMO."

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?

"Unofficial rules IMO is the most useful topic. I think anyone who visits the site should be directed to these rules and made to take a test to show they actually read the rules. Randomize the questions so someone cannot make a cheat sheet.

Most helpful users? Where to begin? LoyceV , suchmoon, tranthidung, TECSHARE, Quickseller, Jet Cash, The Pharmacist, Talkstar, Yoshie, and the list goes on and on. Sorry if i don't name everyone. There are so many that step in and try to help, it really just depends on the type of help you need."

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?

"I'm not sure i have 3 things I would implement, but i'll give it a shot.

1. I would like to see users have the ability to have admins or a board of DT be able to get neg trust removed if it is unwarranted. People tag for some petty stuff on here and it's kinda ridiculous. There are also cases where a person leaves a tag on a user and disappears forever.

2. Managers should have to be mentored for 6 months by a reputable manager before opening their own service. This will never in a million years happen but it would be nice.

3. DT reduced back to theymos handpicked users. Too much drama surrounding the trust system. Probably gonna be too much drama no matter what, but I liked the old system better."

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?

"I trade tokens I may be paid by companies on different exchanges, but it is rare since I rarely accept tokens."

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?

"Mentioned this in a question above referring to master-p"

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?

"What? You'd think 1 of us being asked these questions would have researched this by now. I personally do not follow this though."

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?

"When you start gaining a reputation here, blackmail attempts and other dumb shit start happening. Privacy is important to some of us."

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?

"Crypto Taxes Made happy by Mario Costanz. Tried educating myself more on taxes to save a buck here and there."

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?

"I'm not an advisor on investing, I would not want someone to invest on my advice and lose their ass."

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?

"Likely somewhere between 9800-11000."

Thanks to yahoo62278 for the interview!

The end.