New rank for donators of less than 10 BTC

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Quote from: Raize on July 16, 2013, 12:10:57 PM

As Bitcoin fell from $30 to $2, there were a few folks that bought Donator and especially VIP status exclusively to use that status to scam people.

Don't trust VIPs or Donators because they have VIP or Donator status. It could be they bought that status in order to scam you.

I can't imagine why folks keep asking for other donation levels unless they intend to scam people or inject some false/artificial sense of trust. Or to try to bully scammer tags on people.

you bought it to do scam?

Raize

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As Bitcoin fell from $30 to $2, there were a few folks that bought Donator and especially VIP status exclusively to use that status to scam people.

Don't trust VIPs or Donators because they have VIP or Donator status. It could be they bought that status in order to scam you.

I can't imagine why folks keep asking for other donation levels unless they intend to scam people or inject some false/artificial sense of trust. Or to try to bully scammer tags on people.

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Quote from: qwk on July 16, 2013, 09:40:07 AM

It would certainly also offer opportunities to scammers.

That's True.

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Quote from: tysat on July 16, 2013, 08:40:42 AM

Why does there need to be a new rank? The forum doesn't need any money, it's not using the money that has already been donated.

The only thing this would do is make you feel cool because you had something different next to your name. That does not seem like a good enough reason to add a new rank.

A new rank would give people the opportunity to show their commitment to the community as represented by the crowd on these forums.
If that is a good thing or not...

It would certainly also offer opportunities to scammers.

My humble opinion: if there's demand, let them have their 1-BTC-rank.

zackclark70

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I never use my BTC until I spend it

it would be better to replace the word never with ( haven't yet )

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Quote from: tysat on July 16, 2013, 08:40:42 AM

Why does there need to be a new rank? The forum doesn't need any money, it's not using the money that has already been donated.

The only thing this would do is make you feel cool because you had something different next to your name. That does not seem like a good enough reason to add a new rank.

well, if the forum holds and never uses 10% of all btc, this will only push the btc price up higher in usd Wink

holding that much btc is not good as if someone dumped all that btc it would crash BTC

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Quote from: tysat on July 16, 2013, 08:40:42 AM

Why does there need to be a new rank? The forum doesn't need any money, it's not using the money that has already been donated.

The only thing this would do is make you feel cool because you had something different next to your name. That does not seem like a good enough reason to add a new rank.

so why is the forum still selling 50+ BTC of advertising a week why not donate the advertising space to good causes ?

01BTC10

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Quote from: maursader on July 16, 2013, 08:38:21 AM

To sum up this thread basically, it's 50 BTC no matter how you look at it. Those who took the chance to have that many bitcoins got it, and won. The price remains at 50BTC unless otherwise posted. Although I'd like to see donator ranks priced back at 10BTC (as theymos posted in a different thread) it doesn't seem likely that situation will arise. So let's stop beating the dead horse here, as it's dead.

tl;dr 50 BTC cost way less back in the day in USD. So did water, so did gasoline, so did many things. Complaining about the 50 BTC fee for donor status is pointless as it's like saying.. "I used to get one gallon (3.8L) of gas for $1 but now I am paying $5 for that SAME gallon!!" boo hoo. Let's all get over it. IF the forum ever requires more money for operations, im sure they'll consider lowering the prices.

50BTC=VIP
10BTC=Donator

https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

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Keep it real

Why does there need to be a new rank? The forum doesn't need any money, it's not using the money that has already been donated.

The only thing this would do is make you feel cool because you had something different next to your name. That does not seem like a good enough reason to add a new rank.

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Disrupt the banking system!

To sum up this thread basically, it's 50 BTC no matter how you look at it. Those who took the chance to have that many bitcoins got it, and won. The price remains at 50BTC unless otherwise posted. Although I'd like to see donator ranks priced back at 10BTC (as theymos posted in a different thread) it doesn't seem likely that situation will arise. So let's stop beating the dead horse here, as it's dead.

tl;dr 50 BTC cost way less back in the day in USD. So did water, so did gasoline, so did many things. Complaining about the 50 BTC fee for donor status is pointless as it's like saying.. "I used to get one gallon (3.8L) of gas for $1 but now I am paying $5 for that SAME gallon!!" boo hoo. Let's all get over it. IF the forum ever requires more money for operations, im sure they'll consider lowering the prices.

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Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 09:44:40 AM

I doubt any individual bought vip donator rank after bitcoin price went super high.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38071.180

Quote from: malevolent on June 29, 2013, 12:55:06 PM

Quote from: bernard75 on June 29, 2013, 12:01:21 PM

Are the contributer prices still up to date or are they from when the price was @ 10$?

The Donator/VIP tag prices are in BTC and they are not pegged to USD.

Quote from: theymos on August 20, 2012, 05:51:04 PM

The prices won't be reduced. They may be increased if the BTC price gets really low. Additional lower-price statuses may be created later. I don't want to manually deal with too many payments, though.

Quote from: theymos on March 25, 2013, 09:42:02 AM

I intend to add new, cheaper donator ranks. I won't decrease the price of the old ranks, though I may rename them (to "Donator+" and "VIP+" or something like that).

Quote from: theymos on March 26, 2013, 10:49:17 AM

I said a long time ago that the prices would remain the same, so I can't change this policy now in any case.

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Are the new ranks' price going to be variable or adjusted every x days or months depending on BTC price?

Maybe. I haven't thought about it much yet. The forum doesn't need donations, so I'm not going to create another donator level soon.

Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 10:39:17 AM

Yes but 5 Grand for a rank on forum is too much.

No one forces you to buy it..

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Quote from: qwk on July 14, 2013, 10:26:36 AM

Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 10:05:01 AM

Quote from: qwk on July 14, 2013, 09:52:06 AM

You're wrong.

Really? can you tell me what was the bitcoins value when you bought donator rank?

Not only then, but for most of the time I've been involved with Bitcoin, I was unaware as well as indifferent to the exchange rate of Bitcoins to any fiat currency.

They were very precious to me.
This forum was, too.

Today, the exchange rate, and therefore your evaluation of Bitcoins may have risen.
So did the value of this forum.

Therefore, I see no significant difference between the value of a Bitcoin in relation to the total value of this forum today and then.

Yes but 5 Grand for a rank on forum is too much.

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Quote from: whiskers75 on July 14, 2013, 10:29:50 AM

BACK ON TOPIC! PLEASE!

Topic already answered a dozens times!
Donator and VIP status won't ever be changed
Maybe theymos will create additional status. Want additional info? USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION! PLEASE!

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Doesn't use these forums that often.

BACK ON TOPIC! PLEASE!

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Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 10:05:01 AM

Quote from: qwk on July 14, 2013, 09:52:06 AM

You're wrong.

Really? can you tell me what was the bitcoins value when you bought donator rank?

Not only then, but for most of the time I've been involved with Bitcoin, I was unaware as well as indifferent to the exchange rate of Bitcoins to any fiat currency.

They were very precious to me.
This forum was, too.

Today, the exchange rate, and therefore your evaluation of Bitcoins may have risen.
So did the value of this forum.

Therefore, I see no significant difference between the value of a Bitcoin in relation to the total value of this forum today and then.

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Quote from: 01BTC10 on July 14, 2013, 10:04:13 AM

Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 10:03:42 AM

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Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 09:44:40 AM

Or just lowe price of donator and vip donator ranks.

Those ranks were made when bitcoin was at really low rate.
People got vip donator rank for around 100-200$.

I doubt any individual bought vip donator rank after bitcoin price went super high.

nope, VIP has always been 50 btw. no fiat ever.

And what was the value of 50 bitcoins in 2010,2011 or 2012 ?

50BTC

I'm not sure you are trying to be dumb or you are really dumb.

I am trying to say. "What was the value of 50 bitcoins in fiat in 2010, 2011 or 2012.

Several peoples bought their donator ranks when bitcoins was at 10-12$.

If i was here that time, i could have bought donator or vip rank for many peoples in 5000$
But i can only buy 1 now.

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I thought that the donator status was 10btc, not 50:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/get-donator-status-by-donating-10-btc-38071

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Quote from: qwk on July 14, 2013, 09:52:06 AM

You're wrong.

Really? can you tell me what was the bitcoins value when you bought donator rank?

01BTC10

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Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 10:03:42 AM

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Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 09:44:40 AM

Or just lowe price of donator and vip donator ranks.

Those ranks were made when bitcoin was at really low rate.
People got vip donator rank for around 100-200$.

I doubt any individual bought vip donator rank after bitcoin price went super high.

nope, VIP has always been 50 btw. no fiat ever.

And what was the value of 50 bitcoins in 2010,2011 or 2012 ?

50BTC

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Quote from: /dev/null on July 14, 2013, 09:44:40 AM

Or just lowe price of donator and vip donator ranks.

Those ranks were made when bitcoin was at really low rate.
People got vip donator rank for around 100-200$.

I doubt any individual bought vip donator rank after bitcoin price went super high.

nope, VIP has always been 50 btw. no fiat ever.

And what was the value of 50 bitcoins in 2010,2011 or 2012 ?

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