Topic: The Sanction On Mixers Would Make This Forum Boring (Read 187 times)

That is similar to what happened to Binance action to delisting some of the Cryptos and the sports trading sites.
I seems to believe that there are some underground incursions the forum and related platforms with related occurances does not want to reveal to the public.
Could either be that they are trying to maintain a possible good state of mental healths amongst its users then decided not to make the reality reasons of their actions a public note
But one thing is sure that a technical and brainstorming personel would always insight something phishy even if it is just an exaggeration.

If I am not mistaken, the OP meant to say that he read about an Admins post (which I believe it is one of the icons updates that was recently displayed at the top of the forums index) about Mixer going to be  opt-out from this forum which is served as one of the famous campaigns here in the forum.
That could be why he used the word "boring" because it is going to limit the scales (rates) by which the campaign participants are benefited from.

As far as I know, the forum doesn't make any money out of mixers and casinos, users do, thanks to the signature campaigns. I don't like this decision either but I can understand the reasons behind this choice since there is an actual possibility that the forum could be bladed to encourage and/or support mixers that may have something to do with money laundering. Of course the forum is way more important than some users making money out of the campaigns. We'll see what is going to happen, I expect less active users in the incoming months.

The forum was never reliant on Mixers to exist, The influx in mixer advertisement on the forum
only started when Chipmixer went down which left a void which in turn was filled by numerous
other mixer services. The forum isnt going to die a death because there wont bbe any more
banner ads.

There will still be discussion about those services and I doubt there will be many people leaving
the forum because there are no visible advertisements from mixing services.

A year or two ago, the mixers weren't popular here at all and casinos were dominant when it comes to the bitcoin signature campaigns.
So now if the mixers are banned on this forum, nothing much will change in terms of getting the forum bored or Interesting. Also, the revenue of the forum will not drop but maybe the people earning from campaigns may have to wait a bit before they are adjusted into casino campaigns.

By the way, bitcoin is not limited to mixers only, there is still a lot to discuss about bitcoin and bitcoin related services on this forum.

Forum will not be losing much as it was not making money but yeah it members of this forum will be losing a a great earning opportunity as mixers were the highest paying signature campaigns and it would be difficult for them to adjust with other campaigns if they are used to those higher pay per post. But I have seen some campaigns possibly moving to other forums like altcointalk but they might not get same payout considering the traffic.

I would say we should move on and let's not put this forum under radar of watchdogs as it's better to take precautionary steps especially what happened with sinbad mixer.

I see that you are relatively new in this forum. Before you make such statements in the forum, you should be able to ask how boring was the forum before the arrival of mixers? I want to assure you that the mixers have added nothing to the forum, even the quality posters that are found in these mixer campaigns have been in the forum before the arrival of mixers campaigns. So if mixer campaigns are finally banned, those quality posters will migrate to other campaigns. What then is your point?


Mixers do not accrue any kind of money to the forum, rather they are only getting help from forum for their promotions. The weekly campaign payments are for forum participants and not for the forum, therefore their exit will not affect the forum.

Not anymore. The banner ads have been stopped for a very long time ago and that's how the forum makes money for funding the continuous run of the domain and server (CMIIW).

The collected funds from the advertisers before with the auctioned banner ads is where they're getting all the funds for the expenses that they're going to use to make the forum keep running.

The forum does not depend on  advertisers. The forum will continue without mixers smoothly. Why is this even a topic? Do you think it was an easy decision for Theymos to take?

There are other forums where mixers can be advertised, and some of them are already considering a move there.

Signature campaign opportunities might be reduced because of the ban on mixers but the forum will not be boring because the forum was not designed for just mixer discussions. Before now we had just a few mixer campaigns and the forum was still educational and active. When one door closes, another one will open. Nobody ever expected that Mixers would one day compete with casinos in this forum. The Bitcoin industry is multidimensional, I won't be surprised by an increase in campaigns that advertise other services such as exchanges, Bitcoin custody services, etc. Maybe we might see campaigns promoting, BlackRock, Invesco, and ARK Investments, who knows?  . 

Some members of this forum consistently read information from this platform but rarely make comments. Posting on the forum is a valid means of determining an active member but it shouldn't be a standard because there are exceptions. OP might be in the category of people who follow the activities on the forum but don't make comments regularly. These are my personal views anyway.

Funny enough, your account has been created since 2019, but you have not been very active on the forum. You only made nine posts in the month you created this account, and that was in 2019. In the month of February 2020, you only made 3 posts, while in April of the same year (2020), you made only 1 post.

In 2021, you only did two posts, while in 2022, you did 16 posts. Through out this year, you have  not made up to 10 post. How then did you come up with your prediction?

OP, you have been rarely active on the forum; how then can you tell how bored or active the forum has been in your absence?

When I came to the forum last October, the only mixer campaign I met here was Chip Mixer; the rest was all casino. Rollbit, roobit, dulbit, stake, betcoin, and others were the casino campaigns I met here, and back then, the forum remained very active. Bitcoin mixer campaigns became very popular on this forum just this year; it wasn't so last year. Now that they are leaving, do you actually think it will make the forum bored?

The forum will not be bored; it's only mixers promotion that is banned, not members who are quality contributors to forum discussions.



The mixer campaigns that were managed on this forum did not pay any fee to Theymos; their contract was managed by the campaign managers, who contracted and coordinated forum members to promote the mixer service on their individual signature spaces. Or do you intend to say that the absence of the mixer campaign will drop revenue for members who relied only on the signature campaign?

Op you are talking as if the purpose of creation of this forum was to be a making money platform which is not,  rather to pass information and educate people about the purpose of Bitcoin. Though some people come here with different reasons from the main target of this platform, However, it would only be boring for those that are here just because of the signature campaign, besides the Bitcoin mixers are not the only company that advertise in this platform if we judge it from your angle, though we have majority of them advertising here.

It is not about the lack of content, there will be always people to bring curious stuff around here for all of us to discuss and talk about respectfully, as Bitcoin grows, it will be just matter of time before more people discover this place start to participate, specially when the market is trending positively.
Though, the posibility of less traffick because a decrease in the signature campaigns is possible. Mixers and centralized privacy enhancers were never a hard core discussion for people around here, as someone already mentioned, the behavior of the price and the technological advance ocuppies much of the discussion about Bitcoin, in my opinion.
I do not have statistical data though, it is about my intuition.

You are right but to some extent only, because banning mixers is not the government's decision as authorities did not ask theymos to ban mixer advertisements as if it will be continued then theymos might not left with other choice but to ban the forum, so it was better to make this bold decision. Secondly, these advertisements are not generating any revenue for the forum admins AFAIK. Maybe indirect they maybe but I saw something where these campaigns are generating direct revenue for these admins.

Maybe those who might be earning via these campaigns must be giving donations to this forum, but admins don't ask these platforms to pay fees like the other forums ask.

And there is no doubt that governments have full influence on the crypto sphere whether you are talking about this forum or any other token. Even in the past China had the biggest impact on BTC prices but now that position has been taken by the USA. Whenever the US government makes any decisions in favor of BTC the price goes up and vice versa.

i dont think he is on about the lack of mixer topic discussions... but imagine a world without the trolls who only post garbage just to get their post count up for their sig-campaign earnings. imagine less junk posts

but then again
i expect theymos already has a business plan to clean out the dead wood sig spammers of mixers, so he can then cleanly incorporate some more institutional advertisers to offer next gen trolls sig campaign spam earnings

You joined the forum way back in 2019 yet you don't know what you are talking about, your thread looks as if you have not been here the whole time or are you one of the participants that enjoy high signature payment and are probably sad because of the ban? I don't think the forum will ever be boring but the ban will limit some discussion which will look like censorship and that is what the government want us to do with bitcoin.

I was here when Chipmixer took over the forum with their ads signature and I think they had more than 30 participants in that campaign, during there time no other competitor in this forum, many that tried ended as a scam, the adverts was nice and going until FBI comes in with their investigation. It was only Casinos and Chipmixer that were doing the forum and everyone loved it but since the absence of Chipmixers, other mixers came into the forum and they have competing to take over the forum and dominate the forum with high pay but you think that will make the forum to be boring? Come on man.

The mixers have become an object of investigation and this will hurt the forum if it continues, you don't want to see the Bitcointalk host file removed from the server because you want high pay, don't you? It's better they eradicate anything that will harm the forum before they come for the forum and the staff, I don't want to hear Theymos house has been raided in the US.

Make this forum boring? I doubt that, Mixer is not that popular topic compared to Bitcoin technicality and price discussion. Signature campaign is what makes it popular here. I’m in the forum for a long time with mixers existing but not many users talks about it too frequent compared to price discussion.

Yeah, with the absence of the mixers campaigns here in the forum, spot betting campaigns will be over crowded and more challenging to secure a spot as the number of participants will increase.
Some members will probably move on to better opportunities, I mean the time to change financial status is fast approaching, an opportunity to retire as an sig campaign hunter 

And as for what will happen to btc, I think the worst the government can do is to go after centralized platforms, exchanges to try and exercise some level of control on btc users but they can not do anything directly to btc as a technology because of its decentralized nature.

there will definitely be some changes but i don’t think this will make the forum disappear this forum has been here a long time and has offered and is still offering different kinds of services in relation to crypto not only gambling



if anything this might even invite more users into the forum with the price of btc increasing, there’s a chance that the general public might take a look at btc and forum by extension

I do believe such new decision of removing mixers is to shed off any excess weight hindering the approval of the ETF. Bitcoin wants to thrive and it is doing everything to disassociate itselft from programs and apps that make it labelled as one of the crypto currencies enabling money laundering and other criminals to fulfil their payments.

The forum will be boring somehow because I think that many of those who have shown interest here were earning from signature campaigns owned by some of these banned mixers on the forum. Hence why they stayed. With this new development, there will still be campaigns running but it would be for those not talking or aiding the use of mixers.

They are just not allowed but the users will still be here. The mixers will be moving on to other forums as we have seen recently they have already started on Altcoinstalks. There could be division but I think the goal of BTC will still be the same and adoption is taking place, the bargain I think is the ETF approval.