Glad to hear it!

Quote from: hadrian on September 03, 2015, 03:05:40 pm

• Because it reinforces the foundations of the network upon which BitShares is built. We don't want to stand on quicksand. We want some of the "titanium rebar with 800ksi Nycon-PVA-RF-4000 High Performance Macro Fiber reinforcement" mentioned by Stan added to the concrete mix.
• Because my mother told Bytemaster asked me to.
• Because all of the reasons in this thread suggest it's necessary for any conscientious member of the community, or general holder of BTS to do their duty!!!

100 Brownies sent for the most Obscure Quote of the Month Award.

Thanks Stan, I'm well pleased with that!
It's funny the things which stick in ones head! I had to use Google to search for that comment of yours from April 2014!

Quote from: hadrian on September 03, 2015, 12:28:08 pm

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Lavaboom has shut down

With regret we have to inform all of our users that Lavaboom has shut down its services on August 27th. The hello@lavaboom.com e-mail address has been removed.

I am sorry for letting you down.

Bloody hell!...

Protonmail or tutanota

Thanks fav
Gots meh protonmail

So now that so many have answered, the challenge is to come up with something new or to restate in a different way and hope nobody notices!

• Living unobserved somewhere in the BitShares network is not any regular C.E.O., but a "Cypher-Encrypted Organism". This being allows BitShares to quickly adapt to shifting conditions as required, thereby enabling it's long-term survival. Throughout it's life BitShares will be capable of out-competing any peers through it's system of self-optimization.
• Buy now, get bragging rights for free! The immodest can wait until BitShares is huge and then say:
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  I got into BitShares when it was still in beta and BTS were three a penny! I was among a group of visionaries who helped change the world for the better!
• If you're more modest you could:
  • Buy loads now.
  • HODL while BitShares grows, thereby supporting something which can revolutionize and improve the world.
  • Once BitShares is well established sell some BTS and use the huge amounts of money for another good cause.
  • Not brag about a thing.

I'm stumped at the moment.

Does anyone besides fav have this working?

This is a pretty big deal, in that PayPoint are all over the place in the UK, and used by a lot of people. ZipZap used to have a partnership with them which allowed people to easily buy bitcoin, but PayPoint pulled out wanting more regulatory clarification (see here). ZipZap now use the not so ubiquitous payzone.

I think it would be well worth making sure that BitShares is on the radar of PayPoint (and perhaps also ZipZap). I don't know if anyone's contacted ZipZap before about BitShares... I'll try to find out later when I'm not on a cellphone!

Thanks for this Barry. By the way, you've put PayPal instead of PayPoint at one point in your post.

edit: to add mention of payzone above.

 

You will want to make sure you claim your BROWNIE.PTS because it would just be rude to refuse the BROWNIE.PTS and one day you may regret it; Karma can be a Bitch.

I delayed making this post because it's a little embarrassing to compare the paltry amount of value I've added, with the achievements of many others around here. Nevertheless, I don't want to miss out on whatever amount of brownies might be deemed suitable for my relatively limited contribution.

I've prioritised BitShares (after family life and employment) during any time I can scrounge together. Bearing in mind I have no technical background, here is an overview of my general approach towards BitShares over the last couple of years.

• Bought Protoshares when they were expensive!
• Joined forum and donated to AGS in Feb 2014.
• Put a lot of time into learning from others about BitShares and related subjects, so I can gradually increase my contribution to the community.
• Tried to be constructive, helpful and positive on this forum.
• Encouraged people around me to look into BitShares.
• Remained a 'strong hand' w.r.t. all things BitShares.

Here are examples of my attempts at being constructive on this forum:

• Caring for bytemaster - "How to show our appreciation to bytemaster", even though I spelled your name wrong a couple of times - this one's gotta be worth some brownies!!
• Idea for splitting delegate roles (in July 2014, before it was feasible I think) - "Motivating people to vote".
• Looking out for problems with recurring payments.
• Ideas for an alternative DNS model.
• Ideas for 'negotiation of proposals', and a stupid one on fundraising.
• Opinions on NameNarwhal here and here. And on transferable account names and negative votes.
• I suggested the name for "Notes" when we still had 'BitShares Music'. Other suggestions in brainstorming sessions for Keyhotee, Peertracks, BitShares slogans etc.
• General positivity, e.g. here, here and here.
• You 9bytemaster) seemed to appreciate my suggestions in "Draft Pitch for new BitShares.org", "Should we kill the DACronym?"?
• Reporting typos etc. - for bytemaster, and here, here, here, here, here etc.

I think I can stop scraping the barrel now - there are no more brownie crumbs in here for me!!