Bitcoin Forum

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Just so people know... selling accounts is allowed.

BTW, there's a recent surge in formerly established and rather quiet accounts suddenly going completely and utterly rogue.

Now I was thinking about this and what I came up with was that this might be related to either the phase of the moon or biorhythm. What do you think?

How many accounts are you allowed to have?  ;D

wait why do you need accounts? what are you doing with them?

Claim free XRP of coz. Right now 1 month old account ~ 3000 XRP ~ 0.35 BTC.

I recently sold like 50 for $20 a pop probably are mine! ;D

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I would ask the same thing.  It's not identity theft; it's identity switch.  But in some ways it amounts to the same thing.  What's up with this?  It makes me totally ignore who I am reading or talking to because I have no trust in the continuity of the person's identity.

It's okay to do this, but not okay to post a link to thesilkrdotcom.  Scratch my head.  Go figure.

Would be interested in answer as well. I have no ripples so far but the ripple giveaway is only for accounts older than 19 February

There was a thread somewhere about a new giveaway to those who registered before May.

EDIT: Wrong topic.

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So you're offering the equivalent of about $2.50 for an account - that offer isn't really "grabbing" me.

where is there an offer of 3000 XRP (nearer 0.5 BTC today)?

I saw an offer for 300 or something.

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People will make GPG accounts and sign messages that really need proven authenticy. For example here is my GPG sig: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=wachtwoord

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hm, I didnt know that, ty

I wonder why though. Are there any good reasons to buy an account for non-scammers?
Ok getting past the newbie jail, but that's not really that much of an argument.
Giveaways that are usless to the account owner, meh. A slight argument, but nothing in face of the disadvantages of making the life for scammers easier.

How many accounts bitcointalk has all together?

I still don't get it.  What is a GPG account?

A public/private cryptography pair. If you want to understand bitcoins, you should really first understand cryptography. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography)

Why? Doesn't seem to improve the value of this forum

Indeed nice to read. Also check out: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

Practically speaking, because of my public/private key pair (of which the public one is public and the private one only known to me):

1) Sign a message, proving I am the author
2) Someone can encrypt a message using my public key that only I can decrypt (event he sender cannot!)

All this requires me to keep my private key secure though :) (This is the same system that is used in Bitcoin)

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Lol, how much for mine (NOT PLANNING ON SELLING, JUST WONDERING) :)

Andy B

ill pay .1btc

Keep your mere pittance peasant ;P haha

Andy B

Lol. Why would anyone care about the price if they're not selling?

Interested still?

This forum never ceases to surprise me with the things I see.

Okay; the Wiki article is easy enough to understand.  But it still -- at least to me -- does not explain why someone would buy a bitcointalk account.  To generate gpg key pairs??  Why?  What's the point?  To impersonate a board member?
 

No. I said that if (some) people start selling forums accounts, everyone will start using pgp-sigs to prove they are who they claim to be.

Okay...sure.  Self-protection.  But this still doesn't answer my original question of why someone would buy accounts.

Bingo.
That it is tolerated is a problem for me.

I don't play those kind of games.
Adios.

Yeah..... Why is selling accounts allowed?

So they can scam people by creating fake enthusiasm about new stuff (e.g. alt-coins).
That's what comes to my mind, and I won't be a part of it.

And if you have 100 different accounts, you can do these "get 3BT for pimping us" things and fill it with all your fake accounts.

But I said I was leaving, so that's all I'll say.
Let the kids have their fun.

Why would someone sell you a Hero member account?

I think they whole thing is silly... :s why would you even bother!

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I think AliceWonder has nailed it.  I don't see any other reason that someone would buy accounts.  They are buying the account holder's reputation, for whatever that may be worth.  A reputation is, after all, a thing of great value that it takes a long time to build.  It is worth something.  So, it's no wonder that there are people willing to buy it.  That is to be expected.

The real culprit in the transaction is the seller.  He takes all of the trust he has built up and sells it to god-knows-who.  It can pretty much be assumed that the buyer is unscrupulous, as he intends to pose publicly as something which he is not.  So, why would someone sell their account, knowing -- or at least subconsciously suspecting -- that this is the case?  I submit that the answer to that question lies in the seller's heart.  Ask him why he has decided to sell out and quit the human race?

The board moderators cannot really stop this, and shouldn’t be expected to.  But, in my opinion, they should not openly permit it.

This problem is obviously not unique to this board.  Quite frankly, I never thought about this until this thread was started.  It has opened my eyes.  Sure, I often have several accounts on the same forum; for various reasons.  But it never occurred to me to sell one of them.

Wachtwoord has offered a solution: identity verification through pgp-signs.  It sounds plausible.  Perhaps the moderators could look into this, and implement it as part of the account registration process.

Sounds extremely suspicious  ::)

I like this site. It seems like it has effectively created a libertarian economy out of nothing. It goes on to prove it by people being able to sell the very profiles they are using lol. Very cool

Only a fool would bother for these measly nickels.

There's an idea! Admin/Mod making lots of fakely dated accounts to sell here or elsewhere, and them ban them after a week :)

wooooww. really???  selling of accounts is allowed here?

this forum rule could be designed for scamming then.

and this forum could have a LOT of scammers in it.

if i only knew.

So how much are you offering for a Sr/Hero member?

Excellent thread. 1 massive point though
Your name and reputation is EVERYTHING you have left when everything else is gone.
Protect them both Fiercly

Buying PM me!

Also, due to concerns forum staff will be informed of the sale, I don't use these accounts for scamming.

This sounds a little sketchy, someone might give you some of bitcointalk accounts illegally to get some BTC you should really becareful even though nothing can be done about it  ::)