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 where has our friend gone?
A legend, dissapearing as mysteriously as they appeared to begin with.....

im kinda curious, for i enjoyed reading their posts + they seemed to me quite mysterious....
Anyone have any info?  even a simple "i can confirm they are alive and well" from someone reputable would make me feel better
their post history seemed to me to hold ZERO clues  :(
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=976210

Most of his posted used to go over my head. I used to have hard time to understand them.

Anyway, I guess he is possessed by supernatural aliens which spelled by Lauda
:P

By the way, he was/is a good asset for the forum. I hope he is physically and mentally very well.

He was not happy with login captcha and cloudflare issues... since he was using TOR and was pissed of about it.
He had mentioned it multiple times as he was unable to reply to many posts in timely fashion so I guess that annoyed him and he took off.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3001981.msg33008068#msg33008068

Pretty sure now he's using an ALT (or real account) and without TOR ... so hello Mr. ;)

If he was using TOR then the Units of Evil might have got him.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=711968.msg8044683#msg8044683

Using TOR can get expensive is some scammer has been getting banned using the same IP.

That only applies to signing up a new account, not using an existing one.

I don’t know if it has to do with it, but he had a level of knowledge well above the average forum member. And I mean a responsible forum member, not a shitposter-spammer.

I remember the first post I read of him. It was on the bitcoin discussion board and he was replying explaining a technical issue with a post that was like 1.5-word pages long. He was a newbie back then, and I think the merit system hadn’t been implemented yet. I looked at his posting history and he had a few posts but all of them looked alike.

It is sad to say it, but maybe he had too much level for this forum.

Lol, i  read his post History and all are informative i maybe thinking that He is The Great CYPHER,  or greater than anonymous. He should be wearing a badge. the Great One.  Is he satoshi nakamoto?  Haha,  He is so awesome. 

Yeah I've been wondering about it too, just a few months ago a Very extraordinary poster who wields two pen in both hands just appeared from nowhere and made it to get 500 plus merits. From 0 to 730 which is now available to rank up to Hero Member. But suddenly, the way he mysteriously appear was the same to his mysteriously disappearing. I've been wondering why he's not getting online these past days, maybe he's busy or something but it's not enough (I guess) to not getting online even just a little bit of time. But who knows? And unexpectedly, someone here in the forum finally noticed it too.

I feel in my guts that someone from above is the owner of this account  :P But not a hundred percent sure.

OP, I also feel in my guts that he's still alive. There's nothing to worry about.
Yuph, TheQuin is right. There's nothing wrong in using TOR as long as you were using an existing account. Creating account using TOR might cause for the account to have Evil Points or even may lead to proxy ban.

No one said it wasn't.  :P

There is as i have been facing issues using tor.

I'm never able to pass the CAPTCHA using TOR... so i gave up and have been using bitcointalk normally... also using TOR every time you have to re-login and that's really painful... normally I login with stay login option checked and stay logged in forever....

There are really some issues in Captchas when using TOR. If you're getting annoyed with it just use a simple browser like Google Chrome when logging in to Bitcointalk.

Also read this thread, you might get something useful and guides about this captcha issues in TOR.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2519150.0
Don't forget to check nullius's reply, it contains some links from his Thread where you might also get more information. Doesn't visited it yet.

If you've read his posts, you'll know he values his privacy. So obviously, you won't find any hints.

He's always had a difficult time to connect through Tor, and Cloudflare with captcha makes that worse:

Then again, he's also hinted the NSA may be able to hack him:

Or he just got busy IRL, creating that many high quality posts takes a lot of time.

I really liked his Github Repo for Generating Custom Bitcoin Addresses. It was Awesome. I don't know why it is not so popular.

Check out his article here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2934774 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2934774)

I would love to see such article more and often.

You can use tor in regular browsers if it's open in the background. It's a pretty neat workaround you should try it (it's just setting a socks5 proxy to use 127.0.0.1:9050 (a tor data port)). Then you don't have to keep logging in.

I tried getting onto bitcointalk in incognito once and it took 30+ attempts... I used to like the old captcha system more.

Would you mind (if possible) giving some instruction. I am really interested to know how to do it. I am using windows 10.

Thanks in advance mate.

Sure. Once I have a desktop handy (in a few hours) I'll show you.

Thanks mate. Looking forward to it.

Yes I have used it quite often.. but reCAPTCHA still takes time.. just now it took almost 60+ clicks


Pretty simple open you TOR browser and check the Network setting SOCKS Host in my case its
SOCK Host: 127.0.0.1 Port: 9150

Tor Browser:
https://i.imgur.com/Ky7Fz6cl.jpg

Now open your regular browser preferably Firefox and set the same proxy details

Regular Firefox browser:
https://i.imgur.com/InSYxFIl.jpg


That's all your cookies and histories data should be there.

But again this isn't a solution to captcha problem.

Why it seemed like he appeared from the blues was because of the merit system.  He was active before but then the merit system brought him to light as many people were now rewarding his posts because of how informative it was. I must say the guy is good and he was knowledgeable about everything he talked about.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using Tor?

Thanks mate, will give it a try once I am done with this inviting stuffs you sent me on PM LOL.
Seems interesting.

@jackg: May be you are after the same instruction?

The tor browser config bit is done automatically.
You just need to configure Firefox settings only.

@mday, what instructions. I know how to do it I found it on wikihow but don't like that guide anymore.

I’m not sure if he was a REAL newbie. He seemed far too intelligent, researched & well versed in the blockchain & bitcoin. I think he was/is an alt of an early adopter who is probably still active here.

Just my guess, no offence intended at all nullius if you’re reading.

I checked nullius's profile page and found that the last active day of nullius is April 24, 2018, 11:02:30 PM.
Honestly, the guy appeared as a shooting star in the forum.
As someone said, the account maybe an alt of someone in the forum. It is just a theory, but might be a true one.
I think the guy just wanted to troll spammers that they should stop complaining about merit system, new rank requirements by demonstrating newbies can get hundreds of merits if they can make good contributions to the forum.

Sad to see such a member going away because of forum policies. We should learn from him, if you master a skill, people will always miss you.

Maybe he is just busy in his Real Life or he is busy doing something to help in crypto space. Base on his post history, he is above an average member in the forum and his post are way too long and I can't understand some  :D.

Or maybe he is using an alt account now or maybe he is waiting for his account to go to Hero Member and while waiting, he decided to have some rest and do some works.

We can't judge him to accuse using alt accounts maybe he has a problem for his real life maybe he got to engage with allia. ;D ;D
But besides on that, he is a good model here in forum doing a good post and share to the community and I am sure probably he has an old account here.

This is also hit in my mind, and now the merit system issues were reduced and he is gone for how many months passed.

I meant the showing how to do it part  :)

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@shahzadafzal it works  :)

My first thought was that he got locked up--I don't have much of a rational reason for thinking that, but he was obviously very smart and knew it, and he strikes me as the type of guy who would thumb his nose at the stupid cops.

If he's not incarcerated, my next guess would be that he just got bored with bitcointalk and moved on.  As I said, he's very bright and articulate and those gifts are wasted on 99% of people here who don't have the literacy level to appreciate them.  True, he got a lot of merit in a very short period of time, which is evidence that at least some of the members here appreciated his writing, but I have no doubt that much of his output few over the heads of the ever-present throng of shitposters--IF they even tried to read what he wrote.

He also could be deceased.  Bad things happen to talented people all the time, but since I don't think anyone here knew him IRL, there's going to be no way of knowing this unless he returns.

I have a strong feeling guess #2 is the correct one.

See you in my ignore list, babe.

I've seen nullius posts. He really seems wants to have fun on the forum and maybe you are right that he is not getting what he wants and got bored here. because of how the current forum situation is. Tho whatever that be his lessons were properly distributed and he returns then that will be a start of a new learnings for us.

He's been gone from the forum for a while before, and don't forget he only started posting in December, while he registered in March.
My guess is he'll be back at some point.

Very interesting. His identity is same mystery as Satoshi's :D
There are so many ideas why nullius disappeared, I wander will he ever come back?

I  think he just left as there was no competition for him here in terms of post quality. That causes boredom.

Yeah, nullius.....

Highly literate posts, both technical and no so but, for me, the alia nexus is most/mildly intriguing.
The nullius account started posting Dec 2017, but really burst into activity in January when the alia account turned up.

They were everywhere for February, the Brangelina of BCT, until alia/she/it/he hubris-combusted and the nullius account stopped posting a few weeks later.
I still reckon it was Craig Wright, or someone who thought they were him.

Do not troll me for what I will write on next lines. Just think at this possibility!

What are the odds that Satoshi and Nullius were the same person?

• They both uses TOR
  
  Quote from: theymos on April 17, 2013, 11:20:31 PM
  I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)
  
  
  TOR screen from nullius
  https://puu.sh/ALG7T/a9b5c78009.png
  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2975479.0

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• Also very strange coincidence about the mentioned post here
  https://puu.sh/ALG94/9bb10e1e11.png
  
  This post is only merited 1 time by nullius

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• Final quote from wilipedia
  
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  Res nullius (lit: nobody's thing) is a Latin term derived from private Roman law whereby res (an object in the legal sense, anything that can be owned, even a slave, but not a subject in law such as a citizen nor land) is not yet the object of rights of any specific subject. Such items are considered ownerless property and are free to be acquired by means of occupatio.[1]
  
  Very similar to the Bitcoin's Idea.

Nullius was a troll.

Trolling the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse, a.k.a. the plebs of bitcointalk.
Some smart guy thought it'd be fun to set up an intellectual giant against a webforum.
Only to notice that in the end, it wasn't fun at all.

Happens from time to time ::)

Sorry guys - it's all my fault.

I tried and failed to cure his acute newt affliction. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2975479.msg33000159#msg33000159) Until such a time that I can develop a more potent treatment, I'm keeping him safe as a pet in my lab.

Some say that I am still here. ???

Welcome! Nice looking sunglasses  :P

GASP! Satoshi has returned! :o

Almost 2 years later, nullius is gone again. He was last seen online (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=976210) on May 25th, 2020. But now, considering the pandemic world context, I am very worried about him. If anyone has any information about him, is more than welcomed to post here a few words. I PMed and emailed him a while ago, but so far I didn't receive any reply from him...

Maybe he's a sailor, or in active military service. He loves his privacy, so we can only guess. Considering he's been gone for a long time before, I don't necessarily expect it to be related to the pandemic.

I truly hope it is not related to pandemic but, unlike the previous time, now a pandemic exists. And yes, I know he disappeared once more from the forum, but what really worries me is that he also did not reply to my email...

Also, as a curiosity, I observed that more and more reputable members disappear lately... ICOEthics, TMAN, nullius are just a few examples. Lauda is also offline since June 28th...

Another user in the list is Piggy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=188198). TheBeardedBaby has a thread for list of inactive users but I can not find it for now.

Found: Top 1000 merit receivers who were not active the past 30 days.  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5211001.0) I can not find it with his topic page (https://bitcointalk.org/gettopics.php?user=1291828) because previously I used a bad keyword (inactive).

I checked the the topic, but I encountered another strange thing: nullius is not listed there, although he has more than 1000 merits and although he is missing for more than a month. But the topic wasn't updated since June 15th and maybe that's the reason for not mentioning him... Anyway, I don't know if that topic could help us find him. After all  he has his own disappearence thread :)

You'd be about the only one worried.

The writing is on the wall:

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/16/blobef84cac256352319.jpeg

Not sure if @mindrust was testing the waters to see how their own DT chances would go if they stopped trusting @nullius, or, whether or not they intended to switch from trust to distrust of nullius but messed up the tilde.

nullius would be (an assumed) DT1 (-5) if still on DT1 down from (an assumed) DT1 (-3) when they woke up on the first of January this year.

https://loyce.club/trust/2019-12-28_Sat_06.13h/976210.html


https://loyce.club/trust/2020-07-11_Sat_05.05h/976210.html


If it was a sold, or hacked account whoever was in the seat certinally drove that UID account off a cliff.

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OTOH - it'd be worth following up where the ~900 merits came from (and where the corresponding ~450 merits went to):



846 merits in just under six months of posts. - It may not be about the default trust, rather where did the merits go? (or come from for that matter??) (I'd wager Cobalt9317 will come back to life soon enough)

https://loyce.club/Merit/history/976210.html

I think it's pretty safe to say this didn't happen:

• Considering his love for privacy, I'm pretty sure nullius can keep his account secure so it didn't get hacked.
• If the account was sold, the buyer clearly is smart enough to earn Merit on his own, so he could have built his own account from scratch.
• Nullius didn't join any paid signature, which he could easily have done to monetize the account. Hacking or buying an account to make quality posts without earning from it would be dumb, and the person behind the account doesn't strike me as dumb.
• The pattern of posting a lot, then disappearing for a while, is consistent with nullius' post history.

TL;DR: nullius' account is not hacked nor sold.

I was going to write something similar, but you were faster :)

Excepting all the aspects mentioned by LoyceV, let's also not forget that nullius was using PGP and he signed several messages (before and also after his first disappearence) in order to prove that he is indeed in control of the account. You can see this here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5233083.msg54036153#msg54036153).

I'm not sure what Timelord intended to show with that Bpip screenshot, but it's obvious he is wrong. But this is his nature: to see absurd things when it's not the case. Let's not forget when he accused suchmoon for posting in Offtopic "just to obtain 6$ more from Chipmixer", while Chipmixer's campaign rules clearly state that posts in Offtopic are not counted. But that's another story.

There's nothing to worry about. He did say he doesn't intend to leave again. And here he also requests us to demand verification from him in his PGP thread if he leave it inactive like this and he suddenly starts posting:


In fact these days I should be worrying more about myself instead of him.

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Actually he's wearing a paid Yolodice ad right now, But if someone ever hacks it and attempts to join another campaign, we would easily notice it's not him.

I didn't know this, but you're right. However, I expect a referral link to earn less than a signature campaign. Unless he catches a rare whale who wagers a lot.

Perhaps that's the plan.

In any event, quickseller made a remark that nullius had "moved on" and I posted that comment on their trust wall feedback as a neutral comment.  The first thing they did when they came back was to give me distrust and demanded I remove that innocuous neutral comment.  (then worsened their own trust scores and left again).

nullius is engaging in default trust abuse plain and simple.

From a statistical perspective (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5256829.0), nullius just looks like another user that was hungry for DT power and moved on once they became distrusted. There's a couple other cases like this; otto_diesel (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=951020) and mosprognoz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1094569). For this reason, I doubt they'll return again, but could be wrong. (They were DT2 for a while, but blew it).

He always struck me as a well-read, but unimpressive 14 year old.  He often made posts about shit he doesn't understand, hiding his ignorance with a combination of misplaced confidence and mastery of the English language.  If you miss nullius go register at Quara.com, it's full of pompous pimple farms just like him.

All these statements sound just like pure envy. And I believe it is pure envy. What else to expect towards a top merited user, which is probably the only one which has more merits than his posts number? What else to expect towards a member which is certainly the only one which reached the merits treshold for Hero rank in 27 days?


What else to expect towards a member which reached the merits for being Legendary while he was just a Full Member?

What else to expect towards someone which knows cryptography and code more than a half of this forum combined?

What else to expect towards a true Bitcoin advocate?

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Do you have any reference for this allegation?

Yes, here's a perfect example (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5219640.msg53668585#msg53668585) of him using big words and walls of text to feign a highly developed and impressive intellect.  While the premise of his argument starts out about anarchy, what he actually describes is far from it.  I'ts almost like he doesn't know the meaning of the word, but he must, mustn't he?  His waffling about the word, and vacillations in logic are actually kind of pedestrian, and mostly just drivel to fill out what initially looks like a well thought-out and contributory post, but is actually nothing but a shit post (in my opinion.)

You're welcome to think of me as envious of his ability to earn merit, as I'm welcome to consider you wrong in that assessment.  I would expect some members to come to his defense, especially the ones who showered him with merit.

That's not the impression I got, but even if it's true, I'd welcome such members over the usual spammers any time!

So maybe nullius is grounded and lost his internet privileges O0

The walls of text were a bit too much though, I don't have the time to read them.

I agree, even I have experienced the same level of immaturity in most or all of his posts which only aimed to attract noob user's to believe in his conspiracy and as @dragonvslinux said, mostly directed towards power hunger of DT. He had/has no logic over any reputation matters, if you check his realted posts, one can notice him trying to ramble his or Lauda's aganda in such important reputation threads with his unwanted, unwelcomed and deceptive walls of text which don't lead to any conclusions at all. He even started a perm ban appel thread against me even knowing I was already banned from wearing signature for 2 years, which shows his childish and illogical attitude take us to no conclusions. Such highly egotastic people should be avoided at most.

My first impression was that nullius was a genius "Bitcoiner", I enjoyed his techincal posts and I did learn some great stuff from him, somewhere down the line he made a 180 degree change in the content he provides to the forum, he went from that tech-savvy member to a repuation-addicted member, he got himself involved in all the mess of forum trust issues. So if he ever comes back, I hope he goes back to development & technical discussion, the place where he performs best.

 :D  Gave me a legit lol.  I remember when I would get grounded from AOL. Was brutal! I think Tman got grounded as well, only logical answer to these mysteries.

 Despite being a bit mixed up with drama at times, it's nice to have a legit Mr Robot like him around. I think it's fair to say he's obviously one of the most talented programmers/pc techs on the forum and with so many morons spewing nonsense here (like w/all forums) it's good to have experts like him around to help balance that out. Can live with some drama..I would love it if Nick Szabo, arguably the most brilliant mind in crypto, was active here, despite the fact that Nullius being "over the top" pales in comparison to Szabo.  Just my 2 satoshis.

His talents are indeed better used on technical subjects.

Makes me wonder what satoshi did to get grounded for 10 years O0

Aren't everyone's? I sometimes wonder about what kind of good posts we might see if some people put half as much effort in to constructive discussion as they put in to whining about the trust system or attacking other users for completely trivial and banal nonsense.

Don't worry if you don't understand. Apparently, the topic wasn't addressed to you. Nor to many others.


I highlighted why you don't understand the meaning of that topic. You will never understand it if you have the IQ of a shoe. The topic was addressed to really intelligent people and they are extremely few compared to all the others. It was addressed to well educated people, which are able to understand such a deep meaning. I am a bit surprised though, as I didn't expect that from you. I would expect it from a notorious illiterate such as hacker, which doesn't even know the difference between the plural and the "'s" article which, in English, represents the possession.


But it seems that you also don't have the necessary prerequisites for understanding that topic.

No, I've seen bounty spammers post incorrect information on the tech boards. It's better if they stay on the bounty board.

Utopia?

Well, true, but their time would be better spent reading the tech boards than posting bounty spam.

I guess we are many who believed how genius he was. The second comeback is where he ruined it all when he started getting into reputation sagas. Once you start picking fights around, nothing good comes out of it. Perhaps this second break be a blessing in disguise for him.

I don't think bounty spammers have the required technical competence to understand most of the topics in the tech boards. Even for me, a lot of those threads go over my head.

Excuse me for asking, but how can you know that? And how can you possibly know nullius? You just registered here 2 days ago. How can you know him? How can you know that he's active and then disappears? Are you the alt of someone else? You talk like you know him well.

Given you're a 48 hour 55 hour old expert on the matter, I think I might just take that as a comment (as Tony Jones #QandA might say)  ::)

I have to say, so far this is my favorite nullialt (the name was far more clever, too):