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Economy => Reputation => Topic started by: The Sceptical Chymist on February 02, 2019, 01:38:46 AM



Title: Member 'cr7' has likely been hacked/sold and is now a bounty shitposter.
Post by: The Sceptical Chymist on February 02, 2019, 01:38:46 AM
This member cr7 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=362400) registered his account on August 3, 2014.  In the first couple of years, he was pretty much a shitposter with a penchant for Games & Rounds, Off-Topic, and gambling posts.  His posts were usually one line garbage, but when he did put some effort into writing a relatively long post, the quality of English was pretty good:

Anything extra is good, no matter if small.

Promotions that require a big rollover over a initial deposit usually aren't good because you may bust and lose everything, but if you for example want to make a bankroll build plan, they probably are good, because you'll slowly increase your capital, if things goes right

Best ones are the ones you win just by playing, without rollover and such.

You would play anyway, so they are an extra

He posted kind of sporadically up until April 18th, 2018, when he wrote this post:
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I think yes, it is possible.
Cos bitcoin is the coin of "1st generation" and inspite of forks and imrprovements its blockchain is not the best.
And once some coin (may be ETH) will overtake it, who knows.
This post came after a huge gap, with the previous post being on August 10th, 2017.

Since his return, he suddenly started posting with unnecessary exclamation points all over the place, and his posts became the typical generic bounty hunter shitposts:
My assumption is that Satoshi Nakamoto is a whole team of developers! Perhaps in the near future we will find out about it! The mystery always becomes obvious!
According to analysts, bitcoin remains the first crypto currency not only in terms of creation time and total capitalization, but also in terms of status and universal recognition. So there is a high probability that it will cost much more!
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If you choose from these two coins, then I'm for Bitcoin. At least he will bring a stable profit, and from Litecoin do not know what to expect!

And it goes on from there to this year, with posts continuing to be like this:
The only thing that I think if oil will rise in price and the price of gasoline and diesel fuel will rise! The rise in price of gasoline will affect everything else... Connection with oil and cryptocurrency do not see!

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this before tagging him, and if anyone can find additional evidence I would be appreciative. 
Self-moderated thread to keep the trolls out.


Title: Re: Member 'cr7' has likely been hacked/sold and is now a bounty shitposter.
Post by: shasan on February 02, 2019, 01:45:39 AM
I noticed from bpip (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=cr7):
4/19/2018 1:05:49 PM         password changed
And 4/19/2018 1:54:08 PM         password changed
Within 50 minutes again password changed seems to me account sold.
Also, there is a long gap from August 10, 2017 to April 18, 2018


Title: Re: Member 'cr7' has likely been hacked/sold and is now a bounty shitposter.
Post by: suchmoon on February 02, 2019, 02:04:08 AM
Anyone calling Bitcoin a "he" deserves a red tag for the cringe :)

Actually I don't know about this one. More likely than not the account has its 2nd or 3rd owner. But a bit less certain the other cases you posted recently.


Title: Re: Member 'cr7' has likely been hacked/sold and is now a bounty shitposter.
Post by: The Sceptical Chymist on February 02, 2019, 02:09:24 AM
4/19/2018 1:05:49 PM         password changed
And 4/19/2018 1:54:08 PM         password changed
<snip>
That seals it for me, and I'm going to tag him.  I'm reluctant to create new threads about cases like these, but it's much better than writing everything in the OP on someone's trust page--plus it's good to get community feedback and lets people know how extensive this problem is.

By the way, yet again I found this guy with his bought/hacked account while searching for posts to merit in the Economics section.  When I tell you that it's easier to find plagiarism or an account buyer or hacker than it is to find meritable posts by newbies, I'm not exaggerating.