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Pay attention to this user, EZ0010 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2900073).


He is a newbie who has an honest attitude ^[known] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2900073) for being willing to return a number of bitcoin that were accidentally sent to him some time ago.

It's rare for a newbie to act like him in a forum, especially when it comes to money. I believe you need to use that as an excuse as to why you should have an honest attitude here even when you are a newbie or a high rank bounty hunter.

He doesn't post much ^{[only 3 posts]} but he already has 190+ merit on his profile just because of his honest attitude. You know what I want to say? honest attitude is better than the thousands of spam and junk posts you spread all the time on this forum. Make this a valuable lesson this year on the internet, that honesty is the main capital in any case.

He/She has a good heart, even he posted in a single line but it has thousands of meanings.
I really appreciated this user.

I remember a group of (BCBP) or known our place, (Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals) used this advocacy.
" BE HONEST…
Even If Others Are Not.
Even If Others Will Not.
Even If Others Cannot."

It's a shame to those people who haven't this attitude, honesty should be the best policy and it should start on ourselves.

You know what? I get your point ...
Honesty is a virtue but what does it has to do with shitty posting on the forum? You would have made this a little more explicit
I saw the autumn of honesty in him and I believe that's how he's even in his closet because I know this for sure "what ever is done underneath (good or bad) must always show up someday.
 He deserves more accolades and I was even thinking theymos himself has had him kept secretly in his mind for future appointments, if yes then I support this at all cost.
A newbie that's honest is pretty better than a legendary who would not even delay to abscond with it mostly for being anonymous

I'm not a merit source but I'm one of those who gave merit for his kind.

I remember someone also do the same thing to me when I sent my BTC accidentally.
I have big respect for those people they are very kind and honest.

I don't know why you are comparing poster spam vs honest attitude because the two are never the same in my opinion.

For example, I am one of the spam posters because so far I have had hundreds of posts deleted by moderators. I'm not being honest with myself where I'm guilty of not wanting to correct my previous post so that someone or some people report the post for deletion. But when I want to fix all that then I have to be honest with myself which I have to bring out the best I have for me to post and share with the community. Of course I know that being honest is the main capital of any business you have, but being honest with yourself about your abilities is much more important in my opinion.

All the conveniences would be the most appropriate gift for anyone honest, so EZ0010 deserved it after he returned $1000 bitcoin to theymos.

No one can judge their own posts except other people because of different levels of knowledge. And you shouldn't compare activities and traits. Please explore the reputation board, some good quality posters have been exposed for their dishonesty.

I agree with this statement, but there's honesty that is appreciated and honesty that goes unnoticed (because it's commonplace), and there's little chance of getting a moment to prove his honesty by accident like EZ0010.

The problem here is the exposure of honesty. There are plenty of honest newbie too and not post often but they don't have that kind of merits. See the guy transaction is with theymos, and he did return the funds or course that's literally amazing. But don't degrade those shit posters aiming for merits, cause you never know they are really Tying hard to gain some. Anyways I relate to that cause I'm once a shit poster.

That's all well and good what you say, but you are comparing apples and pears. As noorman0 says, the problem is that there are a lot of honest people on this forum who don't get $1K by mistake so they can return it.

I gave it merit too (without being a merit source), but this is an exceptional thing.

I'm sorry but shitposters are not going to change their attitude because of this thread.

Great to see that even today there are still people who are honest amongst the vast dishonesty, It is golden to see that even though he had experienced loss of his bitcoins before, he did not want another to pass through same hurt as he did. I am glad that he has been encouraged for his good character in the form of merits and trust, i have added a merit. I hope others can emulate this attitude of honesty, because with such, the world will definitely be a better place.

Well, it's understandable why the OP created this topic, isn't it? Taking advantage of the glory of others and belittling others, he, as much as he would not like, does not look like that teacher over disobedient children, whom he always warns and teaches to diligently fulfill all duties.
But if you take the essence of what happened, then I do not see anything supernatural at all. And I am amazed at the reaction of people who shout "cool, you cool dude"
Everything that the person who returned other people's money has done should be the norm of human behavior, and not some act that goes beyond our perception.
Otherwise, we admire what, in our own opinion, we would not have done.

I concur. One would expect that the majority of people on the forum would be honest about it, and doing the ethical thing should almost be the given. Hypercommending the case, kind of gives the impression that the opposite would have been expected to be the norm, and although often faceless is shameless, we hopefully wouldn’t expect not giving it back that to be a major pattern (although I wouldn’t like to see where people’s threshold lies before turning).

I applaud that user's honesty even though I don't have details of how it happened. It's rare in this era to see people receive money by mistake and be able to willingly return it back to the owner. I give kudos to the person because it's not an easy thing to do.

I did similar thing in 1994 when I was still a little boy with so much stupid needs for money. I Picked a large envelop filled with cash and letters. The only thing that came to my mind was to find ghe owner and return the money. I used the information from where I picked it to trace the owner and handed it back to him. I didn't get any reward but it has remained my legacy.

For someone who has made only 3 posts since 2020, he could have easily disappeared with the money and never come back here ever again.

I seem to agree with you on this, I don't think the OP has made a proper comparison.


I agree more with this one than the comparison you made between honest vs spammer. Having an honest attitude is human nature both online and offline. You may find it difficult to trust people on the internet with money, but that doesn't mean they are untrustworthy or dishonest. _BlackStar, even if you don't like spammers so far, try not to offend because I'm sure one day you'll see some of them will be able to turn their bad habit into something more meaningful.

Thanks for sharing some of your thoughts in the thread, so let me say something so you don't misunderstand.

I say earnestly that I am not taking advantage of any situation that occurs for my own benefit ^{[merit or otherwise].} This thread is one of my reaction spontaneous to how honesty can have a very positive effect on forum users even when they don't post much. Comparing them to spammers doesn't mean I'm insulting, it's just the reason why I want them to be honest with themselves especially if they want to bring out the best of themselves to post something constructive and useful.

I know that you can follow your own interpretation and use free speech to judge me and what prompted me to create the thread. Please don't be offended because the point of this thread is not comparisons I'm making but honesty will be a good asset in all things including being honest with yourself.

So you are saying "if you want to earn 200 merit, don't spam and just behave honestly"? It doesn't work like that, no one will have opportunities like that, I spent years on this forum and no one ever sent me more BTC than they should have to create a situation like this.  You should be honest because it's the right thing to do, and you shouldn't spam because it's a bad thing to do, and merit is just imaginary Internet points that should be one of the last reasons for doing something.

Now a days its almost impossible to find anyone who is willing to return you your lost money whether its lost fiat or crypto. He has got 196 merits for just 3 posts, thanks to his honesty. He is already heading towards senior member rank, just need to post more to get 250 merits for that senior member rank.

That's right, don't be a spammer and be honest with yourself, including how you want to unleash all your potential. You may know what I mean because logically spammers are never honest with themselves regardless of the factors behind it. I can tell you that most spammers are scammers ^{[not all]} where they have multiple account farms so post quality is ruled out.

I know what you mean because you explained it pretty well. But I'm not sure you know what I'm trying to say before.

It has some factors when people did not refund mistakenly sent Bitcoin.

• They are greedy and don't mind to refund. Such people are aware of where and how they can refund.
• Newbies who don't know how to refund for some reasons
  
  • Don't know how to use Block explorers
  • Don't know how to check addresses from which those BTC sent to their addresses, etc.
• So be very careful with your transactions, check details of your transaction multiple times before you broadcast it. Bitcoin transaction is irreversible so when it was gone, let's assumed you already lost it, forever
  
  • How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5190776.0)

EZ0010 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2900073) became an instant BTT celebrity over night. It's a hit and not a miss for the user. That positive trust from theymos is a huge one and has already made an indilible mark on his profile. I sincerely hope the user continues to lead it good here. I did follow that thread and also sent him merit. I encourage every poster who stands for morality and truth (and who has merit) to do so too. It's worth encouraging the user.

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At one time, I made a comment on another thread that being a veteran member doesn't mean being a trusted member. That user's attitude just proved it. Even as a newbie, he has made himself a trusted member already.

Wow. Last time I checked, EZ0010 had less than 90 merits, and that was not a long time ago. It looks like he will have the merits of a hero member in a few weeks, but the activity of a newbie.

I fixed it for you a bit. "Excuse" makes it sound like me made some kind of mistake or that his actions are contrary to expected and normal behavior.

That reminds me how back in the day FortuneJack sent me 0.15 BTC as a signature payment instead of 0.015 BTC. Someone somewhere didn't pay attention to the zeros. :o

Although we have quite a lot of honest and trustworthy people in this forum but when it is a small mistake like sending bitcoin to the wrong address then I believe the chances of getting those bitcoin back are very small if the recipient is not a member of the forum.

So getting some merit for EZ0010's honest attitude is very reasonable, he gets credit because he knows what it's like to lose money, and because of that he will be immediately promoted to a higher rank once his activity and post count is achieved. He earned enough merit for that, but if he wasn't able to post something quality then merit wouldn't be for him in the future either.

How did I miss this? Thank you OP for sharing this. We all must be honest, however, I think you shouldn’t compare this with merit. Just saying.
Everyone also should notice that this guy got a lot of merit just because of his honesty but getting a lot of merit doesn’t necessarily mean to be honest. For example, theyoungmillionaile who had a lot of merit earned but a scammer. So, Don't trust anyone with a lot of merits.

He earned the respect with his action of sending back the money which was wrongly send by theymos while sending to an another address. But we no need to relate the knowledge with behaviour or character of someone, we have to be good and don't look for a reason to be good that is what I replied to his last comment.

Cheater : "I'll tell truth, I've participated in x campaign with my alt accounts and I broke the company rules" :P This cheater is so honest, so give him 190+ merits ;D

I know honest attitude is very important in anything whether it's on real life or internet, the question is do you will be honest like that's newbies if you get money from someone accidentally send to you? Because this is not your fault, so in logic you don't need have to refund, but if you want to become good person you need to refund that since it's not your money. It's almost impossible to find such member, a newbies with no reputations have nothing to lose if he don't want to refund.

Literally all peoples already know what is honest attitude since they must be got teached in school, but can you become a honest person?

I don't think honesty on this forum is to be associated with ranks. There's a person behind every account. There are newbies who are scammers but there are also legendary members who proved to be equal frauds. Newbies are sometimes not given the amount of trust given to a hero or legendary member simply because of their rank. But it doesn't speak of honesty. If a person behind an account is honest, rank does not matter. He/she will return what does not rightfully belong to him/her.

It will never happen, I know it's not the expected honesty but it is a suicide bombing when someone is too honest with the police after doing something wrong ^[cheating].  So it should never be the same. I know that everyone knows what honesty is but we really have to research to believe it with money if it is done on the internet. So would you say bounty cheaters who claim to cheat on bounty are honest people?

I know, I get a lot of evidence from these links when they deal with money. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=1883627

When I saw this thread I remember a day when I received a 0.00065640 BTC from an unknown, address, and I am shocked why is this happened cause I did not participate in any campaign,  that time and then someone pm me.
Cause the manager mistakenly put my bitcoin address to the user who has been accepted his campaign and I'm sent a message to the manager about that but he replied to me that I'll keep the BTC as it was his mistake.
So I'll keep it as he said.

That's exactly what I had in my mind. It doesn't really matter if that person is a Newbie or a Legendary for what we know he might be the oldest person on the forum who just created an account and got the Newbie rank. It is mostly on how the person is from the inside. That person had a good heart which made him refund the money back.
That is a normal behavior and we shouldn't be surprised of it. In fact we should be proud that our forum still has many good people in it who are there for others in need of it.

Though my experience was kind of non-crypto related as I used third-party digital payment system to do such transaction, there is a local app in our country that can be used to send money people to people through their SMS number.
I had a buyer who send me like too much money where he sent $200 instead of $20 as he tapped extra zero, and he was like scared to death like in a panic state where he continued to send continuous message to my FB inbox, and of course if I was like an a-hole, I would just block the person but meh, I ain't that kind of person. I sent the extra money back to that person I dealt with.

It's hard to earn other people's trust with money, that's for sure. I have no experience of how people trust me with money. But if it's not my right, then returning it to its owner is one of the things I would do. This is normal for me. Returning something that doesn't belong to us is a gesture that deserves appreciation regardless of what your current rank is.

I also concur, I would really like to think and hope that the majority of users on the
forum would do the same as EZ0010 if they were in that position. Well done to EZ0010
for the positive attitude.

On EZ0010, its a pity they are not more active on the forum with only 5 posts since
December 09, 2020. They are already well trusted and merited.

It's so rare to find someone like that who still has the kind of heart to return something that doesn't belong to him especially a large money. I think it's not about the rank or standing in the society that matters, if you have a kind heart you would have returned it back to rightfully owner. No need to boast if you are just a newbie or legendary since not everyone knew this forum and it's not just for BTC that has been lost that we could be thankful but for someone who could actually return something despite of this pandemic situation.

That is truly an amazing attitude of a person and that is too rare to find.
I may consider that as a gift if that will happen to me but of course, I do the same and I return it to the rightful owner. Because we are sure that it was important for him/her, and we don't have the right to spend it unless if literally it gives you but that was an accident.

All have the right to do it, it doesn't matter what rank we are in the forum but what matters is that we know ourselves that we are honest and have nothing to prove publicly.

Although I don’t like praising this case too much, simply because (perhaps naively) is what I’d think most people would do, there is that added factor of the account being a Newbie, meaning by that, that he didn’t have anything on the line, and could have easily kept the Sats and started afresh, if at all.

When you're being honest to someone or something you do, you will always be sincere in whatever you say or do to people. Just a simple act of being honest earn him much appreciation of merits.
I was overwhelmed when I see the number of merits given to him, just for a simple comment of honesty

It seems that EZ0010 made a huge impact on this community by returning a BTC mistakenly send to his address and he return it immediately.
And also he is the Idol of some users herein forum
Take a look at this
my version of honesty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379269.0)
MISTAKE TIP 3.8 BTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379272.0)
I think there's more to be followed.

People are an extension of their real self on the forum not minding their ranks, they can't give what they don't have. I have experience similar situation were overpaid individual return the funds to me when contacted. We should normalized things like, that's how we are might to behaved as humans. That they're not much good ones left doesn't mean you shouldn't be good. You can be the reason humanity believe in good people.

There's no gain in taking what isn't yours. Already people are facing a hard time understanding the industry without proper guidance. Mistakes can be easily made here since transaction are not reversible, don't be a reason why people regret joining the forum or industry. Also don't do good because you'll be rewarded, do it because it's the right thing to do.

Thanks for suggesting something I should have heard earlier this year @CryptopreneurBrainboss. It's true that doing good and being honest is something that everyone should have, but if it's done just to get a reward or something else that benefits him then I'm sure sincerity is not his.

Today's best quote from you for me and others is ^{[do what you think is right and never expect anything in return].}

Amazing! Made my time! Honesty wins hearts, honesty wins souls, being honest in today's time is a rare quality indeed, and it is never wrong when we say that what goes around do comes around! it's so much awesome to see how there are people with so much good heart in the world, surely they are the ones keeping the faith in humanity alive :D

In my opinion, not all honesty will be rewarded with merits. There may be only certain honesty that will get it.
And for that case, yeah, he deserves the merits because that is something very big, related to money that is very much. We can say that he is a very honest person and he may only do what he can do.
However, in this case, I don't concern to the merits given and got, I concern on how honesty. And about shitposters, of course, wherever, it cannot be compared with something honesty. Honesty is an attitude, behavior of someone that is owned. But shitposts may be also created by some honest people, but not willing to learn or they only do whatever they want.
I am not sure that all honesty will be rewarded by merits once again. It will dpeend on what kind of honesty.