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Username: Iranus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=721405)

This user registered since 2016, based on his post history, he's mostly active in Bitcoin discussion related (e.g. Bitcoin, wallet, mining, development, exchange, speculation etc) until 2017, even though he did ever post on gambling board, but it's just few posts only. Then this user inactive and comeback on 2020, but most of his post on 2020 until right now is full of gambling boards, he did post on Bitcoin discussion related, but it's just a common sense and not high quality post like when he was 2016-2017.

His last post on 2017 is December 17, 2017 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2602024.msg26477106#msg26477106)

On January 31, 2017 he opened a thread to sell Bitcointalk account (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1771765.msg17683180#msg17683180)

According to BPIP (https://bpip.org/Profile?id=721405), this is the security and moderator log about his account


His first post on 2020 is February 19, 2020 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148053.msg53873253#msg53873253)

If anyone want to read his post on 2016-2017, read the pages from 173 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=721405;sa=showPosts;start=3440)-91 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=721405;sa=showPosts;start=1800)

Considering if he switch from Bitcoin discussion to Gambling discussion because he joined on casino signature campaign. I find this is strange since he's like a different person based on the quality his post on Bitcoin discussion between 2016-2017 and 2020-until now. What do you think about this?

Some archive of his old posts
1. https://archive.ph/rzJdL
2. https://archive.ph/Ci4o3
3. https://archive.ph/SfIDO
4. https://archive.ph/uHIfQ
5. https://archive.ph/wM2he

LOL  ;D ;D ;D ;D

How bad your investigating about Username: Iranus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=721405) account? he was active on signature service campaign need to post on gambling, why he has post on Bitcoin discussion, if keep post on bitcoin discussion forum he will not get payment and kick from Duelbit Signature campaign.

I think so 2016-2017 he never touched the gambling board, mostly speculation and Bitcoin posts, I tried to check @Iranus post history, he was involved in selling accounts.

Looks like @Iranus, it's been sold, as I quoted.


But, i didn't find any other, which account is he selling, @Iranus or is there any other account which is rated sr or Hero.

To be sure, selling the account is not recommended and a lot of losses from other parties.

maybe other members can judge in a case like this.

This is a very old story, I have given up all this since I realized that it is risky for the community.


Due to the bearish market, most of the campaigns were based on gambling, so I became more and more accustomed to gambling and sports, that's all.

Did duelbits campaign has a rule if posted on Bitcoin discussion, any participants will got kicked? prove it.
Did duelbits campaign ask all posts must be posted on gambling boards each week? No, it's 10/20, which is you can post in other boards too.

Yeah there's no more information, but my assumption is this account.

But the sudden switch from Bitcoin boards to gambling board is suspicious IMO and another thing about the quality post itself. If you're a natural poster on Bitcoin boards and follow the development etc before, I don't think you would forget about Bitcoin knowledge in the next 3-5 years and avoid to post in Bitcoin boards.

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However this is still a suspect, I accept criticism or anything to prove I was wrong.

I am not a regular poster on the gambling section, what if I start posting in the gambling section now? Will you consider this account to change hands in case I am forced to make a post on the gambling section due to the signature campaign?

Changing the password or posting on the gambling section doesn't prove the account changed hands. Need more solid evidence to tag the account.

I am not a fan of digging accounts and I really do not encourage it too. If you are correct then good job but if you are not correct then this is simply an insult for the user you are digging up. People used to do it long ago when the merit system started but they started to get bored.

If this is really something gives you pleasure then sooner or later someone else will do the same for you and you can be in the same problem easily. Before posting such thing, have you attempted to chat in PM with the user to find out yourself what happened first? They should have given you an answer. A lot of time your curiosity could be served only just by have person to person conversation.

Before 2021 I never post on the gambling section, But after that 100% of my posts were on the gambling board, lol.
Nowadays I also try to make posts on Bitcoin & Altcoin section cause it helps me to stay up to date about the crypto world.
When I applied for the Stake Signature campaign they told me to make posts on the gambling section for at least 1 month then they will accept me.
I think it's a very simple reason people changes habit cause the maximum of the campaign is Gambling onboard nowadays.

Correct on all of that.  Being in a campaign where you have to post in certain sections can definitely influence where you post--whether you like or know anything about those sections or not.

I have not looked into this situation in detail, but one thing I can say is that if there's a scenario like this where a member has woken up after a long time, joined a campaign and so forth, check the style of that member's posts.  If there's a language switch or a shift from good English to typical bounty hunter English, that's a dead giveaway and I've seen it many times.

As far as Iranus is concerned, the evidence I've read so far does point to the account changing hands, but I'm not 100% convinced and thus am not going to tag him.

Then don't do it.  But please don't discourage others from doing it.  My own detective work in the past has turned up lots of sold/hacked accounts, and you've got to be aware that there's too much bullshit going on in the forum that if it weren't for those members delving into suspicious accounts, people would be getting away with everything under the sun.

I don't know what was your reasons not continuing with the detective work you used to do in the past. But I saw many users to be in trouble because of doing that. They continue, keep making angry users against them, at some point the opponents get opportunity to get their revenge. Everything creates a bad environment and users start hating each others.

You and me could disagree but I think it's better to contact someone via PM and tell them what you think. Give then time to reply you. If you think it was not satisfying then ask public opinion.

If someone has changed their posting habit and regular in gambling board with wearing a gambling signature then it make sense that they are following the signature rules and posting to fulfill their weekly posting limit. Not everyone has genuine interest to post regularly.

I am so shy what did by Solosanz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2789068), he looks stupid. What should did before joining on signature service bounty campaign, all signature service need us active on gambling board if want accepted with service signature. By the way if some one left their habit and active on gambling board post does all account changed hands? how if Iranus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=721405) can proof with sign message and show he is the real owner and his account not change hand, will you give back his good reputation. You must responsibility if account you report not changed hand like moderator close Solosanz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2789068) active and can participants on reputation thread. He made bad investigating and not get solid proof how to make Iranus (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=721405) have changed hands.

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@Solosanz what is your motivation to keep searching out these accounts and calling them out for various reasons? Are they users that have pissed you off in some way? Users that you seen scam? I'm very curious.

What about you? You joined the forum in April of 2020, posted for a month or so and in June of 2020 disappeared until 2022. Have you posted proof somewhere that you are the original owner of the Solosanz account?

I have no idea of Iranus and also no reason for him to be on my radar that I'm aware of. So aside from trying to gain a quick reputation, please let us know your motivation.

Buddy, half of the gambling signature campaign participants are writing in gambling board only because the campaign requirements and not because they are really interested in the subjects. On top of that, since majority of campaigns are gambling oriented and I don't see this trend changing anytime soon, people simply prefer to write there even more than required quota as they want to secure their places in the future campaigns and there's no better way to do that than having majority (if not all) of posts written there. That's just reality of this forum, people adjusting posting habits based on signature campaign rules.



You have to provide the evidence and not the other way around. Since you haven't tagged him yet I guess you also don't think that evidence you provided is convincing enough.

I know, but if the user isn't done anything wrong, I believe people will think same.

No, I wouldn't, that's like asking a scammer to admit he was scam, a scammer will do anything to deny the fact. I would be better to ask other users who active in busting scam to know their opinion, but some people I think doesn't want to get such PM, that's why I opened this thread to know other user reaction rather than I cherry pick some users.


Yep, we have same opinion here.


Can you find his address on 2016-2017? if you can find it and he can sign a message, then this case will closed.


I'm not disappeared for the 2 years, but I try to familiarize this forum, reading people posts and thinking what I can do to contribute on this forum. Then I found some report from scam/spam buster in this forum and I choose to follow their path. That's why I searched some accounts if I found they're breaking forum rules/campaign, then I make a report in this board.

I'm not trying to gain a quick reputation, I never ask anyone to leave me a positive trust or include me in their trust list.

Iranus has no intention to scam anyone so far and he never make me angry in any cases.


Yep, it's not 100% since there's no proof about connection. I think after making some suspect, many users will continue to find another proof to prove it's really changed hands, but seems many people disagree with this.

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Should we not create a report if the proof isn't completely 100% convinced?

Of course it goes without saying that if a member is a scammer, or is posting links to suspicious website, or malwares that can get other members scammed and hacked, you shouldn't send them any pm, but report and make a topic about it. Iranus' case is none of that. It is entirely up to you though, but if you do not really care that a user gets kicked out of their campaign and gets tagged for something, you can send them a pm to notify them of anything you notice in their post history, or to tell them that their posting pattern of quoting posts and returning back to it to fill it up is wrong like the previous case you reported, and they should desist from doing such, especially if that member has been in the forum for long and has ranked up. If the member is headstrong to change & still flouts that advice, you can now make a report against them.
Iranus does not even have to sign any message for the case to be closed, they already told their own side of the story, i think every member can decide to sign a message to prove anything or not.
Your effort is so good Solosanz, but in my opinion yes.

The fact of a case like this 'without clear evidence' doesn't stick in my memory, as other members have said, I've seen a lot of language change accounts and post history, but it's not something that can be taken as negative and vice versa.

Except: as I've seen: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215426.0, Proven, valid.

Bottom line: Nothing is suspicious to you, regardless of your posting history, don't worry, it's not in our nature to judge something without valid evidence.

Everyone has a bad past, as long as they have the will to change and stick to the rules, there's nothing wrong.

Yes, he has one bitcoin wallet number for 2017. Although this message has been deleted and is archived in the forum, I think that for many of the doubters here, signing from this wallet would be good proof of account ownership.


https://ninjastic.space/addresses?address=1XpJRma2pY9CjGdfQPEprohiFETrnbU4J

However, you can predict that the story of the loss of this wallet and all the other excuses will begin.


Another strange behavior for the owner of this account is the very deletion of their posts. And as you can see, this is not a very small amount.

https://i.ibb.co/V29szZT/Screenshot.png (https://imgbb.com/)

If the person was originally the owner, and he did not have reports with bounty companies, as is usually done to remove garbage from the forum, why would he remove so much information?

Of course you can create the thread without providing 100% bulletproof evidence, I was just referring to your statement that we have to prove you wrong, while its other way around.

You are right though that his post quality regressed which is a weird thing. I mean, people usually improve thought the years, but ever since he started writing exclusively in gambling board, his post quality went down noticeably. Whether that's caused by account changing hands, or because he is writing in board that he knows little about, I don't know.


Speaking from personal experience, I wouldn't see this type of excuse as a bullshit as I don't have access to several old bitcoin addresses (it was on purpose btw, I just got rid of them). I know its not the smartest thing, but some people don't care much about these things.

Holy crap!
Now the real drama is started, hahah
A few days ago some people claimed why I do not use my old wallet, why posting behavior changed bla bla,, lol

I told them gimme a minute I'm not at home, but they tagged me.
Fortunately, I imported some old addresses on coinbase which saved me. :P

I'm just being social butterfly with a lot, otherwise, I wouldn't have signed the message.


sickk haha this is not a very surprising thing.
I have used over 100 wallets, most of which have been deleted.


sweeeet, this also happened to me lol  :)
Posting in the gambling section was a little uncomfortable for me, time management is another fact, now improved a lot,  ;)

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If he comes to do business with me I will tell him to sign the message otherwise it is irrelevant to ask someone to sign the message.
I can use neutral feedback or a personal diary if I think someone's activity is suspicious.

There was a thread titled "why yes I did change my password" or something similar, but I never bookmarked it.  Essentially a user had innocently changed their password - flaming torches and pitchforks ensued and the DT1 trolls foamed at the mouth thinking the account had changed hands.

But it hadn't.

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Case in point:


In other-words smear the mud around and hope that some of it sticks.

If you believe the post and how this account relates to its private keys, then this is a very reverent and caring occupation. Of course, I admit the loss, and simply the removal of wallets that do not constitute value as unnecessary.

Unfortunately, this post has also been deleted. :)
https://ninjastic.space/post/57351312

And the one who just reads the early posts and today's will really see a big difference in the publication.

Sorry, it seems you misunderstood the information mate. 1722 is the average value of Posts made per post deleted by moderators. At the time you posted this, Iranus had a post count of 3444 and since so far Bpip.org has noted that only 2 of its posts have been deleted by the moderator, the formula should be something like this:


So for now Iranus only gets 2 post deletions from moderators based on bpip.org, that's not much. But it would make sense to say he deleted a lot of previous posts that weren't listed on bpip.org if this value were to be referenced. There's a minus 36 posts from the actual total post count, but it's still possible not to say too much unless there's important information.

https://i.imgur.com/lYFuFar.png

True, based on that post he does seem very serious about his private keys, unless he was just writing what others like to hear as I have a feeling that many on this forum do exactly that, for various reasons.


Due all these comments I see that he now started being active outside of gambling board lol.

I don't believe that Solosanz's account has changed hands, or at least I have no reason to believe so, what I do believe is that it is someone's alt. And I have nothing to object, in this forum it is allowed, and besides he doesn't have to admit he is an alt if he doesn't want to.

I say this because of things like he registered on April 3, and on April 16 he already knew how the trust system worked, (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5191802.msg54231009#msg54231009) or that on April 17 he knew about the history of bpip.org (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241216.msg54240262#msg54240262) which seems quite unlikely if he doesn't have another account on the forum.

If you add to that the two-year hiatus, and that as soon as he comes back, he starts writing posts with his research in the Reputation section, I think there is a pretty high probability that he has another account in the forum.

That said, I think his contribution to the forum with his threads is quite positive.

I don't have any option, :D I can't argue with people why posts have been deleted. I randomly delete application posts when I think those are unnecessary.
Some posts are deleted by mod and some got deleted cause the thread disappeared itself, like the above (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5404743.msg60492405#msg60492405) one.

When I was a student I used to do a lot of speculation on crypto-markets, which is why I was active on the altcoin board. Now that I have a job, I don't really have much time to post on other boards.

It's starting. I was not entirely wrong however I said this

It does not matter if all right or wrong but it's now easily questionable for Solosanz
1. Is your account changed hand?
2. Is your account an ALT who now found out a way to earn merits to rank up?

My suggestion again, if you find pleasure doing this to others then you really need to find some other interest.

The Pharmacist will encourage you to continue what you are doing but when you will be in trouble for something you never thought of, almost out of the blue, he will not spend his time to look at the case in deep other than leaving only a comment about it on the topic 🤣

Maybe a bad joke 🤪

no one pissed him. But the desire to make himself famous in the forum is forcing him to do these things.
And with that he is getting a lot of merit which will help him to increase his rank. Isn’t that a big find for him?

In this case he only woke up after a long time but he did not change his password and did not reset his password. According to him, changing the password or forgetting the password is a criminal offense. People on this forum can never forget their password because everyone is a super computer or a Robot  :D
I'm not saying that's wrong.  It is true that this forum account is constantly being traded. I don't think the history of changing the password or resetting the password is  a valid proof of intricate the sold account. anyone can change his account password for his account security and can reset his account password for forgetting his password. But in a way it can be proven when we check the behavior of the previous and present post. Because the writing style of more than one person will never be the same.

Within a few days he got a lot smerit and DT2 power as scam and spam fighter. Isn't that a big motivation for him?

Note - @Solosanz you Registered  your account at 3th April 2020. Then you become inactive and wake up again in April 2022. Those are about two months ago from now. But in the meanwhile you have become a storehouse of knowledge. The matter is making us think a bit. Couldn't it be that this account is an alt of yours?

It seems the 2nd option which BitcoinGirl.Club mentioned is more appropriate for him, his writing style and knowledge about the forum is referred that he is a very old member.
But without any proof, we can't claim it, and having an alt account is not prohibited though.

Whether he is the alt of someone or not, is it ok for DT1 to add someone on their trust list if he burst some scam!!
If a newbie came and burst some scam frequently then does it mean he is safe to do business/trade?

I'm not against Solosanz, I like how he helped the victim of Bitlucy :)

The forum admin allow to have alt account for you. It's freedom of being anonymous. You have anything to say without letting others to know your main account, you have the chance. There are no problem until you intend to do anything bad. Some decide to make it known to everyone, they do not mind to name their alt but others decide to stay completely anonymous from their main account. Both are legal according to the forum culture.

I am not going to quickly judge it. With the current DT setting it's easy for anyone to be in the DT2. Only one positive net inclusion is enough for you. But if you want to have an opinion about it we have a discussion here. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403916.0)

Having alt is fine, it's allowed as long as you don't use it to cheat any system and campaign on this forum. So I don't think Solosanz is at fault in that ^{[if that's the alt]} unless he cheated the system and abused his account to cheat the campaign.

Some users may think that being a forum cop will make their account reputation better, easier to get merit and rank up. I never state the work is wrong because in fact it is the expected contribution of a user who cares about the forum to prevent scam, reduce cheaters and etc. But the fact is that every user can also achieve it in other ways, and that's when they become a user who can post something quality, understand more things about bitcoin, development discussions, wallets and etc.

I agree with Solosanz's contribution to catching scammers because I did too, he could do well but I hope he knows it's a contribution that not everyone likes.

He exposed not one scam, as you put it, but many more. And I'm sure he has a second account, so what? Did you find his alternate account? Are there violations there? Only then can we judge him, right?

In your opinion, DT should add to his trust such accounts as yours.

Will you decide whether you like Solosanz's actions or not? If I trust him, then all the reviews left by him will be taken into account by me when viewing an account with a negative tag. But unfortunately, I will not look at the reviews left by you.


The question is why some may not like such actions. And should we take it seriously? Do you not like the actions of the police officers who caught the thief in your house?

I don't know, I don't know what made them think that because actually I was insulted and berated via PM for revealing cheaters or spammers. I just think it's a natural reaction from those who feel wronged for their mistakes, their reputation are damaged and some even complain that they have lost their source of income due to their negative account reputation which is no longer accepted in any campaign.

I would not take such a complaint seriously unless I made a mistake and had to revise it immediately. In fact I have ignored them in PM and elsewhere on this forum, and that's how I was.

How can you say I don't like it while I'm still doing the same actions ^{[though not often],} and you should probably know that. Becoming a cheater hunter and spam buster is my choice, but I will not always focus on this because at the same time there is another important thing i have to get and that is knowledge about bitcoin and others.

Yes, I admit it, that's why I said I'm not against him.  :)

Where did I mention that DT should add me to their trust list? I don't know why you took it very personally!

The logic is good, but the way of expressing is very disrespectful. whatever I didn't come here to quarrel, I also appreciate Solosanz's effort.

You misunderstood it,
AFAIK BPIP recorded most of the posts from the beginning, while ninjastic.space only recorded the posts since 2017. His total posts should be 5000+ collected from his current total post + deleted posts recorded on BPIP.

Even the deletion posts can be from other users who started a thread, but I don't think many old posters deleted their thread. 1722 posts deletion is very high, other active posters didn't even reach 1722 though they're around this forum since 2013-2014.

This is like

Solosanz: Open a thread about Iranus accusation
Iranus: Shit I got exposed, I should change my behavior to not look suspicious anymore

When did I ask The Pharmacist to always support me when I'm in trouble? He's not my lawyer and I don't make any agreement with him. It's up to his decision to post or not post if I do some expose/investigation, because DT members isn't only him and I believe other DT members will look into my expose/investigation and decide if my work is wrong or correct.

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I wouldn't answer any question toward to me if it will harm my privacy.

If you have enough evidence to say I'm cheater and scammer, you can gather some proof and post it here/create new thread. Otherwise, that's just a pointless suspect. Even my thread doesn't have 100% evidence to accuse Iranus, but compiling some proof have a chance if Iranus is changed hands.

Man, tell me you did not take it seriously. It was a joke, I have nothing against you but what I wanted to say that whatever you are doing will comeback to you because you will make a lot of people upset.

The topic was not to decide if people are liking your interest or not. The topic was about Iranus and if he was changed hand. What do you think now after having these two pages of discussions. Were you able to make any conclusion yet? I personally would be pissed if this was me.

Go to Wall Observer and ask for bob.