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Hi everyone,

In about two months, I will have been on the forum for 10 years. I have not been able to spend much time on the forum recently, certainly nowhere near as much time as I have in the past, and I am not sure I would remember to visit on my anniversary, so I figured I would create a thread today.

Time sure does fly when you are having fun. It is hard to believe it was 10 years ago when I first joined the forum. It is an understatement to say that a lot has changed over the years. A lot of people have lost their reputation they spent years building up, sometimes for good reason, often times not. A handful of people have been arrested for reasons related to their involvement in their Bitcoin-related activities. Sadly, some of the forum members I had the opportunity to get to know and talk to have died. I honestly cried when I saw that o_e_l_e_o had locked his goodbye/farewell thread.

Sadly, many seem to have actually left the forum, despite that they say that no one really leaves. BadBear, tomatocage, shorena, Blazr, escrow.ms, DarkStar, monbux, redsn0w, devthedev, Lauda, Dogedigital, blazed, MadZ, Muhammed Zakir, marcotheminer, xetsr, dogie, Vod seems to have left, and somewhat recently returned. There are others I have forgotten. If you have left, and happen to read this, maybe you can stop by to say hello, lol.

It is sad to see someone who was last active in 2020. The world was turned upside-down due to covid.

I certainly have made mistakes during my time on the forum. I can say however that my North Star has always been what I believed to be right at the time.

Anyway, I hope that everyone is doing well.

Dedicating almost a decade to the forum is not an easy task. You have been part of the people who contributed to the development of this platform and I respect you for that. Life is filled with ups and downs that sometimes turn an enjoyable adventure into a challenging one. We might not be able to change our past but we can still make the future beautiful by correcting and learning from our past mistakes. New members like us have a lot to learn from your wealth of experience and I just hope some members like you will still dedicate more time to the forum. However, I wish you the best in your other endeavors outside the forum and also wish you a happy Decennial celebration in advance.

Good to see you admit that, even with the qualification tacked onto the end of it.  

Honestly, it's hard to believe that you and I joined the forum less than a year apart, because to me it seems like you've been a member for way, wa-ay longer than I have.  That could be because you were involved in some drama when I was a lurker in 2014 (though I'm not sure about that), or it could just be warped perception that happens after a decade of seeing someone's posts.  


Wow, there are some names in that list I haven't thought of in a very long time, and I didn't realize DarkStar_ had left the forum, so that's something I just learned.  A lot of those members had strong presences here and established reputations, and I think they also added to the spiciness bitcointalk used to have some years ago, which for the most part is gone.  I always wonder what's happened to a member who's disappeared unexpectedly (like TMAN and Spoetnik and a few others I can't recall off the top of my head), and that was the case with you as well.  I think I asked the question offhandedly in a post not too long ago, so at least now I know.

By the way, if you wanted replies you probably shouldn't have made this thread self-moderated.  Just saying.

A month ago it was 10 years since I participated in this forum. It's a bit unbelievable that I got here before the two of you, I always considered you as the basic furniture of this forum.

I've never really understood this kind of threads, I guess it's because we all like to feel important, but not being here anything more than a nickname I understand it even less. And to top it off, I don't know the OP or his history but with his 11 red tags and an active flag against him puzzles me even more.

Have seen you after a long time. Hey QS!
You missed TMAN on the list.

Yeah, it is true that we are probably just different nicknames in this forum, and only a few members have had the opportunity to meet one another in real life. However, i think 10 years and longer is a very long time to stay in an online forum, and it is worth creating a thread for such a milestone. Well done QS, i also hope you are doing well.

Wow, I remember this topic was self-moderated, how did you do it?

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Congratulations,10 years is not an easy matter, especially since most of those interested in the forum lose their enthusiasm after 2 halvings, or an average of 8 years. The forum has changed a lot since I joined.

It can be that, or just nostalgia. It is quite a milestone after all...
I've had thoughts to make such a thread when my account became 10 yo, but I didn't.


My account is just a little bit older than that: it's from February :D
And you know what? I wish everybody just do well, no matter they've joined in 2014 or in all the other years!


I am sure the list can be a lot longer, but I don't want to go on that route, since it can easily replace nostalgia with regrets, although I like to believe (no matter it's the reality or not) that most of those who have left just got rich and now they're busy drinking margaritas.

If there is a badge for "decade" if would be getting one in few days.

Good to see you back QS

It's good to see you around again QS. Time goes by really fast.
I hope you are in good mental health. Money can be lost and earned again, but health is more important than anything else. The more time goes by, the more I realize that. Enjoy your time.

I honestly thought about you a few months ago (nothing weird don’t worry :D). I saw your username on BPIP or something and wondered where you’d gone.

10 years is a hell of a long time, I’m not too far behind you on the 10 year anniversary, September 2014 I joined.

Any way, congratulations on the 10 year milestone and I hope you’re OK. Maybe stick around, the next 18 months should be a really fun time for HODLERS old and new.

I see your honesty has not changed.  :/     You wrote many things you knew were not true, based on the politics at the time.

After I was promised help, I removed trust on you and left the forum.  (The offer of help was a lie so I came back).  I received PMs warning me against you.  Now I see they were correct- you are the same dishonest thief you were ten years ago. 

A decade around the forum is surely a long time. I have spent about 6 years now, and it seems like I have been here forever  ;D
In the past few months (probably 4–5 months ago), I noticed your reduced forum activity and wondered what you might have been up to. Anyway, glad to know that you are still around. At the end of the day, we are all just humans behind these usernames with different challenges in life outside the forum.

Yeah if there was a special badge for being member for decade. I'm surprised me too achieved this milestone. Time is really flying too fast. Although I was only reader exploring different threads here and there and seldomly write/react to the things mostly. But I enjoyed a lot.

@Quickseller, I thought you would never be seen here again, like them.


Excellent, you are still given a long life and can visit here again. It's four years between me and you getting to know the community here, but I still know and remember when you became a celebrity on the reputation board in 2019, I remember that, it doesn't feel like 10 years have passed.

Just looked my 10 year mark here was a few months ago. Didn't even remember. Congrats on making it a decade.

Just had my 25th anniversary on another forum.

And dang I'm old just looked and had 30+ anniversary on another. Signed up when the only way to surf was a on Lynx which is a text only browser on a site (if you could even call it that) that had no name only IP address to get to it. But damn we traded a lot of hardware on it.

-Dave

Not one to mince words, are you, Vod? His attitude sure left a bitter taste in your mouth and honestly it's good to be true about your feelings instead of burying it with fake words and a pretentious attitude but I guess there's the saying " let bygones be bygones" right? Maybe you can just bury the hatchet and let it go? At least he admitted to have made some mistakes he's not proud of which shows that he's a human after all.

To the op, @QS,  wow! Just as you said, when doing things you love you tend to forget how quick time can fly and all of a sudden it's ten years! Well, I won't want to make this sound like a eulogy but you deserve your flowers..I do not know you since I'm practically a noob where you are concerned but that won't stop me from congratulating you on your ten year milestone mark. Big ups, QS!!

 

Yeah I'm surprised too. Any chance you can sign a message from one of your old bitcoin addresses?


I'm willing to forgive and forget, but the first thing you could do to help that along would be to admit that PrimeNumber7 is your alt account.

Wow, same goes for you as well!  Now I have to ask, if I was a piece of basic forum furniture, what kind would I be?  I picture a very uncomfortable, hard-backed chair that nobody would sit on unless they plopped a cushion on it.  And Quickseller?  I'd have to think a bit on that one.


Lol.  Don't know if that's going to happen, but it'd be nice.  There's another alt of his I used to be familiar with but have long forgotten about since QS has been silent for so long.  Anyway, he never wronged me personally but I did leave him a neg for the self-escrow debacle (I think), and I'd certainly forgive and forget if there was some contrition on his part.  On the bright side, QS hasn't repeated any of that behavior, so that's a positive thing.

Congratulations Quickseller. When I joined the forum 2021, you where still active than you are today. I noticed you and others like The Pharmacist, Pmalek, OgNasty and others I hardly see again in the forum.
Congratulations, 10yrs is huge to and worthy of celebration.

It occurred to me one day that the world technically restarted after covid-19. Sadly many of our loved ones didn't make it to the new world.


Can someone who has stayed here upto 10 years make a thread about the old drama and politics that happened in the past. If older users leave all, we could miss and not pass the batton (history) to posterity.

His profile says he is on an extended break, and that there will be long delays in responses.


yes, a lot of those I mentioned were notable members when I remember them being here. Them being gone makes things feel very different.

I didn't think self-moderation would be a big deal, and was done to prevent the spammers, and trolls, but I removed it a few days ago.

I thought about him, but given the fact that he was last active in March 2020, at the height of the pandemic, and last posted a month prior, I have long assumed that he may have been lost to covid. IIRC, he lived in Europe, which was pretty bad around that time. This is speculation, and I don't have any specific information about him.

Its nice to see you too EFS.

I have not really been active on any other forum as much as I have been here. I have a reddit account, but I really have barely ever even lurked there. There's stack overflow, but I really am not even logged in when I search for something, so I am not even sure if I would consider myself to be a 'member' there.

Congrats on your decade here!

I am not really sure what you are talking about. I see that you decided to leave a negative rating for me for this thread. I have not traded here in a long time, barely even post anymore, so the rating is not going to affect me. I hope it makes you feel better.

Looking at the post history, it doesn't look like that account is very active here recently either. It looks like the post he made 20 posts ago was in June of last year.

I probably could if it was a big deal. Doing so would involve buying a power cable for an old MacBook, so it would take a few days if I needed to. Either way, I am not planning on doing any kind of business.

I removed the self-moderation by moving the thread to a section that does not allow self-moderation (meta in my case), and back here.

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One other thing that I wanted to mention was the woodcollector (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=935115.0) saga. The dude was definitely misrepresenting that he was "hand carving" (or whatever the specific claim with his "hands" was) his pieces, but he did make interesting art pieces related to bitcoin. Once he was called out for his dishonesty, a lot of drama followed, and eventually, he turned into a very good troll. It was just one memory I have of the forum.

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thank you to the others who I did not directly respond to.

yes, it's been a long time. I am still alive if you can figure out who I am. I left the crypto world as it was too toxic and slowly ruining my life. It's been a rough past few years for me especially once covid lockdowns hit and I've been through a lot mentally, physically, but I've been working on myself and things are slowly improving. Hope all is well and I wish you nothing but the best bro.

I always feel sad when a once respected member scams.   Ten years later, you are still dishonest.  :(

I was actually addressing a dude that posted in your thread -- seems he bought his account. FWIW I don't think you lost control of your account, and I don't think it would be hired in any campaign or taken seriously if you were to launch your own product/service, so its probably not worth much. Feel free to prove me wrong though, that would be an interesting feat.

+1,
I haven't actually known this. It's quite good to have old users of the forum around because you guys have mastered here for a very long time.

I think you mentioned my name here by mistake. I am still very active and post on Bitcointalk every day. You must have confused me with someone else or we aren't reading and writing in the same boards, which is weird because you can find me posting all over the place. I prefer serious discussions about Bitcoin above anything else, though.

You never see me posting around the forum?  I'm shitposting at levels that could only be reached by someone with a severe case of diarrhea these days.  Pretty sure my posting rate over the last year is higher than it's ever been by a wide margin, but who knows...  I guess if you stay out of the gambling or speculation sections I may not exist on this forum recently.  

For anyone else who thinks I haven't been posting, I apologize.  I've been busy doing push-ups and watching basketball.  Feel free to join me in either.  Here's a link to get your started.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5484350.0

I think uchegod-21 is saying that Quickseller,  you, and those he mentioned were active when he was a newbie. However, there are still others that were also active in those days but he hardly sees again. Basically, he is not saying you are no longer active but other members who he noticed in his early days. I don't think any active members will see your post in some part of the forum. You are one of the most active members who has spent over a decade on this platform. Maybe only those who majorly post in the gambling board will not be familiar with your works.

Your last couple of PM to me seemed to suggest your were retiring this UID. Have you changed your mind?

Many many congratulations to you @Quickseller, I respect you a lot. Because it is not easy to spend 10 consecutive years in this forum, many things change in ten years. But you have contributed to the development of this platform by devoting yourself to this forum for 10 consecutive years. I respect you from my heart. And best wishes for your ten year celebration.

Been in this forum for 10 years and completing 10 years is a big challenge because I respect him. Because he achieved five batches in 10 years of his hard work, it is very difficult to achieve. But may you live longer and enjoy your days on the forum.

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Oh, it looks like you are gearing up to apply for a sig campaign after all.


Very funny (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5219253.msg53657595#msg53657595). Well times have changed. Seeing as how digaran was in a campaign for a while, maybe you can be too, though I wouldn't recommend you to any managers (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5147938.0). Still, good luck.

Kind Regards

Rams53

Maybe I placed the words wrongly. The ones I mentioned, are the ones I saw in my newbie days that I still see till date and then others who might have disappeared and these are the people I didn't bother mentioning their names.
Same explanation goes to OgNasty... I participated in his newbie sign a message thread and pretty still available in the forum.

I looked in my outbox, and this is the only PM I sent to you in the past several years:
I don't anticipate being particularly active in the future. Based on some of the responses in the thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5497171.0) of a spammer crying about hilarious removing posts (he wasn't even the mod who removed the posts), it looks like there is still a lot of trash posts.

No, I don't anticipate being active enough to participate in an sig deal. Although I think I probably could get into a campaign if I tried. It's a moot point either way.

And yes, my post was funny, thank you for the LOL


Are you a Rams fan? They have a decent roster this year, even with Donald's retirement. At a minimum, I think they will do better than my Panthers, but that is not a very high bar...

And where in the world did The Pharmacist go off to?  I haven't heard hide nor hair of that member in what seems like ages.  It's almost as if he left but you can still feel his presence, you know?

You know?


Wowza....I haven't thought of good ol' digaran in some time.  It's strange how usernames just slip in and out of my brain, even if they were personalities I ought to remember, and I know there are probably two dozen more that wiggled their way out of my noodle over the past 9+ years.  At this point I probably should just keep a list.

If I am not mistaken, you are The Pharmacist. IIRC, you were able to get your name changed a while back.

I heard he became a vivid Craig Wright supporter and has sold all his bitcoin to buy bitcoin cash. He is probably mourning now due to the unfair treatment faketoshi is receiving by the courts. It's like the whole world has turned against him and nobody wants to believe him even though he pinky-promised that he is Satoshi.

It is unmasked because of the "The" in the username.

All this nostalgia  makes me feel old
 I am feeling this very often lately.

I don't see myself as the young man who was discovering new stuff in the internet , like bitcoin and this forum, nearly 8 years ago

Congratulations for your mark, all of you.

Wow, what an exceptional piece of shit you still are after all those years. Could have composted yourself into oblivion or at the very least have the decency to not lie so blatantly in your "me me look at me 10 years look at me" thread by bringing up someone you so viciously attacked in the past.

But that's not how sociopaths behave, is it.

Go fuck yourself. You are a piece of shit.

Someone is going to milk this pathetic thread for all its worth...  Ten years scamming is not an accomplishment.

Another long-lived forum user... And you decided to announce the upcoming anniversary in advance. How thoughtful this is. :)

It is good that even after years you continue, even if with less zeal, to take part in the forum. I, as part of this community, am pleased to see that even now those participants who were actually at the origins of the formation of the forum and bitcoin remain on the bitcointalk, and are not having fun on their Caribbean islands :). It seems to me that your presence here, at least from time to time, is very important for the BTC-community. The circulation and renewal of users on the forum is inevitable, so you should not be sad about the departed users (this is exactly the impression that is created from reading your post), hoping that everything is fine with them. But the bitcointalk continues to live its own life and it’s great that this community continues to survive.

Today is not July 22, so I won’t congratulate you. :)

You had to expect that some might give you some shit or a piece of their mind. When I 1st joined the forum I thought you were 1 of the good people of the forum who were IMO smart and helpful at the time, but as we all know, your true colors shined through.

TBH I'm shocked you didn't disappear when the escrow deal came to light.

Not sure why, but when I saw QS name I immediately thought of Cryptohunter, I think it was 2019 or so when the two of you were the shining stars in the reputation and meta boards, I am not sure how other people remember that era, but it was indeed a lot of fun, certainly better than today's lack of drama. :D

Kind of like January 7, 2021.  :)

Just saw this thread now, but still, there is still some time until anniversary. So, I want to congratulate you in advance. Time flies fast, but 10 years on forum is a lot. I wish it's not last such anniversary.
Good point that so many old time members, some really big names left forum, become significantly less active or unfortunately passed away. You're not posting much recently. Bitcointalk isn't same place without these old members.

Oh, old good times :). Then I thought that forum would be better place without such drama, but now I kinda miss these things.

In retrospect, its crazy how wrapped up in the drama here I used to be, arguing non-stop with cryptohunter and TECSHARE about matters that are in hindsight, extremely trivial & petty. Then there was Lauda, who for years cast a dark cloud over the entire reputational system of the forum. Might as well throw in that I miss marlboroza and T-MAN. They provided much-needed humor to this place, amidst the wash of ass-kissery and spam.

The forum has had an interesting run. It evolved from a technical place to discuss Bitcoin, to a place where people created Bitcoin projects, to a place where people attacked creators for attention, to a place where there are so few people left creating things using Bitcoin that even the trolls seeking attention can’t find anyone left to attack but low level newbie scammers.

I'll be launching my second creation soon.   I hope you've had your attention for the month.  :)