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If you think BiPolarBob is crazy, just post on here :D

He sold me $50 itunes GC for $6 only, Damn he is really crazy :D

I accused him of wanting to scam and he demanded a "public apology". So, BiPolarBob, my apologies.

I thought that he is a scammer too and I told to myself: "let's make a risk with these only $6 for his $50 itunes code" and he sent it to me man. Damn he is insane lol

I still feel hatred. but they are fine-tuning my lithium treatments so that might change.

So you are doing good on Lithium Treatment ?? or you are taking any other anti depressant drugs? :D

Well, I am fulling retracting every statement about the user and leaving a vouch. He has just given me a free $50 iTunes gift code and I sucessfully redeemed it.

Thanks, appreciated BiPolarBob.

He seems legit to me.. good guy BiPolarBob  ;D

He is crazy or what, why he is wasting his money like this.

He is a kind hearted person, and i'm sure he's rich. Looking at his older post on lending section, i found something really ... cool.

Seriously, no interest, pay when you can and easily donating 0.1 to someone in need. He's really a helpful, great guy.
The world would be a better place if there are many "crazy" people like him

I salute you, 'ol BipolarBob :)

It's almost unbelievable, in this world this kind of people still here.

He just paid of someones loan in the lenders sub-forum seems the lender and the person who took the loan are both in utter shock. This guy is becoming a hero to people for buying/selling

It's very strange, why he paying for others.

BiPolarBob is my favorite person all around. Anyone wanna give him a hard time they gotta go through me!

I wanna start a Bob fan club.

He did more than that


He is really a good person! :)

I suspect he is Nakamoto!

Really I can't understand why he is doing all thing like this, may be very rich or may be something happened with him, so he want to happy other.

I thought he was up to something but paying someones loan that's weird

Yea he is the Crazy Bipolar Nakamoto, After he made BTC and he made a lot of money of it, He became bipolar and Crazy. :D :D

This man is one of a kind. He just gave me a random BTC tip of 40 bucks for absolutely no reason. He is one of the most generous people I've ever seen. You see people trying to scam BTC for the most pitty amount but this user is just giving it away. Good guy, all I have to say.

haha wow!

I just saw his posting for $50 GC for $5. Awesome to know it's legit.

Always nice to have someone giving back to the community after seeing so many trying to scam it.

@BiPolarBod:

If you still in the lending mood, you can lend me 0.1+ bitcoin for 4 weeks for trading purposes. I give you half of my trading profits every week + the 0.1BTC back in the 4th week.

My addy:

1Lo9X3SvXmEV8Xc98eXEGEf7DQqzmqMDsb


Thanks!

I love BiPolarBob, such a kind person with a huge heart

I've seen a guy in one of the troll boxes giving btc and other coins away. He hears a sob story and jumps right in to help. Of course. some have taken advantage of his kind heart. Wonder if its the same guy?

I dont know how you guys seem to be getting fsigns from god but all he is doing is ignoring me. This makes me feel confused, and he wont tell my why he is ignoring me.

I dont get it man. I see him helping everyone, but when it comes to me its nothing. Do i sound like a scammer or something?

maybe he has a rule that he don't send BTC to people who pm him ... I don't know ....

would be nice to know

He is legit in my books. Whoever he is, and whatever his reasons, his generosity is admirable.

Same thing, It's pretty hard to find peoples like him in this world.
<3 He gave me 45+15$ worth Amazon GC in 0.0115 BTC

Personally I think he likes helping others on his own not being asked to send bitcoin or giftcards. Thats how I am I like to do nice things for people also but just like to do it because I decide I feel like making someones day or something not when everyones asking me for tons of stuff. My opinion of him is that he's a good person and helping people makes him happy. Regardless whether I ever get in on any of his deals or am randomly blessed I wanna say to you bob I think its so cool what your doing. I think your one of a kind.    ;D

I was shocked as when I got a pm out of the blue where he offered his generosity.
He is legit and gets the thumbs up from me.

No idea why he is so giving, but the community needs more like him.
:)

He is definitely amazing, he even held on a code for me just because I posted in his thread.. Such a good person! Totally made my day! :D

This is soo nice to see a lot of guys over here got a lot of stuff from him before, I think he becomes the HERO of bitcointalk forum now :D

Definitely! I'm a huge fan! :D

He's a great guy and I wish I knew more people like him. But I hope people stop begging for coins off him that's a little low.

Why are you saying that? it doesn't have any relevance here. Looks like you're the one begging lol.

too much people pming him maybe thats why he stopped?   i was waiting for the next amazon to pop up lol

He doesn't like to get pm'ed (read in his thread), that's true. But time will tell, if he will come with more amazing deals.

He is still in the ultimate giving mood, I see a lot of guys are taking his awesome deals.

He's awesome. Just got a $25 iTunes GC for BTC0.003  ;D

 truly great  collect btc till the price hits top dollar. $50 bucks fiat will be nothing for $6 btc value in the near future. collect and distribute.

I think BiPolarBob does not like me.  ::)
But I'm looking at him right now, all these things, pratically "free money"... and he does have a big heart (or he really is facking crazy) when it comes to money.  So respect for that +1. :)

Yeah he also sell $50 itunes code for $3 to me. :D

Once, he sent me 0.05 for free, after I posted a loan. At first I wanted to ask for his repayment address but he said it was totally free. And guess what......
https://i.imgur.com/XEMIySP.png?1
He sent 0.2 more  :) He's a really kind person.
Proof for 0.2 extra: https://blockchain.info/tx/f962baecba80d9ad745e70f37f57041d7d24cfce3f8bd5c3e7372e58ec6a308f

I purchased a $20 Steam wallet code from him for just a few dollars. Not sure how he does it, but he has some amazing deals, plus he seems like a really nice guy too. :)

Some days ago he sold me 40$ Amazon code in 0.0115 BTC, few minutes later, he gave me 15$ more and when I woke up in morning I saw 50$ amazon code in my inbox... He's amazing.

He isn't nice to me, I wonder why he chooses some and not others :(

Received a $50 iTunes code for like $4. Maybe slightly crazy and just really generous too  ;D

I guess he's just a wealthy guy who is feeling mighty generous!  :)

He's always been really nice to me. I deal with a lot of depression and anxiety and don't get out much, and I'm young and broke. He didn't even know this about me and just decided to send me a bunch of btc. (call me petty) but that really cheered me up. BiPolarBob and his generosity is someone that I will remember for a long, long time.

He's crazy cool, not crazy as in literally insane. Bob is my hero.

WELL SAID BRO, He's also my Hero! <3

I missed a great deal for steam codes by like 5 minutes hopefully he'll have another sale on maybe then I'll finally be able to get the game I've always wanted.

bipolarbob is not active now, Where are you man?

I don't believe that he is legit.
Why basically give away free money? I refuse to believe there is people who would do that in 2014.
I know people (and do) help the unfortunate with food/drinks etc but not random guys with access to the Internet and have money.
He could easily sell for half price and not %10 and would be still worshiped.

Maybe he has a long con in mind or something.
And maybe he is crazy, in that case is it right to deal with him?
And of course there is a tiny chance that he is legit

In all cases beware, always.

The dude has given over 1BTC for free.. I dont see him asking for BTC anytime soon, if he starts asking for loans or such it would look strange to say the least especially since it looks like he sent ~410BTC+ through a mixer, I think he's just having some fun ;)

Do you think 'fun' is enough motive?


And if what you and everybody says is true, well god bless him.

I am not sure what exactly his angle is, but I suspect that he is trying to run some kind of long term scam.

Another possibility is that he is selling things that were somehow stolen or purchased with stolen credit cards.

In my experience, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably it.

^ I disagree

Maybe he's just an early adopter and wants to share the love?  There still are some good people out there..

He paid well over spot for me to buy him some Moneypaks and tipped me with a Steam gift card.  My favorite user on the forum :D

All I can say is the man does business like a boss!  It amazes me how people complain about things even when their no need to do so.  Misery really does love company I'll tell ya.  Big up BiPolarBob.  ;)

I can't believe the deals I got from him. I asked in his forum to see if I could still buy a steam GC, and then he just sent the code, right then and there. I paid him back (I gave him a little extra actually) after, but seriously I didn't think he checked if I paid him back or not. I also got a 50$ amazon GC for 12$, which is crazy.
Lets start a fanclub eh?

I doubt he can loan more than 0.25 even with good reputation. You don't see scammers sending people 0.25 for no reason and Give deals which is in the losing side. I haven't see anyone encountering problems with the cards so far.

Eat lithium batteries and supercharge your crazy.

I will give you $100 for 100 bitcoins.

Most people with bipolar will not admit/acknowledge they have bipolar. When someone with bipolar is going through a manic attack they will likely make very bad business decisions, however they will likely not realize that their decision is bad. This is the opposite of what BiPolarBob is doing.

I find this very suspicious.

Having an in-law that is bipolar and just plain crazy I can vouch for the bad business decisions.

I am suspicious as well, but "bipolarbob" could be his persona of choice for doing crazy things.
We all have masks and maybe that's his.

True, but what are the odds?

But he is advertising that he is making bad business decisions. This is not a trait that someone with bipolar would typically show. They would generally think their decisions are good.

Perhaps he wants us to actually use the BTC we have instead of hoarding it.  If we all sat on our coins they would be worth nothing as there would be no intended use for them.  BiPolar Bob is like a stimulus package for BTC  ;D

Perhaps he just likes giving away carded gift cards. He wouldn't be the first person to do that.

^ I disagree. nothing is carded. All cash purchased.

Why don't you just mail people cash then for BTC? Why get gift cards at all if your paying for them with cash? I'm sure people would like cash better than gift cards.

^ it is an interesting idea, is there a site suggestion spot for you to request such a rule? If someone is selling products at discount, they must instead offer a cash sending service. please keep us updated on this because it is an original type of rule. :)

I want in on the crazy.

I could sell you crazy at a discount, before the cash sending rule becomes official  ;D

I've got plenty of my own crazy. I want in on the result of yours.  ;)

Bob, i read your wiki and the other piece of text, kinda made me sad bro <3

Keep it crazy

my wiki? ???

Wordpress, sorry :D

So why did you leave your mechanic job? Seemed like you loved it

I just googled it. that isn't me, I guess my nickname isn't so original  ::)

I'm here as a fun thing and to make people happy. not to bring people down with my problems. We all have problems. I am just putting a funny spin on mine. :)

The world is so weird, 2 people with the same nick :D

Oh no you're misunderstanding.

You say you are buying these gift cards for cash.

Why do that when you could mail the money directly instead? Is it because you're buying them grey-market or because you're not actually buying them for cash?

If your not buying them direct from the merchant they could be carded by whoever you're buying them off.

If your not buying them with cash they could be carded by you.

There have been way to many people around here selling carded gift cards, so sorry for being so suspicious. I just don't want to see thousands of frozen steam accounts etc in a few months time. Trolls often give away carded codes for free online.

no I fully understand. they would have to remove the digital goods section b/c cash isn't a digital good. but a cash sending service can't involve carding, so everyone stays safe. it is smart :) I just ask you keep us updated on this

So just so everyone reading understands:

You buy these gift cards at full price for cash and give them away for less, but you won't give people the cash directly instead?

I'm glad you can do that. I personally can't put a funny spin on my mental problems :p but I really admire people who can!


@ForgottenPassword Bob doesn't just do stuff with Steam, he sells all sorts of stuff, and gives away bitcoin a lot of times. He's the one thing on this forum that 100% is NOT a scam

He's just one reallllllllllyyyyyy kind hearted soul.

I know he doesn't just give steam codes, thats what makes me REALLY suspicious. He claims he's buying all the gift cards for cash and giving them away cheaper. Sure he gives away Bitcoin too. He's probably not scamming at all, but the gift cards are probably stolen (purchased with stolen credit card) and he's just giving them away for cheap/free. Go to the freebie section of any carding forum and you'll find tons of rich carders doing the exact same for the lulz, it usually doesn't end up good for the buyers in the end.

^ those are stolen, my stuff isn't. so this doesn't apply

You're right, they are stolen. The problem is we don't know if yours are stolen or not, we have to take your word for it.

I really don't get that vibe off of Bob, I've known him since he was a newbie. I wholeheartedly believe that Bob is just someone who's "paying it forward".

If you don't want to take him up on this offer that's fine, thank you for educating others about the "risk", if you've dealt with Bob before though you wouldn't of posted this in the first place.

Bob should support Sean's Outpost and projects like it, not giving free games/music etc..

OFC it's his money and he can do whatever the hell he wants with it, but just my two cents.

Thats all I wanted to do. If everyone knows the risks thats fine, trade away if you want to, but people seem to think there is no risk other than him not delivering the codes. Thats not the case at all.

By the way, here is a post I wrote about a member here called pirateat40 that a lot of you wouldn't know about:


Here is his profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35827

And more info, incase you think I'm making it up:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pirateat40

Geez ForgottenPassword that's a horror story.

And on /topic: Bob didn't borrow. So what everybody is saying is pure speculation no-one knows his true angle.

He was tracked down and is in jail now. He's battling it out in court with the SEC. It doesn't look like anyone will be reimbursed, almost all of the funds are gone.

That story was to point out the fact that someone can appear legit and have REALLY good (the best in the bitcoin community) trust/feedback and still be a scammer. The ONLY way to be safe is to question everything and not take unnecessary risk. Feedback/trust ratings and judging someones trustworthiness won't work against a professional conman like PirateAt40.

Anyway I've made my point now. So long as you guys understand your taking risks, feel free to trade with BiPolarBob.

Lesson is well learned, and that doesn't apply only to the bitcoin community.

Thankfully I am not like that!  :D

I'll take 100 BTC for $100.

why wont bob sell btc for btc? Like 0.1 for the price of 0.02

now that would be cool.

I like my offer better! :P

Maybe you should learn to read, this guy has paid back other people's loans. He has never asked people to pay him BTC, or promised them returns. He comes on once in a while and offers freebies. He gave out like ~20-30 LTC for free in one of his threads. If he asks for a loan etc it would be an obvious decline as he gives people stuff for free / next to free. Again, I think hes just having fun, I followed his wallet from the loan repayment and its well over 400BTC

Acoin this is very interesting. 400 BTC, I wonder how we got that much. Tell me in skype whats his original address.

Came across this topic while browsing randomly.

Does sound as if Bi-Polar Bob is a very kind-hearted person, not to mention very rich!  ;D

I had heard of those unbelieveable giveaways earlier on some other forum but just didn't know he was the protagonist!

It really doesn't matter if he is crazy, as long as he is generous and humane. OFC there are a lot of scammers on this forum, i just hope he has the foresight to identify them and send them on their merry way instead of letting his money end up in scammer pockets! Keep up the good work Bob. Hope that many more people are touched by your generosity.

Maybe you should learn to read. Reread all my posts in this thread. He's giving away stuff for free or nearly free, he's probably not a scammer but maybe a troll giving away stolen gift cards and codes for free and he wouldn't be the first person on the internet to do that.

He says that he buys all the gift cards for cash at full price. Do you really believe him? where do you think he gets all of them?

Ok, so that covers the "stolen gift card" aspect. Now how do you explain him paying other people's debt, handing out btc to people in hardships, or kickstarting a fund with btc that otherwise wouldn't have happened? None of these that I mentioned involved any gift cards that could be potentially stolen like you mentioned. First time I saw him paying someone's debt out of the blue, my jaw just dropped, as I was pretty confused. But then I saw this several more times and figured he was more than generous to help someone out. Are you going to say these are stolen btc too?

Perhaps the people that donate to charity in real life, maybe all these funds are illicit too, right?

The total value of gift cards he's given out is a HELL of a lot more than the total value of these LTC giveaways, handouts and debt repayments he's done. I never said those giveaways/repayments were illicit, they were obviously OK, but I don't believe his story that he's paying for all these gift cards at full price and I suspect something illegal is going on to obtain them which is reasonable considering how common carded gift cards are. Maybe he's just a rich carder/troll but who knows really all we can do is speculate, but you can bet I won't be getting any of those gift cards and people need to be careful.

I'd feel a lot less suspicious if he gave a reasonable explanation as to how he's obtained so many gift cards from many different websites, but thus far he hasn't he just claims he buys them for cash at full price and is giving them away for a fraction of the cost.

How do you know? I don't see any loss on the buyer side as they either pay wayyyy below the market price for each of the gift card and he even have some of them for free. So far, no one have reported a single problem out of a lot of buyers. I believe the gift card he gave is lesser than the total amount he gave out in those coins. I personally have received more than $100 of the coins out of the blue. I can see that he have given out more than that amount of individual users and the community. If he starts scamming people, the person would most probably report it and people would spam him negative trust and stop buying from him. It only take one trade $5-10 to ruin a $1000++ perfect trade history.

Got a Steam code from him. He's CrAzY!
I feel sorry he's banned for the time being. It's unfair.

So I heard there was some naysayers in this thread. One person even claimed that BPB paid for the gift cards with stolen credit cards.

I can say this is not the case.

BPB myself were talking and he proved that not only is he extra CrAzY, he is also legitimate. None of the GCs he's sold here (or elsewhere) for ridiculously low rates are paid though illegitimate means. They were all paid for with BTC. But how do I know this?

Well, we worked something out, and he shared with me his secrets. He is just genuinely a nice guy that likes to give away good deals to the community.

He gets his gift cards from gyft.com, which also accepts BTC as a form of payment. He allowed me to log into his account and personally verify every GC was paid for with BTC, which as we all know, is irreversible.

proof of previous GC cards being purchased with BTC: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof1.jpg

But, hey, this might be some random person's login? Well, we worked out a CrAzY deal for myself. I managed to score a MASSIVE amazon gift card from him. He paid for it with BTC in his own login session on his PC, and allowed me to view the code myself (I forgot to make a screenshot of the screen that shows before it reveals the code, but oh well)

$1000 amazon card purchased: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof2.jpg
Forgot to screengrab before I revealed the code, but here it is after I revealed it: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof5.jpg
BTC payment showing on blockchain: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof3.jpg
He also paid me from the same address to confirm it was his: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof4.jpg

I was able to add it to my amazon account without a hitch: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof6.jpg
And use it towards the purchase of a shiny new computer CPU: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof7.jpg
Order placed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof8.jpg

So he is simply an extra crazy, but charitable person. He has a number of BTCTalk forum +rep's and some +rep's on #bitcoin-otc (He was able to tell me in IRC PM what I PM'd him in the forum, linking the two account). For the foreseeable future, you can trust this guy to hold up his end.

But guys, PLEASE, remember to exercise caution with "too good to be true" deals. While BPB's case really is true, it's very atypical, and people should exercise caution and do their research before making a decision when trading on similar "too good to be true" deals.

This proves absolutely nothing at all.

pirateat80 was "really true" too... until it wasn't.

Where's the proof he isn't:
1) Scamming people with different nicks, to pay for those gift cards
2) Being paid off by scammers who take advantage of those he predisposes to making foolish decisions

Even if he isn't doing any of those things, he's de facto teaching people to make foolish decisions and become scammer bait.
IMO that makes him at least partly at fault for scams resulting, whether he was directly involved or not.

People are such cynics these days :o No one can giveaway anything before being accused of being a scammer, thief, etc, etc such as in BiPolarBob's case here.

Giveaway is hugely different from "send me your bitcoins first".

you must be a real big idiot to leave him -rep you are buthurt because you not got a good deal from him?

you are a BIG ASSHOLE :-)

cmon leave me -rep i do not care ^^

He's always been trustworthy and you leaving him that rep IMO is a huge violation of the trust system. That's a dick move.

You must be so dense to leaving feedback without a valid excuse.

I don't trust people who are either scamming or teaching people to be scammed. That's a perfectly valid reason ("excuse").

He's helping people out, but i guess you're just too thick to notice that. Good job on abusing the trust system.

Teaching people how to be good scam victims is not helping them out.

I have done many deals with BiPolarBob in the past and have talked extensively with him on IRC. He always send me the gift codes first and asked me to pay afterwards (or not at all). He is a really nice guy if you ask me and I wouldn't label him as a scammer. It's of course possible, but for the time being, I highly doubt it.

EDIT: He also paid of a debt: Arklan (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441074.msg8140096#msg8140096) and gifted someone their scammed BTC back (this is a bit sketchy, I agree): click (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=705550.msg8024754#msg8024754).

Asking people to send him bitcoins and he will double them, is in itself a negative/harmful act, even if he follows through.

Where does he ask that? I have never seen him make a post like that.

He's been doing that in Bitcoin-OTC for the last few days.

Really? Well, I haven't been that active lately. It would suck if he really does that, because that is really sketchy.

One of many: http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-otc/logs/2014/08/29#l1409282033

Oh man... It does sound like him, a lot to be honest. Well, his Steam Wallet deals were legit at least. Not sure why he is doing this though. Maybe the rush, maybe just because. Who knows with that guy.

You won't know if they were legitimate or not for at least a few weeks, based on other cases I have saw of people gifting/selling fraudulently obtained gift cards. It takes Steam a while to react after they get chargebacked if they are purchased using stolen CC's. Typically your entire account will be frozen.

Just be careful people and don't say nobody warned you. I don't believe him when he says he's buying everything at full price, if he is buying them for full price why doesn't he just give away the BTC instead? It doesn't make sense, what does make sense is that they are carded and it just so happens to be extremely common for people to giveaway or sell carded gift cards.

try venlafaxin (trevilor).... lithium is just bad and crazy stuff (only took it for two weeks - NEVER again)

You do realize you are accusing someone who gives out a SHIT load of loans to people who barely have any kind of rep, if any at all, just because he is a generous guy? Not a single thread of proof he has scammed someone, or is going to scam someone. Step off your high horse, get your panties out of a wad and step off his back, prick.

That is, of course, a possibility, but he told me that he just want people to be happy, which makes him happy in return. He doesn't seem to care about money that much. Oh well, we shall see if my Steam Wallet credit disappears or not ;D

03:55   Luke-Jr   I have 100 BTC. How much does that get me?


Its funny how this guyis on the default trust tree, yet he still doesnt understand that bob offered to double 0.01btc..... Not any other amount.

I don't think that is fair to ban him. Whatever the case may have been, he is a kind person. It's upon everyone to due diligence when dealing around here so he's not enabling people to get scammed. He's just helping people out.

He's not banned (AFAIK), I just don't trust him personally.
Why everyone else here seems to think it's their business whom I decide to trust, I don't know...

He has been banned on Bitcointalk, because he was giving away LTC. This is banned some time ago, because those topics were flooding the forum.

Not taking any sides here, but I thought I'd post the interview I did with BPB in the past couple days: https://www.camscryptoblog.com/interview-bipolarbob/

I know most people haven't heard from him lately, and I thought an interview might explain why a little bit.

I've dealt only once with BiPolarBob and the trade went really well. It's weird to see him wearing that red "Warning: Trade with extreme caution!" tag.

I bought a very cheap Steam code from him. He send me the code first and I paid him afterwards.  So, I only have a (very) positive experience with him.

Likewise, why do you think it's your business whom everyone else trust? If he scams, then people got what they deserved, as it's their responsibility for their own due diligence.

I agree with this. He very well possibly purposefully got himself banned, would create a new account that does something very similar to what he was doing, but at a much lower discount, then pulls off a scam.

I think the point of the negative trust given to him was because he was encouraging people to act in ways that would make it easy for them to get scammed. If people saw that someone was able to send $2 in bitcoin to someone first and they receive a $100 gift card then why would they not send $2,000 in bitcoin to a complete stranger in exchange for $3,000 worth of products?

It isn't his entire fault if this happens. He does have a excellent track record and people would be able to risk smaller sums of money. It isn't his responsibility to educate the public to make decisions but the public have to make wise decisions based on their research. The $2,000 is far to exaggerated, no one would dare to risk such high amount of money for returns as even if the person is trusted, he may scam. Bipolarbob offers smaller amounts which many people can afford to take the risk.

I just think you gave him that negative rating because you didn't get one of the awesome deals.
If you don't trust anyone, it doesn't mean you have to give him a negative rating. Just avoid him. If he scams you then that leaving the rating would be understandable.

I goggled him (his nickname) .... found this :

  First off I’m an inventor. I have patents on my electric nose picker and toilet paper unroller when you clap your hands. I am working on patenting a gas fired bread toaster. I did make a prototype of a cranial electromagnetic stimulator but unfortunately I forgot how I did it because amnesia is one of the side effects. I’m also into civil war airplanes which is a neat hobby. I have followed my dream of moving into the country and raising my own food. Unfortunately I was sold a flock of gay chickens. They don’t reproduce very well. As much as I’ve tried (can’t tell you the methods here), I can’t break them of this disgusting habit.

"Oh no, I'm not sick, well I'm not physically sick anyway. Mentally I'm sick beyond any doctor's ability to measure it, but otherwise I'm great!" −


source : http://www.freerepublic.com/~bipolarbob/

Edit i also found out why is he banned

'fully know why I received my ban. I was giving away 1 free Litecoin to each poster in a thread I had posted. The rules state that no free currencies can be given away on the forums, but I thought that by posting it in the Marketplace section this would make my thread exempt from this rule. Apparently not, but I hope to be back within a month on Bitcointalk.'

and the negative trust :v :

'The allegations against me are completely false. I don’t think my activities will cause anyone to empty their wallet for a ‘too good to be true’ deal. If you look at my most popular thread, it’s only a 0.002btc price (steam codes). In addition, people can see all the successful sales and that everything is above board and trust me. 99% of people have caught on that it’s a fun thing, and everyone got what they paid for. Hardly an attempt to make people blindly hand out BTC.'

I find it extremely strange that Luke's negative trust cancelled out 9 POSITIVE TRUSTS, some from people with a higher trust rating than him who are on level 1 of DefaultTrust, AND managed to bring the guy down to -5 trust points. Last time I checked negative reputations decrease trust by 0.5-4 points.

That does sound odd. Maybe the forum has a place to report bugs?

Honestly, I could care more about BiPolarBob and this thread as a whole, but that seems very broken to me. Going to report it in Meta.

He gave him the negative rating because he does not trust him. Anyone can give anyone positive trust if for whatever reason you trust the person, and you can give negative trust if you do not trust them.

There was also a link the luke-jr posted of a transcript of an IRC chat when he was offered to let luke-jr double a .01 payment if luke would send .01 to bipolarbob first, luke declined because this is something that a scammer would do even if he has come through prior times.

I'm just going to be flat out honest with you guys.

Bob's sent me probably more than 1 BTC in the past, for no reason; sometimess he'd randomly message me offering me BTC, or I'd send him a message asking him for a few mBTC for whatever reason, he hasn't sent me anything in a few weeks, but he's sent me plenty in the past. The most he's ever sent me at a time was .2 and he's sent me BTC quite a few times, so I'm sure it's been more than 1.

So unless you guys are going to say/think that Bob is a wallet hacker too, you should just disregard every negative thought you have about him because he really is just a nice, generous guy

He completely deserves the positive trust I gave him, as well as the ton of it a bunch of other users did too.

Thats why hes gone, I thought that his LTC giveaway was the reason why he was banned. Giveaways are not allowed on this forum, and I really can't stand havnig no bipolarbob on this forum. I NEED MORE DEALS

i got 1LTC free for literally nothing from him.

please unban the guy, hes not doing the 'altcoin shit giveaways' but giving away real legit stuff.

LOL, you just contradicted yourself.
If you got 1 LTC (scamcoin) free, then he's doing altcoin giveaways...

He was doing an altcoin giveaway and banned because of that. I totally get that and I find it fair (harsh, but fair). However, I don't see how LTC is a scamcoin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=23768.msg3815348#msg3815348

this gos a bit offtop but lets say i dont call LTC an altcoin. for me BTC/LTC is like USD/EUR.

He may very well be generous to people, but it is still suspicious. He could very well be setting people up for a very big scam, or he could be prepping people to fall for a scam from other accounts.

It was said near the beginning of the thread that people who are bipolar and going through a manic attack do not realize they are going through mania and will make decisions that are bad but they think are good. BiPolarBob is openly admitting that what he is doing is a bad deal for him. At the very least he is lying about being bipolar.

This is pretty amazing, it's not too often you see someone offering a deal like this and being legit. I will admit up on seeing this I did think may be scammer so it is really nice to be proved wrong :)

Yes he is really crazy.  :D He sold me a $50 steam wallet code a while ago for just $5.
Thanks BiPolarBob! What you're doing is really amazing.

Some people just don't get it... How could he scam anyone? If you see a guy asking for a loan that is known to give out sums of money for no reason, would you loan him the funds? If he asks for money it would be a huge red flag. Until then, he's been giving out stacks of BTC for free. Sounds real scammy to me  ::)

He is generous guy, about 2 weeks ago he gave away Litecoin to some members here, i got 1 LTC free from him. 

He always asks for some kind of small payment from you first. He pretty much does not outright give things away for free.

If for example he would come back when he is unbaned and tell people to send him 1 BTC and he will return 3 BTC, how many people do you think will take up his offer? Probably a lot. What do you think would happen when they take up the offer? I am guessing nothing....as in theywill not get anything in return

Not true. He often send stuff before asking the payment (check his trust rating for proof). I always got my stuff before he ask me to pay me (if he asked at all).

The doubling service was a one time thing for friends only. It just got interpreted the wrong way. It was meant to be a joke to give people some free BTC, but it backfired (as you can see).

To be clear: This is my interpretation of things he said to me in private.

I'm hoping BPB will come back. I don't think he deserved all this drama. He seemed to be a nice guy and contributed to the community making people happy with his gifts. From my perspective, it's obvious that he didn't try to cause any harm and it's pretty sad that some were so cynical. I believe that it would be nice to have him around again. Mostly because he was nice.

1) He funded one of my loan, sent me a 0.2 and another 0.07 without me doing anything
2) Not that much, people aren't that stupid to give strangers that much BTC. The only people who would do that would be newbies but they don't have that much BTC. In my previous experiences, I didn't send him anything to double or do anything.

Talking from your ass for both of these statements? He has given plenty of things free without asking for btc in return. For the one or two instance where I bought something, he gave it to me first before giving me a btc address to send.

Same here. He gave me a steam code in PM first, and when I asked for his bitcoin address, he disappeared. :-\

Just because someone is a "newbie" doesn't mean they don't have a lot of money.

I think he is creating an environment in which people will easily get scammed because it will cause them to become more trusting then they should be with their bitcoin on these forums.

Or maybe he is trying to increase adoption on these forums by giving away things of value. Has anyone looked at the addresses he sent from to see just how rich he is?

Does anyone know what happened to BPB? He hasn't logged in to his Bitcointalk account for 2 weeks now. Anything new?

hope hes not permbanned ;(

IIRC he can still login to his account, just can't post or PM anybody, which is why I thought it was weird that he hasn't been online for two weeks. Like, he was logged in during his ban before.

I traced his address that he paid people out from and it had well over 400BTC. As long as he doesn't ask for money upfront I dont see what issue is

No no he had actually been banned from the forum. He did a LTC giveway which was against the rules. Hopefully we will see him come back after.

I think hes banned period has been finished but I do not know why he does not post any new post, It is excellent if the people who posted negative feedback describe it more.

Maybe he is angry he got negative feedback for no reason

Nah. Only negative he has right now is from luke-jr. Still has a couple days left on the forum ban. He'll be back.

He always asks for money upfront. He asks people to send him very small amounts of bitcoin to his address first and to contact him to get the code for the gift card he is selling. His posts always say that he is not willing to use escrow and people are willing to do this.

I also do not see why he would not be willing to use escrow. If he is giving these gift cards away for very small payments then I see no reason why he cannot do this, other then to set people up for scams in the future.

I would not be personally surprised if he were to offer a great deal for users once he gets unbanned and ends up running away with 100+ BTC from people who "trust" him

Wow, this guy is really giving. Hopefully I can get a deal with him once he gets back.

Didn't you read what multiple people told you? He always gave the codes first and asked for the BTC after that. He even removed his BTC addresses from his topic's so that people wouldn't pay upfront anymore.

But well, we shall see what happens, right? Everything that has been said right now is speculation.

I think escrow would require sometime to be processed and usually get charged for a small fee. There are usually a lot of people buying gift cards from him at once so it would be quite a mess if he were to use escrow. Also, he usually give those away for free. I don't think his trust is worth 100++BTC, not even 10BTC to be honest, once someone says that he is a scam, his account would go to waste immediately so it is impossible for him to get that much profit.

Actually, escrow is very dangerous for the seller (at least for gift cards).  Just think about it.  All the buyer has to do is redeem the gift card and then say "the gift card didn't work."

Then the escrow won't release payment to the seller..

How can the seller prove the gift card wasn't already redeemed or sold to someone else prior?  (This is what the scammer would be claiming.)  You can't prove a negative.  Basically, escrow is the best way to scam a gift card seller.  ::)

UNLESS it's a gift card that allows the escrow to view/verify the balance first.  Then I could see escrow being useful, because it prevents either party from stealing and running.  But most gift cards aren't like this.

He has sold gift cards for as much as .08 BTC each (which represents a deep discount). The reason he does not sell more is due to his "limited" supplies of gift cards. He could easily sell for less of a discount and in higher amounts. Another thing is that he has previously limited people to only be able to buy one from him period (once you buy a gift card from him you cannot buy another). The likely reason for this is to get as many people to "trust" him as possible. He could easily remove this rule to get repeat business. He also gets many people to ay him at once, and only after all payments have been received he sends the gift cards. He could easily say something along the lines of "when I was banned for 30 days I have accumulated 100's of various gift cards worth $100 each send .08 to 1bipolarbobsaddress and post here to claim your card", if he were to get 100 responses from 100 members (this would not be unreasonable IMO) then he would get 8 BTC (~$3,200) which I would estimate would be more then he has given away. if he were to take away the "one card per user" limit then he could potentially get many more responses.

In reference to your comment about escrow, most escrow services are free, and could easily be streamlined with one escrow service. Also since the cost of the gift cards is so low, the buyer paying for escrow would still result in a very deep discount on the gift cards.

Bipolar Bob now has negative reputation and is out for at least a month :(

People say he ask to send the coins first, but when I bought the Steam code he sent first, and I guess he does not verify who pays and who doesn't.

That neg rep is not true, and might have scared away him :(

EDIT: why BiPolarBod has been banned?

EDIT2: because of the litecoin giveaway. Any hint about how long?

He has been banned for 30 days, because he give Altcoins away (which is disallowed on this forum).

free bob! lol how long more till 30 days?

I think his ban is over!!

Hes back!

Welcome back man!

To the haters, I really don't get how you can be mad at someone giving away stuff for free/super cheap.  If you don't want in just move along :D

nice!  :)

The myth is back.


Will watch his pot history with eagle eyes

Bob is legit. What kind of weirdos don't like free and cheap goods?

Woke up this morning with a real deal $50 Amazon gc in my inbox. Thanks bob. All of your other threads were locked so I had to leave feedback here.

Sent 0.012 BTC to 1EA4RHPLYqRMyNr1zdopMwJgXxh2yBpEpR for the gift card.

Thanks again Bob.

I just bought a $100 gift card from him. Obviously I was concerned about chargeback risk, but he offered to let me log into his gyft account and verify the gift cards myself. After checking out his account, I can safely say that all of his purchases on gyft were made using bitcoin (no chargeback risk!). His deals may sound insane, but he's legit.

edit:
grammar

Wow a testimonial from Global Mod!
Now we can completely sure that BiPolarBob is a legit(and very generous) user.

Great news! Thats crazy that he got verified by a moderator as powerful as you. Also this proves that these cards were not stolen. BIPOLARBOB IS BACK!

Crazy? You make it sound like mods are high almighty gods. They're regular people, doing a very specific task on the forum.

Glad to see bob back and still having interest in this forum.

Long time no see, haploid23! Thanks for the kind words you always have for me.  :)

BiPolarBob has a great character! Check your messages whenever you can :)

Hopefully people will stop trolling this thread now  ::)

Hopefully I'l catch a deal he offers in the future  :)

I don't know he is crazy is too kind  ???
Last time i bought 20$ steam wallet, but he sell it for $2
And he give the code before i send the bitcoin

I think BiPolarBob is the best seller on BTT  :)

WB to the forum BPB, now hope i can also catch some good deals from you! :)

This is very interesting and a pretty solid vouch. How many cards were purchased via gyft this way? Not gonna lie, I assumed he was getting the things he's selling from illegal places or via illegal ways. Still, something just doesn't seem right about this guy but I hope I'm wrong. This place makes you pretty cynical pretty quickly.

All of them... there are currently 90 BTC purchased cards in my gyft account. My Steam codes are also BTC purchased.  There is a reason why nobody has complained about a gift code going bad.  8)

BiPolarBob has shown me where he buy's the Steam Wallets and I can confirm that they were bought with BTC.

holy fuk, thats a steal. I`m following you for your next deal lol.

Mods seem to be very selective when banning altcoins giveaways.

I am very curious as to why he is essentially giving away gift cards. Has he told anyone what his goals are?

Is he satachi? Is he someone from gyft who is trying to advertise their website? Is he independently wealthy?

Can anyone give any answers that are not speculation?

He's personally told me he is private about his life, and hell, who wouldn't be? If he was filthy rich I wouldn't want many people to know either. But many can confirm his gift cards are legitimate and purchased by BTC. So they're not illegal. He's physically paid back loans as well totaling upwards of a few hundred. Even on his smaller deals he sends money to charities. He just had a kind heart. He could use all this BTC on himself no problem, but instead gives it to others.

BiPolarBob, when is your next deal coming? I always arrive late in your every deal thread. :(

There are no ulterior motives to what he does. Some people are not motivated by money, but rather the satisfaction they get from seeing others happy.

It's a nice balance to the daily scam and greed seen on this forum.

I never saw his iTunes deal or anything else , just saw that Steam wallet 20$ for 2$ :p He is a great dude

yeah me too... got the deal and redeemed the code too. All worked well! :P

yes he is
mostly with amazon gift cards
i have seen him giving them for free or at very low price
other stuff also like steam codes etc

Hes been offline for a while now. Did he get banned again?

This may belong in speculation, but did BiPolarBob eat the entire bear whale sell wall from the other day? He seems to be very wealthy and very well could have had the resources to buy all the bitcoin from the bear whale

BPB also seems to be very generous and is getting people to give to a good cause, therefore he is trustworthy in my book

I doubt a few Amazon cards ate that wall. ;)

I have heard that he has a lot of bitcoin in his control. I don't remember exactly how much, but I remember hearing that someone could trace several hundred/thousand bitcoin to addresses that he sent bitcoin from

BiPolarBob is an awesome person. Incredibly generous and one-of-a-kind.

He's (or "You're" if BPB reads this) one of those few people we have in the world that is rich and keeps giving back.

Good on you BPB, good on you.

Chances are he didn't eat the wall  ;)

He has at least 400BTC (or had)... That doesn't mean he has USD, he could just be BTC rich and not fiat. And the 26,000BTC was eaten by hundreds of buyers

BiPolarBob has not posed in some time now, nor has he logged in for ~4 days. Is he still with us or has he moved on to some other forum?

*waits for someone to start complaining how they sent bob 100btc for a too good to be true deal and got nothing  :D*

Maybe he got banned again? Did he do another giveaway?

I don't think he did another giveaway.

All his deals have been public, so such a claim would easily be verified if true or not, plus the amounts he deals with are much less then 100 btc

I don't think he necessarily needs to continue to give away (almost) free things, (some people would certainly like it if he did) although I think he should still try to be active in the community if he can.

He's been gone for a couple weeks at a time before, I wouldn't worry about it. Hopefully he'll show up soon though, I haven't seen him in #bitcoin-otc for awhile either.

He has been logging in pretty frequently, however just not posting.

He's still around  :(

Why so sad?

Very generous soul :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=828500.msg9258489#msg9258489

It looks like BiPolarBob has started a Free VPN service. I am curious as to how many people would trust him with your internet traffic.

I'm hoping Bob is able to get some Amazon cards.  I keep missing out every time he has them and my diaper supply is running dangerously low  :o

im also hungry for Bobs goods

All you vultures just wait around and wonder why he isn't here to give you free stuff anymore.

I doubt BiPolarBob is a scammer because it would be a really long worked and consistent game then.

Though i wanted to mention that vouchers, codes and so on are a risky thing to buy. Accepting those things as payment or paying for them is risky as long as you cant really trust the seller. The reason is that the real buyer of those codes can, at some point in time, claim that his codes were stolen. If that happens you lose. Those claims can be done months after selling so you should be cautious in general with vouchers. Sometimes the one youre buying from bought those codes from a provider and doesnt know what will happen too. Im not saying anything about Bob, only in general. Because thats a point that wasnt mentioned the first pages of this thread that i have read.

This is very true, however I think that using VPN/VPS services by/from him is even more risky. This is especially true for a VPN.

When you use a VPN you allow the provider to potentially be able to see all of your traffic and potentially be able to monitor any unencrypted data (or even potentially encrypted data if he uses a vulnerability like POODLE). Another issue is that he asked users to provide him with a password (and many people are very lax with their password policy and will reuse passwords, this will potentially allow him to have passwords to many users' various accounts (either bitcointalk.org or other accounts - as he can see what websites you are visiting)

yep i love hi mbut this stuff is too risky.

He's very generous. Gave me a $10 amazon.com gift card for free. :)

That's definitely what I think. Is it not fishy that an anonymous guy sells gift codes at a 90% loss (the only obvious answer is that they are fraudulently obtained, unless this guy really is as "crazy" as he claims)? And now, he runs a free service where he can potentially spy on users and steal their information.

I'm not saying he's a bad guy or that he's doing any of this stuff; I've never done business with him, but I would advise people to be careful.

Maybe he's really CEO of JP Morgan and he gives away vouchers on a bitcoin forum in his free time. I doubt it though.

I generated a random password and set that as my vpn password. The risk can be migrated by upgrading your internet browser or disable SSL3. Most website have already disabled SSL3. It is pretty hard for him to steal information as most website already have https implementation and it is easy for user to detect if he does a MITM attack. As for the gift codes, many trusted user have verified that he have bought it using Bitcoins which cannot be reversed.

Disabling SSL3 will only protect you against a POODLE attack. You can also only use https when the website you are accessing has this enabled, if you are logging into a website that does not have this enabled then he could potentially see the credentials that you use to access such website (you should also remember that most users will reuse the same credentials across multiple sites despite this being a very bad security practice).

He could potentially launch a 'zero day' (previously unknown) attack against you to steal your information, or use some kind of attack that was recently disclosed but most users/sites have not "plugged" the associated security holes/risks yet.

If he were to gain access to your data/login credentials to a site, he may not use it right away, but rather accumulate them over time, and then slowly use them to steal funds in various users' accounts. No one would probably be able to trace such an attack back to him as there are so many other variables to getting your account hacked

None of these accusations are true but I have locked the VPN thread and will take down the servers in a couple weeks.  No point if the false claims make people too scared to use it.

But I will say this:

If you tried my VPN service and you have no other, then PM me and I will set you up with something like Private Internet Access, or another commercial VPN of your choice. :)

BPB is generously nuts! Gave people on G&R 0.02 per person. Cool!

I don't blame you Bob. Thanks anyways.

Damn ingrates. This was a terrific service.

Dang! I was away for a couple of days, and didn't really get to use the VPN. Thanks Bob. Somebody always gotta wreck it for everyone else.  :-\

It should still work for a couple weeks.  :) But if you really have no other VPN service, PM me. I'll get you an account with any popular VPN of your choice.  :)

Do you mind giving me one for https://nvpn.net please :D

Done :)

Received ! :o
you guys should be really grateful that we BiPolarBob on the forums. all those giveaways, & sales with cheap prices and you still suspecious about it? *facepalm*

again , thanks Bob <3

possibl if i get one too plz? thanks - pming u now
Edit post : waiting for ur answer

this is probably a better idea. While I don't think you are planning on doing anything "bad" any one using your VPN service is taking on a risk by using your service, a bigger risk then accepting a $50 gift card when the max loss is $50.

Also pro tip: make anyone receiving a free VPN account donate .01 to Sean's outpost (or another mutually agreed upon charity)

Damn, what's going on?  I really liked BiPolarBob's VPN!

It works really well - my only complaint is Netflix would offer subtitles in Danish and other Scandinavian languages, and not English, LOL!

EDIT:
If you are shutting it down, can I have one for https://nvpn.net, please.

Again, thanks to BiPolarBob for his generosity.

please dont take advantage of him.

hes a super nice guy, very rare thing on this forum.

I tracked BiPolarBob transactions and it led to this address (https://blockchain.info/address/12BJB63AQEDDvqN3un7hsdbqV4V137x2gw),  at the bottom you can see that he got almost 3000BTC from just-dice, so he could be just a guy who had unbelievable kind of luck who wants to share....


https://i.imgur.com/91AuCZr.png

sick, but i seen him post that he doesnt gamble but who knows lol bob is the best!

Maybe bipolarbob is someone like dooglus who has too many btc to spend. That much btc would be hard to get out into real money, and would raise some red flags taking out millions of dollars of undocumented earnings.

Huge, it's really too much, wish I had some part of bitcoin like this.

Might be that he was an investor at justdice. JD gave around 11% annual profit on top of your investment.

If he gambled then is he maybe nakowa? Thats a guy who won big on JD if i remember correctly.

It's good to see that BiPolarBob is actually back on these forums :). I'm still very grateful for some Steam money you sold me for very few BTC ;).

If Bob actually owns that much BTC, it actually makes sense that he's giving away presents worth much money in total. I can't think about another reason why he should do this. Let's be gratefull to those people on earth, instead of accusing them of scams etcetera.

Yeah bob gave me some BTC quite awhile back that I needed very urgently, very generous man he is! Thanks for being such a swell guy bob :)

He is a very generous guy indeed , don't see why some people accuse him of scam :o
and he didn't connect since 24 October  :(

He is a rich guy and probably taking a holiday and enjoying his moments.

Or he is bipolar, like his name suggests. ;) Anyway... he seems to be a nice guy. Something thats valuable in the sharkpool that is the bitcoin world.

Why he is not online since the 24th?

Hope he does not got another ban :(

And sadly I lost his 20MBTC giveaway :(

I am fairly certain that he is not bipolar. People with this disorder do not advertise this fact, nor do they generally even accept they have bipolar.

I'm gutted that I missed out on these deals :( I would of loved the amazon one. One a kind & generous man.

Sounds like a decent honest guy ! You'll get some good karma soon buddy.

BiPolarBob is great.  I've done a few transactions with him in the past and 100% all around.

I hope he is able to post around here again.

Here is a conspiracy theory:

Maybe BiPolarBob is the person behind the massive changetipping spree on reddit right now

Wot?  Link, please?

What happened? Did he get banned again or has he just disappeared? I don't think a character like bibolarbob was created to stick around forever anyway.Maybe he's still amongst us under a different name?

He hasn't been on IRC for ages. I normally talked at least once a week with him, but he hasn't logged into his account for 2/3 weeks now.

Hope he's ok; his profile says he was last active Oct 24, 2014.

I was going to say the same thing , wondering where is he  :'( or maybe he is connecting on another account and we don't know

I hate to say it, but I think Bob is never coming back, atleast not under this name.  :-\
His big win was revealed, everyone knows his secret. He can never return now.

That's my theory. Or maybe he is just on vacation.  :D

Wrong! BPB just came on today and did a nice 0.02 giveaway. I am staying tuned to his ID for more giveaways. He normally does these in short bursts nowadays. Looks like people branding him a scammer has had this effect on him. From all my dealings with him, he seems to be a completely legit guy and a real kind person at heart. Hope he does well in whatever he does in life :)

I noticed this as I was just looking at his profile earlier today. I think it is somewhat strange that he was randomly gone for so long (although not to imply that he was doing something bad)

What big win was that?


Who brandished him a scammer? His trust is still fine here. I get the initial suspicions against him as I was too at the start, but it seems like he proved his legitimacy.

This one ^

I'm glad Bob's back anyway, I used to talk with him a lot in the freenode irc.  ;D

Well if you look further up in this thread, he was branded a possible scammer and given negative trust by Luke. Probably took it to heart and went off the radar for some time. I am glad he's back though. Waiting for more of his awesome deals! I hope the Steam one comes back again. That was a great deal $2 for a $20 code. I managed to get in on his 0.02 giveaway too. I have given him positive trust and i guess all those who got a good deal should. That's just my opinion though!  :)

That actually happened more than 2 months back. I am sure he didn't take it personally. Luke just had a hard time believing someone was so kind to donate in a way BPB does and thinks that Bob is playing a long con game

Oh. Wouldn't it make more sense that he is involved or was one of the owners of the dice site instead? That 'win' seems too big unless he cashed out an investment or something.

Bob is still around :)

I woke up with another sizable Amazon gift card that he gave me. The few Amazon GC's I got from him has always been free, but I always send him some BTC for it.

Why he would loan 0.5 BTC if have 3000 BTC . It does make sense ;D I'am pretty sure you are  wrong about him being a milllionaire .

I think he was trolling.


By the way, he is not much active recently.

I miss him

BipolarBob ? He was an idol.

:o I thought he was serious about it .
and couple of weeks ago he made an great giveaway for Starbucks gift cards & 0.02 BTC . ;D well he is active but just not posting that much Last Active:   December 02, 2014, 02:47:44 PM

But Satoshi's Bitcoin never moved from the wallets :o so how do you explain that ;D

I see that you are registered you that in September this year.
do you do not know who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

The creator of Bitcoin , I know.
I'am just saying that people says that his bitcoins never moved from the wallets and they found his adresses on blockchain

I do no have knowing about this  :D  :D

I think I got a steam gift code for $2... IDK how he gets the codes but they're legit and was donated to Seans Outpost.

I have heard that he would also offer you deals to purchase codes at discounted price(off the original price, not the giveaway prices) when you buy in bulk.
He has been really kind.

I would love to purchase codes from him in bulk if they were at discounted rates :D

I never though about this, but the question over here about who BiPolarBob exactly is, is almost a hot issue like the question who Satoshi is ^^.


I think everyone would, but I assume he's not going to do that. And he is right in my opinion. Why help 1 person if you also can help hundreds of ;).

Bob's just started another one of his crazy giveaways - I got my $20 amazon GC for just a small donation to Sean's Outpost...  Selfless dude  8)

i wished i got the chance to get some of bob's generosity  :D
i should stalk bob now for the crazy coupons deal  ::) ::)

You are a newbie and won't be eligible for any of his giveaways.

yep right, soon enough i will be eligible

I was able to get one of his gift cards as well.

I think he should add more charity options to encourage people to donate to a wider range of charities. Having just one option makes it so people are less aware of their donating options.

Offering more options could also potentially get more charities to have public donation addresses which will cause more people to donate

Unfortunately we've got a guy reselling the $20 card :/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=894012.0

BPB has said that he does not care what people do with their cards. Some people have specifically asked if they can resell them and he said that he has no issues with that

Even if BPB doesn't mind, I (and others) do. Which is why I neg. rated him as well.

I think one of the reasons that he does he giveaways is to encourage more people to trade on here. Since BPB has joined the forum there has been many more threads buying and selling gift cards (who knows how many of them are actually legit).

Even if the seller does "profit" from the sale he will most likely still have to give a discount to the buyer so the buyer will still benefit.

I can say that I trusted BPB enough to send bitcoin to charity prior to receiving a $20 amazon gift card.

Our community needs more people like BPB and less scammers

It still feels wrong to me, I changed it from a neg rep to neutral and will leave it to someone checking his trust to decide.

bitspill, I changed my rating to a negative once again, because he clearly can't use math.

"Resold a gift card from BiPolarBob's charitable giveaway for profit. When confronted seoincorporation insists that he is losing $ on this deal because he sold it for $7, instead of $20, even though he bought it for $1,99. This guy clearly can't math."

The resale is one thing, but then lying about/denying something obvious is just wrong.

Well that guy locked his thread but now someone else is selling their $20 amazon: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=894413.0

One down then another pops up. It's like whack-a-mole  :P

what do you find wrong in that?
shipping options are very limited for some areas, in addition of some other inconveniences

I think it is his right to see where his best interest

BiPolarBob is the best and he is not a scammer .
He already sold me Steam wallet with 20$ for 2$ & also a Starbucks gift of the same value . I went first & received the codes within seconds after paying . He is a great & friendy guy ;D

Been waiting for bipolarbob to be online when I am so I can scoop up one of his amazing deals. He was online last month at one point when I was but I missed his posts. Bipolarbob come back buddy!

Does anyone know if he is still taking loans?

last time he was not taking i guess , was just kidding around with Marcrotheminer

Seems like rumors that he is a millionaire aren't true afterall ;D
and Yes he do takes loans I guess , I was just checking his profile and he is online and just posted on Muhammed Zakir loans thread => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=929482.msg10208227#msg10208227

I somewhat doubt that he actually needs the loan, he is probably just trying to help his microloan business get more exposure

I doubt too ..; I mean if we calculate his giveaway are worth then 10k $ probably , if not more :o
Pretty sure he don't need loan or he need it but not at home to use his own BTC or something

Yep confirmed he's basicly just helping Muhammed Zakir. BPB paid back the loan with 0.3BTC

I agree. In my opinion, he wants to help people with loans, he doesn't actually need them. 0.3 back to MZ is 300% return! I think Bob is just some guy who made it rich with bitcoin, either through investing or something else, but he can't withdraw because it would look suspicious, (a few grand in digital money with no records of getting it since it is digital money) also taxes. So instead, he gives back to the community! Such a generous guy, I don't know why he has the 1 neg rep. It should be removed IMO!

every time there's a notification in this thread i get a little excited hoping there's a new deal he's hosting lol

and there is a strong likelihood that he buy using cache or he does not want to be known that he act in bitcoin.
 
 
 don't go too far as more, (he act as a crazy)

so maybe services like ( Shipito (http://tiny.cc/SHIPITO) ) can  dissuade peoples prom releasing somethings there importants

I don't even see how that service relates to selling a digital gift card. Am I missing something?

My assumption he a early bitcoin adopter who stashed thousands of bitcoins. Those amount he give has very little value to him. He just do it for fun.

BiPolarBob seems to be a legend around here. Truly some funny sh*t has been said. Curious to see if he returns...

Sure he will. I think he will be back again and open a new give-away as soon as he feels like doing that. When he wants, he will ;).


That might be the reason indeed. I bet we never know ;).

Bipolarbob was on yesterday, he repaid someone else's loan of 0.18.

After reading this thread i got know about this guy he is really generous he is sending free money as gift to random one, This guy got .25 btc from him lol : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=952439.msg10545182#msg10545182

I'm sorry to revive an ancient thread, but I see BiPolarBob hasn't been active since 20th February, does anyone know what happened to him?  :-\

I am fairly certain that he has moved onto other forums. He told me that he has done similar things with other forums and his giveaways were likely abused by a few people claiming multiple times.

He told me in our second last conversation(IIRC) that he is active in another forum.

Anyone of you guys knows how to contact him or on what forum he is exactly ? It's being a long time , it's really sad to see him leaving and no it's not because of his awesome giveaways , he was a nice guy  :)

I don't think anybody knows about it and even if somebody do, I think they won't disclose it. BPB is a person who value his privacy very much.

So at the end all fears of him building trust were unfounded. Refreshing to see persons that are different than all the scammer and haters on this board.

Now i really would like to know the story behind. Why does he feel to spend his life making others happy?

I understood peoples suspicions and there was a couple of things he did that made people think he was possibly going to scam at some point (think he even offered to double peoples bitcoins somewhere (though maybe that was an imposter)), but I think someone also traced some of his transactions and found them to come from large stashes of coins so he was likely well off. I think a bit of cynicism is good on this community because bob was a rare egg amongst what is normally filled with scammers but of course sometimes people can be too suspicious but it never hurts anyone other than a few bruised egos.

I used his free VPN service for a bit. Got a nasty letter from the RIAA though. LOL.

From the RIAA? Why? Because there was some illegal music stored on the same servers or what?

The only deals I have had with BiPolarBob were free codes (like giftcodes etc) or trading codes for a small amount of BTC. Everything worked out really well and fast.. And these codes were 100% legit.

He told me that he has done similar things on other forums and eventually moves on. It is really too bad that he didn't stay around to at least interact with the community for some time.

I do not at all blame him for this, however since he left I have noticed an increase in the number of people who are laundering money through various (stolen) gift cards - Starbucks (selling at deep discounts), amazon (selling at ~25% off the face value in large amounts), among others. It is really unfortunate IMO that people are so willing to buy gift cards that are so clearly purchased with stolen credit cards and/or were otherwise illegitimately obtained.

I believe the fact that bitcoin is used by so many people with nefarious intentions have caused this to happen.

I think that few people truly realize that people like BPB are more the exception to the rule.

It can't have been a very good VPN if this happened. Isn't the whole point of them to protect your web traffic.


It will be more probably that he was the one downloading illegal music.

Whats RIAA?

Did you get your VPN taken away or something? Its a shame that BPB went away, I was going to ask about his vpn service he had cause mines about to be up.

Bob shut down the vpn. I think it was something he was interested in and wanted to experiment with.

Buggers were downloading music and movies and got him into trouble I think. Nice fellow with a big heart for sure.

If that was the case, you can't blame BPB for it I think. Sure, he owned the service, but he wasn't doing the illegal stuff with it.

- -

I'm wondering whether we'll see him again over here.

Not attaching any blame. You missed my " LOL ". I thought it was funny.

VPN means virtual private network so I guess it wasn't so private. I pay for a vpn service and have no privacy issues whatsoever.

Sad!! But i havent done any deals with him and now he is not active here

Edit: Will try to pm him and ask if he can do anything :D

You have no chance to be able to reach him now, It's been It's been 4-5 months since he left and he didn't connect (not even once ) since then . https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=343899
He moved to another forum i guess and most of people don't know what forum would that be

Oh! So you guess he is offering free stuffs on another forum now? thats great
I dont know why i havent reached him when he was here

im not guessing , it's his words he told some users that he is on another forum , not sure if he still giving free stuff to people
and i would assume that you  didn't reach him because you registered on April 30 and he left on February unless you have another account

And BOOOM ! BiPolarBob is officially back ;D I missed his giveaways but well  always glad to see awesome members coming back to the forums :) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=343899

I am glad to be the OP of this thread and I want to say welcome back BPB, we all missed you man.

He is checking the forums indeed, but not 100% active sadly.

He is I guess , yesterday he sold something to Muhammed Zakir or gave something and I found his giveaway thread for giving 0.002 BTC & also the famous "20$ Steam wallet for 2$" ;D

He sold people a bunch of steam gift cards several days ago and had them individually send money to Dabs's feed the children program and post on that thread, which caused the thread to get a lot of bumps, increasing it's visibility. This was probably more effective in helping the charity then simply having people donate to the address via his giveaway thread.

He is a confirmed scammer.

Thread in the Scam Accusations section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1139462.0

confirmed? do you know what that word means? yours are simply accusation without hard proof.

I presented FACTS. Tell me, how many trust-buying escrow-refusers are legit? Please, tell us.

from what I found. people said that BiPolarBob actually sent first.
and I never saw bipolarbob asking anyone to give him any trust.

and about what you said on the other thread how his giveaways shows strong bias for the people on DT. have you seen his trust page? 75% of them are from members that is not on DT. and I bet some of those 25% wasn't even on DT when they left their feedback. like QS, for example.

I think your accusation is probably a few months too old. I think your warning would probably be more appropriate when he first first stated giving away things, although I think he has since established himself as being someone is not a scammer.

I will admit I am very impressed by how he bought you off.

If you used your brain for a moment you would realize that the time of a high trust rating is exactly when he would scam.

Then i suggest you observe all of BiPolarBob's actions. Till now there is simply no chance he could scam. He has the money and gives it away, he doesnt ask for anything.

Even when he would buy trust, did you calculate how much he tipped away? Which enourmous scam can you imagine that would justify that amount of payment for trust ratings?

And even when he should start something... people would be very cautious exactly because his previous actions would look like buying trust then.

So i really dont see a problem yet.

People missed free money? What a surprise!  ;D


Calling him a scammer isn't warranted as he's done nothing of the sort though I am abit suspicious or sceptical of him though maybe I'm being overly cycnical. If he asks for a big ammount for something in the future then I'd advise caution but I think it would have to be quite  big amount if he was trying to scam just to recoup all the money from his other giveaways. I guess only time will tell me I'm not expecting him to pull off a scam but at the same time wouldnt be surprised either.

You're right on that. For as far as I know he has not scammed anyone yet. Some might accuse him of "Buying trust", but I don't agree on that. See THIS (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1139462.msg12013946#msg12013946) post of Quickseller and see how much money he (Bob) gave away in just a short time.. There has not been such thing as a scam to cover all these cost has it?

I think Bob is just a great, generous guy. I've once received an incredible cheap code for Steam money of him, and next to that I've received a (LEGIT!!) digital Amazon code of him for only making a $2 donation to charity. Read, this code was legit (and it still is: the balance has not been deducted in my Amazon account where it still is located).

The reason why someone would be so generous to strangers, keeps unrevealed I guess. Personally I think he was one of the lucky ones who joined the Bitcoin train in the very beginning (and therefore has or had a lot of BTC / money).

You should notice that he especially helps people who have shown to be great persons too, for example Muhammed Zakir (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=320943).

Can you explain how he helped Muhammed Zakir? Was he in need of something? And yes, i agree, Muhammed is an exceptional nice guy who goes to length to help others. He deserves every reward he got. :)

Sure:
 *For example look at a "loan" Bob wanted of Muhammed Zakir; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=929482.msg10224044#msg10224044. His loan for 0.1 BTC was approved by Mohammed Zakir, and within two days Bob paid him back 0.295 BTC.
* Muhammed Zakir was in the need for a $120 Amazon giftcard (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1138021.msg12001464#msg12001464). Within 6 minutes, Bob replied him that he will send him that code soon. As expected, Muhammed Zakir did not have to pay for that code [reference] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1138021.msg12009848#msg12009848)
 

I think that's why Bob is a great person, as he especially helps the good people over here.

The fact that Bob replied that fast to Muhammed's topic in which he wanted to buy that gift card, does make me think Bob is always still reading posts and topics on this forum (- although he would only log in when he wants to post something) :)

I Muhammed has subscribed to the RSS-Feed of the forums. So he get a notice about new posts fast and can act fast. And i think he practically lives on here. :)

Yeah, i like how Bob is acting. I believe he simply likes to feel making people happy.

I don't think BiPolarBob is a scammer. He even tells us not to trust him in multiple posts. What kind of scammer tells you to watch out for him? Then again, anything is possible, but I think that BiPolarBob is a nice guy.

Double bluff? I don't think he's a scammer either but it's not uncommon for scammers to try give people a false sense of security or make out like they're doing a good thing or are a good person when their motives are the opposite. Seen a few scammers on here make out like they're scam busters themselves which they do to try get feedback or appear trustowrthy.

It's not the case for him , that's for sure . He gave shitload of things , he probably gets 5 pages each time he make Steam wallet of 20$ then ask people to send to charity .
1 Page contains 20 posts , 20$ x 100 (5 pages) = 2000$ per giveaway if not more . He probably gave more then 15k $ or even more (Amazon giveaways , Bitcoin giveaways , steam etc .. )  . so unless he make +15k $ transaction (escrow will most likely be used doesn't matter his trust) he won't be able to scam anyone . 

TLDR; BiPolarBob is not a scammer .

Yes, but remember that BiPolarBob is verified by 2 trusted forum members:

Not only that, he often seems to send codes before asking for payments, or just gives codes away to people. So with a setup like that, it's impossible to get scammed.

This is why we can't have nice things in this world
A guy gives shit away for real cheap or just for free and we just insult him and call him a scammer

Haha, that's a good one. I think because such nice people are so scarce these days, people become mistrustful.

Maybe also the fact that this forum has / has had a lot of scammers makes people more mistrustful these days.

True but this guy has already proven that he isn't a scammer and yet we call him untruthful and a scammer.If he was a scammer than he would have done some huge scam by now

The real problem is that if someone does a whole lot of good these days, people attach an ulterior motive to it! You can't really blame anyone because the world today has been brought down to such depths that anyone doing good is looked at with an eye of suspicion. Be it IRL or the internet, people who do good are persecuted, the only thing keeping us going is our faith that things will improve as we go along and eventually people will stop doubting our intentions. BPB is one of these great guys and i really thank him for not giving up just because some people think he is going to scam them and posting such theories against him.

But there are many times when he's asked for upfront payment, and if he was going to scam he would obviously ask for upfront payment then and many would trust him enough or take the risk. I think if he was going to do this he would have done it already. People are just skeptical of others around here but it's not a bad thing really. 99.9% of people don't give shit away for free on here.

"I think if he was going to do this he would have done it already.". Indeed, but I don't think he ever will. There is no point in spending so much money in give aways just to build trust or something.

Like you said, in my situation BPB also sent a code before I did my part of the deal. There's no way to scam that way. Yes, codes might not be legit. However, I've got his Amazon code for many months now in my account and the balance has not been deducted. It's therefore legit.

'He is legit, he would have scammed by now'

It is hard to believe how gullible everyone is. By that logic, everyone who starts off honest will never scam in the future.

FALSE.

It looks like BiPolarBob is helping people out again. I've recieved another Amazon gift card code of him two hours ago, for absolutely free! He just sent me a PM with a valid code out of nowhere. How fantastic is that!

Haters gonna hate. It's time for everyone to understand that BiPolarBob is a great guy without any scam intentions. The world needs more BiPolarBobs!

Its hard to believe how dense you are

Nobody is being gullible. It's hard to believe how silly you're being. The logic you suggest isn't applicable because most scammers don't give anything away regardless of how honest they appeared to be. If bob tries to scam for a large amount most people probably wont be gullible and just send him the several thousands he would need to recoup all the money he has given away in this 'scam'. How can bipolar bob possibly pull off a scam so huge that he will recoup all the money he has given out? Scammers don't just keep giving thousands away, at one point they need to get their money back plus profit and the longer this goes on the less likely it is he's going to scam because there's just no logic there whether you like it or not.

Nobody is really going to take you seriously when you yourself seem to think you know what he's going to do when you can't possibly so it's not "FALSE" unless you have a time machine.

i bet he is some rich guy who wants to help people.
good job and keep it up.
cheers!
-Katerniko1

That's definitely the case. I observed him a bit since some time and it's pretty clear that he is a nice guy who gets joy from helping others. I think you have to hand pick people like him on the bitcointalk forum so i did not find anything bad about him.

I realize i didn't trust him yet. I would trust him anytime. :P

Good for you! How big of a gift card did he give to earn buy your trust?

bipolarbob check your PM already !! i miss the give-away so PM you. it says newbie allowed so u owe $2 to me

Lol begging is not allowed and BPB has been away for months, and from the looks of it is not coming back.

BiPolarBob lives!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1503782.0

the give-away was yesterday! i was making reply and he lock thread. it is not my fault he did this

This is an extremely compelling thread about a compelling member!


On the one hand, you have people claiming he is a scammer.  You know, if it's to good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true.



And then people like these 2 who see him as a rare breed, a benevolent soul, bailing people out in need, and putting a smile on his own face.

I hope he comes back soon.  The last time he was online was a couple of weeks ago.  He has to be the most intriguing and interesting member I have read about!  I read about the scammers like coinographic and others, but this is something completely different!

I gotta side with Katerniko1.  My best guess:  he was an early adopter of btc, back when they were cheap, like less than a buck.  He bought a lot of them, and he hit the mother lode.   He became rich overnight!  Well not overnight, but over a few years (assuming he bought in 2009, and he has been doing good since bitcoin peaked at $1200 in 2013.  But I am guessing he no longer has to work another day in his life.

But, he still has challenges with everyday life, based on his username and the title of the thread.  So, he is rich, but he is still working on finding happiness and serenity.

I could be wrong, especially about how he got rich.  Maybe he was already rich.  But it is my best guess, and I hope we see signs of BiPolarBob again!  :)

Do you even know how old this thread is? Lol.

Does this guy come back active on the forum? I heard a lot about him and i wish he is still helping the community.

I feel like I owe him a $30 mystery box in exchange for a Amazon gift code giveaway, but IDK if I'll ever get a shipping address (or be able to verify it's really BPB I'm communicating with).

His account recently resurfaced after a long period of time. But, whether it's actually him remains to be confirmed. He occasionally logs in and requests for a loan and repays it + extra.

I do believe that the one that logged in recently and asked for a loan is the original BPB but, even hasn't logged in since the request.

Most probably it is original BPB who logged in and asked for a loan then disappeared, it suits according to his nature.
This time he logged in after 1+ year, now the question is, will he do the same this time?

Well iirc Bob always responds every user who interested on his loan request at same day. It's my first time to see him doesnt update his loan thread since it's opened two weeks ago.

Not sure, I saw that a lot of people were looking to give him a loan without even thinking just to get is more than generous repayment. It would be nice if he was a active member here rather than appearing now and then, but I guess that adds to his character more than anything.

I've personally dealt with him in the past and he was extremely nice.

Remember when he used to sell $20 gift card for $5 or so? I pm'd him right away and asked, 'Man are you for real?'. He then sent me a $20 Steam Code and a bitcoin addy. I also remember a guy who created a software just to track BPB online time. That was crazy.

It is for sure that BPB is a trusted person, so dealing with him is risk-free and also it is like a double/triple bonus thing if dealt with him.
If he were available frequently at least then it could be more fun I think, but he is differently different and uniquely unique ( ::) do I said it the right way?) due to the kind of person he is.



BPB is crazy than insane and insanely crazy.  ::) Is my English correctly correct?

Maybe he is Satoshi Nakamoto  ::) ::) lol

That would make sense with regard to his generosity. ;)

I'm also one of the lucky (old) ones to made some great deals with him (or received items of him :))

Well, Username checks out in that case. :D

But I didn't know he scammed so much. My weekly bad news about the good guys from the old days I guess.

He didn't scam tbf, haha. Just had the future insight I guess. He provided us with gift cards etc at 0.1x - 0.5x face value in BTC. Now that BTC value has increased tremendously over the years.

Eh he repaid some of our loans as well and given free BTCs in a few different ways. So I guess he actually lost out more than you think.

BPB was a nice guy. He was not receiving similar value for the things he was giving away. He was basically giving away gift cards at a 90% discount when he was paying full price. I hope he is doing well today.

True. He did many giveaways too. Haven't seen him in a while, I hope he's doing well!

His account BiPolarBob (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=343899) got compromised in 2018, see WARNING: BiPolarBob account HACKED! Don't send any BTC. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3637110.0)

Holy shit--I get that this thread got necrobumped for whatever reason, but it's like a blast from the past.  I clearly recall BipolarBob doing exactly what you just described, i.e., swooping in and paying off people's loans.  Apparently out of the goodness of his heart, because I never saw him ask for anything in return.  I'd always assumed he was an old-school bitcoin whale with a lot of it to go around. 

I wonder what happened to him.  He's one of the many members who just kind of disappeared over the years I've been here, and I hadn't thought of his name in a long time.  Even if his account did get hacked, that wouldn't preclude him from creating a new one. 

Bipolar Bob was a legend 🤩🤩🤩

Indeed he was.  He gave to me at a time when it helped and I've tried to give back more to others as a thank you.  One thing I really respect about him is that he seemingly gave to so many people that his generosity was almost certainly abused yet he continued to give without concern.  I've struggled with my giveaways to find users worthy of receiving such kindness and have stopped many due to abuse.  BiPolarBob didn't have this concern.  I feel like he would have given to 100 scammers if that meant he could help a few people who genuinely needed it, and that is an attitude that impresses me, as I struggle to try and cope with the idea of helping everyone in spite of their worthiness.  Whatever events led up to BiPolarBob's kindness, I am thankful for them and I hope to one day inspire the sort of pay it forward kindness in others that BiPolarBob helped to establish in me. 

That's a lovely story. I used to watch him giving away to people who he thought was helping. I hope he's well and the love has come back round to him. I haven't been on here for years but thought I would check it out in this bullrun. I would have done so many things differently lols. Hope you are well 🙂