Hello folks,

I would never believe that I would witness such ignorance, resulting in multiple risks for bitcointalk users and several blatant DT abuses from a DT1 member.

This screams to me that not matter how hard you built your trust, if you don’t know such basic inner workings of this forum, you don’t belong on this end of the DT ladder as you can inadvertently do more harm than good.
If you do know how things work down here and did it knowingly, then it’s even worse.

krogothmanhattan (DT1) has an alt account, krogoth (DT2 ).

I’ll refer to the user behind both profiles as “krog”

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1/ Default Trust abuse

krog is abusing the Trust system.
Main account is in DT1 and the other in DT2, user ends up with “2 inclusion votes” for the Trust system.
This is unfair towards the rest of the forum users.


(https://loyce.club/trust/2022-03-19_Sat_05.10h/181253.html)


(https://loyce.club/trust/2022-03-19_Sat_05.10h/1000199.html)

What’s the reasoning behind giving a Trust inclusion to his alt from his main, and another Trust inclusion to his main from his alt ?
Both accounts are currently in DT… Wonderful Can I do that as well ?  

krog is also abusing the feedback system as he left himself a positive feedback from his DT1 account to his alt.
This results in an artificially pumped feedback score on his alt account.


(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=181253)

WHY does krog intentionally make his ALT account look more trusted than it is ? ? ?
This feedback should have been neutral like johnyUA’s one.

Doing so defies the purpose of using an alt as this alt is used for trading purposes.
In this situation, If the alt account is compromised because the user logged in from a compromised network/device (which is the “purpose” of an alt really);
it is nearly as bad as if the main account was compromised.

If you are a “trusted” user around here, what is the purpose of using an alt account on Bitcointalk ?
Well it’s to mitigate the risk of other users getting scammed by your negligence when you’re about to login on a compromised network/device.

krog, care to explain your thought process ?
You should have already taken the steps so your alt does not end up in DT2.

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2/ Using both accounts to Trust exclude a single user

Well, this speaks of itself :




I’m at a loss of words.

Can I do that as well ?

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I believe that krog is dangerous as he puts other’s people funds at risk, demonstrating his nonchalance towards DT / taking steps so his alt account created “FOR UNSECURE CONNECTIONS” is DT2 )


I do not understand what have I done to deserve such treatment from this user.

After seeing several demonstrations from this user, it is quite obvious that not only would I not trust them, I also tend to seek to prevent other users from possibly losing their BTC.

I mean, he is more than trustworthy when it comes to buying or selling an item, or even escrowing funds for other users, but this is not what my point is about.

Thank you everyone.

wa wa wee wa

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I found some old pictures

Here was my mining setup
I remember placing an order to buy it in october 2012, for like ~$350.
Only then I realized it was a preorder and it finally arrived in July 2013.
I didn't pay attention to what was going on with this company (Butterfly Labs) back then, but what I know is they've ended up scamming big times.



This was the panel on my notebook laptop



There is a chance mine has been shipped among the first ones. Just look at how the diff went up around July 2013.
This is when the first ASICs have been made available.



And yeah, I think the wisest was to resell
I would have never mined that many BTC with it I think ...
Guy who bought it said he has some other great ASIC chips and needed my miner for the PCB.



It happened a long time ago and for sure I didn't have these BTC in 2014 any longer haha.
Well, a fun story and definetely, early ASICs belong in museums.

Back in the days, I had a BFL Jalapeno.

Received it in July 2013. I was the king in the castle with my 6,4 Gh/s
I mined around 0.1BTC / day at that moment for a week.
Then BTC's diff went up by 20% on the next diff readjustment.

I figured out it was better to resell it as there was a huge premium at that moment.
Sold it on Bitmit for 16BTC (~$1400).

Definetely, these are part of Bitcoin's history.

Absolutely, there are 3 different variations of material (white cards, silver and gold ones).
Also, the denominations and colors are a tribute to the original Bitbills : 1mBTC in Blue, 5mBTC in Green, 10BTC in Red, 20BTC in Black.

The Coldkeys displayed in the pictures are imperfect indeed.
They have been produced for our prototype book and to display them.

One set consist of 4 different Coldkeys.
Each existing Coldkey contain an unique pair of keys.
To reply to you : one of these set contains 4 wallets.

I will update it later when I will have the pictures of the Coldkeys that are will be auctioned within a couple hours.

Unfortunately, no.
We cannot realize such high quality cold storage wallets on a metallic support.

Maybe some day down the line we will figure it out, but it's not in our priority list.

Yes, there is a reason but I don't feel comfortable sharing it.
I can be quite superstitious at times and this relates to one of my latest dreams...



No, just kidding.
It's just because that way, we made it impossible for us to provide x or y serial to the collectors requesting them.
We think this is more fair to everyone since I'd rather have people trade them later rather than reserve serial numbers moving further ahead.

This is just not something feasible fur us any longer.

I simply specified this to make it obvious no one received a favored access to the release.

Absolutely.

You can tell by looking at the QR code on the front. If the "white part" of the QR code is white, gray (for silver) or gold.
In OP, the first 2 pictures of the 20mBTC Coldkey are plain (white).
The 2 following ones (10mBTC) are Gold.
The last two (1mBTC) are Silver.

I will update the ANN with more content when the auction has started, a bit later today.

Yes, the current use of NFTs is quite rudymentary.
I agree that it would be more coherent to have the NFT's on XCP if our endgoal was to provide NFTs that are similar to today ones.
In my eyes, Solana doesn't even come close to what BTCitcoin represents.

I can not share much more about this for now as we are still elaborating this project.
We chose Solana because it uses a different protocol than Ethereum which has many clones (BSC, Polygon/MATIC, Fantom just to name a few..)

We should witness new use cases develop on networks such as Solana and Bitgert, and we look to bring Coldkey to a next level regarding the functions it offers.
NFTs on Solana will be an integral part of this.

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Hello bestcoin_59

Well, 20 sets have been put up for sale.
The numbers that were available are not consecutive.

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There was no reservations granted to anyone.
The 2nd batch of 20 sets will be put up for sale around the end of the month.

Only the Gold and Silver ones are going to be auctioned.

Moi aussi je t'aime secrètement, malheureusement tu sais bien que ça ne sera jamais possible entre nous.

Halab, merci de garder un oeil ouvert sur ce genre de pratiques.
Feedback posé, j’attends la réaction des users à ce fil de discussion pour réevaluer si il est pertinent.

Yes indeed, I've been up for far too long.
I will reply to PMs that I received in this matter as of tomorrow.

If you want it to be processed in a most efficient manner, please reach out directly to Owlcatz.

Thank you a thousand times !

Moi non plus.

Je lui ai proposé qu'on se voit sur Paris pour le dépatouiller sur son PC mais visiblement, non.
Pourtant ce serait tellement plus simple de voir et appréhender la problématique pour la résoudre, plutôt que lire quelqu'un qui essaie de l'expliquer alors qu'il n'y connait/comprend pas grand chose.

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LA REPONSE :
Non.

The first sale of 20 sets of plain (white) Bitbills commemorative Coldkeys has now begun.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5390070.0

An auction for 1 Gold set and 2 Silver sets will start later today.

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Thank you Mopar

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I tried to post the sale ASAP after the ANN to save your F5 key.

Please don't forget to update your post with a txid or PM it to owlcatz or myself to confirm your order.

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I think I know what is going on ...
Talk to you soon.

Hello everybody

I've been taking some time to get Coldkey back on it's feet, mainly to avoid the same mistakes on my end.
Really, providing cool and meaningful cold storage wallets is a heck of a dream job.

We believe that the dawn of physical crypto items didn't occur yet, and are taking every step to make Coldkey a perennial project in the industry.

So in order to bring our project to the next level, I'm honored and blessed to welcome owlcatz within Coldkey.

Moving forward, he will be primarily responsible for interfacing with you, Coldkey aficionados.
He will also be helping with the website, as his experience and knowledge of IT is very precious.
From now on, we are making things happen at Coldkey together.

Honestly if it wasn't for Zepher, owlcatz and I wouldn't have this friendship going on.
(miss you so so much Z... ='( <3)

We're currently setting up the Discord and refining our backend systems.
A new website will be available very shortly as well.

I and only myself will remain in charge of generating the private keys and producing the Coldkeys.
This will be well specified furthermore on the upcoming Coldkey website.

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Besides this amazing news, a few updates for you :

- If you are a customer with an outstanding order from me, owlcatz will be reaching out to you very soon to sort out the situation.

- A new limited Coldkey release is going to be announced and available as of tomorrow.
(It's going to happen in the oldschool bitcointalk way. Sales on thread. )

- We don't want to overshare our plans, and there is much much more to come ! Prepare to be blown away.

Vive la Coldkey !