Promoting a scam is equivalent to scamming someone.

If you don't trust the merchant with your address, then why are you buying something from him?

I don't think such kind of services exist, but you can have a P.O.Box rented so that you can say the merchant to ship to your box. You can be anonymous but it's not completely possible.

On the contrary, services like DHL and FedEx don't ship to P.O.Boxes I believe. But I am not completely sure about this. Either way, USPS ships to PO. Boxes and they are a safer way for preserving your privacy.

If we consider just the posting gap or the posting style of this guy, then this account seems to have been hacked twice. One should have been in 2017 and other one is 2019.

Going by his post history, the original Luno account seems to be an old miner from 2011. He should have started mining btc at the end of 2011 when the price was around $4/coin. He went offline on 2014. All of a sudden the account became active in 2017 and enrolled in a signature campaign for a payrate of 0.0003/post and started spamming with his bullshit one-liners. Spamming continued until the account was further hacked for the second time after 4 months. After a gap of 2 years, a scammer took over the account and started scamming poor newbies.  

P.S The original Luno has received 144.86189425 BTC till now and probably would be a millionaire by now. He won't scam others for $75
Luno's original wallet : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/12ozZFVw3UKEymiq3RDmrVBfnYvYPk2g6K

Painting him red is the only way to get rid of this scammer.  

No, it's a confirmed Hacked account.

Well, your negative trust has nothing to do with his account considering he is a newbie. But both Negative and Positive Trust is not meant for that. Just quoting the post and shitposting doesn't mean that you don't trust him. So, if you see a quality poster will you trust him?

As the trust quote says,
What did he actually do? Did he scam anyone or has he traded with you and you don't trust him?

We should give time for newbies to use this forum and understand how it works. Even though he may be a legendary guy, you should not distrust him. Trust is not meant for that.

Regarding spams, I report and mod removes those posts. If the user repeats that, I always PM them stating that they are spamming. Some have realized those and started posting meaningful.

If the prices of these badges were higher and assuming most of these ICO companies manage the bounties themselves, I believe Companies won't pay thousands of dollars for buying the badge.  Well if the price for Manager badge is high, then bounty management would become centralized with very few trusted and reputable managers. Yes that would be good, but doing so will also make these managers to demand for higher pay rates. $50 is literally very low but having some kind of payment would be better.

Might be a better idea. But we cannot assure how effectively this limits spam posting. If everyone work for what they are paid like what you, Yahoo, DarkStar does then we would not have seen these spams.

Yes, that's true. Shady companies don't spend for signature creations or for these review websites. They just come here announce their scam and start a bounty and run away with what they have gained. This should also be controlled to an extent. Though the forum acts as a decentralized one, but it also acts as a entity for promoting scams, hence theymos should get involved in this area and enforce much stronger rules.

This forum can be saved from signature spams only when crypto is in bear market. Once if btc starts to reach out to a wider public and gets into the limelight, we would face an insanely tough situation preventing spams and saving this forum. With increase in btc prices, there would be a steep increase in ICO generation rates resulting in increase of spammer registrations in this forum. Even systems like Merit and implementing new Guidelines won't save this forum from spams and the situation would be uncontrollable as it was prevailing during 2017-2018 era.

For instance, let us take a simple scenario. Around 958,576 users have registered in 2018 and 493244 have registered in 2017. It's around twice as much as the users have registered. More than 50% of these were spammers, not really active or were just tired of spamming and left altogether during the bear market. Considerably the spams increased during this period. Either way bear market is a good time to implement any such new rules to the forum such as banning of alt related stuffs or signatures or implementing new rules as this would act as some kind of weapon during the upcoming spam war. Some prevailing problems which must be seen through,

[1] Signature spams starts with manager. They are the one who hire spammers to promote their project. If so, why not restrict topic starters in Bounties section to some sort of paid membership ranks like "Manager" Ranks and the prices should be around $50 or somewhere near. This would make the companies to hand over their bounty management to only people who have bought those ranks or some good Managers who are affording to pay.

[2] People here keep reminding me that we are in a bitcoin forum and not in a altcoin forum whenever someone requests for some additional sub-boards in Altcoins. If it is so, then why should we allow the promotion of alts here? We could ban them altogether.

[3] theymos could easily implement a new rule such like, only those who received 10+ merits in the last 120 days could use signature? Will this work really? I need community suggestions. But there seems to be another negative aspect such that merit abusers would get those.

These were mentioned already, and seems to be a working idea. But practically it costs thousands of USD for the company to pay in btc considering the amount of registrations being done by bounty hunters which these companies are not ready to pay 

Almost all the cryptocurrencies were useless in the beginning, but they gained popularity and prices based on their use cases. Similarly tokens while they are announced in this forum for bounties have no real value but they might gain value in the future. I am not completely against usage of alts for bounty payments, but saying them useless is kinda incorrect.

I promote btc in my signature, satoshi pays for me. 

Blockchain.com doesn't track native segwit addresses. Electrum either generates Native Segwit (one that starts with bc1) and Legacy Addresses (starts with 1). Try other explorers like blockchair.com, blockstream.info

[1] https://blockchair.com/search?q=bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn
[2] https://blockstream.info/address/bc1qrfnm3lple85fh4eltk9hys6t37x67q7rmr8xnn

P.S You seem to have a balance of 0.14672466 BTC. That's great  

Faucets were the beginning or entry point for many of us into crypto space. While we didn't have much knowledge on what exactly does a bitcoin/cryptocurrency mean we have started using faucets! Faucets on the whole were simple money making strategy by solving captcha through which we received satoshis. They were accumulated and we finally withdrawn them to our wallets by paying a minimal fee. But LN doesn't work that way. For one to transact through off-chain, they need to open a channel on-chain between the faucet owner and receiver by paying in bitcoin. Meanwhile if the faucet owner agrees to use LN and requests the newbie user to open a channel by paying in btc, they might assume that as a scam and runaway without using the faucet.

This is quite enough to prove that if LN were to be adopted, we would require to pay first to open a channel. LN requires your money to start a channel man, faucet owner doesn't pay for everything! Faucets are a way of introducing a newbie into crypto space and not making them run away without using those faucets and on top of that it might be a little complicated for new users to understand how LN functions.

If everything goes out as planned in the roadmap, we would be able to see a good multi- currency atomic swap supported wallet. I do have some queries regarding the functioning of this wallet...

[1] If this an open source wallet, why do you create repository in Q2 of 2019? And as this is an open source, what do you as a team gain from creating a wallet?

[2] If this wallet supports crypto-fiat exchange, then what would be the possible fiat
currencies you guys would be adding?

[3] Can this be used in offline as we are using other light wallets like Electrum and MEW?

You should have posted this topic in Meta. bjoern1978 is your hacked/locked account?

While you are logging in you should have seen either a locked account error message, if that's the case you should have received an email ID in the error message. Send an email and you will be notified further on how to recover the account. If the account has been hacked and you cannot access them, it would probably be a hectic problem to you in regaining the access. If the above mentioned account is what you are referring, I don't see any unedited bitcoin addresses mentioned by you. If your account has been hacked you better need to sign from the unedited address and send an email to recoveries...@bitcointalk.org, with the following information provided with your username.


P.S : Here is the complete announcement from theymos for recovering lost and hacked accounts : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0

Could you please refrain yourself from making such baseless claims? You don't even know to properly link an account and mention their name? And what makes you say so that I have been inactive for past 1 week. You have mentioned my name and has linked Gwapo's account. Gwapo seems to be a bought account and literally has been awake after a long period of inactivity. Check before posting anything about others.

P.S Posting just 2 posts per day doesn't mean that I am inactive and posting 5-6 posts per day doesn't mean that you are active my dear bounty hunter.

I have been into the cryptocurrency space for around 2 years and have been in this forum for around a year. Bounties in the form of tokens seems to be good only when you receive them, but when they are launched in the exchanges the price gets tanked miserably and you would be left with just less than $50. If they were accumulated each year you would see your portfolio rise. Almost 90% of the bounties scam the users and run away with free promotion. When you are promoting something in your signature space, you should be aware of the consequences you are gonna face. There would be someone in this forum who might see your signature and may invest in the coin, thus promotion should be done to a legit one. With this bear market in practice, there are very few good ICOs which you can promote through your signature space.

On the other hand, moderators are volunteers of the forum rather than calling them as staffs. They get paid lesser than what you earn in signature campaigns. They are not here for spamming and gaining money. They control the spammy situation prevailing here due to the signatures and get paid for that. Truly speaking, I get paid infinitesimally small comparing to what I earn in my real life job. But I consider this as an incentive for my posting and learning new things. You can join btc campaigns and the btc you receive can be invested in potential alts to receive some serious profits.

Almost all the Newbies start their journey in this forum to earn, but once you get acquainted with this, you feel like contributing rather than hunting bounties.

If the launch of Baktt and other BtcETF goes out well with very little downtrend and bad news, the price would soar up a little than it was during the recent bearish days.

My Prediction would be,

$5671 (My favorite lucky number)

Thanks for the conducting the game mic. Looks interesting.

With the investigations made by marlboroza, you seem to be a account farmer, with S_Therapist account being the famous one among the others (there might be another account hiding among us). While other accounts seems to be shitposting and abusing bounties, S_Therapist and the possible main account may be trying to gain reputation. Your shady behavior and the owning of alts doesn't seem to be trustworthy. Jrashid account has participated in the second week of ICOForums Eth based campaign, and the S_Therapist account came from nowhere to bump a 2 month old thread to confirm the status of payments.

phantiennghia, nguyenthanhhieu, quangtrung1991
Well there are no evidences to prove that you own those accounts or they may have used your info to frame you! But on the whole, you could have just been aside with these huge escrow deals for another year or so, until you have gained reputation for yourselves. Even experienced escrows like OG and MJ might think a little before escrowing such huge amounts. Though your intentions could have been true to offer a safe one, $100k is literally huge and may change you to run away with that. During the start of accusations, you argued that S_Therapist was a random guy from the forum. But later on, you said he worshiped you and he is your fan, and now its your brother 'mahim' seems to be associated with S_Therapist youtube channel based on marlboroza investigations. This newer case of S_Therapist connection will just put you into another hectic trouble I believe. 

64 - Heisenberg

Good Luck all and may the force be with everyone 

Well, I don't think the idea makes sense. theymos is both the creator of merits and destroyer of smerits(if he really needs).  Also, meriting his posts and posts from inactive accounts are literally a wastage of smerits. If those merits would have been there it could have helped some newbies to rank up. For instance, 1500 merits sent to satoshi and other inactive accounts has gone completely useless. Saying that as a honor is absolute nonsense.

Most of the merit sources are not clearing up their monthly limit or rather they don't have merit worthy posts as mentioned by Jet Cash. Hence, giving anything higher to them is literally same as meriting theymos. 20k merit generation per month is enough is they are utilised properly.

I do have a suggestion, people never stop meriting satoshi/theymos. Hence theymos can disable +Merit button in his/satoshi posts.

Either S_Therapist may or may not be an alt of mdayonliner.  But I strongly believe that they are an alt of someone familiar here who has used the forum quite few months. I suspected in his early days of the account creation and by going through your posts it is clear that he should be a guy who has already learned how the forum works and have created another account to do something suspicious. A newbie would never come here and talk about Reporting spams, Default Trust scoes and merits in a week. I am not the guy who is really willing to get involved in forum politics like exposing alts, scams etc. But I always felt like someday someone might expose you. You cannot defend that you came straight to this forum without having knowledge about how forum works.

Mday seems to be a good guy quite a few times and those red paint would have been changed to neutral and then to green someday. But you ruined yourself by creating lots of alts and trying to gain what you lost (reputation). Trust isn't something which comes in a year or two unless you have made some real serious trades worth thousands of USD.

After similar incidences it is obviously clear that "anyone trying to become popular and gain trust within a month or two is not to be trusted, probably would be an alt account and would be painted red sooner" Some popular alts which was trying to gain trust and misfired

[1] Zapo alt of Atriz
[2] Alia alt of favors
[3] S_Therapist alt of

You may not be mday (while there are no concrete evidences to prove that), but you are an alt of someone familiar here. (and neither not pkmoney)

Check the quote below to see what he answered regarding his absence.

I don't poke myself into every thread but read a lot and enjoy these interesting and funfilled movies.
That adds some real spices to the popcorn to make it flavour rich. Here is a quote which will take the screenplay faster.

I suspect pkmoney is already an hacked account who suddenly came back after 4 years of inactivity and was trying to prove his nonsense

But this friendly relationships looks quite better than the common idiot-in-law and bullshit-in-law relationships seen commonly in this forum.  

Pkmoney doesn't seem to have knowledge in forum related stuffs. That confirms you might not be pkmoney. You are lying to cover your previous acts. If you are not mday, you are someone familiar in this forum. You might not be pkmoney, considering your knowledge about how forum works.
utlptc is a shitposter and bounty hunter, you don't seem so. This shows that you are neither pkmoney or utlptc

P.S this is not really great case of a scammer or someone really very popular to make theymos check your IP and prove you are innocent. You are an ordinary guy, alia was supported by theymos in early days which urged him expose the IP evidences.

As the quote says " PM privacy is not guaranteed. Encrypt sensitive messages." theymos, sirius and few others can view your PM's if they really need to. If you would like to preserve your privacy better opt for PGP encryption where only you and the receiver can decrypt and view the messages. The following is an old quote about privacy and PM's. I don't know how much the regulations have been changed by theymos since then.


Once back in 2014, theymos received a subpoena for the DPR case to release the deleted posts and PMs (though not really sure of the latter). But on whole, admins can view your PM if you didn't use PGP/GPG. Also note that, if your account has been hacked on rare cases, the hacker can read your PMs if they are not encrypted. Hence, you should use a encryption if you are dealing with the member personally. PMs are removed from the database only if both the sender and receiver deletes them. But, the DB is being backed up daily hence your PMs stay in the encrypted backups and those can be downloaded by global mods and admins.

You could better move this to Beginners&Help board rather than keeping up this topic in Tech Discussion board.

Some of the popular Btc testnet faucets :

[1] https://bitcoinfaucet.uo1.net/ : You would be receiving 0.0002 BTC for each faucet request I guess
[2] https://testnet-faucet.mempool.co/
[3] http://tpfaucet.appspot.com/


You can use ropsten network for testing out your wallet application

Eth faucet for Ropsten Network : https://faucet.ropsten.be/

Ethereum faucets don't give out much and most of them has been shut down over times. While I was coding a smart contract for learning purposes, I used ropsten network to generate my own ERC20 tokens. 

We need to remember that during the early days, even precious metals like Gold were used as a currency and a trading unit rather than using it as a store of value. During these days, currencies were minted out of gold and silver rather than steel (well, probably a non-worthy metal). As days progressed by, the mining cost of gold increased along with rarity and price. Today they have been considered as a investment option rather than a currency.

Similarly bitcoin was created to be used as a currency similar to euros and USD. Most importantly, the primary factor against the usage of bitcoin as a currency is the extreme inflation rates governing them. A volatile material can not be effectively used in retail day to day transactions. Gold and other precious metals does have inflation rates but on a lower percentage when compared to btc. Even the mass adoption will rather increase the volatility in the market which might be a bad sign for its usage as a currency. But we people believe that once all the 21 million has been mined, the volatility might get reduced to an extent.

On top of that, a guy doesnt need to have knowledge on Bitcoin to use it i beleive. With the development of payment portals for cryptocurrencies, it has become easy for one to use btc similar to Visa payment process or other credit and debit card systems. On the other hand, the merchant needs to understand the basics of using cryptocurrencies. Just mentioning a label "Bitcoin Accepted Here!" alone doesnt help him in successfully receiving them as a payment. As ETFBitcoin said, coins present in bc1 addresses can be sent only to segwit supported wallets . The merchant either should integrate his wallet with an exchange and it must immediately convert btc to fiat/Tether to prevent his losses with inflation prices or must be well aware with cryptocurrency techs etc.

Lightning Network just increases the scalability and increases the speed of transactions. Each and every time the sender and receiver should pay to open a channel which might be a little cumbersome and would not go well for all.