Dust attacks and address poisoning scams serve different purposes. Dust attacks are a means of trying to identify the users behind certain addresses by having them spend or consolidate the dust together with other coins in addresses connected to a verified identity. It's not a scheme to steal and scam people. Poisoning attacks are exactly that, a scheme to trick people and steal from them.    

That's not very likely to happen. These altcoins are account-based, not UTXO-based. Like I said previously, it's very likely you are using the same altcoin address for all your tokens. You can't freeze 1 cent of unwanted ETH in an address that holds the rest of your ETH.

Tell your friend to not use transaction histories for information about destination addresses. He may never run into problems, but it could also happen the next time he does it. I see no reason to gamble like that.

There is no reason why poisoning scams couldn't be used in Bitcoin and against Bitcoin users. But there a few reasons why they are less effective:

1. They cost more. Compared to Ethereum, Polygon or BSC, you have to pay more in fees to transfer Bitcoin. It might be enough to pay a few cents on alternative networks, but you may need $1 or $2 for bitcoin and maybe much more.

2. Bitcoin has a dust threshold. There is a minimum amount of satoshis that you have to send, which is known as the dust limit. I think 0-value outputs were possible on the Bitcoin network in the past but not anymore. Or, if they are, they are non-standard. Many alternative chains allow 0-value transactions.

3. Bitcoin isn't account-based. With Ethereum, Tron, etc., you have one account for the native coins and you use the same account for all your tokens. With Bitcoin, you have outputs spread across multiple addresses. Address reuse isn't popular for privacy reasons. Also, it doesn't save you any money to use the same address over and over again. You can't target a Bitcoin address as easy in an attempt to fool the user like you would for those alternative chains. If you and me did some trades, I would give you a new BTC address every time. But if we used ETH, all transactions would probably go into the same address even if its tokens and not the native coin.   

4. It's harder to generate similar-looking Bitcoin addresses. I am not an expert in this topic, but I think it takes more computational power to generate a similar-looking Bitcoin address compared to an Ethereum one, for example. And it gets exponentially harder the more unique custom characters you want. It's also close to impossible to make the last characters identical (like in the example of the person who lost +$70 million) because there is a checksum.   

An address poisoning scam involving wrapped bitcoin (wBTC) on the Ethereum network resulted in a victim losing over 1155 wBTC, worth $74 million currently. The scam happened on 3 May.

A little earlier, the victim received a 0-value transaction that was recorded in their transaction history. This transaction came from an address that had similar characters at the beginning and the end to the address the victim wanted to send the tokens to. Both addresses begin with "0xd9A1" and end with "853a91."

The victim wasn't careful and didn't check the whole address they were sending to. They probably copied the receiving address from their transaction history and ended up sending a fortune to a scammer.
It's a good lesson for everyone reading this. Don't be in a hurry, and take your time. Check the transaction data once or twice, and when you are sure everything is correct, check it a third time.


Read more about it here:
https://cryptopotato.com/costly-mistake-victim-loses-68-million-in-address-poisoning-scam/

Sorry, I don't do that kind of thing, nor do I have much experience with on-chain transaction analysis to connect alternative accounts and catch cheaters. It's not my cup of tea. But I know there are people who like to do it and are good at it. Hopefully, some of them will see this thread and help you.

Hold on, did you receive any kind of proof from this PYramid Blockhead guy that he carried out any managerial work at all? Is there a spreadsheet with amounts that were supposed to be distributed to bounty participants or did he not even do that?

The advice that rfan_pak10 and AB de Royse777 gave you makes sense. The scammer has (or had) access to the spreadsheet. It's theoretically possible for him to change all receiving addresses with his own. That's why they told you to verify if the information in the table actually belongs to them. Forget about the old spreadsheet entirely. Ask them to submit new info in your thread.

@Sodenmaster
Have you tried to talk with the FortuneJack forum representative? This is their profile (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303298). Send them a PM and invite them to share their side of the story in this topic. 

Sodenmaster has already explained in their OP that it wasn't a live bet, but a pre-match bet. They claim to have placed it before the match started.

That's a proper shitcoin. It's down almost 99% since its all-time-high. You got your coins back, but they are probably worthless or worth a few dollars max. Nevertheless, the situation has been resolved, and I suggest you write (RESOLVED) in the subject field for other readers to know.

Can you show me the connection between the agustina2 account and those of chaser15 and Heartilly? I will support your flag if there is proof that all three accounts are connected and part of a larger farm with the intent to scam people and/or participate in signature campaigns.

I wouldn't call this a mistake. Being late with payments can happen to anyone. We are all human after all, and all kinds of factors can affect and prevent us from completing our work in time. The payment part could have been seen as a mistake on his part.

Here is what wasn't a mistake:

It wasn't a mistake to ignore the questions about the delays on Telegram. It wasn't a mistake to ignore you after you asked about it.
Moving the tokens to another address that is connected to his alt account was also not a mistake. Well, it was in his eyes because it proved he controls both accounts.
It was also not a mistake to remove the Telegram ID from his Bitcointalk account in an attempt to erase the proof.

In summary, he planned and wanted to cheat the bounty hunters, but he got caught and decided to make the best out of a bad situation. That was to give the money to you. The only reason you got the money is because you caught him. He has probably learned a few lessons here. Lessons that he might use to carry out a better thought out scam in the future.

I didn't say there were plenty, I said there are several of them. eXch, Bisq, and TradeOgre are already several exchanges.

You have Robosats for bitcoin over the lightning network.
Unstoppable Swaps can help for Bitcoin to Monero atomic swaps.
There is one called Blockdx but I don't know anything about it.
Boltz exchange is for swaps between bitcoin, LN BTC, and liquid bitcoin.
Peach Bitcoin is KYC-free for amounts up to 1000 CHF.

Like I said in my PM, there is a longer list on KYCnot.me.

I am still a bit confused about how the scam happened.

Let's take it step by step how I understood it:
The scammer created a group chat in which he added himself, the person he was impersonating, and you. He was then successful in tricking you into believing that the real user (who you know and trust) needed some money and a reason why you should sent it to them. You believed that the person you trusted was asking for the 0.019 BTC, so you sent it to them. In reality, you sent the bitcoin to the scammer. 

Is that what happened?

Did I not state in my post that it's a partner exchange of ChangeNOW? It says so clearly. I am not advertising it. You asked me over PM about other exchanges. That's it. I am well aware of ChangeNOW's fake claims like being non-custodial. I am also aware of their selective scamming, which has been documented on this forum in the past.

I saw the blog post yesterday, but didn't want to rub salt into the wound. Not because you don't deserve to. You do deserve it. But since you felt obliged to mention my name in the hour of your greatest failure, I will share a few words.

Wasabi and zkSNACKs have failed. The mission is over. You have sold out everyone you possibly could, and now you are packing your bags. You have failed to provide privacy to your customers, but you were successful in cooperating with the enemy.

Despite your funding of blockchain analysis and working with your handlers, they didn't want you. That's what happens when you join the dark side. You get used and spit up. You shouldn't have done it. You were ready to drop to your knees and pull down your pants, but no one was interested.

Wasabi could have gone down in history as one of the best in the game, but you didn't. And you Kruw will be remembered as the lying and manipulative scum who was looking forward to someone's death. That someone, who, in contrast to you, wasn't ready to spread their cheeks. 

Your mission is a failure!

Be careful. I don't know where you are from, but something tells me you are from the US. And when I say the US, I mean the TSA (the Tyrannical States of America). You said that you are a popular influencer. Perhaps you are thinking of connecting your real name to your upcoming DEX. Dictatorships, like the US, have changed course and want to make example of bitcoiners and those not in sync with their goals. Would be a shame if the exchange becomes a great success and your name ends up on a warrant. 

All new additions are a welcome move, but they are a bit late to the party. Lightning Network support should have been added a long time ago. But with or without it, this won't stop Coinbase to mysteriously malfunction in times of huge interest in bitcoin and when prices are on the rise. They historically tend to have issues in those times and dampen bitcoin's value increase.

Welcome to the forum!

Maybe you can provide some more information about your work and how far you have come with the documentary already, so that people can see for themselves if this is a serious thing or not. If you expect serious people to contact you, please show some seriousness yourself.

Do you have a website people can visit and familiarize themselves with your company?
Have you produced and aired any other documentaries the public could be interested in?

@SwapBay
You asked me over PM the other day what other no KYC exchanges there are besides those mentioned on kycnot.me and I forgot to reply back. You can check out what one of our forum members, agentF, offers through his instant exchange PNNV.com. This isn't exactly a no KYC exchange because it's a partner service of ChangeNOW, but agentF accepts full responsibility if ChangeNOW blocks your funds and will find a solution to pay you the money back.

What do you envision the future for PNNV.com to be like? Remember when I asked you about ChipMixer and Sinbad coins, you said you didn't want to be associated with that. But by distancing yourself from ChangeNOW for KYC reasons, does that mean no chances for KYC in the future regardless of the origin of funds? Or will unwanted coins still be rejected using a different algorithm? 

Bitkong casino is still offline and unavailable since the ownership change on 1 May. Since there is no information on the website or the Bitcointalk announcement thread about when the new site might be ready, I will remove them from my table. It doesn't hurt anyone by being there since you can't log in or play at the casino but I will remove it nevertheless. 

Exchanges shouldn't be considered mixers. I agree with that. But you are getting different coins back if you perform a swap before withdrawing. Deposit bitcoin, swap it for a different asset, and then after some time, swap the received asset for bitcoin again and withdraw. You are not going to get the same BTC back that you initially deposited. I am not saying that the exchange won't see what you did and what you swapped, but they are different BTC UTXOs.