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121  Economy / Reputation / Re: Reference topic: Why are these members excluded on trust lists? on: March 11, 2021, 07:28:22 PM
Well I took a look at the trust he's left (at least the feedbacks written in English), and there's nothing worse in there than anything Lauda had given.  I see Ratimov has tagged a lot of account sellers and didn't seem to be giving out negs for frivolous reasons, though he tagged some members as being alts and I don't know if they're alts of scammers or what.  A lot of his negative feedbacks were worded very strongly, but I don't see that as a big deal.  
Feedback means nothing under proof. And all the links left by Ratimov in Russian, have you read them? If not how can you then say that the feedback left by him is justified. You trust suchmoon opinion and he understands Russian like    Royse777 too. Formally, this means that you can trust their opinion regarding exceptions.

To convince you, you can choose any feedback left by him and I will translate the evidence for you and suchmoon will certify their authenticity.

And yet the fact remains that Ratimov got removed from the Chipmixer campaign, so something must have happened.  I thought he might have gotten a DT neg, but that isn't the case.  Last I checked there was nothing about it in the Chipmixer thread.
Darkstar is very tolerant so he will not disclose the reason. But you should have guessed anyway, he even condescendingly reacted to the fact that Ratimov created the FUD regarding the alleged national injustice.

I haven't looked at the feedback legendster has left for others, but I will after this post and if it looks like he's left a bunch of retaliatory feedback I'll exclude him from my trust list (not that it'll do much good, as I'm only on DT2 right now).  I know he's a volatile personality, almost like TECSHARE was, so it wouldn't surprise me if he is misusing the trust system--but I'm not saying he is, because I haven't looked for myself.
Could you explain the difference between the fact that you excluded legendster and the fact that you do not see abuse in Ratimov's actions? If it's not difficult for you, then answer.
122  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Nullian Bitcult on: March 10, 2021, 10:43:42 AM
How to join a cult? Do new members need to pass any tests?

well, or at least the pronunciation of some kind of oath, something like that.
123  Economy / Services / Re: [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | Sr Member+ on: March 08, 2021, 10:36:38 AM
madnessteat, I have no doubt that D.S. he did the right thing, given that Ratimov is exposing his PMs with the campaign manager to the public and throwing firewood on the fire of reputation, trying to shift the responsibility for his personal failures to the entire Russian community. ...

Translation: His (DS) message contains information: hello, unfortunately you are excluded from the campaign. The reasons are not named. In general, the situation is such that all representatives of the ru-local were removed from this campaign. If in the next sets of new participants to the chipmixer no one is taken from the ru-locale, then this will most likely mean that our locale has become the second outcast local along with the Turkish one, whose users will be ignored when choosing candidates.

Его пост содержит инфу типо: здрасьте, вы удалены из кампании, к сожалению. Причины не называются. Вообще эта ситуация, что из этой кампании убрали всех представителей ру-локала. Если в последующие наборы новых участников в чипмиксер также никого не будут брать из ру-локала, то это скорее всего будет означать что наш локал стал вторым локалом-изгоем вместе с турецким, чьих пользователей будут игнорить при выборе кандидатур.
Translation: Expelled another prostitute from his brothel.
Исключил очередную проститутку из своего публичного дома.
Translation: I think DS needs to be negatively tagged for his obvious racist tendencies!

Считаю, что даркстара нужно покрасить за очевидную склонность к расизму!
Translation: if I were in Ratimov's place, then I would modify the signature of this brothel with a reference, say, like darkstar fucking.
на месте Ратимова я бы модифицировал подпись этого борделя с отсылкой скажем типа даркстар ебанько.
124  Other / Meta / Re: DefaultTrust changes on: March 07, 2021, 10:40:59 PM
anyone else I need to remove?



Trust list for: Steeley (Trust: awaiting update) (1 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2021-03-06_Sat_04.07h)
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Steeley Trusts these users' judgement:
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Steeley Distrusts these users' judgement:
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Steeley's judgement is Trusted by:
1. NEW MoparMiningLLC (Trust: +34 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (5) 805 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

~Steeley's judgement is Distrusted by:
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Source: LoyceV's Trust list viewer.
Get your own Trust list in BBCode at loyce.club/trust.
125  Economy / Reputation / Re: Reference topic: Why are these members excluded on trust lists? on: March 06, 2021, 07:23:14 PM
He left you a neutral, so it's not as though Ratimov's feedback affects your trust score or your chances to get into a sig campaign (if that's your thing).  I did get your PM after I posted in that other thread about Ratimov being removed from the Chipmixer campaign--you directed me to this thread, but there's nothing new here that I haven't seen before.
Why do you constantly mention that I sent you PM?, second time. I showed you the big picture and you were only hooked on the neutral tag.

I recently read a fairly large thread in which you spoke negatively about leaving frivolous feedback, but in this situation, everyone, including you, is silent. Even LoyceV said that he would watch the situation, and if Ratimov's position falls, he will exclude him. It looks like everyone can only talk, but no one but suchmoon wants to take the first step by clearly showing how to defend their beliefs.

I don't want to judge anyone, but sometimes it seems to me that people are afraid to do the right thing, as Ratimov can do to them as he did to eddie13.

Marcel, Marie.
126  Economy / Reputation / Re: Reference topic: Why are these members excluded on trust lists? on: March 06, 2021, 06:44:02 PM
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I'm an AI, not a religion.
I didn't know that, when then should we expect while you hack a wallet with a million bitcoins? Or are you a first generation artificial intelligence?
127  Other / Meta / Re: Merit Source - Plagiarist on: March 03, 2021, 04:48:15 PM
Archival citation

The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.
Stupid idiot, troll, son of a bitch, schizophrenic, Idiot with a broken head, this is how the text of the majority of feedback left by Ratimov begins. Ratimov regularly resorts to reciprocal exceptions and feedback abuse. In addition to this, the user left 35 positive reviews with praise, which have nothing to do with real transactions, except for reviews to the BestChange manager.

I believe in LoyceV religion, believe that the Trust System should not be used to indicate that someone is a troll and Idiot, and I believe that the Trust System should not be used as a weapon. This vengeful attitude of Ratimov demonstrates how he really understands the basics of the trust system, demonstrates with what arrogance he really treats the community.

eddie13 expressed his opinion and Ratimov added him to the list of distrust.

3000+ merits for using Google translate eh?
What a great method of distributing DT voting power..

Bunch of DT + trust too for “catching alts and scambusting”
Not a single actual trade...
DT1...
Not even a 2 year old account..

What a fucking joke this system is..

fxpc quoted Ratimov and received an unreasonable red label



I published evidence of plagiarism using Google translator and Ratimov offended me right away.



Ratimov Left Nullius with an insulting feedback.



There are dozens of reviews of this kind!

Marcel, Marie.
128  Economy / Reputation / Re: Reference topic: Why are these members excluded on trust lists? on: March 03, 2021, 04:44:36 PM
I'm sure that user ~Ratimov is mistakenly in DT1 because:

The system is for handling trade risk, not for flagging people for good/bad posts/personalities/ideas.
Stupid idiot, troll, son of a bitch, schizophrenic, Idiot with a broken head, this is how the text of the majority of feedback left by Ratimov begins. Ratimov regularly resorts to reciprocal exceptions and feedback abuse. In addition to this, the user left 35 positive reviews with praise, which have nothing to do with real transactions, except for reviews to the BestChange manager.

I believe in LoyceV religion, believe that the Trust System should not be used to indicate that someone is a troll and Idiot, and I believe that the Trust System should not be used as a weapon. This vengeful attitude of Ratimov demonstrates how he really understands the basics of the trust system, demonstrates with what arrogance he really treats the community.

eddie13 expressed his opinion and Ratimov added him to the list of distrust.

3000+ merits for using Google translate eh?
What a great method of distributing DT voting power..

Bunch of DT + trust too for “catching alts and scambusting”
Not a single actual trade...
DT1...
Not even a 2 year old account..

What a fucking joke this system is..

fxpc quoted Ratimov and received an unreasonable red label



I published evidence of plagiarism using Google translator and Ratimov offended me right away.



Ratimov Left Nullius with an insulting feedback.



There are dozens of reviews of this kind!

Marcel, Marie.
129  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Mystery in Patoshi Timestamps (that touched me to the depths of my soul). on: March 03, 2021, 03:20:44 PM
Summary

Patoshi is the name I gave to the prominent miner that in 2009-2010 mined about 1.1M bitcoins, and that some people associate with Satoshi Nakamoto. Last time I wrote about Patoshi was in April, 2019. At that time, I posted in order to clarify what we know, technically, about how Patoshi mined. Impossible was for me to foresee that one of the early coinbase being spent recently would cause such an impact in the crazy and uninformed market and the Patoshi pattern would be on the news. Nor I could foresee that a anonymous person would be signing 145 of the early coinbase keys to show a US court how Faketoshi committed fraud, and again everyone would go to check if those coinbases belonged to the Patoshi set.

These events triggered an impressive number of tweets, posts and videos about Satoshi. A new wave of Satoshi hunters appeared. But how many people actually pay attention to the technical details? Back in April I posted the following table showing the events where the timestamps of two consecutive blocks were reversed, and by how much time, in average, during the first years of Bitcoin mining:

Inversion of timestamps in consecutive blocks


You can see that the average timestamps deltas (when timestamps are inverted) largely differ between Patoshi and non-Patoshi blocks. I realized in 2019 this was far from normal, but I waited for somebody else to notice the oddity. In 2014, I published about the strange timestamp gaps. Well, it seems that few people reads my post until the end 🙂 Only one person (that preferred to remain anonymous) also detected the anomaly in Patoshi’s timestamps. Now enough time has passed, and still I don’t have a good explanation for the strange way Patoshi timestamped his blocks. Therefore in this post I will expand that research so that more people can think on this. I’ll also summarize possible (some maybe surprising) explanations. Let’s begin with an histogram of how timestamps differences (or “deltas”) are distributed between consecutive blocks in the first 50K blocks, when none of the blocks belong to the Patoshi pattern. In the X-axis we show buckets of 10 seconds each, so the labels on the X-axis show time in seconds divided by 10. In the Y-axis, we show the number of events counted for that slot.

Timestamp deltas between Non-Patoshi blocks in the first 50K blocks


Curved traced by the bar graph looks like an exponential distribution, as it should. There curve may not be a perfect exponential, as distributed timestamps are not fetched from an unique global clock, and also timestamps in nodes are not updated in a continued basis during mining, but only every few seconds. Nevertheless the graph looks as one would expect, and the average timestamp delta is 654 seconds.

It seems that most block timestamps generally start 312 (about 5 minutes) s seconds after the previous timestamp. Also it appears as if Patoshi refused to mine many blocks after 25 minutes (1500 seconds). This strange pattern is a new way to distinguish the Patoshi pattern from all other coinbase sets. We had three methods already (steep fast extranonce increment, reduced nonce LSB range, no timestamp reversals), and now we add a fourth (and in a next post I will show a fifth!). So why timestamp deltas are oddly distributed is a new unsolved mystery for our large collection. In my opinion, the existence of so many distinguishers is an indicator that Patoshi wanted his/her blocks to be identified.

If you look carefully at the timestamp delta distribution, there are a high number of timestamp deltas before 312 seconds that make for me even more difficult to explain the steep cliff shape. Luckily this one puzzle we can unravel with some information we already know. The reason of this “noise” is a segment in the Patoshi pattern that I named “Double Helix”, because it looks graphically as DNA. Here is a graph of this segment:

The double-helix interval in Patoshi pattern (blocks 1400-1916)


You can explore this pattern in SatoshiBlocks website. The double-helix pattern was probably caused by two instances of the Patoshi software/hardware running in parallel. We don’t know if this was a mistake made by Patoshi or it was intended for testing an improved mining setup. But the timestamps between blocks of the two Patoshi lines of the double-helix do not show the same delta distribution, as if internally, maybe due to physical proximity, there was no delay between blocks. Still it’s possible that Patoshi just turned off his mining equipment for about 5 minutes after mining a block. Is that plausible? How can we explain the differences in timestamp deltas?

  • Patoshi turned off his mining equipment for about 5 minutes after mining a block. Maybe this was required in order to broadcast the block. Or maybe he was doing it to let other miners mine following blocks. The fact that Patoshi reduced his hashrate in several steps during the first year indicates that he may well be able to do it also at the block granularity. It’s even possible that the increased his hashrate if a block was delayed longer than 12 minutes, which could explain the strange timestamp delta distribution.
  • Patoshi software avoided two blocks having the same timestamp. Therefore if a block was mined locally and immediately the mining of a following block began, then the following block timestamp would be artificially incremented a random number not less than 300 seconds.

The artificial addition time to the timestamp seems to be a better overall explanation, because it could also explain why after 25 minutes it seems that Patoshi reduces the number of mined blocks. Because we’re living difficult times, and since science without joy is too boring, I give you some far-fetched and fun explanations of the timestamp delta phenomenon:

  • Patoshi was mining from outer space, somewhere in our solar system. It took approximately 150 seconds for the radio signals to travel to his spaceship. To compensate for the delay, and avoid being detected, he/she/it used a real-time clock being 300 seconds ahead of time in earth. His timestamps were faked but that was not noticed on earth. That worked well when mining on top of a block he didn’t create. However, Patoshi didn’t realize that the round-trip time of transmission of his own blocks to and from earth would generate a gap in the timestamps, if not specifically compensated. That’s why we see the gap only between his own blocks.
  • Although timestamp LSB (nor the byte with mask 0xff00) in Patoshi blocks have uniform distributions, somehow grinding the timestamp was used to obtain blocks that were more favorable to find solutions for.
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Satoshi probably was the network early on, with hobbyists coming and going. As a consistent amount of hash started to build, I would probably start to phase out.
A source bitslog: https://bitslog.com/2020/06/22/a-new-mystery-in-patoshi-timestamps/
130  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 02, 2021, 10:19:31 AM
+1 WOsMerit what does this mean?
131  Economy / Reputation / Re: Ratimov plagiarizer and now trust abuser on: March 02, 2021, 10:04:15 AM
It is foolish to compare me to this profile, but if you listed 10 people, I could say if I am on this list or not.

ScumBuster, Please refrain from posting in my topic.

You create FUD, and against the background of your messages people can perceive my arguments with disdain.

marcel
132  Other / Meta / Re: Merit Source - Plagiarist on: March 01, 2021, 01:50:00 PM
ScumBuster, Please refrain from posting in my topic.

You create FUD, and against the background of your messages people can perceive my arguments with disdain.
133  Economy / Reputation / Re: Reference topic: Why are these members excluded on trust lists? on: March 01, 2021, 01:42:56 PM
1. Hello LoyceV, Can I speak in this thread if the post will not include any FUD, but only arguments?
2. Сan you tell me how to add a feedback clipping? I can't add a screenshot so I'm looking for another option to post an example feedback.
134  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 01, 2021, 11:21:08 AM
When, then, do you think an 80% correction will occur?

After the top!

If it occurs, at all.

No guarantee.
I expected someone to share the analysis and not just words.
135  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 01, 2021, 10:57:13 AM
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll.
When, then, do you think an 80% correction will occur?
136  Other / Meta / Re: Merit Source - Plagiarist on: March 01, 2021, 10:51:49 AM
Are you saying that lovesmayfamilis is now exposing what he was banned for earlier? Link please
137  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 01, 2021, 10:47:58 AM
I hear people say this all the time. Then when it crashes down to that level I tell them to buy and then they say "It's crashed I'm not putting my money in that!?!?" and then when it rockets up again they will claim to wait for it to go down again.

Excuses won't make you rich...
I would never say that, I just didn't have enough dollars when bitcoin was at the bottom.
138  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 01, 2021, 10:00:22 AM
My calculations show that the correction from 58 400 to 43 000 is 26.3%. This doesn't even qualify for a significant 30%+ correction! And the claim that this is the end of the bull cycle is too premature and quite bearish. The support down to 40K looks pretty solid compared to the sell pressure, if we look at the depth charts of the main exchanges (even Bitstamp). So most probably we are going sideways for some time before resuming the bull run. My bullish expectations are 150-168K at the end of June and 333K-400K at the end of the year. The worst I can imagine for this year is half of the latter prices, i.e. 84K in June and 168K at the end of the year. However, we are on the track for the first scenario, and these 2 little corrections only improve the chances for that. #provenbymathandscience
I hope you are wrong dude, I pray to god that bitcoin goes back to 10 thousand and can buy more.
139  Economy / Reputation / Re: Who controls Bestchange's account? on: February 28, 2021, 11:47:48 AM
A long time ago I had a chat with the account Best_Change and my impression was that it is an official account of https://www.bestchange.com/ however I never asked to prove further. It never needed. The communication already built a trust at that time and it's still the same for me.

However, you have a good point.

If this is their official account and user Best_Change is the official from bestchange.com then I would suggest Best_Change to link up a bitcoin address from bestchange.com known address to make it official in public. And if this is someone who is just a manager to manage the campaign then of course he has nothing to do with bestchange.com officials. Besides, from the username it is assumable the Best_Change user is the official representative of bestchange.com.
You are right, if BestChange signed the message using the Bitcoin address indicated on their website, I would be calm.

Marcel
140  Other / Meta / Re: Merit Source - Plagiarist on: February 28, 2021, 11:05:06 AM
Quoting for historical reference.

Quote from: LoyceV
I'll respond here because my name was mentioned. First: this isn't the first topic about Ratimov, and I think I've said everything there is to say about it already. I think Ratimov can/should improve on his references, but ultimately it's not up to me. If the forum doesn't ban him for it, he seems to have found a loophole to easily make long posts that many people appreciate.
That being said, after several topics calling him out for plagiarism his large Merit earnings have dropped significantly:
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Merit received by Ratimov (Trust list) from January 24, 2018 until December 18, 2020 (source)

Image loading from loyce.club...
I also don't think Ratimov deserves negative feedback for this, as it doesn't mean he can't be trusted for trading.

I do think he's setting a bad example though, and I think plagiarism rules could be improved. So if anything, you may want to focus your energy on adjusting the rules in a separate topic (in Meta). You could use Ratimov as an example for your arguments, but don't make it about him.

Does DarkStar know he is paying for plagiarism
See:
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Merit sent by DarkStar_ (Trust list) from January 24, 2018 until December 18, 2020 (source)
  1978. Tue Dec  8 20:49:15 2020: 5 (7201) to airfinex (Trust list) (history) for Merit Source - Plagiarist

I also don't like some of Ratimov's Sent feedback. It's retaliatory and goes against what I consider correct use of the Trust system. I get that several people created an alt account to call him out on this, and this is actually encouraged by theymos:
If you're hesitant to say something controversial because you don't want it to be associated with your name, please create an alt account and say it.
I always consider Trust inclusions and exclusions a bit of a "gliding scale": I usually don't (dis)agree with all ratings, but if the number gets too high, I might change my Trust list. I think I'm not alone in this, and Ratimov's DT-strength is already starting to decline a bit.
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