In conscience, I must finally let donors and prospective donors know about this, such that they may ask the appropriate questions:


Beware of those who are trying to shoot the messenger, with malicious smear-attacks against me.  I now expect that anywhere that I bring this up.  Do not mistake lack of reply for acquiescence, much less admission:  Such things are properly beneath reply.

suchmoon’s twisted and manipulative attempt to put me on the defensive will not work.

It is a dirty secret of this forum, known to all longtime members, that nobody will dare to raise credible, well-evidenced accusations against a “high-trust” member—especially not one with certain types of friends here.  Wherefore the forum tradition of using alt accounts to raise such accusations.  Although I have the courage to stand up with my “main account”, I anyway cannot use a one-off throwaway here:  I need to attest and release PMs from this account.

The usual pattern:  As a DT member, in 2020, I raised an accusation against a high-profile member based on well-known facts.  Thereupon, suchmoon immediately found a convenient pretext to get me kicked out of DT.  I raise an accusation against a high-profile member here, with clear evidence that suchmoon merrily ignores as she transparently tries to manufacture a scam accusation against me out of the whole cloth.

This forum community’s trust of such persons makes me yearn for the relative honesty and professionalism of defi.

suchmoon’s attempt to pin a nonexistent fraud on me is patently ridiculous.  Moreover, she herself has said, and has maliciously said many easily provable lies about me (plus half-truths and twisted misinterpretations).  Just for an illustrative example of her lies, take her statement that I am “begging”.  Her denial now that she defamed what she so elegantly alleges to be “Cuntius” is a compound lie:  Anyone who reads that post can see that she was falsely accusing me, specifically me, of making up false accusations against Dabs.  Some of her most egregious lies could be easily disproved, but only at the expense of my privacy.

She can make up a new lie every day, try to put me on the spot to defend myself, waste all of my time, and then do it again the next day—if I let her.  I won’t play that game.

The personal attack on me is entirely off-topic here.  I believe that is suchmoon’s primary intent.  To dispose the matter, I have therefore belatedly tagged suchmoon and a few others—as I intended yesterday with this post, and would have if the new 500-character limit did not make accurate tags more time-consuming to create.  Also now goldkingcoiner.  I will leave it at that.  No sense arguing with a psychopath who believes that having emotional attachments to one’s friends is “irrational”.

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Now, suchmoon, do you have anything to say on the topic of Dabs, or not?  Aren’t you at least a wee little bit worried about how someone who’s run a charity thread for nine years has been caught PM-begging and lying about it, as shown in OP?  Among other concerns...

Re: Feed Some Children by Dabs (Donate Bitcoins)

Another issue:  The one-sided blaming of political opponents for mass shootings.

Glenn Greenwald hits the nail on the head about that (2022-05-15).
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-demented-and-selective-game-of

Godwin’s Law is only a logical corollary of this type of thinking:


That is fantastically ignorant ethnic disinformation, albeit typical of Perfidious Albion.  And the “mostly” is a flat-out lie:  The Hessians comprised only about a quarter of soldiers on the British side (much less if you also count naval forces).

There is also the small problem that a significant percentage of colonists were ethnic Germans (especially “Pennsylvania Dutch”, etc.).

The primary fighting was Englishman versus Englishman.  Rebels versus Redcoats—plus a civil war waged by domestic terrorists against Loyalists.

The French intervened on the rebel side.  Without French support, the insurrection would have failed.  That made the rebellion more authentically French than some auxiliaries made the British government “German”.

But if you want to play your dad’s logic all the way, it was really a war between French and Germans.  The British do not exist:  Q.E.D.

Then go back in history to the H.R.E.—or even to the Carolingian Empire—and conclude that the French are Germans.  Add the fact that Anglo-Saxons are German immigrants in Britain.  The American revolution was just a bunch of Germans squabbling amongst themselves.

It occurred to me that this should be resolved administratively.

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You missed the point.  I want to keep and preserve something that has served the community well for years.  I do not want to throw it out and replace it.  Creating a new thread would be counterproductive to what I seek to achieve.

With that being said, perhaps I may make a new thread if there seems to be too much of a danger that this thread will be replaced rather than preserved.  Or perhaps not:  Although I care about the existence of a good wallets thread, the desire to preserve Lauda’s thread is what decisively motivates me to undertake a commitment that I take very seriously.  I haven’t decided, and I hope that I won’t need to.


By what disingenuous pretzel-logic does replacing and unpinning the thread not result in burying it?

Unpinning it means letting it slide into oblivion, with its 99% still-good information that only needs to be maintained against obsolescence.


This is a thread where technical competence is required to collate and edit the information in OP.  It is fundamentally a technical thread, delivered at a newbie level.  Treating it otherwise is to invite misinformation.


I have never seen such an overtly psychopathic statement anywhere on this forum.  You are celebrating psychopathy!

Some of us believe that people matter.  Some of us are loyal to our friends.  Some of us do not treat those who were kind to us as disposable things, to use and to throw away.

Yes, some of us have emotional attachments to human beings.  When you contemn that as “irrational”, you let your mask slip.  Classic psychopathy.

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With that, for the time being, I will ignore further replies here unless something new and interesting arises.  This is a waste of time, not constructive action.  Lauda’s thread is probably the wrong place for this discussion, anyway—especially since she’s not here to delete anything that she deems not a useful addition to her wallets thread.  She always did that, without hesitation and without apology.

Snip off-topic sigspamming:
https://archive.ph/Joafp#selection-7095.0-8213.14

The topic of this thread is Dabs.

Attempts to derail the thread with off-topic shooting-the-messenger are unconscionable and reprehensible.

Don’t you care that the forum community is sending “feed starving children” donations to someone who has a behavioural pattern of sneakily begging in PMs?

At best—at best—it calls for great skepticism.  I call it probable cause to accuse Dabs of scamming.  It shows concrete red flags giving cause to believe that anyone dealing with Dabs has a high risk of losing money:  Runs charity, handles escrow, begs behind the scenes, and lies about begging as shown in OP.

Keep the thread on-topic.

suchmoon, when will you retract and apologize for your own false, malicious, and defamatory claim on 2022-06-18 that this was a matter of “nonsensical accusations”, i.e. a lie?
https://archive.ph/AV4BR#selection-451.0-743.42
You have made many such lies yourself, lately; but on the thread about Dabs, the on-topic discussion is about Dabs’ begging PMs.  What have you to say about those PMs, and about Dabs?

goldkingcoiner, your refusal even to admit that you were wrong about this shows much about you.  However, this is not a topic about goldkingcoiner.  What have you to say here about Dabs?

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Without wishing to be baited into thread-derailment, I will state a few things for the record, for my own protection.  The following is simply information for people who do not know the facts, who may be misled by a pile of lies and half-truths standing unopposed.  I will avoid derailing the thread with arguments about this.

A.

I myself have never begged, and never will.  I have also consistently refused paid signatures—including a sweet offer to advertise FJ a few years ago, which I politely declined despite being quite tempted.  In the past, I have also defended suchmoon and others from attempts to get Chip to drop them.  I simply choose not to accept paid advertising in my signature.

Numerous forum members who eschew paid advertising have tip addresses in their signatures—including theymos.  By smearing me for linking from my signature an under-construction tips webpage, where I have yet not even published any cryptocurrency addresses, goldkingcoiner and suchmoon imply that theymos is begging and/or scamming people.

B.

The accusations of “extortion” or “fraud” are beneath reply, save for a simple, detached and objective recitation of facts that can be verified by anyone who cares to read the relevant thread:

death_wish positively claimed that he had certain knowledge that Dabs had begged in PMs.  He positively claimed that evidence would soon be public, some way or another.  goldkingcoiner claimed he was “sure” and “more than sure” this was false; and he very rudely insulted death_wish with clear insinuations that he was a liar.  death_wish publicly challenged goldkingcoiner to “put [his] money where [his] mouth is”.

death_wish positively claimed, without even a shadow of a doubt, that he had certain knowledge that Dabs had begged in PMs.  He evidently did have such knowledge; and he never concealed the fact that he did.  He positively claimed that evidence would soon arise, and/or that evidence could be brought out on a deadline.

If death_wish had said that he was guessing, or that maybe this could be the case, and if he actually had nonpublic knowledge amounting to certainty—that would be an altogether different scenario.  But to the contrary, he explicitly claimed definite knowledge that would be made public.  As it was, the discussion is fairly summarized:  I tell the truth—I challenge you to bet against me that I am a liar.

One of the classic five elements of “fraud” is materiality.  death_wish’s identity is immaterial, and it is entirely irrelevant to this thread.  death_wish evidently told the truth.  Two (and counting?) people have disclosed Dabs begging PMs, from 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Whereupon:  Keep this thread on-topic.  Thus far, not even one reply from others has been on-topic.  Rather, there is only classic trolling, shooting the messenger, and thread-derailment from people who evidently don’t care about probable-cause evidence to investigate a potential long-con charity-scam.

I see what you did there.  That describes me perfectly. 😿

Thank you for the interesting technical discussion.  Any new ideas for how to solve the puzzle?  I won’t give any more hints; and I don’t want to pry about anything you are secretly thinking may let you win.  Nonetheless, I myself am a curious cat.

For those wondering how I wound up here:  I have made some minor contributions to this thread before.  Very minor, compared to some who spent a huge amount of time and effort actively helping Lauda with this; as I said, I do not have broad experience using many different wallets.  Nonetheless, Lauda trusted my technical judgment; and she admired my skill as a writer.  She sometimes bounced things off of me.
She had many contacts here, including technical experts; I doubt I was the only one who contributed that way.  Anyone who actually knew her would know how she worked.

I am keenly aware of this thread, in case that was not obvious.  Newbie wallet guidance is an important part of promoting Bitcoin mass-adoption.  I have also sometimes sent people links to this thread.

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That is a fallacious false dilemma; and it is a slap in the face to anyone who contributes here with the expectation that they will be remembered when they are gone.

I believe that I have appropriately balanced two important considerations:  The important practical need of the community to continue having an excellent wallets guide for newbies, and the recognition of someone who provided that guide as a part of her years-long devotion of time and effort to this forum.  The latter is an ethical consideration, even a matter of simple decency.

You clearly just want to get rid of this thread.  Bury it.  Slide it away.


You don’t know how I handle technical issues, since you are practically nonexistent in the technical forum.

In technology generally, I optimize.  I have a reputation for keeping technical topics tightly focused amidst attempted derailment by Bcashers, et al.  Anyway, my own style is irrelevant here.

Insofar as is relevant here, my “style” is faithfully to continue applying Lauda’s style.  I offer hereby to serve as an executive editor, not to rewrite the thread from scratch.  I have no desire to create my own wallets thread; frankly, I would rather spend the time writing my own wallet.  I have been intending that for awhile.

OP and #2–4 are extremely long for forum posts, but well-organized and clearly presented.  They need maintenance.  Needless to say, I would add an appropriate note briefly recording the thread’s original authorship, with links for those who want to know more about the original author.


You are clearly acting in bad faith here.  I think that you followed me in here to attack me—just like cryptohunter used to do to people, and as you are now doing in multiple threads.  Your very first post here consisted only of a suggestion to bury this thread, and a substance-free childish insult to me ad hominem.  And you have been seething for at least two years with a thinly-veiled dislike for Lauda.

Unfortunately, I think you may find a few supporters amongst those who may simply be jealous of Lauda’s thread.

My goal here is to keep this thread as close as practicable to what it has been for almost six years.  Just keep it updated, with a level of effort similar to what Lauda did behind the scenes.  Edit it with a scalpel, not kill it with an axe.  Those who love the thread as-is will appreciate that.

I did not smear you.  Moreover, you will never “tell” me anything.

I am not going to tell you again:  The public posts, which are all archived, speak for themselves.

I believe that you are grossly mischaracterizing the discussion in WO, but that is off-topic here.  Anyone who so wishes can click through and read it.

Your objections are off-topic.  If you ridiculously believe that I have slighted your reputation, please feel free to open a topic in Reputation, which I will feel free to ignore because it’s not worth my time.

The topic of this thread is Dabs.

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No surprise that suchmoon is unable to stay on-topic.  It doesn’t bother me.  cryptohunter’s meltdown and loss of reputation started with him following people around with wild personal attacks on them (e.g., smearing Lauda as an “extortionist”), just like like suchmoon is now following me around with similar viciousness.  I do appreciate the symmetry of suchmoon’s absurd accusation that I somehow tried to “extort” goldkingcoiner;

Noise and objections are being raised here by someone with exactly zero prior contributions in the first 11 pages of this thread (unless Lauda deleted her prior posts^*)—who practically spat at Lauda’s departure, and at those who was grieving—who has been obsessively harassing and trolling me.

suchmoon’s only apparent purpose in this thread is to follow me around, and to attempt to stop me from engaging in positive activity with the forum community.  I generally ignore her, so she needs to try to find a way to get a rise out of me.  Her grand entrance here, her very first contribution, was to suggest that Lauda’s thread be unpinned (thus burying the cat’s legacy here), then immediately to insult me in a childish way.

When people who have some positive, constructive interest in this thread are attempting to find a solution to the problem of maintaining it, I suggest that that discussion should not be derailed.

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BlackHatCoiner, Charles-Tim, and JayJuanGee all showed significant interest in this thread after Lauda left, and before the current discussion arose.  If I were to take up maintainership here, I expect that I would probably be working with them, among others.

Before Lauda left, there were some other regular contributors to this thread.  They worked with Lauda before.  I have had cordial prior contact with some of them; I worked with some of them on technical education topics back in early 2018, on terms of mutual respect.  I would reach out to them, if I were to take up maintainership here.

My interest here is Lauda and Bitcoin—both.  This, hereby, is both.

This thread is a legend in itself, with >130,000 views.  It has helped many newbies to get set up with their first Bitcoin wallets.  That was characteristic of Lauda—of a side of her that some Reputation regulars never saw.  She loved helping people.  (Heaven knows she helped me, and thus got a tenacious puppy following a cat.)   It was her motivating purpose on this forum; all else followed from that.  Accordingly, I wish to preserve some of her best and most cherished work here.


^* Lauda was generally ruthless with her self-moderation powers, to a degree that shocked even me.  She sometimes even trashed posts that she didn’t dislike, simply to make her threads less cluttered and more readable.  At the time she left, this wallets thread had ≥313 posts self-mod deleted (probably many more, from the years before that counter was implemented), and 96 posts remaining.  Naturally, I would do my best to follow her example in her own thread—although I don’t know if I could bring myself to be quite as trigger-happy as she was. 😼

Notice:  This whole thread is kept snapshotted.  Any attempts to cover up one’s own posts here are unwise.

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In a minor lapse of judgment, I let myself be drawn into this thread when it was started almost two years ago.  For that, I must apologize only to myself.  I should have ignored this sick thread altogether.  To the public, and for the record, I should explain why I lowered myself beneath my usual standards of poise and professionalism.

When this thread was started, I was still grieving over the disappearance of a dear friend.  I was in an uncharacteristic state of emotional vulnerability and reactiveness.  I should never have stooped to take suchmoon’s disgusting trollbait.

Despite many allegations to the contrary, I suppose that I am human after all.  And over the years, lapses of being “all too human” have happened here two or three times with me—sometimes due to circumstances that are nobody’s business.

This forum has been a significant part of my life.  Occasionally, when hit with major life events, I have not always behaved here with a stone-cold, robotic adherence to my usual reserve.  I never did anything wrong as a result of that; but I sometimes vented or reacted in ways that were decidedly inelegant—beneath my station.

Now, more recently, suchmoon and her canaille have been incessantly attempting to bait me and drag me back into this thread.

As to the smear-attacks against me, I will say only generally that some—particularly, suchmoon and DireWolfM14—have hereby and elsewhere recently spoken malicious and defamatory half-truths and falsehoods about me.  They are dishonest characters.  I will not stoop hereby to parsing whatever they have said to separate it into “true”, “half-true”, and “totally false”.  I will simply dismiss them altogether, with the note that this very page contains several patent lies about me—at least one of which can be debunked in about ten seconds by anyone who cares to check.

I would not ordinarily lower myself to engage in a public dirt-fight with such degenerate anthropoid scum as suchmoon and her playground pals, sirazimuth, DireWolfM14, and nutildah.  They are each personally permabanned from any thread that I self-moderate, and shall be banned from any venues or services that I may ever create as adjuncts to Satoshi’s forum.  They are the types who are toxic to any community.  It is a disgrace to this forum that they run wild here, and nobody will say “boo” to them.  In case I may ever deign to bother with them here, I have amassed not inconsiderable archives of the moments when they worst exemplify their own viciousness and dishonesty.

Otherwise, they are generally beneath my notice.  I will not make the mistake of feeding trolls and wrestling with pigs here.

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To CryptoTourist:  Thanks for standing up for me here.  Please don’t waste your time with these trolls anymore.  They are not worth even three seconds of your time.  I think you’re awesome.  Let’s make some new threads about Bitcoin, Greek, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, and other beautiful things.

To everyone else except CH, addressed below:  Normal, decent human beings do not participate in Internet forum threads designed as vulgar smear-attacks and harassment against constructive, intelligent members of the community.  Please think twice before you feed this trash.  If you wade into garbage and roll around in it, you will also stink.

I also think this thread is exemplary of why some people need seriously to reconsider their trust lists.  But that is beside the point here.  Ultimately, just as the people of a nation usually get the government they deserve, the forum community as a whole gets what it deserves—for now, I will leave it at that.

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A concluding message to the putative cryptohunter alt, whom I acknowledge may not be CH at all:

I can now see that CH was right about some things, even if he was quite wrong about others.  In my opinion, his worst mistake was to descend to suchmoon’s level of behaviour.

CH, please look at this thread, and then look at some of the threads that your alleged alts have raised.  Do you want for people to take you seriously, as I believe you deserve for at least some of your arguments?  Stop behaving like suchmoon!  You are better than that.

In retrospect, I would even almost suspect that someone who dislikes you had created alts to get blamed on you.  Actually, I think that has probably happened a few times, with a few of the alleged “CH” alts that did not fit the same pattern as the others.

CH, if you are out there—if you are reading this—please take the high road.  Always represent yourself with consummate professionalism.  Mind always the proverb about wrestling with a pig:  You get dirty, and the pig likes it.

I think that you probably had much to contribute.  Too bad it went the way it did.  It may not be too late to turn that around, at least.  Success is the best revenge—and he who laughs last, last best.  Who gives a hoot what suchmoon says about you?

Please do not take that as condescending.  I mean it quite otherwise.  I owe you a virtual beer.  And I don’t forget that you kindly backed off attacking my friend when I was grieving over her.  I actually think that maybe, just maybe it’s possible that you and Lauda could have eventually worked things out, if some things hadn’t gone the way they did.  Too late, too bad.

Cheers.

Initial version of post:  https://archive.ph/DT9U4#selection-3665.0-3847.91

Instead of accusing the accuser and trying to shoot the messenger, I advise that you should apologize to death_wish for how you essentially called him a liar.  And if you would have acted differently had you known of Dabs’ past begging, then your anger would be more appropriately directed at him, not at me.  Rather, you should thank me for coming forward with something I was reluctant to touch for over two years.

The public posts, which are all archived, speak for themselves.  And you spoke for yourself, when you called for “any and all help” for Dabs, and you asked that “WO should help him out”.  I will not waste my time on your dishonest wordgames, when everyone can see exactly what you said.

But thank you for adding to the record what you edited into your post, when I was about to post the foregoing.  I will let that record speak for itself.  https://archive.ph/rtaEb#selection-3639.0-3990.4

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Edit:  For the record, I reported some relevant PMs to admins/global mods about half an hour ago, with a request for verification of authenticity in this thread.  Report times, according to the forum:  “July 04, 2022, 12:40:27 PM” and “July 04, 2022, 12:40:36 PM”.  Report text:

Reserved for my conclusions.  Blank for now; I want to see what other evidence may develop, before taking any trust system action.

Reserved to gather any further evidence that may arise.

Following are full, unedited quotes of some public posts.  The posts speak for themselves; I do not intend to comment on them.  Other posts, and archives of posts, are available if needed.

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2022: Dabs’ public begging by proxy:

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2019: More of Dabs’ PM-begging:

My full, unedited exchange of PMs with Dabs in February 2020

After I create this thread, I will report some of these with a request that a Global Moderator or Administrator confirm the authenticity thereof in this thread.

0. pmsg=10060960:  My initial PM to Dabs—entirely of a non-financial nature:

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1. pmsg=10060989:  Dabs’ reply, with shocking and unexpected begging for money:

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2. pmsg=10061085:  My response to Dabs’ begging.  Unfortunately, this reveals some private information that I wish I had not leaked.  Historical note:  This was indeed when I deleted the tip addresses that I had had in my profile since 2017–2018.  Earlier today, I created a new tips page.  I make positive contributions.  Some people value my creative efforts (or, as hereby, my time and energy that I invest to help protect the community).  I need to stop being ashamed of having a tip address like theymos and other high-profile forum members, just because I am poor and I don’t want to be perceived as needy.  I have never begged, and never will.  I would rather starve to death or kill myself than be a beggar—and I have suffered sufficient hardship to know what it means to say that.

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3. pmsg=10061112:  My disclosure of Dabs’ begging to a third party.  For completeness of the initial record.  I will NOT reveal who the recipient was, without that party’s consent.  If it seems appropriate, I may politely request that that person come forward to confirm having received this PM from me; but I do not wish to cause the bother.

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4. pmsg=10061167:  That party’s response.

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5. pmsg=10061216:  Dabs’ surreply, still telling me his sob story even though now, he knows I am poor:

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That concludes my correspondence in February 2020 with Dabs.  To the best of my recollection, I have had no further communications with Dabs.

User: Dabs #54791 (trust)

These are excerpts of Personal Messages that I received from a user who has made a career of running allegedly charitable collections, and who runs an escrow business:


Atop the begging, Dabs is outright lying.  This is an excerpt that of a beg-PM that, upon information and belief, Dabs sent an awful lot less than “30 to 40 years” before February of 2020:


More recently, Dabs had someone publicly begging on his behalf in the Wall Observer:

archive.ph, Wayback:

Following OP, this thread shall begin with the following posts:

• Post #2:  My full, unedited PM exchange with Dabs in February 2020.
• Post #3:  Full quotes of the most relevant public form posts from 2022, which are briefly excerpted above.
• Post #4:  Reserved to gather any further evidence that may arise.
• Post #5:  Reserved for my conclusions.  Blank for now; I want to see what other evidence may develop, before taking any trust system action.

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In February of 2020, I debated whether or not I should immediately publish these PMs.  I was reluctant to do it.  I decided that I didn’t want to ruin Dabs’ reputation over what may be a one-off, grossly uncharacteristic, ridiculously weak moment.  I felt soft-hearted.  That is always a mistake.

After Dabs’ other known begging came to my attention, I awoke my account on 2022-06-29 primarily because I could not in conscience let this matter rest.  (I waited until 2022-06-29, the beginning of a new activity period, because I wanted to go back to sleep without raising my activity by more than 14.)  I have still procrastinated on dealing with it.  I cannot put it off anymore:  Every day, people are trusting Dabs for both charitable and business purposes without being informed about his sneaky begging on his own behalf.

I encourage anyone else who has received any Dabs begging PMs to post them in this thread.  Same as for any other relevant evidence.  The community has a right to know about this.

Don’t think of Dabs:  Think of the poor, starving children on whose behalf he purports to collect charitable donations.  The community, and Dabs’ donors, should have such information available to analyze and to draw the appropriate conclusions.

Rarely would I ever encourage a big dump of PMs.  In this case, I believe that it is not only justified, but imperative—an ethical necessity.  As a separate issue, I should remind everyone upfront that there is no forum rule against publishing PMs; you will not get in trouble with forum rules for coming forward to inform the public here.

Re: Publicly posting PMs

Draft/pre-alpha preview:  Not yet set up, for the reasons stated below.  I want to get a link set up.  If interested, please bookmark this, and check back later.

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Skip the Nullian verbosity:  “Shut up and take my money!”
This page will have addresses for BTC, ZEC, and other currencies, plus a PGP-signed list of the same addresses.

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Do you appreciate my writings?  Do you think that I should be rewarded for what I have contributed in the past?  Do you wish to encourage me to contribute more in the future?

I have always refused paid signature campaigns, despite having been personally solicited with some lucrative offers in 2018 and 2020.  My posts are not made for the purpose of paid advertising.  Moreover, I fiercely guard my independence.  I will never allow money to influence my opinions—and I will never allow fear of not being paid to inhibit me from taking a controversial stand.

I want payment only from those who genuinely appreciate me.  I promise nothing but to be myself:  “Nobody”.  In particular, I will not let desire for tips (or fear of upsetting potential patrons) influence my opinions.

If you dislike my protest against a world full of shills and sellouts, then please feel free not to send me money:  I do not ask nicely, for I do not ask at all.  Otherwise, I will treasure your tips:  I respect those who will respect this message.

Rather than place a tip address in my signature, I create this thread as a linkable webpage with more information than will thereby fit.  It will be self-moderated, and usually locked.  Please do not attempt to reply here.  Local rules:  Any replies may be deleted.  I think that’s appropriate, because no contractual exchange is hereby offered; this thread is only an appendage of my signature, in lieu of a more garden-variety tip address.

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Bitcoin

I am attempting to work out some better means of accepting tips without publicly exposing tip transactions, and without address reuse.  If/when Silent Payments become available, I may use that here.  In the future, perhaps I may set up a server for dynamic acceptance of tips.  Meanwhile, I will simply “LOL” at the destruction of privacy, and switch this to a fresh address from time to time:

[Bitcoin address and QR code—oh, dear, do I really need to put out another address that can be watched and tracked by blockchain spies?  Yes, being fed up with a lack of privacy is making me procrastinate on giving people a way to send me money.  Sorry.  It is 2022.  Why does this problem still exist?]

If desired, you may also encrypt ChipMixer vouchers with my PGP key.  Those are essentially bearer certificates.  Send same by PM or e-mail.

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Zcash

I was awaiting Zerocoin for Bitcoin since 2013.  Accordingly, I have been a Zcasher since Sprout.  Zcash is a great way to tip me without any worries about privacy, address reuse, and so forth.

For this purpose, I am trying to get a new, long-term Orchard wallet set up just the way I want.  The issue is currently being discussed in appropriate venues.  I delayed making this thread for too long, awaiting a solution for my issue.  To be resolved.

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Other Currencies

Some other alts—to be added.  Preferably things that can be used to buy BTC. 😺

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PGP-signed list of addresses

Don’t get scammed!  The following statement confirms my ownership of the addresses listed above.  It is signed with my PGP key.

Code:

[Draft with no addresses:  This space is intentionally left blank.]

Cool.  Thanks.  I’d much appreciate more.


When I indicate that I have some practical usage in mind, I probably do.  Beyond a neat trick.  But I may want to keep it a trade secret.  Note that what I was doing was probably more complicated than you guessed.

112f4a306f8bbe39270b0f1070751038fcf01f4a5eca42277a83e7ab3791afd5


That txid obviously is not so; and at a glance, I don’t see any related txids with too many leading zeroes to be coincidental.

I meant:  Was 000000000fdf0c619cd8e0d512c7e2c0da5a5808e60f12f1e0d01522d2986a51 the first time that anyone had ever mined a POW txid with many leading zeroes, or any other easily recognizable pattern?  Especially on Bitcoin mainnet!

If my Kitty tx for Lauda was the first, I would purr.  (Also, if it was the first to embed a cat emoji in OP_RETURN.)  I was not even much thinking that way last year—just trying to make something fun and challenging in Lauda’s memory, like the sporting games that the Greeks played at the funerals for heroes in classical antiquity. 😺

That is worrisome, if there is any fraudulent intent.  “Grumpy Cat” is a meme, so I hope that someone grabbing “GrumpyKitty” is only a coincidence? 🙀

When Lauda stopped using that name on Telegram, she asked theymos to remove her “GrumpyKitty” custom title.  I cannot now find an appropriate reference; IIRC, the relevant thread got trashed for reasons unknown to me.

Suffice it to say that Lauda is not on Telegram.  Or anywhere.  Don’t get scammed!