I think if you looked at my posting history (of PonZ), you would probably scratch your head... and say.. "Why did this poor bastard get banned?"
As SaltySpitoon said, it is possible that some of the posts in your thread were from accounts that were controlled by you. Just because PonZ made "good" posts, does not mean that shit posts from newbie shills will be excused. So there is no way to screen these shill posts with technology? I know I personally never made a shill post. So an Admin can suspect shilling and just drop the ban hammer on a hunch? So our admins operate by the science of "feeling" ?? If the reason for the ban was because of shill posting in your thread then I can say with a good amount of certainty that it was not a hunch. I know that BadBear is very good at finding alt accounts......it is even rumored that he was able to find alt accounts that all only connected to the forum via tor. |
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Random speculation: ASICMINER datacenter caught fire, the company is keeping hush hush about it, and that's why the hashrate went down, AMHASH stopped paying out, and friedcat disappeared.
Wouldn't you think that if the ASICMINER farm had caught fire that the hash rate would have fallen months ago when AMHASH stopped receiving mining revenue as opposed to months later? I don't think the fact that it is related that it just came out that AMHASH has no actual current actual mining revenue around the same time the network hash rate fell dramatically |
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I think if you looked at my posting history (of PonZ), you would probably scratch your head... and say.. "Why did this poor bastard get banned?"
As SaltySpitoon said, it is possible that some of the posts in your thread were from accounts that were controlled by you. Just because PonZ made "good" posts, does not mean that shit posts from newbie shills will be excused. |
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Did you also happen to get banned as well? I don't think it is very common for you to get a notification if your "spam" thread were to get locked (nor do I even think it would even be very common for a thread to get locked in the first place because you post/bump it too much). Do you happen to be related to _JCaferJr_, or whatever his main account is? He probably caused you and your thread to get attention because he was evading his ban by posting in the thread that was locked. My PonZ username cant PM for 5 days??? and my Thread is locked for 5 days. I know who he is, but not associated. He's like a ponzi nut. I'm amazed that party A can get party B locked up. That could be used against as a weapon. I don't think JCafeJr got your account banned, he probably just attracted attention to your thread. I really did not look at your thread very closely but I didn't see many/any bumps. As mentioned above a lot of newbie accounts with a lot of shit posts were posting in your thread so it is possible that BadBear looked into it and determined that they are likely alts of you in order to covertly bump your thread. Out of curiosity, how do you know that your thread is locked for 5 days? I know there is a message at the top of your account when you are banned for a certain time period, however I was under the impression that when a thread is locked by a moderator it can only be unlocked by a moderator.  That just says that your account is banned for 5 days. It does not say anything about your thread being locked for that long. Unless you received some notification saying that your thread will be unlocked after a certain time then I would assume the thread will not unlock after your ban expires (although I may be wrong on this) It also doesn't say which moderator did it. It doesn't say why he/she did it. I'm amazed! I've been on here for 2 years... and never had an issue... I never even knew we had dictators and tyrants who could do what ever they wanted... isn't our communtiy about: openess, transparency and democracy? EDIT: Im not opposed to moderators...God we need them! But they should NOT be able to ban without an explanation or identification. You were not told which moderator took such action to avoid the moderator from getting bombarded with PM's for making a correct action against someone. Also moderators cannot actually ban people, only administrators can. You were given the general reason why you were banned: because of Spam. Generally speaking you are not going to be banned for one specific action or post, but rather will be banned because of activity that occurs over a period of time. |
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Ok, so I guess that means I was spamming people with my main account. I hope Theymos will just give me a temporary ban or fine.
Thank you guys for setting me straight!
Is your "main" account marcotheminer? I ask because I know that he was banned recently for something similar to what you describe above, although his ban appears to be only for 10 days and not a preeminent ban as you describe. Regardless of who your main account is, it is considered ban evading if you send PM's or post outside of meta to appeal and ban evading will likely get your ban extended if temporary, and will decrease your chances of getting it removed if it is a perm ban. (your post history reflects you evading your ban). No, I've only ever used my main JCaferJr. "_JCaferJr_" and this one were created to try to figure out what I did. _JCaferJr_ got banned already. I noticed the announcement thread for the site I was promoting is locked. Is it possible that my actions did that? It is possible that your actions caused that thread to attract attention it otherwise would not have received and it was noticed that rules were being broken. If you are sending a PM to someone when they did not in any way solicit such PM then you probably should not send it. |
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If you cannot sign a message for any reason then there is going to be a risk to the buyer that the account is hacked.
Sorry to butt into this thread, but can someone explain how signing the message from the account would verify that OP was the original owner? Is there anything stopping him from changing the bitcoin address on the account to his address, and then signing from that, if the account was hacked? (not accusing you of anything OP, just curious on how this proves the original account owner) It does not prove that the seller is the original owner, but it does generally prove that the account is not hacked, or at least not hacked since the address was posted. Say for example that an account posts a specific address on Jan 1 2015, and the post is never edited. It would be reasonable to believe that the owner of the account controlled the private keys to that address when the address was posted. Therefore as long as the post is not edited you can reasonably say that the account has not been hacked since Jan 1 if they can sign a message from that address. With a lot of time passing and a lot of posts being made since such post had been made, then it would be reasonable to say that the account was not hacked. It would be possible for the account to have been sold by then as the seller could include the private keys with the account when it is sold, but buying a sold account really is not a big deal (as long as it is not hacked) Ah ok that makes more sense then. I thought you guys were referring to the address on the user's profile. (ex. the address on record for my profile is 16MxMGxEvJeTdzajMS74QLHgi8NZD3opbm) Had me wondering because I figured there wasn't any way to see when that address had been set and such. Thanks for filling me in! No you should never accept a signed message from an address filled in the BTC address field in your profile. Many people will offer that and that is not sufficient proof as you can change/modify that without any kind of public record. then what IF the case is account sold? if the new owner cant verify the old address linked to that account meaning the account is hacked? The new owner can provide the previously provided signed message along with a second signed message confirming ownership of the account that was used to purchase the account, or could provide a signed message from a more recent address. |
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Hey!
I am wondering if there is any mining hardware around $100 that might roi.
Thanks
sure is your power cheaper then 4 cents a kwatt? if it is 4 cents a kwatt a used s-3 stands a chance. Nah, I wish. How about a scrypt miner? Or could I mine a new altcoin (SHA-256) and hope it does well? I would think scrypt miners are less likely to ROI (in terms of bitcoin) then SHA-256 miners are because of the fact that over time the price of altcoins tend to decline, so you will have he double whammy of an increasing difficulty and decreasing value of the alt coins you end up mining. If you live in a cold part of the world, then you can effectively "lower" your cost of electricity by replacing your furnace/heater with miners that would be used to heat your home. |
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Did you also happen to get banned as well? I don't think it is very common for you to get a notification if your "spam" thread were to get locked (nor do I even think it would even be very common for a thread to get locked in the first place because you post/bump it too much). Do you happen to be related to _JCaferJr_, or whatever his main account is? He probably caused you and your thread to get attention because he was evading his ban by posting in the thread that was locked. My PonZ username cant PM for 5 days??? and my Thread is locked for 5 days. I know who he is, but not associated. He's like a ponzi nut. I'm amazed that party A can get party B locked up. That could be used against as a weapon. I don't think JCafeJr got your account banned, he probably just attracted attention to your thread. I really did not look at your thread very closely but I didn't see many/any bumps. As mentioned above a lot of newbie accounts with a lot of shit posts were posting in your thread so it is possible that BadBear looked into it and determined that they are likely alts of you in order to covertly bump your thread. Out of curiosity, how do you know that your thread is locked for 5 days? I know there is a message at the top of your account when you are banned for a certain time period, however I was under the impression that when a thread is locked by a moderator it can only be unlocked by a moderator. That just says that your account is banned for 5 days. It does not say anything about your thread being locked for that long. Unless you received some notification saying that your thread will be unlocked after a certain time then I would assume the thread will not unlock after your ban expires (although I may be wrong on this) |
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It's possible this is all just good old variance, right? Right?  no. ghash.io was crashed and they have over 30ph in hash maybe only 25ph rolled over correctly. that is 5ph lost which is 1.5 percent Do you have any basis for the amount of mining capacity that went to backup pools or is that just speculation?
I would also say that if the decline in the short term hash rate was caused by ghash going down then it would have been more then 1.5% of the network doing nothing. According to bicoinwisdom, the estimated next difficulty went from ~+3.8% to ~+1.8% now (bitcoinwisdom is not the best at predicting the next difficulty, however I do follow it relatively closely so it should be somewhat of a good indicator of what happened on an apples to apples basis). (slightly off topic) - do you know what happened with ghash beyond the fact that they were DDoS'ed? I used to have my S3 there as a primary pool and it would fallover to eligius somewhat frequently, I have it pointed at eligius as a primary pool now so the downtime did not directly affect me. |
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If you cannot sign a message for any reason then there is going to be a risk to the buyer that the account is hacked.
Sorry to butt into this thread, but can someone explain how signing the message from the account would verify that OP was the original owner? Is there anything stopping him from changing the bitcoin address on the account to his address, and then signing from that, if the account was hacked? (not accusing you of anything OP, just curious on how this proves the original account owner) It does not prove that the seller is the original owner, but it does generally prove that the account is not hacked, or at least not hacked since the address was posted. Say for example that an account posts a specific address on Jan 1 2015, and the post is never edited. It would be reasonable to believe that the owner of the account controlled the private keys to that address when the address was posted. Therefore as long as the post is not edited you can reasonably say that the account has not been hacked since Jan 1 if they can sign a message from that address. With a lot of time passing and a lot of posts being made since such post had been made, then it would be reasonable to say that the account was not hacked. It would be possible for the account to have been sold by then as the seller could include the private keys with the account when it is sold, but buying a sold account really is not a big deal (as long as it is not hacked) Ah ok that makes more sense then. I thought you guys were referring to the address on the user's profile. (ex. the address on record for my profile is 16MxMGxEvJeTdzajMS74QLHgi8NZD3opbm) Had me wondering because I figured there wasn't any way to see when that address had been set and such. Thanks for filling me in! No you should never accept a signed message from an address filled in the BTC address field in your profile. Many people will offer that and that is not sufficient proof as you can change/modify that without any kind of public record. |
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Did you also happen to get banned as well? I don't think it is very common for you to get a notification if your "spam" thread were to get locked (nor do I even think it would even be very common for a thread to get locked in the first place because you post/bump it too much). Do you happen to be related to _JCaferJr_, or whatever his main account is? He probably caused you and your thread to get attention because he was evading his ban by posting in the thread that was locked. My PonZ username cant PM for 5 days??? and my Thread is locked for 5 days. I know who he is, but not associated. He's like a ponzi nut. I'm amazed that party A can get party B locked up. That could be used against as a weapon. I don't think JCafeJr got your account banned, he probably just attracted attention to your thread. I really did not look at your thread very closely but I didn't see many/any bumps. As mentioned above a lot of newbie accounts with a lot of shit posts were posting in your thread so it is possible that BadBear looked into it and determined that they are likely alts of you in order to covertly bump your thread. Out of curiosity, how do you know that your thread is locked for 5 days? I know there is a message at the top of your account when you are banned for a certain time period, however I was under the impression that when a thread is locked by a moderator it can only be unlocked by a moderator. |
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If you cannot sign a message for any reason then there is going to be a risk to the buyer that the account is hacked.
Sorry to butt into this thread, but can someone explain how signing the message from the account would verify that OP was the original owner? Is there anything stopping him from changing the bitcoin address on the account to his address, and then signing from that, if the account was hacked? (not accusing you of anything OP, just curious on how this proves the original account owner) It does not prove that the seller is the original owner, but it does generally prove that the account is not hacked, or at least not hacked since the address was posted. Say for example that an account posts a specific address on Jan 1 2015, and the post is never edited. It would be reasonable to believe that the owner of the account controlled the private keys to that address when the address was posted. Therefore as long as the post is not edited you can reasonably say that the account has not been hacked since Jan 1 if they can sign a message from that address. With a lot of time passing and a lot of posts being made since such post had been made, then it would be reasonable to say that the account was not hacked. It would be possible for the account to have been sold by then as the seller could include the private keys with the account when it is sold, but buying a sold account really is not a big deal (as long as it is not hacked) |
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Did you also happen to get banned as well? I don't think it is very common for you to get a notification if your "spam" thread were to get locked (nor do I even think it would even be very common for a thread to get locked in the first place because you post/bump it too much). Do you happen to be related to _JCaferJr_, or whatever his main account is? He probably caused you and your thread to get attention because he was evading his ban by posting in the thread that was locked. |
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I'm confused with the legendary group but can't find any information about this, I will become a legendary if I got 925 Activities?
The exact activity level that each person becomes legendary is random and is somewhere between 775 activity and 1030. I am not entirely sure where you got the 925 number, but I can say with a good amount of certainty that 925 is not the exact amount needed for you to become legendary considering that you have more then 925 posts (so at this point your activity will not equal number of posts), and you will go from having 924 activity to having 938 activity when the time comes |
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Ok, so I guess that means I was spamming people with my main account. I hope Theymos will just give me a temporary ban or fine.
Thank you guys for setting me straight!
Is your "main" account marcotheminer? I ask because I know that he was banned recently for something similar to what you describe above, although his ban appears to be only for 10 days and not a preeminent ban as you describe. Regardless of who your main account is, it is considered ban evading if you send PM's or post outside of meta to appeal and ban evading will likely get your ban extended if temporary, and will decrease your chances of getting it removed if it is a perm ban. (your post history reflects you evading your ban). |
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How long of a term are you looking for? I could probably do a good portion of this.
I would be able to accept NXT as collateral, but not the others.
I'm reasonably flexible. Needs to be 3 months minimum but I would prefer around 6 months. Happy to discuss further just let me know and we can take it off line. I sent you a PM. I can do around 7 BTC now, and possibly another 10 BTC or so within a week or so. I would not want to have my bitcoin tied up for more then 3 months. Who do you have in mind for escrow? edit: withdrawing offer. Have not heard from the OP in several days and do not want to keep my BTC tied up for that long |
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How long of a term are you looking for? I could probably do a good portion of this.
I would be able to accept NXT as collateral, but not the others.
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What would you accept as collateral for 0.5 - 1 btc for 1 week? I know this account is worthless, I assume physical items are also out.. so idk, any ideas?
I think he accepts altcoins as said in OP (110% to 150% collateral) but I'm not sure. Try to send him a PM. Marco is actually banned for the next 10 days so I would find it unlikely that he will be in a position to be lending money right now. It would probably be a good idea to attempt to contact other lenders until his ban expires. |
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Telegram is gaining traction as a recgonised instant messager. It's safe and secure and it's used by a lot members here. I would appreciate it if it could be added under our profile.
I am not sure if you are joking or not however there is a field for other contact info that you can use. You can even add contact info for multiple contact methods there. |
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What statute does this violate?
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