... and buy some stinky fish with it... not...

I wonder if one would have survived in the futurama world at all. It looks dangerous to live there. They might very well let you socially acceptable die... or so.

Hope you still answer me dargo. Besides, I noticed that announcement about the MtGox trustee. I believe it said to log in at https://claims.mtgox.com/assets/index.html#/signin and verify the decision of the trustee or so. But I can't. It says that someone might have claimed the coins already, which I did, but how to verify the decision of the trustee then?

Cryptology



Unfortunately this is not really true. I got a number of people complaining about transactions not going through because they chose a standard fee of some kind. Looks like there are enough wallets out there that still can't deal with spam attacks.

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Windpower



Some fear that it will be the first step only and have nightmares of much bigger blocks and that then someone could not run a node anymore.

Others explicitely don't want it because they want a fee market. Which means alot higher fees. They have the impression that bitcoin is a network for high amount transfers and that all small transfers are spam only.

Well, then there is the accusation that some of them do this only to promote lightning network. Which is practically using another network instead using bitcoin directly. Can't say that I give that idea much chances. Bitcoiners will be hard to convince.

And some others say that we first should implement SegWit. Which is a good thing but will get to it's borders relatively fast too. It can not help for very long.

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AliceWonderMiscreations



Sure, amazon would probably avoid advertising this. Though even the community might already put pressure on the network only by realizing the chances showing up with amazon adopting.

Though if the would advertise situation could change fast.

It's a very theoretical question anyway. No serious business would invest now in something bitcoin related. With all the news of apocalypse because of forks, non working bitcoin transactions, fights in the community and and and. Nobody invests into such an unstable area.

I think that the biggest pools are often enough serving other miners or have customers. Claiming to do one thing and doing another would actually result in a huge customer loss. So I doubt that will actually come into play.


Even when the majority of nodes would promote different blocks, which assumes that the fork already happened and that miners would accept these different blocks as valid, the miners simply would need to make sure that they connect to nodes that give them the blocks they want and all the other nodes would not matter much anymore.

I wonder what kumala is working on. It seems cryptostocks is not his priority, obviously profits from there will be low and unlikely to rise again when he put works in it. Vircurex did not answer me either, so he might have a new project he puts his time into or he left bitcoin.

Edit: Kumala, there is a problem with your daily update or something like that. If a security is set on Trade Stop then your update removes that setting and it is live for trading again.

botany


Sure, trading at your own risk. And using an escrow can avoid that risk even, at least when the escrow is changing the pass, so has to login.

Though for the unescrowed trades or trades where the escrow is not logging in, it would mean supporting scammers. Since showing a ban has no disadvantage for everyone else though has the advantage that others can't be scammd so easily.

Well, when I think over it it might be rather rare cases when someone trades an account without escrow and even would know the account name before buying.

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arbitrage



Mostly there are entries from campaign managers in trust ratings. Or one could check out google search with:

They forbid it once but the problem was that it did not change anything. Trades still happened, only hidden. The downside was that they did not see it happen. It's better the trades happen over forum pm.

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Decoded



Though an account owner who get permabanned and has a scammy character would not do this. He would try to approach interested users with this irresistable offer.

Though like I wrote above. I think the cases might be very rare to be the reason for a change.

You give up on life too fast then. You only would need training most probably... and when I read what you write I have the impression you have enough drive to make you train.

ezeminer



Well, the last thing can be prevented relatively good by checking the account out properly. Though some things can't be checked 100%. For example a signed message for an address might be beaten with an even older address. Or loans could be done through other means. Though the escrow can explain the buyer those risks which would end up making the deal more safe for the buyer. And you would not believe how many account trade scams would happen without some escrow doing it.

Besides... account trades are not rewarding as an escrow in form of tips. And the time needed is 10th of times higher than for normal trades since you need to check the account out. I use that list for checking: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1362297

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Blazed



OgNasty wrote something similar though I really don't escrow accounts often. Though I can imagine when an escrow vanishes then buyer and seller, maybe indepentendly start to contact all the other escrows and soon it looks like a huge amount of trades.

You might be below the actual amount of trades with your 5+. Though mostly traded are accounts worth $20 or even lower. I stopped escrowing them so I don't get asked often anymore but there were alot more requests for those accounts back then.

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SFR10



It would be the same like when theymos and staff tried to forbid account trades. It was simply useless. The only effect was that the trades did not happen through forum pm's anymore. So at the end staff not even was able to see what happened and what was traded. As far as I understand it it was allowed again to allow them to have some insights.

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mexxer-2


I had to laugh when I saw your new avatar. Back then we joked on the forum that all the scammers already announced their character by naming them properly. Pirateat40, nefario and whatelse they all were named. So "criminal mastermind" does actually not look like the best idea.

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knightdk



Well, not saying that you bought the account but the ability to sign even for an older address can not really proof that you are the original owner. The original owner could have sold you the private key of the signing address. A signature only can ensure that an account was not taken against the will of the original owner.

So it's never a good idea to post addresses you don't have the private key for or losing a wallet because of missing backups. It can be deadly for your trust.

Anyway, I hope you are legit since we had enough scandals...

Areyouserious is right. As escrow I would take the coins you pay into escrow so that the seller can provide you the account without fearing that you would not pay.

However in the case of bitcointalk forum accounts I do some checks to make sure that the buyer receives a correct account. I listed these checks here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1362297

Devs, I think you really don't see the importance of support. And if it is only through giving updates on here or on your site itself. Missing support can turn problems VERY fast into a circle of doom. And trust me, this is nothing you want to have. I have seen this too often.

I guess you work on things since you invested already alot of time into the website but really DON'T miss the support point.

Just saying...

You didn't get my point. What I was trying to say in the unquoted text is that all the new users mainly come to clam because of that unique feature. To be honest, I would never have bothered to spend the hours of time investigating clams when I could not be pretty sure that I would find some clams on old addresses of mine.

Take this away, where will new clam users come from?

From gamblers? Why? They will most probably be bitcoiners so why should they bother checking out just-dice when they would have to buy and checkout some altcoin to gamble there? JD is not even the biggest casino so I don't see why one shoul invest the time to do so.

Clam will die pretty fast because it won't be able to attract new users anymore. A gambling site with only a single altcoin, I don't know if it can attract normal gamblers. I doubt, because of the hassle.

Well, only my opinion...

Hi Leute, bin wieder frei... Nervig sowas, nicht nur für mich, daher sorry. Ich hoffe nur es gibt nicht noch weitere Regeln die man erst über einen Bann herausfindet.

Wegen der Signatur, möglicherweise hat es nicht funktioniert weil manche Emailformate Zeilenumbrüche einbauen. Nächstes mal wenn ich eine Signatur sende kann ich sie ja in einem privaten Pastebin schicken. Dann sollte das nicht passieren. Trotzdem noch mal sorry dafür.

Übrigens schreib ich jetzt alles in ein Post, auch wenn ich finde dass es nicht schön ist in einem Posting, dass womöglich an eine bestimmte Person gerichtet ist, auch noch an andere Personen sich zu richten. Ich denke verschiedene Posts sind einfach übersichtlicher. Aber so sind offenbar die Regeln...

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Purse.io hat nur früher amazon.de zugelassen. Und ja, sie haben das wohl gestoppt wegen zu viel Carding. Wobei ich nicht verstehe wieso das in Deutschland schlimmer sein sollte als in anderen Ländern.

Übrigens habe ich vor ein paar Tagen selbst herausfinden müssen dass auf purse.io - amazon.de carder unterwegs waren. Ich musste zur Polizei eine Aussage machen wegen einem Produkt im Wert von 6€.

Purse.io ist aber hilfreich und die versuchen sich zu kümmern. Im Endeffekt ist es wohl aber eh nicht nötig da man mir bei der Polizei sagte dass ich vermutlich in ein paar Monaten einen Brief erhalte dass die Strafanzeige eingestellt wurde.

Der Polizist erwähnte dass Amazon.de bei Einzahlungen mit Kreditkarten irgendeine Sicherheitsüberprüfung nicht macht. Und dass am Ende Amazon der Geschädigte sein wird eben weil sie nicht sorgfältig genug waren wenn jemand mit Kreditkarten Amazoncodes kauft.

Dargo can you explain why I still can't login with these other accounts I had on the exchanges kraken bought?

I received 2 emails. Checking the named usernames they were from the two bought exchanges where I, it seems, had accounts too. But when I tried to login kraken only says that it does not work. User unknown or so.

When I received the emails I thought it is because of the overloading or that you guys sent the emails out before you actually sat up everything. But it still doesn't work.

Where my accounts merged without noticing me?

I think so too, though website developments normally take longer than anticipated in most cases. Well, that is true for most software development projects though.

Though in fact I don't understand why they don't develop on a copy of the website. Then simply push the new developed code over. Should work better an could be done very fast.

Is there an update as to how long the downtime will go, judging from the actual knowledge the site developers have?

And you probably have a lot of private messages already. You were not logged in since some time zengryT.

Thanks for your words. Well, normally established members tip, though it seems new accounts often don't. Maybe because it would be no problem having that account negative somehow. Dunno.

Anyway, first thing why I escrow is because I know how really really annoying it is to get scammed. I like making the life of scammers harder and maybe I can even help a bit to let bitcoin lose it's bad reputation.

Though the other side of the medal is that escrowing takes time. Normal escrows where I create the details including escrow address, then trading partners deal and at the end I forward coins and send thank you pm, are seldom. Mostly a couple of pm's have to be answered, which needs time. Really not seldom some problems appear with one of the trading partners which takes a lot time then. Which means escrowing is time consuming.

At the end, before I included the limit for account trades, I spent regularly hours each day on escrowing. And it was practically unpaid because of the low values escrowed. So why do I escrow, to prevent harm. Though I can't spend too much time on it so I thought I would need to set a limit so that the risk the trading partners go in match the time I spend.

Well, 0.0001b would mean no fee at all anyway for me since I could setup and go through with hundred of these escrow trades and would receive $5. For a work amount of 10th of hours. That's not possible and not usefull for the trading partners too because they risk nearly nothing in their trades.

I simply have to find a balance between the time I invest and the usefullness of escrowing. So at the end it might be a way to go to go to minimize the time I spend by the cost for my service. Traders then could decide for themselfes if they want to go through.

Hi everyone... finally Iam completely free again.

Let me know when you need my service.

Sending a private message is the best and fastest way to get me noticed since I receive a notification on my smartphone about new pm's, including content.

Guess that might be worth a suggestion for the new forum then. It simply would mean the longer one is in a forum the higher the chance to get permabanned while one would have to behave pretty stupid to do the same in a years timeframe.

I think closing the thread is not needed probably, it will die anyway fast. And I don't really like when others close threads when I would have wanted to say something. It feels like being forced to shut up. Might be only my preference or feelings.

Looks like my account is completely free again. Thanks moderators and helping staff.

I only fear a bit that something like that might happen again, not for the same thing, but for some unknown rule one is not aware about.

Is there a forget 14 day ban after, let's say 6 months or so? Since otherwise the risk that another ban might be a permaban sounds pretty high. And the longer someone is a member on here the higher the chance would rise to get another one. Is there something like that?

And to those who tried to warn me kindly, please think about adding to your warning that it is an actual rule or even that it is a ban reason. Only something that would have saved me from this experience. Thanks for the warning anyway, I'm sure anyone getting warned that way will be thankful.

Just to that things straight... I did not change password on the account guessed to be the one and I'm not able to speak about the identity of the account that was to be sold.

Anyway... seeing that account trades are a lot of work and trouble way too often I think about allowing all account trades as long as they can be relatively safe traded or that the buyer is aware of the risks. In exchange i would demand a minimum fee to be paid for all account trades and all gift card trades. The latter minimum fee might be lower.

Further on I think about adding a minimum fee when very young accounts are involved. This can be avoided by posting proof of the account behind. Though those accounts way too often mean a troubling escrow deal. So a minimum fee might be needed there too.
For all older accounts such a minimum fee would not apply since they mostly try to stay legit and mean good trades. On a case to case basis it might be voided too when trades already happened.

Though these are only my thoughts as of now. Seeing that some trades actually mean hours of my time, mostly without a tip at all, something has to happen on that front so that I can safe some time or at least my time gets a small compensation. Escrow is nothing to earn really anyway but wasting time is not so appreciated by me.