No it is not. He is not able to lock the topic from SellingHBOGo

The fact that you are struggling does not matter. No one cares about your sob stories, if they are true or not.

If you are really struggling then you should do something about it, like be a productive member of society and get a job and earn a honest living. If you can't do that then you can go on welfare and be a burden to society. If you are only making $700 every two weeks then you are likely already on some welfare programs anyway.

There are some legit reasons to have self moderated threads, for example to weed out spam on your thread, or to fight against trolls who are actually spreading FUD (with no real basis behind their claims).

However the majority of the time self moderated threads are used for more illicit purposes, for example to help facilitate scams. It was not appropriate for him to delete your reply and him doing so really is scammy behavior.

That is really not the appropriate thing to do. When people start playing robin hood then you open up the possibility that people will pretend they get scammed with the hopes they they can later "recover" their "losses" when the person they claim to have been scammed by is owed money.

@HBOGo - it is not appropriate to steal from others in order to pay your bills. Your sob stories make me very suspicious about you and you are not helping your case.

You should not use a website as escrow. You will almost certainly end up getting scammed.

If you try to use a website to trade bitcoin then your risk is very high that you get scammed as there are a huge number of scam sites that deal in bitcoin

It is interesting that 38 people voted for the new trust system, however only 17 of those people have conducted trades on here before (as defined as having at least one positive trust report that is trusted by my trust list). (I excluded four people because the only positive trust they had was from repaying no collateral loans and for being "a good poster" or because they are a moderator). Of the 17 people, 3 of them likely have sufficient reputation so they would never need to send goods/funds first to their trading partner, so only 14 people who would potentially get scammed if the trust system did not work properly voted for the new system. 5 people with at least one negative trust report (based on my trust network), two of which I know have been removed from default trust list voted for the new trust system.

On the other hand there were 26 people who have traded on here before (as evidenced by either positive trust by someone in the default trust network, or neutral trust from someone in default trust representing they escrowed a transaction).

Looking at the poll results that way shows that scammers were very much against out current system and people who actually benefit from our current system want to continue to use it.

Can you post a screenshot of the PM that you gave him your address? Can you also post your address so one can easily check it in a block explorer?

Will the funds be treated as TX fees for the miners in your pool or are you going to keep the proceeds yourself?

It is not allegedly, the proof of the loan is here. This person is trying to scam the potential buyer because they would be on the hook for the loan once he buys the account or else he would have an account with negative trust because it defaulted on a loan (the probability of him repaying the lender are slim as well)

He is trying to get the max out of his account. He used his account as collateral for a loan, repaid it then asked for a loan 3x the previous size within 24 hours (which I obviously declined). He later opened a lending thread and has an outstanding loan for .05 BTC and has beeb making a number of other loan requests.

Just so you know you have an open loan

Unless you can come up with at least .037BTC worth of alt coins as collateral then you will need to wait for Equinox (you would also need to increase your repayment amount as it is too low)

What can you offer as collateral? What are the terms of the loan?

I would like to chime in and say that, in my eyes, the fact that you are both claiming to have business increase 3 fold+ because of abuses in the default trust system and advocating to get someone removed from default trust that left you negative trust is pretty much an admission of guilt.

I would say that at first I was very skeptical about nubbins's claims against you. I honestly though that he was trying to engage in a smear campaign to help his business, and I even went as far to believe that he was potentially using "fake" shill accounts that were supporting you in order to make you look bad.

I don't remember exactly when, however I eventually believed that you were probably a scammer, it likely had to do with the large amount of circumstantial evidence against you. Granted it was circumstantial, however it was a significant amount of it.

When you posted your first video, I removed my negative trust because it at least was some evidence that showed you were in fact not a scammer, I even seriously considered buying your "fuck nubbins" piece. It was around this time that it was revealed by BadBear (who I trust) that you were giving yourself fake reviews by accounts that were likely controlled by you. Despite this, I left my negative trust off your account.

When I was conversing with the person from the United Kingdom who was staying in Vietnam (I forget his username and do not care enough to go find it), I felt that his story was not believable enough so that it would be possible that you are legit. Granted he did somewhat prove that he was actually in Vietnam and he did have a British accent, however his claims were just too outrageous for me. This mixed with the fact that you were giving yourself fake reviews was enough so that I was willing to put negative trust back on your account.

Some time later you claimed to have uploaded videos showing more of your process. By now I did not care enough about you to watch them, however acknowledging that the videos could have potentially exonerated you, I again removed my negative trust knowing that regardless of your trust level people would know how immature you are and negative trust or not, you would likely have a hard time attracting business. I honestly was tired of all your drama and did not want to participate in your dispute anymore.

Now that you are making, what I consider to be almost a certain lie about your level of business, I find it very difficult to believe that you are potentially acting in an honest manner. The reason why you would want to boast about your fake amount of business is because it will potentially cause you to attract additional business that you would otherwise not get.

I hope that you can recognize my ability to keep an open mind by the fact that I have gone back and forth so many times.

To further respond to your complaint about CITM, you are not going to get him removed from default trust list (nor from being trusted by DefaultTrust). The reason is that his negative trust is not going to affect your ability to do business. His trust is only affecting you negatively on the margins, both by decreasing your overall trust score and saying that 1,000 BTC was risked. However him removing his trust is not going to allow you to have an easier time doing business in the future. If your goal is really getting him removed then you might as well lock this thread now because I can say with a good amount of certainty that will not happen.

I was curious as to why you did not abandon your account once it was discovered that you were scamming, as this is what the overwhelming majority of scammers do. However your post that I am almost 100% certain that you are lying in (well beyond a reasonable doubt) explained it pretty well. You are not going to be able to create a new account (or buy a new account) and pull off the same scam again. Additionally "proving" your "innocence" will likely result in you being able continue you scam and likely making away with a lot of money, likely to the tune of well over six figures (in terms of US dollars).

In theory it should be possible to recover the private key to this address (assuming that you are telling the truth above).

I am not sure what the going rate is for this kind of service, however I would be willing to do it for 50% of the amount recovered, however if nothing is recovered then you would get nothing.

All collateral should be held by a trusted third party

IMO most loans the size that you are offering are most likely going to be gambling loans. I see very other potential reasons why someone would want an $8 loan.

If you have negative trust then it will reflect poorly on the people who are advertising for. They do not want their brand/website associated with scammers.
This is not true. The fact that a small number of people are in the default trust network means that only a small number of people can have any actual impact on others' trust score, and as a result when someone scams someone (or many people) in the default trust network should give negative trust to a scammer.
You are just repeating yourself now. The trust system is not moderated.


You should really only consider negative trust from people who in the default trust network when deciding if they will be allowed to participate in a signature campaign. And when declining for negative trust you should generally only do so if they have a "Warning: Trade with extreme caution" tag. (although this is ultimately up to the person paying for the advertising)

Yes. You need to get promoted to staff or higher.

When did you set the 2nd password? Was it when you first set up the wallet?