First I want to say I am sorry for your loss.  I should have lead with that when I responded yesterday.  I hope it wasn't an expensive lesson to learn, and that you did learn how to be more careful.

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This idiot has been at it since Bitcoin was trading for under $10K.  If he was smart he would have squirreled away a bit, cashed out ATH, and buggered off.  Instead, the moron is still here, scrounging around the forum looking for naive newbies to scam.

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To some extent I can understand the need to use an off-site messaging app, especially for newbies who have PM sending restrictions.  Many old-timers block newbies from sending them PMs in the first place, I do not.  Anyone can send me a PM.  As for Telegram, I must admit I actually like it as a messaging app, I find it very useful.  But like any tool that offers it's users a measure of freedom, some will abuse it.


That's it right there, and it really doesn't take much:  All the OP would have had to do is copy my Telegram UID from my profile page, and paste it into the search field in his Telegram app.  It would have been made clear that he was not talking to me, but the impostor.

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If you have a good reputation here on the forum it's just a matter of time before someone tries to impersonate you on Telegram.  I have my suspicions about who's behind this, I even discussed it in the thread that you started back when this happened to you.


Me neither, which is why it's so important to be diligent.  I first notice this particular scammer when I started offering escrow services, but this is the first time I've seen where he was successful in scamming anyone.  The member who sent me a PM on Monday morning narrowly averted getting scammed himself.

Hell, someone tried this scam on me a few years ago and I almost fell for it.  I posted about it at the time, but I don't want to bring up the thread because I had actually accused a reputable member of attempting to scam me.  It was during that discussion that I learned what had actually taken place.

I've made it as easy as possible for people to confirm that they're talking to me.  I have my actual local time set as my forum time, you can see my local time on my profile page and I have a very typical schedule.  I have my real Telegram UID on my profile page, along with other contact information.  All of this in an effort to help people avoid being scammed by this impostor.

You are absolutely 100% correct that DireWoIfM14 is absolutely 100% a scammer.  Don't deal on Telegram without confirming the identity of the individual here on the forum!  My psudonym is DireWolfM14, not DireWoIfM14.  See the difference?  This is why I have my Telegram name on my profile page, so people can confirm whether they are really talking to me or not.

In fact, I just posted a warning about this a couple of days ago:

I know:


That's exactly my issue with this situation.  Let me explain:  When the site was down there was no point in tagging Royse777.  There was no risk of them taking more deposits which would later become unavailable withdrawals.  The fact that the site came back up, and Royse777 continues to promote it, while clients weren't allowed to withdraw puts BitLucy's scam level in 1xBit territory.  That's why I feel it's justified to leave that tag.  It seems like the site has no issue accepting deposits, but until they are issuing withdrawal requests I don't think anyone should make a deposit.  That's my justification for the red-tag.

And to yahoo62278's point, specifically:


I've never been the type to etch my reviews in stone.  If things start working normally and everyone gets their withdrawals as expected my tag will be removed.

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Thank you for posting here.  So far I know of BlackHatCoiner, Stompix, Rikafip, and SFR10 as members who voluntarily chose to stop promoting BitLucy.  Rather than punish those who haven't acted I think it's important to recognize those who do.

I've been reading up on it and yeah, Fuck PPR.  It's a silly addition really.  One of the things Drew Loftis mentions in that article is how the game doesn't differentiate between yards gained via passing or running, so why should fantasy football.  Clearly it has no affect on the game.  The point about first downs not being scored is a good one too, I would be in favor of that addition.

In a perfect world that would be the way things would work.  These expectations can easily slip down the slope to become demands (at least by some.)  People are getting paid and I wouldn't expect too many to volunteer to pause their paycheck.  For these reasons I'm not a fan of tagging folks just for promoting a suspected scam.  Especially in this case; until a week ago this looked good to go since it was promoted by a reputable manager, launched signature and avatar campaigns, had a cool looking website.

Besides, if this goes really wrong they'll just not pay their avatar campaign participants, and that will sort things out on its own.

It can be said about almost any sport; defense wins championships.  The Warriors defense is among the best in the league, which is how they've gotten to this point without having the best season or the best stats.  Steph curry had a horrible night; he's their most valuable player but only scored 16 points in game 5, despite being on the court for 37 minutes.  Most teams wouldn't be able to recover from that.  Let's face it, Steph won game 4 single handedly, scoring 40% of the Warriors total, but even that game couldn't have been won without a stout defense.  Even when the team has trouble scoring, they can still keep themselves in the game.

It's been a fun run, but I expect the Warriors to drop game 6.  The Celtics are just too strong at home, and their season is on the line.  Oh well, it'll be fun when GS wins the title at home.  

If the question was only about timing then I would agree with you, but it's not.  It's about actively promoting the site, attracting new clients (and deposits) while the current clientele are unable to withdraw.  How much time would be appropriate for this to continue?

If we are to discuss timing and whether it's too early or not; it's fair to point out this isn't an overnight glitch.  This has been an issue for over a week now.  Technical difficulties aside, they could have issued those withdrawals manually in that time.

I'm sorry to be the one who has to do this, but I can't stand by in good conscience and let this continue.  I know this will be an unpopular move, but I also know it's the right thing to do.

Royse777 is acting as the representative of the new casino BitLucy, as has been demonstrated by his actions and suggested by his posts quoted in this thread.  He started the official BitLucy thread in the gambling board, and just made a post to address the site being down for the last 24 hours, and users denied withdrawals for the last week.  In that post he announces that the site is back on line, but to those who've been waiting for their withdrawals he offers this tidbit:


This does not give anyone clear indication of when they'll be allowed to withdraw their money.  I believe that until people are able to withdraw their funds, it is unsafe to use this casino.  Yet Royse777 continues to promote it and has demonstrated little concern for those waiting for a withdrawal.

This post will serve as a reference to the tag until the issues with withdrawals are resolved.

But again, does that really matter?  There are always going to those who try to avoid taint.  You'll know them IRL because they put on latex gloves when handling cash.


I wouldn't be so naive to believe that a that a mixer couldn't be in cahoots with the government.  And again, how would we know?  Mixers are centralized services.  Any privacy, anonymity, and most importantly, safety that you get from a mixer is purely assumed.  We must trust that the mixer will provide the services as promised.  With the exception of privacy, there is no way to verify and validate the results. 

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Okay, okay, JoinMarket, I got it. 

I'll look into it, do my own research.  Thank you.

Why stop at marketing?  Sportsbet should just start their own full blown Football Travel Service!  Let's start with an airline.  Just imagine it; Sportsbet.io branded peanuts with the Southampton crest, bitcoin symbol emblazoned on the stroopwaffles, LN payments for Scotch, unlimited streaming of Arsenal wins.  It would be the best airline.  Ever.

It's been three days since Royse777 made that excuse-filled post that offered no solution, no accountability, and no responsibility for this situation.  Given Royse777's popularity and his services I can understand why a lot of you are reluctant to criticize him, especially those of you who've helped promote his services in the past.

But, this is not looking good.  The clients of that casino are still waiting for their withdrawals, and the bitlucy website has been down for over 24 hours.  Maybe it's too early to call it an exit scam.  Or is it?

Congrats to the Sportsbet.io team on their anniversary.  Great job, guys.  It's a privilege to have you here.


I know, right?


Okay, fine, when Istanbul meetup?

That would actually be a lot of fun, Turkey is on my bucket list.  The next time I visit family in the middle east I'll be stopping in Istanbul for a few days.

There's noting wrong with discussing this here.  This is Bitlucy's service thread, and if people are having issues with their service it's perfectly acceptable to bring it up here.  If this casino turns out to be a scam then this is the best place to discuss that too.  People need to be made aware of what kind of service they're about to use...  Or not.

How about Jordan Pool last night?  14 minutes on the court, 14 points on the board.  Not a bad outing.  It was nice to see the rest of the team step up with Curry having an off night.  Wiggins and Thomson looked great, and Green was a monster on defense. 

Thursday is going to be fun, but I expect the Celtics to come out swinging on their home court.  Losing at home in game six will not be an option, and honestly I'm being a bit greedy here.  I would love noting more than to see the Warriors win game 7 at home.  Story book ending.

Asking others to consider the evidence against you, and tag you if they feel it's accurate is not misuse of the trust system.

If he were to do something really stupid, like create six newbie accounts to spam your trust page, now that would be misuse of the trust system.  But that didn't happen did it?  In fact, somebody created six newbie accounts to spam his trust page.  What kind of drama queen would do such a thing?

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This sounds too much like a soap opera.  Any dispute between two members needs to be resolved by those two members.  Trust is not managed by the moderators, so one can do anything about it except the person who left the review.  No one is going to tag Kavelj22 for being rude, that would also be a misuse of the trust system.  If Kavelj22 is leaving trust ratings that have no supporting evidence, the community will notice and very likely remove him from trust inclusions.  Regardless, he's not in DT so his reviews don't show up as "Trusted."  

الله يحييكم

Is it really worth the effort?  I mean if privacy and anonymity are the goals, aren't there better options than CoinJoin?  In the other thread n0nce mentioned one could even code in an easier way to add coinjoin coordinators, so you could even have a whole list to choose from.  Even if you had a whole list of coordinators, they are each a centralized entity which requires trust in those entities.  Wasabi told us they're using BCA, what's to prevent another coordinator from pretending they're not.  Would we know?

I just had a look at their website again, and you're absolutely right.  They do mention non-custodial which is true, and the trustless part is technologically over my head.  It is open source and I trust the community, for what that's worth.  I don't remember exactly what it was about the wallet that turned me off, but something about it did creep me out.  Maybe it was fear of taint, lol!  I was much "younger" then, and I'm not afraid to admit that it may have crossed my mind.  I've read through this thread, and I can't help but agree with you and the like-minded-others on the issue, however.

Any attempt to avert tainted coins does a dis-service to privacy and anonymity for all of us, and will play into the governments hands.  The end goal is to blacklist all bitcoin UTXOs that can't be confirmed by BCA as having been thoroughly taxed.

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Funny thing about this quote you posted (emphases mine.)

 

Half of the bolded sentence, if not patently false, it's intentionally misleading.  I guess one could argue that if they're blacklisted they're not "participants."

I sent the whole requested amount, 0.01086BTC.  Here's the TxId: 77a6e6c8c91ffb5030c9e4580b9aaf44ac91bb1ee3f08b33a5f600e45f5f155e

Please pay back here: bc1q2nwf4njwkpeuyycx5a95nj6mf8m45djdk863xs

I haven't used Wasabi Wallet for a couple of years, so I largely ignored this thread.  @n0nce, no the irony of the thread title didn't escape me, but I didn't know why until I just got caught up on what's going on.  One of the reasons I didn't use Wasabi for long was that I didn't trust it.  Maybe it was due to my ignorance, I still don't know exactly how CoinJoin is decentralized, and I'm not comfortable with claims that it is.  Maybe I'm missing something.

What I don't understand about this whole debacle is why zxsnacks is the only viable coordinator.  If it's a decentralized service wouldn't some other coordinator owned by a Russian mafioso running on a VPS out of Curaçao just start getting the majority of join requests?  Why is a wallet that claims to be "decentralized" locking it's users into one CENTRAL join providor?

ELI5.

Now you're starting to make some sense.  I can't tell if you're contradicting yourself or if I misunderstood your previous post.



I gave you that dollar for making a funny, it's all yours.  You won't be getting any bonus points for attempting to return it.