I wouldn't be able to take possession of your car title tonight and unless you are very close to me I would not be able to take possession of your watch (even if I could I would not be able to verify it is in fact worth $400+ tonight).

I could care less about your legal obligation to repay, as people are really obligated to repay loans that they do not pay every day, people take abuse the bankruptcy system all the time. I am looking for a financial incentive for you to repay, e.g. something defaults back to me (that I already have in my possession) in the event you do not repay

What collateral do you have?

If you have nothing more then your account as collateral then you will not be able to get a .2 loan. Lenders tend to lend much less when using full member accounts as collateral

This is buying trust which is frowned upon here

You both seriously need to learn to date your signed messages. Now anyone can potentially impersonate you by producing the same signature/message/address combination

Do you have a link as to where your collateral trades?

carra could have done the exact same thing that he did. He could have checked the block chain that matches a certain criteria and then described an address that matches. Until carra can sign a message from an address containing enough funds to pay everyone I would assume that he does not yet have the funds

I would not accept a loan payment via PayPal. I can help you get $800 into your PayPal by lending you Bitcoin that you can sell on btc-e and withdraw to PayPal however I would need collateral in the form of Bitcoin and would need to be repaid in Bitcoin. I can agree to have the loan be a fiat based loan if you wish.

I don't think that even escrow would be able to protect you if you buy from the op. The gift cards can be purchased with stolen credit cards and have the balance reversed months later

forum history (at the very bottom). It shows how many posts were made every month and every day if you press the "+"

December saw 294517 (~295k) posts, this is down ~2.9% from November even though December has ~3% more days, although this could be attributed to the Christmas and New Years holidays. January 2014 saw ~620k posts verses December 2013's ~453k posts which was a ~37% increase. January 2013 over December 2012 saw a ~15% increase in posts.

Edit: I was using an inaccurate current post count above for my estimate.

You deleted your post so I was not able to properly quote it.

I am not going to apologize because you have not proven anything. I obviously do not trust you enough to offer a fair bet nor do I have any intention of giving someone who I am fairly certain is going to end up scamming any money, and am not going to risk damaging my reputation just to prove a point.

You still are avoiding the question of the purpose of revealing the address that you are holding funds in. (note it is address, not account)

No because that bet can easily be manipulated either by paying someone to sign a message for you that has enough bitcoin to pay or by sending from an exchange that will likely send from an address that has enough bitcoin to pay now.

There is no reason why you would need to keep a address secret like this.

keeping an address secret does nothing to stop risks. This is true even if you have the private key in cold storage.

The only reason I can think of that you will not publish it is because you do not have enough Bitcoin yet

yes this is, imo worse then signature spam via shitposts. I have primarily noticed this happening on account selling threads however I have also noticed that a select few threads are constantly at the top of the first page.

it is to allow users to remain more anonymous. And I am pretty sure that is has been reasonably concluded that email "verdfication" is what allowed the account to get "hacked"

It is never appropiate to taunt someone. The trade with caution is enough to stop anyone trying to impersonate someone else. They were probably trying to actually have a presence here if they bothered to report any messages. There was what was probably a honest misunderstanding when someone made a thread in meta about getting negative trust minutes after creating an account that was similar to your username. My impression of him was that he thought of the name independently of your reputation here (although he may have been trying to get the trust removed to scam). I haven't seen that person around since the day he made that thread so he probably either left the community or made another account.

I think my trust is appropiate for now. The maximum affect it will have is cause a trade with caution warning for anyone that has me on their trust list. This is an example of why you should trade with caution when dealing with him. Anyone reading my rating will see that I do not think he is going to actively try to scam.


there is nothing to say that he wouldn't provide escrow if asked (there is no reason why him saying he won't escrow anymore in the future - changing his mind would not make him a liar). My trust rating warns people against asking him to escrow

I am sure that a lot (or at least some) of the people that receive negative trust is a result of a misunderstanding and may not truly be trying to scam. If this is the case then taunting after giving negative trust means that you are taunting someone who is trying to operate legitimately.

Imo that behavior is very unprofessional and reflects very poorly on him.

he said numerous times that the mistake was unintentional when he was asked if he was going to repay out of his own pocket. This leads me to believe that he was not planning on paying out of my own pocket. The situation was resolved quickly enough so that it didn't need to come to that