So he should doxx himself just because of one butthurt ban evader like you? Yeah right. And even he did that, you probably still wouldn't believe him.

I am one of those few who donated him (and no, I don't think he was begging in his topic) and I don't think that he should provide any evidence because I know how easy is to fake those so if he was lying I wouldn't know anyway so why bother.

Your words against yours? If you know something say something.

When you trust someone, you can rely on their word. Yahoo has been managing significant sums of money from numerous projects for a while, and he has built a solid reputation and level of trust in the process. Personally, I don't need to ask for any doc in order to assist because I trusted him and am aware of his character.

May I ask why you are so concerned with his life and donations?

Now here's the point!
A person who hides behind his true identity is clear proof that he is not trustworthy. Yes your identity. Because our username here on the forum is our identity. No user who comes to the forum for the first time would question these situations.
Therefore, everything that this user (or others that may appear) says, will not have any credibility. Because, you are hiding your real identity here in the forum.

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Regarding the fact that the rules prohibit requests for donations, I even understand why they exist. And therefore, topics with this clear objective must be removed.

Now, the thread created by @yahoo62278 had no such purpose. He may even have made the mistake of posting his bitcoin address, upon request, in the thread and having alarm bells sounded. Perhaps his weakened situation made him not think that this situation would create this type of situation.

Either way, he has already rectified the situation, respecting the forum rules. I don't think there's a need to keep hitting the same subject.

During the time he was in the hospital, the forum was a help to him and a place where he could take his mind off the whole situation. Let's not now turn the place that made your mind stay sane, into a place of headaches.

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As for whether this was all a hoax, and he has to prove what happened. I think it's a great conspiracy theory!
@yahoo62278's reputation is worth much more than the mere dozens of dollars it would eventually receive in donations.

In addition, the forum has always valued privacy. Asking a user for a document is a huge breach of privacy.

Also, I see dozens of users with their address in their signature, and this has never been a problem on the forum over all these years.

Therefore, do not go to war with one another over these things.
The situation has already been dealt with, even if some of those involved did not have the most adequate attitude to the situation.

But let's move on, life already has many sad problems, we don't need to create even more!

My 2c FWIW,

I commend hilariousandco for responding in the thread and TBH I wouldnt demonise
the mods for their actions, afterall as yahoo points out they had the decency to PM
about it.

What I'm taking from this is that there was donation addresses listed on yahoo's thread
which resulted in the locking of it, if those addresses hadnt been listed this thread for
example wouldnt exist.

Its ok to post up your experience of whatever is happening in your life and if someone asks
to make a donation you can direct them to the addy in your profile, thats ok.

In yahoo's defense I can understand how he or anyone else might have created that
thread, we spend so much time on the forum, some members have very strong
connections with each other and others have very prominent profiles, to share
part of your life with us is understandable. Some would shy away from doing so
others not, we are all different.

As The Sceptical Chymist pointed out, a newbie coming in with, zero history, zero trust, zero merit
and doing what yahoo did would be ripped to shreds, if you have any sort of history
built up in the community you will be welcomed, thats normal/fair.

What it all comes down to is someone or multiple someones on the forum felt I was in violation of the rules of the forum. Only the forum is allowed to ask for donations, everyone else can put an address in their profile that's it in a nut shell.

I remember I read it when he posted his story here and I remember I didn’t feel that it was a begging thread by any means. He told his story wholeheartedly and I’m sure everybody read it with open heart. It was in nobody’s mind that it will turn into a begging thread and from such respected and senior member. That’s why it was not reported by anyone.

Then after that I didn’t visit back and never saw he posted a donation address in OP.

Anyway as soon the donation address was posted it turned into a begging thread no question on this.

I appreciate hilariousandco for his fair judgement instead of nuking the whole thread off, it’s better restoring it to original story telling post. I think yahoo62278 should accept posting address was a mistake.



Now asking for proofs or evidences is a stupid thing, you ask for proofs when you have doubts and when you have doubts please don’t donate or help anyone as simple as that.

If you believe in yahoo and think he needs donation or help no one is stopping you from helping him you can contact him pm or get his address there are thousand ways.

Begging is not allowed we all agree, full stop.

Now please stop humiliating anyone and specially yourself by asking for proofs. Because when you are in doubt those proofs won’t mean anything, real or fake is out question.

The responses in this thread are less than desirable but That's not on any of you, just the people who made them. It shows that certain people have a low opinion of me and that is their right.

What it all comes down to is someone or multiple someones on the forum felt I was in violation of the rules of the forum. Only the forum is allowed to ask for donations, everyone else can put an address in their profile that's it in a nut shell.

Reputation is key for receiving any donations, regardless of whether asking for them is allowed or not.  If you're a nobody on this forum and start asking for donations for any of those surgeries you listed, you can forget about it.  The only reason yahoo62278 received all the bitcoin he did is because of the trust and rep he's built up over the years.  He's managed a lot of campaigns and a lot of money, so obviously people didn't think he was up to anything when he said he was in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant.

For as long as I can remember, asking for donations wasn't allowed, no matter who you were.  It was considered begging, and I was surprised to see a btc address in yahoo62278's thread.  Eh, medically he's out of the woods for now and it's not a huge deal that he asked for a little bit of charity from the community IMO.

How would you call collecting donation to develop new forum software that was never delivered like promised?  
My point was that I saw so many obvious examples of people asking for donations in this forum and this was never considered a begging.
Now I understand if you want to make an example from yahoo, but I would like to hear opinion from theymos about it.

Dude, are you serious?!
This thread is still very much there as well as their ''donation'' address  
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124375.0

So you are now saying that he used some of his alt accounts for this, and for what....to get around $100 worth of BTC in donations  
I am really surprised and sad to hear all this from Global Moderator  

Is it only me who finds that this topic and the one(s) made by fishy001 yesterday seem too closely related?
I would not be surprised if it's the same person. (And, while multi accounts are allowed, ban evasion still isn't.)


I think that it's actually more related to Yahoo uncovering ban evasion than anything else.

If is life-threating situation like he potrays and he need food delivered to him to hospital every day. And everything can be verified by mod

It was essentially a begging thread which obviously isn't allowed and I think the no begging rule is one of the oldest here. I'm suspired nobody reported it earlier to be honest. If it was made by any other account it would have been reported half a dozen times and trashed within an hour of being posted. It's really not about providing sufficient proof of illness or whatnot. I don't know if you're trying to make a point of something with this thread but it's a good example of what would be wrong with allowing begging threads because everyone would then try them for all afflictions major and minor; real or fantasy. It would then become the oppression Olympics with people feigning all sorts of things just to try solicit sympathy donations.


From his own words he doesn't seem to need the money and he has health insurance. From what he said recently it seems the donations were essentially just to cover his doordash expenses:



You might not like the term but that's a perfect definition of what the thread essentially was.

I think yahoo62278 deserves the necessary help he/she needs to survive the health problems as long as its true. He is a longtime member who has supported this forum in his own way.
The money involved isn't a small one. Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof  and once enough proofs are provided the forum must rally around one of its own to help him/her survive. Life is worth more than the amount he/she is asking for. He could also be helped to get the desired treated/cured at the fraction of the cost or free of charge. Nothing is impossible
It will be really sad to see another important member vanish just like that.



In regards to begging accusation, why would you call someone who really needs help a begger? What? Is something wrong with you? That's childish and should never be used for people who really needs help from us. And don't ever call people who aren't really begging beggars: Here is a Wikipedia definition of begging:

Begging (also panhandling) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging


May GOD help yahoo62278 who has been kind to many of us in the past.

I don't think so, it won't change the policy on raising donation for yourself.

In some cases, I also don't really understand the exact rules as long as donation threads are freely published on several boards, for example raising donations to help other members, someone outside the forum, or an invitation to help disaster victims.

Nothing can assure anything. All you need is trust/reputation from the forum users. Your words should be more trusted than documents and be that guy, though such things directly don't exist in the forum. I was responsible for the verification of such a case during the Covid-19 pandemic for giving a donation. If someone/an organization is donating, you can go to them and provide documents.

Moderator thinks yahoo62278 is breaking the forum rules. That's what yahoo said. I can't imagine there was something that was against forum rules. The purpose of the thread was to ensure everyone should go through a health check-up. Donation was a totally partial thing there.

I do not think you can make a donation topic for you because that would be begging. Afaik other members organized the donation for yahoo and it was not a formal thing but something some members did out the kindness of their heart. I think it helps that yahoo is a long time member who has contributed a lot and they were not looking for the donation at the start and only did because people wanted too. I think if they opened up a topic looking for donations it would have been removed by the mods.

I hope I do not offend but this is your 1st post asking for a donation from a newly created account will certainly be removed. Yahoo has 1 of the best reputations on the forum and has been a member for years and does not need to provide proof because other members wanted to donate to him before he put a address in the topic.

yahoo posted the reason https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5430104.340 they got told by a mod to remove the address so I guess it was not allowed.

Surgery   Cost

Intestinal transplantation.   $1,121,800
Heart transplant                 $1,000,000
Heart valve replacement   $170,000
Heart bypass   $123,000
Spinal fusion   $110,000
Hip replacement   $40,364
Knee replacement   $35,000
Angioplasty   $28,200
Hip resurfacing   $28,000
Gastric bypass   $25,000
Cornea   $17,500
Gastric sleeve   $16,500
Hysterectomy   $15,400
Rhinoplasty   $6,500
Breast implants   $6,400
LASIK   $4,000
Spleen removal   $47,860
 Replace or revise brain shunt   $49,355
Cranial lesion   $50,189
Ileostomy   $51,683
Removal of pacemaker or defibrillator   $52,005
Partial removal of the colon   $52,353
Gallbladder surgery   $54,041

That's 60-70$ a day for food for 25 days. Do the math; which comes to 1500-1750$ just for the food alone.