It looks like the sig spammers are out in force with their “agree” posts. Perhaps they are trying to win favor with the DT powerful.

It also looks like a certain group of people think they can do whatever they want without consequences. The unbanning only reenforces that.

Perhaps the Russian mods can weigh in.

Google translate is saying the highlighted portions of the posts mean something different:

The above is when the posts are translated via google (I presume -- it was done directly in my chrome browser) on each of the respective threads.

Below is what is translated when done via this thread:

These people have completed a job, but have not been compensated as agreed? I can’t imagine how anyone could argue this is okay (assuming there are no outstanding concerns with the work, which doesn’t appear to be the case here).

If this person is taking a long time to complete their work, you can consider not hiring him in the future

You sent 600 negative ratings in under 24 hours (closer to 22 hours)....just to have the most number of ratings sent? That works out to one every ~2.2 minutes assuming you were working the entire 22 hours with no breaks.

I can’t imagine you possibly did enough research to confirm each of those people are in fact scammers in that time. It seems to me that you just effectively excluded 600 people from participating in the marketplace for no reason other than to have an “award” for having sent the most number of ratings.

I don’t see any reason why you need to wait for this persons work to be completed in order to get paid.

IMO, this is shady on the part of whoever is in charge of paying the translators.

Altcoin giveaways are not allowed....

A thread to send a PM with information to credit the persons account can be made in the altcoin marketplace sub.

I would note that many would find this unethical and might not want to do business with your casino if you do this. (Also it is not economical generally to process a bunch of $3 withdrawals).

It is unethical, and is one more reason why those without trading experience should not be on DT.

It may be what that casino is doing is trying to prevent a bunch of people whose sole purpose is to claim giveaways to claim the rewards. The concern is that these people may be willing to look the other way if the casino starts to act shady, such as what happened here, and here.

He was almost certainly a troll.

Assuming what you wrote in your posts above is accurate, I think there is a good chance they are the same person, although I wouldn’t demand they explain themselves. I might decline to enroll them in a campaign I am running if they don’t have excellent post quality.

I don’t subscribe to the theory that enrolling multiple alts in a campaign is “abusing” bounty campaigns— the company who is paying for the advertising is receiving the same amount of advertising as if more than one person was behind the alts. If the accounts are making good posts, the advertiser is actually loosing out by declining alt accounts because good posts attract more attention, and if all the alts are posting garbage, they shouldn’t be accepted into the campaign in the first place.

It is difficult to say those who posted the same address are not the same person, however the same still applies.

Perhaps you should read this thread before posting


As an alternative, you should review the thread you are citing.

Except for those that are using the same address, I don’t see the connection between the accounts based on what you posted. The merit history might be worth looking into further. To my knowledge, Xapo controls the private keys to all the address used by their service so any Blockchain activity after funds are sent to the address is out of control of the users. The fact that they are on the first page of the walletexplorer website doesn’t mean anything.

I am also not sure I understand what you think these people did wrong that makes them scammers.

I would disagree. I wouldn’t do something whose purpose is to prevent them from being able to conduct business based on a guess.

It would probably be best to remove the advertisement. Sure, it *might* not be a Ponzi scam, however the overwhelming chance is that it is.

It looks like the issue of me possibly being the same as marco was cleared up here in a GitHub issue for keybase.

According to one of what I believe to be devs of keybase, marco was one of the "alpha" users of keybase, and never proved ownership of the PGP key in his keybase profile (mine). It looks like he input my public key as being his, and never verified it (because he doesn't have the private key) -- note at the time, I was one of the most trusted people here. According to the dev, this was a bug in the keybase software and a fix was made in Early 2017, when this was reported.

It looks like it stems from this, which looks like for some reason keybase was saying a PGP message that I signed was signed by marco. It appears that marco might have deleted his keybase account, however based on what I posted at the time, the "proof" keybase had for the PGP key associated with marco's key was not signed by my key.

It is possible his financial situation has changed from when he was managing the coinsbank(?) signature campaign, and may be willing to scam for $500 today when he was unwilling to scam for $20k years ago if he is now desperate for money. It is also possible, he is trying to engage in many trades so he can gain additional reputation, so he can have additional business opportunities, such as managing campaigns. It is also possible he had a series of unexpected expenses that came up, and has income he will be receiving in the near future.

I am not marco. I am not sure why timeloard thinks I am him, although I would not be surprised if he posted it somewhere and the logic is convoluted.

The multiple loans will not automatically make him a scammer, although the multiple loans taken over a short period is suspicious.

In the past, marco has had a lot of sockpuppets, including one of which allegedly took out a private loan from him. I am unsure if this account is still one of his sockpuppets, although my intuition says it is.

Prior to last month, I was not aware of him engaging in any kind of fake trades with his sockpuppets, although I do know he was engaged in trust farming, including asking people on DT for positive trust.

IIRC, in the past, he was entrusted with ~50BTC to run a signature campaign (worth ~$20k at the time), and to my knowledge he paid out appropriately, and returned excess funds when the campaign closed, although it is possible he accepted people who shouldn't have been accepted, and/or paid for posts that maybe shouldn't have been paid, and/or something similar in exchange for a portion of the improper payment. 

erwin45hacked isn't a scammer per se, however he is so bad at protecting his account, if you are dealing with him, there is a decent chance you are actually dealing with a hacker.

Based on the high percentage of people with negative ratings, it doesn’t appear this goal has been met:

Based on the fact that the majority of people have no ratings at all (within DT), it appears many people are in DT who don’t participate in the marketplace. This begs the question as to why they are able to influence the marketplace.

Can you sign a message from ETH 0xF6022EE57D43CDD93dE2dAf382C504AfE818B172

You posted that address here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2701640.msg27619773#msg27619773

If not you need to lock this thread because you would clearly not be the original owner of this account.

Out of curiosity, who are you?

I am correct to say that your intention is to make me look poorly, correct?