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2261  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It looks as if Guaido's lot burnt the aid truck. on: February 26, 2019, 03:49:10 PM
This is ridiculous propaganda.
2262  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: Wanted to Buy Testnet coins for BTC on: February 26, 2019, 12:41:30 AM
There are multiple faucets for the testnet that give away fairly substantial amounts of coins for free.

It is generally frowned upon to attach any value to testnet coins. I believe at one point many people were buying/trading BTC testnet coins, and to discourage this, a new testnet blockchain was created.
2263  Economy / Lending / Re: Need $1000 Loan. Have collateral on: February 26, 2019, 12:38:04 AM
It appears selling a YouTube channel is against their TOS, and as such the account may get closed if google finds out about it being used as collateral (or of a transfer).

Further, YouTube channels make money because their owners create content that generates ad revenue. However if a channel is transferred, the prior owner would almost certainly not be creating additional content, and without ongoing additional content, the number of views your videos will get will decline (a lot) over time. When the video views go does, so does the ad revenue.
2264  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN/RUNNING] SIGMA POOL SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN on: February 25, 2019, 11:58:30 PM
I am interested joining.

36wD9WZri7utFL2x7Y8kMqB2piHcfqM6S2

I am 51 in total merit and 109 in total merit received, and have the 31st most number of posts.
2265  Other / Meta / Re: The profile page should be changed. No one uses ICQ, AIM, MSN or YIM. on: February 25, 2019, 10:30:02 PM
What similar things do people use now?
telegram
2266  Economy / Reputation / Re: Suspicious loan to 2double0 from hacker1001101001 (marcotheminer involved) on: February 25, 2019, 10:28:41 PM
Firstly Yes I provided a loan to 2double0 after looking at his post in the lending section here


I would like to clarify what Quickseller said here :

The most damming part of the loan to 2double0 is the blockchain activity immidiately prior to hacker1001101001 making the loan. 2double0 asked for the loan to be funded to 1J4YGjWGyWSQ1U8VCTUeXn3XqMxiUhheZ7 and hacker1001101001 funded the loan via txid 9e25bbb34f3c4504f3275c93502afe82efec15ecd04581b1d9f9f19dfc48aa6b, whose inputs are from 1JAYESHqohMYvXS4Do6ZNEYJiwZ588MVKi -- this transaction was confirmed in block 564462, which also confirmed a withdrawal from huobi in the amount of 0.0502 (enough for the loan plus a small amount for the tx fee), but the strange thing is that 8 blocks prior to hacker1001101001 receiving the withdrawal from huobi, he received 0.00001 BTC from 1J4YGjWGyWSQ1U8VCTUeXn3XqMxiUhheZ7 the address 2double0 asked the loan to be funded to. This might be circumstantial evidence that hacker1001101001 may be the same person as 2double0.

The transaction you are talking about which occurred here is the one which I asked 2Double0 to confirm his BTC address by sending me a small amount of BTC to my BTC address. I did this as he said that he holds the address 1J4YGjWGyWSQ1U8VCTUeXn3XqMxiUhheZ7 in his blockchain.com wallet from where he was unable to sign a message. He also sent me some ScreenShots of him logged in with the wallet in his PC.

Form this I confirmed that he was owning an address posted from his account at least 1.5 years ago here and I sent the loan directly to his previous address.
He was asking to have the loan sent to the same address he posted 1.5 years ago. I don't think I understand the logic in asking for a test transaction out of the address you are sending the loan to. Also, as an FYI, it is possible to sign a message from an address in a blockchain.infocom wallet -- you would need to export the private key, or xprivkey via the console then import it into a wallet that can sign messages, or at least this was the case in the past.




I was also informed that 2double0 changed his password one time in May 2015, within one day of when marco changed his password. I don't think this is an indication that either account was sold, and think it is more likely marco was changing all/many of his passwords.

2267  Other / Meta / Re: [PERMABAN APPEAL] ChiBitCTy on: February 25, 2019, 07:57:26 PM

[...]
I would have had more respect for you if you just apologised without the sob story. This is the same old crap everyone else uses when they get banned. You're literally trying to say that you only copy and pasted because your mother was ill. I'm not sure why copy and pasting would take your mind off things as opposed to actually using your mind to come up with a post yourself. You got caught cheating on a signature campaign and likely only did this to hit your quote, and if it was any other shitposter trying these excuses they would be laughed off the forum.

[...]

It seems they can when their "friend" gets caught doing something but they've never made these arguments before for the hundreds of other posters who get caught doing the same. This is a bigger issue than just ChiBitCTy. Do we forgive the thousands of others who have been caught doing the same? Or maybe only when they have a few friends here, haven't read the rules or have an unbelievably pitiful sob story? If we're going to unban people under certain circumstances we may as well stop banning people for copy and pastes and just let the community leave them appropriate feedback instead.

I mostly agree with hilarious's posts. The plagiarism was exactly the same offense as any member of the typical spammer flood, with exactly the same mindset: "I want money -> I need to make x posts with y words to make money -> the easiest way to do that is to copy/paste something from elsewhere", with complete disregard for your own integrity, the health of the forum, the ongoing discussion, or fairness in crediting the actual author. If someone copy/pasted something that was amazingly high-quality and on-topic, I'd understand more (though you'd still get banned), but almost always people copy the first thing that they find on Google. To be so lazy that you won't even make up your own low-quality post, but instead save a few minutes by importing some garbage from the wider Internet, is a massive insult to this forum's community, and is proof that at least in that moment the only thing you cared about was money-making.


You must be out of your mind to even think about doing such an illogical thing. Invest in Bitcoin only that much amount which you can afford to lose. Bitcoin is unregulated, speculative and an unpredictable currency. It looks lucrative only as long as you play things right and that's impossible to predict.

https://www.quora.com/Should-I-sell-my-house-and-invest-in-bitcoin-as-I-can-only-buy-4-bitcoins-as-of-now-after-selling-my-home/answer/Apurva-Patel-28

accidental source omission.

 Roll Eyes

2268  Economy / Lending / Re: Seeking $50 "Credit/Relationship Building" Loan in BTC - Repay $75 in 1 Week on: February 25, 2019, 08:31:44 AM
Reputation loans are frowned upon here.
2269  Economy / Reputation / Re: Suspicious loan to 2double0 from hacker1001101001 (marcotheminer involved) on: February 25, 2019, 05:48:38 AM
As on his loan thread, I posted about it and that marcotheminer and 2double0 are the same people. Also, you know Marco opened a loan thread at the same time he was asked loan he locked his loan thread after several posts which we made and also from a private message. And 2double0 send a message to me which seems like account sells. He told me "if you can't give me 0.05 then no problem, how much you can give me by taking this account as collateral". I offered 0. Both people from different account tried to take the loan and sent a message on several ways, though I told not to send me any more message. So, there is a lot of chance that is running by the same people and also this loan will be a default. If it cant be default this time then there might have 2 reasons:
1. will try to take more loan then a scam and/or
2. To avoid loss of both accounts as we are discussing it.
To be entirely fair, marco was at one point entrusted with 50+BTC from a new (at the time) exchange (worth ~$25k at the time) to run their signature campaign.

He has somewhat of a history of these kinds of shady shenanigans, and I am not entirely sure what his end game was/is. It may be to earn more in (custom) signature deals, or otherwise earn money in the marketplace, or to eventually sell his accounts at a higher price with positive trust. Or it may be to build up trust, and give trust to his other accounts and then use those accounts to scam, preserving his trust. 
2270  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US and Colombia Attempt to Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Venezuela, chaos ensues. on: February 25, 2019, 05:42:16 AM

Yes it is disappointing to see otherwise productive forum members have such extremist views. I guess it is just a fact of participating in such a diverse forum

Lots of people simply don't like the U.S. and the international banker's actions in that country.  We've seen them before, and the people of neither country win.

Socialism sucks.  Why not just let it fail on it's own?  If it won't fail in Venezuela due to their natural wealth, deal with it.  The only thing which the sanctions and harassment accomplish is to lend strength to the relatively false idea that Socialism works unless Capitalism interferes.

Then there is the plainly unethical idea that it is OK to steal if you have the muscle to do so, and the U.S. policy doesn't even hide that that is the goal.  Whoever supports us on that philosophical principle is NOT someone who is going to be reliable or beneficial to have around in the long run.  Even as lap-dogs.  Certainly not as masters which is more likely to be the driving force given the relative strength of our people in influencing our politicians relative to certain other groups.


Sanctions are not being put on Venezuela oil companies because of socialism, they are being put on because of the fake elections that has effectively turned the democracy into a dictatorship that arbitrarily jails, kills and otherwise harms dissenters and those opposed to the current government.

The Venezuela government also effectively seized private property for the benefit of the state without due process, nor compensation.

The government is taking care of the elite few who help the government stay in power while the rest of the people suffer, and live in extreme poverty and hyperinflation. Socialist governments can survive for a long time because only a small portion of the population needs to be taken care of. 
2271  Economy / Reputation / Suspicious loan to 2double0 from hacker1001101001 (marcotheminer involved) on: February 25, 2019, 05:31:59 AM
Recently 2double0 opened a loan request thread asking for what turned out to be a 0.05BTC loan (it looks like it might have originally been 0.06, but that is not really important).

I know based on blockchain evidence that 2double0 used to be owed by marcotheminer and believe he was for many years, however marco is/was also an account seller, so it is not out of the realm of possibility that it was sold.

What was strange is that marcotheminer was vouching for him being "who he says he is" AND claiming to have given him a (apparently) no collateral loan from "a while ago".

2double0 recently came back from a ~10 month hiatus, with his 1st post after returning made Jan 25, 2019 (a loan request offering his account as collateral), and his last post before leaving was in March 2018 (wrapping up a bounty campaign he was apparently running).

marco also recently came back from a hiatus, with his first post back being on Jan 16, 2019 (claiming a giveaway), however on Jan 22, he reopened his lending thread (that has subsequently been locked, apparently without making any additional loans), and the next day asking for a 1 ETH loan, which was the same day 2double0 requested his loan. Before he left, his last post was in October 2018 (asking to join a signature campaign), however this was only two posts, and prior to that he posted in May 2018, trying to sell a couple of domains, and prior to that was in June 2017.

Based on the above, I would say it is reasonable that marco and 2double0 are currently the same person, although I cannot rule out this not being the case. Perhaps someone can review the security log back to March 31, 2015 when marco confirmed to me that it was "in his possession".

It is obviously not proof of a scam that someone has multiple accounts or is involved in the account market "underworld". The vouch, strictly in regards to marco saying that 2double0 is "who he claims to be" might be something I can look past if they are the same person. The claiming to have given 2double0 is certainly not appropriate if they are the same person -- even though there is no claim of a successful repayment, it implies it is the opinion of a longstanding forum member with positive trust that someone can be trusted when no one else is saying as much -- if they are not the same person, it would mean marco sold this account, which would be somewhat of a conflict of interest to give this vouch.

I saw the above and was considering making a thread about this.  I certainly do not approve of vouching for yourself, or giving what may be a fake no-collateral loans, but was somewhat on the fence about opening this thread, mostly because I have no way to efficiently go though the old security logs to check for evidence that 2double0 changed hands. However.....

The most damming part of the loan to 2double0 is the blockchain activity immidiately prior to hacker1001101001 making the loan. 2double0 asked for the loan to be funded to 1J4YGjWGyWSQ1U8VCTUeXn3XqMxiUhheZ7 and hacker1001101001 funded the loan via txid 9e25bbb34f3c4504f3275c93502afe82efec15ecd04581b1d9f9f19dfc48aa6b, whose inputs are from 1JAYESHqohMYvXS4Do6ZNEYJiwZ588MVKi -- this transaction was confirmed in block 564462, which also confirmed a withdrawal from huobi in the amount of 0.0502 (enough for the loan plus a small amount for the tx fee), but the strange thing is that 8 blocks prior to hacker1001101001 receiving the withdrawal from huobi, he received 0.00001 BTC from 1J4YGjWGyWSQ1U8VCTUeXn3XqMxiUhheZ7 the address 2double0 asked the loan to be funded to. This might be circumstantial evidence that hacker1001101001 may be the same person as 2double0.

PS - the loan thread was immidiately locked after receiving the loan, which is a practice that I very much dislike, despite its stated goal of eliminating useless posts by those with paid signatures.
2272  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US and Colombia Attempt to Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Venezuela, chaos ensues. on: February 25, 2019, 04:18:34 AM
The news is so distorted. Venezuela receives so much aid, that it tried to give some of it to part of Columbia, and the US blocked it. If the US really cared about helping people, then they would route that aid to the parts of Columbia that really needs it. But maybe that would mess up their drug dealing, and they need that to fund all their stupid wars that everybody knows are just attempts to seize the assets of countries to give to the super-national elite.

What the hell did I just read.

Could you please explain
I have noticed he posts a lot of pro-Maduro (what amounts to) propaganda in Venezuela threads. I wouldn't take it seriously.

There seem to be a few others similarly supporting Maduro, although this may be because they are wanting Socialism to be tried in the US. Interestingly, Socialist Bernie Sanders acknowledged there is a humanitarian crisis recently.

Didn't know that Jet Cash swung that way. Pretty horrible to see!

Maduro is a horrid leader, and should be ousted. He's not a legitimate president, I want to stretch that one more time, MADURO IS NOT A LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT
Yes it is disappointing to see otherwise productive forum members have such extremist views. I guess it is just a fact of participating in such a diverse forum
2273  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US and Colombia Attempt to Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Venezuela, chaos ensues. on: February 25, 2019, 02:43:44 AM
The news is so distorted. Venezuela receives so much aid, that it tried to give some of it to part of Columbia, and the US blocked it. If the US really cared about helping people, then they would route that aid to the parts of Columbia that really needs it. But maybe that would mess up their drug dealing, and they need that to fund all their stupid wars that everybody knows are just attempts to seize the assets of countries to give to the super-national elite.

What the hell did I just read.

Could you please explain
I have noticed he posts a lot of pro-Maduro (what amounts to) propaganda in Venezuela threads. I wouldn't take it seriously.

There seem to be a few others similarly supporting Maduro, although this may be because they are wanting Socialism to be tried in the US. Interestingly, Socialist Bernie Sanders acknowledged there is a humanitarian crisis recently.
2274  Other / Meta / Re: Force to Reset Password on: February 24, 2019, 09:12:10 PM
There are pros and cons to doing this.

If your password is compromised, someone may be able to access, and continue to access your account indefinitely if you do not change your password. If you recycle passwords (as many people do unfortunately), the chances of this happening to the password you are using go up over time.

OTOH, changing your password frequently will require either backups of a password manager frequently, or people will use less secure passwords. It will also lead to more frequent password resets, which is another security concern.

On balance, this is probably not a good idea because it would be unusual for someone to hack an account around here and not attempt to do something (such as post or send a PM that will elicit a response) that would attract the attention of the owner. A hacker might be able to read the personal messages of a hacked account on an ongoing basis, however there are warnings against sending sensitive information unencrypted.   
2275  Economy / Reputation / Re: Another question about a bitcoin wallet on: February 24, 2019, 08:59:22 PM
The wallet you are asking about belongs to a business that holds bitcoin (possibly temporally) on behalf of their customers.  

It may be an exchange, gambling site, a service similar to BitPay, or a service similar to ShapeShift.

If there is a comma in the number of addresses, the "wallet" almost certainly does not belong to a single person. There are two commas in this case.
2276  Economy / Services / Re: Stake.com - A signature campaign for everyone! Earn up to 0.1 BTC weekly on: February 24, 2019, 08:04:33 PM
I would be interested in joining if possible.

I tried to create an account at stake.com but I am getting a message saying stake is not available in my region (the US).

Would you be able to pay directly to a BTC address for a very high merit, and active legendary forum member?
2277  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US and Colombia Attempt to Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Venezuela, chaos ensues. on: February 24, 2019, 07:53:49 PM
Venezuela also cut off diplomatic ties with Columbia after aid was attempted to be delivered via that border.

I would not be surprised to see war break out between Venezuela and Columbia, perhaps after Venezuela makes an empty threat and/or after Venezuela launches a token attach hoping to get Columbia to back off, not wanting war. If war does break out, I would expect for the government of Venezuela to fall shortly thereafter.
2278  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 2020 Democrats on: February 24, 2019, 07:32:01 PM
Andrew Yang starting to iron out some policy despite complete MSM blackout.  The lying MSM doesn't even list him as a candidate
This is probably because he is not even on the map in the polls.

According to a poll released Feb 23, he is not in the top 14 candidate for the NH (early) primary, when numbers 13 and 14 are rounded down to 0%, and "someone else" collectively has 5%.

He isn't in the top 19 in a national poll for the Democrat nomination, with the bottom three each having a rounded percentage of voters of 0%, and "someone else" collectively getting 3%.

I don't think he has a realistic chance of even getting any delegate votes. I am not sure why theymos even has him on the list in the OP.

Edit: perhaps Howard Schultz should be added to the OP, and poll. He is technically considering running as an independent, however his views align with Democrats (he is a moderate) and may end up running as one.
2279  Other / Meta / Re: New? on: February 24, 2019, 07:22:44 PM
I read his ban appeal thread:

I read it too. Nowhere does it say that there was only one plagiarism, nor is it a tenable claim to begin with.

Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension
Here's the (now deleted) plagiarism:
2280  Other / Meta / Re: New? on: February 24, 2019, 06:50:51 PM
IIRC, ChiBitCTy had plagiarized much more than once (as Redsn0w did)

How do you know that redsn0w did it only once?
I read his ban appeal thread:
EDIT: Here's the (now deleted) plagiarism:

Possible reason for sell off is people anticipate NXT prise to rise soon, as the 1.2.xx branch is just around the corner, so they sell to get more NXTs.

Possible reason for sell off is people anticipate NXT prise to rise soon, as the 1.2.xx branch is just around the corner, so they sell to get more NXTs.

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