Reputation loans are frowned upon here.

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.   

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.

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?

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.

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.

Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension

I read his ban appeal thread:

IIRC, ChiBitCTy had plagiarized much more than once (as Redsn0w did), and they were part of a large burst of low effort posts he made while participating in a signature campaign.

If anything, IMO, he would be one of the later people to have their ban removed for plagiarism.

Unless there is an indication they want a PM, such as in a post saying they are looking for certain services, this is not allowed, and is sending an unsolicited advertising PM.

Wow, you should consider yourself lucky. Most people get permanently banned for plagiarism. Although it was from 4.5 years ago 

The administration does not do anything about alt accounts, even those of scammers well over 99% of the time, and does not even put much effort into finding alt accounts of banned users.

Also, it is possible to find alt accounts that are all using TOR, even if they are taking a lot of precautions against detection.

www.gemini.com
www.coinbase.com
there are many others

I have seen many posts quoted (and responded to) prior to being deleted.

Perhaps the deletions are to prevent the thread from being derailed.

This particular post should be acceptable because the context of the post is clearly quoting another source.

The post that hilarious quoted is not acceptable IMO. I am not sure if there are other examples of plagiarism or not.