Good day, yesterday (17-09-18) a user in this forum, kekenapep, was banned on the grounds of plagiarism.
I would like to appeal this ban, as I communicated with the user on another platform and he confirmed that it was not intentional, in his bid to make quality posts he was reading to gain knowledge and so his post had some similarities with an article online.
In fact one of his earlier quality posts had already been merited. And it was quite disheartening. And if he is pardoned, such would not happen again.
Also I tried to argue his case through an account, thintaddy, and also received a ban for protesting. Maybe I wasn't supposed to argue, now am appealing. And I would appreciate if the moderators can review this case.
P. S, the user kekenapep also received a red trust in addition to the ban, cause his post had similarities with another. I would also appreciate if this can be reviewed.
Thank you.
OK... Let's start by saying i'm not an admin, i'm not a mod, i'm not in DT... I wasn't the one that banned you, i wasn't the one that red tagged you... Nor am i somebody that is allowed to undo any of these changes. However... I HAVE been a member of this forum for many, many years, and i've seen dozens of these situations. So i AM able to predict what will happen with a very high degree of certainty... First problem: user kekenapep was banned: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2129786You say this is unjust because he posted an article that "had some similarities with an article online" You mean that kekenapep completely by coincidence formed the exact same phrase as printed on coinwire? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030929.msg45832756#msg45832756Sorry, but nobody will believe this... I'm 99,9999% sure user kekenapep will stay banned, since plagiarism is a perma-ban offence. I've only seen 1 appeal for such a perma-ban work (ever) and this was a guy that copied HIS OWN work from HIS OWN site to bitcointalk. Nobody else ever made a succesfull appeal for a plagiarism ban (AFAIK) Second problem: user kekenapep received neg trust from DT: Vod's trust seems justified... He doesn't trust people that plagiarise, and to me, it looks like he's well within his rights to do this. Only Vod can remove the negative tag, but i don't see this happening anytime soon. Since i don't see user kenenapep being unbanned ever, it shouldn't matter either... Thirth problem: user thintaddy being banned for protesting... Well, i can only tell how it looks to me (and probably to 99% of the other forum members): it's very hard to believe that you (Avengers360), thintaddy and kekenapep are 3 different people... We've all seen this "trick" numerous times, and usually it turns out the post making the ban appeal "in the name of a friend" is actually the banned "friend" himself... Once one of your accounts is banned, it is in fact you (as a person) that is banned. If you continue posting with other accounts, this is called ban evasion and all accounts indulging in ban evasion will be banned aswell (if caught). Once you're banned, you're only allowed to use 1 account to create 1 thread in meta to discuss your ban. If you continue posting outside this thread, you risk all your accounts getting banned ASAP. I'm never 100% sure that this is actually happening, but the odds of this being the reason for your other account being banned is pretty big. It's nearly impossible to say this for sure, since it seems all thintaddy's posts were deleted  |
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How to create a list of every demoted ex-junior member that received exactly 1 merit AFTER Theymos announced the new newbie restriction rules... So be carefull, this list WILL receive false-positives, but my gut feeling tells me that at least 50% of the resulting users have abused the system... Step 1: wait untill the current week is done Step 2: Download LoyceV's full merit history Step 3: tac merit.all.txt > merit.txt Step 4: #!/usr/bin/python
import time
import cfscrape
import re
#the unix timestamp on which Theymos declared the new rule about 1 merit minimum
timestamp_start = 1537157940
#a list of the complete merit history, reversed (oldest timestamp on top), tac merit.all.txt > merit.txt
filepath = 'merit.txt'
#database with the latest message received merit BEFORE the rule change...
db_received_merit_before_newrule = {}
#potential suspect senders
db_theusualsuspects_from = {}
#potential suspect receivers
db_theusualsuspects_to = {}
print "everything intialised"
print "starting the parsing of " + filepath
with open(filepath) as fp:
line = fp.readline()
linenumber = 0
while line:
linenumber += 1
line = fp.readline().strip()
parts = line.split()
try:
timestamp = int(parts[0])
amount = int(parts[1])
msg = str(parts[2])
from_uid = int(parts[3])
to_uid = int(parts[4])
#if the time of the merit exchange happened BEFORE the rule change,the user is whitelisted because he received merit BEFORE he knew he/she needed it to move past newbie
if timestamp < timestamp_start:
if to_uid not in db_received_merit_before_newrule:
db_received_merit_before_newrule[to_uid] = msg
else:
#only if the user never received merit BEFORE the rule change, and the merit amount was exactly 1
if to_uid not in db_received_merit_before_newrule and amount == 1:
print str(to_uid) + " was merited with 1 merit for the first time after " + str(timestamp_start) + "...Suspicious"
#keep the uid + latest msg for the potentially abusive sender for later analysis
if from_uid not in db_theusualsuspects_from:
db_theusualsuspects_from[from_uid] = msg
#add the uid + latest message to the db to check
if to_uid not in db_theusualsuspects_to:
db_theusualsuspects_to[to_uid] = msg
except:
print "error in line " + str(linenumber) + "(" + line + ")"
print "ending the parsing of " + filepath
print "getting all profiles and filtering out all jr members"
for suspect in db_theusualsuspects_to:
scraper = cfscrape.create_scraper()
html = scraper.get("https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=" + str(suspect)).content
m = re.search('(<td>Jr. Member</td>)', html)
if m:
m2 = re.search('(<td>1</td>)', html)
if m2:
print str(suspect) + " " + m.group(0) + " " + db_theusualsuspects_to[suspect]
time.sleep(2)
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--snip-- I already see several Newbies who complain (or compliment) in this thread, and suddenly received 1 Merit today! See this example, he received 1 Merit for an old post 17 minutes before posting in this thread. I'd say the next step should be for everybody (all Ranks!) to lose 1 Merit every x days. It could be as low as one per year, or maybe once every 3 months. That should demotivate users from buying one Merit somewhere. Any normal poster won't be influenced much by losing 1 Merit once in a while. --snip-- I already noticed the same thing... Maybe it would be a good idear to generate some statistics in a couple of days and create a list of posts that were given exactly 1 merit AND this 1 merit was needed to stop the demotion of the receivers... That way we could filter trough these posts and neg tag anybody who clearly tried to cheat the system by trading/buying exactly 1 merit.... Creating such a list would be easy (i can do this without needing anybody's help), but filtering out the abusers would be a daunting task... As for the proposition of anybody losing 1 merit every x days: i must say i'm against the proposition... What about people that seldomly post? Even if 100% of their posts would be high quality, it would still be probable for them to demote if they didn't forcefully post a couple posts every couple of days... |
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hey yall so im just going to start off by saying i am not cryptocurrency savvy nor do i generally deal in bitcoin, i was hoping to get some insight from folks who do. essentially, someone contacted me through a dating app telling me that they would e transfer me 1300 dollars and then i need to withdraw the money as cash, i can keep 100 dollars and the rest of the money must be deposited as cash at a bitcoin atm and sent to a QR code they supplied, it has the shape of a scam, but i cant for the life of me think of how they would rob me, since they are literally supplying me with the cash to be deposited. can someone enlighten me as to if im getting hustled or of this is an easy hundred bones?
Something defenately sounds fishy... There are 2 things i can imagine: They're either giving you fake money, and hope the ATM will accept it and have your face on their CCTV footage, or they're using you to "clean" dirty money... If they got the money from a scam, drugsdealing, weapons trafficing, and a governement agency gets their hands on this money when the ATM owner brings it to the bank, they'll track the money back to your face on the ATM's CCTV video and they'll be banging down your door. EDIT: nkampala's theory is more likely than mine  But anyway, the person that contacted you on that dating app already has the money in his/her account. If there was nothing fishy about the setup, and it was 100% clean money, they'd be much better off depositing it to an exchange right away, and exchange it from FIAT to BTC directly... Much cheaper, easyer, faster, less risk,... So the fact they're trying to setup something like this is either because they want to scam you, or because the money can be linked to illegal actions. Stay away... |
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This should have been implemented a long, long time ago... It's funny to see all these threads (and posts) from ex-jr members popping up.. Half of them are kissing ass, praising the new system in the hopes of receiving a merit and keep spamming. The other half is dragging in half-assed arguments hoping to change Theymos's mind. I've seen people that have been on bitcointalk for over a year, making litteraly hundreds of posts without earning a single merit, and now they're actively attacking the new system... It actually makes me chuckle. Good job Theymos |
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Hi everybody I have just created and launched my first lnd app. It's a simple slot machine gambling game. You can find it here: https://www.lightningslotmachine.com/You can pay using bitcoin lightning. You can instantly cash out your funds using lightning. Try some spins! If you have any questions or some feedback please let me know I welcome all lightning implementations, especially the ones that allow people to try out the lightning network without huge investments. This being said: I can't find any information about wether or not your game is provably fair, is it correct to assume it isn't? |
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Why don't you just move on... and just use your current account like the way you're doing it right now?
Your previous account will never be retrieve and that's for 100% sure.
I'll even bet on my single strand of hair on it!
If he follows your advice, he'll be commiting ban evasion, which is a bannable offence... |
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As i said earlier; i didn't know the policies, so I genuinely comment on some posts, if you think all posts were useless then delete them which i dont think so, some of them are constructive posts too.
i'll never post randomly now for sure. will post constructive ones..
only few comments doesn't make my account ban. please try to understand this this id contain some of the valuable work.
i'm humbly requesting you please uplift the ban..
Like i said before: i'm not a moderator, nor the admin... I didn't ban you, i didn't remove your posts, i have no power to do these things on this forum. That being said: i've been a member of this forum for many years, and i can tell for sure that not knowing the policies is not a valid excuse for breaking them... I've seen dozens of people trying this excuse, and it never worked. Now, i'm unsure if getting your account nuked by a mod is the same as being banned... If you're nuked it's *possible* you're not banned, so it's *possible* you're allowed to create a new account... You'll have to sift trough the rules and see if this is true or not, or you'll have to wait untill a mod sees your topic and decides to answer. Do not take my assumption as an exuse to continue posting with an alt account untill you've made 100% sure my assumption is correct, it's well possible that being nuked equals being permabanned... I really don't know for sure. |
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What i don't understand about your appeal is that you're appealing for an account with 0 activity, 0 posts, 0 merit, 0 feedback, registered only a couple months ago... This account was most probably nuked... Meaning that a mod looked into your account and noticed that there wasn't a single post that he/she found worth keeping, so he just completely nuked (destroyed) it. Mods can only do this with newbie accounts, and they only do this if the account is spamming, copy/pasting or if none of the posts made by the user made any sense at all... Now, i'm not the admin, nor a mod, so i can't say why it was nuked, but usually it does say something about the quality of the posts you made... BTW: this post => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2524561.msg45607328#msg45607328 <= is considered ban evasion, which is punishable with a ban... ( https://web.archive.org/web/20180913053353/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2175547;sa=showPosts) If one of your accounts is banned, it means that you, as a person, are banned... You're not allowed to use any accounts, with the exeption of using 1 account to make 1 thread discussion your ban. If you post in more than 1 meta thread while being banned, it's considered evasion... |
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Hi Guys, I have an old blockchain.info wallet and have tried to get into it using btcrecover.I tried to follow the instructions on the website but am not very 'tecchy' so I followed a guide which a guy had put on YouTube which was very helpful. After doing all the installs etc and having no joy only 'password search exhausted' I made a new account to check see if it actually worked and I still get 'password search exhausted' even though it's a known password and I have seen it in '--listpass' Here is the guys video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtW8vIHHek&t=1sNow my instinct tells me that this guy is legit. He has been posting videos for a couple of years and still answers questions (he actually answered a couple of emails I sent him) to people on his videos etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Since the video is 13+ minutes, i haven't watched it... But... As long as you cloned/downloaded btcrecover from https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover and didn't enter your details on any other site exept blockchain.info or blockchain.com, everything should be ok. It's not because btcrecover can't find your password that you are "robbed", you've probably messed up somewhere while configuring btcrecover. If you cloned/download btcrecover from somewhere else, or the video told you to enter any details on a website other than blockchain.info/blockchain.com and/or share any of those details with anybody else, it's possible you got scammed... But we'd need more info than your OP provided to determine if this was the case. Do you know the addresses belonging to the wallet you want to recover? If you do, you can check the balance of these addresses on a block explorer (like blockchain.info) and see if any of the unspent outputs funding those addresses were spent since you tried recovering your wallet? If nothing moved, everything is fine... You just need to fine-tune btcrecover and find out where exactly you messed up. |
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I don't believe ETH difficulty is real. I have two grounds for it:
1) ETH is not a GPU coin for a long time
2) Difficulty is manipulated for some reason
Difficulty is not protecting miners now. It fails as a protective mechanism and leads to decision making.
Full disclosure: i'm not al altcoin guru, i haven't even read ethereum's whitepaper, and whenever i accept ETH i usually use MEW... However, i do know a thing or two about bitcoin (and altcoins cloned from bitcoin's source, like LTC, DOGE, NLG,...), so some of my assumptions might actually be wrong.... But... If my assumption that ETH's difficulty algorithm works more or less the same way as bitcoin's, i'd say it will be pretty hard to manipulate the difficulty of a high-diff network. In order to push the difficulty upwards, you'd need to broadcast more valid blocks... And in order to find a valid block, you'd need to have sufficient hashrate. So in case you need to push the difficulty upwards, you'd need a lot of hashrate. In this case, the difficulty wouldn't be manipulated or artifically high.... It would be backed with the hashrate you added to the network. The opposite can potentially be done... If you have a large mining farm, and you focus on a low-diff coin, you can potentially manipulate the difficulty downwards by mining at full hashrate but not broadcasting part of the the valid blocks you find... This would keep the difficulty artificially low, eventough i can not find any valid reason to do such a thing. I know ETH isn't a GPU coin, that's why i talked about ASIC's in my first post. But the fact that ETH's POW algo can be mined with an ASIC actually increases the potential of people keeping on mining even if the diff is so high they can't make any more profit. At least, that's what my gut feeling tells me. Why? Well, i personally think that somebody who is running GPU rigs actually HAS to know what he's doing. He has to order the right GPU's, order risers, make sure the PSU is suitable, think about motherboards, compile mining software,... If a GPU miner can no longer make any profit, i believe he'll be able to switch to a different coin, and even a different algorithm in a very short time. An ASIC owner nowadays just has to order an ASIC, plug it in, visit a gui served by the LAMP stack on the controller incorporated in his ASIC. He doesn't have to know anything on a technical level, he just has to plug everything in, and then enter the details he sees on his pool's FAQ. Even if the ASIC owner has sufficient technical knowledge, in case of a price dip, he can only switch to coins using the same POW algo, limiting his choice drastically... IMHO, this would increase the odds of him just keep mining on the same chain, since his options are not that much anyways. Like i said: this is my personal opionion and gut feeling... I don't have a lot of experience mining alt's, so my assumptions *can* be wrong |
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What do you think about current ETH difficulty? The price drop VS difficulty is unreal. ETH has become unprofitable but difficulty is still high. I don't get it and smell bad things...
Some people pay hardly anything for their electricity, so if they've bough an ASIC at a time when the ETH price was much higher (so, at that time they calculated a very short ROI), it would still be a good idear for them to continue mining as long as they make any profit at all. There are also hobby miners that don't care about the difficulty or the price... They'll just keep mining to make sure the difficulty stays sufficiently high. Then there are the people that think the ETH price will rise again, and they keep mining at a net loss and HODL their proceeds untill the price is higher again... Offcourse these people don't realise they'd better turn off their mining rigs and buy ETH directly from an exchange with the electricity savings instead of pumping the electricity in their mining operation. Pumping money in electricity for mining will get them less ETH than buying ETH straight away. My best guess would be that if the price continues to decrease, eventually people will start turning off their rigs, and the difficulty will decrease to (but that's just my gut feeling) |
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- I have withdrawn the BTC from the telegam bot on numerous numbers with the initial investment I put in there. I also do not know if it is really scam or not. I need opinions of people
Like i said: there is no such thing as mining with a telegram bot... The only way to mine BTC with any chance of roi'ing is by using a latest gen ASIC and having a good electricity rate. So, if you *think* you're mining with a telegram bot, you can rest assured you're not actually mining. If somebody is paying you when you "mine" with a telegram bot, it actually means that the person that send you the BTC is doing this out of his own pocket. Any "profit" you made was a net loss for the person paying you. This doesn't sound like a good business model does it? The only reason somebody is paying you out of his own pocket is to make sure that you'd either invest some more of your own money (which the bot operator will probably steal) OR it's also possible the bot operator is counting on you to spread positive news about his "mining" bot, so other people will invest in his ponzi and he can rob them instead of you... So, by spreading positive news about a telegram bitcoin mining bot, you'll either end up losing money, or you'll help the bot operator to rob other people, or you're the bot operator yourself... These are the only 3 viable options i can think off... |
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- I do not know how many of you have ever tried to exploit Bitcoin with Bot on Telegam, sounds crazy but I got Bitcoin on my Blockchain wallet. That was amazing. I introduced more of my friends to join and daily mine was about 0.04 Bitcoin. A good income.
- Has anyone ever exploited Bitcoin on a telegam bot that cheated? You can contact me on Telegam @quangbinh9701.
hmm... After many years of being active on this forum, i know that when a relatively "new" member (eventough you registered in 2013, the activity of your account is very low) is talking about "exploiting" Bitcoin, he/she is actually talking about bitcoin mining. This being said: you can't mine bitcoin with a telegram bot. If you think you're mining using a telegram bot, you're probably falling for a ponzi scam. It's possible you're one of the early investors of the ponzi scam, so it's possible you'll ROI, but i can pretty much guarantee that late investors will get scammed sooner or later. |
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Thanks for ur reply, I will try irreversable if it's works it's good
And bitblender.me support team not giving any replies
irreversible isn't a tool: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/irreversibleirreversible
If you can't undo something, it's irreversible. Time is always irreversible, as is the damage done to your skin by too much sun, so be sure to wear sunblock!
While you see reverse inside of this word, you wouldn't use it to describe a car that can't go backwards. However, if the car was in an accident and cannot be fixed, you could say that the damage done to the car was pretty much irreversible, in other words the car is totaled.
Definitions of
irreversible
adj incapable of being reversed
“irreversible momentum toward revolution”
Synonyms:
permanent
not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition
Antonyms:
reversible
capable of reversing or being reversed
show more antonyms...
source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/irreversibleAs for bitblender.me's support not giving any replies: i'm not supprised since several other people have already tagged them as a scam... Sorry for your loss  |
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I agree with the others that have replied in this thread, but wanted to add one extra piece of potentially interesting information: There are tools to export private keys from a wallet.dat without having to sync the complete blockchain or even install bitcoin core: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0There seems to be a recent version even supporting bech32: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.msg818406#msg818406And there are tools to brute-force a wallet.dat's passphrase... But since it's brute-forcing, you'll either need a very short password, or you need to remember a lot about the password: https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecoverI'd strongly recommand running these tools on an offline machine... AFAIK, they have been vetted and nobody found a call home, but in these cases, the popular phrase "better safe than sorry" pops to mind. |
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Hi
Two days before I was deposited 1.55 BTC at bitblender.me and it's got above 50 confirmatios still it's not credited into my account.
And they support team will not given even a reply to my messages
It's looks Bitblender.me is SCAM
Pls be aware
Any one can help me to get my BTC back
Since your transaction has 50+ confirmations, the only one that can help you is bitblender.me, bitcoin transactions are irreversible. There are some tricks that *sometimes* work when your transaction is unconfirmed, but once your transaction is put in a valid block (aka gets confirmed), there is basically no practical way to cancel it. This being said, a quick search on the forum shows you're not the only one warning for a scam: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=016660200577587308545%3Aesf40ml9aag&ie=UTF-8&q=bitblender.me&sa=Google+search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=bitblender.me&gsc.page=1 |
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As I saw merit is one of the requirements to rank up, and before we receive a single merit from someone we need to make a good quality post that`s contain a new information to help others, so in that point we can categories those post as good quality post, but I`m confuse, people are not fair and most of them are unbalance, so can merit be programmable send to those people who make a good quality post once the forum notice that the post has been made with good quality that we can call as extension merit source?
Respect, Good day.
And how would this work exactly? It would require a well-trained neural network or some high level AI bot to decide wether or not a reply is/was high quality or not... Next to this, the bot would have to have a function to remove copy-pasters, plagiarism,... It's perfectly possible to give a 2 letter reply that is super usefull, and it's possible a 5000 word post is utter nonsense. It's possible for a native english speaker to make a useless post in perfect english and a non-native speaker can make a post filled with grammer and spelling mistakes that is top-notch... It's possible a perfect answer doesn't get quoted because it completely answers all questions, while a half-assed post can be quoted a gazillion times, even if it's just to make fun of the OP. I couldn't think of a way to automise merit dispersal, but maybe you can think of al algorithm to solve this problem? |
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 No. Here is reason why im banned. So what i need to do? This PM is just telling you that your reply has been deleted from a self moderated thread... This doesn't mean that this was the reason you got banned, just that the person who started the thread you posted in decided to delete your message. It's possible (even very likely) you got banned for another post, potentially the one where you copy/pasted content from a different source... Since i'm not a mod, nor the admin, and i have nothing to do with your banning, i'm going to stop posting in this thread since i have nothing usefull to add to the discussion anymore. Good luck! |
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I remember seeing a website like this a few years ago that had you guess what was in the image. Each guess cost an amount, but you won a larger amount if you guessed right. Over time, the image would become more unblurred, making it easier to guess. This reminded me of that.
Nice work!
Thanks for the feedback I hope you don't mind me using your basic idear, but since i liked what you said, I'm now trying more or less trying the same thing: i've uploaded the blurred private key of an address funded with 0.005 BTC: 1Prize3tdjrM23QER3f5nZH7uqHfb2SVnq There are 100 potential unblurring steps, each costing 15.000 satoshi's. I've tried unblurring a test-private key first, and after about 20% unblurring, a lot of letters in the private key became recognizable... So basically, starting from 15000*20 = 0.003 BTC people can start guessing and bruteforcing, so i stand to lose about 0.002 BTC in case people succeed in solving the private key . Offcourse, if they don't pull it off at 20% unblurring, i can brake even or even make some profit. I also hope people that want to spread the lightning network will make small donations funding 1Prize3tdjrM23QER3f5nZH7uqHfb2SVnq, thus increasing the potential price money. In case somebody buys the adspot on the page, i'll also donate 50% of the ad money funding the same address to increase the prize money myself... https://unblur.ninja/image.php?id=79-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE----- I hereby vouch not to touch the price pot, and leave all unspent outputs funding address 1Prize3tdjrM23QER3f5nZH7uqHfb2SVnq alone, UNLESS no new unblurring steps have been ordered on https://unblur.ninja/image.php?id=79 for 2 concecutive months AND the current date/time has passed 1st of januari 2019 00:00 CET -----BEGIN SIGNATURE----- 1MocACiWLM8bYn8pCrYjy6uHq4U3CkxLaa GwE7NtLEoOxMpWynBjoI8KDpjf4kt2ptcfN+Nnx/ICd7c0+n5PPqPpv626RwV+3Vvz3AAU7IrbuhJyAfcV2hr8I= -----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE---- |
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