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2561  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin ATM stolen in a liquior store on: October 12, 2021, 08:27:06 AM
Plot twist: the thieves stole the ATM with the intention of stealing the bitcoin rather than stealing the cash.
Lol.  I know that's (probably) not true, but it sure as hell would be funny if someone did something like this with that intention.  Well, funny in a dark humor kind of way.

And I hope they are happy with what they get from the inside of the ATM or it was just useless papers.
They probably were very happy with whatever they got, because fiat currency in the US isn't just useless paper.  If you found hundreds or thousands of dollars in a bag on the street, I assume you wouldn't just turn up your nose at it and keep walking.

I already regret putting Bitcoin Discussion on un-ignore status, seeing how many crap posts there are in this thread, the first one I clicked on.  But it's an interesting thread.

This story making the news isn't a good thing for BTCATMs, IMO.  Law enforcement and regulators are probably going to look at this and start thinking about new laws they can pass to protect us all.  I wouldn't be surprised if in a year or two we won't be seeing free-standing BTCATMs in gas stations and liquor stores.  Hopefully someone has a cache of photos of the ones that exist now, because they'll be fond memories in the not-too-distant future.
2562  Economy / Economics / Re: Growth in the marketcap on: October 12, 2021, 08:16:49 AM
That might look impressive, but that infographic is basically comparing apples to oranges, depending on whether you consider bitcoin and ethereum to be currencies or assets.  Bitcoin is kind of a hybrid IMO, whereas JP Morgan Chase is a corporation whose stock has that market cap of $511 billion.  One is a digital currency and the other is a stock, and they're two completely different things.

In addition to that, what is the importance of the market cap metric?  I know what the term means, but how important is it to us (the members of the forum) and why does it matter if bitcoin has a greater market cap than JPMC?  To me, it makes little difference since I'm not looking to buy out JP Morgan nor trying to corner the market in bitcoin.  The market cap metric to me is just a number that Wall Street uses for dick-swinging contests.
2563  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Scam QR API bitcoinqrcodemaker.com on: October 12, 2021, 12:27:12 AM
One of the staff tried this site 3 years ago and warned us here.
Oh wow, so this scam site has been up that long?  That's incredible.  Makes me wonder how much money they've blatantly stolen from unsuspecting people who've used it--and also what it would take to get the site shuttered.

OP, just curious: How did you happen to stumble upon this site?  They obviously don't advertise on the forum, so did you search for a QR code generator or something?  Seems like that would be something a lot of people might do who aren't aware of how many scammers there are in the bitcoin space, and it'd be a shame if this particular site came up on the first page of results.

This website is scam and scammed me for 400$
Oh shit....sorry you lost that much.  Glad you reported them to namecheap though.  Hopefully that'll be the way they get shut down--but unfortunately I suspect that if they've made decent money with this scam, they'll just hop on over to another domain name provider and set up shop again.
2564  Economy / Economics / Re: What do people think about CBDC? on: October 12, 2021, 12:20:16 AM
Edward Snowden: CBDCs Are 'Cryptofascist Currencies' That Could 'Casually Annihilate' Savings
"If the American economy were in dire straits, the Fed might impose a negative interest rate on people’s savings, forcing us to spend.
I was wondering why this thread got bumped, but it's for a good reason and I'm glad you posted the link to that article.

I've not been paying much attention to what governments are doing in terms of creating their own cryptocurrencies, mainly because I don't think I'll ever see one created in the US during my lifetime, but the topic does interest me--and I tend to agree with Snowden about the negative effects they could create.  Any country that made a CBDC their legal tender would be completely stripping its citizens of their privacy, but more importantly their control over their own money (assuming the CBDC didn't exist alongside physical currency).  

Aren't you all glad bitcoin got created first, before banks and the governments they're in bed with thought of cryptocurrency first?  And anyway, anything that gets invented or discovered will inevitably wind up being a tool used by politicians to exercise control over people.  Nuclear bombs, the internet, vaccines, you name it.  I can't even begin to imagine what the world is going to look like 100 years from nwo now.
2565  Other / Meta / Re: Merit & new rank requirements on: October 11, 2021, 11:33:48 PM
so do we earn by humiliating people?
Why did you bump this thread with a shitpost?  

And did you not notice that the post LoyceV quoted resulted in that member getting banned for plagiarism?  

Maybe you should read the rules and get a feel for the forum before criticizing it.  Or keep on as you are, posting in the altcoin section, where I'll never see anything you write.
2566  Other / Meta / Re: Merit cycling club? on: October 11, 2021, 10:43:04 PM
Wow, we haven't freed the gimp in quite some time.  Then again, we haven't had Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames crash through our doors since the last gimpisode.

Dude! Shut up already!
Awright, awright!!

You need to submit full KYC to Foxpup.
Oh, the submission goes waay beyond documents.  That's all I'm going to say about that.
2567  Economy / Reputation / Re: I need tips on how to Build my reputation. I'm a Newbie on: October 11, 2021, 09:59:13 PM
Don't listen to those haters, you're on the right track, with one of your first four posts being in Reputation.
I missed the sarcasm in your post on the first read, nutildah.  Hence I looked at OP's other posts and found them, read them, and judged them.  I'd say he's trying to increase his post count right now, because if you look at this post, you'll see that it's like he just picked a random thread in Bitcoin Discussion with a question title--and it was a question that didn't even apply to him:

Information is really key and having the right set of friends around you who can bring some valuable information your way.

Well, I won't say I totally missed bitcoin; I will say why I didn't catch it early is because of lack of information and not having the right set of friends around me.
Now forgive me for being rude (or don't; I don't care), but that post is complete crap.  It's generic in its content; short; uninteresting; and might as well be posted in any of the dozens of threads on the first couple of pages of Bitcoin Discussion, since what he wrote doesn't fit with the topic of the thread.

OP's not going to establish a reputation, I'm afraid.  At least not by being a positive contributor if he sticks around and keeps making posts like the one above.  Ironically enough, he probably would create more of a name for himself if he did what you suggested, nutildah.  Being loud and causing drama is a great way to become known (but it's also a great way to get negged, ignored, and/or shunned altogether).
2568  Economy / Reputation / Re: Do you think Lightlord behavior is acceptable? on: October 11, 2021, 03:54:59 PM
It's not so much doubt as insecurity, and more so now that I'm in D2, I don't want to rush. I opened this thread to see what people thought but since I can change the feedback to negative at any time, it looks like I will end up doing it.
While it's true that with great power comes great responsibility (Spidey senses are tingling), let me give you a small piece of advice: Sometimes you have to be bold, and this is one of those cases IMO where the use of your DT2 powers is justified--and I've already given my reasoning on that in my previous posts, so I won't repeat the same arguments again.

but this one's blown bigly
That's a very interesting turn of phrase, one I may steal from you for use away from this forum.  

First to The Pharmacist: Brainboss does not have access to funds. You can see that at present it is different from the case you comment on Lutpin. It is Lightlord who makes the payments.
Yeah, I'm not holding CCB accountable for any of this.  It's all on lightlord.  Doesn't he send the funds to CCB to pay out the participants, though?  That's the way other campaigns work.  Maybe I didn't read deeply enough into this thread, but I thought I read all the pertinent facts.
2569  Economy / Reputation / Re: Do you think Lightlord behavior is acceptable? on: October 11, 2021, 12:41:29 AM
If negative ratings remain after someone has honored their commitments, why would someone repay a delinquent debt, but more importantly, why would someone complain about a delinquent debt if doing so will mean the debtor will receive a prominent negative rating?
I don't know, QS, why do credit rating agencies keep people's FICA scores at 600 for years when they don't pay their credit card bills?  Why are men being fired from their jobs for mere accusations of sexual misconduct?  Why do people earn reputations as being unreliable, or liars, or scammers?  Why do we tag anyone on this forum for scamming?  Those are all questions as good as the ones you're asking, yet those things happen.

In addition, regardless of whether red trust flips that moral switch in lightlord's head, triggering him to withhold payment from everyone he owes, that trust should stand as a future warning to anyone thinking of joining one of his campaigns.  Obviously the neutral trust he got the last time didn't do the trick, or nobody cared.
2570  Economy / Reputation / Re: Do you think Lightlord behavior is acceptable? on: October 11, 2021, 12:07:33 AM
Any negative trust he receives should be removed once he catches up on payments.
I disagree with that, since this is the second time his campaign participants have had serious issues with payment.  It's just not acceptable behavior, and I thought I was being generous last time by changing my negative to a neutral.  This time I think he's earned a neg, regardless of what reasons or excuses he has for not paying out and not communicating.  Enough is enough with this guy.

Props to Foxpup and DarkStar_, by the way. 
Neither of whom have participated in this thread - what is their connection?
That's an open secret, where have you been?

Lets give him some more time, and if there's no welcoming development then I'll have to stop campaign and the tags can start coming in. For now the story is he's sick so please lets give him that benefit of doubt for couple of weeks.
How much more time are you willing to give him?  I think you ought to come up with a hard deadline before entreating the campaigners to be patient, because this could go on and on indefinitely.  I understand you don't want to end the campaign, but there comes a time in situations like this where you have to cut bait and move on. 

Many members wouldn't stand a chance in other campaign if this campaign was to be forcedly closed due to the negative feedback it'll receive assuming its intact isn't to scam which I strongly believe so, as much as other present participants of both campaigns.
I don't understand your argument about members not being able to get into other campaigns.  If that's true, that would be because they're shitposters, not because they were involved with your campaign.  Nobody's going to neg you or your participants because they were associated with lightlord, if that's what you're thinking.
2571  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: [Expose] Tronmining.one Tron Ponzi Project on: October 10, 2021, 11:41:39 PM
Scammers are using social media to promote such scams. And since there are all kinds of people on social media, there are a large number of people who are inexperienced about crypto. And usually these websites target them to scam. If you take a closer look at Facebook, you will see how they are promoting through advertisements of such fake websites on Facebook. People who are inexperienced about crypto should be more careful before believing anything, because there are many scam websites online now in the name of various popular projects.
I just had to LOL at the repetitive nature of this post.  I think if you kept writing you would have gone on to mention that there are many scam sites and inexperience people falling for those scams.

About this particular scam, I'm a bit puzzled.  I'm not all that familiar with Tron but didn't think it was one of those coins you could mine.  It's strictly proof-of-stake, am I right?  And if that's the case, then anyone offering Tron mining services is by definition a scammer.  Even if that isn't true, those promised returns are higher than what anyone could earn by staking it or even mining a typical altcoin.  Too good to be true means not true, always.

ScamViruS is correct, though.  The idiots behind this blatant scam are clearly targeting individuals who don't know much about crypto but might have heard about the outrageous profits some people are making and want to get in the game.  I'm sure there are tons of people like that around, especially with bitcoin being above $50k.
2572  Economy / Reputation / Re: Is this Accounts Connected. What do you think? on: October 10, 2021, 11:26:00 PM
The previous report by @bthd also makes sense. I don't think this is a coincidence. I believe that no cheater is perfect, someday there will be clues left behind.
It's not a coincidence at all; it sounds like you independently sniffed out the alts bthd found and more. 

My guess is that they're all either under the control of one person or they're part of a bounty hunting ring.  There's no way to tell unless you get a confession from whoever's behind those accounts, and that's not going to happen.  I've heard of people pooling tokens into a single account for whatever reason, which is why I've stopped tagging suspected alts based on ETH blockchain evidence.  It's just enough reasonable doubt for me not to neg them all.

That being said, go back to what I initially said: there's some kind of shenanigans happening here.  Whether it's worth your time to pursue is up to you, but personally I wouldn't waste my time unless you can somehow find crackproof evidence that they're alts and that they're breaking bounty rules.  Good presentation of the evidence, though.
2573  Other / Meta / Re: Maximum posts allowed per day on: October 10, 2021, 07:12:13 PM
Nah, I don't think a per-day post cap needs to be implemented--or any kind of limit of that kind.  If there's a spammer who's constantly posting the same advertisement across multiple threads, for instance, there'll probably 5-20 members at least who'll be seeing and reporting those posts.  And even if a spammer uses multiple accounts to post the same amount of spam, there are going to be members reporting it--and that's probably a worst-case scenario as far as making too many posts goes. 

If a legitimate member (not a spammer) makes something like 50 posts per day, they're either going to be decent posts or complete crap.  If it's the latter, then those crappy posts are going to get reported to the mods just like the spam in my above example, and the member might get a temp ban.  In any case, there hasn't been a massive problem with low-value members making too many posts in a day, so I don't see any need to impose more restrictions.
2574  Economy / Reputation / Re: Do you think Lightlord behavior is acceptable? on: October 10, 2021, 05:07:51 PM
I had to dig to find this post, but I thought it was worth quoting here so that everyone knows that lightlord acknowledged that he needs to monitor his campaigns/campaign managers more closely so that the campaigns run smoothly:

There was 0.24 BTC in the address, easily several payments could have been made after that date enough to catch up to being only a few weeks late, so it wouldn't have resulted in a 10-week unpaid duration, and generally, I fill up the address when it reaches close to 0 after Luptin sends a reminder that the address has run out of coins. However, I should of checked on the campaign and Make sure Luptin was running the campaigns smoothly, and the payments every so often. It went smoothly for a long duration, so I didn't check on it as much lately. However I should of checked on it at least once in a while the signature campaigns, so I do agree it's partially my fault here. But I was expecting Luptin to resolve this as soon as possible and hasn't as of yet
This was when Lutpin was managing two of lightlord's campaigns, and even though lightlord tries to shift the blame to Lutpin for the late payments, he obviously knows he's the boss and is ultimately responsible for participants getting paid.
2575  Economy / Reputation / Re: I need tips on how to Build my reputation. I'm a Newbie on: October 10, 2021, 04:37:14 PM
So the tip is, DO NOT CONCENTRATE TO BUILD REPUTATION SOO QUICKLY.
That would be the main point I'd make if I were to give OP a single suggestion--establishing yourself on this forum takes time and catching the attention of other members.

I've established a reputation here, for better or worse, and that's something I wasn't expecting or planning for when I registered on bitcointalk 6+ years ago.  I've no idea what that reputation is exactly, but my username is at least recognized if you go by what bpip has to say.  But becoming recognized takes time, a lot of it.  And gaining a positive reputation and not just recognition takes a lot of effort in addition to that time, whether it's from scam-busting, being honest and doing a lot of deals (like TECSHARE), getting on DT, or whatever else.

So it's basically time and enough posting; those are the minimum requirements, OP.  And by time, I mean it may take a year or more for people to know who you are and what you're like.  You've got to be patient, and I'm not even sure why a newcomer would even be asking a question like this.  It seems odd for a person joining a group to say "Hey guys, how do I establish a reputation here?".  I'd be very interested to know what your plans are as far as this forum goes.
2576  Economy / Reputation / Re: Do you think Lightlord behavior is acceptable? on: October 10, 2021, 03:13:34 PM
Hey The Pharmacist, I agree with you, but I think that here when you say "campaign manager" you should say "campaign owner", because the campaign manager is Brainboss and his behavior has been excellent. Another thing is Lightlord's.
Yeah, I meant no criticism toward CBB; I didn't even know he was managing the campaign when I wrote my post, as I didn't read the entire thread beforehand.  I was thinking back to the Lutpin situation, when he and lightlord were both being derelict in their duties.  In this case lightlord should be giving CCB enough funds well in advance to pay the participants, and I'm not sure what the problem is this time, but I've left lightlord a negative.

In discord, DEV said that lightlord is sick and will be back. This is a news from September 16.
It's sad to see how bitvest and 777coin campaign is being run.
You'd have to be extremely sick to not be able to send bitcoin to a campaign manager, like deathbed sick.  Unable to use your fingers sick.  And I seriously doubt that's the case with lightlord, given that he has a history of not giving a shit whether his campaign participants get paid. 
2577  Economy / Reputation / Re: Do you think Lightlord behavior is acceptable? on: October 10, 2021, 01:45:34 PM
Now also, Lightlord has not logged in to the forum since September 26th. He might have had some personal problem or something but he should have left someone in charge.
Same old, same old.  I would never join a campaign that he's in charge of, unless he hired a very reputable manager, of which there are only a handful on the forum.  Last time he had Lutpin run his campaigns, you know what happened--a similar thing to what you described in the OP.

Campaign managers that don't respect their participants annoy me to no end, and that includes late payments.  They have a job and the participants have a job, even though there's no contract, and I think the relationship ought to function like a RL employer-employee one, where it would be unacceptable to hand out a paycheck late.  That's especially important at a time like this, when bitcoin is being very volatile.  A delay in payment of even 12  hours could mean that the participant loses a lot of purchasing power.  Bitcoin is money, right?

Props to Foxpup and DarkStar_, by the way.  

Let’s give lightlord a week or two & if he doesn’t pay up I will paint him red. What do you think?
No offense, but that's the absolute opposite tactic you should take.  The participants should stand in a united front and demand payment immediately.  That way there would be no chance of retaliation, unless he decided to fire all of you at the same time.  I understand that's the reason why most campaign participants don't complain.  Hopefully that's the reason and not that they're all satisfied to be treated like suckers.
2578  Other / Meta / Re: [TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits on: October 10, 2021, 01:56:00 AM
they can also be said to be MS that make out time out of their busy schedule to give out merits on the forum, or they can also be said to be users who are willing to rummage around quite a lot of shitposts on the forum to give out merits to good posts, etc, etc,
Eh, when I'm browsing bitcointalk my schedule isn't usually that busy--but I'm not the type of merit source who sifts through threads looking for posts to merit (though I will if I come across any).  It would drive me nuts if I clicked on random threads simply to check for meritable posts, for the reason you said, which is that the good ones are in a many-layered sandwich of shitposts.  I've had enough of that to last a lifetime.


Having said that, I'd actually not call merit source duties as their/a job, I think it's much better to say it's their own contributions to the forum. Grin
Having a job kind of implies that you're getting paid to do something, and being a merit source is a volunteer position.  Actually some merit sources like myself didn't even volunteer.  At some point in 2019, Theymos just sent out a PM to I don't know how many members telling them that they were now merit sources and to go forth and do good for the forum. 

The merit sources that are the most "generous" are the ones who believe in the system and want it to work (and I put myself in that category).  It's supposed to impede the progress of shitposters, account farmers, and the like.  But it's also the mechanism by which members who contribute positively to the forum achieve higher ranks, and if there wasn't a lot of merit being spread around, nobody would be ranking up (and thus it would make the merit system strictly punitive).  I sure don't want it to be that way, so I try to be generous. 

I remember the days before merits and how bad the shitposting problem was, so I appreciate how it's cut the account farmers and a lot of the zero-value members off at the knees.
2579  Economy / Economics / Re: Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed on: October 10, 2021, 12:23:13 AM
NFT Marketplace is dedicated to gaming and art connoisseurs.
Oh please.  I don't know about the presence of gamers in the NFT space, but it's hardly a market populated by "art connoisseurs".  It's mostly a bunch of greedy people who want to flip NFTs to the next sucker for a profit, not people who appreciate real art.  Just search on Youtube for anything related to NFTs and the only results you'll get are about how hot the market is--and absolutely nothing about the quality of the art.  That alone should tell you something.

I don't understand why are people surprised by this? I am expecting more of this to come very soon. NFT craze has reached a level which is now called stupidity, everyone just coming up with the same idea by applying a new label on the same old shit<snip run-on sentence>
Lol.  It's definitely in the stupidity phase, if there is such a thing.  Lots of people are apparently making bundles of money from this crap, but that's exactly what NFTs are: Crap.  This is the closest thing to the tulip bubble I've ever seen.  You know what happened to all the Dutch people when they realized they'd gone out of their minds speculating on bulb variants and whatnot, right?  The market crashed to as close to zero as you can get.  If the NFT hysteria lasts for more than a year, I'll be very surprised.

2580  Other / Meta / Re: How can I change my Name? on: October 09, 2021, 10:53:43 PM
You might be better off just making a new account and moving on.
Yeah, that's definitely the way to go in a case like this where a newbie with 38 posts and no merits wants a different username.  There's no need to petition Theymos for a change, because in all likelihood he'll just be met with silence, and he'll keep waiting for a response, and in the meantime he could have just started over by creating a new account.

That's how it is here, OP.  Very few members can get their username changed, so just make a new account.
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