That's irrelevant.  I can only imagine that governments do indeed have exit nodes for monitoring TOR traffic, but if you understood how TOR works you would know they are only getting one straw from every hay stack.


I won't presume to speak for o_e_l_e_o, but I'm not trying to convince you of anything, only trying to prevent your misunderstanding from misinforming others.

Lol, you and I both know you've been reading my messages, it just takes you a couple of extra clicks.  One to unignore and another to angrily ignore again.


I take issue with this comment.  Developing trolling skills as well-honed as mine takes much longer than a couple of years.  But I reserve them for those who truly deserve it, and you my friend are among the most deserving.  You should take some pride in that.


I'm an antagonistic, obnoxious asshole.  Not just on the forum, all the time.  It saves me a lot of time since no one expects any pleasantries from me.  There are a few people in my life who've learned to tolerate it, and fewer for whom I make an effort to be polite.  It's not something I'm proud of, but at the same time, it's not something I care to change.

Having said that, I will make an effort to be polite to you from now on.  Not because I care what you think about me (obviously I don't, although it did sting when you called me repulsive, really repulsive?) but because I don't like picking on people who are incapable of defending themselves.  You attempting to ignore me for the last couple of years only proves that you are incapable.  However, I will continue to question your use of the trust system and your attacks on people of lower ranks than you.

I don't want you to be hurt by my trolling, JollyGood.  This is just a forum, and it isn't worth any tears or any regrets.

Best wishes.

If JollyGood cared to help someone recover an account he could simply point them in this direction, and that would be the end of it.  He has never helped anyone recover an alt, he's not a mod or admin so he doesn't have the power.  Furthermore, he hunts alts because his only joy in life is to spam his name on the as many trust walls as possible, create multiple threads in the reputation board while he's at it, and have the longest ~exclusion list in the history of lists.  He's a spammer, a shitposter, and a trust abuser.

Now that I recall we did have two payouts both of the past years.  Last year was a bit of a clusterfuck due to the Damar Hamlin incident.
Do we want more than two payouts?  I vote for two; 0.005 for second place, and 0.025 for the champ.



I vote for keeping the kicker.  I won't go so far as saying kickers are football players, but still.

As for the playoffs, I agree that 8 is too many, but I don't like the idea of a bye week for the top two teams, so my vote is 4 teams in the playoffs, week 16 semis and week 17 finals.

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That's not a bad idea at all.  I like matrix chat the best, Element.io offers a good client.  Open-source, free, local key encryption, and it has voice and video conferencing as well, in case I feel the need to repulse you guys with my ugly mug.  But I don't mind Discord, even Telegram would work.  I would guess that everyone here already has a Discord account, so no need to push anything else.

It would be fun to get on a group voice call for the draft.

You, missing the obvious?  Shocking. 

He's suggesting it's me.  Are you happy?

Only an idiot thinks the enemy of his enemy is his friend, but calling you an idiot would be too insulting to people named George Bush.  But you go ahead, align yourself with elmanchez and lets see how many trust system inclusions you acquire as a result.  

But, rather than spamming your drivel in the lending board, why don't you insult me in the reputation board where these types of discussions belong?  Afraid I'll expose you for the shit-posting, spamming, trust-system-troll that you really are?

ETA; I may be obnoxious, but repulsive?  That's just rude.

And, exactly who the fuck are you to make such demands?  A shit-posting reputation board spammer and trust abuser?  What makes you think you have any authority here?  Harassing newbies and 1xBit sig-campaigners, and shit-posting your way through the reputation board may have convinced some to elevate you into DT, but I have news for you; your demands don't mean shit.

Is there a genocide taking place in South Africa?

For those of us who remember the days of apartheid in South Africa, we probably recall believing that we were on the "right side" of the argument if we supported ending the policy.  I have no personal experience with the country, other than having a white friend who participated in the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe civil war, and hearing his stories and his take on the political issues of the day.  I'm aware that one side of the story is not enough to make a judgment and his is the only first-hand account of the situation that I've ever heard.  It's worth noting that my friend is also vehemently opposed to apartheid, but he does argue that the implementation of the new governments and their policies were flawed.

Here we are, three decades later and there's still contention, fighting, and what appears to be a genocide of white property owners.  The most recent issues are related to property rights, specifically rights to the farmland in the country of South Africa.  Here's an article from 2021 that paints the picture:
https://www.accord.org.za/ajcr-issues/farm-attacks-or-white-genocide-interrogating-the-unresolved-land-question-in-south-africa/

Recently there was a rally held by the Economic Freedom Part and one of it's leaders, Julius Malema started chanting "Kill the Boer" (kill the white man,) and the crowd dutifully joined in the chant.  Since the EFT is a left leaning party (self described Marxists,) their aggressions have largely gone ignored by the American media.  However, a recent article in the NYT went so far as to excuse the allegations of murderous aggression.  Here is a substack article by someone who differs with NYT's editorial:
https://roddreher.substack.com/p/kill-the-boer-murder-white-south

I'll admit I'm very removed from the situation, but I still want to know what's going on.  I have no trust in the media in my country, they are more prone to obfuscate or straight up omit some of the more important news depending on political implications.

So, I'm asking those who have better insight into the issues facing South Africa today, what's going on?

If that is satscraper's belief, he might actually have a point (to some extent.)  I'm sure the government would love for everybody to take satscraper's advice and use VPN instead of TOR, because the Feds can subpoena a VPN provider to trace your movements.  They can't subpoena your TOR movements, because there's no central provider for TOR.  They would have to subpoena hundreds, if not thousands of individual TOR relay operators, and even then they're unlikely to find anything concrete.

On the other hand, if you're using TOR and the government knows about it, what can they do about it?  Outlaw the use of TOR?  Will that stop the use of TOR or only make it's use more wide-spread?

Anyway, it's not out of the realm of possibilities for the feds to plant a Ray Epps in Bitcointalk.org to spread misinformation.  

You've already earned an untrusted red-tag on your account for this silliness, which could prevent you from getting a job as it is.  You won't be getting a loan here and asking in multiple threads will only make things worse for you.   Stop this nonsense and lock this thread before some DT member decides to tag you also.  

Post your offer to work to the Services board where it belongs.  There is a chance you'll get some work, but if you continue this bullshit, you'll earn yourself another red-tag  which will make finding work very unlikely.

What old known drama?  I wasn't aware of any issues with Rollbit until I read this thread.  If this is old news, it obviously wasn't known to all of us.

As I've clearly stated in this thread, I have no issues with Hhampuz's review, but I do have issues with all those focusing on the least important aspect of this thread; the status of the OP's account.  Even if the OP lacks confidence in his assertion, I would rather have him create a sockpuppet and bring up a non-issue than to have a potentially damaging issue go unaddressed due to fear of retaliation.

Look at all the members attacking the OP as it is.  Imagine if this were some up-and-coming Sr. Member with good potential.  Do you think these "Legendary" members would leave him alone, or would they continue to harass him for calling out one of our favorite CMs?

Lol!  Condoras has been hear for 7 years, conducting deals for thousands of dollars.  He's far more trusted to not scam than a 9-post newbie who's contributed nothing to this forum, and done nothing but request hand-outs.

You have questions, here are some answers:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5460744.0#post_Borrowers

No they don't.  Bitcoin is open-source and compatible with almost every OS under the sun, and it certainly doesn't have or need "it's own."  Overledger is a proprietary OS that needs to be purchased to use, which obviously means it's not open-source.  I think you're confused by Quant's advertising and promotion campaigns, but I'm not sure how you got there.

Overledger is just another operating system, with built-in technology for blockchain management and integration.  I don't know what kernel it's based on, but I'll bet it's one of the more popular free Linux distros such as Debian or OpenBSD.  It's designed to help blockchain companies build and integrate blockchains more efficiently and faster.  At least that's what I've gathered from their literature.

What's the point of having a poll if the answers are the same, or too vague to even know what the options mean?

Is it fair to give a physically demanding job to a small MAN who can't preform the duties required of the job, and expect his collogues to pick up the slack?  If you answered no, then you're thinking clearly and without bias.

If I changed the word "MAN" to "WOMAN" in the statement above, would your answer be any different?  If so, then you're a bigoted activist, and not at all interested in "equality" but some corrupt notion of "equity."

Sorry for your loss.  There's really little that can be done other than filing a report with the cybercrimes law enforcement authorities in your area.  Who knows, maybe years from now they'll actually recover your bitcoin and you'll be a millionaire, but don't hold your breath.

Cricktor asks some really good questions, I'll highlight in yellow the ones that will help us help you, and in red the ones you should answer in secret. 



Some other observations; the hack only targeted two private keys, and you say other funds in the wallet were left untouched.  That leads to more questions I'll add:

• Did you start using a new mobile wallet recently?
• Did you "stake" your keys with a service promising an "air-drop" (I don't know if people still fall for that, but it's worth asking)
• Did you do anything seemingly innocent, yet out of the ordinary with the last several months?
  

Unfortunately this reminds me of a few incidents reported around the start of the year. 

No.  But Justin Herbert might be better than both of them this year.


Yes.  I'd rather have Aaron stoned out of his gorge on weed, mushrooms, and mescal than a stone-cold sober Dak.  I don't know how Rodgers will do in NY, but normally I would put him higher than 9th.


No.

Pool address sent to all via PM.

We didn't really discuss the entry fee, other than making the suggestion that it be 2.5mBTC.  Well, I already submitted my payment, so it's settled: BTC0.0025 is the entry fee.  No rush, but let's try to get the fee paid before draft day.  

Okay, now who's stalking whom?

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Please stop spamming your nonsense in the lending board, if you want to rant do so here.

Also, you must have issues with your reading comprehension, I don't want to meet you because my time is too valuable to waste it on scammers.  Go back and read what I wrote, including what I wrote about my knowledge of martial arts, lol.

Maybe if you behaved like a man, owned up to your mistakes, and stopped hiding behind your army of alts you might actually be able to recover a somewhat respectable reputation here.  But obviously you're not ready for that.  You don't have to believe me, but it's a lot more likely to happen with your main account than it is while hiding behind an alt.

I wish you the best, elmanchez, I really do.  There was a time when I really liked you and thought you were a good kid who just needed some guidance.  But I'm sorry, I have no interest in meeting you face to face unless you reform yourself from the shady scammer you've proven yourself to be.

Woot!  We've got a full crew, and a damn fine bunch we are, even if I do say so myself.

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Last night I had a dream that bitcoin pumped to $41k, so I'll send out the pool address today, before that happens.  Not that I think my dreams are likely to come true, but this one has a reasonably good chance.

Another thinly vailed threat?  You must think you're the only one who's ever claimed to know martial arts on the internet.

Well, I know Karate, Wing Chun, Taekwondo, Jujitsu, Kimchee, and whole bunch of other Asian words.