Maybe you're right, and maybe the OP really wants to go in a different direction and I think he should be given a chance. I checked his post history and since December last year he was not active in the bounty, and the merit was an additional motivation in order to encourage him to make a change. It is true that he needs many more merits to become a Full member, but every journey begins with the first step - we can say that he only needs 9 merits to become a Member, which is a much more attainable goal.

I would answer you with a counter question - can "our" man be someone who works for the US government and according to the guidelines of that same government? The article you linked also states that this man worked for Goldman Sachs for 20 years, and after all that time he is certainly not inclined to any ideas like Bitcoin.

The only thing I agree with him on is the following statement :

Without getting into how unintelligent someone is or isn't, I don't think Bitcoin is so complicated that an average person with at least a high school diploma can't figure it out in a very short period of time. By that I mean maybe 2-3 hours of lectures, with the condition that the person teaching knows what he is talking about and knows how to make a presentation, because pictures sometimes speak a lot more than words.

From my personal experience, I didn't conclude that people can't understand Bitcoin because it's too complicated, but because the idea itself is quite meaningless to them, considering that they are too deep in a system that suits them (most of them). Being your own bank is not something most people want, or better said, people don't want that risk or responsibility.

I would therefore conclude that we don't need a simpler Bitcoin, but we need people who think outside the generally set frameworks, and there are very few of them in the world, to be honest. For such a drastic change in thinking, children should be taught from the moment they start elementary school - but it is hard to expect the authorities to work against themselves and suggest to anyone that Bitcoin is something better than what they represent.

@Kalam001, I thought I was clear enough in my post, but apparently I wasn't considering that you ask the same questions and that you didn't read the forum rules as I advised you. You have already violated one of them (posting multiple posts in the row), and there are many more that you should read - take your time and read ->

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ 

Also, read all the sticky threads at the top of this board, because that's the only way to learn some things - you won't achieve anything by repeating the same questions.   

Given that you defend it so ardently, the question arises whether you are in some way connected to that account/member? In your opinion, everyone should get a second chance, regardless of what they do, to the extent that it can have long-term, very bad consequences for any member of this forum?

Not only is he more than obviously guilty because he had the intention of selling his BTT account, but he also involved me in all of that - and regardless of the fact that people who think logically think that I am not the person who contacted him on Telegram, the doubt always remains - or better to say that the damage he did to me is irreparable.

Maybe that was his intention from the beginning, even to the extent that he consciously sacrificed one of his alt accounts - because I doubt that it was the first and last BTT account he sold.

And what about Martti Malmi who sold 5050 BTC for only $5.02 back in 2009? It was also the first official transaction when it comes to conversion from BTC to fiat. I don't see that it was a big problem then, because everyone could mine BTC with their personal computer and mine a few thousand BTC every day without any trouble.

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If I understand correctly, you mean that the price will go down because there is not enough BTC in the "system" for trading? Fewer available BTC on the market with the increased demand that has been evident since the beginning of this year should have quite the opposite effects to those you describe.


Just listen to what they write and say on the mainstream media and everything will be fine - it seems that their "experts" have some bigger problems with mathematics, because it is stupid to say that 10 years ago more people traded Bitcoin than today.


You are obviously still under the impression of what happened 1 or 2 years ago, so you don't understand that losses are an integral part of trading on every market. In addition, Bitcoin has grown by more than 50% compared to the bottom (below $16k), and you are talking about some kind of "price creeping" - first you need to look at the real data, and then draw conclusions.

As someone who fortunately survived the horrors of war 30 years ago, I can only say that I deeply sympathize with the Ukrainian people because I know exactly what it's like to be where they are now. Fortunately, this time the West did not decide to impose sanctions on the country that was attacked, and we also have Bitcoin, which turned out to be something that many people recognized and thus decided to help the people of Ukraine to defend themselves.

As for the way in which Bitcoin can help Russia get rid of Putler and his political associates, I agree in principle that some kind of internal rebellion is needed, but here we have to take into account that hundreds of thousands have already left that country and that every more and more are leaving each day. What I want to say is that the critical mass that is crucial for change is decreasing more and more, and only those who are too afraid to raise their voice remain - with the addition of hundreds of thousands of those who hold weapons in their hands and shoot at Ukraine.

I think that Bitcoin is, first of all, key in that it can provide fairly anonymous donations and that it encourages many people to donate without fear that something will happen to them because they are helping Ukraine. What we need to know is that always when it comes to war, a war is being fought on the front line, but it is also being fought in the background where the battle is being fought between the army of Russian spies which were placed up all over the world for decades and are now trying to do their dirty work.

I can imagine it, because even though I live in a better-ordered country within the EU, I have a president who behaves like a spoiled brat and is one of the few who supports Russia because he plays some guy who wants to be on the side of the bad guys. Maybe you in African countries have a completely different idea of how government and politics work in the rest of the world, but believe me it's just an illusion that things work well, while on the other hand, incompetence and corruption are just much better hidden behind the so-called good intentions for ordinary people.

As long as the common man has a job and can put food on the table every day, he will not protest too much against the system, no matter how bad it is.

In the long run, you made a good decision before burying yourself even deeper in something that is difficult to get out of. You lost some time, but you still proved to yourself that what you were doing is not something you want to spend your time on, and sometimes first-hand experience is much more valuable than creating an opinion based on what others tell you.

As for the forum, it's never too late to go in a different direction and all you need is to find what interests you and try to participate in the discussion. Of course, before that I suggest that you read the rules of the forum, and that you adhere to them, especially that you do not plagiarize other people's work and be original in your posts.

What kind of "top" journalism is this? The way I see it, someone is trying to say that pre-mined shitocins have a much higher chance of success because that way they will be able to pay their developers, while those who work for the benefit of Bitcoin will sooner or later dry up

So if people are already worried about what will happen when the last Bitcoin is mined in 100+ years, or whether Satoshi will appear with his 1+ million BTC or whether we will remain in the dark because of BTC mining - then this is just one more doubt on the list of those we really need to worry about...

I have nothing against innovation, but I do have something against Bitcoin changing in the way you suggest. No matter what your intentions are, the majority will not agree on such radical ideas, because that would be the end of Bitcoin as we have it today.


You mentioned giving speeches in front of the Australian Senate so I assumed you were from that country, but that doesn't really matter - it was written in the context of the fact that some people have really weird ideas when it comes to Bitcoin, so I linked it to CW Faketoshi.

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@Oleksiiko, please try to use the multi-quote option instead of replying to each post in a new post - it's against the forum rules.

My guess is that the person behind everything wanted that screenshot to try to set me up by opening a new thread and accusing me of trading with accounts - luckily I was quick and reacted in time. Although even now some doubt that I have something to do with this, what would happen if I just tagged that account and reported that PM?

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Yes, it seems that I touched a hornet's nest because I dared to touch the operation of selling BTT accounts, which is a very lucrative business in which some, let's say, respectable members of this community also participate as escrows.

Last year I had a bad feeling and opened the next thread just in case -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5418044

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What more do you need than the fact that he has already admitted that he did it? Not only did he try to sell his account, but he also turned out to be a fool who someone managed to get him to admit publicly and cast a shadow of doubt on me along the way. Someone had obviously been planning this for months, because it was necessary to find someone naive enough to do it this way.

@Beparanf, I don't see how Ledger Live on a smartphone would be able to do what the OP can't do on the desktop version - and besides, there's no mention of a model X that has BT, so it's possible that the OP is using an old model S.

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It is very likely that this is exactly the problem, because Electrum has always had a problem with wallets that have a lot of dust transactions. I had a similar problem as you when I first used Electrum many years ago and the way I solved it was to extract the private key from each address and enter it in another wallet. Of course, you have the problem that your main wallet is actually a hardware wallet, and accordingly you cannot see your private keys in Electrum - and not even in Ledger Live as far as I know.

The last option would be to try to extract your private keys from your seed, but that would mean that the seed is compromised. You can read more about it here - but I recommend that you use it as a last option, and that you be extremely careful in every step.

How to find out your private key by SEED phrase.     

It's just logical advice, but I stated my opinion in my previous post, and from that you can see that I understand why some members have an attitude like the OP's. It is true that some signature campaigns last much more than 2 years, but I think that many members do not rely on them as the main source of income. Without looking at the data, I think that I have been in the CM campaign since the end of 2018, which means about 4 years - and believe it or not, I have not spent a single satoshi so far.

The whole essence of this discussion boils down to the fact that the forum should not be taken as a place where we make money exclusively, but that our earnings from signature campaigns are only additional income. At the end of the day, it's not all about making money, but working in real life has its benefits, because in addition to working for a salary and pension, we also socialize and make friends, which is an important part of our lives.

Then we on the forum have been living in the delusion for years that trading and mining of cryptocurrencies is prohibited in China - and you actually claim that this is not the case? Ok, I understand that some people are still mining Bitcoin in China, but it's also a fact that all CEXs stopped serving within China a few years ago, so I'm wondering how you managed to buy more than 1 BTC legally?

Likewise, 2-3 years ago, you could read the news that some Chinese courts intervened and somehow recognized that Bitcoin is a "virtual asset", but nothing more than that.

https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/chinese-court-rules-that-bitcoin-is-property-protected-by-law/
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58678907

Regardless of the fact that at this moment I cannot prove that I received a private message in which I am offered to buy the account in question here - I can only say that I am glad that at least someone on the entire forum does not think that I am someone who engages in such activities. I see that other members still have doubts, but if necessary, I am ready for one of the respectable members of the forum to get an insight into my account and confirm that the PM is real.

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I understand what you're explaining, but still just a simple confirmation that PM is real and that it's not about me actually being the one who did something bad in this whole story would be a perfectly normal move in these situations. Yesterday this happened to me, tomorrow it can happen to someone else, and the shadow of doubt remains if we do not clarify this situation to the end.


His explanations are at least at the level of a beginner who has no idea about some basic things, and the only thing he defends himself with is that I somehow fabricated that message, although he later admits that he did send the message. The evidence he presented in the form of a Telegram screenshot is plain nonsense and only proves how naive he is.





Given that we have a clear acknowledgment that @Amph sent a PM whose screenshot you can see, it is more than obvious that he admits that he tried to sell his account.

PM has been reported to admins/global mods asking them to confirm its authenticity.

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Do you really think that I contacted someone on Telegram and asked to buy their bitcointalk account in such a stupid and naive way? It is clear to me what happened here, and I also have proof in the PM where I am very clearly and unequivocally offered to buy a bitcointalk account - and the person selling it claims that he communicated with me via Telegram without any concrete proof - is the proof public profile link which anyone can copy and place anywhere?

It seems that you are a much bigger fool than I thought, because you trust complete strangers who send you a message on a platform that is full of scammers. It is enough for you that someone sends you a public profile link and you think that this person contacted you


Unfortunately for you, PMs on this forum can be verified, so even though it is something that is not often done, I am ready to prove that you are lying even with that procedure. Anyway, I think you deserve a red tag as well as everyone who sells BTT accounts.

You did not communicate with me via Telegram, nor does your screenshot prove anything - anyone could have sent a link to my profile, but the fact is that you sent me an offer to sell your BTT account, which only proves that you are either a very unintelligent person, or that you have some malicious intentions.

If you already want to portray me as some ordinary scammer who trades with BTT accounts, then I will also publish your PM so that people can decide who is who in this story.