Well, I will never purchase bitcoin from PayPal, it's exceedingly terrible at communicating.
A little mistake can permanently block your account and you can lose your money.
Actually, I've found that PayPal is much less likely to nuke you than, say, Coinbase. I'm not sure what you mean by "mistake" either. Glad you bumped this thread, because I haven't seen it in a while and it made me check out PayPal's news feed. It looks like there's some sort of cashback-to-crypto feature on Venmo, which they announced in August. I don't use Venmo, but I think a lot of members here do, because I've seen it mentioned a lot on the currency exchange section. This is a snippet of their news article: With seamless auto-purchasing, once customers receive their cash back into their Venmo balance each month, those funds are used to automatically purchase their selected crypto with no action required. Once complete, customers can choose to hold or sell the crypto within the Venmo app at any time. I don't know about anyone else, but that sounds pretty cool to me--as long as you can actually take possession of the crypto you buy, which seems to be the case. |
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Could be hacked or otherwise illegitimately obtained PayPal accounts or funds of questionable legality. Probably wouldn't want to use their own bank account with something like that.
That's kind of what I was assuming, that the business they were doing together wasn't strictly legitimate--and that's being kind as to my thoughts on that, assuming I were to give colires the benefit of the doubt. I don't believe for a moment that the two accounts represent two different individuals. Keep in mind that colires is doing "business" here (selling AWS, PayPal, exchange accounts etc) in a way that you can't really do with your real identity.
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I'm not doubting your story, just commenting that it's a weird way of doing business.
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Far too many coincidences to ignore, in my opinion.
Eh? So which is it, my man? I am not denying that it seems odd and people can think we are same person, but we are not.
You are lying. There is too much evidence to the contrary for you to deny it, so consider yourself busted. Busted. Everyone can have their own opinion and if someone think that I am vareole so be it. I have provided evidence for everything I have said previously. I have wasted a lot of more time here than I would like to. This is my last post here and after this I will put this section on ignore.
Ah, this is the old "I don't have time to argue against these allegations" cop-out, which I've seen many scammers and assorted idiots use on bitcointalk when they get called out on some shenanigans and they can't refute the evidence. That's almost as good as an admission of guilt. I provided him bank accounts to cash out paypal funds. Everything was good until he lost his supplier and seems that was when he started scamming.
I don't know how people do business in Estonia, but providing someone else with "bank accounts to cash out paypal funds" seems very strange to me, and I don't know if I'd do that for anyone, even if they were a friend--and by your account vareole was someone you met on a forum and worked together doing who knows what. If you really are two different people (and you're not), I have no doubt you'd be aware that he's a scammer. |
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You can, but not in a standard way.
Dude, you rock!! I was able to create an Electrum wallet with legacy addresses, which I thought was impossible. Thank you for that. I'm still liking the Sparrow wallet, by the way. I don't exactly have a need for another wallet, and I like Electrum a little bit better, but I'm not going to discard it like I have with so many other wallets I've tried (like Exodus, Coinomi, and a bunch of others). RaspberryPi and a 1TB drive and your good.
I've got the former but not the latter--at least not unoccupied at the moment. But I appreciate the suggestion very much. |
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OP, could you please resize your pic? You can do that by modifying the code for the image with "img width=500" or something similar. I'm looking at what you posted on a desktop computer, and I have to lean back in my chair to take everything in.
I don't use Facebook, so I'm not familiar with how scams go down there. What exactly is this guy looking for? What's that heart icon that he wants you to drop in his inbox? Those questions probably sound idiotic, but believe me, for someone who doesn't use FB they sound odd.
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If I'm not wrong, for the art contest badges, he put them on manually. He can do it occasionally for a particular event, but I can't see Theymos doing it on a regular basis (unless he appoints a "badge giver", like he did for the "whitelisters").
You're probably not wrong at all, and my point is that Theymos did indeed give someone a badge, so it can be done again. I wouldn't expect that he'd have to give different badges to however many reporters he wanted to give reporter badges to, so it isn't as though he'd have to create more than one. Nor would he have to hand out more than, say, 10 (for the top 10 reporters of all-time, which is who I think they ought to be given out to). How much extra work could that possibly be? I don't think it's a matter of work or coding; I think it's a matter of will. What about the users who don't want to have their activity exposed? Have you thought about it?
I'd say PM Theymos about that if you're concerned about your anonymity. I'm pretty sure he'd respect that. |
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I recently listened to a discussion on which assets could actually be better to protect or even profit from inflation.
Curious about what you were listening to--and the reason I'm curious is because a lot of podcasts/talk radio personalities/Youtube videos tend to exaggerate and distort how bad problems are, and it's usually because they want to sell you something. One person that comes to mind immediately is Robert Kiyosaki, but there are many others. - Buy bitcoin
- Buy more commodities.
- Buy REITs or real state.
- Buy stocks of listed companies.
- Buy art.
Bitcoin? I don't know; take a look at how it's performed in the past few days. It all depends on when you buy it and where it is when you finally decide to cash out--and that's true for any of the things listed above. Personally, I don't think any cryptocurrency is a good choice for a hedge against inflation, and that's just based on volatility alone. Art? No. Stocks? Yes, but buying them right now is a huge gamble since we've been in the longest bull market in history, and many of them are extremely overvalued. Even if you bought an index tracking fund you might be in trouble, never mind trying to pick stocks individually. Commodities? I don't know; I don't invest in them except for a little bit of silver. Gold and silver are what most people think of when considering inflation hedges, and I'd say those are probably the best choice. Volatility is pretty low, and you can always find a buyer when it's time to sell (unlike art). Real estate? Right now that's also very risky, because I've heard stories about the market being in a bubble. But buying something like a rental property that provides income might not be a bad idea. REITs are just a subset of stocks, and personally I like them for their income. But again, their value could fall significantly if there is a housing market bubble and it ends up popping. |
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1. Many of us just don't visit all the boards. I don't visit P&S or the boards in most foreign languages. I guess I'm not alone in this and such votes may distort the result. Also there's a good chance that certain areas have less merit sources than others.
I probably don't visit 90% of this forum if you include every local board in that statistic, and I even have most of the English-section boards on ignore as well--including all of the altcoin ones. I don't have a top-8 in my head as far as which sections do or should earn the most merits, because that's not how I organize things in my mind. Some sections are better than others. Altcoin Discussion and the rest of the child boards are, in general, pure crap. Basically, they're where bounty hunters go to shitpost. Now and then there are some really good posts made by dedicated members, but if you look at the rest of the posts in the thread, you'll see stupid one-liners that have no value whatsoever--and yes, I used to visit the altcoin sections, so I'm familiar with them. Unfortunately, Bitcoin Discussion is another popular dump site for the trash from bounty hunters/campaign shitposters, and you'd think it'd be the section where a lot of merits are earned--but it's not. Meta is populated by a lot of older members who actually care about the forum and/or participate in the drama between the personalities they're familiar with. Not surprisingly, a lot of merit sources also post there, too, so that's probably why a lot of merit gets distributed in that section. Too bad that many members with nothing to say have figured that out and create threads just to earn merits. That's been happening since the beginning of the merit system, by the way. |
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Why not take into account the responses from the Nafty team?
Is that who you represent, and if so why should anyone believe a brand new account with the username "Find_scammer"? What a clusterfuck all around, from OP's complaint to this response to the fact that there's another example of bounty hunters doing their "work" up front and depending on the kindness of the bounty team to pay them their crap tokens. When will you knuckleheads learn not to keep doing this? |
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OK, I appreciate that link although I still have no idea what it is. I'll have to look it up on teh interwebz myself. I don't even know what deep learning is. Shoulda majored in computer science....<sigh>. |
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Staff, mods, admins, have other tasks to work on based on reports, they don't have time to check every post/topic and every board.
I don't know how many mods there are on the forum (I'm sure I could figure it out, but I'm too lazy for the purpose of this post), but given how many sections there are and how many posts get made in each of them every single day, there's no way in hell they'd be able to detect spam, zero-value, trolling, or off-topic posts; make judgements on those posts; and then take action if it weren't for members reporting posts like that. On other, smaller forums, things might work differently--but bitcointalk has many thousands of active accounts and well over a million registered ones, active or inactive. Theymos would have to hire a small country of moderators if he expected them to sift through threads looking for rule violations, and he's not about to do that. If I remember correctly theymos said a while back that coding badges in such a way so that people could have the option to display or not display the badge would be difficult.
I don't believe that for a minute--even though I'm not a coder. If those gold coins can be put under every member's rank, I seriously doubt Theymos (who is very intelligent and has a lot of resources) wouldn't be able to give members some sort of badge. Plus he did exactly that for the forum anniversary art contest winner if I'm not mistaken. |
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Colires has the 37th most good reports in the entire forum, over the last year. I didn't even make the list, its pretty competitive.
Making 435 good reports isn't that hard; it just takes time. You could probably hit that number in Bitcoin Discussion within a few days if you devoted several hours a day just looking for shitposts. If you just reported all the garbage in the altcoin ANN section, you could probably get that many good reports in a day. My point is that being the member with the 37th most good reports doesn't mean a goddamn thing in general and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with this scam accusation. As far as colires's reputation goes, it's really hard to discern whether he's a serial scammer based on those negs he has that have reference links (and most of them don't). There's this one, which seems to be just a rage-against-DT neg, while others do have evidence that he really did scam for money. I'm not inclined to believe untrusted feedback unless there's a valid reference link, but there are enough of colires's negative trusts that do have them that I'm thinking he is indeed a scammer. let's see what @colires will respond on this accusations.
I'm going to suspend judgement until he does. If he can't refute OP's claim, he's getting a neg. |
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I find it very hard to believe that freebitco.in will scam someone for 0.001 BTC or less. they have been in business for years and have a pretty good reputation.
Seriously. They're primarily a faucet (or at least historically they've been one) and I also doubt they'd be banning their users unless those users had violated their rules somehow. And something makes me think OP probably didn't read their rules at all and ended up breaking one or more of them, resulting in his ban. The Quin....wow, I haven't even seen that username in a long, long time. I used to see his posts a lot. I wonder if he doesn't post on the forum a lot anymore or I ignored the sections he posts in. But it'd be nice if he stopped by and chimed in on this. Edit: Maybe they withheld the 0.001 BTC because they believe you cheated their referral system. All the answers to your complaint seem to be in the other thread.
Whoops--I missed your post before I wrote mine (I always do that!). So there you go, OP. You didn't mention that part of the story. |
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I don't usually publish PMs in threads, but in this case I don't give a shit about this guy. Here's a recent PM exchange between the two of us, initiated by him: Hi there mate
someone i met tonight wants to talk with you about smth in 2015/2016 is ther a way of communicating?
You're going to have to elaborate on that before I even consider talking to you.
You're going to have to elaborate on that before I even consider talking to you.
I met someone at a couchsurfing hangout in Istanbul and it seems you gave him some bad feedbacks over the years. I have his message that he tried to send from his account but he couldn't. He texted me this message to send to you, I don't want to be linked to his story so I am going to copy paste it though... iulianbutanu, [16.09.21 11:58] Hi, about this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=834958I am the Iulian Butanu from this topic I left myself a log time ago the hope of the forum even tho I am still a crypto enthuziast. About this account and many more mentions that are on my name and I hope I can get help from you with doxing. In 2015-2016 after trying to be a student I got a really shit periode in my and I started doing randomly hitch hike arround Europe. At a moment in the 2nd main train station in budapest, my documents were stolen, romanian embassy helps you only to contact the family to help you with money bla bla, they didnt care anyway i managed it at a moment. Fact: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1472153.msg14857412#msg14857412When he replied to this i was actually at nyugati i suppose at mcdonalds charging my phone, a man approaches me, and after some time he says I can help you to eat and wash your clothes. He takes me home, weirdly in his up floor while I got undressed he takes my underwear and smells it.. i am totally straight and i was 19 at that time. He feeds me and while i slept he tried to fuck me, the story is even more fucked up but I don't have to bother with details. Point is I had another, at a moment I sold my account to this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=625996Why? Basically, being on couchsurfing before this trip I hosted an indian guy and he basically sent me like nothing 50$, it was like 6$ a night in budapest the hostel so totally perfect for me. I exchanged paypal to btc to crypto, that was my plan as the exchange https://coinflux.com/ was almost instantly to my card so tops 10$ loss here. Anyway after more than 2 days literally on the street, he still didnt sent. I was disperate. And in a moment of naivity, he paid me 30$ on my identity card and my account. And after one week he paid for it. After that this guy actually used my name until even last year or someone. There is a scam accusation that actually affected my only attempt to marry, I also wrote cyrus on facebook as he is romanian also. Ok overall, being stupid and young things happen. At a moment someone on linkendin texted me i scammed him on discord half a litecoin, i told him, look man. I never used discord yet as I don't play games but I still gave him 0.25 ltc, it was like 50-60$ (ltc was 200$+). Can show screens. Here is my couchsurfing link to see that I am actually a nice person: https://couchsurfing.page.link/XWaUfZs3JrWraRKN7This person, I randomly saw him at a couchsurfing hangout tonight so I asked him for a beer to let me write this message. All I need is to help me out to get rid of all the posts about this name because these affects me so much in real life even if I have nothing to do with crypto, I own crypto but I am not in this anymore, I have my own business, I have my master degree, now on my PhD and this is disturbing my life very much. I saw your username many times I searched myself on google so I am giving a chance. If you care or you have a question, send me a message on instagram: @iulivirgil . Cheers and thanks for reading. I'm not removing that feedback.
I'm not removing that feedback.
i think he is more interested about doxxing; i'll share your message on instagram to him Doxxing who? I don't understand what you're talking about.
And that's where it ended, because he never responded after that. I don't know if this guy is a scammer or what (it looks like he is based on OP's post, and I'll look into it further), but I don't doubt for a minute that he's at least an alt account of someone else here who is/was involved in something shady. I'll probably end up leaving him a neg based on this scam accusation; I just have to review it fully. Edit: OP, what were you trying to buy from this jackass? In your post you said "GPU instance" and I don't know what that is. I'm just curious--it doesn't affect the fact that I'm about to neg the guy for scamming you. |
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The thread's title is kinda click bait. For common users here in this board will probably know that this is another fake one by just reading the title thread. But newbies reading it first will probably have an bad impression towards atomic wallet not until they open the thread.
Agree, the title ought to be changed but otherwise props to OP for the warning. It's amazing how frequent these e-mail "leaks" happen. People really should use throwaway e-mail addresses when they're dealing with anything crypto-related; it's not like they're hard to create. Remember when you make an accusation here, there are people who use google to search for such scam information before using such a service
Well if they found this thread and actually looked at it, they'd figure out that it's not the genuine Atomic wallet that's a scam--and I'm not sure how frequently bitcointalk threads show up in Google search results when people are searching for specific things like wallets. Usually all the results are search engine optimized, which is why Google is a shitty search engine nowadays. |
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He also knows about mining with an S19 miner .. or understands the math behind it. I don't think he's mining.
Somehow I don't think so either, but if he bought $30 worth of bitcoin just for the hell of it, that says to me that the man is hardcore. I wouldn't be surprised if he not only mined bitcoin on the side but claimed from faucets in his spare time. Lol. Boy, their stock got hammered today, down over 4%. But it was a rough day all around on the stock market, so I'm not shocked. Related to that, I was listening to AM radio in my Lambo (double LOL) and the mainstream media news mentioned that bitcoin dropped significantly and that bitcoin-related stocks were also down. That surprised me that there was a mention of bitcoin's performance on the radio--its status certainly has gone up since 2009. The broadcaster also mentioned something to the effect that bitcoin hadn't achieved "safe haven status" yet, and that made me roll my eyes. I don't think it'll ever be a safe-haven asset, nor do I think Michael Saylor sees it as such either. |
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make use of VPN if they wanted to
Could you possibly write a longer sentence? I assume that casinos could block people who try to access their services if they're using a VPN, as Amazon and lots of other companies do it, and if a casino were to put in their ToS that VPNs aren't allowed, then you'd be screwed if you used one and ended up winning a ton of money. They could easily block your withdrawal. As far as decentralized casinos, do they exist yet? I'm not a gambler (and currently US residents aren't allowed to gamble online, though I think that's changing), so I don't keep up with what's available. If they are in fact around, I don't see how any government could regulate them. They could declare them illegal--just like they could declare bitcoin ownership illegal--but that doesn't mean they can stop people from using them. Assuming governments are at least semi-rational, their best move would be to try to work with the casinos to tax members, but good luck with that! Viva la P2P! |
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No, they shouldn't pump the ranks of those of us that are not there yet. The only people that care about rank are usually low value contributors that care only for bounty campaigns.
I agree that those top reporters don't deserve merits for their effort, because that isn't what the merit system is for--but as I said in Theymos's thread, I do think they deserve some sort of recognition beyond having their names mentioned publicly. That's up to Theymos himself, though. I disagree with your second statement about rank, because there are certainly members who've cared or do care about their rank who aren't bounty-hunting shitposters. Having a rank of Hero or Legendary is a source of pride for some members, because it shows how much the forum means to them--whether they're getting paid to post or not. |
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In 2022, the government will also introduce a crypto capital gains tax; investors who make over $2,135 in trading profit will face a 20% tariff. Which means it will be imposed on the rich people in the country or anyone that has such huge profit. We hope capital loss will also still be deducted first as the net result before the capital gain is calculated. $2135 isn't really that much money for a lot of crypto traders, especially over the course of a year (which is what I assume the language of the regulation means). So that tariff doesn't target only wealthy crypto investors/traders at all--and I think it's ridiculous, even though 20% is probably lower than capital gains taxes on stock trades (though I don't know that for sure). Governments are constantly trying to figure out how many pockets you have so that they can stick their octopus hands in all of them. Is SouthXchange based in S. Korea? I'm pretty sure it is, and I wonder if they're going to comply with these regs or if they're going to close up shop. |
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Splinterlands collectible NFT card game is now offering passive income with daily SPS air drops. Unfortunately it suffers from the same problem brave browser has with BAT.
Can you even withdraw BAT that you earn from your Brave browser without having to go through KYC? Anyway, I'm not sure getting daily airdrops is a good way to get passive income--it certainly is passive, but what you get is of questionable value at best. At least with PoS coins you're getting paid in kind and can sell the coin as long as there's some liquidity and an exchange that has it listed. With tokens and airdrops you really have to receive enough to be able to sell at whatever the minimum amount is on an exchange--and that's assuming there's an exchange that lists the token. NFTs are a whole different story. For passive investments, I've always like DRIP (dividend reinvestment plans). They are cases of people retiring early and having success with it. There are plenty of stories of people making money here or there. But people making enough to retire seems like a next level thing.
DRIPs are great, and those stocks I own that pay dividends are in DRIPs, not held in a brokerage. But yeah, you have to have enough money to invest in them in the first place if you plan on retiring early. But the power of compound interest is quite amazing. |
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