Challenge accepted.

OK this is really weird:


The dude just plagiarized himself. Here is the original BTW:



Not good enough? OK, from the same article:




So what's happening is RainbowKun did some text spinning before posting and he seems to have combined multiple sources rather than plagiarizing an entire article. His "fans" however are just straight copy/pasting translated text.

Don't worry I know you're still not satisfied so I am going to let this marinate for a while before tagging him.


Or maybe I'm just faster than him. 

I was going to say, apparently his way out of negative ratings is to start a war, but that seems to be a Republican thing. Along with corporate welfare and stimulus checks.

Nope. The only way the red tag comes off is if you are banned.


Really you should be ashamed of wasting your time.

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RainbowKun copy/pasted untranslated word... perhaps there is no English definition:

The essential attributes of Bitcoin:Bitcoin is a database.

https://www.fallenstar.cn/caa80_dpmmfhf/993.html


Let's put an end to it and find a more concrete example... I spent about an hour. It's somebody else's turn.

Perhaps not but it doesn't matter because you are passing off the work of others as your own. And I'm not going to sit around and wait for the mods to ban you - although you absolutely should be banned - I'm red tagging plagiarists from this point forward.

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Found another one:


From the Google Translate results of this article:


I suspect this is the article that RainbowKun based the thread with the above comment around but happened to find this user directly plagiarizing from it first.

With 30-60 accounts, this is going to be a huge job.

Which is why I'm giving away 5 merits for each alt caught plagiarizing.

As I suspected, they are indeed engaging in copy/translate/paste posting.

Let's start with this one: kxwhalexk

This post is more-or-less a copied translation of this article. The original is in Chinese. But when you translate the page using Google, its almost word-for-word the exact same.

Title of article: Why Bitcoin can be tamper-proof
Title of thread: Why Bitcoin can be tamper-proof

Translated using Google, from the article:


From the post:



From the article:


From the post:



From the article:


From the post:



Here is the clencher -- he used the same BTC address as the article as an example:


From the post:



And yes, the rest of the post is also plagiarized, except for where he couldn't translate the word Summit and used the actual name of the supercomputer mentioned, which is Fugaku, which is another name for Mt. Fuji in Japanese.

So if you look at RainbowKun and some of the other overly enthusiastic/wordy posters in your list, I'm sure you can find similar examples. It's not quite as easy as finding same language plagiarists but still quite doable.

Great choice, your purchase even came with a free DT positive feedback:


Not exactly sure what he was "trusting" you with here... To give him the correct order information?

Its not your fault as you can't control what Og does, just pointing out that this is incorrect use of the trust system.

The rate at which RainbowKun cranks out content led me to assume he is translating articles from a foreign language... I tried to match up with Korean texts but obviously I should have been looking at Chinese ones... back to that when I get some free time.

I'm not big on connecting accounts through registration dates unless if they are mere minutes/hours apart.

I think Ratimov is definitely on to something here but its not enough evidence for anything conclusive. Good job on getting the ball rolling tho.

I was actually kind of shocked to see Royse attach his name to what was clearly a smelly pile of garbage.

But before issuing further judgment, some things I'd need to know are:

- how much money did this project raise? anything?
- were tokens distributed to investors or anybody else?

If the Dogeporn team raised money and kept it, with no plans to develop a working product, that's not Royse's fault, but if I was a bounty hunter I would certainly be wary of working for him in the future.

And The Children's Children!

Yep... they were the first ones to do it. Here's a list of all the NXT assets:

https://nxtportal.org/assets

They even had plans to build DAOs (DACs in NXT-speak).

Apparently they are trying to do NFTs now:

https://www.nxter.org/nftmagic-nftmagic/

The CMC links to trading on the NXT Asset Exchange (the world's 1st DEX) are dead, because the stats host page, mynxt.info, is also dead. RIP.

Oops.

Is there any active development going on here? No reason to assume this is beyond a historical relic at this point if the answer is "no."


This is actually a good question and the answer is "yes" but they are not interoperable with other blockchains.

I traded NXT on Bittrex in 2014, that was back when Richie Lai handled customer service.

It was a great, new idea (introduced "assets", aka "tokens", along with smart contracts and DEXs) but was quickly overshadowed by the rise of Ethereum.

To anyone who has been paying attention, OP just effectively outed himself as Rambotnic.

Here's a good starting place for supplementary reading: For Theymos


I think scams should be moderated _and_ the trust system should be used to nail scammers. There's no reason why we can't have both.

"But then people would think this is a safe space for non-scams and we can't lead them to believe that."

Absolutely nobody here would ever think that.

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In the point of being fair, notice how even though I have upgraded my stance from "probably" a scammer to "assuredly" based on OPs voluntary contributions in this thread, I have not changed my rating to a negative (yet) as more substantial evidence should be required for that, beyond a hunch.

What's the difference. SebastienJu isn't around to confirm impersonators. He has no reputation anymore as far as the forum is concerned. I'm tagging his account until he locks this thread.

@rbo you got scammed by an impersonator. always confirm ON FORUM you are dealing with forum escrow...

First of all, its just a neutral feedback, so everybody calm down for a moment.

Think about what OP is saying: he insists that he's a long-time, well-known trader but refuses to provide any evidence of it. So he's actually just another lying newbie.

@OP: Well, I guess its up to you to prove me wrong. If you can go six months w/o scamming someone, I will remove my feedback.

You've been here long enough, you should know how the trust system works by this point: trust feedback is not moderated, especially just because it hurts your feelings.

Here's a brilliant idea: why don't you get a job?

All scammers are stupid, but you are too exceptionally stupid to be a scammer.

First of all, you're actually paying 11.11% commission. But in all likelihood you're not actually paying anything.

Let's say you actually sent somebody $5000... and if they just ran away with it you would reverse the payment. Even if they bought you the 4500 in BTC and sent it to you, what's stopping you from reversing the payment anyway?

And if that's not the case why would you trust a stranger with an irreversible payment?

Let alone the fact that you can buy bitcoin within the Square app, nothing about this deal makes sense.


Depends on where you go. I found one that was buying LTC for slightly less than 4% the other day. 8-10% is pretty standard. So a 10% (or 11%) commission is actually more money for a much stronger chance of getting ripped off.

OnlyFans is banning adult content? Isn't that like McDonald's banning the hamburger?

Excuse the sauce.

I started a competitor website called OnlyFranz but it got bumped off.

I came here to post this. Here's let's add what he said.


I could say any number of snide things but why bother, have a merit instead.

Seems like nobody there really knows when they began.

https://wattummanagement.medium.com/what-is-wattum-4c1f50ed9c5b

They had a Coindesk article about then a couple months ago, which makes me think their re-emergence is a sort of reputation clean-up effort:

Wattum to Build Kazakhstan Mining Farm in Conjunction With Enegix

And a recent partnership with a traded American company:

Integrated Ventures and Wattum Management Partner to Secure 12 Month Purchase Deal for 2,400 WhatsMiners

Do you mean in Telegram? Because they are trying to scam you.


I don't think anybody wants to handle AWS-related stuff here.