If you're client wants to deal "bank to bank" then the question I have is why are you here?  There are many reputable exchanges that can handle millions of dollars of trade volume without much risk.

A few months ago I started providing escrow services, and did so free of charge.  Of course many clients sent me tips but I want to be clear; I wasn't doing it for the money.  My original motivation was to prevent naive newbies from getting scammed.

Over the months I gathered that most of my clients were trading Amazon SES accounts.  Before I started this project I knew nothing about these accounts, but I've since learned that most of the buyers are most likely email spammers, and the sellers are often creating these accounts by violating the TOS of Amazon.  Say what you will about scamming a large, wealthy organization, but I feel a scam is a scam regardless of the victim's ability to absorb the loss.

I realize that nothing I mentioned above is illegal, but it's not something I care to support or condone.  I also noticed a pattern occurring; a couple of my clients started advertising in their threads that I was willing to provide escrow services for their sales of these accounts.  After providing escrow for a few successful transactions, some of these guys started convincing their buyers that they can be trusted to deal direct, without escrow.  You guessed it, here comes the SCAM!

So, after giving it some thought I realized that I was actually providing legitimacy to these scammers by giving them the opportunity to build some reputation.  Quite the opposite of my original intention.  As a result I have decided to close my escrow service for the time being.

I'm not going to go into too much detail about how troublesome these transactions can be, but suffice it to say some have been by far the most aggravating and time consuming.  To make things worse, I suspect that one particular member has been stalking me on Telegram with the intention of wasting my time.  This member has been on a crusade against anyone and everyone who is buying and selling SES accounts.  He's using multiple accounts (on Telegram) to pretend that he has a trade, then after a significant amount of back and forth, he'll back out and request a refund.  This has happened several times in the last couple of weeks.

Couple all of this with the fact that I've been really busy IRL lately, and you can see why I've gotten so frustrated.  Which is a sad thing.  I want to be able to provide my service to the community, but I really don't appreciate being abused for it.

Which brings me to my question to the community, and specifically to those who also provide escrow services:  Do you guys avoid transactions that include these accounts?  How does the community feel about these account sales?  I realize that the administration of the forum is unlikely to change their policies regarding the sale of these accounts, and I wouldn't expect or want them to.

Please discuss.

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I like the idea, and that pendant does look cool.  Being a fan of the genres you noted, I might be interested in some of your items.  But I have a question; does this infringe on any copyright?  I really don't know, I'm just asking the question.  If I'm not mistaken, some studios have secured exclusive rights to produce toys and trinkets with references to their movies.  I hope I'm wrong, but if not I would hate to see you get into trouble for doing this.

Providing escrow address for a trade between users Economy (u=2170208) and telim (u=2681549)
BTC address: 3PdPboyTVWrvEsPMyHZPL1wZfAKEarfBqK

Seeing the bitcoin logo during the Olympics would be pretty cool.  I'm not sure if the Olympic comity allows advertising of casinos and sportsbooks, they might shy away from any business involved in gambling.  I don't recall seeing any such advertising during the Olympics before, but admittedly it may have existed and I didn't notice.  I'm not a gambler, so I may have simply not noticed.

I know here in the US, advertising of casinos is allowed in certain situations, but none of the major sports leagues allow those types of businesses as sponsors.

I would love to see a MotoGP motorcycle emblazoned with the bitcoin logo...

Your foolishness never ceases to amaze me.   The existence of organized crime does not mean that all crimes are organized.  The existence of conspiracies does not mean all piracy is a coordinated effort.  The existence of fatty tissue between your ears does not mean you have a brain.

Well, there's contradiction for you.  Which is it, do we not think or do we think everyone is a scammer?

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Please share with us.  How does one get a $50k loan with a non-existent fantasy coin as collateral?  I would love to know.

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Anyway, back to my original suspicion that you are merely a shill.  You've made a total of 7 posts since you're return (including the two multi-posts above,) and 3 of them mention Paycoinly.  Furthuring my suspicion that this is a sockpuppet account, being used to shill, spam, and shitpost across the forum.  Kind of like this guy:


https://archive.md/lGkpM

I've heard that older versions of Electrum's HD wallets allowed importing of private keys.  Does anyone recall what version of Electrum discontinued the ability to import private keys into an HD wallet?  I can see how this probably caused a lot of confusion for people who expected to be able to restore their wallets in full with nothing but their seed phrase, and later found out they no longer had access to any of the private keys that were imported in previous installs.

I'm less likely to believe in these far-reaching conspiracies, and more likely to put the blame solely on the people with the most to gain.  Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  The common theme of Obummer's actions seem to indicate his goal was to obtain absolute power.

I've said it before, and I'm going to keep saying it;  The Obama administration will go down in history as the most corrupt, anti-American, unprincipled, most detrimental administration in US history.  Under Obama, the the ATF blatantly flaunted their disregard for the constitution.  Under Obama, the DOJ blatantly flaunted their disregard for the constitution.  Under Obama, the State Department blatantly flaunted their disregard for the constitution.  

Under Obama, the FBI became his personal bodyguards, secret police, and "fixers."  They covered up the administration's transgressions, and framed Obama's political opponents.  They even tried to frame the incoming President Elect with a known fraudulent document.  Up until now, we've been lead to believe that the FBI was acting on their own, the White House was unaware of their actions.  We now know that to be yet another lie, to hide the extent of Obama's fraud on the American people.

I know there are bigger fish to fry today, with Corona Virus and the Shutdown Economy, and Trump refusing to wear a N95 mask.  So the media will focus on those important things, and allow the undermining of our constitution to slip the back pages.  Where's the outrage?  Where're the calls for justice?  In fact, I find the lack of outrage as outrageous, but far less surprising.  The media has been hiding the transgressions of liberals, and fabricating transgressions to pin on conservatives for decades now.  The media's complicity in the corruption of our federal government is nothing short of sinister.  They are attempting to create an elitist, upper class of citizen based on political affiliation and marketability.

But I have high hopes.  I believe in this great experiment.  I believe that someday justice will be served, and our great country will be stronger for it.

Most of us "freethinkers" already recognized the facade the Noble Statesman Obama conjured, and recognized the slick orator as a fraud, a scoundrel, and a carpetbagger.  And now finally the media is starting to slowly acknowledge the hypocrisy of his administration.  They will, of course continue to hide their own culpability...  But only if we let them.

What will be the undoing of Obummer's legacy?  Where the Fast and Furious and Benghazi fiascoes failed, what the obvious lies about Trump and Russia were unable to expose, General Micheal Flynn will succeed.  Ironic beyond belief; the man Obama tried to destroy for having the gall to question his actions, will be the man that undoes his unblemished legacy.

Here's a great article that exposes the rampant hypocrisy and blatant lies of the Obama administration, and their coordinated attack on Flynn:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/dont-shrug-at-obamas-michael-flynn-scandal/

I haven't watched this video yet, but I'll make a point of it.  But really this isn't anything new, and the whole thing strikes me as childish deflection.  Since these shitcoiners want to bill their respective scam as "the real bitcoin" they want to theymos to fallow along, and have "bitcointalk" promote their scam.  They haven't been able to convince, bribe, extort, or bully theymos into succumbing to their wishes, so the last thing they've got is slander and peddling their conspiracy theories.

I think you mean KYC (Know Your Customer,) which means you have to send them identification documents.  Coinbase does indeed allow you to send crypto to outside addresses, I've done so many times.  You may be having trouble understanding their user interface, but they do have a good tech support team.  Reach out to them if you're having trouble.

If you are in the US, I can also recommend buying crypto using Binance.US.  If you're not in the US you can use Binance.com.

You literally just joined the forum 4 hours ago, and you're asking for a no-collateral loan?  Or would it be more accurate to say "You just created this account 4 hours ago?"  And that transaction you posted earlier suggests you do have some money.

I would lock this topic if I were you, some members aren't as gentle as I am, and will tag your account without warning.

I'd be more conserned about StakeCube if I were you.  Their website was created a couple of years ago, while freebitco.in is going on 7 years. 

StakeCube seems to be part custodial wallet, part cloud mining, part exchange, part arcade, and so much more.  They even have their own token, of course.  Maybe I'm overly cynical, but if they're selling cloud mining then I'm 99.999% sure it's a scam.

It's remarkable how the fees have been going haywire lately.  Mempool had almost 30k unconfirmed transactions when I checked earlier today.  I broadcast a low-fee transaction that's been pending for 6 hours now, but it looks like mempool is slowing down...  I hope I didn't just jinx it.

I agree with BitCryptex here, use Electrum to import your private key when you're ready to spend the funds.  If you plan to hold your coin, store that private key someplace safe, and carry on the way you have been.



None of those are concerns due to the back-up that BitCryptex mentioned, i.e. the 12 or 24 word mnemonic phrase.  These types of wallets create heirarchal deterministic wallets which generate a ton of addresses.  There are advantages to using a HD wallet that enhance your privacy and security.  A good way to learn about them is download Electrum and play around with it.  Make sure you understand the importance of storing your seed phrase someplace safe, it is the only way you'll be able to restore your bitcoin.

Providing escrow address for a trade between users Stellfox (u=2761786) and memolin2011 (u=2805938)
BTC address: 35p49KaWLb8j17fS4b1bE8MTBTJ77eRkYj

39 - DireWolfM14

Thanks again for the free raffle.  Good luck all.

Sorry, you don't qualify for a no-collateral loan.

Thanks for sharing, I, for one appreciate your candor.  I don't think there's any shame or disrespect in DarkStar_'s decision.  I've said it before and I'll say it again; DarkStar_ is charged with making business decisions for his employer, Chipmixer.  The goal is so obvious, only a fool would fail to see it; maximize the exposure of the chipmixer banner.  DarkStar_ has chosen his (apparent) strategy to accomplish this goal; pick users who make high quality, engaging posts in a variety of boards.  It's a darn good strategy if you ask me, and it seems to be working.

The decisions made by DarkStar_ have nothing to do with the politics or ethnicity.  As far as I can tell, DT status is only a small factor in his decisions.  If you consider all that, it becomes quite simple: if you want a spot on the chipmixer campaign, make high quality, engaging posts in a variety of boards.



Yeah, I believe Steamtyme's OP was facetious.