I notice the OP there isn't adressing the issue that when Blockstream received their funding, LN wasn't yet around, so it's a bit hard to see how their business plan that got them 21 million USD could have relied on pushing people towards LN...

So NLC is actually campaigning for stricter forum moderation? I'm not sure I buy that. (I don't care about any of the other trolls, just trying to figure out what's going on with this single one.)

Can we just have a small fee to gain posting rights in speculation? It doesn't have to be much to be too much for NLC and anyone with similar "ambitions". We have a specific issue limited to a specific subforum that's mostly filled by traders or people otherwise invested in Bitcoin. I'd wager the amount of people who both can't justify making, say, a one dollar-equivalent payment to post and still have interesting things to say on the subject of price speculation is pretty low.

I don't think we're at the autonomous software agent stage yet, so the fees will go to some humans. Might be a weak link there.

To rephrase my question: Am I right to assume anyone not willing to put a lot of effort into digging up publically available proxies or blindly switching tor circuits would end up having to jump through the evil fees hoops in order to farm up spam accounts as NLC is doing?

Edit: Or is it possible to create multiple accounts from a single, proxied IP, and then connect to them via a non-clean but unbanned IP?

I tested account creation over tor a while ago, for me at least the exit nodes I ended up going through seemed to have all been flagged by the forum already. Same for the most obvious proxies, which makes sense. Does anyone have experience here - is it simply a matter of trying a little harder or would someone creating multiple accounts day in, day out, from different IPs need to be have better resources than tor and googled lists of proxies?

Right, so it seems it's a new, clean IP every time.

I'm curious - how would one accomplish that? Are there ways for any old dweeb to access tons of IPs, aside from the usual public proxies and VPNs or tor? The solutions I can come up with all seem a bit hardcore for just trolling a forum.

So how have you not been IP banned yet?

I know IP bans don't help against proxies, and may result in banning users who've done no harm, but I was wondering if they're used here at all?

We've got a particularly industrious troll, NotLambChop, creating several alts a day to spam repetitive junk in the speculation forum. Their latest post claims they create new accounts in 15 seconds. This suggests they're not using TOR or any widely used  proxies, since those seem to require quite a bit of effort (and a bit of payment) to use here.

So is it just that IP bans aren't used? Or does this spammer have access to a pool of "clean" IPs?

You'd think so, right? Alternatively, this is someone with sufficient motivation to automate all that. Not sure which is crazier, though.

Pretty new forum, as in there's a single post, by the OP.

If you want to advertise your forum, trying to be sneaky about it is just lame.

Roughly, you should hoard as many coins as you can, and you need to sell all of them. You should do both immediately.

I don't see how. You can't just declare sovereignty in international waters any more, so a seastead would just be a more inconvenient version of a private compound. Break any serious laws, and the cops are going to come get you. If you don't intend to break any laws, why bother in the first place?

It sure is good all these devilish conspiracies have catchy, google-friendly names these days! Is there a calendar with the dates for these all put together?

OpenAssets they might easily clone. Cloning a chain is different, though, since the whole point of a blockchain is to enable potentially adversarial parties to rely on a shared ledger without trusting each other not to falsify the ledger. A fully proprietary chain, secured by a single party, would not be any better than a regular database. Either they'd have to get significant adoption for their own blockchain, or use one that is already secured by parties without a stake in whatever NASDAQ wants to do.

speaking of walls, the stairway on bitfinex's bid side has been a permanent fixture throughout this upward movement of late. Accumulating? Trying to shore up support? Some kind of arbitrageur?

Please educate me - what am I looking at?

On a zero fee exchange, the only limits to how much volume you can put out by selling to yourself are set by the connection rate...

Edit: I can't find that kind of volume on bitcoincharts.com, though. Is that traded volume or blockchain transactions?

Are you sure a virgin sacrifice isn't better? I mean, the maiden is either in the volcano or she isn't - there's no guesswork, unlike with your ritual.

Have you considered cogent arguments instead of repetitive put-downs  and your trademark image macros?