I still have a Facebook account, but rarely use it for different reasons. Years ago, I was becoming "friends" with many old high school classmates. Since I was the class nerd and outcast, I really had shared nothing in common with them in high school, and I certainly didn't share anything in common with them years later. for me, Facebook really has a way of making you hate former acquaintances.  

There are quite a few account brokers that are now willing to sell a private key to a staked address along with the e-mail account. Although the previous owner could attempt to get the account back by retaining the staking private keys, once a dispute ensued with two people able to stake the same address, the disputed account will be next to worthless.

If you read one line down, they state that the "bug" enabled people to withdraw double. So either they are lying and this is an exit scam, or the bug was exploited to such an extent, that they are now busted. I vote exit scam since their last communication was on April 29th on discord and it appears they have blocked all forms of communication to them. We may have to wait quite sometime for BanzaiBTC to respond to us. He hasn't logged on for a month and half.

    The US has an embargo against Venezuela, so I wouldn't be able to go into such a venture. Unless I was planning on not returning to the US until the embargo is lifted. Plus, I'm not certain that I would want to live for a moment under a corrupt socialist government. I know scoring that cheap corn is enticing, but there are limits. 

I checked the web page. They need to update their statistics. It appears that they are using figures for the S9, which uses 100 J/TH. The S15 uses 57J/TH and the S17 uses 56 J/TH. So it appears the costs need to be adjusted down by almost half. Still expensive to mine a BTC in most places though. From what I can tell, it also does not factor in additional costs, like cooling costs and depreciation of mining equipment.

Am I being heavy handed by giving out a neutral rating and posting in the NastyFans thread to give them a warning?

I don't know, as a member of the LGBTQ community, I have much difficulty understanding the "T" part. I can only offer my experience. I pretty much knew my sexual preference by age 11. But at age 6??? I don't recall having the foggiest notion. I do recall that I was an effeminate child. However, if my parents had misconstrued it and went through these drastic measures to reassign my gender, I would have despised them for it. However, that is just my case.
From what I read so far in this case, it appears the child may be "gender expansive." Whatever that means. I'm not certain taking steps to force the child to be a "girl" is the called for action here.

Hmm, maybe those parents can use that as a defense when they basically bought their children the right to get into a particular college. Clearly their children didn't deserve it otherwise.  


I think the more appropriate word to describe the amount of legitimate reasons is "few" not "plenty'"


"An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Also with the new trust system implemented, Theymos has rightfully made the preventative measures less punitive and the provable offenses more punitive. It truly is an "ounce" when our intention is to only warn, and a "pound" when damage has already been done.


I really don't think bob123's actions warrants a red flag. It is very heavy handed. Unless we want to convey to the community that when is comes to account sales, "snitches get stiches." Perhaps exclusion from DT by his peers.

Everyone knows that analogies are never a perfect fit. However, account sales are somewhat equivalent to selling identity documents. Granted, someone buying an account on Bitcointalk is not going to allow them to get much of value in the meat world. However, in our forum, it gives them the opportunity to participate in signature campaigns that they would otherwise be excluded from, not to mention other benefits the established account history may bring.

No, they need to keep the exact product a secret or it loses it's value to sport a reputation and credentials that were not properly earned by the buyer. Whether that be a rank, post history, merit history, or trust ratings. Most people buy them so that they can get into a signature campaign that they would otherwise not qualify for. There is the potential someone could use the bought account to do a whole lot worse. Can you imagine the damage that could be done if either you or I sold our account in secret?

Edit: Since it appears everyone wants to use analogies, let me use this one. Suppose it came to my attention that a particular individual was selling birth certificates and social security cards. This individual acquired them from the rightful owner's, willingly, by purchasing it from them. I decide to take it upon myself to pose as an illegal alien and pretend that I am interested in buying one of these documents. I request that the individual let me see one of the documents and I memorize some of the details. I then make some kind of excuse to back out of the deal and then promptly report what I know to everyone that I can think of as well as the authorities. By this act, I have not only destroyed the value of the product in question, but I have likely destroyed the person's entire enterprise as well. Would that make me a "scammer?" I think not.

You analogy is flawed. There is no evidence that bob123 is a rival account seller. Therefore, he had absolutely nothing to financial gain from eliminating competition. Second, regarding the other situation that you elude to, I have not supported or opposed that particular flag. However, I do believe that particular user's posts fall rather close to threats of violence against a particular ethnicity. It goes farther than mere "naughty words." However, it appears it falls just under what is considered an offense worthy of a ban.
Also, bob123's act is not equivalent to burning the particular product. All he did was reveal which products are for sale. It's rather dubious that we have market where it is detrimental to reveal that the product is for sale. Most legitimate businesses would welcome someone informing others exactly which products they have for sale. I'm sure that you don't mind if i post the links to these threads:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5127280
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5120800

Then reveal to everyone that you are selling gold coins and your sole.

Vod,
   It appears that the tally given for neutral ratings is transposed with the tally for negative ratings.

   Recently, it has come to light, that the nonnakip account was recently offered for sale.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157334.0
I just want to make NastyFans aware, so there is no confusion. If the sale is authorized, I think the community should be made aware. If it was not authorized, I am hoping someone can reach out to nonnakip to take proper actions. It appears that the password was changed, recently, so either nonnakip took the proper steps to ensure his account is secure or someone actually purchased the account.
(Please note, there is no evidence that the account seller actually had access to nonakip's account. So it could have been a fib on the account seller's part.)

Sure there is a way that someone can know this. Simply go to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;full;dt and find out who your name is under.  Also, LoyceV publishes information about people's trust lists, weekly. http://loyce.club/trust/ It appear's Direwolf added you recently because your name is not on his list in Loyce's latest data, which was last updated on 06/22/2019.

bob123 is included on DirewolfM14's trust list, making bob123 DT2.

Too many exchanges have gotten "hacked" or have done exit scam. Plus, there is nothing stopping hackers from trying to access your account through social engineering and making away with your bitcoin. 2FA is nice. But not if a hacker can convince the support team to reset it. Furthermore, an exchange can determine they do not care for your activity and put you through a bunch of KYC/AML red tape to get access to your funds.

Do any of these confirmed sources come in the form of cute pets? The two guinea pigs that I have are doing a shit job giving me inside pointers on the BTC market or advice on other matters.

Try me. Serenade my inner bear.  

Please do sing it for us.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TuFy0fcuw

You may want to invest in a hardware wallet such as Trezor or Nano. (Don't buy from a second hand vendor.) Even if your system is infected with malware, there are safeguards in place in both wallets to ensure it doesn't change a transaction and send without you having to manually confirm.

Since you control one of the outputs, you may be able to do a Child Pays for Parent transaction. You simply spend the unconfirmed output in your wallet to yourself and include a higher fee that will cover both the old transactions and the new transaction. I'd estimate the fee should be set to at least 100k sats, to get your payment confirmed quickly.