Did anybody ever find the owner of Trade Satoshi, Francesco Alibrandi?

https://abn-lookup.com.au/abn/49137331673-alibrandi-francesco
https://www.facebook.com/FrancescoAlibrandiTradesatoshi

Surely he can't just continue on a professional career in crypto after running what was a pretty major exit scam at the time.

I'm thinking this account was him all along:


fratoshi... could be Francesco (aka Fran, Frances or Frank) Satoshi or even Francesco Alibrandi Satoshi.

This idiot might still be hounding me today, and that would explain why. Not only did I help identify his exchange as a scam but then I got his Bitcointalk account banned as a cherry on the top.

His first post was an ANN for a coin called FRATOSHI... He later renamed it TRADOSHI... which sounds an awful lot like Trade Satoshi if you ask me. Not many similarities in between the two websites, except for they both employ Domains By Proxy. The domains were registered 59 days apart, not sure that necessarily means anything.

https://whois.domaintools.com/tradoshi.com
https://whois.domaintools.com/tradesatoshi.com

This account tweets a lot about ColossusXT and Bitcoin Private, which were listed on TradeSatoshi for years:

https://twitter.com/fratoshi

There used to be more information about the Tradoshi coin but all the old links are dead.

Oh great, you're one of those people? For some reason I thought you were Australian.

So you honestly believe Trump fired this Tweet out "off the cuff"?




The same reason any type of fanatic hates people for telling the truth: truth often goes against their beliefs and principles.


Now you're just straw-manning us here. But if you must know Bitcoin is valued in US dollars because that is the de facto world standard for fiat currency. The USD is worst currency ever tried, sans all the others.

You are clearly painting a false narrative here. Let's rewrite the thread title with the important part capitalized:

"Joe Biden wants to double YOUR taxes on bitcoin gains!"

No, I can assure you he doesn't. Ergo your narrative is false.


What a smart, mature explanation, highly indicative of personal responsibility. No wonder you're a forum treasurer.

Do you think Bitcoin is only used by millionaires?

Meh. However smart this guy may be, he's a hardcore Trump fan. He's part of a select crowd that desperately wants Biden to hate Bitcoin so his previously established viewpoint can be validated.



Meanwhile Biden hasn't actually said peep about Bitcoin, ever, and hey that's about as good as its gonna get as far as U.S. Presidents are concerned. Contrary to what Trump specifically said about Bitcoin, does anybody remember that?



To the tin-foil hat-wearing conspiracists among up: Why did Trump cave to the Reptilians demand that he publicly denounce Bitcoin, but Biden hasn't? Is Biden some kind of bad-ass or is was Trump a wuss?

It's good to have this kind of insight as additional input. I was on board with the idea of tagging them all until I read this, as you bring up some fair points. The main problem is more often than not people engaging in this trade are scammers, and their presence contributes no value whatsoever. This type of exchange service is 98% shady and should probably take place elsewhere.

Most of these scams are taking place on Telegram, and sometimes people get scammed without even creating a Bitcointalk account. They just see a Telegram handle, DM them and send money, apparently. There is no help for these people. I assume anybody who engages in this trade is a scammer as a rule of thumb, but agree that pre-emptively tagging them on this basis wouldn't be fair.

Being targeted by the military isn't good enough for you? 

Which military, if you don't mind my asking?

For my 10,000th post I started a thread encapsuling my 10 favorite Bitcointalk moments... Due to time constraints I've only done 3 so far, but one of them was my first post on the WO... If you're utterly disinterested just keep swiping:


Then days later theymos popped in to say the lowest BTC could go was ~$700, and that shit hit hard. Thankfully we came nowhere near that.

That's good... in the future I recommend not using them of course. Keep reading about problem after problem with Freewallet. Requiring ID for a wallet service is ridiculous. It's like every time you wanted to reach into your physical wallet to buy a soda or something, you had to send your personal documents to a bunch of strangers.

The account isn't "yours" in more ways than one. Technically, all accounts belong to theymos who can snuff anybody out on a whim, and they won't have any legal recourse, just as you don't now.

I just asked you the question because it looks like you weren't in control of the account you are currently typing from until very recently.


Probably should have done this back when you had control of the account.

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The real takeaway from all this is that Cryptios weighs ownership of email address as much as staked address when determining whether or not to award somebody control of an account. Which is not unreasonable IMHO.

It appears you just got scammed by Vareole as he's admitted ownership of the address you just sent BTC to.

Can you sign a message from this address:

bc1qrpdg679yjswl8v4zn05gswrwd80r9q2cgp9ghq

That would prove that you are the owner of the address and indeed sent funds to a known scammer.

It appears Vareole (possibly elmanchez) made somewhere around $3k-$5k in scams since he registered this Binance account.

You can report the scam to Binance if you want since they now hold your scammed funds.

Buddy, you just bumped a 2 year old thread with a link to malware in it. The website it directs to has been removed but at the time somebody was capitalizing on ownership of a URL similar to the actual S4FE website. If you would have read the thread, you'd see that the accusation has nothing to do with the actual project itself.

I didn't know what level of FUD this was when I first saw it... it was floated across a Facebook cryptocurrency group I'm in, so I knew it must have been pretty mainstream by that point. Turns out it was deep, deep FUD.

Tweet was removed BTW. I went to check it out to see how much truth there was behind it, and its gone. Maybe that's all it was: FUD.

Yeah I mean that pretty much sums it up. "Police station" might be a bit strong, but...

Consider your proposition. You're asking:

- for $28,000 in BTC
- without collateral
- while anonymous, and
- without a reputation.

You've offered an unrealistic return of $56-$68k - basically 100-120% of the initial loan over "1-2 weeks" - in hopes exceptionally stupid/greedy people with that kind of BTC to spare will take you up on your offer.

Problem is we've seen it a thousand times before. Congrats, you are time #1001. Make an NFT of your post to commemorate it and sell it on OpenSea for $28k. Then you won't need a loan anymore.

They've been popping up in the weirdest places. So far I've seen bitcoin ATMs in an organic health food store, inside a surf shop and then also a tattoo parlor. We went from having none to several in the course of a year. I notice that most such ATMs around here are made by CoinCloud and serviced by BitAccess... They seem to be the Ford Motors of bitcoin ATMs.

Did you recover the skyline247 account recently? It seems like it belonged to an absolute shitposter from 2017-2020. It's really weird that the shitposter also controlled the Razick account. Your story doesn't make a whole lot of sense given that it appears your account was also recently recovered.

It would take me over 7 years to realize it, but I actually hit my crypto stride in August 2014, creating in that month some tokens that would go on to become prototypes of modern-day NFTs. Only a couple of them (such as SHITCOIN and MILLERLIGHT) had images associated with them at the time, and they were fungible, but they were "picture tokens" that served no particular purpose other than to be blockchain-backed collector's items. I encountered a good deal of success in Nov 2021 when Dogeparty was relaunched, right toward the end of the last great bull market and the middle of the Historical NFT Renaissance, as my tokens were highly sought-after by collectors (it actually took me a moment to understand why people wanted them).

Probably the most innovative thing I did in Aug 2014 was attempt to launch a decentralized Super Bowl wagering system using the Counterparty platform, which is a tokenization protocol for Bitcoin. Basically I registered all the NFL team names as tokens which were valued according to that team's odds of winning the Super Bowl that year. If you purchased a token and the team won, you'd be able to redeem that token for a share of a grand prize pool. Meanwhile, tokens could freely be traded on the Counterparty DEX to match shifting odds throughout the course of the season.

There were two problems that prevented the project from taking off: 1) bettors were still reliant on me to distribute the prize money, and 2) the crossover between Counterparty users and football fans was especially slim. It still is! But I will probably attempt to launch a form of the game later this year anyway.

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This was my most merited thread which probably almost everyone already knows about, at least if you've been around for the last 2 years or so. What precedes this event that I never mentioned is that I had grown increasingly suspicious that three members of the ChipMixer campaign were indeed alt accounts but had no way to concretely prove it. I stumbled upon a recently-woken account that happened to share a wallet with all three of the members, which led to the identification of several more account. Did this user ever come back to the forum? I've always wondered, but they are likely more cautious and less revealing of themselves now.

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I just wanted to end on, well not exactly a positive note, but it is something nice that I wanted to do for who was my first actual "friend" on the Bitcointalk forum, in the final days before his death. I've since interacted with at least a few others outside of the forum, and a couple IRL, but Bruno was the first, and an extraordinary individual in terms of his passion and intensity for whatever it was he put his mind to. I learned a lot from him about a lot of different subjects, and he encouraged me to take on new challenges.

Seriously, in my 9 years here, there's been nobody that comes close to matching his wit, humor and level of output (at one point 2 of his accounts were in the top 10 of all-time posts). At the same time, he was fearless and breathed furious hellfire on anybody he deemed a foe, often verbally incinerating scammers and scumbags right where they stood.

When he let me know in late 2019 that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer, it was a real bummer. He seemed to be holding it together fairly well, but then things took a turn for the worse in March 2020 and it became apparent he likely didn't have much longer. The length of our conversations dwindled, then he got to a point where he could no longer speak or type. I kept chatting with him on Telegram anyway, sent him pictures to try to cheer him up. I knew he could see them because of the little checkmark that appears after a read message, but he couldn't respond.

After his famous plea for donations thread, I knew he didn't have much time left. So I put together this long-ass thread that was basically a tribute to him and all his accomplishments. And I knew he read it because he reposted it in the thread, without adding any context. He died 5 days later.

So anyway, not a fun moment, but probably one of the most valuable experiences I've had here, giving someone  acknowledgement for all they've done (which really was a lot) in their final days. It's also a reminder that life is short, uncertain, and we should make the most of what we have while we still have it.

Here's a concised version of the thread:

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And that wraps it up! Its been an interesting last 9 years.

As of Apr 25, 2023:
Glad I did other things than just post here, but also glad I posted here throughout the years as well. A lot of history to look back on.

Early in my forum career I was something of a troll myself (insert Willem Dafoe Spiderman meme here) and I used to harangue the Monero crowd for their relentless, highly-coordinated shilling of XMR... I mean, it was really out of control. Like 10+ threads a day on Monero in Altcoin Discussion. Now I appreciate Monero's merits as a cryptocurrency -- its certainly come a long way over the years.

At one point I got into a fantastic bet with one of the lead Monero shillers, who actually seemed to be quite a nice guy in retrospect, saddambitcoin. I was quite convinced that Monero didn't have a future, which led to the following course of events:


The price of XMR waffled sideways for a while but before the end of the year, this happened:


* this was a typo, and XMR did briefly drop below 0.001 BTC. So what happened is he REALLY DID SEND ME A PICTURE OF HIM PEEING ON HIS HEAD! Or so I think, because I got a PM from him with an image link in it but I didn't look at it because believe it or not I'm really not into that kind of thing. But being the dick that I am was, I posted the link to the thread!    


Shortly thereafter I was sent a PM by a concerned Monero lover and offered 5 XMR to remove the post. So I simply removed the post without taking the XMR. I continued to troll Monero up until about 2017 when I lost interest altogether. Like I said earlier, however, I now have respect for it, and for saddambitcoin as well. So much so that I left him a retroactive positive trust over the occasion.

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In this WO post I tell a story about two douchebags involved in one of the world's biggest crypto scams, will let the story speak for itself. Not really a "forum moment" per se but a good story to tell on the forum.

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As the title suggests, this was a long-running poll to determine Bitcointalk's greatest troll of all-time! It was a lot of fun, at the height of cryptohunter's epic meltdown that resulted in him starting at least 6 alt accounts with which he would pen furious tirades against me, the DT system, and a few other forum members. He was unsurprisingly the winner! Followed by roach and game-protect. And how we all miss all of them.  


Winners of the poll (plus who I voted for in bold):

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Arguably my "most popular" thread of all-time, this was one of the most comprehensive collections of evidence that outlined the fraudulency behind Bitcoin SV & Craig Wright at the time. The thread became an epic saga filled with trolls & villains. Ultimately it earned me a bunch of merits, some death threats, and the attention of Calvin Ayre who has personally tried to fuck with me over the years (I learned this tidbit from a former BSV developer who since exited the Cult of Faketoshi).

And it didn't earn me anything more than that. So I don't care anymore; the battle has already been won if you ask me. If you invest in BSV now after all that's happened - after the hundred additional ways in which Craig has been proven a lying fraud since then - there's something seriously wrong with your brain, that's all I have to say.

We're 10,000 posts in, a moment I've actually be dreading for some time, because it puts me in a special category of giant forum nerd... among the top 1% of biggest nerds to ever spend 7 years on the forum. Yes, that's right. My 7th forum anniversary is April 20th: less than 2 days time. So smoke em if you got em, and let's get this party started by introducing some of my favorite moments on Bitcointalk.



Note these posts aren't in any particular order, but they do encapsulate moments that were pivotal, humorous or otherwise.



A NXT (first coin to offer a DEX) developer by the name of Josh Z. and forum name bluemeanie1 was paid 1 million NXT (with the price being $0.04 - $0.05 at the time) to develop the blockchain's first Decentralized Autonomous Corporation (DAC), which would have been the fore-runner to the first DAO. Admittedly it seemed like a herculean task both then and now, but instead of refunding the money or hiring help, bluemeanie1 just kept the funds and started accusing NXT of being run by criminals.

He then apparently had a mental breakdown from the strain of not being able to deliver and started thrashing NXT under another account Moneroman88. He went so far as to start harassing a NXT community member at work by contacting their employers, trying to get them fired. Then he slipped up in a PM, sending a threatening message using the wrong account:



Bluemeanie's "auto-DAC" never came to fruition but you can still buy shares of the project if you want on the NXT AE... Never kept up on what happened to this guy, don't care, hope he's better by now.



To me this was a hilarious idea at the time, though I quickly found out that even by August 2014, there had already been 2 other coins named "Shitcoin". The name really reflects my level of maturity at the time, as it does now. Shitcoin 3.0 was off to a great start but the Dogeparty servers went down within a year. I still hold a grudge against Adam Levine of "Let's Talk Bitcoin" for promoting it.





It was a cold November night and BTC was tanking thanks to the fallout from the Bcash Civil War, crashing into the $3,000s. I was wondering how much lower could this thing go and decided to poke my head into the WO to see if I could gather any intelligence. Instead what I found was a good-humored band of chaps making the most of the situation. Nobody was panicking or losing their shit, and that was reassuring. Their long-term outlook seemed wisened, but they were also wise-guys as well.



TBC...

Primecoin, the coin that did something. I miss it too.

Oh shit. This is my 10000th 9999th post.

I was planning to unveil some master conspiracy involving treachery and high treason in Bitcoin for my 10000th post, but nah. After all, my 5000th post was the formal Scam Accusation against BSV. Alas, I'm busy AF in the real world, trying not to get sucked into entropy's hyperspeed.

Glad things are on schedule for WO domination of the world. Here's to all the dildo lovers, big and small.

Have you tried banging your head against the wall? Maybe that works.