Oh well... merits weren't an issue for me as well I obtained them in less than a year (357 days, precisely). But yes, the wait for obtaining the activity is huge. It passed 1 year from my first merit and I have to wait at least 1 more year from now on (for reaching 775 activity) and a maximum of 1 year and 8 months (for reaching the 1030 activity, if I'll have that bad luck to rank up at the maximum required activity). Patience is a virtue though...

Yes, this is a bit curious... maybe BPIP's time wasn't synched with forum's time... Otherwise I can't see how the website could parse my post at 7.21 AM if the post was created at 8.16 AM (unless Foxpup inserted some time travelling software in the site's code back then ). Anyway, now I understood the difference between the Security/Moderator Log and Meta Log. Thank you for the thorough explanation.

Thank you for your offer. Please check your inbox I just PMed you. Looking forward to make the deal.

My saga inside this topic started on November 29th, 2019, when Coin-1 announced I was promoted to Full Member. It happened after 1 month since I earned my first merit (on October 25th, 2019):


I found about the existence of the topic a bit later, but when I found it I made a promise. And Coin-1 was there to encourage me!


In January 2020 cryptoaddictchie gave me a challenge, which motivated me a lot:


In February this year I had already enough merits for being Sr. Member, but not enough activity. Coin-1 mentioned me again and I also told him that I'll keep my promise. And he remembered


I achieved the 250 merits for being Sr. Member in 109 days:


Less than 2 months later, in April, I was promoted to Sr. Member and I had already 500 merits necessary for Hero, which I earned while being still a Full Member. Coin-1 mentioned this achievement as well:


In June 2020 cryptoaddictchie correctly anticipated the inevitable :


And I replied to him that I'm still on-track with the challenge:


At the last update, from October 2020, Coin-1 announced this great milestone I reached in less than a year:


So I championed this account as I said! I kept my promise. Of course, I won't stop here, as at the moment I am just a Sr. Member and in order to finally become Legendary I still need between 1 year and 1 year and 8 months of activity. But the merits for this position are achieved, with two ranks ahead.

Thank you cryptoaddictchie for the challenge from January! It motivated me a lot.

Thank you Coin-1 for keeping this log up to date. It's a great motivation for any user to see his name here. Maybe it motivates each one to keep improving more and more and to see his name here again. To be honest, I can't wait to see my name here for the next time, when I'll officialy become a Hero. It will happen in January 2021.


I also want to take this occasion and congratulate nakamura12 for his recent rank up. He is the second person from the entire forum which gave me a merit. And I won't forget that! Keep the good contribution, nakamura, and you will keep ranking up in no time! Congrats!

This is a small preview, containing only the first page of the white paper. I counted 20 mistakes, including one for author's very own name. When someone doesn't care even to write his name correctly, what can you ask from him?!

The below image contains 3 pictures: (1) on the left picture you can see how I corrected the first page of the translated white paper; (2) the picture from the center contains the current state of the first page of the Romanian translation; (3) on the picture from the left you can see the first page of the original white paper. I added the lattest for showing also the alignment error, the missing page number, the missing spaces between paragraphs, the missing double space between sentences and so on.

I'll continue with correcting the actual translation until I'll finish it then come back with other similar screenshots. The image below is not truncated with height=400 for better visibility of minor details and of the text written by me with smaller font.

Me says yes! Thank you for the suggestion, nullius and also bitmover. I'll start working first on presenting a corrected version of the actual translation and I'll post it here afterwards, together with the existing one, in order for everybody to see the tons of errors. Afterwards I'll try also to create a personal translation of the text.


I was not aware of this, thanks for pointing it out.


Thanks for confirming what I stated in OP, NeuroticFish. It was needed indeed that at least one reputable Romanian member to confirm the catastrophic errors mentioned in OP. Not just the ones from the translations, but also all the others ones (as the one regarding the ridiculous article about Ethereum network being "hacked", where you intervened at that time for stating what actually happened, which was not by far what GDB stated in the article). I gave all those examples for every reader to understand clear that this translator didn't just make a mistake in translating the white paper but she has a long history of monumental examples of stupidity, proving she does not understand at all what she is writing about and also that she is a pathetic illiterate.

I just spotted another inconsistency on the website, regarding users which woke up after being offline for a while, such as I am. When you search for such profile on the site, the date of waking up is stated twice on the profile page, but with different values (at the Security/Moderator Log and Meta Log sections).



In this case, you can see in the upper part of the picture, at Security/Moderator Log, that the profile woke up on October 17th, 2019 at 8.19 AM. In the lower part of the picture, at Meta Log, the wake up date is October 18th, 2019, at 7.21 AM.

Is this normal?

I am not sure I understand what you're doing here. Haven't you already blacklisted this campaign?


Or were you so kind to offer Brainboss and to the campaign itself another chance... Could it be? Such a good heart you must have. So touching...

I don't know how to do it. That's why I asked in OP:


I did not see any option to contact the website...


It's not only about the translation per se. It's also about spelling. Simple Romanian words are written wrong. Its like id spel like zis, you get watta i say? The text looks like it was written by an underclassman.

I will also do that, bitmover, thank you for your suggestion. But it's going to be a post as long as the entire white paper itself...

And yes, there is also a problem with her reputation: if she and Nea Sandu are hand in hand with Cyrus, maybe he convinced Cøbra to accept their translation instead of others. This is a matter of ego here: to be able to say "hey, my name nym is written on Bitcoin.org website! That is my nym there, not other's!". You see now the relevance?

The problem is that nobody dares to speak about their relation with Cyrus as he is here theymos' right hand. Oh well, I'm not scared. And I dared to expose this relation once, in that topic where I reported all their shillings, and now for the second time. I, as a Romanian, am ashamed to admit this, but in Romania everything works based on relations, nepotisms, knowing someone in a great position, bribe and so on. This is how this country works and this is how most Romanians think and act in their daily lives. Cyrus allowed the clowns to make easy SEO for their website using the forum and he may also have helped them with having that illiterate translation on Bitcoin's main website. As I said, the latter may be a speculation, but seeing how much he protects them on the forum this is something expectable. He could use his influence of being theymos' right hand on Cøbra to accept that translation. Cøbra couldn't know what's written inside it and he could accept it only for being asked by Cyrus.

And even if that didn't happen, 2 things are certain:
- the two clowns are protected by the Global Administrator of the forum
- the translation made by the clowns is exposed to worldwide access and it is a shame for Bitcoin itself.

Reserved.

I recently found out the unthinkable.

When you access this link: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper, you will end up on a page where you can find the translation of the Bitcoin white paper in various languages. I was curious about the Romanian translation (which can be found here: https://bitcoin.org/files/bitcoin-paper/bitcoin_ro.pdf), as I didn't know until recently that it was created. But since I entered on that page I was shocked from the beginning after seeing the Romanian translator's name.


That name - IkeGDB - did not sound well for being the translator; I hoped it was a mistake or someone else. Unfortunately, it wasn't someone else but the one I thought: an illiterate, an underclassman. A clown. A clown managed to ridicule the Romanian translation of Satoshi's wall paper, which is a sort of a Bible in crypto space.

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Allow me to explain.

That guy - IkeGDB - is the owner of goanadupabitcoin.ro, a pathetic Romanian crypto news website. The site is pathetic as Ike hired a girl in the past, which was parallel with Bitcoin and with her own language. She was supposed to write articles but she was illiterate, even more illiterate than hacker or andulolika, which are sort of monuments for being unable to write correctly "a-ha". Excepting this aspect, that girl had zero knowledge about Bitcoin technology. OK, she knew some English, thus being able to translate in Romanian articles posted by international websites in order to pretend she created them (/s) but she barely knew Romanian. And the technology was a big question mark for her. Apparently, she doesn't work at goanadupabitcoin.ro for a while, but that's irrelevant. These two guys - Ike and the girl (I won't say their true names here, as the topic isn't about doxing (although their names can be found on the Internet); instead, I'll use their true nyms) created 2 accounts on BitcoinTalk: Nea Sandu (used by Ike) and goanadupabitcoin (used by the editorialist shit poster girl.

By the time when they started their pathetic translations-based crypto news website, they decided to post their articles in as much media as possible, in order to get to be known. As a consequence, they started to spam on various Facebook Romanian crypto groups, on Twitter, Telegram, YouTube, Google+, [...] and also BitcoinTalk, hoping that the great indexing of the forum would help them with SEO as well.

An example of that girl's zero clue about Bitcoin can be seen in an article from 2015 which, unfortunately, seems to be deleted from their website. Among other ridiculous things, she wrote there that Satoshi mined 900M BTC. Being very proud of her "work", she shilled quickly that article on the forum:


Meaning "what's your opinion about the fact that Satoshi never revealed his identity?" - plus the link to the article containing the monumental mistake. Another Romanian member started to laugh at her:


"I appreciate the work you're doing, translating articles and trying to inform people interested about crypto.

But if you entered this world I suggest you to learn the basics of Bitcoin, at least the basics of the basics. You should have known there will be only 21M BTC, from which 14M are already mined... so the "900M owned by Satoshi represent a mistake (ineptitude) which ruins your work and gets you trolled by the community"

Her attempt to cover the catastrophic article was even more stupid:


"I don't know if I should be happy for knowing we have readers for our articles or to feel ashamed for slipping this mistake. Down below is clearly explained [blabla]
Let's say I was testing your attention?"

Yeah, right. Testing the attention of the readers.

The girl didn't stop there. Each of her articles was a bunch of shit posts, translated by someone which had no understanding for the technology, reason for which all the articles looked ridiculous. This is another example: she was trying to talk about the DAO, but she wrote that Ethereum was hacked:


Meaning "Ethereum is in a very BAD situation. Unfortunately, the network was hacked. Be very careful if you own ether and help the network with spam attacks. For the moment nobody knows what's happening, but the problem is addressed. The attack lasts for a few hours already".

Fortunately, NeuroticFish and others were there to correct this other idiocy:


Meaning "DAO was hacked actually".


Meaning "No Ethereum network was hacked. The vulnerability [...] was in the DAO.


"I'm curious how Ethereum can be "hacked" "

Here, she announced a new section on the website, related to technical analysis. A member asked her what's her technical background:


Actually, that was no ordinary member. That was the owner of CoinFlux exchange (currently arrested in US). Frankly she admitted she is incompetent:


Meaning "I have no knowledge in technical analysis". All good.

Day by day, more and more people could see the incompetence of this clown.

Unfortunately, I cant find a post at the moment, post which was the proof for Nea Sandu being the owner of GoanaDupaBitcoin. It was a post in the Romanian board where a user stated something like "Sandu, I know you since you started with GoanaDupaBitcoin [...]". However, his connection with GoanaDupaBitcoin is clear for anyone, be it Romanian or foreigner (just looking at his posts).

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So this guy - Ike aka Nea Sandu - and the illiterate girl using goanadupabitcoin account started spamming the forum, shilling their website more and more. Their topics history remembers me very well the way that CoinIdol News used to post:


Fortunately, CoinIdol News was banned. Nea Sandu and goanadupabitcoin weren't banned. They didn't even have their posts deleted, as they are acquaintances of Cyrus. Maybe they are even friends, I don't know. But from various posts made by goanadupabitcoin such relation of being acquaintances is suggested. Examples:


"I was talking recently with Ike and with Cyrus, we are planning something big and we'd like to be known as much as Bitcoin is."

Here, the discussion was about a meet-up she couldn't attend, but she asked Cyrus to take pictures and detail her what was discussed at the meet-up:


Indeed, the above examples are not hard proof that GDB and Cyrus are friends, but they are enough proof for being at least acquaintances. I for one wouldn't dare to disturb the Global Administrator of the forum with such requests unless I'd be somehow close to him. It's about decency after all, you can't ask a stranger to update you with what he talked about, to send you pictures. Besides, in the first example she is talking about big plans with Ike (Nea Sandu) and Cyrus. I think it's an obvious relation. It's obvious that it exists.

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These two users got an incredible power from their relation with Cyrus and this may (or may not) be also an explanation for the fact that they managed to post a ridiculous translation on bitcoin.org and having it still kept there.

In April this year I reported all the shillings made by Nea Sandu and goanadupabitcoin. All of them were left unhandled.


I even started a topic asking why these reports are not handled.

After a while I realized the obvious: these users had too much power for any mod to touch the reported posts. First of all, the posts were made in the Romanian board, which should be moderated by Cyrus, so he is the first one which decided to not handle the reports. Second of all, I'm guessing that if any mod would have seen the unhandled reports from the Romanian board, he could be scared to "not mess with Cyrus" and, as a consequence, no mod handled the reports as well. So, for having this relation with Cyrus, their shillings were never deleted, although the posts look exactly like the ones made by CoinIdol News.

As it can be seen from the mentioned topic, Cyrus never had the guts to enter the conversation. After all, what could he say? Could he say "yes, these guys are my protégées and nobody touches their posts"? Of course he couldn't say that. Could he say instead that there is no nepotist relation here? Of course he couldn't as the truth is obvious. So he chose to not say anything. Oh, in case somebody doesn't know, Cyrus is also Romanian, this being another good basis for having a relation with the two Romanian clowns.

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All the above information was necessary for understanding better who translated Satoshi's white paper: two illiterate, incompetent clowns, protected by Cyrus.

Getting back to the translated wall paper now: in July 2015, the girl from GDB performed a stupid translation of the white paper. Happy, she announced the ridiculous translation on the forum:


"I am back with an article which looks very interesting for us. I have to admit it was a pleasure to translate Satoshi's writing. I always liked his coherence which, as far as I understood from other coders, is reflected in the code he wrote.

[...]

We fully translated Satoshi's text, as it appeared in 2008 [...]"

The above link is not functional anymore, the article being moved here: https://goanadupabitcoin.ro/de-stiut/pentru-prima-data-in-limba-romana-moneda-bitcoin-explicata-de-satoshi-nakamoto/.

For those which don't know Romanian, the translation may seem to be OK, but it isn't OK at all. It is a ridiculous translation, performed by someone which has zero understanding about Bitcoin technology, by someone which doesn't even know to correctly write in his / her own language; it is a masterpiece of illiteration. A magnum opus of incompetence.

Any Romanian, which knows his language grammar, can confirm that the translation is full of grammar mistakes, typos, spelling errors, looking like the author used the feet instead of brain for performing the translation. I won't go with more examples here as the topic is long enough. However, anyone not knowing Romanian can still see the lack of professionalism of the translator at least looking at one aspect: the alignment of the text, which is in part justified and in part centered. There is no excuse for that.

The following is a comparison of white paper's chapter 8 in its original form and in the translated form. You can easy notice that while in the original form the text's alignment is justified, in the translated form the first pharagraph's alignment is set to centered. Besides, the translation also doesn't respect the space placed in front of the first letter of the paragraph according to the original writing.

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As long as this translation was placed on the pathetic GDB website there wouldn't be any problem. The translation is a shame for the Bitcoin Bible, indeed, but at least it was kept on an obscure Romanian website.

But now the problem got worse, as this ridiculous translation is present also on bitcoin.org website and anyone reading it will start to laugh seeing the zero quality of the text. The shame reflects at worst on the translator, but afterwards it reflects also on Bitcoin, Satoshi's original writing, Bitcoin.org and on all Romanians as a nation. And that's because any reader would think "who the hell is the imbecile who made this incompetent translation? Oh, look, a Romanian! And who is the idiot which accepted it and posted it here, on Bitcoin.org?! Who runs this site? Isn't anyone there to verify the quality of a translation? Who can approve such a shameful writing?" - and so on.

I know that that theymos announced in April 2020 that his and Cøbra's ways are splitting. And I know it is Cøbra's business with what appears on Bitcoin.org. However, it is inadmissible to have such a shameful translation on that website! It is unthinkable.

I don't know how Cøbra elected Ike (Nea Sandu) for this translation, but I believe there were more users hoping to have their translation accepted. Or maybe Ike was the only one who applied. I can't know. But maybe - and this is pure speculation - if there were more candidates trying to submit their translation, maybe Cyrus spoke to Cøbra for accepting Ike's translation. Seeing how much he protects him here on the forum it wouldn't be any surprise if such thing happened. Again, I'm not stating for sure that this happened, but still, there is a possibility.

What's certain is that on Bitcoin.org exists a shameful text for the author, for all Romanians, for the one who approved the translation and for the entire site itself!

Is there any possibility to contact anyone from that website to take down that ridiculous translation? Ideas?
   

Allow me to present five more topics, these being also the newest ones:




I feel that too. For example, I spoke with the author of "Share good movies please" topic to state a rule for posting. He did that. The rule says a specific format for posting the movies (title - genre - imdb link). The rule was meant to keep spamming newbies away and to offer more clarity for the suggested movies. The topic is still spammed with posts not respecting the rule. Now I have a basis for reporting those posts, as they don't respect OP's rule, but even so, not all my reports are handled. Indeed, it looks like mods gave up and even if you make the reports no good will come out of this...

Sometimes the posts get deleted, sometimes they don't... However, the sticky topic of the Offtopic board is named Low quality topics and posts are not allowed. Ironically, right? Inside the topic is quoted even a post of sirius, the previous administrator of the forum and also a warning for pemaban:


According to the sticky topic we should see plenty of bans and locked / deleted topics. But we don't. I think mods should state how to proceed regarding all this tone of shit topics: should we report the topics? The posts? Will them ban the posters, as stated in the sticky topic? Or will them just delete the posts and / or lock the topics? Besides, this section is full of topics having their authors offline for years, while the topics keep generating spam. Should such topics be reported?

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... And just like magic (/s), UserU earned 1 more paid post inside the campaign, for another shit post.

I am holding a grudge against all spammers, scammers and shit posters, not against you specifically. It just happened that you are a shit poster, that's all. If you'd be a quality poster we wouldn't have this discussion.


Yes, I'm also inside a campaign. But, unlike you, I'm the member with most earned merits from that campaign. As a consequence, no, I'm not doing the same thing I'm claiming you do. I tried to contribute to the OP, signaling another area full of shit posts. You asked a dumb question for which you already had the answer in the OP, but you asked it to make one more post for the signature campaign you're a part of. I kept watching your post behavior for months now and I always saw that you post once, usually a dumb post then more to another topic. Nobody quotes your posts, nobody answers your questions as everybody can see that your questions / remarks are useless, made just for having more posts inside a campaign.

Furthermore, another reason for which I'm not doing the same thing I'm claiming you do: in the past 120 days I earned 350 merits; you earned 32. In the past 30 days I earned 132 merits; you earned 4. These merits represent the quality of the posts. To be more precise: while I'm posting quality, you are making shit posts. I hope I explained you better now.


Actually, it doesn't matter to whom you were referring. You just post for having more posts inside the campaign. That's why you post once in a topic, bringing no contribution to it, then move to another topic. That's also why most of the members ignore your posts, never quote them and never answer them. Because it's clear for anyone what kind of posts you are making.

I also noticed that Offtopic board gets more and more spammed with zero value posts and topics. Let's see two examples:

Not gay but attracted to women with penis
I NEED HELP, MASTURBATION IS KILLING ME

What in the world is the connection between transgenders, masturbation and Bitcoin?! Seriously, are such topics representative for BitcoinTalk? And the list is huge in Offtopic, these beings just 2 topics that caught my attention lately.


The below post is the perfect example, as it is taken from this very thread:


I kept my eyes on this user since December last year. He posts in all possible topics and boards just for having more posts insinde the campaign he's a part of. He posts once then he jumps as a grasshoper to another topic. Rarely he posts twice in the same topic. He just posts once and goes away, happy because he made 1 more post. In this thread he had no intention of engaging in the disvussion with a constructive post, just tried to obtain 1 more post inside the campaign. He asked a dumb question - if the thread is still there - although OP posted the archived example and also a link to the mentioned post. Clicking the link of the post returns an error page, saying the post is deleted.

But this user - UserU - didn't ask the question out of curiosity. He just asked it, although the answer was already in OP, just to earn one more post inside the signature campaign.

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I reported about 10.000 posts in the last 6 months. More than 7000 are good. But almost 2000 are unhandled. And this is sort of discouraging. But I am still reporting. I don't do it daily, but when I start a "reportimg spree" I report about 1000 posts in a single day.

Lutpin and yahoo are still active members. If they wouldd consider this topic as being obsolete then they should lock it. Otherwise, the topic looks very useful to me, this being why I suggested to make it more popular and to try to convince other campaign managers to use it too.

Ma bucur ca sunt primul care te felicita "oficial" pentru aceasta realizare! Si, pe langa ca ai atins acest prag, felicitari si pentru faptul ca ai devenit primul roman care atinge pragul de merite pentru a fi Legendar dupa introducerea sistemului de merite! Mi se par foarte importante ambele realizari, poate a doua e chiar mai importanta decat prima, intrucat este ceva unic.

Romanii care au atins rang-ul de Legendar sunt foarte putini. Esti un exemplu pentru toti romanii care folosesc BitcoinTalk si te alaturi unui grup foarte select din acest punct de vedere, care, din ce stiu eu, ii mai cuprinde doar pe NeuroticFish, pe xhomerx10 si, mai nou, si pe mine. Ma rog, mai este pana la a deveni "Legendar cu acte in regula", intrucat trebuie indeplinite si punctele de activitate, dar partea cea mai grea - obtinerea celor 1000 de merite - a trecut

Considering that Lauda retired from the forum I'd advise to remove her list from OP as it is impossible now for her to review the members listed there, in case they'd like to appeal the blacklist. Besides, I think it would be wise to make this topic more popular and to attract more campaign managers to use it. CryptopreneurBrainBoss also has a blacklist so maybe he would be interested in adhering to this topic.

The advantage of having a stablecoin pegged to another currency instead of USD is that it would have more chances of being adopted. When you launch a product on a market saturated with similar products, you have less chances to have success with your product. But when you launch a product which is almost unique you have better chances.

Think it in terms of probabilities.

As of now there exists just 1 crypto currency pegged to EUR. So a new stablecoin pegged to EUR would have 50% chances of being adopted. Maybe even more, as this one is mineable. The same is true about being pegged to GBP.

Regarding USD-pegged coins, at the moment there are already 20 coins, according to CMC. So a new coin would have 1 chance out of 21, or 4.7%. Or even less, considering that the actual coins are established coins while this one will be a new coin.

So now you do the math: would you prefer to have 50% success chances with your product or 4.7%?