It's very strange because what counts as advertising in a commercial way?
I am in the UK and what if I put a thread saying I'm trading btc for eth with a 1% fee which I profit from, is that commercial advertising? If done on a continuous basis to earn non-negligible amounts of money, and you'd keep trading back into BTC to have more for exchanging, then I'd err on the side of caution. Especially if you're offering to trade the other way, in such a case it's clear you're not trading for personal use, but purely to make money. |
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As you already stated it could be to do with NYAG. There must have been some reason that is was done now rather than before or waiting until November. There could be PR reasons, too, putting some of their current or potential users at ease. They could go further and find someone trustworthy who could corroborate their claims. |
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That's a bit like calling Lance Armstrong's competitors "uninvolved third parties"  . If DarkStar_ knew that they were alts he wouldn't have accepted them so deception resulted in someone losing out. If I created a thread giving $100 to first 10 users who reply, and stipulated that no alts are allowed, someone cheating with 3 accounts would be essentially stealing from users who reply #11 and #12. This FOMA situation is not much different. It's easy to name Armstrong's competitors as the parties who have been wronged. But it would only be comparable if FomA's deception led to other campaign participants losing money. If I created a thread giving $100 to first 10 users who reply, and stipulated that no alts are allowed, someone cheating with 3 accounts would be essentially stealing from users who reply #11 and #12. This FOMA situation is not much different. Getting accepted into a campaign is not akin to winning a no-fee raffle but conditional on being the most suitable forum member DarkStar_ is looking for. Other people applied, and yet FomA's alts were chosen over them, clearly indicating who was a better fit for the campaign. My "hope" is basically to get a peek into the minds of this fraudster and not really about him asking for an apology. He is anonymous. He could easily write a short memoir and it'll be a hit. I think he's laughing all the way to the bank. Milked what he could out of it when the campaign paid the most. It doesn't sound ludicrous at all. Ass broke campaign rules to hog the spots which could as well have gone to someone else. Considering that 100+ applicants apply for the spots and only 1-2 get in, it is unfair to those who could have been selected. You make it sound as if participation in a campaign is some sort of natural right, as if he depleted groundwater or otherwise abused a rivalrous but non-excludable good, when it can be better compared to someone applying under different identities, somehow getting accepted, and successfully working at two (three) jobs within the same company. The biggest loss to the company in such a situation is the extra overhead of having two (three) employees instead of one. Then there is the whole issue of decency and conduct. As Staff, it is understood that you cannot make enforceable "rules" about conduct and cannot define decency. This is subjective but its importance shouldn't be diluted, least of all by staff; by refusing to take a stand on the ethical debate over such actions. I absolutely don't condone deception, but as far as scamming and defrauding goes, this is all very tame by bitcointalk or cryptocurrency-sphere standards. It doesn't at all compare to, for example, cheating at no-fee raffles, and the main reason people are so angry is because of the amount of money involved. Personally, having replied to all of his alts on more than one occasion, I feel trolled. Actually, thought creeped in to my mind a couple times that FomA, exstasie and even gentlemand could have been the same person, probably because I've seen them post so often (too often) in similar threads, but it was all just a very weak hunch (according to other posters the last person is legit so I was wrong), but learning that squatter was FomA's alt really caught me by surprise. |
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According to my back of the envelope computations: figmentofmyass 3.693
exstasie 3.857
squatter 2.01
For a total of 9.56 BTC. I don't care if it is too much of too low if those btcs came from exchange hacks or not. This is money they stole from other people who didn't get into the campaign simply because they broke the rules. It's a form of fraud at worst since he knowingly broke the campaign rules he agreed to abide by when signing up. But he kept getting paid for so long without getting banned from the forum or booted from the campaign that it's hard to deny that ChipMixer was getting their money's worth. It's obvious why there's a weekly limit of 50 posts - to maintain some level of post quality and to limit campaign spending. He never got paid for more than 50 post per week per account, and it's not like any of his accounts were 'ghost employees' no one knew of. And it sounds even more ludicrous to claim other uninvolved third parties were somehow 'victimized' because of FomA 'hogging' campaign slots when it's an affair entirely between ChipMixer represented by DarkStar_ and whoever he accepts. |
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Why not tattoo it on your body? Name the third word after your pet and tattoo the others on your body. Your thigh will be a nice spot for that.
It's tantamount to carrying the seed with you everywhere, especially if the pet's name isn't on the word list. Even if it is, theoretically if someone could strip search you and knew what they were doing, they could feasibly check all combinations of one word being changed (24*2048) to rule out your scheme. |
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Nie ma najważniejszego, w czym jest to lepsze od ETH? Jak się ma to do Cardano, który to też miał być Ethereum killer? Tym bardziej Kusama, z daleka brzmi to podobnie jak próby monetyzacji testnetowych bitcoinów.  |
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To say it was his only source of income and he needed the money, so he can cheat and the rest of the forum must be understanding is dangerous. There are people in Brazil who tries to justify robbery with the same argument. Are you really comparing using alts to go around campaign rules to a violent crime? What about the people who are legit trying to get one spot, and also need the money and it is their only source of income? I think ethics should always come first. Well, if someone treats it as a job (keep in mind that ChipMixer doesn't even have weekly post minimums), they're on the wrong forum. And relying on a potentially ephemeral sig campaign as a sole mean of income is financially foolish, to say the least. Theymos could theoretically one day straight up ban signatures, what is such a person going to do then? It is not a crime what he did. But it damaged other users, damaged CM and the campaign manager. Considering the fact that he was undiscovered for three years, no one reported him for spamming or posting low quality posts, no mod or admin banned him, the campaign manager kept paying him, and ChipMixer themselves happily continued on making payments, it's hard to speak of any damage. And it is a hell lot of money. He received probably around 2-5 BTC... We are talking about hundred thousand dollars
Way more than '2-5 BTC'. Remember, he tended to make close to 50 posts per week for three years, on two, sometimes three of his accounts. |
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Ufff, that change to Bankroll will def. make people divest...
Whats the point of it though?
Does devans make more profit if the Bankroll is smaller?
All the increases in commissions were clearly aimed at lowering the bankroll size to minimize liability, not to maximize profit. Since the rise in price has been rapid, not enough time may have passed to be able to tell how investors will react; especially long-term ones since the divesting fees will always discourage short-term ones. I think it would have made sense to wait >6 months before making another change to commissions. |
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Spadły wypłaty na 6$/post. Pamiętacie ile było wczoeśniej? coś kojarzę 0.00075 BTC tak? Czyli 27$ po obecnej cenie? Ogromny spadek. Ciekawe ile miejsc się zwolni.
Szczytowo ponad $31/post. Brak minimalnej liczby tygodniowych postów oznacza, że prawie nikt nigdy sam z siebie nie odchodzi. Pojedyncze przypadki były dawno temu i w co najmniej jednym dotyczyły osoby, która prawodopodobnie wynegocjowała sobie lepszy deal gdzie indziej. |
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Szkoda że nie radzą jak odpisać
Odpisywanie nic nie da. Jedynie co może pomóc to dużo zgłoszeń i liczenie, że dana osoba popełniła gdzieś po drodze błąd pozwalający na ustalenie tożsamości, ale nie wiem czy komuś by się chciało zgłaszać i ścigać taki spam. |
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I do not want to be frank, but this is the forum if we remove *earning methods* from it.
see how Serious discussion (last post December 20, 2020) and Ivory Tower (August 19, 2019)
If there is a signature campaign forcing people to post in Lending,Auctions and Goods , they will spam that boards.
Lending have small problem that you can get negative trust easily.
Other sections benefit from first-mover's advantage, I'd also prefer to post in a dedicated section since more people peruse them, but I also wonder how much would activity decline if signatures were to disappear overnight. I offer to take ltc and or doge to save on fees. I get some takers now and then.
Basically small miners don’t exist. There were far more back in the day.
They do, they use nicehash with the GPU(s) they bought when the prices were lower, or with the overpriced GPU(s) to offset the cost of high prices they paid for them. |
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I can tell you what bitcointalk.org would do if section 230 were completely removed overnight: The Marketplace sections would be closed; signatures would be removed; altcoin/token promotion of any kind would probably be banned; and a lot of rules would need to be added. It's not that the forum would clearly be liable for eg. marketplace scammers or libel by forum members -- anyone bringing a case to that effect would have a good chance of losing --, but all of this stuff would create such a huge attack surface for lawsuits that the legal defense costs would end up amounting to tens of millions of dollars, and potentially much more if the forum were to actually lose even one of the hundreds of lawsuits which would be incoming. The scope of the forum would have to be reduced to something that could actually be reasonably defended, rather than the current near-universal scope. What do you think are the odds that Section 230 is repealed or changed to such an extent that bitcointalk would need to undergo any changes in terms of allowable content? |
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Poczytałem o tych traderach z wsb i niech bez powodu mają opinię jaką mają. Nie zdziwiłbym się jakby ktoś manipulował nimi i sobie pompeczki robił a kupował oczywiście przed. CEO twittera chwali się, że jego coin dostał się na grupę pump and dump WSB, nie mam pytań https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1355201129278099457Całe to krypto robi się coraz mniej powazniejsze. Justin Tron to nie CEO Twittera tylko CEO Rainberry (dawniej znanego pod nazwą BitTorrent, Inc.), jest to także znany shitcoinowy naganiacz, nie ma tu nic nowego  CEO Twittera jedynie Bitcoina promuje, także finansowo, np. wspierając finansowo prace nad L2. |
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How the heck do users even post with that many accounts? They have to be posting in the same threads and answering each other. I barely post on my 1 account, couldn't imagine the hell it would be to try making quotas weekly on 10+ accounts.
ChipMixer's campaign is one of the rare ones with no weekly quotas. But he was able to consistently post close to 50 posts per week on two, sometimes three of his accounts without lowering the post quality too much, since he hasn't been removed for that after thee years, but due to his sloppiness (or refusal to use the service he's been advertising ). Anyway, that sounds like a part-time job, at the very least. And he got caught just as the rates have been decreased by >75%. in fact you're right. I know many members who think that figmentofmyass is a great user and that he's contributed alot to this forum. they consider him as their mentor FGS!! he owe them an apology or at least an explanation.
Let's see how many posts he makes without getting paid for it. He wouldn't be the first CM signature campaign member who stopped posting after removal. |
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allinvain's theft, and thefts by a trojan have been mentioned, but most of the time it's hard to get accurate information and verify them. It's easier to verify if an exchange shuts down due to a hack or an exit scam. Even heists/thefts/hacks/scams of and by exchanges and other services have become too numerous for OP to bother continuing to catalogue.
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Ja akurat chcialem tam wejsc tylko dla konkursu (w sumie nie pamiętam teraz jak nagroda jest wyplacana - czy na saldo w roobet czy w krypto, jak zobaczyłem ta blokade to przestalem o tym myśleć)
I nie chodzi mi o kwestie techniczne, ale o zasade (nie)zgodności z prawem krajowym, ktore jednocznacznie zabrania udziału.. Ja blokady nie widzę, bo blokada jest tylko na poziomie serwerów DNS należących do polskich ISP. Nadal nie znalazłem dowodu na nielegalność korzystania z tej strony wg polskiego prawa. Pewnie patrzyli na to, że zakłady są nominowane w USD, a nie w BTC, mimo że zakłady są w bitcoinach. Tutaj wyglada ze sam vpn nie wystarczy, bo to jednak sie zdarza, ze czasem zostawia slady, kto wie dokad posunie sie nasze państwo, jeśli dziura budżetowa dalej będzie rosnac?
Jeśli do zapytań DNS korzystałbyś z serwera od polskiego ISP to nie wystarczyłoby. |
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Fortunately, not personal, but I have indirect negative experiences with full disclosure. Too many acquaintances had too many problems with fully disclosing vulnerabilities even of shady services. What you say can be used as an excuse: providers "wanted to run a legit business", but the "evil hacker" ruined it.
Obviously it's a last resort, and should obviously be done anonymously. What about reporting it to a competitor? Or selling the exploit without specifying any exchange? Nah. Wouldn't be interested in that. |
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Zawsze bez problemu wypłacałem, czy grałem tą kasą w ich kasynie, nawet wygrałem dość znaczną sumkę i też wypłacili beż żadnej weryfikacji ani problemów.
... do czasu jak nie wygrasz za dużo i mogą próbować wykorzystać fakt korzystania z VPN celem obejścia ich blokady do konfiskacji środków. Sami o tym piszą w ToS: You have no right to use the services as an anonymizing proxy, VPN or the like in order to bypass the law resulting from the blockade by roobet.com countries. In case of violation of these principles, roobet.com reserves the right to block and/or immediately close the account and you lose all winnings/balance. |
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