I don't think more DT attention is necessary. If a warning by one or two people is insufficient to stop you from doing business with someone, but 8 people warning you will stop you from doing business with the person, then you are AOC level stupid and no amount of hand holding will prevent you from loosing money to scammers.

Using sockpuppet(s) to bump your marketplace thread with fake conversations is not allowed. If you are using a sockpuppet to post, then you are bumping a thread. Further, a conversation with yourself is going to be considered a "low value or pointless" post, which is also against the rules.

On its face, this person is using sockpuppet account to post fake vouches to bump his thread excessively. There is no other explanation as to how his thread continues to get unlocked and then relocked so only his "customers" can post, only for the thread to get unlocked hours later to "thank" his "customer" for the feedback.

Notwithstanding the above evidence, the mods can review browser fingerprints and IP addresses to confirm these are in fact sockpuppets.

As an update, I received a reply to my message advising he is breaking the rules in using sock puppets to bump his thread:

I did not indicate any kind of interest in buying anything from him, nor did I indicate any interest in buying gift cards or "egifts", but I received an advertisement response to my message anyway.

After he sent the above personal message, he bumped his thread four times, all at least four hours apart from the last, and all within a single 24 hour spread.

OP - almost anyone claiming to be a "girl" is probably trying to scam you on this forum.

If this is a real offer, you should look for a venue that specializes in this type of relationship.

This is not a dating (or whatever you are looking for) website.

There is no technicality, the rule is a thread can be bumped once per 24 hours. This is my report of the thread because of the number of posts and threads involved.

I think he knows what he is doing is against the rules, but in case he didn't, I have sent him a Personal Message informing him of the rule he is breaking, noting using a sockpuppet to post counts as a bump.

I sent the Personal Message because I noticed he has continued to excessively bump his threads.
You could say that. There does become a point when no matter how much hand holding you give someone, they are bound to part with their money to a scammer. You could also say links to the various "autobuy" websites should not be displayed to guests because they are almost always going to involve a scam attempt.

Dealing with the excessive bumping issue, will also deal with the fake vouch issue.

There is not a loophole that allows someone to post bumps with sockpuppets on their thread. If this was allowed, you would create an account called "mikeywith-bumper" to post a new bump every second to ensure your thread is always at the top of the board.

Reporting something for "being as scam" will be marked as bad I think. The mods will not moderate/remove any scam attempts, but if a scam attempt involves breaking other rules, then this should be dealt with.

Calling out something to be a scam, and explaining why you believe so should not ever be off topic, unless your post is really far into 'left field'. Possibly you were posting in a self moderated thread, and the scammer deleted your post.

The thread is old, but the multi-posting is more recent.

He is trying to create the illusion of conducting successful business when he is a scammer.

Yes, exactly.

There are absolutely arguments for both a fixed coin supply and for an ever increasing coin supply. There are also arguments for a 100% premine/presale and for miners to mine the coin supply over many years. All of these arguments are economical and political.

"The Prince Of Egifts" created a thread selling what appears to be gift cards and is using multiple transparent sock puppets to vouch for him.

I understand we do not moderate scams, however in this case, he is "locking" his thread, except when his sock puppets post in his thread. This is resulting in this person doing what is constructively bumping his thread multiple times per day (3-4x, not including deleted posts, if any).

At a minimum, I am calling for the above thread to be locked by a moderator, so he cannot unlock his thread to allow his sockpuppets to constructively bump his thread multiple times per day.

Additional action can be taken at a moderator's discretion.

Thanks.  

Additional threads breaking the "bump" rule:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5114762.0;all
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1674707.0;all

Thank you for the answer. I will keep this in mind in case the LN tech improves enough for me to run a LN node.

#1, he is asking for his trading partner to send coins first to him:
#2, Bitcoin is generally fungible, but it is not anonymous. If you want to cash out any decent amount of coin, you will need to disclose your identity to your counter party (exchange), and helping someone launder money is a crime, please see:
#3, it is strange you were so quick to see my theory the OP was you 

I think there is a good chance you are the same as this person.

99.9%, this is a lame scam attempt. 0.1%, the coins are somehow stolen, or otherwise associated with very bad things so that anyone who has them will be wishing they were scammed.

Stay away from this guy....

If you are going to be using testnet coins on a regular basis, there is no need for you to return any faucet coins at the end of every day.

To answer your question, you could run a faucet that instead of sends a transaction to the users testnet address, it provides the private key associated with a testnet address with unspent testnet inputs. Not everyone will spend the inputs, so you will need to periodically monitor the testnet addresses and tell your faucet to give the private key to someone else after some amount of time.

The above is a bad practice if you are dealing with coins with any economic value, but testnet coins are designed to be worthless economically. 

Do you have your node setup on your home computer, or on a VPS?

You will need to create a "watching" wallet within Bitcoin Core that is connected to the internet with your xpubkey, and create an unsigned transaction on the computer connected to the internet, and that has a copy of the up to date blockchain.

You will then need to transfer a copy of the unsigned transaction into Bitcoin Core (QT) from your online computer onto your offline computer, and use Core to sign the transaction. You then transfer the now-signed transaction back to your online computer, and can broadcast it via the command line.

I am not sure I understand how hardware wallets plays into, or is related to your question. AFAIK, hardware wallets are not compatible with QT and they are generally used in lieu of an offline computer. They could be used for the super-paranoid.

The address you posted has received approximately $200 worth of coin, and has spammed over 5,000 transactions onto the blockchain, but you are wanting to buy $40 million worth of coin?

My unsolicited advice is to find an OCT broker if you really want to buy that much coin. Or you can create your own OTC business.

It would frankly be insane to even consider trading with you.

You could say the same thing if you knew 93% of my private key because a passphraise is very similar to the last 7% of a xprivkey.

Above that, there can be more than one valid passphraise that leads to a xprivkey that controls spendable coins.

The purpose of the PIN + passphraise is not to protect your funds forever in the event you lose your trezor. The purpose is to create a long enough delay from the time you realize your trezor is not in your possession to access a backup trezor or backup seed, and move all your coins outside of what your trezor has the private keys to.

There are no "addresses" on the LN, the closest thing to an address is an "invoice" which is for a specific amount of bitcoin. In theory, someone could create a service in which invoices are automatically generated after being told the details of your open LN channels.

A LN "transaction" is actually a series of Bitcoin multisig transactions that are not intended to be broadcast to the Bitcoin network, and are signed in a very specific order with each party to a transaction signing their portion and only signing the next portion after they have received the other party's signed portion.

You can only "receive" a LN transaction after you have generated an invoice, after it is "paid". The only entity that is in a position to know a LN invoice is paid is the one who has an open LN channel open the invoice was paid through.

If you are not wanting to run both a Bitcoin and a LN full node, in the future there may be third party services that will run one for you, and will create invoices and notify you once the invoices have been paid.

What you are describing is not a paper wallet, it is a wallet generated on an offline computer, ideally one that never touches the internet.

There are some drawbacks to this kind of wallet vs using a hardware wallet, a big one being that you need more advanced technical knowledge to create private keys this way, and another is that it is generally more expensive than a hardware wallet.

If either of the above do not sway your decision (because you possess the technical expertise, and the Δ in cost is not material for the amounts you are dealing with, which of the above is "better" is debatable, with pros and cons for each, and may vary depending on your specific situation. Assuming you aren't making any glaring security mistakes, I would say to use whichever type of wallet you are more comfortable using, which in your case appears to be one generated with an offline computer. 

If they are speaking English, they should be using the main boards. The local boards are designed to be used for languages other than English.

This cannot be stressed enough. [The first vector involved an attacker buying a Trezor, modifying it, and returning it, but this relies on the assumption that Trezor would resell what they believe to be an unopened Trezor without additional inspections, and I do not believe this to be a valid assumption]



The attack in which Ledger claims to have "guessed" the correct PIN in only 5 tries is claimed to be unexploitable by Trezor:
It is unclear as to the technical nature of this alleged exploit, but reading the description, specifically, "with the actual value of the PIN" it doesn't look like an attacker could reverse engineer the PIN without existing knowledge of the PIN.
The passphrase is only a password that cannot be reset, and can be more "simple" compared to "password" standards because an attacker cannot try any passphrases without physical access to the device, and there is no way of knowing how many passphrases there are that contain anything of value.

The passphrase is not a very complex concept, and is only marginally more complex than the rest of the recovery seed, and I believe there is a line for the recovery seed should not be limited to "advanced" users.

A paper wallet is less secure than a Trezor with the cited exploits. A trezor allows a user to use a passphraise, so if someone gained physical access to your "wallet" all they would need is the passphraise if you are using a paper wallet, and would need the advanced equipment and technical knowledge to exploit the trezor.

An attacker may not even need physical access to your "wallet" to gain access to your paper wallet because they may be able to look at your printer to get your "wallet" or your wallet may be as vulnerable as your computer is, depending on the specifics as to how you generated the paper wallet. These vulnerabilities do not apply to any hardware wallet. You also have a higher risk of loss of funds due to things like flooding as your paper wallet may get damaged beyond being able to access the private keys if it gets wet, but is not the case for a trezor (to my knowledge).

You can also not ever spend coins on a paper wallet without loading the private key onto a potentially vulnerable computer. With a trezor, using a trezor on a compromised computer alone will not result in a loss of coins. If your computer is compromised, you should still take care of this.

The mods enjoy deleting /s

In all seriousness, a post will be considered "off topic" if the post does not somehow relate to the very first post (Original Post) in the thread, even if it relates to something someone wrote as a reply. In most cases, a post will not be off topic if it relates to the title of the thread.

I noticed your screenshot shows a deleted post written in English, I am not sure which thread it was posted in, but according to you, it was posted in the Pakistan board. Posts in the local boards should not be in English, and they should be in the respective local language. I believe this is the most likely reason your post was deleted. 

I would agree with Stunna's  comments about "BTCJUA.com" and "bitcoinfuck".

There are some valid concerns that you brought up that should reasonably be addressed, and those concerns apply to pussyhunter6969, and his website.

One could argue it is a big over the top to label these people "scammers". Based on their names alone, I would not gamble on their website. Based on your concerns going unaddressed, I would suggest to others not to use their website. I would not say it is a forgone conclusion that at least one person out of the next 1,000 that use his website will get scammed using his website.