This guy (most likely) is a long-time scammer on the forum who has had at least a dozen accounts going all the way back to 2014. Many of his recent alts for this year are listed here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5261169.0

He is quite chatty with everyone and has sent me several pms from several different accounts, as well as leaving 14 different trust ratings calling me a pedophile. He's banned now, so that's good, will probably be able to get some of his other accounts banned now.

It would appear that fee spikes occur for 2 reasons combined:

- an increase in network demand on the network, most notably when people are moving coins on and off exchanges, and

- an unfavorable shift in hash rate or mining difficulty that makes it harder to mine blocks within 10 minutes of each other.

After both things have been occurring simultaneously for a while, a backlog of transactions develops and fees rise. One thing or the other might be tolerable but when both happen, the network overloads and fees go up. It's kind of unavoidable.

According to coin.dance, BCHA hasn't added a new block since block #661656, which is 227 blocks behind BCHN. It would appear BCHA is being traded on a number of exchanges, but all that can take place independent of BCHA's ability to add blocks to its chain.

The lack in block production is confirmed by checking a Bitcoin Cash ABC explorer:

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-abc

The last block was found on 11/16, almost 24 hours ago! Before that it was adding blocks one every 3 to 10 hours. This is because its hash rate has been reduced to almost nothing, and it would appear it might soon be abandoned. That's my guess anyway. What do you think is going to happen with BCHA?

The last time BCH had a fork and BSV was born, both coins ended up being worth less than the price of BCH pre-split. Sure, there's chances to trade here and there, but since the whole thing isn't nearly as much a spectacle as then, I imagine trading the fork will be boring and likely end in losses for most involved.

I since learned a lot more about scripts and have my own for martingale-esque betting, and the bottom line is regardless what script you are using, there's no escaping the house edge. Thus, no bot is profitable in the long term - and if it is, it is only by luck. (That's my belief anyway, read below for the exception).

There is one dude on bustadice who is up 88 BTC over 2 years and 1 million bets, ghostnipple. I don't know how he does it, but he makes me think it's possible to predict the behavior of a seed somehow.

He was also down over 3 BTC at one point, so... I've heard the theory that he has insider information; of course that would be the obvious one. Otherwise who knows what's actually going on.

Huge difference here. Hhampuz is being hired to run a bounty, not "speak well" of HEX. Hhampuz is more of an advertising agent -- he is providing a service for hire. Aantop, on the other hand, is more of a spokesman and influencer. People buy coins based on what he has to say. So really it doesn't say anything about the forum.

After having read the HEX "layman's guide," there's a couple different ways to approach defining what HEX is:

1. HEX is not a Ponzi scheme as it will always pay out what the terms of staking dictate (whereas Ponzis always eventually collapse and stop paying). It's also not a MLM per se as it only has 1 level of referrals.

2. HEX is a Ponzi scheme because it requires an ever-increasing influx of new users in order to keep the price growing, or just stable. Those already in will constantly try to recruit new holders to prop the price up.

If you choose to go with #2, well then you have to account for the fact that most (if not all) cryptocurrencies are at least somewhat inflationary and require word-of-mouth in order to attract new investors (aka, people to sell your bags to).

The difference between HEX and most other cryptos is that HEX does not purport to do anything other than go up in value. It has no plans to be a means of currency; after all, Ethereum already does that, and if people want a currency they would just use ETH as they need it to transact HEX (an ETH token) anyway.

Final assessment: HEX is a worthless shit token led by a douchebag, but it is not a scam.

His "initial call" was off by over 15% and the market was long overdue for a correction at that point, so I'm not particularly impressed. In addition, he's been wrong every step of the way since Jan 2018. He's carried the rest of this thread with attitude and pretension, and somehow people were once again suckered into believing confidence = wisdom. In this case, "wisdom" infers:

1. fighting the effects of massive inflation created by the Federal Reserve, and
2. losing a shitload of money to affinity scam forks (twice).

Some people just enjoy being wrong I suppose.

Yeah don't do that.

We can pretty much moderate ourselves.

To those for whom nullius posts actually pose a problem, there's the Ignore button -- it works quite well, I should know. I like the off-topic-ness of that thread and appreciate the opportunity to banter with some of the regulars about any subject that is slightly or more interesting.

Am not sure if I ever had a post removed from WO by a mod, ever.

^^^
I checked in on this thread just to post this meme.

Dang. ABC really shot themselves in the foot here... I absolutely have to wonder: what were they thinking?? What good is getting 8% of miner rewards per block going to be if the total miner reward per block is only worth $100?

Well its good for about $8, I guess.

I followed that cash.coin.dance site during the BSV split -- they did a good job at keeping track of the war. This time around something peculiar has happened: the incumbent party (ABC) has stopped producing blocks! ABC only produced 3 blocks since block #661650. I know they have some sort of auto-difficulty adjustment mechanism in place to prevent them from never producing another block again (due to the lingering high difficulty pre-split), but as of right now they are literally 39 blocks behind BCHN.

So close... Brown did have a good game, just not as good as you were hoping. I have to say, its "good" to see him back in action (despite all his drama and the roadblocks created by his personality). He's gonna be a great asset for TB so long as he can stop himself from doing anything too stupid off field.


I thought for sure Seattle would be the favorites on this game, but nope. Even as a Rams fan I think this is a solid bet... though Rams did just take the lead again in the 1st quarter.

Tua Tagvailoa (sp) seems to be off to another good start, beating the Chargers 14-0 thus far. He's gonna be fun to watch for the rest of the season.

Well, I don't think Hhampuz would take this campaign if he hadn't already received funds to pay campaign participants. So while I'm not exactly happy to see such a wanton moneygrab being advertised via signature on the forum, at least there is a quality control element that only Hhampuz and a select handful of others can provide.

This is frustratingly common.

Damn man, that was a really good catch. Can you link the post where you put that image earlier? Is it already in this thread or a similar one?

I noticed there was something just a little bit fishy about this guy and actually suspected it was Rambotnic building up a new account. First, he told an insane story about how he had a hard drive with bitcoins on it and his grandfather turned it into a keyholder. He managed to rack up a few merits there. Then he started posting betting predictions that were just awful, telling small lies about the outcome of his bet.


He's been kind of silent for a while, maybe he knew it wasn't gonna work out and moved on.

That was now over 4 years ago, in 2016, before the forum really exploded in popularity. A lot of accounts that are high ranked today used to buy and sell accounts back then or before then. Since then, the potential for damage caused by the fake reputation given to a scammer (such as yourself) has increased considerably.

What's considerably tagworthy in your instance is the fact that you are stirring shit on the forum under the direction of game-protect, and you keep switching to new accounts in order to evade red trust. So regardless of whether or not your account was hacked or purchased, you should be tagged for the reasons gosha@e-coin was tagged, as that is also your account.

That's not how walking away works!


Then you haven't actually walked away. Seriously bro. This isn't good for your mental health.

I won't comment on this any further but just know what you're doing doesn't look good to anybody.

Well, it was a nice gesture anyway, Phil.

You presented 2 potential outcomes, so lets go through them individually:

1. Yes. So long as when you say 1 BCH you mean 1 BCHABC. You will also have 1 BCHN.
2. It's hard to know for sure at this point but it looks like BCHABC will fold soon after the fork, given the fact that it isn't supported by much hash power.

My advice would logically be to sell the BCHABC ASAP.

Actually on second thought, my advice would be to sell BCH now, given what happened last time around (hint: the price of both BCH and BSV combined doesn't equal the price of BCH pre-split).

You're absolutely right -- looks like it was purchased at about the same time by the same person, for the same reason.

I notice BitcoinAccepted was wearing the Wolf.bet signature, and that campaign has been "paused" since August. So he's not actually in the campaign, neither is aomakun in the Idena bounty. The merit transfer kind of seals the connection. Also neutral tagging aomakun for now.