As they are pretty active in the crypto scene relative to nearby countries, Filipinos are also the targets of a lot of scammers... Ponzi scams, cloud mining scams, doubler scams... On one hand their main wallet, Coins.ph, is a resounding success in terms of crypto use case scenarios as it allows people to buy phone plans, pay bills, cash out to remittance centers and easily send coins to others; on the other hand, it makes it incredibly easy to get scammed and lose much-needed income.

A lot of Filipinos still don't understand how dirty scammers can be when it comes to crypto - I've heard a lot of horror stories of people losing their savings in what should have obviously been a scam - which is why its refreshing to have a legit product providing good income for a change. If you make $20 a day in the Philippines you are pretty much killing it compared to most of the country.

Financial literacy is on the increase, at least as lessons are learned -- the first wave of adopters will have been hit pretty hard by scams compared to future generations to follow, who can learn from the mistakes of those who went first.

It was certainly a godsend to the people who made a good living from it, but I don't think its a trend that would continue to infinity, especially as more and more people found out about it, driving the price of the token they were earning and selling over and over. Demand for the game would have to continue to pick up, which I don't think that it did -- although its certainly an interesting economic model that is likely to continue well into the future.

Welcome and thanks for bumping my thread! I'd forgotten about it.

Since last time, WAX released another series of Garbage Pail Kids, but these ones are currently selling much cheaper than series 1 as several more copies were minted of each card this time around. I just hold about 20-30 Topps GPK NFTs at the moment, no more WAX to speak of, but I will be paying attention to find out when Topps is slated to start releasing sports cards as NFTs.

I looked for this screenshot for about 5 minutes and gave up

Lackluster expose on fake news.

If this was posted as a Scam Accusation I don't think it would hold up.

The NRA is always looking for donations...


Very sensor, much ship.



Its more sensor than ship though.

You missed your chance to dump under $10k in early August. That's how no-coiner trolls are made.

Howeycoins website is down??    

Hey, no it isn't! You scared me for a second! The bonus sale is still ongoing, it ends in 14 days, 22 hours and 26 minutes...

You may want to give the HoweyCoins website a complete read-through for some ideas on how to start your own coin. Then, if you still want to, just create a topic in the Altcoin Announcements section, and voila, you're your own mint, on the road to infinite riches, both monetarily and spiritually.

My report remains Unhandled while several others since then have already been marked. That means the mods weren't convinced/satisfied with the evidence presented thus far.

You have to directly link the banned account to the current account. Usually this is done via coin address or social media account posted by the user in a forum post -- or else an on-forum admission that they are the same person.

I've been having the same struggle with a particularly shitty troll (far, far more pointless and vicious than this alamjob guy) for over an entire year. It might be obvious to everyone paying attention that they are absolutely the same person as a banned account but without definitive proof that can be readily spoonfed to the mods, they are unlikely to do anything.

That is very funny -- not often do you see $140 jokes being made around here.

I don't have the confidence you do that Trump has already lost. Too shattered since last time. If we learned anything from 2016, its that nobody really knows what the fuck is going on.

They have plenty of legitimate uses which aren't shared by scammers such as yourself. You're not a newbie. You've been getting busted and coming back as a new account for years. Did it ever occur to you that you suck at scamming and perhaps should move on?

Hmm... You're right. I forgot that its # merited + # merited by... throws off my statistics just a little bit. Well I'm too lazy to find what I was actually looking for but I'm certain if I did it wouldn't have much of an impact on the results.

I've really been going out of my way to find different profiles to merit. Vlad doesn't. Nor does he often get merited by people he hasn't already sent merits to.

Because he was gone during the introduction of the flag system and came back only recently.

FWIW @Rux, I believe you that you didn't sell your account.



If it was sold, it must have been sold to another Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian.

However, its unfair to assume that it has been sold based on the lack of supporting evidence.

You also didn't really understand how merits work so I don't blame you for that either.

The person who left you your one trusted red tag has passed so there's no chance of removing that tag, unfortunately.

What's worse is if you click on the link to their website or white paper (the first one, the second one is just a .jpg of a fancy white paper cover, lol), you get this message:


Details provided by Google say:


So yeah. Complete scam. The thread and OP should probably be nuked. Weird because they put an awful lot of time into developing it, and you busted them right away, LOL.

I have also been accused of being part of "Lauda's Gang" on at least a couple of occasions; a good thing that comes from this dissolution is now idiot scammers who get busted can't readily blame being busted on Lauda. I'm sure that they will continue the tradition anyway because they are, after all, pretty dumb, and that's why they are scammers.

Also... now that TECSHARE has unexpectedly taken some sort of lengthy or indefinite hiatus, the Clown Car gang doesn't have a clear motive anymore. So I guess I go back to my default membership in the Hat Gang ("set" of the Wall Observer gang).

Regardless of issues that are potentially subjective, Vlad is extremely odd objectively (statistically) as a merit source.

His actions are far different from every other source that is allotted close to as many source merits per month as he is.

I identified 12 other merit sources that receive roughly within 30 merits +/- of what Vlad gets per month, based on publicly available data. I don't really feel bad about sharing these names as they are all identifiable using DdmrDdmr's Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard (its pretty much considered public knowledge who the sauces are now, right?).*

The Merit/Profile and Circle (total # of profiles merited) stats are taken from BPIP.

Merit Source	Merit/Profile	Circle
bitmover	4.8	656
BobLawblaw	15.5	279
cabalism13	6.0	512
CryptopreneurBrainboss	4.3	709
EFS	8.7	507
Jet Cash	5.4	741
joniboini	7.6	458
mindrust	4.8	599
nutildah	4.7	876
paxmao	4.7	811
philipma1957	4.4	637
Royse777	6.2	436
Average	6.4	602
St.Dev.	3.2	171
High +1 St.Dev.	9.6	773
Low -1 St.Dev.	3.3	430
Vlad2Vlad	34.3	109

Basically what the data says is he's not really trying to find new profiles to send merit to (compared to his peers), instead sending a lot of merits to the same profiles over and over, or else all at once.

Of the 12 peer profiles used to generate the average, only 1 sticks out significantly, and Vlad is more than twice as "bad" as them (as far as "Merit Source Duties" are concerned).


Yep I was about to mention that thread as well. At the time, I didn't realize he was a merit source and just thought, well he can do what he wants. But to see him using source merits to rank up well-known trolls and potential alt accounts, well now I'm of the opinion that he shouldn't be able to do what he wants. More specifically, he shouldn't be a merit source.


*if you are a source and want your name removed, PM me and I'll remove it

LOL bro. What are you talking about? Vod didn't give you a red flag, you gave him a red flag! (well, yellow technically). He left you a neutral trust feedback, which is hardly the end of the world. I have no idea if you sold your account or not but you definitely over-reacted here. Not a great way to make friends and influence people.

Thanks for updating your poll to include my option.  

2-3 hours.

It seems crazy to me when I type it out but its pretty much an unavoidable fact. I'd say I spend far more time reading than writing (as should anybody).

My overall time on the forum has almost doubled in the last 2 years or so... I'll be coming up on 200 days after 8 more days of forum time!

50 days a year = 1,200 hours

1,200 hours / 365 days 3.28 hours per day, sheesh. Guess I voted wrong.



If I average since the beginning of my account, that's 192 of 2,380 days, or 1.93 hours a day. That sounds more sane.


K, just saw Filippone's post and now I feel better about myself. Sorry Filippone but its for a good cause.

Good catch. This is a link to a page with malware and should be reported as such. Whoever is behind this has been at it for quite some time. They make their post, it gets reported and deleted, and the account gets banned. Then the cycle is repeated, over and over again. I think somebody started a thread specifically for reporting this problem but I don't remember what it was.

Next time just make a post in this thread:

Report Malware and Suspicious Links here so Mods can take Action !

and it will be reported and dealt with. Thanks.