This is not the first time that Lauda has left negative ratings for people for political reasons.

Several months ago, Lauda gave a negative rating to franky1 that was clearly a political rating (source), however it was removed after being called out about it (archive for both). The difference in this case is that Lauda is not the only one to have given this person a negative rating for political purposes.

I think your concern is that jonald_fyookball's threads/posts are less neutral than you would like, however this is the nature of political discourse. I think you would be hard pressed to find a neutral article regarding President Trump on Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC, and it is fairly common for all of those major news outlets to editorialize stories they pass off as news.

As I mentioned previously, I think that jonald_fyookball should make it more public that it is Blazed who is effectively causing negative ratings to be given for political purposes via Lauda. 

You probably will want to at least setup access to your Coinbase account via their API as a backup.

It is not uncommon for their website to be down while customers will still have full functionality via API.

That would probably be a fairly awkward 2 seconds.

You are fairly clearly a troll based on your posting history, and I wouldn't be surprised to see you steal money that someone is dumb enough to entrust you with. 

You are trying to do this from the wrong computer. If you try to sign a message from your computer that has the "watch only" wallet (eg your online computer), then you will be unable to sign a message from any address.

You will need to sign the message from the machine that you sign transactions from (eg your 'offline' machine).

I am not a fan of using Authy myself.

If I were you, I would tell Gemini that you will continue using SMS for 2FA until they support google authenticator for 2FA (which I believe to be far superior in terms of security). You will just need to be sure that your phone number is fairly private because hackers may try to steal your phone number in order to gain access to your account. 

It is my understanding that there have been a couple of situations in the past at bitfinex in which some margin accounts had negative equity (eg, there was insufficient collateral to repay the margin loans due to high volatility, and insufficient liquidity) -- I understand that bitfinex covered the losses in these cases and did not even notify the lenders. I believe one of the times this happened was when someone quickly sold 20,000 BTC (IIRC) after the 1st block signaling XT was found in August 2015, and the price fell to ~$160 from ~$250 in a matter of minutes.

I don't think that any exchange is going to advertise that they cover losses because they probably want to reserve the right to not cover losses in the event that the losses are greater than what makes sense for them to trade. I have heard Phill from Bitfinex (the CSO) say in the past that if something "broke" Bitcoin that caused its price to quickly go to near zero and not recover (or some similar situation), then lenders would likely face losses.     

I would suggest that you make it known and public that blazed is the one effectively allowing this kind of ratings as he is the reason why lauda (an extortionist) is in the DT network.

Once the above has been addressed m, I would advise doing the same thing with theymos regarding nullc.

Lauda is absolutely not someone who should be in any position of power and/or discretion as he has proven himself to lack any kind of ethics and/or morals. I would absolutely not trust him nor would I advise others doing the same.

Lauda is allowed to have his own opinion, however using his position of power to attempt to silence and/or discredit those who disagree with him and speak out against him is absolutely not okay.

A court will only enforce a contract and has a high standard of evidence necessary to issue an order effectively "reversing" a fiat transaction.

Technically speaking, a court could reverse a Bitcoin transaction by ordering one party to pay another party the fiat equivalent of a btc transaction and jail someone who doesn't comply.

A "mass payment" pp transaction is going to be reversible because the owner of the sending account can claim their account was hacked and/or the funds could originate via fraudulent means.

I would not trade with the OP with the terms offered.

shapeshift.io

txid?

Their blog post about tx fees says that they will charge 0.0002 btc in tx fees. I don't see any reason why they would charge more than that. The user has no control over what inputs they use/have. They should charge fees in a way to account for the fact that they will sometimes need to consolidate many inputs as they did in your transaction.

I was not able to find that address on the foreclosure listing website, however I would guess that someone creating a listing had the same virus and copied something from their clipboard when they created the listing.

The third site is a warning to others and is somewhat expected.

The Wordpress site seems to be designed for what is likely SEO purposes. It is possible that the creator of the virus created that site in the hopes that people would google that address find that site and call those customer support numbers (assuming those phone numbers are some kind of scam).

You are a scammer

If you lose money (eg your principal and interest are not repaid) via lending on an exchange such as Poloniex, then you will probably not want to continue lending out your money, even if you lose a small portion of what you lent.

If it is known that a small percentage of lenders end up loosing money via making loans on Poloniex, then others will hesitate to lend because the EV of making a loan may be unknown and/or negative.

Poloniex does make some money from loans that it's customers make via lending fees, however the *real* way that Poloniex makes money via loans made on it's platform is the increased liquidity that lending provides, which attracts users who want to take on large positions to their platform, which both generates trading fees and adds further liquidity to their platform even if they do not use margin.

For the above reasons, I think that it would be likely for poloniex to step in and cover losses when a borrower's account has negative equity (eg., they cannot fully repay their loans) in order to maintain confidence in their lending markets. They may not be able to do this if there are very large lending related losses.   

I would also not open any file that the OP sends you......there is the potential that any file the OP sends will contain malware.

This sounds a lot like a scam to me.

Is there a reason why you have to give away actual BTC via the faucet?

If the purpose of the faucet is to allow users to try out PD without having to deposit money, then I don't see the reason why you couldn't give users worthless credits that cannot be withdrawn for the faucet.

I am curious to know how frequently a new user will first try out the faucet and subsequently deposit BTC to play at your site with, and how much ends up being gambled with this BTC. This is obviously private information, so you don't have to share it with me, nor share it publicly if you don't want to, however it is information that you will want to know yourself, because it will help you measure the benefits of having a faucet.

An additional benefit to the faucet is that it may attract additional users to the chat, which may make playing at your site more enjoyable for non-faucet users. This however is more difficult to measure.

I would prefer a USD based loan.

When would you be able to repay the loan?

What term and interest rate are you needing/offering?

Do you want the loan based on USD or BTC?

I am not disagreeing with the rating in this case (I actually agree that it is appropriate), however do you think you could use reference links and a slightly greater level of detail in the negative ratings that you leave?

Doing so will make it a lot easier to evaluate if the person is actually a scammer, and to evaluate if you are in the wrong or not when these types of threads pop up.