Bitcoin.org is definitely too wordy From their "What is Bitcoin?" Bitcoin is a consensus network that enables a new payment system and a completely digital money. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network that is powered by its users with no central authority or middlemen. From a user perspective, Bitcoin is pretty much like cash for the Internet. Bitcoin can also be seen as the most prominent triple entry bookkeeping system in existence. On-topic, what I'd say is look out for infographics. I googled "What is Bitcoin infographic" under "Images" and found lots of results. This seems pretty good: https://s3.amazonaws.com/promotionalcodes.ae/what-is-bitcoin.jpg despite being old (has listed price of BTC at 6$) but might not be suitable for you as it advertises other things and might be too outdated. Good luck |
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What if we just took away the cops for one moment and see what would happen. Someone commits a crime, then what?
We could work together as a team to take out the man.
We could work together as a team to take out the man! But there are more bad men. And they come in groups. So later, we decide to prepare too, prepare to take out those bad men. All of us aren't free all the time, so we dedicate some people to take out those bad men. But wait. Sometimes our dedicated people take out good men who they thought were bad. Let's make some guidelines to decide whether people are bad or not. And kids, that's how laws were made. |
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If the information is public then it will most likely not get removed. I am not sure how a passport photo became public however if it is then it will almost certainly stay up.
I am not sure about the OP's story about being framed however I don't think I believe it. The fact that he is claiming to be extorted is deducting credibility points in my eyes.
OP is suspicious, but this other guy isn't providing much either. I tried to ask him for details on any single scam and context behind the transaction ID he provided (b6826cb70e3d1d98f1fb41744686a445a74a0f1af65aa701241845e03924e3c7) His reply: A miner from one of his scam sites (dragon-miner.me). Back when he was pretending to be Jin, the Chinese guy.
I don't see any proof of him being "Jin, the Chinese guy" and even if it was hard to prove, the person accusing OP has not given any details. Which address supposedly belongs to him and which belongs to OP? What was the agreement? Is there anyone else who was scammed who can agree? He listed dozens of sites, yet I can't find anyone else agreeing with his accusations. (I haven't searched too thoroughly, if someone can find someone else affected by this supposed scam, post a link) |
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Just open inspect element on that page  <!--
Get over it, this is a parody/joke. Apologies that I ripped the art from the actual Defcon page.
DT is a really nice guy and he would never say these sorts of thing. Or would he?
Nah, I'm sure he wouldn't.
Have a good time at Defcon. See you at the Rio!
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The problem is that it is reversible, much like Paypal.
Most major currency traders will offer to provide it, but not accept it.
If you have any other alt, try putting that up as collateral. Alternatively, since the amount is rather small, try looking for no-collateral lenders. It's unlikely that they will come to you, look around for them. It's rather likely that you'll not find anything in the next three days, so it's more than likely that you'll have to resort to simply waiting for your other funds to come through.
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Can you sign with any past address? Would be a lot more solid than any gmail history. You had a loan thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=742699.0Can you sign with any of the repayment addresses written by you in any unedited post? Or any other one you can bring forward. (or was your wallet in some way recoverable by your mail?) |
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Gyft used to be amazing. They offered Zeevex cards and Zeevex could be used to buy steam wallet funds. But then Steam cut off Zeevex.
For now, I use it to play poker occasionally, to buy steam games (mostly from individual users rather than bigger sellers) and occasionally exchange it for Paypal when I need things that don't accept Bitcoin.
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The blockchain is around 37 GB atm, makes me prefer Electrum which uses remote servers for most of the blockchain. I'd suggest Electrum over most others. Also, making a donation address is quite easy. Websites such as this: http://bitcoinqrcode.org/ can allow you to make a QR code out of your address, which can be simply displayed alongside the address itself. If you expect donations to be in large amounts and vital to you, and need safety from volatility, you can try coinbase ( https://www.coinbase.com/merchants). It can auto-convert your BTC to USD. |
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Checking the account, there is 50 hours of recorded game activity in the last two weeks. ( https://steamcommunity.com/id/gatewayzsz/games/?tab=recent) Most of the CS:GO related achievements (Gold Bloodhound and level 19) require quite a bit of recent activity too. Rather suspicious, could mean that this account doesn't belong to this user, or that it is a scam. Even if attached email address is sold to the buyer, the account can be retrieved using other credentials, such as CC or Paypal information. Rather risky, especially in conjunction with the fact that this is the first post. |
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I think the most successful cam shows do it by convincing the "clients" that they are more than just clients.
I mean, even a hundred sounds too much for a camgirl, but if you've been roped in and become a "regular" and a lot of the donations are guised as "gifts", I can easily imagine a lot of people seeing it as some sort of online relationship.
And if you think of it from that perspective, a gift of a few hundred is possible. 7k sounds huge, but still sounds feasible.
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In my opinion, poker is 51% skill and 49% luck.
For example- If it was 100% luck, there were no players that will win so much tournaments, and there is almost no way to see amateur player in the final table of WSOP.
I perceived the question slightly differently. Sure, if it is about WSOP, I'd say its mostly skill, with an element of luck. But, when talking about Online Bitcoin Poker, there is a significantly lower skill level, particularly due to lower stakes. To go for the WSOP, you have to pay 10k$, to play online though, you can even play freerolls and start off. The high stakes community is not too active (there are occasional high rollers) and I'd guess atleast 90% of the players gamble under 10$ in an average session. I doubt many players have actual strategies, or prior practice. So, while your idea of more luck than skill may hold true for WSOP, it probably does not hold true for online Bitcoin poker. |
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I'd say its almost purely luck, atleast in online games.
Most of my online poker experience is with Dogecoin, primarily because it's easier to find cheaper rooms. I play poker, not with the intent of winning big, but with the intent of just having fun.
I see people playing seriously on tables where max buy in is around 10k doge or 2$, but on anything lesser, all-ins are really common.
I think the game is mostly luck, atleast on the lower tiers of online gambling.
The skill level of most people I see is not too high, as to make it highly based on skill over luck.
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But the impact is already visible on our sales.
Correlation does not imply causation. Most likely just a coincidence, don't worry about it. If he spams your threads, make them self moderated and delete any spam. IIRC, you can't make threads self-moderated after creating them. There is an option when you create it only. Trust ratings aren't moderated so you can't ask mods/admins to delete them. Yup, you can't make a post self-moderated after it has been created. Though, his existing post has mostly spam from this person, and making a new self-moderated post wouldn't be too hard and wouldn't cost him anything. On trust ratings, you're almost right. The only case where they are moderated is when they are spammed with some other purpose. I think they are moderated when there is advertising in the trust ratings. |
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But the impact is already visible on our sales.
Correlation does not imply causation. Most likely just a coincidence, don't worry about it. If he spams your threads, make them self moderated and delete any spam. |
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*snip* i am sure it will be not easy for some one to run a bot on this site. i wll keep capture each match and will analyisis players moves, and will make sign up system we hard so it will be not easy for a bot to log in in this site
I'm not sure if increasing the difficulty of signing up, and other such measures, is a good idea - they might end up making the site less useable, while not really stopping players from using their favorite chess program to cheat. But, perhaps analyzing player moves as you mentioned, maybe along the lines of what XinXan previously suggested, might help somewhat. That's quite problematic too, to be honest. If it is not done in realtime, as in the analysis will be done after the match (as the "i will keep capture each match" suggests), withdrawals will be delayed. This will be bad for any site, especially if they are new. Chess.com is a rather famous site. How do they do it ? They wait for reports from players of cheating. After a player is reported for cheating, their plays will be monitored and analysed. Not one game, over multiple games. An online chess website that involves money can't afford to let a cheater poach their regular players, but they cannot also risk banning players that are just good at chess. Also, banning won't mean much. On chess.com, there are very few tournaments with prize money, and those are open to only established players. Most of whom pay between 5-14$ a month for various tiers of membership. On the other hand, losing an account after breaking even wouldn't mean much. Boot up a proxy, start cheating again. TL;DR: Stopping cheating is hard when there is no monetary incentive. When there is money involved though, it's pretty near impossible. |
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It looks like the last time the account was active prior to the forum hack was April 24, 2015, then the forum got hacked on May 21, 2015, then the account was active again on June 4, 2015.
Unfortunately the password log (the public one) does not go back that far, however there are three recent password changes ~2 weeks ago, one on June 27, one on June 28 and one on June 29, 2015. The first post since the June 4 post was after the last password change on June 29. I would conclude this to mean that the first password change was someone changing the password and giving it to an escrow, the second one was the escrow changing the password again and providing it to the buyer, and the June 29 password change was the buyer changing it from what the escrow provided to his own password.
If the account was really hacked or not is anyone's guess, although the presence of a signed message that the buyer has should be proof that the owner was the one who sold it. Unfortunately many people do not know to ask for a signed message, so even if it was the owner who sold the account, there may not be a signed message confirming the trade.
Hmm, have you seen any precedent to this? Do the admins support someone who can prove that they have bought the account over someone who can prove that they originally owned the account? I know that they are okay with account transfers, but I don't know to what extent they enforce account transfers. Do you have any experience with admins stepping in and helping an account buyer over the original account owner? |
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Remember when everybody told you that activity periods are 14 days long? They liedThe actual length of each time period is 1210000 seconds, or 14.0046296296 days to 10 digits of precision. Here is where theymos officially said it and here is an explanation of this in more depth. And don't call me pedantic |
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Check out this thread with the activity period timings: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=582736.0Assuming you post in every subsequent activity period atleast once, and have atleast 60 posts, you will have the required activity on the 18th of August, and you'll become a Member at 12:13 GMT. You need to give it upto an hour to update, so you should be a member by 1 PM GMT on the 18th of August, assuming you post a minimum of 32 more posts with atleast one in each 14 day period. |
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Generally, you can give trust at any time, but always give an accurate amount staked.
That refers to the amount they could have stolen from you, but did not steal.
Also, writing in the feedback what happened is useful too.
Write whether you gave the ebook first or if they sent the money first.
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Report the post if it violates the forum rules. But since it was talking about a service on-topic, I doubt it would be removed.
Alternatively, try remaking the thread as a self-moderated thread if it is relatively new. Self-moderated threads allow you to moderate the discussion, but may be seen as suspicious.
Finally, you could try to reply to his posts. Possibly show your own counter-evidence, and as ajrah said, try to show that you are legitimate by proving it to the rest of the community.
An allegation from someone with 4 posts and a Newbie rank doesn't hold much weight, so you don't need to worry about it too much.
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