Thought we were talking about PMs, but if you're talking about the old links you posted, are you not already beating a dead horse that died a long time ago, when ripoffreport was shown to be an invalid source with bad information that *anyone* on the internet can submit anonymously?

Full context proof, or it didn't happen.

Thank you theymos.There was a lot of great artwork, and a lot of great creativity!.. I couldn't imagine having to sort through it all and distribute awards/badges/etc.

While I do tend to cringe on poll threads like this in general, I'm at least happy to be part of the list!  

Thanks to all the cool people who have, or will, vote for me.  

And remember people that no matter who you are or what you do to live, thrive, and survive.. there's still some things that make us all the same.. You, Me, Them... Everybody, Everybody. Everybody needs somebody to love. -Elwood Blues  

^^ Well that's a tough bar to set...  

Happy Anniversary Bitcoin Forum!

Damn eddie13, I thought I was the only one paranoid around here.

The type of corrupt agencies you are throwing into the mix here would certainly not have needed Vod's dox, nor an IRS complaint, to attempt any of the things you've mentioned, and many people on this forum would have had the intelligence to have found Og's location in the past (still could). I'd guess the government agencies you are referring to are well aware of who the treasurers of this forum are, their locations, and probably even their financial information.

But as I've stated already, I didn't agree with a public dox and it did cross a line that I think should only be crossed if someone is confirmed 100% as a scammer.


Thinking of someone else??  Who else would he be thinking of?

There's no feedback because it never happened. Nor will you see any feedback from Og to anyone saying they were sent a miner and ran away with it.
Why would he not have left feedback for something like that?  It's a little hard for me to believe he was thinking of someone else so I have no choice to think he made it up to attack my character and taint the validity of my post, just because he didn't like what I was saying.

As for the "sorry" comment, I saw Vod at least attempt a truce early on and it was ignored. Og doesn't seem to want this to end, he wants to win. Og has bumped this thread plenty after it has died down.

My investment was in BTC and the returns were to be weekly BTC distributions to your coins address.
So the percentage you are looking for is < 1% (.6%) over the past 4 years. Do you believe this was a wise use of my BTC?

I have no clue what you tried to work out with Vod, as that was between you and him. I've asked you numerous times in the past to show me more proof or evidence (in context) on any of your claims, and you won't. Explain to me where I've been a manipulative liar?

While I wouldn't blame you for my stupidity, I figured I still had a right to warn others not to be stupid.. and I don't believe I lied about anything. You trying to exert control over me to do otherwise (making up a story about me stealing, calling me a liar, and casually bringing up my dox) all seem a little hypocritical given the situation.

I'd love for you to post a link to where I downloaded the background on my 1st entry and put a trophy on top of it?  

Do you have anything to say about my 2nd entry?
(shameless plugs )

Yours came from: https://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/new-yorker/caption-the-cartoon/the-last-supper.html
Where it says below the image:

This, to me, says there were artists that created this cartoon and they held a contest on what caption goes best with the image.

I told you privately I was going to post something this weekend to garnish a community consensus, but based on what I'm seing here today, I don't think it's necessary.
If theymos thinks I was out of line with this feedback, he is welcome to call me out on it.


1) Stock imagery is used all the time, various images online have various usage rights. A free public domain image that has no usage rights and is free for personal or commercial use, IMO, does not necessarily require credits in this situation. A stock image could depend on the type of usage rights a person has been granted when acquiring it. You appear to be getting into copyright infringement, which I think is worse than generalized plagiarism, as you are defining it. The two terms could go hand in hand but there are some differences.

2) It appears to me that "staff artists" created the image, as per my comment above. Da Vinci's stuff is in the public domain and I personally wouldn't consider it plagiarism nor copyright infringement.

Alright.. I ended up drafting a response, but, it ended up at 946 words.     I can't bring myself to post it.

When I read it, I felt like it's just going to be interpreted as me attacking Og and that's not what I want to be perceived as doing. It was my decision to invest in this coin and I've accepted that I'll never get my BTC back. I posted my comment to enlighten a new user, in a witty way, because all I can do is laugh about it at this point.. and I felt like I needed to say something, which I have a right to do.

I've been feeling like I have to defend myself because Og started making stuff up about me, calling me a liar, and making it look like I ran off with a miner he sent me (in edit#2)  (an edit he later switched out). None of this is true.

I'm going to try to summarize the remainder of my draft and hopefully not come off as attacking anyone, as that is not my intent.

My PM below is when I dropped support for NastyFans, in 2016, and when I realized I may have made a mistake with this coin because the person I thought I was dealing with was now appearing shady to me.

The re-quote I mention is when I expressed my concerns about DogeDigital (a MoneyPot owner), laid out my case against him which I had already left feedback for, and asked for his opinion. (BTW, DogeDigital's trust didn't really get much better after that )
Og never responded to me, but had frequently responded to me in the past. Nonetheless, <2 weeks later I had heard nothing back and then saw he removed his NastyFans sig and was now advertising for MoneyPot.

So I sent the message above expressing my dislike for it and re-quoting my original message, his response to this was that the money was too good of an offer to refuse.


Was I happy at this point in 2016?  No... but at the end of the day, the man has a right to do whatever he wants with his signature, but it wasn't the type of person I personally wanted to go out of my way to support and didn't resemble the person I thought I had been dealing with, and I didn't trust him as much as I had.

I removed my own NastyFans signature and stopped my eagerness to support NastyFans, but I also wasn't comfortable passing the puck (so to speak) to someone else, so I still have the coin today.

Public post below (it was also described this way privately btw)

"weekly distributions" quickly turned into: See for yourself: Here is my public address for NastyFans for my minted seats

My purchase on 6/20/2015: 049bcdd256b10703d9d029ab32fec06b206d15bbf96848235d6bdf4071e72fed
weekly distributions to my coin's address:
Total current amount in "queue" (accumulated since 11-19-2017): 0.0003855

I believe I have a right to be a little perturbed as it seems like future distributions are not coming anytime soon from my perspective.

Og and his mining operation are apparently doing just fine though, in the past 2 years: solar panels, wind turbines, power wall, sponsorships, etc.

I have no clue what he has mining (I don't recall ever seeing any pictures, I'd like to see some! Most miners love showing this stuff off) and I've got no clue what he could potentially be manipulating with statistics/hashrate/distributions/etc. I've lost trust that the man is sincere, and he's further proven this to me by the lies he threw at me yesterday, which was off-putting, at best.

The whole point of the seats were to get long-term weekly BTC distributions, so I really don't want to hear the "Oh but you've gotten $100 USD out of your $400 purchase 4 years ago". If I wanted to invest $400 and get $100 back 4 years from now, I wouldn't have used this forum or BTC at all. I expected to get weekly distributions returned in BTC consistently for the long-term, as that is how it was described to me.

I never expected 4 years later to have only gotten ~ .01BTC in "weekly" distributions. I also never expected the limited production batch of 100 coins would still be available 4 years later. The distributions were about the same in 2015 as they were towards the end of 2017, and seemed to have grinded to a halt now.

It is what it is. Like I said, I've had to accept my losses, but I am still justified to post what I posted. Hopefully I've helped someone avoid my mistakes.

I'm nobody's lacky and I'm not sure why this thread has anything to do with what I posted in another thread relating to you, NastyFans, my purchase, and a newbie asking a question.


lol, no. I'll respond to this tomorrow, if anyone actually believes this, I can tell you my confidence in Og dropped significantly in 2016 and I don't even remember what the exchange rate was at the time. If I have to post PMs to prove this, I will, but I don't like doing it.. it's lame, but Og is resorting to doing this with me so I'm not sure I have much of a choice.

Nice to see you're still able to cherry pick quotes.    

I'm feeling awfully witty today.

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(EDIT #2)

Not sure if you're trying clever wordplay here or not but outside of a 5oz coin, you never sent me anything.

The only time you and I had a discussion about a miner was when I was offering you 2 miners I already owned for free so you could use them, for additional seats. I believe you told me to post them in the thread and give them away to someone else. I kept my miners.  (my edit: ok, I thought I offered them (2 miners) for free but my memory was off -- had to go back and check the messages.)

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EDIT#3 (Og is playing edit games, disappointing.     I'll try to keep each edit here as I see them.)

^ Like your edits?? (sorry, still feeling witty today... )

Look, I'm just trying to educate the newbie whom is asking about making purchases and you started circling like a shark, referencing your feedbacks, of which I am a part of. Where did I lie in my post?

I fully accept it was an unwise investment on my behalf.. but my decision was made based on how the concept was described to me in 2015 and who I thought I was dealing with in 2015. Live and learn, I guess.

Everything I've said is the truth.

You really don't want to start pulling out old PMs. I honestly have no interest in causing you any further damages to you or your organization and I'd prefer you not make me put you or me in any awkward situations. And no, this isn't a threat, just know that I will not have someone call me a liar when it is not true. It's unfair and uncalled for.

I recall one purchase I've made in the past... a physical coin. You wanna buy it?

It's a NastyFans 5oz silver physical bitcoin with 5 minted seats which collect a little bitcoin dust every year. You could have everything its collected over the past 4 years PLUS any dust in the future! It would be just like you're joining the club in 2015 -- instant old timer! PLUS it also makes a great looking paper weight.

OgNasty just said physical bitcoins will rise in value though, so it's even tougher to let this go now, but I'm willing to sell it for the price I bought it for... ~1.6BTC. Since your new, I'll even cut you a huge deal -- 1BTC w/free shipping!   

It's a steal of a deal!!  PM if interested!! 

I'd say "/sarcasm" here.. but IF you wanna buy it -- I'm serious!!

....Keep your BTC or buy BTC!

As long as this guy has some way to confirm he is "YesterdaysNews2" from reddit, it wouldn't be considered plagiarism. Whether or not it should be considered a valid entry.. I'd say probably not. Not specifically related to bitcointalk, and obviously didn't spend any time on it for this contest.

However, something doesn't sit right with me and this account acting like they are "Leafandwoodshop.com". He's only once mentioned the website and started his first post saying he accepts BTC only. Why wouldn't they be linking to their own website and also accepting BTC?  "Leafandwoodshop.com" obviously accepts other payment types.

He also links all of his images through imgur.com. It seems to me that if "leadandwoodshop.com" were going to come here to sell their products, they'd be linking to their own website images and would just add a bitcoin payment option.... so it smells odd to me, not entirely impossible though.

Someone may want to reach out to leafandwoodshop.com and see if they are trying to sell their items on this forum.

How does it fit the contest??


I feel like this should be considered true plagiarism. It's crazy it received so much merit, only if the guy drew these images himself should it deserve that much merit.

Also, even if he gives "credits", it doesn't mean the artist that created it is ok with him taking it and defacing it, then entering it into a contest. He didn't create anything unique or original, merely defaced another groups artwork without their permission and then wrote his name on it as if he did it, then entered it into a contest meant for unique and original artwork. The fact that he posted it without any credit, and signed his name on it, says to me he meant to steal it as his own work.

Had I of known I just had to come up with funny comments to plaster onto someone else's image, I don't know why I would have spent so much of my time creating a unique piece of work.

This dude didn't even take the time to center his text in his the artists chat/thought bubbles and gets over 100 merit. lol  

At best, it's an insult to those that spent actual time with their work.

This thread is linked in the main thread by theymos, as the location for additional discussion... why would the OP lock it??  A subject change, possibly, but it's really not that confusing.

Whether or not a website is going through an upgrade or completely offline for a month, as long as you have the private key, you'd have your wallet (assuming that site didn't steal an unencrypted form of your private key and use it to move your coins, of course).

blockchain.info/.com has been around since 2011 and has never had any major issues to my knowledge. That said, technically anything sent through the internet has a chance of being captured, but in the case of blockchain.com, it should end up getting captured in an encrypted form.

I don't personally use any web wallets and keep everything local with Core, but I realize it's not a practical solution for everyone.

I believe it's a matter of who you chose to trust, your own security practices, and convenience. Web wallets can be convenient and needed but you definitely want the private key, and you have to have some trust the website provider is actually encrypting the key and not stealing it and/or claims they're hacked and the hacker changes the site to steal your keys/password/coins/etc (Instawallet comes to mind).

Also, any browser access to any web wallet, exchange, or any site including blockchain.com always carries a risk of browser-based infections/malware. And even local software has the potential of system-based infections/viruses, none of that would be the fault of the web wallet or the local software since you have to make it your own personal responsibility to keep your system and browser free from those types of infections (and of course keeping the e-mail account secured that you've used with these services).

With Coinbase, you will have no private key. They go down or deny you access, it's their wallet and their private key that "your" coins will be associated with. They should always be treated like an exchange IMO.

I'd think anything DNS-related is unrelated to a DDoS attack, in general.. not just CloudFlare. Unless the DDoS is targeting a DNS server with resolutions in an attempt to overwhelm it, they are typically attacking one or more IPs with some form of traffic and don't really need a DNS server at all. Might be why the thread started derailing.

If we're going to discuss DoH in general, it doesn't seem to me it is really protecting anyone from being tracked by ISPs or middle-men, if that's what the point of this is supposed to be. Outside of something like Tor, once this encrypted resolution is complete, you would still be connecting to a public IP address that could be tracked and identified potentially using RDNS or just a DB that is kept which conducts regular resolutions on domains they may want to monitor, and stores the IPs to cross-reference.

I don't think it is ever a good idea adding an additional point of failure for a DNS resolution inside of a browser as I'd think this could negatively effect a users experience within the browser if CF is having issues, I don't quite understand why DoT isn't more of an accepted solution in the situation.

He started Denarius like 1 month after his last scam coin (TorCoin).. Rinse and repeat. 

Funny enough, he said this in the Nightmare coin thread:

But then PM'd me this after I left feedback for TorCoin, where I referenced Nightmare, Shadow, etc....


 

Ok, a bit off topic but damn, that blows my total time logged in out of the water lol. Out of the 2,107 days you've had an account, you've spent almost half of it logged into the forum.    
I spend a good chunk of time reading while not logged in though so I guess mine is not really an accurate representation of actual time I've spent visiting the forum, at least.. but you make me feel like a newbie.



.. I can't touch that.  


(To keep this somewhat on topic.. MC hammer is Lauda trying to run from CloudFlare/NSA. )

Maybe I haven't researched this enough but why wouldn't CloudFlare be capable of handling DoH?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-tunnel/reference/doh/

I think mine is self explanatory?    It was ultimately the first thing that came to my head when I signed up and revolved around what I was doing.. mining.

I'd also like to take this time to speculate that theymos picked his name because he likes the months with Y in it! (January, February, July, May). The Y Months(mos). Maybe he just likes winter, summer, and spring?     Ya know, Bitcoin was released in January!.. fiscal year begins in July... it all makes sense. lol  

Come on now, digital art is "real" art!  It's all real art, including the cakes. Maybe you meant traditional art?  

IMO, art can be very simple or very complex in its design, but both scenarios could be great pieces of art work. I think art is best judged based on what the image says or the feelings it may create to a person and the meanings behind it which should come through to a person in the work, maybe in various ways.

Personally, I think a portion of the entries are just aimed towards Bitcoin, not entirely bitcointalk. Doesn't mean its bad art, we certainly have some talented people here, but I would have had a different thought process and design if this were a BTC anniversary art contest. All fun stuff to look at though!  

Much better caption BTW!