Hey mdayonliner. I think you'll be very interested in this one  ). https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=878336I don't have enough proof to conclude that they're alt accounts but I think this is very weirdo when this Sr. Member send so many Merit points to other account with lower rank in just a short time. If they're not alts then it has been bought which is equally untrustworthy behaviour. |
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By doing quality posts you will get merit but you will have to be very lucky because all the quality posts dont get merited only few one
Do you seriously believe that your posts count as quality posts? I think this one just didn't want to let on how they got their Merits. A quick look at their Merit page and trust wall reveals they have an alternative way to get Merit. |
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Finally I got that. I was searching this topic for hours !
Even If it'0s not clear how you give somebody a merit - and you have so few to give it away, members are not encouraged to give them away.
We don't need to be encouraged as it is in our interest to reduce spam. So we award Merit to interesting and informative posts and not posts that had no reason to be made. That way only the people making a valuable contribution here will rank up. The fact that fewer Jr. Members are ranking up now is a measure of success. Maybe after you have been here for some time you will understand that. |
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You might be right, I just noticed that it started happening at the time CloudFlare was introduced. It was never so slow that you would read a post without even knowing there was an image missing before. Also, I'd never seen the 'Invalid Proxy' message displayed when there is a link to a valid image. Whatever it is the post hasn't been changed and the images haven't been moved so it is something about the forum that is preventing them being displayed.
Sometimes, when loading a third-party image, this picture is displayed.  If you refresh the page several times, the normal image is loaded. Yes, that is what I said. I don't remember encountering this problem before the switch to CloudFlare. That doesn't mean it is related and it could be a coincidence. The real point is it happens a lot at the moment and it needs fixing. |
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Back to the closing threads issue. I don't think it would reduce spam as new threads will simply replace them. Many of these threads are actually opened by account farmers for the purpose of answering from their alts. What it would do is stop annoying anyone that replied early in the thread from constantly seeing them pop up in their unread replies page.
Would this not also fall under the opinion and speculation category? I haven't seen much evidence for this, at least in the thread I reply it seems that OP is genuinely interested in getting an answer most of the time, but then get lazy about locking the topic or simply unwatch the thread and never come back. I've been proven ignorant on many things though, so I'm not saying you're wrong; it just seems ironic to place the one as speculation and not this. This is based on what I've seen the moderators say many times so maybe file it under the opinion of those dealing with it every day.  I'd just be happy if there was an auto lock after x days with no posts system and the OP could reopen if they need to. I always want to check threads I've posted in for replies directed @ me and it is a real pain when dead threads are bumped for no reason. |
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2) I see very less number of junior members ranking up. This must be discouraging for the new members who had just joined after the merit system. We should increase merits in circulation.
Less than what? You registered after the system was introduced so how could you know? Unless of course, this is one of many accounts you have. |
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Look at the OP. The image of the gold coin included in Cyrus's post has been deleted.
Is it possible for someone to repost an image?
If you hit quote to get the url https://bitcointalk.org/Themes/custom1/images/star.gif they are still there. The forum has been very slow to load or failing to load images ever since the switch to CloudFlare. CloudFlare has nothing to do with it, IMHO. That's why pictures load for a long time. The forum acts as a proxy for all embedded images. This is a privacy feature to disable tracking pixels, but it's also slow. You might be right, I just noticed that it started happening at the time CloudFlare was introduced. It was never so slow that you would read a post without even knowing there was an image missing before. Also, I'd never seen the 'Invalid Proxy' message displayed when there is a link to a valid image. Whatever it is the post hasn't been changed and the images haven't been moved so it is something about the forum that is preventing them being displayed. |
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Try and search this board and tell me how many demerit or unmerit has been suggested in the last 7 weeks. You should lose 1 merit for suggesting the same thing again.
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You might find this an interesting read. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-16/bitcoin-bubble-or-hyperdeflationIt's a report about a research paper by Incrementum, an independent investment and asset management company. The key point is they highlight 3 outcomes: 1.) Bitcoin Becomes A Store of Value 2.) Bitcoin Becomes A Store of Value and a Medium of Exchange 3.) Bitcoin Becomes Neither and Collapses What you are observing is that at the moment Bitcoin is mainly a store of value (digital gold) and used a little as a medium of exchange (currency). It is very early to say where it will end up but I'd back scenario 2 in the long run. |
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Nice find. You would think if they were capable of gaining access to an account through what ever means they used they wouldn't be so stupid to send a massive amount of merit out of the blue wouldn't you?
Keep an eye on this account and they'll likely make the same mistake twice and expose another hacked account.
Looks like you were right. Patron92 just passed the extra 13 Merit fattyforhire needed to rank up to Full Member. Trying to be a little more discrete this time did it in 4 small transactions. Sent in the last 120 days Today at 02:51:24 PM: 4 to fattyforhire for Re: Facebook & Google creating its own Cryptocurrency! Today at 02:50:39 PM: 3 to fattyforhire for Re: is this great time to buy bitcoin??? Today at 02:50:15 PM: 3 to fattyforhire for (Deleted/Off-limits/Ignored) Today at 02:49:15 PM: 6 to fattyforhire for Re: 1btc = 6k usd Trust summary for fattyforhire Timelord2067 2017-12-15 0.00000000 Reference fattyforhire u=103589 is self admitted alt of dasdo u=554226 who is banned (apparently) |
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Do some research on Merkel's past. He was born in West Germany in 1954, shortly afterwards her father, a leftist clergyman, moved the family to East Germany while most were trying to escape the other way. As a student, she joined the communist movement and learned Russian to facilitate a career in politics, being able to communicate with the masters was important. Look east to Russia and Putin (an old acquaintance from when he was in the KGB stationed in East Berlin) and you might be nearer to understanding Merkel's interests.
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Why people posting their signature ? Address is not enough ?
So if they get hacked! how they wanna restore their account ? because hacker see they signature on this topic
It is a signed message. You need the private key to the address to sign a message from it. Somone can hack a forum account but they can't hack a Bitcoin address and forge a signed message. So if you can sign another message later on from the same address you did here you can prove you are the real owner. |
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Haha, The idea of this topic was already posted in 2013, but the problem at that time that the search function is broken, and surely the reason is to avoid any Kind of DDOS attacks. So the best thing to do is just type in GOOGLE: site:bitcointalk.org "type what you want to search"
Now, I tested the search function in the forum, it works perfectly too. People can do their research easily with these two above methods.
I didn't know the search function here had been fixed as I got into the habit of doing it on Google so long ago and it works really well. |
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You mean the guy didn't really want to buy the coins, just to pump the price. But, isn't that risky? Hypothetically, someone could be selling that many coins at the very same time.
It's always been risky but it has been practised in trading since time began. Now on fiat exchanges, they do it with ultra-high speed bots, colocated at the exchanges, that can pull the order in an instant so there's less risk... unless they get caught as it is also illegal. That doesn't in any way stop it happening though. |
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I take it that's an image of the order book rather than completed trades. That could be a real order that someone wants to buy a large amount at that price but equally, if the price gets there the order could get pulled. Painting the book is a practice that's been part of trading for a very long time, now more commonly called spoofing as it is automated by bots. The idea is to make people think there is demand and then they will buy the price up into the spoofer's sell short orders above. Then when they are filled they pull the large buy order and watch the price fall back to where it came from and take their profit.
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Let them do whatever they want since you are not affected.
I think it is rather obvious that they are affected. One of their alt accounts must be tagged by The Pharmacist, there's no other reason to be so upset that he's back on DT. theymos hasn't been fooled by anyone, as already pointed out in this thread it is a decentralised system and DT1 members make the decision who they include or exclude from DT2, not theymos. |
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what is it with this mayax person and his endless and epic attempts to scare people about exchanges? he must've written about a million words trying to convince people that they'd lost everything with btc-e.
i can only guess he's an embittered former exchange operator himself which makes the guy mark karpeles.
I checked his post history out once and that's all he does. I've ruled out the possibility of him being a paid shill as he just doesn't have the cognitive ability to make a reasoned argument. So an embittered something or other. |
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