I see, thanks for explanation. So he picked up the number that fits his little narrative the best



This part of the conversation (in the screenshot below) says much about bounty manager, and that his client's interest is very low on his priority list. Despite huge amount of bounty hunter's work being rejected, he insists that bounty pool is fixed and that it shouldn't be adjusted. To me that doesn't make any sense, and generally this stake system is seriously flawed unless bounty pool is can be adjusted, depending on the amount of bounty hunters that did proper work. Unless you adjust it, you end up with someone getting 10k USD for a lousy article and that is just wrong, imho.





Those altcoin teams obviously have no clue about bounty campaigns, since they are willing to allocate such a huge amount for bounty campaign. Bounty managers probably promise them thousands of quality bounty hunters and that's how they persuade them to allocate unrealistically high amount.

I don't think that you understand the meaning of the word "escrowed". If funds were escrowed, that means trusted 3rt party would hold the funds, neither you or your client. It would be good if you can share signed message with those BTC funds that you claim to have, given your shaky reputation here.

Another thing, since you said that you received USDT yet signatrue will be paid in BTC; what will happen if BTC suddenly starts pumping and goes up 20-30%? Who will cover the difference as USDT you were given in that case won't cover the expense of the bounty campaign.

Hah yeah, you are probably right. It still baffles me how bounty hunters (and Dave here is not an exception but a rule, I saw that before ) think that they are somehow crucial for  altcoin project's success while in reality their reach is almost non existent. I can't imagine anyone reading some poorly written Medium article and then deciding to invest.

C'mon man, you really think that because of bounty hunters activity Student Coin managed to raise $70 million? Out of curiosity, I decided to check your Twitter and work that you done for Student Coin Bounty, so here are few examples of your tweets:
https://twitter.com/okocha_chika?s=08



Your whole Twitter history consists of similar tweets; few tags and link of the original tweet. Despite having more than 10,000 followers, the only likes you were getting for these tweets are your own (LOL), so what kind of reach are we talking about here? No one liked/retweeted/commented on your tweets, yet you claim that bounty hunters like you had  main role in Student Coin raising $70M. For that work you were supposed to get ~64,000 tokens that are currently worth ~$960. Insane amount of money for such subpar work and non existent reach.

For that amount of money (200 million STC currently worth $3M) Student Coin could have hired some top tier Twitter/YouTube influencers and pay for professionals writers with the real reach, so no wonder that when they saw the work, they dramatically reduced the bounty pool.

Don't get me wrong, it sucks that bounty hunters keep getting scammed over and over again, but you should really consider some due diligence before joining bounty campaign. You see campaign with inflated bounty pool like in this case? Instant red flag, as simple as that!

Thanks for explanation. Since he wrote "my new record" I thought that 52 days was his personal best, which is already impressive, but the real one is completely insane lol.


Hah, I've checked Merit Dashboard so many times and yet I never checked that tab before. Found myself there as well, my personal record of 19 consecutive days looks pretty measly

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I see, thanks. Well, that fall after 10th anniversary art contest was kinda expected, so yeah, looking forward to other member's merit data before I finish that monthly overview.

This is some serious drop! Out of curiosity, what was the previously biggest weekly drop, was it anywhere close to this one, or difference between is so big that makes you doubt your numbers?

Anyway, good to see that despite this weekly drop, last month wasn't the new all time low (that record holds April 2021 with 15551 merit shared) but looking at monthly amount of merit shared, trend is obvious so I hope that theymos reconsiders either introducing new merit sources, or readjust the monthly merit allocation to the existing ones.


Damn that's some crazy feat, kudos! By the way, is that the forum record or your personal?

True, no one announced winners here, so let me share then.

Like the last year, Nionio ( I don't know his bitcointalk username) and I shared the first prize of 0.01 BTC. A a reminder, here are the winning pizzas; on the top you can see his pizza shaped as a BTC sign, and on the right side is mine.

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Thanks @Cyrus once again for organizing this, and hopefully more people will join next year. I am especially looking forward to our Italian members joining the contest!

No matter how many times I see this, it always makes me chuckle 


I wouldn't say that Satoshi is important person in Hungary just because few guys decided to put the statue, but rather than he is important to those guys who organized this.


Not only him, but the famous Bitcoin pizza guy Laszlo Hanyecz is also Hungarian

What about "dislike"? I mean, if you want to have "like", why not to have dislike too, seeing so much bs being written all over the place. I know that de-meriting was proposed too, but that would probably be too drastic, but dislike would be nice addition, especially if post that gets enough dislikes get hidden, so something similar to reddit.

Lol what a cringe, "community" creating petition for someone to sell his bitcoin. What a bunch of woosies and crybabies. Those were probably celebrating the loudest when at first Elon promoted bitcoin and now they changed the tune. Ffs, just stop giving him all that attention  and sooner or later he will stop with his bullshit.

Yep. It's one thing when you see someone mentioning Metamask or MEW, two widely used wallets, and OWNR is complete opposite. I honestly don't know anyone that trued using it, and if it weren't for signature campaign I would probably never heard about it.


They didn't mindlessly  spammed either forum or their threads, making it much harder to notice them. So yeah, this thread bumping and prmotion is level above classical shitposters that are doing this kind of thing.

Beside them, I think that there is a group of high ranking accounts doing the same thing but on much higher level. The only problem is that they are doing pretty good job making it really hard to connect the accounts and certain threads where they are active.

As a matter of fact, those are not the only two newbie accounts that are promoting OWNR either in other threads, or bumping their own. If you check Visa cards affiliate program from OWNR  you can find more newbie accounts with the same M.O:  waking up after the break and going straight to OWNR wallet thread.

Few examples:
icewitch0612 wakes up after 6 months break just to leave this comment

achach comes back after big break, and goes to some thread to promote OWNR

And then one month later goes to before mentioned thread and answers to icewitch0612. Coincidence? I think not.


LincolnMikkel wakes up after  a year long break just to leave this in OWNR thread

nguyenvl159 does the same thing, after 5-6 months break, he visits OWNR

christhemaner doing exactly the same thing

Then comes yet another newbie kecha1, again same M.O.

Then there is a one month break, and next round of newbies doing the same thing





To much coincidence for my taste, it looks like classic thread bumping. Same thing can be found in their main thread OWNR wallet. Buy, exchange and store crypto. Order Visa prepaid card, in which majority of the accounts i mentioned also wrote.

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So yeah, I think that you are onto something @Pmalek, this is not just some random users of OWNR talking casually about it, this looks like a paid campaign.

Ma nisam ja to uopce tempirao ili nesto pratio, nego mi je dopizidilo svakodnevno pratiti cijene tih shitcoina da izadjem na vrijeme pa sam odlucio rasprodati sve sto mislim da dugorocno nece imati smisla, tako da mi je ostao samo BTC i ETH. Nakon toga sam obrisao Blockfolio sa moba i prebacio se u HODL mode.

Moj savjet: vadi pomalo profit, nemoj cekati neke imaginarne brojke pa sve utopit odjednom, jer to je cista kocka.

I popularni altcoini su imali perspektivu samo na papiru (neki bi rekli da je i Cardano primjer toga), skupili milijarde dolara u ICOu i nakraju neslavno propali. Dobar primjer toga je EOS koji je 2018 bio jako popularan, nazivan "ETH killerom" i sta sve ne. Sjecam se da sam ga nekad 2019 prodao za ETH sa gubitkom od 50%, sto se ispostavilo kao odlicna odluka jer je u medjuvremenu pao sa 0.025 ETH na 0.0025. Onomad sam za 200 EOSa dobio cca 5 ETH, a danas ta kolicina EOSa vrijedi 0.5 ETH.

HODL nije uvijek najbolja opcija, nekad treba pregristi i uzeti loss. Ja sam to napravio 2019, sve altove prebacio uglavnom u BTC i nesto u ETH te se ispostavilo kao super odluka. Da sam cekao, imao bi danas dosta manje kripta.

Reporting those posts should do the trick imho, if you haven't tried so far.

edit: Just looking at their post history and it doesn't look like a big issue to me, as they are not that active at all. Unless there were way more posts and you reported them so they are removed already.

If you have all the evidence, why don't you share them? Ok, at first you maybe didn't know what's the proper way to make scam accusation thread but others shared you the template which you decided to ignore.

That's stubborn and lazy approach won't get you far,especially when you are accusing someone with a good reputation.

Don't worry, mods probably saw your appeal, but they don't react immediately. Thing is, usual way that people in your situation manage to get their account back is if other members say that you are net positive for this forum, that you somehow contributed. But since you mostly spammed in the gambling section filling post quota, you chances are slim to none.

With that being said, I would personally like to see signature ban being used more often in similar situations and preferably lengthy one, like year or two.

That case is exactly one of the reasons why I think it would be good to get some kind of response, instead waiting for two years to get some feedback, and it doesn't necessarily have to be public. I am pretty sure that majority of people active in that thread (or at least those that were asking for 2nd chance) would agree with this. I guess mods & admins have a good reason why they do it this way instead.


Yep, totally agree on this, OP should exercise more patience as it's only been a week since he started ban appeal.

Of course they count on greed, what else. Let's not kid ourselves, vast majority of people that ate into crypto because of they possibility to make some money, and not because they are into all that financial freedom story or the tech part of it. Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with that, but crypto investors are perfect targets and that's why we see so many scam attempts. And then you add constant influx of new people that are not aware of all the dangers, and you get what we have now.

Rule of thumb: someone sends you unsolicited PM on Telegram=scam.

Couldn't agree more. People often think that 10-12 years is very long period of time and that Bitcoin somehow failed because its use didn't reach mass adoption yet, while in reality this is extremely short period of time for something as complex and I think that not even Satoshi thought that Bitcoin will spread as much as it did.