Theymos is based in the US and pays US taxes. Not sure where the forum is actually hosted but that will be irrelevant and the forum will certainly be governed by US law. With that being said, as far as I'm aware there don't seem to have been any issues with the ponzis posted here but I wouldn't be surprised if the forum does catch the eye or wrath of some US authority eventually.

Because you need to learn and understand how activity works. As has been explained hundreds of times you can only get 14 activity every two week period so you're activity wont update any more till then (which is this Tuesday I believe).

What are you talking about?  An image logo or signatures or something? If it's an image logo then you'll just have to use Photoshop or something similar. People can create bbcode signatures for you in the services section.

No. As long as you make a post in the activity period it will update within the hour.

He's probably just spreading FUD. It is much more likely to be the btc e guy but I've not seen anything concrete so I would disregard it as mere speculation based on rumour right now.

Well I think it was just because it fell under the alt coin giveaway rule, but personally I don't think it should be permitted to make people post in a specific thread because it's a violation of the one bump per 24 hours rule. It's also essentially forcing many users to make a post they probably have absolutely no interest in making thus increasing the chances of a hollow shitpost.

Then it's to do with this:


Please don't post outside of Meta during your ban.

There are always legitimate uses of such services, but of course nefarious people will also (ab)use them. I don't think there was anything inherently wrong or illegal with bitmixer or other such tumbling services, but of course that wont stop the USG coming after them.


No, of course not. Why would it? Lauda already announced it was closed.


Where does it say anything about Bitmixer?

I wonder if they were 5-6 lines of copy and pastes? Nobody can help or you or tell you what your account was banned for unless you tell us the name of it.

These icos could disappear tomorrow and the ads on this forum would not diminish at all. In fact, if that happened they'd probably bring in much more money than they already do because many of these icos would then bid on slots as they would have no other option to advertise themselves here.


I'm not requesting it I just hope these get rich quick scammers get what they deserve. Most of these icos have little to nothing to do with crypto or at the most are largely worthless or negative to it. Most are just straight up scams which are nothing but get rich quick schemes to make the operators millionaires. And I would seriously  question the intelligence of a lot of the people that invest in some of this crap because I doubt most of them will deliver on their promises.

And this is a private forum so you don't have total liberty. Look at how much liberty users already get and they abuse it on masse. There have been people caught with 200 alt accounts spamming the same reworded crap one after the other and they got paid to do it by these ico idiots  who don't care as long as their advert is getting spammed all over the forum. Dozens of campaigns pop up every month and do exactly the same so that's why you need some rules to play by sometimes and not just let the scammers and greedy capitalists run rife and unregulated.

It was locked for breaking the rules of alt coin giveaways. See here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2046480.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2045928.0

I sincerely hope all crapcoin sig campaigns meet the same fate.

Well someone certainly might pay that for a Staff account. Satoshis account would probably be pretty valuable if you could get it unlocked as well which almost certainly isn't going to happen unless someone gets a hold of satoshis private keys. I doubt any Scammer would pay more than a few hundred for even a highly ranked account with a couple of feedback though because you're more than likely to get busted on it before you even have the chance to scam.


Not necessarily. Some people just like to get their foot in the door so to speak, but it certainly does increase the chances it could be used for abuse as well.

You won't be able to get another 14 activity until the next activity period which is this Tuesday I believe. You will then immediately become a Jnr member when you make a post in that new period.

There are no restrictions on how many you can post, but there are time restrictions which prohibit spamming. I would concentrate on the quality of your posts as opposed to the quantity because you can certainly be banned for making poor quality posts. You also cannot spam your way through the ranks due to activity levels so please read about them here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0

Yes it would. We can easily disallow them and trash their threads. And how is the forum financially supported by icos? They pay absolutely nothing to the forum to post or promote themselves here unless they purchase advertising space and most do not. Most just pre mine a load of worthless tokens and dish them out to anybody who can be bothered to sign up and post the most basic of crap or copy and paste somebody else's responses. The level of spam and issues they contribute to the workload of staff is insane and they should be held responsible for that. If they're not just banned outright they should all have to pay something to advertise here because they shouldn't be allowed to advertise for free (which is crazy in itself) and it certainly shouldn't be at the expense of the forum when they do next to nothing about poor posters.


I really hope they legally get shut down if this forum doesn't do something to stop or restrict them because the people who run them are some of the greediest and laziest people I've come across.

As mentioned above FUD isn't explicitly moderated, though if they're being a continual nuisance or trolling then that can be acted upon so contact mprep directly if you would like more action taken and he can weigh it up if further action is warranted.

Can we extend this to alt coin campaigns paying out in anything other than bitcoin? As has been mentioned before a lot of them are not even cryptocoins just tokens and 99% of them do absolutely nothing about spam and all follow the same formula: pre mine a load of worthless crap then give half of it out to anyone who bothers to sign up with their 5,10, 50, 100, 200 alt accounts. The fact that numerous people have been caught getting paid out on 50-200 accounts tells you all you need to know about the lack of management on these campaigns and they're causing probably 98% of the spam right now. I would propose that if you're not paying out in bitcoin then you can't advertise via signatures here and any one that does so should have their threads trashed and accounts banned. The users that continue to advertise them should also have their signatures removed for x amount of time.

I think we should extend this rule to all alt coin campaigns as well and ban any that don't pay out in bitcoin. Paying people to post whatever crap they like without any checks is far worse and it effects the whole forum not just the shitcoin section.


Posting in a thread is hardly a bounty. It's not only breaking the alt coin giveaway rule but they're also evading the one bump per 24 hours rule.

I'll probably start taking in money no later than the 7th. Would have done it on the 1st but there many be some issues with the upgrade.


I have no control over the total pot as it depends on how many players sign up, but if you're in that'll take it up to £400.

The answer to that is simple: don't re-use passwords. I find people are more likely to lose access to their accounts if they change passwords frequently as people tend to forget them and are screwed if they lose access to their computer. Have a fairly strong password, don't re-use it, and make sure you have it safely written down some where and you should be good.