In the process of trying to uncover more details about the scammers deliciousowl (== gumcruise), we uncovered something a bit disturbing about the person he happened to pay 0.5 BTC to.

The first main post containing evidence:


Note 11/08/2015 should say 11/08/2013, but the evidence is pretty incriminating. However some people were not yet convinced, but Phinn brought up some more evidence that conclusively shows that BitcoinStriker is indeed Tymer: One piece of evidence where he calls himself Tymer, and more evidence where his address is used on the server MinecraftCC (run by the magnificent SgtSpike) under a username where he is clearly called Tymer. And another piece where he effectively calls himself Tymer. And some more.


Nothing more needs to be provided. The rep should stay forever so his account becomes defunct.

This is the definite proof. There's nothing else to say beyond this, as it can't be refuted. There is absolutely no reason BitcoinStriker would have an account called Tymer in multiple places if he was not Tymer, so he must be him. So he is a scammer, unless he was hacked in 2014 and hasn't realized yet.

New update (therefore a double post as it's a bit significant):

- Added gambling website Crypto-Games.
- Stats:
- Trustworthiness: A-
- Reliability: A
- Promotions: A-
- Features: A+
- Overall: A

Long review: Crypto-Games is essentially a casino with a wide variety of games. They've been around since 2014 and their thread is decently large now, so while they're not rubbing necks with the most trustworthy sites quite yet, they're still decently trustworthy. However, for me, the site shines with its promotions and features. I love the military rank-based level system, where you can see yourself level up through the ranks taking into account what you've wagered, invested, your referral commissions and more. In fact, at level 30 (the highest level) you get a ridiculous 0.00020500 per faucet request with 60 requests a day. Right now, that's about $5 a day from the faucet alone at the highest level, and while it's tough to get there, that's not too bad at all. You also have a bunch of promotions such as 0% house edge on games for periods of time, of course the faucet and level system, and they're constantly adding new games and coins. This site isn't the oldest, but it definitely earns an A. The only thing holding it back, in my opinion, is the fact that it looks a little messy. That's not something I like to rate sites on, though, so I haven't really taken that into account.

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I'll admit, I have a bit of a soft spot for level systems with military ranks in them. I hope you'll agree with me largely here though that they deserve the A+ for features as this was a close call. Full disclosure, too, I'll likely be taking a signature ad with them tomorrow and while looking at them I noticed they had a thread with >25 pages. I've tried to avoid bias.

I'm also making a move to make the long reviews for websites much more substantial as I think some of them were quite rushed, as you can see. I will be working through and bringing them up to the level of this one throughout next week. Thanks!

No, no-one is. But if Microsoft, Apple and all the other for-profit operating system makers wanted to push the same change to their clients, it'd likely be very successful, correct? Sure, some people would change to something like Linux, but generally the change would be pushed to much more than 75% of computer users. A forced consensus.

Here, we have things such as Coinbase and BitPay and Blockchain. 2 are payment processors, 2 also are wallets. If they forcefully change over to XT/BIP101 we may have large issues.

No-one is actually forced to use Bitcoin Core, in all fairness, and consensus exists for BIP100.

There is general consensus amongst nodes and miners. The fact that some companies are trying to force us to move over to BIP101 does not mean that there is general consensus, only that those and a few others are trying to force us to give consensus to it.

They haven't been forced on anyone. The fact is, there is currently consensus for 1MB blocks. There is not yet consensus in the wider community for BIP101. The fact that Coinbase is trying to force XT and BIP101 on everyone is grossly out of place.

I'd like to join tomorrow to take the Legendary slot, but I'm a little bit unsure why you don't accept posts that are made in Meta. The rest I can understand, but I don't see why you're blocking posts in Meta. I usually make some of my best posts and discourse in Meta and I don't see why they should be discounted.

Who cares if they cut the rates? Sure, maybe it would have been nice for you and the posters if they didn't, maybe slightly more so if they only handled BTC. But this is the real world. BTC is worth money. Your services are only worth a set amount of money, and the market has both supply and demand. If you price yourself above the equilibrium for the demand and supply for your member-rank and quality of posting, you aren't going to get a good signature campaign. And supply for member-ranks in signature campaigns is extremely high.

It's the illuminati again, isn't it?


On the next episode of Bitcoin Conspiracies...

There's a reddit post linking to this thread so we can have some further analysis on reddit as well as some more opinions.

-edit-: it was downvoted into oblivion.

I'm interested to see how reddit will respond though as it seems there's been a lot of circlejerking there on /r/bitcoin with anti-theymos things leading to heavy pro-XT feelings. That's not how discourse should go and it's leading to Coinbase having way too much power.

But the only "people" freely moving away are the large companies like Coinbase who are trying to effectively force the masses to move over by giving them no other option. I disagree with XT and these kinds of things, I don't disagree with BIP101 and consensus for it leading to a change.

So what happens when Coinbase, BitPay and Blockchain try to get us to move to XT?

a) We move and state that we are fine with the big companies pushing us around, and the dream of Bitcoin being a decentralized currency where the decisions are made mainly by the users is dead.

b) Consensus for BIP101 fails and Coinbase, BitPay and Blockchain are left failing. The Bitcoin price will crash if something as dramatic as this happens.

These companies are leading us down a rocky road for their own personal gain.

This thread has long since changed to an extension of the following thread, which is a scam accusation. It's more discussing that. I don't think you've actually read the thread and what's happened

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1237905

Satoshi did envision that an increase in the block size would eventually be likely. He did not envision that it would be pseudo-forced by the large businesses in the Bitcoin ecosystem and that it would not be done by major consensus. It goes against the ideals of what Bitcoin was created for.

The situation has been blown out of proportion and now the circlejerking on reddit is bringing us dangerously close to a situation where we're going to allow the big businesses in bitcoin to make the decisions about it. We are walking a fine line between decentralisation and centralisation of the decision-making.

At the end of the day it should be the general public who make this decision, not a few companies who want to force it onto all of us. I'm extremely disappointed in Coinbase for trying to push it this hard and also in BitPay and Blockchain for trying to push it. It is not their decision to make, and unfortunately if a bunch of big Bitcoin companies move over to XT we won't have a choice anymore.

And then we're no longer Bitcoin, we've changed into Bitcoin XT. Bitcoin is effectively dead if we have been forced to change to XT, the dream is gone. We need a change that everyone agrees with that is simply made through consensus.

Look guys, I don't think this thread is that widely used for recruiting mods anymore...it was a bit back when I was mod, but not really anymore. The OP was last edited in September 2014, I wouldn't take what it says to be valid. You don't even need to apply to get mod - I didn't.

So why did you use 1E4w3EkiUW4cs5C9gRUKdTJja9KUadAh2X multiple times then? Did you happen to be using your (scammer) friend's address over a period of 2 years? That makes absolutely no sense, I don't see why you'd use it for a signature campaign either. I'm sorry, but I just don't see your argument here working.

Unfortunately, we're getting kind of fucked here if all of the large companies are going to start running code for Bitcoin XT and trying to move us all away from Bitcoin Core. For the average Bitcoiner stuff like that is going to cause a problem with freedom of choice.

No. Using a smaller unit does not affect the price at all as it does not change the scarcity, it just makes it more divisible. It shouldn't have any major effect on the price other than increasing adoption slightly more possibly in a world where Bitcoin has become pretty big.