Well, I explained it a little bit in the OP.

This is irrelevant.

So why did you post the exact same thing ("R") in less than a minute after GeorgeJohn? Shouldn't one consider this suspicious?

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As I've already said, I don't have anything against you two. I'm just speaking out some coincidences. I don't expect anyone to take me seriously.

I changed the link to a list of P2P/no-KYC exchanges.

Whether you're here to learn more about Bitcoin, or just to trade and make a few bucks, please read the text below.

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Besides an innovative payment system which works without borders, more efficiently and practically, Bitcoin is here to make you sound. It's giving you what corrupted governments try constantly to take away from you: Financial sovereignty and self-control.

But, do not expect it to make you gain these alone. Bitcoin is just a currency, which means it's apolitical. All these ideals come from the fact that you've taken the time to understand the drawbacks of the traditional banking system and how disastrous a central point of failure can be.

Don't use a centralized exchange, for a number of reasons.

• You're about to be dictated of where your money is allowed to go. [1][2]
• You're about to be charged unbearably high fees. [3]
• You're about to be "blackmailed" to deliver private information to have your coins unfreezed. [4]
• You're about to be censored. [5]
• You have no privacy. [6]
• The exchange can go bankrupt and you lose everything. [7]
• You're making the Bitcoin economy susceptible to manipulation. [8]

[1] Coinbase says it’s blocking 25,000 Russia-linked crypto addresses
[2] Binance To Ban Singapore Users From Crypto Trading And Buying On Its Global Platform
[3] Binance Earns More Than $20,000 per Day Overcharging on Transaction Fees
[4] popular exchange extortion and blackmail
[5] Re: Centralised Exchanges are the Biggest Enemies of Bitcoin
[6] Goodbye, privacy, goodbye, it was nice while it lasted.
[7] When Crypto-Exchanges Go Broke, You’ll Lose It All
[8] Re: Newbies: Don't use centralized exchanges!

Instead, exchange decentrally.

We encourage the use of decentralized exchanges such as Bisq (or others) that operate transparently. There's no KYC, no danger from centralized exchanges' hacks, no oppression by a third party; it's as private, secure and censorship-resistant as it could be. Escape the arbitrary ruling enforcement of the corrupted Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin etc., today!

You defend your rights the moment you start using it. Educate yourself: Why Bisq exists.

This is what I'm saying. If they don't comply with my rules, which is much more usual with big businesses, I won't buy from them. There may be alternatives, but I won't get the same quality or the same quantity for the same price or even the same product as it may monopolize etc. Again, it's not as simple as "No privacy, no honey.".

I agree, we should play our part; it's personal responsibility in the end. I wonder, though, how much can those few affect.

I have heard of a time machine lying around this sub-board, but it's probably just a rumor. Sorry, but it takes some time to be careful riding with no hands and typing at the same time.

Sure, no society is perfect. It also needs national defense; the question is what's the sacrifices for it. The fact of the matter is that if you take a lot of portion from health care, education, allowances etc. to strengthen it, you're likely to make things worse.

My point is: If you put protection above your rights, you're soon going to lose both. You're not far from having your liberty curbed in the name of counter-terrorism that way.

Also, in lots of countries the police has to take permission to enter into houses. I don't know if that applies in the USA.

The government doesn't, the rich evade taxes, I know and I get the harm. But, let's assume they couldn't refuse to share their financial information. Let's say that whoever attempted would have their head taken. Now everyone's forced to tell the truth. The society is full of fairness, isn't it?

Sure! Once I catch up with the others it's all yours.

May is a good month for avatar changes.

I'll need you to elaborate. What you do mean one forgets to pack strings to bytes?

That is a good question. It turns out that it has to do with the so-called length extension attack. I have never seen this been discussed back in the early days, though, so there may be another reason.

Theoretically, there could be a collision. Realistically effectively, it can't. It's 1 in 2^256 which is a stupidly large range of numbers.

A society can work with total privacy; what it can't work with is total secrecy, which is what you probably meant.

Privacy is when you don't want to be known from the whole world. Secrecy is when you don't want to be known by anyone. A private matter can be revealed when it is desired by the individual. But, a secret matter must not be revealed. When you send a message over the internet using strong encryption, it's not necessarily meant to be kept secret, but read by only those for whom you intend to.

Not only can it work, but it's fundamental for the society's safety, for the preservation of democracy and freedom of speech in general.

That's why I said it. To exclude that board when calculating the percentages of posts from each board of each user. Not sure if it's the only thing that affects it, though.

Even if it was and they had the same percentages, it still wouldn't be a solid proof. Let's just wait and see what GeorgeJohn or KingsDen has to say about this.

That's what I was thinking too. This place is so big for few spambusters to do the job; there are things that go unnoticed such as this one. You have to connect the dots.

Sure, I agree. It matters what they have to say in their defense, though. If I were them, I would say that the accounts don't talk in the same boards.[1][2]

[1] https://ninjastic.space/user/GeorgeJohn
[2] https://ninjastic.space/user/KingsDen

They may share the work, though. What I also found out is that KingsDen, who seems to be keen on the Gambling Discussion, didn't use to write there until he was accepted in a signature campaign which forced him to.[3][4]

[3] His first message in Gambling Discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5271157.msg57916572#msg57916572 *
[4] Him applying in Rollbit, 2 hours before the first message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5326641.msg57916280#msg57916280

Again, pure conjecture. I don't expect to be taken very seriously.

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* Which by the way happened 2 days after the other account, which is accused as KingsDen's alt, makes their first Gambling post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5271157.msg57907905#msg57907905

Me neither. I had probably misunderstood this. Transaction indexing has a purpose when you also keep the transactions, which means when you don't prune.

I still don't understand your way of thinking, though. You say that Bitcoin covers the SoV part, but Monero is much better as a MoE. What's the purpose of storing value in Bitcoin if it's not used as MoE? That's its only purpose.

During IBD, can't you index the transactions and then remove them?

I'm not a person who does this kind of searches often, but there's this guy who's made me really curious. It's just a conjecture, I have no blockchain analysis.

In the past, some connection was found between users GeorgeJohn and Ebede.

Coincidences:

• Ebede had submitted their application using GeorgeJohn's credentials: https://ninjastic.space/post/56688056
• Their writing style is very similar.
• They both used the uncommon delta character "∆".
• They both have created motivational threads of how to be a quality poster.

GeorgeJohn has responded that Ebede was a friend of him from University. (Check the connection above)

Then I saw this thread of Ratimov where he exposes RainbowKun's alts. I haven't read the entire thread, as it requires a ton of time to understand why the hell RainbowKun is judged for, to verify the evidence etc., but I saw Ratimov including KingsDen to this account farming, which is a somewhat established member. (In #6 Ratimov says he's doubtful, but he finds it likely for KingsDen to be involved in it)

Recently, ChipMixer's campaign manager announced for opened slots. This is when it started smelling fishy to me. Quoting this message that says it all:

So, to sum up. We have a GeorgeJohn, who's been caught to have a weird connection with Ebede. He denied the account was his. Then, we have a large account farming from RainbowKun, in which KingsDen is included. Then, we see GeorgeJohn and KingsDen, who also write similarly, make an "R" post in the ChipMixer thread at the same time, one of which, by the way, wants to help the other rank up.

I don't care about those two particularly, but I'm concerned that there may be some gigantic farming monster among us who's mocking everyone for good. And I'm afraid that they overfill threads, responding to themselves, loading the forum with spam just to fulfill their posting quota, which is likely hundreds of posts per week.

He may didn't expect that it'd reach that high, or at least that's what he showed, but I'm sure he knew he wrote history. He gave a solution to a problem that was considered unsolvable at the time. Also, the idea of a cryptocurrency was dominating in the cryptographic community for about 13 years.

I refuse to accept that he wasn't passionate due to this. The ability to create something so useful and so unique, whose existence could not been brought by anyone, must have helped a lot.

I guess Grayscale is in 0.

'Cause you're not so naughty. It's yelling you to call it "hard money".

Not sure if you answer on whether privacy is both good and bad. As far as I read, you only say that Bitcoin makes people financial sovereigns of themselves.

What do you see? Judging by the fact that the majority hasn't yet understood what's self-custody and why you shouldn't leave coins on centralized exchanges I'm going to say a big no, they don't. And most will never do.

But, let cryptocurrencies off the table. The mass, which mirrors society, ignores completely that their privacy is demanded. The mass doesn't care. The mass wants to show everybody what they're eating, when and where they're eating it, if they've gone to a luxurious hotel, if they're at the beach, if they're dressed nicely, if they're looking for a relationship etc.

We've passed the part where they don't care about their privacy. People in current societies want to share the moments which were considered private in the past.