Since majority of account sales happen outside of the forum, I don't think that ban would change much. Account buyers and sellers on forum get tagged anyway so thats almost as good as a ban.

Regarding the proposal to reset airdropped merit partially, this seems like a bit too drastic of a measure in order to stop something as account sale ( maybe I'm naive/ignorant on the matter but I don't think that's happening on a mass scale) and might affect those that don't have anything to do with shady business but just decided to take longer hiatus from forum.

Can someone please check dl links in this thread please?
🎲ANN OFFICIAL🎲 DiceNode (DNO) The P2P Cryptocurrencie POS/MN 🎲ANN OFFICIAL🎲

@qwertyup23 reported them for using fake team member photos, but maybe that's not all that is wrong with this ANN. Github account used was made 2 days ago, website laucnhed at the same date as well,  and beside those fake team member photos project doesn't have much other info. Very little effort invested in all this, so that's what made me suspicious.


Archived ANN https://archive.fo/oFCZU

Nice catch OP, as always. Account tagged and flag supported.

Beside fake team, I think that something more sinister might be behind this, and it's malware links inside thier wallet. If you check their github account ( https://github.com/Marloondev) you will see that it's only 2 days old. Maybe I am just paranoid, but I am gonna report it Report Malware and Suspicious Links here so Mods can take Action ! so someone with more expertise might check it. Better safe than sorry.

Afaik yes, as I've seen below Full Member accounts wearing avatars, and all of them were old accounts, and if I remember correctly, also from 2012. Maybe it works the same way like those animated avatars, which are not available anymore but as long as you don't replace it with something else, they will stay.

Nije se trebalo dugo cekati, i Binance je izbacio svoj plan za stejkanje, ali oni ne namjeravaju cekati 2021 nego krecu odmah.



Evo jos par informacija:

• Minimalni iznos za stejkanje:0.0001 ETH
• ETH ce biti lockan na cca 2 godine
• APY: 5%-20%
• Postoji mogucnost da se u buducnosti omoguci trejdanje BETH/ETH
  
• Kad ETH 2.0 Phase 1 bude vani, stejkani ETH ce se naravno mijenjati u odnosu 1 BETH=1ETH
• Za one koji oduce stejkati odmah i imaju odradjen KYC,  od 2.12-16.12 ce dobiti jos dodatni BNB u istom iznosu kao i za stejkani ETH, znaci dupla nagrada

Vise o tome u clanku ispod
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/a640a714e067433abae871f6b621836f

Another busy month on scam busting scene, eight new ones have been added to this ever growing list. Bitcoin price keeps going up and and it is very close to reaching new all time high, and that means one thing- scammers will became active more than ever as bunch of new people start fomoing and investing in absolutely anything that has word "crypto" in it and promises high return, like cryptocurrencies are magic money

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	Name			Scam accusation thread			Flag link
	117. YLD Defi			[SCAM] YLD Defi plagiarized website content!			Flag Type 1
	118. Gera Capital			[SCAM] Gera Capital cloud mining offering 6% daily profit			Flag Type 1
	119. Investro			[Warning] Investro using fake team member photo+ ANN thread shilling!			Flag Type 1
	120. Ethereum Diamond			[Warning] Ethereum Diamond - MLM scam that plans to get listed on Nasdaq!			Flag Type 1
	121. Coinizie			[SCAM] Coinizie promising 10% daily return			Flag Type 1
	122. Yearn Finance			[SCAM] Yearn Finance Tech DeFi shitcoin			Flag Type 1
	123. EVBLYiM			[SCAM] EVBYLiM - Pyramid scheme			Flag Type 1
	124. BambooDeFi			[Warning]BambooDefi plagiarised whitepaper + hiring sock puppet accounts			Flag Type 1

You didn't even negotiate with him regarding escrow, you just said no and that's it. Do you really plan to build any business here with no reputation and without using escrow? Good luck with that.

Every few days we have someone coming to scam accusation section that gets scammed in similar manner, so don't be surprised that you got tagged. It is very simple really, I do not trust any brand new account that sells something with these red flags:

• Opens self-moderated thread
• Refuses to do any communication through bitcointalk PM (as admins can check authenticity if needed)
• Communication only via Telegram
  
• Refuses to use escrow

Not really my type of music, but I find it very appropriate for this

Shaggy -  It Wasn't Me

You did your scam, you got tag for it so you can move on now to another account with which you will probably try to do the same thing as before as scammers like you don't give up easily since there are always enough of those that are reckless and naive when doing online business.

Newbie account seller that refuses escrow is a textbook example of scammer  and certainly not the  person that should be trusted so it is a good thing that you opened a topic here. On top of that he set self-moderated thread and even mentioned not to send him messages via forum.

Vindictuses profile link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2890971
Archive https://archive.fo/5Igsc


Since I think that there is a big chance that he is a scammer, I am tagging him.

First of all, welcome to bitcointalk! That is a good approach, to get yourself familiar with the forum. Take your time, read the rules, there is no need to rush into anything. Newbies tend to do  that mistake and they end u getting banned (pay extra attention to proper referencing when copying an external article). So make sure that you know do's and don'ts. A lot of newbies tend to ignore that part and it doesn't end up well for them.


Regarding your question, in my opinion it's best you write about the stuff that you are interested in, whether it's bitcoin, altcoins or something else. Don't feel pressured writing in some section about stuff that you don't care about as it will affect your post quality, whether you want it or not.

Since you are still new I would advise you to read this guide made by @tranthidung Bitcointalk posting etiquette. It has a lot of useful info and will set you on the right track from the beginning.

Or maybe he can't provide Telegram chat screenshots because you simply deleted it on both ends. One of the reasons why scammers prefer Telegram is because it's easy to hide tracks, especially if other side don't know much about it. Since you are an alt account of a known scammer, just those screenshots of forum conversation is enough of a proof and your childish reaction to accusation just confirms it.

Flag supported and account tagged.


Haha I see that you had an interesting chat with that bellend. Based on his history he will resurface with another account and yet again some newbie will fall for this trick.
Maybe at least neutral (if not going for negative immediately) feedback with warning should be made in similar cases, but then again I'm not sure that even that would save OP from making that mistake.

Pa da, nema uopce potrebe citati sve intervjue. Na pocetku  teme je lista sa svim intervjuima, i jednostavno procitas one od  ljudi koji su ti i inace zanimljivi. Bar tako sam ja radio. Iako sam skoro pa redovono pratio temu i nove dodavane intervjue, sigurno nisam isao citati  nekog shitpostera s kojim nisam nikad razmjenio misljenje, a ima i takvih tamo.


Ma mislim da to nema smisla, da se sada dogovaramo pa da guramo nekog samo zato sto je nas. Istina je da ce vecina lokalaca  jednostavno preferirati svoje ljude, ali dogovor bi ipak bio malo previse. Uostalm, zasto bi itko glasao za nekog naseg ako mu je puno zanimljiviji bio netko izvan naseg lokalnog boarda? Ja sam sherao nase intervjue medju ostalima i zato da ako ih je netko propustio.

I wouldn't celebrate just yet as I don't think this is the last we hear about Bitwings, magic smartphone and all the other products like laptops and tablets that they are developing  They are still pushing that idea in South America, making YouTube videos etc so I think that they will occasionally hire those bumpers too. But even those bumpers were laughable, same as their 2 ETH /month smartphone idea.

It makes zero sense what they are doing, yet they keep going on. It's truly baffling.

That guy is a known troll, and not even good one, and he is doing the same thing for a few months now. Unfortunately people are still trying to respond to his nonsense in the serious way, instead of reporting how topics . If they can't be bothered to do that, least they could avoid the him.

Regarding the nuking, that's usually done to lower activity no merit accounts that spam forum heavily and despite the nonsense he writes I am not sure that he will get nuked.

It really sucks to see something like  this happening, and I know it's kinda late but I hope that lenders will rethink (or at least stricten) their policy of giving no collateral loans, especially not for longer period of time. It might not be fair to those that are regularly repaying their loans but as we can see even DT1 accounts with decent loan history are not immune to something like this.


That might become big issue as we are into bull market now, so if you take a loan and in a couple of months btc goes up 2-3x you might have serious issues with repaying since majority of us still get out of paycheck in fiat. Unless you are part of CM or some other campaign that has fixed btc payrate but even then it's not very smart to think of it as a sure money.

Vjerujem da svi znate za one bitcointalk intervjue koje je pokreuo zasad@. E sad, u suradnji sa BestChange koji je uskocio kao sponzor, organizirano je glasanje za najbolji intervju. Tri intervjua koji osvoje najvise glasova te dvoje glasaca ce dobiti novcane nagrade.

Nagrade
1. mjesto - $ 300 u BTC
2. mjesto - $ 200 u BTC
3. mjesto - $ 100 u BTC


Dodatne nagrade
2 glasaca ce dobiti po $50 u BTC ($50 daje BestChange a $50 zasad@)


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Naravno ne morate glasati za domace intervjue, ali evo nasih membera koji su odradili pa mozda odlucite bas nekom od njih dati svoj glas, ili mozda tek prvi put i procitati njihove intervjue. Isprike ako sam nekoga zaboravio dodati.

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Sretno svim nasim clanovima mozda bas netko od njih pokupi jednu od nagrada! (kad sam vec ja bio lijen napisati taj intervju)

Well, it is a fact that in those early days bitcoin spread mostly among that group, and even now majority of people around me that are more knowledgeable about bitcoin and crypto in general are from that sector, and it is not a surprise. For me, thing that got me into crypto was mining part, and fact that you could make some money with your GPUs/CPUs , as back then (early 2014) I was really into PC hardware so for me that was kinda fun.


That's true, many simply do not see the reason why would they own any bitcoin. Whether for paying stuff, or as a form of investment as that's why majority of people are buying it for. Then there is a group of those that don;t want to admit that they were wrong because of ego, so they keep saying the same stuff. I was arguing with them for years on one IT forum, and almost none changed their mind. Despite all that, I still think that in these 11 years bitcoin spread more than even Satoshi or any other early people thought it will i such period of time, so I would say that we are ahead of the roadmap and,

I would say that when I observe people around me (I'm from Croatia) majority heard about bitcoin but they don't really know even basics. Out of those that heard about it, most of them still have rhinos that it's some kind of ponizi/pyramid scheme made for sole purpose by the rich to steal money from the poor and naive.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but that's what many people here think. What surprises me though is how many of the them are in IT business (programmers etc) and should be able to understand bitcoin concept better than some average Joe, and no amount of reasoning can change their mind.

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2. SpamBuster: Lafu, GazetaBitcoin, TheBeardedBaby
3. ScamBuster: dkbit98, marlboroza, Jollygood
4. Golden Feather: Suchmoon, nutildah, fillippone
5. Event of the Year: Bitcoin halving
6. Fail of the Year: Defi
7. Discovery of the Year: qwertyup23, bullrun2020bro, icopress
8. Bitcoin Geek: NotATether, achow101, Pmalek
9. Bitcointalk Ninja: LoyceV, DdmrDdmr, Tryninja
10. Craft Master: DarkStar_, DdmrDdmr, Hhampuz
11. Antihero: Lauda, nullius
12. Absolute Hero of Good: DdmrDmr, Daniel91, 1miau
13. Miss Bitcointalk: Foxpup

In three decades see bitcoin price either extremely high (1+ million USD) or extremely low. I don't really se some middle ground here but since I firmly belive in bitcoin I think that we can expect them former price.

All this its  course is just a guesstimate as that's very long period of time, but when you see how you much bitcoin achieved in the first 11 years I next 30 will be much better and hardest part is behind us.