He sold people a bunch of steam gift cards several days ago and had them individually send money to Dabs's feed the children program and post on that thread, which caused the thread to get a lot of bumps, increasing it's visibility. This was probably more effective in helping the charity then simply having people donate to the address via his giveaway thread.

I think this would make it a lot easier for the faucet farmers to be able to tip to their bank accounts which is a major reason why people are muted (at least this is my understanding).

How many of these exactly are from people who are playing with their own funds, and how many are playing with money from your faucet?

This is important because I would suspect that investors would earn little/nothing from bankroll investments from people playing on faucets, although profit potential is real when players play with their own money.

I think DaDice has seen a few high enough high rollers to force them to payout from their cold storage addresses. Can anyone confirm they have actually received a payout in excess of 20 BTC, and if so, can they post the TXID so an idea as to DaDice's various addresses be publicly known.

/facepalm

This is an interesting theory. Although I am not entirely sure what kind of organization would want to execute ever increasingly sized attacks on Bitcoin like this. There are a couple of possibilities though

• A government that feels threatened by Bitcoin - I would doubt this because of the small "market cap" of bitcoin verses major fiat currencies, as well as the small amount of bitcoin related trade. The way things are going, bitcoin probably has the potential to increase revenue for governments because of additional trade that would lead to additional tax revenue
• A "Western Union" like company - I would doubt this because of the small size of bitcoin related trade verses the amount of money that is transferred by even the smaller remittance companies. It would also not be difficult for companies like Western Union to modify their business to include the sale and purchase of bitcoin at a markup/discount, possibly even at better rates then what they get in the remittance business, and without the potential for fraud in terms of someone with a fake ID picking up funds that shouldn't be able to pick up funds

It has been speculated that someone with a large holding of LTC was/is behind the recent attacks as it would be conceivable that people would flock to LTC when BTC transactions were slow to process (confirm), although even the connection between the attacks and the runup in LTC/BTC price is speculation.

There have been a small number of legendary accounts sold over the several months since the feature was brought about. The number will obviously be small because of the small number of legendary accounts out there. I think the percentage of legendary accounts ever sold is probably smaller then senior and hero accounts because there are several legendary accounts that belong to people who have a large amount of bitcoin (and as a result do not need the money from the sale of their account), or are very prominent members of the community in one way or another (a dev, admin/mod, or otherwise highly active).

LOL. I think it is safe to say that a legendary account is worth more then ~.64BTC, and even more LOL on the paypal offer

I am not sure regarding being able to sue Purse.io, although they are advertising to cover at least $10,000 in exenses related to "any costs related to purchasing items through its website" which would include the cost of a legal defense.

Regarding a criminal defense, it would be possible that a prosecutor would argue that you were essentially trading with yourself, as in you opened an ad to buy items on Amazon, and then turned around and purchased those items with a stolen credit card.

Even if a prosecutor did not make such claim, and/or you were otherwise able to document your innocence (or there is a lack of evidence to get a "guilty" verdict), having to deal with such an ordeal would certainly be time consuming, expensive and a hassle. 

Unless it is a VIP account, then your buyer is not going to be able to change the name of the account.

Theymos will sometimes make very few exceptions and change the name of an account that is very active, however this is very rare, and I don't think will happen simply because an account was sold.

The total value of the "collateral" is significantly below the amount of your loan. Plus you are actively trying to sell all of the collateral you are offering.

Your asking price for the steam accounts is "only" 1.685BTC, however even that is probably overpriced.

Any collateral that you provide must be secured by the lender (or escrow) before the loan is funded

Well part of what gives an escrow account it's value is that it has positive trust and others are willing to trust their money with them. So if neutral trust was given to such accounts then the value of the accounts would decline. This would effectively ban the sale of escrow/trusted accounts as the premium associated with such accounts would be diminished.  You should also consider the reasons why an escrow would consider selling their account, it is primarily going to be because they need money, and what do you think is going to happen when they have no other way to raise money? If they are desperate enough they will act dishonestly and steal from those who have entrusted their money with them.

As I mentioned previously, you should not trust anyone with excessive amounts of money, regardless of if you know they are the original owner of their account as everyone has their "breaking point" where they will act dishonestly and steal given the opportunity.

Also, if an escrow account is sold and continues to act honestly, then it will be able to continue to earn some amount of money by acting as escrow, which would give them a long term incentive to not scam.

To answer your question as to how you can determine if someone has sold their account, the best way is to get a signed message from the escrow, if you get a signed message from a bitcoin address that is very old, and still has a good amount of bitcoin "in" it, then there is a good chance the account is not sold (private keys can easily be sold/transferred, however it would be a very bad idea to allow funds to remain in an address whose private key is known to more then one person because of the risk that the other person will spend such funds.

With all that being said, a greater concern that you should probably have when choosing an escrow is if the escrow has the ability to analyze the facts and evidence when trying to mediate a dispute between two parties in order to determine who the bitcoin being held in escrow should be released to. If there is a dispute and the escrow is unable to evaluate the evidence provided, then you could end up getting scammed even though the escrow has good intentions.

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Don't you think it is kind of hypocritical to say this (and other statements critical about the sale of accounts), when you yourself have sold accounts (or at the very least have tried to sell accounts) in the past? 

It is true that accounts on default trust (as well as escrow accounts) are sold, however the purchaser has incentives not to scam with them because those types of accounts tend to be very expensive. The purchaser would likely be better off over the long term of acting honestly and continuing to offer their services and collecting fees for such.

With that being said, you should also not trust excessive amounts of money with any one person to avoid giving them incentives to run away (see maidak).

This is not true. That link shows your trust network (although it will show DT if you use the default settings). Also a number of zero (0) means that the same number of people excluded them as included them, if they have a negative number then they are excluded by default.

Just to let you know, you are not allowed to browse the local boards if you do not speak the language of the local board as your primary language. You also are not able to use any tools like google translate.

If you do then you will be banned from the forum and all the bitcoin ever sent to you will get double spent. (I am glad you posted here instead of trying to look for yourself)

Such notification is not necessary. There are no rules agains having multiple accounts, and many people have several for a number of reasons including, but not limited to, safety, privacy, not having their "main" account associated with controversial statements, signature deals.

There is also no activity based rank that will allow you to change your displayed name. The only way you can change your display name is if you donate 50BTC to become a VIP or become a moderator.

gyft actually gives you a guaranteed discount of 3%, not 5%.

Purse somewhat recently started offering their customers protections against carded purchases in that they will pay legal expenses up to certain limits in the event that law enforcement were to press charges against their customers for CC fraud as a result of their purchase on purse. It is still probably not worth the potential hassle though. 

Nope. People often use tor to access the forum (which forces you to change your IP address every ~10 minutes), along with VPNs (which would make it easy to sell an account and then, based on IP addresses alone, make it appear that the account was not sold).

The forum generally believes in the free market, and there is no real reason to restrict a market. If there is value to something (an account) then there is no reason to restrict the trade of that item.

Please add the scam site bitgold.com https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1133534.0

The site has a lot of red flags, however now someone behind it is creating a number of new accounts claiming they are not a scam and providing clearly inaccurate information about the site in order to make it appear to be more legitimate

edit: It might be appropriate to give it a "pending" tag, although it is suspicious to say the least

I would suggest contacting Majic8Ball about this to see if he is wiling to give you a refund. If what you are saying is accurate, then the reason for the ban was something that either he did, or something that the person he purchased the account from did. If this is the case, then he absolutely should refund you, although he may not be able to post/PM either if he was the cause for the ban.

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Is your "previous" account still under the 60 day ban? If so then using alternate accounts (with the exception of using one to appeal your ban) is ban evasion, and you would most likely be the cause for the ban

If change addresses are used properly then it should be difficult to know with certainty which other addresses a certain person owns. If you reuse addresses then an attacker will know with much greater certainty how much bitcoin you have, and the privacy of those that you trade with will be diminished.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0 <<- here ya go!

I know that I can say this thread has helped me tremendously over the past year or so, especially after the PD signature campaign ended.