I can see if from both sides. If he's telling the truth then he's obviously going to be a bit upset that nobody believes he's lost a friend and to him it's as real as real can be. I think it was nutildah that got pretty annoyed with me and others when we questioned Bruno's death and this is a similar situation, but also if he's not telling the truth then it's like when scammers get called out early on they don't like that either and go on the defensive or attack. And I'm not saying he is lying, I just think we should wait for better confirmation as obviously right now this could be any guy saying anything. I guess with most of us being pretty private here it's not the easiest thing to verify when someone does pass and maybe he only found this info after hunting him down somehow via digital breadcrumbs and I don't think he has to share that info if he found something that others haven't (yet) and he might have used some of the previous private info he had from something like a trade he did which is understandable if he didn't want to share that.


Assuming he used his real name and address for trades. I've done a couple physical trades with people here but I'd never give my real name or address out.


Stuff like this definitely makes it more plausible. Thanks for the info.

Nobody's asking you to post his death certificate or his passport photo or something, but you have to see it from our point of view: you're a random newbie with a handful of posts and registered only last year that has popped up to proclaim someone dead, and you could just be taking advantage of his obvious absence. I am also a private person but there's plenty of people here who could reveal PMs or other messenger chats with me to prove that they were at least in contact with me without revealing any private or personal info. At the moment we don't even know if you ever interreacted with him at all and you haven't posted in any threads he was active in here, but on the flip side you could have been best mates with him for years on some other forum or messenger app. If you don't want to reveal anything like that then I'll respect you for respecting tecshare's right to privacy but most people here won't and shouldn't just take your word for it right now.


It's one of those catch 22 situations. His inactivity could easily insinuate he's passed away as he was very active and has been here years, but it's also easy for anyone to make something up about it, especially a newbie with little to no history here. I guess we'll just have to wait for DireWolfM14's comment on the matter.

I'm not sure it's an attempt to gain merits but it could easily be trolling with a throwaway account. Anybody could come on here and proclaim a user who has disappeared for a while is dead or make up some other story. With that being said, tecshare didn't seem like the person to just leave so this story could be entirely plausible, but anyone can get annoyed with this place and just leave for whatever reason. Maybe op can at least offer some proof without revealing too much that they were in contact, but if not I'll err on the side of caution right now.

Op says a couple of things that hint we might not get any more info though ie He was also a very private person ie I can't provide anything more and the cause of death suspected to be an aneurysm/severe stroke, but surely if it was sixth months ago they would have known what it was by now.

Yeah, a bit of an upset here as only 4 people backed the away win. I thought Brighton should have been able to get this job done especially at home.


Yeah, I'm thinking maybe both teams to score and Leeds to win. It's another tricky game for me given both teams recent performances. I could see either a load of goals or maybe even a 0-0. Southampton drew against Chelsea last week but before that they lost their last 5 premier league games including the 9-0 drubbing to Man U.


Looks like a lot of people are in the running for the yellow cap:



You'd need a minimum of an exact score to win it but if hahay gets a point from the outcome it's out of reach.

Well the thing is here is that it did look quite a bit offside from the in play angle, but on the replay it's so close I'm not even sure what is meant to be offside, so it's good that it was checked but at the same time if they don't have adequate angles how can they tell for sure? I wonder if we'll ever get cameras that run up and down the pitch with the action, but I'm sure there will still be issues with the linesman getting in the way or it not being able to keep up.


Well I got zero points up until that game and luckily I got the correct score. A couple of upsets this round. Really didn't expect Liverpool to lose and I thought Spurs should be able to get a point from West Ham at least.

Harsh result for Leeds yesterday especially the goal which was given as a keeper own-goal but there's nothing he could have done about that. Traoré's run was a great one and he deserved the goal though. Would have been a stormer had it gone in off the post with hitting Meslier. Another close call on the VAR with the disallowed Bamford goal. I think this one is another of those examples where a bad angle could have ruled it offside like we've seen several times before. From the in play angle he looked quite a distance offside but on the replay it was one of those millimetre offside call but I'm betting if they had a shot straight down the line it might not have been offside and it proves how certain angles can make something seem better or worse. From these dodgy angles you can never be 100% sure:




Had they not had a decent win in the CL this week I might have agreed with you, but I think they should be able to beat Everton but it could be a spicy match with a few goals. I can see a draw but it's not something I'd back. I think Liverpool are due a bounce back as well and Everton losing 2-0 at home to Fulham earlier this month doesn't give me much confidence in them but I'll be watching this game for sure. 

How do people buy anything new or from an emerging market? They find a way. I believe there was a rumour ebay was first created as a way to sell Pez dispensers online but if I recall correctly it's popularity took off with people selling Beanie Babies on there but before ebay they would have likely traded them either in person meet ups or via online forums and such and that's what happened here. The first major exchange of bitcoin was done on this forum for two pizzas. After that people would have traded their cash, Paypal, bank transfers or other products or services for bitcoins and many still do and we have a Currency Exchange dedicated to that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=53.0

You're the second person. Stephencurry333 was the first to get a double. I'm sure we'll start to see more people winning multiples but given the large size of the pool this year it does make it pretty difficult.


It doesn't really matter because there are no prizes this year for the highest overal round. Given that we get a $50 free bet every week I didn't think it was needed, but arallmuus is just keeping track of who has won them for fun I guess but he makes a note of the number of games in that round. Latest table is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4479837.msg56307795#msg56307795

If you posted it via PM that will suffice but you'll have to report that PM to an admin via the button at the bottom left. As long as you still have access to the addresses in your blockchain wallet then you can sign a message from them. You can also sign a message from a PGP key if you have one but the likely better option would be to find an address you've posted publicly or privately and try sign a message from that. Without it you likely won't have much luck.

I got both scores right yesterday. Shame I didn't do so well earlier in the round as I could've got the yellow cap.


webtricks's second cap now. Shame it couldn't have gone to swogerino who hasn't won one yet and missed out by a point.

This round was 12 match one so make sure to note that on the table as 19 points equals mole's record round (in a standard 10 match round).

Don't forget that the next round starts tomorrow with Wolves v Leeds. Lots of people seem to miss the Friday games and 32 users have yet to make a pick for it.

Well I got zero points from yesterday. Didn't watch either games and have yet to see the highlights but I didn't expect Liverpool to win especially given their recent performances and how well RB Leipzig are doing in the Bundesliga and then Barca getting turned over at home with a Neymar-less PSG. Tonight's games are very hard to pick as well as both stronger teams are playing away. Don't know whether to go for draws or narrow away wins but home wins wouldn't surprise me either. I'll probably get another nil points from today either way  .

Bamford got sandwiched by two Arsenal player simultaneously and they didn't give that either. I don't understand when the lightest of touches gets a penalty or a player diving anticipating the challenge yet getting slammed by two players doesn't even get checked. VAR did overturn a penalty correctly earlier in the game though.


Well I think it's been a pretty bad round for most of us with a lot of unexpected results. I'm only on four points so far. I'm actually really surprised people got more than ten points (of which there are currently seven) given there were so many upsets. Looks like we might get another unique round winner as well as only two users out of the current top ten have won it previously (assuming I didn't miss something). The current top 3 haven't won it though so it looks like one of them could take it if they get the last two games right. Not games that are too easy to predicts though. City should win especially after Everton lost to Fulham last week but Fulham are also playing Burnley. I would have backed the home win but not so sure now.

I'm surprised more than 5 people didn't go for the draw. This game had a stalemate written all over it and was looking that way going into the second half, but Liverpool blew it again within 5 minutes and just got turned over like they did against City.


Of course there's value in it  . I don't think Spurs are going to win this. It's not really a game I'm interested in though, but I think City could easily sink a few past them.


Playing the sweeper keeper always comes with risks but keepers tend to get shit when it fucks up and all the times they came out to clear it successfully are forgotten. Allison was nearly lobbed a couple of times in this game though, but the clash was probably 50/50 blame on him and the defender but it's risky for one of them to leave it and it's the defenders job to get rid of it, but maybe one didn't hear the other or didn't want to take the risk. Things are looking dicey for Liverpool right now. They've got Everton at home next week and that should be interesting. I'd probably back them to win though but I'll see how Everton fair against Fulham and Man City before that tie.

Advertising obviously works, but to what extent I'm sceptical. How often do you go and check out or buy something you've seen advertised on a billboard on the street/road or on a passing bus or something? Most of them just blend into the monotony of life unless it's something either truly eye catching or relevant to your interests, though maybe the advertising works more subliminally than we think. It's the same with youtube. I skip probably 99% of ads on there but every now and again there's something that catches my eye and I'll watch the full ad and/or click the link to check out the product further, but if I do I rarely ever purchase something. Same goes for the things advertised here. 99% of the time I'm not interested, though I have become aware of several products/coins/services through them that I might not have know about otherwise. One of the first things I noticed upon joining this forum was the PrimeDice sigs everywhere and for the first month I didn't even realise people were getting paid to post by them, but it was something I definitely checked out and even used at one point. Who knows if I would have known or checked out PD or things like Chipmixer without them, but whether they're worth paying out as much as they do is debatable, but it's obviously something many companies are prepared to do. Companies like PrimeDice did stop their campaign for quite some time but at one point they were pretty much paying anyone and everyone who joined, but I think Stake is still going in some limited capacity.

I've gone for 3 draws this week and mostly home wins. Not sure many of this big six will have much trouble expect for maybe Liverpool against Leicester. I'll be watching that game for sure as anything could happen. I definitely don't trust Liverpool to win especially away but I think they are due a bounce back but Leicester will probably be at full capacity with Vardy back. Hopefully there's lot of goals. Same in the Arsenal/Leeds game. Can't pick a winner from that so a draw is probably the best bet. I'll probably put my high odds both teams to score in both halves/2 corners each team each half and 2 cards each team as I think they could be fiery games.

I'm not sure if he's talking about an avatar but maybe something is lost in translation. Either way, you can only have one avatar image at once. If you wanted to just link to the images you can upload them to an image host such as imugr and then put them either in your signature or in some of the fields in your profile such as the website, MSN, AIM places etc. They won't show up as images though but people can still click them to view. Maybe if you tell us what purpose you want the images for we can help you further.


Copper Member doesn't allow this, but I think it should be included in further donator ranks like Silver/Gold Member etc.

I'm surprised this hasn't been done much more to be honest as it's very easy to do and just create a throwaway account to 'expose' it and let the feeding frenzy of default trust warriors go in for the kill. Somone would have to be pretty pissed off at you but who here hasn't annoyed someone at one point and we all know how petty some people can be.


Well it doesn't really matter how much was sent. All it takes is one transaction to link an address to another.


And that's where timelord fucks up. He's used worse parameters than that before for allegedly tying up accounts often verging on the ridiculous.


You undermine your own work with faulty conclusions and by the trust abuse you commit. Any 'good' work you do is invalidated when you use nonsense to tie other accounts together. You can't throw 50 darts at board and congratulate yourself when one of them manages to stick in whilst the rest fall to the floor.

Who is a lot of people? Incels on the internet? Every fighter gets accused of taking something, even non-fighters who have undergone huge body transformations and it's usually just by people who don't know what they're talking about or are envious. I'm not saying fighters don't take stuff as obviously some have been caught out in the past and Overeem did fail a test for high testosterone at one point but it's tough to get away with it these days, but without evidence it's pointless speculating as you can get into these physiques with the right training and diets without the use of PEDs.


I doubt that's true. Dana isn't going to fire anyone if they're still bringing in eyeballs. If they're washed up and aren't bringing anything toe the promotion then that's when they go. There's always lots of great up and coming fighters so old heads need to make way at some point.


Dana has an entire team underneath him managing and booking the fighters. He will actually do very little in organising most fights other than some of the bigger fighters who will go straight to him. Dana isn't even the owner of the UFC anymore but just the figurehead.


The UFC isn't the only MMA promotions. Most go the Bellator and that's seen like the lower league and second best to the UFC. Cris Cyborg went there after she got fired from the UFC. Some fighters are even going to BKFC which in Bare Knuckle Fighting. Paige Van Zant had her first fight there last week.


It's like the English Football Championship compared to the Premier League. The best fighters usually move up to the UFC and the rejects get sent down to Bellator.

Because it prohibits them from easily earning here straight away. muenze makes his gripes clear in the very post you quoted:



Not exactly true. If you registered before the introduction of the merit system all you needed was the activity which just required you to make one post every fortnight, hence the introduction of the merit system as people were easily farming accounts just by shitposting.

Are you thinking with your heart here and not your head?  I think it should be close but I think a draw is likely for me given Liverpool's shakiness. I certainly don't trust them to win especially away and it looks like Vardy will be starting as he started in the cup tie but was taken off halfway I think.


Yeah, it shouldn't be one rule for us and a different rule for the rich and famous where they get a free pass to travel around as they like. However, I don't think the restrictions should be so severe that you can't travel for things like funerals. Covid is hardly the plague. He's being tested for covid every week as well along with the team so if he's clean then he should be allowed to go but as should everyone else regardless of their status. I think people coming back to the UK also have to quarantine for two weeks so the risk is minimal there, though maybe that would be a problem if he had to miss several Liverpool games. Personally, I don't think funerals are a big deal anyway. I don't even want one. Once you're gone you're gone but I know people have differing beliefs and feelings towards that.


Just message him again either on here or superbru.