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What exactly is dangerous about importing a private key into a wallet?

I think you are correct sir. Why are they doing this? Will they get something when they do this?

Payments are being processed right now and almost complete, everyone should receive their payment within the next 20 minutes.

Thanks, towelroot did the trick without tripping my knox!!

Now, it's time to install Cerberus

guys, please tell me why you try hard so much ??
this campaign has the lowest payout.
whether a handful of dollars you earn is worth of your effort?
i think it's not 

I'm not trolling mate, it just seems like this campaign might be taking advantage of newbies. There are so many scams in these forums, I just want to see more people living up to the promises they make. It's the best thing for the community.

He's been good about paying out bonuses to compensate for late payments. This is a good thing!

But the bad things are that this campaign is terribly organized, there is very little communication, and people are joining and leaving and posting that they don't know what to expect. All this could be fixed with clear communication about what is going on.

For example, 4-10 day pay period is so fluid and arbitrary. Why not make it a static week. Or every two weeks, like the 15th and 30th/31 of every month. It would add stability and let people know what to expect.

As far as I can tell, the last payment was 9/19? That makes the next payment due 9/23-9/29, so it's between 9 and 3 days late because of the crazy pay period.

Not knowing what to expect is not a good thing in the bitcoin world because of how much scamming there is. My biggest suggestion is to give clear expectations for your enrollees and some stability. Maybe take on someone who's sole job is to organize this campaign and pay them a small fee for doing the work.

But I'm not trolling mate. I would join this campaign myself if it was organized better or I knew what to expect.

BitStars.net added, thank you guys for telling me. I have decided to keep Ponzi's and HYIP in this overview thread, because sed make some valid points and I don't want to risk my credibility, so yeah.

NastyFans' Signature campaign is for NastyFans Seat Owners only. These places are either brought or gifted (if I am not mistaken) and most people that come here don't have a seat. Not sure if I should add them because the payment is one NastyPool lottery ticket, which will get you BTC IF you win. Seeing that you get one of these per accepted P2Pool share, they are pretty worthless. What do you guys think? Add them or not?

The original post hasn't been updated in at least two weeks, despite promises of weekly payments.

The list of enrollees has not been updated in at least two weeks, people who have "enrolled" have no way of knowing if they are actually enrolled.

There is no confirmation for enrollees, they're just told to use the signature and trust that you're enrolled and will be paid.

People have confirmed that they have used a signature for a week and were not paid.

OP has a history of paying late when he was paying, but because the top post hasn't been updated since the enrollment period that started over three weeks ago, there's no way to know if OP is still intending to pay all the people promoting his site.

OP is running a signature campaign but can't be bothered to check in with or update the people who are promoting his site for him.

Come on guys, you need to demand responsibility from these guys. Don't promote his site for free or allow him to treat you this way. He has broken the terms of his contract with you. Someone should be explaining where you all stand, and they should be held responsible when they don't live up to their end of the bargain.

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It was on default trust but the dept was 0, i changed it back to 3 now seems fine!

In the bitcoin wiki about private keys (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key), there is the following warning,


In contrast, bitcoind provides a facility to import a private key without creating a sweep transaction. This is considered very dangerous, and not intended to be used even by power users or experts except in very specific cases. Bitcoins can be easily stolen at any time, from a wallet which has imported an untrusted or otherwise insecure private key - this can include private keys generated offline and never seen by someone else.

Why is this dangerous? Can somebody clarify? How is this different from inporting keys in a bitcoin-QT wallet?

Whomever wrote that paragraph wasn't thinking very much about what they were saying.  It's ambiguous and confusing.

Relying on importing a private key to load funds into a wallet can be risky if the person that imports the private key isn't the person that generated it, or if the person that imports the key didn't generate it in a secure manner.  This isn't unique to boitcoind.  It's true of any wallet that allows you to directly import private keys.


It isn't.

Will I be contacted to confirm my place on the campaign?

I dont think there is a way cause you would have to pay more transaction fee just to get rid of them..

No. Nobody has tried it. Not even Peter. Please be the first and let us know how it went. 

I keep forgetting which scam accusations are confirmed or only suspected and/or potentially technical trouble.

Thoughts on having a page that lists suspected and confirmed scams, that we can just redirect these pages to when confirming?