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721  Other / Meta / Re: Should bitcointalk ban promotion of other forums? on: January 29, 2024, 05:15:55 PM
If other forums you are registered with do not allow the mention of Bitcointalk (other forums), it is a strange way to enforce censorship. Forums are a mechanism to have discussion about many topics but to ban a name because it is viewed as a competitor seems strange. What would it achieve by banning the promotion (or general discussion) of other forums? Can you name the forums you refer to as competing forums?

I have seen that this forum does not consider it inappropriate when some member makes a post or thread about a competing forum. I am a member of other popular forums and they do not allow mention of competing forums as it is free advertising for them.

What is the opinion of members about this? Is it fine allowing members here to promote or mention competing forums without paying this forum owner or taking his permission  ?
722  Other / Meta / Re: Email used to create this forum? on: January 29, 2024, 11:07:58 AM
Does anyone know what email was used to create this forum?  BTC
theymos would know. Why do you want to know?

Satoshi did not post on this forum. The forum was part of SourceForge before it changed to forum.bitcoin.org/XXX and then https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=XXX

Which forum do you mean?
Maybe I am misreading the way you articulated your point but I believe it was common knowledge that Satoshi posted in the forum after transferring it here from SourceForge. There are many posts from Satoshi that were made directly here and the post history (with date/time stamps) show that to be the case.
723  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 29, 2024, 10:50:15 AM
You have not received any request or notice from any law enforcement agency yet you have confiscated the funds because maybe someone 18 months from now will request it? Can you understand how ridiculous that sounds?

You are never going to be asked to pay any fine from  any law enforcement agency because you are not registered in any jurisdiction, you remain anonymous. Why are you conducting KYC on the customer of the OP if the funds are allegedly stolen and you will not return them regardless?

Anyone has the opportunity to apply to law enforcement agencies with a statement on the retention of funds. We respond to all requests from law enforcement agencies and provide a detailed answer about the reasons for the freezing of funds.

In the practice of cryptocurrency services, there are cases when even projects with mandatory KYC were recognized as accomplices to crimes and were subjected to at least fines, and at most sanctions, which in principle means the complete closure of the project. We are not interested in this, so we are ready to protect our own interests, trying to continue to provide the same level of quality services to our customers.

724  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 28, 2024, 10:55:20 PM
They stated in an earlier post they do not operate a KYC policy. If your customer is undergoing KYC with them, they will still never release the funds unless they ask you for your ID too.

What I do not understand is why would you or your customer go through a KYC procedure with an anonymous exchange that you do not even know where it is based, where their head office is located and the name of any person you can serve legal papers on? Why give them private details such as ID documents when they could easily sell them on to criminals (or use them themselves for criminal activity)?

The other question that comes to mind is the obvious one: if they claim the funds originated from criminal activity, they will never release the funds regardless of what KYC is followed. I agree, they are putting you through this to punish you for bringing their shameful conduct to our attention.

After everything they are asking my customer to undergo KYC procedure which he AGREED ON now watch them ask him his mother birth certificate to be sure that he is born and it's not alien just to not release my money guys after sending so much evidences they are doing this just to let you know guys what they are doing watch this case extremely close they are doing revenge for us whistleblowing on their company
725  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ [POLL] ENGLISH FA CUP 2023/24 TOURNAMENT - Discussion Thread on: January 28, 2024, 09:02:53 PM
Here are the results in full for the 4th Round games that took place over the weekend:

Sunday 28th January
West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 
Watford 1-1 Southampton 
Liverpool 5-2 Norwich City 
Newport County AFC 2-4 Manchester United


Saturday 27th January
Ipswich Town 1-2 Maidstone Utd 
Everton 1-2 Luton Town
Leeds United 1-1 Plymouth Argyle 
Leicester City 3-0 Birmingham City 
Sheffield United 2-5 Brighton and Hove Albion 
Fulham 0-2 Newcastle United


I watched most of the Manchester United game and also saw highlights of the Liverpool game. Manchester United were pushed hard by Newport County and Liverpool were in control throughout their game. Yesterday Everton were knocked. Before that Manchester City knocked out Tottenham. Chelsea and Aston Villa will have a replay after their match ended 0-0 therefore it is too early to make a call about the team that will win the FA Cup.

Having said that, what are the odds on Leicester City winning because they are through to the 5th Round after a comfortable 3-0 win against Birmingham City and are sitting at the top of the Championship and are clearly on course to return to the Premier League.
726  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 28, 2024, 08:20:11 PM
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So how long you are going to wait and keep these funds frozen? Forever?

Why dont you act like banks and any other financial institution? If they do not want to process transfer for whatever reason that might be they will simply refund. It does not matter that the money have already been in their bank acc. Nothing will happen if they refund money to same account where it came from. This is just some crap you saying to keep OP funds.

We cannot exchange or refund funds obtained through criminal means, as this may be interpreted as complicity in a crime. In order to continue the exchange or return the coins, we must make sure that the funds were received in an honest way
In other words what Fixedfloat are stating is that they will keep the funds for themselves under the guise of receiving funds from criminal means. Fixedfloat is not trading as registered company. It operates (as stated in their own terms of service) without answering to any law enforcement agency and has no country/state as preference for litigation and will never allow any customer/client to take it to Court as they remain anonymous.

Yet after all that, they claim they cannot return the funds back to the customer they confiscated it from. Well, this exchange is never going to get any support in this forum.

Have a look at the terms of service, it goes to the extremely impracticable extent to state in Section 19 Disputes Resolution (19.1): All disputes and disagreements that might arise from these Terms shall be resolved by means of negotiations.

There is zero recourse available for any customer/client to seek a legal dispute. They have not stated which country they will allow jurisdiction in the event there is litigation and for those very same reasons they cannot confiscate $8000 from the OP under dubious and deliberately worded terms and conditions of using their platform.

No government agency is going after them or will go after them if they return the funds to the OP but they are portraying themselves as a law abiding entity yet they themselves are not even registered as a company/LTD/LLC in any jurisdiction therefore they are claiming they are in the Seychelles is an attempt at a smokescreen.

OK, so based on this information I come to two conclusions:

1. Absolutely nobody should be using FixedFloat. The BTC taint analysis should be conducted before they send funds to the "main address." This way, the funds can simply refunded to the sender if they are found to be unacceptable according to their standards. What FixedFloat is doing is a bad business practice.

2. OP's employers are still on the hook for paying him the owed amount.
727  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [ POLL ] The Unification Fight: FURY vs USYK 17th FEBRUARY 2024 on: January 28, 2024, 08:11:40 PM
Fury is never really 'in shape', but lots of people seemed to be of the opinion that he was just taking an easy fight, but I was quite vocal that Ngannou could quite easily KO him. I thought Francis would try get an early KO though and come out swinging but Francis was very reserved and tried to box instead which has its pros and cons. I don't know whether Fury will regret the Francis fight as he did get the win and got paid handsomely for it but maybe it was the wake up call Tyson needed as that fight definitely should have put his ego down a peg or two.
If the fight goes ahead, there would be a sense of irony if Fury facing Ngannou becomes the ultimate reason why Fury becomes undisputed heavyweight champions that unifies all the belts and defeats Usyk. Maybe he was far too confident when getting in the ring with Ngannou without proper training and thought he would pocket several millions of USD$ before facing Usyk. Now he knows he has to be in excellent shape before he get gets in to the ring with Usyk.

One thing that was interesting is we got another another lie/contradiction from Fury in that he admitted to not training for as long as he said he did for Ngannou. Tyson contradicts himself so much you never know what to believe is the lie or not. Something really fishy about all this.
He does contradict himself from time to time  Grin

I think the fight is going ahead. They are both probably occupied in their thoughts about the post-fight world. Fury and Usyk know if they win there will be a rematch clause which will be triggered and if it is not (because the loser retires), the winner knows he can beat Joshua, Parker or Ngannou to retain the titles and retire.
728  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 28, 2024, 01:01:15 PM
Have a look at the terms of service, it goes to the extremely impracticable extent to state in Section 19 Disputes Resolution (19.1): All disputes and disagreements that might arise from these Terms shall be resolved by means of negotiations.

There is zero recourse available for any customer/client to seek a legal dispute. They have not stated which country they will allow jurisdiction in the event there is litigation and for those very same reasons they cannot confiscate $8000 from the OP under dubious and deliberately worded terms and conditions of using their platform.

No government agency is going after them or will go after them if they return the funds to the OP but they are portraying themselves as a law abiding entity yet they themselves are not even registered as a company/LTD/LLC in any jurisdiction therefore they are claiming they are in the Seychelles is an attempt at a smokescreen.

OK, so based on this information I come to two conclusions:

1. Absolutely nobody should be using FixedFloat. The BTC taint analysis should be conducted before they send funds to the "main address." This way, the funds can simply refunded to the sender if they are found to be unacceptable according to their standards. What FixedFloat is doing is a bad business practice.

2. OP's employers are still on the hook for paying him the owed amount.
729  Other / Meta / Re: The effect the mixer ban has had on the forum. on: January 28, 2024, 12:19:39 PM
In that case your list is going to be up and available for long time because mixers are not going anywhere. If the situation becomes completely untenable for mixers because of a concerted international effort by law enforcement agencies to ban them, then you will have to make the decision. You never know, in the future maybe mixers will end up being licenced on a country to country basis.

At least in the case of BitMixList, if it comes to the point where mixers are completely outlawed worldwide, I can just take the site down.
730  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 27, 2024, 09:07:28 PM
[...] For example, you have never disclosed your own location or even stated which jurisdiction you are operating within. [...]
Sechyelles, and they're requesting it because they runs globally. The jurisdiction where they reside itself didn't ask them to provide such information.
There has to be a reason why that information is missing from their website. Their forum representative saying it here means nothing. If they are based in Seychelles where is the ultimate jurisdiction if a customer wants to take them to court? They should explain why they have a useless ToS that serves no purpose except to provide a wall of text to display legitimacy.

Update: before fwe minutes my customer has updated me he provided all evidence regarding his company/group whatever and after he sended every evidence he could guess what my previous post made it true e they  are now ASKING HIS CUSTOMERS DATA TO BE DELIVERED TO THEM WHO ARE NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO THE CASE WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY HAVE TO DO WITH ME i am not sure am i dreaming or not on top of that customer has forced me for all evidence he had to be forced to send to build him almost 3k worth automated BOT that i am forced to build everyday they kill me more and more and more and more just update to everyone what absurd thing this is this got to go on live television man
Judging by the manner in which the Fixedfloat team have made a mess of this situation and completely ruined destroyed their reputation in the process, they will live to regret their actions at least as far as this forum is concerned.

I have never heard of any exchange going to these absolutely unnecessary lengths just to keep/steal from a customer under the guise of alleged source of funds. No matter what they do from this point forth to try to rectify the situation, it is too late for them to salvage their reputation.
731  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 27, 2024, 01:02:14 PM
Are you saying the funds you confiscated have now been seized by authorities? Can you name the authority?

Here is the part that makes me worried about the way you have handled this situation: https://fixedfloat.com/terms-of-service

I have read many terms and conditions from many exchanges and other business and mentioned them inside scam accusation in this forum. I assumed your ToS would have been different because of the manner in which you have aggressively treated the OP however, your ToS is as equally vague as many others. For example, you have never disclosed your own location or even stated which jurisdiction you are operating within. Also you have not stated if there is ever a dispute with your customers/clients.

The whole of your Section 19 (Disputes Resolution 19.1 to 19.4) is almost laughable as it could not be more deliberately evasive even if you tried however you leave no legal option for your customers/clients to get their money back from Fixedfloat. You are effectively judge, jury and executioner.

If you will not send them to the OP, can you explain what you intend to do with the funds you have confiscated?
Funds from our hot addresses are automatically consolidated to our main addresses, as funds are sent from us only from our main addresses. Thus, law enforcement agencies see that the funds have been transferred to the addresses of our service. The funds remain frozen at our addresses, and when the frozen funds are seized by the authorities, they are also sent from our addresses.
732  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ [POLL] ENGLISH FA CUP 2023/24 TOURNAMENT - Discussion Thread on: January 27, 2024, 12:47:45 PM
These are the 4th Round fixtures being played Saturday 27th January

Ipswich Town vs Maidstone Utd
Everton vs Luton Town
Leeds United vs Plymouth Argyle
Leicester City vs Birmingham City
Sheffield United vs Brighton and Hove Albion
Fulham vs Newcastle United


It would be a great day for football and the FA Cup if Maidstone United managed to get a win at Ipswich Town, or get a draw and have the replay at their own ground. Other than that, I would expect Everton, Leeds United, Leicester City, Brighton and Fulham to win their games.

These are the results from the games played yesterday:

Bristol City 0-0 Nottingham Forest
Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Coventry City
Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Manchester City

It was a night of missed opportunities in the Chelsea vs Aston Villa game therefore they will have to have a replay at Villa Park but Manchester City grabbed an 88th minute winner to go through to the 5th round.
733  Other / Meta / Re: The effect the mixer ban has had on the forum. on: January 27, 2024, 12:39:52 PM
Without a shadow of doubt, the same principal applies to this forum because members here would vanish overnight if signature campaigns were ever to be banned. Almost every member here is posting because they get paid for it therefore if you take the pay away they will go elsewhere to get pay.

I suppose if theymos ever wanted to have this forum cleaned-up and have it taken back to a place where it was about newbies asking about Bitcoin on one hand and advanced members posting about core issues on the other, then he should ban signature campaigns but that decision is going to bring seismic and maybe unforeseen changes.

They knew they could get paid by posting in the other forum and knew mixers would be paying the highest rates therefore they followed where another revenue stream went. I have not read any reason from members stating they went there (or want to go there) in order to improve the other forum with their contributions.
Well, that's the sad truth. I refuse to believe someone makes an account there for other reason than money. However, I don't believe the overwhelming majority in bitcointalk would voluntarily contribute to their fellow forum users either. Perhaps occasionally, but certainly not with the same eagerness and frequency.
734  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have you ever regretted selling your bitcoins ? on: January 27, 2024, 12:08:04 PM
I hope that $4000 you could have made is not going to hold you back. I like the fact you have that positive outlook on life. It has happened therefore let it pass and do not look back, there will always be opportunities out there but you have to find them and when they are presented to you that all important decision has to be made: to invest or not to invest

And another all important decision that cannot be avoided and has to be made by all investors: to sell or to hold

You made a call at the wrong time, I made a call at the wrong time and many of us did it. It is life.

The OP managed to get 5 merits and considering he had received tags for trying to buy merits and using AI, he did well because does not deserve them. I will unwatch this thread now.

The lowest level of Bitcoin price I witnessed is something around $120, you can imagine selling BTC0,1 BTC at that time was just $12 and when you look today it is $4112 approximately. For sure I am disappointed and regretting selling with $4000 loss but when I do a transaction that's mean I need it at that time and life is opportunities to take or let go, just pass and don't look back.
I assume everyone who joined early are regretting selling his coins at a cheap price but it is life after all and we need to do that.
735  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have you ever regretted selling your bitcoins ? on: January 27, 2024, 12:57:28 AM
I have read many stories about why people sold too early or did not hold on to their Bitcoin for longer. We all made the same mistake for different reasons. I am one of the group that sold early too but there is no reason to keep kicking oneself over it.

Looking back, I remember when Bitcoin reached $1000, I never thought I would see it reach $10,000 (that seemed far away) but it happened and now I am thinking I'll probably see it reach $100,000 one day therefore there is still time to reap benefits if I invest wisely Grin

Yep.  I've written it probably dozens of times over the past few years that I feel like a complete dunce for not holding onto the cheap bitcoins I got my hands on years ago--and even more so for not believing in bitcoin and its ability to appreciate in value like it did.

But I could write pages and pages kicking myself for not being bitcoin-rich.  Instead, I'm just going to say that when it was worth $200-500, $1000 seemed so very far away.  And then when bitcoin finally reached $1k, I thought there would have to be some apocalyptic event before it ever reached $10k.  And then it reached that milestone, and all was relatively well in the world.  After that, it still seemed far-fetched that $50k would ever be a reality....and then it was.  I don't think my thought process and skepticism was so out of whack that I ought to be flagellating myself, but just looking back at what happened vs. what I predicted, I just want to forget about all of it or at least not think about it too much.

And then threads like this pop up.  Thanks, OP!
736  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin devs can undo 21M supply cap but can’t force changes on: January 27, 2024, 12:45:34 AM
If it is a question just to hypothetically inflate/increase the numbers then I would be speculating but it probably could be amended and pushed out as an update without the need for a fork. In reality, if the supply was to be altered those holding the current coin should be able to select which fork is the chain they accept with consensus.

It would be interesting to read what a developer thinks is or is not possible about altering the supply cap.

In the scenario you mentioned in the OP, if there is no hard fork there would be no alteration to the supply.
Can you prove that statement? I'm not sure if we know for sure that there couldn't be some way to inflate the supply in a controlled manner without doing a hardfork.
737  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ [POLL] ENGLISH FA CUP 2023/24 TOURNAMENT - Discussion Thread on: January 26, 2024, 09:33:17 PM
These are the 4th Round fixtures being played this evening Friday 26th January:

Bristol City vs Nottingham Forest
Chelsea vs Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday vs Coventry City
Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City


Game of the day had to be Tottenham vs Manchester City followed by Chelsea vs Aston Villa. Both of those games were set to be entertaining. The games are nearly approaching full-time. I will post back with a review of the games and the results when the final whistles have been blown.
738  Other / Meta / Re: The effect the mixer ban has had on the forum. on: January 26, 2024, 09:26:40 PM
I looked through the posts, you are right there is at least one person saying he has two reasons for registering there. I wish you success in getting $5000 from your activities in that forum. Is the intention of getting $5000 from that forum via signature campaigns? I presume your support of liked POW coins will not provide a revenue stream if the intent is to post in their threads.

I disagree with you. I specifically said some alts are decent POW coins and I want to make up for the $5000 worth of BTC I had to refund to my prepaid mixer when bitcointalk ended mixers.

So at least one person is saying 2 reasons for being there.

1) to get my $5000 back
2) to support the handful of alt pow coins I like
739  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Fixedfloat is scamming me for 8000+ EUR IMPORTANT PSA! on: January 26, 2024, 06:20:07 PM
If you will not send them to the OP, can you explain what you intend to do with the funds you have confiscated?

Hello,

We received information from partners that the funds at the address were obtained through criminal means.

For this reason, the exchange was suspended. In order to continue the exchange or return the coins, we must verify that the funds were received by you in an honest manner, and also receive all the previously requested information from you by mail from the sender of the funds.

We receive information about thefts and fraud from our partners (other exchanges and cryptocurrency services) and victims who contact us. All evidence is carefully considered. We do not require KYC, and fair receipt of funds is usually easy to prove.

The rules of our service prohibit the use of the service for any criminal and fraudulent purposes, which we openly talk about in Terms of Service, sections 6-7. We never freeze users' funds for no reason, if the user has provided all the evidence that he is not involved in the crime - we unfreeze the funds and conduct an exchange or return the funds.
740  Other / Meta / Re: The effect the mixer ban has had on the forum. on: January 26, 2024, 06:05:25 PM
To put it in this way: is there any reason to migrate to altcoinstalks other than to advertise mixers? To me, the answer is no.
Well, that has to be the only reason why forum members decided to teleport (and/or register other) accounts there. They knew they could get paid by posting in the other forum and knew mixers would be paying the highest rates therefore they followed where another revenue stream went. I have not read any reason from members stating they went there (or want to go there) in order to improve the other forum with their contributions.

This is the most recent:
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PS2: The Monarch get the same features as VIP, but can be only 1 monarch, he/she is always addressed as your highness or your excellency, otherwise users suffer a negative karma. A monarch gets 1% of any bounty or airdrop we manage (exception our tokens), a monarch has a seat on the crypto senate.  To become the next monarch your donation should be higher than the previous. Now: 10.5 ETH. If you lose your monarch status (taken by another), you would stay as VIP.

What the fuck?

Here on Bitcointalk, and with all due respect to Poker Player, I can disagree with him about something and not have to worry about getting red trust over it. But over there people can tag you because they are offended that you didn't call them "your highness"? What a joke.
If a lack of "your highness" can destroy a reputation in that forum, just imagine what would happen to a reputation if you got on the wrong side of a group/gang/clique Grin
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