The 50 Merits was probably Tman being in a good new year’s post-hangover mood (merited on the 02/01/2020). That was actually what led to the account being uncovered as an alt of some other prior banned account (as I stated a few posts above). 50 is certainly steep, and I personally have not sent (nor received) any amount anywhere near figure. I’d have capped it to 5 overall per month and recepient post, but that’s an old discussion nowadays. https://public.tableau.com/shared/92DH6ZNQQ?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link<...>
Here we go again ... <...>
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It’s not nothing new. Confiscated assets are often auctioned, and specifically Bitcoin auction have been taking place for some time. This is an example of a 4K BTC auction that took place earlier this year: https://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2020/febbitcoinauction/In the FAQs it states that: • How did the USMS get the authority to sell these bitcoins?
The USMS authority to dispose of forfeited property can be found at 28 C.F.R. 0.111(i).
Which is supported by https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/0.111 (0.111(i)): (i) Maintenance of custody, management control, and disposal of property and money seized or forfeited pursuant to any law enforced or administered by the Department of Justice, when the property is seized by the U.S. Marshals Service or delivered to the U.S. Marshals Service in accordance with regulations; and administer the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Fund.
The US government is not trying to prove anything. It does it with other assets such as boats, planes, houses, art. You name it. Having said that, Pierre Rochard does have a point, and it may be time for countries to start making a reserve (if they are not already doing it). Read "Hard money you can’t f*ck with", and you’ll get an idea why. By the way, probably (not) a coincidence that the 69,370 Silk Road bitcoins were given in by a so called Mr. X, and that now, a few weeks later, there are rumours of a presidential pardon for Ross Ulbricht … |
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Pues mira que, sobre el tema de los enlaces, la persona en cuestión preguntó en Beginners & Help, y entre otras respuestas, obtuvo la mía: <…> Posting links is necessary when you gather your information from elsewhere. They are nevertheless a reference to a source, not a basis to create a post on their own. You can debate, refute, favour, question, dissect, aggregate ideas, and quote extracts here and there, but the essence of the wording has to be yours. A post including just quotes and/or copy/paste and/or links is generally not going to be that useful, and will lack any personal touch.
Sigue vivo y coleando por ahora, con dos méritos más, que es lo de menos, si no fuese por el hecho de que los méritos también instigan en ocasiones que gente salga fuera de su hábitat natural para intentar acelerar su recepción, sin darle el empujón de esfuerzo que requiere. En fin ... |
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They seem to be handing out 50 000 Satoshis a pop (11$ roughly), which is not a bad publicity stunt on behalf of Cash App, who I guess has studied the target audience of the rapper’s followers to determine the potential impact of the campaign. There’s also the lateral publicity being generated by the Twitter trail, to the point that the hastag is now amongst today’s top worldwide trending topics (see https://trends24.in/ -> It was number 1 around 11 – 15 hours ago -> search for BITCOINMEG). |
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It’s not as if the OP is going to get back to this thread (or any other for that matter): • Autoban user: N/A in topic #0 by member #1747763
That means the OP has been nuked (as reflected in the modlog), and if we follow @mocacinno’s posts from yesterday, it due to having admitted to having a prior banned account, which renders all other past/present/future account from the OP banned. The answer, in this specific case, is now 0 posts (except for the appeal thingy, which won’t run for a mile really). |
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Update 18/12/2020:The dashboard gives you access to anyone’s complete merit history in the TX tab, surpassing the 120 day limit. Link: BitcoinTalk Merit Dashboard. Updated the Merit Dashboard to reflect the most recent sMerit available data: Total sMerit: 814.305 Total TXs: 436.620 From Users: 22.898 To Users: 36.843 minDate: 2018-01-24 22:12:21 maxDate: 2020-12-11 02:41:23 Aggregate awarded sMerit for the last complete week (07/12/2020 .. 13/12/2020) is 3.906 which is down 21,07% from the previous week. In addition, there are 3 new Legendary members and 2 new Hero member this week: 1miau -> Legendary from Old Era Newbie during Merit System kick-off. cryptoaddictchie -> Legendary from Member during Merit System kick-off. gospodin -> Legendary from Old Era Newbie during Merit System kick-off. OcTradism -> Hero Member from New Era Newbie during Merit System kick-off. safar1980 -> Hero Member from New Era Newbie during Merit System kick-off. Note:
-Copper Members and non-native ranks (staff, etc) are displayed as real (regular) ranks.
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Data as of 18/12/2020Updated the lists in the OP (and subsequent post) to reflect the forum members that still qualify in each of those lists. Currently, on those lists there are, lacking <= 20% merits to rank-up (activity may not be met though): - 35 Heroes (on their way to Legendries) - 67 Sr. Members (on their way to Heroes) - 58 Full Members (on their way to Sr. Members) - 49 Members (on their way to Full Members) - 192 Jr. Members (on their way to Members) Added this week (12): user_id name Status posts activity activity_Met merit rank ProbableInitialRank trust url
2363935 YOSHIE Active 2577 868 Y* 800 Hero Member New Era Newbie =+7 / =1 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2363935
1003345 ChipMixer Active 378 378 N 403 Sr. Member Full Member =+14 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1003345
355167 patrickus Active 2012 1540 Y 400 Sr. Member Sr. Member =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=355167
689558 decred Inactive 156 156 N 231 Full Member Full Member =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=689558
2427207 Indymoney Active 2992 798 Y 205 Full Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =1 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2427207
1007748 thecodebear Active 1591 1050 Y 204 Full Member Full Member =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1007748
1788599 jademaxsuy Active 3087 896 Y 202 Full Member Old Era Newbie =+0 / =3 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1788599
2309382 icy3 Active 71 71 N 95 Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2309382
1705168 JL0 Active 673 673 Y 86 Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1705168
2860144 eXPHorizon Active 126 84 Y 9 Jr. Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =2 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2860144
2853652 wooI_Ioow Active 37 37 N 8 Jr. Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =1 / -1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2853652
2268853 superleggera Active 96 96 Y 8 Jr. Member Old Era Newbie =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2268853
(*) this week (5): user_id name Status posts activity activity_Met merit rank ProbableInitialRank trust url
1339358 gospodin Active 7697 1078 - 1008 Legendary Old Era Newbie =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1339358
2590147 OcTradism Active 907 518 N 525 Hero Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2590147
182284 RejectedBanana Active 402 402 N 501 Sr. Member Full Member =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=182284
1091302 libert19 Active 3918 1246 Y 251 Sr. Member Full Member =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1091302
2817209 Disruptivas Active 85 85 N 100 Member New Era Newbie =+0 / =0 / -0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2817209
(*) Due to enough merits for the next rank, or being banned.
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<...>
Not that inspiring really, but rather it does succeed in being exemplifying … in a different way. The account tried to shine too much, and was hit by a 50 Merit spotlight, to the point that it became suspicious to some, and that led to some people to dig-in, and hey presto: It turns out that the account was ban evading, due to the person behind being the owner of a previously banned account. Check the Trust on the profile, and specifically, follow the references, which will lead you to an enlightening thread on the matter: Does this thread really deserve the attention it has got?<...>
And now again, just under your post ... |
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Pues mira que el Google Translate plagiador local que tenemos está reportado por varias personas, y de hecho yo he reportado tres de sus posts (dos por plagio externo, y otro por plagio de un post de otro miembro del foro, al cual había meritado, y por tanto tenía fresco el contenido). Al fin y al cabo, el objetivo del susodicho está llegar a su décimo mérito, lo cual es aceptable como objetivo personal, pero desde luego no el método empleado.
Nota: unos días de descanso, y vuelves como nuevo en el ATH ...
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It’s something to look into if you are an expat who is sending money back to your country. Many latam countries are receiving money from abroad in this manner. All in all, it should help you to save of fees, and speed up the delivery process, and probably saveguard against inflation … but it comes with a learning curve, both for the sender and the receiver. In addition, you need to be completely sure that the recipient is going to be able to use those BTCs directly (which is more likely in Venezuela, and perhaps Argentina now than in other latam countries), or sell them off at an Exchange or p2p site without any issues. |
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I’ve been looking at Google Trends to see how it is reflecting the ATH, and it’s pretty unnerved by it so far. We have to bear in mind that the data displayed on the extreme right is grouped by complete weeks, so this current week’s datapoint (13-19 December 2020) is therefore incomplete. The image from Google Trends in the OP (derived from the facebook post) is 2017 onwards. If we trail to the last datapoint on the chart (below), it does state that data is incomplete, and that is precisely the important datapoint to measure. It therefore requires until the 19th to be properly constituted in value. Regardless, it does point to being low in comparison to prior ATH, possibly due to the backbone being heavier from institutions than individuals insofar. 01/01/2017 onwards: https://trends.google.es/trends/explore?date=2017-01-01%202020-12-17&q=bitcoin,btcThe 7 day window does reflect a significant surge yesterday, relative to the week’s searches (4 fold increase): https://trends.google.es/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=bitcoin,btcThe 30 day view lacks the data from the 15th onwards (so no use yet): 30 day: https://trends.google.es/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=bitcoin,btcI’d wait until the 19th to see the datapoints properly reflecting the whole week. I figure it will reflect the increase in windows such as the 30 day and 1 year, but still small compared to 2017. |
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<…>
Smile for the camera, you’ve got an admirer : Tenga en cuenta el anuncio de Google de Fake ElectrumThere’s an increasing habit of other’s using Google Translate to create their post in a devious way. The admirer, as I referred to ironically, has done this with @jademaxsuy’s OP, and a bunch of other post form another site, without doing the bare minimum, which is crediting the source. No worries, he’s been reported, and will soon be banned (which is not the objective, but if one tries to be devious, without even referencing the source, he darn well deserves it). On the topic of the Ads themselves, most people do not use Adblockers, nor even know of their existence, and are thus easily exposed to fake Google Ads, which will no doubt be on the rise as ATH is being surpassed by the hour. |
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It’s just gone above 23.401$ in the past few minutes. I’ve been looking at today’s local (Spanish) online press, and most of them are covering the 20K event, although it has not reached the TV media yet. These act as catalysers, and I’d really rather it be a more natural growth, than a hyped rush to make a purchase.
Things are just building-up, and I wonder if Bitcointalk is going to see those numbers rise again like in the past. I doubt they will reach an ATH of active users, since there is no accompanying ICO rush alongside. All the better really ...
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The scammers are likely playing to the idea that 1 in 10 Ledger customers (wild guess) also has a Trezor hardware wallet. Most, if not all, of the Trezor phishing attempt will have previously received at least one related to Ledger (the origin of the breach), so due to both factors, the likeliness of success is pretty slim. Still, someone is bound to fall for it, and that is what they are counting on.
Interesting to read that, allegedly, according to the first link included in the OP, Trezor anonymizes e-commerce customer data within 90 days. There are still things that can go wrong there in the meantime, and backups are also likely to make the data more persistent (depending on their backup policy), but still.
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