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761  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BetCoin.ag scam accusation on: November 02, 2020, 02:01:23 PM
I think it’s clear that both parties to this dispute can agree:  A prompt disposition of the mediation request would be in everybody’s best interest.

We have reached out to SBR to see if they will be taking this case and also suggested several other routes the player can take to receive mediation. Thank you.
I have filed a claim 4 days ago and apart from an automated response acknowledgement of the claim recipience, i  have not heard a word from them ...


inb4 Hhampuz pre-empting me while I was obtaining the quotes from yesterday.
762  Economy / Scam Accusations / I don’t buy what this Rich Gang is saying. on: November 02, 2020, 12:46:57 PM
the mediator betcoin is talking about is a trick. they know sbr will never respond to that email or even if they will, it will take months, buy then the player must have forgotten about it.
this is a smart scam

Who is sufficiently rich to forget about an alleged amount of “around 1 BTC”?  You, maybe?  Roll Eyes
763  Economy / Speculation / PSA: You have no privacy! on: November 02, 2020, 12:31:01 PM
I was denied a credit card because my DL was expired, even though my passport was valid. What does driving have to do with credit??? My bitcoin wallet never expires.

I have had trouble with banks, even with multiple forms of valid government-issued ID—because I lead a privacy-oriented lifestyle, and I am too successful at evading the all-seeing eyes of the corporate mass-surveillance data warehouses.  Evidently, I do not exist:  I am an unperson.  I am nobody.

My Bitcoin wallet cares only if I have the private keys.



PSA:  You have no privacy!  When you sign up with a bank, the bank’s computer already knows all about you—even before you flash your livestock brand ID.  And if your personal data have been stolen and traded on teh darkwebz, the bank’s computer may unarguably “know” things about you that are not true...  When you visit a website, even with a VPN, the site already knows who you are, where you are from, and what you have been doing.  Oh, and—heed Newbie-ranked vintage nullius:

In a similar vein, do you carry a mobile phone?  (I ask this rhetorically; I would not suggest that you answer such questions on a public forum!)  If you do, then somewhere, there is a database which knows precisely where you were physically located on, say, the date of 2010-03-09 at 10:04 in the morning.  Do you know exactly where you were on 2010-03-09 at 10:04 in the morning?  Somebody does—well, a computer somewhere does.  If you were to ever become interesting (in the sense of a “person of interest”), then a wetware analyst could look back at that years or decades later, and correlate it with other available information.  That includes, but is not limited to, the calls and texts you made with that phone (metadata and/or content).  It also includes the locations and communications of persons carrying phones around you.  Do you remember who was near you and whom you associated with on 2010-03-09 at 10:04 in the morning?  Somewhere, there is a database which remembers that.
If you do not want to use websites that may track you, then you need to more or less STOP USING THE WEB altogether.  And if you carry a mobile phone, then you are a total idiot.
764  Economy / Scam Accusations / PSA: Tangled in the Web, you have no privacy! on: November 02, 2020, 12:26:58 PM
Using a proxy does not mean that we cannot see where you are playing from.

The only way for this statement to be true within its four corners is with some rather sophisticated browser fingerprinting/tracking.*

With that, it is very true.

* Or with browser geolocation APIs; but those are permissioned, and I would presume that anyone trying to hide his location would not grant permission for that.

I mention this not to help any miscreants, but rather, to point out that privacy on the Web (and otherwise!) is practically nonexistent.  Yes, every website that you visit can know who you are, where you are, and what you have been doing—if they really want to.  Mostly, this is used for ad profiling, corporate data mining, and mass surveillance.

It can be avoided.  Successfully avoiding it with a VPN or proxy requires considerable expertise.  Tor Browser has some of that expertise built into its design and implementation; but Tor is slow, Tor Browser breaks on many sites, and there are still some potential holes that can only be (more or less) mitigated by disabling Javascript.

Now, if anybody was wondering why I complain about Javascript, and about most of the Web being completely useless to me nowadays, here is one good reason...
Also a VPN doesn't really do shit if you're being fingerprinted. It will hide your browsing from your ISP but wont hide your privacy from Google

Every which way, if you’re trying to get away with something, webs and webs and webs are not very helpful.

Quote from: Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion” (PSA: ***NOT*** Shakespeare)
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!


It is one reason why I tend to think that Betcoin.AG probably has something solid to show the mediator.  There are so very many ways that they could have the evidence that they claim to have; and the types of people who do multi-accounting to cheat on sportsbet site rules are unlikely to be technical experts in privacy and security.

Anyway, the mediator will need to take a look at whatever it is.

To be clear, the foregoing is not a Betcoin-specific issue.  If you do not want to use websites that may track you, then you need to more or less STOP USING THE WEB altogether.  And if you carry a mobile phone, then you are a total idiot.
765  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Message from the future on: November 02, 2020, 06:29:17 AM
I would like to believe that you received a [message] from the future. A message that ironically emphasizes the importance of the thought left to us in the genesis block.


Rarely will you ever see me quoting this personage; I hereby do so quite intentionally:

Quote from: Karl Marx
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.  He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Why does anybody still believe in the intrinsically corrupt banking system?

Bitcoin:  Be your own bank.
766  Other / Politics & Society / Parsing Biden-bunny Cardi B —Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020 on: November 02, 2020, 04:34:36 AM
⚠ WARNING:  This post contains disgusting levels of pedantry.

The following re-spins something that I almost posted in the Wall Observer, awhile back.  It seems more appropriate here.

On character, Biden wins by a landslide.
Say what!?

Looking upthread—wow, wow, wow.  Epic.  The most that Kitty ever gave to me at once was 20 merits for tagging cryptohunter!

Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon
Merited by Lauda (29)
Anyone considering to vote for Biden should read the lyrics of her song WEX and consider if you want to vote for someone who is associating with someone like Cardi B.

Question:  Is Biden-bunny Cardi B promoting homosexuality, or bestiality?  —Or torture? Shocked

  • Homosexuality, “wet arse-pussy”:  Whilst investigating the abyss of cultural mass-destruction in the dark corners of the Internet, I have observed homosexual males using slang that identifies their anuses with terms for female anatomy.  I will not be more specific here.  You don’t want to know.  Cardi B’s American “ass pussy” is quite close.
  • Bestiality, “wet ass-pussy”:  Cardi B wants YOU to fuck a sexually receptive asinine liberal.


    The Party of the Ass

  • Torture, “wet ass pussy”:  Much though I dislike liberals, it is wrong to waterboard their cats!


    And it is wrong to torture me with infelicitous noun modifiers.

Cardi B throws a parse error.

* nullius is confused.

Warning:  I have been known to tryst with masochistic animals of species Puella asinina, who are responsive to me as to an antihero.  Thus, I suppose that I do know wet asinine pussy.
767  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Amy Coney Barrett [Supreme Court nominee] on: November 01, 2020, 10:29:07 PM
Nothing new here, it's been 5-4 conservative many times.

The proposition that anything whatsoever from the Warren Court forward could be deemed “conservative” only shows that you have nothing left to conserve.


Substantive reply to PN7 later, maybe.
768  Economy / Reputation / Re: The shameful Romanian translation of Bitcoin white paper from Bitcoin.org on: November 01, 2020, 08:19:23 PM
Much though I dislike even the slightest hint of personal incompetence, I agree with bitmover about disentangling some of the issues here.  Indeed, I will go one step further:  With such an important matter as the translation of Satoshi’s whitepaper, my first concern is that the good should chase out the bad with something better.

but I believe there were more users hoping to have their translation accepted. Or maybe Ike was the only one who applied. I can't know.

If you yourself were to produce a Romanian translation, and obtain an endorsement of its accuracy and its stylistic merits from Romanian forum reviewers who have native-level literacy, that would be a purely constructive solution; and it would admit no argument in the eyes of Romanians, who could compare the translations side by side.

The shame reflects at worst on the translator, but afterwards it reflects also on Bitcoin, Satoshi's original writing, Bitcoin.org and on all Romanians as a nation. And that's because any reader would think "who the hell is the imbecile who made this incompetent translation? Oh, look, a Romanian!

And then, you could take the high road of letting other Romanians argue for the objectively superior translation to be used on bitcoin.org, leaving no room for anybody to accuse you of this:
This is a matter of ego here: to be able to say "hey, my name nym is written on Bitcoin.org website! That is my nym there, not other's!". You see now the relevance?

I don’t mean to thrust on you a new project, much less suggest when you could do it.  From experience in working with you on translations, I know how much time and effort you devote to such projects; and although the whitepaper is not long, translation of the technical details presents a formidable task.  It would probably take you some time.

I do know that it would be for you a labour of love, and an achievement that you would value independently of any forum political fights.

What say you?


Is there any possibility to contact anyone from that website to take down that ridiculous translation?

I did not see any option to contact the website...

It’s open-source.  File an issue.  Ask other Romanians for review, too.
https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org

And if you were to create a translation, you could create a PR (Pull Request).


I will do the same for the Portuguese translation as well. I never looked at it.

Good idea.  Translation is an art at which few can attain any competence whatsoever.  If something is important to you, it is wise to check and make sure that the translation is of acceptable quality!

* nullius mutters something about some of the horrifically stilted, rambling, almost unreadable translations of Nietzsche’s legendarily poetic German.  (Some of the translations are English literature in themselves—Mencken or Ludovici, I think.)
769  Other / Politics & Society / When Trump wins hands-down on character, the other side is extremely awful! on: November 01, 2020, 07:07:06 AM
Trump also like a fucking dipshit ran his Twitter account into overdrive (this is my BIGGEST gripe with Trump, being a complete fool with his twitter account).

Say what?  Trump’s Presidential Tweets are his best feature!  I did indicate that I do not take him so seriously...

On character, Biden wins by a landslide.

Say what!?  Character?  The stereotypical sleazy career politician, the old-school crypto-banner and extreme Drug Warrior cum “civil liberties” darling who turns whichever way the wind blows, and selects this as his running-mate:
You can get the strong sense, even if you're a liberal, that Kamala Harris is an extremely dishonest character. Realistically, had it not been for George Floyd, we would see Klobuchar as Biden's VP pick. This knee jerk reaction to select a black woman who has an extreme left history (GND, most liberal record in Senate, Medicare 4 all) would be Biden's biggest mistake. She was California's top cop, and now she is supposedly going to be a champion of the left and fight for police reform? Sure. Anyone can recognize she is an opportunist who say anything to get elected. She is going to be the U.S.'s president if Biden wins.

On character, Biden loses by default!  He does not know what “character” is.

Trump is a cheap showman, but his TV-boss tomfoolery seems almost innocent compared to Biden’s smoothly polished professional lie-machine.


Feeling like Trump will pull it off somehow no matter what the media says..

Ah, you’re onto the trick!  The media will set a narrative that Trump is bound to lose.  They will do it one way or another, any way they can.  I don’t buy it.  Maybe he will lose—maybe not—it is simply political realism to recognize that just as in 2016, it is a very close call between the frenzy of Trump-lovers, and the frenzy of Trump-haters.

The outcome looks tantamount to a coin-flip, IMO.


As for the stuff that you labeled "extreme far left" - which would be center-right in sane countries but I digress -

Stereotypically simpleminded American know-it-all, living in a fantasy that saner peoples are all a bunch of far-left Socialists.

It is bad enough when American right-wingers pretend that everything outside their borders is practically the Soviet Union.  Worse when you do it approvingly.

FYI, the only reason why it sometimes comes off that way is that the Communist NATO-puppet* régimes in e.g. Europe have passed extreme political censorship laws that criminalize any speech not passing Soviet-style litmus tests.  Thus for instance, Europeans are legally prohibited from having an honest discussion of, say, immigration policy.  Seriously:  In much of Europe, you can come under police investigation for engaging in Facebook discussions about the impact of immigration on your posterity (!).

The only reason why TPTB still tolerate the First Amendment in your country is that the insane American population is so extremely far to the left, dissent from the Marxist agenda is marginal and mostly irrelevant.  If that changes, expect for it to be piecewise dismantled similarly as your Second Amendment—with liberals cheering.  Indeed, that has already been a gradual process ongoing for decades—and there is currently a big push to accelerate it.  Free speech lovers, watch out.


* Yes, I could back that up—with a bird’s-eye view appetizer, not an historical main course, of headline quotes from Wesley Clark and his clique dictating the future of how Europeans shall run their countries.  However, (0) it is off-topic in a thread about the American reality-TV “election”, and (1) attempts to educate the ineducable are not worth my time.
770  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BetCoin.ag accuser: Put your mouth where your money is? on: October 31, 2020, 11:26:38 PM
2. I have submitted the claim 3 days ago and have not heard anything back yet. Not a word apart from the automated acknowledgement email. So for now i am only watching from the side while my bitcoin is running away ...

If so, it sounds like your current complaint is that mediation is slow.  Though it has only been three days.

Anyone here who has experience with these mediation processes (which I do not), how long does it usually take?  Assuming that the mediator has not yet responded, I think that there is probably a reasonable timeframe to zikzik to wax impatient; I doubt that the timeframe is three days.

Quoting fixed:
Question for zikzik, in fairness:  Betcoin.AG has publicly promised to abide by the results of the mediation.  Do you, too?

Well, i have nothing to abide the decision with... they have my bitcoin, not the other way around.

I meant with regard to this:

As i promised you in the beginning, i will not let it go. For now, you accused me of scam and you taken action - blocked my BTC, so i think it is only fair for me also to take action, as i feel i am the one being scammed by you here.

So taking action i will. I will make sure that as many people as possible will know about your scamming practices. What is interesting is why you worry about it and my spending time doing it. If you are not scamming me, you have nothing to worry about  Wink

The purpose of mediation is supposed to be to resolve these issues—either way.


He just simply ignores ANY request for some exact information. Hell, he even still did not provide anybody with the exact balance of my account. Can that somehow put their security protocols in scrutiny ?

I am guessing that it goes something along the lines of advice to the effect that, “If somebody is publicly accusing you of stealing money from him, and demanding that you specify the exact amount that he claims you stole, then STFU and don’t do discovery on a public forum.”

That said, I would think that this kind of information would need to be disclosed through any kind of a reasonable mediation process; and I do not see a reason why it should be kept confidential there.

They would never explain that. All they can do is go into some general thoughts about their security, their history with abusive players (which won big money there i presume). But for me, they will never tell anybody. Because they have nothing to tell ...
I lost 1.7 btc there, there was no abuse. I lost it betting on their platform.

It sounds to me like by your own theory, they should have welcomed you to keep your account!  #justsaying


I hope that the mediator responds soon, and that the dispute will be resolved in an appropriate manner.

For my part, I don’t see a need for me to rehash this more.  Except for one thing:

Dicey Justice

1. I dont play cards, i only do sports betting

Well, what about dice?

Once upon a time (Sixteenth Century, IIRC), there was a suggestion that all disputes should be resolved by throwing dice.  Because real-world, government-run courts packed with lawyers have a dismal track record of resolving cases with justice less frequently than would be obtained by random chance.  It is true...

Sorry, I don’t recall off the top of my head what witty wag made that suggestion; I should look it up, but I am feeling lazy at this particular moment.
771  Economy / Speculation / [WO] Nullius Goldfinger on: October 31, 2020, 10:47:24 PM
“Once is happenstance.  Twice is coincidence.  The third time, it’s a global-international Communist Capitalist kakocratic-plutocratic conspiracy to turn the ochlocratic insapient talking monkeys into meat-robots.”
772  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BetCoin.ag accuser: Put your mouth where your money is? on: October 31, 2020, 10:19:49 PM
So, why not pull back for a little while, let the mediator find in your favour (since you’re so innocent—Betcoin.AG is just lying about you, with zero evidence that you were multi-accounting), and then blast the hell out of Betcoin.AG for refusing to return the money to you as promised (which you must be sure they will do, since you are accusing them of scamming and stealing from you)?

Yes, indeed, it would be the correct path of actions.

Unfortunately i am a too emotionally driven person to act rationally in situations like this.
I just cant stand when others lie about me.

Well, I can certainly understand that.  Though what got me sucked into this thread was a bit too much emotion from people arguing both for and against Betcoin.AG; it is not helping to get to the truth of the matter.

Now, you’re a betting man, right?  So, let’s put it this way:

I have never done sportsbook, other than my current epic charity bet with theymos over the U.S. election cockfight.  I’m not particularly inclined to bet on the outcome here.  If I want to gamble, I will typically do either pure games of chance—or poker.

I don’t know you—and I don’t know Betcoin.AG.  I am looking from the outside here.  And it looks to me like somebody is bluffing.

If you’ve got the high cards—that is to say, if Betcoin.AG’s got a hand full of nothing to show the mediator—then it’s a bad play for you to be making all the forum noise now.  That’s why I said, pull back a bit—be cool, up the ante—and then, go nuclear on them if (a) the mediator finds in your favour, and (b) Betcoin.AG refuses to abide by mediation as publicly promised.  There’s your ace!  Wink

<snip>

If you are neutral, please, please, ask the betcoin representative this (he is obviously just ignoring all the questions i ask) :

I’m just a spectator here.  Calling it as I see it.

If I were to pose to Betcoin.AG the questions that you ask, then I would probably also need to ask Betcoin.AG to share with me whatever confidential security information they have said that they will show a neutral mediator.  Even if they would (and I am not saying they would!), I do not desire to become so deeply involved here.

Please ask him if apart from those matches, the bets on these accounts were exactly the same?

Post #5 on Page 1 of this thread:
What you are trying to do here, is to call foul on a "multi account" rule, if two people bet the same games?

This undermines the whole point of betting and tipsters communities and sounds very very manipulative to me ...

To clarify, we never said anything to you about betting the same games. This is not a suspicion This is part of a detailed investigation, which has proven that you multi have multiple malicious betting accounts. We will share our evidence with the 3rd party mediator and abide by their decision.

Oh, also:

I know i did nothing wrong, apart from the things (and that included breaking the TOS, like using VPN)

Post #9 on Page 1 of this thread:
We do not ban players for using VPN unless it is determined that the VPN is used to circumvent other TOS (in this case, multi-accounting and banned region). These are handled on a case by case basis, depending on the violation. In most cases related to banned region, players are allowed to receive the deposit back, at minimum. In this case, due to the abusive nature of the accounts, the balances were seized. Otherwise, it incentivizes the fraudster from returning, knowing that at worst he will get his money deposited back.

Like most Bitcoin sites, since we do not require KYC, we review the account activity upon withdrawal. [...]

We would never close anyone's account without speaking to them first unless we were 100% certain of fraud. In this case, we have very clear evidence. We cannot share this with the player, because it helps them find ways around it for their next fraud, but we are prepared to provide them to a third party mediator, which we have been suggesting to this player since the day this event occurred.

I think that the mediator really needs to have a look at this.  I will not pretend to know what happened here.


Question for zikzik, in fairness:  Betcoin.AG has publicly promised to abide by the results of the mediation.  Do you, too?
773  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BetCoin.ag accuser: Put your mouth where your money is? on: October 31, 2020, 09:18:28 PM
If you have a legitimate reason for avoiding third-party mediation, then that would be interesting.  Do you?

please read this thread again, i filed the claim 3 days ago with incomplete information (had to use the word "about"), as betcoin.ag just refused to tell me the exact balance of my account (when it was closed i had many 3-5 matches combos pending).

In one of my posts i have included a screenshot of the SBR's claim email confirmation ...

I saw that.  So, why not pull back for a little while, let the mediator find in your favour (since you’re so innocent—Betcoin.AG is just lying about you, with zero evidence that you were multi-accounting), and then blast the hell out of Betcoin.AG for refusing to return the money to you as promised (which you must be sure they will do, since you are accusing them of scamming and stealing from you)?

It will impress everybody.  Everybody will hate Betcoin.AG, and you will come out looking like a hero—right?

To be clear, in the manner of a devil’s advocate, I am simply providing strategic advice about how I would annihilate Betcoin.AG’s reputation—if they really did to me what you allege they did to you. “ Wink
774  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: BetCoin.ag accuser: Put your mouth where your money is? on: October 31, 2020, 08:43:55 PM
We look forward to having the opportunity share the enormous amount of evidence of fraud we have with any and all third party mediators. One would think that would be the best use of time for a legitimate player, rather than arguing in a forum, since if he is found legitimate, then he gets money. But he already knows the what the result will be.

my time is not of your concern.

I read it as a polite way of saying, “Put up or shut up.”

—Or, “put your mouth where your money is.”  Which isn’t here, per the highlighted portion.

If you have a legitimate reason for avoiding third-party mediation, then that would be interesting.  Do you?

As i promised you in the beginning, i will not let it go. For now, you accused me of scam and you taken action - blocked my BTC, so i think it is only fair for me also to take action, as i feel i am the one being scammed by you here.

So taking action i will. I will make sure that as many people as possible will know about your scamming practices. What is interesting is why you worry about it and my spending time doing it. If you are not scamming me, you have nothing to worry about  Wink

That kind of a threat would be much more meaningful if you went through all that mediation stuff—and then Betcoin.AG refused to return the money, after a neutral third party found that Betcoin.AG lacked sufficient evidence of your alleged multi-accounting breach of TOS.

Oh, wait—what didn’t happen, now did it?

To be clear, I am neutral here.  I have no financial interest in Betcoin.AG, or anybody else here; I don’t know anything about Betcoin.AG.  I just don’t think that it is looking very good for you here, to promise to make lots of noise on the Internet when you have already been offered a productive means of resolving the matter.  Indeed, it sounds to me more like a promise to wage a smear campaign.  “ Wink
775  Economy / Scam Accusations / Liquidated damages for abuse on: October 31, 2020, 06:42:54 PM
I am casually passing through; I have not reviewed any evidence in this case, and also have not read the Betcoin.AG TOS.  I hereby express no opinion about the case, either way.  I just have a little suggestion for preventing and handling these types of issues in the future.

We understand that returning the deposit in many cases of multi-accounting is the industry standard and will be happy to do so if SBR decides that is appropriate.

Yes.  Not naming names, so as to avoid dragging in an unrelated controversy—I recall earlier this year, a major site had a scam accusation for closing the multi-accounts of someone who had abused their sports-bet incentives.  Since they returned his remaining deposits and presented clear evidence of abuse, his scam accusation pretty much just came off as stupid whining.

We do that on our own every day, however in this situation, we are able to prove that the multi-accounting was malicious to abuse the site's other TOS. Based on our evidence, we feel there is 0 chance that this player will be eligible to receive any winnings. In cases of obvious fraud, this is the rare time to seize the deposit, as it is the only thing that disincentivizes the player to return. Imagine being a cheating player and knowing that you can continue to return via VPN on as many accounts as you wish and the worst that will happen is you will get your deposit back.

Suggestion:  Have your lawyers consider adding a liquidated damages clause to your TOS, specifying a reasonable amount that multi-account abusers agree up-front that they will pay based on your cost of catching them, the amortized estimated risk of your business losses if you don’t catch them, etc.  Specify in TOS that this amount may be deducted from the balances of accounts caught in breach of TOS.  Then, deduct that amount from the balances of accounts closed for multi-accounting (merging past and future balances, in case a persistent multi-accounter racks up a big unpaid abuse-handling fee); and return the remaining balances, if any.

This makes it clear that you aren’t just grabbing arbitrary amounts of money.

For comparison, I have seen e-mail services that specify in their TOS a liquidated damages amount of around $100–150 per spam sent using their services.  That is based on their abuse-desk staffing costs, reputational damage and the effort of repairing their reputations, etc.  Of course, the difference there is that they usually cannot collect...

N.b. that in the jurisdictions with which I am familiar, liquidated damages cannot be a punishment or a penalty.  If multi-accounting presents a business risk to you, and your security team needs to spend hours of work time catching and documenting multi-accounts, then you may have a sound basis for a liquidated damages clause—ask your lawyer, which I am not.

In this case, if you did not have a liquidated damages clause, then perhaps you may point out to the mediator (if any) the costs to you of catching the abuse you allege, the potential business risk as aforesaid, and the cost of dealing with scam accusations on the forum.  Depending on what that adds up to, if your evidence is solid, then the fair resolution should be obvious.


I myself would prefer to design services so that they cannot be damaged by multi-accounters—then let people create as many accounts as they want.  For example, provably fair games of chance, with no incentives that could be abused by multi-accounting.  But of course, gamblers at some types of games will want the kinds of play (and even incentives) that are ripe for abuse.  If you offer such things as people want, then I guess you do need reasonable and appropriate TOS to prevent abuse...  Good luck.
776  Economy / Reputation / On heroes, antiheroes, quantum kitty & evil nullius on: October 31, 2020, 04:04:01 PM
The Laudatory Quantum Superposition

It is a Schrödinger’s cat experiment!  Lauda is caught in the quantum superposition of Absolute Hero of Good and Antihero until the votes are counted.

Unlike me, Lauda was kind and gentle.  She is a suitable candidate for the Absolute Hero of Good.

I have also now amended my vote to nominate her for Miss Bitcointalk, as some others have.  Indeed, she was rather girly!

—Wait.  Lauda’s husband is the Terminator!!?!? Shocked

An indisputably serious confession of witchcraft connubial status, accompanied by videographic PROOF that Lauda is married to the Terminator:
Obviously I'm compelled to first thank my husband for his unwavering support and love; secondly, I'd like to thank my cult which has served their Queen very well over its short existence.


Lauda was always lolz. 😺

But she was also what some people may call an “antihero”:

(See also the full/original graphic.)


How will the superposition resolve?  I am in suspense!







Congrats bro.
but what does Craft Master exactly mean? what did you do or built?

I will answer that, for I was the one who nominated GazetaBitcoin.  As his name implies, he runs a Bitcoin newspaper.  His “craft” is journalism.  Wherefore the explanatory note:

Code:
10. Craft Master ................... GazetaBitcoin
    (for in-depth posts on cypherpunks history & current events)

Now, since I am more of a royal “jerk” (or evidently perceived that way) than T. C. May...



On “Antiheroes”

I think that some people are misinterpreting the “Antihero” category.

Now, I would hereby expound on the transvaluation of values that has resulted in heroes oft becoming “antiheroes”.  But you would just scroll on by, like the “unmitigated savages” you are (lolz).

I suggest that a succinct description for an antihero, on the level of the popular mind, is that an antihero is like a villain with his own fan club.  In literature, an antihero is (or should be) more distinct from a glorious villain; but modernity has so blurred the lines...

Ah, yes—literature!  Perhaps the archetypal antihero is the Satan of John Milton’s Paradise Lost:  He is truly the hero of the story, but he is—literally Satan.

Quote from: Satan (John Milton, Paradise Lost)
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.
[...]
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
[...]
[...]Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

For my part, I reject Utopian illusions of a heaven on Earth that can never exist, and would be worse than Hell if it could.  The liberals with their fantasies of “peace and love”, the technocrats with their hybris, the Communists with their “ideals” of replacing humans with absolutely equal meat-robots—I condemn and contemn them, each and all!

To modernity, I am Satan.  I accuse you.  Better to reign in Hell than serve in a brave new Utopia of talking monkeys contentedly tweeting through their portable telescreens, dissolving what little consciousness they ever had with drugs, fucking around for nothing and aborting the results, begging for the banks to keep “their” money safe so they don’t lose it—begging for the government to keep them safe from terrorist launderers and money financiers, or whatever may be the latest iteration of the War on Bogeys...

Also, philosophically, I am an amoralist in the exact sense that Nietzsche used that word; I declare myself to be Beyond Good and Evil; and I am known to quote from Der Antichrist.

How much more antiheroic could I be?



On a popular level (—most suitable for panem et circenses—), think:  A scary “villain” with his own fan club.  I observe that CH effectually nominated me for an Antihero award when he called me “The Phantom of the Opera”.  That was a major #FAIL at trolling:  Trying to insult me with something that I took as a compliment!

Lol at nullius coming out of retirement to red tag for " empathy" [...blah, blah...]

TPOTO... lol I imagine that tune everytime you post now...

TPOTO... lol I imagine that tune everytime you post now...

Since I am having trouble keeping track of all of the references and the various drama points, I googled TPOTO....

I got:  The Phantom of the Opera.

Nullius is of course TPOTO.

Nullius is of course TPOTO.

I confess, “bonesjones” doxed me!

“nullius” is Erik, better known as The Phantom.  Behold my glory!



Whoops!  Calling me the evil genius who lives beneath the opera house, working on his artistic masterpiece and killing off incompetent singers?  Not insulted here. ;-)  The Phantom has his own fan club.

Just to drive home the point of how terribly antiheroic I am, here is a graphic that I made a few weeks ago, for an unpublished post about the proper use of rude people flopped on the Left:

Quote from: nullius (DRAFT)
Quote from: A hardcore privacy advocate!
A census taker once tried to test me...

So, you had better watch out:  Evil nullius is coming for you insapient talking monkeys!  Muahahaha!!

N.b., I reserve the right still to portray myself as the Terminator.  Nothing is thus meant toward you, Kitty.  Anyway, I look more like the one in Reese’s flashback nightmare scene. ;-)


Post scratched out in haste—to be edited/extended with some cleanup, plus thoughts about Lauda.  — Edited much over about the first 90 minutes, then tweaked a few times much later for artistic reasons and/or to add anchor tags.
777  Economy / Reputation / Re: nullius tags bounty-chasing shitposters on: October 31, 2020, 03:12:07 PM
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October 31, 2020, 02:50:16 PM

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This was this user’s all-time second post that was not a bounty registration post:

Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Cracking bitcoin wallets?
This is a tough question to answer but there are I think. That's why famous exchange like Kucoin got hacked on October 1st. I also tried to find them on google and searched on youtube so many times but none got success because all were fake methods to get likes and views. I wish I would find a good method here that works perfectly.

Moderators, please feel free to trash my post if you also trash this habitual shitposter’s post.  Thanks.

Ironically, in celebration of Bitcoinday and in memoriam, I was thinking to make a new tech forum topic cracking down on some of these fallacies today—maybe...

The first one was here:

Economy / Marketplace / Re: Would you lend your cryptocurrencies?
Every Cryptocurrency is risky but it gives high profit too. Until this time I never had lended my crypto but rather I have invested on some smart contract project. If you want to lend your crypto then you have to bear risk as well. But From my friends I have heard that "Blockfi" is a good site for investement and they never had loss. So I prefer investment on Block fi is good

The third one was here, 4 minutes 55 seconds after his ill-fated foray into the technical forum:

Other / Off-topic / Re: Where else should I travel?
Wow. You have a great collection of places where you want to travel. I recommend you to travel my country Nepal also as It is rich in natural resources plus you can do various things here like Bungee jump, Hiking, Mountain Climbing, Paragliding etc. Also, My country is rich in artcraft and cultural heritages.
778  Economy / Reputation / Re: nullius tags bounty-chasing shitposters on: October 31, 2020, 03:11:19 PM
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779  Economy / Reputation / nullius tags bounty-chasing shitposters on: October 31, 2020, 03:11:04 PM
Damn it.  Need topic for this, for reference posts.  (For trash accounts too unimportant for their own topics.)


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