This is a lot of data presented in an easy-to-read fashion -- good job & thanks for updating it.

Immediately I found this to be interesting:



Since the introduction of the merit system, there is a significant uptick in merit giving during Thursdays and Fridays. I'm guessing its because people are in a better mood on these days as the week is coming to an end and they are feeling more generous with their merits.

On Saturdays & Sundays there's a decline; most likely because people are taking a break from the forum. My conclusion is that most people are accessing the forum from work   which isn't totally crazy -- I did it for my first 2 years or so.

Satoshi did publish a PGP key but AFAIK he never signed any messages with it. It does not expire so theoretically he could come back and prove he's still around with it if he wanted to (though peeps would be rightly skeptical w/o additional proof).

Strange day but not entirely surprising. I understand theymos gotta do what he gotta do to first and foremost make sure the forum doesn't get taken down... that would be a real blow to the history of Bitcoin.

The one thing I'm not quite sure I understand is the KYC part. There are several exchanges that still do not require KYC, even if they aren't allowed to service U.S.-based customers.


No, Bitcointalk has never been decentralized. Theymos has done just about as good a job as possible keeping it "free", however. The absence of strict moderation policies make it appear to be decentralized, but it is owned & operated by just a handful of people.

Even people who aren't logged into the forum will see the big banner that reads "Warning: One or more bitcointalk.org users have reported that they strongly believe that the creator of this topic is a scammer.... etc." Not much you can do for people who read that and still choose to interact with the OP.

The guy is a notorious, long-time scammer that has gone by several other names like humbertin, humberroll, etc. He appears to be a professional scammer although he certainly isn't the brightest.

It appears that everything that can be done using the blockchain under the sun has already been done, or attempted, or at least had fundraisers for it.

While 99% of all cryptocurrencies & tokens that have ever been launched eventually end up trending to zero, part of me does wonder if someday we'll have a second Ethereum-type coin... Something that will knock Tether out of 3rd place in the market cap rankings. If we do, would they have an announcement here in 2023 or 2024? I dunno, hard to say.

Bitcointalk was certainly more of a focal point for all things crypto-related back in 2014 -- now discussion of new projects takes place on Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, YouTube, and Facebook/Instagram to a smaller degree. For my projects (I'm not trying to be the next Ethereum or anything), discussion in threads is very minimal.. Its kind of discouraging and I prefer to advertise elsewhere.

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LOL. Not a single mixer operates with a license... I'm not sure a single one has, ever. Again, operating under the conditions of which the license is provided largely defeats the purpose of a customer using the mixer in the first place. I know you don't understand what I'm talking about. That's OK. I think the best solution is for me to put you on ignore.

Your post doesn't make a lot of sense. What do you mean by "mixing rules"? Are you talking about requirements set by federal governments? If so, which ones? For a mixer to be able to service customers based in the U.S., it requires a money transmitter license, which means the mixer must not only register with the government but KYC for all customers (which defeats the purpose of the mixer). Other countries may have similar laws, some more lax laws, and some may not have any laws addressing the issue at all.

Arguably no mixer operates according to all the laws... it would more or less be impossible for them to do so.


Well that's not exactly true. He said he's "considering not to touch any funds that is in the escrow address" until he receives direction from a lawyer. These are interesting times.

This made me LOL. I noticed that a lot of famous trolls turned to the darkside when they got majorly screwed in some way or another, and they never recovered. Notbatman, for instance - creator of the famous Flat Earth thread - lost thousands of dollars attempting to buy Black Arrow miners, which turned out to be a giant scam. Losing the money and not being able to mine cheap BTC affected his sanity and he withdrew into a dark place.

Looking back at BADecker's posts, however, reveals that he's always been a religious nutjob. Over the years he withdrew from any type of normal discussion to pursue trolling full-time, but it was a gradual transition.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that 98% of the forum has never visited the French Off-Topic section. Today was the first time I ever did. I for one don't care at all what goes on there. But if a post advocating the murder of one or many people is reported and I was mod, I would delete it... If they do it again and its reported again, perhaps a temp ban in order with a message telling the user how they are violating forum rules. For the 3rd time, a permanent ban is in order.

This happens in P&S all the time but these posts aren't deleted, they probably aren't even reported:

You keep using that emoji.
I do not think it means what you think it means.

I thought about it and no, they won't. That's a ridiculous assertion. We don't even know for sure that is a legitimately government-controlled account.

I'm sure the US government does keep a database of everything that's ever happened on this forum (maybe other governments do as well) -- going all the way back to the Dread Pirate Roberts days, or maybe even the Wikileaks donation days. The NSA likely keeps an archive of the entire internet. Unless you're laundering drug money, ransomware/hacker theft money, or work for a terrorist group, I wouldn't worry about it.

Weird to think that he's been old since the Nixon administration.



Maybe he was born an old man.

Frankly I don't know why you bother engaging with that dude. He is the perfect troll machine... unencumbered by any sense of logic, reasoning, balance, or mental stability. He is impenetrable.

Actually I don't understand why people bother posting in P&S at all. I'm just glad that most (not all) of the nuttiest people on the forum have coalesced there and rarely post elsewhere. To the non-nuts who argue with the likes of him, I don't understand what you get out of it.

LOL! I'm really not surprised... The first copycat was Litecoin Ordinals (because it also has SegWit & Taproot), then Doginals, then Ethscriptions, then Solscriptions, then inscriptions on AVAX & MATIC... and now Monero. That's the funny thing about NFTs on Monero though: nobody knows when they change hands, and nobody knows who has which ones. Think I'll pass.  

Its not perfect but it is better than it was before...

Yes that's quite right... You're referencing Dogeparty. I made several tokens on it back then... Several people were making meme tokens upon a memecoin, and thanks to the reboot of 2021, they are once again doing so today. The most popular Dogeparty token series is probably the Rare Doge collection, which is Dogecoin's answer to Bitcoin's Rare Pepes.

This has been confirmed by the relevant mafs & schience.



Gotta say, I've been having a lot of fun with the Bing AI image creator... It is super detailed, just a lot of prompts are blocked as being "unsafe"; sometimes apparently for no reason. Its my right to be able to see AI Jesus shaking hands with Benjamin Netanyahu. Finally, there's a reason to use Bing.

Your post had nothing to do with bitcoin, whatsoever. That's why it was deleted. You weren't giving away bitcoin, you weren't raffling a bitcoin-related prize, you weren't selling anything for bitcoin. I know you don't care about my opinion -- you've made that expressly clear. I'm just trying to help you understand why your post was deleted.

Hmm... I'm not entirely sure about that. As far as we know, Satoshi is 100% anonymous. Does that mean he is linked to criminal actions and should be exposed? There are instances when anonymity is important to non-criminals, for example, whistleblowers both corporate & political. Also protection from government overreach isn't necessarily a bad thing... should everyone who uses bitcoin in Iran, Bangladesh and a few other countries be punished just because its against the law?


No of course not, and the government (US feds, INTERPOL mainly) already have their hands full when it comes to investigating & prosecuting these types of criminals. There are other ways they can be found and tracked than by monitoring their crypto transactions.