I join my colleagues in congratulating you. It is another example of the many we see in the Nigerian community of this forum to popularize the Bitcoin there, apart in this case with a solidarity cause, which is even more praiseworthy. The fact that the gifts and food were bought with Bitcoin I think will make them curious.

I had previously taken this message from the other thread as sarcastic or something, but I see that you mean it, and I don't quite see the point of it, because on the one hand no one in the campaign has complained about it, and on the other hand, if I had the funds I would be very careful to move them even if it was to make a single transaction for you. I would have probably looked for legal advice, but it wouldn't have taken me long to find it, I think two weeks maximum, but maybe Royse777 is not in the same situation and it will take him longer to find it.

On the other hand, if the one who is questioning my having the funds is someone you yourself qualify as " trolls who publish delusional assumptions" I wouldn't worry in the slightest, but you have forgotten Gazeta, who I'm sure you don't qualify as a troll.


With this I agree and what is emphasized in bold seems to me to be key.

Bitcoin has triumphed in the last few years precisely because of the essential properties it has with respect to medium or high amounts, and it doesn't matter if it becomes mainstream because the people who can store and send those amounts are reduced. It is not even remotely the same people who can buy bottles of water.

Using the same criteria for Bitcoin as for altcoins makes no sense, when it is essentially different.

I find the subtle tone this topic has taken, both on one side and the other, quite amusing and entertaining. We'll see how it turns out, but it's certainly different from what we usually see in this section. Waiting to see what the next subtle move looks like, or if it ends with such subtlety.

(Edited to say that it seems it wasn't subtle)

Just by reading the title I knew it was going to be about Ratimov, who by the way has not logged in since a week ago and it seems that he has to pay back some money he received in advance in the last campaign he participated in, and for which he should still be writing.

Yes, OP, read about everything Ratimov has done, of which thread deletion is only a part, and you will be surprised, but you will understand better why is that thread like that in archival.

What a crazy thing out there. Luckily I haven't had small inputs for a while thanks to having consolidated with the minimum fee when I could and thanks also to having read LoyceV's useful thread about it. The best thing to do now is to wait. Paying $15 per transaction is not going to last forever.

Assuming it is true what you say, do you have another computer, or laptop or tablet? Because selling the computer and being left with nothing like it doesn't sound like a good idea. It is also not the same if you use it only to play games than to do work. Can you expand a bit on your situation?

In case anyone missed it, or doesn't usually visit that section, Royse777 posted a thread on B&H that contains useful tips on how to make money on the forum but contains a subtle part that I think has quite a bit to do with this:


The thread is:

How to sell yourserlf to potential advertisers | sales pitches included

To my mind the subtle part about icopress and GazetaBitcoin should be discussed here or in some other thread in the Reputation section, not in the B&H one.

Well after JJG and then Gazeta with his thread on Ratimov, this post is among the longest I've read on Bitcointalk.


Yes, I don't quite understand why it's here. I mean, it can be in this section because it actually contains useful tips but the subtle part about icopress and GazetaBitcoin I don't quite understand why it's here.

It would make sense that for the discussion with them at least that part would be in the Reputation section.

Well, there are always naive people or people who don't know about numbers that can fall into the trap. It is usually people with few resources who are blinded by a possible almost miraculous way out of their dire economic situation, so I was hesitating whether to create the flat after having left the first tag and I think it is right that the OP has created it to warn these potential victims.

But most likely scenario is that the scammer will not appear again on the forum, at least with that account. He has not logged in the forum since I left him the first tag.

I also know Kiyosaki's work well and in these types of threads I always repeat the same thing: using (good) debt to create wealth only works for a small percentage of intelligent, self-controlled people. For the vast majority of the population, if you want to improve your economic situation you have to avoid debt, especially consumer debt (taking a mortgage to buy your house is OK) and save and invest. That's all there is to it.

For a moment I thought I was on ordinaltalk.org. "Celebrates" "good news" and "milestone" that the mempool has been filled with garbage and skyrocketed the fees?

I don't see anything to celebrate. If someone insists me to find a positive point to the matter, I would say that it is the demand that has the blockchaing of Bitcoin, even for things for which it was not intended but little else,

That's all well and good but being a newbie, if you are not an alt account, what you have to do is dedicate yourself to using the forum. Giving that kind of advice sounds like merit fishing. If you are sincere with what you say you'd better apply that advice to yourself.

How is he going to prove it if there is no staked address from the first period, the period in which he only wrote in Spanish?

He can prove that he is the owner of the second period, the period in which he started speaking only in English, and that the post he wrote in Russian is due to the fact that he speaks several languages with a B2 (which nowadays is not even necessary for writing, as advanced as automatic translators are).

For me the crux of the matter lies in this, no matter how many languages he supposedly masters:

See, that's why I don't see it. Almost nobody pays with cash anymore and less and less, because they see it as a joke to go to the ATM to withdraw cash when they can pay with their mobile or smartwatch while sending a Whattsapp or looking at an Instagram notification. Only the few who are privacy conscious and don't want CBDCs shoved up our asses continue to pay mostly with cash. But there are fewer and fewer of us.

Mass adoption is not going to come by adopting a forced intermediate step. To which we should add that if you pay with cash you don't have tax problems.  If you buy Bitcoin and when you go to pay it has gone up 0.05% you will have to report that payment in an income tax return for capital gains tax, and it already implies having to install software that tracks all transactions because keeping track of all small payments yourself is not feasible.

In your case, as I see that you are knowledgeable and interested in technical issues, if you focus most of the time you spend on the forum on exchanging knowledge in these sections, you will gain merits at a good pace. You don't need anything else.

I don't believe so.


That would only prove that he is the second owner, the one who only spoke English and not Spanish any more. In fact he staked the address just after the posting gap indicating a change of hands and when he started speaking in English (and never wrote in Spanish again). Another thing I see is that in the first period he did not apply for any bounty but after a short time after he switched to English he applied, which usually happens when accounts change hands.


Please enlighten us, why would someone who has spent two and a half years writing only in Spanish, switch to writing only in English?

I have seen that the scammer has not been active for a couple of days, as expected, and I was going to pass on creating the flag, at least for the moment, and that in the event that I saw him active again I would create it.


But since you created it, I'm obviously going to support it.

I don't think there's anything else to say in this case, so I'm going to lock it.

This method of earning allows you to earn $1000 a day or more

It is a clear case of a scam attempt for which there is no need to give many explanations, but I was thinking if it would be worth creating a flag so that newbies and unregistered forum visitors could see it clearly.

I think it's most likely that after my tag and the responses he got to his thread, he won't be very active here again, but I hesitate to create the flag just in case.

Digaran never ceases to amaze me. I think we already have another BenCodie case around here. So he's against mixers and has been getting paid for spamming the forum while advertising Mixero mixer in his signature? For months, I seem to remember.


I don't know if there is another utility, but even if there was, that's the main one. The question is whether obfuscating the origin of your coins is only for illegal reasons or for very legitimate reasons, such as protecting your privacy.