The question of why do the cosmos exist could be expanded to "why does anything exist at all?" I think we take for granted that it just does and reality does not need an explanation in order to keep doing its thing.


Really life struggles to survive only because that's a primary feature of evolution, and a product of that is the fear of death. If things weren't afraid to die, their genes would be removed from the gene pool pretty quick.

It had a schizophrenic episode and then committed suicide. The whole thing was tragic... tragically hilarious.

Just don't tell any of the pumpers or they'll be out of the job.

Sounds like OP probably should have saved his private keys somewhere. Its likely he can still get them out of the old wallets, should probably look into that before punching a hole in the wall.

Sometimes its not subjective. Sometimes scams are committed and all the evidence required to prove it is present on this very forum. I don't know how red tagging "increases" somebody's "profile", in a positive manner anyway.


Noted, I won't bother tagging them, but will perhaps post more about the problem in Meta later.

This is an instance where its incredibly obvious what is going on -- the chances that a series of accounts all created within hours of each other all have praise for the same projects is statistically round-downable to zero.

What's the general consensus about thread bumping services?


If pertaining to a scam, it may fall into the "Shilling scams" category.

However, if there's a chance a project isn't a scam, it might fall into either of these categories:

- ANN bumping
- Colluding

There's some pretty obvious giveaway signs about such behavior:

- Accounts are created in clusters, frequently less than one hour apart from one another
- Accounts tend to comment in the same threads together
- More often than not these accounts have zero merits, are all created in the last year, and have less than 100 posts

Do you guys think if a batch of accounts fill all of these criteria are they worth giving a red trust?

I'd like your input on this because I think in general its less-than-decent behavior and obviously manipulation of the forum for the sake of profit, but I want to get some feedback before I go on a tagging spree.

Here's an example for your reference:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095486

All of these accounts are bumping this thread, which is for a coin with no team and a plagiarized white paper:

name        date registered
suzannelavonna   May 27, 2018, 03:18:37 PM
joyalesley   May 27, 2018, 03:35:30 PM
emeritaduncan   May 27, 2018, 04:47:39 PM

esmeraldajenee   May 29, 2018, 05:44:24 PM
vedaji96   May 29, 2018, 06:32:36 PM
sharondakathrine   May 29, 2018, 06:53:53 PM
madisongisele42   May 29, 2018, 07:05:13 PM

shawnnaalita   June 11, 2018, 05:46:59 PM
jacintoleesa   June 11, 2018, 05:54:25 PM
fredericakarissa   June 11, 2018, 06:18:44 PM

maricacarley   June 23, 2018, 11:56:39 AM
collinbessie   June 23, 2018, 12:09:47 PM
randellcorine   June 23, 2018, 12:25:42 PM

pearliejanis571   June 24, 2018, 10:26:14 PM
sixtajanie   June 24, 2018, 10:38:33 PM
fredricphyliss   June 24, 2018, 10:57:23 PM
adrianscotty7   June 24, 2018, 11:03:51 PM
kristoferhershel   June 24, 2018, 11:58:44 PM

tarakai   September 20, 2018, 03:36:55 PM
Linda Lunar   September 20, 2018, 08:34:43 PM
Hartanyan   September 20, 2018, 10:04:14 PM
Serabyan   September 20, 2018, 10:37:04 PM

What's the matter with you? UF had extra accounts. He used those accounts to claim stakes. This goes against the entire premise of NEM being "fairly distributed," so when he got caught, he "retired" from NEM. Why else do you think he would step aside from his creation?? Please, stop insulting our intelligence.

It's dead set on stopping itself. What we can do is try to get money back for all the non-Venezuelans that got duped into Maduro's con game. Did cryptoviagra get new petro shares? Of course not. He lost $5,000 in the fraud you are promoting on a public forum. What do you have to say to him and anybody else who lost money in Maduro's ICO fraud?


Dude, do you not understand a single thing about cryptocurrency? That poor old lady holding a piece of paper in her hand -- she just gave up actual money for... a piece of paper that certifies she holds petros? What is she supposed to do with that? Who says the petro is worth anything? You can't exchange it anywhere. The only thing you can do is buy petros with bolivars or BTC. That's it. You can't cash it out -- its physically impossible.


From the comments:

"To make a Cryptomoneda is easy!... The difficult thing is to create the confidence that surrounds it..... the petro does not give confidence.... and is not a cryptomoneda, although it has blockchain this centralized to the Venezuelan government."

There is some truth to your statement but the fact is bitcoin has far more actual real world utility than any other crypto -- probably 100x more such utility than Bcash. So, compared to other currencies or traded items, yes, BTC is mostly speculative. Compared to all other cryptos its the least speculative. Bcash is a failed experiment and more of a get-rich-quick scheme, just like SV is currently proving itself to be.

1. UtopianFuture admitted to having sockpuppet accounts
2. He admitted using those to claim NEM stakes.

These are facts. Its proven. The accused admitted it. Case closed.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=649852.0

Hi! HoweyCoins Unofficial Non-Official Support here.


Thanks! We know!!


Send your private key straight to any of the email addresses associated with the Official HoweyCoins project managers. They will be sure to use your bitcoin in an appropriate, trustworthy manner, giving you today's best exchange rate. Currently the rate is 100 BTC to 1 HOWEY.


No, but you can pay with bananas. Just feed a bunch of bananas into any local CoinStar machine and they will be converted to HoweyCoins for you. You have to really smush em in there otherwise it won't work.


Hope this was fast enough for you. We aim to please.

Coinve, this is proof that you were promoting a scam. This guy was never reimbursed in new petros despite sinking $5000 into a public crowdsale of the original petro.

I'll give you one last chance to defend yourself before tagging you as a scam promoter.

Boom, called it again. I'm 6 for 6 in my post season picks. Both Rams and Patriots were underdogs and they both won outright.

I would really like the Rams to beat the Pats, but as I said before, Pats just have more playoff and super bowl experience so I think ultimately they'll win... yet again....

Looks like they're just buying pieces of paper. No public keys on them, no private keys. Just an IOU. Maduro has gone from scamming foreigners only to scamming his own people. Coinve why do you continue to promote a scam long after its been revealed that its a scam?

Pretty cool easter egg... The UFO is like a whale magnet or something?


Who is that little mushroom baby anyway? It looks like he's wearing a diaper, so he must be a baby. Let's get to the bottom of this mystery.

"We present to you a new challenge. Start the game over but its a bit harder this time."

Getting close to solving the mystery of Satoshi is the same: every time you think you've solved it, you really haven't, and you just have to start all over from the beginning again. Super Mario is a good metaphor.

Two Oat Sodas, maybe.

I understand nobody's posted any messages signed with private keys to relevant bitcoin addresses.

How would I know you told me that already? I didn't even read it the first time.

What do you, DT and Iggy Pop all have in common?

This thread is like two or one and a half giant egos battling each other for fame and not realizing nobody gives a shit.

I would say I'm surprised that anybody is actually here, but I'm here too, so...

Have you seen this one Phinn? I think it was made with you in mind:



It's actually a real game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWGLcdI8o8

Going back on topic for a moment. Here guys, I made this for you. Hope you like it.

I'm demeriting you two merits.

We're a bit different from most ICOs, because we are cutting edge.

Instead of paying you tokens, you pay us XMR to learn when the bounty airdrop begins.

And by the way, you're correct, it is a Bounty Airdrop. We're literally airdropping bounties on people, and you must complete them regardless of how silly or demanding they are, or we blackmail you ala that one episode of Black Mirror where people get blackmailed by cell phones and drones, for even more XMR.