1. You can't judge by the same plugin used by both the website if they belong to the same person. In this case, particle.Js is the plugin used by both the websites with different parameters.
2. I checked their CSS files/ investigated JavaScript/(Jquery) code a bit, and it seems written by two different authors.
3. They can still belong to the same person but websites aren't certainly developed by the same author.
4. The co-incidence is, page loader used by both the websites are same. Now, this is where I start doubting stuff. The chances of two websites of in a similar domain using the same page loader and same set of plugins are quite low.
5.The ripple website's linkedIn team is unavailable which you can take into consideration.At this point, I don't have sufficient proofs to call them a scam but if I put some more efforts into it, I might just come up with something.

Have been a localBitcoins user since 2015 and never had any issues with them. The only stuff I had to verify was my mobile number and had to submit an ID verification without any message or other details. Have you been flagged by any user who you involved in a trade with? Did you check your feedback score drop drastically? Did you check your recent login attempts to verify your account was safe of unauthorised access? I haven't heard of many cases where LBC closed the accounts with funds in it.

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Why "restricting things" and "banning stuff" are the only solutions everyone thinks is perfect? Theymos should start a sub-forum under the domain www.elite.bitcointalk.com where there would be no signatures,no bounties,no marketplaces , just elite posters discussing stuff. Also the sign-up process would be invite basis only.

Condition was always this bad since a few years. You happened to the forum what 2 months back?

Probably his auto-translate needs an auto-translate.

Right! Restricting users from doing stuff isn't always the right solution. For instance, I'm pretty sure in the coming years we will have massive traffic and restricting the sign up process on invite basis only wouldn't be the right solution.We have to go beyond that and harness the best of tech to figure out stuff.

Again, just like my point above, "Restriction doesn't always mean the best solution". Technology is way beyond VPN's and Tor exit nodes. You can never stop the attacks, you can only prevent them.

So if I start my company and would want my employee to manage my campaign, do you think forum should force me to use one of their managers? Why would I?I don't like how every solution you have mentioned revolves around restrict this and restrict that when we are here to be free from the centralised world (speaking psychologically) in the first place.

To sum up this post : Ban Signature Campaigns, forum is sorted (and dead)

I concur. The way these ICO shit-heads work is they keep changing their projects and companies after the ICO is done and quick monies are made.If you check their linkedIN profiles, you'd see how they have worked as a "CEO" at 5 differents ICO related firms in less than a year.

Pay Taxes, before and after creating a legally ran centralised crypto exchange with strict KYC policies.

Why would anyone trust you? If you take all the funds and run away, customers would have no source to file a complaint against.

What are you? Computer Security God that you're so confident it won't get hacked? Even if you don't do shady stuff there are nasty hackers who will empty your exchange the moment it goes live.

You possibly don't need to do that..
Apart from the online Bb-code compilers, there are couple of other hacky ways to get the preview without the need of a higher rank account to test the signatures. To start with, below mentioned has come from one of the good signature designers of bitcointalk. Hope that helps.

Having multiple accounts and collecting token is not against the forum rules. However, cheating with multiple accounts in the same campaign is not endorsed by the forum members. They are likely to get a negative feedback from the DT after good investigation but they wouldn't be banned for it as it doesn't break any forum rules.

Regardless, that doesn't prevent them from captchas. Even if I operate my account as a human, I still need to solve captchas every time I logout or empty my cookies.

They still need to login to message users or post stuff. Vod's point is how come they bot accounts are getting pass captchas which often takes several minutes for actual users to solve. (if I understood it correctly)

Actually automated solving of the recaptcha is quite an easy task by using third party services like https://2captcha.com/software There are other browser extensions like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-captcha-decoder-exte/dappmbimgjecjddkmgekefhnogbefmjl or others which can automate your captcha solving process.Operating past recaptcha is just as easy as having a web driver to automate the boring  tasks. One can easily achieve this in a few lines of code using Python. The botters set a good amount of delay after ever post so it just feels like a normal human is posting it.

Already a thread is created here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3319980.msg34677742#msg34677742 I suppose theymos hasn't found the right person yet. If he's having a hard time finding someone, our Indian community can short-list and suggest 5 candidates which will be further evaluated by theymos to choose the right one.

Economics doesn't prove anyone with the name "Damievande" are legitimate traders as well. As much as I like to applaud your sense of humour, I like to point out the way forum works.
1. It is generally not a good idea to buy/sell accounts of any kind.
2. You should use an escrow while dealing with random people on the internet when your payment methods are irreversible.

Oh My Gawd! Does that mean the shit posting population on the forum is going to increase exponentially? Imagine the situation now and compare it to what happens once the entire country wants to join bounty and signature campaigns.

Jokes apart, it's a good news but it would be sad for the bounty hunters to pay taxes. You haven't mentioned the tax part which I believe will be applicable once it's regulated.

Not interested in your payment but certainly would like to give you constructive criticism.

- Description field after signing up doesn't have a border making it seem empty. Only after the click one realises there is a textbox.
- I know this error would happen. Your server threw an error when I tried uploading a file of 10MB. To be precise 500 Internal Server Error. Handle a fixed profile pic file size on the client side before sending the data on the server. This error resulted in a broken page.
- Selected an invalid file, apart from image and as expected, the server failed again. Handle fileType,fileSize errors on the client side.
-Another bunch of errors I found while tinkering with the pages.


- This has something to do with the popup I guess because screen right now is totally broken with elements aligned at random places.
- The site at this point is just a black and white page with nothing on the screen.
- Everything is so verbose about the website and I'm sure if I start testing the other parts, I will come across many more errors and unhandled exceptions.

To be honest, forum would be a little boring place without all the shit-posts and drama. As much as I love the technical stuff on the forum, I occasionally sneak into threads for a some quick giggles.Off-topic section being my favourite.

Thread : Do you like fishing?

Genius :

You're welcome. You might as well give the community back in terms of donating to the open source projects based for bitcoin. Electrum being a good example. You don't have to worry about ICO frauds, in a coming few months, FBI will do that for us.

That sounds great! Can you help a given scam company to be taken to the court or file an allegation against them? For instance, YoBit exchange have robbed thousands of dollars from the traders and yet they're operating nicely.

None of the 'crypto-portfolio apps' that I know of are scams? You just help people track and manage their coin related data and not the actual coins right? Never been a fan of portfolio apps but that is the most common niche in this section. We get such apps launched here every week.

Not when your thread is not self moderated. You can always create a self moderated thread with a local rule that says diagran is not allowed to post here. They wouldn't post in the thread knowing their posts will be deleted anyway.

Anyway, that thread is nuked.

The testing should ideally be done before the website goes live. If website is live and one of the customers makes a huge win through a bug, it could be a potential loss for the website or the customer the other way around. It's a common ideology to stress test your servers and do end-end testing before shit goes live especially when you're going to be dealing with someone else's money.