But there isn't any discussion. The accused can't respond to a trust, at least, not in the public forum. Other people can't weigh in to inform of the legitimacy of the proof, and they can't post to add to the proof either. Also, those are typically not seen. If the proof is in untrusted feedback, few people would see it. It doesn't prompt default trust members to act like a scam accusation post does. Then we would have a problem where more people get scammed.

From your experience, it may seem like they but really, that section is vital for serving proof that someone had scammed. It is the only place where people can post their proof that someone is an alt of a scammer, or proof that someone scammed in a private deal, etc. It is the only place to discuss those scams, where people can post proof or the accused can debunk the proof. If shouldn't be removed, it just needs some moderation to remove the spam.

Scammers do still scan, but it becomes harder with negative trust and having to constantly just new accounts.

I agree, you shouldn't just take somebody's word for it. Which is why there is the option for a reference link in the trust page. Those references allow you to check the accusers claim and think for yourself. And got even accusers do that. They create threads in scam accusations where they post ask of their proof for you to evaluate yourself and then reference that when they neg trust.

I did not say any of that, you are misunderstanding my words.

When you post on this forum, you are talking to everyone. People who read your posts will get different impressions. If they get the impression that you are acting in an untrustworthy manner or in a sketchy way, then they can give you negative trust on the suspicion that you might scam. They are getting to know you by what you are putting out there publicly. Instead of making it so that people should get to know you in a private conversation, why don't make it so that whenever you post, you do so in a way that reflects yourself and so that people can get to know you by the way you talk publicly (post).

People can post whatever information they want, regardless of whether they know you personally or not. If they had to know you personally to post info, then most of the scammers here would still be scamming. No one really knows who they are personally. That logic just does not follow.

It is possible, but if you did not run that version, then it shouldn't have done anything to the wallet. Check for a backup. Also make sure that the wallet file is the same one as the one I told you to backup earlier.

If your wallet was encrypted, you need to use walletpassphrase before dumping the keys, the instructions are earlier in the thread.

Check the balance of that address on blocktrail.com (blockchain.info has been buggy and stupid recently).

Try importing the address (and any other that you have) to Electrum. Download and install electrum from https://electrum.org/#download and create a new wallet. Make sure you select the option to import keys and then just copy and paste all of your keys into the text box. Follow all of the instructions and you should be able to see your balance and spend from it.

dumpwallet should work, but maybe on mac it doesn't, IDK.

what do you mean you can't find the correct public key to pair? You only need to enter a bitcoin address for dumpprivkey to work. You can find all of your addresses by using the command
That will list all of the addresses that you have used, including change.

Try doing the whole dumpwallet thing and make sure you set the path to a location you can access, like the desktop

That folder is NOT the bitcoin installation. That is the data directory. It has the blockchain and wallet stored there. When you moved it, Bitcoin no longer sees the files since they are not where they are supposed to be. Move the folder back and copy out the wallet.dat file as a backup. Then try again.

Part of that ECKey line should have something like "priv WIF=..." which is the WIF key. If it isn't there, try upgrading bitcoinj to the latest version.

Otherwise, you can use this site: https://gobittest.appspot.com/PrivateKey and enter the privatekey hex. The site will give you the WIF version.

Can you describe what you are getting?

Did you do the dumpwallet command as I wrote above, because that won't work on a mac.

You don't understand what a ban is. A PERSON is banned, not an ACCOUNT. To ban a person, all of the ACCOUNTS associated with said PERSON will be banned. If someone has a hidden alt, and they use it, since their PERSON is banned, then they are evading the ban. If that hidden alt ACCOUNT is found to be an alt account of that PERSON (through multiple evidences including but not limited to IP evidence, transaction signing/blockchain evidence, they outright admit they are an alt, etc), it too will be banned. When a PERSON is banned and they are caught ban evading, then the ban time on ALL of his ACCOUNTS will increase. Repeat offenses will then result in a PERMABAN.

Just report his posts. It is possible that moderators don't see his posts, so report them to get their attention. That should help to remove the troll posts.

I think this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=361306 is the owner of Bitcoin Aliens. Send him a PM.

zapwallettxes will remove all of the unconfirmed transactions from your wallet, including that conflicted one.

Bitcoin Aliens will need to resend the Bitcoin. They cannot just resend the transaction, since resending it will not change its status of unconfirmed.

It looks like Bitcoin Aliens screwed up. They were creating transactions which have a High S signatures, which are now considered non-standard transactions. Some nodes on the network will malleate those high s signatures to low s signatures, thus changing the txid (but nothing else; the transactions are still valid and the coins go to where they are supposed to). The problem is that Bitcoin Aliens built a chain of transactions which includes yours that spent from an original transaction that got malleated. The malleated transaction is the one that was confirmed, so that original transaction and any transactions in its chain will never be confirmed.

Your best option is to contact their support.

This must have been part of their upgrade, to use the Bitcoin Core 0.11.1 rules. Bitcoin Core 0.11.1 and beyond now refuses to relay transactions that use a High S value in the signature scripts. This prevents transaction malleability. Transactions using a High S are now considered non-canonical (non-standard) and are now no longer relayed. This must have been part of bc.i's upgrade.

If someone thinks that you will scam, they can neg trust you. They can open a scam accusation against you if they think you will scam to key others know.

Why do people need to talk to you personally to find out if you are trustworthy or not? They shouldn't need that. You should post publicly in such a way that is trustworthy or at the very least, not support sketchy or seemingly not trustworthy.

Why should it be done privately? If one person thinks you are a scammer, then multiple people might, so you would have to prove yourself over and over again to people who think you are scamming. Secondly, having it public allows other public opinions to weigh in. Trusted members and people who have been here for a while can weigh in and give their opinions. Furthermore, if someone really is a scammer, then they need negative trust. Having a public discussion about someone scamming ensures that people on Default Trust will see the discussion and neg the person, instead of just one guy giving negative feedback which no one else sees or trusts. If you suggest that they can just pm DT members with the proof that you scammed, that proof can be manipulated, quotes that you say or that the accuser says can be changed. Having it public makes it so that it is more difficult to change what was previously said because people have seen it and may have quoted it. The edit times also indicate whether a post has been modified and for big scammers, theymos or badbear can even revert the posts so that people can see what has actually been said.

As for discussing people behind their backs, it isn't. The scam accusations are completely public. If you are active in the marketplace selling things, you should keep an eye on the scam accusations section just to make sure that no one opens an accusation against you. I also think it is common courtesy to give the person warning and inform them that you have opened an accusation against them. Send a few PMs several days before and inform them that they have X days to complete the deal or you will open a scam accusation. Then when you do open one, you send them the link to the accusation thread so that they can also give their side of the story.

What do you mean by "it drops connection for a while"?

How have you connected the two bitcoinds?

Blockchain.info has had many problems recently, they were just down for maintanence, but I don't know how well that went. For now, you should stop using their service and contact their support.