Watch out for imposters!
I'm aware of at least one person that is pretending to be me on Telegram. Always make sure my Telegram username is correct if we talk over there (@darkstarftw), and always ask for signed messages. Feel free to PM me as well if you have any concerns.

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DarkStar's Escrow Service

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I've gotten a few requests to escrow from people, so I figured I'd make an announcement thread for clarity and to help more people if needed, as I have a bit more free time now.
My fee for escrowing will be 0.0005BTC, or 0.7% of the transaction (whichever is greater). The transaction fee will also be paid by a party involved with the transaction, and is not included in my fee. For non-profit community events, such as prediction pools, I will not charge an escrow fee.

Funds will be held in a P2SH nested SegWit address, allowing for lower transaction fees than 'traditional' addresses.

I can directly hold any coin supported by TREZOR, the hardware wallet I will use when escrowing for security as well as Byteball. I *may* be willing to hold other coins for your trade, but it will vary. Please PM me for more info.

I will deal with almost any trade, as long as it is legal. I will not handle physical trades, or bitcointalk account sales. ^{(subject to change)}

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Security
- All escrow addresses will my signed by my staked address (1DarkStrRagcDjWtsPGxkav4WG3poLXzDS) and/or my PGP Key. Always ask for at least one if I do not provide one.
- Funds will be held on my hardware TREZOR wallet, so even if I were to get a virus, your funds should still be safe. (except for Byteball)

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Why Should I Trust You?
You can check my trust feedback page to get an overview of my trade history.
- I've held upwards of 8 BTC for the ChipMixer signature campaign I manage
- Held collateral for my lending service (now closed)
- Held various amounts for other campaigns I've managed.
- Held upwards of 5 BTC for my new lending service as collateral
- I am currently one of five keyholders for the forum's 500 BTC multisig address.

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How to Start the Escrow Process
Send me a PM with the following info:

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Quick Verify with BrainWallet

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Tipping Address: 3NSvhvYYBMVh1bPyKWjPfyiF3RHAAgsgtw

Gipsy, people without identity, they live all life robbing and spending in fun, luxe, hotels, cars, watches and diamonds. They don’t work, they don’t pay taxes, they marry at 16 years old and make as more children as possible because child makes money, from robbing from the street till more complex scams. The law is not enough strong with them because they change places, countries and know many languages. They live outside the system.

Type of scams?

Cash scams:
- They offer to change small cut notes for example 50 euro into bigger, for example 500 euro and vice versa at appealing rate.
- They ask to transfer money from one country to another, for example Hawala system
- Currency exchange
- Buy Gold, Diamonds and Watches scams:
- Buy Bitcoin or other crypto

BTC scams
- Sell BTC and double spend them

Financing scams
- They appear like investors or financiers. Always ask for an advance to repay the expenses of the financing. NO real investors do like this. NEVER GIVE MONEY IN ADVANCE!

How the scams work?
- Cash counting exchange: they count you the cash like magicians. They have ALWAYS 1 or 2 real packs of cash, the rest is fac simile in order to avoid being incriminated for counterfeit money.
1. Jacket method: they count you the original pack, then they put in jacket and change with the fake one. The fake one they put in a bag and they keep close to them so you don’t touch it and check the money, because only the first note is real, the rest is fac simile.
2. Bag with hidden compartment method: they count cash even with counting machine, then they put it into the bag. After you checked they open the secret compartment of the bag and give you fac simile, many don’t check again because as always they trust them and they see the first banknote real.
3. Hidden person in office furniture (table, cabinet). Same as previous they count real cash, then they put inside the drawer and a person inside the furniture change the cash with fac simile.
4. 1 dollar scam: count you original 100 dollars, then change packets and you find first banknote real and others 1 dollar

Advice: ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK CASH AND MAKE TRANCHES!

- Bitcoin Double spending:
If you don’t wait for 1 confirmation they will take back the btc after you gave the cash. Usually they send the btc, you see in your balance, then the collector makes a lot of pressure to receive the money immediately and go to deposit cash, he say that he will come back but he disappear then. They don’t count the cash, it feels like they trust you a lot but not true. IT’S FREE MONEY FOR THEM.

Advice: ALWAYS WAIT 1 CONFIRMATION AND MAKE TRANCHES!

How to recognise a scam?
- Story: Usually a broker or also through a referred person, some guys represent them as very rich and powerful. Usually pretending to be Jewish, Russians, Arabs, or even Indians (always very different and far from from potential victim location and nationality). They know 5-6 languages and acting like educated people even they don’t even know how the earth rotate around the sun and not the contrary. They also claim to be working with gold and diamonds, real estate, financial industry. Of course all lies!
- Behavior: they are always so afraid and cautious, worry about criminals or to be robbed. They ask a lot of questions especially about your nationality, expertise with scams, history and go deeper in details to find if you know something or start to suspect. But they are also kind and nice, always happy to bring you to a good restaurant for dinner and lunch. They play with your emotions. They are happy and relaxed, they know how to act like real wealthy people.
- Video of cash: many people are underestimate this, but video of cash is essential. Gipsy do all in the same way: they show and count only 1-2 packs of real cash. The rest packs are all fake, only the first banknote is real, the rest is paper.
- Timing: they always want the deal in real time. For hawala for example they want to do only online regime.
- Number of tranches: the safest way of changing cash or any btc deal is to make in tranches. They always find excuses because they want to take always more. They can do 2-3 tests but then when they feel that you are confident they go up with the amount. And sometimes they come from far countries and they ask to close the deal the same day.
- Very appealing commissions: they offer very high rates to motivate the agents, at the end of the scams no one gets paid or they propose to the agent to work together finding new victims.
- Place of the deal (the most important): they ask to do always in different place proposed by the victim or if they agree they change it at the last minute. Usually public places like (5 star hotels, restaurants) in center of the city so they are safe and can run away with their driver or taxi. (I suggest always to leave another person outies the building to check where the client is going)
- City with most scams: Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Nice, Rome, Madrid, Verona, Prague, Budapest, Ljubljana, Vienna, Venice, Lugano, Chiasso, Geneva, Zurich. (In Germany usually they don’t like because the law for scams is tough).
- After the deal they NEED TO GO: fast because they are busy, they feel sick, they had problem, they have a present for you, they need to smoke outside, they need to go to toiled etc. they find always an excuse to escape fast.

What they do after the scam:
They are still in contact with you most of the times, because they want to confuse you! They make you believe it was an accident, there was a problem and they will give back what they took. They try to calm you. This can play this game for a couple of days, after this, when they left the country and are safe they disappear or in worse case ask you to work together to repay the loss. But even if you help them, they will never give you nothing!

Never trust anyone! If you are doing grey or black business keep in mind that the law will not defend you! Only the strong ones wins. Good luck!

Hi there , no , i'm not a member of the development team or in any other way affilliated with Reggiebot . They open a landing page that provides discount as their website doesn't and i'm not getting any reward for subscriptions while they offered me reward for some subscriptions that was made through "my" page .
I was provided with a free license and I have started this stream as a proof of trades after AdolfinWolf expresed his considerations . I spoke about that idea with the creator of Reggiebot and he found it very good as he is confident about his bot . Currently you can say that i am the official tester and that's the reason for the twitch link in their website .
As i say always in my posts , never trade with more than you can afford to lose . People tend to blame others for their losses and bragging to others about their gains . To my eyes Reggiebot is one of the most clever strategies out there , and in case you guys want to buy bots or scripts for trading ask for proof of trades .

According to you setescrow.org is a scam site as they used same info of https://www.setescrow.com/

I am not agree with you. They might be same owner. There are a lots of company who take all similar domain to prevent scam. So, they can that too.

My opinion: If scam then both sites scam. If legit then both sites legit. If you want to say scam one and another not then you should have some info about scam for scam site and few legit for legit site.

This is incorrect; this is not the way that an escrow works. The escrow is there to eliminate the need for trust between the buyer and seller. There is no trust needed on the escrow's part to either the buyer or the seller, but rather the other way around: the buyer and seller need to trust the escrow before any business is conducted.

It's quite simple. Once an escrow is opened, if either of the parties do not submit the product/payment, the escrow will return whatever they have received and cancel the exchange. The escrow does not require any trust in the seller, as they are there to represent the trust on both party's behalf.

Either way, this deal is obviously convoluted; I would personally avoid dealing with each other with this exchange.

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OP, you never answered my question about which rate you're selling at. In the title, you indicate that you're selling at market rate, yet within the thread you state +6%. Which is it??

This series of high-volume posts is extraordinary. With a lifetime circulation volume of just 21m coins, where are all these hundreds of thousands of coins emerging from? Did they hibernate or something? Are these proceeds of exit scams? Or are these imaginary coins cooked up in the minds of wanna-be billionaires?

I find it hard to imagine how someone with, say, 500k BTC has the time to browse this forum in search of buyers. If I had even 1k BTC I would have far more important things to do and enjoy in life. My family.. the mortgage bills.. travel.. etc

In fact I was waiting for you to answer. You said that you would get in touch with the Escrow.

I do not want to do it outside the page.

Escrow from the page, with his rules.

RESPECT