Agree on the "valuable scam detector."
He's like a bloodhound, that Sebastian!  Sniffs them out, tracks them & falls for each.and.every.one.of.them.  I actually can't think of a single "bitcoin securities" scam he hasn't fallen for.
Haven't been following this section lately, but, as I remember, he's waiting on some anon pot grower to make him rich now?  Oh well, maybe 999th time's the charmed

How's it going, communications in full swing and everything?
Drug trade as happening as you figured it'd be?

How's it hangin', Sebastian? How does your garden grow?

Very investment
Such profit
Wow

That said, had the OP gentlemen done this a couple of years earlier, he would have found a far more receptive audience at his disposal. It's all about timing.

Here's something that's either funny or not: Active Mining is still being traded on https://cryptostocks.com/securities/56
Though the last trade was in February, there's still an order book, with buy & sell orders and everything

Clearly, I was too late

So you're not selling bitcointalk accounts? Nor have sold accounts in the past?
Huh, must've mistaken you with some other pillar of bitcointalk community. What do you do now, sell trust?
(your link doesn't work for me, not sure why)

Edit: Never mind, it was a truncated link, fixed it and looooooo! You do sell accounts, a whole thread of eking out a living by peddling them. What made you stop? Out of stock? Or did you stack enough cheddar?

Bitcointalk engages in "transmission of a wire communication [...] for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers."
Again, the fact that Theymos was not V& for pirate's f*ckup doesn't mean he is above reproach & should keep pushing the envelope. Most who break laws aren't charged. Until they are.

Before this degenerates into more internet lawyering & wiki quotin', let me point out that what you're doing now is absurd at best. You might think yourself a white knight, but in reality you're more like my clueless buddy, who started lecturing a statey when we got pulled over. From my passenger seat.
Had the cop gotten irked and as much as frisked me, it wouldn't have been his ass in the back of that cop car.

You may now return to... what is it that you do? Sell Bitcointalk accounts?

Not sure what you want me to do, fall for every scams & then pretend that I haven't been scammed? Should i stay in denial for years, chatting with my scammers on IRC?
Like you?
Just seems pointless and stupid to me, but hey... different strokes, I suppose

Oh, let me see... Let's start with the gambling section.
There's the Interstate Wire Act, that goes something like this:
there's also Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, a plethora more.
Plenty of things this forum can go down for, a veritable grab bag.
Still wanna to go there?


Bitcointalk was not on the wrong side of the letter v. In the case you cited, it was Mr. Shavers.

I've pointed out that a street dealer being allowed to run around on the loose does not imply that dealing dope is legal.
It only implies that (a) he hasn't been popped yet, or (b) he's more useful to LEO as a snitch.
That's all.

Not sure if you're intentionally missing the point. The case law cited in your wiki article does not address knowingly facilitating illegal activities.
In other words, a website allowing users to post pictures & being 95% child porn is not going to benefit from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Regardless of disclaimers.

Re. bitcointalk lawsuits: not you're referring to (links?), but the fact that theymos has not been charged with anything merely proves that bitcointalk is much more useful as a honypot, a place that a couple of fat LEO could monitor from the comfort of their office.
And providing a perfect paper trail to second-rate conmen, should their scams warrant sufficient interest.
As long as theymos cooperates, everything's fine. Thus far, he's been cooperative

Such policy is simply illegal in US. As I already have pointed out, "If Craigslist operators knew the ad was placed by a murderer, were informed, on multiple occasions, that the guy was killing people, and refused to take down the ad? You can be absolutely certain they'd be jailed." That's what is being discussed - users alerting Theymos of a crime taking place, and Theymos refusing to act because policy.

We're not discussing logic or how things should be, had we our way. We're talking about US laws. US laws do not allow US person to run websites where people sell CI drugs, or promoting unregistered securities. The fact that such practices may be perfectly legal in Liberland is irrelevant. This is basic stuff.


If Craigslist operators knew the ad was placed by a murderer, were informed, on multiple occasions, that the guy was killing people, and refused to take down the ad? You can be absolutely certain they'd be jailed.

Further, if most of the ads on Craigslist were made by killers, putting a disclaimer along the lines of...

or, rather, "We do not remove ads by likely killers. Thus far, it appears that roughly 95% of these ads have proven to have been placed by confirmed murderers. Use your head." just wouldn't cut the mustard

But, again, we're not talking about logic, we're talking about US law.

The same way he knows that Ukyo is going to pay him back. Because hope is the last thing to die.

A disclaimer stating that scams are not banned doesn't absolve the forum from responsibility of being a vehicle for fraud. Scams are banned in US. Theymos is a US citizen, operating from US soil, regardless of where the servers are physically located, and is subject to US law.

@DeboraMeeks: And control of $ million + in BTC? Not gonna happen.

Should sell like hotcakes

How many customers do you suppose those poor kids have? (Other than dad)

FTFY

The divs have stopped in March.
The price since that time has fallen by 2/3rds.
...not that you care

Not sure what the pic is supposed to imply.  If the containers were actual 2PH/s units waiting to be shipped, they still would represent exactly 0PH/s, and 0% of the network.
They're clearly not hooked up, so not mining.
But I meant to say that the container on the crane is a shop.

You realize that's a shop, right?  The rest of the containers are ordinary refrigerated 40-footers.