I saw this guy post this message in the Developments & Technical Discussion section -- it is now deleted but he posted it elsewhere:

I wonder if there's any BTC holder dumb enough in the world to fall for this.

why do you think badly of me? if the buyer will not found, then I will tell everyone this for free in this  topic

I thought hes joker so I PM him and this is his response:



This is not how private keys are generated. Even if it was, hes not narrowing down significantly for brute force guess. My summation: this guy is a scammer.

What do you think?

I know hes already red tagged.

I'm just curious, how does a lowered hash rate contribute to a falling price of BTC? Is it specifically because a lot of miners sold their stashes after redirecting their hash power to BCH ABC, and to a lesser extent, BCH SV?

Was it this combined with other factors, say a general unease about what would happen to crypto as a whole, then snowballed because of those who were panic selling?

I'd like to hear some clear-cut theories about the relationship between a falling BTC and the shenanigans in BCH. Please, no condescending assholery or signature spampainers. I'm just putting your ass on ignore if you are either.

Bounty hunters have become so useless that they now offer an ICO nothing. All their Facebook friends, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, whatever -- its all fake numbers and they always do the bare minimum to promote an ICO. Even ranks on this forum are faked. Merits are bought and sold, accounts can be farmed, purchased, for absolutely no purpose other than to spam this forum with useless information.

And what kind of traffic do they end up driving to an ICO website? Almost nothing. Most bounty campaigns literally have more participants than they will ever receive hits to their website, meaning the average traffic driven to a website by today's bounty hunter is less than 1 visit per month. Again, its because of all the fudged numbers. Everything is faked, nothing is real. There is no quality control whatsoever.

I really don't understand why anybody does social media bounty campaigns any more. Translations, graphic designers, website builders, app developers -- those are the real bounty hunters. Social media bounty hunters are just scum sucking parasites. They root through garbage trying to collect digital specs of nothing, leaving a trail of trash behind them.

Nobody wants to learn a thing about anything -- they just want "free money" as easily as possible, which usually ends up being worthless anyway. Would most of you just be sitting around doing nothing if you didn't consider this to be a means of "employment"? My guess is the answer is "yes." Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[its really not all that hard to get a Merit]

So about 3 days ago I decided to start an experiment to see, as a noob, exactly how long would it take me to get 1 Merit. I'm not part of any bounty campaign nor do I want to be, so I could really give a flying fuck about merits (I already have a full time job as president of a great nation), but after becoming fascinated with the wealth of complaints inhabiting this subsection with regards to Merit and how hard they were for a noob to get, I set off on my own journey in hunt of an honest merit.

It took me exactly 3 days!

I was going to write a long-winded thread about early members of the forum whose profiles were still active (there's far fewer than you might think), thinking that would probably get me a merit but it came to me much easier than that. In case you're curious, the oldest account that is still active and used by its original owner is BitcoinFX. He also has the distinction of being the first person to comment in Satoshi's famous "Welcome" thread.

I guess the point is, its really not all that hard to get a Merit -- you just have to do a bit of original research and be capable of having an original thought in your head. Having proper spelling and grammar (and punctuation) probably doesn't hurt either.

On Telegram recently I saw a dude pretty much begging for a Merit, asking a Legendary to look through his post history to find one meritable post, as he was among the recently de-ranked, and dejected. Upon looking through his 2000+ posts on the forum, _not one_ wasn't a bounty report! Not a single actual opinion about anything, ever! It's like what are peeps supposed to do, merit bounty reports? Sheesh.

OK that's my story, I hope you enjoyed it.