Are you saying the funds you confiscated have now been seized by authorities? Can you name the authority?

Here is the part that makes me worried about the way you have handled this situation: https://fixedfloat.com/terms-of-service

I have read many terms and conditions from many exchanges and other business and mentioned them inside scam accusation in this forum. I assumed your ToS would have been different because of the manner in which you have aggressively treated the OP however, your ToS is as equally vague as many others. For example, you have never disclosed your own location or even stated which jurisdiction you are operating within. Also you have not stated if there is ever a dispute with your customers/clients.

The whole of your Section 19 (Disputes Resolution 19.1 to 19.4) is almost laughable as it could not be more deliberately evasive even if you tried however you leave no legal option for your customers/clients to get their money back from Fixedfloat. You are effectively judge, jury and executioner.

These are the 4th Round fixtures being played Saturday 27th January

Ipswich Town vs Maidstone Utd
Everton vs Luton Town
Leeds United vs Plymouth Argyle
Leicester City vs Birmingham City
Sheffield United vs Brighton and Hove Albion
Fulham vs Newcastle United

It would be a great day for football and the FA Cup if Maidstone United managed to get a win at Ipswich Town, or get a draw and have the replay at their own ground. Other than that, I would expect Everton, Leeds United, Leicester City, Brighton and Fulham to win their games.

These are the results from the games played yesterday:

Bristol City 0-0 Nottingham Forest
Chelsea 0-0 Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Coventry City
Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Manchester City

It was a night of missed opportunities in the Chelsea vs Aston Villa game therefore they will have to have a replay at Villa Park but Manchester City grabbed an 88th minute winner to go through to the 5th round.

Without a shadow of doubt, the same principal applies to this forum because members here would vanish overnight if signature campaigns were ever to be banned. Almost every member here is posting because they get paid for it therefore if you take the pay away they will go elsewhere to get pay.

I suppose if theymos ever wanted to have this forum cleaned-up and have it taken back to a place where it was about newbies asking about Bitcoin on one hand and advanced members posting about core issues on the other, then he should ban signature campaigns but that decision is going to bring seismic and maybe unforeseen changes.

I hope that $4000 you could have made is not going to hold you back. I like the fact you have that positive outlook on life. It has happened therefore let it pass and do not look back, there will always be opportunities out there but you have to find them and when they are presented to you that all important decision has to be made: to invest or not to invest

And another all important decision that cannot be avoided and has to be made by all investors: to sell or to hold

You made a call at the wrong time, I made a call at the wrong time and many of us did it. It is life.

The OP managed to get 5 merits and considering he had received tags for trying to buy merits and using AI, he did well because does not deserve them. I will unwatch this thread now.

I have read many stories about why people sold too early or did not hold on to their Bitcoin for longer. We all made the same mistake for different reasons. I am one of the group that sold early too but there is no reason to keep kicking oneself over it.

Looking back, I remember when Bitcoin reached $1000, I never thought I would see it reach $10,000 (that seemed far away) but it happened and now I am thinking I'll probably see it reach $100,000 one day therefore there is still time to reap benefits if I invest wisely

If it is a question just to hypothetically inflate/increase the numbers then I would be speculating but it probably could be amended and pushed out as an update without the need for a fork. In reality, if the supply was to be altered those holding the current coin should be able to select which fork is the chain they accept with consensus.

It would be interesting to read what a developer thinks is or is not possible about altering the supply cap.

These are the 4th Round fixtures being played this evening Friday 26th January:

Bristol City vs Nottingham Forest
Chelsea vs Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday vs Coventry City
Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City

Game of the day had to be Tottenham vs Manchester City followed by Chelsea vs Aston Villa. Both of those games were set to be entertaining. The games are nearly approaching full-time. I will post back with a review of the games and the results when the final whistles have been blown.

I looked through the posts, you are right there is at least one person saying he has two reasons for registering there. I wish you success in getting $5000 from your activities in that forum. Is the intention of getting $5000 from that forum via signature campaigns? I presume your support of liked POW coins will not provide a revenue stream if the intent is to post in their threads.

If you will not send them to the OP, can you explain what you intend to do with the funds you have confiscated?

Well, that has to be the only reason why forum members decided to teleport (and/or register other) accounts there. They knew they could get paid by posting in the other forum and knew mixers would be paying the highest rates therefore they followed where another revenue stream went. I have not read any reason from members stating they went there (or want to go there) in order to improve the other forum with their contributions.

If a lack of "your highness" can destroy a reputation in that forum, just imagine what would happen to a reputation if you got on the wrong side of a group/gang/clique

Even though it has a lot of spam, it still seems to be in better standing than the Cryptotalk from by the Yobit team because that is almost completely full of spam.

I had a look at that donation page and ended up with a headache. There are far too many options: Patron, Royalty, Donor, VIP and Immortals. The lowest amount to donate is 0.05 ETH but as you scroll down the page a new donor rank (Monarch) appears.

Seriously, who would pay to receive special treatment:

"Special Treatment:

All above ranks get special treatment, here's some examples of perks:
- Get some of the tokens we collect from the different ICOs & Airdrops
- Get Speedy distribution of tokens
- Get access to some reserved sections of the forum
- Get 3 to 10 token distribution transaction fees covered by us."

It is still possible for members from here to register there to earn from signature campaigns without donating (just as most of us are doing when we use this forum) but keeping that aside, who is behind that forum? Rather than operate their alternative forum for crypto discussions to benefit the community they seem to be using it as a front to get as much money as possible via so-called donations.

It is true, some people do use exchanges as though they are mixers but that should not alter the issue because the exchanger is doing what it is supposed to do (take coins A and convert to coin B). Add XMR to the equation as the OP did then that also should not really matter from the perspective of the exchange.

You have a valid point about exchanges that might want to keep dirty coins away from their services but I was under the impression Fixedfloat and Sideshift were both famous for not using KYC and absolutely yes, there is definitely a clear risk when using them.

In future, I would recommend the OP and others to consider using as they have an excellent reputation: https://exch.cx (https://hszyoqwrcp7cxlxnqmovp6vjvmnwj33g4wviuxqzq47emieaxjaperyd.onion/)

Well, I am sorry to read everything they forced you and your client to go through. Put simply, they have to be avoided by everybody otherwise they face the possibility of being put in the same situation as you find yourself in.

First, I am quoting the OP images in order for them to be seen without going off site. Second, I thought Fixedfloat had a no KYC policy therefore what happened is a complete surprise.

Not only did they freeze your transactions they went a step further and asked you for (what they cite as) evidence that the conversation between you and your client actually took place and this is absolutely unacceptable conduct on their part. I have never heard of a situation such as that before.

I have no intention of either using their services or recommending them. They literally destroyed their reputation with their own hands over something that was not even necessary.

There is no conspiracy, it would be difficult for an single entity to manipulate the price as a rule for ETF approval. If there was some form of collusion between whales and/or investors, it might be possible but the way this looks it seems more to do with people rejecting investing after the ETF news was released. Exactly how the price has fallen to where it is (after the announcement many people had been waiting for), is difficult to understand.

It might be unfortunate but that is how things work sometimes. There was a clear stretch going back many years which allowed mixers to be promoted here freely and many members enjoyed the benefits of participating in various signature campaigns. As part of the evolution of this forum a decision was taken by the administrator to exclude/ban mixers therefore we have to move.

I see nothing positive nor constructive when reading about how the ban has affected people. It was not nice when you made a partial refund to that mixer for your bespoke deal and also to read you stating you receive peanuts to promote the same mixer on a different forum therefore I sympathise with you but it will be better if the comparisons stop and we all move forward.

If in the end as a result of the ban other forums start building momentum, traffic and popularity then that simply is another option for those that want to register and effectively join signature campaigns. I hope you get over the money you repaid and simply enjoy looking at what possibilities await after the mixer ban dust settles.

Which source for visitor numbers would you recommend or suggest using as a comparator for what could be deemed more accurate statistics?

In the scenario you mentioned in the OP, if there is no hard fork there would be no alteration to the supply. It would split the chain again and those that wanted the newer increased chain to be what they deemed to be the real Bitcoin would use it and those that rejected it would keep using the chain that is being used now.

As an example, when BTC was forked to create BCH (under the guise of it being the real Bitcoin) the supply remained 21 million but as time went by it was clear BCH was rejected by the masses and was never considered as the real Bitcoin and I would be inclined to think the same would happen if there was another fork but this time to increase the supply.

Agreed, they should be banned. In an attempt to try to force the hand of moderators I placed a negative tag on a Stake signature spammer that either uses AI or employs others with less English grammatical understanding to write posts for him. The spammer started writing in perfect English complaining at every possible opportunity that he should not have received a negative tag (and was no longer wearing the Stake signature therefore it is safe to say he was kicked out as a result of my negative tag).

I eventually withdrew the negative tag as advised and replaced it with a neutral. The Stake signature campaign spammer immediately returned to the gambling board to spam there after he was wearing the Stake signature again (albeit he was celebrating that 3 members added me to their distrust list because I gave him a negative tag). What this incident shows is that using AI does not get members a ban. Using others to post on your account to meet signature quota does not get a ban. Something does need to change at some point.

If the Stake campaign manager was operating with a due-diligence policy then the discussion would never have happened. These spammers cannot get on to other campaigns therefore the Stake campaign manager has contributed to the problem by giving them a platform and paying them to spam with farmed accounts. Moderators do not ban signature spammers and that is also part of the problem.

Would other forums (that see themselves to some degree as competition against this forum) allow that to happen on their platforms as their traffic flow increases? I have not studied any of them long enough to know but if they view what is happening here they should at least try to emulate the good parts and dispose of the worst parts.

If people did think about it in the manner you describe, then I think they are setting themselves for a huge fall. One of the things Bitcoin is synonymous with, is the fact it will have a limited 21 million supply. Without a maximum supply it will be less appealing to investors. Look at Dogecoin for example, it has an unlimited supply but do we want Bitcoin to go the same way?

That is the problem with these types of collectors items they do not really have much value. The value being artificially placed on them is by investors that have already paid a premium to get it in the first place and they are now hoping for others to add a premium and buy it from them. As you stated, they do it with the intention the chain will keep building until/unless the last person realises nobody wants to buy.

Call it virtual art or anything else but it does not sound too dissimilar from how a ponzi scheme works.

We all saw what happened with the transaction fees becoming painfully expensive at times but it is something we will have to endure because so-called ordinals will continue (for the time being at least). The biggest losers in this battle for transaction fees will be those that want to make micropayments, as you stated it will discourage people from using Bitcoin.

RESULT:

Chelsea 6-1 Middlesbrough

The first semi-final second leg was played yesterday and Chelsea ended it with an emphatic 6-1 victory at Stamford Bridge. Middlesbrough were losing 6-0 but managed to get a consolation goal before the final whistle. Overall, Chelsea make it to the final with a 6-2 aggregate win.

The second semi-final second leg takes place this evening between Fulham and Liverpool (which is 1-2 after the first leg).