The fuck?

All these replies and nobody points out that the OP is ref-shilling for ponzi 'cloud mining' scam 'topmine.io' in his signature?

Oh this is just ridiculously obvious.

Public Service Announcement -
This is just another Ponzi Scam
Do Not Invest!

Those who choose to post of their participation
support or encouragement for this scam will
be tagged with negative trust for proving
they wish to help the scammers operate this
Ponzi in return for a share of the funds stolen
from other users. Thereby proving they are not
trustworthy forum members.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Update to show example of the extent to which the scammy 'HYIP' industry is heading this way:

Limit IBG posting to 'full member' accounts asap so we can halt what will otherwise rapidly become a flood of these organised groups encroaching on to this forum.

I can vouch for the OP. This is a well-run group of people chipping in to buy a large amount of bitcoin mining hashpower for a set period in order to hopefully find some blocks and get a good return on their investment.

IIRC there are proofs posted to show the hashing being done for the group so it can be verified by everybody.

What a surprise, that the person who posted this in the coince thread:

Is now trying to promote their own ponzi scam.

Did you mean this PSA?

Yes the OP does seem to have a bit of a thing about repeatedly quoting it.

Good work being done in this thread, well done people.

It also helps that this thread's title serves as an additional warning regarding pretty much every other thread in IBG!

It is spelled 'losing', dumb-ass and I have no idea how that site is doing having never used it or any other dice site.

You're just pissy because the community action crippled your forum account selling market. Acting up because you can't make some ill-gotten gains from scammers hardly helps present you as a reasonable human being, QS.

Just thought I'd educate any drive-by readers who may be unfamiliar with your m.o.

Dear Bitcointalk Administrators,

As you know, the 'Investor-based Games' (IBG) section of this forum is where all the ponzi/pyramid/HYIP scam threads are sent to live or, ideally, die. A community-based action was introduced by a few of us earlier this year whereby both the operators and participants/supporters of these scam threads received negative trust ratings. This has successfully served to all but eliminate the use of purchased sock-puppet senior forum accounts to sucker in newbies to the scam as the negative rating generally destroys the credibility and monetary value of these accounts.

With the small-time con-artists mostly seeing the opportunity to profit from their fraudulent operations rapidly diminishing with the inability to create a fake public image of any substance, what we are now seeing is the emergence of the pre-Bitcoin HYIP scam industry proponents moving in to create larger, more organised threads, often with dozens of new-account sock-puppets being employed to pad the thread daily and give the impression of a viable 'High-Yield Investment Program', or Ponzi scam to you and I.

What we are seeing now is the use of HYIP-scam style promotional terms and methods, such as the following:

Experienced HYIP scammers moving into Bitcoin to run their ponzi is not good for either this industry or this forum.

In order to make it nigh-on impossible for these threads to be created and then padded with new account postings, either by the operators or participants, I propose the introduction of member-level controls for posting in IBG, namely, limiting the right to post or create a thread in IBG to only forum members of 'full' member status.

Where a scammer may seek to create such a thread in another part of the forum in an attempt to circumvent such controls the thread, once moved to IBG by staff, could be rapidly choked off by the use of our PSA's and warning posts, with the OP and shill accounts which may have already commenced in the thread unable to respond further.

I am aware that the new forum software is being beta-tested but we all know it will be many months before it is ready to migrate to. Which is why I ask for this posting policy to be introduced asap in IBG before BCT becomes seen as easy pickings by these organised and motivated HYIP scumbags.

The thread is in IBG, you want people to pm you for 'private investment advice', therefore, you're a scammer.

Pay attention, ponzi newbies, the above sock-puppetry bit of shilling so eagerly posted by these two is to con you into not withdrawing from this scam. If you start trying to get your money back then the ponzi will rapidly collapse, so it is imperative that you listen to advice from people who surely wouldn't seek to manipulate you for their own gain, right? /s

Just click through to their user profiles and check their posting history to see plenty of evidence of them eagerly shilling for other ponzi scams just before they collapsed, too.

When their 'profit' is ENTIRELY dependent on manipulating other participants in the scam, do you really think it is wise to follow their suggestions?

Wow, you really suck at intellectually honest argument and logic. If you assert you have something the onus is on you to prove it. You assert you have 'trading bots' providing the profit for your operation and that it isn't a ponzi. When pressed to show evidence to support your claim you throw a pissy fit.

Another fail from you.

Your 'disgust' of gay people is irrational and is indicative of you having a deeply insecure sexual identity.

But beyond that there is the simple truth I have already asserted, that even in being rabidly homophobic and intellectually dishonest, your behaviour betrays your utter inability to present a professional public front for your scam operation. This should worry your 'investors' deeply as it is highly likely to reduce or even completely choke off the chance to con some new suckers in to sending you their money.