You're asking what the point is, 10 pages into a thread about it. 10 pages of people repeatedly asking what is going on and mentioning the names of the associated sites.

The existence of threads like this is the point of it!

Needs to go to school and learn about paragraphs.

Looks like you've worked it out all by yourself.

It may or may not be the reason, but it is no less credible and a lot less prejudiced than your "dirty Chinese exchange" comment.

These are unrelated spam transactions that many people are receiving.

What remote islands? Isle of Man isn't particularly remote (less than 3 hours by boat from England or Northern Ireland), and has a reasonably high population density or relatively wealthy people. Unless you meant one of the tiny mostly uninhabited islands in the group.

You call it a Ponzi (a form of illegal scam) to make yourself feel better about what was merely a bad investment on your part.

I'm sorry you got burnt but you need to take responsibility for your own actions!

No, what they are saying is that they are willing to be paid to post.

The rest of us then have to try to determine if they are posting because they have a genuine passion for what they are saying or because they are trying to earn their money. Of course they will all say that it doesn't affect how often they post or the quality of their posts. But how are we to know?

I would speculate that UK banks told them to stop allowing Faster Payments from UK customers to their Bitcoin clients unless they want to lose FP entirely.

Something that helps you tell that Bitcoin itself is not a scam is that it's fully open. Anyone can analyse how it works. So while we can politely disagree about whether Bitcoin has the right approach, we can't say that it is scamming anyone.

It's the "but what if it's not a scam!?" reaction that they're trying to exploit, and that coupled with the secrecy tells you that it is a scam. They've been trying to invite people to these closed stage-managed demonstrations for years.

So what have they actually achieved in the last 6 months?

Sure, while they were in the mempools and being re-broadcast, like any transaction that hasn't yet been confirmed. So please can you explain how that enables anyone to track anyone else's money during that period?

I would suggest that anyone who feels they are owed a significant sum by this company should follow the advice in this post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=323682.msg6029790#msg6029790

and object to the dissolution, if it is not already too late to do so, because once it's dissolved there's going to be nothing whatsoever that you can do.

After you've done that, that would be the time to consider filling in their forms and tweeting about it.

This keeps getting repeated but no one can explain how that would work.

These transactions do not make it to the block chain—they exist only in the mempool of servers for a temporary period as they never get confirmed. As such I do not see how they can link anyone to anything.

If you think otherwise, please can you explain how?

No need for any sort of "brute force" activity. All addresses that have ever been involved in a transaction are publicly recorded in the blockchain.

Mining pools collaborating to censor transactions will send the price of bitcoin to zero, which is a lot lower than any price the US gov is going to achieve.

Mining pools attempting to censor transactions without near-universal support will spell the end for those mining pools, while everyone else carries on.

At best I'm going to have to assume that you're misguided and failing to think this through. We don't need to change your mind or convince you to stop because the overwhelmingly likely outcome of any attempt to do this is failure. At this point this thread is just noise, like many before it that have sought to ban a certain class of transactions for idealogical reasons.

Won't any address used even once still be visible in the public blockchain and thus be a potential target for these spam transactions that never confirm?

I don't see how it is an issue.

How is it a form of tagging when these transactions will never confirm thus will never be permanently recorded in the blockchain?

What we know is that if creditors do not register objections with the London Gazette and Companies House then this company will be dissolved any day now, losing any real chance of ever legally getting anything out of them.

Those coins are still in the same address. They have not been moved. They probably can't be moved until after the trial is done with and he is found guilty (potentially years).

Even then we have no indication of how those coins will be sold, so we can't tell for sure if it will drive the price down. The US gov dumping them on an exchange doesn't sound very likely. An auction of them all at a fixed price sounds more likely.

All of the press releases about this right now are just posturing.

It would be good to see a transaction id for the other sale that is mentioned.