One thing to note is that Roger Ver, (the man who is arguably the person behind BCH), is an angel investor of blockchain.info .

You really have to ask yourself if he really isn't pushing any agenda. It still sure looks that way. They never added litecoin/any other fork to Blockchain.info, why did they add Bitcoin Cash -- just because roger is a large stakeholder?
You tell me.

Huh. You can search for the adress, but when you click it, it is redirected to the main hub as it includes an "illegal" character.
Here i was hoping they finally added bech32 support 

No, no, no.
Don't do this OP. If you're going to mine, always buy the hardware yourself. 99.5% of all these cloudmining sites are a scam, and nothing more than a ponzi.

A quick look at the link above leads me to believe that that site's operation is very sketchy as well. I wouldn't use them. They use stock photo's and some random talk about investment rounds without any clear evidence.

I don't even think individuals can invest. (Which is a good sign, although their site is still very ponzi-esque...)

I don't see how this is an argument really. An *invalid* rating is an invalid rating, regardless of the amount of bitcoin wagered.
You could make your argument against the entire trust system..?

 - Which would be weird, because the chances of a troll who is leaving fake ratings to get on DT2/DT1 seems extremely small?

It will probably most definitely increase the amount of unnecessary loans/trades people make with users on DT1 just so they can up their % bitcoin risked, for whatever purpose they may have.

Also, as jack mentioned, this system would only work one way -> For "Positive deals".

Not really.
In their primetime a license for one of these bots was 1000$+ i think, and i never really had the need for something to automate my trades.

They're kind off on their way out it looks like now that bitcoin has fallen so much in price. I see people offering Gunbot licenses for 50-70% off.

Hmmm. I've never heard of any of the bots listed here. The only bots that i know, and are i *think* are also the ones that are most popular, are both C.A.T.[1] and GUNBOT[2].

Both of which you seem to not include..? Why?

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507103.0
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1715214.0

I, too, have really mixed feelings about them. Not necessarily because of how some vendors may or may not get their keys, (which is ofcourse a bad thing.)

But also because as you mentioned,

- if you use paypal, you'll automatically (?) subscribe to their monthly G2A+, which is like 5.99$, (They billed me like 30$+ before i found out!)
- If you use Bitcoin, there's roughly a 2/3 chance (my experience!) that the payment won't go through, and you'll end up making multiple support tickets to Bitbay & G2A, (which takes weeks because i'm obviously not using their ScamShield™)

Too bad that for legit keysellers, there isn't much of an alternative, and that steam is not accepting bitcoin (directly - GC, i know.) anymore... :/

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I see what you mean though, a 10$ Xbox GC is 7.5 EUR = 8.6$. That's what, 14% off?

That's a lot, even for G2A. However, i could draw up multiple scenario's in which the seller could've received the Giftcard in a totally legit way, but then again, also multiple where it could be fraud.

It could be that the seller either received them in another trade (I've seen lots of users online selling Giftcards for Bitcoin @ 10-20% rates), or they might be carded/scammed from other users.
I don't think anyone can say for sure that they are/aren't.

Uhh wait, let me get this straight, - you send him 1000$ worth of google play codes out of the blue, without using escrow whatsoever?

That seems rather.. odd? How exactly did he scam you?


Agreed. OP should take extreme care in choosing which deals he wants to pursue. Any newbie is most likely simply going to chargeback the paypal funds.

I'd be inclined to agree, and disagree with OP. -- As others have already mentioned: if there is a need to blacklist people, instead of letting them being voted out by participants of the system, it seems like there would be something wrong with the system, rather than the user.

-- We're not banning scammers either, so why would the forum need to intervene in such a degree in determining who is trustworthy, and who isn't? I can only see this causing problems & irregularities.

This.

Is it actually enabled for non-verified accounts? - Can't find anything about it?

I can only imagine the amount of chargebacks that'll be done if they allow it to be used on NON-Kyc verified accounts.
Which kind of makes me wonder if they will try to push KYC verification on every account anytime soon, although, i guess i'm just slightly paranoid..

If it shows anything it's that anyone with more than 2 braincells can see that "our" competitor hires braindead posters to advertise for them, which should definitely be something to take into account when thinking about using their service.

You're only discrediting the service you're advertising for by fueling your anti-CM fetish imo. I don't possibly see how you making libelous claims is in any way beneficial to said competitor. But if they pay you for this, hey, be my guest and good luck.

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It did happen before, and the only comment given about it was that the renewal process is done manually.

As to the why, i don't think anyone has ever gotten a response regarding that. Perhaps they know something we don't  ?

See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg47374692#msg47374692

That's probably the change adress belonging to coinbase.

You see -- coinbase didn't have an input that was EXACTLY 1.01515817BTC, so they had to spent a bigger input. It's simply their "change", their leftovers, which are "send" back to them.

-- Google it for  a more detailed explanation, https://support.exodus.io/article/109-what-are-change-addresses

With most wallets it probably does change. I'm not entirely sure if this is the case for the ledger, but i wouldn't be surprised if it was.

This is to preserve your privacy a little bit more. (Although in most cases (consolidation of funds/spending multiple UTXOS) it won't do that much.)

Well, that's immoral either way?

What is it with all these newbies finding all these obscure exchanges?

No, i haven't heard of this exchange, and i definitely wouldn't use it either.

- No traffic - https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitwinex.co
- They report an insane amount of volume on their site, which either is external volume not coming from them but from another site (?) or fake.

Their project seems to have died MONTHS ago, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4645318.80, and they since removed their ANN.

Don't deposit a penny, unless you want to lose it, in which case, there is also an adress in my profile you could send coins to.

You're essentially selling your KYC for 25$, free to be misused by anyone, you know that right?

I doubt a charge of wire fraud, money laundering, w/e, can ever be worth 25 bucks, can it?
Or did you use a fake ID to verify this account? Anyway, it doesn't seem like something that should be sold, is it?

Hmmm. No HTTPS and the site looks really, really basic.

I'm not entirely sure if you're going to gain a lot of trust/users this way.

Good luck anyhow.

The answer has already been given, scroll up!.

I don't think that there are any websites existing anymore which can automatically calculate this, so you'll have to do it by hand (or build a small program.)

You registered on Oct 17, 2016. Every two weeks after that your period refreshes.

Simply check in how many of those periods you've made at least 1 post in, and voila, there's your potential activity.

Now i myself was too lazy to check exactly how many periods you posted in with a calendar, but looking at your post history + adding up consecutive postings, i'm guessing it was between 11-13 --(Which means that you'll have between 154-182 potential Activity!)

Is his old site opensource?

I can't seem to figure out what it is that this site offers? Is it an exchange? Is it a site that invests your money in crypto markets and then gives you X returns every week (that's what it looks like to me, and that's usually a big red flag!)

Anyways,
- it has no traffic. - https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fplus.ai
- Site loads slow and looks like a theme script.
- Formatted poorly.
- The only thing i can find from them is this video which is 6 months old, which literally does not show anything. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpDxAbAExHs


I have no clue how you found this site, and i sure as hell wouldn't use it for whatever purpose it might be.

Without getting access to statistics directly from the database (which i kind of doubt that you'll get, since it would still be quite difficult to chain an IP to a certain country (certainly resource extensive?(?)), but who knows!), I don't think this is possible. (The only kind of stat dump that i know of is that of merit/trust?)

Your best bet would probably be to use;

- https://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org#overview
- https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcointalk.org (Probably need premium to get better stats)

They may be wildy inaccurate though, and you'll probably only get % of countries, as opposed to more detailed statistics. (Still, i guess you could kind of convert those into numbers.).

I’m not sure where you are getting that advertising money from, but to me it really does not sound like you have a sustainable business model here.

People who are genuinely interested in “memes” will simply stick to Reddit/9Gag/w.e, leaving you with essentially people who are doing PTC on your site, without you getting any revenue from it?

Doesn’t seem sustainable at all, but maybe i’m missing something?