I wonder what will happen when Chipmixer gets (inevitably so) hit by authorities. Those damn cops hate mixing services it seems.. more and more keep going down. It will be a sig campaign apocalypse. The rest of the campaign's rates are a joke and last a couple of weeks at best.

Out of all possible options at the time, why did he go for sha256 given its ties to NIST/NSA?

How about hiring someone with legitimacy and integrity that posts on a relevant board like the gambling section? not everyone is a spammer there, there are good posts, and people will actually click on your banner to mix coins.


There's good posters on the gambling section believe it or not, some good bookers and insight here and generally well written posts. Just because you post there, it doesn't mean you can't be a good overall poster.

It's ironic that you are wearing that sig which basically is viable due gamblers clicking on it.

How come I never see chipmixer signatures on the gambling section? I've run mixing gigs in the past, most of the traffic came from gambling related activity. I wonder what sort of asset you see on super niche local boards above that. Waste of money IMO.

There's also some people that could be replaced by some of the new applicants which are better posters.

It's called fractional reserve and has been happening for years since we ever departed from a gold standard. Welcome to the post Nixon era.

Either from robbers, or from governments?

A thief will torture you until you give away your password. Governments will put you in jail indefinitely, and they will become increasingly tyrannical about it. Just look at how how many people are getting busted in LocalBitcoins. If you for instance bought bitcoin in exchange of cash in LocalBitcoins and then sold it on some exchange for fiat, you are now on a possible list of people that will receive a knock on their door. Pretty much any bitcoin -> fiat or viceversa operations are subject to possible audits which may reveal your total stack as they look inside your computer. Once they find your wallet.dat you are in trouble. It's better to plan ahead, so what are you doing about it?

I don't see a solution. As long as you have to keep a file (wallet.dat) you are at risk. You could consider taking the Electrum route and sending all of your BTC inside an Electrum wallet and memorize the seed so a file doesn't exist, however, how safe is this? Keeping all of your current and future addresses on there doesn't seem too sound. It is possible that if someone subtracts the necessary info key derivation could be exploited.

So wallet.dat is the safest, yet, the most annoying to keep safe, as you need to keep a physical medium to store it offline, and you need the synced node to transact as well.

Electrum bypasses this but it's not as safe as the wallet.dat model.

What can be done?

Awesome. Where can I find the source for the first pic?

The orange is obvious plagiarism, however sentences like "Guns are made for one purpose, and that purpose is to kill." are generic and with 1,000s of results on google. I hope the bot is not smoking people for that otherwise it will eventually backfire.

I edited the post with this:

Edit: I didn't realize that the signature is not shown on every post, so there's nothing to discuss here anymore. I still believe people should be given second chances, specially when the mistakes were made ages ago and currently some of the banned people were better posters than people currently being on highly respected campaigns such as chipmixer.


Some of the banned people has contributed better content than you do. So no, it's not completely okay to bash them because they did a mistake years ago, specially not someone like you, give me a fucking break.

By good advertisers I mean good posters in general, not "good salesmen". Some of the banned people with 5+ years of experience had a better knowledge of Bitcoin than you do so calm down.

I obviously don't mean that someone should me making a living in here. My point was in general a society: If you don't give second chances, you are ostracizing them into stealing to survive.

Many of the reported posts weren't even part of a sig campaign. Just accounts trying to rank activity.

The main point here is, they were doing a good job. If everyone had your mentality ("let's not hire this guy ever again because he did something wrong in the past, even if he was doing a good job now"), everyone that did something wrong in the past would remain unemployable, the end result being a collapsing society thus one would be forced to steal since you have to eat.

They were good advertisers up until someone digged posts from 5 years ago to report them. Now im afraid a year from now when the ban is gone, no one is going to hire them because of that instead of giving them a fair chance.

Then we will not know who really wants to keep posting without getting paid and who doesn't, since the lack of motivation to post while wearing that signature is understandable. So you can't have mods stating how people became inactive due not getting paid. This would be the case if you had a neutral (blank) signature.

If someone had a 1+ year of straight good posting history to get a pass, why not just leave the signature blocked with a blank space? I would say it's not too motivating to post while people bully you around and make witty remarks about you being a fraud because you did something wrong 5 years ago. Way to disincentive good posters from posting for the duration of the ban. They will probably leave until the ban is gone not because they don't want to post but because you are carrying that sign which can be used by people to attack you instead of addressing the post (typical in discussions in which someone doesn't agree with you and just use something else that isn't part of the point, like a grammar mistake or physical defect etc...). Just leave it blank IMO... otherwise as I said, I predict the people that get a pass aren't going to bother with participating on the forum.

Edit: I didn't realize that the signature is not shown on every post, so there's nothing to discuss here anymore. I still believe people should be given second chances, specially when the mistakes were made ages ago and currently some of the banned people were better posters than people currently being on highly respected campaigns such as chipmixer.

I have lost good Hero and Legendary posters on my list because they copypasted something years ago and it seems they cannot join again for a year. Now im having a hard time picking up experienced posters. Most Legendaries aren't even that active anymore since they are probably rich from bitcoin. They are the ones that have been here through all the hard forks and know how things work. This has been a mistake. If it happened more than 1 or 2 years ago and it wasn't much I wouldn't kick them out of the campaign if they were doing a good job. It should be the managers doing the casting and evaluating case by case. It feels like the state is telling me who I can hire or not.

I see good posters being permabanned because of this, while the actual scammers/super spammers are all over the place.

The main reason this doesn't make sense is that someone with an established Hero+ account that did something wrong years ago is NOT going to risk doing anything stupid ever again and has probably learned enough stuff to produce decent posts. Banning old members from stuff done years ago is an obvious net loss. Someone that was bright enough to come here years ago when bitcoin wasn't mainstream has learned and probably has good things to offer. Everyone coming in now are just jumping on the bandwaggon.
I wouldn't even bother with signature permabans. Who cares if they are producing good content? just ban the people that are cluttering the forum with nonsense, as readers we don't give a toss if someone copy-pasted two lines 3 years ago when they were noobs if they have been doing it right since then.

It depends. If the wrongdoings were done years ago and the poster has 1+ year of straight good content, they shoudn't even be banned at all, let alone permabanned.

Too many good posters gone now because of things done years ago.
What has this solved? Experienced people gone while all the shitposters are still all over the forums. It's a net loss.

Normal correction, much needed after this fast growth.

C'mon guys, you must be new!

A much needed correction, nothing out of ordinary price action.

BCH is another scamcoin, wouldn't hold it for long!