Disk failure isn't unlikely, especially with older drives and operating systems. But it could very well be an excuse, there's no proper way to prove that this is true. I'll have to admit though, Vod's rating on you is rather aggressive, giving the same rating to a lower ranked member would have been more reasonable, aside of that your password wasn't changed for a month's time (else it would be showing on your profile).
Sig campaign swap on March 17:
With that said, the account still seems to have a similar style of posting with the one it had in the early days of its creation. Furthermore, the twitter account posted in a message here earlier was also posted in unedited posts from 2014.
And according to that, I pose the following question to Vod:
Would a post from his twitter account verifying that he still owns it serve as appropriate proof that the account wasn't hacked?
I'll attach relevant quotes below.
Following tweet was retweeted by his twitter account on Summer 2014:
https://twitter.com/vineetsonkar/status/481823158375165955As asked to do so in this post:
Retweeted as amacar, you don't need to tip me.
This twitter's account's posting history seems to me lining up with the bitcointalk one nicely. Even if the most valuable of the two, the bitcointalk one was hacked, most likely that the twitter one wouldn't come with it (
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That's why I'm thinking that if he signed a message through his twitter (instead of a BTC address since he claims that he lost his drive) would be good enough to prove ownership of the account.
