Joe's Signatureless Challenge Archives

[monchi]

BitcoinTalk Username: monchi
Starting Post Count (including this one): 11
Current Rank: Newbie
BTC Address: 3B5HqYMEDmudURMmFEMu3qr1otPAq6w8t6

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[acha 1 3]

BitcoinTalk Username: Acha 1 3
Starting Post Count (including this one): 24
Current Rank: Jr. Member
BTC Address:

[thelma987]

Username: Thelma987
Starting Post Count (including this one): 39
BitcoinTalkurrent Rank: Jr. Member
BTC Address: 1Nd3GChLoRfz1hNjtN3LmSym8J4cbxMad

[sakib.bro]

Username : sakib.bro
starting post count: 106
BTT rank : Jr. member
Bitcoin Adress: 16uFgvA5G9sVfr6AhQp2yJTvK7XLoVQ8WR

[nullius]

@BTCforJoe, is my new signature campaign compatible with yours?  I think it is.  Payment for my campaign consists of a 2²⁵⁶% airdrop of pure privacy, plus pride in being cypherpunk chic.

If you will permit people to participate in both campaigns (as I already am), then I will add a plug to Joe’s Signatureless Challenge to my ANN thread’s OP.

Behold, the best spam campaign this forum has ever seen:

😈😈😈 PGP 256% AIRDROP BOUNTY SIGNATURE SPAM CAMPAIGN! Old-school CRYPTO 😈😈😈

[BTCforJoe]

Round 1 has ended and Round 2 has begun. The winners will be announced shortly.

Please make sure to reapply to Round 2 if you haven’t already. Give me a few hours and I will announce the winners.

[BTCforJoe]

@BTCforJoe, is my new signature campaign compatible with yours?  I think it is.  Payment for my campaign consists of a 2²⁵⁶% airdrop of pure privacy, plus pride in being cypherpunk chic.

If you will permit people to participate in both campaigns (as I already am), then I will add a plug to Joe’s Signatureless Challenge to my ANN thread’s OP.

Behold, the best spam campaign this forum has ever seen:

😈😈😈 PGP 256% AIRDROP BOUNTY SIGNATURE SPAM CAMPAIGN! Old-school CRYPTO 😈😈😈

Yes, as it is not a paid sig campaign unless you can put a value on privacy, which I believe to be priceless.

[nullius]

Please make sure to reapply to Round 2 if you haven’t already.

I’d been waiting for 2018-03-12 03:00 UTC:

BitcoinTalk Username: nullius (#976210)
Starting Post Count (including this one): 865
Current Rank: Member
BTC Address (edited): 3CxsuDpbariuRG8t35cPMmkwBYLuNQ73Ld

N.b., Activity Period 1257 will begin Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 19:40:00 UTC.  I expect to change rank soon after that; and others may, too.  Does it matter to the campaign if the provided information does not remain valid all week?

@BTCforJoe, is my new signature campaign compatible with yours? [...]

😈😈😈 PGP 256% AIRDROP BOUNTY SIGNATURE SPAM CAMPAIGN! Old-school CRYPTO 😈😈😈

Yes, as it is not a paid sig campaign unless you can put a value on privacy, which I believe to be priceless.

Indeed, priceless!  Campaign payment rules agree:

Airdrop Bounty Shill Payola Terms:

In exchange for your participation in this campaign, you will receive 2²⁵⁶%* airdrop bounty spam payola consisting of pretty good privacy for yourself and those with whom you communicate.

(* All airdrop percentages herein stated apply the same quality of maths as seen in a typical scamcoin.)

Privacy is one of the most valuable things you can have in this world.  It is priceless!

I will soon work in a link touting the virtues of Joe’s Signatureless Challenge.

[Toughit]

I figured I better do this before the results come out.

BitcoinTalk Username: toughit
Starting Post Count (including this one): 228
Current Rank: Full Member
BTC Address: roll it over this week

Dang nullius, 90 posts , it would take me the next week just to read them, and probably never be able to understand their content.

New rule request:  The winner each week has to suggest his top post as a learning experience, (and maybe expound on it if there is interest)

[detector]

Re-Apply sir

BitcoinTalk Username: detector
Starting Post Count (including this one): 165
Current Rank: Full Member
BTC Address: 1AYb1qqkHt3bCMqxfNr3GYTcmPANKm1WKC


COngratulation @nullius you deserve it, sir

[BTCforJoe]

Sorry for the long delay, but given that this is my first week of processing applicants' posts, I wanted to take my time to ensure that all was fair.

I have applied the same criteria for all applicants, and if you view the spreadsheet, you will see notes about each of the participant's post history for Round 1. With that said,

The winners of Round 1 have been chosen!

First Place:
nullius
$25USD (0.002168BTC at the time of this post)
(transaction 1; 2 [bonus])

15 Merits
(sponsored by DarkStar_ [8 Merits], Geraldo [5 Merits]) and BossMacko [2 Merits])

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Second Place:
Blue Tyrant
$10USD (0.001084BTC at the time of this post)

10 Merits
(this round sponsored by DarkStar_ and BossMacko [2 Merits]); bill gator will sponsor future rounds)

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Third Place:
Toughit
3 Merits
(sponsored by BossMacko)

Congratulations to the winners of Round 1! Terms and rewards for Round 2 have changed, so make sure to read the original post to review them.

Overall, I am impressed at the level of quality I have witnessed in the commencement round of this challenge; the participants have far surpassed my expectations. And as predicted, @nullius has swept this week's first place prize. However, the margin of the win was only separated by half a point!

I will message the sponsors who have committed to awarding these users to ensure that all prizes are distributed properly. At this moment, @nullius has been sent his payment reward, and this information will be added under the "Escrow" information in the top post.

Stay tuned, I will update the thread and return with some more feedback, but for now, please help me with congratulating the winners of Round 1!

[Blue Tyrant]

Second Place:
Blue Tyrant: Please provide your BTC address in order to receive payment.
$10USD (0.001084BTC at the time of this post)

10 Merits
(this round sponsored by DarkStar_ and BossMacko [2 Merits]); bill gator will sponsor future rounds)

Damn that was a close finish but a winner's a winner. Congrats @nullius you deserve it. As for my address I did mention it in my entry  

Address: bc1qmwzg3q8ghqs5ya45pzxpe2v8u865tjkm98g9fg

Thanks for letting me participate and thanks for all the sponsors both for the merits and the BTC

[Geraldo]

First Place:
nullius
$25USD (0.002168BTC at the time of this post)
(transaction)

15 Merits
(sponsored by DarkStar_ [8 Merits], Geraldo [5 Merits]) and BossMacko [2 Merits])

Hi Joe, as I promise you before.
Merit has been sent to the one and only nullius. Congrats  
Reference: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055616.msg32106792#msg32106792

[nullius]

My congratulations to Blue Tyrant and Toughit.  You gave me a run for my bits!

Following is what I wrote up after Bitcoin gave me advance notice.  When I saw the “while you were typing” warning for the official announcement, I had to go back and review the spreadsheet...


Well, hello, aa5a6f6fd078f76dea8d16d5841b53699cca4a593f9304f206471e495e726627.

Frankly, I didn’t have a great week—though it was certainly better than the week before!  I think I made a strong start, then got sucked back into drama which went to a new nadir:

It's amazing how you went from "verified by theymos" to "red trust from theymos" to "banned by theymos"!

In case someone wonders what happened to alia_alt2, see modlog:

Code:

Autoban user: N/A in topic #0 by member #1924085

Not only did that consume much time (both on and off the forum), but it also had me largely preoccupied for a few days.

Some of the other contestants put on a very strong showing.  Good game, folks—you had me worried!

New rule request:  The winner each week has to suggest his top post as a learning experience, (and maybe expound on it if there is interest)

Out of my 90 posts, although many were good in their own right, I count 8 which I think are exemplary outside the strictly limited situation of aforestated drama:

• Monday: On the task of decentralizing the global hashrate
• Tuesday: There is no “format war”: Bech32 = native Segwit; nested = backward-compat hack.
• Tuesday: “Regular InfoSec policies” are regularly wrong, especially when taken as dogmata
• Thursday: On the virtue of Ciphersex
• Friday: Re: Plagiarism: the difference between "wallet" and "wallet"
• Sunday: Review: mailbox.org e-mail; pseudonymous friendly, antispam, €1/mo. (pay in BTC)
• Sunday: Feature request: Forum remailer
• Sunday: 😈😈😈 PGP 256% AIRDROP BOUNTY SIGNATURE SPAM CAMPAIGN! Old-school CRYPTO 😈😈😈

Of course, the judges’ opinion was what mattered here!

Cheers, all.

[BTCforJoe]

I forgot to include the bonus $5 prize, sponsored by @stompix. Here is the txid for the bonus prize to @nullius.

Hi Joe, as I promise you before.
Merit has been sent to the one and only nullius. Congrats 
Reference: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3055616.msg32106792#msg32106792

Thank you, Geraldo. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Second Place:
Blue Tyrant: Please provide your BTC address in order to receive payment.
$10USD (0.001084BTC at the time of this post)

10 Merits
(this round sponsored by DarkStar_ and BossMacko [2 Merits]); bill gator will sponsor future rounds)

Damn that was a close finish but a winner's a winner. Congrats @nullius you deserve it. As for my address I did mention it in my entry 

Address: bc1qmwzg3q8ghqs5ya45pzxpe2v8u865tjkm98g9fg

Thanks for letting me participate and thanks for all the sponsors both for the merits and the BTC

Whoops, my bad! Payment will be made by @bill gator, who will post the txid here upon doing so. Congratulations!

[BTCforJoe]

N.b., Activity Period 1257 will begin Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 19:40:00 UTC.  I expect to change rank soon after that; and others may, too.  Does it matter to the campaign if the provided information does not remain valid all week?

The round will be carried out at the current rank of which the user applied for that round. I can only see this becoming an issue for the third place prize if a user ranks up from Jr. Member mid-week.

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New rule request:  The winner each week has to suggest his top post as a learning experience, (and maybe expound on it if there is interest)

Great suggestion! I was planning on posting my top picks for the participants, but I think it would be best for the winners to submit their favorite posts that they feel are the most meritorious. The merit sponsors can then merit those posts for their rewards. I'll make sure to edit that into the terms of this challenge!

Sunday: 😈😈😈 PGP 256% AIRDROP BOUNTY SIGNATURE SPAM CAMPAIGN! Old-school CRYPTO 😈😈😈
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Of course, the judges’ opinion was what mattered here!

This post had me in stitches. In a way, it's almost too clever for the average member on this forum. I can just imagine a bunch of the newbies reading this thread and asking "so when is the airdrop happening?" hahaha


Update: It's currently 1AM. I will add all of the applicants for Round 2 to the spreadsheet in the morning. Good night, all, and thanks for making this challenge so successful! Here's to hoping it stays alive for many weeks to come!

[CottonGuy]

Congrats to the winners nullius, Blue Tyrant and toughit! You guys are so awesome. Grats also Joe for this successful movement. Hope this won't stop. Cheers!!

Thanks for all the sponsors!

[LoyceV]

Can I sponsor a consolation prize of 2 Merit for the best Newbie or Jr. Member who doesn't get any other prize?

@BTCforJoe: isn't there anyone who qualifies for this?
Am I right that Sellingaccs would qualify for my consolation prize?

[s2break]

BitcoinTalk Username: s2break
Starting Post Count (including this one): 276
Current Rank: Jr Member

Many thank, sir!

[Psalms23]

 I was really amazed and felt lucky to have joined this challenge because of the criticism at the end of it.I should have first joined in something like this when I was a newbie up to jr. member. I was also able to trace and see which posts are good and substantial. I'll try to improve my posts and maybe join again if this is still available. Thank you so much for the chance.