Ban evasion (account fxsurfer)

[marlboroza]

User fxsurfer is extremely likely evading ban with account antikvark.

I don't have rock solid proof they are alt accounts except exactly the same FUD against bitcoin on various crypto forums and, to quote user sbogovac: "this user is the same person as fxsurfer with exactly the same message and wording.", I am pretty damn sure everyone in our local will agree on this one.

User is already banned here, also on this forum https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71884779&postcount=5295 (this is the same FUD)
His alt account contradiction is banned from that forum as well http://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=67453143&postcount=15427

U dolje linkanom članku nalazi se obrazložene zašto je Bitcoin prevara utemeljena na manipulaciji jezikom, te po kojoj karakteristici se razlikuje od svih financijskih instrumenata. Pošto je javnost dosta deziformirana i neinformirana o tim pitanjima te pošto nedostaje objektivnih kritičkih analiza Bitcoina otvaram ovu temu.

https://kriptoprevara.wordpress.com/

In this article fudster tried to convince people that bitcoin is scam, he actually does have long fud history all over the internet:

https://www.logicno.com/novac-posao-ekonomija/kineski-google-baidu-pokrece-vlastiti-blockchain-i-pokusava-spasiti-bitcoin.html (comment #74835 -> bitcoin is ponzi)
https://m.vecernji.hr/biznis/bitcoin-kriptovalute-juzna-koreja-milijarder-warren-buffet-1219361/komentari (comment niwrad: bitcoin is ponzi)
https://www.capital.ba/goldman-sachs-bitcoin-je-poput-zlata/ (first comment - bitcoin is ponzi)
http://www.mojnovac.net/forumi/showpost.php?p=709818&postcount=1101 (crypto is scam)
https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/b0k71y/bitcoin_je_prevara_utemeljena_na_manipulaciji/ (bitcoin is scam)

Of course, this is all circumstantial evidence

[dkbit98]

I am risking talking more about 'newbie' members,  but I will do it anyway as I like to live on the edge.  
This is clear case of BAN Evasion, and  fxsurfer aka antikvark is doing the same thing in other forums also.

fxsurfer BANNED  - First post in forum:

Unlike numbers on a bank account, which represent legal liability of the bank and are backed by the collateral of specified real estate or other debt instrument that a borrower offers as a way for a bank to secure the loan, the numbers on a bitcoin address are completely void of any legal liability since software that creates them is not a legal entity which can have legal rights and obligations.

So basically, people are paying huge amounts of money to get some empty numbers which are then recorded in a public ledger on the internet. If nobody wants to accept these numbers in exchange for dollars, goods or services, they are as useless as a random number that I write on a piece of paper.
...

His Topics (where he spends a lot of time talking about 'nothing')

- Unfortunately people will learn the hard way that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme
- Simple PROOF that Bitcoin and cryptos are Ponzi schemes
- Is it the time to short BTC
- The simple and undeniable reason why all cryptocurrencies will collapse
- Even 1 cent for bitcoin may be too expensive
- The believe that because of Bitcoin limited supply the price will rise is a myth
- Bitcoin actually does not exist
- Cryptocurrencies - neither money or assets but worthless alphanumeric characters
- Cryptocurrencies are Digital Version of Children’s Play Paper Money
- Why would a rational person pay 6,000 $ for Bitcoin if he can have its ...
- A simple proof that Bitcoin has zero value
- Don't buy bitcoin because it won't be fine
- How is Bitcoin "cheap" if its price is up more then 399 million percent?
- Why HODLers now pray for banks and institutions to enter if Bitcoin...
- Simple and undeniable proof that Bitcoin is a scam
- Bitcoin Is The Most Ridiculous Invention Ever Made
- Don't Buy Bitcoin - You'll Become the Owner of Nothing
- Bitcoin is a scam that thrives on language manipulation
- Bitcoin je prevara utemeljena na manipulaciji jezikom


antikvark  - First post in this forum:

... fake market instrument

The easiest way to detect if paper or digital currency is real money or fake money is to check whether it can perform the primary function of money, which is to serve as an auxiliary means for exchanging goods and services. Real money is capable of performing this function while fake money is not.
...

His Topics (where he again spends a lot of time talking about 'nothing')

- An indisputable proof that bitcoin is fake money and...
- Why would one pay $7K for Bitcoin if he/she can get the same thing for $0.001?
- Here is why Bitcoin can only go down
- The Truth That Will Eventually Kill Bitcoin
- The Nasty Secret of Bitcoin Exposed
- The Empirical Proof of Bitcoin's Real Value Being Zero
- Destroying Bitcoin with a single question
- Bitcoin: "Lakše je prevariti ljude nego ih uvjeriti da su prevareni"(Mark Twain)


You see the pattern?

He is all the time using same sentence like a parrot, that 'bitcoins are only empty numbers on internet'
Whatever that means.
He is obviously on some lunatic mission to destroy Bitcoin or 'nothing' how he likes to call it
and save all the people on the planet from this 'evil' invention.

[cryptofrka]

It is a specific topic that requires a certain intelligence and knowledge. According to his writing style and ideology, I have high conviction that they are the same person.

I had no idea fxsurfer was banned and when antikvark came to the forum I thought that it is actually the same profile as last year - simply returning to give us another dose of his 'knowledge'.

[Daniel91]

I must add that this user is very vulgar and offends all the discussion participants in the topic.
Calling people stupid, moron, squids, gramophone records and other derogatory names should be more than enough to remove him from this forum.

[JeromeTash]

I must add that this user is very vulgar and offends all the discussion participants in the topic.
Calling people stupid, moron, squids, gramophone records and other derogatory names should be more than enough to remove him from this forum.

Much as i hate very vulgar individuals who add no value to the community, i don't think vulgarity should add in any weight for an individual to get banned otherwise bitcointalk will turn into a platform full of the much hated censorship like some popular social media sites which i believe most members will not like here. Otherwise, ban evasion should never go unpunished 

[marlboroza]

^ this account is calling bitcoin a ponzi scam, whoever disagrees and tries to convince him otherwise is an idiot (logically). Whoever post "copy/pasted phrase about bitcoin" is behaving like a "broken gramophone record" (logically). It is not really related to this topic and ban evasion.
I will add prologue as another circumstantial evidence:

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
(fxsurfer - crypto is scam)

"It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have heen fooled" - Mark Twain
(antikvark - bitcoin is scam)

[Lucius]

It's probably the same person, but without solid evidence, no one will ban him regardless of what he posted on the forum, or his opinion on what Bitcoin really is. As I see the user in question can not be accused of ban evasion through connections with an address, but he/she maybe is not using TOR/VPN, so admin can check is there any match in IP address.

In the meantime, it's best to use the Ignore option, any further interaction really doesn't make sense.

[dkbit98]

Slično je vjerojatno bilo i nekad sa kupcima lukovica tulipana koji su mijenjali kuće za te lukovice upravo zato jer su bili drogirani spomenutim memom. No kad ih je ošamarila stvarnost onda je bilo kasno. Isto će biti i sa bitcoinima, i to vam uporno sugeriram ovim jednostavnim objašnjenjima da je on utemeljen na prevari, ali vi ne marite nego rađe čekate šamar stvarnosti. Ok, vaš izbor.

U tulipomaniji su se kućama plaćale lukovice tulipana. No to ne znači da lukovica i kuća imaju istu vrijednost u stvarnosti. Ne praviš razliku između špekulativne manije koja napuhava cjenovni balon i stvarnu vrijednost nečega. No sve sam to već objasnio. Ali tebi je važnija sprdnja od edukacije.

People where banned before from this forum many times with much less proof

[marlboroza]

he/she

No sve sam to već objasnio.

Objasnio sam to

People where banned before from this forum many times with much less proof

were 

Look at this:

https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71990453&postcount=5528
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71991213&postcount=5537
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71998095&postcount=5552
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=72076759&postcount=5749
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71897921&postcount=5367

Sounds familiar?

Da, da, da... Bitcoin je broj, a ne traktor, slovo, auto, trokut, kocka... nego broj. Svojstva su ono što određuje bit stvari, a ne način njihovog stvaranja ili prijenosa. A svojstva broja 1 su kraća i duža crtica te materijali poput tinte ili magnetnih čestica. Dakle idemo .... 1.... Eto, stvorio sam pravi pravcati broj 1 koji se po svojstvima nimalo ne razlikuje od onog u nekoj bazi podataka. Hoćeš li ga kupiti ili ne?

https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71866957&postcount=5264

This is so much like this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5227839.msg53894001#msg53894001, "bitcoin is number.  "1" - there you go, I created number 1. Would you buy it?" VS "I created excel spreadsheet. Here you go, a number" and bold part is similar style:

Inače, ne znam zašto se toliko uzbuđujete. Samo sam vam izrekao činjenicu da je Bitcoin bezvrijedan jer ga ne može pojesti, popiti, voziti, ugraditi u gotov proizvod ili poseksati, i zato što vam njegovi izdavatelji ništa ne isplaćuju kao kod svih ostalih financijskih instrumenata. Nisam vam ja kriv što ste dio moderne investicijske prevare.

"bitcoin is a number, not a letter, car, triangle, cube" and in second quoted post "bitcoin has no value because you can't drive it, eat it, have sex with it".

@Daniel91 speaking of "gramophone records" and insults
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=72053993&postcount=5641
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71935903&postcount=5491
https://www.forum.hr/showpost.php?p=71892163&postcount=5324

 

[dkbit98]

Mario is just a poor poor liar....
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20171004160423AA8L1S4
https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=cAs12BScaa

Maybe this should be moved to investigation.

[marlboroza]

Maybe this should be moved to investigation.

It is nickname, not personal info. Lets keep it that way.

[Lauda]

Does this intentional trolling make sense for flag type-1? I can easily argue that people who fall for his "advice" are at financial risk because they may not buy any Bitcoin at all (most recommendations are shifting to buying at least some).

[Rikafip]

Flag or ban is not the long term solution for this kind of troll (not that i  think that he  doesn't deserves ban, as this is an obvious case of ban evasion), only shunning is. Ban or flag doesn't mean much to him, he will just make new account and continue with the same narrative.
This guy is on his own little crusade against Bitcoin, and every reply and answer he gets just gets him more determined to continue with this crap, and I personally don't want to give him that pleasure of answering to his bs, and I hope others will do the same. In general, ignore option is severely underused on this forum.

[cryptofrka]

I agree we should just ignore him. It's not really easy to do though because he's extremely irritant so it just itches to write something back.
I must admit he is intelligent and is not a classical troll - he spins words well and knows his way around economy subjects.

Other than potential (well, almost certain) multiaccounting that we cannot prove so far, I don't think he's actually breaking any rules. As irritating as he might be, he's just FUDing about Bitcoin. Not the best place to do so, but we're the ones biting.

[marlboroza]

Does this intentional trolling make sense for flag type-1? I can easily argue that people who fall for his "advice" are at financial risk because they may not buy any Bitcoin at all (most recommendations are shifting to buying at least some).

I am not going to comment anything related to tagging/flagging trolls, nop 

he will just make new account and continue with the same narrative.

It won't be so damn hard to spot him! 

[dkbit98]

He is on my ignore list for long time, but I just had to ask him today if  fxsurfer and antikvark are both his accounts.
The more he speaks the more he reveals himself, but I agree we should all stop talking to him.
Let him enjoy in his tiny vigilante anti-bubble.

[FatFork]

I agree we should just ignore him. It's not really easy to do though because he's extremely irritant so it just itches to write something back.
I must admit he is intelligent and is not a classical troll - he spins words well and knows his way around economy subjects.

OK, maybe not a regular troll, but I wouldn't give him too much credit. Most of the time he just repeats the same invalid arguments over and over again. It feels like I'm arguing with a flatearther. He has some background in economics, though.

Other than potential (well, almost certain) multiaccounting that we cannot prove so far, I don't think he's actually breaking any rules. As irritating as he might be, he's just FUDing about Bitcoin. Not the best place to do so, but we're the ones biting.

And what about trolling? If this is not a school example of a troll, I don't know what is.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure all of these are his profiles on various forums and portals:

Forum.hr - fxsurfer [banned]
Profile link: https://www.forum.hr/member.php?u=747807

Forum.hr - contradiction [banned]
Profile link: http://www.forum.hr/member.php?u=688689

Forum.hr - Trader [banned]
http://www.forum.hr/member.php?u=754659

Forum.hr - niwrad
Profile link: http://www.forum.hr/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=761953

vecernji.hr - niwrad
Profile link: https://www.vecernji.hr/korisnici/profil/145284

Youtube - niwrad
Profile link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAPiOllF8GMk7kkIupm61w

reddit - minline
Profile link: https://www.reddit.com/user/minline/

Yahoo answers - Mario
Profile link: https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=cAs12BScaa

capital.ba - Mario

logicno.com - Mario

mojnovac.net - Forexhr  (probably one of his oldest profiles - member since: 29.04.2005.)
Profile link: http://www.mojnovac.net/forumi/member.php?u=2201

Feel free to update the list if you have more information.

[Lauda]

Does this intentional trolling make sense for flag type-1? I can easily argue that people who fall for his "advice" are at financial risk because they may not buy any Bitcoin at all (most recommendations are shifting to buying at least some).

I am not going to comment anything related to tagging/flagging trolls, nop  

Not asking you to, but it is a thin line and making a no-flagging-at-all or a flag-everyone decision is a mistake. This isn't somebody trolling at somebody else, nor is it somebody making substantial lies about Bitcoin. It is just repetitive malicious trolling with zero substance. Here is a test flag: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1401. If there is consensus, I am leaving it as is. If there isn't I will retract support.

[Rikafip]

Seems like fxsurfer/antikvark got bored and is yet again back with a new account, Antithesis and yet again he managed to troll people with his obsession about Bitcoin being a just an useless number and nothing else in his latest "Can you answer a couple of questions to a potential bitcoin buyer?"  thread.

This time he is more cautious in order not to be connected so he is avoiding Croatian board, but his posts reeks of fxsurfer.

[Daniel91]

Seems like fxsurfer/antikvark got bored and is yet again back with a new account, Antithesis and yet again he managed to troll people with his obsession about Bitcoin being a just an useless number and nothing else in his latest "Can you answer a couple of questions to a potential bitcoin buyer?"  thread.

This time he is more cautious in order not to be connected so he is avoiding Croatian board, but his posts reeks of fxsurfer.

Some people just never give up.
It’s funny to come to a bitcoin forum and then try to convince members that bitcoin is a scam, each time with a different profile 
Admins can, and I hope they will, check his IP address, prove that he is the same person with different forum profiles and finally ban him, because the other way of proving, via btc address, in his case will obviously not work.
It's obvious that what this person is doing is a violation of the rules of the forum.