5 years LoyceV!

[LoyceV]

LFC_Bitcoin's topic reminded me I have something to celebrate too: Today, I turned 5 years old on Bitcointalk!

I joined Bitcointalk just shortly after I "started with Bitcoin". For privacy reasons, I used a random generator to create a name: Loyce Valenzuela! I only found out it's a girl's name much later, but by then it had grown on me already. "Valenzuela" rolls off the tongue nicely. I never imagined I'd still be using the same name 5 years later.
In my early days, I even missed several "2 weeks Activity periods" on Bitcointalk, that's how inactive I was. How things have changed
I've been a Mod on Rollin.io until the site shut down. That's where I grew my thick skin. And, according to some, a pony tail
Compared to Rollin's Chatter box, Bitcointalk is filled with Saints. After Rollin shut down, i started spending more time on Bitcointalk.

I can't deny Merit has been good for me, but I also know I'm spending more time here than I probably should. I appreciate that most of the community values my contributions, thanks for that I often feel honored for being mentioned on local boards which I can't even read. My Trust list viewer is still my proudest work, and it's often used to prove certain points (good or bad). I try to remain neutral from most of the forum drama, and I wish more people would use a "neutral" approach whenever possible.

Some facts about LoyceV:

• Likes Bitcoin
• Joined Bitcointalk to complain about a captcha on a faucet site
• Can't quote said first post because tinypic.com disappeared
• Was never banned
• Is generally trusted, despite barely ever using the marketplace
• Tried to have DdmrDdmr Nuked (I can't find back the link. I'm still sorry)
• Was once asked by theymos to be a Mod, by mistake (grrrrrrrr theymos)
• Second most Merited (grrrrrrrr theymos)
• Second most DT1 inclusions (grrrrrrrr theymos)
• Doesn't have anything against theymos, despite the growling
• Sixth most generous all time Merit sender
• Second most generous recent Merit sender
• Biggest Merit Cycler Largest Merit Circle
• Has a gender
• Is Verified human, despite many claims of being AI
• Is often called Switzerland lately (thanks Lauda for the name)
• Also listens to the name Marcel nowadays
• Likes data. Cold, raw, hard data. And facts.
• Doesn't do graphics design
   
• Ask! I may or may not answer

Thanks Satoshi! None of this would have happened without you. I truely wish I would have been here from the start.

[TryNinja]

• Was once asked by theymos to be a Mod, by mistake (grrrrrrrr theymos)

How did that happen, and how was that a mistake?

Congrats, Loyce. You are truly a gem on this forum.

[DireWolfM14]

Your contributions to this forum are invaluable.  We are all quite lucky to have you as a member of this community.  Congratulations on your "Birthday," and here's wishing you many, many more!

[peonminer]

Happy BCT Birthday Loyce. Some very interesting and random bits. I bet this post will bring back some good memories of long time BCTers. Well done!

[LoyceV]

How did that happen, and how was that a mistake?

Something with sending a PM to the wrong person because of the large number of reports I had made

[guigui371]

No need to brag  
Some of us have been there longer and haven't done a single thing (except a tutorial or two).


Joke aside, you are indeed an extraordinary asset to the forum.
And yes, you are very often quoted in the french board.

I feel you should have a plaque, or a statue if Theymos decides to sell some virtual land and make a real BTC minecraft.  

[suchmoon]

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Happy 5 years Loyce, been a pleasure interacting with you over the years. Keep up the good work

[ChuckBuck]

 
Oh my image  
EDIT: It displays now: D

[Lafu]

Congrats LoyceV !

Learnd a few things from you and you doing and have done an awesome Job in the last 5 years.
Nice to read some history of your doing and how things was ages ago!

Happy Birthday for the 5 Years here 

[truth or dare]

These are truly impressive stats. Congratulations on demonstrating emphatically that merit earned and duration of membership are not correlated with achievements nor success.

This is great work. Keep it up. Brilliant work loyceV whoever you are.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Gefeliciteerd!
I remember the first time I saw your profile here, i thought you were Russian
5 yeasts is a long time, still remember the time when you ranked up to Legendary, i was a frdsh newbie that tine

Hey theymos seems like you have some unfinished work here, c'mon give this man a ban hammer he is wishing for for do long its his birthday today

[jackg]

I joined Bitcointalk just shortly after I "started with Bitcoin". For privacy reasons, I used a random generator to create a name: Loyce Valenzuela! I only found out it's a girl's name much later, but by then it had grown on me already. "Valenzuela" rolls off the tongue nicely. I never imagined I'd still be using the same name 5 years later.
In my early days, I even missed several "2 weeks Activity periods" on Bitcointalk, that's how inactive I was. How things have changed

If only you had've joined 12 days earlier, we could all be wishing you a happy valentines with your 5 years partner: bitcointalk.

Congrats on the 5 year anniversary, I imagine many of us thought the forum would be gone. That's the general tone I got when I joined in august 2015.



I joined to see if cloudmining was legit, turns out the sites I were trying to use weren't (afaik)...

We can reconvene in another 5 years when you still haven't moved off of here . Perhaps by then you'll be a mod of something @Theymos where are we on creating Loyce's special board...

[suchmoon]

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In 5 minutes you've proven how credible fake newbies are. Congratulations.

[skarais]

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Some facts about LoyceV:

• All of facts ✓

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You have done your best and have been named a jewel on the bitcointalk.org forum. Only a few people can do as you have now, and maybe none. Congratulations on all the facts about your profile, I like it.

I want to be like you, having most of the facts about goodness and great achievements embedded in my profile, I want to travel everywhere and people can get to know me but in reality I have to be at a level far from you because of limited ability and the knowledge and background that we have. I just hope that one day I can also reach a level like you. Congratulations again on your achievements in 5 years at the forum and I hope you will continue to be here for a long time. Cheers

[1miau]

Congrats, well deserved. 

• Tried to have DdmrDdmr Nuked (I can't find back the link, but I'm still sorry)

Here it is:   

I've tagged the account... although I can't tell if I'm actually DT2 or not, so I'm not sure what good it will do.

Add ;dt to any page to see it as DT. Example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2398151;dt
You're on DT (included by suchmoon).

I found out yesterday that I listed "bounty spammer" DdmrDdmr to be nuked last February

I could have been knocked-off the board pretty soon though …:

My Nuke list for consideration (I choose clickable over code-tags):
<…>
DdmrDdmr
<…>

@mprep and other mods apparently nuked quite a few from the list. Saved by the whistle …

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The ones above and under your name are all nuked. The Mods did a good job excluding you. Creating a long list is quite easy, manually checking the accounts before nuking them is a lot of (boring) work. Well done Mods

Sorry! I'm glad the Mods paid attention

Finally, you have proven that mods are doing a good job. ^^

[actmyname]

in 5 years you have done nothing.  you have not added a single line of code to a single crypto project, and have not worked for a single blockchain startup
LOL maybe in the next 5 years you will actually contribute to the technology that brings us all here....

You're not that much older than me, Loyce. :/

[cryptoaddictchie]

• Ask! I may or may not answer

First, congratulations mate. I am indeed your fan. 5years with so much accomplishment is amazing. I remember Pming you about an idea but too bad your too busy making this forum great and didnt give me a good suggestion. Anyways!

I hope you can answer this not so long question of mine.

If youre not here in forum who do you think will be the LoyceV type guy here?   Please pick one and answer @LoyceV some are probably wanted to here which you think is like you (except theymos, staff and global mods)

[JollyGood]

Congratulations 

You are one of the most approachable people here in the forum, I hope you will be around for the next 5 years too so you can keep contributing to this wonderful place.

LFC_Bitcoin's topic reminded me I have something to celebrate too: Today, I turned 5 years old on Bitcointalk!

[mk4]

It's funny how an AI has something against Theymos.

• Is Verified human, despite many claims of being AI

That's something that an AI would say..

[madnessteat]

Congratulations on your five-year anniversary at the forum! During this time you have really done a lot of good for the whole bitcointalk community. An indicator of your usefulness is all those users who trust you. Thank you for your hard work!

Success to you and further develop your useful website.

[Timelord2067]

I just posted this in another thread, but it has relevance here:

This just came up in another thread, so I thought I'd share: (feel free to add your own name)

BTW, congratulations, I have over 5,000 posts and over 2,000 activity so I know how it feels to reach such milestones, I chose to celebrate a little bit more subdued:

This is my 5,000th post.

Many thanks to everyone who has continued to make the Known Alts thread a successful tool in the hunt to identify both alts themselves and potential or actual scammers.

Congratulations on your first five years here; I've got six and a half years membership (with about a three month gap a few years back when BCT went off-line for a while due to DDoS or something similar).  I nearly didn't come back, but it was the alt coins siren call that brought me back.

I still recall those early days when you were generating vanity wallet addresses for people and I was "helping you out" by generating them quicker than you were able to and I would always insist that you be given the tip for services rendered (even though you hadn't done the work )

You're one of the only people on this forum that I wouldn't mind meeting IRL.

[UserU]

Something with sending a PM to the wrong person because of the large number of reports I had made

TFW theymos successfully pulled off a Steve Harvey on you

[mole0815]

as lolsalot says you are no enrichment for the BCT board. sorry.

and now let's get serious.
i really appreciate your support and motivation to provide the community with helpful tools.
as you can easily see from your list, there are many useful things that you have pulled out of your hat and if you continue like this you might be able to beat theymos in any of these disciplines. but only maybe

[truth or dare]

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In 5 minutes you've proven how credible fake newbies are. Congratulations.

I agree with suchmoon. If you are a fake newbie then your insights and summary regarding LoyceV regarding their lack of substance coupled with their coming here originally to complain they couldn't pocket free crypto dust. Five years on still scrounging free bitcoin dust from chipmixer. These are highly credible and accurate comments. Amazing only newbies can provider accurate and useful assessments of these merit DT giants.


Newbies should start their own self congratulatory threads. Been here 5 mins and already provided more value in terms of truth and accuracy than most DT and legends are capable of.

The Q & A would be far more useful. No btc just payments required either.

[LoyceV]

No need to brag  

Once every 5 years, I get to brag

LOL maybe in the next 5 years you will actually contribute to the technology that brings us all here....

Hi fake Newbie, I'm flattered you created a new account just to talk to me!
Bitcoin's technology works fine. It needs users, and I'm pretty sure I've contributed plenty on that part.

I remember Pming you about an idea but too bad your too busy making this forum great and didnt give me a good suggestion.

The time I spent answering PMs slightly depends on how busy I am when I read them. I try not to ignore them, but sometimes it seems like the best option. I don't remember what you asked exactly

If youre not here in forum who do you think will be the LoyceV type guy here?   Please pick one and answer @LoyceV some are probably wanted to here which you think is like you

The BPIP gang would do just fine.

You're one of the only people on this forum that I wouldn't mind meeting IRL.

Thanks, I guess It's just not going to happen I've rejected invitations before, and I'll keep doing that.
Privacy FTW!

The party is coming to an end now, so I'll lock this soon.

[DdmrDdmr]

<...> Tried to have DdmrDdmr Nuked (I can't find back the link. I'm still sorry)<...>

Well looking over the 374 newbie (at the time) list to nuke, you did get a vast majority right:

-   309 (82,62%) are banned (as per your full list last Friday, either then or at a later point in time)
-   12 (3,21%) non-banned have been merited (only!)
-   53 (14,17%) non-banned have not been merited (I didn´t go into details to far, but they seem abandoned now).

The 12 non-banned merited ones are:

Code:

user_id	name	posts	activity	merit	rank	        DateCreated	        DateLastActive
1582324	DdmrDdmr	4317	770	3353	Hero Member	2018-01-04 14:28:20.000	2020-02-21 12:53:14.317
1726270	Mamaecrypto	337	337	214	Full Member	2018-01-21 16:56:25.000	2019-12-05 02:47:45.000
1715993	coinmaster241	848	406	32	Member	        2018-01-19 16:37:07.000	2020-02-18 05:28:52.000
1473914	nettspring	153	153	2	Jr. Member	2017-12-19 23:55:15.000	2019-05-15 13:15:52.000
1520272	bencebir	9	9	1	Newbie	        2017-12-25 21:31:26.000	2019-07-04 21:24:21.000
1301319	cryptoglenn	104	104	1	Jr. Member	2017-11-11 00:06:09.000	2019-09-12 09:05:02.000
1691166	marlin1	        395	280	1	Jr. Member	2018-01-15 05:46:35.000	2019-07-05 09:01:36.000
1685433	pubudu92	232	232	1	Jr. Member	2018-01-14 09:46:21.000	2020-02-10 05:28:21.000
1762307	Ryuzakillian	42	42	1	Jr. Member	2018-01-27 13:44:15.000	2018-10-02 10:16:46.000
1695659	BACARAN	        773	560	1	Jr. Member	2018-01-15 19:20:30.000	2019-10-27 18:31:40.000
1292211	mitmitos44	187	98	1	Jr. Member	2017-11-08 00:44:23.000	2018-06-12 21:15:20.000
1421608	renagadewolf	31	31	1	Jr. Member	2017-12-12 04:29:44.000	2018-09-07 06:38:48.000

Sorry, couldn’t resist finding out the fate of fellow newbies on the list …

[FullNode]

How many veterans, 5 years is a long time, I hope to say the same, this shows that bitcointalk is a great forum,
Congrats.

[Pmalek]

Congratulations LoyceV!
The man and the kraken. The one bitcointalk member who has no scalability issues and is able to expand his tentacles all over the forum.

You think you just created the perfect post? Check again! LoyceV was faster. (This part is true)  

[VB1001]

You do a great job on the forum.

Thx.

[tranthidung]

Some facts about LoyceV:

• Was once asked by theymos to be a Mod, by mistake (grrrrrrrr theymos)

How did you reply him? Rejected his request.  

Not only about moderator, but it also is my surprise to know you did not a merit source at the start of merit system. You became a merit source many months after that (as you disclosed).
Just kidding, Loyce. Congratulations for your 5-year on the forum as one of the biggest boys here.

5 years is a period not too long for whole lifespan of human, but on the forum it is longer. The feeling to wait for ranking up with coming activities makes it longer than it really is. No one here imagine how we will become next 5 years on the forum. We only enjoy our each day here, and let the time goes on.

I have been here only half of your time and I hope that I will stay here next 3 years to have a 5-year celebration as yours.

By the way, let me take this chance to say thank you again, for all your help and advice, LoyceV.  

[mediaBuzz]

Congrats on your Anniversary on Bitcointalk!

And here is the work in a better quality: https://gifyu.com/image/I2wh or https://gph.is/g/Z5YjLop

[rhomelmabini]

Been messaging LoyceV way back to help some data and I'll confirm that isn't fond of using Python.


Anyways, congrats on your journey here and continue to do those things you're only capable of and be always an emulation to anyone that want to do what you do. Your loyce.club page is a nice site too and I guess I'll keep coming back in it.

[Welsh]

All of these reasons are the ultimate reason I bought the artwork from you a few months back. If this is generation 1 of the LoyceV model, then the next generation of this beautiful AI will be something special. (Unless they remove the headphone jack)

In all seriousness, I can't believe its only  been 5 years. I honestly thought you were here before me. You've definitely cemented yourself in Bitcointalk history in the time you've been here though.

[bones261]

Hmm, yesterday I saw this thread was locked. I thought the OP was satisfied with the well deserved praise. I really enjoy the trust list updates and all the other info Loyce provides in Loyce.club. You are really an asset to the forum politics. Keep up the good work. I just noticed that I have only been here a few days before you. Congratulations on making entry in this space during the horrible bear market of 2014 and 2015. So much has happened in the past five years. It feels like we have been involved for decades.

[LoyceV]

Hmm, yesterday I saw this thread was locked.

mediaBuzz was posting his entry in another topic, so I unlocked this one.
I'll lock it again soon. Let's say 12 hours after the last reply.

[UserU]

And here is the work in a better quality: https://gifyu.com/image/I2wh or https://gph.is/g/Z5YjLop

TFW it feels like our lives are passing by over the years just by looking at this GIF. I feel so nostalgic now.

[fillippone]

Thank you LoyceV for your commitment to the forum.
I took your posting standard as a parameter many times during my (brief) stay on the forum.

Ad maiora.
f.

You can lock the thread again now (luckily your time machine is not as precise as the @foxpup ’s one).