Goodbye, world!

[Vod]

Support? Stop that nonsense. shut down your computer and start to do some real work if you are serious with your claims and really care about the "victims".

I need my computer to do the work.  I need this forum to do the work.    You put victim in quotes like 2BTC is chump change.   Good for you!

[BabyBandit]

Support? Stop that nonsense. shut down your computer and start to do some real work if you are serious with your claims and really care about the "victims".

I need my computer to do the work.  I need this forum to do the work.    You put victim in quotes like 2BTC is chump change.   Good for you!

Don't put words in my mouth you are older than that. Good luck. 

[Vod]

Don't put words in my mouth you are older than that. Good luck. 

Don't claim I did something I did not.    I should have checked your trust before I responded to you.   

Seems to have been dropped on the head a few times in early childhood. Troll or idiot or both.

[BabyBandit]

Don't put words in my mouth you are older than that. Good luck.  

Don't claim I did something I did not.    I should have checked your trust before I responded to you.  

Seems to have been dropped on the head a few times in early childhood. Troll or idiot or both.

What you and you're internet-gang thinks about me is irrelevant. I just wanted to help but you have your head so deep in the sand so you cant see anything else then hate and negativity and I can understand.
But what I can say is that If someone would steal 2 BTC from me I would hunt him down and not sit and whine on the internet. But I guess we are build different.
Good luck and I hope you will get your Bitcoin back and will stay healthy.

Seems to have been dropped on the head a few times in early childhood. Troll or idiot or both.

Yes I saw that. Cool comment huh? Doesn't the language remind you of something? Like when you was a kid and just had learned you a new bad word.

[OgNasty]

Lauda was a pretty significant member of the community. Former staff I see. Yeah.. I don't think Lauda is going to be impossible to contact. Maybe difficult, but not impossible. It'll take alot of time though

Significant how? As far as I could tell Lauda was directly involved in one of the largest ICO escrow scams ever pulled here who lied about multisig and stored funds on an exchange. Plus HE was a constant troll who is responsible for chasing countless members from this forum over the years and always seemed to support the wrong side of every argument. Not to mention a confirmed extortionist who was fired for doing so… I guess that’s “significant” in it’s own way.

[LTU_btc]

Significant how? As far as I could tell Lauda was directly involved in one of the largest ICO escrow scams ever pulled here who lied about multisig and stored funds on an exchange. Plus HE was a constant troll who is responsible for chasing countless members from this forum over the years and always seemed to support the wrong side of every argument. Not to mention a confirmed extortionist who was fired for doing so… I guess that’s “significant” in it’s own way.

Significant doesn't necessarily should be from positive side. Lauda was significant member here who left their mark in Bitcointalk history and it doesn't matter  from which perspective you watch. And after all, you're quoting member who signed up here last October, I doubt that he knows Lauda's history in detail.

[Vod]

Significant how? As far as I could tell Lauda was directly involved in one of the largest ICO escrow scams ever pulled here who lied about multisig and stored funds on an exchange. Plus HE was a constant troll who is responsible for chasing countless members from this forum over the years and always seemed to support the wrong side of every argument. Not to mention a confirmed extortionist who was fired for doing so… I guess that’s “significant” in it’s own way.

YOU were directly involved in several large ICO and ponzi scams yourself - you even admitted so.  YOU are a constant troll who lies about everything and YOU have chased countless forum members away.

Lauda was significant in that he had intelligence and contributed to the community.  You are just an asshole who got lucky in theft.

 

[OgNasty]

Significant how? As far as I could tell Lauda was directly involved in one of the largest ICO escrow scams ever pulled here who lied about multisig and stored funds on an exchange. Plus HE was a constant troll who is responsible for chasing countless members from this forum over the years and always seemed to support the wrong side of every argument. Not to mention a confirmed extortionist who was fired for doing so… I guess that’s “significant” in it’s own way.

Significant doesn't necessarily should be from positive side. Lauda was significant member here who left their mark in Bitcointalk history and it doesn't matter  from which perspective you watch. And after all, you're quoting member who signed up here last October, I doubt that he knows Lauda's history in detail.

Judging from the fact that this thread isn't bashing Lauda for being a failed extortionist and troll, I'd say many people aren't familiar with Lauda's antics here.  He wasn't a smart guy or knowledgeable about how Bitcoin worked (anyone who saw us argue technical issues in Slack chats should be very clear on that).  He was just a guy who harassed anyone here who tried to build anything.  He literally attacked me for being a reputable escrow agent, for making coins for the community, for donating free energy to a community Bitcoin mining project, and even safeguarding the forum's treasury funds.  If Lauda is significant for anything here, it's for chasing away more contributing members from this forum than any other single user.

[Vod]

Judging from the fact that this thread isn't bashing Lauda for being a failed extortionist and troll, I'd say many people aren't familiar with Lauda's antics here.  He wasn't a smart guy or knowledgeable about how Bitcoin worked (anyone who saw us argue technical issues in Slack chats should be very clear on that).  He was just a guy who harassed anyone here who tried to build anything.  He literally attacked me for being a reputable escrow agent, for making coins for the community, for donating free energy to a community Bitcoin mining project, and even safeguarding the forum's treasury funds.  If Lauda is significant for anything here, it's for chasing away more contributing members from this forum than any other single user.

I need to address this bullshit for Lauda's legacy.   He was a very smart person who taught a lot of people good security measures, and that was the issue.  Theymos helped his employee for the first time here, sending out a PM to multiple users demanding we remove our negative trust from OG.   

It's important we combat this misinformation before it gets archived.

OgNasty, Lauda, Vod, Anduck:

None of you "strongly believes that [any of the others] is a scammer", which is the criteria for negative trust. You're just holding never-ending, self-perpetuating grudges for tiny past grievances which have blown up for no good reason.

I'd prefer not to start making top-down administrative DT changes, but I can't have these "grudge" ratings stand in DT, so I will just manually remove you from DT if you don't (semi-)voluntarily remove these ratings. Do what you want with your trust lists, and quibble as much as you want in posts about your feuds, but negative trust ratings are for serious accusations.

[mcdouglasx]

Regarding this old puzzle:

000000000fdf0c619cd8e0d512c7e2c0da5a5808e60f12f1e0d01522d2986a51

My thoughts:

1- somehow the txid hash is the main clue.
2- maybe we need to reconstruct the hash using some kind of nonce.
3- maybe we need to remove nine hexes in some string that symbolize the 9 0s,.
4- maybe the vanity hash nonce replaces the hexes corresponding to the cat emoji.

I leave an address generation script for anyone who wants to try.

Code:

import hashlib
import secp256k1 as ice


target= "000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"

A1= int(target, 16)


A0 = ice.scalar_multiplication(A1).hex()
A2 = ice.to_cpub(A0)
print("cpub:",A2)

def sha256(data):
    return hashlib.sha256(data).digest()

def ripemd160(data):
    h = hashlib.new('ripemd160')
    h.update(data)
    return h.digest()

def bech32_polymod(values):
    generator = [0x3b6a57b2, 0x26508e6d, 0x1ea119fa, 0x3d4233dd, 0x2a1462b3]
    chk = 1
    for v in values:
        b = (chk >> 25)
        chk = (chk & 0x1ffffff) << 5 ^ v
        for i in range(5):
            chk ^= generator[i] if ((b >> i) & 1) else 0
    return chk

def bech32_hrp_expand(hrp):
    return [ord(x) >> 5 for x in hrp] + [0] + [ord(x) & 31 for x in hrp]

def bech32_create_checksum(hrp, data):
    values = bech32_hrp_expand(hrp) + data
    polymod = bech32_polymod(values + [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]) ^ 1
    return [(polymod >> 5 * (5 - i)) & 31 for i in range(6)]

def bech32_encode(hrp, data):
    combined = data + bech32_create_checksum(hrp, data)
    return hrp + '1' + ''.join([BECH32_CHARS[d] for d in combined])

BECH32_CHARS = 'qpzry9x8gf2tvdw0s3jn54khce6mua7l'

def convertbits(data, frombits, tobits, pad=True):
    acc = 0
    bits = 0
    ret = []
    maxv = (1 << tobits) - 1
    for value in data:
        if value < 0 or (value >> frombits):
            raise ValueError("Invalid value")
        acc = (acc << frombits) | value
        bits += frombits
        while bits >= tobits:
            bits -= tobits
            ret.append((acc >> bits) & maxv)
    if pad:
        if bits:
            ret.append((acc << (tobits - bits)) & maxv)
    elif bits >= frombits or ((acc << (tobits - bits)) & maxv):
        raise ValueError("Invalid bits")
    return ret

def create_bech32_address(pubkey):
    # Step 2: Perform SHA-256 hashing on the public key
    sha256_result = sha256(pubkey)

    # Step 3: Perform RIPEMD-160 hashing on the result of SHA-256
    ripemd160_result = ripemd160(sha256_result)

    # Step 4: Convert to 5-bit array
    data = convertbits(ripemd160_result, 8, 5)

    # Step 5: Add the witness version byte in front (current version is 0)
    data = [0] + data

    # Step 6: Compute the checksum
    hrp = 'bc'  # for MainNet

    # Step 7: Encode the address
    address = bech32_encode(hrp, data)

    return address

# Example usage
pubkey = bytes.fromhex(A2)
bech32_address = create_bech32_address(pubkey)
print(bech32_address)

[Vod]

To finalize my last post, we now know why Theymos extorted me to remove negative feedback - he was paying OGNasty to control default trust.  :/

I don’t dislike theymos. He did a lot of good for the forum in the early days. I just know theymos is not a man of his word and I don’t really respect that. He hasn’t stood up to call LoyceV a liar for what he’s said about me stealing BTC from the treasury. He didn’t live up to his threat to blackball the mentally ill guy from DT for his trust abuse. He set me up with making me an original DT member, asking me to keep the default trust network honest and then empowering the evil I was keeping out of DT, unleashing an army of trolls my way… This while going more than a year without paying me and then calling me tacky for doing my fiduciary duty. So I guess I have my reasons for the disrespect. The mentally ill guy is mad at theymos for what?

[DireWolfM14]

To finalize my last post, we now know why Theymos extorted me to remove negative feedback - he was paying OGNasty to control default trust.  :/

I think you're misinterpreting that comment.  OGNasty was being paid to be the forum's treasurer.

[Vod]

To finalize my last post, we now know why Theymos extorted me to remove negative feedback - he was paying OGNasty to control default trust.  :/

I think you're misinterpreting that comment.  OGNasty was being paid to be the forum's treasurer.

He was, but does that prohibit him being paid for something else as well?   My point was, Theymos was backing OG when OG was scamming all those people for millions.   

This is from a 2016 PM - Theymos is a co-conspirator.

I disagree with giving negative trust to people solely because they're running a ponzi-style thing. The key thing which identifies a scammer is that they've broken an agreement, but a ponzi that is completely open with its rules does not break any agreements. It's indistinguishable from other gambling games: some win, some lose, and the house might take some off the top. As long as everyone knows what they're getting into, I see no ethical problem with it, even though I personally wouldn't recommend participating.

[DireWolfM14]

To finalize my last post, we now know why Theymos extorted me to remove negative feedback - he was paying OGNasty to control default trust.  :/

I think you're misinterpreting that comment.  OGNasty was being paid to be the forum's treasurer.

He was, but does that prohibit him being paid for something else as well? ~

No, but reading into something that isn't explicitly documented is speculation at best.  In light of your ongoing feud with OGNasty, this suggestion comes off as more than mere speculation.  It comes off as downright slander.  You're effort to put theymos in the middle of your feud isn't helping your case.  It only makes you look irrational, which is something OGNasty has taken advantage of in the past to twist the facts.

~ My point was, Theymos was backing OG when OG was scamming all those people for millions.

This is from a 2016 PM - Theymos is a co-conspirator.

I disagree with giving negative trust to people solely because they're running a ponzi-style thing. The key thing which identifies a scammer is that they've broken an agreement, but a ponzi that is completely open with its rules does not break any agreements. It's indistinguishable from other gambling games: some win, some lose, and the house might take some off the top. As long as everyone knows what they're getting into, I see no ethical problem with it, even though I personally wouldn't recommend participating.

I don't detect anything in theymos' comment that comes off as "backing."  He even stated that he wouldn't recommend participating.  This stance is totally consistent with the way he has always run the forum; i.e. scams are not moderated.

We can argue about theymos choosing someone who is running a ponzi (or multi-level-marketing, or whatever you want to call it,) scheme to be the treasurer.  That doesn't strike me as the type of character with the integrity to do the job responsibly.  Personally I think that was a bad choice on theymos' part, but it's something he's since rectified.

I don't mean to come off like I'm defending theymos, he's perfectly capable of doing that himself if he thinks it's needed.  From his lack of addressing the issue, one could assume that he doesn't think it's needed.  Why do you think that is?  If you want my opinion, it's because you're only hurting yourself by your effort to put him in the middle of it, and that's pretty clear to anyone with a rational head on their shoulders.

[Vod]

I don't mean to come off like I'm defending theymos, he's perfectly capable of doing that himself if he thinks it's needed.  From his lack of addressing the issue, one could assume that he doesn't think it's needed.  Why do you think that is?  If you want my opinion, it's because you're only hurting yourself by your effort to put him in the middle of it, and that's pretty clear to anyone with a rational head on their shoulders.

I appreciate it - you should not defend Theymos.   I do not know if Theymos intended tp scam originally, or if he was coerced by OGNasty when the $ amounts were revealed,   I do have a legitimate case that Theymos continues to back OG and the damage he did while being paid.  

I cannot hurt myself further.    If your best friend broke my arm in a fight, I would not saY "OUCH but let's see why he did it"  You can't break my arm a second time, but you can make fun of the things I cannot do with a broken arm.

The mentally ill guy is mad at theymos for what?

[nutildah]

I cannot hurt myself further.    If your best friend broke my arm in a fight, I would not saY "OUCH but let's see why he did it"  You can't break my arm a second time, but you can make fun of the things I cannot do with a broken arm.

You can still be banned, so there's that. Although I don't know why you would want to do that. If you don't trust theymos, you shouldn't be using the forum.

Because both you and Og are pissed off at theymos, that means theymos is doing a good job being neutral.

"A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied." - Larry David

[Sandra_hakeem]

You can still be banned, so there's that. Although I don't know why you would want to do that. If you don't trust theymos, you shouldn't be using the forum.

Without a doubt, yes but that would only make matters worse - as though Theymos is trying to seal up the alleged claims...
He has operated the same policies with so many adjustments over the years and, I believe this to be a result of engaging proper disciplinary measures on himself in reality; This is why the forum still thrive!!!

As long as everyone knows what they're getting into, I see no ethical problem with it, even though I personally wouldn't recommend participating.

Because both you and Og are pissed off at theymos, that means theymos is doing a good job being neutral.

...and, the MAN hasn't even thought of addressing anything publicly; he ain't even bothered one bit about their feud. 

[Vod]

If you don't trust theymos, you shouldn't be using the forum.

Theymos is a contributing factor to what happened to me - according to my evidence anyway.   He sent me PMs early on stating he was neutral, and explaining why he did what he did with OG.   Which is why I was confused when OG kept claiming Theymos had a PM where I admitted I was a pedophile, and Theymos said nothing.   Once OG admitted to being placed on default trust and being paid by Theymos, it made sense, but the damage was done.

I don't trust Theymos - and neither should you - but he hasn't yet done anything to make me stop using this forum for investigation.  

[OgNasty]

Because both you and Og are pissed off at theymos, that means theymos is doing a good job being neutral.

...and, the MAN hasn't even thought of addressing anything publicly; he ain't even bothered one bit about their feud.  

Don’t call it a feud. Some mentally ill wacko became obsessed with me and blamed me for him being broke and disabled in spite of us having no dealings whatsoever with each other. Then he said and did whatever he could to try and slander me (I guess he still is, lol). I hit ignore on the issue a long time ago and couldn’t care less. I’m also not pissed off at theymos and never have been. He just showed me he wasn’t a man of his word. Doesn’t mean I dislike him.

[Vod]

n spite of us having no dealings whatsoever with each other.

Just to fact check - OgNasty reached out to me to offer seats in his ponzi in exchange for advertising on BPIP.   When I refused, he called all my Facebook family and friends telling them I was a pedophile.

You cannot make this up.  :/