Should Ratimov aka Symmetrick be in DT1?

[GazetaBitcoin]

I didn't actually want to be involved in this, but it's been a while since I've been unnecessarily involved in one of these Default Trust dramas and this one looks like it has good potential.

[airfinex]

It's quite surprising to see those who usually avoid drama. What’s even more surprising is that several authoritative users have stuck their tongues up their ass. Some either say that they will watch the situation, while others don’t even write anything here so as not to take sides. The funny thing is that this kind of neutral status is a sure sign of cowardice.

[P2PECS]

The funny thing is that this kind of neutral status is a sure sign of cowardice.

These things usually happen. The coward who writes from an alt account speaks of cowardice.

[GazetaBitcoin]

What’s even more surprising is that several authoritative users have stuck their tongues up their ass. Some either say that they will watch the situation, while others don’t even write anything here so as not to take sides. The funny thing is that this kind of neutral status is a sure sign of cowardice.

In part, I understand them. And I explained that in OP:

it seems that he obtained so much power that he intimidates everybody to dare to say anything contrary to his opinions. When such things happen, the respective users get distrusted by him or receive baseless negative feedbacks, in some cases also with no reference links and usually consisting only in insults, which is against the correct use of Trust system. I spoke to many users about Ratimov's behavior and, although they agreed that his behavior is not normal, nor according to a fair DT user, they felt intimidated by him to stand against him.

For example, take these 3 feedbacks left by him, full of insults, with no reference link, 2 being negative and 1 neutral:



Now you may understand why he intimidates so many people. [...]

So all these helped him obtain his actual position, the position from which he manages to intimidate almost everybody. Most people look at users with tons of merits with respect, although in Ratimov's case they have no idea that they actually respect various authors which wrote the texts from Ratimov's texts. Those addicted to his sMerits always talk nice about him, in order to receive merits. Those which disagree with him don't dare to speak, in most of times, as they know that if they do it he can add them to his distrust list, leave them negative feedbacks or they risk to lose the precious merits they may earn from him.

However, in part, I hope though that those which acted correctly, without letting themselves intimidated by him, will also influence those still hesitating because of being intimidated by Ratimov's abuses of Trust. Maybe one after one more and more will not let themselves be intimidated anymore, will open their eyes towards all his abuses of DT power and will distrust him, just like it happened in TimeLord's case. TimeLord has been eliminated from DT and now he can leave tons of negative feedback -- nobody cares anymore.

The funny thing is that this kind of neutral status is a sure sign of cowardice.

These things usually happen. The coward who writes from an alt account speaks of cowardice.

airfinex, be it an alt or not, was the first user which ever dared to expose Ratimov for plagiarism. What happened immediately after?

One of his first such miserable attack was against airfinex, the user which exposed him for plagiarism. On September 8th, 2021, Ratimov created a topic, hunting airfinex and attacking him as being someone's alt or a bounty cheater. DireWolf and The pharmacist were very vocal against him and scared him enough thus he deleted all his posts inside that thread and hid the thread in Archival board, hoping that nobody can see it anymore and people will forget about it.

So stuff like that happen when you confront this imposter.

Is airfinex to be blamed for using an alt account? I guess not. LoyceV believes the same:

^Last 2 images are words of wisdom from LoyceV. First of all he also notices the way Ratimov leaves retaliatory feedbacks. Ratimov wrote on airfinex's Trust page the following: "Stupid troll &shitposter. An errand dog [...]".. Again, a feedback consisting in insults, with no reference link.. But after LoyceV's post he deleted it. Why? Because he is also intimidated by a very few users, such as The Pharmacist or LoyceV.
Then LoyceV highlights another negative feedback left by Ratimov for revenge, this one being on wool_loow's profile. In fact, he left also a neutral feedback. What happened? Ratimov deleted these feedbacks as well.

You want to know what happens when you confront him from your main / single account? Look at my Trust page.

Or look at BitcoinGirl.Club's Trust page.


@BitcoinGirl.Club: it seems that he accused you again of plagiarism, again with no evidence, LOL! Just the usual. At least he did not use a negative tag this time. His feedbacks actually become more and more hilarious as time passes.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

@BitcoinGirl.Club: it seems that he accused you again of plagiarism, again with no evidence, LOL! Just the usual. At least he did not use a negative tag this time. His feedbacks actually become more and more hilarious as time passes.

It proves the point again that you were making in your first post of this topic.


In this topic post I would like to touch upon the people who trust Ratimov 😂

Ratimov's judgement is Trusted by:
1. Balthazar (Trust: +3 / =1 / -1) (358 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
2. silversurfer1958 (Trust: neutral) (11 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
3. peloso (Trust: +1 / =3 / -5) (187 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
4. wwzsocki (Trust: +7 / =1 / -0) (1402 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
5. Gianluca95 (Trust: +7 / =2 / -1) (196 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
6. rby (Trust: +0 / =4 / -1) (360 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
7. SiNeReiNZzz (Trust: !!!:  +4 / =2 / -11) (793 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
8. owlcatz (Trust: +45 / =0 / -0) (904 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
9. thandie (Trust: neutral) (360 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
10. tmfp (Trust: +7 / =0 / -0) (737 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
11. klarki (Trust: +3 / =2 / -0) (DT1! (1) 2073 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
12. s0nix (Trust: neutral) (11 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
13. WhiteManWhite (Trust: +1 / =0 / -1) (118 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
14. nimogsm (Trust: neutral) (148 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
15. SPQRCoin (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (132 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
16. my luck (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (645 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
17. FutureBitcoin (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (126 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
18. Wapfika (Trust: neutral) (271 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
19. dimonstration (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (146 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
20. whyrqa (Trust: +0 / =1 / -1) (3 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
21. giammangiato (Trust: +2 / =0 / -0) (1135 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
22. BtcMan2009 (Trust: +0 / =0 / -2) (90 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
23. CarnagexD (Trust: neutral) (110 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
24. imhoneer (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (4) 1226 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
25. JollyGood (Trust: +15 / =3 / -2) (1355 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
26. CryptopreneurBrainboss (Trust: +20 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (10) 3713 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
27. Chrystora123 (Trust: +0 / =0 / -3) (128 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
28. Best_Change (Trust: +27 / =8 / -1) (DT1! (2) 1770 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
29. KTChampions (Trust: +6 / =0 / -0) (1626 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
30. Smartprofit (Trust: neutral) (1347 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
31. Coin-1 (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (1959 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
32. Julien_Olynpic (Trust: +2 / =0 / -0) (2264 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
33. Removed sheenshane (Trust: +5 / =1 / -0) (1095 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
33. Bitcoin_Arena (Trust: +1 / =1 / -0) (DT1! (7) 1645 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
34. tvplus006 (Trust: +14 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (12) 1622 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
35. witcher_sense (Trust: +16 / =0 / -0) (4075 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
36. sky999 (Trust: neutral) (673 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
37. Ridcan (Trust: neutral) (31 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
38. nakamura12 (Trust: neutral) (646 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
39. bubbalex (Trust: +2 / =0 / -0) (339 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
40. XEOP$ (Trust: neutral) (171 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
41. taikuri13 (Trust: +3 / =0 / -0) (1585 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
42. madnessteat (Trust: +5 / =1 / -0) (DT1! (4) 1739 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
43. Snork1979 (Trust: +0 / =0 / -3) (1331 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
44. DabLjat (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (70 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
45. FontSeli (Trust: +3 / =0 / -0) (858 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
46. YOSHIE (Trust: +10 / =1 / -0) (DT1! (16) 1735 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
47. jokers10 (Trust: +2 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (5) 2315 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
48. elmanchez (Trust: !!!:  +2 / =4 / -16) (143 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
49. zasad@ (Trust: +3 / =3 / -0) (DT1! (6) 4042 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
50. KOPHEP Banned! (Trust: +0 / =0 / -3) (24 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
51. WEX-SCAM (Trust: +0 / =0 / -2) (0 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
52. Stalker22 (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (6) 1238 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
53. bullrun2020bro (Trust: +5 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (3) 4048 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
54. ajanwalker (Trust: neutral) (362 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
55. Charles-Tim (Trust: +3 / =1 / -0) (4310 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
56. Despairo (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (736 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
57. execijutiere (Trust: neutral) (1093 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
58. Zilon (Trust: +0 / =0 / -3) (421 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
59. _BlackStar (Trust: neutral) (1192 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
60. Shamm (Trust: neutral) (332 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
61. KingsDen (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (931 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
62. Nathrixxx Banned! (Trust: neutral) (128 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
63. Synchronice (Trust: neutral) (582 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
64. SatoPrincess (Trust: neutral) (605 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
65. Silence Scream (Trust: neutral) (789 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
66. SmartGold01 (Trust: neutral) (546 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
67. Jossque (Trust: neutral) (1152 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
68. light_warrior (Trust: neutral) (830 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

Would you all be more responsible? Please read the OP. You are directly supporting an evil knowingly or unknowingly. You now have a chance to understand the whole situation better, don't keep yourself blind anymore.

[Despairo]

56. Despairo (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (736 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

Would you all be more responsible? Please read the OP. You are directly supporting an evil knowingly or unknowingly. You now have a chance to understand the whole situation better, don't keep yourself blind anymore.

Since I'm being mentioned here and after I read the topics that related to Ratimov, I have to remove Ratimov in my trust list, but not necessary to exclude him.

I was trust Ratimov because I see how he contributed in this forum and almost all of his feedback are appropriate. But since his recent activity deleting other people posts without any explanation and he leave few inappropriate feedback, that's why I remove him.

I hope I would see something good in the future, I believe Ratimov will learn from this.

[GazetaBitcoin]

In this topic post I would like to touch upon the people who trust Ratimov 😂

You just wrote what I had on the tip of my tongue!


Ok, let's try this again:

In this article I would like to touch upon [...]" DT users which still trust Ratimov: YOSHIE, zasad@, bullrun2020bro, Stalker22, jokers10, madnesssteal, Bitcoin_Arena, Best_Change, imhoneer, tvplus006 and klarki.

At same time, I also want to touch upon remaining DT users.

Ratimov just made one more Trust abuse, by accusing BitcoinGirl.Club of plagiarism, in another feedback full of insults and presenting no proof!

Question to DT and non-DT users: is this the way Trust system should be used? Are these the kind of feedbacks which should be left by a DT user?

How long are you still going to protect this imposter, by not excluding him from your Trust lists?

Those not taking action contribute as much as those trusting him to preserve Ratimov in DT and allow him make more and more such abuses.

In all this time, Ratimov is proactive and, besides abusing Trust system, he also works hard in deleting plagiarism evidence, together with Russian mod, which states he has no authority to ban him and became his personal garbage man instead.

How long DT users will still tolerate this?

[Lucius]

I have expressed my opinion about @Ratimov several times in the past and I have received nothing but ad hominem attacks and insults, which is why I put the same member on ignore a long time ago. As if it was yesterday, I remember that one day I saw the already famous topic about the first newbie who became Legendary and I was surprised that I had never seen it on the forum before, only to realize that it was actually a product of a Russian local board.

I can say that he was a completely different person then (in a positive sense), and that he completely changed after many accused him of plagiarism, which of course he never wanted to accept as a fact and be grateful to all those who overlooked it (intentionally or by chance) and also rewarded him with a bunch of merits and make him merit source.

What I would conclude is that @Ratimov is actually a product of the Russian board, a good part of the members who generously rewarded his "In this topic post I would like to touch upon" and, of course, the forum's administration, which, despite everything, promoted him to merit source.

The fact that the majority has been silent for years and considered that there is nothing controversial anymore speaks volumes about how we either don't care or maybe we are afraid that every reaction will be retaliated against.

Although I welcome the fact that some things are finally cleared up, I will also say that I would prefer that it had been resolved a long time ago and that this whole case had not come to the surface as a result of personal differences between two members.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I have expressed my opinion about @Ratimov several times in the past and I have received nothing but ad hominem attacks and insults, which is why I put the same member on ignore a long time ago.

Guess what?
How many thousands of active members we have on the forum? 100K? More or less but it's obviously a large number. From all these users only one person who is Ratimov in my ignore list. No one else! Not even JollyGood [Not saying he is any better, I am sure some day someone will get everything together about JollyGood too and they will clearly show how harmful this user is too for the community. I just have no enthusiasm for any of it].

As far as I remember, Ratimov and some other members were is my ignore list from long ago and then in the new year, as the new year resolution, I cleared it all and wanted to have all to be good. After some day or week or I guess it could be month too, in one posts Retimov was criticizing it [it was like your removed me from ignore but your feedback is still on my feedback page] and he was expecting his neutral tag to be removed too. I am not sure if that was at that time or later, there was an escalate situation, things were not looking even good personally to me. I was feeling like I was the reason for this escalation so I thought to remove the feedback. [Oh] In the mean time he was also offering the solution of removing my feedback and he will remove his too. Anyway, feedback removed and I think at that time or later, I put him in my ignore list again. I feel ashamed that I failed to understand his evil technique at that time and I am sure many others too. We all had only one thing in mind which was to deescalate the situation. We were wrong.

One thing always crossed my mind is since when Ratimov started to dare old reputed members of the community and was using his slags. I do use slags [I don't think the people who had conversation with me have missed my F** words.] but I don't do it to hurt a person [except for a selective group of people who are threat to the forum].

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

This topic really needs to continue hence this bump.

I would like to hear opinion from the following members. mprep, wwzsocki, LFC_Bitcoin, klarki, The Sceptical Chymist, DarkStar_, Hhampuz, imhoneer, CryptopreneurBrainboss, Xal0lex, Best_Change, andy_pelevin , KTChampions, Coin-1, Bitcoin_Arena, tranthidung, tvplus006, dkbit98, witcher_sense, DdmrDdmr, madnessteat, 1miau, FontSeli, YOSHIE, jokers10, zasad@, bullrun2020bro, light_warrior.

These are the people who Ratimov trust in his trust list. I will yet to see which of these already had their opinion in this topic [will mark it later] but most of these members either are not aware of this topic or ignoring the topic because one of their vote may reduce if they give an opinion and if goes against Ratimov. I really hope that's not the case. If it is not, then I would like your opinion [Please read the first topic carefully and make a response. Let's hope Ratimov was not using you all too as he was using the local moderators to achieve his evil goal].

[GazetaBitcoin]

Thank you for bumping this thread, BitcoinGirl.Club!

While I am also eager to see if any of the above mentioned ones will reply, I also want to add that Cryptopreneurbrainboss, at least, deleted Ratimov from his Trust list.
Besides, one more DT1 user -- holydarkness -- distrusted him. The changes are also visible on bpip.

At same time, let's not forget that, since he was just caught by LV deleting his evidence of plagiarism with the help of his personal garbage men (the Russian mods -- which were bribed with hundreds of merits by him), Ratimov did not have the guts anymore to say something in this thread or in LV's thread. He simply defied everybody and any limit of common sense by doing what he just did in plain sight, without caring anymore about DT users' opinions. And, guess what? Even so, DT users are not yet convinced to act! This is shocking!

[Rikafip]

Those not taking action contribute as much as those trusting him to preserve Ratimov in DT and allow him make more and more such abuses.

That's simply not true and I don't think that this guilt tripping technique is the right approach and might even create the opposite effect of the one you want.

One more thing, this "Ratimov" thing that you keep doing is neither funny or smart but instead childish as that's what kids do (make fun of name of the person they dislike or when in argument) and should be beneath you, despite his insults towards you.

With that being said, I do agree with many things that you presented in this thread (not with everything though) therefore I added him to my distrust list.

[GazetaBitcoin]

One more thing, this "Ratimov" thing that you keep doing is neither funny or smart but instead childish as that's what kids do

Pardon me for outlining his main characteristic, after he spoiled me and my family, like a true gentleman (plus dozens of other forum users).

I do agree with many things that you presented in this thread (not with everything though) therefore I added him to my distrust list.

Thank you for doing that, Rikafip! He has +4 strength now so I hope that other DT users will do the same.

[digaran]

Well, if he decides to remove his unjust tags from several? Forum members and then decides to put aside childish grudges, forgives any insults and just continues his life, I don't see any reason to remove him from DT.

But you know, we humans just can't think beyond our personal feelings, meaning we are incapable of forgiving insults,(to achieve the capability one has to be so great of a person with so much practicing, we can achieve that).

I don't know if you ever experienced this or not, when someone is insulting you, if you ignore by forgiving him, and if you do not seek revenge, the other person would feel ashamed and most importantly they learn from you.

But again, you know? Ego is hard to put a leash on.
From experience, when I see such people, I start respecting them, they become someone I'd like to look up to, that's how one can build a strong character in a community.

[holydarkness]

Well, if he decides to remove his unjust tags from several? Forum members and then decides to put aside childish grudges, forgives any insults and just continues his life, I don't see any reason to remove him from DT.

But you know, we humans just can't think beyond our personal feelings, meaning we are incapable of forgiving insults,(to achieve the capability one has to be so great of a person with so much practicing, we can achieve that).

I don't know if you ever experienced this or not, when someone is insulting you, if you ignore by forgiving him, and if you do not seek revenge, the other person would feel ashamed and most importantly they learn from you.

But again, you know? Ego is hard to put a leash on.
From experience, when I see such people, I start respecting them, they become someone I'd like to look up to, that's how one can build a strong character in a community.

This is what I did the first time I came into this thread, I shied away from distrusting him because he removed his "unjust" tags, and I perceived it as his way to deescalate the situation. But he's giving the feedback again when the "deal" "blown off", both on Gazeta and BGC's case, indicating that the feedbacks he left are indeed retaliatory, and an abuse of DT power. After this, I still tried to understand his reasoning behind those feedbacks, to see if it's justifiable, which he didn't reply, and which I then can only assume is because the answer is simply that: retaliatory.

So, will he be removed from Tilde if he removes his tag from several members for this "childish grudges"? If I may ask back, what's the reason he remove them? Was it simply to get him off the distrust list of many users? The problem is not the childish grudges, Gazeta pointed them on the err... enormous essay he wrote on the first post, it's the Trust abuse, using feedback as bargaining chip, and I think the Tilde should only be removed when he understood that feedback system are there to cater forum's need to help its members in deals and the risk involved in dealing with that user, not... whatever he currently perceive them.

[LoyceV]

Ratimov should take a hint:

Trust list for: Ratimov (Trust: +23 / =2 / -1) (11809 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2023-10-28_Sat_05.07h)

Ratimov's judgement is Trusted by:
8. Removed owlcatz (Trust: +45 / =0 / -0) (904 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
25. Removed CryptopreneurBrainboss (Trust: +20 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (10) 3738 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
36. Removed nakamura12 (Trust: neutral) (651 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
53. Removed Despairo (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (736 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
62. Removed SmartGold01 (Trust: neutral) (556 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

~Ratimov's judgement is Distrusted by:
1. NEW Foxpup (Trust: +6 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (16) 1862 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
7. NEW BitcoinGirl.Club (Trust: +1 / =5 / -0) (DT1! (9) 1531 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
15. NEW icopress (Trust: +40 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (20) 5828 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
22. NEW DireWolfM14 (Trust: +20 / =1 / -0) (4156 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
32. NEW SmartGold01 (Trust: neutral) (556 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

This was just in the last week (until Saturday morning's Trust data dump).

[Shishir99]

This was just in the last week (until Saturday morning's Trust data dump).

What a backfiring. I see his silence at this point. I didn't see any of his posts in these threads in the last two or three days. Did he post a word regarding his actions? If it continues, he will lose his DT strenth, and his feedback on others' profiles won't show as default trust anymore. I guess he is frustrated with his own action at this moment. He should have think twice before his actions towards others because he should understand that he has some weight in the forum and people cares about his actions.

[SmartGold01]

This was just in the last week (until Saturday morning's Trust data dump).

Do you think he cares about his reputation on how people distrust him or not, after my judgement I have to put him off from my trust and I know more people are to remove him anytime soon as well.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I had time to remove some users from mentioning in this post. Some user seems not active in the forum and some do not seem to have interest in discussion but the following users I found don't mind taking part in discussions and I will expect some feedback from them about the whole things.

wwzsocki, LFC_Bitcoin, klarki, The Sceptical Chymist, imhoneer, CryptopreneurBrainboss, Best_Change, andy_pelevin , KTChampions, Coin-1, Bitcoin_Arena, tranthidung, tvplus006, witcher_sense, DdmrDdmr, madnessteat, 1miau, FontSeli, YOSHIE, bullrun2020bro, light_warrior.

Using half an hour of your time will help you to make an informative decision that you will not regret later. Have you read the main topic yet?

Do you think he cares about his reputation on how people distrust him or not

He cares but he has ran out of stories. He knows he has caught red handed.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Using half an hour of your time will help you to make an informative decision that you will not regret later. Have you read the main topic yet?

Gaaaaahhhh!!!  I know I'm just one of many members on that list in your post, but I was PMed about this matter twice and just haven't been as attentive to it as I feel I should be--and apologies to OP for that, because it was never my intention to blow you off.

This discussion of Ratimov has not been on my radar lately, but that has less to do with interest and more to do with real life stuff taking precedence.  I've already posted here, but when my mind clears up I'm going to do my best to read through everything thoroughly so I can understand the issues and then give an informed opinion.

Thank you BitcoinGirl.Club for lighting a fire under my ass.