Account unlock request — btcbob / dobbscoin (Dobbscoin ANN, topic 792459)

[EndCiv]

 Account unlock request — btcbob / dobbscoin
  Dobbscoin (BOB) ANN, topic 792459 — live since January 2014.

  The account I operate, dobbscoin, holds the OP-edit rights on the Dobbscoin ANN. Both have been locked for some time — my best guess is long-idle cleanup, since neither was actively posting for years while I worked on community-side channels (Discord, GitHub, the chain itself). Email and PM appeals haven't gotten a response, so posting publicly in case visibility helps.
  
A few things in case any flag is attached:

  1. The project is active, not abandoned. Three consensus-level hardforks shipped in the past 30 days:
  

• v0.11.0 LWMA-3 Restoration — tag 2026-05-22, activates at mainnet block 1,888,808 (~2026-07-16).
• v0.12.0 AuxPoW Activation — tag 2026-06-01, activates at block 2,000,000 (~2026-12-17).
• v0.13.0 Emergency Difficulty Recovery — tag 2026-06-02, activates at block 1,888,888.

  Source + signed releases: github.com/SubGeniusFinance/dobbscoin-source/releases
  Live chain: explorer.dobbscoin.info (~135 MH/s, ~8.1M (BOB), height past 1.83M)
  ERC-20 wrapper (wBOB) traded on Oku/Gnosis Chain, mining pool at pool.dobbscoin.info, custodial wallet, paper
  wallet, faucet, Discord tipbot — all active under the SubGenius.Finance banner.

  ▎ Rev. Ivan Stang:
  ▎
  ▎ "BITCOIN BOB IS COOL AND THE DOBBSCOIN PROJECT IS DOBBS-APPROVED!
  ▎
  ▎ I'm sorry, I was the one dragging ass. BitCoin Bob sent me a very thorough package about this project about a month ago … about half an hour ago Philo
  ▎  called me and told me he had been contacted by BitCoin Bob and has looked at the Dobbscoin project, and he thinks it is a really clever take on basic
  ▎  Church stuff … Philo and I both agree that the DobbsCoin project is a good SubGenius project. It has all the earmarks: it won't make a dime for
  ▎ anyone except 'Bob.' It will generate lots of laughs and if you understand these new-fangled bitcoiny things, it's very funny and SubGeniusly. Repeat:
  ▎  it is a classic SubG project that makes $ only for 'Bob' in the long run, but floats around the Internet helping to remind people that at least Dobbs
  ▎  himself is soaking up money without effort. Somehow."

2. Not a Church of the SubGenius copyright concern — the project has the explicit written blessing of both Church co-founders. At project launch in 2014, Rev. Ivan Stang and Philo Drummond reviewed the Dobbscoin project and gave it a public endorsement, posted to scrubgenius and preserved at https://dobbscoin.info/images/stang-blessing.png.

The verbatim opening line, in caps: "BITCOIN BOB IS COOL AND THE DOBBSCOIN PROJECT IS DOBBS-APPROVED!" — and continuing: "Philo and I both agree that the DobbsCoin project is a good SubGenius project. It has all the earmarks: it won't make a dime for anyone except 'Bob.' … Repeat: it is a classic SubG project." I'm also a dues-paying ordained SubGenius minister and a member of scrubgenius (the Church's private members-only successor to alt.slack since 2009, restricted to verified $30+ ministers). The "Wall Street Bob" mascot image we use across (BOB)'s branding —  https://dobbscoin.info/images/WallStBob.png — came through scrubgenius itself. The Dobbshead trademark is held by The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.; we credit and acknowledge it on every page and every release. No takedown action from CoSG, the Foundation, or Rev. Stang in 12 years of operation — quite the opposite.


3. The OP is visually broken because of the lock. The OP's inline images render as broken-image placeholders for every viewer. Bitcointalk's image proxy serves a placeholder for the original (still-live) image hosts, and the only fix is to edit the OP and swap to an allowlisted host like imgur — which requires unlocking the account that posted the OP. New visitors landing on the thread are getting a visually-broken top post for a project that is actively shipping consensus code every two weeks.

Ask: restore dobbscoin (primary, holds OP edit rights), I can verify ownership any way that's useful — domain control (dobbscoin.info, subgenius.finance), repo control (github.com/SubGeniusFinance), social-handle control, the original registration email (dobbscoin@gmail.com), or signing keys on any of the v0.11.0 / v0.12.0 / v0.13.0 release artifacts.
  
Thanks for considering it.

BtcBob
— SubGenius.Finance / Dobbscoin maintainer
Praise "Bob".

Posted on BtcBob's behalf (dobbscoin)

[nutildah]

 Account unlock request — btcbob / dobbscoin
  Dobbscoin (BOB) ANN, topic 792459 — live since January 2014.

  The account I operate, dobbscoin, holds the OP-edit rights on the Dobbscoin ANN. Both have been locked for some time

I'm gonna stop you right there hoss. The thread you have linked above is currently unlocked. Anyone can post in it. I can see the OP was updated in 2020 and hasn't posted since 2021.

From my view its hard to tell for sure if the OP account is banned but you can always submit a request for it to be unbanned. Recovering the account may be as simple as doing a password reset. There are a few such threads currently floating around on the first and second page of this section. In them this process is described.

[Xal0lex]

From my view its hard to tell for sure if the OP account is banned...

At this time, the account has been banned.

[EndCiv]

 Account unlock request — btcbob / dobbscoin
  Dobbscoin (BOB) ANN, topic 792459 — live since January 2014.

  The account I operate, dobbscoin, holds the OP-edit rights on the Dobbscoin ANN. Both have been locked for some time

I'm gonna stop you right there hoss. The thread you have linked above is currently unlocked. Anyone can post in it. I can see the OP was updated in 2020 and hasn't posted since 2021.

From my view its hard to tell for sure if the OP account is banned but you can always submit a request for it to be unbanned. Recovering the account may be as simple as doing a password reset. There are a few such threads currently floating around on the first and second page of this section. In them this process is described.

That account is inaccessible:
For security, your account has been locked. Email locked...@bitcointalk.org

We need to edit that OP post.
Only dobbscoin can do it.

I have been posting on his behalf at the end of the thread.
An email has been sent previously and went unresponded to for 30days
He will send another today.  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[JeromeTash]

Perhaps there is a requirement of two that he missed out that is crucial for the account to be unlocked

Please tell him to look at this thread if he hasn't yet ---> Recovering hacked/lost accounts

Also try to find the reason the account was locked/banned. Is it because it was hacked or because it was spreading malware? If it was the latter, it's going to be hard for him to have it recovered.

[EndCiv]

Perhaps there is a requirement of two that he missed out that is crucial for the account to be unlocked

Please tell him to look at this thread if he hasn't yet ---> Recovering hacked/lost accounts

Also try to find the reason the account was locked/banned. Is it because it was hacked or because it was spreading malware? If it was the latter, it's going to be hard for him to have it recovered.

We just maintain two very old layer-1 cult/coins.
Don't even have markets. It's just for the educational lulz.
Was afk for like 4years. BtcBob is always trying to be civil, so no idea.

Thanks

[notocactus]

Also try to find the reason the account was locked/banned. Is it because it was hacked or because it was spreading malware? If it was the latter, it's going to be hard for him to have it recovered.

I can not know about reasons of the ban, only admins and moderators know that but looking at the post history of that banned account, I quickly find a possible reason.

Look at this post, there is a signature attached in that post, which is not allowed while that account has many more similar posts.

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