dogevisitor (OP)
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November 30, 2014, 12:15:52 PM |
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Hello!
I'm determined to develop a bitcoin and crypto scammer tracking website where you could verify if one: - bitcoin address - bitcointalk.org - email address was ever involved in a scam.
Anybody would be able to add personal informations about scammers and proofs, links or any other info
This service would be free.
What do you think about this?
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dogevisitor (OP)
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November 30, 2014, 02:11:45 PM |
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The website will be up as soon as I adapt a free website design and implement some tools like: - Scam acusation form - A reputation system - Blockchain scanner More to come soon I hope that this project will be useful for many users here
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chrisvl
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November 30, 2014, 02:41:04 PM |
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Interest and simple if you need help about coding tell me..
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dogevisitor (OP)
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November 30, 2014, 02:44:44 PM |
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Interest and simple if you need help about coding tell me..
I'm glad that you find this interesting. Will keep in touch
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sobitcoin
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November 30, 2014, 06:30:00 PM |
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Hello!
I'm determined to develop a bitcoin and crypto scammer tracking website where you could verify if one: - bitcoin address - bitcointalk.org - email address was ever involved in a scam.
Anybody would be able to add personal informations about scammers and proofs, links or any other info
This service would be free.
What do you think about this?
A yelp for usernames? would be cool. Going to be tough to distinguish FUD from scams sometimes, might be a lot of work, but I would use it.
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dogevisitor (OP)
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November 30, 2014, 07:03:57 PM |
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First version will be a simple website but I hope it will be useful
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rz20
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November 30, 2014, 09:05:05 PM |
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I believe this is not a good idea, there are already services about this and I don't know anybody who uses them.
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dogevisitor (OP)
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November 30, 2014, 09:57:05 PM |
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I believe this is not a good idea, there are already services about this and I don't know anybody who uses them.
Those would be used if they would be known... I use BTC since 2013 and I didn't heard of any website like this. But yes...it's true, maybe nowbody will use it that's why I will take a 3 months hosting and will see
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chrisvl
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December 01, 2014, 04:14:26 PM |
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The service like good but people who haven't scammed must to supprt it... I suggest you to make a database here peoples will input address who have scamm their ..Also a scammer can great new address but I wiss this service to help
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meowball
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December 01, 2014, 06:09:53 PM |
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I think it's a good idea. You just have to market it right. Having a nice looking site is a start.
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Superhitech
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December 01, 2014, 11:59:54 PM |
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Hmmm. This would be neat, but easily abused. Who can edit it? Scammers could easily put false accusations against someone else. The trust system at bitcointalk is enough in my opinion.
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cloverme
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December 02, 2014, 11:31:44 AM |
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Hmmm. This would be neat, but easily abused. Who can edit it? Scammers could easily put false accusations against someone else. The trust system at bitcointalk is enough in my opinion.
I had the same idea myself, I lost 2 BTC to an add here in the forums for mining hardware. People are now buying/selling bitcointalk accounts, so even that has become an issue. You're right though, someone could just abuse the system and enter in false accusations. New entries could be listed as with a transaction hash as a required field as part of some proof of a transaction. Another option would be the capability to vote up and vote down an entry with a cooling period so that someone wouldn't just register accounts and quickly vote-up, vote-down an entry. Entries could be marked as "suspect" on some sort of trust meter too until some type of admin-based validation is done. An example would be where the community continued to warn on lunamine as a scam, then they really turned out to be a scam when they up and left. Good idea though, just needs some more features I think
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dogevisitor (OP)
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December 02, 2014, 11:37:29 AM |
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Hmmm. This would be neat, but easily abused. Who can edit it? Scammers could easily put false accusations against someone else. The trust system at bitcointalk is enough in my opinion.
I had the same idea myself, I lost 2 BTC to an add here in the forums for mining hardware. People are now buying/selling bitcointalk accounts, so even that has become an issue. You're right though, someone could just abuse the system and enter in false accusations. New entries could be listed as with a transaction hash as a required field as part of some proof of a transaction. Another option would be the capability to vote up and vote down an entry with a cooling period so that someone wouldn't just register accounts and quickly vote-up, vote-down an entry. Entries could be marked as "suspect" on some sort of trust meter too until some type of admin-based validation is done. An example would be where the community continued to warn on lunamine as a scam, then they really turned out to be a scam when they up and left. Good idea though, just needs some more features I think The website is work in progress and yes, the transaction url is a mandatory field. The system checks automatically that the txid is genuine and makes some heuristic scanning of previous tx of the addresses involved. I hope I have enough time to finish this project...Christmas is coming...
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December 02, 2014, 01:11:50 PM |
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Hello!
I'm determined to develop a bitcoin and crypto scammer tracking website where you could verify if one: snipped...
What do you think about this?
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Kprawn
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December 06, 2014, 07:07:29 AM |
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How are you going to know, which is good and which is bad? There are loads of them and sometimes competitors create shill accounts to bash their competition. You will have a tough time, keeping it up to date too {They change, when they get caught out} I think it's a good thing, but it's going to be difficult.
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December 06, 2014, 07:13:30 AM |
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Hello!
I'm determined to develop a bitcoin and crypto scammer tracking website where you could verify if one: - bitcoin address - bitcointalk.org - email address was ever involved in a scam.
Anybody would be able to add personal informations about scammers and proofs, links or any other info
This service would be free.
What do you think about this?
Will the service be free or must we pay to use it ? However I think it is a great idea , good luck for everything.
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Bitcoins101
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December 06, 2014, 08:14:37 AM |
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I usually just like to go directly to the source, rather than relying on some third-party tracker. Google makes that easy most of the time.
A cryptocurrency specific website with actual identities of people to watch out for has niche potential, though.
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HeroCat
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December 06, 2014, 11:32:03 AM |
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I do not think that this idea is good. You as a private person in your private website can not say exactly about other person - he/she is or is not a scammer.
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December 06, 2014, 11:35:35 AM |
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or how about. instead of identifying scammers, make something to identify trustworthy bitcoin adresses..
(sort of like the trust system here)
where you can only give someone "positive" trust. when a transaction actually occured from that adress to yours. amount of trust based on btc amount, again, like the system on this forum.
because indeed. how are you going to prevent false feedback ? only allow feedback upon transactions i guess ?
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TO WHOEVER STOL MY ACCOUNT AND WAS NOW USING IT AS HIS OWN, FCK OFF PLEASE - The REAL WHITEWHIDOW
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twister
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December 06, 2014, 11:37:46 AM |
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Although it's a good idea but it will take a lot of work, as others have already suggested you would have a hard time deciding who to trust, if someone accuses someone else of scamming, you need to have a way of getting to the bottom of the truth and prove before tagging them as scammers. If you have resources and you can do this, go ahead but make sure you have proofs before putting up names.
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