Work in progress...

A native bitcointalk user. You know when you see someone's username and avatar, and you just think they have been here forever? Few members give me this impression, and condoras was one of them. Rest in peace...

A singular asset for the bitcointalk community. Do I need to say more?
Like the legend says "and those without whom Bitcointalk is unimaginable."
No other name comes close, and not because the others aren't good enough, but because Loyce sets the bar very high.

Ask a technical question, you'll probably see one of those guys throwing high quality replies. I can't imagine how many newbies they have helped, maybe many people would have given up on bitcoin if not for those guys spending their time helping everybody.


I would honestly put BitList here, but I don't know if it's weird for me to basically vote on myself (). Still thinking...

I have received many PMs from him asking for help to gather data for his local board analysis. I love seeing the forum through numbers and charts and I think *Ace* shares the same feeling. I would say he is me, but italian.

PowerGlove is theymos on steroids. From the unknown security flaws disclosed, to the many QoL improvements... he made the forum better to everyone. The same could be said about Mitchell and his nuking-capable bot. I've seen what the scam bots can do to this forum (rip my notifications), and he is the first line of defense against the hordes that would break the forum for everyone.

I can't think of anyone that uses the bitlist archive (previously called ninjastic) for spam busting as much as lovesmayfamilis. My notifications speak for themselves.

sabotag3x is the name that always come to mind when thinking of the Portuguese board. He has been here since forever and is a real community member. He lead the work to create the first portuguese BIP39 word list, from start to finish, here on bitcointalk, and has reached all of the participants to share an airdrop (~$1000+ for each). joker_josue is omniscient, even before talkimg he was participating in every topic, without a single spammy post. There is no portuguese board without our friend from Portugal.

The only confirmed women on the Portuguese board. I don't know if there are any other hidden ones, but Mindyspace is the one that comes to mind to break a bit the uniqueness of our board.

Hmmm, I did not think of that.  For extreme privacy, I will download their controls to my web server.You can't really ignore AI anymore.  Last year Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced the appointment of an AI named Diella (meaning "Sun") as the new Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence.  It's primary purpose is to oversee and manage public tenders and procurement processes. (to eliminate corruption, bias, and nepotism from these systems by having an impartial AI handle decision-making for state contracts)

I totally agreed to what you said..
There is what we calls individual "dichotomy" which anyone is subjected to how quality a thing could be to them, I may value a post very well and give merits to it while others may see it and scroll away of it. This doesn't mean that they don't value but they are not touched to merit that post as they don't have it something that helps them, whereas, anyone whom the post helps can actually gives merits to the post without them missing it. There people who gives merits based on that someone else already given it so they may also want to appreciate it as what others did without knowing they must give it merits.

I was checking the forum to see how to find certain data. My idea was to use fetch via JS and take the data directly from the DOM of forum, without using external services.
In this case, I wanted to use four important pieces of data:
1. Total posts
2. Total merits received
3. Total merits received in the last 120 days
4. Profile age

And create an ad hoc formula to determine the user's quality rating

For example
>100 = Legend
>80 <100 = top contributor
>50 <80 = good poster
>20 <50 = normal user
<=20 shitposter

This is just an example, the main problem would be assigning this score.
The formula to use, and whether it is reliable as a formula!
Let's say it's a fairly complex idea! I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

That would be my idea, as suggested by LoyceV analysis. Two ratio: merit/post since registration (something that should be easily achievable by parsing the very same informations already displayed, and the merit/posts ratio of the last 120 days.
I have no clue which trickery you could use for this last ratio.

Here I am, Fillippone! I've read part of the thread, not all of it to be honest. But what exactly would you like to see included in a userscript or web browser extension?
Let's see if I can be of help or if it's something complicated.
Unfortunately, evaluating a post is always subjective! What I might label as a quality post, you might label as useless or not very useful.

I was thinking of adding a figure under each user profile that calculates the total average of Merits received based on the posts written. Could that be useful?

thanks for replying, i want to learn how to create a raw txt of a transaction. to prevent pubkey from go online. on public pool
until it included in a block. (hope you understand me)

exactly. offline raw tx is protect you private key. my goal rom is topic is to learn how to create raw hex and send it privatley to  pool to be mine. to hid the public key from poblic bots.

viabtc or mara, till now don't know how to generate or create this raw hex to give to them

That's an interesting way of looking at "dynamics" on the forum; it would be nice to see it implemented on an extension or something similar (*Ace*, are you there?).
I don't see shitposter ranking up easily as a failure of the merit system.
I would say the merit system failed if good posters don't rank up easily.

In my merit awarding thread, maybe a few, or a lot of merit-worth posts (according to my own criteria) turned out to be given to shitposters. I plead guilty to that.
In the big scheme of things, 42 merits don't change much. As LoyceV recognised, there are shitposters with hundreds of merits.

I never really thought about that, but it makes perfect sense. An interesting "discovery".

Thanks for all the comments.

The real objective of the project?  Sounds sinister!    Originally I wanted to see what I could develop in AI (see my topic in PD) but recently I've become disenchanted with the centralization of the merit system.  I surf a lot while developing and I come across posts with new ideas.  I prefer novel ideas or information over the regular conversational post.  But most often I'm out of sMerit because I'm not a source; I don't want to be a source again.   I struggle to merit a good post while I see sources dumping double digits on posts like "bitcoin to the moon!".  It's tied to forum growth and income.  It's political and commercial.  It's no longer a merit system.

This project is an attempt at Alternative Recognition.  It separates itself from the merit system in a superior way (from a freedom and privacy pov).  "Shadow" indicates the anonymity of the pulser - you can actually mark a post you like without worrying about consequences.   The reports are real time (on page refresh for now) and superior to the merit system.   However - you need an extension to use it.  :/   It will require promotion to reach a critical level, and I'm hoping the non-refresh front page will eventually start showing some fun animations.  "Pulse" indicates a temp shock to the network - every user will see someone pulsed (even the post +Pulse will flash if you can see it) and hopefully it will increase trending threads.

I am not planning on increasing the scope - no Telegram integration or bots.  I use a Canadian CDN and Redis to support up to 10K simultaneous users and present all data in real time.  It's main and only purpose is to provide a way for everyone to have an equal say in good content. 

To answer your other query joker - would you use a tampermonkey script?  I'm not sure if it's possible but I can look into it if enough are interested. 

TOR - LoyceV finally convinced me to try the network.   I added the website but word is the loading is slow - I want to address that, and if the TOR browser allows extensions, I'll do that too.

I locked the previous thread because the new design is a complete redesign.  I no longer focus on a visible extension but integration with the forum HTML.  Usage is simple - I will add instructions for all the settings, and document EXACTLY what is grabbed from the page.

1. Click +Pulse on any post you like, as often as you like.    The system recognizes your random extension id, not your IP address or cookies.
2. The end of each week, top 90% of users will gain increased pulse power


BPIP scans every profile and ranks them - something only Theymos can do otherwise.  I don't rank anything other than the number of pulses received by your posts.

Correct, but also quite wrong -- this is not the primary reason why people are losing their coins, not even close. What blind signing does is abstract away some of the details, but the primary culprit is interacting with malicious and phishing contracts. Do you really think that the average user would be able to interpret the calls when doing an interaction even if they were hidden? Absolutely not. Those that can drain everything that you have because most of these shitcoins have token standards that do not have native ownership. Even if wallets had complete clear signing, this would still not prevent most of these cases of scamming. What is the difference between a legitimate contract and fraudulent contract that requires you to approve unlimited allowance for USDC and similar actions (say deposit/stake)? Nothing, the average user would never be able to tell even if all ABI information was displayed for every contract (it never will be).

What they do over there is generally terrible, but let's be clear about the real causes of things. The best type of attack that shows how shitcoins are stupid is the one where a single signing drains all of your balances across every chain of the same type and all of their layers from a hardware wallet, for example EVM based chains. 

Custodial services suck, but in terms of user failures in this case there is nothing different between a custodial or non custodial wallet. A proper failure to to store key information (which differs between wallet types) and then forgetting it will lead to a loss of coin or coin being stuck in both cases.

Correct, but wrong. Pretty much all cracking is closed source on average, this includes everything from software to video games for Windows. If you download it from suspicious sources, then you may get in trouble. If you download it from legitimate sources and authors, you will be fine. The percentage of users that get malware this way is very tiny compared to the users that successfully use things. Yes, it would be better if it were open source -- but this is the realistic state of things. Activators should not be singled out, people who use activators are likely using other software or games that are cracked too. Anyway, if I recall correctly there was once an open source activator for Windows 10 but I don't know if it that is still a thing.

If you buy a pre-built computer or a laptop maybe, but that is for the amateurs. 

Well it's a good eye you have must say I checked them out and I have sent out some merits as promised. Next time instead of creating a thread you could report such posts to already existing threads there are a couple of them across the forum I think LoyceV has one though it's better really long since I visited it.

Lol I laughed out hard when I read this.. I've not seen any sources too lazy to send out merit. It's just if a user has too many garbage posts over time sources don't bother to read it.

Plus didn't Ledger servers get hacked again and their users' personal information were leaked and sold in the Dark Markets?

Those sorts of situations/issues shouldn't be happening twice with a company such as Ledger. How high is the probability that nefarious actors are working in the company? Or possibly North Koreans?

Not very foxy to use AI to write foxy stuff.

Copyleaks: 100%
GPTzero: 100%

Copyleaks: 100%
GPTzero: 85%


Rest of his posts are too short to say anything.

Why did you have to do him like that?  . You just called his suggestion lame without using too much words. That's harsh!

Maybe you misunderstand my post in some way?
Misquote perhaps?

Because I haven't mentioned any resistance about using importdescriptors command.
In fact, I even described that it's easy to learn (based on LoyceV's expertise) and the next snipped sentence says that it will not take a minute to do.

Yeah but many DT still red trust the account with small mistake by applying other btc address

There are 99 people at that address who are ready to beat anyone mercilessly if one of them (cheater) insists on using that address for any campaign 

List of topics and members I ignore is growing every day, and that makes it easier to navigate the forum.

Bitcoin board has silently and gradually morphed into News board.
I can still find some useful information there and I do post there sometimes, but not like I did few years ago.

​@LoyceV
​>The solution is simple.
>After writing down the seed phrase (+passphrase, if there's any), regenerate the wallet from your backup and see if it gives you the same addresses.

​This is exactly the "lightbulb moment" I needed. Thank you.
I was so focused on the fear of typing it wrong later, that I forgot I can (and should) strictly verify it now before sending a single satoshi. If I wipe the device, restore from paper, and get the same addresses — the "typo risk" is effectively zero.

​@Forsyth Jones
​>You can use a password manager like KeepassXC to generate them for you (on an offline PC/laptop).

​Great idea. Since I am already using KeePassXC on my offline machine for other credentials, generating a high-entropy passphrase there avoids the "human brain is bad at randomness" problem.
​Thanks for the masterclass, everyone. I feel much more confident using the 25th word now.

At first I was surprised to see this photo, because one person wearing black used to be my customer he used to sell his Crypto in large quantities to me, because in 2017 I was an Official Partner of one of the Local Exchanges.
I also had time to ask about the photo, he said yes it was a long time ago I had retired from the forum, he said, I have given some accounts to friends as he added.

So my observation was that initially there was one person who had multiple accounts and then hired some people like in the photo, after the worker understood how to cheat, they workers started creating livestock accounts as well.
In some of the cases that I have already revealed the pattern is the same there are still people who practice such practices, evident in the confession of someone who claims that what I have revealed is mostly theirs, here. <= I am also sure that ABCbits and YOSHIE can verify and understand the chat text in the screenshot.

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Yes, it should not be justified, these cheaters will always make excuses when, for example: account A is caught, then account A argues that it belongs to account B, When account B is also caught, they also argue that it belongs to account C. even though they are all account farming. As in the case I mentioned above.

The key difference between the existing Web3 and my proposed solution is that my version can, in theory, operate without the internet at all, even internationally, unlike other projects that operate exclusively over the internet. The problem is that it's unlikely that international cables for KeyNet will be built in the initial stages of the project's development, and it's likely they won't allow it. Therefore, there will certainly be a dependence on existing networks like the internet, but the goal of the project is to reduce this dependence.
Blockchain is necessary in this case to confirm ownership of domains/addresses, as well as to enable DNS functionality, where each backbone will have up-to-date and, most importantly, reliable information, which will be distributed decentrally, not by a single central authority.

For the most part, me too.  Lolol.  But last year I was all over Hyperliquid and their ecosystem..  More like their community's attempt to start an ecosystem.  I gotta be honest, I really thought it was gonna he easy for them and would happen like what happened to Solana.

In the end, not a lot of people went over and all the protocols that had their TGE mostly flopped which caused other tokenless protocols to postpone their own TGE.

I did'nt knew I was a shitposter in your sight and I was on your ignore list as well 💔 but it's ok now I know, and I will try to be a better poster for you but if I am not receiving any merit, how is that my mistake! Because I try to be useful, add value,and  try to be active and helpful. I was most active in early days because of free time and forum was new, getting merit feels good and still feel good but now I focus on other things as well and I still want to earn merits but I am not getting any and I am also active on the other forums too that are time taking and eat half of my time I used to give here, and other than this, most of members have groups, they only shares merits to each other but I am not blamming anyone or saying the merit system is rigged but it is a subjective thing if someone is on the buddy list or love list of someone else's sight and receiving merits from them I don't mind.

But if I am not on someone's love list and not receiving merits, or not in any group and not receiving merits, how is that my fault? I can just try my best and take my time to get benefit of the events like fillippone's Merit giveaway and if that was not nice for me to do in your sight then I will not participate in the upcoming giveaways or anything that rewards merit although I had two on my sight because it would benefit me two way one I would learn a lot, second I would get some merit (i was planning on running node for past three months) but I am lazy as hell and got less time but I enjoy every bit here.

Now about serious boards, I think btc discussion, trading discussion, help and beginners are not one of those, I was active most there, I then started to participate in ann, technical (to learn some shit) made some posts under services (to learn some shit) I was here to learn and ask question and get answers and use it for my own benefits and i kinda like it too.

Thanks for your insightful comments about me and I will do my best from now on. New year resolution now to be unignored by you 

Not quite, Alice used Bob's address, name, rank & post count.

It reminds me of this:

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What do you expect lol.... This forum has been around for over a decade and considering how many posts we have per day across the forum, you should expect discussions to run out hence repetitions. Arguably, there's no way you could discuss something new every single time about bitcoin for an entire decade considering the post count on the forum.

Spamming is inevitable it's why we have moderators and everyone has a role to play too so long you have the report to moderator button. I'm doing as much as I can to report low quality posts most times I think more users should do too.

Thanks!


I will try this one first.

I was just seeing my old posts where I saw a reply to my post, by Alpen who replied me on a post of mine. I got suspicous seeing his reply and decided to run a check unfortunately for him he turned out to be a Ai shitposter.

1.
GPTZero: 91% Ai Generated
Stealthwriter Ai: 86% Ai Generated
Originality Ai: 100% Confident

2.
GPTZero: 100% Mixed
Stealthwriter Ai: 60% Ai Generated
Originality Ai: 100% Confident
( we should use our judgement too and from that it doesn't look human)

3.
GPTZero: 100% Ai Generated
Stealthwriter Ai: 91% Ai Generated
Originality Ai: 100% Confident

Ps: he was tagged by LoyceV as an Ai spammer. He is also doing a good job in disguising the Ai Generated Text after getting the Tag but it's sure That he's still using Ai.

Luckily, I'm not affected by this since I'm still using v29.0.

Good thing that the previous migration process of v29 and below isn't affected since I've used it a few times and it never failed,
Or is it?

I'm not persuading you to upgrade but it should be easy for you to learn the new importdescriptors command to import WIFs wrapped as single-key descriptors.
Once you get the hang of it, it should be simple enough to do within a minute (excluding rescan of course)

I don’t like to upgrade very often but I did upgrade to 29.0 not long back because of all the Knots nonsense going on. I just wanted to make sure I was pre 30.0 as I had a feeling there could be problems.

As for importprivkey, I have ‘t done that for a very long time but literally only became aware a few days agoacter reading on here that the process has changed to a slightly more techie way of doing it. I don’t know why that was messed with, it was fine as it was.

Butts have been kicked and I'm keeping an eye on a possible alt.

Terrible prospect, I can’t even imagine this with Bitcoin Core.

Luckily, I use Bitcoin Core solely as a node, not as the wallet. My stash is controlled by hardware wallet, namely Passport Core. But the chance that someone could be caught by this bug ^{if they haven’t been already} isn’t zero. Brrrr.

64,000 sent out wow.. this got me a little bit more surprised because I don’t know how the 64,000 came about looking at your total merit is not even upto that amount you have a total of about 20,800 merit and I was thinking smerit is Always  half of what you earned .or probably  it’s not same with the the merit source ?

I will be using zasad@ template


This are people I look up to.


The both act as robot in the forum. Brilliant in whatever they do and say.



Very good in sharing technical information's that has been useful.



My favorite event in the forum and off the forum.

Will forever be the best crypto project to exist during my era.

Ninjastic.space which is now Bitlist can now have many features and things to interact to when using the site.


Have hosted best contest in the local board. Motivated many to become good chef. So much art in cooking.



Mia Chloe is the best gift Theymos gave us in the year 2025. He has been the most active merit sources, followed by Igebotz and Brainboss.


I trust the verdict of lovemayfamilis more in the reputation board, than others there. Also, Satoprincess has been wonderful in our local board, including in the general forum.

Because a forum user decided to wear a signature or an avatar of a particular project, it will ruin the reputation of the manager managing the campaign. I don't understand how you thought about this. There is alot of freedom in the forum. The projects make their campaign and avatar public, so anyone can decide to give them free promotion. Why talking about whose reputation is bad. How about if LoyceV decides to wear the signature of a particular project for free, will it raise as much uproar?

Signature space is personal and the owner decides what they advertise their in as much as it is a legal product or services. If neutral tag is given to such a person for wearing a random signature, and also be removed when they remove the signature, it means you are given someone a full time job to check these things and leave the tag.

I think some of these features still exist but I'm sure they exist in:
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ddmrddmr/viz/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/PersonalSummary and https://bitlist.co/search


Seeing ads/promotions of a platform and products has a way of influencing individuals decision except in scenario where trust and reputation is broken or unknown and that's the importance of branding many of these platforms or services get through the campaigns run at BTT.


To be honest, the rate of me going to my browser to search for a brand I saw here is higher than the number of times I actually clicked a signature campaign link.

Also, we don't need to forget that when recommending others to this brand(s) we often are not sharing them a sig campaign link but rather sharing the brand name. Many just want trust rather than just trying to test something just because we saw it online. This is why those in the forum with more inluence and reputation will get more users for a brand since it is easier to trust the brand they promote.

It therefore means that if anyone posts good and quality posts, they will also receive some merits from you. It is just fine like that, but I doubt you will have the time to go through all the applications.

I ran some very low-effort statistics on the spree here:

Is DdmrDdmr even human?

I also noticed that he merited some posts he had already merited and some new ones: strangely, I thought there was a correlation between the two sets and the amount of merits, but I failed, even if I think there are good chances the "marker" for the post he "missed" was the source of the merit.

In one way or another, this thread will be beneficial to different classes of forum users!
Mission accomplished!

I try to do the same thing with real life products as well; I know it doesn't really accomplish anything but it gives me some kind of personal satisfaction. You're lucky you don't live in the US where people are bombarded by highly-polished drug commercials 24/7. As an American, there's a diligence involved with keeping your guard up against ads if you want to maintain independent thought, lol.


"but these are my best posts and thats why i put them in this thread!"

Actually, I see your point.

@apogio, I will use your template too  


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I follow LoyceV posta since I was a newbie in 2017/2018. I believe few users have dedicated so much time and effort in thia forum as LoyceV

Bitcoin knowledge isn't just about technical support.
This guys discuss bitcoin price, accumulation,  strategies to withdrawal, retirement and everything related to it in all ways possible.
Certainly a very important part of the bitcoin world.



At first I didnt expect this project to become so important. I use it in both forums (here and altcoinstalks). Certainly the project is use the most here.

I don't know about you, but when I find an inordinate amount of shitposts coming from a particular campaign, I make a mental note to avoid patronizing their product. I can't help but think ideal SEO would work in the same way: weeding out inorganic traffic in favor of relevant, quality content. Its a cat-and-mouse game with Google and spam in which spam is always finding new ways to stay one step ahead.

It does.

The problem is that the backups are stored in a directory that is accidentally deleted by the bug as well. Obviously this is a major bug and it took a little while to figure out the scope of the issue.

You can't, because my index used for searching strips them.

I can, however, search my database directly and give you a data dump. I found 79705 results between all posts and 57156 results when ignoring user quotes.

Which one do you prefer?

a) CSV file with the posts
b) JSON file with the posts
c) I vibe code a bitlist page for the data dump (i.e bitlist.co/data/em-dashes-06-01-2026), similar to the /search page so you can look at them more easily

It's been two weeks since the reports were posted on Github https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/34128#issue-3750246491; there could be more damage or maybe less. I think an old legacy user ought to know the importance of wallet back up than anyone.

If you know the process, the wallet migration, wallet back up will be the first thing that will comes to your mind before you even start.

Yeah I have always backed mine up, multiple times, I have to be honest. I moved all my Legacy address Bitcoin to Segwit a couple of years ago.

I think the next time we will have to move coins for something other than selling is if Quantum becomes an actual threat. I haven’t read up in too much detail but I believe there will be Quantum Proof addresses or a patch to a oid any potential losses. That’s a discussion for another day any way but I thought it was the right thing to post this here after seeing it, even if like you said, only a few people are careless enough to not have backups.

I hope these reach as many as possible before they make regretful decision, but why will someone literally do something like this , I guess some might have backed up theirs before but lost it unknowingly to them.

He is Using Ai that's For sure. But in some posts he just rephrases some of the words while in some he just directly copy/pastes.


I noticed them a few days ago and even reported them.

To be completely honest, I care about users who write their posts across all the forums, not just on a specific board. But that campaign required me to require participants to write at least 10 posts out of 25 on the gambling board. I feel like this is the most crowded board and full of generic shitposts. Even if you write a good quality post in a gambling board, it will be quickly buried under dozens of generic spam posts. I won't say that participants were writing shitposts that nobody reads, but surely not that quality you may expect.

I never considered the Bitcointalk forum as a massive source of traffic. I think the forum has some crypto OG and the crypto projects should focus on convincing them by building their reputation. It could be by sponsoring the community events, running promotionals campaigns, etc.

This is a bit extra work for the managers, but it is doable.
One of my clients provided a tracking link for each signature participant, and I had to send the customized signature code to all the campaign participants via direct message. The company were checking the stats weekly, and they were sharing the reports. I was kinda shocked that some users didn't get a single click from their signature after a few weeks and the project was asking me to replace those users. Usually, the projects share one tracking link which we include in the signature code and they track the overall signature campaign performace instead of checking participant wise.

1st post is 100% AI, but second one is giving me mixed results (combination of AI and human inputs) so I am not sure but he is using 'em dash' so 

Copyleaks: 100%
GPTzero: 100%

I did look for that badge, could not find it.  Now I know what it looks like.  I'm going to revise feedback to neutral until he provides a signed message - just because he tested for bugs in the past does not mean we ignore all suspicious behavior.  Where is Theymos to verify this account that helped the forum has not been hacked?

A considerate number of users seem to be wearing Rainbet's signature for no apparent reason, without being in the spreadsheet. Most, if not all of them, are AI spammers, or simply shitposters, creating one-line replies of zero effort and contribution. Quite a few of them have been reported on the AI Report Thread, and I believe its part of an account farm. I'm unsure if there's an ulterior motive behind it, why is it Rainbet in particular and what are they getting out of it remains unknown. I would agree with LoyceV about being part of a private deal that may not be included in the spreadsheet (public), but most users I've personally seen are the AI spammers I mentioned earlier.

I never understood why any manager would unilaterally conclude there was a correlation between the bounty/campaigns they managed and information related to it only being made available via their Telegram. If they use this forum to seek and enroll members then they must use their forum to provide information to them too.

In the case of Royse777 and #his relationship with 1win, it clearly is yet another demonstration of his lack of skills and balance.

Funny and ironic because he was constantly attacking every other user for simply being in a signature campaign. It's also extremely funny that he's accusing everyone of multiaccounting/farming, including reputable members such as LoyceV, and myself (he openly accused me in the other topic) and he's claiming it here again by briefly including that topic here

LoyceV also known as Laura made a mistake, because he's too busy being biased and ignoring actual scammers here. Hhampuz I believe made a general statement about recently awakened users and tactics of account farmers that wear the signature and avatar of campaigns that they are not enrolled in. However, you can spot a difference with those accounts by looking at their post history. They are mostly short and generic shitposts. There were plenty of these accounts recently.

I let the mistake go, because I am here for entertainment. 

Paid2 is currently inactive, but I periodically send him payments to this Bitcoin address. So, to avoid waiting for his responses, you can use it.

Well, I guess it is no longer new that some users wear signature and avatar of campaigns they were not hired for. I would have classified this as a voluntary service but this habit has its downside. The major one is that it leads false accusations on managers. Imagine a user with a negative tag wearing an avatar of a campaign, it might be assumed the manager of the signature is aware of the tag yet allows him in his signature campaign such as this one:


LoyceV managed to confirm the users name was not in the spreadsheet


Then Hhampuz had to defend himself:


From the above, it shows that alot of users who are not part of a paid signature campaign go ahead to wear the signature and avatar anyways, which can tarnish the image and reputation of a manager if they have been tagged for spamming, scamming etc. For me, I see this as an abuse of signature campaigns and I believe their are other oterior motive attached to this act. Some users do this so that a manager can see they are in a signature campaign already and therefore are capable of participating in other campaigns but this act is not so favourable for managers.

Personally I think it might be appropriate to atleast give a neutral tag to such users (the tags can be removed once the remove the signature and avatar) because such user is passing false information for others and managers to believe and so they are not to be trusted.

If possible, can you change this format to something like this?

Given that the tool I use asks for a format like this, if it is inverted then there will be an input error.
Also so that I don't format it again.

You have it in the OP, even though he hasn't updated the merit spree explanation this time. Normally, what he does is re-merit posts that he has already merited and merit posts that he has not merited but that meet a series of characteristics. I quote the explanation from previous merit sprees.

After a long hiatus, we are here, back with a nice surprise for the 17th anniversary of Bitcoin!

The official post by ddmrddmr has not been updated.

Official @ddmrddmr thread



First, the usual spreadsheet, where you see the two last sprees:



From the total merits submitted in the paired TICK-TOCK sprees, this is the largest on record since I began tracking the sprees!
The wait was well worth of this gargantuan spree @ddmrddmr!

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Merit Spree #59 by @ddmrddrmr

There is no Official Description; the official thread was not updated by @ddmrddmr

My review:


TICK: This is the largest TICK spree so far. One metric that stands out is the low transaction-per-second rate. Digging a little bit into the distribution, we see there are two separate chunks of distribution. Maybe something didn't go as planned, and the spree got interrupted. Probably our mutual friend fixed something, and the TICK spree resumed!

Here's the TOP10:


Even if it was the highest on the track, the number of merits to enter the TOP10 was not very high: 16 merits, topped this time by Porfirii with 38 merits, again, not a super-high number.
That's all, folks, for Merits Spree 59!

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Merit Spree #60 by @ddmrddrmr


There is no Official Description; the official thread was not updated by @ddmrddmr


My review:

TOCK This second spree was fairly big: the second spree in history. Shall we explain this with the number of merits @ddmrddmr has likely been stacking during this long, quiet period?
Will we see more from him soon?


Here's the TOP10:


Even if this was a single merits spree, the numbers are incredibly high: 22 merits to top the chart and 11 to enter the TOP10. Compared to other single-merit rounds, this is quite high.
I will start getting merit statistics for a single merits spree! So, 22 merits are the highest on record for a single merits spree! (merit spree 60!), while 3 merits are the lowest required on the record, together with spree #44, #46 and #48: wen two?

Time to call it a day!

See you at the next merit spree!

To be frank I am still thinking how he does it, and of course I also get 2 from him on 2 different post that already gained several merits. At some point I was actually thinking that the bot could also be designed in a way where to merits the most interactive threads and topic of people and whenever they are collected then, he may decide to put the amount per post and then triggers it, it would automatically starts distribution. This is just my personal thinking but I could be wrong.

he got me on 3 posts he had not merited before, each post had at least 6 merits, from 6 different people

Hi LoyceV,

I started using Arkham Intelligence recently and noticed it has an import list option. I was wondering did you ever make any more progress with this project? It would be great to get a list of addresses from you if you have one already... I thought I remember you creating such a thing at one point but can't find where it was. A .csv file of "name, address" would be ideal, I can just plop it in there. Thanks!

I don't think so, I just understood the pattern and looked randomly at posts and threads that got merit. I see DdmrDdmr doesn't distribute its merit on posts or Threads that have absolutely no merit before.

According to my analysis, the bot already has some kind of command such as, distribute merits to posts or threads that already have a certain amount of Merits before.
So in conclusion, the merit that is distributed is a kind of additional support for writers whose posts are indeed decent.

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Yes I think so, because it is impossible to distribute 1411 merits manually. 

@LoyceV
You're right. And you've actually helped me articulate something I was already building.
My current workflow asked for encrypted files because it was simpler to explain. But I'm developing a SaaS platform with a trustless architecture:

Client extracts hash themselves (or uploads encrypted data to client-side tool)
Only the hash/encrypted key reaches my backend
Cloud GPU infrastructure does the cracking
I return ONLY the password
Client decrypts on their own machine

I never touch private keys. I never access funds. I'm a password recovery service, not a wallet access service.
My business model is reputation-based. One scam = dead forever. Thousands of successful recoveries = sustainable income. The math is obvious.
Updating my OP to reflect this. Thanks for pushing the clarity.
Time will tell. Results over words.

Satoshi-Savers

Not because I have sent nor received messages from these users but from how they are posting.

I like how Theymos banned mixers, he updated the ban few weeks ago. He is a person that thinks very well before doing anything and he always trying to handle things on this forum professionally. I even thought that theymos may not be a single person but people that do meetings before posting on this forum. He is very professional on this forum.

LoyceV can be hard on a thread very well but I think sometimes if he is theymos because his posts are truthful but it carries weight. When many people are making use of the trust system wrongfully, he post about it if there is a thread referring to it. He is good in technical aspects of this forum and he devotes his time in updating his important topics on this forum which is not something that is easy.

pooya87 is good in technical aspects of this forum, he is good in political matters and also other aspects. What I like about him is the truth he do say about the world. He is also a very good merit source, he is not a racist.



LoyceV is not in any signature campaign but he continued to post on this forum as usual. I will not say more than that, read what I posted above about him.

I have not seen JayJuanGee in any campaign before but he continue giving merits and posting no only on wall observer in on threads related to bitcoin and bitcoin wallets.

I will give DdmrDdmr because as he is not present on this forum anymore, he is still updating some of his topics and he is still sending merits to few users.


I have visited the technical boards countless number of times. Also some post about bitcoin that is not related to technical boards, these are the real bitcoin geeks but there are many other real geeks but I can only mention three.


These are the three main events that I think of, they impacted into the life of many users on this forum and they were very entertaining.
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5546534.msg65475705#msg65475705
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5560573.0
[3] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5568599.msg66181336#msg66181336

BitList: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5273824.msg55139442#msg55139442
shadowpulse: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5569385.msg66210434#msg66210434
Banned Users Identifier: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5540243.msg65337686#msg65337686


I choose promise444c5 because be created Banned Users Identifier, he posted a topic called Verify GPG Signatures for Electrum [ Mobile], he posted also about hardware wallet. You can go through his topic history to know what I am taking about.

I choose AakZaki because of how he bursted people with many alternative accounts on this forum.

I choose Satofan44 because he is new in this forum but he is posting good, his trust feedbacks are bad but I hope he will change.

If you visit AakZaki topic history, you will see how he linked many connected accounts that can increase possibilities of spamming on this forum. He is a good forum member that dedicate his time to burst the spammers. It was him that let us see accounts that are more than 10, connected to a single person or possibly account farming.

lovesmayfamilis is a very good forum member, I like how he is the most active person bursting users that are plagiarizing which makes this forum unique and less free of plagiarism. I did not select her just because of that, but I also noticed that he is active on the AI spam report reference thread that Nutildah created.

I think Ultegra134 is the most active poster on the AI spam reference thread in 2025, reporting AI spammers. This is the reason I selected him.

There are still other members like Nutildah, and ABCbits that is having a thread for those that are posting rubbish on the technical boards.  I wish I can select more.



I first selected Rikafip because of the monthly local board statistics that he is losing, it even made my findings easier and better. You are a valuable forum member.

I selected joker_josue to be the second because he really worths it. I even think if I can let him be the first that I should choose but all counts the same. He is really posting g on the local board and I think he is the highest poster if all boards posts are also compared.

On the Russian board, I would have taken klarki but I just have to pick one so I picked Julien_Olynpic but both of them really tried this year posting on the Russian biard. Jokers10, you were trying also, but did your activity reduced later strating from August. But you all tried.

Undoubtedly I will choose lovesmayfamilis, you can read what that I have posted about her on the Halp Buster above for me not to repeat myself. She deserves this.

SatoPrincess deserves to be there also because she is the second person I noticed but I started to notice her more during this December with some topics that she posted.

I do not noticed any third person, probably because I do not check most people's profile to know if they are men or women.

@LoyceV
Good question. You're right - for wallet.dat and Electrum, a hash is sufficient for cracking. I use bitcoin2john/electrum2john like everyone else.
But here's why I ask for the full file:

BIP38 - No hash extraction possible. The 6P... key IS the encrypted data. That's the format.
Verification - Hash cracking gives me a password candidate. Full wallet lets me verify it actually works and extract the keys.
Trust model - The encrypted file without password is useless to me. I can't steal funds I can't decrypt.

Your challenge is a perfect example: you gave me 12 BIP38 keys. Without the password, they're just strings.

On December 26, many transactions were confirmed with the fee rate of 0.11-0.12 sat/vbyte.
I am not sure, but this may be the lowest fee rate at which miners have included transactions in the blockchain normally so far.

For example, see block number 929,473.

@LoyceV

Fair enough. Your challenge is designed to be unsolvable
without real info - which is exactly why I work WITH clients,
not against impossible puzzles.

When you have a real case with partial memory, you know where to find me.

Time will tell. Results over words.

What fee rate has been the lowest since some nodes have been accepting less than 1 sat/vbyte transactions?

I think this is not advisable because the mempool has not become so less congested down to 0.1 sat/vbyte, but 0.2 sat/vbyte transactions has been confirmed.

For faster confirmation, 0.3 sat/vbyte is the best fee rate.

Challenge accepted, LoyceV. 🎯

I've analyzed your puzzle and I appreciate the elegance of it.
My system (Box of Pandora) achieves 200+ passwords/second on BIP38
- that's 20-40x faster than standard tools.

However, I need to be transparent about the mathematics:

[PLAQUE] × [PIN] × [FIRSTNAME] with unknown:
- Country/format of the plate
- PIN length (4? 6?)
- Language of the first name
= 10¹³+ combinations minimum

Even at 200 p/s = 1,500+ years.

This isn't a test of recovery tools - it's a test of human memory.
And that's EXACTLY what serious recovery services need.

So here's my counter-proposal:

👉 Give me ONE piece of information:
   - Country of the license plate? OR
   - Exact PIN length? OR 
   - Language/nationality of the girl's name?

If you provide this, I'll crack it and prove my methodology.
If you refuse, you prove the challenge was designed to be
unsolvable - which actually supports MY point that real recovery
requires client collaboration, not just brute force.

Either way, I win. 😉

Time will tell. Results over words.

- Satoshi-Savers