The real problem is that they think in a centralized way, and they should be safely storing something that is decentralized. Therefore, they decide to leave the responsibility for that work to someone else, because CB keeps most of the coins that are traded through spot BTC ETFs. They probably see the company as a kind of cryptobank.

When we read news like this, it definitely makes sense to leave these things to the professionals.

But if this piece of paper gets lost, burned, or stolen, who will then cover the enormous losses?
Coinbase develops security standards, invests heavily in them, and is responsible for the losses.
For example, the South Korean tax authority stores cryptocurrency this way,publishing a photo of the ledger with the seed phrase.

It's also worth noting that the account never went into hibernation, and therefor never "woke up."  Someone as been actively logging into the account periodically to keep it from becoming inactive.  The same thing had been happening with the alt account, which logged in as recently as February 3rd and only went into "inactive" state yesterday.

Something is wrong about the whole situation related to him returning to the forum. The part of real relevance was him stating that the person behind the 1miau account will not be active any longer. If his intention was to never return, he could have monetised the account by selling it. It is pure speculation but the questions and doubts are there because of legitimate concerns.

It probably would have remained a perfectly acceptable explanation had the account remained inactive. The fact he returned after a brief hiatus even though he explained why he was never going to return, is not enough to arise strong suspicion but his uncharacteristic conduct since returning has caught the attention of several members.

It's hard to name a single person based on the question you asked here because there are many members here who are very helpful and at the top of my favorites list so I won't mention any user names here personally but I can say that the one you mentioned, LoyceV, is also one of my favorites. You created an account on this forum about 8 years ago so you must have understood which users might be at the top of your favorites.

Ummm he is also one of my favorite users who is always awake and always watching this forum ha ha

US Marshals Service picks Coinbase to custody its assets as part of a $32.5 million contract
https://www.theblock.co/post/302924/us-marshals-service-picks-coinbase-to-custody-its-assets-as-part-of-a-32-5-million-contract

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I have experience working with government contracts in my country. With such contracts, offering a low price isn't enough; you need multiple licenses, including the most complex license for working with state secrets, which is very difficult to obtain. In other countries, this may be called something different, but the government has the leverage to select a reliable company.

They spend BTC on those things, but if you tell them to use BTC to buy personal goods, for everyday use, they say no because that's wasting BTC since it will be worth more tomorrow.

How are we supposed to understand the minds of these people? It's complicated.

If it had happened, you would have won one more.

If I had to pick one particular person, mine has to be o_e_l_e_o.  He was so good at being a friend that my friendship with him felt like we were having a face to face conversation rather than a virtual one.  He never said 'no' to any of my requests and he always showed he cares no matter what.  If there is one thing that left a mark on me, it was Leo leaving that way.

To be honest with you.  I would continue to list names.  One person I would also consider a friend is icopress.  I was going through a really rough state of mind and he messaged me to let me know he is there to help if needed.  I can not forget that.  I never will.  My interactions with LoyceV were limited to replying to each other but I am sure a departure of his from Bitcoin Talk would feel as bad as it was when Leo left.  While I did not interact directly with him, his knowledge and style of writing often feels like he is a friend, a guide.  Not to even mention all the tools, all the knowledge, you can not not forget his name.  Gazeta Bitcoin is another member who has helped a lot very often and I am very thankful for the things he has done but it has unfortunately been about three years since we last had a conversation.

There are other names to list.  Definitely.  And the list above does not have a particular order either.  I am pretty sure I physically met some of the Bitcoin Talk members from my local Board in the past.  If they are the people who I suspect they are, then many of them are very good people.  But I will not name any for reasons.

Anyway.  I would have named more.  But I initially did not want to mention even the people above because I do have a fear of losing them from our community.  And I am definitely not the only one, only earlier today I read another post saying they fear same thing.  I know all the names I listed above have done way more for Bitcoin and this community than I ever did, particularly as my post quality, grammar and mental state deprecated over the years and my account did have a period of time where it turned from a semi recognizable person on Bitcoin Talk to a garbage spitting account like most others.

I went through many roller coasters of positive and negative feelings and some of it was evident in my posts too.  The thing is.  I hope no one else disappears unexpectedly or dies again.  I know.  It is inevitable.  But I still have hope that we can some how live on for decades, all together.

Vor ein paar Tagen hat theymos wieder die neue Liste für die Default Trust 1 Liste rausgebracht für den Monat Mai !

Diesesmal waren wieder 105 Benutzer dafür berechtigt.

Original Beitrag von theymos : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5117330.msg66677188#msg66677188


Alte Default Trust 1 Liste :

Neue Default Trust 1 Liste :

Wieder aus dem Deutschen Bereich dabei sind : bullrun2024bro , efialtis , 1miau , Lakai01 , mole0815 , Real-Duke , Buchi-88 , willi9974 , d5000 und meine wenigkeit.

Hier das genaue Update von LoyceV , Danke dafür !

I may again seem too picky about one local partition, but there is always an opportunity to make sure that who and which local partition makes a similar mistake. Just use these parameters to check the word "ment," at least for a period of two years, and if you remove the excess, you can see who writes this way most often.

https://bitlist.co/search?content=ment&date_min=2024-05-01&date_max=2026-05-03&limit=20

My guess is that the account has changed ownership, and the owner is now exactly where this error is most popular.

By the way, "1miau" himself has already corrected this error, which means that he has accepted his mistake.

Holy shit, a rare opportunity to show up LoyceV?   I'll look for the actual reason. 

I understand the irony in comparing the Coinbase crypto exchange to warehouses for storing old furniture and other junk, but storage has its costs, too. Coinbase likely offered more favorable terms to the US government, and its wallets weren't hacked. They did have hacking incidents, but the hackers targeted their clients, not the exchange itself.

1miau hat mittlerweile eine Nachricht signiert und konnte damit nachweisen, dass er nach wie vor im Besitz des Accounts ist. Mit deinem Satz könntest du durchaus recht haben, diese Aussage liest sich auch für mich so in diese Richtung:


Da kann man ihm natürlich nur alles Gute wünschen und hoffen, dass es ihm bald wieder besser geht! Das Drama rund um sein Comeback hat da natürlich sicherlich nicht gerade geholfen ...

It’s not just a userscript for the forum; there’s also a web version, just like bpip or bitlist.
For example, here’s your user profile: https://brdbscoreapi.ace-d89.workers.dev/profile/3471165
I realise that not everyone likes using a tool via a userscript.


Yes, it’s actually taking a long time to get the initial data. In fact, I’m not tracking all the forum UserIDs, just the ones my tool recognises so far – there are about 19,000+ of them – and it took about 26 hours to run the full check.
I’ll have a look at your data and see if it’s useful for my specific situation. Thanks, LoyceV

Bummer, dude.  I haven't received any such email.  Is your contract due for renewal some time soon?  If so, I may get the same treatment early next year.


Not sure who's hosting your domain name, but redirecting it to a different IP is usually a pretty simple task.  It may take up to 48 hours to refresh, but it's often much faster than that.

Is it time to add a new category to Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆?

This forum is a community made up of many members, where it's impossible to single out any one. It's somewhat similar to a decentralized network (similar to bitcoin), where every node is a forum member. I see it this way.

For me, a bitcointalk is a collection of people, a BTC-community that has formed thanks to each of you.

Me too.

Bitcointalk forum was hacked three times in three years, 2011, 2013 and 2015 with the last hack was in May 2015.
Bitcointalk history of hacks and vandalism.

It's not limited to, but very likely that old accounts registered before 2015 if having activities like woke up & password change, email change are very likely hacked and sold/ purchased accounts.

From your account ID, and BPIP, I quickly got that account around this one rti2 and before have highest probability of hacked/sold/ purchased accounts because of three forum hack incidents.

I’ll do it,

 can you pm me the steps? I see how to report a flag of him personally taking funds. When I try to submit I think I’m doing it wrong…

theirs already links listed in other threads I could use to for reference, I could even take the screen shots if needed again…

By some, LoyceV means every available piece of data that you could possibly (and in some cases impossibly) need.

I do not think I have seen this tool before. It looks really good and of practical use to those not familiar with usernames here. I would prefer to have a website like with bpip does and not a script but this will give more real time data to those using it while on the forum.

- Jay -

What data do you have available?
Essentially, I need:
Total posts
Total merit points
Posts in the last 120 days
Merit points in the last 120 days
Registration date
And last login

The BRDB calculation is based on this data. I’ve started scraping the profiles, but it’s my first time doing this and it’s taking me ages

I was quoted, and, therefore, I will answer. It's not for you to teach how to live; many people just ignore your posts because they understand that if you argue with jerks, then besides the fact that it's difficult for people like you to prove something, you can unwittingly turn into someone who talks to the wall.

In the case of the hero of the theme, time will tell again. As for JollyGood, he magically, very rarely, makes mistakes, so yes, we'll all see what happens next.

Apologies? They are appropriate when people do not behave strangely, causing confusion among others by their actions. It would be normal to resurrect and, in a human way, thereby respecting the community, to talk about their psychological problems and not to stir up and create "alliances" or an uprising of the "union of the offended and insulted." Otherwise, if a person ignores such behavior, then by doing so he shows superiority, which means, again, not respect. So there's no reason to be surprised when you see a mirror image.

Interesting, never seen or heard of it. Controlled by Mitchell it seems, you tech guys have some crazy skills that really do put most of us to shame

When somethings is done by the corporation and it's free, then sure, you are the product. Also, in cases when something is expected from you and things are served for free (like man paying for a date with a woman), of course you are the product.
But here is the thing, people sometimes do things without expecting nothing in return, like helping a beggar or anonymously donating money to someone's surgery and so on.
Dkbit mentioned Linux. It's free because Linus Torvalds started it as a personal hobby for his own computer, later shared the code with other volunteers and so on. In the end, thousands of developers got connected and developed a great OS. He did gain something in exchange: trust, reputation and power but I wouldn't say that I'm the product in this case.

Two of the people that I like most on this forum are no more posting.

The first is pooya87 that have not been posting the day before United States and Israel attacked Iran.
The second is o_e_l_e_o that has left this forum.
The next is LoyceV.
I have to mention Hhampuz and Little Mouse also.

I have really gained a lot from these people. Knowledge from the first 3, and money from the campaign managers.

I hope pooya87 will be back.

I agree; LoyceV is the person, in addition to his amazing erudition on all issues on the forum, from whom I learned not to perceive very emotionally people from the Internet who are trying to bring us to emotions. It really helps and it works. There are many people on the forum who are very interesting, and I respond and read faster on the topics they open.
I noticed that the number of views increases where the majority subscribe to such people; thus, this figure is a good indicator of user interest in a particular person.

Multiple attempts to sign a message?  Electrum only?  Things that make you go "hmmm..."

You seem to have forgotten much of your technical knowledge in your six months away.


Verified with brainwallet.


I do recall a time when he knew the difference.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5172487.msg52068704#msg52068704
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5172487.msg52084484#msg52084484


That's the first thing I would have done, but I probably would have thrown in a PGP key or two as well because, well, why not.

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Signed message or not, my feedback will remain until I'm utterly satisfied.  No amount of social pressure from Axis or Allied forces will sway me.  Note I said nothing about a signed message in my feedback, only time will tell.

I think it would be better to say that bitcointalk is my favorite place to visit vs trying to say who is awesome IMO. I've had many long conversations with many members, became friends with a few, got lots of great medical and personal advice from a few, participate in off forum competitions with some members, just too much to list honestly.

I will give a special mention to a few if that is ok.

LoyceV helped me claim forked coins some years back and provides tons of technical material that helps many if they need it and are looking.

Igebotz takes the time to check on my health from time to time.

condoras was a very dear friend whom I shared more with than anyone from here.

hopenotlate is another dear friend who is always there if I need advice or want to vent.

Sunderland is a user that I worked with on Luckyb.it and have become great friends with. Would do anything for the guy.

o_e_l_e_o reached out and gave me some medical advice when I was going through the worst period of my life with the heart surgery.

DireWolfM14 and Hueristic put together the fantasy football league that consumes a few months of my time each year.

I think that's enough for now but there are many more names I could mention who have been so helpful through my forum and life journey.

They are too many to mention and they function in different ways in the forum, and to be honest, if I was not in this forum I don’t think I will be this active in my bitcoin investment and that’s because I have built relationships with people in this forum who are very active and knowledgeable in bitcoin investment and they are always pushing me to do more better when it comes to my bitcoin investment.
I love theymos his a great Admin, the freedom they created in this forum is wonderful and according to LoyceV “you may not understand it now, but as time goes on you will learn to appreciate it”
I’m happy my job always gives me time to visit the forum, who has been away from forum for sometime because of their job and how those it feels like?

I should be the leader of this group because I am more decentralized than those other guys. Oh excuse me, I was not invited, it was an account whose name just looks like mine.


This is too big to be a conspiracy.


I don't think building a wall will help. We need the forum to hire ICE mods that are tasked with cleaning the forum of habitual offenders & undesirables.

24 washers
nut
bolt
stainless steel

Interesting that it also shows "first posts" from bought accounts, lol. You know, I just don't have the time or desire to go so in depth into this anymore. But for those who do, there's a bigger array of crime-fighting utilities at one's disposal than ever.

And I don't know what you're trying to summon but it looks like its missing a couple letters.

There are many specialized legends from around the boards so it is hard to choose just one, however LoyceV stands out with his exceptional ability to assist others.  Who else would even come close to that level of dedication?  I guess I will have to think about it a little more.

Anyone can decide to leave the forum temporarily or permanently and can even declare their account dead even though the person behind it might be alive but it is satisfactory for an account that is as reputable as yours to still convince members of the forum that the account is still in your possession hence the reason why some forum members asked that you sign a message. Do not take it personal, despite that some persons gave you the benefit of doubt but the message you signed is a kind of reaffirming their trust in you.

You fuck!!!!!!

 


That would be nice.

I would like more than  a symbolic breaking through - yet beggers cannot be choosers.


Based on recent momentum, it seems that the odds are in the ballpark of greater than 50% of a break through, yet personally, I don't have enough confidence to proclaim that it is bettable, beyond the funzies of throwing die at a crap table.


Not that we necessarily need to know details, yet sometimes it could be interesting to figure out what back up plans might be in the event that something like a Trezor (or any other hardware) device were to fail, and then there would be needs to have a back up or even more than one back up.

Another thing is communicating these kinds of matters to heirs or potential heirs.. and surely it seems a bit problematic to have all the information with only one person, since it is possible that the person could precede in death or have other limitations that might not materialize until some later date.

I have had some systems of communicating aspects of my security and other systems, and surely, I question the extent to which the information is going to be adequately communicated, even though at the time that I make it and as I communicate the information, it tends to have traits of making sense... but then with the passage of time, I am not even sure, and with the passage of time, even I have some struggles to make sure that the contained information is both clear enough and also somewhat updated with any relevant material changes that might happen at various points along the way.

Surely, we have seen some fire situations, even with the rich folks in California.. and maybe a decent number of them lost some coins.. and even having multiple places might not help if the multiple places all got simultaneously burned down or irretrievably damaged in other ways.

I am probably not the ONLY one with the theory that there are likely way more keys lost than realized.. and gosh, how frequently should we be testing all of our keys, and even testing might contain some risks too. . here.. let me assemble all of this information for "updating" blah blah blah. .then maybe a good portion of the information is in one place during the testing.. and when we communicate the information to someone. .or even some guys who live in apartments and might not have back up locations that might be convenient for guys who might have home and work and maybe a relative or two who might be able to keep back ups on their property (whether wittingly or not).. and yeah, I am not the greatest of fans of safety deposit boxes. .even though it could work for a split key kind of a situation... and how split?  if a person get's 1/2 of the key? is that too much?  what if they get 1/3 of the key, that is probably o.k.... but if they get 2/3 of the key, then maybe they have enough to brute force it, if they have the right equipment and technical/puzzle-solving knowledge (do they know what they are looking at?).

This month 105 users were eligible.

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Depending on who you're asking, banks are the government, so a private bank holding the bitcoin does not change the fact that the government custodies it. Who owns the gold? Is it really at Fort Knox? 

A good theory is that Strategy and BlackRock need to stack at least 4 million bitcoin, before the US government considers it a "priority".

Your appearance was telling and welcomed at least by some.

I honestly doubt that the ARMA Bill would make it past all the required stages. It is still in its 'introduction' stage, so we are very far away from anything. And just looking at the roadblocks the Clarity Act is currently up against in the Senate gives us an idea of what it takes to get these things sorted out, takes a lot.
For whatever it is worth, the ARMA bill that's introduced to convert executive order to official federal law proposes that the 1 million BTC that would be acquired over a 5 year period would be stored in self custodial storage facilities.

Facts

After getting some sort of burnout, I've decided to withdraw permanently from Bitcointalk but now it felt better, so I've decided to come back. But now we are at it again, I've already spent more time online right now than I should be.
I might withdraw again if it continue at this pace.

Well, I don't know if it would be fair, except for Leahized having delayed a little, maybe the other two didn't want to participate anymore? Will they be angry at me talking too much?rssss... and or examplens got mad at me because of me completing the 1% malus of it, I don't know, but that's fine with me, because it's so indespicable, it looks like it's going to break through the 80k but at the same time it seems like it's going to close the week at 75500 which was what was in my mind, but I ended up putting 77500,... Here the daylight saving time ended, and for now it's been more than 4 years since it ended... I hope it doesn't come back.... And as for you, all the best on the tour, and enjoy it well.

I am not sure if he sold his account or it was hacked, but this post was made April 28th

Then this post also on April 28th.

April 29th I made this post. All 3 reference him signing a message which went ignored and the defense thread he made got locked April 30th by him I assume as that was the last time they logged in as well.

I am fairly certain they are not the owner and noone has stepped forward to vouch for them either.

Prince Group (~127,271), Silk Road (~69,370), Samourai Wallet (all in reserve), the Bitfinex hack (only a portion of these funds will be returned to the exchange), and so on—these are cases from 2025–2026.
The custodial wallet is Coinbase Prime under a 5-year government contract.
Compensation is typically paid in dollars at the time of the theft, not at the current cryptocurrency exchange rate.

I don’t think they are posting for $100/week as I heard at least some of them doing custom deals with the services they are promoting. (I confirmed this at least on one occasion) Sometimes one deal for the avatar, one deal for the signature, one deal for the personal text.

It is weird that you are one of the oldies and still thinking they are getting paid at the same rate as the rest of the others.

Also, even at $500/month that’s somewhat minimum wage in Eastern Europe I believe. It is not that bad and I is probably not $500/month.

But hey, not like I am jelly or something , I got so much other work to do and I don’t understand why you replied at all besides the wrong assumptions you made. I haven’t said anything negative about them. On the contrary I said the forum needs them.

For S3 compatible storage I think you can use Backblaze B2 which is very cheap for $6.95 / TB / mo, just to keep the storage you need and your VPS for the system

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

I'm sorry
I actually found this post today after going to the trust link from my profile!
I actually learned a lot of new things in this forum through this forum and am still learning!
I'm actually very sorry I found this post today
If I made any mistakes, please forgive me everyone!!
I'm sorry again If any mistakes !!!

Is this from Servarica? Why are they decomissioning your server?

Have you looked at the list of those with 10 000+ merits? There may be one or two members who might be in the category you describe, but I'm sure that @LoyceV, @fillippone, @theymos, @nutildah or @TryNinja and some others are not among them. The forum cannot be the main and only source of income for these members, especially if we take into account how much such a member can earn in a sig campaign today.

If we take inflation into account, $100 or $125 a week has perhaps half the purchasing power it had 5-6 years ago. Besides, these are mostly people from the EU or the US where life is quite expensive.

If a hundred people can't fix this system, a few certainly can't. Mods aren't immune to human error—they hold grudges and act on personal vendettas, too.
I can't quite remember if Theymos said he was currently working on this or the Merit System, but I read something related to Dev.

Stable = lose money to inflation.
About 25% inflation in the period mentioned above...

Who is your Favorite Bitcointalk Member? 

I will nominate LoyceV, he is a hero for his Bitcointalk statistics and Tools.

The problem with XMR is the performance of the price

It makes no sense to hold it. When i have some XMR, I try to convert them to BTC ASAP.

The price of XMR now (378) is 3% below below 2018 ATH (385) . It doesn't even keep up with inflation.

While BTC 2018 ATH was 20k, and the price now is 300% higher.

I understand that XMR is an amazing payment method, but I wouldn't hold it.

Your skepticism makes sense. Although it's become common that some company offer limited free tier/version, either because they hope it'll make enough people move to paid version or they simply being altruistic for people who have simple needs.


Also consider LibreWolf, it has been around longer and may be better choice if you don't like Zen UI.

 

Bitcointalk also has a chance of being an FBI honeypot. Even looking at the big picture, the probability is high.

Many are ignoring the strength of XMR. I believe that this is due to the fact that it has been removed from major services and is presented as problematic in the narrative of legality.

I will keep my mouth shut from now on.

Got it. I will make sure not to mention the site again. Yeah, let's wait a few days to see if the service will return. As you said, there were some updates according to Whois.

No, and after making this thread & claiming 2 well-known forum members were part of this "alliance" unbeknownst to them, I'm starting to doubt that this account is still possessed by the original 1miau. They are of course welcome to prove me wrong. I don't think its really too much to ask that they offer some kind of proof.

Firefox and Tor browser are free, Linux OS is also free, and there is a bunch of free software still available, so I would not make generalization like this.
Problem for me is that I need to create account, connect it with email address and my browsing habits, history, bookmarks, etc.
Still for some poor third world countries with restrictive regimes firefox VPN could still be alternative option.

Check out Zen browser, new Firefox fork without tracking crap.

As someone who indexes posts for a living, don't do this. A user with a huge post history can easily clog your network connection while it downloads. Better to expose it as a graphql database, which is much more efficient to get the parts you're actually interested in.

Wouldn't it be easier to ask for a signed message from an address he has posted? Gazetabitcoin is also buddies with the guy I believe, maybe he could let us know if it's the real 1miau also? I seen someone mention signed message earlier in this thread and I haven't seen a message, might be time to tag til we get to the bottom of this.

LoyceV or TryNinja could dump old posts and new posts into a text file and anyone can have AI analyze it.

Did my mention of the service cause the issue with the images breaking? Did I shoot myself in the foot and then asked who shot me?
If it did, can it happen again the next time the website is mentioned somewhere?

Yeah, we can always go back to that but I wanted to take you out of the picture so I wouldn't always have to PM you and bother you with the updates. Logpaste seemed like a simpler and automated solution but it seems a thing of the past now.

I am not surprised to be honest. I am sure there are other casinos that I need to update. I wanted to start yesterday, but Logpaste being down gave me a reason to procrastinate further.

You can say that again. I agree that I have been so unlucky but I am not ignorant to why I have been this unlucky. I will not totally say I am unluck because in those cases people also understood and came through for me. I think there are two other accusations you missed out. One RajaKing that was linked to me and another user so.
I have been in two weeks April retreat. I was still focusing to finish the church program, but now I can no longer focus, so I had to excuse the church environment, got a reservation to put myself together.
The reasons I got into much problems are two;

• My welcome post in the forum
• My rapid growth in the forum.

My welcome post:
This post exposed me to danger, because it got a few older members upset but I learnt a lot from it. They either misunderstood the post or it was so early to make such a post.  At this point, I received advice from two users; One said I should avoid quoting and replying to legendary members, while the other said I should develop a thick skin.

My Rapid Growth:
I can boldly say that I was one of the non-technical newbies that experienced rapid growth in the forum.
The future of Bitcointalk: Low Ranking Top Merit earners in the past 30 days
This became a disadvantage because my fellow low-ranking members were amazed at my growth and were sending me pm. Some decided to study my posting pattern in order to be like me, but I rather advised them to learn from the Legendary members instead.
Some established members who earlier thought I wasn’t a newbie became confident of their doubt. It was on this premise the then Ratimov mentioned my name.
To clear the air, he didn’t mention me as a member of his 60+ alt farm, he only placed me on the watch list because of my merit count. He later removed my name from his watch list.

The case of Kaggie and RainbowKun
If you ask me, I would say we lost good members of the forum because of unnecessary attacks or bullying. The RainbowKun of a guy who was nick named “The Bitcoin Prophet” was on a different level as a newbie. He was writing bitcoin articles that would be suspected in today’s world to be written by AI. He earned so much merits until someone created a thread that suggested that people should stop sending merits to him. It was LoyceV who intervened that no matter how much merits he earned, in as much as he continued to produce quality, people shouldn’t stop meriting him.
Check the profile of both RainbowKun and Kaggie and see their activity to merit ration. But they unfortunately left the forum after much pressure.
PrivacyG, you might not have received these backlashes because you likely grew from the technical side of the forum. I noticed we registered here the same year, but we did not cross much paths in our early forum days.

The case of MagicalKing:
There was when Scyptical chemist created a thread for people to pm him for post review. I believed his pm should be flooded then. He created a thread that Myself and MagicalKing sent him pm 2.5 hrs apart by calling him “sir” and using the word “humbly”. I was confused and also felt unlucky because growing up I was taught to use the word “sir” to an adult responsible man. I maintained it in the forum until I was told people don’t like it here. The word humbly is always used in requesting formerly or semi-formerly. Someone applying to receive 50 merits should naturally be humble.
I didn’t know the way about of the MagicalKing because I stopped seeing him around in the forum, maybe he lost interest in the forum.

The GeorgeJohn case:
The accusation was as a result of coincidence in reserving a slot in chipmixer campaign. It was BlackHatCoiner that called us out then. I remember that Lovesmafamilies lent her voice then in the matter.

Side note 1:
Some BTT members from the Nigerian local have some whatsApp groups where they share opportunities off and on the forum. Sometimes when a campaign is opened, someone might decide to share the information which could lead to rush in application.

Side note 2:
Most Nigerians don’t take privacy seriously. So, when the idea of the forum being a privacy forum occurred to the early users of this forum from Nigeria, they mis-interpreted it for us. So, that made it difficult for a Nigerian to come public and say he introduced someone to the forum. They only come up when there is trouble, which then makes it unbelievable. It was just like a secrete affair, mistaken as privacy.
GeorgeJohn was actually the person that introduced me to this forum. I am grateful to him to the extent that I couldn’t hold it back, I had to let it out when zasad@ asked a related question years back in his interview. If anyone cares to read, I exposed some percentage of my personal life there.

My Plea:
John had been in this forum since 2020, a year before he introduced me. I wasn’t happy that it seemed I was growing more than him, the reason why I was suggesting him to Ratimov.  This is his 6th year in the forum but he is yet to hit the legendary rank. It took me far lesser time. John has about 114 merits to hit the legendary rank, if some merit sources can do it for me, I will be very happy.

I have been avoiding to write wall of texts, I am sorry if I had stretched anyone that cares to read to this stage. I value the forum and her members. I had a rough start in the forum but I learnt too many things in this forum. BTT was able to teach me what the university could not teach me. I value and learn from most users here even when I don’t have personal contact with you.

@1miau we have always gotten along very well and had great PM conversations. I never had any reason to distrust you and in fact I know some very noble things about you. One detail that caught my attention was the "spelling mistake" of the word "meant" and I know you don't misspell this word usually. Now this does not seem to be a mistake since you repeated it twice, unless unless your "a"-key is broken, but since you are using it for other words, this coincidence can be safely ruled out.

Again, you never gave me a reason to doubt you, but why the hell are you getting the word "meant" wrong twice?

I'm not running away from anyone. I am just being privacy conscious thus the full node setup, initially I wasn't thinking about having a full node, but after learning ways txn are broadcast I think it'd be wise to participate and protect myself.

To be honest my plan to self custody is mainly risk mitigation, not your keys not your coin. In terms of keeping UTXO private doing CJ and all, I am still hesitant, my worries are mostly surrounding how can those self custody sats be spent moving forward. Long term I am convicted with holding sats, but I do not want my UTXO through CJ or whatever method cause trouble in my future spending - be it sold off to fiat, move to LN or whatever it may be. Where I am from Bitcoin policy isn't well discussed topic in public, hodlers are rare, self custody is even more rare, however there are crypto exchanges that are approved by local securities commission. My concerns are surrounding what are the implications of doing CJ for all / partials of my UTXOs in the future.

What is the tradeoff of not doing CJ as a self custodian who just holds for long term? What are the implication of doing CJ on all the UTXO?

Amazing!! Maybe I was just one of those users that really don't know how the DT system work but good enough how  this thread has just  educated me on things I really need to know about it. Am a kinda releive right now, my appreciation to sir LoyceV, sir hosemary and everyone that has contributed immensely in me, thanks once again.  Probably at my free time I will visit any of the stated link for further knowledge.

Thank you so much for the explanation, LoyceV. Everything is clear now.

Another way to say that is:
If a name is crossed out under Depth 1 in the trust network, it can't be listed again under Depth 2, but if the excluded member is blacklisted, their name is removed from Depth 1 and can appear in Depth 2.

The duel is now over. Here are the results :

Closing price on 28/04/2026 : 76 345$

Name	Prediction	B/M	Final prediction	Difference
Hypnotizer	77 689,50	0,25	77 883,72	1 538,72
LoyceV	78 500,00		78 500,00	2 155,00

                              

The bears won over the bulls. Thanks to that, Hypnotizer, you have earned the right to play at least one more round.
Sorry LoyceV, but those three ♥ were ruining the harmony of my table. I prefer when everything is neatly aligned, so you lose a life.
               
Everyone wake up !! It’s time for round 17.
The winner of this round will have a tremendous privilege : the chance to take part in an experience that will completely change the world. No less than that. I have put all my money into this project, and it’s about to come to completion.

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Round 17 : Defy the death
What will be the price of Bitcoin at May 04, 2026, 12:00:00 AM (BTC closing price on 03/05/2026) ?
Submit your predictions before May 01, 2026, 02:00:00 PM.
 
Cash shop: OPEN
 
Special rules :None

Yeah, you are now getting data from LoyceV mirror now. So if bitcoindata is down OR if LoyceV mirror is down, your topic images will break.

It is impressive how things just break by themselves sometimes 

I read that post and your posts about Lauda's case several times very carefully, but I still don't get you.

Please read my post and point out anything that's wrong. Maybe, I don't know how the trust system works.

• To be a DT1 member, you need to be selected by theymos and number of other DT1 members who trust your judgments is equal or more than number of other DT1 members who distrust your judgments. Here, DT1 members votes are counted even if they themselves have been excluded by other DT1 memebrs. Is this true?
  
  
• If you are not selected by theymos, your judgments are trusted by at least one DT1 member and number of DT1 members who trust your judgments is equal or more than number of people who distrust judgments, you will be a DT2 member. Is this true?
  
  
• I have been selected by theymos. It's possible that I am not DT1 member, but a DT2 member. Is this true?
  

Now let's get to your scenario.
LoyceV, hosemary and 98 other have been selected by theymos.
5 out of those 98 people trust hosemary's judgments and 5 out of those 98 people distrust hosemary's judgments. LoyceV neither trusts hosemary's judgments nor distrust them.

Now hosemary is DT1 member. Am I right?


LoyceV excludes hosemary from his trust list. This makes hosemary to be out of DT1, but this doesn't necessarily mean that hosemary is no longer a DT member. Am I right?

Now assume that LoyceV, the 5 people who trust hosemary's judgments and the 5 people who distrust hosemary's judgments are all DT1 members (I mean they have not been excluded by other DT1 members). In this case, hosemary is not DT member. If LoyceV is exluded by other DT1 members, hosemary will become a DT2 member. Am I right?


Now let's get to the part I don't understand.
You say hosemary can make himself a DT2 member by requesting blacklisting from DT1. Am I getting you correctly?

As I said, to be a DT2 member, I need LoyceV to be excluded by other DT1 members. I don't understand how I can become a DT2 member if theymos blacklists me. I am still excluded by 6 and included by 5 DT1 members that they themsleves have not been excluded by other DT1 members.

I know this.
DT1 members can vote against other DT1 members, even if they themselves are excluded from DT1 list, but they can't vote against DT2 members.

You and I are both DT member. You distrust me and that makes me become a non-DT user. If you are removed from DT1 list for any reason, I will become a DT2 member.
You said "if that same user requests blacklisting from DT1" and that what's I don't get.

How can I change things with making a request blacklisting me?
To be a DT2 member, I need theymos to blacklist you, not myself and I can't ask theymos to blacklist LoyceV.

You probably meant if LoyceV requests theymos to blacklist himself from DT1 list, then hosemary will become a DT2 member.

I read your posts about Lauda's case, but I think I didn't understand your point correctly. I am probably missing something.


Let's say I have been selected by theymos as a DT1 member. 5 DT1 members trusts my judgments and 6 distrusts my judgments. Now I am not a DT member.
I ask theymos to blacklist me, so that I am never selected as DT1 member by his algorithm. I don't understand how can this makes me a DT2 member under the same votes (5 DT1 members still trust my judgments and 6 still distrusts my judgments).

Even if theymos blacklists me, I still have more trust exclusions than inclusions.
I can be a DT2 member only if one of those 6 DT1 members that distrust my judgments is removed from DT1 list, so that only 5 of them are counted for DT2 voting. So, I need to ask theymos to remove one of those 6 DT1 members (which is impossible), not myself.


What am I missing?

It's certainly not meant for heavy use and I doubt they will have high speed for free plan.
Big negative side for their paid version is NO support for bitcoin payments.

I also don't have firefox account, but I think I tested it before with some temp email address.
They are probably trying to compete with Brave VPN and Opera VPN, and I doubt they will keep free version long term.

I'm not sure if everyone knows how to or is able to sign a message.
Originally, I wanted something relatively simple. But I will keep that option in mind, we will discuss it again at the end during a large debrief.

Which popular browser was the first one to add a free VPN? I think it was Opera, right? Or am I mistaken? This 50GB From Mozilla for free is an amazing offer in terms of free limit. It will be more than enough for many customers and for even those who sometimes stream, 50GB monthly will still be efficient. Which browser is the next? Chrome?  or Edge? Maybe unsupported Internet Explorer.

Anyways, VPN is becoming another form for browsers to get more money. I prefer Mullvad and IVPN over any browser company created VPN every day. Even though Mozilla is good, I still think this way.

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