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I want to sell my Sr. Member account. The account was created over two years ago. The account has no negative trust.
There are much more posts than activity. The account has an avatar.

i think the latter 2/3 of this post says nothing; all we need is a signed message from an old address posted in an unedited post from a few months ago to prove ownership.

I've seen the stuff about signing messages... problem is I don't understand it. I used Bitcoin to buy humblebundle games for Steam, or for other transactions... never signed a message, I don't know how it works and especially how it proves ownership. Can you explain?

There is no way that I could hack both, a Twitter account and well established blog. Both accounts are heavily active since 6 years, if it would be hacked, the owner would get the accounts back asap... there is not a single time where I did stop to publish posts on my blog... this is a heavily active blog including twitter account.

But anyway, if you explain me how signing a message works with Bitcoin, I probably can do this too... my bitcointalk account is real and I am the owner since creation.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0

this link will tell you everything you need. also, your words of "how could i have hacked all these accounts" isnt really even a valid excuse; if they all had the same password and username, as many people still do, its not a question of hacking all of them, you only need one.

Thank you I will check the thread out... but...

It is a valid excuse. You know why? The blog has photos of my cat uploaded six years ago, but I never stopped to upload new photos of her. Same about stories of my home town and so on and the photos. Where would I get all the photos if I would be a hacker? You can even do google reverse image search to find out that the photos are only used on one blog, my blog (ok probably shared to Twitter and Pinterest later on). So, do you think a hacker would hack a blog and write on it for 6 years? He would have sold the blog and the content would have changed... but on this blog there is a straight line... the main content are personal photo stories and that since 6 years... one of the very posts on this blog (6 years ago) is my cat, then you find posts from july with the exact same cat. How would this be possible? Cheesy

you can call it proof if you want, but a signed message is by far simpler and gives assurance that you are the original owner of the account. also, potential buyers arent about to go through 6 years worth of photos to verify that youre the owner when they can simply copy and paste the address, message, and signature to verify. what's valid to you isnt necessarily valid to everyone on this forum.

Yes it is proof, I could even put a paper on the head of my cat with a message that the buyer thought out lol. Went through the tutorial and don't get it... that is something very complicated for me... I don't even know where I have a bitcoin address in my bitcointalk account. Also I absolutey don't get how it proofs ownership of the account... could not just anybody send a message through a bitcoin address to say that it's their account? Especially, where exactly is a bitcoin address linked to my account?

I just say it again, a hacker who does sell stolen accounts while he tells the buyer things like his 6 years old but still active blog domain, twitter account and so on... that must be a really dull hacker. Cheesy

So, anybody interested in my account anyway?