Quote from: subSTRATA on July 10, 2015, 07:55:28 AM

Quote from: truetrue on July 10, 2015, 07:43:52 AM

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?

it proves ownership as a valid message can only be signed if the individual signing the message controls the private key of the associated address. ie no one else can sign a valid messag from that address since they do not control its private key; assuming you posted an address say, for a signature campaign to receive payouts to, you could sign a message from that address. as far as potential buyers are concerned who will only care for a signed message, your excuses dont prove anything, and avoiding the question only adds to suspicion of a hacked account. take it how you will, im trying to help you get a sale by encouraging a signed message from you, but youre free to disregard my words completely of course.

Don't get me wrong, I am not mad at you for telling me. I just tried to understand.... and I do understand that buyers might be extra careful, just see this forum, full of scammers and crap... I am even concerned that a scammer will buy my account, I rather hope someone will buy to enter signature campaigns instead of scamming people. But here is the problem...

1. I never posted one of my bitcoin addresses in this forum. I think I did that in 2013 when I was newbie and when I hoped someone would tip me through my signature (lol) but I acquired Bitcoin on my own and deleted the signature with my address in 2014 or so. Since then I never added my bitcoin address again to my signature. I also never posted my address anywhere. Thus, I can not sell my account now. I would now have to post an address anywhere to sell the accounts two months later?

2. I start to get the point. Accounts are rather buyed to scam and not to earn via signature campaigns? Thus, the potential buyer wants me to link the account to my bitcoin address, basically to my indentity so that he can do horrible things and the police will ring on my door and I can not even say "Look, this account was sold to a stranger, it was not me!"? To be honest, I don't like that.. and if that is the case, I rather don't sell the account.

3. It point 2 is true, isn't it a problem for the buyer? I mean I could basically contact the admin of bitcointalk and say "This account is mine and was hacked by a stranger, can you please link it back to my email address?".

You probably notice, I am very confused.

I don't disregard your words, I just try to understand if it's wise to sign a message and how it is done without ever having an address posted to my bitcointalk account. And now I feel more concerned that this might be to link my identity to the account forever.

I really just want to get rid of the account to increase my wallet... I do even have a Steam account with over 200 games, the buyer could add me there as well, I have a teamspeak server where we could even talk about the deal (although my english is horrible, hehe). I don't disregard your words, it's just that I offer quite a lot to proof ownership of the account, something that I rarely see here... except for those who understand how to sign a message, but there are quite a lot of threads where people don't offer anything to proof ownership, that was my point.

Thanks for helping, I still hope that someone is interested in the deal. Meanwhile I try to find out if I can still sign a message.. maybe I find the last posted signature BTC address via Google cache... also I need to find out if that is good at all for me.