Not only phone number.
Theymos should enforce KYC and create new board where we will publicly reveal our personal information and ID's with pictures.
Picture of credit cards too. Both side.
Signed message from all wallets with funds and private keys and maybe picture of your family and friends too.
This is bloody forum would you please stop spamming it with useless merit threads and ideas just because no one has sent you merit?
Even if all these information is implemented, all this can be faked. I do not think any other forum receives so much spam registrations. Only issue here is that a lot of money is involved even with discussions.
Looks like the joke went over your head pretty high
This forum with banner ads for a week GET almost 2 BTC a WEEK (100k usd a month) . Cant even Hire more STAFF ? i think it more than 2 BTC a week . because he a lot thing to do with his monetize technique
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2785868.msg29329465#msg29329465Im not focus talking about his money . im concern about his SOLUTION .
SCARED with spammer ? and have no smart Solution to solve this ?
He punish for SPAMMER False to normal member ?
He want avoiding spammer he should KYC check . so all of those Account need Verification ID . FACE . AND Name in Paper for FORUM with text his username and register date .
This system only avoiding new comer crypto from price $8k+
Spammer will never gone he already got a lot his account .
Better adding KYC Checks for every account .
Those funds probably went to building the new forum and current forum maintenance, maintaining Bitcointalk is not an easy nor cheap task to do.
Theymos Will Never put KYC in here, first he have to build a server to store all of those KYC data and to secure it from hackers, that itself is a hard task (as if the forum hack in 2015 wasn't enough).
Second, this forum were built by Satoshi originally, he has a big concern regarding privacy, and I'm sure Theymos too.
Every forums has spammers, there are no forum that is free from it.
But, even we can help against spammers without KYC bullcrap, if you see a spam or posts that are against the forum rules, simply report them and the mods will sort it out quickly.