Quote from: RGBKey on March 01, 2018, 03:39:44 PM

Alia just started a new thread in the Gambling subforum titled Proving that my gambling script works.

I have a scintilla of a doubt here: Perhaps this individual may genuinely believe, even obsessively believe that the script can perform as claimed. I have seen such behaviour here before, in a context not involving monetary gain or scam accusations.

It began in the Vanitygen thread. (I linked to the post which led into the discussion; continue reading downthread.) With no obvious material motive, Jude Austin (a Legendary) claimed to have randomly found an address with funds on an imitator of directory.io. Discussion ensued involving me, DannyHamilton, LoyceV, and dooglus on one side, and Jude Austin on the other. Key points:

Quote from: DannyHamilton on February 07, 2018, 03:02:14 PM

Quote from: Jude Austin on February 07, 2018, 12:36:16 PM

As for security, you will shit your pants, on btckey.space I found an address with funds, tho it was a small amount (transaction fee) it was completely random.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

I suspect two possibilities:

1. Neither the address, nor your search were properly random.

2. You are lying.

Quote from: nullius on February 08, 2018, 06:15:02 AM

Quote from: Jude Austin on February 08, 2018, 05:04:20 AM

have some faith

Quote from: Jude Austin on February 08, 2018, 05:04:20 AM

Why can't you open your mind and believe?

Thanks, got it. I have my own cult; I dont need yours.

We are now far outside technical discussion and deep in kook territory. Im not interested in that, and neither am I interested in (further) derailing the Vanitygen thread. Please leave this thread to discussion of Vanitygen and the generation of vanity addresses.

N.b. that Jude Austin spends his cycles on LBC, too. Between scammer and kook, I will call the latter there.

Jude Austin subsequently began a thread in Technical Support titled, I found a collision. The hard part is proving it. I did not participate in that thread, or even read it; life is too short. Now, compare the title of Alias new thread.

In this overall context of this thread, the question arises of whether Alia be trying to build credibility for a future gambling scam, or sincerely trying to prove the mathematically impossible.

I have a minor side hobby of exercising skepticism upon kooks; and although many if not most are swindlers who knowingly deceive others for fame and fortune, some of them seemed sincerely obsessed with a kooky idea. Alia is a self-described degen in matters of gambling. You will laugh at me if I even bother to point out that many gamblers are obsessed. She may be fixated on the idea of a winning script. Or maybe not.

If she ever tries to sell the damn thing again, that would conclusively show her motives. As many others have said, I also wonder why she doesnt shut up, gather up every satoshi in her wallet, and make herself rich with her winning script.

Partly to have my say, partly to help assess her motives, I will post a possibly-edited version of the foregoing in her thread and see whether she discusses it, or deletes it. Edit: Done:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3044369.msg31351462#msg31351462

https://web.archive.org/web/20180301171902/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3044369.msg31351462#msg31351462
(Too bad, it looks like web.archive.org and ip.bitcointalk.org are not friends today. This archive also preserves RGBKeys post, minus his embedded equation image.)