Quote from: nullius on Today at 07:19:09 AM

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of any evidence as to whether or not the account has always been under control of the same individual? It seems to have suffered lost password problems unusually often, all starting after the introduction of the merit system. FWIW—I do NOT like the forum culture of rampant speculation about this kind of thing; but this is sufficiently odd to warrant a closer look.

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If it is not evidence of something fishy with the account, then it nonetheless is evidence that he’s an idiot. (But we already know that, with conclusive proofs.)

Hello nullius, without thinking that I'm defending him - which I'm not - I don't think the account changed hands and I'll explain why. As far as I saw in the Romanian board, where he occasionally posts, he has a bad grammar. From what I understood from his posts he is living in US for many years and he forgot his own language. Despite this sound ridiculous, sometimes it happens. Nevertheless, I've seen people (Romanians) which after spending a month in Italy, when they came back home there were saying "come si dice [...]? lol. So some try to look smart (without realizing they look like imbeciles) and some really forget their own language (which is also a bad thing).

But this guy always wrote in the same bad Romanian when he posted on the Romanian board. If he would suddenly write correctly after a password change, I could have noticed that. I could have noticed also if his grammar became even worst than usual, after a password change. So thinking just from the point of view of his grammar (in Romanian) it doesn't seems that the account changed hands.

I talked to him just once, after the ~~discussion~~ scandal from this topic: Merit abuse by a Legendary. And I asked him out of curiosity if he is a merit source. The guy seemed to have no idea what this means. Actually I posted this inside this topic:

Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on October 26, 2020, 09:32:53 PM

Are you sure that Vlad is a merit source? I asked him once, out of curiosity, and he seemed that he didn't even know what a merit source is. I had to explain him. He told me that when the merit system was implemented he woke up with a considerable amount of sMerits and that was it. Although he didn't explain very clear (as he seemed somehow unfamiliar with the subject), I understood that he is still using the sMerits from his initial airdrop from 2018 Huh

Maybe he meant something else but this is what I understood.

And I asked him after seeing this topic: Merit abuse by a Legendary. But even there, nutildah stated at some point that he isn't a merit source, that's why I asked about that.

Indeed, considering the sMerits he sent, he is obviously a merit source. But it seems weird, as the guy is unaware of that (or playing that he doesn't know?). Back then when I exchanged a few PMs with him he told me that he doesn't visit any other forum section excepting the IX Coin thread and the Romanian board.

Therefore I am sure he didn't even read this topic...

Anyway, the idea is that I don't think the account changed hands. In rest, everything is clear: he merited an impostor, his attitude is anti-Bitcoin and he became (miraculously) a merit source without an application.