I know it was April Fools day.  And I do not mind pranks at all most of the time.  But this one hit different.

This was a very bad timing particularly due to Chip Mixer's downfall.  I am currently living some pretty rough days financially and as soon as Chip Mixer went down I thought to myself, now there will surely be another Mixing service around that is going to try to replace Chip Mixer, advertise through Bitcoin Talk and pay similar rates in order to powerfully boost their ads.  The best is now down, so this was in my mind what is bound to happen next.

Then here comes a fake Sinbad Signature Campaign with, for most, an unimaginable pay rate.

I had an offer in PM for a Signature Campaign participation and I had to decide.  Do I choose to apply for Sinbad, a k a be a fish in the ocean and hope for an acceptation or do I apply for the other campaign I was actually invited to and lose this opportunity.  Being in a rough financial situation, I unfortunately turned down the PM offer and attempted to join this one.

You may think, why not apply for both.  I am not that kind of guy.  Say I apply for both and get accepted in both.  Now I have to pull out of one Campaign and give its manager a headache.  Their campaign starts a new week with one less participant, which means less advertisement.  To me this is cool, I lose nothing.  To the business, it is not so much.  So I rather make a moral decision and turn down an offer while accepting the other.

Now some of you may say.  Come on, it was April 1st.

I did consider it was a joke.  This was until I saw the rules, who was running the Campaign and who it was advertising.

Why would the other Campaign be closed, I wondered.  And Sinbad is now pretty well known on Bitcoin Talk.  Why would they run a false advertisement Campaign.  Then I wondered, why would any Campaign Manager even do something like this.

Then I went to the rules section.  I knew that in the last few months, there have been discussions in the Chip Mixer Signature thread about making the entire Campaign participation process so much more private.  We did discuss about Dark Star only accepting Addresses in PM instead of sending them through thread reply upon participation.  About not having a Google Spreadsheet no more.  And much more.

So I see Royse has the following rule.


I think to myself, wow, not only is Sinbad about to pay unimaginable rates.  But Royse is also turning this so much more private.  Then I see this,


So I say wow, at least this is not a public link any more.  Is Royse really doing what Dark Star was suggested by some of us?

Apparently not.  And I agree with the one above who said there are some things you should not be joking about on April 1st.  But whatever.  Maybe I just did not get the memo.