Hello, forum.
I think there was a topic where you could report your own alts, but I could not find it. I am not talking about Known alts of any-one, since that one is themed more towards ousting people using alts for scammy purposes and the rules defined there clearly say that newbies and juniors are not allowed to post "investigations".
OK. I used to be 98789. I was an active user back in 2015~2016, and from what I could see, I even have +1 reputation (from some alpha/manual testing campaign in which I was a manager, hired by Duke/SmackThatAce). I want to report myself since I have no intention of doing anything shady, I simply wanted to start over so I signed up again (my password in this account was reset recently because I was so dumb that registered and instantly forgot my password, I suppose a password reset in a 2~3 days old account does not look suspicious).
I want to catch up on technical and non-technical crypto topics and may consider offering services again (I used to copywrite, translate from English into Spanish and Portuguese and code in Python), though I am a busier person these days, plus I know that will be hard at least for a while, since most people won't trust a newbie. It is very unlikely you will see me asking for loans (since interest rates here are absurdly high and cashing out bitcoin in my country is hard and comes with extra fees) and that definitely won't be happening anytime soon, which may also help to reinforce that I do not have bad intentions.
I left back in the day because I got busier IRL, but I never had any accusations against me. Why did I decide to create a new account instead of waking up my old account from its long sleep? There are a couple of reasons:
When I was 98789 I staked one of my bitcoin addresses, but unfortunately it was a Coinbase address. To the best of my knowledge, they removed the ability to sign messages years ago, so while I know that that is the gold standard to prove you are who you claim to be, I won't be able to provide a signed message for that reason. I see no reason why I would claim some really old account (that has been inactive since then and that does not belong to some community "hero") to be me, but as alternatives to prove that I am 98789 I could tweet whatever message you want from @tregaus4 (a crypto/fake X account that belongs to me, as you can see in this unedited message from 98789) or if someone with more privileges is interested in verifying my claim, I can somehow confirm via email.
I was thinking you could tag my old account referencing this? I would prefer/thank you if the tag is neutral, as I never scammed anyone and I would not want to see my old account in red as scammers are tagged. Having that other account deleted or anonymized would also be fine, though from what I have read that is only done in rare cases and for accounts belonging to ~important people.
I am doing this because I think it is the right thing to do; It would not be difficult to simply not use my X user and use fresh BTC addresses to avoid being linked, but I have nothing to hide. I am logging off after posting and today I will go visit my mother, but either later in the day or at some time during the week I will be back online if additional details are needed.
Thank you!
By the way, I also want to leave a small note here ranting about a time when I reported a scammer with proper proof and it was ignored. He later scammed for 0.02 BTC
.
I think there was a topic where you could report your own alts, but I could not find it. I am not talking about Known alts of any-one, since that one is themed more towards ousting people using alts for scammy purposes and the rules defined there clearly say that newbies and juniors are not allowed to post "investigations".
OK. I used to be 98789. I was an active user back in 2015~2016, and from what I could see, I even have +1 reputation (from some alpha/manual testing campaign in which I was a manager, hired by Duke/SmackThatAce). I want to report myself since I have no intention of doing anything shady, I simply wanted to start over so I signed up again (my password in this account was reset recently because I was so dumb that registered and instantly forgot my password, I suppose a password reset in a 2~3 days old account does not look suspicious).
I want to catch up on technical and non-technical crypto topics and may consider offering services again (I used to copywrite, translate from English into Spanish and Portuguese and code in Python), though I am a busier person these days, plus I know that will be hard at least for a while, since most people won't trust a newbie. It is very unlikely you will see me asking for loans (since interest rates here are absurdly high and cashing out bitcoin in my country is hard and comes with extra fees) and that definitely won't be happening anytime soon, which may also help to reinforce that I do not have bad intentions.
I left back in the day because I got busier IRL, but I never had any accusations against me. Why did I decide to create a new account instead of waking up my old account from its long sleep? There are a couple of reasons:
- Merit was introduced. I think the change was introduced not so long after I left the forum, and I have been aware of that change for a few years now (I kept visiting the forum from time to time, I simply did not participate in any discussions nor logged in). I do not consider I was the worst of spammers (at least compared to the average user, I was not a valuable asset to Bitcointalk either), but I would like to build my reputation and my ranks up under the system in place. This is probably 90% of why I went for a new account.
- Accounts "waking up" after a long long time (I left 7+ years ago) are frowned upon, and I do not want people to assume incorrect things.
- I wanted to use a new email (old one is almost full).
When I was 98789 I staked one of my bitcoin addresses, but unfortunately it was a Coinbase address. To the best of my knowledge, they removed the ability to sign messages years ago, so while I know that that is the gold standard to prove you are who you claim to be, I won't be able to provide a signed message for that reason. I see no reason why I would claim some really old account (that has been inactive since then and that does not belong to some community "hero") to be me, but as alternatives to prove that I am 98789 I could tweet whatever message you want from @tregaus4 (a crypto/fake X account that belongs to me, as you can see in this unedited message from 98789) or if someone with more privileges is interested in verifying my claim, I can somehow confirm via email.
I was thinking you could tag my old account referencing this? I would prefer/thank you if the tag is neutral, as I never scammed anyone and I would not want to see my old account in red as scammers are tagged. Having that other account deleted or anonymized would also be fine, though from what I have read that is only done in rare cases and for accounts belonging to ~important people.
I am doing this because I think it is the right thing to do; It would not be difficult to simply not use my X user and use fresh BTC addresses to avoid being linked, but I have nothing to hide. I am logging off after posting and today I will go visit my mother, but either later in the day or at some time during the week I will be back online if additional details are needed.
Thank you!
By the way, I also want to leave a small note here ranting about a time when I reported a scammer with proper proof and it was ignored. He later scammed for 0.02 BTC
.