Quote from: Alpha9omega00@gmail.com on Today at 09:41:07 PM

I know what I saw,

No, you don't. You're an incomprehensible fool, and incomprehensible fools have a hard time comprehending simple things.

The only ban that can be lifted by paying (a very small fee) is the "evil ip" ban. It's only applicable to new accounts that register using tor or vpn, and it's intended to prevent spammers and scammers from creating multiple accounts. Every once in a while it may flag an account that registered through IP from a location that's notoriously used by spammers or scammers.

Once you get banned on this forum you're banned for life, and so are all your alt accounts. There's no way to pay to lift that ban.

Quote from: theymos on May 21, 2018, 10:40:38 PM

I did this back in 2015, but I wanted to update it. I used exactly the same mapping code as last time.

When someone is banned, their IP and some of their neighboring IPs receive evil points. Here I've created a map of the IPv4 Internet according to evil points. Currently, IPv6 is mapped into the 240.0.0/4 range, which is the large square taking up the top-right sixteenth of the chart. (I'm not sure yet whether IPv6 is actually disproportionately evil, or if I'm just cramming too many people into that address-space. Probably the latter is at least something of a factor, since 9% of traffic is IPv6 but 6% of this address-space is IPv6.)

Here's the image (zoom in):
https://bitcointalk.org/banmap201805.png

For comparison, here's the one from 2015:
https://bitcointalk.org/banmap201510.png

Each pixel is a /24 address block (ie. each pixel represents 256 IP addresses). The colors are:
█ Zero or nearly zero evil
█ A small amount of evil
█ More
█ More
█ At this point you actually have to pay if you register an account in this block
█ More
█ More
█ More
█ Pretty high
█ A ton of evil, more than anyone is likely to pay

This is per block, so a single IP address could have an evil score requiring payment while its block still shows up as black here. A colored pixel indicates the evil score of a typical IP in that block.

Addresses are laid out in the standard way. So you can for example cross-reference with these maps: https://ant.isi.edu/address/

A /24 should almost never uniquely identify someone, but to be safe I randomly added, removed, and modified some of this data for plausible deniability.