You said yourself everyone is always saying triplemining is a pyramid scheme.

Perhaps a healthy way to start out would be for you to explain:

1) Why you think people feel this way.

2) Why you feel this is untrue.

There are no security guards watching the machine specifically but this is in the Emirates Palace Hotel. Frankly what you would spend to even get in there would outweigh what you would stand to gain from cracking the machine even if you could pull it off (which a sole individual could not, it'd take some kind of orchestrated Die Hard movie ploy to suceed, and then it would be even further from lucrative versus the cost).

edit: I misread, this is a seperate machine from the Emirates Palace one. But this one is in an excessively crowded area in a high class mall with abundant security so I feel the point still stands.

Someone recruiting for triplemining, same as you are. That's all I know currently. Seems enough for me unless you've got something that will really open my eyes.

The regulatory body in the applicable legal sphere.

Sure you can distribute medicines anonymously and get payments anonymously. Yes big pharma does shady shit but they have elite laywers on retainers fighting lawsuits constantly. And they make the drugs. Where are you going to get them from anonymously, if you aren't making them?

Plus if the dude was not aiming at distributing counterfeit male performance drugs (which are extremely dangerous) he could have done better than to chose a name like "viagracoins".

How then do you explain the other more recent triplemining thread being closed down by the mods and the original poster leaving in a puff of anger?

True enough. But then what? Just let them do whatever they're doing?

For example see the audacity of this poster lashing out after being all but exposed as being a scammer: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27288.0

edit: I'm ashamed of you Mitch is just an obscure quote from my favorite book that for some reason stuck with me for years and years.

After growing more and more excited about bitcoins I finally decided to join up to the official forums as opposed to staying away from the community, which I usually do. But I really believe in this.

The first thing I see is that I am confined to the newbie area. Pointless, but fair enough. Any spammer can easily make 5 posts and wait 4 hours, I can also.

But really worries me is the sheer volume of, best case, extremely shady "offers" going around here in the newbie corner, and worst case pure and blatant scams.

And these are often posted by people who have passed the muster and are legit users. So what's he deal here? Surely some idiot posting lol donkey balls is not a threat to bitcoins. These leeches exploiting, or as they would surely like to put it, "gaming the system"  are somehow not? Stalking the newbie forums specifically to entrap the inexperienced unopposed and with impudence?

Nobody bats an eye?

I'm ashamed of you, Mitch.

But why would anyone send BC to these adresses any more than anyone would just transfer money to a completely random bank account? I'm not sure I'm understanding what you're proposing here.

Does it come with that gorgeous cat or is that an extra?

They would not, but they can sure as hell clamp down on some dude aquiring and sending out prescription medication in large quantities to unknown recipients, much easier so if he is not a pharmacist/doctor.

I do agree that having you wallet in your sig is akin to just casually asking every passer by if he can spare some change frankly. You don't expect anything but maybe he likes your outfit? Who knows! It's not really panhandling is it?

Exactly. Let's make it very simple. The pool has only 3 miners, one contributes 80% of all hashes, the other two contribute 10% each. That means divided fairly the first miner would get 40 BC, the other two would get 5 each. However you are not dividing the full 50 BC, you are dividing only 49.5, 0.5 going into the jackpot. The hard worker is unlikely to win this as he is outnumbered by the other two. So you are effectively taking BC away from the deserving and handing them out to casual holiday miners, which was my entire point all along.

This is a direct quote from your site:

Every time a block is found, we put some of the bitcoins in our jackpot. Once a week, randomly connected to the find of a block, the jackpot is paid-out to one of the members of the pool that found the block that triggered the jackpot.

So of the bitcoins gained from mining the block you put some to the side, instead of distributing them properly, and then hand half bitcoins outo willy nilly in a lottery, which is exactly what I asked about.

Furthermore, how many is "some of"? Highly suspicious, if you ask me.

You have to look at the big picture. Yes it is a scam, but I do not believe it is one aimed at direct financial gains. The market is currently volatile due to the currency being in its infancy and the old money is just starting to take an interest and maliciously taking actions to destabilize it, so look at this scam another way. Every "nerd" they do get, is one thread or post of a proponent of the currency saying I lost everything. Just think of the damage it can do. Especially now when we really have to show our grit, with the volatile market, it is important to recognize these deliberate attacks and laught them off.

edit: After all, hitting the miners is hitting the community where it really hurts. Without miners, there are no bitcoins.

Are you a pharmacist? If not you should really talk to a legal advisor, dealing in pharmaceuticals is sadly heavily regulated by most governments so you might be open to litigation.

Enlighten me as to how scimming some BC off the top to randomly give away as a jackpot is in anyone's interest but those who have very low mining capacities? Surely miners with adequate rigs gain nothing by trading reliable income for the chance to win a little bit in a mock lottery?

My favorite thing about this screengrab is that the McLeod security stamp that gives this a 100% safe approval features a completely different url (effectively the folder name + .com) and furthermore a simple google search for McLeod security yields absolutely nothing of substance.

That was my point or maybe they are blocking the referrers from this forum, the official bitcoins forum, to their bitcoin related project!

Link says 403 forbidden, mate.

It would be helpful if the next time it happens, you could write down and post the full error message. As it is, it is somewhat nebulous.