Upon information and belief, marcotheminer was banned on or about 5 March, 2015 for a period of 10 days. Approximately two days have passed since the ban was imposed.

Some of you may not be surprised about the ban because he likes to spam with his paid signature. What may be more surprising is that his ban did not stop him from spamming his paid signature with many shitty posts.

As far as one can tell DeboraMeeks is being used to spam many sections of the wonderful forum by no one other then marcotheminer.

How you ask, do I know that marcotheminer and DeboraMeeks are the same person? The answer: magic. If you want to see a magic show then continue on reading..........

It is very well known that marcotheminer likes to reuse addresses. His "personal" address is 12hYBWiPqfwdveGzpbRdGxeqnoMcNvGNSq. He posted it among many other places, here. What is not as well known is that he is very bad at coin control. Look at TXID e8a5aebeb477dff9370d3693c1856627aa9d8210d68590a465d9846d078e82b1, you should notice that it was signed with lot of addresses, because it was signed with 10 addresses, and contains 49 inputs. One of those 10 addresses is 19iNZYPpZn8BkCxDs1wdrNUTr7ieM6wra8. This address was not on any actual posts made by DeboraMeeks, however it was quoted many times as having posted it by numerous people. Examples of the above address being quoted are here, here, and my favorite, here. Granted, it is possible that the account has been sold recently, and the password to the account changed 3 days ago, however if you look at the BTC address of the profile, you will see that 19iNZYPpZn8BkCxDs1wdrNUTr7ieM6wra8 is still there - the account was probably not sold - it is probably using tor to connect to the forum though. TOR is a network that helps people maintain anonymity.

This is not the first time he evaded his ban either. For those of you that want to see that magic trick, you will have to wait until next time.

This is the conclusion of Part 5 of Pistol Pete's series.
Part 1: Spammathon: Brought to you by Candystripes (or was it Marco all along)
Part 2: Whatever Happened to Pierre11?
Part 3: Marco the account thief
Part 4: Marco the signature spammer
Part 5: Banned:Marco the signature campaign spammer: A look at past and present campaign "mistakes"


Stay tuned for the next part of this series:
Part 6: marcotheminer's alts: spammed beyond belief

The howzar Marcotheminer saga started in May 2014 when howzar was banned for sending unsolicited PM's attempting to purchase bitcointalk.org forum accounts. At the time he was running the luckyb.it signature campaign, but was a very bad campaign manger.

Howzar even had an anti spam rule saying: "** I WILL ONLY CHOOSE MEMBERS WHICH I DEEM ARE NOT SHILL ACCOUNTS **". His own shill account however was enrolled as indicated by both howzar, and the owner of luckyb.it once howzar was relieved of his duty. He received payment here. Luckily Howzar was quickly banned and relieved of his duty of managing the luckyb.it signature campaign.

Fast forward to today, and Marcotheminer has gotten banned one more time. Him managing bit-x has not changed anything. He made a lot of mistakes very early on. His very first enrollee, got payment for 111 posts when he only made 63 posts as a full member. (username...transaction identifier).  

Strangely enough, an account called marcoman22 made well in excess of the 50 required posts however it received zero from marcotheminer.

Fast forward to today, you will see that macotheminer has been playing reckless with money right from the start. He is using an online computer to store in excess of 20 BTC and using an online wallet that has had a number of security issues, so many security issues that it is not even listed on bitcoin.org.

Marcotheminer even paid some people that should not have been paid. Out of laziness, incompetence, or both he failed to exclude posts in the games and rounds and local boards sections. He gave payment to troleybüs who only made 36 posts, but was paid for more then 50.

Marcotheminer is breaking his own rule
Marcotheminer received valid negative trust from BadBear for trafficking in stolen accounts and has been banned from bitcointalk but I have not seen any official announcement that he will kick himself out of his campaign, I do see that he paid himself when he should not have been paid.

This is not the first time that Marcotheminer has been banned. His previous ban was for sending unsolicited PM's asking to buy their accounts. If you do not know how Mobo is the same as Marco then you will just have to wait

More people seem to find it very odd that bit-x is trusting marcotheminer with so much money. This is part of what was received by a very prominent member of the forum


Coming very soon:
Part 5: marcotheminer's alts: spammed beyond belief

Who said I am PistolPete? It is everyday that you are making new enemies! I am glad to see that the infamous marcotheminer finally responded, are you going to deny any of these claims? Or shall you admit to your questionable ethics?

Mr. marcotheminer, how many of your alt accounts has defaulted on loans from others? Be sure not to lie because I already know about several of them.

Comming soon:
Part 4: Banned:Marco the signature campaign spammer: A look at past and present campaign "mistakes" as well as Marco's previous bans
Part 5: marcotheminer's alts: spammed beyond belief

Which of his alts are enrolled in bit-x?

Please provide proof of them to both me and PistolPete. We will use this information to warn against Marcotheminerspammer

Marco has already made one mistake administrating bit-x. Marco has now made two mistakes in his lending business. It is only a matter of time before he makes a second mistake at bit-x and his empire will fall.

The empire of Marcotheminer will be remembered as being one of the most prolific spamming empires known to bitcointalk

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The story

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So, this story starts when the guy behind DiceBitco.in disappeared and Bitcoininformaton (now Mitchełł) and Dooglus had to take over their signature campaign. The first thread was opened by Bitcoininformation and can be found here.

At the start of the thread Marco starting asking Bitcoininformation if he could change the signature, even though the rules of the campaign that we had to finish clearly stated that this was prohibited. This rule was enforced by Bitcoininformation and Dooglus, because rules are rules. After that he started asking (forcing) them to pay out right now, because he thought that was the way to go. Well, bad luck for him, because they had to continue the campaign (which Bitcoininformation later stated again in this post. That is what their escrow contracts said and what was asked from them. He was also expecting to be paid for his 350 "constructive" posts, even though the maximum limit is 200. DiceBitco.in said that people who posted more than 200, might be paid out for those extra posts, but this was a case-by-case thing and, well, they weren't DiceBitco.in.

After 1 day Bitcoininformation decided that he will payout, so that people have a chance to leave + the first ten days were over. He paid everyone (even those who dropped out/changed their signature/etc), that have a positive post count. Dooglus took over and created another thread for that, which can be found here.


Now things are getting more interesting. Marco started to suddenly have a soul. His opinion was that stating in this signature campaign was unethical, because they were scamming users and was very firm about this. After which shorena revealed that Marco had two (!) campaigns in his signature, even though this was prohibited. He defended himself by seeing it didn't matter because it wasn't visible. Who is unethical now?

So, that was my part of the campaign, Dooglus has taken over and Marco kept him mouth shut. So, this was the tale of DiceBitco.in and Ma... No wait, there is something else, of course. 13 days after Marco left he created this topic. He wanted to rent his signature to someone and had the following slogan (which was removed, because Bitcoininformation told him it was incorrect):


Of course Bitcoininformation said something about that, because this was untrue. (Remember, he paid everyone, no matter what). So, he was lying (being unethical) once again.

This was everything I have to say about Marco. Just so you know, Marco has a -8 on BitcoinTalk++ (an extension made by JackJack that let's users vote on other users and adds a lot of extra features, you should use it, it's great). So he might be "trusted", but he is not liked.

http://puu.sh/gdgp1/e4ae436317.png


Everything about Marco, except his history of begging on just-dice, and history of taking out gambling loans, but those will be the next chapters in this saga

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This is an extension of PistolPete's series
Part 1: Spammathon: Brought to you by Candystripes (or was it Marco all along)
Part 2: Whatever Happened to Pierre11?
Part 3: Marco the account thief