Well, then I do not know why you show struck out when I check the trust list. I have not touched that, plus 98789 the other day I checked had: +1 / 0 / 0 (the +1 comes from HCP from the testing I managed for Duke/SmackThatAce). tg9 also was still 0 / 0 / 0 (right now it is 0 / 1 / 0 because FatFork gave me neutral trusted feedback).

I took screenshots in case it shows this way only for me. That would be weird, though, because I have not customized my trust list (I did not do it for 98789, I have no reason to change that). To the best of my knowledge newbie accounts cannot post screenshots, so here is a link to imgur with the two screenshots I took: https://imgur.com/a/jUmQgwo


And, what have I been doing? I was replying to the person who complained about "walls of text". I am not going to quote every person (but you can see I know that because I did it a handful of times as 98789 and I also did it in the Freebitco as tg9), this time I did because it was just two answers, but I won't be doing that for 5~10+ people.

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You are adding nothing. I already provided some evidence that should add to my case and you only keep playing the bad cop and talking shit. The Betcoin.ag chat message is still there, usernames cannot be edited (at least to the best of my knowledge) and I am 98789 as I have always been. I also tweeted from the X account that I have used for years (one that conveniently I had not deleted, because I have been considering doing so for a while).

Here are screenshots from Betcoin, you could have simply gone there and checked by yourselves that I sent the message shown in the first screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/FZGYCZx. The second screenshot shows my user ID, which you can compare against the one on 98789's signature (Betcoin.ag changed referral IDs, but before someone makes the smartass comment saying that the referral IDs are different, pay attention that they now start with an u instead of an r, they must have changed that at some point, it would be quite a coincidence that I was a different user and the IDs matched). Of course editing HTML or just replacing the URL would be very simple, but I mentioned I could record a short video to discard that possibility and you said nothing.

You have not proven a single inconsistency, you are not either suggesting a reasonable way to prove (or add evidence) that I control 98789. From the "false claim" from FatFork's feedback, which goes against the "innocent till proven guilty" principle, I won't believe your crap that if I reset 98789's password you will believe me. Seeing how things have unfolded, you will come up with additional excuses to say that that is still not enough. Being accused of "false" claims ("claims" would be a different thing, I have never asked you to just take my word for it and anyone saying otherwise is a liar), also proves that people here run to whatever conclusions they want, and that going through all this crap at the very beginning was not a bad idea.

Ultimately, you can believe whatever you want. I have been very transparent about things, for that same reason I clarified to the person that suggested chatting from my crypto-games account that usernames can be changed there (so that would prove nothing). Besides the more concrete evidence (message from 98789 on Betcoin.ag and Tweet from my=98789's X account), I have also described events that happened around the time I was active in the past and mentioned things that only 98789 would know.

If you want to call me whatever you want for being upfront about this, then do it. Even more, make the feedback red and I will just forget about this forum. I saw some idiot that keeps spamming about reverse computing, calls everybody nazi and insults people and he is still there, happy about life; back in my 98789's days, I remember "Codishmumu" was banned simply for spamming, and while it is true that "she" was spamming, "she" at least was a friendly user. Add to that that back in the day when I reported lolgato/logato1 no one gave a fuck (check my post as 98789, it was a solid report following the format that was required back in the day).

Muitas pessoas procuram Bitcoin porque querem ficar ricos, isso tem acontecido desde os primeiros anos. Os que querem ficar ricos rápido geralmente perdem um monte de dinheiro pela volatilidade, ficam chateados e vão embora.

Eu também não apoio a evasão fiscal, mas tenho muitos colegas (sou desenvolvedor de software) usando Payoneer só para não pagar impostos. O mais engraçado é logo ver eles falando que os ricos não querem pagar seu "fair share" ou criticando a corrupção dos políticos.

Não da para todo mundo, mas acho que se alguém quiser pagar menos impostos o mais fácil é obter a residência fiscal em outro país (para quem mora perto do Paraguai, ir morar ao outro lado da fronteira pode ser uma boa opção, imposto de renda é bem mais baixo lá).

Well, if people do not mind about having an alt, then I guess I can leave things as they are. I have seen some people spend time finding alts and then making drama about it, for that I wanted to avoid being involved in such a situation in the future. I would rather have the drama right now, at the beginning of tg9's life, than in a couple of months and maybe having to deal with someone claiming that I am a scammer just because of an alt (if someone said "tg9 is an alt of 98789" I would have no issues acknowledging so, which is what I proactively tried to do here).

At this point, I have the feeling that at least a few are just posting crap in this thread to meet their signature campaign goals. Regarding the "walls of text", I have always had this tendency to write a lot (because I try to clarify everything, see, I am doing it now), but in this particular case I try to address all/most points since my previous reply. The alternative would be posting multiple answers one after the other, but that would make this thread grow unnecessarily.

Part of the reason to request my other account is tagged is to avoid it being used in the future. Even by myself if I changed my mind. But mostly because hacks can happen; besides the fact that BitcoinTalk has been hacked a handful of times, hashing algorithms are eventually cracked, and one day a hacker may be able to decipher the hashed passwords that have been stolen (or, more importantly, that will be stolen in any future hacks) from this site. Since that old account would be connected with this one, I also wanted to avoid that, if a hacker at some point gains access to 98789 I won't be to blame (and for that same reason I asked here that if you ever see 98789 come back to life, feel free to mark it in red, as I have no intention of using that account, and no interest in selling it either, if I wanted a quick buck I would just use it myself and join a signature campaign as someone here suggested).

If this forum allowed deleting accounts, I would have just recovered the password, deleted it and started over, but it does not. People questioning that I want to earn the merit I get, well, that is my problem and not your business; that has nothing to do with the central topic of this thread. About TD, I will probably check again how it works and see if something has changed, but I just saw that Timelord2607 used to be in DT 1 but shows as crossed out, I guess he was removed from there but I was not aware (I think Timelord was already an user in the days of 98789 and already an established one, so I was surprised to see that his feedback to my accounts was not considered as trusted, but now it makes a little more sense).

Recovering 98789 and tagging itself or this account, or setting its personal message to say it is abandoned or anything seems useless to me. If the account was ever hacked, a hacker could easily undo all that (unless feedback cannot be removed, but I suppose it can). I am not upset, but if I were it would not be for people not taking my word (I have emphasized in every message that I am willing to try to prove my ownership), but with the two or three spammers that are posting without reading (likely because they are only trying to bump their post count for their SC) and with people quickly jumping to conclusions (for that very same reason I do not buy into that being connected in the future to 98789 without having mentioned it before, would have been as smooth as some people say).

Regarding chatting from my Crypto-games account, I just did that (~ 2 AM Colombia time, people around included "DemiGod", "BladeRunner" and "sparrows", if you know any of them, they can probably confirm that some weirdo sent random messages in the chat: asked whether accounts starting with numbers were restricted, whether you could change your user name and said he was trying to prove ownership of a BCT account), but I guess that won't prove much for two reasons:

1. You can rename yourself there (I asked that in the chat and they said you can do it twice a month).
2. At some point they asked me to change my nick because it started with numbers or it was all numbers (so I went from 98789 to noson, noson stands for nueve - ocho - siete - ocho - nueve, which are those numbers in Spanish, my native language).

I had not logged in for 5 years! But I guess Crypto-games won't give information away to other users, so you cannot simply go and ask them if what I am saying is true.

I also sent a message on Betcoin.ag at (2:22 AM Colombia time, saying "Hey, folks!", I guess it is unlikely that any of you was conveniently around just now, but if anyone has a Betcoin.ag account and is interested, we can also arrange a time/date and I can send a message there). My understanding is that on Betcoin.ag you cannot change your username, so this is a more solid proof. That chat also seems kind of dead, earliest message is from more than 12 hours ago (1:33 PM Colombia time), so if you read this in the next hours, you can probably just go and see my message there.

I will tweet "Jelou BT foucs" from X. That will not fully prove my ownership of 98789 but it adds up. If anyone has any other ideas and wants to throw them here, I am open to doing so; if not, then I guess I will just move on and continue using the forum as usual. If anyone here feels that this is a cover up to scam (that sounds like actual crap to me, but hey, you are free to believe what you want), you are invited to monitor my activity. You will eventually get bored, but that will also kind of add credibility to my story, I guess.

I probably did not mention, but after 7+ years I do not remember my old password. Back in the day I did not use any password managers (I still keep my important passwords in my head, but before I kept them all), and remembering my Bitcointalk password was far from a high priority. Of course I could reset it because I have my old email (the one I said is almost full, because I have used it for years), but that is what I say would be shady. I doubt I would be allowed to stake a new BTC address under those conditions, people will (for good reason) assume I am a hacker and instantly give me negative feedback. In theory that should not matter much, but I care about my reputation and: 1. I would not like to see my old account with negative reputation unless it is actually hacked at some point and truly deserves it, 2. people could connect this account (tg9) to my old account (98789) from my X handle or a BTC address and quickly run to conclusions and say I am a scammer. That is what I think could happen, and why I have not reset my password.

Also, I said I wanted to have a fresh start because I want that any merit I get is deserved. I know that the current system is not perfect either and people can still merit bullshit and posts that contribute a lot may go unnoticed, but those are the current rules. Having a 7-year hiatus might also be a thing, especially since I cannot sign with my old staked address (though the merit part is the biggest part of my motivation to start over).

I do have access to those addresses (kind of). I said I could do something convoluted like recording my Coinbase account and showing that the addresses I used with 98789 are there (or simply the 1PUX one I have in my profile, which is the one I used the most and the one staked), but I may do something stupid and give away more information than necessary (I do not say I can share a screenshot because editing HTML is extremely easy, so a simple screenshot would not prove anything). The issue is that Coinbase removed the ability to sign messages a couple of years ago and from what I read googling, there is no way to get a signed message from them. I cannot either move bitcoin from those addresses because Coinbase centralizes all the bitcoin (or so I suppose, I remember checking my address on blockchain.info and it always had 0 balance and it was full of input and output transactions of about the same value) and if I send BTC from my account it will likely go out from a different address.

I considered four options: 1. not doing anything and simply use fresh addresses and accounts for everything associated to tg9, but, why would I do that if I am not a bad person trying to scam? 2. Posting in Timelord2067's thread, but I checked it and one of the latest comments said he had removed a post from a newbie and emphasized on reading the rules in the OP (plus, this is not an "investigation", this is why I keep talking about that other thread, I swear there was one where you could go and say "X and Y are my alts" and be transparent about it, maybe it was an earlier version of Timelord's thread?). 3. PMing someone reputed; at first I thought of Lauda, I remember he used to be a very successful scambuster, but looks like he left the forum; I even considered Timelord2067, but I thought he (or anyone, I guess) would perceive a message from a newbie account as suspicious and that would make things unnecessarily complicated (anecdotally, in a different forum, I once PMed all the moderators and I almost get a ban; people in DT are not moderators, but they may also frown upon unwanted/unrequested contacts). 4. post a thread in reputation, which is what I ended up doing, this way I could get an opinion from multiple people and be more transparent about everything. Maybe the decision I took was not the best, but that was my reasoning.

The neutral feedback from Timelord2067 is the kind of thing I wanted (though, that one shows under "untrusted feedback", what I wanted is that it shows as neutral but is more visible so people know that 98789 is me and/or that the account will not/should not be used anymore, I could also give 98789 "untrusted feedback" but that is ~meaningless, I never really cared too much about understanding trust on Bitcointalk, but I am confused). Of course I would still have to prove that I am indeed 98789, if anyone has an idea of how to do it without making things worse (resetting the password sounds like a bad idea to me for what I said in the first paragraph); if not possible, I guess the conditional neutral feedback from Timelord is fine for now and in the future I can reuse any of my old addresses (which would not prove anything, but why would I give bitcoin for free to a third person just to claim to be them?) and maybe that will give more credibility to my story (?). That may take a while or never happen, though, I am busier these days, bitcoin fees are way more expensive and not suitable for microtransactions and, my hourly fee is higher so I may be less competitive compared to the younger me behind 98789.

I still have access to my old Betcoin.ag account, which is called "98789". Maybe through it I can prove I am who I claim to be? Though, it seems they made some changes and messed things up: I recall I had ~10 mBTC (down from 25 mBTC I had got from referrals thanks to the signature campaign) and the other day I logged back in my balance was zero. I also checked under affiliate and I see that the referral link is different (it is now a random~ish number, before it was your user ID, but the URL shows the user ID and you can compare that one to the one in 98789's signature and see that they match; if this sounds reasonable I could record my screen on Betcoin.ag, clicking multiple pages and eventually visiting any page where the user ID is visible).

I am open to ideas if anyone has any (if resetting 98789's password is the way to go, I would at least like to read some sort of consensus that that won't cause additional "shadiness" to this process). Thank you to anyone commenting, especially the ones who are actually contributing (giving ideas and at least reading/paying attention to what I write).

I think many of the questions asked are answered in the OP. I never mentioned being hacked and I would not sell my account (if I wanted to do so, I would not be asking you to tag it). To the people suggesting waking it up: people here frown upon "password has been changed recently" (and I think there is also a message that shows when an old account suddenly becomes active, I saw it under the user commenting in the second post of this thread and under Vod, for instance), but more important, if I log in to set a message it could be hacked in the future and since I cannot sign messages because all the addresses I used are from Coinbase, I would be screwed and not able to recover it.

As I say above, every address was from Coinbase so signing is not possible. I am not sure if sharing PMs is fine, but the people I have interacted with historically already left. Say, I was in the Betcoin.ag signature campaign, which was handled by roslinpl. I remember I exchanged some PMs with him. But I just found his user and apparently he was hacked at some point. I sold about 1 BTC to xetsr to pay for a TOEFL, I got PayPal from him (so anyone who also traded with him could confirm if I send them a screenshot, though I would not do this since it would mean ~doxxing someone), but xetsr apparently defaulted on a loan a couple of years down the line and his account is now defunct. I worked for SmackThatAce and we communicated a couple of times via Telegram (and probably DMs), he promoted me to manager because I was successful finding bugs at the very beginning and I brought to his attention that some people were reporting repeated bugs, I received BTC from him and paid out the folks who participated in that campaign, I see that he is still active, but who knows if the account was sold in the meanwhile or if he remembers any of the details I mention (which are very general, I myself forgot a lot of what happened then because it was 7+ years ago). I used to write for a Chinese-speaking user (I do not recall his account name) and he once asked me to confirm that someone had stolen some reviews I had written for him, this person used to give me ETH or other currencies to invest in casino bankrolls and then review the investment over a 7-day period, then I would return whatever was left to him, write a review and he would pay me (I think the details of the investments, for instance, were discussed privately, so there is no way I would know this just by looking at 98789's posting history, unless I posted about it and I already forgot).

I offered to tweet, but I understand that X accounts can be hacked or sold and that is likely not a solid proof. IDK if you have any other ideas; I think I could record a video of my Coinbase addreses showing that they are listed there (switching tabs so you know I am not editing the HTML of the page), but that would be a bit too much (and I may accidentally include personal details). I just searched Bitcointalk in my old email and I see I have some PMs there (I think I later disabled notifications to my email because they were annoying, but I have at least a couple), but from a quick look they are with DirectBet (I participated a couple of times in the Tipsters competition), roslinpl and users for which I coded, wrote, translated or signed up under their referral, many of whom were not active in this forum and just came and left. I also see there is a password reset email from when I was active (I forgot my password once), which include my IP back then, but this is not something a regular user will be able to verify and I do not think moderators will be interested in getting involved (if they were, I could simply email some bitcointalk email from the email I used for 98789 and confirm my identity that way).

Ultimately, this thread will stay here so if I reuse any of the addresses or accounts from 98789 (who is me), no one will call me a scammer or a shady user. As I said, I could have simply avoided re-using anything (which would not be hard) and stay in the shadows, and from some responses I think that would have been the "best".


Well, the post clearly says that newbies and juniors are not welcome to post investigations (I would have simply posted there, I think there was some similar post where people could go and say "X account is my alt", but I could not find it, maybe it was locked a long time ago). Also, the fact of calling it "investigation" means that it is meant to find people using alts and pretending they are different people.

I do not think my old account deserves* red feedback (if it suddenly wakes up, then yes, because it was likely hacked), but I am not afraid of it. If that is what you think should be done, then do it. If you want you can also keep it simple, assume I am a scammer, tag tg9 and I just left again and forget about this forum (I have never had a scam accusation, the closest was someone blackmailing everybody in the Betcoin.ag signature campaign, who later turned out to be a scammer himself).

And, yes, I commented on someone's thread where they say they have a Colombian vanilla card and need help, but I was straight about that I am not asking that person to send me the card information and I have not PMed them or tried to contact them otherwise. This is obvious since I have only posted a couple of times and anyone can see it, but I am mentioning it before someone "investigates" and claims I am trying to scam that user.

In fact, I would like someone that can tag accounts to do it. I could do it myself, but my feedback won't show by default because I am not part of DT. In part, I want to proactively prevent 98789 from being used for scamming in case it is hacked at some point (to the best of my knowledge I have never been hacked on any site, but there is always a first time, and Bitcointalk has been hacked a handful of times so hackers may have some secret info about 98789 already). If I could just delete that account, that would also be fine.

*I mean, back in the day no one wanted to tag lolgato/lolgato1 for scamming someone with an ANN translation and posting a thread offering his "translation services" using that as a portfolio, which was a clear scam and proved by him later scamming much more, so I do not think an account that never scammed a cent from anyone deserves a red, but hey, that would be some good, old Bitcointalk coherency.

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:

• 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 .

Colombian here. I had not heard about Vanilla cards, but after a quick Google search I see that they are a thing and backed by Movii (a local digital wallet). What kind of help are you looking for? If that is a weird way of saying you are selling the card, I am not interested, but if it is something else you need and I can help you as a local, let me know.

I am confused about why you need help, though. According to their website, this is a prepaid Mastercard that you can use both in Colombia and abroad. Is it restricted for online purchases and hence you cannot spend it yourself?

Of course you won't send me the card details (neither am I asking you to do so), you have no reason to trust in a new user with no reputation. But I can give you a hand if you need to check something about the card that maybe is written in Spanish or if you need to call some number to ask something, for example. On the other hand, depending on what you ask me to do, I will need you to prove that the card was obtained legally (asking people in foreign countries to send gift cards is a common scam, so I will need a proof that your "customer" is indeed a customer and not a victim).

By the way, I hope your health improves if at least that part of your story in the reputation thread is true.

Yes, you are right. I am Premium tier 3 and confused the base interest rate with the total, though this does not change too much the calculations: interest not earned on the 0.07 BTC becomes 0.002856, extra interest due to maximum premium level would then be 1.02% (25% of 4.08%) and you would still need to earn (0.002856 - 0.001947) / 0.0102 = 0.08911764705.

Anyway, this was a rough estimate assuming ~ideal conditions, which ignores, for instance, that WOF prices have been historically higher (so a person may have invested much more than 0.07 BTC to get them). So a small typo in the base interest does not make the point invalid: you need a large balance for Premium to be worth the cost and not lose money. For that same reason I bought a lower Premium tier and even with that, after about 2 years I am just about to break even and finally start getting a profit.

From accumulating WOF spins I have also noticed that lottery tickets are a bit more common in practice, though not sure if it has been mere bad luck the 3~4 times I have exchanged batches of WOF spins (500~1000 at a time). I won the second lowest prize in the lottery once, so that probably balances things out.



Yes, my estimate was a rough one not meant to be accurate but to give a general idea. For that same reason I optimistically assumed full benefits (as I stated before). I have also been a long time Freebitco user, but another point was that you need to trust the site long term for the investment to be worth.


This is not "normal", at least in terms of "standard" odds. Any crypto-casino will give you at least 98% odds for a 1.01 multiplier and for 94.06% pay out 1.05+.

Though this is not surprising, it is well known that Freebitco has horrible odds (they need to get from somewhere the money to pay interest), it is up to everyone if they consider dust RP (from flash promos) worth the risk given the very high house edge at this site. I would certainly not roll for 1.01 with a 5.94% chance of losing (i.e. ~6 out of 100 times).

Quizá un marco para que las empresas que operan con criptomonedas puedas operar legalmente, porque si la "ley de CryptoActivos" es el proyecto de ley 028 de 2018 (PL 028-18) que sale en Google, no le veo mayor beneficio (por no decir que ninguno) para las personas naturales (i.e. "los ciudadanos"):

• El país (gobierno y banco de la República) mantiene su postura de "no respaldo" a las criptomonedas, y enfatiza el carácter irreversible de las transacciones y los riesgos "tecnológicos, cibernéticos y de fraude", pasa a exigir que quienes operan con criptomonedas expidan un consentimiento informado aclarando esto y un par de cosas más que son medio obvias (y que el usuario promedio seguramente va a ignorar, es decir, puro requerimiento burocrático).
• Exigirán registrarse (¿alguna licencia?) para hacer trading (en las definiciones aparece "trading" simplemente como compra y venta de criptomonedas), so pena de una multa de hasta 150 salarios mínimos mensuales para personas naturales. 150 mínimos es justamente el tope VIS (vivienda de interés social), que es un precio bastante común para un apartamento/piso de unos 50~60 metros cuadrados, con 3 habitaciones y 2 baños en un sector a las afueras de alguna ciudad principal colombiana, para que los extranjeros se hagan una idea de cuánto significa esta cantidad de dinero en el país. Con el mínimo actual de 1'160.000 COP, sería una multa de 174'000.000 COP, unos 43.000 USD al cambio actual.
• También le quieren poner un impuesto del 5% causado por "cualquier transacción", que se debe liquidar trimestralmente. Esto de tener que andar haciendo reportes y pagos cada tres meses, para una persona natural, es cuando menos molesto. En Colombia la mayoría declaramos renta y pagamos impuestos anualmente. Ahora, "cualquier transacción" (podría) engloba(r) hacer pagos con criptomonedas; y si fuera el caso, no veo como un impuesto del 5% incentive el uso (que, por supuesto, no creo que sea la prioridad del gobierno colombiano).
• Habla de un "Fondo de Reserva de Fluctuación de Criptomonedas" para "subsidiar al adquirente que teniendo criptomonedas, éstas desaparecen del mercado". Ni idea de qué quieran decir con "desaparecen del mercado", el proyecto dice que el fondo tendrá que reglamentar "los criterios para subsidiar al adquiriente", así que por lo visto en este punto es de esas leyes genéricas y ambiguas que le abren el paso a cualquier cosa.

Sinceramente no le vi ni un punto que me hiciera pensar "ojalá se apruebe este proyecto de ley" (aclaro sí que lo leí por encima). Por mí que las criptomonedas sigan estando en la línea gris que están (sin ser ilegales) y en temas de impuestos reporto las ventas y pago lo correspondiente a la ganancia por dicha venta.[/list]

Unless your fiat are Venezuelan Bolivares or Argentinian Pesos, I assume your local currency does not perform as bad as FUN.

Now, talking only about the benefits of becoming premium, consider this: buying the 500k FUN required for max level currently costs 0.07 BTC. That BTC at the base 4.69% interest rate would have produced 0.003283 BTC (~124.1 USD at current rates) in a year.

In exchange, you get 16*365=5840 WOF spins + 1.1725% more of annual interest per year. Let us simplify WOF prize calculation and think that you have a 1/3 chance of getting either 50 lottery tickets, 50 RP or 50 satoshis (we are also assuming that RP value is at its maximum and the roulette is giving 50 units of prizes, we are being as optimistic as we can while staying reasonably realistic). So, out of the 5840 you are expected to get each prize ~1947 times. RPs are technically worth 1 satoshi each, so in satoshis you are expected to get: 1947*50*2 = 194700, or 0.001947 BTC.

So, subtracting what you get from the WOF spins from the interest you won't be receiving, we have: 0.003283 - 0.001947 = 0.001336 BTC (~50 USD). So, you would need to make up that much BTC per year from the extra 1.1725% you get as a bonus. Doing the math, we get: 0.001336 / 0.011725 = 0.1139445629 BTC.

If you have at least that in your balance, then yes, purchasing the membership is a solid investment. If you do not, then you are losing money, at least in the short term. And, we have not taken into account how crappy FUN token is and the crash it has had... neither if you bought the tokens/membership when FUN was more expensive.

Sure, you may win a lottery prize or hit a bigger prize at times, but given the low odds, that is not likely to have a significant impact. I also assumed you get the 16 spins and the full bonus from day 0, which is not the case (but after the second year you get the full benefits, so it is not that much of a big deal either). As a longer term strategy it may work, but you will have to trust Freebitco not changing the conditions of the program and cross your fingers that nothing bad (or shady) happens to the site.

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Talking about changing prices, Freebitco folks should make the WOF bonus prize match current conditions. It costs 4500 RP and per spin you only get 29~30 RP. You would need 150 spins to (in theory) cover the cost of the bonus, which at 5/hour would translate into 30 hours of rolling (which is not even possible considering that bonuses are active for just 24 hours). Even at its top 50 RP/spin, you would still need to roll 18 of the 24 hours just to "break even" (those calculations assume that all WOF spins will convert to either RP or satoshis, which is not true, and you are likely to get about 1/3 useless lottery tickets), that is absurd.

I think the site is OK, overall. Your social networks exist and are active and you post consistently. Here are a couple of things I think should/could be improved:

• As most people have said, loading times are not great. Most sites here load almost instantly and yours takes a few seconds.
• When you scroll to the bottom of the page, I do not particularly like the full-page "loading" element. The issue above makes it worse.
• I checked the network tab in the developer console and looks like your website is loading images that are not shown in the current page. I assume that is contributing to the slowness observed by most people.
• Social buttons are above the "share post:" text, the former are inside a div that is at the same level as the h3 holding the latter.
• The counts keep track of elements (their tags) in the current page, so they may result confusing to some people. Say: I open home and "altcoins" shows "3", if I scroll down and let other news load, it is updated accordingly, but if instead I decide to click it and go to that section, it will suddenly show "18". I think that sudden change may result confusing, but I also do not see the value of having that count in the menu.
• Writing is excessively "poetic". Some posts sound more like generic Youtube videos (think of Bright Side) and the disclaimer should be straightforward.

First, congratulations for devoting time and effort to a project like this. Hopefully you get a full version out at some point!

I find the overall concept and the narration style good. I do not know how much of the scenarios was created by you, but they also look quite nice (the meme faces slightly misaligned in some bodies not so, but that is a minor detail). There are a couple of things that I think could be improved, if you are up for some unsolicited feedback:

• I think the game fails to engage you: I watched the 6:29 minutes and I have no idea what I would be supposed to do (just "exploring" is not appealing, that only works if the game is open world and with a massive map).
• For someone who said he does not know about Bitcoin, asking whether he can get it mined or bought for fiat seems incoherent.
• I would also remove references to specific people (talking about Gavin, "Satoshi Nakamoto" is probably fine since we do not know who they were), you never know if they suddenly do something dumb and you are left with an unwanted reference.
• Finally, I do not know if this is some kind of template you are using to develop your game, but the dialogues sound a lot like the ones from Pokémon; it is also possible that you did it on purpose, but I find it a bit cheesy.

Keep up the good work!

Have you? I used to freelance for bitcoin back in 2014~2015 and I could get or send as little as 1 cent paying almost nothing in fees. 10k satoshis was a pretty standard fee to get a transaction confirmed, which even at today's BTC/USD exchange rate would be less than 4 USD.

This is a problem that needs to be addressed if significant adoption is a goal. From what I remember, that has been an active discussion topic for years, so this is not just "newbies making news". Of course if you conceive Bitcoin only as a get-rich-quick asset, paying two or even three-digit (in USD) fees should not be an issue, as you say.


My bank does not charge any direct fees for international wires and the exchange rate is consistent (slightly below the market rate), and that has not changed for years. I would blame more the lack of a disrupting entity that comes and changes the "rules" of the banking industry, so your bank increasing transaction fees is plain bullshit from them to take more of your money. I have observed this in many South American countries: In Colombia, there are a handful of banks that let you send and receive money from abroad without fees (other than a lower exchange rate), while in Chile and Bolivia it is perfectly "normal" to be charged as much as 30 USD for an incoming international transfer.

If banks actually increased your costs to send money because of the number of transactions currently rolling, questioning the technology and processes behind international transfers would be more than reasonable. It is thanks to people (and sometimes companies, to attract more customers) raising the bar that we have relatively affordable international transactions in fiat and are not paying hundreds or thousands in fees.