Millions of TPS that cost a fraction of cent vs 7 TPS that cost what $30 each?  What's not superior about it?  NFTs stored on chain?  The list is long.

Hey, you're back. Or maybe you never left.

In the years since we last conversed, Bitcointalk has become increasingly more relevant from a crypto historian's point of view -- after all, it houses some epic threads for some revolutionary projects. I reference it rather regularly on Twitter these days for matters concerning old core devs positions on things, old altcoins, early bitcoin projects, and definitively settling matters on who said what or came up with an idea first.

I think it is time for the administration to provide some official information about the forum and correct some of the misinformation that individuals are dealing with.
Also, this is accompanied by the tenth anniversary of the establishment of this forum, it is shameful that this date is not properly archived.

Now, the only remaining question is about Mt.Gox Support. Most likely, this user received the VIP status together with Karpeles (MagicalTux), for same reason stated by theymos above. In this case, this user should also be removed from xtraelv's list.

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Excepting that, I just noticed that xtraelv's OP is empty and all the information appears in the second post of this thread... any idea why?

hi

ar you going to remove that negative trust i think for 3rd party coin which doesnt exist we are damaging our profile

Hi Xtraelv,

From a very long time I am distrusted by you, after months of waiting (I tried to message you) also I have distrusted you not because I was mad but because I couldn't understand reasons behind your rating.

From such long time I keep gaining positive trust ratings and even was DT1 for long time, now DT2

I never use this privilege of being DT1 or DT2 and avoid reputation board at all costs, this is not my type of thing, i only read if my username popup there or something really important for the forum happens

I want to ask you for reconsideration please, I hope that so many years with proven trust on forum and multiple vouches in my account will make you willing to think about this please

I will be happy to talk and answer questions if you have any, don't have nothing to hide and will explain any doubts you have.

Thank you for your time and please let's be friends not enemies, live is too short to waste it and fight with each other.

Regards WW

https://emoneymax.net/

pirateat40 / Bitcoin Savings and Trust: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-fraud-texas-idUSKCN1012W8
GAW / Homero Garza: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/man-who-swindled-9m-in-wannabe-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme-headed-to-prison/
Bitconnect scammers might get there as well: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/us-selling-seized-cryptocurrency-in-bitconnect-fraud-case.html

Why I'm creating this topic? As I wrote above, it's because I was almost shocked to see that the scammer remained active for 8 more years after all these scams. He was last active here last month. According to BPIP, he is (just) the 28th most distrusted user from the entire forum (but I think he should be placed on a higher spot). Also, as it can be seen on LoyceV's website, there are some users (not 1 or 2, but 13!!!) which trust TradeFortress - a fact which I find to be amazing. Another aspect amazing me is that only 23 users distrust him!

What's even worst is that it also happens that he is a VIP member, meaning that he actually paid 50 BTC to obtain this rank (no matter that when he paid BTC had a lower value). And while such members - VIPs or Donators - should be remarkable figures among us, sadly, there are cases when such titles are worn also by scammers...

Coming back to the story, I still can't understand the guts of this guy, to keep being present here all the time, involve in various threads, in various boards (Bitcoin Discussion, Gambling, Securities, Altcoins, Meta, Offtopic etc.) without having (almost) anybody asking him: "do you really have the guts of actually still being here after all you did?".

Moreover, some actually praise his posts:


Very rarely I saw someone which told him something more or less subtle, about what he did and that he does not belong here anymore.

It's like... everybody forgotten his actions... or closed their eyes.

Why is this happening? Opinions...?

Man, you bumped this thread and the last post was from TECSHARE (RIP) and the one before his was from xtraelv, and I'm wondering where he went off to.  He was very active for a while, and then it seems like he just disappeared.
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@xtraelv

It is something that can easily be manipulated with tools such as Adobe and can even be done directly online on a website.
You can change the date, keywords, and other stuff.

Frankly, coming from this person I wouldn't even be surprised. It wouldn't be the first time.

What is the chance to have 2 white papers about a disrupting technology created exactly at the same date and the same hour?
Statistically, you have more chance to win a nice amount scratching lottery tickets

Wow no, that analysis is just top to bottom full of errors.

"Papers by themselves aren’t licensed".  Not true.  Post Berne convention, any copyrightable work is copyrighted by default, and you cannot reproduce it without a license of some kind. (excepting some special cases like works of the US Federal government)  Papers often do specify licensing (unless they're all-rights-reserved: in which case you're just getting no license), specifying licensing is a universal requirement in academic publication (though sometimes you're not given a choice, you're just forced to assign copyright to the publisher or likewise).

"Open source documentation is also not copyrighted if it is given away in an open source license."  All licensed open source works are copyrighted.  The license permits you to do all sorts of stuff (if its an open source license), but it's still copyrighted and some rights are usually reserved (for example, even the most permissive licenses don't generally allow you to falsify attribution or strip licensing info).

"If the author or other owner claims ownership and registers it or uses (c), date and the copyright holder’s name at publication then it’s usually considered copyrighted."  post berne convention no copyright notice or registration is required for a work to be copyrighted. It's considered a polite practice, but is legally unimportant now.

In the US you need to register to sue in court, but that doesn't need to be done proactively in advance.

"the gift can’t be taken back and claimed as a copyright." The work is still copyrighted, so this sentence is just incoherent.  The licenses isn't revocable.

"If a copyright holder allows publication of a work by other sources and does not challenge this, the holder weakens its claim.", unlike trademark there is no duty to enforce in copyright.  Though there may be equitable defences in some situations (see mention in the letter) they are generally fairly narrow, and don't implicitly create a duty to enforce.

Providing actually false information doesn't help anyone, even if it's falsehoods used to cheer along a good cause.

Edit: After writing this, I found out that my partner, who is an attorney on the board of the Free Software foundation and is one of the authors of the CC-4.0 licenses independantly attempted to correct many of these and other errors earlier today and was just blown off.

You can do your research yourself using various services that you can find in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4586576.0

You can also share a link to the photo so that forum members can conduct research and help you determine the authenticity of the photo.