Casascius 10BTC Silver Round /w Gold B - page 4.

nubbins

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Quote from: zanzibar on March 19, 2015, 10:15:25 AM

The only way this will be worth a fortune is if Bitcoin is worth a fortune and therein lies the paradox!

The paradox being that nobody will pay $200,000 for a privately-minted silver round with $100,000 of BTC on it?

Anyone holding 10s or 25s long-term in the hopes of making a fatter profit years down the road is either insane or has poor extrapolation skills.

zanzibar

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Quote from: bitmarket.io on March 18, 2015, 09:07:42 PM

Quote from: Michail1 on March 18, 2015, 06:43:08 PM

Quote from: bitmarket.io on March 18, 2015, 06:39:14 PM

.. didn't pay attention....

Oh, you paid for it.
That said, I wish my education only cost me $150. You got lucky.

PS. My $4500 offer is now at 17.64btc in value. Soon, that dollar amount will be worth far more than the 20 you're asking. Heh
PSS. To find a list of 95% (made that number up) of bitcointalk scammers... Simply click on members (at the top), then click on 'search for members', put in ` for the search. You get a list of a couple hundred squatted nicks. Why doesn't bitcointalk wipe them out or ban them? meh

can't go lower than 20. already had multiple offers of 17btc. one day these puppies will be worth a fortune and be desired by many more. i can wait. i don't need the money at the moment.

The only way this will be worth a fortune is if Bitcoin is worth a fortune and therein lies the paradox!

bitmarket.io

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Quote from: Michail1 on March 18, 2015, 09:28:18 PM

Quote from: bitmarket.io on March 18, 2015, 09:07:42 PM

can't go lower than 20. already had multiple offers of 17btc. one day these puppies will be worth a fortune and be desired by many more. i can wait. i don't need the money at the moment.

I understand.

Not much longer and I will buy 20btc with the $4500 and strike a deal with you. At this rate, it will only be a couple of days (if that).

sounds like a deal! Cheesy

Michail1

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Quote from: bitmarket.io on March 18, 2015, 09:07:42 PM

can't go lower than 20. already had multiple offers of 17btc. one day these puppies will be worth a fortune and be desired by many more. i can wait. i don't need the money at the moment.

I understand.

Not much longer and I will buy 20btc with the $4500 and strike a deal with you. At this rate, it will only be a couple of days (if that).

bitmarket.io

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Quote from: Michail1 on March 18, 2015, 06:43:08 PM

Quote from: bitmarket.io on March 18, 2015, 06:39:14 PM

.. didn't pay attention....

Oh, you paid for it.
That said, I wish my education only cost me $150. You got lucky.

PS. My $4500 offer is now at 17.64btc in value. Soon, that dollar amount will be worth far more than the 20 you're asking. Heh
PSS. To find a list of 95% (made that number up) of bitcointalk scammers... Simply click on members (at the top), then click on 'search for members', put in ` for the search. You get a list of a couple hundred squatted nicks. Why doesn't bitcointalk wipe them out or ban them? meh

can't go lower than 20. already had multiple offers of 17btc. one day these puppies will be worth a fortune and be desired by many more. i can wait. i don't need the money at the moment.

Michail1

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Quote from: bitmarket.io on March 18, 2015, 06:39:14 PM

.. didn't pay attention....

Oh, you paid for it.
That said, I wish my education only cost me $150. You got lucky.

PS. My $4500 offer is now at 17.64btc in value. Soon, that dollar amount will be worth far more than the 20 you're asking. Heh
PSS. To find a list of 95% (made that number up) of bitcointalk scammers... Simply click on members (at the top), then click on 'search for members', put in ` for the search. You get a list of a couple hundred squatted nicks. Why doesn't bitcointalk wipe them out or ban them? meh

bitmarket.io

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i recently got scammed in IRC. i asked if blazed could send me $150 USD via PP. and some fake blazed PMed me and fooled me. sent him $150 worth of btc and never received the cash.... felt like an idiot. then again i was in a rush and didn't pay attention.

fortunately it was a small loss.

Michail1

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Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 10:38:57 AM

Plenty of threads with bold red "THIS IS THE ONLY PAYMENT ADDRESS" in the OP -- would be curious to know how many of those get targeted for scams.

I think this is the best/easiest way to stop scammers.
Any idiot paying another address than listed clearly in bright red and the first line of an OP deserves to be scammed.

The potential buyer must realize you have an auction simply by the fact he got to the first post of a thread. So, ummm, can't say he didn't know the payment address didn't match, even if the nick, PM, yada yada don't match.

ezeminer

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Lie down. Have a cookie

Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 10:38:57 AM

Quote from: ezeminer on March 18, 2015, 10:35:40 AM

Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 10:13:05 AM

Too true -- the root of the problem is personal responsibility.

That said, the more I can encourage the use of PGP, the better!

Maybe bold red messages saying "check that I am the real *user*, if you are PM'd"

Plenty of threads with bold red "THIS IS THE ONLY PAYMENT ADDRESS" in the OP -- would be curious to know how many of those get targeted for scams.

I had a smoothie impersonator try to get me when I saw something was fishy. one he didn't have the proper signature, two he tried collecting money before the auction was over and three the address didn't match...
I find it funny that people try to scam, but also sad that there is such a large scam-account base.

nubbins

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Quote from: ezeminer on March 18, 2015, 10:35:40 AM

Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 10:13:05 AM

Too true -- the root of the problem is personal responsibility.

That said, the more I can encourage the use of PGP, the better!

Maybe bold red messages saying "check that I am the real *user*, if you are PM'd"

Plenty of threads with bold red "THIS IS THE ONLY PAYMENT ADDRESS" in the OP -- would be curious to know how many of those get targeted for scams.

ezeminer

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Lie down. Have a cookie

Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 10:13:05 AM

Too true -- the root of the problem is personal responsibility.

That said, the more I can encourage the use of PGP, the better!

Maybe bold red messages saying "check that I am the real *user*, if you are PM'd"

Blazed

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Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 10:13:05 AM

Too true -- the root of the problem is personal responsibility.

That said, the more I can encourage the use of PGP, the better!

I agree it is a great way of being safe and secure!

nubbins

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Too true -- the root of the problem is personal responsibility.

That said, the more I can encourage the use of PGP, the better!

Blazed

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Quote from: nubbins on March 18, 2015, 09:12:59 AM

Quote from: hedgy73 on March 18, 2015, 02:44:20 AM

Quote from: Michail1 on March 17, 2015, 08:51:49 PM

To his/her defense, bitcointalk makes it FAR too easy to scam people by allowing such nicks to exist (with special characters). ` and ' and . shouldn't even be allowed as part of the username. And, once it is obvious as it is, the scammer/squatter nick should simply be blocked from use.

Agree 100%.

To be honest, I/l and O/0 are way more of a problem. If you don't notice a ` at the end of someone's nick (true sign of a scammer, hey Michail? Cheesy

), there's no amount of rules gonna help you.

Probably a good idea to start pgp-signing all OPs in marketplace threads.

PGP will not help any more than posting a btc address does. The issue is sloppy buyers, and no matter how much you try and help it is still on them to pay attention.

nubbins

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Quote from: hedgy73 on March 18, 2015, 02:44:20 AM

Quote from: Michail1 on March 17, 2015, 08:51:49 PM

To his/her defense, bitcointalk makes it FAR too easy to scam people by allowing such nicks to exist (with special characters). ` and ' and . shouldn't even be allowed as part of the username. And, once it is obvious as it is, the scammer/squatter nick should simply be blocked from use.

Agree 100%.

To be honest, I/l and O/0 are way more of a problem. If you don't notice a ` at the end of someone's nick (true sign of a scammer, hey Michail? Cheesy

), there's no amount of rules gonna help you.

Probably a good idea to start pgp-signing all OPs in marketplace threads.

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Welcome to the SaltySpitoon, how Tough are ya?

Quote from: hedgy73 on March 18, 2015, 02:44:20 AM

Quote from: Michail1 on March 17, 2015, 08:51:49 PM

To his/her defense, bitcointalk makes it FAR too easy to scam people by allowing such nicks to exist (with special characters). ` and ' and . shouldn't even be allowed as part of the username. And, once it is obvious as it is, the scammer/squatter nick should simply be blocked from use.

Agree 100%.

A lot of times they are banned. Just nuked the person in question. People who create accounts to scam by pretending to be another user are by extention PM spamming people, so even though moderators don't remove scams/scammers, oftentimes there is enough overlap that we can deal with them.

Sorry to interupt your sales thread, but report any other fake bitmarket.io accounts

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Quote from: Michail1 on March 17, 2015, 08:51:49 PM

To his/her defense, bitcointalk makes it FAR too easy to scam people by allowing such nicks to exist (with special characters). ` and ' and . shouldn't even be allowed as part of the username. And, once it is obvious as it is, the scammer/squatter nick should simply be blocked from use.

Agree 100%.

bitmarket.io

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So sad. someone makes an offer and the scammers spring in action. fortunately the people making offers are no idiots.

Michail1

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Quote from: Taras on March 17, 2015, 08:32:27 PM

This is a bit depressing. Someone out there is trying to get things, and knowingly causing other people to lose things as a result. Sad

Whoever the scammer is, this is for you.

Ok, I have to admit. I did look at the photo. You're way too nice.
I got something far better for the idiot scammer.

To his/her defense, bitcointalk makes it FAR too easy to scam people by allowing such nicks to exist (with special characters). ` and ' and . shouldn't even be allowed as part of the username. And, once it is obvious as it is, the scammer/squatter nick should simply be blocked from use.

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Please do not PM me loan requests!

Quote from: Michail1 on March 17, 2015, 05:06:01 PM

And the idiot scammer tries with another new account....

Quote from: bitmarket.io` on March 17, 2015, 09:56:25 PM

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I offer 16.5 or $4500

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=813238.20

Hi,

Was hoping for hell of a lot more than 16.5BTC for this coin but at this moment in time the physical coin market seems quite slow so my loss is your gain.

Total inc. shipping is 16.5BTC

Payment address : 1BbzqWTrPNA6ece4sn3HmcvrERv1BcFRTJ

After payment drop me a pm with the transaction I.D and shipping info.

Coin will shipped fully insured and tracked within 1 working day.

Sad to see this special coin go at the price but needs must unfortunately Sad

Thanks,

bitmarket.io

This is a bit depressing. Someone out there is trying to get things, and knowingly causing other people to lose things as a result. Sad

Whoever the scammer is, this is for you.

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