Topic: Overview of recent username changes in Bitcointalk - page 3. (Read 1840 times)

The primary idea behind the creation of this topic is to have a transparency in the change of user names and to prevent further confusion among the new users or someone who is not really having a grasp on these changes recently. The idea behind the topic wasn't to break the privacy of the above mentioned users in the name of revealing their new usernames and I further believe that these forum name changes shouldn't go unnoticed in a forum which deals with reputation and money. We have been noticing various scams which are being used by scammers to trick newbies in the name of reputed users over here and in telegram as well.

I have been part of various torrenting forums for quite a long time (8+ years) where username changes are quite common and we could change the names whenever we like and none does care about that. But as far as this forum is concerned, each username carries a reputation and if the reputation is being mishandled by scammers, we would be seeing unnecessary loss of funds which would turn the plates towards the older user names. To prevent these bizarre circumstances, I have created this topic. This was one among the important reasons why theymos removed the username change feature from this forum.

There is always one satoshi, one sirius, one cobra, one theymos, one micgoossens, one Pamoldar in this bitcoin ecosystem! Fraudsters like CSW shouldn't claim himself to be satoshi nor does any forum scammer shouldn't claim themselves as micgoossens or Pamoldar and these recent name changes should never pave way for those situations.

For long time reputation board was a bit quite and now it seems to have some life again with this new directions  of name changing. Lately I have noticed a lot of the users to do that and as long as the admin is okay with it then I see no problem here. I really do not see any need for discussions too. If those users want privacy then let them have it. Some of them earned the respect from the community for sure.

Actually we can. Just stop talking about it and let the topic to be buried under tons of topics we have in the board. Not everyone is LoyceV or other guys who are good at analysing data. Not talking about it anymore at-least will give a semi privacy for those users. Let them enjoy it at-least.

Everyone has their reasons and we should be okay with it instead of pointing out our fingers on them.

I wish it to be known that henceforth you people may call me "La".

This would be something theymos could create: a new rank that shows you're an old user, without disclosing your old account.
If Admin only creates such accounts for users who made a name for themselves, it could be a solution to have and eat the cake!
I too wouldn't mind having more privacy, but once it's gone, there's no way to get it back.

It was fun for me to have a little bit hide and seek, to create a little confusion. Even in the EPL pool I got one post deleted coz mod thought I was someone else (don't blame him of course) and bunches of others incidences was pretty enjoying. For instance, someone is the EPL pool is thinking they finally found a girl who is interested in the pool in sports (Football/soccer whatever the F**k you call it)😜
May be I need to inform Steve too so that he do not flag my sportsbet.io account for unauthorized access LOL

Point is, someone with a little known to us who had communication with us know our style, interest; so whatever our identity (username), it is meant to get noticed that this is us the same people. There are no need to document anything or to find a special place to farewell us.

I go here with Mic again. Haven't we earn at least some credibility to get some respect from the community by not asking too many questions and feel okay just the way we are?

I think I have already gave the answer with my point above.

Pretty simple to make sense. 😀

There seems to hardly be any way to have your cake and to eat it too - I mean retaining some of the benefits of the credibility carried over from the old name to the new name, so of course, there can be some benefits in changing your user name, but seemingly the ONLY way to completely lose the connection of the possible negatives that have come to your old user name would be to create a new account and to really start over.. and maybe not even mention the old user name in connection with the new account.

There is also security through obscurity, too.. and there are likely other means of attempting to NOT draw the wrong kinds of attention to yourself.. and the interwebs are filled with fucktwats.. Well, maybe you ONLY need 1 in a million fucktwats, and that is enough to cause potential real life issues in the meat space.

Any of us who are outspoken forum members retain some of these potential security issues, and yeah, there are folks who have purposefully chosen to be notorious public figures in the bitcoin world or the crypto space, and even many of them (if you really attempt to delve into their personal matters) can tell stories of various kinds of issues or attack attempts upon them.. of course, Jameson Lopp is a known example, but there are plenty of others, too.

Just consider some of the issues that we might have admitted to ONLY owning 1 BTC and given some details regarding that 1 BTC, but fuck all about the god damned BTC price going up to a million and now our paltry amount of BTC has real value in terms of the many normies who had not known about BTC in the early adoptions days that we still seem to be in... just like 2017... holy fuck, even I witnessed the crazies coming out of the woodwork in my real life in regards to the BTC topic, and I had wallets with fractions of a BTC that I had considered as just dust that turned into real and meaningful value.. .. that .05 BTC that I had purchased for $12 in late 2015, all of a sudden was worth $1,000 in late 2017.. and I had not even realized that I was carrying around that amount of value.. because it happened so fast, relatively speaking when we have other things going on in our lives, too.

For me the discussion stops here.
Do as you al knowing guys seems fit.

If every move is to be questioned and no respect can be shown by just easily say... "hey NP if you feel this is best for you, then we respect that wish"

Agreed. I don't think you can get a name change if theymos doesn't recognize your username, and if theymos recognizes it, many others will recognize it too. So there's no scenario in which you can change your name unnoticed.

Start a new account then. I don't get the point of keeping the same account and not wanting anyone to notice the change, especially considering the squatting risk.

I think announcing the registration here is a good move overall and we could always track the activity if needed and act accordingly. Or he could just give the accounts details to micgoossens, oo sorry' El duderino_ and he can change it later. But even after all this I don't think @asu would use this accounts for any trivial benifits.

The whole idea for ... was to change his username because after some time he thought the username could identify his real identity. He PM’d theymos & was luckily granted permission to change it.

Now he’s got full attention back on him again. I can’t speak for ... but I’d be annoyed if it was me.

Edit - BitcoinGirl.Club - It took me a while to figure out who you were. I was looking through my PM’s from ages ago & I spotted the name

I left a red trust too on the new test account by asu.

I never too, in fact I am not a meta much guy. But I think this was just a test attempt so no harm will be taken from it.

I am with micG here. I am not thinking about any harm and stuffs but a part of me is saying that it's better to respect ones wish than arguing about it. This whole thread seems wrong to me for those who wanted it to keep the changes unnoticed.

I personally have no issue since my reason was about exposing the project I am working for my little girl but yes this is the exact reason (Mic's quote) for those who would not like this topic.

I'm not only speaking for myself, I have noticed name changes and people didn't post for months anymore.... then take back where they left.

As for me for example if i'm have been in any kind of weird situation, but I know there could be a problem... changed name cause of good reason... writes months with the new name then you're getting out of the picture ...

If every where keeps been written he was him etc then its just more easy...

What harm does publishing that info do to anyone? Your old username is all over the place in every old quote etc. If you want a clean start create a new account.

Interesting: this breaks the link between old and new username as I described here.

Am I the only one who thought it's a good thing to know changing your username means you can lose your old name? That's especially imporant for Donators who temporarily change their name to something else!

Please stop offending me by apologizing for offending people

You're one of the better forum user, better people around.....

But some of who I know preferred not be known anymore by previous forum name, then why keep making those posts, you should respect there wishes with this.... let say some have some issues with scams or whatever, then why keep connecting unnecessarily dots?

These are no circumstances like Alt accounts or whatsoever who's doing harm to anybody... like take me as an example, you know my previous and new name, if something would be wrong then you can easily find out, nobody is harmed by my name change....

Those things are not for nothing, I think with invalid reason we cannot change our name.

I don't see any ill intent here. It's good to know that old usernames can be recycled. That's a huge risk IMO and a very good reason to reconsider changing one's username, or at least to re-register the old one preemptively.

@asu

I’ve never interacted with you on here before & I can see that you’re a Legendary Member with positive trust but part of me can’t help but feel this is a bit of a dick move. I’ve met ... multiple times in real life & consider him a real friend so I felt compelled to leave a comment here.

I hope that you’ve only done this to test the forum, kind of like a Meta task because ... is DT1 & a lives very comfortably in real life. There could quite easily be opportunities to abuse the account ‘micgoossens’ for personal gain.

You should have kept this discrete & not made it public imo if you were just testing if it’d be possible to create a new account in a recently changed nickname.

I’m going to keep me eye on this but the first thing I’m doing it tagging the ..... account so people know it’s not the real OG ....

Apologies if I’ve offended you, it wasn’t my intention.

LFC

Those lazy bastards. Here is a list username changes over the last year or so but it's not guaranteed to be comprehensive (and you can see with e.g. #2429460 that multiple changes might not be detected properly).

UserId |Old               |New               |Approximate Date|
-------|------------------|------------------|----------------|
   4475|Nekrobios         |N12               |      2019-05-12|
  16540|deego             |fgmnp             |      2019-08-23|
  16690|snowboard789      |PGPpfKkx          |      2019-12-25|
  24140|qwk               |q_w_k             |      2020-01-04|
  24140|q_w_k             |qwk               |      2020-01-04|
  53889|Mendacium         |Axios             |      2019-04-15|
  67058|TradeFortress     |TradeFortress []  |      2018-12-06|
  67181|mah87             |Harrypottertheplay|      2018-12-20|
  67181|Harrypottertheplay|mah87             |      2019-03-20|
  68300|JSchilli1         |WEKDKN8zT3Hg      |      2019-06-18|
  72377|glassuser         |atomium           |      2019-01-27|
  91140|owenprescott      |uMMcQxCWELNzkt    |      2019-05-25|
  96177|nivong            |brntFBJ2ktAC      |      2019-06-15|
 107200|m0gliE            |mOgliE            |      2019-02-09|
 182284|mfort312          |RejectedBanana    |      2019-07-03|
 204841|Xylit             |ai7sma52rk        |      2019-07-02|
 241548|BtcMoFo           |Rizzrack          |      2019-04-12|
 391605|FirstGlobalCredit |Panxora_COO       |      2019-09-16|
 408367|killyou72         |FFrankie          |      2019-12-03|
 553678|rickbig41         |Mr. Big           |      2019-02-13|
 662330|Pamoldar          |BitcoinGirl.Club  |      2020-01-08|
 815246|iwantapony        |Murat             |      2019-12-27|
 886521|mjglqw            |mk4               |      2020-01-08|
 941526|#BitcoinCore      |Forsyth Jones     |      2019-03-13|
 948100|Thiblizz          |6RwBvTt7v2j7      |      2019-06-18|
 978859|Algorithm_        |B3jKrZ3DmQ6       |      2019-06-06|
1018510|Matthias9515      |Blacknavy         |      2019-10-22|
1067333|micgoossens       |El duderino_      |      2020-01-07|
1537264|siffrein          |AgZaWZwAgVxcm     |      2019-07-27|
2429460|[email protected]   |kris_akminer      |      2019-04-03|
2429460|kris_akminer      |kris_amotic       |      2019-06-22|
2429460|[email protected]   |kris_amotic       |      2019-06-22|
2578432|SSBJ              |mFk42YqJDs8tJJ    |      2019-06-28|

I gave it a try and it seems that their old username is in available for using it again.

micgoossens - https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/micgoossens-2744287