Topic: The high risk of selling a BitcoinTalk forum account (Read 1240 times)
For me selling account Bitcointalk not be big matter, but if you wanna to sell if for some reason may you can, with note make good deal with seller or buyer. for high it be on alert when you do some transaction buy or sell. cause here we don't know who we are.
The risk isn't that the buyer will joke with it, the risk is that the buyer will use the legendry account for scamming and theres a very high chance that whoever did buy it will scam. I think all accounts should cost a lot more than they do to try and prevent this but the bottom line is to never trust anyone because you never know if the account is bought and just priming to scam.
yes， I agree with you ,we should protect our accoun and do not sell! 
I don't think show the face in the Bitcoin world is a intelligent idea.
yup. but there's really no other way of proving who you are. everything else can be handed over, private keys, pgp keys, passwords, you name it.
Good ideas. But smart contracts can be included?
If you use escrow it well lessen the danger itself and i think the danger out there is when the seller dont tell the truth if he haves debts bad reputation, scams and any other bad that can be cause to those account to be faulty ones so.thats whynits very risky to buy any of those since we might compromise for the said things,
I don't think show the face in the Bitcoin world is a intelligent idea.
yup. but there's really no other way of proving who you are. everything else can be handed over, private keys, pgp keys, passwords, you name it.
Good ideas. But smart contracts can be included?
I don't think show the face in the Bitcoin world is a intelligent idea.
yup. but there's really no other way of proving who you are. everything else can be handed over, private keys, pgp keys, passwords, you name it.
Good ideas. But smart contracts can be included?
Technically speaking, that doesn't really solve anything. Since we're assuming that the sold accounts with Legendary rank belong to members who have properly earned them, then there's no reason to not assume that the chosen escrow holder's account itself is not a sold account.
the only thing that can guarantee that an escrow is who they say they are is for them to be publicly identifiable and do each deal with their face showing on skype, and they'd have to have been doing that for a while too. private keys can just as easily be passed on for signing addresses.
I don't think show the face in the Bitcoin world is a intelligent idea.
what if I buy an highly trusted escrow ID for $100.000 and than scam people for $1.000.000? looks like a nice deal
I don't think show the face in the Bitcoin world is a intelligent idea.
yup. but there's really no other way of proving who you are. everything else can be handed over, private keys, pgp keys, passwords, you name it.
Technically speaking, that doesn't really solve anything. Since we're assuming that the sold accounts with Legendary rank belong to members who have properly earned them, then there's no reason to not assume that the chosen escrow holder's account itself is not a sold account.
the only thing that can guarantee that an escrow is who they say they are is for them to be publicly identifiable and do each deal with their face showing on skype, and they'd have to have been doing that for a while too. private keys can just as easily be passed on for signing addresses.
I don't think show the face in the Bitcoin world is a intelligent idea.
Technically speaking, that doesn't really solve anything. Since we're assuming that the sold accounts with Legendary rank belong to members who have properly earned them, then there's no reason to not assume that the chosen escrow holder's account itself is not a sold account.
the only thing that can guarantee that an escrow is who they say they are is for them to be publicly identifiable and do each deal with their face showing on skype, and they'd have to have been doing that for a while too. private keys can just as easily be passed on for signing addresses.
I also think that selling accounts should not be allowed on bitcointalk. Let people do there own work to get a bitcointalk account with higher rank and positive trust and atleast no red trust. Mostly they use bought account for scamming people or get higher payment in a signature campaign.
"The only method against getting scammed is to insist on using escrow for any transaction you ever do."
Rising price of accounts will stop many people from buying, but I don't think that will completely solve the problem. For any kind of trading use trustworthy escrow, and inform yourself about person you do business with. We cant do nothing more.
Technically speaking, that doesn't really solve anything. Since we're assuming that the sold accounts with Legendary rank belong to members who have properly earned them, then there's no reason to not assume that the chosen escrow holder's account itself is not a sold account.
I believe that the best -- for lack of a more suitable word -- solution to this epidemic would be to revert any account that has been proven to have changed ownership back to Newbie rank. It would definitely be a major deterrent to the account selling industry if account buyers were to lose the very thing that they paid for, while still leaving the account itself more or less intact.
Selling bitcoin account isnt risky if first somebod pay you and then you give him bitcoijtalk forum account username password and email username and password.Never give account and then receive payment nobody dont sell nothing with that way online.
Oh, look! A newbie who posted without reading a single post on the thread! He didn't even bother reading the OP itself. If I was an evil mastermind, I'd urge everyone to PM this newbie telling him to read the OP and other members' posts before posting because posting without reading is just a different form of spamming. If I was a sly evil mastermind, I would do that but end this post with a winky face emoji to let other members know that they should take my urging seriously. Too bad I'm neither evil nor sly. Oh well.
...winky face emoji.
having a ranking system, and allowing to sell a rank is paradox. just saying.
Yes. A thing invalidate another mutually in this case, and can't coexist.
this is a very serious topic .
now i will never trust to the suggestion of legendry account fully .
thanxx to tell me about this
now i will never trust to the suggestion of legendry account fully .
thanxx to tell me about this
having a ranking system, and allowing to sell a rank is paradox. just saying.
After I chicked the digital goods and auctions sections , I found that Full Member is the most tradeable rank , there are only some legendary accounts , but I think if a newbie bought a legendary account he will be uncovered easily due to his activities .
I think it's u.
ally painfully obvious when a barely literate asshole buys a high ranking account. the previous posts are accessible and people are super vigilant about this stuff. it's a nasty business but I've no idea how anyone would stop it.
I can't understand the mindset of someone who'd sell a legendary account. that's years and years of effort. guess it's desperation or boredom. If I had one I wanted rid of i'd prefer to donate it to someone worthy so they could make use of it.
Because some people think this forum is a sewage treatment plant that's stopped treating sewage.ally painfully obvious when a barely literate asshole buys a high ranking account. the previous posts are accessible and people are super vigilant about this stuff. it's a nasty business but I've no idea how anyone would stop it.
I can't understand the mindset of someone who'd sell a legendary account. that's years and years of effort. guess it's desperation or boredom. If I had one I wanted rid of i'd prefer to donate it to someone worthy so they could make use of it.
Because some people need the money.
Because some people just don't give a shit if others get scammed or if this forum gets overrun by shitposters.
Those are the reasons I can think of. And yeah, people wonder why there's a strong vibe of paranoia here.
I think it's usually painfully obvious when a barely literate asshole buys a high ranking account. the previous posts are accessible and people are super vigilant about this stuff. it's a nasty business but I've no idea how anyone would stop it.
I can't understand the mindset of someone who'd sell a legendary account. that's years and years of effort. guess it's desperation or boredom. If I had one I wanted rid of i'd prefer to donate it to someone worthy so they could make use of it.
I can't understand the mindset of someone who'd sell a legendary account. that's years and years of effort. guess it's desperation or boredom. If I had one I wanted rid of i'd prefer to donate it to someone worthy so they could make use of it.
many risks that should you encounter when you buy a bitcointalk account, especially if it has a high position at a cheap price. Well, perhaps that your account may very easily be taken back by the first person, but it could be that it is used to deceive someone, or moreover, that account is stolen account. well, very much risk should you face, but think carefully before you buy it
The risk isn't that the buyer will joke with it, the risk is that the buyer will use the legendry account for scamming and theres a very high chance that whoever did buy it will scam. I think all accounts should cost a lot more than they do to try and prevent this but the bottom line is to never trust anyone because you never know if the account is bought and just priming to scam.
Joke was mean't scam when I wrote, sorry for my bad english.
A proative solution for it is list/identify all trusted/old accounts that is for selling. As I've spoken, anyone that have sufficient Bitcoins can buy a trusted account and sell inexistent things and earn double, and repeating and multiplicating the dispense. Increase size of accounts can't prevent scammers, but will be bad for honest buyers. The best solution is prohibit account sellings, and all people fight for your own account merit and honor!
I was against preventing account sales before because it would limit the lending section quite a bit but i do agree that if we could stop account seling it would prevent a lot of scams, Its just not as easy as that though, atm all account sales are done via this website, should we make it illegal they will just move account sales to another 3rd party site but sales will continue. The only method against getting scammed is to insist on using escrow for any transaction you ever do.
if possible let the buyer be identified and which forum account was sold as well. this way we can track who uses accounts and if they could all be suspects if the bought and sold account end up to a scammers hand.
By selling a legendary or any other trusted account, anyone newbie in forum that have Bitcoins for it can buy.
The risk? This person can use the trustability of this account for joke people and earn double of what invested in the account.
Who here agree or disagree? Lets discuss.
Ok, i agree with your opinions but maybe before the account is sold the old owner will making a notification in the trusted summary if the owner of the account has changed into a new owner.The risk? This person can use the trustability of this account for joke people and earn double of what invested in the account.
Who here agree or disagree? Lets discuss.
This not ensure security and can't avoid scams or other bad intentions from the buyer.
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