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Coinkite is manipulating /r/bitcoin subreddit with many alt accounts and has formed a partnership with head mod theymos

Thu Oct 29, 2015 12:07 am

Someone suggested I post this here, so here you go.

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It started a few weeks ago when I was banned from /r/bitcoin because I mentioned that the Coinkite wallet was suffering from an outage due to their centralized architecture, which by the way is a weakness in their wallet which people should avoid. I would recommend wallets such as Breadwallet or Airbitz who are decentralized and don't rely on one central server to manage your data.

Since I was banned, I started doing research, as stemming from the banning, it was clear to myself there was prejudice in the banning decision. Coinkite is a bitcoin wallet, with an overzealous and deceitful CEO Rodolfo Novak who spams /r/bitcoin every chance he gets with links to Coinkite. His accounts have never been banned, and he is able to troll anyone and everyone, yet anyone that goes against him gets banned, while he skates off doing his thing in /r/bitcoin.

In my research, I found the following reddit accounts with a high probability of association with relation to textual analysis and links relating to Coinkite. The evidence is overwhelming, and it's become clear to myself and others who comment here and there, that Coinkite is manipulating /r/bitcoin with upvotes, downvotes, bots, and collusion. Rodolfo and Coinkite have been vote manipulating /r/bitcoin for a long time now (see link)! This is clearly against the rules of reddit, but I highly doubt this will change things in /r/bitcoin, as I don't think theymos shares his secret partnerships with any other mods. His partnerships with core devs, Blockstream, and companies such as Coinkite, are bound by agreements made behind closed doors and paid in bitcoin.

Here is the list of people that came up in my research that are sockpuppets for Coinkite:
This research is ongoing, as more accounts are being uncovered. If you have more accounts for me to look into, please PM me or post a comment.

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The original post can be found here on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_uncens ... ddit_with/

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Re: Coinkite is manipulating /r/bitcoin subreddit with many alt accounts and has formed a partnership with head mod they

Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:47 pm

welcome and thx for your observations. i cant say something bad about coinkite (never used it) but censoring stuff is always a bad choice.

unfortunately i believe that alot of companies are manipulating /r/bitcoin with upvotes, downvotes, bots :?
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Re: Coinkite is manipulating /r/bitcoin subreddit with many alt accounts and has formed a partnership with head mod they

Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:50 am

be a good idea to give a forum the ability to expose ip address + geo location of the user to prevent this abuse of of mulitple user accounts. if a user logins from many different geo locations. then thats something to be wary about. but its totally understandable where some might want to be anonymous, but i'd imagine most people dont care when posting here.

thoughts?

or maybe some other method in preventing sybil attacks on forums like these (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack)

having this feature might win over more BTT users.

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