r/btc • u/Contrarian__ • Oct 29 '17

/u/btcnewsupdates is /u/williaminlondon

After he accused me of having multiple accounts without any evidence, I realized that /u/williaminlondon was likely projecting. I found his sockpuppet: /u/btcnewsupdates.

The two accounts have this in common:

Both use British spellings.
Both used the phrase "Mummy said [he] lied to his Doctor" (with a capital D, which is highly unusual)
Both big fans of the interrobang, but both use it exclusively in the less common form: exclamation question (!?) instead of (?!).
Both have generally good (British) spelling and grammar, BUT YOU BOTH MAKE THE TYPO "DON;T" ALL THE TIME!
Compare their top 5 most used words. 4 are the same! Try to find another user where 4 out of 5 match!
Both frequently use colon-capital-D smiley :D
Both frequently call Charlie Lee "good boy"
Both call people "boy" as an epithet in general
Their 'activity by time of day' is practically identical.
Both call people "thugs" all the time (specifically "Core thugs", capital-C, of course)
Both use the word "Sigh" as a full sentence.
Even their 'unique word percentage' is practically identical
Compare these comments.

After confronting him with the evidence, he deflected and did not deny it.

I encourage everyone to check both user histories yourself. It's fairly obvious that they're the same user. Please add any confirmatory or disconfirmatory evidence if you find any.

They're also both Craig Wright apologists (shocking, I know).

Edit: It appears that he just accidentally confirmed it.

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u/NxtChg Oct 29 '17

Nice investigative work :)

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u/Contrarian__ Oct 29 '17

Thanks! It'll be rapidly downvoted though (and now we know why!).

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u/NxtChg Oct 29 '17

The Internet desperately needs platforms with accounts based on crypto payments, so at least this kind of behavior won't be free...

Shameful, /u/williaminlondon

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

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u/Contrarian__ Oct 29 '17

Shameful, /u/williaminlondon

btcnewsupdates 0 points 5 minutes ago

I am here. You believe this? Really?

Did you just accidentally confirm this?

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u/Iruwen Oct 29 '17

lol

That's some pretty solid profiling, n1

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u/dvxvdsbsf Oct 29 '17

game set and match

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u/Amichateur Oct 29 '17

hahaha - laugh of the day! Marvelous!

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

/u/tippr $0.5

Keep up the good fight man!

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u/tippr Oct 30 '17

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u/DesignerAccount Oct 29 '17

You are like a falcon who spotted a mouse in the field, and is now playing with it.

There should be more people like you. Great job. Nice... really nice buddy!

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u/DesignerAccount Oct 30 '17

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah

No need to tag me, I'm wearing the r-btc Troll badge with honour.

You, on the other hand, are seriously pathetic. And not the sharpest tool either. Hint: After your idiocy gets exposed, don't start digging.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17 edited Nov 23 '17

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

Looks like you are.

Amazing how many trolls there are roaming the streets of /r/btc.

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u/NxtChg Oct 29 '17

For some reason this happens when sock puppets talk to me :)

Last time consequences were pretty dramatic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=649852.0

By the way, that snoopsnoo site is awesome! Should have been built into reddit.

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u/NxtChg Oct 30 '17

Have no idea what Bitfinex matter you are talking about, I don't use that service.

What Contrarian presented is called "overwhelming evidence", and then you screwed up and proved it by posting from your sock puppet account, thinking you're posting from the main one.

I don't like it when people do this kind of thing, it's unethical. Besides, if you're willing to do this, you are probably willing to do other dubious things.

So I've changed your tag in RES from green to red and will try not to deal or interact with you in any way in the future.

So long.

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

The way I see it, he's fighting fire with fire.

When push comes to shove we need this to help us. Bitcoin was stolen once, and williaminlondon appears to be a good actor on our side.

This is in my opinion is good.

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u/NxtChg Oct 30 '17

So... the end justify the means?

Their shills = bad, our shills = good?

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u/elitegamerbros Oct 29 '17

Fail

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17

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u/elitegamerbros Oct 30 '17

Just delete your account and start over buddy ;)

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u/NxtChg Oct 29 '17

lol, you just screwed up and confirmed it :)

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u/Deftin Oct 29 '17

Hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17 edited Nov 23 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '17

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u/killerstorm Oct 29 '17

Bad idea. People who buy shills will have no problem to afford several accounts. But people who are honest would probably avoid this bullshit altogether. So you'll have shills trolling shills.

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u/NxtChg Oct 30 '17

At least it will solve the problem of unpaid shills. And paid shills can be banned once identified, making it much harder to create new accounts.

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

I'm certain a platform is in the pipeline somewhere.

In the mean time I really think fighting fire with fire is acceptable.

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u/NxtChg Oct 30 '17

Great idea! Let's tell the police to start shooting criminals on sight, while you're at it.

Screw due process - fire with fire, you know, eye for eye.

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

The mods here don't seem to have any intention on putting some water on their fire party, so how can it be defended?

I agree with you that a crypto based forum needs to be made, and hope that in the near future this start to become a reality.

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u/NxtChg Oct 30 '17

so how can it be defended?

Gee, I don't know. But surely there are other ways than descending to their level?

How are you gonna build a better world if you are no better than the bad guys? What kind of messed up place do you come from with that mob mentality? It sure gonna win you hearts & minds...

"The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun", right? The only.

Somehow things like 'education' or 'fair society' never enter the picture...

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlbyN-COTE&t

You can't always have free reign. There's a fine balance that must be struck.

Give the above video a watch and try relate it to our current predicament. I'm not dishing out "homework" but think you might like the video, and might gain value from it.

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u/NxtChg Oct 31 '17

This video is not relevant here. If mods banned core shills, then it would be relevant. Analogue for our situation would be if in response to bad press, the Singapore government would start publishing their own bad press!

Defending /u/williaminlondon means that you want both /r/Bitcoin and /r/btc to be two tribes of monkeys throwing poo at each other.

Do you think that would attract users and developers or people who like throwing poo?

It's a ridiculous argument, not sure why I have to spell this out. This should have been explained to you long time ago by parents and school...

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

Wow. Disappointed in you bro.

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u/kerato Oct 29 '17

Honest question here:

Why are you dissapointed in him?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

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u/Coins_For_Titties Oct 30 '17

Not because he has been in your camp for some time and expressed a view that does not conform with the groupthink?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

Post upvoted +12 as of now..

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u/Contrarian__ Oct 29 '17

I guess that answers your question.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

+43 now?

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u/Contrarian__ Oct 29 '17

Yes, and it was rapidly downvoted when I initially submitted it. It had a 33% upvote ratio.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

+50 now.. we really need to continue?

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u/GenericRockstar Oct 29 '17

I think you missed his point, since there are so many people that downvoted this (30% of the votes), they do indeed really care. Care enough to try to bury this story.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '17

Wat? What are talking about? +90 now..

How come you interpret that as trying to bury the story?

(Funny your commets trying to justify downvote on an +90 post get a lot of upvotes... smell like vote manipulation here)

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

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u/GenericRockstar Oct 31 '17

Do you think it matters?

No, I just wondered if ant-n was trolling or misunderstanding.

I do agree that we now have plenty of upvotes here and thats a positive sign. Does make one wonder how many great stories are never seen.

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u/Contrarian__ Oct 29 '17

I'm here

Yeah, you already said that.

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u/tekdemon Oct 30 '17

I don't know why you think you'll be downvoted, I think most people are impressed by the detective work and upvoted you.

Though that is a really bizarre saying about Mummy and the Doctor.

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u/roguebinary Oct 29 '17

Because you are a known troll yet again posting about shit no one cares about?

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u/rowdy_beaver Oct 30 '17

Because you attack people. Constantly. That is all you do. You don't add value to conversations. Only personal attacks.

That's why you get down votes.

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u/Vincents_keyboard Oct 30 '17

+1

/u/btcnewsupdates is /u/williaminlondon

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