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John K has delivered the coins  ;D

Hmm perhaps he will throw his rep away :)
Is his rep worth 100BTC? :)

It's a shame. I've used him once for escrow in the past and it was slow and he never lived up to his end (but did send the funds after a delay). One side of me wants to think that he wouldn't scam (being so involved in blockchain), but the other half of me realizes that a large percentage of early adopters are scammers.

Here's hoping you get your coins back gents.

What's more puzzling / a bigger mystery is why would he return the 1000 forum coins but not these 100. It doesn't make sense.

Does he have any other money still held in escrows?

What to do... :)

Live's go on. :)

Winner is still a winner :) just he do not get his price :P

:)

Cheers!

thanks for notifying the community

not really.. theymos has his ips..real email... his details i  would imagine (alltho aparantly theymos does not ask for id.. he just gets randoms to hold money for him)
much bigger chance than anyone else finding him...

:) well... but a good thing :) nobody lost any BTC :)

Don't know if anyone else noticed that the bitcoin betting site betsofbitco.in went into autopilot mode (bets not being resolved, access and withdrawal not really reliable) around the same time. Could there be a connection? I have not investigated any further, just noticed the similar pattern and timing.

Onkel Paul

yes he still is holding money for this group buy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177994.0 (check last few pages)

How much is he holding for that?

he is holding 100 BTC if I am correct

He's holding 100BTC for the raffle. Is he also holding 100 for the groupbuy?

Thank you for doing this unluckyduck!

I think we need to face facts that JohnK may not be coming back and Coinroll seem disinterested in even trying to make things right even though they benefited from a large amount of advertising. It's particularly annoying as a winner, but we are only a small group that are following this.

I do think it's worth keeping this issue alive for a while though.

Any other thoughts on courses of action?

Also, please update my address as that's a wallet which is now out of use and potentially compromised.

1Kgd4dPMyUbveqpdQKGnbm5u2oEaPzvjux

Thanks :)

tnx for this thread, i was hating how no one seems to care anymore about this raffle, as if it was not counting anything

also there is no excuse anymore, the winners were confirmed by Scrat, it's just a matter of few clicks to send the corresponding reward, you need like 5 min to do this...

Do we have any word from theymos whether he actually contacted John about this matter? It might be a good idea to start filling this thread with all the info people have on John - known email addresses and other details etc.

I really can't believe this issue is still up in the air.  There should be some kind of updates from those who no john k and have worked closely with him over the years.  The is a shocking turn of event indeed.

My thoughts exactly. It makes no sense. Which leads me to believe that there is/was/will be no interest of Theymos to provide any info or even just an opinion on this.

Bump

Can use my free escrow in the meantime :) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133985.0

still nothing, i'm very upset about this

Don't. Your life is probably worth more than 5BTC, even if you consider future increase in exchange rate.

Onkel Paul

you have worked closely with him?

Wow this really sucks..I always thought of John K as the most trustworthy member providing escrow services on this board..
I hope this will get solved as soon as possible and he doesn't turn out to be a scammer!

He's saying there should be more input from those who have dealt with or known him for longer, but those people probably know as much about him personally as we do.

Indeed. Life is priceless.... so you can commit suicide for free if you really want to :P
There is no price for human life (except hiring serial killer for 120BTC - then the price is 120BTC)

Can you stop filling this thread with your pointless posts?  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Addition: John K is also the present escrow Holder for an Avalon group buy
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177994.0

Does that mean that some people got some Avalon and Avalon was not paid? Tragedy. ;-)

Lol well in a sense he saved them from a worse fate but this assumes he logs in and performs a refund  ;)

bump

Is John K the operator of the scam dice site letsdice？

First I've heard of it if he is.

I do doubt that John K would operate a dice site, scam or not.

For everyone who like to start case in the court,feel free to contact us.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=556208.0

if you think that i will forgot this, you are wrong John

i'll keep bumping to death

bump

Instead of scamming, maybe its the other way round.   Was he in control of a large amount of btc and someone got to him.  
It would kinda explain his brief reappearance to assure the masses.    However I believe people said certain wallets were untouched, that'd not make alot of sense with price falling as well.
My original guess was illness, it may also just be apathy and disregard.  People often drop out of virtual communities just because its not interesting anymore, Mr sat himself of course went.
Its not a scam that adds up is it, unless there some other greater unknown loss?


I presume he was not holding that alone.       All this seems very badly setup, was there no dead mans switch, no co signatory ?

Regardless of any of that he didn't seem to give anyone warnings of his prior absences when he went travelling or whatnot. The least he could do was tell people before he went away or sort his current escrow deals out before doing so. If he was well enough to return the forums coins why not the rest? I'm sure it'll remain a mystery unless he returns.

I just find it odd that someone who was so active on the forum not to mention trusted would just throw away a positive rep for seemingly no good reason.  I don't understand it and I find the issue bizarre is all I'm saying.

Maybe he is really ill or worse.


Then why return the forums thousand coins? He could've waited and collected even bigger escrows and then vanished with the lot.

He returned 1000 BTC he held for the forums. Why didn't he just take that?

Seems like a good opportunity for an upstart news agency to try their hand at real investigative journalism. He could come back in a year, say he was being digested by a lion but broke free once an alien beamed him out and was surprised to hear from John that the government denies having ever been contacted by aliens, then was kept in solitary confinement by the FBI under a very-forced gag order to keep the scandal from getting out, where they also forced him to turn over the coins... and I'd probably believe him. I mean - I'm not saying it is... but it was definitely aliens.


Have the coins ever left the escrow address?

He's online and sending back the raffle coins now apparently (see his profile / last posts). The coins he held never moved as far as I'm aware.

he is back bitches

and btc delivered

Just back after a personal emergency/health reasons. No, the funds (or any BTC funds I personally control etc) weren't touched/moved during my hiatus, simply because I didn't even had the strength/time to go through my personal emails.

Unless I'm wrong, I confirm that I've only held 100 BTC in this raffle and 54.~ BTC in RagingAzn's group buy during my hiatus, the former which I've already released, and the latter which I'm still working out with the members involved. (accounting issues)

And yes, if I really wanted to run or do anything God forbade, I would carry that out when I still held more BTC. I held on average 2-3k BTC for others on a daily basis last time.

PS: Just saw this post.

PPS: Nope, no aliens or the government.

I hope everything will get sorted out now, and everybody will get their coins back.
John K.: are you fully recovered now?

Yep, all that it remains is a fraction of the GB funds I still currently hold and waiting for some of the participants to reply. (about 54.~BTC)
I'm still somewhat recovering, but be rest assured that I'll gradually get more time in the near future. It's more about sorting out the backlog I've managed to rack up in RL over the months.

Awesome, it's great to hear that we're making some good progress.

Good to hear also think you missed or Malaysian airliners :)

If everything's resolved it's probably best to lock this topic now.

He is back from the dead, is this just coincidence or is there a deeper meaning
gone for 3 months, now risen.  Its a miracle, wish I'd bought that half price ticket now :o

Well archive it but something along those lines works fine since it was resolved
Probably fine not to lock it for a while just so people can see it who aren't online all the time

This is great news for all the winners.