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I have to announce that a very good friend and and incredible person has left our community.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=29395

http://paraipan.myopenid.com/

He touched many peoples life and was always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need.

He was a Bitcoin pioneer. He will be remembered. My condolences to his family.

He caught out a couple scammers. He passed away or left bitcointalk?

Theymos should implement a RIP section to profiles to those who passed.

Edit:
I am guessing passed away. Sorry to hear about this. This is twice now. Two valuable members gone. Paraipan bitcointalk and Syrillian from overclock.net passed away from cancer.

Is this real? He was Spanish moderator. What was the cause?
Rest in peace. :(

Sad to hear this. Rest in peace.

He was last active just two days ago? What happened?

Same question from me ...

He looks pretty young and was alive 23.04...

If this is true that he is dead I am really sorry to hear that.

Rest in peace.

Sad news to hear anybody pass away.   :(

I'm guessing he was very influential member of our Bitcoin community, and just a decent, good person that life cut too short.

R.I.P. Paraipan.

Rest in peace paraipan, we will all miss you!

How did he die?  :(
R.I.P.

Due to ilness. He was a great guy..

I left him a PM.  Rest in peace.   :(

This is a bit sudden. No details yet? :(

hate to be that guy, but is there any proof, like an obituary?

I'd like to see it as well. Cuz if OP is lieing, this is a cruel thing to do.

R.I.P., he seemed like a good guy.

Reasonable request.  It would be nice to set a precedent where someone sends Grue a copy of the obituary in exchange for a permanent R.I.P tag. 

Kind of surreal when someone you know online passes away. Condolences to the family and RIP.

A R.I.P tag would be interesting and respectful.

"No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."

John Donne

RIP, didn't know him personally but he was one of the first people I saw posting when I joined. Really sucks losing a true early adopter  :(

This sucks! I'm one of the few he trusted with knowing his real name and of the secret project he and his team were working on.

What a shame, he looks like a good person.  That name rings a bell but I don't think I've had many if any conversations with him.  My condolences to his family and friends and all those who had a chance to get to know him on the forum.

I am going to be that dude. I am calling major BS, I need a death certificate. Until then he should get a scammer tag, it looks like he holds forum money.

250 BTC isn't something to sneeze out. And even if he is dead we need to go after his estate.

Ah. Was about to ask if he was holding anybodies money. Has any evidence been presented yet at all? Was he previously known to be ill?

I believe he had leukemia. No proof, tho.

Edit: he announced it here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208077.0) (in spanish).

If he was sick and he knew he can die in a year or two he should not agree to hold 250BTC forums coins.
I do not say that this is BS as I do  not know that ..

Please post obituary so we can stop thinking about is it or is it not BS.





EDITED:  I am thinking about this case from morning .. and I hope his spirit will forgive us asking about obituary and stuff...
I just want to believe that he is alive. He was young and this happen so suddenly. He was with us two days ago and now he isn't...

I do not know him and I shouldn't care, but I do care as he was a part of our community. A community that I choose to join. It is like a family..

Sad to hear this, rest in peace.

RIP Paraipan

 :o Now I'll just sit back and wait.

Paraipan (Alex) was affected by leukemia like one year ago, he has been fighting against this illness but at last his liver could´n hold the hard treatment was receiving.

Last days have been very painful for him, his family and friends, so I only can hope that finally Paraipan rest in peace.

How I wish you were here my dear friend.

Rest In Peace paraipan
so sad we lost another member
may his family be given strength

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=208077.msg2178763#msg2178763

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May 17, 2013, 4:26:21 AM



https://blockchain.info/address/1PFkqgBBrSKikyyUGDerZMfzvCNPgKrR3o


The 250 BTC was never moved back to theymos' control.

Is he still holding forums BTC? Anybody know the privatekey besides him? He must told somebody if he has mortal ill.

EDIT: Last Active: Today at 06:42:11 AM

Um, is that a family member I'm assuming?

This is very sad... I didn't even know that he was sick. He was with the community for a long time, and he was a very good person.

Does anyone know how to contact his family? Someone should immediately tell them that paraipan had at least 250 BTC of the forum's money (and probably more personal money) hidden away somewhere, so they shouldn't throw away any of his stuff. I'll eventually (after an appropriate period of time) need to contact them about returning the forum's money. Hopefully recovery is possible.

I agree that a period of time needs to pass before paraipan's family are asked about recovery, yes - else we run the risk of an emotional response, and aggravating a grieving family is unfair on them.

I think he was one of the guys behind rugatu.com.

This is sad.

Rest in peace.

Well I never know the guy but if he really died then that sux.

Only one thing is kinda strange, if he was aware of his health issues then why did he kept the BTC and who logged to his account today?

If he did tell anyone (like whoever logged into his account), he didn't publicize it so there's no pressure for them to do the right thing.

bump - never to be forgotten

Thanks for bumping this. I had no idea Paraipan died. Did someone ever contact the family about the forum money? Maybe theymos should contact the Spanish police about the money. They should know Paraipan already because he likes to file reports with them.

What do you mean "left the community" ? Can you be more specific?

If he's dead, indeed very sad. But I am hoping he just left the forums and Bitcoin maybe but is very much alive.

He is dead due to Illness. Many here meet him on person and know him personally.

Last Active:    June 01, 2014, 09:33:58 PM

I wonder who's accessing his account?

what do you mean ?
he's last activ 2 juny , you post on 26 april ??
i so confused  ???

Within the net, no one ever dies they simply bequeath their forum log on....RIP

sad to see a very trusted member with 8 trust rating left. may he rest in peace

When people die they go to bitcointalk.org.

Also, I wonder if the 250 btc is now lost forever.

Anyway, if true, RIP early adopter. I'm sure you helped the community a lot.

Too bad to hear this! He was one of the best admin, in fact He even got me out of jam! Rest in peace!

Yeah, he was an awesome guy. It's really unfortunate that such a thing had happened :/

It's a good day to remember all of those that are no longer with us. Have a good Day of the Dead.

theymos told that he will try to recover it. :)


+1. Rest in peace! :(

   ~~MZ~~

Never.

Sad story... I unfortunately never knew the guy but I'm curious if the forums funds were ever recovered by theymos?

Sad to hear about PARAIPAN, Hope his family are doing better now.



I don't think so. if you go here, the money hasn't been moved to any other account since 2013
https://blockchain.info/address/1PFkqgBBrSKikyyUGDerZMfzvCNPgKrR3o

bump for https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1577411.0 paraipan's coins on the move

Oh dear. I hope this is theymos or another mod gaining access to the coins otherwise a shit storm is about to go down.

250 bitcoin = approx  147,000 USD

Sorry to hear the sad news.If he was the moderator of this forum,there should be an official announcement of his sad demise

He died in April 2014 according to the OP. You'd know that though if you read the thread & stopped shit posting for your sig ad.

Seriously!

Feeling sad to hear this news.It again reminds us that this world is not our ultimate abode and we all would leave sooner or later.
May God give his family courage to overcome the grief

I doubt it. Unless theymos had a property caretaker contract that is in a legal form in Semenciuc's home country they can't do anything. In my country, possession is ownership of property. To most governments of the world Bitcoin is nothing more than property so he didn't steal money, if it was stolen at all.

The only good thing that will come of this is a valuable lesson (for theymos and others). Don't trust anyone online. They have no incentive to be honest or treat you fairly and every incentive to lie and steal from you.

My bad.I am terribly sorry :(

Maybe this time they will start to use multi-sig addresses ;).

Well, of course, I'm sure theymos will now. I remember the splitting of the forum funds. Back then, theymos was taking a lot of shit for holding 6k or so btc in donations and advertising revenue. He decided to divest himself of some caretaker responsibility by splitting some of the funds up between "trusted" forum members. Multi-sig wasn't an option yet. Generally, I think the idea was a good one and most of the people he trusted were honest. At the time, there really was no protection against someone dying other than the fact that only small amounts were given to each person to hold (back then 250btc wasn't much, at the time I was sitting on my own stash of 2000btc). Paraipan was a turd and I didn't like him but I don't think he stole the coin. I'm pretty sure he had a large stash of his own.

So is it safe to assume that those coins have fallen foul to a long term, planned out heist?

Either that or the family of the supposedly deceased has stolen the coins.

How else would those coins be on the move now?

That was also why I was hoping to get in contact with the family in case they disposed of his laptop / papers etc. From what I could tell they lived meekly and any sort of money would have been a great help, be it the money he's owed by the forum or his bitcoin funds.

That sounds like the most likely scenario to me. The family disposed of his belongings and in it the new computer owner scored a couple of Bitcoin addresses with forum and personal funds. In the case where you buy a old oil painting at a yard sale with a Rembrandt under the watercolor on top, you are the owner of that Rembrandt. In the case of a purchased laptop, the guy buying it may legally own those btc.

Yes you are right but it is highly unlikely that new owner knows who was the first owner and that the laptop has precious coins.What if he formatt the laptop before using?

Ok, human diversity guarantees that someone will format a newly acquired 2nd hand computer without even looking at it but, seriously?

guys dont be naive ,i will recover your contents even if you format n number of times or even it is destroyed i could recover some contents. it will only take a day or two depending upon the size and rotation speed so lets keep this speculation aside

By formatting it I think he's referring to a proper wipe. Even Windows 10 offers doing a write cycle to an entire partition when resetting.

Paraipan should not be forgotten, please help find his coins

How has nobody besides one person commented on how the coins moved

https://blockchain.info/address/1PFkqgBBrSKikyyUGDerZMfzvCNPgKrR3o

Do you know that was an address controlled by Paraipan?    Do you have a thread link regarding the previous ownership of the address?

Well I am going to assume it was because of this post

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141503.msg1644325#msg1644325

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1577411.0

There is a whole thread about that lamo.

Sorry I dont keep up on every single board on bitcointalk thanks for the link tho, its a good read. No one mentioned his anything about visiting the small town in Romania I got a family remember that lives over there, the whole country cant be that big