It's been almost 30 min with no buy or sell data. Is the market quiet or is something broken somewhere? Actually for the last 4 or 5 hours, the price has been almost perfectly dead flat. Maybe someone is trying to lock the price with bot trades?
why not, people have been asking for stable prices for ages. the volume has been pretty low, though. this just changed. these orders remain. |
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Another FUD hit-piece. They are so dumb if they think stories like this will kill bitcoin. Don't they know that even bad publicity is good for bitcoin? Maybe their plan is to keep it low while they are buying slowly and steadily while keeping speculators at bay. Journalists stumbles upon casascius. Feels need to write some shit-piece about it. News at 11. |
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It is *theoretically* possible that Mike Caldwell (the real Casascius) could have done all this. If he did, he's got a genius IQ, a truly warped imagination, *and* no ethics.
He'd have some other, much more evil options. |
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Ironicly, I got the phishing email but not the warning. Which I thought to be odd, since I've never given Casascius my address. But the phishing site is very well done, and I would have been fooled if not for that detail, and the nagging desire to search this forum. I must say, the physical bitcoins seem very well done, and I would consider buying some but for one nagging issue in the back of my mind.
What prevents a scammer from removing the hologram to get at the private key, glueing it back on, spending it and then nabbing the bitcoin value a month later? Is the hologram obviously destroyed by the process?
EDIT: I missed the part on the website about the hologram leaving behind a honeycomb pattern if peeled. Does that mean that the peeled hologram is now honeycombed?
"Send it back in and have it reloaded and restickered as new - just 25.5 BTC plus return shipping." Wait, what? It can be 'restickered'? There needs to be images on the website that show how the sticker should look if good, and how it might look if bad. I assume that unauthorized reproductions of the hologram sticker is very hard to fake, but if I (as a general user) don't know how the hologram is supposed to look like, how hard would it be for someone to find a hologram sticker to defraud someone with?  I obviously need a new camera, but the difference should be apparent. |
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If the design allows to attach more cards, why not to add them up to complete initial design ?
I agree, as well. I especially like 8 because it's an even number.  Let's wait until we settle how to release this additional 500 shares, then we can begin a new motion for an extra board. I thought the 500 shares would be a no brainer, because what will we do with a fraction of a board, but this is a democracy, so we need to agree on what to do (at least 2/3s of us do). I saw this motion on glbse. Unfortunately that web interface doesn't seem to tell you which Asset the motion relates to  |
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Who would thrust a talking sock?  Depends. Is it an alpaca sock? |
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I seriously think this is nothing more than just a Marketing Plan to do exactly what has happened. Generates hits and traffic to Casascius.com. make people virally aware of Physical Bitcoins, Rank on BitcoinX.com....
and allow plausible denial of course.
Interesting the "Phishing Site" has now disappeared.
Brilliant!
It has not disappeared. I find the explanation that the scammer is someone else much more plausible. |
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I filled the form on SCAM PHISHING site (.net) with BOGUS info, and I got this BTC address where the phished BTC should go:
1GHRsryckBsSfKgv6zbun5egbxq8GCT8f1
According to blockexplorer, there is already 33.64 BTC received a few hours ago. So, it looks someone got phished already.
He's putting it all on one address? Wouldn't have done that. I did the same thing and can confirm it's really displaying the same address: 1GHRsryckBsSfKgv6zbun5egbxq8GCT8f1 Only one transaction on that address for 33.64 BTC, poor guy that fell for it |
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did mining stop?
switched to nmcbit as of now.
thanks for the info. can I check the balance/hashrate there, too? |
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Dear casascius.
Today I found in my email a spam coming from your website and IP-address, advertising for your website casascius.com. Sending such unsollicited email to people in my country is a crime. In addition, because of costs of spam for me, I also charge per spam, feel free to pay the bill by sending 100 bitcoin to: 1DESYhdFBUdQyTWBpLif6BQdr3FRcKBHWL
The spam email you are referring to advertises casascius.NET, not .COM. You're billing the wrong person. |
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Mail was sent from 62.76.188.230, casascius.net resolves to that IP address.
This is confusing. The spammer is warning about himself? No, I think Inaba was still talking about the first, original spam message. |
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Thanks for the warning! These days, I could use a browser addon that warns when hosts are in countries like Russia (as this one).
Actually: wouldn't it be real easy to detect this mtgox-related spam? Just make a central place and have 5 people forward md5sums of all their emails. If they all receive that mail, it's most likely spam to that list, rigth? Is there a system for this kind of thing? |
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Don't get me started on magicaltux and his inept security.
I withdraw my previous statements in regards to casascius.com since .net is located in Russia and .com is in Utah. I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt in this instance.
Cool. Thanks for being reasonable. After reading your harsh language I didn't expect this. Kudos for still being able to think in an agitated state. |
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This is bullshit. I received a blatant marketing email (and nothing else) from this site. After examining the headers, it's clearly from his site and sent from him. Not hacked, not fake, not phishing. A pure, unadulterated spam email sent to the leaked MT Gox list.
This guy is a spammer and should be painted as such. No one should do business with him and he should be fair game for being ripped off left and right to pay for his spam. I charge $1500 per spam piece for reading, so he owes me $1500... whatever else other people charge, that's what he owes if he wants to pay for my time of reading garbage and using my bandwidth and hard drive space to store the email on my servers.
Just a point of reference:
Mail was sent from 62.76.188.230, casascius.net resolves to that IP address.
You're still adressing the wrong person here. casascius.com is 50.73.45.250. |
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So it is acceptable then that an unsolicited email was sent out to a hacked list "warning" people of a fraudulent site?
I received the email but it was not wanted by me, I did not ask to be notified about this and never did I provide my email address for this purpose to the sender.
It was also completely irrelevant to me since I have not used either site nor would I have planned to.
Oh come on, I think it's ok to warn people. Don't be so uptight. Complain to magicaltux about all spam  |
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The miner has been built and is functional. I need to get some sleep. It will be hashing away by tomorrow evening.
Nice! This is good to hear. |
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what the hell did I just watch? |
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