Thank you Chainsaw, that was very informative! I did win an auction on Ebay for Error 2011 Casascius .. re seller is in Finland, I just hope it's legit.
Confirmed that he is legit. No need to worry.  |
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Selling a rare original unredeemed full-silver 10BTC Casascius coin for 23 BTC, PM me if you're interested. Only one piece of these is for sale. The coin has a GPG-signed proof that I am the first owner since Casascius.A picture of the coin:  |
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How many of these users who are claiming refunds are alts of TF?
i doubt many, i bet he is just paying a few of the loud ones right now so it looks like he is solving the problem. the biggest mess will be the coin lenders people who wont get anything back. TF is going to end up with way more than 4,000 BTC when this is over. Good that someone remembers the CoinLenders thing where nobody(?) has been paid back. And a lot bigger sums of money were "invested" in there............ |
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I've sent a email today as I have been away. It was a total surprise to me and I'm sure that big of a surprise isn't very good for my health. I've sent a email requesting a refund. I'll keep you up to date if I have a reply and get refunded.
You will most likely get refunded partly - like others. maybe 60%, maybe 40%, maybe even 80%, who knows? Sadly a lot people lost money to this scammers' pocket. Yes, I have received a partly refunded amount. I'm not very happy although I guess it's better to be partly refunded than nothing at all. I'm going to be following this story and hope the hacker gets what he deserves. Although, I don't think this has been dealt with very well. Everyone should get a equal amount of Bitcoin. The owner should of done his maths and worked out how much he can spread evenly. Do you realize that every signal says that TradeFortress took the money himself? 1. Thought he's anonymous (now he's been doxxed because he failed to hide his identity, good for us.) Being anonymous you can do anything without getting caught. 2. Inputs.io had no business model. Why would TradeFortress spend tens of bitcoins for advertising, making affiliate programs (forum signature spam) and deals with bitcoin (gambling) sites operators.. 3. Keeping 4100 BTC in the hot wallet. Not even MtGox or Bitstamp need to keep >1M USD in hot wallet. Of course you want to keep a lot funds in a hot wallet if you want to steal it all. 4. TradeFortress has done shady things before, you can read more about them from my previous posts. 5. 2 weeks, emotions, not even wanting to make police report....... minor stuff. |
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I've sent a email today as I have been away. It was a total surprise to me and I'm sure that big of a surprise isn't very good for my health. I've sent a email requesting a refund. I'll keep you up to date if I have a reply and get refunded.
You will most likely get refunded partly - like others. maybe 60%, maybe 40%, maybe even 80%, who knows? Sadly a lot people lost money to this scammers' pocket. |
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Did this shit really happen. Yes. It did.
Anonymous shady guy scams a lot with his service which has no business model. His income comes from scamming. Proven earlier, too. |
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since he was so highly trusted by default i assume someone knows his real life identity?
please tell me this is the case...
any news on this!? Why when TF is a scammer he was in the default trust list!? I don't understand this kind of practice !!! I told you. |
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Understand: TF operates business, business gets hacked, TF won't pay shit to anyone (depends on him.. he can do as he wants - nobody can affect it).
If he wants, he can just disappear with the money you've gave to him. He's anonymous, remember.
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Could TradeFortress explain how the loss of bitcoins happened exactly?
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So who believes a anonymous person makes a service, keeps most of the funds in hot wallet and then claims it was hacked?
Also for the newbies and others: TradeFortress is NOT a trustful person as we've witnessed several times in the past. You can search for "Ripple social experiment" where newbies lost a lot real bitcoins when they did what TradeFortress told them to do inside Ripple trust network to get a free bitcoin (which they never got, obviously.) You can also search for stuff about some websites he has programmed for clients, unauthorized pentesting (hacking attempting) on them etc... And he's on the default trust list of this forums, I still don't know why.
He's anonymous, is he?
Ohh and TF remember when you came to #bitcoin-otc and asked for peoples' passwords and so?
Why people trust in these anonymous scammers?
Please do some research before praising the scammer. I yet can't believe how much people there are who are unaware of his actions earlier. |
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I'm still quite interested in what happened after the hack. Is there any police report?
I think, BTC worth over 1kk stolen is very well worth calling the police, although it's "only" virtual currency. Other people call the police for a stolen watch...
If you stole funds from your own system, would you be first reporting it to police? Ohh and TF remember when you came to #bitcoin-otc and asked for peoples' passwords and so? Why people trust in these anonymous scammers? |
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So who believes a anonymous person makes a service, keeps most of the funds in hot wallet and then claims it was hacked?
Also for the newbies and others: TradeFortress is NOT a trustful person as we've witnessed several times in the past. You can search for "Ripple social experiment" where newbies lost a lot real bitcoins when they did what TradeFortress told them to do inside Ripple trust network to get a free bitcoin (which they never got, obviously.) You can also search for stuff about some websites he has programmed for clients, unauthorized pentesting (hacking attempting) on them etc... And he's on the default trust list of this forums, I still don't know why.
He's anonymous, is he?
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troll checking in here. swooping down from reddit (or is it up). first login since this forum got took for another cosbycoin ride.
this place is toxic and it's funny that the mnw show continues.
Hi jcpham, sup? Ontopic: I am still thinking that if MNW really got banned for trolling, many more should've been banned too. And perma(?)banned for trolling, really? Please just tell us it was personal reasons as it looks like it was. If it wasn't for personal reasons, tell us the real reason. |
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Yay! Poll is now closed after 3 months of voting. We got 212 votes and a nice dispersion of votes.
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Now when the bitcoin price starter going up again, it's a bump time.. and soon the voting closes!
Vote now before it's too late.
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Its a pitty you do not answer your emails. I have sent several and am still waiting a reply. My main board isnt working 100% and 2 of my H-cards are junk, 1 stuck at 10ghs one around 16ghs.
Chance of ROI is gone now, pretty furious at the customer service.
There is never anyone on the IRC channel either.
Joke.
You should probably try coming to #bfsbsupport in the IRCNet network (not freenode). Most likely someone will be up to help you... |
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Chainminer is not BFGMiner. rPi and Debian + chainminer, yes.
You can tune your chips by copying /run/shm/.stat.log or /tmp/best.log to /opt/bitfury/best.cnf and then editing the file. There are instructions in the first post of this thread. A means autotune, a means autotune off etc...
Since chainminer isn't bfgminer, it doesn't have bfgminer-like api.
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Bitcoin is not actually backed by SR and gambling. Bitcoin is backed by speculation.
The downside is that the fact that bitcoin can be considered useful in any way rests too heavily on SR and gambling.
Everything starts somewhere. The fact that Bitcoin went from the genesis block and $0 valuation to >$1B in four years is impressive no matter how it got there. The "ecosystem" has allowed VC for things like BitPay, coinbase, the Bitcoin trust, etc. It will be that second round of more sophisticated service providers which will create the increased utility. True, it's all a sum of huge count of elements. Btw, GJ OP. Good prediction. |
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First of all, as I've doubted KnC will accomplish this I must say: Congratulations KnC. If somebody told me this morning they will produce fully working prototype by sundown I would think he is on drugs. Thought KnC were slackers, turned out they were tight as a drum. To manage to do this in a single day shows they were fully prepared, when they got a chance to walk the walk they did it. They haven't over-delivered, but considering machine has 25% hash-rate increase compensating eventual 25% difficulty increase caused by being late you can say they simply delivered.
What you meant to say was that you are terrible in evaluating investments.. that's ok, you probably have a BFL order clouding your brain and storming your butt What? Why post this crap? |
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