I think the only information that would be useful right now would be details that allowed direct contact with aethero. BTCJam in theory has all his details but can't/won't divulge them. Also I'm pretty sure someone on here must have details too, but if he has moved then that doesn't matter either.

He owes a lot of money that I don't think any of us are likely to see again, but it might be worthwhile trying to organize the major debitors from BTCJam and Bitfunder?

I'm also from Sheffield, so you're not alone

Yay I got 6 more votes today because its a month since my last votes... total is at 106050 now

Looks like he's gone off the deepend... currently owes around 900BTC on his BTCJam loan, or roughly $100,000 at current exchange rate. Then there is all the shares that were sold too, and several trades that fell through on Ziggap where he owes people money.

Thats a lot of debt...

It is looking ever more likely that Ziggap has defaulted on their loan. Where do we all stand in terms of their info being released to the lenders, to an arbitration company etc? It is definitely the biggest default on BTCJam by a long stretch.

By my reckoning they owe over 900BTC including interest, or around 500BTC to pay off the capital. Either way that's a considerable amount of money.

Fat chance he is going to pay 1000BTC ($145,000) for this bet, hell I doubt he would have paid even if the price was still $15 and not $145!

With the amount of trading that he has done I'm sure several people know his address etc. With the amount that he must owe in total with his BTCJam loan and these investments there must be enough worth chasing him for... although squeezing blood out of a stone is generally a difficult thing.

Personally he owes me about 60BTC through BTCJam, although I'd settle for 30BTC which is what is outstanding on the capital as I'm willing to ignore the interest owed.

It's looking as though Ziggap has died, assuming they default on their BTCJam loan that will dwarf all the other defaults as it currently has a lot outstanding.

Aethero, who I believe to be the main owner said he was having some personal difficulties somewhere in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146611.140

So far all payments are up to date, I'm not sure if Ziggap is coming back or not. I'm looking to move house at the moment due to a new job so some extra cash to pay for solicitors fees would be very welcome, hence I'm willing to sell these at roughly 25% of the outstanding debt because I could do with the money sooner rather than later and I'm not sure whether they will or will not eventually be paid out (me being honest about the matter).

I have two investments in Ziggap that I am putting up for sale on BTCJam, in total there is currently 62.044184 BTC outstanding (43.079151 + 18.965033).

I have them listed on BTCJam to buy for 10BTC and 4.5BTC respectively.

If you are interested then check them out on BTCJam or if you have a reasonable offer PM me.

https://btcjam.com/notes

If anyone is interested I am selling my existing Ziggap stake on BTCJam for 14.5BTC, they are listed on there already to buy. They are worth 62BTC, well assuming they are paid.

If the reward got big enough though the DDOSer might just fake details, predict the next DDOS, claim the bounty and then lay low for a while happy and smug...

I haven't and won't be selling for quite a while, assuming I do sell and don't just use them for buying. Right now I could still sell up and make a little profit, but if it drops much further I'll be losing.

I'm hoping it will eventually recover over the next year or so, which is how I initially decided on investing my money into BTC anyway. Although it would have been nice to sell at $260 and buy back in right now, but I'm not really into short scale buying/selling as its just too much stress/effort for my liking.

You would declare your profits in the same way you would if you had bought and sold shares.

Also, why would you have to declare anything to your bank? I'm pretty sure they won't care about you receiving funds, although for large amounts they might take longer to clear. Also bear in mind SEPA only covers transfer under 100,000 I believe?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/04/bitcoin.html

Can't say I really agree with it on a whole, as you have to be pretty foolish to leave large amounts of fiat or bitcoins on an exchange really.

Gotta admit I wish it would slow down a little as its freeking me out, I invested with the hopes of making a nice 10-20 % on my savings over the next year... since then it's gone up nearly 100% which is nice, but not if it hits rock bottom later!

Only invest what you can afford to lose, price may go up, price may go down nobody REALLY knows what will happen.

It's a risky investment, but no more so than a volatile stock really. I've invested some of my savings because it I think its worth the risk and potentially could be worthwhile in the future for online spending as well as an investment.

Also voted, please note you get 6 votes every four weeks, so if you only voted once make sure you use the other 5 to upvote it further!

Isn't this to do with the roll-n-time where the time in the blocks is adjusted to save getwork calls? It's not that they were generated in the wrong order, just that the date inside the blocks differ slightly from what the actual time was at that point.

Both me and my girlfriend recently invested some of our savings in BTC because currently in the UK you make absolutely nothing on your savings due to how crap the economy is at the moment. Our opinion was if we can make 10% over a year then were happy as that's more than we'd make currently.

I think most likely there are lots of other people in similar positions right now thinking the exact same thing, not necessarily thinking short term, but medium term for investments as they are fed up of the banks making all the profit, taking government bail outs and making nothing on their hard earned savings.

Also, I do use my BTC when I can, I have used them to buy goods online from the few places that currently accept them, it would be nice for adoption to increase over the next year then maybe the money me and my girlfriend invested won't get cashed out but instead used to buy things in BTC instead.