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Months ago I paid a debt for Bruno (aka Phinnaeus Gage and Gleb Gamow) and took over his Phinnaeus Gage account as collateral for the loan.
That loan has now been paid in full so I will be transferring the Phinnaeus Gage account back to Bruno's control.
BurtW
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Here's an obvious but often forgotten trick: Like they've told you, if you are going to manually put an address, always copy paste it, but always, always, double click on it so it selects the entire string of characters without leaving a black space. I actually don't know what would happen if you put an address with a blank space at the end, but just in case, be sure that you don't leave any.
All Bitcoin addresses have a built in checksum so it is almost impossible to type them in wrong. If you change the address by leaving out a character, adding a character or entering a wrong character it will not be a valid Bitcoin address and it will be rejected. Having said that it is always more convenient to use a QR code or copy/paste than type in the address - but I have typed them in a pinch. |
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If you live in the Denver/Boulder/Longmont/Niwot Colorado area please stop by the Powder Keg Brewing Company on Sunday, October 11, between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. for great music, good food, good beer and a short talk by yours truly concerning my case between the two bands. Details here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wjj00pq83nn33d/Oct%2011%20Fundraiser%20and%20Celebration.pdf?dl=0For more information about my case: www.burtw.comwww.jmwagner.comHomeland Security agents and their confidential informants, cooperating witnesses and local law enforcement minions are welcome to join us. For them there will be a very large cover charge - everyone else gets in free. |
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If you live in the Denver/Boulder/Longmont/Niwot Colorado area please stop by the Powder Keg Brewing Company on Sunday, October 11, between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. for great music, good food, good beer and a short talk by yours truly concerning my case between the two bands. Details here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wjj00pq83nn33d/Oct%2011%20Fundraiser%20and%20Celebration.pdf?dl=0For more information about my case: www.burtw.comwww.jmwagner.comHomeland Security agents and their confidential informants, cooperating witnesses and local law enforcement minions are welcome to join us. For them there will be a very large cover charge - everyone else gets in free. |
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If you live in the Denver/Boulder/Longmont/Niwot Colorado area please stop by the Powder Keg Brewing Company on Sunday, October 11, between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. for great music, good food, good beer and a short talk by yours truly concerning my case between the two bands. Details here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wjj00pq83nn33d/Oct%2011%20Fundraiser%20and%20Celebration.pdf?dl=0For more information about my case: www.burtw.comwww.jmwagner.comHomeland Security agents and their confidential informants, cooperating witnesses and local law enforcement minions are welcome to join us. For them there will be a very large cover charge - everyone else gets in free. |
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DO YOU PEOPLE STILL FEEL THE SAME ABOUT LOCAL BITCOINS AND ITS SCAMMERS......THOUGHT THEY HAVE STEEPED UP THEIR GAME
I never got ripped of by people just buying or selling through localbitcoins. Sure, some people tried to scam me on localbitcoins. That is expected. Exactly the same thing as on Craig's list. There is always some lazy ass who thinks it is easier to try to take what is not theirs. However, the real problem with localbitcoins in the United States under the current martial law is the GOVERNMENT. They are the real lazy ass scammers with guns, laws and prison that you need to watch out for. People tried some interesting ways to scam me but got zero. Government scammed me out of over $80,000 and on top of that I ended up paying over $200,000 in legal fees and other expenses. If you live in the Boulder area stop by for great music, good food, good beer and a short talk by yours truly concerning my case between the two bands: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wjj00pq83nn33d/Oct%2011%20Fundraiser%20and%20Celebration.pdf?dl=0For more information about my case: www.burtw.comwww.jmwagner.comHomeland Security agents and their confidential informants, cooperating witnesses and local law enforcement minions are welcome to join us but for them there will be a very large cover charge. |
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I get it. I used a bitcoin ATM when I first bought bitcoin. But them I opened an account with a wallet service and linked my bank. Why do so many traders have repeat customers and such huge volume? People make a living off this stuff. You were found innocent but I understand why people have to be concerned about this stuff.
Anyone selling any amount of BTC using localbitcoins in the United State under the current martial law without a license needs to be concerned. |
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Why did they keep his money? I have heard that the government charges property separately from the individual. Was the money found guilty or what? My criminal defense attorney estimated that going to trial was going to cost me between $75,000 and $100,000 in addition to what I had already paid him. Even if I was totally acquitted of all criminal charges there was a chance that they would not drop the civil charges that they had filed against all of the property that they had seized. My civil asset forfeiture attorney, at totally separate law firm from the criminal defense attorney, also wanted an additional $50,000 to go to trial. So instead of going to trial we agreed that I would pay them an extortion forfeiture, about $40,000 in cash and $40,000 in Bitcoins in order to get them to totally drop the criminal charges against me AND all the civil asset forfeiture cases against the stuff they seized. Since we did not go to trial I never get to see all the "evidence" they supposedly had against me - some of it is still sealed to this day. |
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What is Burt's Family? I don't understand the BTC tie-in. Thanks. Please see http://www.burtw.com/ for the story. The U,S. Government dismissed the sole charge of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business in connection with Burt's trading of Bitcoins for investment purposes. Proving that the U.S. Government polices for profit, the U.S. Government also kept our cash and Bitcoins totaling over $80,000 to put in their unconstitutional Federal Asset Forfeiture Fund. They stole from us to pay themselves, bypassing Congressional allocations and violating their own asset forfeiture policies. |
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That is a very interesting article with far reaching consequences across the board. So now the IRS and the CFTC are in agreement. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. |
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The scary thing is, when you get to looking at civil asset forfeiture, they really don't need any reason to take your stuff, you do not need to be accused or convicted of a crime, and you have no recourse to get it back.
In fact they often just take your property without charging you with anything at all because charging you is more paperwork and it actually can make it even more difficult for you to get your stuff back since there is no criminal case attached to the forfeiture. |
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I would really like to see them take something that only i can unlock, since i don't keep any passwords or similar things written or stored.
They would need my consent in order to take bitcoins away from me, which i doubt i would ever do, even faced with larger losses. Thank god i don't live in USA tho
How did they take the Bitcoins?
Did they just tell you to send all of the Bitcoins to a specific address, or did they take your private keys?
I know nothing about other countries but here in the US they have this thing called "contempt of court" which is the second most odious part of the law, right behind civil asset forfeiture. All the judge needs to do is say "give me the password to all of your Bitcoins or you will be in contempt of court". If you do not then give them your Bitcoins you will be sent to jail. Note that for the most part it is almost impossible to appeal "contempt of court"Also, they can keep you in jail until you produce the password they want. That means forever - there is no time limit. So your passwords are only as secure as your willingness to go to jail to keep them secret. |
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I have a Money Service Business license from FINCEN.
Then you can use localbitcoin.com with no issues with the Feds, as stated above there is the state. But assuming either: They don't have a license in your state (Texas and others). They say you don't need a licence in your state (Colorado and others). You went ahead and also got the state license (New York, and others). You are theoretically good to go and can conduct as much business as you want to using localbitcoins, your own web site, storefront, whatever. Of course, now that you have the proper licensing you need to play by all the rules written for those who have said licenses. But I suspect you already know all this.... |
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tl;dr: I was charged with operating a money transmittal business without a licence for my trading activity on localbitcoins.com. (profile) Did you received or sent FIAT from or to outside of the USA through bank transaction, cash or any other means ? All of my localbitcoins.com transactions were cash in person trades at a local coffee shop. I remove myself from localbitcoins completely, I advertise there but that's the extent of it. The way it is setup now makes it too easy for criminals and undercovers . The simple act of advertising on localbitcoins means you might be considered to be running a business. If you are running a business then it can/will be considered a money transmittal business and you can be arrested, throw in jail, have your property (computers, Bitcoins, cash, gold, silver, etc.) seized, and face up to a five year prison sentence - that is what happened to me. It is not the act of using localbitcoins to do your trading that they use to seize your property, it is the advertising on the internet and the doing "business" with the general public that allows them to come in and seize your property. |
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tl;dr: I was charged with operating a money transmittal business without a licence for my trading activity on localbitcoins.com. (profile) Did you received or sent FIAT from or to outside of the USA through bank transaction, cash or any other means ? All of my localbitcoins.com transactions were cash in person trades at a local coffee shop. |
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What reason are they showing for having 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash ? Tax evasion ?
You can read all about it here: www.burtw.comwww.jmwagner.comand, of course, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934268.0tl;dr: I was charged with operating a money transmittal business without a licence for my trading activity on localbitcoins.com. (profile) Defending myself cost me almost $300,000. We had to mortgage our house and cash in our retirement savings in order to pay the three separate law firms I had to hire (one for the criminal case against me, one for the plethora of civil cases against the seized property and one for the possible IRS case against me). However, since I have paid all the taxes on my gains from Bitcoin trading and mining there is no tax evasion. BTW: none of the expenses involved, physical damage to our home during the search and seizure, damage to our business, attorney's fees, the $80K forfeiture, etc. are tax deductible. |
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I sent them a message with the blockchain. It's included in this OP_RETURN: OP_RETURN 53504b6d2e7668cb50a8928442fbf6260098004f32515afd8dd22e1207d857e5ed572fb4a1ed963 9 When decoded in sparkbit it reads  Creative, interesting and fun! |
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Did they take 186 BTC or more ? They dropped all charges for a payment of 186 BTC plus about $40K in cash. Since they dropped all charges I got everything else (including my remaining BTC) back. |
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