It's time!

Allow me to disagree. Hello! And welcome.

Yesterday' news:


Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/uaicw/bitcoinnordic_discontinues_credit_card_purchases/

Makes sense. Has anyone using gmail found bitcoinica emails marked as spam?
Didn't notice I was "missing" emails before today. Still a little worried.

Thanks for the suggestion. No luck, unfortunately.

Last deposit to Bitcoinica was 32 days prior to its death.
(Spam-tagged messages would have been flushed.)

I have been a Bitcoinica customer for the last several months.

I made a number of deposits to Bitcoinica from Mt.Gox, using Mt.Gox codes.
I executed dozens of trades, won some, lost some, made no withdrawals.
I never had any issues with the service so I made no complaints and sent no emails to support.

I don't seem to have received  _any_ emails from *@bitcoinica.com prior to the claims form.
I had a smooth, clean, entirely trouble free relationship with bitcoinica to the day of the last hack.

Was transactional emails turned off by default? (I don't like frequent, automated emails cluttering my inbox.)
Am I looking at the wrong email address? Or am I missing something?

Invite code, anyone? 

I just want to point out that this doen't make any sense.

Is this your clarification?


It's not very claryifying, to say the least.

This is the first and post by genjix on the matter, 11 days ago:


If they intend to honor their obligations, why the silence?

If everything was wiped, it could be that they do have most of the deposited funds, less of 18k.
But no easy way to figure out, and then verify, who owns what.

The radio silence could be attorneys advice. (Shut up and await trial / investigation.)
It seems like zhoutong was explicitly told to keep his mouth shut.

What? One impression per second per user?

You iterate quick.
 
Better. But I still think "click here to get some coins" is vague,
compared to PB's suggestion of "click here to claim your coins".

Cool. New version is better version. It's still not completely obvious to the first time visitor what they need to do. (Wasn't to me.)

Suggestion one is a quick fix. Change text to "Click HERE to receive your FIVE Minute Coins."
Or something else. Just be sure to make it immediately, explicitly clear to the user what they need to do.

Suggestion two: Put a new three wide <div> at the bottom, use white-space to separate it vertically from the ads, place the call to action there.

Edit: PinkBatmans text is perfect. You should go with that.

It's not too obvious how to claim your coins. "Click here to get some coins" looks like another ad.

"Chrome will overtake Internet Explorer in May 2012 on StatCounter": http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=366

"Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, says StatCounter": http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/21/3033566/chrome-most-popular-browser-weekly-may-2012

Why would you think that?

Right. Exactly. That's basically what I'm expecting. So. Just. Take care, you know.


Are you referring to me? I think they'll manage on their own. Have you not read their recent report on Bitcoin?



Here's a quick analysis:

I certainly don't have enough information to even pretend to know what's going on here.
Interestingly, I notice that BST, GPUMAX, PPT investors sound like they don't have too much of a clue either.
FBI, FinCEN, etc. is likely in the same position, for now. Though maybe not.

To the best of my knowledge - sustained - 7% weekly, compounded return on investment is not encountered in any legitimate line of business.

(For any reasonable, survivable level of risk. (I could be wrong, though I'd be quite (pleasantly) surprised.))


This makes pirateat40 an interesting case.


Now, put yourself in the shoes of a law enforcement agent, take a step back, and make a tally of the evidence.
It seems hard to deny that this case could be pertinent to their interests as well, does it not?

At a minimum I'd expect them to want to know what's going on here.

I would think that law enforcement will want to gather information, and then act upon it, if warranted.

Because that is their job, yes? (And wouldn't you think they'd love to dig up some damning dirt on those Bitcoins?)

If they are doing their jobs right they will eventually try, and they will eventually plausibly succeed.
Try, and succeed at figuring out what's going on, exactly. And who's involved, exactly.
This should be expected to take time. But it sounds quite possible that it could - eventually - happen.


So they they try, and find nothing. Or they find something. Or they find something but not a certain pirate, so they settle for you.
I don't know. Maybe pirateat40 is thoroughly legitimate in every conceivable way. I do hope so, but I wouldn't bet my life on it.

If you have a job, a wife, a family, and you want it to stay that way, you'd do well to keep on your toes.
You realistically need to figure out whether being called in for questioning, or put on trial, is a part of your acceptable risk.

No? Then the worst case scenario could be exactly that.

A worst case scenario.

Cheers!  

(Corrections are welcome. Not trying to crash the party. Just calling it like I see it.)

Certainly. While some of you guys (most responders in this thread)
do not appear to take OPs claims seriously, I guarantee you that the FBI will.

If the agents involved in Operation Farmer's Market have finished their investigation, they will be looking at this thread.

Claims that money laundering is not a crime will not save your day in court.
If you have a problem with applicable law, it is you that has a problem, not the law.

In the US, applicable law could mean the RICO statutes.

There is no way everyone involved will have taken sufficient
precautions to stay anonymous under a full and thorough investigation.

Claims of negligence will not save you.

Take care, stay safe, and remember the old adage,
if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

Ahh. Thanks. That clears it up.

Link to livestream?

Maybe.