I finally got me some time liberated by myself to check this varietyjones.com homepage and its trails. All of his art is linking to Society6.com, which is clearly controled by the same person. Both registered in California. Archive.org gives me many different versions of the site Society6.com https://web.archive.org/web/*/society6.comFirst version of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20080828044143/http://www.society6.com/Its sourcecode has another site linked: http://sogma.com/meta name="generator" content="Sogma.com" Only interesting fact that I see is, that Society6 is shown as "Partners" among some unusual big players (Sony, WB, Sega). Looking like they wanted to push Society6 as a "serious"partner. Looks pretty much connected to me. Archive.org also brings up the names of the founders: https://web.archive.org/web/20090319061624/http://www.society6.com/help/abouthttps://web.archive.org/web/20090324074039/http://www.society6.com/lucashttps://www.crunchbase.com/person/lucas-tirigall-castehttps://betweentheweeds.wordpress.com/tag/lucas-tirigall-caste/Primary Role Founder, CEO @ Sogma (Ahh there is the connection) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Tirigall_Castehttp://www.artlabyrinth.com/featured/Lucas_Tirigall_Castehttp://threelittlesparrows.com/tag/lucas-tirigall-caste-society6/By this point, you’ve likely heard of a smart little site called Society6–it has practically exploded in popularity. The company was founded in 2009 by three artists, Justin Cooper, Lucas Tirigall-Caste and Justin Wills to provide an affordable avenue for artists to sell their art (on everything from duvet covers, tees, coffee mugs and rugs) without giving up control of their rights. The result is a community of artists right at your fingertips; Society6 does all the printing, shipping and customer service on the artists’ behalf which means a lower cost for you. It is an inexpensive way to decorate yourself and home (‘Join’ the site for regular deals) and it has made its way into my own home on a couple of occasions. Check out my walls (dog not included). Justin Wills: https://society6.com/justinwhttps://www.brainpickings.org/2009/06/03/society6-exclusive-interview/https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinwillshttps://vimeo.com/justinwillshttps://twitter.com/justinwillsand https://web.archive.org/web/20090324074906/http://www.society6.com/Justinhttps://society6.com/justinhttps://www.crunchbase.com/person/justin-cooper#/entityhttps://twitter.com/justinsamcooperhttp://www.socaltech.com/interview_with_justin_cooper_society6/s-0021923.htmlI would say that Mr. Lucas Tirigall knows exactly where this Atlantis wolf and the other paintings on varietyjones.com are coming from. I would even say, that one of this 3 guys is the owner of varietyjones.com and they all have nothing to do whatsoever with the SR VJ we are talking about. They all are in California and the VJ.com pictures (incl. that famous wolf) where most likely made in the artist district of Downtown L.A. edit: Some bad links and general clean up |
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So if amaclin makes these 100 lines of code public, Bitcoin will die?
no, this is only a pesky attack, it will not broke nothing This is not a "pesky attack" anymore, when a few thousand people or a botnet start to run the script. |
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So if amaclin makes these 100 lines of code public, Bitcoin will die?
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Homeland 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.
Oh that is seriously funny and probably very true... they would insert some informants in there for the followup round to come. Welcome them with open arms and offer them a free beer, just make sure you add a little urine to the mix.  They will most probably drink milk, because they are on duty.  Good luck with the talk, wish I could join, but I am very far from Colorado.  .... I WILL have a glass of wine on you, on that date.  I bet he can't read your posting ... edit: now he can |
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I paid 0.01 BTC for a pizza some time ago. Might be worth 1 Mio USD in the future ...
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The claw video is the gypsy nirvana video.
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I feel I should explain about cicada. The thing that first twigged it for me (that this could be a bait trail) was the CE5 reference. The varietyjones images *seem* like they could be a secret cache, but this CE5 thing...
Unbeknownst to us, there is a horde of semi-autistic code crackers following an online crypto game called cicada 3301. What does 3301 mean? That's part of the puzzle. (hex)CE5=3301(dec). I only stumbled on this when the yahoo search engine helpfully suggested 3301 when I was searching for CE5 (google didn't give me squat, although I was probably typing it in backwards like a prat. ). I then found the CE5 reddit account which blatantly was giving 3301 style clues (cicada mixes crypto with high art).
When cicada began, people were confused as to who was running it. Due to the high art references it seemed odd for the run-of-mill DOD sponsored hacking challenges (see:defcon,hackaday,zebulun et. al.).
Turns out cicada was run by a bunch of lefties, and I think this is what contributed to it's loss of popularity. That and ironically enough, players laying false trails to gain an advantage.
These challenges attract high functioning types that are ideologically/ethically pretty clueless -- not dumb -- just more into the fantasy than the consequences side of things (and we all fall victim to that... oh dear). Funnily enough the winners of the first cicada were pretty miffed when they found no job offers from the NSA. I'm guessing Julian Assange, or whoever set it up didn't take that into account -- although he of all people should known; having grown up in mathematics/engineering academia. Most engineers have a mechanical view of the world more suited to fundamentalism and making things fit into systems. The CIA wrote a paper actually pointing this fact out regarding the mystery as to why so many terrorists were also engineers.
Aaanyway, tl;dr: if you want someone who is in to following trails, to find your imigur account, you name it CE5. This trail was set over a year ago.
from CE5 reddit:
"[–]rolleicord 0 points 1 year ago
What's up with all the Cicada 3301 references ? I see no immediate reasons why the two should be linked together ?
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[–]rolleicord 1 point 1 year ago
need more to bite...
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I saw no bites on the CE5 imigur account, but I've not read all the comments. I wouldn't be surprised.
There is an entire section in the 3301 wiki I posted about false trails. I didn't find this one listed. Also didn't find it in the legit trails, so I'm guessing a new entry needs to be made.
I really don't understand your point. All this kiddy stuff about cicada and gaming. What are you trying to prove? That the FBI agent alias "Diamond" is the owner of the website varietyjones.com and registered an account at a gaming site with the nick "Variety Jones"? Really, I don't get it... |
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Has anyone posted "The Claw" video yet...?
Never heard of that. |
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.1 Bitcoin for deposit to the wallet of your choice.
US $60.00
Approximately EUR 53.21
Postage: US $5.00 (approx. EUR 4.43)
9 sold.
Buyers info seems to be private, so i can't look at reviews.
.1 Bitcoin that we have mined deposited to the wallet of your choice.
You will be receiving a paper wallet in the mail with the amount you purchased on it.
You can then sweep it into the wallet of your choice.
I am confused! is he selling a paper wallet which contains 0.1 BTC (which is worth $23) for $60 ? is it right or am I reading this wrong? He is selling an empty paper wallet. No, he is selling 0.1 but he didn't put the 0 in a front, he has listed only .1 so if you are in a hurry and you are not paying an attention or you don't know too much about Bitcoin you would get screwed. He has also put a title very in a very smart way, so you would have this dot omitted. So he is basically listing 0.1 for double the price. It should be max $30 and he is charging it $60. A very smart scam if you ask me. This! edit: /thread |
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If I can get coins direct from miners at 100/150 that's a small profit margin of around $80/100. So if you decide to become a trader on faxful or other exchange, seems an interesting way to return a profit? OP. Do you avoid to link to the ebay auction, because you want these cheap Bitcoins for yourself??? No I avoided the link because it looks to good to be true, wanted to hear what other bitcoiners thought. If I knew it was legit I'd probably have bought several, and have a future source for my trading services. The seller knows I contacted them twice, ebay's automated email notifications, no one has replied. If you post the link, me and a lot of others are able to tell you 100%, wether this is fake or not. By just having the info, that someone is selling Bitcoins for a 1/4 the official price, it is fake 99%. Btw. I can't find this offer (1BTC for 40$) on ebay, so it seems, that it doesn't exist anyway. |
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OP. Do you avoid to link to the ebay auction, because you want these cheap Bitcoins for yourself???
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First mentioning of the connection VJ-PoM was made in this thread on March 2 2015: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=935434.msg10632762#msg10632762SherlockHolmes
Re: Who is "Variety Jones"?
March 02, 2015, 05:46:13 PM
First mention of Variety Jones was by PoM in the Overgrow stories. There are people in the UK weed scene who know who he is.
A lot of people knew about his court appearance against Gypsy Nirvana which lead to the dox of PoM beeing Thomas Clark, back when it happened, so it was pretty easy for an official to find him simply by searching for his real name in passengers lists etc. As we know, the FBI had access to the NSA bulk database, so if this Mr. Diamond really exists, he would have an easy job to find out whatever he wants about almost everybody in this panopticum called planet earth. This complete story is as shady as 5 guys smoking pot in a closed car. I can't wait for somebody open that doors .... Do you think PoM *really* was incarcerated as he claims to have been, and do you believe that Thomas Clark is his *real* identity? I personally find it hard to believe that VJ would be able to advise Ross while inside prison, although I really have zero expertise in the being in jail/prison field so I really cannot say this with a lot of authority. I am 99% sure, that PoM is Thomas Clark. Now, it is still unclear, if his door/jail story is true or if this Diamond really exists. We also don't know if PoM really was VJ over the whole time. It is possible, that somebody else took over the VJ moniker. It is possible, that the chatlogs, that were found on Ross' computer, were tampered in a way to prepare his life sentence. The first thing, that brought up the connection between VJ and PoM was in the chatlogs, where VJ made that PoM statement. This could have been an error of VJ (because he assumed, that Ross will not save his chatlogs), or the intention to put a false trail (maybe someone who knew PoM from back in the days"). After Motherboard was able to read VJ's emails it seems to be clear, that PoM was Variety Jones, at least at one point in time. Dunno if this could be part of that fake trail or how reliable these emails are. I didn't read them. Fact is. that PoM is (at least) letting everybody think, that he was Variety Jones at one point, but at the same time he states, that he was not the "SR architect" that Motherboard called him. Wouldn't it be pretty idiotic to admit beeing the No. 2 of SR if you had nothing to do with it? Another fact is, that Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life for crimes, that doesn't justify this punishment. If I put this Diamond character into the story, then there are a lot of things, that start making sense to me. This means, if PoM has made up the story, he made it well researched, entertaining and credible (up to a certain point). I would still not understand the reason, why he would be putting himself in the spotlight of the authorities, esp. when facing a life sentence - just for a good story? GTFOH... |
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What if Ross really sold the site to an yet unknown person and this person continued to use the DPR moniker?
It can't be so. Ross was caught in the library when logged into his account. Ross said, he was tricked back to log in as an Admin at a time when he had nothing to do with the site anymore. |
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First mentioning of the connection VJ-PoM was made in this thread on March 2 2015: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=935434.msg10632762#msg10632762SherlockHolmes
Re: Who is "Variety Jones"?
March 02, 2015, 05:46:13 PM
First mention of Variety Jones was by PoM in the Overgrow stories. There are people in the UK weed scene who know who he is.
A lot of people knew about his court appearance against Gypsy Nirvana which lead to the dox of PoM beeing Thomas Clark, back when it happened, so it was pretty easy for an official to find him simply by searching for his real name in passengers lists etc. As we know, the FBI had access to the NSA bulk database, so if this Mr. Diamond really exists, he would have an easy job to find out whatever he wants about almost everybody in this panopticum called planet earth. This complete story is as shady as 5 guys smoking pot in a closed car. I can't wait for somebody open that doors .... |
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What if Ross really sold the site to an yet unknown person and this person continued to use the DPR moniker?
What if Ross doesn't have control over this 300k wallet and this Diamond guy only thinks that Ross has the password?
What if PoM's whole story is made up for a reason, that we still don't know?
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Hmmm, it is possible that the 300,000 BTC is from the sale of SR1 although I am not sure I believe that it was sold. It was also no secret that SR was the target of law enforcement, so I think it would be a very bad idea to be within "a mile" of running SR after selling it, or really even be in any kind of communication with the new owner.
Another inconsistency in POM/VJ's story is that he most likely gave more then enough information for him to get DOX'ed but he had claimed that his identity would not be revealed in the beginning of the story. Also I find it strange that diamond/-cwt was able to so easily DOX VJ despite so little information being available about him, and the lack of any trace of his RL identity.
My speculation is that the story is meant to be something that might be able to generate "reasonable doubt" in Ross's case.
The fact, that VJ is PoM is Thomas Clark, was known, even long before LaMoustache's research or Motherboards super duper doxxing. His affinity for Thailand was also no secret and if somebody really wanted to find him, it was possible with some deeper investigation. |
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I am not intimately familiar with all of the details regarding Variety Jones, so those who have been looking into him for longer may feel these may be stupid questions.
Is the PGP key that "Plural of Mongoose" from myPlanetGanga is signing from in some way associated with VJ?
Is "Plural of Mongoose" somehow associated with VJ? (I assume that it is somewhat known/assumed they are one in the same)
This one is more for speculation: Where exactly did this 300,000BTC come from? It is my understanding that there was a spreadsheet found on Ross's computer with a rough accounting of SR1's profit/losses that roughly matched the amount of BTC seized from the SR1 servers and Ross's laptop.
This 300,000BTC claimed amount is roughly 10x larger then the sum of the amounts seized from SR1, and it is not easy to hide that much BTC that is associated with a DNM, so if these coins are somehow associated with SR1 then I would have thought that someone would have said something about them by now.
Sure it is possible that these would be Ross's personal BTC, however this would open up an even larger can of worms. The low price going back to July 2010 was $0.06, and 300,000BTC would be worth roughly $18,000 at that price, however it was reported that Ross invested ~$25,000 to start Silk Road, and I really can't see him investing that much in bitcoin compared to how much he invested in starting Silk Road.
Also the post bubble 2013 low price was roughly $76, which would value the 300kBTC at roughly $22.8 million. I understand that Ross was running SR1 because of his libertarian political views, but he was also running it as a for profit enterprise, which would make little sense to me if he had a separate stash of 300kBTC somewhere - although given sufficient amounts of time, SR1 would likely have been profitable in the long run, however IIRC it was roughly $2,000,000 in the red as of when Ross was arrested because of losses and extortion payments.
I am not saying what was written is untrue, however the 300,000BTC claimed encrypted wallet creates more questions then that guy's post answers.....
Maybe Ross was telling the truth about beeing tricked back into the site after he had sold it. The 300k BTC could be the money from the guy who bought SR from Ross and took over the DPR moniker. It was very easy for a leading FBI officer to tamper all chatlogs, to make sure Ross gets a life sentence. PoM's story is somewhat inconsistent in some parts and IF he was making this story up for whatever reason, he should think about what could happen, when some organized guys from Mexico start brainstorming about how to extract 75MioUSD from a guy in jail... |
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Jesus fucking Christ PoM...... Well... someone needs to make the mother and sister aware for their safety ASAP. Nothing worse than fucking dealing with a Federally trained agent with a nasty agenda... not fun. I would strongly advise people not to fuck with or contact "Diamond". Well, I hope, that this story will have some kind of happy ending...
I don't think there is any way of a happy ending at this point. When nobodys gets hurt it may already is. When PoM's story is true, there is also a lower sentence for Ross possible, which I would call a real happy ending. |
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There are some really evil actors out there, with the tools to fuck with everybodys life, like .. in a minute! Satisfying is, that these fucktards also make errors, like "Carl" or "--cwt". PoM was probably the wrong nigger to fuck wit.  Well, I hope, that this story will have some kind of happy ending... |
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