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15601  Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question. on: December 30, 2014, 06:41:46 PM

"Are you tryin' to pull my towel?"
can't we please leave the Indians and the lovely girls alone ? they have nothing to do with dice... of course unless you read mahabarata or something
Would you believe that modern-looking terracotta dice -- cubic, with the spots and all -- were found in the ruins of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro,  dating from some 5000 years before Christ?

oh.. my bad.. you  mean all those ppl you shown are dating from some 5000 years before Christ?

btw: you are forking the question, you should answer



"Are you tryin' to pull my towel?"

can't we please leave the Indians and the lovely girls alone ? they have nothing to do with dice... of course unless you read mahabarata or something


Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra

Isn't it spelled Mahabharata?

Would you believe that, again, it was an accidental block posting collision, not a malicious selfish mining questioning attempt?


"Would you believe that, again, it was an accidental block posting collision, not a malicious selfish mining questioning attempt?"

And, you want us to believe you because...?
15602  Other / Off-topic / Re: Lizard Squad launches DDoS tool that lets anyone take down online services on: December 30, 2014, 06:35:22 PM
Lizard Squad launches DDoS tool that lets anyone take down online services, starting at $6 per month

Lizard Squad, the “hacker” group best known for attacking Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network, has now launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tool. Now anyone can now take down the website or online service of their choice thanks to “Lizard Stresser,” which we’re not linking to for obvious reasons.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/30/lizard-squad-launches-ddos-tool-that-lets-anyone-take-down-online-services-starting-at-5-99-per-month/

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The service only accepts the cryptocurrency bitcoin, ...

I quit reading here, after having my suppositions piqued upon reading the OP. I honestly don't believe for a second that Lizard Squad is behind this venture. Reads to me more like an opportunist(s).
15603  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: AMT users thread. on: December 30, 2014, 06:31:41 PM
Did anyone download the mountain view video? Looks like they took it private.

 Shocked

 Grin

 Wink

<read between the smileys>  Kiss
15604  Other / Off-topic / Re: IS UFO or ALIENS are real ? on: December 30, 2014, 10:39:09 AM

6EQUJ5

6EQUJ5coin in 5...4...3...
15605  Other / Off-topic / Re: Need help from somebody who attends[ed] Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on: December 30, 2014, 10:31:39 AM
Surely, somebody here has attended Carnegie Mellon University, haven't they?
15606  Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question. on: December 30, 2014, 10:26:55 AM


"Are you tryin' to pull my towel?"

can't we please leave the Indians and the lovely girls alone ? they have nothing to do with dice... of course unless you read mahabarata or something


Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra

Isn't it spelled Mahabharata?
15607  Other / Off-topic / Re: Answer the question above with a question. on: December 30, 2014, 07:44:02 AM
Does it even make sense to seek Enlightenment in some concoction obtained from the Dark Web?
Should I blend my MacBook?
Isn't the name "MacBook" quaint, considering that books no longer look like laptops?
Would it still be called the [Johnny] Appleseed [fail] Challenge akin to the Lighter Fluid [fail] Challenge?
Why does that video remind me of Idiocracy?
Is anyone else here confused?
That's the idea, confuse the enemy; don' t you see?
Do you realize that you, yourself is yor biggest enemy ?
Well, I am confused; does that mean that it is working?
frankly... im still confused how come there is no number on the side of a dice... who put spot in there and why...  and why would any sane man put spot on a dice instead of number Huh
Why would you not put a dot?

Did I just roll a Bingo with the above, when one outta six times I roll the below and lose?

Since the Red Cross symbol was originally just the Swiss flag with colors reversed, would you agree with my reasoning that the gentleman with the risk-free die must be Swiss, and the two ladies above must be nurses working for the International Red Dot?


"Are you tryin' to pull my towel?"
15608  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Lego Bitcoin Project - Sign up and support so the set becomes real! It's free! on: December 30, 2014, 07:36:20 AM
I love legos. Good idea, but you need to make it more interesting in size or the number of details. People like to see amazing things made out of bricks, like this:


Maybe I could post the Lego Digital Designer file on github and have the community add/contribute their ideas!

Open source Lego sets!

If only there were some sort of 3-D machine on the market where folks can mold their own blocks. Imagine the possibilities if the all one had to do was download codes for varies blocks into their 3-D injection molding thingy, then the results would be endless. Only if!
15609  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 30, 2014, 06:53:05 AM
eCache : Anonymous Digital Bearer Certificates: http://web.archive.org/web/20070629165051/https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/doc.php

http://web.archive.org/web/20070629165430/https://ffij33ewbnoeqnup.onion.meshmx.com/readme.php

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Credit where credit is due:
A big shoutout to Yodel of Yodelbank (external at Wikipedia) fame. He is the inventor of the COW currency and inspired us with his DBC format. Yodel: If you are alive and read this, come talk to us on the channel. There is some GG waiting for you.

The first 5 COW went to "SomePatches". You are officially user number ONE!

http://www.fact-index.com/y/yo/yodelbank.html

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Yodelbank is a bank that relies on the Digital Monetary Trust-network (DMT), and the Invisible IRC Project (IIP) [1].
DMT is a threelayerd computer system. Its function is to abstract the identity of the account-owner from the accounts. That is, the accountholders transfer money into the DMT network, wich becomes the legal owners of the money. Then, the accountholders can make DMT transfer money as they like. The system builds on trust betwen the "bank" and the accountholders, hence the name.

Yodelbank is a bank that has all its assets in the DMT. Yodelbank has no physical office, instead it exists entierly inside the "cipherspace." The interface towards yodelbank is put inside IIP, an encrypted and pseudonymous internet relay chat. (IRC)

Because Yodelbank is put on top of DMT and the only way to communicate with yodelbank is through IIP, it is an entierly anonymous internet bank.

Yodelbank is not a registerd company. It exist entierly outside any countries law. The owner of yodelbank is also unknown.

DMT was borne out of James Ray Houston and Sonny Vleisides' Laissez Faire City via James Orlin Grabbe (JOG).
15610  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 30, 2014, 06:47:05 AM

Surely this is not the real L. Detweiler.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=385302

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Name:   L.Detweiler
Posts:   25
Activity:   25
Position:   Newbie
Date Registered:   October 09, 2014, 05:19:11 PM
Last Active:   December 21, 2014, 05:55:21 AM

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=385324

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Name:   S.Boxx
Posts:   25
Activity:   25
Position:   Newbie
Date Registered:   October 09, 2014, 08:00:14 PM
Last Active:   December 29, 2014, 09:53:37 PM
15611  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 30, 2014, 06:35:09 AM
^^^Ironically, Steve Schear mentions Jeb McCaleb's eDonkey. The same Jeb McCaleb who founded Mt Gox.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenschear

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Director of Business Development
Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow
2000 – 2001 (1 year)

"Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow was a startup company founded by Jim McCoy et al. to create MojoNation. After several years, the company ran out of money and laid off most of its employees; Bram Cohen went on to create BitTorrent and Zooko created Mnet out of MojoNation’s source code. The company’s name comes from the game Illuminati by Steve Jackson Games."
15612  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 30, 2014, 06:15:22 AM
@ slaveforanunnak1

While we are still on the blog comments, here is a Szabo comment that made me realize a small difference of opinion between Szabo and Satoshi. It's about the use of the term Cryptocurrency.

*Satoshi used the term Cryptocurrency.
Quote from: satoshi on July 06, 2010, 06:32:35 PM
"Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency!"


*In 2011 Szabo still would not use the term Cryptocurrency.
Szabo Quote: from 2011
"And what's up with the term "cryptocurrency"? What is it supposed to mean? Cryptography is used to protect payments systems as radically different as credit cards, Chaumian digital cash, and Bitcoin. The term encourages the popular but profoundly naive view of Bitcoin as merely another form of digital cash."

Note: could be a misdirection by Szabo or maybe a sign of the doppelganger theory. It may not mean anything, just something I noticed.



Interesting. I'm starting to look more closely at Zooko

The thing with Zooko always comes back to money, or lack of it. He has several projects he is trying to get going but doesn't have the funds. He really cares about the new science he is into and I think if he had the coins, he would definitely be using them.

That's why I'm thinking he may have been the coder only. He was definitely posting about BitCoin on January 26 2009. He had the time to do the work. He knew the right people. He lived and worked in that circle.

Note: Where was Jim McCoy located in 2008-2009? Still in Texas?

Szabo also seemed to be mentoring that young Blogger Byrne during the Times we have been looking at. In fact Szabo's call for help was in a response to Byrne's post.

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.html?m=1

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/

http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000571.html (with apologies for quoting all, found while on the hunt to address what's asked of us quoted above)

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Financial Cryptography

Where the crypto rubber meets the Road of Finance...
« It's official - doing due diligence is a criminal offence! | Main | eBay migrates to the Payments business »
October 12, 2005

The Mojo Nation Story

[Guest post by Steve Schear] Mojo Nation was the brainchild of Jim McCoy (then formerly of Yahoo) and Doug Barnes (then formerly of C2Net). Their vision was a fully distributed peer-to-peer network with a financial mechanism that offered efficient cost recovery and discouraged the free-riding known to P2P people as leeching (a problem that continues to plague P2P).

The most radical element of MN was its method of pricing all activities in terms of network resources. It was also one of the first attempts at a P2P network using a fully distributed approach and a publishing versus a file sharing metaphor.

Unfortunately, MN was never fully operational. It never reached a point of deployment that allowed many of its novel architectural and technological assumptions, especially the mint, to be truly tested. It's not clear what economic lessons to draw from its operational vision, but here are some of the reasons behind its business failure:

- MN failed because it failed to get continued funding. It only received seed money from its founder, Jim McCoy. MN was in development before Napster but its greater complexity caused a delayed public release. Jim had the foresight to thoroughly investigate the legal aspects of P2P and architecture MN to segregate tracking and file storage and distance itself from either. Nevertheless, Napster's negative publicity closed the door on VC funding and development beyond beta testing.

- It failed because the UI never reached a point of maturity that enabled mostly automated meta-data tags (e.g., from mp3) to be generated from published content. This required users to tediously enter this data (and re-enter it when they were forced to republish, see below).

- It failed because software instabilities prevented its distributed servers from accumulating and retaining enough content and becoming stable (network effects). This instability required constant, manual, republishing of content by users who soon fatigued (user churn).

The most notable result from MN was Bram's Bit Torrent. Though, as we saw, Bram failed to heed warnings (and discussion at MN) about protecting the trackers until the MPAA/RIAA were able to shut many down. Its been reported that many of these shortcomings have been fixed but I still can't seem to get Azureus (the most popular BT client) to work as expected with the distributed tracking. Since the demise of eDonkey, et al, due to the MGM vs. Grokster BT has been given a shot at reassuming the P2P leadership mantle. I hope it succeeds. Or perhaps P2P's next growth will have to wait until enough its users discover the advantages of an anonymizing transport layers, like TOR and I2P.

Steve

Addendum: see Part 2 from Jim McCoy himself.

Posted by iang at October 12, 2005 08:22 AM | TrackBack
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Bram didn't fail to heed warnings about attacks on trackers; he knew about them full well and would frequently explain them to people who wanted to use BitTorrent for illegal activities. Bram, as I understand it, didn't believe in making any software design changes for the sole purpose of supporting illegality.

Posted by: Aaron Swartz at October 18, 2005 05:30 PM

http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000572.html

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October 12, 2005

The Mojo Nation Story - Part 2

[Jim McCoy himself writes in response to MN1] Hmmm..... I guess that I would agree with most of what Steve said, and would add a few more datapoints.

Contributing to the failure was a long-term vision that was too complex to be implemented in a stepwise fashion. It was a "we need these eight things to work" architecture when we were probably only capable of accomplishing three or four at any one time. Part of this was related to the fact the what became Mojo Nation was originally only supposed to be the distributed data storage layer of an anonymous email infrastructure (penet-style anonymous mailboxes using PIR combined with a form of secure distributed computation; your local POP proxy would create a retrieval ticket that would bounce around the network and collect your messages using multiple PIR calculations over the distributed storage network....yes, you can roll your eyes now at how much we underestimated the development complexity...)

As Bram has shown, stripping MN down to its core and eliminating the functionality that was required for persistent data storage turned out to create a pretty slick data distribution tool. I personally placed too much emphasis on the data persistence side of the story and the continuing complexity of maintaining this aspect was probably our achilles heel, if we had not focused on persistence as a design goal and let it develop as an emergent side-effect things might have worked but instead it became an expensive distraction.

In hindsight, it seems that a lot of our design and architecture goals were sound, since most of the remaining p2p apps are working on adding MN-like features to their systems (e.g. combine Tor with distributed-tracker-enabled BitTorrent and you are 85% of the way towards re-creating MN...) but the importance of keeping the short- term goal list small and attainable while maintaining a compelling application at each milestone was a lesson that I did not learn until it was too late.

I think that I disagree with Steve in terms of the UI issues though. Given the available choices at the time we could have either created an application for a single platform or use a web-based interface. The only cross-platform UI toolkit available to us at the time (Tk) was kinda ugly and we didn't have the resources to put a real UI team together. If we were doing this again today our options would include wxWidgets for native UI elements or AJAX for a dynamic web interface, but at the time a simple web browser interface seemed like a good choice. Of course, if we had re-focused on file-sharing instead of distributed persistent data storage we could have bailed on Linux & Mac versions and just created a native win32 UI...

The other point worth mentioning is that like most crypto wonks, we were far too concerned with security and anonymity. We cared about these features so we assumed our users would as well; while early adopters might care the vast majority of the potential user base doesn't really care as much as we might think. These features added complexity, development time, and a new source of bugs to deal with.

Jim
15613  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 30, 2014, 05:33:47 AM

Surely this is not the real L. Detweiler.

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.html

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Many of the recent anon posts have been quite productive, eg
"Wonderer's" embarrassing newbie questions which motivated Hal
Finney to first write a nice explanation of digital cash, then
think of an interesting simplification of Chaum's scheme.  Under
any system falling short of truly intelligent filters,
Hal would not have filtered S. Boxx's first posts
without also filtering Wonderer's first posts.

LD Admits he is S.Boxx (oops!)

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From:   IN%"ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu"  "L. Detweiler" 14-NOV-1993
To:     IN%"cypherpunks@toad.com"
CC:     IN%"ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu"
Subj:   Soothing Sayings

Mr. Barnes, you tried to convince me of the Joy of Pseudospoofing, for
which I suggested you were trying to convert me to the  Dark Side
(actually, I am indebtedly grateful for that beautiful inspiration for
my essay). You told me that E.Hughes' lectures on the subject of
pseudospoofing were what drew you to it in the first place! But this is
buried very deep in my comprehensive archives, from many weeks ago. (I
encourage all other cypherpunks to keep very good archives, because
some day we will be able to separate all the pseudospoofed identities
from real ones, and it will be quite shocking, I assure you. Some
prominent cypherpunks are extremely terrified and staunchly opposed to
archives, for obvious reasons.)

===========================================================================

Yes, LD, good archives certainly do help in catching pseudospoofers.
Like you. You have been using S.Boxx to post some of your rants and
create a false consensus - exactly what you have argued against so
loudly. How hypocritical can you get?

Why don't we post this on comp.risks and discredit him and his rants
once and for all? Enough of this crap!

--- MikeIngle@delphi.com

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/11/msg00582.html

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Re: LD Admits he is S.Boxx (oops!)

To: cfrye@ciis.mitre.org (Curtis D. Frye)
Subject: Re: LD Admits he is S.Boxx (oops!)
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 10:36:29 PST
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9311151601.AA09373@ciis.mitre.org>; from "Curtis D. Frye" at Nov 15, 93 11:01 am

> Kudos to Mike Ingle for his diligent record keeping and powers of
> observation.  As much as I like the computational solution for these
> problems, there's no substitute for documenting a mistake that blows
> somebody's cover.
>
> Curtis D. Frye

The S. Boxx = LD correlation has been obvious for several weeks. In
one notable case, S. Boxx quoted directly from private mail that had
been sent by Eric Hughes to L.D.

When confronted by this, L.D. waffled a bit and then mumbled something
about "of course cooperating with my colleague S. Boxx." For the next
several days he was careful to make casual references to "my
colleague."

As someone else told me, L.D. is a true casualty.

I'm trying to avoid discussing his situation on the List. The whole
matter has probably already driven people off the List, and more folks
may be on the verge. They joined the List to talk about the stuff we
are supposed to be discussing, and instead they get a dozen rants a
day from Detweiler and as many followups flaming him.

ObCrytp Note: Just got the English translation in paperback of the
Japanese-published "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics," a large
2-volume set with detailed articles on many branches of math.
If the
math talked about in crypto is sometimes obscure to you, check this
out. The cost is $59, a real bargain these days.

--Tim May

What are the chances of some Satoshi Nakamoto being mentioned in "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics"?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/05/19/ted-nelson-says-that-bitcons-satoshi-nakamoto-is-shinichi-mochizuki/

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I think it’s far more likely that the pseudonym was coined by someone heavily influenced by the cyberpunk literature: a lot of which, as we all know, was influenced by how people viewed the Tokyo of the 80s:

The economic and technological state of Japan in the 80s influenced Cyberpunk literature at the time. Of Japan’s influence on the genre, William Gibson said, “Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.”

That would surely explain away May's purchase.
15614  Other / Off-topic / Re: What Song are you Listening To? on: December 29, 2014, 10:20:31 PM
Zorba the Greek Yolngu style
15615  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: UNOfficial AMT Thread round 3: The Uncensored version. on: December 29, 2014, 09:55:24 PM
Apologies for the formatting, but did you know that before today none of the Joshua Zipkin's AMT Miner's negative trust was indexed on any of the search engines? In fact, that's indicative off ALL negative trusts given to anybody on this forum, including Josh Zerlan's Inaba (not linked here, for this is an AMT thread, but wanted to give a prime example to drive the point home).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=152891



Bitcoin Forum > Trust
Trust summary for AMT_miners

Post new feedback | Trust settings

Risked BTC amount is money that the person could have stolen or did steal. For example, if you do a currency trade where the other person sends first, your feedback for them would have 0 risked BTC and their feedback for you would have risked BTC equal to the BTC value of the trade.

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User   Date   Risked BTC amount   Reference   Comments
MrTeal 11: -0 / +8(Cool   2014-08-19   0.00000000   Reference   Refuses to fulfill legitimate auction wins.
Untrusted feedback

These ratings are from people who are not in your trust network. They may be totally inaccurate.


User   Date   Risked BTC amount   Reference   Comments
clenell 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-10-08   17.00000000      ordered miner from AMT and they never delivered. they will not issue mea refund or even talk.
Waiting since 1/4/14 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-09-17   0.00000000      I ordered two 1.2 th miners in January 2014, I have not received them. AMT is selling new miners to others without fulfilling the agreement with me! This agreement was made 8 months AGO!!!!!!!!

I gave them $12,000.00 and they do not return my calls or emails!!!!

This has been the worst experience I have ever delt with!!

AMT took my money!!!!!!!!!
athgaurd 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-09-15   8.00000000      Waiting for almost a year for them to deliver miner
athgaurd 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-09-15   8.00000000      Waiting for almost a year for them to deliver miner
bobsag3 5: -1 / +5(5)   2014-09-08   0.00000000      Lying in leaked skype Chats about Black Arrow and technobit dealings.
opieum2 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-09-06   0.00000000      In retaliation for ANY bad information posted my personal details on the forum and FALSELEY claimed I did classified work for the government painting a VERY big target on mine and my familes back. AND on top of it encouraged people to visit me if they "have a problem with him"
asprin 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-28   0.00000000   Reference   Paid $6,000 for miner, shipped 8 months after order when the miner now costs $1,500 and REFUSED a refund.
opieum2 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-25   0.00000000   Reference   Months to fulfill order placed in February. And as a result devaluation of order resulted in getting hardware that was outdated by delivery time (late August).

In addition documented leaked chats that directly contradict public statments made by AMT. No intention of fulfilling the MPP with statements by Josh Zipkin such as "Fuck the MPP"

Constant lies and deceptions with constant excuses with no validation of such. Stay away from AMT. And anything associated with Joshua Zipkin.
avaughan4 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-25   28.00000000   Reference   Has not fulfilled order since 11/6/2013 and refuses to answer questions on public forum or email. DO NOT BUY FROM AMT! THEY OFFER NO SUPPORT AND YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INFERIOR PRODUCT WHEN THEY DELIVER A YEAR LATER!
sirminesalot 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-21   6.00000000   Reference   Unfullfiled order worth $6000 - now miners are being sent out, but they are work 1/5th of the original price.

AMT has no plans to fulfill MPP promised at time of purchase.

Scam Company - Wild cash grab from the start.
AMT_minerLESS 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-20   0.00000000   Reference   AMT/Josh Zipkin Has lied to customers many times.
Look to various posts on the matter. Older unmoderated thread contains alot of the original infos on missed shipping, damaged hardware and lies told. AMT User thread is user managed, current info can be checked there. Use EXTREME CAUTION!
rik_khaos 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-20   6.79127358      AMT originally promised an American build, moved operations over to china.

AMT_miners has constantly and knowingly lied about dates that miners would be shipped with the intent to deceive the purchaser. This includes the dates prominently advertised on the homepage of the AMT website www.advanceminers.com

AMT has refused to supply tracking numbers to clients.

I was once sent a "kit" at one point that had hashing boards that failed to initialize, and chips that burned out due to poor thermal design.

They have repeatedly refused to give refunds that they are legally obligated to process under the FTC regulation.

I as well as others have made formal complaints to the FTC and other consumer protection agencies.

AMT has ignored the laws of the country in which it was founded in and maintains its headquarters in.

Upon receiving my miner on 8/19/2014 I discovered my unit shipped without the Power Supply Unit that was included in the product description and purchase price.

When I unboxed my miner I was greeted with rusty scrap metal with sharp edges that could have injured me had I opened the box another way.

My hardware has depreciated by an amount greater than $4100 dollars between time of order until the time of my receipt, not including missing parts, which effectively bring its value down to zero dollars as the missing power supply is required to use the unit.

AMT advertises a Miner Protection Program on their website located at https://advancedminers.com/miner-protection-plan/ . This program guarantees in no uncertain terms that, “If the networks increases to a point where your investment in our technology is no longer profitable, AMT will upgrade your Miner to the next level Miner absolutely free.”; “When the buyer’s miner is ready to be shipped, we will give that buyer the option of shipping the original miner which they purchased, or to upgrade to the next AMT miner which will allow them to meet ROI and more.”; “We will contact each buyer either by telephone or email with this option at the time of shipment.”; and “If the network increases so much that the next level miner also can’t meet ROI, the product upgrade will continue to the next AMT product which is profitable. Therefore, no matter what happens, our clientele will be left a ROI either way.”

To this date AMT denies to detail plans for compensation under the Miner Protection Plan. AMT often outright deletes posts when asked directly about the plan, or instructs the poster to contact their sales e-mail, sales@AdvancedMiners.com. When the poster contacts the provided e-mail for further communication AMT does not return a response.

The risked BTC is a conversion from fiat (USD) using highest price of bitcoin for the date of purchase.
Chazaki 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-20   13.00000000      Stole $13k from me as well as hundreds of thousands from others. No refunds. Trade with EXTREME caution
Dans 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-19   85.00000000   Reference   Pre-ordered miners back in February with a guarantee that hardware was working in the lab and would ship within a few weeks. Re-confirmed this several times before paying. Once i paid they went silent and now refuse to give a refund.
Bicknellski 0: -0 / +1(1)   2014-08-16   0.00000000   Reference   Thumbs down. Do not buy from this company.
ar9 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-14   0.00000000      Scam company, steer clear if you don't like giving your money away.
iglasses 0: -0 / +1(1)   2014-08-13   0.00000000      Tries to run another scam in the marketplace and eventually deletes all replies and closes thread.
This is nothing but a scam
braindead 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-13   4.00000000   Reference   False auction, didn´t accept escrow services, changes delivery charges etc etc

Waste of time
crashoveride54902 7: -0 / +4(4)   2014-08-09   0.00000000   Reference   Scam Company is scamming, you have been warned...offer paypal, take away paypal and wants btc up front...fail at auctions...just generally bad all around...PM me if you think this is unfair
klondike_bar 1: -0 / +1(1)   2014-08-09   3.94000000   Reference   first they insulted my escrow provider, who has a fantastic reputation
then the shipping costs tripled
then they offered to host my equipment (ie: no escrow)


as far as im concerned this is a total scam. I gave AMT the benefit of the doubt and they shat all over everything.
captin crunch 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-06   32.00000000      I gave AMT nearly $18,000 in November 2013 for 3 miners to be delivered late December '13 to early January '14. I have been told repeatedly over the last 6 months that the equipment would ship by the end of the week.
July 14 AMT claimed to have shipped the 1st half of their backlog which I am clearly in. (currently valued at $4500)
They claimed the delivery process took 3 to 4 days but would not issue tracking numbers to its ustomers. 20 days later, still no mining equipment.
This is absolutely, hands down, the worst company I have ever dealt with in my entire life. The people who run the company are pathological liars and the proof is in their thread.
If you value your money and time I seriously recommend looking for another company to do business with.
subseaguru 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-08-05   0.00000000   Reference   AMT_miners advertised they are selling items and using paypal as payment along with BTC and escrow, they decided to change the payments and not tell anyone. this is the 3rd time that AMT has done this. they claim they accept a payment type then change their minds when it suits them.
x8008 -4: -1 / +0(0)   2014-08-03   2.00000000      Scam company
clenell 0: -0 / +0(0)   2014-04-03   11.90000000      I purchased a bitcoin miner from this man on Nov. 11, 2013. I have received nothing as of 4/3/14. He will not issue me a refund and he will not return emails or phone calls. I am order #610 - a 1.2TH machine. I can send you an invoice and bank transfer if it's proof you need.
15616  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 29, 2014, 09:41:48 PM
http://web.archive.org/web/20080518222139/http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/

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[The above is based on comments I made at the Marginal Revolution blog].

POSTED BY NICK SZABO AT 4:12 PM 14 COMMENTS LINKS TO THIS POST

Almost 6 years later...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/profile-of-satoshi-nakamoto-creator-of-bitcoin.html

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Profile of Satoshi Nakamoto, creator (?) of Bitcoin

by Tyler Cowen on March 6, 2014 at 7:14 am   in Current Affairs, Economics, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | Permalink
- See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/profile-of-satoshi-nakamoto-creator-of-bitcoin.html#sthash.zehjdAEt.dpuf
15617  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 29, 2014, 08:43:45 PM
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http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.html?m=1
Szabo calls out to the cypherpunk types for help to finalize coding BitGold and run a test net a few months before the BiCoin white paper gets published online.
Note: Look at the "url" for the real date. The date was changed on the blog itself to look like it was published at a later date. Possibly to look released after the BitCoin white paper 10/31/2008 Halloween. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/

Thanks to the Way Back Machine...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080518222139/http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/



http://web.archive.org/web/20110715041625/http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.html



http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/



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Consulting services

I am now publicly offering my consulting services. Besides topics I regularly blog about, my expertise includes technology product management (especially for e-commerce and wireless products and services), smart contracts, financial engineering, software architecture and engineering, and computer/network security. I can travel just about anywhere.

Please contact me at nszabo AT law DOT gwu DOT edu for rates, availability, resume/CV, etc. Please describe or link to a description of your project and describe the services you need.

And, for a reasonably low rate, you can have Satoshi Nakamoto speak at your next company BBQ.

After checking about a couple dozen articles, to date Bit gold markets was the ONLY one I've uncovered that Nick Szabo changed its original penning date.
15618  Other / Off-topic / TBBT eludes to Bitcoin (Sheldon; Sovereign Nation; Currency) on: December 29, 2014, 03:28:29 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxqrQR0vToU&list=PL197E8A777C74BA89#t=49 (Mark 49s)

Sheldon declares apartment as a Sovereign Nation and Leonard still has some of the currency.
15619  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 29, 2014, 02:53:54 PM
^ just think if "eddie" turned out to be McCoy.....he normally just posted "anonymous" until Nick would piss him off about MoJo and then he would use his true name....Nick never posted anything after the "eddie" post.....so maybe "eddie" is McCoy....and since Szabo never provoked him, he didn't reveal his true name.

Note: the "anonymous" comments turn out to be Jim McCoy once Szabo makes him mad enough to admit who he is:
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/06/nanobarter.html?m=1

Update: I don't think McCoy is Satoshi, but he may be "eddie" from the "BitGold-Markets" comment section.(Although it looks like Byrne's writing style)
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.html?m=1

Thanks, frickface  Smiley, now I have to read the DonutLab White Paper: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-5.pdf

Edit: I quit reading at Donutbot. Maybe somebody else can make heads or tails outta it, for it's outside my element (no pun intended).
15620  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My jaw is still on the floor. on: December 29, 2014, 07:38:11 AM
^ that blog comment from eddie has always fascinated me.....especially the "scarcity" comparison. I can see the evolution from Szabo's "nanobarter" comment section in 2007 between Szabo, Zooko and Jim McCoy leading to eddie's well thought comments on Szabo's "BitGold-Markets" in 2008.

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/06/nanobarter.html?m=1

http://web.archive.org/web/20070618142414/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/scarce.html

Note: this is the link for the eddie comment from the post above:
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.html?m=1



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There have been over the years several plans and attempts to develop very fined grained markets online.

Wouldn't it be funny if Satoshi Nakamoto turned out to be the real McCoy? http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/115

You know I've thought that before..........

I guess that'll make us the Hatfields.  Grin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud
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