Thank you. I will be in contact in due course.

Hi,

I am looking for someone who can help me launch my own coin. If you are interested, state your experience and skills.

Payment is negotiable.

Sure I agree with you but I wonder what the scale of the scam is.

I checked my emails today and found this one in my junkbox. Has anyone else had similar emails sent to them?

This is the first one I ever received which is basically demanding money using a form of blackmail but I do not have any coins on any exchanges and even if I did I would not send these scammers anything.

Plenty of the 'early' days bitcoins that were mined have simply been lost because novices did not know how to move them around between hard drive to hard drive, as well as those being lost on USB drives and lost keys.

I agree with that but the wallet associated with Satoshi now holding 930,000 bitcoins has not had any bitcoins sent from it. It only ever received so does anyone even have access to it?

https://www.dmarge.com/2017/12/winklevoss-twins-bitcoin-billionaires.html

Who hold more Bitcoin, the Winklevoss twins or someone else?

News media around the world is reporting that the Winklevoss twins are the world first bitcoin billionaires, stating they own 100,000 bitcoins. Congratulations to them.

Does anyone know who the other bitcoin whales are?

The majority of the reviews suggest it is better to stay away from ShapeShift

Nice one InvoKing

Thank you for the post and link. This new forum development has been going on for years, maybe I have it wrong but it seems either a case of mismanagement or incompetence that years later it still is being developed.

What exactly is being developed and tested year after year?

In that case I apologise if I got it wrong, will the new forum be open-source or custom coded?

Any new donors giving 1BTC each at over $7000 will not require all that financial clout to go in to development so naturally the question arises as to exactly where the money has gone. The same way a list is provided to see the names of the donors it would provide clarity if a list was provided showing how much of the donations were spent and for which purpose etc. That provides clarity.

Did these fraudsters try to pull off another scam?

Sorry to disappoint but I will not be clicking the link you posted nor give further time to your defence of where you claim the donations are being spent.

No but you obviously do 

How can revenue and donations continue to be used in development of the new forum software? The forum software is FREE open source!!

The version used by this forum (SMF 1.1.19) has not been updated here for years even though plenty of free updates and versions have been released: http://www.simplemachines.org/

I do not accept that the "bitcoin donations are going towards development of the forum" when the forum is downloaded for free yet the people running this forum are not updating it.

There should be clarity about where the donations are going and who is using the donations and for what purpose.

Oh no, another ShapeShift problem. I am glad I found out about these problems before I used their "service".

Thank you for the feedback. I will never use this "service"and will not recommend it to anybody

The jury is still out on this one, there are too many negative reviews about ShapeShift. I would not recommend this service to anybody unless the reviews improve.

Anyone know?

Does anyone know who is purchasing it and what price it was sold for?

Unfortunately nobody is naming the coin