Yeah I don't think he'll be back to do escrow any time soon.   He says he's done with this community, so he'll probably not be back and even if he did come back no one here trusts him.

Yeah, with all due respect 0.5 is a bit too high.  You might want to see if you can find those games you mentioned, because that's going to impact the selling price.  If you included those games, you might get near your asking price.  Good luck.

Don't know about blue satoshi but bluedoge seems to have disappeared from Faucetbox, not sure what happened.  Both are really good faucets and I hate to see the good ones disappear or stop paying.

All of you should have voted for #1 and this is why everyone keeps depositing money on exchanges that just run away with it.  They're on their way out, and in another thread I predicted that they'll be offline within a month.  By March at the latest. 

Back online like nothing happened?  Who in their right mind is going to keep depositing coins???  Only suckers would do such a thing and I don't think Cryptsy could sustain themselves on suckers alone.

OP, please open up a proper scam accusation, the format which you can find in a sticky at the top of the main page.  And you'll have to post proof of a scam or else no one is going to believe you.  If you were trying to buy the laptop from him on the dark web, it's not surprising if he did try to scam you.

Ebay definitely sucks.

Yeah, anonymity.  That's pretty much the only reason, and people are willing to pay a premium for it.  You have to realize that bitcoin is used quite a bit on dark markets--drugs, child porn, weapons, and all that other stuff, and that makes the purchasers criminals.  Taking care to hide their identity is paramount.

I used Coinbase until they closed my account for a stupid banking mistake I made.  If that didn't happen I'd still be buying and selling with them.  Circle I've never used.  Will have to look into that.

Well, since I can't stand Reddit I could care less what he's doing over there.  He doesn't micromanage this place, or at least I haven't noticed that.  In fact, most of the mods here seem to take a kind of laissez-faire kind of approach and I like that.

Ok so am I understanding this correctly?  The only wallet used to hold this shitcoin is a trojan and thus this was a scam from the start?  As I said, I'm a bit non-tech oriented, but this sounds kind of scary.

Never listened to Royal Bank of Scotland before.  Won't start now.  Lol, did you have to search long and hard for a doom-and-gloom article like this?  Chances are there's always going to be someone around who's saying such things, like Kwukduck with bitcoins.  They could be right but I'm not worried.

Bullshit unless OP posts proof and even then, I would strongly advise no one do the deal as he requested.  You're just asking for a chargeback.  Likely a scam attempt by a newbie throwaway account anyway.

Well, this forum has been hacked before though I'm not suggesting it was in this case.  You might have picked up a keylogger or something like that, who knows.  I don't.  Be careful and don't trust anything around here.

Good luck with that!  Just by saying that, you are inviting malicious trolls to give you exactly the opposite--and they'll do it because they can.  Without ever having risked a single satoshi.  All of my negative trust came from exactly two trolls who I never did deals with and have nothing to do with anything real.  What they wrote were lies.  Shrug it off and move on.

Aren't you the one who was selling antibiotics for fish?

I don't trust you, but be safe and use an escrow and some other payment method than PayPal or you're going to end up being the victim of a scam.

Yeah I agree they're primarily speculation vehicles.  Absolutely.  But stocks represent earnings of real businesses whereas altcoins don't represent anything and aren't used for anything.  Their value mystifies me, actually, with the exception of a tiny handful (LTC, DOGE) that can actually be used to buy things.

Wait, what am I missing here about Xapo?  That article is about a fundraising round, which is the exact opposite of becoming a casualty.  Also, Cryptsy still hasn't officially bit the dust yet.  Soon, though.

Unless he's got some inside information about a huge bitcoin price rise, definitely no.  He could certainly afford to be a btc whale if he chose, but I don't see him ever buying bitcoin and he probably isn't going to live a hell of a lot longer.  What a guy though, I really respect him.

I see -15 trust.  You must have added a few people to your trust list.  In any case OP, it doesn't look like a scam at all and your account is basically worth jack shit with the neg trust.  Start over if you can, no?

Someone said that lotteries are a tax on the mathematically-challenged, and I'd agree with that.  Chances are next to zero, and the odds are against you always, so why play at all?  For some people it's fun, but I hate throwing money away like that.

Not gonna happen, OP.  Vod does more good than harm and is right more than wrong and doesn't scam.  Those are qualifications enough for DT.  You on the other hand act and write like a defiant child and QS, you've got a grudge against Vod because of his (-) trust on your profile due to the "self-escrow" debacle.

If anyone needs examples of why bitcoin might just fall on its face, just read this thread.  Ugh.  I swear, it's pain-in-the-ass experiences like this that turn me off, and sometimes it is hard to make purchases with btc for any number of reasons.  OP, hopefully you got your fraction of a bitcoin.