Seems I was too slow  Address: 16nQ2FD6qTLymmsZQAufJHqdqPJYbcGpj6 Privkey: 5K9bNHVjCGgqnv1vGZAKaye4VPdFUMvexbqCCmkB5rouC93wWSC The 0.1BTC are already gone The idea isn't bad. I think I saw some other threat here with a similar approach (the banknote one iirc). That one worked without folding by using those grey rub-off stickers. |
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tbh I half-in-half expected that would happen if he ran with that much money and figured it would be a sufficient deterrent to refrain from doing so. My call on that was wrong and that's the main thing I learned.
Maybe someone did visit him and we just don't know because he signed a NDA with a mexican cartel who used BST to launder drug money and now he tries to pay them back  |
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Doubt it. I'd like to see Pirate draining gov't funds, but he could do that better on Welfare. Any money he has is useful, but keeping him locked up with white-collar smugglers, launderers, and political prisoners for a few years probably won't help any of us. I think we all learned a lot from Pirate, and I'd love to have a beer with him. -Or I just have Stockholm Syndrome.   It's not like he never did anything wrong before. He's a notorious liar and scammer and will most likely continue this business unless a line is drawn. It would also show other would-be scammers that you can get into real trouble. Either he turns everything he has into coins until he paid back the losses, or he goes to jail for a few years. If you fuck something up, you take responsibility for it.  |
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Complete and utter bullshit.
Despite all greed what people fear the most is an unfavourably ruling considering the nature of Bitcoin regarding debt. The outcome of an actual lawsuit would be absolutely devastating for the speculative value should Trendon win the case. This community is literally retarded when it comes to their perceived rights and Trendon knows this. Nothing will happen.
I wonder how much more the price has to increase until one of the big investors considers to hire some russian or mexican kneebreakers for negotiations with him. Maybe they aren't suing him because the coins are of shady/illegal origins which would backfire at them in court; but if I were him, exactly that would make me nervous. Shut up.
Anybody who lost money to pirate should lick their wounds and move on. You are probably just part of the scam providing coolaid to the suckers.
You are probably just part of Trendon's team trying to make investors give up. |
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Out of obvious interest: What happens to any coins that are found?
Will it be attempted to return them, or does the court not care about that?
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I second the expert mode. Pop up a big scary warning message when a user enables it, but let the user decide.
For me, coin control is mostly a privacy thing. You're always told not to reuse addresses, but if you then make a payment a bunch of different addresses are combined for the input. Everybody can see that those belong to the same wallet then. Parse the blockchain and one can group those addresses by the wallets. If one address of those can be mapped to a user, all others are automatically mapped too.
It's like having accounts with three or four different banks and while you can define which account receives funds you're unable to say which bank(s) will pay a bill.
As for change, there could be some default/expert options:
1. directly back to the source
2. if several source addresses are used, offer a drop-down list
3. offer a list with all your addresses
4. generate a random new address
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$9/btc?
If investors offer to pay "only" 10%
so I assume the people who said it was too good to be true were told they were morons and to shut up
People said that Bitcoin would never work and only idiots would pay real money for some bytes which geeks calculate in their basements. |
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The SEC is moving forward with the case, albeit slowly. Pirate will be going to prison. But these things take time.
Hopefully. What's going to happen with any coins that will be found? Is there a chance that they will be returned? He doesn't have 500,000 coins so the calculation is all off. Most would settle for the Dollar value of the coins at the time he went under.
That's why I said rumors. Nobody had a chance to look into Pirate's wallet and PPT operators too were no help at all in this matter. So even if he has "just" 100,000 coins, a trip for retrieving them could earn someone $900,000. as a newbie, can u tell me what Pirates scam involved, how it worked?
Just like any other Ponzi. He just did it on a quite professional level (even met with investors) and had a great #otc rating what helped a lot too. |
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nope. from what has been read. alot of people invested at the time on avage $1000 each. so then wasting another $1k on flights or a couple $k on investigators, court fee's etc is not in their interest.
Yeah, but since that time, the value has increased by how much? Seven times? Eight times? Your $1000 loss is suddenly a $8000 loss, and it's increasing. Those who invested directly with Trendon could go after him, but others (hello BitcoinMax) don't have much of a chance when the PPT operators protect Pirate. I'm sure that someone who would visit Trendon (with a wet fish maybe?) could earn quite an amount. Most here would agree to pay a percentage of any retrieved coins. Rumors talk about around 500,000 coins that were invested. If investors offer to pay "only" 10% that would be 50,000 coins. With the current exchange rate of ~$90, a person could earn $4,500,000 for a face-to-face visit. |
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Since it has been rather quiet around this whole mess for some time now I would like to take the chance and ask what the current status is.
Are/Were there any lawsuits? Or other attempts to get something back?
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Closed, but anyway, tip sent. It wasn't related to the solution, but thanks very much for taking the time to check it out.
The solution was to have an extra .htaccess file under each subdomain, like a normal codeigniter installation should, and have the 2 different mod_rewrites in different .htaccess files... one in the main sub folder, and then one in each application, doing the codeigniter thing.
Thanks. I started to play around to see if I could stuff it into a single htaccess, but it's probably easier that way. |
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Maybe it's because of your first '[L]' flag?
It's used to stop processing the rule set.
So your subdomain rewrite matches and then the rewrite engine exits.
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I'd like to update, but for me the coincontrol version has become an essential feature for a better control of privacy. So I'm stuck with the DB_CONFIG workaround until this feature gets picked up by the devs  |
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Btw, you might want to remove that csv since it contains email addresses
Sending address via PM
Thanks
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I was one of the persons who gave Pirate a +10 rating, along with a sarcastic comment, after the scheme collapsed. Just to show how useless the system was. Because the ratings were the main reason I trusted in him... ...the ratings and how everybody around here touted the BTC-otc ratings as something to be taken into account when dealing with other users.
Pirate had a large mouth, so did a lot of other scammers. They brag, boast, and flap their feather wings, because of their big egos. This is a very large big red sign. Everybody should learn that. Not saying that the attention-seeking loud talkers are all scammers, but it seems like they very frequently is. At the same time, a lot of people get duped by all that hoopla. I hope it serves as an education for those who got fooled, and that they're more careful in the future.
The bitcoin-otc system is not foolproof, and I would not trust it blindly, I would do my own investigations before dealing with somebody, and I have turned down trades with users that have good ratings, simply because they could not provide some reasonable amount of information that I was asking for. I don't care whether they think I was just too paranoid, or whether they were scammers and were afraid of getting caught with their pants down. Either way, the end result was that I wasn't scammed.
No matter how much of a great trust rating Pirate had, I would've never done any deals with him, because I do not trust people that are jumping up and down, and handwaiving with excitement constantly.
Flamboyant egomaniacs are to be avoided at all costs.
I stayed away from Pirate for a long time, but at some point I decided to jump on too. Why? Mainly because of his #otc ratings and how this was supposed to help to protect one from scammers. Then many reported that they got paid, so whatever he did appeared to work to some degree. Of course there were warnings that it was probably a scam, but most of those ran similar projects so it wasn't easy to determine if those warnings were just part of a mud-fight. Also don't forget that Pirate met with a few of his investors face to face. Also I'm not sure if I was scammed by Pirate or paybtc. Some might say that the promises were too good to be true; but look at the btc price development: from less than cents to around $45 now in 2+ years. People laughed at bitcoin at the beginning and said it's just a scam; but look at it right now. |
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Downside is ratings can easily be faked or bought, I'm sure someone will mention Pirate had a perfect(?) otc score, but he also didn't have a scammer tag either (and technically wasn't one at the time).
Indeed. His score was great when everything started and I'm sure his #otc ratings were a reason for people to trust him. In the end it has turned out to be pretty useless though. I mean, someone still gave him a rating of +10 in November; long after BST was dead and the cat out of the bag. Given a number of sockpuppets any rating system can be abused to create false ratings. Not only can a scammer upvote himself, but also downvote others. Still, scammer tags do serve a purpose, especially for those with high post numbers. A newbie can be honest, but most would consider someone with an old account and lots of posts to be better. A tag makes that account worthless. Just look at paybtc: he's ignoring everything, acts like nothing ever happened and doesn't even attempt to be helpful. He even changed his name a few times; I assume to get rid of the negative aura his old name has. Yet, he has no tag. |
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Note that directly calling mtgox each time the page gets loaded makes it possible to get your website blocked by mtgox.
Either someone keeps F5 pressed or your site gets enough normal traffic.
Your server then would hammer mtgox with API requests what will get you banned.
It's better to add some local caching to protect yourself from that.
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