Yeah I dunno know the "recovery team's" holdup is. I know for a fact they don't have anything better to do.

If I were you I would open a thread in Meta about it and describe what happened. Maybe posting a signed message from your old NEM wallet there will help. If you mentioned the NEM address previously, also include a quote from that post. I will help you get the relevant party's attention.

Obviously for personal reasons rather than aesthetics... It sounds like you're now a professional sewage tank cleaner, previously you were an old school LSD manufacturer or Xanax reseller, which were way cooler. To each their own...

Pre-ICO is still ongoing. 15% bonus ends in 14 days, 22 hours, and 26 minutes.

Am hoping marlboroza will also come back, he was pretty entertaining.

He's been wrong for almost 2 years -- I'd consider that a lot.

Dude was the worst type of shitcoin pump n dump shillfluencer.

Basically every prediction he ever made was wrong.

If he wasn't spewing bullshit for his ego, he was doing it for cash.

Peter McCormack fans rn

I wouldn't deem any usage of it as "proper." As a matter of fact I strongly recommend staying away from ChipMixer altogether.


You've posited a series of conditions in which you are always going to be right regardless of what happens. This doesn't change the fact that it is possible to trace coins moved through ChipMixer, and that thieves & hackers are ChipMixer's biggest clients.

https://slowmist.medium.com/investigation-of-aml-instances-around-blockchain-technology-for-the-first-half-of-2022-faff3e4bd6e

This is all fine Bob. We'll still love you. Just make sure you also continue to live your life in herbitude as well. It might help with things.

1. It wasn't "millions". It was roughly $15k.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2014/33-9592.pdf

He raised much more through SatoshiDice, which is also mentioned in the above PDF.

2. I don't like Ver but his biggest MtGOX related mistake was vouching for them in 2013 when they were having apparent solvency issues. Shrem served 15 months of his sentence which was for running an unlicensed money transmission business, which Ver did not.

3. Popescu I'm not about to defend... It would appear he is actually dead so its hard to hold anything against him.

The thing these 3 have in common is they all think (thought) they're too smart to be questioned. This infatigable sense of self-righteousness is quite common among the earliest of bitcoin adopters, and let's face it, this space has always attracted the not-so-morally-inclined. When conniving narcissists are rewarded with huge sums of money and validation, the result is never pretty.

Hard to believe you honestly don't know but I would start here as this is possibly the most famous example.


Your exact words were "I haven't read once a case of a person who used ChipMixer properly and got caught." I simply provided examples of people who used ChipMixer and got "caught", although adding the qualifier "properly" allows you to exclude all examples at your whim. Regardless, if people have perfect OpSec then they wouldn't get caught, so of course you wouldn't read about them.


Because a good chunk of coins they've received for at least a couple years now have been from illicit sources.



They've had terrible press for at least 2 years and are mentioned in just about every major scam/hacking incident in crypto. Very, very silly to risk involving your coins with an entity that is known for being used by thieves and is otherwise highly surveilled (unless of course they're a honeypot).

Going by past precedent, there's a strong chance they will be sanctioned at some point as they have clearly helped to launder funds for North Korea. Again, unless the whole honeypot thing is true.

Nah, its really not. All kinds of illegal & otherwise shady shit has taken place here over the years yet the forum still stands. ChipMixer will simply cease to exist before forum access is affected by it.


People get caught all the time; of course maybe they weren't using it "properly" according to you. Some of the most famous examples:

https://ciphertrace.com/twitter-hack-update-blockchain-analysis-helps-identify-twitter-hackers/
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-microsoft-xbox-gift-card-fraud
https://www.tradingview.com/news/cryptonomist:86bf18ad1:0/

Then there's an offshoot of the REvil ransomware gang that laundered the proceeds of a huge extortion through ChipMixer, only to send the BTC to Coinbase and be instantly de-anonymized (can't find a reference for that one or remember the specifics).

I wouldn't say REvil and the Lazarus Group - two of ChipMixer's biggest clients - "got away with it"... REvil no longer exists and Lazarus is under extreme scrutiny.

Putting on the conspiracy theorist hat, I'd say part of the honeypot is not letting the public know about exchange hackers caught who had used ChipMixer. Part of a good honeypot is you never know its one until after its all over (as happened with the Hansa darknet market).

Regardless of whether ChipMixer is a honeypot or not, the fact remains you'd have to be out of your mind to be using them in Q4 2022. The forum will be fine, as sig campaigners will probably be as well -- too small potatoes for the feds to expend energy on. Simply advertising a service that isn't explicitly illegal isn't a big deal to them, I don't think...

Funny you should mention it.

The founders of most other high-profile mixers have met terrible consequences, yet for some reason - even after 5 years in operation - ChipMixer has avoided all sanctions and much political attention. I'm not a conspiracy person and prefer hard evidence before making conclusions, but CM being a honeypot would explain a lot.

Even before recent events & revelations, I think you'd have to be crazy to use ChipMixer to mix coins. Unless you are highly schooled in blockchain OpSec and possess the utmost mindfulness when spending mixed coins, there's a good chance Chainalysis could deanonymize your BTC if they really wanted to.


"We" don't have a say in this. You have no rights here -- this is a privately-owned forum.

Regardless, what's more likely than a takedown is a subpoena to theymos asking for info about the ChipMixer account.

The CM site would have a seizure notice first, before the feds interrupt forum activity, as that would be a giveaway that something is up.

Not often do I get the chance to say this, so I'm gonna say it:

Sure am glad to be all-in on Dogecoin right now 

Usually there's a specific (*cough* Elon-related) reason for a DOGE pump but today bucks that trend.

Instead from what I gather people are attributing it to the recent interest of this guy Bill Pulte.



Don't know anything about him but he's going around giving away Dogecoin to people.

^^^
thats right buddy don't let us down (any more)


So you started pre-high school? You must have been a pretty hard kid.

I had about 20 years on and off (rolling tobacco for much of that time).

Had been flirting with quitting for months this year, using the vape to transition. Finally stopped altogether but I still do the nicotine gum. Am definitely fatter.

You mean starting today?

It is sad to see so many new WO posters spending more time learning how to farm merits than about Bitcoin itself. Its annoying and we see right through it, though yes, there will always be a few benefactors who toss merits to farmed posts, so the farmers will never stop. Whatever I guess, its just a forum and the Ignore button is there for a reason.

This guy also lost his Twitter verified status because he kept promoting scam after scam. Guess he can't afford the $8 to get a new one now.

The answer to his question, of course, is that most of that money never really existed in the first place. He had chances to make it real - they all did - but they didn't... Way she goes.

Its a real battle for last place this week between me and wheelz, but there can be only one.

Wheelz don't forget to put in a defense so you can beat me, which I'm feeling you probably will, given the shit luck I've been having lately.

Lost Kupp and M. Thomas, my two best receivers. Even with both Allen and Saquon Barkley my team has still been putting up shit numbers...

Well, someone has to fail so others can succeed. That's what I told myself when taking pre-med classes in college which were hard AF, and proof that I shouldn't try to be a doctor.

Just found this thread.

This appears to be a "reverse vault" as it were. I can see the Ethereum NFT therein is this one:

https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xa5d2b92091df326007cb5b856dccd702aefaf361/0

(for those not knowing what's going on DesktopCommando has created a way via Emblem Vault to lock NFTs on Ethereum and re-create them on Bitcoin as a Counterparty asset)

Did you end up making progress regarding this? Haven't heard much about it beyond this but I would totally port my CryptoKitty to my Counterparty address just for the lulz.

Thanks, and I appreciate all the work that you do to help bring attention to the innovation being delivered to Bitcoin via the Counterparty platform.