What do you mean by "Willing to accept as payment or finance up to $3,000 in Bitcoin!"

Will you only accept 2% of the purchase price in bitcoin?  That isn't exactly selling a house for bitcoin...

You have a typo.  I came here to see what kind of athletic lotion you were talking about.

Not being affected by any given security breach does not necessarily indicate your service is secure. 

It seems like you are taking advantage of others' misfortune to plug your own brand.  Not the way I want the services I use to promote themselves.

Come on nef, you are better than this.

You are really claiming that you are the 2nd most liquid exchange, when your bid/ask spreads are currently $0.90?  Do you know what liquidity means?

You think the thief is going to buy $200k worth of drugs?

Oh, you should definitely try it.  I am pretty sure its not a virus, and the lulz are definitely worth the ~1BTC you need to lose to while getting the feel of it.

The title implies that Google is claiming to have invented Bitcoin.

Google has not even acknowledged Bitcoin.  Having someone in a company of tens of thousands of people say, "hey this could be a good idea eventually" doesn't mean anything.

And digital trends is a horrible source of information.  Yuck, blogspam.

Lol. 

This thread reaffirms my belief that Dragon's Tale is the strangest fucking MMO on the internet.

The title of this thread is completely misleading and inaccurate.

Flexcoin once again shows that their brand is full of shit and a complete joke.

Awesome.  Sent 2.5 BTC.

TED franchises their brand to let people put on TED talks around the globe that have the same mission but are not organized by the core TED team.  I would guess the Leeds TEDx was one of these franchised events.

Multisig has nothing to do with this.  The coins are the property of witcoin.  The information to access those coins should have been protected and secured.  Witcoin (you) failed to do this, and now are liable.

If he used this access information to drain the account, it would clearly be theft.  However, having simple knowledge of how to access the coins was part of his duties, and is not incriminating in any way.

You should consider yourself lucky, and be grateful that misery can restore this information to you.  I don't understand why you are threatening him.

The way the US Dollar is being devalued, I think it is very smart to have a contingency plan for currency in particular.   Maybe someone should write the sponsor of this bill to educate him about bitcoin?

EDIT:thanks notme, i've got wine on the brain

Do you do vector art?

The name Ragged Monk comes from a story of Buddhist beggar monks.  If you could create me a profile picture with some sort of vector art ragged buddhist monk in a mediation pose, possibly including the name "Ragged Monk" in it, and you personally swear that it looks good, I'll give you 1BTC - guaranteed.  If I really think its good, I'll tip you more, up to 5 BTC if you absolutely blow my mind (If i think its a good job ~2-3).

If you are interested, I am happy to do the process in the open in this thread: it will let others see how you work and what you can do as well.  If not, PM is good too.

If I like it and use it as my profile pic, I'll plug this thread in my signature for two weeks.

Inspiration:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix//2007/10_01/monkDM3009_468x663.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J2sBXGJTdeE/TQbBa2gPOgI/AAAAAAAAAqY/IL8sbc4E4tk/s1600/ZenGarden_20101205_0024.jpg
http://www.ondd.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/meditation-hs.jpg

Congratulations.  I am sure it was not easy.  This post really shows you are moving in the right direction.  Hope to see follow through!

I agree with Gavin's sentiment, but those are certainly attention grabbers...

Has Bitdrop been developed at all yet?  Or will you just be speaking about it theoretically?

I don't think it would be unethical, but I was sort of "calling his bluff".  Misery seems like too nice a person to actually do this.  The main point I was trying to make clear to CCM was that he has more liability in this matter than misery does.  Reporting misery to the police would be like committing murder and snitching on your getaway driver.

Possession of a bitcoin address is like knowing the numbers to access a swiss bank account.  I think a good analogy for this situation is CCM got misery's help to open a bank.  A number of people made deposits, which were kept in swiss bank accounts.  The bank's physical location got closed from mismanagement and lack of company funds.  CCM was grossly negligent in not keeping backups of the information to access these accounts, and as the owner of the company, he is responsible for them.  Misery is a teller, who, being a thorough person kept his own personal records about how to access these accounts, even though he was not paid for the last ~month of his work (his making a record is going above-and-beyond). Now this disenfranchised teller is the only person who is able to recover these funds, because of management's mistakes.  CCM is ridiculous to be threatening police action against him for this information: Misery has no legal obligation to store or provide it to CCM.  Any return of the information to access these funds is completely an act of good faith.  CCM is now liable for the full amount of deposits, and is frantically trying to push the blame off on his teller to save his own ass from the mess he got himself into.

Nefario: You shouldn't knowlingly take possession of stolen bitcoins.  Particularly when the owner of the service is so litigious and vindictive.

Misery: What was the nature of your agreement with CCM?  Do you have a written contract? It seems like you dont.

It sounds like CCM claims somewhere between 70% and 100% ownership of witcoin.  

It sounds like you have the only copy of the wallet in a full system backup.  You have been acting as sys admin, and may have a claim on up to 30% ownership.  You should renounce any claims of ownership, and argue you were working as a contractor for CCM.

This means he is solely liable for returning witcoin deposits.  

You can legally delete all backups. A backup of a key is not possession of bitcoins, it is access to them.  You are not destroying the value, you are destroying your access to the value. The bitcoins are legally property of the witcoin entitiy which you are no longer employed by.  You are not legally obligated to retain copies, seeing as how you are no longer employed by him, and he has not been paying you.  Witcoin (owned entirely by CCM) is entirely liable for returning these "stolen" bitcoins.  The fact that CCM does not has backups of his customers' deposits is just negligent business practices, and liability falls to him to pay them back.

Wash your hands of this and let him deal with it.  Don't let him threaten you.  He is trying to blame you for his own mistakes.

Misery, Nefario,  BitcoinConsultancy should absolutely NOT take control of these coins.  By doing so puts Bitcoin Consultancy at legal risk, because it could be argued they are taking control of stolen coins.  This is a horrible idea.  BitcoinConsultancy is not involved in this, and they begin involvement now!

I would say you should certainly NOT take control of these coins.  Doing so puts you at significant legal liability, as it could be argued you are accepting stolen coins.  You are walking into a trap.  Wash your hands of this.

I'll change the title.