Eh, some people read more than others. Hell, some people even gamble better than others.

You and smoothie both seem to love Litecoin. Maybe you can see a marriage counselor or divorce lawyer together?

It is a start, but at least you are learning.

That #bitcoin-otc still allows coingenutity/Jay Shore/whatever his real name is Op/mod powers totally befuddles me.

Already happened.

You two are still playing footsies?

On one hand there is smoothie who has been a troll at times to understate things. On the other there is Goat who shilled for Pirateat40 and continues to shill for Garr, the would be auction scammer.

I care little for litcoins or foundations. Reading this though smoothie has merely been a pain in people's asses. on the other hand Goat has shilled for scams. May the wisdom, or lack thereof of the crowd pick a weiner.

It's been a few months, but my business with johniewalker was good.

They've always struck me as more troll than anything else. Maybe they just want to scam bigger money though. It is hard to say.

I mean Something Awful is full of idiots playing smarter than they are while 4chan is full of relatively smarter people playing dumber. That though is a generalization. The internet is only ever truly simple when simple people are looking at it.

Not knowing or caring enough about scotaloo to look deep their actions that I know of seem to follow patterns more endemic to some classical forms of trolling than scamming as such. Where before someone would normally be limited to harvesting tears and butthurt, bitcoin seems to have allowed them to harvest tears, butthurt, and money.

Still, you can't assume that these things won't happen. Generally social engineering is a much cheaper way to defeat cryptography than rubber hoses, five dollar wrenches and such things.

I can confirm this much. I'm rather but not entirely resistant to the butthurt so I didn't do much more than post polite request for a refund whenever I saw a scotaloo post. Eventually I got the BTC0.04 back from a trade with a CoinChat account Scotaloo had phished. I didn't care to do much more, because getting butthurt over BTC0.04 wasn't worth it.

I never escalated because first, negotiating with terrorists makes poor policy, and second because I was honestly more pissed at the first dude for getting phished. Asshole presented himself as some sort of dev and months later he still struggles running some BTC faucet. At that time that screen name begging to trade $5 in paypal for BTC didn't seem too out of character and as time goes on it would seem even less out of character, but I'd make him GPG a contract really quick before entertaining the idea of a trade with him.


This isn't directed to you or team scotaloo, but more to people in general.

Honestly I have no idea if this is true or false. In the Bitcoin space a lot of people's dox are held by a lot of other people. Bringing yourself into the Bitcoin space means exposing yourself into a lot of counterparty risks of the sort you wouldn't have conceived of until it is too late.

Forums as a rule tend to fill themselves with lolcows. Generally it is boring business unless it does something like enrich the LabCoin scammers who were identified as a probable scam months before "momentum trades" and full frontal idiots latched onto them. As problematic as scotaloo was in particular and phishers, skiddies, and scammers are in general the larger problem isn't in bitcoin, but in idiots who think they can unprotected and without reading and understanding risk.

I don't want to sound too sympathetic to scotaloo or team scotaloo, but in most scams, especially the big ones like Pirateat40 and LabCoin, the scam happens less because there is a bad buy scammer than because people don't take the time to read how these scams have happened before. I'll probably have even less sympathy for the people who get burned when mcxnow goes bust than the people who fell for scotaloo or furrycoat.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303795.msg3256239#msg3256239 is the wrong attitude for bitcoin if you want to keep it. Scammers are like tornadoes, earthquakes, flood or fire. They exist, just like any natural thing. The wrong course of action is to assume nature will politely avoid you. The right course of action is to harden yourself for nature's indifference to your snowflakeness.

Seems like it.

I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem lies more in that bitcoin, generally is too important for centralized vetting services. Nothing beats a solid, personalized WOT.

May as well post the GPG signed contract. It's kind of the thing that people are being held to.

I'm investigating this behavior I reported earlier further. I'm doing further investigation which I probably lack the technical expertise to do right. I'm also digging through more forum threads et al.

I am still considering the bitcoin address 1LvCuntsJyFFQsLuJhBXBPokbQa7SAyMr4 invalid for message signing purposes into the future. This is bitcoin and not taking the measure of refuting the address's right to sign messages on my behalf would be the wrong step. Handling Bitcoin properly necessitates some measure of paranoia.

It looks like the little endian big endian issues mentioned here might be at play.

Fruit, RobboLito, Igorrit, IvanHoe, FireBird and Fire and a number of other engines are open source as well. I'm not familiar with Crazy Bishop. In competitions where money is involved it is safest to assume people are going to be cheating. The people cheating are also probably going to at some point invest in the best tools for cheating... This sort of cheating arms race is also why such a site would be unlikely to draw any significant coin.

Any significant bitcoin to be awarded for chess prowess is going to be awarded as it always has been with dollars, through real life tournaments and matches.

More likely you'd have to beat Rybka, Fritz, or whatever software your opponent is using to play against you.

You hate it. Mircea probably hates it.

The fact is though, the only Bitcoin Securities exchange that is going to let Americans on in the future is operated by a dude who isn't particularly fond with 'Murica. If you hadn't noticed that Satoshi character tried to bake subversive deep enough into Bitcoin that he had to leave. The only securities guy confident enough to make not leaving a part of his business model is MP. If you want to trade bitcoin securities you might be stuck with him.

I chat and blog as BingoBoingo, and use the forum as Atruk because I didn't come up with the BingoBoingo name yet (I originally picked it as a throwaway for testing the waters on IRC).

I assure you that MPOE-PR is a different person, in a different country. I am kind of flattered you would confuse my writing for hers, though I am disheartened you would would assume malice is the goal here rather than education.

I believe on your forum there was a post titled "dafuq has the nerve for this!"

In the spirit of sharing, education, and "FREE PUBLICITY" I would like to offer a response to the inquiry posed:

Re: dafuq has the nerve for this!

You all have a pleasant day.

My signature has been changed to the small signature advertisement and the second line now features a personal project of mine. Since it was prudent to change the forum password after the breach, I figured I might as well get to doing this.

This one seems to have come with an, albeit small, paid wager.

I will vouch that the mentioned trade happened.