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It looks like Bitcoinmax is getting less attention from Payb.tc
For the sake of his investors, he should create a PGP signature and post it here on the forum. Then he can adjust Bitcoinmax to display a balance message (date, name, withdrawal address, balance, principal balance) in the login area which is signed with his PGP key. That way every account holder can prove to a third party that he has/had investments in Bitcoinmax. Just archive that short text block somewhere and even if the Bitcoinmax website vanishes, you can still prove you had an investment.
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So I log in today to find myself being extorted by this douche trying to get money out of me for something he claimed he helped with from like 3 months ago. He sent me a threat that I didn't read until recently that he was going to post about me unless I give him money. He didn't understand what I was trying to do, and didn't help. I got distracted by other projects and have since not been able to devote time or care into litecoins or alt currencies. He didn't help me enough to warrant a tip. There was no concrete amount of money for amount of work discussed. He was not hired or contracted. I would beware talking to Bitsky, since according to him typing nonsense obligates you to pay 1 bitcoin.....or else he is going slander you on the internet.  I don't really know if you keep private messages, but I do: I am unsure how to setup litecoin wallets automatically. I have full access to the server, was just hoping that there is a good online resource for this, or someone had whatever php snippet it would take to create a new litecoin address. If you can supply a script and any files needed to do this, I'll reward you with a bitcoin or equivalent worth in litecoins.
Are you a web programmer? If so would you be able to do alt currency web scripting help if needed for BTC compensation?
To me that sounded like you offered a bounty. So I sat down, installed Litecoin in a VM along with PHP and JSON-RPC. A few hours later, I sent you the litecoin.conf, the PHP snippet to create new addresses along with an explanation on how to use it. If you later lost interest then that's not really my problem to be honest. You received what you had asked for. I sent you a few PM to talk about this because I think problems are better discussed via PM first, but you ignored me; and yes, I know that you were online after I sent them. You had almost three months to get this sorted out, and two weeks after I sent my recent reminder. The only "thread" was my accouncement to let others know about this; I didn't even call you a scammer. |
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Almost three months ago, tatsuchan started this thread, asking for PHP/LTC help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90586.0I PM'ed him on the same day with some questions and he replied, offering a 1BTC bounty (or LTC equivalent), so I set up Litecoin in a VM to test everything and wrote a small PHP script which creates and returns a new address, along with some usage/setup instructions. After not having heard anything from him for over a week, I PM'ed him again and he apologized, saying that he has too much work and hadn't check it yet. About two weeks ago, I asked again twice and gave him a deadline, but so far I've been ignored. I would have shrugged it off if he said he dropped the project and never used it or gave another explanation instead of simply ignoring my messages. |
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Sent two PM asking about project details without any reply even though she was online after that
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Stefan Thomas (justmoon) is now a forum administrator. He can therefore access the database directly and see IP addresses, etc. Operator of We Use Coins and BitcoinJS.org, Stefan Thomas is a long-time Bitcoin user who is highly trusted by the community.
Thanks for helping out!
In another thread you said that database dumps can be downloaded by other admins, but only you, Gavin, Satoshi and Sirius can decrypt them. What does "direct database access" refer to? Any admin can query the db directly and e.g. dump it and/or read PMs? It's not about ST being an admin now; it's just a general question which popped up in my mind when I read this announcement. |
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Just tested the following code without any problems <html>
<body>
<?php
$con=mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'pass');
if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: '.mysql_error()); }
mysql_select_db("db", $con);
$username=$_POST['skiz22285'];
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 0, 30");
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Email</th>
<th>Username</th>
</tr>";
$rows=mysql_num_rows($result);
for ($i=0; $i<$rows; $i++)
{
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>".$row['email']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['username']."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysql_close ($con);
?>
Login Successful
<p><a href="index.php\">Click here to logout!</a></p>
</body>
</html>
Also tested the while-loop with no problems. |
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Try this: $rows=mysql_num_rows($result);
for ($i=0; $i<$rows; $i++)
{
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" .$row['email'] ."</td>";
echo "<td>" .$row['username'] ."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
If you don't need an incrementing counter, you could also do while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" .$row['email'] ."</td>";
echo "<td>" .$row['username'] ."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
} instead of the for-loop |
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What have *you* done? Or are you waiting for someone else to do it for you?
Considering that I'm not even on the same continent as Pirate, my options are somewhat limited but I'm willing to put part of my promised funds into a pool if that helps to get this successfully solved. I said before that I wouldn't mind having the BMax-details handed over to Pirate if that helps, but payb.tc decided not to do anything. Of course it can be discussed if that would have had any success, but that's a moot point since the chance has been ignored. Call me ignorant, but I think that PPT operators do have a certain responsibility for the funds given to them, even if they want to rely on some TOS allowing them to just shrug and move on. Right now we have the Team Ponzi who dances around its "told ya" bonfire and a ton of investors who are left in the rain. Is this the image the community wants to show to the world? That it concentrates on internal mudslinging while letting scammers walk away whistling? Almost every time you read about Bitcoin on the bigger news sites, it's about scams, hacks and frauds. How many of those cases landed in front of a court? How many times was even just an attempt made to get it there? You read all the time about how people will get their lawyers involved, but it never seems to happen. You just read that another hack happened; but you never read that any of those behind it has to go to jail. What did I do? I've been introducing Bitcoin to all my friends in the past months, told them about the benefits and possibilities. Now the recent news are about a scammer who ran off with $5mil and a hacker who stole $250k. Expected legal results? None. That doesn't make it easier to convince people, you know? |
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So what is the status quo?
How are the PPT operators working together?
What is being done to find Pirate?
What legal actions have been started?
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@lky_svn: actually, i have already stated that. sorry this thread is so disorganised. don't really have much time to write an essay in the OP.
i originally wrote the order of the payouts:
- those that requested withdrawals before BST closed.
- principal balance up until bst closed, in order of user id (account age)
- interest accrued after bst closed, in order of user id (account age)
all that pretty much assumed full payout.
if there's a partial payout, and funds are distributed via a %, then it doesn't matter if interest+principal is paid in one tx or two, it'll still add up to the same amount.
I'm missing a little more information about what's going directly from Payb.tc and/or Pirate. Status updates would be really nice because right now it looks like nobody does anything except twiddling thumbs. |
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the "FIFO" thing was only a side-effect of ordering by USER ID (a number), but it doesn't mean if only only get 50% back later accounts will miss out... if i only get 50% back, then all accounts will get 50% back.
- when you negotiate with Pirate on our behalf, will you accept the first offer or try to get as much as possible from him? - how will a partial payment (eg 50%) be distributed? Will you simply pay everybody 50% of their current account value, or use the coins to first pay back deposits, taking into account previous withdrawals, to minimize the actual losses of your clients? (SUM(deposits) - SUM(withdrawals) > 0) - will a partial payment be considered a final settlement, or will you keep on trying to get the rest of the entire payment Pirate owes? there is many ways to consider splitting the returned funds IF there are any worth splitting .....
i would think the fair"est " (since there is no 100% fair way to decide who gets a haircut ) way is to return the principals of newest people first .......
(im talking about the people who just invested recently and stand to lose near 100% of their principal dont deserve to be raped like this )
(the people who already have taken out MORE than their principal + the ones who were bragging loudly that they cant lose etc ... should be suspended at the back of the payment line,at least until newer folks have their principal back )
You assume that early investors withdrew instead of keeping interest reinvested. This assumption is often wrong. |
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I'm fine with my info being send to Pirate too as I want this to be resolved as soon as possible and get over with it.
It's been clear from the beginning that Bitcoinmax was nothing but a passthrough service only, with no insurance, liability or anything, completely dependant of Pirate. Having said that I'm a bit surprised that suddenly there's a "pay all or nothing" approach, instead of letting Pirate, who caused all this, sort things out directly without another middleman.
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Deleted posts are almost never removed from the database. A PM is removed from the database if the sender and all recipients delete it.
Full database backups are created daily, and all global moderators and admins can download the (encrypted) backups and implement their own rotation policies.
Encrypted as in "they can download the backup to have it at multiple locations, but it's useless for them because they don't have the decryption key", or encrypted as in "they can download and unpack the backup to read through everything, including PM's, because they too have the keys"? If it's the second, then this is a huge privacy and security failure. |
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In this case even with their permission, because it facilitates a breach of the pooling agreement. If Pirate negotiates a private settlement with one of those people, that defrauds the others out of their agreed upon share of the payment by Pirate on that debt.
Even if an agreement would have existed, it would have been broken with the first sale of an account. It doesn't really matter who buys BS&T/PPT accounts. Any sale removes the current account owner from the queue list in exchange for a financial gain. So if you need to mark someone as a fraudster for whatever reason, you would have to mark everybody who offered, sold and bought accounts. Amongst those are some of the forum's big/respected posters. Those accounts are in some way pretty similar to GLBSE shares, so you would need to mark those traders too. Payb.tc has stated before that accounts will be paid in a FIFO manner: oldest accounts first. If it's Pirate or Payb.tc who pays back doesn't really matter. If you look around, many already linked their accounts by posting offers here in the forum. Edit: fixed misleading typo |
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Woah, I'm one of the first. I always thought that there was a big bunch before me. Makes me feel a little proud  |
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According to the docs, 8333/tcp/out is required. As mentioned before, make sure your INPUT chain has the required rules to let packets back in which belong to establised connections.
Check your complete chains to make sure a previous rule doesn't affect your rule (like having a DROP as the last default rule in a chain and then using -A with your rule).
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rpcpassword=hunter2
rpcallowip=*
Seriously? You might want to limit that. Also, are you reading bash.org sometimes? membersrv@linnareacu [~]# iptables -L | grep '8333'
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:8333
Bitcoin will also try to use IRC since you did not exclude it. That aside, the grep result doesn't show if it's in the INPUT or OUTPUT chain. I assume you have a rule for ESTABLISHED/RELATED too? Stop iptables for a quick test; if bitcoind connects, you can adjust your rules (netstat helps there) |
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The last time I deleted all transactions from my wallet and did a rescan they all got the date/time of when the rescan found the transactions on the blockchain.
So, if you were downloading the blockchain, the date/time is the date/time at which the transactions were found by the client.
Well, then the date should be 03.08.2011, not 26.06.2011, right? Even the transactions the client is confirming right now during the rest of the download have that date. |
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I've been playing around with a new PC and already let it download a part of the blockchain (still 130 days or so left).
Since I didn't have access to my wallet when I started, I replaced it later and started Bitcoin with the rescan option.
Now the transactions have the date 27.06.2012, which is not even remotely correct (some of them are at least a year older).
Obviously, that's also not today's date, so which date is it?
There has always been a bit of a mismatch between what eg blockchain.info displays, but this difference makes the whole column pretty much useless.
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You have to post here the actual links to receive the bounty.
I don't really see the difference, but well, I copy+pasted them and removed those already posted (although because of that delay, others posted around 6 links which are listed on the page I linked to). Left are those: bitcoin.de/r/qxmn9d bitcoindarts.movoda.net/?partner=1MEzuUzDRy7gFEDfnq3GBWNhJyog3rUqgs bitcoinplus.com/generate?for=1996 bitcoinslots.net/?r=1015 bitcointrading.com/forum/index.php?action=refferals;refferedby=498 bitdomain.biz/?r=20 bitgigs.com/?partner=1DVwLSrkjJJhDtooNt9qbytkUHYny1eBHF btcwebhost.com/aff.php?aff=002 cryptoxchange.com/?affiliateid=2726 earnthebitcoin.com/?ref=tu6nx6iq fantasypublishings.com/newuser.php?affID=x40v3754d2xro7o8ck0ivu fiveminutecoin.com/?ref=18c15zeEsra8nHuS9MEywdopsFnQCxGifA goldenmeancalipers.com/?ap_id=opticbit goldgameland.com/r.cgi?GKQJEU imcex.com/en/?r=69717098 l.f.nu/?partner=15tZJ7sWuDJHgtYbyiymo1zbR3FkGkRBTq orangewebsite.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=10080 panel.cinfu.com/aff.php?aff=149 sldoubler.com/?id=111 smsdragon.com/?partner=1NrNW2N3CpD4bPrVhhyHVTcUMGUyoSaGrW surfformoney.net/ref/opticbit virwox.com/?r=848b |
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