Looks like something I would find in dragonstale (which Im a big fan of btw).
As mentioned above, Im a bit swamped by day 2 day life but I'll try

Just using 1 of the many ponzi's Im seeing here as an example:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=510309.0

So what happens with this scam is the operator plays the game themselves either manually or with a bot that stops the moment any idiot actually puts money into it.

The operator has 0 risk of loss for each bet due to the way this game operates.
This is not gambling, this is a scam for idiots.

People please avoid ponzi's like the plague.

Here is the very simple description of a ponzi:

a) Idiot hands over money to con artist.  
b) con artist pays (for example) 1% interest weekly on your investment.  
c) idiot decides he wants to compound his investment so interest is never collected.
d) Ponzi operator runs off with funds when investors ask for withdrawals.

Or the Other Method:

c) not quite an idiot collects 1% interest a week and tells everyone how great it is.
d) The ponzi operator can do 100 weeks of payouts before running into trouble, they usually will stop when they stop getting new investors.

Now I know there are many people that make the following claim: The trick is to get in and out early. and they are one of the 3 types:

1) shills - they never invested anything but claim they did and that the payments WERE FABULOUS.  
2) idiots who think they will be  the first in and out.
3) idiots who were lucky enough to actually be 1 of the first in and out. Its the same as leaving your wallet/phone/camera with a random stranger on the corner of the street - yes sometimes they are honest but guess what, its terrible advice to give anyone and to claim success at doing so is just encouraging other idiots to invest.

Finally:

Ponzi's and pyramids are not gambling its a way to syphon money from idiots.  
These long running pyramids...... you will find out all the success stories are sockpuppets of 1-2 people right at the top.

PS: Friends dont let friends order from BFL.

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The List of Ponzi Operators.
If you take advice from these people your gonna have a bad time mmmkay.

yonce - a HYIP promoter making more than a passing effort in his scam (nice to see a committed con artist).

Min-btc - scammer.

120cycle - scammer.

naRky - scammer

multiponzi - scammer.
bmL - scammer.
btcmania - A very clever and persuasive shill. Defends ponzi's and their operators despite knowing full well that ponzi's operate as a scam.

BitDoubler - scammer.

ponzimatic - scammer.

CoinPayoff - ConPayoff.
Weekly_Ponzi - lol.
jontstaz - ponzi operator
ponjava - ponzi operator
greenservice - piece of shit ponzi operator/ con artist.

apsvinet - Scammer, liar, opponent of free speech, all in all a nasty piece of work.

So what has mem been up to ?

Working on my person to person skills (which have never been great). 
Playing with my new 3d printer - so much fun, even if it does require constant tuning and fiddling. 
House Paid off - Thanks bitcoin btw can anyone in AU suggest a good tax account familiar with bitcoin and capital gains. 
Work Stuff - sigh. 
Personal Stuff - double sigh.
memslist.com - just a wiki atm for me dumping (when I get time) how to's and misc tech info. It will also contain the list and support automatic addition (to pending review only) by site admins (simply create a memslist.txt on your root folder).
skyrim - cant believe I ignored this game for nearly 2 years, when I can spare 1-3 hours to play it its the highlight of my week (Im a boring nerd and easily pleased). Skyrim + ENB + Realvision = bliss

Wish I had more time to focus on these projects atm, I even wish I had more time so i could play skyrim for more than 3-4h a week, but unfortunately life rarely goes the way you want. I'll keep plugging away as I have been and keep slowly working towards memslist 3.0.

As I said above, scams have always been my #1 concern.

Thanks Everyone, will try and check in sooner

oh dear sorry about that everyone.
I'll strike them out now.

Regretfully Ive been stressed, over worked and under-appreciated these last ~4 months and its left me little time to do this gambling list.
I have registered a domain for myself to speed up submissions of new sites etc which will then be used to generate the forum code.

I'll be back, just not sure when I will be back up to full speed.

But please, any scams in my list let me know via google talk / other ASAP.
Its the main reason I started this list, to warn off against scams and help promote honest bitcoin casinos.

code is still available but I turned off the script to save on my local bandwidth.
I will update the code to include some of the newer altcoins and make a post.

Id just like to voice my support for coinjar.io

Im no fan of zhoutong at all, I still consider what happened with bitcoinica to be an ugly corrupt mess with him at the center of it all.

That being said, I have used coinjar.io frequently over the last 4 months and they have enabled me to pay off my house with my bitcoin investment.
Ive processed nearly 1/2 a million AUD through their site without any issues.

Good work coinjar.io

Wow, its people like yourself that put a big smile on my face and make me glad I put so much effort into this.
I'll try and have a look tonight and reply.

yawn, hello all

Its been a busy busy 3 months for mem.
Lets see,

* Took some stress leave from my day job, feeling 100% since doing so.
* Ive paid off my house in full thanks to my early bitcoin investments + litecoin and pee pee coin (in fact pee pee paid for 20% of my house).
* Still have a large mixed bag of bitcoin and various altcoins
* Looking at getting married in the next few months to my wonderful GF.

So unfortunately Ive been to busy to look after this list properly, in the meantime wow has the bitcoin community grown.

Im going to slowly get this list up to date but moving forward this gambling list is no longer a priority for myself that may change later on but for now Ive go to focus on other stuff.

START READING THE POST BEFORE COMMENTING.

He is an OSX user and only used / accessed the wallet on OSX. 
Yes thats right, he had a trojan on his OSX installation, it does happen.

Same here, by the time the coupon was offered it was worthless.

Work friend of andrews here.

Looks like it was a key logging trojan on osx, very very scary.
His local wallet was encrypted with a pass phrase but they had that to from the logger.

So withdrawal to locked address, then open up wallet with passphrase and send.

Bastards.

Well, despite my previous negative post I have to say, its been a fun ride.

I loved mining with GPU's, I nearly ordered a FPGA from BFL before realizing it was very scammy and to be honest I would still like to play with an icarus FPGA right now despite the fact it would never pay itself off. Why ? because Im a nerd that genuinely enjoys playing with hardware, the more specialized the better, even more so if I can actually put it to monetary use no matter how insignificant.

Its For these reasons I'll be a sucker for gen2 keys and gen2 asic's.
Sign me up friedcat and even Canary, I'll happily pay a small to (hopefully not to) large sucker tax to player with the next lot of equipment.
I even wish I had multiple colours just so it would look nicer sitting on my desk, oh well

And confirmed, Thanks again Zhou.

Sold 1 btc last night, sales order still showing as pending this morning.



I'll chase up zhoutong and see whats what.

Keep up the fantastic work Zhoutong and Coinjar.io team.

Well thanks to mtgox's inability to do cashouts and btc-e having bitcoind offline for over 24 hours I finally decided to give coinjar.io a whirl.

I have to make the following statements:

• I do have reservations about zhoutong, but the PR team behind coinjar.io have been great at engaging the community directly without side stepping any questions, they have also gone to above reasonable lengths to ensure they are easy to contact.
• For someone living in AU, it does seem to be an extremely convenient cash out method
• The rates are good to fair.
• Im unfamiliar with their coin hosting service, but it seems to work well.
• Trust for the site can be limited to whatever you feel comfortable depositing, I suggest doing regular increments as opposed to huge dumps.
• The UI is clean, but it needs a touch more work. That being said, after 1-2 transactions its very easy to find your way around.
• 3 Test cashouts later with a 4th just started and I have to say, the transfer time for me as a bankwest customer is 1-2 business days, very convenient

So, consider me your grumpiest most cynical sceptic that still likes to think of himself as "reasonable" ......Im impressed. 
Keep up the great work and I shall continue to use this nice service in bigger increments as my trust builds.

Actually all but a few resellers have been absolutely gutted, its a game of offloading your stock onto the next guy down the line when you get the news from friedcat that there is a price drop coming. If Canary / other resellers are pushing you to do a large order "but for an extra discount" its because their is a price halving happening in the next week and they dont want to get caught holding the bag.

I did two small test orders then made the mistake of going large. Sitting here with stock Im that I can either sell at a loss or mine @ a loss. Im glad I didn't let canary talk me up to 500+ keys at 0.55 btc which to his credit he did try (a salesman is a salesman).

So no more for mem, it was a fun little run then I got severely screwed over and  now have the options of doubling down in a poor attempt to break even  or bow out.

Im not the first who Canary pulled this trick on, credit to him as a salesman but as a person who was setting up to be a local supplier I couldn't do business with him again.

Getting the vouchers finally offered to me at a time when the voucher price == key price was just the final straw.

That being said, i am grateful to have been able to play around with the hardware.

TL;DR: 2 good test purchases as a potential reseller, First real purchase and I got fucked over so badly the little business will never recover.

Yes unfortunately with poker you do have to place a lot of trust in the casino operators and hope that players are not colluding.


Hey there


99.5% may make you a tie for the lowest house edge, I believe crackdice is also 99.5%. Thanks for the tip.


Appreciate your patience, i got a bit distracted yesterday once the SO came home as it was our 1 year aniversary since getting engaged. Breaking bad tonight, then after that I shall resume my reviews.