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Called the Austin PD.
I didn't have an address or name to give them, so I gave them his moniker, "Jon," while telling them it is a moniker. I also gave them the bitcointalk.org website and told them they could find this post in the "off-topic" section. I also provided them with Theymos's moniker so that they could contact him for Jon's IP which could provide a physical location.
Edit: If anyone has any better information, call 512 974 5750, the number for the Austin PD that I called.
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Anyway, I called some police department in Austin. They are closed. The message said to call 911, which I cannot where I live.
How is the police department closed? Ok, so no successful attempts to 911 from anyone? Goddamnit, I'll call. |
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Jesus Christ you guys, you're all fucking dicks.
HELP THE DUDE you fucking imbeciles.
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unless you dont wanna wait a month go with apmex (hope that makes sense)
What about BitcoinMint.US? We usually ship within 24 hours.  I think you guys are awesome when it comes to silver. I was extremely pleased with the quality of the coins, the shipping time, and the reasonable price. You were even kind enough to throw in a free 1g silver eagle on a deal which I thought was fantastic! Unfortunately, when it comes to gold your prices are kind of out of this world. A 1/10 oz. gold coin at BitcoinMint.US is priced like $50 more than Coinabul ($46.3 BTC vs. 36.6 BTC). That's like $80 over spot price on a coin with $164 worth of gold. Though I realize coins trade at a higher value than raw metal, a 50% markup over the raw metal value is a bit extreme. Shipping times do rock though!  |
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You needed ten months to figure that out? Wow. If I were you I wouldn't have made this thread to be honest. If this is how average miners calculate, we can expect GPUs to still be running when Asics are ruling the hash rate.
Yeah, because I totally don't think about anything I ever do. Why shouldn't I have made this thread? These are largely unconscious processes such that we don't usually notice them. And sometimes although we do notice them, we don't really care because we create a justifiable reason for not caring, one that's more powerful than money is. Looking back, for me it was something along the lines of, "Why fix what ain't broke? I'm already pulling in steady profits." Keep in mind I don't pay for electricity as part of my rental agreement, so 8-10% larger payouts to me is NOT the same as 8-10% larger payouts to someone that pays for electricity. If I'm reading through the forums and I click the "show unread posts since last visit" link and I see all these ads for "Need hashing power! 110% PPS!" or "120% PPS limited offer!" as I suspect you do too, why don't you continuously join these pools? Well, you need to trust them to a certain degree. I trust Deepbit (still do) because a lot of people have been using them successfully. I was one of them and I grew to know that I could count on steady, regular payouts from Deepbit. I recently joined ABCPool for similar reasons...but the numbers are a lot prettier. The thing is that the math is not ALL that matters -- whatever should mathematically bring you the greatest profits is not necessarily the best idea (BitScalper, anyone?). Trust is important too, and Deepbit has earned a lot of it. |
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...you're not me. Btw, that's not my wallet you're grabbing  |
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Thought I'd share my recent experience with switching pools.
I started mining in June 2011. I had been using Deepbit from the beginning, mostly utilizing proportional payouts as opposed to PPS. I'm not a pool-hopper and I have an average-sized mining setup (~1.8 G/hash).
I've read all the arguments about the disadvantages of Deepbit, it's threat to network security, etc. None of them really convinced me to switch pools. After all, I chose Deepbit at the beginning, and aside from some (increasingly more frequent) DDOS attacks, I received my payouts regularly and I was very comfortable with my setup. Why fix what ain't broke?
Then I realized there's a little thing called math.
Two days ago, I switched to ABCpool. It took me 10-20 minutes to create my account, modify my .bat files for CGminer, and get hashing. I'm now receiving 8-10% larger payouts daily. I suspect I could get even more with GPUmax, but at the moment I'm comfortable with my new change.
So, wtf is going on here? What is prohibiting people from switching to pools that will necessarily guarantee them larger payouts on a daily basis? And why the hell am I not using GPUmax?
Here's what I suspect: People will typically defend their decisions to the bitter end, especially when money is involved, and perhaps even more adamantly when there actually IS good reason to believe their initial decision was a bad one. After all, do you really want to admit you made a bad monetary decision to begin with? Besides, you're in such great company!
Seriously. Do math. It helps. I really think that a lot of Bitcoin users pathologically lie to themselves to create the illusion that they're profiting to the best of their ability. They give their balls credit for risking (and losing) profits, but unfortunately ball self-esteem doesn't translate to a fat wallet.
Have you done your math?
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Hahaha I am not gonna lie if i was gonna sell a scam item it wouldn't be a dropped macbook pro, with an expanded battery. Have i flat out refused a escrow? no. Do i think its a bit extreme and something i personally am not to comfortable with? Yes. Plus no one has made an official offer, if i saw something was in writing and they had a perfect heatware and ebay yes i would highly consider it. I welcome you to go Google my username, i am no fly by night user. Not to mention i am a fairly old member, just happen to be a lurker instead of active posting. Like i said i only considered bitcoins after hardforums failed. Original forum post there: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1686255Never expected such backlash to common sense. Please do not misunderstand -- this wasn't backlash, nor was I accusing you of anything. The fact is that rep on ebay and other sites can be bought (yes, people do this regularly) and there have also been problems with old and abandoned forum accounts being hacked and used months later by scammers. It's extremely unfortunate that the eye of skepticism is upon every newcomer here (yes, I know you said you're not new, but we don't recognize you), especially when we need more and more entrepreneurs to help the economy grow. Some people go to great lengths on here to scam for the value of a macbook pro. Just search this forum for all the I-Pad scams...they're endless. While on one hand it's unfortunate that you are bearing the burden of skepticism, it's more unfortunate when the benefit of the doubt is given, as it has been repeatedly in the past (seriously, I don't think anybody really wants to call someone out for a potential scam when there is no proof), only to watch honest buyers get scammed regularly. A lot of people who are scammed are newcomers and that can turn them off to Bitcoin entirely. From what I know, BinaryMage is correct that Kluge has offered to do escrow for free in the past, and he is a reputable member. Once you get a successful transaction or two under your belt, then you shouldn't have to worry about posts like these. |
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The fact that bitcoins goes in reverse order then normal transactions on say Hardforum is strange... and i may pull my listing with that being the case.
PS KCMastrpc, if you read the whole post you would indeed see i did include my heatware username... While no you are correct its not as "Complete" as yours mines a handfull of positive decent sized transactions (mostly new motherboards and videocard) with zero complaints.
My ebay also has a few listings, i am by no means a freuent seller though.
Like i said i am not sure i am personally comfortable with sending first, i would never do that with a cash transaction so why would i with bitcoins?
First of all, welcome. Here's the deal: Observably, it seems like literally all Mac-related products listed on here are scams, and usually the first few indicators that it is a scam are 1) low post count especially when selling high-value products, 2) refusal to use escrow, 3) refusal to ship first especially to a reputable member. There are so many scams on this forum that there's basically an unspoken initiation or hazing for newcomers -- either bite the bullet and ship first OR use someone extremely reputable on the forums as an escrow, or end up being suspected a scammer. That being said, I would be willing to be an escrow for your sale for a 1% fee. I would hold the buyer's coins until the buyer receives their product. Once I confirm they've received it, I would release the BTC to you. I believe there are others that might do it for free. Kluge will do it for free, and he's extremely trustworthy IMHO. (Not to rain on your parade the joint) Not a problem. The only reason I charge 1% is because of the (slight) risk of holding a large amount of someone else's BTC. It's really just a charge to make my freaking out worthwhile while I make sure it's secure as f*%@. |
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I wish they would reply to me...
I have sent them 3 emails asking about the status.. still no answer...
Did you try sending them a PM? I had questions too after I ordered because of processing delays, but he responded quickly to PMs (usually within a day max). |
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The fact that bitcoins goes in reverse order then normal transactions on say Hardforum is strange... and i may pull my listing with that being the case.
PS KCMastrpc, if you read the whole post you would indeed see i did include my heatware username... While no you are correct its not as "Complete" as yours mines a handfull of positive decent sized transactions (mostly new motherboards and videocard) with zero complaints.
My ebay also has a few listings, i am by no means a freuent seller though.
Like i said i am not sure i am personally comfortable with sending first, i would never do that with a cash transaction so why would i with bitcoins?
First of all, welcome. Here's the deal: Observably, it seems like literally all Mac-related products listed on here are scams, and usually the first few indicators that it is a scam are 1) low post count especially when selling high-value products, 2) refusal to use escrow, 3) refusal to ship first especially to a reputable member. There are so many scams on this forum that there's basically an unspoken initiation or hazing for newcomers -- either bite the bullet and ship first OR use someone extremely reputable on the forums as an escrow, or end up being suspected a scammer. That being said, I would be willing to be an escrow for your sale for a 1% fee. I would hold the buyer's coins until the buyer receives their product. Once I confirm they've received it, I would release the BTC to you. I believe there are others that might do it for free. |
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Hey, sorry about the late reply.
Yes, I'd be willing to ship first.
Just PM me with your shipping info and a preferred mail carrier; otherwise I'll just go with USPS.
How do you wanna go about determining the prices? Kitco's closing price for tonight and whatever the Mt.Gox last asking price is at the time (what time does it close though)?
I can likely drop off the coins in the mail tomorrow afternoon (EST) after a phone interview I have at 2PM.
PMed. |
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I just joined to test it out. Any reason that my miner is hashing away but it says my miner is "disconnected"?
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Any chance you'd ship first to reputable buyers? I'm interested in the omnia round and the American Eagle.
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OK. .5 BTC |
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Any idea about silver weight of this chain?
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There are an infinite amount of natural numbers, but if you count properly you'll never pass a number twice.
Indeed, however, counting is linear while the universe is more likely random. Assuming the universe is indeed infinite and completely random, there ought to be an individual with the exact same configuration of particles (including the brain) which means at some point you would have an individual with the exact same memories, position and thoughts as you at one point in your life. However, I suppose it depends on your definition of "your consciousness". Does it requires to be continuous to still be yourself (never interrupted) or would you consider the mere replication of a state of your consciousness to be reincarnation? I would personally say it requires to be continuous consciousness where this consciousness would stay after death and move on to become another "live" being to be called "reincarnation". (Under the more traditional definition of reincarnation where your consciousness returns into a new shell) Unless there's an unlikely case where, for example: ~~~~~~~~~~~ The electrons in our brain interfere with something not yet detectable with our technology and it creates interferences into this "fabric like thing" that is vaguely interacting with the known physical universe, interferences which would be what we could call a consciousness (and this "consciousness" would interfere with currents in our brain and could survive the death of a creature and attach to another one being formed.) Effectively emulating surviving consciousness and reincarnation (with loss of memory) then I guess reincarnation is unlikely with the traditional definition. ~~~~~~~~~~~ So instead of debating things that cannot be verified just like this made up scenario, why not write some science-fiction with similar contents where people discover how to interact with it and find ways to literally blast to bits your consciousness opening a new era of weaponry, politics and conflicts, all for our own entertainment of course? We are only sure of being conscious for as long as our brain does not die out. Why not enjoy that until those questions about the afterlife answers themselves when the time comes? I'm not debating the thing. Some posters are saying it is self evident, that infinite ---> everything happens over and over. That's not true. Even in 'random universe' if the space of possibilities has higher cardinality than the amount of time then the chance you'll see the same random thing twice is 0. I said consciousness is infinite and that this is self-evident. |
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Then there is the pesky problem of no evidence at all.
More like self-evident. |
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The only thing I found interesting was that you have NO income lol
How much was that TradeHill cheque? $5?
Total profits exceeded 4 figures. I showed all this to them. They concluded I have "no income." |
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No, seriously. H&R block said don't even bother coming in, that I have NO income. |
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