You are about 6 years to late. And as of the last information he gave out there was no way of finding the last of the people who had funds there: From: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49417.msg12747674#msg12747674There's a couple thousand accounts with less than 0.01 but more than 0.0001. There's a few (less than 100) very old accounts with no email, no wallet, etc. assigned to them with more than 1 BTC owed, that haven't been logged in to since 2011-2012.
eleuthria https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9119 has not logged in here for a few years at this point so I don't know of any way you could really reach him. And I can't see it being easy to prove you are you and it's you who mined the coins. Is your wallet synced? Did you check the address on a block explorer? -Dave |
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Some thoughts. It's a fun game and I did spend some time playing. 1) Lightning deposits / withdraw would be nice. I will play a bit at smaller casinos without it, but I do like to use it as do others here. 2) A bit more mobile / smaller screen friendly. There are a lot of us who travel with netbook sized screens 3) The 1st line of the FAQ is what is the minimum bet and you have the answer as The minimum bet is 0.10 USDT. 4) Might just be so if there are no other reports, but the hash on the .onion site would not work on the clear net site. But, I might have screwed up, just wanted it out there. -Dave |
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And it's something that a lot of people do not understand. So "that newfangled tech" is going to go away and things will go back to the way they were.
It's the same people who think Amazon will be killed somehow, or the electric cars will not take off, or lab grown meat, or any one of a bunch of different things that people don't want in their lives that they are happy to hear about the failure of.
And as others have said, it gets clicks.
And now we have to start the 2022 bitcoin is dead counts.
-Dave
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Do they expect criminals to reveal all their wrongdoings for the greater good? What is even the point of saying this anyway?
The point as was shown above was a round about way to go after people like Capone and other criminals who through bribes / influence / killing of witnesses / fear / etc. could not be convicted of other things other ways. They rarely go after the smaller people with this it's is usually the bigger criminals who would get away with it. It's also used against politicians where you can see that they have been spending more then they earned but you can't figure out where the bribe came from.... -Dave |
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The problem IMO is that with so many different mods out there they each have "the line" as to what is OT and what needs to be moved and so on.
And, even though some things may drift a OT or move from the original point of the original post some mods are more willing to go "yeah, that is still a bit relevant" then others.
I do that a lot, the topic is "A" but I bring in a bit of "B" and "C" too. Because I think it's close enough to be discussed but not worth starting another post.
So far I have not had a lot of things removed because of that. Is it because people don't report my posts or because mods think it's still on topic?
That is the other side we don't see. We know what we reported, we don't know what was reported against us and not acted upon.
-Dave
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Side note to all of this. I have a small pool I run for a couple of oddball scrypt coins. We are talking 5 distinct miners on a busy day and I'm one of them.
I still see IPs originating from China coming into the pool at times. It's either an ancient USB stick miner or a few gridseed orbs or a bunch of faster graphics cards. Can't tell what, but it's still there.
So China mining not totally dead.
-Dave
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Tax evasion is how they got Al Capone 90 years ago https://themobmuseum.org/blog/capone-tax-evasion-trial-jury-finds-chicago-mobster-guilty-on-5-of-22-counts/I thought everyone knew this. It's actually an interesting way to go about it for people who declare very little income abut spend tons of money. There have been a few others over the years. Interesting part is there have been some other criminal enterprises that have setup fake businesses and run all their 'dirty' money through them. Paid all the taxes needed and so on and gotten 'clean' money out the other side. Still got caught. -Dave |
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The question is what will the other wallets & services do?
Can someone put their funds into a KYC wallet like Binance (picking on them, there are other options) and then withdraw from Binance to someplace else? Since Binance is 'everywhere' and allows user to user transfers, I just see this as a VERY annoying bump but not something that cannot be worked around. Granted, there will be a lot more fees involved.
-Dave
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There are things missing form this story.
1) It's an old piece of malware and every AV should detect it.
2) As others have said, it's a windows EXE so it should not matter to mobile
So there is something else going on.
The other issue is with phones there are soooooo many cheap android phones that have some form of backdoors installed. And with iPhones there are so many people with old un-updated / un-patched ones that still have vulnerabilities that have been fixed for months, if not years at this point.
So can things spread through telegram, yeah probably, but if you are up to date, running AV and are not using a $40 knock off phone, it's a lot harder.
-Dave
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Take a look at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5280997.0 for a large list of cards. I do not think any of them have no KYC anymore but I did not check, also keep in mind it will vary by region and amount. There was one that did not have KYC but it was limited to something like $500 a month $1000 a year so not very usable. At that point you are probably better off just trading for cash and getting a prepaid card someplace local. For larger amounts there will always be KYC from legitimate places, although some may try to push the limits a bit of what they can and cannot do. -Dave |
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2022 is going to be a bumpy ride in my opinion. I *think* there is going to be a big dip at the end of the 1sq quarter / beginning of the 2nd as a lot of people in the US who sold at the ATH this year get hit with a tax bill and have to liquidate more BTC to cover it. After that I see a quick run up and sell off as people take their profits again. After that, not sure a lot depends on inflation. If it keeps getting higher I see more people getting into longer term bonds & CDs and stuff with some of their spare investing money instead of BTC
On the larger scale I see more and more investment places going and funds getting involved in crypto and moving the market higher that way.
As always just my view. But I really do think there is going to be a repeat of 2017/18 with the tax issues. Because...people are people....
-Dave
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Remember Gibraltar is 2.6 SQ miles (6.7 SQ KM) with a population of under 35000 people.
Their only real options for growing their economy are in the financial services industry. They can't really build any kind of manufacturing infrastructure with that, too small for tourism, etc. so what else is there.
And the joy of crypto is you don't need massive bank vaults to hold cash and other things. It's a good idea for them.
Other places that do have the ability to have other industries may be a tougher sell for the population.
-Dave
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Does anyone know of a service like this that allows for MMS?
I was out of the country earlier in the year and needed to send some images and could not because of the way T-Mobile setup international roaming in some places.
I wound up using WhatsApp and e-mail but it was not ideal.
-Dave
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Are delays like this common? I know in the US delays / pauses in court cases are common and can take years to work their way through. I always thought that was just a US thing.
I just thought the opposite when it comes to the US, that justice is much faster than in some EU countries. I can't say how long a court proceeding lasts in an individual EU member state, but in my country, which is riddled with corruption, court proceedings take years, and when a verdict is finally reached, the higher instance (Supreme Court) can easily get everything back to square one. Court cases in some parts of the US can take YEARS to get through. I dealt with a landlord dispute that started in 2008 and ended in 2016. My ex GF had a case that went on for close to 9 years between delays, change of lawyers, change of judge (voted out), another judge (retired). I always thought that this was just a US think, never knew it went on elsewhere. No idea why. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Yes, if this goes on for years he is going to keep bilking his followers out of tons of money. The only thing that will save them is if his coin falls to nothing or the blockchain implodes rendering it useless. But, in the end I think he will loose, and I also think people will keep following him. -Dave |
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It's a few issues all rolled into one product. As others have said, it's closed source so you don't know what is going on. And the back end is also closed source / hidden so you don't know what they are doing at the server level. So at that point the 'not your keys, not your coins or USD' is 100% not important. They could give you your keys and whatever else it is that makes people feel safe, but without the ability to see what the app is doing with it, it's all 100% irrelevant. They could be taking your keys and sending them wherever. That was issue #1 as other people have said. Issue #2 is the fact that there is no real security, and all the '2fa' is happening on the device with the wallet. Add in that there are so many people using it all at once, with vastly different knowledge of security and general ability of using tech and it's really surprising how few issues there seem to be. But having the government give the appearance of no support, not talking about it is not good. They don't know if it's user error or something wrong with the app or?  ? Also, lets be honest how many times have we heard about a spouse / significant other emptying out their partners accounts. Or having someone having someone they thought could be trusted steal. -Dave |
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Just a bit of a bump and a note for all those people who use RFID for security things like doors, elevators and such: https://twitter.com/jjx/status/1475493289021292551Nope, that is not secure either. If you thought you could control access to your stuff, through access control devices, make sure they are up to the task. Just one more thing to think about as you try to make your life more secure. -Dave |
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Wow....creating those tax breaks was a damn good move on PR's part if it brought a bunch of hedgies over. Whether they're into crypto or not, they're most definitely going to be stimulating the local economy--and by extension Puerto Rico's as a whole--with all the money they bring with them. This is a pretty cool story, and thanks once again for posting something like this, Hydrogen.
Now, it's been a very long time since I took basic history and geography so someone remind me what the exact relationship is between the US and PR. I was always under the impression that if a mainland US citizen were to fly there or even move there, they wouldn't need a passport or a green card or what have you. Is that the case or not? I know they're not a US state (duh), but I thought they were one of the US's territories--and I'm not even sure what that means. Lol.
I swear, I wish I spoke Spanish. I've thought about moving to another country before, and considered it seriously, and a couple of my top choices' native tongue is Spanish. It'd be a no-brainer to just fly on out to PR and just forget to come back to the states.
Most people in Puerto Rico speak or at least understand English. You don't need a passport to go there if you are a US citizen, Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and have been for over 100 years IIRC What is nice is they don't pay US income tax. BUT there is no simple path to leave US citizenship and become a Puerto Rican. A friend of mine is a US citizen from PR and his wife was a PR native and when he moved there about 20 years ago he went though enough red tape to become a citizen there he was just about at the point to give up. So moving there as an individual to avoid US taxes will take a bit of work. -Dave |
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What do you have to do to escrow a deal, just hold the funds until the counterparty says it's OK to release them? Is it that much of a pain in the ass to be one?
More or less yes. It's just holding the funds till whatever is greed upon is delivered. But, they also get to mediate disputes and occasionally deal with the physical merch at times depending on the deal. For the most part now, from what I can see it's for newer members with no reputation to have the ability to deal with us older more paranoid people. -Dave |
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Let me leave my honest opinion. An escrow should have the capability to handle the situation if something went wrong like lost funds by his mistakes or whatever. On the other hand, trust is quite important as well. An escrow provider must have enough trust & enough financial solvency. But we have to think about the situation as well. Sometimes situation would be bad for an escrow provider as well though he do not intend to rush his trust. An escrow provider should be established financially that he shouldn't sell his soul eventually for money.
That would rapidly become a very small and exclusive list for larger deals. AND then you have the other side of that which is now you know which escrows have access to how much money. And I am sure that a lot of them would not want others to know how much they have the capability of getting access to. Be it 0.001 BTC or 100.00 BTCI understand what you are saying, I just do not see a way of making it happen. -Dave |
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