There are multiple threads in which the Bitcoinica theft is being discussed seriously.  Maria doesn't have 17,000 BTC tied up in Bitcoinica.  She refused to make a claim for a refund.  She's the one who opened this thread to sprout off with her attention-whoring, scamming bullshit.  She absolutely deserves to be mocked for that.

It would be Victoria Police.  The AFP only handles specific, designated Commonwealth crimes.  Victoria Police would investigate as far as they were able and then investigations would be handed off to international law enforcement agencies either through the memorandums of understanding we have with some nations or through Interpol in Canberra.

Although the AuxumXchange transactions were money laundering, if they didn't touch the Australian financial system in some way then it's unlikely that AUSTRAC's financial intelligence unit would be involved in any investigation.

We need to add a mysterious Chinese relic collector to the character set.

Why on earth would China have jurisdiction?

I do agree that given the short lifespan of so many Bitcoin enterprises people need to actively monitor the state of the services with which they place funds.  There's a non-trivial risk that if you don't keep your finger on the pulse of the Bitcoin world for a few months, you'll miss out on important information concerning the services with which you do business.

But she's a millionaire, doncha know.  She doesn't care about the money, it's all about the principle.   

The alleged promise of mysterious relic collector to return funds is meaningless as long as Zhou maintains that there is no way for them to be accepted.  All that is required is for them so be sent to an an accountant or lawyer's trust fund - and Chris Heaslip is an accountant as well as a nominal director of Bitcoinica.  That puts Zhou at arm's length from receiving them and puts them in safe-keeping until such time as what the fuck is happening with the return of user funds is sorted out.

At this point I honestly expect to hear that mysterious relic collector has changed his mind about returning the funds, leaving Bitcoinica and its users in limbo once again.

 

This happens with pretty much every new service.  It's hailed as the best thing since sliced bread and within months the discontent sets in and it's being labelled a scam.  Same thing happens with new payment methods.  This community has little capacity to learn from past experience, it seems.

It wasn't Bitcoinica who released the information related to the alleged transactions by Zhou.  Mark said he tried to contact them regarding the information and they didn't respond.  Tihan says that when the information was brought to his attention, he told AurumXchange and MtGox to ask Zhou about the matter privately and that he doesn't believe Zhou is responsible.  Amir has asked people not to jump to conclusions based on the AurumXchange statement. There are a shit ton of reasons to criticise Bitcoinica, but they aren't the ones who came out accusing Zhou of the MtGox breach.

Zhou had an internet presence prior to Bitcoinica.  According to Zhou, the hand-off of Bitcoinica to Tihan took place in person.  As Tihan would obviously have noticed if the person who turned up to hand Bitcoinica off didn't look like "Zhou", I'm willing to presume that they did.  So "Zhou" exists.  The question you're really raising is whether he's actually the person who created Bitcoinica or he was just a frontman.  I guess that's a question you could put to those who've Skyped with him - it's harder to maintain a bluff in real time than it is when you can carefully prepare written responses.


It's cool.  It's sometimes easy to forget that things which seem suspicious or unlikely to us can be normal and commonplace in other cultures.  Every now and then I read about something happening in the US and I'm convinced that I'm being fed bullshit when I'm not.

I guess that if you've already installed a file from Maria, you might as well go the whole hog and give her remote access.

Coinabul posted this on reddit earlier today.


Perhaps contacting Coinabul would be the best way of getting in touch with Jered.

Bwahahahahaha.

She skipped her meds again.

It's honestly not all that unusual to find young Asian people from middle class families pursuing education or other opportunities outside their home country.  I wouldn't call pursuing those opportunities within the Asia-Pacific region "globe-trotting", any more than I'd regard someone from the UK or Germany who pursued their education in a number of European countries as "globe-trotting".

Hell, my daughter in law comes from a typical upper middle class Aussie family and she and her siblings each spent a year studying overseas as teenagers (she spent a year studying in Germany).

That's not true under most Western legal systems.  Possible punishments would vary dramatically by jurisdiction, though.

Maria's a delusional troll.  This should have been moved to Off-topic, where her rants usually end up.  You might want to check her post history before taking anything she posts at face value.

I wish I could buy shares in tinfoil hats and pitchforks.

It's the Illuminati.  It's always the Illuminati.