Lol +1

Cool!

Anyone with a level head would read this and notice the glaring lack of research and round-about way it talks about bitcoin using explanations only bitcoiners use. It screams fake. Everything down to the style it's made in. The very fact that a document in 2008 looked similiar should be proof enough considering the FBI doesn't keep the same style of letterheads for 4 years.

Look at how they talk about Silk Road research. Look at how it sounds like a fanboy masturbating to himself while he pretends to be a cop. FBI doesn't talk like this. FBI doesn't care. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's an elaborate troll to present some kind of legitimacy of Bitcoin so that the price changes.

There are no sources for this document, no trail, etc. It is not recognized by anyone other than a dude on a forum someplace? Give me a break. Have the person who actually retrieved this file swear an affidavit and we'll protect them through freedom of the press laws in the UK. Anything else is just a bunch of nonsense and I'm disappointed to see such a large group of people falling for it. I thought you guys were smarter than this.

You guys crack me up. You're already referencing it as "the FBI report". What a fail community. Excuse me while I go make another FBI report.

"Oops! it leaked! What do you guys think? Ignore the links to Bitcoin Magazine on the poster's status. I don't know how that got there"

If you mean that Andrew paid Facebook for some advertising space for bitcoinadvertisers.com, that's understandable (although I have yet to see any) but I don't think that qualifies anyone as a "partner" or else I'd be a partner of Walmart for buying a gift card.

Why is "Facebook" listed as a "partner"?

I've already given my opinion on the style of the document and how I think someone in this community made it with one hand while jacking off with the other, but now I question your intentions.


Obviously you uploaded this document yourself, so you're the one who obtained it. Care to share your source?

In contrast to any other publication from the FBI:

http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications

Why does everyone assume that a troll would only be trolling if it said the FBI was against Bitcoin? It'd be twice as funny to pretend it wasn't.

Look at the horrible quality (not the image quality, the horrible design). Since when does the FBI release private information like this, much less in such a horrible design? This is a 12 year old's copypasta in Word.

rofl. It's on the internet so it must be true.

This is one of the ugliest/laziest trolls I've seen in a long time.

Reddacted.

That's okay. I didn't tell you what kind of dollars I'll pay in. I think I'll use sand dollars.

I have to retract my bid of One million daollrs. It was made almost a minute ago, no longer want the domain + there have been changes in the US economy since then.

One million dollars.

Apples and oranges.

You got suckered by Bitscalper and lost, despite everyone (including myself) warning you to stop.

Your arrogance kept you pushing on like a fucking retarded child.

You got burned horribly bad and desperate to reclaim some of your losses, you hopped on the bandwagon when MiningBuddy said he would try to take over the arbitrage site.

IF MiningBuddy takes responsibility for all of Bitscalper's debt (which is fucking retarded and I don't know what he's thinking), then I will stand right beside you when MiningBuddy doesn't pay. IF MiningBuddy is just taking over the site to try to make money back, then you still only have two people to blame---


1) Yourself for being so goddamn gullible
2) Bitscalper for being the garbage he is

It seems like you really like spamming your information, but I honestly have to wonder-- do the developers you mentioned above appreciate you posting their cell phone numbers without their permission?

I've stayed far away from lending/investments/alt coins/gambling on this forum until recently.

Thank you for the information. I was not aware that Pirate had already disclosed details of his operation and am now beginning to think the people calling it a ponzi are just jelly.

Secrecy towards investors is nonsensical. "Here's a paycheck, don't ask where it came from."

Aren't they usually transparent? I'm at a loss for how this is related to telling investors how they are earning money on their investments.

So let them remain anonymous, but tell everyone that someone contributed. Saying "This money is here and don't ask how" is not a confidence builder.

I guess indirectly I have too, like if someone used their profit to buy a Bitcoin magazine or something, but that doesn't mean the investments are safe or that I would personally approve of investments that don't disclose details of the investment.

I agree, but I still say this level of opaqueness is visible only in the mafia.

I don't know why anyone is even bothering to argue about this. Investments that aren't illegal or ponzi's have basic disclosures of activity. Show me where any of these disclosures are for any of the investments in Bitcoin? I'd say at this point 100% of the so-called investment schemes in Bitcoin are ponzi-like.

Vladimir's the only person I know so far (let me know if anyone else has done this for investments as I'm not sure how many others there are) who's actually taken things to the next level and gotten a formal investment disclosure in place for the ASIC bunker. This is the kind of crap that reflects poorly on all of us. Nobody talks about how the value of Bitcoin has risen since inception. Nobody talks about Bitcoin's usability. They talk about all the retarded, repeated scams and gullible suckers who will defend their investments in shady and opaque operations "because bitcoin".

We've had mining operators run out with the hardware or others claim that they got stolen, we've had online wallets claim to be hacked, we've got downright ponzis pretend to be arbitrage only to build half-assed arbitrage after-the-fact in order to save face. I've said this before during the BitScalper fiasco and I'll say it again:

Do we really want to support shady, anonymous and opaque shit as a community? If so, please provide a list of benefits of doing so, because in the world I come from, it only represents risk.