They are saying that nobody's giving you any BTC here, stop wasting your time.

This is true... Be very careful or you are likely to be scammed. I would absolutely not do this without an escrow. And make sure you find the escrow on-forum. Preferable, do the entire deal on forum. If you chat with an escrow on Telegram without confirming their identity here first, you will be scammed.

Because some crazy blogger has a FOIA request denied by Ireland's Health Services Executive, it does not mean that covid doesn't exist; nor does it mean that "they" were "forced to admit" it doesn't exist. That's plain ridiculous.

Its amazing to me that anybody would consider taking this seriously for 2 seconds. I'm astounded by how daft some people are.

That guy's sweet; he looks like he's switched on.

For those who don't like uppers, here's an alternate version that's a bit more traditional:

Hmm... I think you're right here. Farming isn't the same thing as sockpuppeting. I guess QS was telling the truth after all.

This is most likely an old scammer that created a new account. Both parufkowy and atypowy are Polish words... its more than a coincidence, especially seeing as how the parufkowy account woke up specifically to post a trust feedback; same thing with adis663, who also says he is from Poland. NastyBoy has been more active, sent their 1 merit to a Polish local board poster. I think its a reasonable preventative measure to support your flag and also issue red trust.

I think its great that you're exhibiting some humility and your acknowledgment of potential misdeeds is commendable. However,




People should be forgiven for past mistakes but you just refreshed your denial of what is obviously your alt being your alt. (Among other things,) PN7's first post on the forum was commentary on theymos' motivations. I mean, c'mon.

Observing $27,858... parity was met and superseded.

Close-enough screenshot:

This thread was quite a read -- an interesting cold case of a mystery here... My guess is someone had access to his DropBox and stole his coins using its contents.

There's some additional conversation from what appears to be the OP here, before this thread was started:

https://gitter.im/ethereum/ethereumj?at=56ed8172ce5b0c6e7a1c0c71

OP never confirmed if this address belongs to him or not:

1bdCxkNmBoa9yakqE6f5EJx6kSQdffDWR

Its an intermediary between his exchange output address and the hacker's address... doesn't sound like it was his.

The 1bd address has a lot of previous activity. For a long time it received weekly payouts from a pool associated with BTCGuild that went under in 2014.


Don't suppose you'd want to sign a message with the key to prove you actually have it...

The answer to your question is "yes," but not in the way that you think it is.

What we need to do to affect the price of BTC is all set aside 15 minutes a day where we do nothing but meditate on the price of BTC of going upward. We need to coordinate it all to one time zone, so it will be forum time (UTC). So from 12:00 - 12:15 PM UTC each day, everyone drop what you're doing and meditate on the price going up. Collective meditation is the best shot we have.

Yep, Chainalysis has several clients, one of which is the U.S. government. For better or for worse, for good or bad, they are out there connecting the dots on behalf of exchanges like Binance in terms of helping them track down where hacked funds are moving, giving other exchanges a heads up that hacked funds are coming their way.

Here on the forum, we have a good intern scambuster program going where we are all interns and no one gets paid. But we do get rewarded in the form of extra digital doodads for our accounts, as an incentive to continue busting scams.

Yep, your story checks out:


It's good that you didn't go through with it but waited to make sure you were talking with the real SebatienJu (you weren't).

This guy's tactic is so old.

Hey guy, you should come up with something new. This fake escrow thing is getting pretty boring.


Another alt account bites the dust.

Thanks for being honest about what happened.


Hmm... I can see how you'd be pissed off... You were allowed to cash out a portion of the bet, then they retroactively canceled the bet. I think that if they responded they would probably just draw from their terms and conditions to avoid having to pay you anything additional. For example, this is toward the beginning of their Sportsbook Terms:


This could also apply as you managed to make money risk-free from what was an apparent "mistake" in the line:


I'm not taking FJ's side but preparing you for how they will probably respond.

Not same as bitcoin. I use bitcoin about 4 times a week. People who hold hex would never think of using it as a currency. Hex may pump again -- I wouldn't be surprised. There's just nothing interesting about it to me and I don't see how it could possess any intrinsic value.

I have 2 questions if you don't mind, just for clarification:

1. Did they send you the cancellation notice email before the match had started?

2. Are you able to withdraw your initial deposit?

Knowing the answer to these might go a long way in determining what to do next.

Weird how people that hate bitcoin so much tend to ascribe to these bizarre biblical fantasies about armageddon. Maybe its just a general aversion to change that holds people back from accepting progress.

As a bitcoin proponent, I'm comforted by the fact that your entire plan to collapse bitcoin relies upon an incoming ice age. People will win out by buying bitcoin.

Cardano is a brain in a hat. The only thing it has going for it is that it insists that it's brilliant. It has almost no actual usage or reasons why anybody should use it, given there's already a handful of cryptos that already cover the entire planet's actual need for crypto. Even if Cardano did all the things it says that it can do today, people aren't going to suddenly flock to it as they're covered by everything else already going on. No reason for anybody to use or own this coin.

It sounds like they are giving you your deposit back at least, so that's good. You should probably just place bets elsewhere, would be my advice going forward.

On one hand, honoring the "incorrect" odds would be the noble thing for FortuneJack to do.

On the other hand, they're going to point to potentially multiple clauses in the sportsbook terms and conditions that says they reserve the right to do exactly that.

So in my opinion, it's probably best just to move on. Casinos pointing to their terms and conditions as an excuse to not have to pay somebody out is the norm... probably won't be bucked in that regard.

I think this is a fair question and it depends on what people are using bitcoin for. If you use it quite a bit, we'd prefer lower fees -- fees low enough to the point where it makes more sense to move money around as BTC instead of PayPal or Western Union or something. If you're just a HODLer, you probably don't care as much if fees are high because you will be performing less (or far fess) transactions.

In terms of absolute dollar figures I usually think in terms of percentages. If I want to send $100 and the recommended fee is $10, that's 10%, and too damn high (non-competitive with pre-existing money transfer systems). I'm more inclined to think 4% is the limit; 5% for smaller figures.

Ideally, the median tx should be as low as $0.10 when the mempool is cleared and as high as $5.00 at its busiest, but as we all know it currently encounters much higher spikes than that.

As for Lightning, LN tx fees need to remain competitive with the on-chain network or it loses one of its two advantages (the other being quicker transactions). So, until there's millions of transactions taking place on the network daily, hosting a Lightning node may not be a profitable endeavor.

There's other and IMO more practical ways in which the price of bitcoin could go to (or at least approach) zero; the most likely and sudden of which would be exploiting some sort of flaw in the code that was previously unknown. Perhaps the NSA uses a backdoor in SHA-256 to derive peoples' private keys from their transactions and gets caught subverting bitcoin funds being transferred by ISIS or something.

Upon mass realization that there are ways to exploit the bitcoin's security, the price of BTC would plummet.

Even then, I don't think it would go to zero because no doubt there would remain a chance that the flaw could be patched and a new hard fork would be launched. So people would probably rather hold on to it for those chances rather than sell it for pennies on the dollar.


I suppose it would be much simpler if the internet disappeared and couldn't come back. Then bitcoin would definitely go to zero.