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sorry to offend you i have now removed them

Andre

This problem has been solved somewhat.  On Silk Road, I just ask that if people have less than 5 recent positive feedbacks they need to release the funds (called "finalizing early") in order to have the goods shipped.  If somebody is a trusted member this is not required.  So far, so good.  No system is 100% foolproof but the escrow services on Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded are pretty darn good. 

Just curious, how did you determine that Gmail deletes them automatically?

psy, I don't have "a beef"  However, I actually work reasonably hard at what I do, and built my initial deposit with pirate from 70-ish coins to 4000.  I have also helped a few other people get to their next tier of interest.  You also obviously don't understand (and can not actually know) all of the things I'm doing to make my money in the bitcoin world, and speculating on GLBSE is still only a small part of it.  (I know of several people that are doing that much more seriously than I am.)  When/if you have $20k or $100k at risk, then you would also seek to have diversified investments.  For example, there are people with over USD100k in with Pirate, much more than I do.

I am also not messing around with other people's business.  I have a much lower proportion of my assets deposited with BS&T having dropped from a max around 50% to currently around 20%.

What I was saying is that it makes practical sense to obtain a greater return over a decent time scale than a peaky return that only lasts a short time as the overall payoff is larger.  If you disagree with 5%/wk for six months versus 10%/week for a month, then th!at is just silly.

Pirate was getting all sorts of attention long before PPT.  We are trying to counter Pirate risk by offering the insurance.

The lazy Starfish likes the poll and has actually said interest rate is a bit high.

However, before someone shoots me, I'm thinking about the longer term and not the nice ride that the past six months has delivered.  There are some structural things that can be done to improve the whole deposit/interest rate trade-off to promote the business, and while 7% is nice for another month, even if it was 5% for another six months that would be better.

Same, receive no spam at my gmail, word.

Zhou, I don't remember if I had a balance on Bitcoinica or not.  If I did, it was a rather old balance.  I submitted a claim when the claims form was revealed, and put 0 btc in everything since I had no clue if I had anything in there or not.  Should I take any additional steps?  Resubmit a claim with different balances?

It was a small amount if any (I think 1 BTC or 5 BTC), so not a huge deal, just wondering what I should do to be sure I get back anything I did have in there.

Of course he does. The part that tipped me off to exactly what was going on was when I followed a few particular trades that were made to certain individuals that ended right back in my wallet again. Then I started watching other trades through the same particular addresses. Then I started doing more, the details of which I can't go into on a public forum.

I guess I can't say for certain he knows he's working for SR. Maybe he's been working without asking questions like a good little mute. Then he can deny working for them, because he doesn't know who he's working for. I was under the impression he knew exactly who he was working for, though. If I were a betting man, I would still bet he's part of the crew, despite his denial. I'll explain why.

This might come as a surprise to you, but at any given point in time, three-or-more different largely trusted vendors of various products on SR are the exact same group of individuals. They rotate usernames in order to prevent detection, but sometimes they make mistakes and actually ship the same product in each other's merchandise. They typically tend to do this when they are moving on to their next username. They don't just have a "close relationship" with SR, either. They run it, or well, the geeks that run it know exactly who their biggest vendors are because they are close friends. I guess I thought, given who pirate is, that he was also part of this group of real life friends, but maybe for some dumb reason he just randomly appears on the forums in Fall 2011 with a trusted group of people needing significant amounts of money for "loans".

usagi is right, this won't continue forever, because he put a limit on how much you can invest. This limit exists because at some point they intend to either close up shop, or they understand that the authorities will be confiscating pirateat's wallet, and every coin in it will be property of the US federal government.

You want FUD? Ignore my warning now. Ignore usagi's warning. I complained that Bitcoinica could only make money at their customer's expense several months ago, and now people can't get their money back and the price of BTC is increasing. It's a little hard to call someone out on spreading FUD when you're still being secretive about exactly how you're able to find someone willing to lose about 7% in interest on a legal enterprise, and that's even before his cut. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind taking on those rates, even the foreign nationals I spoke to about remittance payments said 5% was pushing it.

That requires at least one post, and was as such not possible prior to the creation of this thread.