pirateat40 of course, highest amount of BTC scammed ever, non on the list comes even close, probably none will come close ever in terms of BTC amount.
Yup, nothing will ever come close to this in my opinion. I suspect that's wishful thinking. There's plenty of opportunity ahead for people to pull off bigger scams, and no shortage of likely victims. Hell, we haven't even really seen any attempts at a hedge fund scam yet. |
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So two newbies both join on the same day to accuse one another of scamming. In addition, another thread appears where a different newbie accuses another newbie of fleecing them in a Feathercoin/Litecoin transaction.
Maybe newbies should stay away from Feathercoin.
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Seems like Feathercoin/Litecoin scams are becoming the new thing. They always seem to involve one newbie fleecing another, too.
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Is this his real name, btw?
Yes. Real world details about him and his wife are easy to track down. |
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One newbie trusting another newbie over one of the lesser known alt. currencies was bound to work well.
WTF were you thinking?
Seriously. Always be cautious if you're a newbie and someone approaches you via PM. Be especially cautious if that person is also a newbie.
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How come we never hear about Ameritrade getting hacked or one of the big online stockbrokers? Maybe these fledgling bitcoin "exchanges" need to consult with how those guys do it, because this is getting ridiculous.
Because the amount that big players in the conventional world spend on security is mind-blowing. Even then, they still suffer from successful fraud attempts and intrusions but they have the capacity to absorb those losses (and are often insured against them). What happens in Bitcoinland is that services quickly find themselves handling large amounts of funds before they have the money available to spend on the security which should have been baked in from day 1. |
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Nope. Consigning those topics to Off-Topic keeps down the number of people soliciting funds.
There aren't enough charitable efforts right now to justify a separate board and those that do exist are pretty much reputation based - they haven't gone to the effort of setting up a proper legal entity for the purpose. Essentially, you're donating to forum members and trusting that they'll use the funds for charitable purposes.
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"2 identical hacks in 2 days for #bitcoin services hosted at #OVH. @olesovhcom your manager will reset a password without e-mail confirmation" https://twitter.com/Bitcoin_Central/status/327131323342942209Looks like OVH is to blame  And srsly host critic websites on your own servers, don't trust OVH/Linode or anyone  Nope, they chose their hosting service. If they chose a hosting service which allows password resets without adequate verification, that's on them, not the hosting service. It'd be interesting to know if there was a more secure option available to them with OVH and they simply chose not to use it (which has happened in the past with other intrusions - the services haven't paid for full database back up or haven't utilised all the security options available to them). |
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For fuck's sake.
They knew they were going to be a target. Their customers knew that if they couldn't secure one service operated by Paymium then it was unwise to believe that their other services were safe.
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That's pretty much all the available information I have. He returned almost all funds but in the wrong asset combination, and Bitcoinica failed to adjust the recovered funds to the right combination, as a result BTC liability has rocketed before the liquidation has shown any progress.
You know damned well that MtGox locked everyone out of the account after the intrusion and publicly stated that they weren't going to let anyone access the funds until the legal situation regarding who had the entitlement to distribute them was clarified. But hey, let's just write a new narrative which makes you look like the hero, just like you always do. |
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Not even a rebuttal or made up excuse as to why you can't post a video Mr. Tong?
Wow!! Your silence speaks volumes.
In before "I was in class" (it's 2pm here). |
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I have plans to immigrate to Australia and I need an absolutely clean record. Bwahahaha. Good luck with that. |
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I'm still not sure what a video would prove. Zhou's had many months to polish his story, so I don't think that having slicker answers now than he had at the time the events happened would in any way make his story more credible.
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I believe a credible member of Bitcointalk once vouched for his age and his word was good enough for the masses the last time this came up but I don't remember the username. Maybe someone else does?
Perhaps you're thinking of this post by Tihan. Zhou Tong is exactly who he says he is. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97272.msg1073435#msg1073435Tihan met Zhou in person. Whether or not Zhou's lying about his age to this community and to Australian authorities is far less interesting to me than whether he's lying about things directly related to the downfall of Bitcoinica. Telling the truth about his age doesn't prove he had no involvement in the destruction of Bitcoinica and lying about his age wouldn't prove that he had active involvement in the events which destroyed Bitcoinica. A pretty irrefutable connection was made between the stolen Bitcoinica funds and Zhou. The big question is whether or not you believe Zhou's explanation for that connection. A secondary question is whether law enforcement was ever asked to investigate that connection. |
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Let me say a few things, Zhou Tong. I don't know if Bitcoinica was properly registered and where, but if it was, then CJH should be a member of the company and we should be able to see his name on some documents, or otherwise he shouldn't get access to the password, which is the company's assets, right? If you are not careful with that, then you have to prepare for the consequences, which is what you're experiencing now:you are unable to prove your innocence. For another, providing that you told the truth about the hacking incident, you were still being irresponsible for not properly storing the company's funds in cold wallets.
Whatever maybe the case, try to stay low key, your return will not be something worth celebrating about as many people, especially victims of the hacking incident, will remain suspicious about you.
Read the old thread in which Zhou trots out the Chinese relic collector story and how that person just happened to have access to Zhou's password. It's pretty amusing. I explained it 11 months ago and no one read. Plenty of people read it. It sounded like a crock of shit then and it still sounds like a crock of shit now. BTW, why was your name even on the proposed confidential settlement agreement if you were merely a Bitcoinica employee at the time that proposal was made. Why did Jesse Powell post here that you and Tihan had agreed to that proposal when your agreement should have been utterly irrelevant if you had no official role in Bitcoinica? |
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I know very little about you, but I have read all of your responses in the thread and I can say with the utmost certainty that you are NOT 18 years of age. With that said, if you're lying about that simple fact, then I have significant doubts about everything else you're saying.
Unless he has excellent counterfeit ID, he's 18. He was able to incorporate NameTerrific as a company on his 18th birthday and that requires producing valid ID here. Saw that you posted a plane ticket from when you were 16? or 17? Are minors allowed to fly internationally by themselves and go through singapore and aussie customs? Yes. |
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Aren't ASIC prices supposed to come down the more chips are made?
I guess we'll get a sense of whether that's going to happen when 490,000 Avalon chips are delivered in August and we have a heap of different people selling units. There's not really any particular reason why volume means prices must come down. If the market will sustain high prices, then many businesses will charge high prices for as long as possible regardless of actual production costs. |
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She looks like some kind of cocky Princess Leia.
I'm pretty sure the person who controls that account is male. Her RL identity isn't hard to discover. People have found her blogs and posted pictures from them on here before. Having boobs is apparently supposed to make you stupid or something, thus the persistence of the rumour that MPOE-PR is a Mircea Popescu sock puppet. |
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Anyone who thinks a Bitcoin exchange which allows you to make transactions without verifying your identity isn't at high risk of having their bank accounts closed without notice and being reported to authorities for possible money laundering activity is displaying an astonishing amount of wilful ignorance.
Let's not pretend that people are unaware of the risk they're taking when using such services - they're just hoping they'll get their funds out before those services come under scrutiny.
If you've got significant funds on Bitcoin-24, be prepared to prove that you acquired them legitimately.
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