http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/10521471/Bitcoin-governments-should-tame-it-not-ban-it.html

Lots of FUD and misunderstanding ... but at least she is engaging in the topic I suppose.

I refuse to get sucked into your long-winded arguments (conversations wtf?) on the semantics of your situation because that is exactly what you are using to avoid the fact that you are outright ripping off good honest people (maybe you are deceiving yourself?).... either you are in business for good or you aren't. You are by implication saying that I am a liar and your whole claims process is set up like this, it is offensive and I'm not going to engage in it. Of course people are going to get dramatic when you blatantly steal from them. Just do the right thing.

Will you give us our fucking coins back or not?

Won't return coins that belong to depositors of the failed Instawallet service.

Used a 'window' of opportunity notice in obscure forum section for the filing of claims and refuses to accept any other requests for coin returns. Disregards totally any credibility and reputation of claimants, essentially implicitly accusing them of making false claims. If many of the people who lost coins in Instawallet cannot make claims davout will profit handsomely.

Suggest removal from bitcointalk staff as a minimum until this cleared up ... and possible scammer label attached if it drags on and other honest people are ripped off.

davout : possible scammer. Definitely not honest broker that respects honest reputable trade reputations.

There is only one unanswered question and I have repeated it several times.

Will you be making my family and friends whole for the lost coins from Instawallet?

It's pretty simple, you duplicitous little scammer. Either you are in business to make money or you're gonna be run out of town ... I'll make sure of it.

Edit: so I'm meant to keep track of every 2bit place that rolls over and goes belly up and claims processes 'windows'? Are you reading every forum thread these days davout?

Good for you Phinnaeus, just be careful.

Apparently he won't even reply to me except to say ... "too late, tough, shit sir!" (paraphrased)

... and the coward will not come out and confirm definitively he will not be returning my coins ... in which case I could initiate counter action ... so still waiting ... but the clock is ticking.

Some kind of business he is running, slippery as an Frenchman ... oh wait he is.

Oh ... it was meant as allegorical joke on the relative size of the issues involved than a detailed expose, if that wasn't clear.

I suppose when you are waking up alongside severed horse head presents from the Russian mob then bitcoin 'pronouncements' can seem like a pleasant distraction ...

Good luck, Paymium is operating like a rogue scammer now ... you probably wont hear back from them.

Edit: this is you right davout?

Sounds like Coinbase is doing to BTC what the banks did for fiat ... not sure exactly what their business model is beyond playing nice with USA's facist money regulators?

Btw their payment pop-up is buggy and has non-intuitive behaviours ... so that's all I really needed to know (they don't do s/ware well but they can please the moneychanger regulators? uh-huh ... )

Good point .. most of those guys have lived in a fairy-tale manipulated cotton-wool markets.

They are gonna be handed heads on plates when they enter a real free market ... bitcoin is some wild-ass shit when it comes to trading that is for sure. Not to mention you never know when the whole exchange is going to disappear from under you ... they think it is easy ... uh-huh, fresh meat

yes looks like the racketeers are moving into action ... despite all the protestations and appeals to 'working' with them, light regulations, etc. Same as it ever was ... next you'll be lining up to pay for BitLicenses that can be pulled magically out of their 2BitAsses.

there is a flaw in this reasoning because of bitcoin's pseudoanonymity.

To link a false flag operation to a bitcoin transfer you would need proof of other identifying information of the person(s) involved in which case they could not be hidden actors ... i.e. wouldn't be false flag by unknown operatives (unless they managed to coerce/connive some patsies into using bitcoin for terror and then have a watertight way to pin it exclusively upon the patsies)

dangerous to corrupt, statist politicians and robbing banksters ... otherwise quite peaceful and liberating.

... hadn't considered it before but maybe assassination markets have a use after all ... what's the price on head of Kim Jong Il right now btw?

Who are they?

I think this story is significant and a good investigative journalist who went digging would find some verrrry interesting ructions in the background here.

One of the biggest pension fund operations allows bitcoin investments one day and the next it halts them? Who's peddling influence here? Who's pulling the strings? Is it the Federal Reserve bureaucrats acting outside their lawful mandate? Is it a cartel of banks pressuring a fund provider?

Smells like corruption and possible illegal activity behind the scenes here to me. These boyz have to be real careful in their unseemly internal battle over bitcoin that their usual modus operandi doesn't spill out into the streets for all to see their ugliness and criminality.


Couldn't have 0.1% of this pie leaving dollar denominated assets now could we?

So just like real currencies and banks then ....   

Withdrawn.

If this is the 'light regulation" then USA is fucked as place to do bitcoin business ... watch what they do not what they say.

Edit: btw Mike you are great entrepreneur, I suggest a move to Switzerland might be a good option for you.