DNA - the ultimate blockchain.

Lol.  You know, the most interesting people I ever searched for were my line of paternal grandfathers.  All the way back to 1523 in Scotland - I'm a member of Clan Gunn.  One of them was a 23 year old who crossed the Atlantic in 1673.

Nope.  I'm trying to get a life.   Besides, that wouldn' t help NXT.  I'm scheming about how to spread the word to many new converts. I've got some ideas.  Stay tuned.

No.  I'm trying to get a life.

Some things in life are better left with an air of mystery about them.

If you are ready to take the red pill ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill ), read theeconomiccollapseblog.com daily for two weeks.  At the end of that time, add zerohedge.com to your daily reading for the next two weeks.  At the end of the month, go pour yourself a glass of whiskey and sit on your back porch staring at the woods for an hour and ask yourself just what in the hell is going on.

Im in my 50s not my 60s, alas, so retirement for me is a decade away unless NXT hits a dollar a coin.  I am a grandpa with a couple of Mossberg Maverick 88 shotguns stashed away, tho...

Altho it pains me greatly to say this, I do not feel free to discuss my true opinions about Edward Snowden in a public forum.

Sigh.

Perhaps once NXT makes me independently wealthy, I might come back here and have several pages of things to say.

LOL.  I'm no superhero, I'm just a some guy who still thinks in his mind he's still some high school joker pulling off pranks to impress the girls and is always surprised when he looks in his mirror only to see some aging grey haired guy fighting a potbelly staring back.   Enjoy every single day and every single sunset, you crazy guys and gals out there, every day there's one fewer of them for you.

Another way of looking at me:  If one American fueled only by curiosity calling himself rickyjames can find out so much about EpicThomas and ktirio2010 in the real world with just a few clicks of a mouse, imagine what 30,000 Americans fueled by $11 billion calling themselves the National Security Agency (NSA) can find out about YOU.  I'm a loyal American with a security clearance, so I've got to say that what Edward Snowden was illegal and he should be arrested and tried for felony charges.  However, I also believe he considers himself a patriot whistleblower who has sent a message that everybody on Earth and especially Americans should think long and hard about.  We are shifting very quickly in scary directions almost without any complaints or resistance or even caring thoughts on the way down.  The NSA is utilizing capabilities targeting American citizens today that the Stasi couldn't even imagine directing against East German citizens in the 1980s. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

Even the FBI that I kept beating EpicThomas over the head about has changed.   I read they've recently dropped "law enforcement" from their official mission statement, replacing it with "national security" as their top priority.  And along the way, they've dropped from turning over 10,000 white-collar crime cases per year to federal prosecutors in 2000 down to under 3,500 per year and dropping today.  To me, that's  65,000 criminals per decade getting away with their crimes - most of them on Wall Street.   Forget about Al Qaeda - that kind of rot from within is what topples economies and societies.  Which is a decline we are witnessing every day, all you've got to do is read The Economist weekly and Zerohedge.com daily to see it.

Sigh.  Off on a rant, sorry.   This is why I am all for NXT - national fiat currency implemented by central banks using debt-based fractional reserve banking is a hundred year old experiment that is going to fail very soon, I fear, and something needs to be in place when it fails as a framework to rebuild economic ties between individuals.  Code harder and faster, guys, you're in a race with the apocalypse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking

The IP address is listed as static (which means tellas.gr would have no problem identifying your guy) and is on several spam block lists.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

Your target is very interested in watches.  He is a regular poster as ktirio2010 at rwgforum.net, he was there yesterday.  

http://www.rwgforum.net/user/41247-ktirio2010/

Ktirio is a relatively new Greek magazine that foucses on architecture and technology design.   Somebody that has a watch fetish in Greece would probably read it.  

http://www.ktirio.gr/default_en.aspx?catid=292

ktirio2010 as a member of rwgforum.net posts a lot of photos of watches that are stored on photobucket.  The photobucket member that uploads the watch photos is Marlin M (marlizamarliza).  

http://s39.photobucket.com/user/marlizamarliza/profile/

Surprisingly to me, there are a lot of people named Marliza Marliza but they are Brazilian or Indonesian.  However, Marlin is a common Greek first name.  So maybe your guy is named Marlin Marliza?

If I were you, I would scan these posts to find the model number for one of the watches that he really likes, then send him a message saying you've got one for sale at a price that is so low it's implied that it's stolen and you're trying to fence it.  Maybe he'll be interested in buying it and send you a shipping address.

That's what I would try.

Let me tell you a story.  

Just after my new house was finished three years ago, somebody broke into it just after I moved in.  At that time there was lots of building activity from Hispanic work crews up and down the street, and one had finished my house only weeks before.  I am on the perimeter of a big subdivision and my backyard faces beautiful woods I love to walk in that are in the flood plain and so will never be bulldozed for more houses. I have a wonderful sense of isolation and open space and privacy in my back yard unlike the hundreds of others I live among who see an ocean of head-high fenced in dog poop plots as their back yard view.  I have plenty of glass on the back side of my house to enjoy my view, and at that time no alarm.  So I go off for literally 30 minutes around sunset and come back to a decorative bowling ball ("yard art") thrown thu the plate glass sliding door to my bedroom.   My TV is gone and some money is gone and my cellphone - a brand new Droid X - is gone.  

After the police leave later that evening I go online at Verizon to move the phone number to a dinky replacement phone. And I see that my bad guy has used my phone to call somebody in the Atlanta area.    And I check the area code and exchange against census data and sure enough, it's a Hispanic neighborhood.       Some neighborhood work crew building houses, probably my own work crew, has shafted me. And I'll never find out who. So I change the number to the new phone, effectively deactivating my lost stolen Droid out there somewhere,  and go to bed with the wind whipping the plastic tarp around over my broken door all night long only three feet away.    Between the noise and kicking myself for not installing a GPS  recovery app, I don't get a wink of sleep.  

The next morning the replacement phone starts ringing from the Atlanta number. Over and over and over every half hour.   Whoever is on the other end thinks he's going to get the bad guy on the line speaking Spanish.  I know if he hears me answer in English, he'll never call back again.  So I think about what to do.  

Eventually I take the phone to my neighborhood Mex restaurant where I have been a loyal customer for 20 years and have a friendly acquaintance with the entire staff.  I ask them to call the number, speak in Spanish, and say they found this lovely new Droid X accidentally left behind at a restaurant table at their restaurant.  They're calling the "last dialed number" to see if they can get a name and address of who to return it to.  So they call.  It's the girlfriend, she's frantic in Spanish because her man hasn't called back, his name is (huh - I've forgotten his name and it was etched into my mind for months - guess he is anonymous now to me at last) and his address is X and thank you SO MUCH for returning the phone.

So I go to the police with a name and address and a story.    He's on parole so they don't need a warrant to enter and search his place.  I go for a ride along and they  arrest the guy just before midnight literally 27 hours after he breaks into my house.  He ruins my sleep on Tuesday night, I ruin his sleep Wed night, which he spends the first of many months in jail with no bail.  My TV and money are gone but he's still had the Droid and that was enough.  The apartment was full of stuff from a half-dozen other burglaries.

I called the Atlanta number the next day to tell her to quit calling my phone and gave her the jail number.  (The restaurant staff had told me she was bilingual).  She was really let down.  Turned out she was pregnant by another man who had abandoned her and my guy had a one-way jet ticket out of town for the day after his arrest to go marry her and live happily ever after.  He was on a break-in spree to raise cash before leaving town.  Instead of a honeymoon week I sent him to the slammer for a year. I kinda felt bad about that, but not too much.

I am convinced this community will work together to put NXT in two years where Bitcoin is now after five years.  And at this rate they will write 10,000+ pages of posts to get there.

Hey, just for the record, here's something I noticed from actually sending NXT four times in a row.  Regarding the final message in the process, "The money is sent" - a native English speaker would never say or write that.  They would say "The money WAS sent" of "The money HAS BEEN sent".  I would recommend changing that...

Closure On The EpicThomas Attack Of 31 Dec 2013

OK, time for EpicThomas restitution distribution.

EpicThomas has sent 47,960 NXT to my account 16092180239932658439 as a restitution payment for NXT lost in his hack attack of December 31.

From the previous charity distribution described at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4275210#msg4275210 this is the split applied:

Framewood: 35.16%
plasticAiredals: 6.56%
newcn: 6.39%
sparta_cuss: 51.89%

So I have transfered:

47960*0.3516 = 16863 to Framewood's  11516574435181434547
47960*0.0656 = 03146 sent to PlasticAiredale's  17139321135754562770
47960*0.0639 = 03065 sent to newcn's 13187911577562526278
47960*0.5189 = 24886 sent to Sparta-cuss's 14748981975238803545

These actions can be verified via the block explorer at http://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=34 .  Between charity and restitution payments, these four individuals have now recovered just shy of 30% of their losses.

There still  remains doubt over whether the bandit accounts associated with this heist contain stolen NXT or darkNXT.   Furthermore, the sentiment  in the NXT general forum seems to be that EpicThomas paying a restitution of 47,960 NXT balances the scales of justice for his crime of distributing infected NXT clients on December 31, 2013.

Accordingly, I consider the matter of EpicThomas to be closed and I will take no further actions regarding him.

This will be aliased within the next 20 posts.  But not by me.

holy crap that IS a lot.

You're saying that a quarter of all NXT is permanently out of circulation only a couple of months after it was minted in the Genesis Block?

That sounds, um, kinda serious to me.  I have obviously missed something.  What's the story on this again?  And which account has the 50M in it?
<off to research 64 bit vs. 256 bit in more detail.>

To compare NXT to countries, you want to come up with the NXT "Lorenz curve" and "Gini coefficient".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/ilri/x5547e/x5547e0l.htm

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html

http://visualign.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/inequality-lorenz-curves-and-gini-index/

Remember that there's only been around six weeks so far to distribute NXT via a currency market....that's how long Dgex has been open.

Sorry, I'm a science buff and in physics and cosmology right now the big topic is dark matter that can't interact with regular matter.  I'm gonna use darkNXT as my preferred term.  Tho I could be talked into using zombie NXT -  I'm a Walking Dead buff, too.

NEWS FLASH : EPIC THOMAS PAYS RESTITUTION

This thread is insane, I am drowning trying to drink from this firehose...

I have news to share and I also need to discuss / understand some of the comments about EpicThomas made since I posted my "interm report".  I have skimmed (and not fully read / digested) these just now trying to catch up.  Let me try to organize this chaotic situation by posting links to the background that I want to talk about:

My first reply to Epic Thomas when he (not me) brought up the subject of restitution (pg 697):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4291567#msg4291567

My "interim report" that summarizes the "four possible scenarios" that we are trying to choose among as being "the truth" (pg 728):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4321533#msg4321533

Discussion of scenario 4 (Stolen NXT is in accounts that NOBODY has passcode for, put there by software bug / unintentional consequences of hacked code):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4328711#msg4328711

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4329153#msg4329153

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4329460#msg4329460

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4329542#msg4329542

So... are we officially now saying Scenario 4 (darkNXT created accidentally during heist) is the lead theory at this point?  THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT because there is a big difference between (1) a hacker that trashed 300K of NXT by accident but only actually accessed accounts of 1K or less NXT (as claimed by EpicThomas here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg4271857#msg4271857 ) and  (2) a hacker that has actually does have control of 300K NXT and is denying it while facing the threat of being turned over to the FBI.

I still haven't had time to do a detailed timeline (soon, I promise) but there is still the Framewood loss that occurred before any of EpicThomas's links that comes from either (1) an attack we haven't even identified yet or (2) a darkNXT accident.  EITHER ONE OF THESE SCENARIOS IS UNACCEPTABLY SCARY AND MUST NOT GET LOST IN THE SHUFFLE.

Plus, EpicThomas now says he only posted poisoned links on Dec 31 and not in his earlier "Raspberry Pi" post on Dec 28.  If true, this leaves the smaller 4  transfers to 16204974692852323982 also unexplained.

I know this is all picky details, but THESE DETAILS MATTER.  Not everything that is going on here is attributable to what EpicThomas did on Dec 31.  Something SCARY is going on that we STILL do not understand.  We must not lose sight of this fact.

OK, changing gears here.  My original "interim report" listed all correspondence that has been exchanged between EpicThomas and myself.  Yesterday I got another personal message from him in response to the last message I had sent him.  Here it is:

*********** BEGIN MESSAGE FROM EPIC THOMAS ********************


Editing the client is no difficult thing. Everyone with some experience in java could do it, which I was trying to proof.
The developers didn't even try to protect their code.

The client was only posted here in the nxt topic on 31/12.

I don't have a version of the posted client anymore.
The code I changed is still available here on the forum if that is what you need.

I have received the nxt from dgex and I have transferred it to the address you gave me a few days ago.
I hope you will divide this in a fair way amongst the victims.

At this point I am searching for different mirrors of nxt clients to find out who could have done it.
Most mirrors do not exist anymore and the person who took your nxt has probably taken his links down if that is the way he did it.
Still it is the only thing I can do.

Because of the current exchange rate the total will be a bit more then 50k.
I still haven't gotten all of my btc together.


*********** END MESSAGE FROM EPIC THOMAS ********************

I can indeed verify (as can anyone using the block explorer at http://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=34 ) that EpicThomas has sent 47,960 NXT to my account 16092180239932658439 as discussed in the very first link posted above.  For the record, he transferred it out of account 10430154458458844041 which is now at zero.  This apparently came from Dgex, so Graviton could start investigating his cash flow there starting with this account number.  That might turn up something interesting, always follow the money.....

Anyway, now I'm sitting on a bunch of NXT that ain't mine.  Somebody send me a link to the right ratios that were applied to the charity split between the four remaining people who lost NXT (I think PaulyC is whole already, right) and as soon as I get account numbers for them I'll transfer this NXT from EpicThomas to them.

This is a victory, folks.  Celebrate!

This is WAY more in the way of loss recovery than I thought we would ever get out of this situation.

However, it is not enough to fully compensate those besides PaulyC who have suffered losses.  So I am going to repeat what I said in my "interim report" :  I am reading about unclaimed coins about to be distributed here by NXT leaders.  I vote that plasticAiredale, Framewood,  sparta_cuss, and newcn receive sufficient unclaimed coins on top of charity already received to bring their account balances back up to their original starting totals (PaulyC is already there) - particularly if there is a possibility of a bug sending NXT where it is not supposed to go .

Which brings us to the final thing I want to discuss - what is the group feeling on what we should do about EpicThomas in light of the fact that the 300K NXT in the bandit accounts is increasingly looking like darkNXT that he never really had his hands on.   EpicThomas commited a crime, period.  Is paying almost 48K NXT in restitution enough to where we just pillory him verbally in the forum and send him on his way in shame?  Or do you want to go for blood and have me file something officially with the FBI?

What the heck, I don't have enough time to do all the other stuff I gotta do, so sure, I'll take him on later next week.  One crusade at a time.  

Ha ha ha.  Do not confuse my being friendly to a known criminal during an interrogation with me being his friend.  He deserves respect as a human being but he is guilty as sin and I know that for a fact.  The only question is, just how guilty is he?

I know I am a little off balance at the moment and that's why I've pulled back for a day and brought everybody here up to speed so I can listen to your ideas.  All my efforts so far have been tracking this guy down in the real world to get some leverage over him, and I have accomplished that goal.  Now that  he sees me as a real threat to whether or not he spends next week in his own bed or a police holding cell, he's not going anywhere.  He's reading this right now.  So I can now take the time to go back and do the necessary homework you describe.  I know the importance of a detailed and complete timeline and your data is exactly what I am going to piece together next, so thanks for your contribution.  I will announce my findings in later posts and also update my "interim report" as a central holding point for the accumulating pieces of the puzzle such as the ones you give.

Trust me, there's gonna be a Final Report.

And nope, I ain't got your experience a-catchin' hackers.  I'm just a poor ole country boy (and MIT grad) doin' the gosh-darn best I can.