Gleb, give it a rest. It has already been demonstrated beyond doubt that they are scammers by the fact they purchased a legendary account to shill and fake a story that someone even just saw their hardware.

Thats a smoking gun if ever I saw one, they have no credibility left, lets not bury the evidence with endless google search results.

So far, response to OP has been decidedly  mild for a ponzi this size (also not very compatible with the claimed threats).
Most of pbmining customers seem not to be very surprised or upset, illustrating in my eyes that most of them knew full well this was a ponzi.
Here is to hoping the money actually ends up with authorities, as I want neither the operator nor its willful customers to have any.

How is it confirmed ? Have you personally contacted Peter Attah ? If you havent, you cant know, maybe its legit, maybe its not.
Even odds, right?

How come your listed partners have never heard of you?

I like this story better, much more credible:

http://goo.gl/njKuT6

I heard it was dead when it was below $3.

Hey "Gusti". Remember me?

and you can tell that from looking at that picture? Here is the fire while it was still raging:




All cables (not too mention everything else) are burned to a crisp. No way you can tell from a photo where the fire originated. But then I dont understand how firemen manage to do that with any serious fire.

You'd have to define "troops". If you include military contractors aka mercenaries, then factor in ISIS, you would probably lose that bet.
http://www.stripes.com/news/in-place-of-boots-on-the-ground-us-seeks-contractors-for-iraq-1.301798

blockchain uses https (obviously). If there is a problem with that, a man in the middle attack wouldnt be confined to tor at all. Anyone who could snoop your traffic would be able to steal your coins, and that would be problematic to put it mildly.

All electrical cables in those pics seem to have melted. At the very least you'd have to assume that also applies to the inside, and includes PSU, all plastic connectors,..
You might be able to recover some boards, but IMO its not gonna be cheap or easy.

Its not like democrats where peaceniks. I lost count of how many undeclared and/or covert wars they started recently.
Anyway, I bet the new focus will be on Africa. It holds untold mineral riches, lots of warlords to do their dirty business and very weak armies.

And we should believe you never bothered to register an account here, despite being a bitcoin oldtimer, despite being victimized by tradehill, and despite looking for fellow bitcoiners to join your lawsuit.  Really ?So 500 BTC wasnt enough to bother creating an account, but the few btc you now want for your "services" is ?

Cool story bro.

As an aside,  it makes no sense to me that bitcurex would publicly post the SMS numbers to check the balance and history. This means anyone can send an SMS to see "Mike's" transactions. Granted those cards are anonymous and I have no idea who Mike is nor a desire to find out, but this still shouldnt be done on a public forum.

That said, Mike, can you clarify, on bitcurex website when you go to withdraw, does the withdraw account match whats on the back of your card?

You are correct; however  WU business is not only to or between developing countries. Along with moneygram its also often used to pay for B2B transactions in China, Taiwan etc. Just look at Alibaba. Those kind of transactions could be handled by bitcoin too, as the recipients would generally be sophisticated enough to handle or sell their bitcoins. How much of WU's business that represents, I have no idea, but I doubt its trivial.

Question to any bitcurex card holders; I lost my papers that came with the card, but still have the card and I know it has a balance. TO check the balance I had to send an SMS textmessage. I still have the number I need to SMS, but since I factory reset my phone, I no longer have the message. It was a long number and it ended with " S" IIRC.
Can someone check, is that long number part of card number somehow?

I want to thank you all for your suggestions, ideas and support.
The name has been decided on last week, but I want to keep it a surprise.
I will say if it were a guessing competition, seleme would have won .

wild guess: make sure you are not out of diskspace.

You are suggesting Simon should have sent me only half the BTC I had on there? Where is the logic in that? Your assumption that I would have panic sold these anyway makes no sense, like many others I was buying coins. Refunding the BTC because he can, and not yet refunding the fiat because he cant, makes sense. Your solution does not. For the record I had about 50/50 in BTC and fiat on there.

But what worries me more is that there is still no word on the trading engine bug, no sign of any rolled back transactions.  How is he going to do that after he refunded the BTC?

My BTC balance appears correct. I requested a withdraw yesterday but its yet to arrive. Has anyone received theirs yet?
My fiat balance is only showing a tiny fraction of what should be on there. There is also no sign of the fiat withdraws I had pending, but I guess thats to be expected.