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61  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 23, 2014, 03:55:13 PM
Alex and Co are  active in this  thread, anyone who reads it will know who hes posting as

I wouldn't be surprised if the "detective"  who wants 15 btc to  investigate is Alex under another account
as well

 Roll Eyes

yeah it's pretty obvious, quite pathetic really
62  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 23, 2014, 02:34:31 PM
just saying ..
he robbed me too
his mom didnt


She gave birth to him.
More importantly, she RAISED him.

You are a bunch of snot nosed little brats as you apparently know nothing a bout raising a child, you know nothing about respect, nor decency.

oh look the troll is back, thought you posted your last message yesterday? A troll full of shit, who would have thought lol
63  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 22, 2014, 04:41:02 PM
well one thing is for sure, Chelsea's family know all about it now.
64  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 20, 2014, 03:33:46 PM
Just got this from Bitstamp...

thank you for your email. Unfortunately, none of the addresses which you have specified belong to Bitstamp or its customers.

We are nevertheless looking into the matter and are vigilant on not letting the stolen bitcoins go through Bitstamp's wallets.

Should you have any additional qustions or info, please feel free to share


These are the addresses I sent:

https://blockchain.info/address/14S6kiHzVNcSCA9TCiPaEGJfSiP1HHokEd
https://blockchain.info/address/122JyMtGtiiP4mMFn86tAGfrqiyhXAnrrk

so who's addresses are they? Smiley

Hmmm, It's a weird one, 3 gigantic addresses are linked together and there's no real proof of exactly what they are. I can't believe it's not an exchange
the two listed above are active now, the older address that sent to both of them is below and ran from Jan-Jun
https://blockchain.info/address/1FVcMfHXPp8JSCduYyELzQZf6X4tSv89ho?offset=1050&filter=0

I'm amazed you can have 3 such huge and active addresses and no real proof of who they belong to by searching google.
Bobba, those 2 addresses i thought were Stamps, well the 183k one mainly, when Stamp do their proof of reserve the amount of btc i remember them having was 183k so thought it was theirs but obviously not

It might not be too important because it was only a small amount of btc sent there, the vast majority of the stolen coins are sitting in the addresses i listed, so i'll be keeping an eye on them.

I know most people hate coloured coins or blacklisted coins, but it would be great if Bitcoin had some way of marking those coins so everyone knows they are scam coins and basically made them impossible to cash out.
65  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 20, 2014, 01:48:36 PM
update:

https://blockchain.info/address/1CUTRqE8Vx8FMEnnsLX6icMmcbi2dTTcpZ 100 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1LiMat4jwybUUMAMJiGLYcpmdRNniuNiAu 502 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/12UabjvBo7w6ccSSnGb85iCJdkK4drZGBd 352 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1FfdHMLkGjkXEeQiXcYuznfpnqobjyYEMd 450 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/14i2f49DwDB4CtTDUmvA56D1tRCVB6fU1i 365 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1ASAvSPCbZd3apQJD2yZpu1o9Uap8pSmQH 124 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/17YMsasWwEuSrBN5SFpK5CLrgE7VWeKmc7 346 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1KEVAzd4HYbF2dVQFyuH4GovjL7KVBSTy3 331 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1Gbm8jQTmnWVtFDPAQyYgAGTLujdcDpEJy 180 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/12K5utGf6i6nbiKT7nZGWhTjwA8bxWVPqp 747 btc

= 3,497 btc

all very easily and directly linked to the 3,700 address
https://blockchain.info/address/17ztgkcaZbs4VFrAswMQGvnNDEtn47rsmu?offset=0&filter=0
66  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 19, 2014, 07:51:44 PM
info



would you be willing to write an article on your investigation that we will publish?

It's not really an investigation, if you start at the original address and just follow the transactions out that are over 100btc, always following the largest amount you pretty soon end up at those addresses, the unconfirmed one has already moved on another few times and is now sitting here
https://blockchain.info/address/12jgEDUGSVPtug1oJirztibPhxavt9CWcw 217btc

A username "Caffeine Drive" mining with Eligius has his mining address filter through to an address that just received 1.4btc of the stolen coins
https://blockchain.info/address/19H6HWGiERgpV8rWQWc8FtjpFv3dLU5FEr

what you have done is admirable and should be shared with more than those who happen to read your post in this thread in this section of this site.  I think others would be made aware of the various ways to get accountability.

Everyone is crazy about 'dark-this' and 'dark-that' until it's their money that is "mixed-up" in all of the 'darkness', then they want a money trail, evidence, and intervention.

Anyway, please contact me if you decide to do a 200 - 1000 word article on how you investigated the Mintpal/Moolah scandal.




Totally agree- I've done my best to alert Bitstamp in the most immediate way possible. If this info we're lookin at is incorrect the worst thing that happens is the wrong account is frozen for a few hours. Best thing that happens is we catch a theif.

Please RT this - https://twitter.com/AltCoinInvestor/status/523889570296135680 or tweet to @Bitstamp (or email) them yourself. If anyone knows of a direct operator over there we can reach out to, lets do that ASAP.

great work

so what is the wallet address that sent to bitstamp, do we need to be more specific?

EDIT: what I mean is like is there a link to the actual transaction going into Bitstamp on blockhain.info or something


The vital address here is https://blockchain.info/address/14S6kiHzVNcSCA9TCiPaEGJfSiP1HHokEd which has:
Total Received   255,069.02367412 BTC   
Final Balance   33,744.14068149 BTC

So it currently has 33k btc in it. The original 148 btc withdrawal from the 3,700 btc was gradually filtered away until the biggest chunk 58.7821574 BTC
was sent to that address. That address has recently sent funds to, what i believe to be, Bitstamps wallet. The thing is, most of the coins being filtered down lead to a simple path, they are all sitting in addresses, but this one ends up in a gigantic wallet. That wallet basically only sends to the 180k Bitstamp wallet and to new clean wallets, like it's Bitstamp moving a chunk of coins to cold storage every so often and the rest is like a new change address or hot wallet. If that 33k wallet was found to be owned by Bitstamp (i'm guessing their hot wallet) then it would be a direct link to Ryan cashing out stolen funds via Bitstamp on 1st September. I'm guessing he used those funds to buy his plane tickets and pay for the hotel etc, but definitely Bitstamp would have to have some kind of paperwork/evidence on file.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9c0824176a642f4e4542cd6438ae689f6d9d843532ee8c3aba3f4d105bcf3b86
is the exact id, stolen funds sent to the 33k address 2014-09-01 17:00:47 if anyone needs it to report it to Bitstamp
67  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 19, 2014, 04:31:07 PM
info



would you be willing to write an article on your investigation that we will publish?

It's not really an investigation, if you start at the original address and just follow the transactions out that are over 100btc, always following the largest amount you pretty soon end up at those addresses, the unconfirmed one has already moved on another few times and is now sitting here
https://blockchain.info/address/12jgEDUGSVPtug1oJirztibPhxavt9CWcw 217btc

A username "Caffeine Drive" mining with Eligius has his mining address filter through to an address that just received 1.4btc of the stolen coins
https://blockchain.info/address/19H6HWGiERgpV8rWQWc8FtjpFv3dLU5FEr
68  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Mintpal / Moolah Scam - 5,200 BTC Now Missing!!! - Report Missing Funds on: October 19, 2014, 02:42:56 PM
update:

https://blockchain.info/address/1CUTRqE8Vx8FMEnnsLX6icMmcbi2dTTcpZ 100 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1LiMat4jwybUUMAMJiGLYcpmdRNniuNiAu 502 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/12UabjvBo7w6ccSSnGb85iCJdkK4drZGBd 352 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1FfdHMLkGjkXEeQiXcYuznfpnqobjyYEMd 450 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/14i2f49DwDB4CtTDUmvA56D1tRCVB6fU1i 365 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1ASAvSPCbZd3apQJD2yZpu1o9Uap8pSmQH 124 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/17YMsasWwEuSrBN5SFpK5CLrgE7VWeKmc7 346 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1KEVAzd4HYbF2dVQFyuH4GovjL7KVBSTy3 331 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/1Gbm8jQTmnWVtFDPAQyYgAGTLujdcDpEJy 180 btc
https://blockchain.info/address/12K5utGf6i6nbiKT7nZGWhTjwA8bxWVPqp 747 btc

= 3,497 btc

all very easily and directly linked to the 3,700 address
69  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: List of UK organisations who take Bitcoin on: July 21, 2014, 04:27:09 PM
I contacted the company in Glasgow that claims to be the first car leasing company in the world to accept Bitcoin, their reply was

" we only accept Bitcoin for the administration fees of our car leasing services."

What a con, pure marketing con, they don't accept bitcoin for car leasing at all, just wanted some free publicity.

also,
 The Chocolate Tree (Map) – Artisan chocolatiers specialising in hand crafted chocolates, Edinburgh.

they don't accept bitcoin even when i told them i wanted to place a big order, so delete them please
70  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Malaysian Plane 'Shot Down With 295 On Board' in UKRAINE on: July 18, 2014, 12:12:14 AM
no surprise to me whatsoever that this kind of thing happens just after they manage to get Ukraine onto the EU side. It stinks of US/Western false flag.

My opinion is that they are furious with Putin for stopping their efforts to take over Syria so they moved onto a new plan, go after Putin and Russia. They managed to get their greedy little claws into Ukraine, and then "oh surprise" a disaster happens that they can blame on Russia.

This world really is fucked up, the big powers are destroying the world without a care, whilst the other 99.99% of us just want to live a peaceful life and get on with our neighbours, mind our own business and worry about our own life.

Really are some scarily sick minded people at the top of the elite tree
71  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: July 06, 2014, 09:49:28 PM
Guys, I believe it's a shift of the original text.
Each character is shifted within the 62 character alphabet described by Crops clue.  
The amount to shift is given by the WOW signal characters.  

This program, for example transforms the "z69JZ..." string into
5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp

Notice how the first two characters changed to 5K ? That's what private keys start with.  However, the answer I get doesn't transform into a valid private key since the checksum doesn't match.  I'm posting my program in the hopes someone else has a better variation.  I just want this thing over...

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char* alph = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

int idxof(char c, char* alphabet) {
    int i;
    for (i=0;i<strlen(alphabet);i++){
        if (alphabet[i] == c) { return i; }
    }
    return -1;
}

main()
{
    char* s = "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P";
    char* p = "6EQUJ5";

    int i =0;
    int n;
    while (i < strlen(s)) {
        int n = idxof(s[i],alph);
        int v = idxof(p[i%strlen(p)],alph);
        v=(v+n) % 62;
        printf ("%c",alph[v]);
        i++;
    }
    printf ("\n");
}

EDIT: I believe there is either more after the 6EQUJ5 or the algorithm is slightly off.  Remember, if you are trying variations of the 'p' string, you must only use characters from the alphabet.  So no punctuation or spaces.

answer is in here somewhere
72  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private KEY Prize* *** ** on: July 06, 2014, 09:48:49 PM


Portrait is a "shared start point."

Public Address: 1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra

the prize awaits you
the final palindrome is key
once small is now tall




#2103
73  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key PRIZE* on: July 06, 2014, 08:28:36 PM
once small is now tall

is the annoying part, you can't use 6equj5 as the key because the 5th char would become a capital i , which isnt valid
you cant really change all lower case to upper case because i doubt a priv key will have no lower at all

so i guess this part is the key to solving it
we know 6EQUJ5 gives invalid code

 Huh
74  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key PRIZE* on: July 06, 2014, 08:17:19 PM
If the font is the same as the word TWO above it then it's a zero
75  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key PRIZE* on: July 06, 2014, 06:48:35 PM
from OP

the prize awaits you
the final palindrome is key
once small is now tall

so change lowercase to uppercase?
only palindrome i can think of is WOW , is there any others?
76  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: July 06, 2014, 06:21:00 PM
Quote from: Gatekeeper link=tohttps://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3pic=661781.msg7705294#msg7705294 date=1404669740
that's still a valid address though isnt it? it's just that no one knows the priv key. That's different, here blockchain is importing a "private key" and giving you what it says is a valid address, if you edit the address it says checksum isn't valid, so that website clearly thinks that an address is valid that the other guys are saying is not, which seems to be a big flaw in blockchain.info.  
It's saying https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3 is a valid address, and the guys here are saying it isn't

WIF private key is either valid or not. You can check yourself here, down on the page you have 'WIF checksum checking':
http://gobittest.appspot.com/PrivateKey

5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp should have checksum 08FA7CC9 and it has 1E157B43. Key invalid, end of story. Any wallet that imports it has a bug.


every different place i check says https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3 is a valid bitcoin address and i've tried a few different places. End of the day i don't really care, it's an empty address, but everywhere i check says it's valid.
77  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: July 06, 2014, 06:02:20 PM
that imports as
https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3

if they are not valid addresses then that is a fatal flaw in the blockchain because it's showing as a valid address and you could send coins there

If you edit the address it comes back as checksum not valid, so it clearly does check the addresses and says that this one is valid. If it's not then blockchain is fucked

eg:
https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC2 is not valid (change 3 to 2 at end)

This is not true, there are extremely large number of BTC address that no private key hashes to. If private key (WIF) checksum is wrong, no decent wallet should import it. For instance look at this BTC address:
https://blockchain.info/address/1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE
You can send money to it, but you can never retrieve coins from it. There are thousands of transactions like that in the blockchain.

that's still a valid address though isnt it? it's just that no one knows the priv key. That's different, here blockchain is importing a "private key" and giving you what it says is a valid address, if you edit the address it says checksum isn't valid, so that website clearly thinks that an address is valid that the other guys are saying is not, which seems to be a big flaw in blockchain.info.  
It's saying https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3 is a valid address, and the guys here are saying it isn't
78  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: July 06, 2014, 05:49:09 PM
that imports as
https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC3

if they are not valid addresses then that is a fatal flaw in the blockchain because it's showing as a valid address and you could send coins there

If you edit the address it comes back as checksum not valid, so it clearly does check the addresses and says that this one is valid. If it's not then blockchain is fucked

eg:
https://blockchain.info/address/1MtR9nBGfWBLY23q4dRGRjjzBBiEdxRmC2 is not valid (change 3 to 2 at end)
79  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: July 06, 2014, 05:37:49 PM


5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp  should be a valid private key. It doesn't include a zero, capital o, capital I or lowercase l.
it is the key for 1nchRAYGJofxyrkuhbL1CGYtD5x8Lowi5 according to blockchain

The checksum doesn't verify though.

blockchain seems to think it does
https://blockchain.info/address/1nchRAYGJofxyrkuhbL1CGYtD5x8Lowi5
80  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: July 06, 2014, 05:35:05 PM

5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp  should be a valid private key. It doesn't include a zero, capital o, capital i or lowercase L.
it is the key for 1nchRAYGJofxyrkuhbL1CGYtD5x8Lowi5 according to blockchain
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