So the list is down to only around $30K or so unpaid. I'd say this should be resolved in a few more weeks.
Check the thread talking about legal action. One of the recent posters there says he is still owed $200k. |
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Sent a donation to theymos in the amount of .00001337.
My wallet assessed a transx fee of .0005.
So I sent less money to theymos than I did to the miner who will process this. WTF!?!?!
You sent him 1/15th of a US cent. Bitcoin calculated that a mining fee was necessary for the transaction to send that small of a transaction, and charged you two cents. WTFvanity thanks for the response. I am aware what the value of the BTC I sent to theymos is. He didn't ask for payment, I donated what I wanted to which is the word LEET. My balance is .06655002. I want to donate to as many people as I can so I'm limited in the $$ value, but I'm hardly limited in the amount of LEETs I can give away. My wtf reflects what you stated in your second sentence and which I would love to have explained. Not because I'm butthurt about it but because I don't understand how or why it works. I would've rather given the .0005 to theymos. How or why does the network/software/dev team whatever, deem a transaction fee necessary. And if bitcoin is divisible down to the 8th zero, why am I charged for doing something the software allows. So I don't expect you to write me a book. But if you know of a place where I can find these answers could you point me there? In the meantime I will scour the forum for an answer but I will send you a LEET if you can shorten my search.  Thanks again for the response. He posted everything you needed right above me, and all the rules and more information is on that page. |
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After receiving full refund for my bASIC order, I'd like to request to the mods that they remove his scammer tag.
<SARCASM>Good, you got yours, let's remove the scammer tag. </SARCASM>However, there's a list of 20 people and growing that haven't received their refunds yet. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152980Along with Even just above you saying that they are still owed over $200k. Not quite time to remove a scammer tag. Am I sensing a team tommy resurgence ? scammer tag should stay indefinitely, period. Among other things possibly outside this forum, it actually seems to have helped get shit rolling in a more "positive" direction, if there is a such a thing... Sorry I bolded and italicized the sarcasm tags. Of course he doesn't get the tags taken off because one guy got a refund.... WTF lol |
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While I understand people being mad and frustrated. They offer refunds to anyone.
What do you want to get out of the FTC complaint?
Their site explicitly says that they do not offer refunds, now. I believe the reason that the FTC exists partially is to protect consumers. If the ones that are mad just get a refund, that hardly protects others from having illegal business practices used against them. If 5000 people have already filed complaints, it would also make anyone thinking about placing an order potentially not if the FTC were to be walking in any day to shut them down and levy fines. Listen clearly... this is not a "hey everyone, click this link and file an FTC complaint against BFL", I want to know if lots of people have or not. That is all. Troll once the results are in however you'd like. |
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After receiving full refund for my bASIC order, I'd like to request to the mods that they remove his scammer tag.
Good, you got yours, let's remove the scammer tag. However, there's a list of 20 people and growing that haven't received their refunds yet. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152980Along with Even just above you saying that they are still owed over $200k. Not quite time to remove a scammer tag. |
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There is no way that those coins are lost. Someone smart enough to (1) create bitcoin and (2) leave the community to remain anonymous and just sit on the 5M (max) coins that they had created would definitely not loose such a huge number of coins.
Absolutely. Satoshi has been quoted as saying that there is absolutely NO reason to ever destroy a private key or wallet even if they contain no balance. Those coins are not lost. Honestly, if whoever this Satoshi person was wanted to do anything nefarious or silly, why would they make it open source and available for everyone to look at? The logic some people use for this kind of thing doesn't make sense.
Open source? There are lots of open source projects. That really has nothing to do with anything. His coins are there regardless if it is open source or closed. Open source allowed Satoshi to disappear, and take along his coins. Sure, it's only $250 Million USD now. What will it be in a couple of years? If Satoshi was already financially secure... why not way a few years before grabbing some change? He didn't cash out last time it was over $30. What makes this time any different? It's easy to get an idea of how many coins he had at the beginning. Who's to say that he doesn't have other coins that he accumulated besides those that were mined if he needed money? |
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Uh, refund.
Refund doesn't mean they haven't broken the law. Again, I am just wondering how many people have. I didn't say that I even have a preorder. Just wondering since it seems to be threatened regularly. |
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I did, and the community at the time thought I was just being a asshole..... well 6 months after that and now the mob is rising lol
Are you in the US? Did you just file online? Did you get anything more than a thank you for your submission? Unless they need specific more information, most people never hear another thing from them. I guess that was the second part of the question. If you did file, have you heard anything else? And how did you pay? BTC or credit card? |
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Against BFL of course. I was just wondering. I see lots of people like this for example https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150803.msg1624418#msg1624418Who point out the FTC rules for preorders and what happens with delays. BFL is clearly in violation of that. (For that matter so is CP Tom) Has anyone actually filed a complaint? Or are these mentions of FTC violations just wild rants? |
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Sent a donation to theymos in the amount of .00001337.
My wallet assessed a transx fee of .0005.
So I sent less money to theymos than I did to the miner who will process this. WTF!?!?!
You sent him 1/15th of a US cent. Bitcoin calculated that a mining fee was necessary for the transaction to send that small of a transaction, and charged you two cents. |
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Excuses, excuses, rant, blabla cut
Why on earth did you wait THIS LONG to start "communicating" again? While "nice" to see this "do righteous for all" Tom, we have seen this in the past where you provide an update or attempt some simple sentence structure... then you disappear.. If you are willing to share "any" information.. you could start from the top with details of what went "wrong" with bASIC.. as the people who gave you interest free loans have the right to know... You can also attempt to explain why you bailed or walled yourself up when people were trying to help you out (visits from Luke and Dave)... Plus, you may want to even try explaining the horrid final act of bASIC with the CAN-ELECTRIC fraud... this would be information that people have been asking for.. and if you say you are willing to share and do the "right thing" this would be a start along with consistent refunds... Perhaps he waited until he saw that legitimate legal action was being organized. Then he had an "oh ****, better do something about this before I'm sued" moment. I think that's exactly what happened... Absolutely what it sounds like. Instead of the karma thing, it sounds more like he has fear. In all reality, it's probably not fear of being sued either. It's probably more along the lines he's afraid someone's going to hurt him or his family physically in a permanent way. Anyone think it is coincidental that he is mining around 60Ghs? Who thinks he took preorder money and bought an Avalon lol |
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Temps remain stable around 80C during operation (at 95% GPU load, aggression 5 for the 7950, and 1 for the 5770). I just bought the 7950 two weeks ago, however the failed shares show up equally in phoenix miner log between both the cards, so I don't think it's an issue with the hardware.
I also just loaded up GUIminer which runs on CGMiner I believe, and the issue is still present there.
Sorry then. It sounds like you know what you've kind of got going on. Only thing I could suggest would be still hardware. Try pulling one card out and testing, and swapping cards. If it fixes the problem with one at a time, maybe it's a power supply not giving enough power, or good power. If it still presents the errors with only one card at a time... I don't have any more steps left. Have you upgraded the drivers during the period where all this went into question? Try rolling back if you installed new video drivers during that time. |
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Yes I did, I did a cold reboot too, not a simple restart, to refresh my IP.
I don't know then. I've heard of people getting the rare it goes all stay, reset everything and it's fine. How are the temps on the GPUs? How long have you been mining for? Months and this just popped up? Have you tried something else like cgminer to rule out software issues? You've ruled out some stuff: Pool IP, Computer stuff Let's cross overheating and software off the list and see what's left. |
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Its kinda hard to believe thats all thats left lol... but nonetheless if true, thats quite impressive. Soon as every last person is paid off ... I will have taken back nearly everything negative I said about Tom.
Of course that's not what's left. That's people who have publicly complained. The real list is much longer and that's not something CP is going to post. |
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Hey all, I was mining happily up until this last week when suddenly my rejected shares rate went up to 50% from 1%. I'm using a 7950 and 5770 on Phoenix Miner 2.0.0.
Was wondering if there was a reason for this. Also I'm mining for either BTCguild or BitcoinPool.
Have you tried silly things like a reboot? |
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Yes it can; lower the number or drop that code entirely.
If you want to waste CPU/GPU cycles, though, please do something like Folding@Home instead.
I had commented out that section, but the code kept hanging. I will try reducing to 1 or 0 so the code is still executing (but essentially useless) and see what difference that makes. And yes, I do Folding@Home. As I said, this is not an actual attempt at a +28 char vanity address generation - it won't be running more than 24 hours. I was simply asking for info on how to modify the code. You commented out just the segment you quoted? You would also have to find out where it is called and comment out that as well. Simply reduce the number from 6 to 1 and you should be good. |
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1000 BTC Paid out today. Next friday hopefully I can take care of the few remaining customers who did not get refunded tonight. This has nothing to do with a scammer tag and the pic is just a generic pic that comes with the forum software - you can have it too if you want to look like a strung out kurt cobain. as always contact me at btcfpga@gmail.comsee you next friday for more refunds hugs and kisses -cp What is the transaction id of every payment? I have a feeling this is just another "crazy tom" series of posts. I intentionally didn't give him my bitcoin address via email or PM knowing that I'm on the list to see if he's honestly trying to work through it. Without proof I wouldn't say that he refunded more than a dozen orders from users who messaged him today. If you guys will notice, he just ignores me. I've said that he needs to post a list of refunds that are owed. And pointed out, that he won't and that it is easier to refund the people complaining in the thread. Why should he refund people that aren't complaining or threatening to sue him? He might get lucky and keep $50k for all of his investments he made into R&D. To prove the point, the look right above my post at all the people with lots of  ? in their threads asking where their refund is because they still have nothing. Unfortunately for them, they weren't complaining while CP was doing his last couple of refunds. Over 1000 BTC? Maybe, but transaction ID's sure would make it more believable. Good luck with that. Unfortunately for me I believe in karma, making these refunds was not an option for me.
I don't know what kind of karma you believe in. I don't it's any kind of Hindu or Buddhist karma, but probably more a Hollywood style karma. It doesn't really matter which one you believe in, but eventually paying back what was paid to you doesn't make you even. You've got a lot of good to do to make up for how bad you've handled everything. It's you I wish I could hug. You're the one that really needs it. And your poor wife. |
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Can anyone explain what this bit of code is doing? (in pattern.c of the source) if ((b58pow - (p - zero_prefix)) < 6) {
/*
* Do not allow the prefix to constrain the
* check value, this is ridiculous.
*/
fprintf(stderr, "Prefix '%s' is too long\n", pfx);
goto out;
}
It seems I'm hanging on this piece when trying to generate an address over 28 characters (And yes, yes, I realize it's a pipe dream to ever find anything close to that - let me have my fun!) A bitcoin address has a checksum to make sure that it is a valid address. If you are generating an address that is 30 characters long, the possibilities of getting your string and the checksum are zilch. Waste a couple of weeks looking for a 12 character address before you go for ones near 30. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/AddressOh yeah, I understand that an address will never be found - finding the address is not my goal. I'm simply asking if the code can be modified to handle a larger string, and if so how? Change the < 6 to some smaller number. |
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Can anyone explain what this bit of code is doing? (in pattern.c of the source) if ((b58pow - (p - zero_prefix)) < 6) {
/*
* Do not allow the prefix to constrain the
* check value, this is ridiculous.
*/
fprintf(stderr, "Prefix '%s' is too long\n", pfx);
goto out;
}
It seems I'm hanging on this piece when trying to generate an address over 28 characters (And yes, yes, I realize it's a pipe dream to ever find anything close to that - let me have my fun!) A bitcoin address has a checksum to make sure that it is a valid address. If you are generating an address that is 30 characters long, the possibilities of getting your string and the checksum are zilch. Waste a couple of weeks looking for a 12 character address before you go for ones near 30. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address |
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As someone who has had to bring up new nodes from time to time I cannot stress how simple and speedy the bootstrap torrent is now. I am currently seeding with others on my 25Mbps connection if you need it.
I placed the torrent on a VPS with a gig connection to help seed and the initial download was at greater than 100 Mbps. There is plenty of bandwidth for boot strapping. |
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