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9861  Other / Archival / Re: Last Drink You drank. (daily thread) on: October 09, 2015, 08:39:40 AM
Green herbal tea from China with love. With a bit of lemon and cinnamon... it was so tasty and now i will stand up and make me another one for sure.
9862  Economy / Services / Re: [EARN MONEY] Post/Comment in Bitcoin Group on Facebook and Earn $$$$ BTC! on: October 09, 2015, 08:31:42 AM
My post is approved its about hardver wallet.
my facebook name is : Blagi Uzas
my btc address : 3Cfw3hMcdaA2xLgVa7iJVQWcdKeQcmrkF2
9863  Other / Meta / Re: Just stumbled upon this certain page on: October 09, 2015, 08:22:37 AM
What a life story, tnx for posting this. It's always good to read a real life story, i believe there is a lot of people ruined cause of government's so we need to be aware of how easily that can happen to everyone. I hope he will be ok in future and that his fellow man will help him like he helped them.

So he had 371,000 bitcoins and didn't particularly profit from it? I guess it takes hindsight to know anything else.

Is hindsight even a good thing? Isn’t there a reason we don’t know the future?  For me this ups and downs are life, this guy who had 371 000 btc in one moment of his life was one of his ups, he could stay there but life had other plans...
9864  Other / Meta / Re: Just stumbled upon this certain page on: October 08, 2015, 10:27:12 PM
Looks like he sold/donated/lost most of it when the price was fairly low:

Oh. Since there's some interest in this, again... I wrote an article intended for Bitcoin Magazine last year, but they apparently lost interest in it when ownership changed over (I wasn't paid, I'm assuming I retain ownership), so here it is:

(Someone pick me up to write -- I'm bored out of my mind and could use some side-income)

Two Secret Service Raids Later, Previous Holder of Over $4m in BTC in Good Spirits

One man's world has been inarguably changed, for the better, and the worse, by Bitcoin. Through a shrewd and, what some have claimed dubious, business deal, Nashville, TN resident Michael Brown (known online as “Knightmb”) acquired 371,000 Bitcoins (then worth roughly $20,000 in a market which couldn't bear downward pressure) for $5,000. As of this writing, the 371,000 Bitcoins he purchased in 2011 are currently worth approximately $4m. Now, however, he may not only be Satoshi-less, but may also (again) be at risk of a stay in federal prison.

Who Is Michael Brown?
Brown lives in TN with his wife and child, working in just about everything technical. He provides wireless Internet service, designs hardware for other his company and other Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) to use, as well as software. Brown also works as network, email, and website administer for multiple SMBs. Brown is quite familiar with Bitcoin and within the earlier online community. Around 2010, Brown even wrote and published an abstract on “Timekoin,” a proposed Bitcoin alternative he still uses.

Brown's Bitcoins
Around the time of Bitcoin's birth, Brown collected money (the project had roughly $12,000 in total funding) and bought hashing power to accumulate Bitcoins. By the time the money had run out, the project owned approximately 371,000 Bitcoins. However, even while the price of Bitcoins were roughly $.06 each, there was only very weak market demand. According to Brown, “It is easy in hindsight to think of how foolish anyone would be to sell that large amount of bitcoins for such a small amount, but back then there were articles written all over the Internet about bitcoin being a pyramid scam or a fools investment. The people (investors) that originally got into it, thought they had made a huge investment mistake and just wanted to get out.” And get out they did, allowing Brown to buy the project and its 371,000 Bitcoins for “only” $5,000.

However, while this collection of Bitcoin would be worth roughly $4,000,000 USD as of this writing, Brown states he did give away most of his holdings, including a large chunk to Wikileaks when they began accepting BTC donations, with Brown adding the quip “At the time though, I might as well have been sending power points from pokemon cards as far as what actual value they would get from it.“ Brown also gave much of his holdings away to those finding his contact information, with the remainder being sold once the Bitcoin market skyrocketed, allowing him to “make back my initial investment plus a lot of interest.“

There have been claims of foul play by Brown's previous partners, who were primarily members of electric bicycle forum Endless-Sphere. Bitcoin Magazine reached out to Justin, the current owner of the forum (Brown previously owned the forum while the Bitcoin accumulation project was ongoing). However, as of this writing, no evidence was brought up indicating Brown had done anything morally questionable. While there was “a three day mutiny” against Brown while he owned the forum, it appears this was solely related to the sale of the forum to another person (not Justin) who wanted the forum to be monetized.


Tax Document Theft
In mid-2012, Mitt and Ann Romney's tax documents were stolen from their accounting firm, PWC. Later, PWC received a flash drive and ransom letter demanding $1m worth of Bitcoins to keep the documents private. These documents, as of today, were never released, though it would appear the Romneys never paid the ransom. BitInstant, for their part in grabbing the media's attention in this ordeal, offered the Romney campaign a free USD-to-BTC conversion should they be interested.

The flash drive in the envelope sent to PWC did not just contain copies of the documents the ransomer was threatening to release, but also included two pictures of cats around furniture. The cat pictures were heavily scrutinized by the US Secret Service and considered to be the smoking gun of the case, which Brown says “has kind of turned into a running joke now among friends and family.” The Secret Service then decided, likely with evidence not yet presented to the public, to conduct a raid against Michael Brown and his family's home (again).

Likely taken into consideration by the United States SS was Brown's previous acquaintance with SS agents during their last raid of his house, which occurred in 2009. At the time, Brown worked for an insurance company to help them neatly organize customers' personal information into a spreadsheet. Brown alleges that part of the information he was to organize were social security numbers, which he wasn't sure if was legal. Brown contacted the insurance company but wasn't given proper attention until he threatened to tell national media. Brown says, “They explained that no one should have access to any customer's social security number, but I was trying to show them it was wrong assumption. Soon afterward, instead of fixing the issue, they called the federal government and told them I had stolen their customer data which contained tens or hundreds of thousands of social security numbers.“ It was at this point Brown first experiences the joy of a federal raid, where only his workstation was seized (he would not be so lucky in the future).  According to Brown, “After many months and many visits to the Secret Service office in Nashville, the case was finally closed for being a waste of time and resources for the Secret Service and my workstation was returned (damaged). No charges were ever filed and the case dropped.“

The 2012 Raid
It was September 14th, 2012 when Brown and his wife would again awake to bright flashlights being shone in their faces by Secret Service agents. This time, agents demanded answers about the pictures of cats written to the USB drive included with the ransom letter sent to the Romneys' tax firm.

Unfortunately for the Secret Service, they soon found neither the cats nor the furniture pictured. This didn't prevent them from further interrogating Brown and his family, however. His daughter would later be able to identify the cats as being owned by one of Brown's former clients, Janine Bolin, whose computer he backed up for her while helping repair her system. The Secret Service left Brown's house after crawling around his attic and confiscating any electronics they could find. They then paid a visit to Bolin's house, where they'd again confiscate all electronic equipment in case it might have evidence.

Brown states legal fees may be as high as $6,000, with other damages including what was done to his house (including the stereotypical broken doors), and says the situation the US Secret Service has created is similar to if “your local plumber has his entire truck taken, along with all the tools he uses for the trade.” Brown appears in good spirits, however, saying “if I ever do get any/all of my equipment back, I'm going to have a lot of extra of the same thing at least.” Brown ends responding to my questions with “Overall, the Federal government is made up of regular people like myself. The Federal government makes mistakes and bad things happen because of it. The most our family can do is pick up our life and move on. That is why we were reaching out for help. There have been many times when I've donated money or resources to help those in need, I guess it is time I ask the same in return of my fellow man.”

Brown has created a site for donations at www.mbdonationfund.com.

What a life story, tnx for posting this. It's always good to read a real life story, i believe there is a lot of people ruined cause of government's so we need to be aware of how easily that can happen to everyone. I hope he will be ok in future and that his fellow man will help him like he helped them.
9865  Local / Hrvatski (Croatian) / Re: Ocigledno... on: October 08, 2015, 09:58:36 PM
@Lauda

Ne sumljam da ce BTC da zazivi i kod nas samo za par desetica godina Sad MADA je dobro sto se dosta online prodavnica otvaraju tako da nema brige za nas nekolicine Wink

Slazem se sa tobom. Kao i u svemu ostalom Balkan kasni jedno 20 30 godina za modernim svetom. Vecina je nepoverljiva prema novim stvarima, ali docice bitcoin i u nase selo hteli to mi ili ne.
9866  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: International Games Prediction Thread on: October 08, 2015, 09:21:41 PM
The world champions germany for now lose 1-0 to  Ireland  Grin

The odd of Germany now is over 8, i think to bet 0,01 to draw, is to 3  Grin

Unexpected result happened to this match as the world champion Germany failed to make goal against Ireland, i had lost my bet on it because it looking most safest team when it was playing against weak team. Cheesy

This is surprise, i played it Germany to win and 3 + and i was sure in Germany so much. Albania Serbia is also a bit surprise, i expected here to be gg but Albania didn't menage to score.
9867  Economy / Speculation / Re: How is it possible to squander $18 millions ? on: October 08, 2015, 09:09:43 PM

How is it possible to squander $18 millions ?




This picture says more then thousand word's. With 18 million $ they had plenty of it, now their dilers are billionaires and they stayed without money.
9868  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: How to quickly find bitcoins? on: October 08, 2015, 07:46:22 PM
Yes there are many like stated above but don't try to ask for loans with high interest to get some fast coins. Thats why you have got those negative trust. Try to work hard and earn bitcoins, and enjoy spending them.

Work hard, and earn it! Couldn't agree more. There isn't easy way, fast way.. there is always exceptions ( if u have some good skills) but in other case u need to make your chair hot, read and learn a lot. Every start is hard, I'm also a beginner so i know it, wish u luck and if u find some easy way let me know just if its legal and honest way.
9869  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Legalize Marijuana, Illegalize Fissibles on: October 08, 2015, 07:21:02 PM
I'm also a reggae fun and I'm glad to see people like it also. I didn't saw anyone else posted anything similar. I'm from Serbia and we have one nice reggae group with name Del Arno Bend, if u ever have time give it a try maybe u will like it also as I do.
9870  Other / Meta / Re: Can the Philippines PLEASE get their own sub-section? on: October 08, 2015, 07:08:10 PM
Can the Philippines PLEASE get their own sub-section?

Not a day goes by without this popping up, 1/4M views (#2 has 100K)... Pretty please?

See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27736.0

PS I don't have any steak in this, I'm from Europe and don't even speak the language. I just notice this topic having daily attention and growing bigger and bigger... So this seemed like a good suggestion.
 

I agree with u completely,they are like crazy. I try to read what they are posting so much and what they are talking about, but i dont understand nothing. Sometimes its hard to find something on english between all this Filipin people.
9871  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian parliament grants Vladimir Putin right to deploy military in Syria on: October 08, 2015, 07:00:06 PM
When the last time the Russian parliament granted Putin the right to deploy troops abroad, a Moscow seized Crim. So as i see it Russians have big plan and they are realize it slowly. On other way there is Nato and America and they seems like they are unprepared for this conflict. I will always repeat what i said many times before in wars inocent people die. If u remember there is movie " Black Hawk Down" on begining there is a Platon word`s " only the dead see the end of the war" and i complety agree with that.
9872  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Getting a living from Gmabling alone is possible? on: October 08, 2015, 06:43:38 PM
Can a full time gambler lead a life just from the earning from gambling. I think it's possible when we get some experience over time. But some of friends claim they are all successful from day one itself.
It would be nice if you share your experience whether a modern days internet gambling will provide enough and regular money for getting a living out of it.

Answer to u is big yes, but life of gambler`s is full with up`s and down. I have many real life story`s around me, people who never worked just gambling. As i said today they are full with money, tomorow they dont have nothing. When they dont have they borrow and try to make more to have to return.. its a circle. There is an expression : " Mother didn`t cry cause her son go to gamble, she cry cause he is going to retrieve his money."
9873  Other / Meta / Re: Just stumbled upon this certain page on: October 08, 2015, 06:32:45 PM
371 067 bitcoins? Wow this is incredible if u calculate 371 067 with price of bitcoin now 240 $ its 89 000 000 $ what kind of house he sold? its to much I think do u think this is real? And like guy above me said what if he still have it and hold it for price rise its above imagination...
9874  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Easy ways of turning bitcoins into money? on: October 08, 2015, 12:55:10 PM
I can`t help u with sending bitcoin`s to paypal, but with other thing maybe I can. I see nobody showed u this thread, u can post there for some nice amount. I know it is just weekly but its someting. I hope i helped u a bithttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1169310.0
9875  Other / Politics & Society / Re: is it worth to save the dollar? on: October 08, 2015, 12:47:26 PM
I hate to say, but if the dollar goes down it will drag all of us with itself, and we'll see an economic/social/cultural collapse what we haven't seen since 476 (the fall of the Western Roman Empire). Probably this "new dark are" wouldn't last so long as the early medieval one as we have the BRICS to save the world Smiley.

I agree with u about if dollar goes down it will drag all of us down, dollar is widespread all around the world. Lot of companies and people depend`s from it. Oil is still connected with dollar. So i dont believe something like that can happen to dollar fall to much. Also I think its not wrothy to save the dollar, its better to find something better like bitcoins to work on and spread it around.
9876  Other / Off-topic / Re: What drug makes you Think and focus better ? on: October 08, 2015, 12:17:59 PM
I never used this drug but i have a friend that finished architecture on speed (amphetamine), he was learning and drawing, goes to tests and exames on that drug. By the way its much cheaper then cocaine and that is like doping in sport. So its better to listen other people here, go to walking maybe couple cup of coffe some cigar and its not cheating.
9877  Economy / Gambling / Re: Where are you Gambling right Now !? on: October 08, 2015, 11:34:30 AM
Right now, and this days i play just Pocket Dice. I bet for very low amaunt so i dont win so much but its going its more like I`m trying how will it be, nice chances for win for now. I played automatic beting at Prime before but i didnt have so much luck, after a week i had same like on begging.
9878  Economy / Gambling / Re: Has anyone here used FishBitFish? on: October 08, 2015, 11:27:16 AM
I played it several times and i loose everytime. Only now I found out, reading this thread, about that big whale that comes, I didnt know about it eh. I don`t like this game anyway so i quited playing. There is a few games for android i like more and that i play in free time and when i wait something.
9879  Other / Off-topic / Re: How many languages you speak? on: October 08, 2015, 10:15:46 AM
I speak 2, and maybe it will be more interesting to everyone wrote something ( or the same sentece) on native language. Koliko jezika pricas?
9880  Economy / Speculation / Re: Do you have any plans if Bitcoin goes up to 300$? on: October 08, 2015, 08:34:48 AM
Exactly the same thing I'm doing now gather, gather, gather and more gathering. 300 $ is just 60 $ more then now, and by some news around the internet price will go much higher, there is a thread on this forum price of 1 bitcoin will be even 18 000 $ ( for me its exaggerated).
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