0.1 btc sent, i have 7500 shares.. would give more but i don't have alot of bitcoin after currently taking 100% loss in labcoin & actm

and once again, i can verify that virtualspade is 100% trustworthy as i've known the man personally for years. We are all very lucky that we have someone willing to do some real work.

I'm looking forward to the next beer with virtuals so i can ask him about the progress in person.. bitcointalk has been such a depressing site last 6 months.

Personally, if i ever get anything back from Labcoin, i will give 10% of that to virtualspade for his efforts.

Now back to blaming myself for ever getting involved with these mining companies.. It is true what they say, that most of man's problems stem from his inability to just sit in a room and do nothing.

lol..

Yes i can also confirm.

I have been on irc for over 20 years using this nick. I am posting this from the same ip which is traceable down to my front door. I'm a small blond finnish dude, and i have nothing to fear, many ppl will vouch that i am certainly no sam.

I am also aware that the NSA's Tailored Access Group is walking around inside this desktop at this very moment, as they are inside all of your computers as well, linux, bsd, windows it makes no difference, if they want in, they are in.

I'm not happy to post on this thread, but i feel obligated now

I would seriously, very seriously recommend you not to do this. Regardless of the fact that money has been lost, kidnapping and possible torture should be absolutely out of the question. That would only sink the perpetrator and anyone advocating for that to an ever lower level than the original perpetrator himself. This is a human being, all actions should and must be done according to the law. Taking the law into your own hands just makes you even more of a lowlife than Sam. Why would you want to sink yourself to the same or even a lower lever, moral highground must be kept at all times in this case.

Also be aware that if you travel to another country even just to try to find this person without involving, and completely handing over the case to local authorities, you are very likely to face charges of international espionage and even terrorism, in which case your lost btc will be the LEAST of your problems.

Again, i would SERIOUSLY recommend you DO NOT DO THIS.

Just let the water flow under the bridge for some time, one never knows what fate has in store for any of us, or Sam/Fabrizio/Whatever

Hello

A few comments about the recent developements regarding ASIC mining..

It's pretty amazing that the WSJ goes ahead and publishes an article on sunday night without any fact-checking whatsoever

[Suspicious link removed]j.com/article/SB10001424127887323997004578644491403250124.html

It gets hilarious when the 'billionaire investor' mentioned in the article has to go on cnbc monday morning to refute the whole deal:

https://twitter.com/ScottWapnerCNBC/statuses/364370798892421120

Be as it may, to me this indicates that something is really brewing under the surface.
I get the feeling that the current valuation of ~100 USD/BTC is just too small, I would not be surprised if the price of btc would jump 10-fold in a very short time at some point.

If this happens, the question for the LTC investors and miners becomes, will LTC follow?
LTC is a very important part of the cryptocoin ecosystem, it together with a few other coins, like Feathercoin, is currently the only way to profitably mine BTC for the normal hobbyist at home (by mining altcoins with GPU cards and exchanging them for btc).

One interesting point is that if, let's say just for argument, btc goes to $1000, and LTC follows with a 10-fold increase in value measured in USD, then keep in mind, that as long as there are no widely deployed, cost-effective scrypt-based ASIC mining hardware, the value of all those used Ati GPU cards, like the 6xxx series and 7950/7970, will also rise 10-fold.

so that used 7950 u can find for about $200 on ebay today would trade for $2000.. Not a bad investment in itself.

Even if scrypt-based ASIC miners will eventually appear, it will take a long time from now before they are widely available to the public. Just food for thought.

Cheers