1) Date: 2013-11-28
2) Date: 2013-12-01
3) Date: 2013-12-03
4) Date: 2013-12-05
5) Date: 2013-12-07

All transfers in USD between $800/850 and have not arrived yet.  I submitted a support request asking for the status of my transfers on January 3rd, and finally retrieved a reply on January 17th (Yes, 2 weeks to get a form letter response).  The reply was a form letter that basically said 'After reviewing your account we can confirm that you are verified.'  Which I knew, and isn't what I asked for. 

I don't care the reason; be it incompetence, insolvency, or government actions, this is no way to run a legitimate business.   If they are having this many issues processing USD withdrawals, there should be communication to their users of such difficulty.  You shouldn't have to come to a 3rd party run message board to find a hacked-up transcript of an IRC chat log to get real answers.  If they can publish the limits and problems in IRC, they can put them on the home page, or in the UI when users attempt USD withdrawals.

I'm getting all my assets out of there as quickly as possible.  It's a shame to see such a pillar of early Bitcoinia fall so far.

10 more days gone by.  Still crickets.  I have to start thinking maybe Ozcoin team is complicit? 

It's been almost a month since I first reported this issue, and so far I've got one sarcastic response, and a couple delaying responses/tactics.  I've provided detailed information you can use to trace this issue. The longer it goes unattended, the greater the chance server logs are rotated, evidence disappears, etc.  I realize I'm not the largest miner in the pool, but I think it's reasonable to expect a higher level of customer service. 

And still waiting for any kind of response.  Sent detailed info to Wayno in PM.  Anything...?  A cursory log review? check a few datestamps?  10 minutes on your side to tell me it's my own fault... Some sort of helpful response would be greatly appreciated.

I sent that in a PM to Graet 6..ish days ago.  Understood he's been away/busy. I'll PM you as well if you like if I can verify you are a legitimate support person for the site. Unfortunately there isn't much listed on the site for support except this forum.


I take this as well meaning (but somewhat condescending) advice.  In my mind, there are at least 2 plausible scenario's:
1) My personal security has been, as you put it, Pwned.  In this case I would be missing several orders of magnitude more coins, from other sites, in addition to at least some token amounts of fiat currency.  To date, this has not happened.  Just this one site, and just the coins available at this one site, where there is a single, non-repeated pwd on my account.  If just this site's password was compromised, I would think the site operators would have interest in this, as I've stated it's a nontrivial password hack.
2) During one of the several documented breaches of infrastructure/security, someone harvested passwords.  When the withdrawal limit was lowered, they went back and cashed out all they could. 

A response from the site operator(s) would be helpful in determining which of the above 2 are more likely.

Of course there are probably several other scenarios that may be in play here, but that is why I asked the question, rather than pointing fingers and getting fired up.

I've posted here and personal message, with reasonable tone and volume. Are there other support options? Not to raise a stink but someone stole my coins from your website, I'd appreciate at least a token response.  I'd rather not have to change either tone or volume.  
Thanks in advance.

I just checked email, got one yesterday saying my ozcoin wallet address had changed (?!?!?).  Just went into ozcoin website and it shows withdrawal made of all my remaining coins to this other (Unknown) address.  I haven't logged into the ozcoin website in months.  Not sure who/how my address could have been changed and then all coins withdrawn in a 24hr timespan.

I use a > 15 digit alphanumeric pwd that is not repeated at any other site, and I don't have any other indications I might have been compromised.  Am I missing something obvious?  I haven't been on the forums or paying alot of attention lately, so this is possible, but I'm still somewhat troubled.  Given the current exchange rate of Bitcoin this represents a nontrivial amount of currency.

Thanks

I never received any email. From you, GLBSE, or any other issuer.  I submitted my claim information the same day (possibly withing 36 hrs) that the [sane/v2.0] claims process was put up on GLBSE.


Again - No email here.  I'm assuming it's because I didn't refund the claw-back until earlier this week.  From what I'm reading it appears Mr McCarthy is holding email addresses hostage for those clawbacks. Does this message constitute me contacting you?  Or is there some other requirement for 'contact'. Please inform so I can follow the process.
Also - to be clear - You didn't see me complaining - Just advising you as to how it looked from my optic.  I cared enough to submit my claim, but then didn't care enough to stand around and watch the next 6-8 weeks go by.  Like I said - call me lazy or whatever, but I felt like there were others in my position who might be similarly affected, so I thought I might throw a bit of advice against the wall and see if if stuck. Do as you will, I cannot change you.

That's a red herring.  You've offered exactly 7 days to make a claim.  Again - I can't change you dude, and I'm not trying to.  Just pointing out how it looks.  It looks like a cash grab. Do as you will. 

So everyone waited 2+ months to get this list, and now that you have it - you are going to give people 7 days to reconcile?  While I understand your wish to close this thing down as quickly as possible; I think you might want to reconsider. From an outside perspective it looks like a simple share/cash grab.  I know several other issuers are waiting 60 days before doing anything like this.

I only point this out because I 'checked out' of the whole GLBSE & Bitcoin forums after about 3 weeks of watching the sh*tstorm.  I loaded up my coind client just 3 or 4 days ago to discover I had received an eighth of a coin, 2x from an address I didn't recognize.  After trying to get caught up on the forums, GLBSE blog posts, etc, I was just last night able to get in touch with GLBSE.  I sent back the double payment and am waiting to get added to the issuer list.

So if I had been travelling this week, or if I had not decided to upgrade my PC (and thus necessitating the blockchain synch and wallet backup prior to the upgrade), I would not have found out about this at all. Other people may have similar circumstances, or circumstances that end in a similar result.

Certainly one can argue that's my tough luck, I should have been following my investments, blah blah, and that's all fine and dandy, but what's the harm in waiting another 30-45 days before pulling in other people's shares?

Missed that. Thanks.

Subbing

Any update on Dividend payouts?

"Trust but Verify" is my motto. 

Here's a scenario for you.  I receive a paper check from a customer for $1,000 for services rendered.  I take a picture of said check with my smartphone, and it deposits that money into my bank account.  After ACH clearing that night, the next day I walk into my local bank and withdraw said $1,000.

This is a service supplied by several large US banks.  Personally my tin foil hat is just as large as yours appears to be and won't let me utilize this service, but vast numbers of the public do.


Hence my opinion that the time/energy/money being spent here would be better spent making the software and then hardening software/infrastructure etc.  If Chase Bank can [pay some developers to] do it, surely some group here in Bitcoinia (word?) can do it as well or better.

I generally try not to post negative commentary, but I think there's an obvious point being missed.  Even assuming this device is made perfectly, no bugs, ships on time, performs better then expected, is cheaper than projected, and looks cooler then cool... It's still going to fail.

Purchasing a separate device to use for payments (in addition to smartphone, WALLET/PURSE, ipad/tablet, etc...) is a D.O.A. concept for all but a few of us nerds.

Why would I carry around ANOTHER single-purpose device?  The money/time/energy would be better spent integrating this concept into NFC/Bluetooth smartphone transactions.  See how many smartphones around the world are already being used for micropayments.  If you could one-up them by adding paypal, dwolla, btc, etc, you might have a viable business model.

I do think its a cool idea in a geek-cred sort of way - but global adoption? C'mon.  Even if BTC became the dominant worldwide currency, you could still make a P.O.S. purchase with a QR code of your BTC address using your smartphone; or some other method using existing tech.

'Who is picking up the check for lunch today?'
'Not me, I forgot to charge my wallet!'

Sorry, but -1.

Thanks for the response/clarification.

I'm on Win7 64, but "bitcoind help" gives me:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\daemon>bitcoind help
error: You must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file:
C:\PATHTOMYBITCOIND_INSTALL\bitcoin.conf
If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions.

So I went and created it - and it complains the server isn't running.  Do I need to be running my own bitcoind instance Instead of / in addition to the -qt GUI??

"Bitcoin-qt.exe help" = does nothing other than start the windows gui.

"bitcoind-qt.exe --help" gives pops up a window full of options that you can't resize and that scrolls off the bottom of my screen (1680x1050).

Ideally I have 4 different Vanity addresses, and I'd like to import/setup a separate wallet for each one.  - One for personal use, one for Dev, one for a friend, and one for the office.

If I'm running the bitcoind server - am I able to specify which wallet to use on startup or can I do that dynamically?

Sorry if this belongs over in the N00b section.

EDIT: Using this utility? or the bitcoind utility?  bitcoind --help doesn't show any options for importing a private key.

I'm not 100% prepared to use a 3rd party utility unless/until someone confirms it works with the latest official bitcoind client and an unencrypted wallet.

Read this thread and all others (that my search turned up), and still can't exactly figure out how to get my vanity addresses loaded into a Wallet. Even a Clean wallet. (Using the latest, patched official client).

Basic steps?

we all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine...

I imagine a vanity address of 'polymorphic..." would be difficult [time consuming] in the extreme to generate.

This +100

Especially re: volume.

The picture above has been edited with measurements for the 4 mounting holes.  40mm along the outside edge; 57 through the middle. (Measuring from middle of hole to middle of hole).

Annoying, right? The 4 mounting posts?  I'll try to find a ruler at the office tomorrow and I'll repost here with measurements.

Not a huge issue right now, as I've got a regular old 80mm case fan zip tied to it and underclocked (& undervolted) it inside in a case, and it's doing... alright.  190 ish Mhs at 69C.