Agree! 

Hiding in plain sight...

""He was the kind of person who, if you made an honest mistake, he might call you an idiot and never speak to you again," Andresen says. "Back then, it was not clear that creating Bitcoin might be a legal thing to do. He went to great lengths to protect his anonymity.""

Huh?  Great lengths like using his real name?  This makes no sense.  If this was his real name all along how come nobody has found him yet?

This is like the twilight zone here.

Sounds pretty plausible.

Venturing off topic but still... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/afbddb44-7640-11e2-8eb6-00144feabdc0.html

And r/bitcoin on the case: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z2fi1/autumn_radtke_ceo_of_first_meta_a_singaporebased/

Available evidence seems to indicate that without a doubt they did add BTC to their list of currencies sometime in mid 2013 (http://blog.firstmeta.com/announcement/new-bitcoin-to-usd-conversion) and the subsequently removed it.  Calling them a "Bitcoin Exchange" seems like a bit of a stretch at the least.

Going a little off topic but what the hell.  It's not  unknown for obvious murders to be labeled suicide in Singapore either through gross incompetence - whether the incompetence is in finding the true cause of death or putting together a believable coverup is left up to the reader to decide.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/afbddb44-7640-11e2-8eb6-00144feabdc0.html

Yes do click on the link and check their "Bitcoin Converter" for yourself:  htttp://firstmetaexchange.com/bitcoinconverter   

Probably because the company she headed didn't have hardly anything to do with bitcoin and as of now is not engaged in trading it at all.

Is it even appropriate to call this a "bitcoin business"?  And it wasn't hers, investors hired her to run it.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=503490.0

Could be just time differences?



See more on this here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=503490.0

I've been reading this story about Autumn Radtke and this one is the only one that seems be even remotely honest about the whole thing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/05/bitcoin_ceo_suicide_not_so_fast_first_meta_s_autumn_radtke_is_dead_but_we.html (Besides the week old blog post he referenced that got no attention and stuck to the facts: [Suspicious link removed]j.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singapore-startup-first-meta-dies/)

I am curious though, why has this been linked to Bitcoin at all?  As near as I can tell First Meta is primarily a site for trading online game currencies and not even a comprehensive list of them at that (where is World of Warcraft for example).  It looks like at one time they accepted Bticoin along with the gaming currencies almost as an afterthought.  I had to go all the way to their FAQ to find any reference of Bitcoin.  It doesn’t look like you can still trade in Bitcoin on First Meta at all.

Similarly her linked in profile makes no mention of Bitcoin other than that it seems to imply she attended a conference about it.

Where does this “Bitcoin Exchange CEO” even come from?

Clicking the “sell link” (https://firstmetaexchange.com/bitcoinconverter) for Bitcoin from the First Meta FAQ yields “Invalid Request”.

How do they come up with this shit?  

I'd go so far to say as this company had no more to do with Bitcoin than any random company doing anything that decided to accept Bitcoin as a payment method and then later for reasons unknown decided to stop accepting it!

Is this another story of standard media incompetence or purposeful disinformation?

I lost a nothing amount of coins but it's the principal that counts.  If they can loose a transaction into thin air with NO explanation that has little value couldn't they lose one with huge value?  It would seem so.  In any event, their non-responses are infuriating.


I
reported 18 days ago
I transferred name coins into my account and they never appeared.  What's the deal?  This isn't a ton of value but how do I know the same thing wouldn't happen with 20 bitcoins?  This is alarming.
 
I
said 18 days ago

<exact transaction amount>    Withdrawal NMC to address <cryptsy's supplied deposit address>

This is the exact transaction.

Mullick
said 17 days ago
We apologize for the delay in refunds / deposits and slow trades. We implemented a more efficient audit system today but it will take some time to recover from the switch over. If your refund has has not processed within a few hours please contact us so we can look into the issue further. The long delays are only temporary until the new system catches up.

We are working hard on optimizing the trade engine and are waiting on a delivery of more hardware. We appreciate your patience while we better equip ourselves for the growing community

 
I
said 17 days ago
This is absolutely unacceptable.  There is huge volatility in these coins.  A delay of a few hours is unacceptable let alone many days. Again the point is what if I had 20 BTC in this transfer!?
 
I
said 17 days ago
This ticket is NOT resolved.
 
I
said 17 days ago
You closed the ticket without even solving the issue for starters. Days or weeks delay in deposits is not acceptable.

Bit John
said 17 days ago
Hi,
Sorry to hear your having an issue with a deposit. Could you please provide the txid, coin type and amount missing and we will hunt it down for you.

Sincerely,
Ticket: https://cryptsy.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets/13177

BitJohn
Operations Manager
BitJohn@cryptsy.com
Tradekey: c66b821fccac75687ce5dff421c9852d67a8205b

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I
said 17 days ago
 Everything besides the TXID is in the ticket above.  I am not sure what the TXID is but I will see if I can find out.

This is not significant money here but it seems to me if a transaction for .1 can get lost so can one for 100.


I
said 17 days ago
can it be? <transaction ID>

The exact date time was: <exact transaction time and date to the second>

I guess it took longer to confirm than I thought.  I was pretty sure I sent longer ago than that.

I
said 17 days ago
For reference the server time where the transaction was initiated is now: 02.12.13 23:48
 
Bit John
said 16 days ago
Hi,
Where did you send it from? I don't see it in the chain
http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/N5YT7BekHFwShy6QrTqrfpCwmW88SH6QPs

Ticket: https://cryptsy.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets/13177

BitJohn
Operations Manager
BitJohn@cryptsy.com
Tradekey: c66b821fccac75687ce5dff421c9852d67a8205b

Need BTC for FIAT now?
Try Campx or Coinbase use my referral save money

I
said 10 days ago
BTCe claims the transaction was sent with: TX id – <tx ID>

 
Elen
said 10 days ago
Thank you for reporting this issue with your account.
Over the weekend we had some issues that were effecting the following:
Delivery of deposits
Negative balance issues
Incorrect balances.

We have found and fixed the problem causing the majority of these types of issues and your
account may have already been corrected.

Please let us know.
If your account is still incorrect, please reply with any information that may be helpful in resolving your
issue ie transaction ID's, dates etc
Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,

Elen
Cryptsy.com
 
I
said 10 days ago
 No you have not fixed it.  The transaction is still not there.  What kind of issue causes peoples deposits to just disappear?

"
If your account is still incorrect, please reply with any information that may be helpful in resolving your
issue ie transaction ID's, dates etc
Thank you for your patience"

All of this information is above.  Why don't you read the tickets before responded with form letters?

Elen
said 10 days ago
Thank you for reporting this issue with your account.
Over the weekend we had some issues that were effecting the following:
Delivery of deposits
Negative balance issues
Incorrect balances.

We have found and fixed the problem causing the majority of these types of issues and your
account may have already been corrected. Please let us know. If your account is still incorrect, please reply with any information that may be helpful in resolving your issue ie transaction ID's, dates etc
Thank you for your patience.


Sincerely,

Elen
Cryptsy.com
 
I
said 10 days ago
READ THE TICKET

THE ISSUE IS *NOT* FIXED.
 
Jim
said 9 days ago


We still have not received from you the following so we may try to find and fix this issue:
"please reply with any information that may be helpful in resolving your
issue ie transaction ID's, dates etc
Thank you for your patience"


Sincerely,
Jim
Cryptsy.com

I
said 5 days ago
Yes you have.  You obviously are not reading the tickets.
 
13 days ago, this ticket:
"
<amount>    Withdrawal NMC to address <deposit address>
"

12 days ago, this ticket:
"The exact date time was: <exact time and date>"

6 days ago, this ticket:
"TX id – <exact transaction ID>"

I
said 2 days ago
15 days and you can't figure this out?  Seriously.  I guess it is proven that cryptsy cannot be trusted with any real money.
 
Pr9me
said 2 days ago
Hello,

I am sorry to hear that you are have a negative balance after the glitch we had. Users were able to sell more coins than what they had in their wallet, and I'm 100% sure this is the case here. If you check your history with me, you will see the error.

An audit ran to take the coins given to you in error back, and if you had sold those coins and had a balance of zero, the audit put you into the negative. I have ran a final audit and found the balances to be accurate.

The solution is to sell the coins you were credited in error to make your balance zero. Some users have been locked from their accts and watched the price drop and now have to sell their coins at the current market value. Those cases will be looked at and some will be compensated like some already have been.

First you need to sell the coins so I can take the withdrawal freeze off of your acct and we will see where to go from there. Thanks for patience, and we will get this sorted out...

I
said a day ago
Please find somebody that is fluent in English and understands basic elementary school mathematics.  There is NO issue of negative balances now and there has NEVER BEEN an issue of negative balances.

There is no issue with withdrawals right now (that I know of) unless you have created a new one on your side.

The issue is a MISSING TRANSACTION:

13 days ago, this ticket:
"
<transaction amount>    Withdrawal NMC to address <deposit address>
"

12 days ago, this ticket:
"The exact date time was: <exact date time>"

 
6 days ago, this ticket:
"TX id – <tx ID>"


If you can count, and you can read, you can see that this was never deposited into my account.

Do not respond, find somebody that can read, count and do basic math and have them respond.

View all deposits:

Showing 1 - x of x Results
Deposits
[My entire deposit history as per cryptsy, there is no deposit for the amount in question or anything even close to it]
 
Pr9me
said a day ago
Hello,

I am sorry to hear that you are have a negative balance after the glitch we had. Users were able to sell more coins than

what they had in their wallet, and I'm 100% sure this is the case here. If you check your history with me, you will see the

error. An audit ran to take the coins given to you in error back, and if you had sold those coins and had a balance of zero, the audit put you into the negative. I have ran a final audit and found the balances to be accurate. The solution is to sell the coins you were credited in error to make your balance zero. Some users have been locked from

their accts and watched the price drop and now have to sell their coins at the current market value. Those cases will be looked at and some will be compensated like some already have been. First you need to sell the coins so I can take the withdrawal freeze off of your acct and we will see where to go from there. Thanks for patience, and we will get this sorted out...

Cryptsy.com
 
I
said a day ago
Are you completely retarded or what?  THERE IS NO ******** NEGATIVE BALANCE IN MY WALLET.  THERE ARE COINS THAT WERE SENT BUT NEVER DEPOSITED!

I
said 24 minutes ago
No this ticket is not closed, it has not been resolved, you have not even read or comprehended the problem.
 

Thanks!

How do you choose which one you are spending?

I realize that if I have a wallet with 1 BTC and I receive .5 BTC, have 2 confirmations on it, spend .5 BTC and then it turns out that transaction wasn't legit I will just end up spending .5 of my original 1 BTC... But what if if I have a wallet with 0 BTC and I receive .5 BTC - how soon before I can transfer/spend that .5 BTC?

Another cause for concern they are falsely claiming (as far as I can tell) to have been featured in Forbes, CNBC, New York Times and FOX News.  I can't find those articles.  Not a good sign.

I will say right up front that this was a totally insignificant amount of coins.  My problem is that if a transaction for .001 coin can disappear into thin air could one for 1, 100 or 1000 just as easily? 

Anyway Last week I transferred a small amount of name coin from btc-e.com to cryptsy.  I didn't know who was responsible so I contacted both and said "Hey where is this transaction".  After a day or two cryptsy responded and then after some further back and forth they said they cannot find this transaction in the blockchain at all.   Btc-e is has ignored all inquiries.

In terms of dollar value or BTC value or whatever it's nothing to get bent out of shape over - my question is how can they be trusted with real money now?

Why does CEX.io have so many suckers?  They're selling even higher than Ebay.

LOL.  And people spent money at a place called "The Sheep Market"?  It sounds like the joke was built right into the name!

I saw the reddit thread but I still didn't understand the full story.  So people pumped over 92,000 bitcoins into this fly by night "market"?

How did they pull this off?