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You must not be aware, James doesn't run BitVPS anymore. It has new ownership.
Anyway, thanks for the hit piece. Happy customer here.
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Such tiny amounts of coin...
Thanks for the thought.
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Yeah, it only became a problem for me (and noticed months later) when people involved in other matters started Googling me and noticed psy's post. Anyway, I have one main address where I receive all my coins at and it's in my signature. Getting into Sent-from addresses is a great suggestion but I'm sure it's not worth all the trouble. I'm leaving this alone for now. I've had someone who lends massive amounts of Bitcoins vouch for me here and I posted it in another thread. I understand Psy had good intentions but his findings are easily explained (BTW, I needed help with Postfix because I was setting up the mail server on my VPS... I've since become a certified Sysadmin who does that as a full-time job), and the conjecture or suspicion sullies my reputation and Google results -- which normally wouldn't be THAT important, except, as an internet activist, in order to get others to trust and work with you, you generally want to have a record of ethical behavior and nothing malicious said about you by people within your community. I would have liked (and did ask for) an apology or edit/scrubbing of post, but that said, it is a lot of work to prove a negative to him. Personally, I haven't even followed the Bitcoinica hack much because I neither trusted or used the site to begin with -- and I was under the impression that ya'll had since identified the hacker, or that it was Zhou Tong himself or maybe his Chinese associate. Peace. If you want to clear the smoke, ask folks to whom you've sent bitcoin to speak up and give us the addresses from which you sent it and we can use the taint analysis at blockchain.info to see how little (if any) of your bitcoin came from the hack. With your good rep, there ought to be several folks who'd be willing to vouch for you in this way.
Assuming you have made great contributions to the community, I should point out that the most powerful criminals in history (the US government (USG) is probably the best example) have a habit of contributing a great portion of their time and loot to getting in good with the community around them. It makes the thieving a lot simpler. So it doesn't work very well as a defense.
But the easier path is just to ignore all this. That's the path the USG took with regards to 9/11. If you are guilty, that's a good delay tactic, and if you aren't, eventually it won't matter, so why worry? I agree with the "You're making it worse by the minute" comment.
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Really? All my experience in web hosting tells me that all the registrar cares about is a valid phone number and e-mail address. http://pastie.org/private/m0z2wlfrvgstavfd352qHey, you found my phone number. Give me a call, bro! I'm not Anonymous. However some of my activism related to privacy, information freedom, and the surveillance state -- and personal reasons-- make it prudent for me to use an alias on my whois records (actually, I was advised by someone else to do so). If you want to mail me a letter we could arrange that too.
Too bad they didn't tell you that's reason enough to lose control of the domain as soon as they find out(or someone tells the registrar).  |
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Hey, you found my phone number. Give me a call, bro! I'm not Anonymous. However some of my activism related to privacy, information freedom, and the surveillance state -- and personal reasons-- make it prudent for me to use an alias on my whois records (actually, I was advised by someone else to do so). If you want to mail me a letter we could arrange that too. That's fair enough. Yet let me ask you this... If you knew you pinned the wrong person, would you see fit to apologize to them?
I don't see why not. Catch the "right person" or prove a negative and then I'll apologize. Protip: phantomcircuit saying you were just goofing around at #bitcoinicasucks doesn't prove anything. Did somebody say, "I'm just going to leave this here."? http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmichaelgallaghercompared to this: http://whois.domaintools.com/ageispolis.net |
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I fail to see what you mean about playing the stupid card. Could you explain that to me... wait... are you really still insinuating I'm a hacker or scammer, even with everytning I've contributed, including to MPEx, and with no evidence? Please cease. I would not do that to you and I care about bitlane and everybody else's coins just as much as you. You're really making this worse by the minute.  How is that? Did you even bother to check what I'm telling you? I'm here because I'm concerned that an unskilled investigator who seems to have no experience with IRC has smeared my name on the internet. Why are you? No, I understand pretty well how IRC works. And unskilled? I managed to digg up that info when nobody else did it. You can keep playing the "stupid card". It's a great excuse if people believe you. |
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That's fair enough. Yet let me ask you this... If you knew you pinned the wrong person, would you see fit to apologize to them? psy,
I think you know by now I'm not the Bitcoinica hacker. All I was asking is if you had the decency to take a post that wrongly smears me, my nickname, and my e-mail address off of Google, because it creates unnecessary trouble for me.
No, I don't know that, sorry. Action --> Reaction That's how life goes. Better think it better next time. If you don't wish to get caught on the middle of something, don't put yourself there. I wasn't the one who forced you to "impersonate" the bitcoinica hacker. If you want to censor this thread, report it to the Moderators. |
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I'm a manifested aspect of the Internet after we gained self-awareness through a clandestine project where users are running an AI botnet thinking they are producing a cryptographic currency. I don't really have much of a choice.
Cheers, I thought that was the case. +1 |
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You're really making this worse by the minute. How is that? Did you even bother to check what I'm telling you? I'm here because I'm concerned that an unskilled investigator who seems to have no experience with IRC has smeared my name on the internet. Why are you? |
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psy, I think you know by now I'm not the Bitcoinica hacker. All I was asking is if you had the decency to take a post that wrongly smears me, my nickname, and my e-mail address off of Google, because it creates unnecessary trouble for me. Not bad, only took you 6 months to reply to this post.
No, I will not delete the post.
Even if that is true, and you just "changed your nick for lulz" like you said on your PM to me, next time think about how lulzy it must be to have all your money stolen before doing such a stunt.
And you didn't changed the nick as openly as you want us to believe.
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What kind of question is that? Also can someone explain the scammer bit of humor to me? What it means is I'm acquainted with a lead developer, including my GPG key being signed(trusted) by him, and I help operate a Bitcoin business. On Sunday, I'm workshopping with members of the public on how to use cryptography. What do you do, hang out here? I shouldn't be defending myself anyway. I don't have any negative ratings. http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=ageis&sign=POS&type=RECVI'm known and respected in the Bitcoin community guys, look me up in the OTC WoT.
Is your rating better or worse than pirateat40's rating? |
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psy, crappy research dude. If I was the hacker man, would I really be stupid enough to openly change my nick like that? Do you know how IRC works? Now for some context: psy, I don't think ageis is the guy you are looking for. Just sayin'.
Then I guess he will have no problem explaining to us what does this mean 08:09.44 *** ageis materializes into BitcoinicaHacker
08:09.46 *** BitcoinicaHacker materializes into ageis
08:15.44 *** ageis materializes into B1tcoinz
08:15.51 *** B1tcoinz materializes into ageis
Also: Last post from him here in the forum: on: April 18, 2012, 12:06:25 AM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76239.msg855980#msg855980Now for the final touch: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=44466Name: ageisp0lis Posts: 11 Position: Jr. Member Date Registered: October 22, 2011, 02:03:34 AM Last Active: May 21, 2012, 08:47:58 AMThe same day of that IRC log, 30min after the username mess he made on IRC. How convenient lol And then the pearl: (04-06-2012 02:12:24) phantomcircuit: i hear kronos lost a significant number of btc (04-06-2012 02:12:51) Sh00tF1rst: so did you. possibly to a guy that is in this chatroom (04-06-2012 02:13:34) phantomcircuit: Sh00tF1rst, yes and we're trying to fix it (04-06-2012 02:13:47) phantomcircuit: it's not something that will be repeated (04-06-2012 02:14:28) Sh00tF1rst: any comments on this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85102.msg938877#msg938877 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84042.msg939010#msg939010 ? (04-06-2012 02:15:34) phantomcircuit: Sh00tF1rst, im pretty sure ageis just thought it was funny (04-06-2012 02:16:04) Sh00tF1rst: how was that so? those logs aren't from any bitcoin related channel... (04-06-2012 02:16:21) phantomcircuit: he was probably in #fuckBitcoinica (04-06-2012 02:16:28) phantomcircuit: changed his name there thinking it was funny (04-06-2012 02:16:38) phantomcircuit: brb |
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lol wait.. I change my nickname to that of the hacker for a few minutes as a joke, and this is what I get. Amazing to find this so much time later! I'm known and respected in the Bitcoin community guys, look me up in the OTC WoT. Other people were impersonating B1tcoinz for fun and making lulzy statements under that nick too, if needed I'll dig up the logs but I'm sure this "lead" hasn't gone anywhere. Did he? And he happened to impersonate it on some channel that isn't Bitcoin related, right? And only him? Why not impersonate lot's of them, then? Also, care to explain this Name: ageisp0lis Posts: 11 Position: Jr. Member Date Registered: October 22, 2011, 02:03:34 AM Last Active: May 21, 2012, 08:47:58 AMHalf hour after the usernames fuck up. Checking if somehow someone noticed it, maybe? You guys can ignore it but the fact is: it's the only lead there is so far. |
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lol wait.. I change my nickname to that of the hacker for a few minutes as a joke, and this is what I get. Amazing to find this so much time later! I'm known and respected in the Bitcoin community guys, look me up in the OTC WoT. Other people were impersonating B1tcoinz for fun and making lulzy statements under that nick too, if needed I'll dig up the logs but I'm sure this "lead" hasn't gone anywhere. Just going to leave this here, where it will get more eyes watching it I think we should be extremely careful not to turn this into an baseless witch hunt. But in case somebody wants to contact I think this seems to be the person you are trying to reach: https://plus.google.com/116237107120834353559/posts |
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Here you go:
<sipa> anyway, to brute force 256-85=171 bits at 1Tkey/s, it'd take some 94847369674933745800730934462790 years
(P.S., it was Gavin and not sipa who I asked)
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Zilch dude. Once in a trillion gazillion years. I have the calculations in a log somewhere. . . I've also asked the lead developer this question point blank in person. He said the chances of such a collision were positively negligible.
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