I, Zhou Tong, hereby announce that I will resign from any position(s) in Bitcoinica LP, Bitcoinica Consultancy Ltd and/or Core Credit Ltd (whichever is applicable) effective from today, July 15, 2012. RefundsI have not been involved in refunding process for over 30 days. And Bitcoinica has refused my offer to take over. Here I officially withdraw my offer and relevant partner(s) in Bitcoinica LP will be fully responsible for customer refunds. Personal CompensationI have paid out 5,000 BTC to compensate for customers' losses. This compensation is entirely personal and voluntary. It does not affect my legal status, assumed responsibility and position with regards to Bitcoinica. No information from Bitcoinica apart from my memory (during my employment period) has been used. Further CommunicationI reserve the right to talk about Bitcoinica publicly, but I will not share any information that has been made known to me due to my employment or ownership. Any employee/officer from Bitcoinica should not communicate any confidential information with me, and any communication from this point, will be deemed as public knowledge unless stated otherwise. Customer DocumentsI promise not to access any documents owned by customers until I receive any official instruction from Bitcoinica. Up to that point, I have no secure and accountable means of transferring these documents to relevant parties. Previous PositionsI was CEO & Lead Developer from September 4, 2011 to April 21, 2012. After that period, my position was unknown. Expense ClaimsI have attempted to cancel the accounts with recurring billing to my personal credit cards, however some accounts are no longer under my control. If there are continued expenses incurred by Bitcoinica, I reserve my right to request expense reimbursement from Bitcoinica. Till date, Bitcoinica owes me S$990.04 (SGD) or $782.76 USD in hosting expenses, SaaS products and GitHub subscriptions since May 1, 2012. RepresentationI automatically give up my representation of Bitcoinica. My public communication will no longer represent the view of Bitcoinica. Email AddressI will stop using ryan@bitcoinica.com as my email address and all emails sent to that mailbox may be ignored. Bitcoinica can delete my email account any time. Other IssuesOther issues can be discussed via this thread, or through email bitcoinica@zhoutong.com. Disclosure: The full content of this post will be sent as email to all relevant parties and all people related to Bitcoinica. cool story bro can't you keep all the bitcoinica shenanigans in one single thread? |
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I have bills to pay and lemons to buy sometimes.
if you're that broke you shouldn't have bought bitcoins in the first place, but that poor judgement could also explain why you're broke in the first place |
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if it doesn't get exploited before.. which is likely, I'd say within 5 years
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no effect whatsoever bitcoinica is only for the lulz |
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Because my original submission did not get the credit I believe it DESERVES, I've decided to submit a second entry :] http://imgur.com/Px75pI'm rather tired at the moment of designing this so I may revise in the future. I tried to fit within the boundaries of your requirements to the best of my abilities- unfortunately I'm not a vector artist (or a regular artist), so I'll have to settle for a high resolution, and maybe somebody else would vector trace it if necessary. Although I prefer colorful foreign currencies (I'm glad I still have a few notes from Costa Rica), I understand the need to be monochromatic. What to decorate the note with is somewhat of a hard choice. Bitcoin doesn't really have a lot of historical faces attached to it- even its founder is anonymous. There are no buildings dedicated to bitcoin. I decided two good figures would be Jean-Baptiste Colbert or Alan Turing- Colbert was said to have founded the phrase laissez-faire, which reflects Bitcoin's deregulated nature. However, I went with Alan Turing, because he is not only said to be the father of computer science, but also an important figure in cryptography (and a personal hero). I'm not sure if he would have supported the ideas behind Bitcoin, and I'm sure many outside our community would be upset with me "plastering" his face on our money, but I do it only out of respect for his accomplishments. I think a lot of people's perception of cash is based on the way it feels, due to what it's printed on. It's rather distinct- for my USD it's some combination of cloth-y and paper-y, while my Costa Rica notes have a more plastic-y feel. Any design posted here I'm sure could serve it's purpose on printer paper, but maybe somebody could look into printing on something more... authentic? It could help the idea of bitcoin seem less strange to those unfamiliar with if they could hold a bitcoin bill in their hand that felt like a dollar bill. (Other people ITT have mentioned posted on some exotic materials) This design should be the same dimensions as USD when printed at 300 PPI. This is only an initial mockup- I'd like to put the bitcoin logo in the top corners but I'm too tired to figure it out right now. I linked to the image so as to not stretch the forum page. I'll upload the PSD file later if anyone is interested in modifying it. The QR codes should be crisper if put in there by a program- I fiddled around with them in photoshop to make them the right size and now they're sort of blurry. I'm not sure what exactly they're supposed to be QR codes of. Also you said they should be on opposite sides- front and back OR left and right of one face of the bill? I'm not sure if the amount is supposed to be on the bill, even if not a specific denomination. I re-used rxw's layout:  |
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I LOL'ed when i saw this thread. Like last time and the time before that.
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 payments for genius art can be directed to: 1RXWrxw3JBVv4AKy9UGSrXnQefwzWJUmM LMAO!! Ron Pauuuul!! |
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can't you just do the invoice and other official documents in euros, with the bitcoin amounts "For information only", and say that your customer paid in euros through the company MtGox (for instance) like he would have done through Paypal? Let's just say that the money doesn't reach you until MtGox makes a bank wire
(change euro for £,etc, )
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So, let's do an experiment. Here's a transaction that I just randomly picked to Wikileak's public address as you posted it above. And here's the request: Identify the person who made that transaction. GO! that's ridiculous, I do not have a backdoor access to all credit card/bank transactions, all gmail emails, etc like the US agencies do (and thousands of other things I can't think of) and the context is wikileaks, not me who is wikileaks' enemy? the USA. is it easy for them to 'track back to you'? hell yes |
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Donate by Bitcoin Bitcoin is a secure and anonymous digital currency. Bitcoins cannot be easily tracked back to you, and are safer and faster alternative to other donation methods. You can send BTC to the following address: 1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v Various sites offer a service to exchange other currency to/from Bitcoins. There are also services allowing trades of goods for Bitcoins. Bitcoins are not subject to central regulations and are still gaining value. To learn more about Bitcoins, visit the website ( http://bitcoin.org) or read more on Wikipedia. For maximum security and anonymity, you can request a one-time Bitcoin address. To do so, please join our IRC and type /msg Bitcoin new. Our helpful bot will generate a new donation address for each transaction. Please make sure Bot is active on #bitcoin channel and has @ to the left of his nick. WTF, right? Bitoins are highly traceable and coming from wikileaks, nothing less. |
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Great job, Arsenische
Here's an idea: what about instead of linking to AnonymousAds.com in every ad, linking instead directly to the site's page, the one that contains "Advertiser! Pay any amount to get impressions from this affiliate..."
About the weight system, do you think it's a fair system? if an advertiser pays to advertise for a website in particular from the page I mentionned earlier, does his money can go to some other website's pocket because of a bigger 'weight'? I'm asking because I see a huge different in 'weight', between 20 and 15000
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I have tested anonymousads and bitcoinadvertisers so far and anonymousads pays better for me, also bitcoinadvertisers is really easy to fraud with fake clicks as far as I understand how this works
I tested a bit longuer and the revenue I get is about the same for the two websites, more or less 20%, I'd say, although I I havent reached 0.1btc on bitcoinadvertisers yet About the fake clicks, I was referring to the PPC model in general, not to bitcoinadvertisers in particular |
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I have tested anonymousads and bitcoinadvertisers so far and anonymousads pays better for me, also bitcoinadvertisers is really easy to fraud with fake clicks as far as I understand how this works
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First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you.
Now we are approaching step 3.
step 3: they put a collar on you and they tax you |
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Intersango is pretty bloody solid as far as exchanges go, they've not had any of the security vulnerabilities that Gox or others have (actually the point them out to others). And they're the second largest exchange overall after gox.
Disclosure, I work with Intersango.
what about the emails leak lol |
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with those tiny FPGA rigs, there will be a shitload of people mining for free at their work
it should keep the price low
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So much charting..  |
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