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Buy Bitcoins!
비트코인 사

If you're thinking of buying bitcoins, now is a good time to buy!
비트코인을 장만할 생각을 하신다면 지금이 구입하기에 좋은 때입니다.

Bitcoin is a pyramind scheme.
비트코인은 글자 그대로 피라미드 사기였다

I'm not a scammer, just pretty naive of the consequences of my actions on occasion and was acting a bit manic at that time. I've worked and continue to work diligently to make up for my mistakes, including paying people for the bet. In hindsight, I had underestimated the greed in this community and although I did help hundreds of people learn a common sense lesson at a great personal expense, it also had the adverse effect of directing legitimate steam away from Pirate and towards me instead (angry mob-style). At the point I knew it was time to get my life together and I took a long break to do just that.

I'm less concerned with reputation on a forum than I am with the development of my own integrity and principles. When BFL starts showing that same integrity, I'll believe in them again. Right now they're starting to look like a large heist planned by Sonny. Sorry, Sonny, but that shoe is starting to look very comfy on you.

As much as I was rooting for BFL in the past (I even asked them for one to test for the first Bitcoin Magazine and was so overjoyed out how stylish their boxes looked over typical "nerdy"-but-functional, ones), I can't help but agree that this bet smells fishy. It's me-style bet wriggling, except they're actually a serious company. I am starting to rethink my position on whether they are a giant scam, and everyone working for them being bribed or what (not because I want to think badly of them, but because it seems to happen more and more in this over-trusting community of pathetic hopefuls).

I hope this is investigated more and this community continues to grow more skeptical (not abusive mind you) of promise, regardless of how many fans are in a box.

Thank you!


Just an update, as it says in the OP, this auction can close at anytime but will not last longer than 12 days. The latest it will be open until is April 15th at 03:21:57 AM KST, but likely to close before then due to privately discussed terms from serious bidders.

Fair enough. You can click the link in my signature for a list of the good things I've done as well as the mistakes I've made. I've handled much more money than this and am still entrusted with far larger things than running a simple Avalon profit sharing agreement. It does seem that you're either too new to know or you are one of the few who took my trolling to heart (perhaps you're a sockpuppet of one of the people who bet with me?). I learned a hard lesson and I grew up. This is a legitimate attempt to make good on it.

For the past few months I have worked tirelessly to make things right about that poor decision. If you'd like to see the progress I have made so far, please visit https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140654

Your fears, although legitimate in general towards any transaction in bitcoin, are slightly misguided. I've never scammed anyone, just successfully trolled and crossed a lot of lines I shouldn't have, that I am now very sorry for. I encourage you to follow this thread and see what develops, and I always appreciate the criticisms and advice of others in my business dealings as it helps hone my skills. Thank you.

I received a message last night for clarification on some points and I agree that they should be mentioned here.

Upon receiving the ASIC, I have *no* intention of:

• The unit will not be altered in any way that is not advised by all parties
• No experimentation will be done on the unit
• The unit will be run under default conditions, those recommended by Avalon
• The unit will not be overclocked, unless a time comes later down the road that *all* parties agree to attempt it due to decreasing profits

Thank you subSTRATA for recommending this information be public. It does indeed help clarify things and in hindsight should have been included in the OP.

Yes it does, but that energy is exerted in the form of military spending. "How dare you say our money isn't worth anything! Die!"

Why look when you can listen?

Seriously though, someone should waste their time on a preev.com that plays sounds instead. Nevermind, you can just click "MtGox Trades" there for that.

Oh! You mean like a decentralized exchange? You might try localbitcoins if you enjoy waiting and Ripple was supposed to handle some of that.

Sure. Try any other bitcoin exchange, like BitStamp.net for example.

I've never used Gox, only BitStamp.

I don't think you can sue eBay for your auctions being removed or their site crashing and you being unable to sell your item to the bidders.

Try installing the latest drivers for that card. If they work, great. If not, try the version before that. Continue until working.

I say this tongue in cheek somewhat, but when did they say it would be delivered?

Try either an earlier or newer version of the driver/catalyst. That always worked for me.

Of course they should only be done here.  You could also require the bidders to have created their account only after a certain date too if you wanted to be even stricter, but it's too late since it's already started.

In fact, the market judged you as being someone with less than 4 months reputation on the forums, selling a batch 2, and only 3 modules. There are many different factors here, some in and some against my favor, that it would be hard to say what the market will decide in this particular case. Given that the auction can last up to 12 days, it may in fact do much better than that. One thing is for sure-- with your auction over, the scarcity just went up! 



I recommend people read his thread and others before bidding. There is always the possibility for great earnings and losses depending on infinite factors (ranging from market depth, volume, publicity, adoption, hacks, errors, public opinion, etc) when investing in mining equipment. I can say that I personally wouldn't have picked up an Avalon ASIC for 101.5 BTC if I didn't see the potential to make 10x that and create residual income for myself, my debts and my future projects.

Back when I was spreading hopes and dreams across the forums of a new legitimate publication I was designing specifically for Bitcoin (Bitcoin Magazine) I was insanely enthusiastic and overly zealous, saying something I believe to the tune of "Next month!" which turned into pre-orders and 6 months of defending against accusations of "theft" and "scam". I feel BFL's pain, as it must be pretty annoying being called scammers when trying to salvage things as best as they can. That said, I gave up them (not as a legitimate company, but just being reliable) a long time ago when I asked Sonny what the timeline would be for the Single I paid for and he said "maybe 6 months".

This is not crowdfunding. It's not kickstarter. If they fail to deliver a product people already paid for in full (repeatedly), they are scammers. If they finally deliver, they are not scammers. It's pretty simple.

The increasing value of bitcoins allows for paying back many USD denominated loans and general debts. If even Trendon were to agree to pay the USD value of the coins he stole, he could completely pay everyone back right now and still be rich.