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541  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Red Flag Alert -- Where is Ian Bakewell? on: March 30, 2013, 05:44:40 AM
Which is not to say I'm by any means confident his fiat-denominated business opportunity is going to make enough profit to justify/afford taking out BTC-denominated loans to pay for it.

Well it's pretty obvious by now Ian has fucked up royally and owes a lot of people a lot of money. We're talking $100k here. He probably has half, if that.

I'm pretty sure that if Ian comes clean, many people here will consent to a settlement. If he runs and is tagged a scammer then when people go after him they will probably want the full amount or more.
542  Economy / Securities / Re: [BitFunder] btcQuick - Bitcoin Sales Service on: March 29, 2013, 06:02:04 PM

Yes, disclose the holdings listed there. Although I am just pointing it out for humorous intent, as Deprived is well-known for refusing to list his holdings.
543  Economy / Securities / Re: [BitFunder] btcQuick - Bitcoin Sales Service on: March 29, 2013, 04:07:36 PM
Why are you using the funds raised here to pay back your BTCJAM loan?

Shouldn't you be able to repay the loan from the BTC you sold?

If he sells the btc, he gets a % fee. He then has to purchase at _least_ that qty to continue to have btc in inventory.
If he had paid off the loan, then he would be back to square one with no inventory, and that would have defeated the purpose.
But if he had paid off the loan, then he wouldn't need to take 300 BTC out of the IPO.

Will the capital from the BTCJAM loan will be part of the company, or is it in the pockets of the owner (on top of the 20% Jerrod currently gets)? I'd expect the former but a clarification would be good.

Now you're being unreasonable.  Next you'll expect companies to list their assets and/or produce accounts before they place themselves for sale.  How would people who have run our of cash to run their business/service their debts be able to sell shares in it if they had to do that?

Please list the assets of LTC-ATF. :p
544  Economy / Securities / Re: AMC Discussion Thread (not self moderated) on: March 29, 2013, 07:18:38 AM
Asks for C code, confuses C with C# which is quite a lot different..

I did not confuse C with C#, I know the difference.  I was just showing him some of
my code.

What I really want to know is, what do you think of the code I posted? Smiley

Looks like C code, kinda funny.

The problem is, it's not C code and anyone who knew C would recognize that. It isn't even C++ or C# or objective C or anything.

There are other very serious issues with the code he presented, not least of all it looks like a cut and paste from some generic source. For example the function names do not follow any consistent convention:

Dispose( bool disposing )
getBlocksAndThreads(...)
getreduced(...)

Notice all three example functions use a different capitalization scheme and that the first one has spaces in the parentheses and the second two do not.

Second, the style of comment is different. One look slike this:
//one looks like this

//
// Another looks like this.
//

/// A third looks like this.

To my eyes the two code snippets were written by two different people and neither of them looks particularly "great". It looks more like he cut and paste something from "somewhere generic" like a MSVC template or the source code to some unknown program he found somewhere.

What else is weird is the "obj o=null" statements with no spaces around the equal sign. Like he was some kind of novice who was using a template from MSVC.

All this combined with the inability to recognize what is and is not C code tells me that Mac65 must have lied:

May be you'd like to know a little more about kslaughter. In about 1983 I was programming manager for a team of 8 programmers. It was my job to hire and train C-programmers out of college. KSlaughter was the brightest of the bunch. At one time, I was his team leader. Today, I learn from him.

and that Mac65 and the other guy are probably kslaughter's sock puppets and this is all a very elaborate scam.
545  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Selling My Gambling Site on: March 29, 2013, 01:06:14 AM
The same person has held the satoshi for the last few weeks now. Doesn't seem too active..

I sent them money and got nothing back and no response. Probably a rip off  Angry
546  Economy / Securities / Re: AMC Discussion Thread (not self moderated) on: March 28, 2013, 04:46:29 PM
Asks for C code, confuses C with C# which is quite a lot different..

I did not confuse C with C#, I know the difference.  I was just showing him some of
my code.

What I really want to know is, what do you think of the code I posted? Smiley
547  Economy / Securities / Re: AMC Discussion Thread (not self moderated) on: March 28, 2013, 07:44:04 AM
[snip code]

That code is boring! I mean, show us something interesting, like this:

Code:
    // mob tries to quaff us
    public boolean event_quaff(Engine e, Mobile mob) {
        e.msg.pline("You quaff " + aname() + ".");

        if (objkind == PotionData.WATER) {
            mob.hp += Dice.roll(1, 1);
            if (mob.hp > mob.hp_max) {
                mob.hp = mob.hp_max;
            }
            if (mob instanceof Player) {
                e.msg.pline("Ahh, a nice cool drink of water. You feel refreshed!");
                if (this.identified() == false) {
                    this.identify(true);
                    e.pc.score += 10;
                }
            }
        } else if (objkind == PotionData.HEALING) {
            mob.hp += Dice.roll("1d8");
            if (mob.hp > mob.hp_max) {
                mob.hp = mob.hp_max;
            }
            if (mob instanceof Player) {
                e.msg.pline("You feel better.");
                if (this.identified() == false) {
                    this.identify(true);
                    e.pc.score += 10;
                }
            }
        } else if (objkind == PotionData.POISON) {
            if (mob instanceof Player) {
                e.msg.pline("That didn't taste good. You feel sick!");
                if (this.identified() == false) {
                    this.identify(true);
                    e.pc.score += 10;
                }
            }
            mob.takedamage(Dice.roll(1, 12), Damage.POISON);
            if (mob.hp < 1) {
                mob.killme = true;
                if (mob instanceof Player) {
                    e.do_pc_death("You drank poison!", "poisoned by " + aname());
                } else {
                    // if a monster dies from drinking poison, what pline
                    // should we send?
                }
            }
        } else if (objkind == PotionData.SPEED) {
            // speed potions auto-id.
            if ((mob instanceof Player) && (this.identified() == false)) {
                this.identify(true);
                e.pc.score += 10;
            }
        } else if (objkind == PotionData.BLINDNESS) {
            // blindness potions auto-id.
            if ((mob instanceof Player) && (this.identified() == false)) {
                this.identify(true);
                e.pc.score += 10;
            }
        }

        // We have been quaffed!
        mob.fxlist.transferByItemTrigger(this, Effect.T_QUAFF);
        killme = true;
        mob.inv.remove(this);
        mob.hunger -= nutrition;
        if (mob instanceof Player) {
            e.pc.score += value; // destroying a potion by using it keeps it's value
            e.pc.score += 1;    // plus one ^^
        }

        e.update_statline();
        e.rend.vs.update();

        return true;
    }

Or hell, even something a little mindbending. Like this:

Code:
    public static void loadTreeStructure(String dbname) {
        List<String> unresolved_ids = new ArrayList();
        List<String> unresolved_parents = new ArrayList();
        List<String> unresolved_names = new ArrayList();
        List<String> unresolved_selected = new ArrayList();

        try {
            db = openDictionaryDB(dbname);
            rs = db.executeQuery("select * from tagstructure;");
            while (rs.next()) {
                TagNode n = new TagNode();
                n.id = rs.getInt("id");

                String parent = rs.getString("parent");
                n.name = rs.getString("tagname");
                n.flagSelected = rs.getBoolean("selected");

                unresolved_ids.add(String.valueOf(n.id));
                unresolved_names.add(n.name);
                unresolved_parents.add(parent);
                unresolved_selected.add(String.valueOf(n.flagSelected));
            }
            rs.close();
        } catch (SQLException sqle) {
            Log.log("oTS(): " + sqle.getMessage(), Log.ERROR);
        }

        TagNode subRoot = new TagNode("root");
        for (int i = 0; i < unresolved_ids.size(); i++) {
            int id = Integer.parseInt(unresolved_ids.get(i));
            if (id > TagNode.idpool) {
                TagNode.idpool = id + 1;
            }
            int parent_id = Integer.parseInt(unresolved_parents.get(i));
            if (id == parent_id) {
                // found the root node.
                subRoot.id = id;
                subRoot.name = "root";
                subRoot.flagSelected = Boolean.valueOf(unresolved_selected.get(i));

                unresolved_ids.remove(i);
                unresolved_names.remove(i);
                unresolved_parents.remove(i);
                unresolved_selected.remove(i);
                break;
            }
        }

        boolean found_parent = true;
        while ((unresolved_ids.isEmpty() == false) && (found_parent == true)) {
            found_parent = false;
            for (int i = 0; i < unresolved_ids.size(); i++) {
                int id = Integer.parseInt(unresolved_ids.get(i));
                if (id > TagNode.idpool) {
                    TagNode.idpool = id + 1;
                }
                String name = unresolved_names.get(i);
                int parent_id = Integer.parseInt(unresolved_parents.get(i));
                boolean selected = Boolean.valueOf(unresolved_selected.get(i));

                TagNode parent = Kongzi.getTagNodeByID(subRoot, parent_id);
                if (parent != null) {
                    TagNode tn = new TagNode();
                    tn.id = id;
                    tn.name = name;
                    tn.flagSelected = selected;
                    parent.add(tn);

                    found_parent = true;

                    unresolved_ids.remove(i);
                    unresolved_names.remove(i);
                    unresolved_parents.remove(i);
                    unresolved_selected.remove(i);
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        while (subRoot.getChildCount() > 0) {
            TagNode tn = (TagNode) subRoot.getChildAt(0);
            subRoot.remove(0);
            Kongzi.rootNode.add(tn);
        }

        Kongzi.load_taglist();
        Kongzi.ensure_node_ids();
        Kongzi.rootNode.merge_children();

        return;
    }
548  Economy / Securities / Re: AMC Discussion Thread (not self moderated) on: March 28, 2013, 01:09:31 AM
Date Registered: September 28, 2010, 01:16:14 PM
You were inactive for nearly 3 years.

No, I was not inactive, I have been reading this forum since 2009.

Show us some of your C code. Then I will believe you. You're a brightest of the bunch C programmer? Ok, have you ever contributed anything to open source? What have you worked on?
549  Economy / Digital goods / Re: [WTB] Your bitcoin website on: March 27, 2013, 07:05:35 AM
I (for myself and on behalf of others) am looking to purchase some already established bitcoin websites.

Update: I am not interested in buying domains with no content, up-and-running websites only!

Not looking to buy anything like Mt Gox, but simple less known sites that are already up and running. eg. bitbears.com is an example of a small site that is up and running and established. Of course bitcoindifficulty.com would be another example.

The main things I'll be looking for are the following (but don't worry if you website doesn't have all these points):

Current direct earnings
Potential future earnings
Current traffic
Potential future traffic
Nice domain name
Nice website design and graphics

So if you've been thinking about selling your small bitcoin related site PM me or post a message here. Thanks.




hotwallet.ca -- decided i'd rather do something else, don't want to run a hotwallet.

send PM
550  Other / Meta / New Subforum Request: Goods - Precious Metals on: March 27, 2013, 06:56:58 AM
Please create a subforum of goods for precious metals and gems.

Thanks!
551  Economy / Speculation / Re: $80 HIT on: March 27, 2013, 06:02:43 AM
if someone like loaded buys 10kbtc right now, we will see 93.15.


Lol, I've been following Max Keiser and people like Mike Maloney, etc. for years because they're silver bugs. But I've got to say Max has hit a new stride with this, I absolutely love the guy, he's amazing. His "Buy Gold" commercial from a few years ago set the pace and it's been A+ ever since.

Here's more CLASSIC Max Keiser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi5SGPHDAng

The guy is a machine lolz

and who can forget the Fiat Food episode? lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-B2V2l_6QE



552  Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] BIB.BVPS - Invest in BitVPS through GLBSE - BIB depositary receipts on: March 27, 2013, 02:37:41 AM
We need the list from GLBSE. We're not getting any info/answers however. We have no way of knowing without it and brendio is not answering at all. We only know how much shares brendio held.

Well, that's true to a point. But in my case, I had published the number of shares I held. In the months up to the GLBSE collapse, my securities were under intense scrutiny -- as everyone knows -- and every fact and figure was questioned. In fact, in some cases people were even questioning whether or not I held the shares I said I held. If I did not hold 33,848 shares of Brendio's BitVPS passthrough, it is certain that this would have come out one way or another. But out of all the things that I got accused of no one could say I was lying about how many BitVPS shares we held.

Yes this means I'm gunning for burnside to transfer the shares if we can't contact brendio. Unfortunately for people like starsoccer there's no record, but in NYAN's case there is a very public record.
553  Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] BIB.BVPS - Invest in BitVPS through GLBSE - BIB depositary receipts on: March 26, 2013, 08:48:45 PM
I dont think ever. I think this is dead.

Actually I've been pushing to contact Brendio as of last week. I've contacted Namworld and burnside. Apparently namworld has his contact info and is now trying to call him. I also have Brendio's contact information in Australia. It cost me a pretty penny to get that, but private investigators do have their uses.

I live in the same quadrant as Australia but it's still a little far. What we need to do right now is get Brendio to come online and start transferring shares to people. It's been almost 6 months and I chief among many really need the shares back now. I can't wait another month or two for him to stop being busy at his new job....

While I can pretty much guarantee I will be going after him to the extent that he owes me shares/money (in a legal sense, of course) I am not going after him in a general case or representing anyone else. I just need NYAN's 33,848 shares of BitVPS so I can pay it out to shareholders and close my company. If someone wants to sell (i.e. give) me their shares on a pro bono basis I'll give 60% of whatever I get, negotiable depending on # of shares. Good luck.
554  Economy / Securities / Re: AMC Discussion Thread (not self moderated) on: March 26, 2013, 07:45:22 AM
This thread is not self moderated, so people can actually express their opinions!

AMC is selling shares for at least 1 BTC with a 0.01 btc early bird special. Roll Eyes

Net Estimated Revenue/Year/Share 0.00708687 BTC

That is 0.7% a year if you buy it for 1 BTC.

Developing their own "Fast-Hash-240" miners Roll Eyes

Asset issuer ran a company that has being administratively dissolved Roll Eyes

Topic is self moderated  Roll Eyes

Didn't not need it any more.  Thinking about re registering it.

What really nails this as a scam is not the ridiculous share pricing and the lack of contact info, although thats 90% of it right there, it's the fact that the issuer screwed up the contract so badly prior to listing that he had to freeze his security and re-do the contract.

What, he didn't think it thru before listing? I don't get it.
555  Economy / Securities / Re: [BTC-TC] BitVPS on: March 26, 2013, 02:49:22 AM
The 1 million shares are paid for, just like they used to on MPEx.

February hasn't been the best month but that can depend on when renewal dates are on servers.

As for becoming profitable, you will notice in an announcement on BTCT.co

Quote
Planned Savings:

    Chicago 1:    410 USD
    Dallas 2:    227 USD
    California 1:    259 USD
    California IP range:    24 USD
    California IP range:    29 USD
    California 2:    400 USD

Estimated colocation costs in New York: Up to 600 USD depending on bandwidth/# IPs/extras used by customers.

The servers rent we will be cutting will total 1,349 USD, estimated costs for colocation will be 500-600 USD. A minimum of 700 USD monthly in savings. With more clients/servers, the savings on colocation would be even greater with discounts from the datacenter.

As a side note, there was 1,381.94 USD income in February, not 1129.48 USD. 1129.48 USD is only BTC -> USD conversions at the time. There was also some sales in USD.

We have a much better month for  March to top it, you can wait for the March statement. We also have a new design at no costs. We'll still have to pay for servers rent on top of it, hopefully only for one more month, while we get in touch with every customers and get them transferred. With the savings we can pay the debt for the equipment and after a few months we'll be turning in a profit.

Regards.

Just thought I would state that BitVPS is a great company and I'll be renewing my annual subscription in a month or two. I will be getting a KVM-6 this time, since my kongzi.ca project is almost ready to go live and is already accumulating users and data. So that should help out with the costs.

Good luck guys. Great business.
556  Economy / Securities / Re: [BitFunder] TU.SILVER -- Request for Discussion on: March 25, 2013, 05:57:08 PM
I assume... So even if... I'd have to guess... ...so are unlikely to... And if, by some misfortune... ...especially if... I do hope... And if...

I've been busy reorganizing TU.SILVER to weather the silver/BTC crash. Which, I now believe, will be sustained. The #1 reason why I believe this is that an associate of mtgox has posted that there is a backlog of over 4,000 unverified accounts. There are other reasons, chief among them the sell-off of industrial metals in Cyprus as their economy continues to collapse. I still believe the long term picture is bullish for silver/BTC, but for the next week at least I have decided to move in the other direction.

We have redone the BV calc to be more accurate and redone how we account for certain things such as the investment position. Ironically I was undervaluing the unsold silver position at the price-guide "ask". It's been redone to calculate a bv over the outstanding units and then use this intermediate figure to price the unsold silver. I have also been laying the groundwork for two important actions. One, I'm going to change how we account for bought silver so that we don't need to show a negative number in cash balance, because the physical representation of our accounts (i.e. bitcoins in an address) does not go negative. This should help the people who've access to our books understand what we are doing a little better. Secondly, as you can see below we have begun making inroads on LTC-GLOBAL. This is to set the stage for the acquisition of LTC-SILVER. We have been in positive talks with SaltySpitoon and will likely move to buy out LTC-SILVER in August.

No report this week. I'm feeling under the weather. In lieu, here's a short summary of what I am doing to protect the shareholders of TU.SILVER.

1. I am closing the IPO of TU.SILVER by personally buying out the 207 remaining units of the fund at .1201, which is more than 20% above it's bv calc and is above the current market ASK price and depth of only 15 shares. The company will use the money to invest into 1,000 shares of BTC-BOND and 1,000 shares of LTC-ATF.B1 until further notice.
2. Our cash position is now 13.5226 BTC, and the investment position is 1,000 shares of BTC-BOND and 1,000 shares of LTC-ATF.B1 valued at 0.01/unit each. (33.5226 BTC total).
3. I've sacrificed my management fee for march and moved 4 BTC into the Kitty (total is now 10 BTC in the kitty).
4. The current bv calc states 0.10477199.
5. Going forward I will increase the distribution by 10%. February's dividend was 0.00128. The dividend for March will be 0.001408/unit and will be paid on the full moon of Easter (March 27th, 2013).

After these actions the cash position will be 12.3962 BTC (plus investments) and the bv calc will read ~0.1034/unit. With 40+ BTC in bitcoin or bitcoin-face-value securities, plus slow accumulation of LTC, we should be reasonably insulated against further BTC price shocks, and that much closer to our goal of sustainable expansion of the fund.

Thanks to my investors, happy Easter everyone.
557  Economy / Speculation / Re: To all of you that sold < $60 in the past few days... on: March 24, 2013, 11:32:17 PM
How does it feel?

Current price: $71.68  Grin
you make money by selling it not keeping it.

Uh no. If you sell, you end up with paper.

If I keep it I end up with something that is increasing in value and you can't just print to infinity.

Money = Gold and Silver

Awesome currency = Bitcoin

Crappy Currency = Fiat paper

 Cheesy

Wow, smoothie said something intelligent. I'm in shock.
558  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Usagi: falsifying NAVs, manipulating share prices and misleading investors. on: March 23, 2013, 11:39:50 PM
I want to let this topic die too, it's a total waste of time, ...

If you had proof, why PM me and say you will help me as long as I retract my statements?

It doesn't matter. If you want to let it die, let it die. I've already posted the proof in this thread so there's no point in wasting any more time on you.
559  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Usagi: falsifying NAVs, manipulating share prices and misleading investors. on: March 23, 2013, 10:48:03 PM
I'm simply stating to everyone that you took my money, you won't pay me back, and I think you are a scammer, end of story.

Great, i'm simply stating I have proof that you are lying. End of story.
560  Economy / Goods / Hughes & Kettner Dual EL-84 (Guitar Amp) on: March 23, 2013, 09:00:00 PM
For Sale:

Hughes and Kettner Dual EL84 Statesman. MSRP $1400, will sell for $1000 in bitcoins + shipping. I'll throw in a new set of tubes too (Gold pin JJs or something) although, the ones in the amp now are fine.

If you'd like to see the amp in action it looks and sounds exactly like the one in these videos:

in English (video by H&K): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KJN1FFx3I
in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WKZ1iwWKPw
in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8xBxZ3qqM

As you can tell it's a very popular amp in Europe because it's handmade in Germany. It's a great amp. Original box.

There are no blemishes or scratches or anything, it's new and only played about 25 hours on it. This amp is well-known for it's amazing clean tone with huge headroom. This is a rare and sought after quality because it fits so well with effects pedals -- this amp eats them alive. Hardcore handwired German engineering here.

I've been looking to sell this for a long time, I want to move into a Laney TI15-112. The price I am asking for is pretty good considering this is top of the line gear in unplayed condition, but I'm willing to accept a decent offer. So make one Smiley

p.s. I have an original handmade Keely Java Boost with serial number 4 & signed letter from Robert Keely talking about it. Will sell for 8 bitcoins + shipping OBO.
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