AFAIK Skrill and Paypal are very similar. They are both reversible so you must be careful with who you trade with. I don't think either of them are particularly fond of Bitcoin, so avoid doing anything that would link that transaction to Bitcoin e.g. send it as a gift to a friend with no message about Bitcoin.

Clearly he is the alt of some high ranking and possibly respected member of the community, yet he doesn't want the good rep of those accounts ruined, so he made this one to troll, shill, and shitpost.

He even admits he has high ranking alts:

Get any address used in the coinbase transactions of the first several blocks

No, that software didn't even exist until much much later. He used Bitcoin Core (actually just called Bitcoin when announced, it was the software that he wrote himself) mining capability to cpu mine.

No it does not. The majority of hash algorithms will not be able to be broken by quantum computers. What quantum computers can do is most likely be able to do is discover the private keys from public keys. However, this does not happen overnight and when such a computer is made that can do that, the developers will have time to switch the network over to use a different method of key generation. Even so, if you are using Bitcoin properly by not reusing addresses, then you will be safe from those attacks. Those attacks require knowing the public key, but the public key is not actually revealed until you make a transaction going out of an address. If you are doing it correctly, then by the time the public key is revealed, finding the private key to it is pointless because the address it corresponds to will never be used again.

AFAIK those transactions show up as double spends, so any block explorer that shows double spends will work. Blockcypher.com is one that I use.

Actually they do. Paypal payments hub, which is for merchants, takes Bitcoin payments. I haven't tried it myself but on the site it says that Bitcoin can be processed by their payments hub.

Just go and take a look at the speculation section and you will see what people think the future will look like for Bitcoin. Just take all those predictions with a grain of salt. BUT NO ONE CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE SO IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE FOR BITCOIN IS.

jdh0152322 and hilariousandco, please take your off topic discussion about recovering accounts to meta. hilariousandco, you should know better, after all you are a global mod 

About the whois info, since the guy is using whoisguard and the information doesn't have to be real, it is not entirely reliable. Instead we need to contact the hosting and domain registrar that he used and ask them if they will give up information to help us find the guy.

I analyzed the email headers that I posted earlier and it looks like the scammer was using godaddy for email, so he probably used it for domain registering as well. Do you think it will be possible to contact godaddy and ask them if they can provide information about that guy?

Yes this is very common. You should not expect to make anything significant by visiting faucets. They are not worth the time to attempt to make a good amount of "free money" You will just be wasting your time. In the time it took for you to make a significant amount of Bitcoin from faucets, you could have done some work for someone and made several orders of magnitude more by doing some actual work in the same amount of time.

They are not infinite, there is just so many possible addresses out there that for all intents and purposes, it is infinite.

That is the ip of the mail service, which is hosted it seems, so it doesn't tell us too much unfortunately.

JonHolmquist sent me the full email with headers and I checked them for his personal information that could be revealing (there wasn't any). Here is the full thing for people to analyze.

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Hello Jon,

My name is Thomas Silva and I'm the owner of bitcoinblackfriday.info. I
have seen a hostile reaction from you in some of our posts so I would like
to reach out to you and offer my apologies regarding the similarity
between our two domains and to express my sincere regret that you are
upset with us offering our expertise to help bitcoiners reach the best
bitcoin black friday deals on November 27th. Me and my team have the
utmost respect for you and your website, it has been of great help so far
but please understand that we feel we can do a great job also and we do
not want to compete with your website. We only want to help Bitcoin and
advertise this big day for the greater good of the community and spread
the word as best as possible.

I hope you understand that we do not want to hold grudges and maybe we can
work togheter to make Bitcoin Black Friday as successful as possible.

Sincerely,

Thomas Silva
BitcoinBlackFriday.info
contact@bitcoinblackfriday.info

https://blockchain.info/address/14Dk3WffwCc3f5km8np2EcsFHdo8dFq5ts 0
https://blockchain.info/address/1GSsawawzuzdUj8EkAoa16i3qNro9WxCup 1.16822
https://blockchain.info/address/13yefnodG4ykWCRGXkdbX6N1zXcg4cuGZE 0
https://blockchain.info/address/1K3cJFmCb2NJ7UnxF75Q4b71YoUmyWrP3h 0.23364

You should also check all of the other "deals" on that site and try to find the addresses for the payments. Some of them are legit though, like Newegg (I think it was based on the URL) so double check the site whether it is a scam or legit.

The only ones related to your email are the ip for your server. It shouldn't have any sensitive information anyways so I think it would be safe to post the whole thing. Your ip address for the email server should already be public anyways.

I will also take a look and look for the other sites.

Primedime and TheGambler are known scammers who have been on this forum before. People think that you may be alts of those accounts and thus also a scammer.

Just because you write English DOES NOT MEAN that you will have similar writing styles. Look around this forum. Most of the posts are in English, but not many of them are the same writing style. Writing style has little to do with the language. It has to do with word choice, grammar, sentence structure, where you put line breaks, how you link threads, how you emphasize things, etc, but it has very little to do with the language you are posting in.

Sorry for your loss.

How did you find these addresses? Were you just creating orders but not paying and these were the addresses that came up? Was this across all of the fake sites or just one of them?

That makes sense. I thought they had bitcoin withdrawals, but I just checked and it says that the feature is "coming soon"

I'm surprised that theymos issued warnings about this, I thought the forum doesn't moderate scams or does anything about them.

Are you able to post all of the headers and just scrub out your ip address? Just replace all instances of your ip with an xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx