As you can see from here: https://www.steamid.co.uk/profile/76561198100155396

He literally just changed it!

I feel special.

Name   When It Was Changed

37   Nov 8 3:18pm
Malverde   Nov 8 3:11pm
nbrk   Nov 8 3:04pm
CimonSays   Nov 8 3:03pm
Bitcoin!   Nov 1 9:42pm
sponsored_by_Bitcoin   Nov 1 9:40pm
OsmosisRipley   Nov 1 9:39pm
VarietyJones   Sep 11 3:15pm
VarietyJones.com   Aug 25 6:01am
VarietyJones.com ;3itcoin   Aug 20 2:35am

14 Name changes on record for this steam account

*rubs hands together* I wonder if I'll get blackmailed before Christmas? *jumps up and down* Oh Joy.

I have already posted here, and on MPG what I think of PoM. He knows I think it was him on SR, and always PM'd me to to deny it. I'm well aware I could be being manipulated by him.

However:

Demanding the FBI arrest him, accusing him of being on SR, being publicly sceptical about his prison sentence, and tipping off the FBI to websites purporting to be by him seems like a strange way of being manipulated/being him. Does it not?

Jesus, bitcointalk is a reptile house...

The fact varietyjones.com and all the other blockoperator profiles are still up and running suggests FBI. Doesn't look good for you twats does it? It's servers are in the US. Tips have been sent. I'd encourage others to use the fbi tips website https://tips.fbi.gov/ to point out the obvious as well. *knock knock knock* Anyone at home? PoM's waiting out here for you guys... HELLO!?

varietyjones.com
korchata.com
blockoperator.com

All hosted in the US. First two have images directly linked to criminal activity. Purport to be by Variety Jones. FBI claims to be after Variety Jones. HELLO!?!?!??!?!?

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Here is the Jared+ShaBang or PoM+Shabang, or ShaBang+Gypsy+Old Pink part of the madness.

http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&sid=495b98c02ff798abc2f7ae65bcffed9b&start=375#p144622

All this stuff is raw, and I was editing posts as I was finding stuff. At this point I am genuinely starting to become worried that this is all actually real. I'm fairly OK with my personal safety, and my identity, but Jared has a habit of monitoring exit nodes, and I'm afraid he'll find some thread. Or ShaBang, or PoM, or ... If the Feds take an interest (and find) me IRL, I'll be nice and offer you a cuppa and a bikkie (*snaps out of it* Naw, man - FUCK THE PO-- *trails off* --lice? *begins shaking*), but I will not respond to any form of contact by email/pm. I will not talk to journalists because I've published everything I've found. I am probably not going to write anything formal, because I don't want to expose myself any more than I already have. Jesus. I'm either aiding a criminal with his cover story/excuse, or poking the biggest fucking wasps nest I've ever come across. The mania is passing. The reality is setting in. *puke*

Wouldn't put it past him. Still can't shake the feeling I've been manipulated in some obvious way (the double triplle about turn bluff theory that this is all self-generated pathos for his victim story -- still think it through. All the points don't add up. It's too messy. Who knows). But that comment looks like it was made by GN's #1 fanboy (himself).

"He's dreaming now," said Tweedledee: "and what do you think he's dreaming about?"
Alice said "Nobody can guess that."
"Why, about you!" Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. "And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?"
"Where I am now, of course," said Alice.
"Not you!" Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!"
"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out — bang! — just like a candle!"
"I shouldn't!" Alice exclaimed indignantly. "Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?"
"Ditto" said Tweedledum.
"Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.

Just that someone was trying to get people to look. *Seems* to have started out in a subtle way, but then escalated into all out provocation and "journalism". OK, this could all be a figment of my mania, but you would rather I didn't go into all these details? You ask me what I'm trying to prove -- only that I think this is a deliberate drama. Why? Yes. Why? You have the possibility of Atlantis people ( ‘Loera’ and ‘Vladimir’ or the facebook mod cicero) wanting to shift the blame, or some FBI folks not letting what they got on Atlantis go to waste, or maybe it's all just a weird game someone is playing. The 3noka stuff proves this stuff was being posted way back in 2012 (the original accounts and pictures), but a year ago, long after the atlantis skuttle, someone started re-posting links and images and created a character at the end of it all with the handle Variety Jones on one end,  and a website called varietyjones.com at the other. Someone with access to these original old accounts. What do you think they're trying to say?

again: "Aaanyway, tl;dr: if you want someone who is in to following trails, to find your imigur account, you name it CE5. "

Failing that you set up a website called varietyjones.com and put some poorly hidden incriminating shit in the images directory.

Failing that ... etc.

It's speculation with facts in-between. Maybe this was the plan... I guess mud sticks. Someone was going to find this stuff anyway. An earnest journalist, or an 'investigation'. Take your pick.

This is not the first time the fuzz have tried to muddy the name jones to cover their shit (a long bow?):
23/01/2013 - Undercover DEA agent Carl M. FORCE IV transfers 60 bitcoins into a DEA-controlled account known as "TrustUsJones." SF

interesting article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/25/most_of_dprs_treasure_still_buried_say_researchers/

this is interesting also: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-mark-karpales-fbi/
(Hi Jared -- are you hiding something? Cirrus, Cicero, and Chrysippus (Cercidas? Cimon?) all seem to have a certain sibilance...) TINFOIL ALERT

Penultimate edit?: The third explanation (the real one): http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&sid=e9f57a0dfabf8340d5da9d41dad7e283&start=420#p144753

The claw video is the gypsy nirvana video.

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I feel I should explain about cicada. The thing that first twigged it for me (that this could be a bait trail) was the CE5 reference. The varietyjones images *seem* like they could be a secret cache, but this CE5 thing...

Unbeknownst to us, there is/was a horde of high-functioning code crackers following an online crypto game called cicada 3301 (now stalled). What does 3301 mean? That's part of the puzzle. (hex)CE5=3301(dec). I only stumbled on this when the yahoo search engine helpfully suggested 3301 when I was searching for CE5 (google didn't give me squat, although I was probably typing it in backwards like a prat. ). I then found the CE5 reddit account which blatantly was giving 3301 style clues (cicada mixes crypto with high art).

When cicada began, people were confused as to who was running it. Due to the high art references it seemed odd for the run-of-mill DOD sponsored hacking challenges/cons/recruitment drives (see:defcon,hackaday,zebulun (I'm sure I remember that was funded by the navy?)? et. al.).

Turns out cicada was run by a bunch of lefties, and I think this is what contributed to it's loss of popularity. That and ironically enough, players laying false trails to gain an advantage.

These challenges attract high functioning types that are ideologically/ethically pretty vacant -- just more into the fantasy than the consequences side of things (and we all fall victim to that... oh dear(see:me(low-functioning idiot))). Funnily enough the winners of the first cicada were pretty miffed when they found no job offers from the NSA. I'm guessing Julian Assange, or whomever set it up didn't take that into account -- although he of all people should have known; having grown up in mathematics/engineering academia. Most engineers have a mechanical view of the world more suited to fundamentalism and making things fit into systems. The CIA wrote a paper actually pointing this fact out regarding the mystery as to why so many terrorists were also engineers.

Aaanyway, tl;dr: if you want someone who is in to following trails, to find your imigur account, you name it CE5. This trail was set over a year ago.

from CE5 reddit:
"[–]rolleicord 0 points 1 year ago

What's up with all the Cicada 3301 references ? I see no immediate reasons why the two should be linked together ?

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[–]rolleicord 1 point 1 year ago

need more to bite...
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I saw no bites on the CE5 imigur account, but I've not read all the comments. I wouldn't be surprised.

There is an entire section in the 3301 wiki I posted about false trails. I didn't find this one listed. Also didn't find it in the legit trails, so I'm guessing a new entry needs to be made.

So a few days ago after a million reverse image lookups tracing back fromm the original Atlantis calling card I land here  https://imgur.com/EWhi4 (http://pikdit.com/i/kirby-makes-toad-soup/) (kirby makes mushroom soup is the title of that fridge image that was originally posted 2012, but that got re-uploaded by who I assumed was cwt, or diamond or whomever the fuck he is. Anyway I email the addr on the image to warn them that they've been caught in the middle a serious shit storm, this was yesterday or the day before. Then I look a little closer that that other link, and where it leads, and VJ's name is all over it again (in 2012!!) (edit: vj text added later I think)

https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6079753165?page=15
damn, some rand0... wait a second.
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/nowkA-1580/hero/49261739        <--- look at the aliases
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6079753165?page=17  
Wheels within wheels...

(the profile was last updated on Sep 11, 2015 10:58 AM PDT)!!!!! Yet the forum post is from 2012. Smells very fucking motherfucking fishy.

I've posted this to pom, and I guess he can give his own theory, but I'm not in the business of extortion, so this is all going out now I know the images link all the way back to that diablo account and to VJ's own alias.

If I've fucked up with my reasoning now is the time to point it out

I honestly have no clue what. the. fuck. is going on, but it's been a hell of a dig, but I can't help but shaking the blaring fucking feeling I was meant to find all this. Like stumbling upon the cicada post -- that was probably not a cicada post, but it had all the hallmarks (blake quotes, ways of seeing quotes. It's like someone was desperate for some dipshit like me to pick up the thread down the neck of the goose and into its belly.)

Can someone with better detective skills than me tell me what the fuck is going on?


here are the other threads. Note the weird fucking title of the images, and understand why I'm erring on the side of a weird frame-up, kind of, I don't know:
https://imgur.com/UXw7h
https://imgur.com/XUU6H
https://imgur.com/NkJVf

Please remember that none of this is proof of anything. It is just linking photos down through history to an Alias (Variety Jones). PoM can't have known about any of this because if this was him why the fuck is it still all there??? What the fuck?

OK. Calm down you ginger-beer addled fuck.
Let's stick to facts and forget about speculation.
(Isn't that what Poirot always says? *looks at moustache*)
Date-wise the varietyjones 'hero' character was edited: "last-updated">Last updated on Sep 11, 2015 10:58 AM PDT
Motherboard published on: September 10, 2015 // 03:41 PM EST
so PDT mother published:   12:41:00pm PDT | Thursday, September 10, 2015
and Variety character edited:               Sep 11, 2015 10:58 AM PDT

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........... Either Diamond is a bit of a dopey slow on the uptake fuck, or POM panicked and rushed to implicate himself as quickly as he could (assuming the VJ character was edited (name changed?). Maybe that VJ tried to delete it.... why so late, so close, so.... ineffectual?

hmmmm. (Please don't kill me Diamond. I have so much to give.) Also it would help if someone into this shit could tell us if you can change a character's name? Maybe it's not possible? Maybe, I don't know shit about Diablo. Not really a gamer.

edit: Yes, you can delete characters, but not change their name. Factors in with the crumbs I followed that were put down over 2 months ago. So whoever was checking into that profile was check their handywork? Or am I overthinking this? Maybe VJ likes to implicate himself in shit for his own shits and giggles. Or's it's a double, tripple, about-turn bluff. No... that's dumb. But could diamond be this dumb? Hmmmmmm. *clears throat, inserts dick in wasps nest*. Diamond -- my password is what I think of you. *Clicks timer*. hint: Edward Snowden tweeted this 14 hrs ago: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

btw: This is a hall of mirrors, and I still don't know what to believe.

I keep having outlandish ideas. Please, again, consider it all half-bakery.

The more I think about the VJ websites and the "games" in terms of extortion, the more sense they make. Clues are innuendo( or just cover), and ransoms are paid by passing electrum wallet restoration pass-phrases. Just a thought.

The edited atlantis picture on vj.com has a big red pantomime cross over it. It was either the picture that lead the extortionist to the rest of the "portfolio", later backed up to vj.com and https://imgur.com/user/0xCE5 (https://imgur.com/zqKHxlY) (interesting to check: https://www.reddit.com/user/0xCE5 <- less like clues, more like threats(but most likely a user account of the cicada 3301 people. Still weird factor times a billion.)).

Atlantis calling card posted to facebook on July 2, 2013

Atlantis sinks in September 20 2013

0xCE5 (https://imgur.com/zqKHxlY) gallery posted November 29 2013 (presumably as a hanging sword of Damocles)
Peeps in comment section complain that it isn't Original Content, and was actually the work of another user, who uploaded the pictures two months before (since vanished (for obv reasons)).

The 0xCE5 imgur profile points to varietyjones.com edit: 7-9 october varietyjones.com link removed

(intesting to note 0xCE5's last comment 10 days ago: "Pack behavior. Feels vulnerable, so chihuahua makes a tactical retreat. Master is behind them, so their backs are covered. Alert but comfy.")  edit: 7-9 october comment removed

So if this nonsense is the case, then the extortionist has been posing as variety jones. I guess if you want to have an identity that people can google and find the accusations of VJ extorting overgrow, and the fact that if you search hard enough you can easily pin the handle of vj upon pom and rtc, makes for a good identity to steal/scape goat. And what are the chances of a fed's patsy-pleasure-puppet ever being arrested? Of course things get awkward for the fuzz when PoM starts posting on myplanetanja.

Reason I'm not posting this on mpg is it's all just half-baked theories, and more suited to this thread. I guess we'll hear more the more gets uncovered.

edit: or the weirdest fucking game show in history: http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/November_2013_media_exposure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

edit: new theory. Variety Jones is Thomas Pynchon, and this entire thing has been a mixed media paranoia installation.

edit: But who said anything about Atlantis being extorted? Tipped off, me thinks (kind counts as extortion I guess). Now nothing makes even more sense. Fuck. Aside from the fact that whomever posted that calling card had, either very poor opsec (very), or a very good measure of goosechasing pratts like me. They could have used any old picture from any old place. It's all a load of bollocks. Sends me back to my original theory that VJ knew something Ross didn't, and back to original fantasy that the crt relationshit began with atlantis (I originally assumed, from the vj website that the reason he knew shit was going down on SR was because it was he(and friend) who were running atlantis, and therefore he who was warned by crt. Better explanation than crt just appearing on torchat out of nowhere). VJ denies it of course, so I then tried to make Atlantis fit else-how. I should really extract my dick from this hornet's nest now.

"Also I find it strange that diamond/-cwt was able to so easily DOX VJ despite so little information being available about him, and the lack of any trace of his RL identity. "

Your words. Not anyone else's. It's interesting though. Assuming Charger and "VJ" shared accounts (they did), it follows they shared passwords. There are whisperings around the camp-fire that charger/shebang (Wattier) is in prison. It would then make sense that anyone with federal ballbag inclinations might have easy access to said shared password. It would then follow and fit that if said fantasy is true, then Motherboard has been gypped by a fed. It may also be true that VJ himself is a rogue asset and his story is actually just a carrier for some kind of threat/subtext/whatnot (put on another layer of tinfoil).

Otherwise this entire motherboard thing was a big coincidence, and possibly a catalyst for VJ's 'revelations'. Hmmf.

But the fact still stands. Why is R T Clark still home and free... OR IS HE? (Aaand I've run out of tinfoil).

Another mystery is varietyjones.com et.al. Someone is clearly trying to frame Atlantis on PoM. In those incriminating photos the power-plugs are American. Shortly after noticing this (it was the big pic of the desk+window) I went to re-check and found that picture had been cropped -- or I've just forgotten the directory the original picture is in (ginger beer affects your memory). Either way (I believe) those pictures are not PoM's truly. So it is possible varietyjones.com is being run by Diamond as a honeypot (say cheese!). PoM mentioned Atlantis folks being blackmailed by Diamond. So it is possible these photos are part of that blackmail package and are being used as mud/disinformation.

I find it very fucking fishy that VJ has very little to say about the website (and I want to believe (Fuck the FBI)). He holds that it is the work of some kind of merry prankster. I guess it sounds stupid, but it also seems too big to ignore. Either the person who made the site knew motherboard was going to open the can, and thought it would help the mud campaign, or, for some fucking dumb reason VJ shat on his own front doorstep, and when discovered, slowly backed away and pointed at Diamond. I don't know what to believe *sobs, and crawls up into a ball* *wails*

How was he able to board a flight two days before SR went down, and 'three' times after that? Why are the authorities stumped into silence? I get the feeling this all came out in the open, not through a threat to Rosses old folks, but from a threat to VJ. I hope I am wrong, and that this Diamond character gets ousted, and that VJ gets a deal.... Just getting the vague, sick feeling.

One thing is certain. In all of these very half-baked scenarios the FBI consistently comes across as a conga-line of unprincipled, backstabbing, politically warped, slightly evolved chimpanzee's from hell. Also: stop extorting people (*whispers* it gives them a genuine reason to fucking exist). There. Everything is fixed and you can all go home now.

www.btc38.com is the bomb. The Chinese do it better.

I'd wait for the mud to settle before trading ANC. Regarding cryptsy, open a ticket and let them know. It might take a while if my experience is anything to go by. Be prepared for some stress. You can try hitting up Mullick https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=99433 as he seems to be cryptsy's man on the wallet issue shit-storm. ANC needs some time to straighten its head, and for the devs to fight through the problems. I'm guessing they're all pretty raggedy/stretched thin/depressed at the moment. All manner of various kinds of human/machine break-downs came to a head all at once -- suffice to say it's a trolls paradise at the moment, as you can see.

How is that game over? Can you actually read? Go back to your goddamned bonobo lexigram chart and try again.

This is what I got from the crypsy chatroom:

"Mullick told me that he will put online ANC blockchain explorer today and use it as a node for all ANC transactions including stucked ones"

So apparently, from that garbled mess, that means Mullick is on the job? Because I messaged him two days ago on the bitcointalk account -- asking if he could get the raw transactions -- and I haven't heard anything back from him since.

The cryptsy saga continues.

Meanwhile they have stopped replying to my open ticket thread.

Can someone give me some pointers in wrangling raw transactions from Cryptsy? At this point they're refusing to provide them. Not directly. They just refuse to talk about. All they do is throw links to this forum, and tell me they are working with the devs. What does that have to do with opening the wallet and typing a line of code to get my raw transactions?

I know, right? I mean, I had my own venom to spit, but I deleted it all due to being associated with these simpletons. Only capable of communicating in pictographs from their chimp tableau pads, pointing grunting -- occasionally flinging about their own shit...

I guess this is a pretty apt demonstration of anonymity curtailing responsibility. Double-edged sword to say the least. The limits of libertarianism to a fucking T.

LOL -- Well that escalated quickly. Manged to half my investment in ANC in a couple of seconds. It's not even worth moving on at this point. See you in a couple'a months I guess...

In the spirit of amateur gimpage and boredom (The A in the shadow of the Z . Skills/talent lacking, that's what the intention is.):



But in all seriousness, I think a good feature would be -- and I'm not sure how to put this -- if there was some kind of way to verify ANC addresses are not ASCII strings. The thing I really find invasive about bitcoin/blockchains is that people are now using it to store all manner of unsavory information to our drives. I don't want a blockchain on my boxen with possible kiddie porn or malware payloads or what'evs. I know it's great on one level -- proliferation of information/censorship -- but I think that maybe a blockchain as a ledger should be just that -- something separate to another ideological thingiewingie. Must I submit *that* freedom in order to have my coinage?

I think anonymity, in this regard, is really the option to opt out -- to abscond -- from the status quo (bitcoin's exposure of the individual in this case). I don't see how a blockchain that allows anyone to put any old info on my drive as being in any way conducive to that idea. But I suppose implementing such limitations might be highly impractical (impossible?), and even offensive to some users?

Edit: Just did a 'strings -n 20 *.dat | more' on the blockchain. "02/Jun/2013:  The Universe, we're all one. But really, fuck the Central banks. - Anonymous 420" Followed by a whole lot of coin-miner tag-spam.

I really want to give this thing a go, but it's not exactly user friendly.

I'm running ubuntu 14.04. so I installed v0.9.2.47h_RC3 ? (a bunch of naked index's for downloads with only the odd readme is frikken shitty dudes). Install howto tells me libboost would not be required for my dist. Turns out some packages were required and had to do an apt-get -f. No biggie I guess?

So i fire it up. Won't connect. Bleh!

So I install an earlier version. Again -- wont sync (won't actually connect to the network). I have had no wallet issues with any other cryptocurrency.

How-to's on the main website have only one example -- for windows, and only for one topic. Also the menus on the main site really shit me (ok I might be a little bitchy due to installation impotency).

It seems to me that the tech behind this might be great (I guess), but -- well -- it's all kind of obscure.

and.... I'm flaccid.

edit: I'd have posted this on their main forum, but I found a similar question and it had a pretty woeful response. Lots of tumblweeds -- lots of unanswered questions, head scratching and people with similar problems, offering lame advice such as: wait a couple of days. Or -- try again! The hell?