It's hard to believe it's almost been 10 years... let me try to clear things up from my memory.

TF had a ton of BTC in his wallet AFTER the hack. He did not deny this and claimed that this was his personal funds and nothing to do with inputs.io user deposits. I don't remember how much, I can probably find out if I look hard enough, but I believe it was at least $100,000, if not over $1,000,000. I believe what happened is with the cryptoboom he made millions from altcoin trading this money and this is the money he used to repay everyone. I believe that the only reason he did that was because his IRL identity is somewhat known to people and now that he was a multi-millionaire the best move was to repay people to avoid any potential legal issues.

I also think the hack was made up. He blamed the hosting provider linode for the hack. For people who don't know, there was a few hacks that happened back in 2011-2012 with sites that were hosting on linode that had 2fa bypassed, there was actually a guy called Zhou Tong who owned a site (forget name of site) this happened with, and there were a lot of similarity between TF and him including age location etc. They are not the same person but I reckon that had something to do with TF choosing this cover story. But anyway my point is linode was literally hated by the community and everyone knew not to use them because bitcoins kept getting stolen from sites hosted there. At the time everyone who heard that he was using linode thought he had to be faking, it was just too convenient that he was claiming to be another linode victim. Nobody could have been that stupid to put anything BTC related on linode. He also never preserved any of the logs or any evidence of the hack from back then. Also all of "his" money he had after the hack was heavily washed through bitcoin mixers so could easily have been the same coins.

I believe the hack was made up because his business model was not sustainable and he was losing money for months before this as well as gambling away tons of money and even getting scammed himself, and this was his way out of the situation. He had 3 businesses, coinchat, a website that paid people for chatting, inputs.io a wallet that had no fees for offchain payments, and coinlenders, a lending site. In that time period, peole who got into lending lost big time, he even mentions that in this thread, all those p2p lending platforms ended badly. So it's not exactly clear how he was turning any profit, but he was was regularly throwing around cash, making 100btc+ bets on gambling websites such as justdice etc.

So thats basically my opinion on how things went. He was a very young lonely dude, talented for his age but wayyy too cocky, he launched 3 websites. They got a lot of users, he made a lot of friends and enjoyed the online reputation he had. But the businesses never made any profit. So once his websites bled too much money, he faked the hack and ran away with the rest of the funds, got into altcoin trading and made bank, then decided his best move was to pay back the people he scammed.

I'll also add something I just remembered. TF had a pretty bad gambling problem, I hope he's doing better now. But even before he did anything bitcoin related, he was literally in the news because he had spent something like $50,000 on microtransactions for an online game. No idea how he was able to get that much money because he was a teenager. I remember the games developer literally stalked him after he tried to quit to try and get him addicted to the game again. Something relevant to think about.

Anyway, I'm glad the guy paid most people back, he did the right thing, sounds like he eventually sorted out his life. I didn't have much knowledge of mental issues back then but I definitely do now as I've lost people close to me, and I myself am living with depression etc, so I'm actually relieved to see him posting here and hope the best for the guy.

Theres way more stuff I could talk about, it's slowly coming back to me, at one point years ago I was literally considering writing a book about the whole thing because there is wayyy more to the story lol. But I kinda feel like it wouldn't be anyones benefit to bring up half of the shit, probably best if we stop beating the horse. Just felt the need to correct the record a little bit.

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Most anti-virus companies share the same virus definition databases. The different scanners are 99% identical. There is little benefit to running many different ones on the same machine. I recommend you use an anti-virus that has some kind of real-time scanning and doesn't put significant loads on your computer or compromise your privacy by sending significant amounts of data back to the publisher. The Windows defender built into Windows 10 is probably the best really as its extremely lightweight and has real-time scanning. In any case anti-virus protection is reactive rather than proactive, keeping your software up-to-date and not clicking on suspicious links or downloading suspicious files is much more important than an anti-virus.

About your question of on-screen keyboard. That may work against some fairly basic keyloggers, but absolutely will not against more advanced ones. The main thing is to try avoid getting infected with a keylogger in the first place by practicing good security practices. Once your machine is infected then you are kind of screwed as the malware could potentially do anything you can think of and may be almost impossible to detect or remove.

Actually it won't take long now that you've given your password to some random website lol. Don't type your bitcointalk password into anything other than bitcointalk.org.

Did you write down the seed somewhere? the app forces you to do that when making the wallet.

It doesn't show any transactions. Would a transfer from another player show up in transactions in the off chance somebody sent me a tip? Is there a page that shows winnings?

EDIT: it was a tip from another player. It just showed up in cashier. What a nice guy

I created an account yesterday. Won on a freeroll, lost a small amount on a cash game, went to bed and when I woke up my balance was 3x higher. Anyone know why?

Repayment has been received in full. Thank you.

You can use the command -zapwallettxes to delete the unconfirmed transaction from your wallet.

To do this on a mac, open up a terminal and run afterwards it's probably a good idea to run (this will take a really long time). After you do this you might have to wait a few hours for the network to completely forget about the txes and then you'll be able to spend them as normal.

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is greyhawk. I have funded you a loan of 0.01BTC. Please repay 0.015BTC within 7 days. The repayment address is 12Ce2UZ2rogDkUSsFuK5SUBpxJi4p6mFK1
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
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-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Payment txid: dfde3e4e413a8ff7fc25c12f333575ed611929764d4743a688c2e5c6d8a4ae1a

Either a new game or yet another new design. I'm leaning towards new game.

Yeah woops I worded that sentence wrong. Perhaps they could still take the commission from the refunded bet.

I remember people talking about this. The best policy is not to honor the bet and refund it. Considering it a donation is wrong, as clearly it was intended to be a bet. If you start allowing the bets you'll open up yourself to being scammed.

An upcoming fork wouldn't explain why his transactions aren't going through right now before the fork happened. Also IIRC CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY is a softfork anyway.

Your wallet.dat file should be in Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ I'd recommend you back this up. It's unlikely upgrading will mess it up, but it's always a good idea to have a backup anyways in case your hard drive dies or PC gets stolen.

I think the problem is due to the way fees are calculated now due to network congestion. I'm not sure why the notice disappeared. I would recommend you backup your wallet, and upgrade to 0.12.1.

I get a warning in my browser about insecure connection. It's because you have included content served over http on your https page. You should change this:


To this:

Nice design, but it's a little buggy, I guess it's still under construction. For example it won't let me enter the deposit amount, I must use the arrows to do it. Quite annoying. You can change that by removing the readonly part in bold from from this html tag

Did you make a transaction from the blockchain.info wallet? If you did then your bitcoins are probably in a change address in the new wallet and restoring your armory private keys wont do anything. Check your email for a blockchain.info backup, or try to regain access to that account. If you setup dropbox sync, you will have a backup there.