dyask, can I ask what the point of this post was? Leaving aside whether 200 BTC is or isn't a considerable sum of money, there are threads on bitcointalk where people are worried because they've not received 0.001 BTC for their involvement in signature campaigns - what may be chump-change to you may well not be to other people. It does matter whether it's a scam - people have lost money, and it's entirely reasonable to take action to prevent further people losing money (even if you think the money they're losing is insignificant). Your post reminds me of ThorSWO's recent posts, and not in a positive way.

Namecha.in is a block explorer for namecoin (analogous to blockchain.info for Bitcoin) - namecoin was one of the first (the first?) altcoins, and allows domain registration using the Blockchain - so your bitcoin addresses won't show up because you've not used them to register an internet domain. That's about the limit of my knowledge, I'm afraid - I've not used Namecoin, and the only real research I've done on it was back when it first started (it grew out of bitdns, but I remember it from when it became namecoin). I do know that Slush's mining pool mines namecoins, though - I read a forum post yesterday about it!

The stress test was "cancelled", and replaced by a "giveaway" (which had the same effect...)

The bitcoin address you posted is showing up on Namecoin's block-explorer - it appears to be associated with bitcoin.co.th. I'm not sure what that tells us, but I suspect someone more knowledgable than me, or a better detective, could provide more information!

In a past life I worked for one of the banks mentioned in the article. I worked in a secondary office, where everyone was technical, and we had very little contact with the bankers, traders or anyone else involved in the core business, so to keep us lowly techs informed they held periodic meetings. At one of these meetings they told us that they'd mislaid 16000 "Wintel boxes" (PCs). They weren't too concerned, the PCs were bound to turn up sooner or later. So I'm not sure whether wasting money on hardware is that big a concern for them!

That said, I do agree that it makes more sense for them to start a new blockchain - for exactly the reason you suggest. I'm mostly bullish on this - I kinda expected it, and I think it's a necessary step before big finance embrace the original Blockchain. At some point a different bank, or group of banks, is going to have a choice - join a blockchain dominated by some of the biggest players in the industry (join on their terms), start yet another blockchain (and convince partners and the public that it's secure), or utilise The Original And Best Blockchain. I think the three approaches will coexist for some time.

ATMs in Britain definitely use Windows. Until 2004 they ran on OS/2, then migrated to Windows XP. If that sounds terrifying, you should check out "Windows for Warships" - an exciting mix of Windows 2000 and XP!

Well, you can if you want - really up to you, eh?! No, I'm just curious - unless you've got the stones to pony up every time you make one of these grandiose claims, you're going to get called out as... well, someone with an active imagination not really well grounded in reality. So it seems a little pointless making these "I got eleventy one withdrawals, <misogynist slur>, eat it, <scared of gay people slur> !!!1!" claims - unless you're being paid for it or have a fragile ego that needs regularly stoked with top quality bullshit. Unless there's some other reason I've missed?

tl;dr - what do you get out of your posts?

Genuine question, by the way. I kinda feel that if you were being paid for your posts your paymasters would make some effort to ensure your posts passed more than a cursory fact-check.

No, the 100% accuracy means that for every report a poor wee lamb was served up with mint sauce. Check the meta section, it's all there!

Whoa, dude, I think it's the accusation of you being a liar that you should be worried about, no? What with your coy approach to substantiating claims you make, and with your - ahem - muddied past history of claims that don't seem to gel with reality. I know, I know, we shouldn't take this so seriously - it's just that, well, most people have this concept of integrity. It confuses us little people when we encounter people who don't seem to value integrity the same way the rest of society does.

My assumption (and this is my first full week, been paid once) is that the other 10 won't carry. (The reason I think that is that on the spreadsheet people with the max in one week sometimes have very few posts the following week).


Totally. Part of the reason Wangxinxi is busy is because he spent a good part of yesterday helping me with a problem I was having with the site. IMO the site should take priority over other issues, like the sig campaign. It's Coinut's core business, after all!

That seems reasonable - we just need to stop taking you seriously. Wait...

Indeed! And you're part of that lucky group! And you were part of that lucky group last time! And yet... when asked to prove it you showed an address that - curiously - didn't have the transactions we'd expect from the claims you'd made I guess you just made a mistake. So - what's the address you received the two 4 BTC withdraws to? Or, if you're coy, what's the real transaction ID that included the two mysterious transactions? Waiting with bated breath here - I kinda feel the end is almost in sight!!! All these folk who think you're a lying liar from Liartown, boy are they about to be shocked - right?!

Unbelievably awesome! You're one lucky dude. While you're here, any chance of - finally! - getting an answer to the mysteriously unsubstantiated claims you made last time you were this lucky?

Could you post the address you used here? (It's safe to do so, but you shouldn't take my word for it! If you post here, what I'll do is check the address using a block explorer - so, if you don't trust me of the internet with your address, you could do the same).

Whatever you decide - bookmark this! https://btc.blockr.io Tools like this are incredibly useful for checking on transactions - every time I send or receive bitcoins I use this.

Globally there must be plenty of ATMs without swipe pads - until you mentioned I didn't know they existed! (In the UK ATMs still require cards to be inserted. Over the past few years most of them seem to have that blue/green plastic thing that does something to improve security, but that's the only visible improvement).

I'm sure you're right about customers calling their bank, but... whenever an ATM has swallowed my card (admittedly not recently, and only twice) I've called the telephone number on the machine itself (obviously I won't be doing that again!) I'm sure that's true for most people, so they could be easily fooled - particularly if they're using a generic ATM, or an ATM belonging to a different bank (in the UK most bank customers can use other banks' ATMs).

I'm also not too sure how useful security cameras are - it would only take a minute for an adversary with their face masked to remove stolen cards. In the UK the area around the ATM would probably be covered in CCTV anyway, so the adversary would probably wait until it was dark, cover their face, etc.

Assuming that it's risen against other major currencies as well...

...then I'd assume that it would shortly fall back. I'd (a) sell calls with an expiry a few months ahead, and (b) buy short-term puts. I'd also start considering where I could free-up fiat, to buy BTC when it falls back.

I'm useless with timing BTC sales/purchases, and don't have easy fiat access to an exchange (banks in the UK are pretty hostile to bitcoin) so I doubt I'd have a chance to sell any BTC before it hit USD 1MM. I'm also wary of the tax hit I'd take - I'm not really planning on converting BTC to fiat until I can do it in as tax-efficient way as possible, and that's not a problem I need to face right now. Once it happens, though, yes, I'll buy a boat, an island and live a life of luxury!

52 reports, 99%. Most of that is that annoying malware that hacks users' accounts and then spams threads with links to "mining" software (malware).

Verified.

It's maybe the "stress test" (or the giveaway coinwallet.eu ran instead) - I requested a withdraw on the 11th and it got stuck with no confirmations. A later withdrawal went through fine, so I emailed support about the earlier withdrawal. Support replied pretty promptly. (I finally got my withdrawal yesterday).

Anything Unix, though quite a few jobs in the past involved using a Windows desktop to shell into Unix boxes. Right now I've got a Macbook (and I'm loving OS X) and various boxes running Linux (mostly Debian or Ubuntu). In the near future I'm setting up a new NAS, and that'll be either a BSD- or Solaris-derivative.

I don't use Electrum, so I'm basing this on the FAQ. Do you still have the "seed"? If you do it looks like you might be in luck - you can restore your wallet from the seed and reset your password to a new one. If you don't have the seed I'm out of ideas - sorry!