Just because they thought so doesn't really give them the ground to take things away like that. I am sure in the US you might even would be able to sue them for it.
And as far as mining goes, there is no reason for it to be illegal(as long as bitcoin isn't). As the electricity you are using is what you are paying for. And its not illegal to use more of it for mining.
Yes absolutely, a spike in electricity usage is perfectly acceptable grounds for them to get a search warrant on suspicion of growing hash using high watt lamps, they are more than welcome to come in every week to check I'm not growing hash, what I have a major problem with is them coming in, not finding anything illegal but taking everything I own anyway!! I can't run my business without my computers, I'm taking the state to the high court, very expensive but I'm confident I'll win because ive done nothing wrong... a robbery would have been better for you, because you can buy insurance against that  been through an insurance claim recently and it was very long and ardouos procedure to get any money back from insurance first thing you will be asked for is a detailed police report on the matter lol |
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Hi
I am new to bitcoins, So wanted little help here.I have downloded the wallet but struckup to start it up since 5 days. Following information i get from the client.
1- Its Struck at message " Reindexing blocks on disk" + " 1 year and 27 week behind"
2- When i see how much blocks have been loaded in blocks folder then there are 189 files of size of 26.7 GB. Last block is rev00189.dat.
3- At present, 255903 blocks have been processed for transaction history.
My question, is it going fine , if yes then how long it will take to completely downlaod and reindex blocks
another day or two and you will have it up to date (35.3 GB ) after that ,you will not notice it running in the background |
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A little follow up info I found from browsing the web, Special Agent Arran Mcwhirter, mentioned by Burt's wife on her site, historically is responsible for phone tapping and invasive surveillance for DHS. He has mainly been involved in wiretapping cocaine dealers. He would have surveilled Burts house and reviewed months of conversations before acting. What did he find that he thought was worth the effort?
hes probably got a boss like everyone else and is expected to produce results after wasting time and money may also be part of a follow up investigation from the btcst , trendon shavers probably has given up the names of the PPT operators The surveillance would have to show something to create that kind of response from multiple departments. There were some pretty interesting departments there according to the recount of events. Postal police? They only get involved when the crime happens using the us mail service. You could build a nuclear bomb in your basement and they wouldn't care if you didn't attempt to ship it through the mail. They don't get involved in very many arrests but they do report a multitude of crimes to other departments. DEA? Their jurisdiction is also very limited. Again, they wouldn't care if you built a nuclear bomb in your basement unless you stuffed it full of illegal narcotics. Local sheriffs and marshals? It makes sense they would be there for any crime. They're the extra manpower for every local arrest. DHS? Another strange department to be involved in a money transmitter license case. DHS keeps the bad boo-boos and owies from coming into this country from those other heathen places in the world. They do everything from securing the borders and immigration to securing the Internet from foreign owies. Anything that could have anything to do with keeping those commie pinko fags and their radical ideas overseas would be DHS. I can see there being 35 people involved with just the above listed departments. That's only seven people per department which would be a normal response force for any department. DEA goes to bust a drug dealer they take 6-7 people. Makes sense for the number of departments. Using just the information we know about the departments involved in the arrest eliminates the possibility of this having anything to do with running a PPT. It also eliminates the possibility that this was over guns or alcohol. But the most curious thing of all is it eliminates the possibility that this was about a money transmitting license. the DEA have arrested various people all over the world for all sorts of crimes google for "joseph rambo hunter arrested in thailand " and hes just one example who didnt actually have any drugs but it shows the DEA have a lot of power even overseas if he has sold or exchanged bitcoins that were to be used or had already been used on silk rd etc it would help the DEA justify their excuse for being there maybe they just want his money if their intelligence has singled him out as being a "big fish" ? he will possibly be offered a deal to forefit all his assets in exchange for a slap on the wrist etc |
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What do you think?
reretardded ....... |
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A little follow up info I found from browsing the web, Special Agent Arran Mcwhirter, mentioned by Burt's wife on her site, historically is responsible for phone tapping and invasive surveillance for DHS. He has mainly been involved in wiretapping cocaine dealers. He would have surveilled Burts house and reviewed months of conversations before acting. What did he find that he thought was worth the effort?
hes probably got a boss like everyone else and is expected to produce results after wasting time and money may also be part of a follow up investigation from the btcst , trendon shavers probably has given up the names of the PPT operators |
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I am not sure where Bitcoin will stand in two years, but at the rate of adoption and considering how many companies do invest, I see a good time coming.
This seems to be the point Andreas Antonopoulos said awhile ago before all this recent news give it 2 years, i have to agree there is a lot of reasons that good things are coming, 10,000 btc atm just started in Spain and they are in talks with other country's to get them to adopt, the 21 $116million to name just a few i am sure lots more to come. There will be exciting times to come for bitcoin not sure 2 years but within 5  Yes, good things are coming but I think that we will have to wait longer than 2 years. In order to make breakthrough and become mainstream we really need many more ''big'' merchants to accept BTC and this will not happen as fast as we want. We have to educate people about BTC, get more users and inspire merchants to start accepting bitcoin and this is job for all of us If everybody help, it will happen in 2 years, otherwise we will need much more time. Andreas didn't necessarly mean "2 years to explode". He may have meant 2 years to see Bitcoin is really here to stay and that things will start taking a very solid shape, not 1 million per coin so to speak. It is already taking shape and has done for a couple of years already he has seen this and made an educated prediction or he has inside information where we are going, it is quite clear what he was saying. I am not finding it quite so clear what you are saying lol Who said anything about a $1,000,000 price? Nobody said anything about such price what was you reading to write that as a response? Do you read before you post . 1 million per bitcoin is not impossible but to suggest it will happen within 2 years is highly improbable It could easy jump to well over 1k+ in that time frame though ,maybe even 10k if some of the new services take off ..... the sky is literally the limit,or the moon as we like to call it ....... My last post on here to rap this up, what are you reading to give us your opinion about 1million not happening? The thing is nobody said anything about 1million lol it will never come this i am fairly certain. My point nobody said anything about it so i am curious to what you guys was reading from them replies. I agree we may see 1k but you have to remember that we only went to 1k before was because of a pump by shady willy bot and to get there again we must have a lot of users which should come in the end and like you said we need to have a need for the coin for it to take of properly. an eventual million dollar valuation has been thrown around by many people in the last year or two if you check for them ,heres one : http://www.businessinsider.com/raoul-pal-on-bitcoin-2014-11i think 5k would probably be attainable with a bit of luck in a 2 yr time frame because there is so much happening but something crazy would be needed to get up to 1 mil either that or 30-50-100 years into the future its very possible a btc could equal 1 mil |
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I am not sure where Bitcoin will stand in two years, but at the rate of adoption and considering how many companies do invest, I see a good time coming.
This seems to be the point Andreas Antonopoulos said awhile ago before all this recent news give it 2 years, i have to agree there is a lot of reasons that good things are coming, 10,000 btc atm just started in Spain and they are in talks with other country's to get them to adopt, the 21 $116million to name just a few i am sure lots more to come. There will be exciting times to come for bitcoin not sure 2 years but within 5 Yes, good things are coming but I think that we will have to wait longer than 2 years. In order to make breakthrough and become mainstream we really need many more ''big'' merchants to accept BTC and this will not happen as fast as we want. We have to educate people about BTC, get more users and inspire merchants to start accepting bitcoin and this is job for all of us If everybody help, it will happen in 2 years, otherwise we will need much more time. Andreas didn't necessarly mean "2 years to explode". He may have meant 2 years to see Bitcoin is really here to stay and that things will start taking a very solid shape, not 1 million per coin so to speak. It is already taking shape and has done for a couple of years already he has seen this and made an educated prediction or he has inside information where we are going, it is quite clear what he was saying. I am not finding it quite so clear what you are saying lol Who said anything about a $1,000,000 price? Nobody said anything about such price what was you reading to write that as a response? Do you read before you post . 1 million per bitcoin is not impossible but to suggest it will happen within 2 years is highly improbable It could easy jump to well over 1k+ in that time frame though ,maybe even 10k if some of the new services take off ..... the sky is literally the limit,or the moon as we like to call it ....... |
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theres either an awful lot of stupidity on this thread
or maybe its just gambling site owners trying to encourage fools to lose their money
any house advantage no matter how small it looks is enough to keep them on top ALWAYS
the only way casinos could remain profitable is by having a slight or not so slight advantage depending on the bet ........if there was a simple working strategy to " beat the house " everyone would just use it and casinos would bleed money until they were in the red .........
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That must be the motherload of all drug raids in history. Normally, a dozen kilos being pictured would be enough to raise many eye brows but this is incomprehensible in magnitude. I'm surprised this place wasn't being guarded by an army of sorts.
That colossal room full of money has been in threads already last year if not earlier ....... I have seen it many times but i dont remember the golden gun collection so maybe these pics are from 2 separate raids mixed together ..... |
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MP & Co have tremendous financial (and personal) incentives to force the GigaBlock issue sooner than later, or at another time of their choosing. I doubt that they have more financial incentive than 21e6 or BitFury or DigitalBTC. But yes please continue to suck MP's cock. HashFail scammer! IV. Satoshi himself envisioned much larger blocks.
The discussion of what "Satoshi himself" did or didn't do, meant or didn't mean, so on and so forth is about as interesting and discussing the Mormon "bible". Stop quoting liars! Nobody here cares about what MP vomits! Maybe try to debate with your own words to make you look less like a dog who just follows commands. Is it just me, or is the 1MB supporter consist of just 4-5 of MP's cronies like davout, icebreaker, MP alts, and that baron guy... and the 20MB supporter is EVERYONE FUCKING ELSE!?
It's fucking clear as daylight that even that 20% opposition in the poll is inflated by troll accounts.
OMFG.
Dogs who just follow orders blindly. Except davout who just likes it to refuse every argument without bringing nothing new to the discussion. And in case anyone missed it: iCEBREAKER is a master scammer! DO NOT believe any word from him!the 20MB blocks are happening regardless ,5 homos like MP icebreaker etc flaming this thread aint going to change anything......... |
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No, the mistake was on my part. His offer is 750 bitcoin today for 1`000 USGavincoin in the future, which is essentially the same as trading 750 post-fork bitcoin for 250 USGavincoin. I might be willing to offer you a better deal, but I will not agree to "refund" in the case that the fork doesn't happen. That's the whole point of making this kind of agreement. I'd be betting that the fork is not successful, whether by being crushed on the market or by not ever happening. If you're really interested in buying some discounted coins, you had better get in the WoT. Are you trying to be funny? I'm "pitching" the very thing you claim to support. I have not seen an argument against a larger block limit that uses facts. Your market forces will just have to deal with larger blocks. Who the fuck would give MP money, are you batshit insane? THIS x 100 lol How many people even know who the fuck MP was/is ? Or had ever heard of him before this forking argument ? the blocks have to scale up for the system to remain usable THE END |
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I upgraded to BitCoin Core 0.10.0 64-bit Windows very shortly after it was released. I've been running a full node since it finished syncing after 2 days. I've had a couple days when it reindexed the blockchain, or something, that took a few hours but worked fine after that finished. Now it's frozen at block 346578 and will not sync up. I just reinstalled 0.10.0 and it reindexed blocks but has remained frozen at block 346578. When I check at getaddr.bitnodes.io it says my address is unreachable. I changed it to my IP address instead the address it defaulted to and it now says "23.119.56.197:8333 /Satoshi:0.10.0/." How can it be unreachable yet I have 10 connections in and 8 out with plenty of traffic  I checked Windows Firewall Inbound Rules and verified that I have port 8333 open. I sure need to receive my BTC deposits from the last 3 days of pool mining. What can I do TIA Now I'm on the 4th day of being frozen at block 346578. Looks like upgrading to 0.10.0 was very premature as it freezes up. I gave up and removed all trace of the thing. I reinstalled it and will not wait another 2 days to see if it's capable of syncing up. If my wallet was not corrupted by 0.10.0 I would definitely have gone back to an earlier version. mine has also become corrupted somehow and reindexing the blockchain is taking up 100% of the cpu for days now i think the older version 0.9.3 was more stable |
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^ I don't actually have the time, energy, interest or mental capacity for weird agendas like this. I live a public life, and don't hide behind pseudo identities on the internet. My entire life is documented.
No, I didn't make "millions" from this whole fiasco, rather I lost a lot of money, which is pretty clear if you read my account (or those of others involved in this case) of what happened.
As for the missing funds from MintPal, we provided conclusive evidence of the funds being moved from MintPal cold storage wallet to a wallet in Ryan's control and sold off to localbitcoin from there by Ryan himself.
We have all the pieces of the puzzle.
Now we're just waiting for the law enforcement to do their job. So far, they've done rather well.
We are doing our best to mitigate damages and work on recovering any missing funds. Not sure what else you expect me to do. Bang my head against the wall? Because I have done that too.
Regards,
Ferdous
pin the tail of blame on the ryan whoever ..............you had no gain from selling him the keys to the "mintpal vault" and robbing everything worth taking now you say you didnt profit from the sale of mintpal but actually lost money ?? come off it ,who do you think youre talking to ? there might be a lot of idiots on this forum but a child wouldnt believe the shit youre spouting were supposed to believe ,you took a profitable business and sold it to a notorious scammer for an undisclosed sum who immediately robbed the customers of millions of dollars worth of crypto and were supposed to believe in your own words you "lost a lot of money" ..................................even though the sale was already done and moolah was operating mintpal (your own words) so you would have been up the sale money at the very least even if you got no share of the pilfered coins which is hard to believe ........ theres more holes in your story than a fucking teabag ...... return a few xmr and retire happy on some beach with karpeles ,it seems like another typically successful exchange scam that will go unpunished so congratulations lol I get your angry because you lost funds, me too. But attacking Ferdous isn't going to help. Notice that he is still here trying to recover what he can for people and taking flak whereas Ryan disappeared almost immediately so what does that tell you... it tells me they either... . A. worked together to steal all the money B. they might be the same person take your pick wow. are you really that paranoid? you have some evidence that they worked together or Ferdous is actually Alex Green??? try reading the thread. making this thread I got to know several good people who went out there way to try to solve this - Ben Doernberg, Mr Felt, Ferdous, and lots of others. None of them had anything to gain apart from trying to clean up crypto after someone like Green messes it up. Unfortunately we still didn't get BTC back. Alex Green I sent many shit-a-gram emails/messages too and never one reply apart from on his twitter. I get that from the outside wild theories are easy to come up with but your insinuation is honestly just ridiculous. (Unless i'm in on it too? ?  ) seriously if you can contribute something to help then please do, this doesn't lol 5200+ btc ...........ryan who ? exchange owner innocent obviously .........lol |
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^ I don't actually have the time, energy, interest or mental capacity for weird agendas like this. I live a public life, and don't hide behind pseudo identities on the internet. My entire life is documented.
No, I didn't make "millions" from this whole fiasco, rather I lost a lot of money, which is pretty clear if you read my account (or those of others involved in this case) of what happened.
As for the missing funds from MintPal, we provided conclusive evidence of the funds being moved from MintPal cold storage wallet to a wallet in Ryan's control and sold off to localbitcoin from there by Ryan himself.
We have all the pieces of the puzzle.
Now we're just waiting for the law enforcement to do their job. So far, they've done rather well.
We are doing our best to mitigate damages and work on recovering any missing funds. Not sure what else you expect me to do. Bang my head against the wall? Because I have done that too.
Regards,
Ferdous
pin the tail of blame on the ryan whoever ..............you had no gain from selling him the keys to the "mintpal vault" and robbing everything worth taking now you say you didnt profit from the sale of mintpal but actually lost money ?? come off it ,who do you think youre talking to ? there might be a lot of idiots on this forum but a child wouldnt believe the shit youre spouting were supposed to believe ,you took a profitable business and sold it to a notorious scammer for an undisclosed sum who immediately robbed the customers of millions of dollars worth of crypto and were supposed to believe in your own words you "lost a lot of money" ..................................even though the sale was already done and moolah was operating mintpal (your own words) so you would have been up the sale money at the very least even if you got no share of the pilfered coins which is hard to believe ........ theres more holes in your story than a fucking teabag ...... return a few xmr and retire happy on some beach with karpeles ,it seems like another typically successful exchange scam that will go unpunished so congratulations lol I get your angry because you lost funds, me too. But attacking Ferdous isn't going to help. Notice that he is still here trying to recover what he can for people and taking flak whereas Ryan disappeared almost immediately so what does that tell you... it tells me they either... . A. worked together to steal all the money B. they might be the same person take your pick |
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People still keep on saying that BTC-E is shady, and the owner is anonymous, etc... Yet they haven't had any serious outages, thefts or anything. But I agree that Coinbase (+exchange), Bitstamp, or also Bitfinex seem safer.
Just because he didn't gox everyone yet doesn't mean he won't, he doesn't have much lose if he's some anonymous guy from Russia or Bulgaria etc... |
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Bandwidth, well, I guess it depends on your location, but generally all these cable and DSL providers are all about downstream and give jack shit for upstream, at least in the US.
It's the same in the EU and I think probably in the rest of the world too. I think they do this to prevent you from running a server from home for cheap. Nope. I do not know what you consider at a low speed, but here ,in Russia, I pay 450 rubles($7.44 or €6.87)(per month) for 50 Mbit/s upstream and 50 Mbit/s downstream. in sweden most people have more the average is 56-57MB but many people have 100MB/s package |
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2 years is indeed , way to quick. People are rushing remember that usd for example is waaay older than bitcoin.
A currency doesnt only need to be good , it needs to get people to change to their currency. and we're humans , it takes alot of time for some to change.
rewind back to two years ago and see how much progress can be made in 2 years =$2 bitcoins fast forward two years and the progress could be $2k or even $10k bitcoins......... |
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What do you guys think of the donation website?
Is it just a blatant scam or is it actually real, and where are the funds actually going to, in order to help BurtW?
I think that we can safely assume it's legit and that any funds amassed will benefit those seeking it. If nothing else, perhaps some trustworthy Bitcoiner could start a campaign to collect $600 via donations to replace what the LEOs confiscated from Burt's eight-year-old daughter. If so, and it's amassed via bitcoins, have it converted to fiat and placed in an exact or similar container that said amount was once held in, the goal being to make the little girl cry with tears of joy. Aside (from the above): I wonder if the purpose of placing Burt in the fed pen for a couple days was their way of extracting from him some private keys (not meaning physical abuse). <just thinkin' out loud> I still don't get how he was arrested though. it happens so fast your head would spin ,open the door and theres a swat team BOOM -GET DOWN ON THE GROUND youre read your rights ,handcuffed and dragged away awhile they ransack your house and confiscate whatever they think maybe involved computers , external hard drives whatever media or cellphones they can find doesnt really matter much if theres proof or not thesedays ,seem to do whatever the fuck they want |
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What do you guys think of the donation website?
Is it just a blatant scam or is it actually real, and where are the funds actually going to, in order to help BurtW?
I think that we can safely assume it's legit and that any funds amassed will benefit those seeking it. If nothing else, perhaps some trustworthy Bitcoiner could start a campaign to collect $600 via donations to replace what the LEOs confiscated from Burt's eight-year-old daughter. If so, and it's amassed via bitcoins, have it converted to fiat and placed in an exact or similar container that said amount was once held in, the goal being to make the little girl cry with tears of joy. Great idea Aside (from the above): I wonder if the purpose of placing Burt in the fed pen for a couple days was their way of extracting from him some private keys (not meaning physical abuse). <just thinkin' out loud>
Oh, SPIT!!! that makes a whole lot of sense, fits snug like a puzzle piece. Ahhhh man, if that's true, could you imagine how demoralized he got to finally submit to that? wow __________________________________
I still don't get how he was arrested though.
Much of the fundamentals of the arrest has the hallmarks of the Miami sting, however along the way they determined he was a 'big fish' worthy of "PATRIOT act" level investigative resources and arrest.
It might be that the LEOs are dumb and confused when they use blockchain to trace BurtW's transactions, they might mistake an exchange address as BurtWs so they assumed he hold thousands of Bitcoins. I wonder if those LEOs suffer anything if BurtW beat them in court. I assume they dont, so they dont care. if they link him to the BTCST and or the PPT scam they might have come to the conclusion he was in custody of tens of thousands of btc at some times (even if they were only in his hands before they were passed onto pirate to ponzivest in the scheme ........ |
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If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
Laszlo should have been more depressed than you, although it appears the opposite. holy shit - Laszlo would have been a billionaire if he just hodled look how many coins was recieved at that wallet alone : Total Received 81,432.09 BTC https://blockchain.info/address/1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4 |
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