Good fucking lord what’s become of this hobby and this board. Finite, are you a 12 year old ? You misspelled a word on a design, you then had it printed, assembled, uploaded and posted and didn’t catch on to it ? Once it’s BEYOND LEGITIMATELY brought up, you thank someone for saying it should just be left unspoken of? What fn world are we living in right now?!  Howard , Kaz - seek mental health help, after you’re done shagging each other , of course. SMH

Guys- scam busting physical btc bullshit is what I do. By far the most active in the space ever . (Not a brag , I just can’t sleep at night knowing people are going to / have been hurt. I’ve been an investment advisor over a decades now and am trained to spot threads. It’s easy for me but fuck is it A LOT of work , a lot. Also, I’m not in sales , and never will be. I don’t want to have incentives to push products. I go well above what I’m supposed to do in my current role but I can’t not help someone in need (had a really fd up day at work, this sweet lady was hearing me out (ranting). Then she says “I’ve adopted 8 children, go over seas to help people in poor nations as a social worker, it’s what I do and can be helpful with. She has been in a fixed account (think money market since the Great Recession of 08…I had to tell her she’d have a balance of around 300 something K versus I think hers was at 40k. She has an abusive x and has had to hire two lawyers, one for restraining order another for whatever it was. So you know what I’m not supposed to, but I gave her my personal number and said she has a financial advisor for life. She will never pay a penny, and I will help her get much more on track much more prepared for retirement and the only way I could do that is by ethically breaking my companies rules. I don’t have a problem breaking laws or rules that are unjust imo,  so honestly, if I got fired over it, I don’t even care.. helping people and animals is my passion in life.  So whether I tagged Casaus eight years ago or a year ago, really doesn’t matter not one fucking bit and honestly there’s other people that I need to expose however, that people that were screwed over. Do not want me to. I hate it with a red burning passion, but they told me in confidence. I promised them. I’m a man of my word what I’m saying is Mike deserves every single fucking bit of that negative trust and yeah I should’ve left it a long time ago, but I was a newbie at the time I was intimidated to do so and I just didn’t. I let it go just saying whatever I try to brush it off, but you know what it doesn’t matter if it was 100 years ago maybe by law and statue of limitation, but there is no statues of limitation here and I want people to know what kind of man he really is. He follows an Instagram account that I used to run. He actively hit like on Cretaceous post guys. He’s been active on the website. He removed Uber bills (https://casascius.uberbills.com/ )  he’s refused to add Krogos beware of Casaus scam coins (       https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3257048   ). he has refused to respond about a blog he wrote years back finding a fake 25 bitcoin Casaus coin on eBay. I need that information to post to that thread to help others from being scammed. Mike has been active this whole time. How do I know because I check in on it all the time Instagram, his website, etc. he’s a cryptographer. He created the concept of bip38, so no he didn’t just forget about it. I did hit him up on multiple accounts. I got no responses and you know what that shows exactly what kind of man he is. I could go deeper and dig harder, but it’s personal and honestly, I’m not gonna go there.

What Do I get for the countless weeks of scam busting ( actually months if you add up all the hours I’ve spent doing this over the years)  I’ve busted.  I had zero skin of the game in almost all of them.  I do it because that is what I am passionate about.. helping others so anyone who thinks this negative trust wasn’t deserved needs to reevaluate some things in their head and ask themselves if a guy is active updating his website removing Uber bills refusing to add beware of cas coins scam, knowing for a fucking fact that he seen my messages (at least some of them) and as I mentioned, what did Satoshi say..hang onto your wallets, never destroy any of them ever. Do you think that he maybe has his wallet linked to whatever programs that alert you when transactions occur. The website is how you placed orders , you don’t think he has those payments /orders sent to an email(s) to
Alert him ? of fucking course he does.

He deserves every bit of it , just like every other maker who fucked people in one way or anther.

I think some of you are seeing some
legend (Gavin conceptualized the idea of paper wallets , (BiitBills was first to do it- this can be found in my historical physical bitcoin history thread I’ll post that later tomorrow), he was active in that first physical representation “trinket” ever made thread where Gavin conceptualized paper wallets (what a Cas coin is, just in a fancy metal form) etc.

There’s nearly 2.4B left in Cas coins and as they creator he’s refused to do some very minor things to help A LOT. What a legend right.

If you still think it’s undeserving you need to reevaluate what kind of human being you are, knowing all this now.

I do well for myself. I never expected to hear back from him as I haven’t and I guarantee never will. Yeah it’d be nice to have that .39 back but knew when I posted that I never will get it back, but it was important for me that people knew that he wasn’t this God some of you think he is.


This post has misspellings, bad, grammar punctuation, probably repeated sentences as I’m on mobile, using Firefox in Notepad not easy to draw up a post like this using those aspectsetc. it’s late as fuck. I have some work to do before I get a couple hours of sleep before work starts. I’ll clean it up tomorrow. I’m out for now..  oh and he’s done more scammy things I’ll reveal then to.  As some have said , he deserves more negs. 100%

Sorry for the novel but I’m trying to be thorough. And now I can hear my rescue/Farrell kitty in my walls. Long story short I’ve allowed her access to that while trying to “” domesticate her and she’s now crying as there’s a major storm her rn. fuck me anyways Work and my cat are more important than this thread again I’ll clean it up tomorrow more or early next week as I’ve got a lot going on this weekend


Jolly was gunna DM ya, but want you to know how much I appreciate you. Over the years you’ve always been helpful to me in different ways and I really respect you.  I dont need to say this to many members here as I know them well and have for years and those I speak of know who they are and I feel the same with them

Oh and bud, honestly what I think would be more prudent would be giving a single shit about billions of dollars in the fact that people are getting fucked over and knowing it not giving a shit and doing nothing about it so what’s the point?

I know you weren’t , and this was years ago. I don’t know how I could provide evidence period beyond what I’ve presented. You don’t get a receipt, even if I had the public key or tx , how can you know it’s his? Etc.  we’ve know each other for a decade now , and I know you know I’m not making a single thing up. I hear ya tho.

Woah, last time I tried , it did not generate a public key. But I kept checking ,4/5 x a year and was live for AT MINIMUM 3 years, I think longer but I smoke a lot of weed ( a joke, not the smoking part, but it being the reason I can’t remember. My long term memory is incredible , and that’s not a brag (be a pathetic one) but I can’t keep absolutely everything retained like an elephant or an AI machine such a LoyceV). I will try to do the same when I get a work break. I obviously read intro briefly , defended myself (didn’t need to even read it to do so ) and been going through this thread when I get a free mn here and there

I sent BTC, he received btc , simple as that (never liked the 1 corn = 1 corn saying either)

A double post, man can tell how long it’s been since I’ve been active , sorry mods

I don’t care who it is, if they do shady shit, ima call them out. My reputation speaks for itself, and it’s a lot higher than his. So he created an early physical btc..so I shouldn’t call him out? I thought it over for years. Long over due . Fuck Mike Caldwell, his multitude of personal airplanes, mega mansion, and their dog house his fake influencer
Wife (yes, she bought a few hundred k’s fake accounts, and is made fun of by OG collectors constantly for how fake she is and much of a sell out he became) that she once said “a house probably bigger than yours / you can’t afford , I mean I can dig that video up if ya want).

Caldwell conceptualized BIP38, cryptographer (obviously) , has kept his account alive (paid his renewals , has made site changes, yet leaves coins for sale , for YEARS when they were not. A man who made thousands of coins and no known mistakes of any kind w key generation..doesn’t know coins are hitting his wallets? What did Satoshi always say? Never destroy a wallet, always keep them..he did, he knew.

Again, fuck him.

Thanks to my buddies for backing up my integrity here (look at my feedback history, my scam busting (never been wrong ) and ask yourself , seem like the kinda dude to just make shit up?

Case closed

Hey guys. Gunna keep this as short and simple as possible.  First and foremost, I apologize to Theymos (I will DM you soon). Then mods
and every participant.  I’m not going to get in to specifics because I think my word at this point should be enough when I say something, but I will say ..life has not been kind to me for a while. It’s been the most difficult year of my life in quite a few ways (nobody said life’s easy, it is what it is). Those who know me, know my integrity & word mean everything to me, it’s all a man (or women..if I’m playing the Lauda gamec chick or dick), have.

What I propose. I just want to pay someone to finish this off , any takers ? Then going forward don’t worry this contest will continue , ICO will take it over (he doesn’t know I know he was “plotting” to “steal” this contest from me. Why ? Why do you think..should be fairly obvious. This has been for me nothing other then for fun , to bring the community together, and give back to a forum that means so much to me. So ICO all yours buddy. Get that cheddar bro! ).

I will give it a couple days for DMs to hit , and pick someone. Loyce ? Jk jk - AI can’t do EVERYTHING, just a lot.   I’ll be back to catch up with friends (like you Loyce) , as I have missed a lot of people here over the last few months.

Participants , I sincerely apologize, I hope you guys can understand your mental , “strength and resilience “ can actually hit a limit. Not matter how much bs you’ve been thru, and brushed it off, for decades.

As mentioned I will be doing things to try and make up for my lack of not being able to handle the stress , and ungrateful dicks (this has never been difficult for me before.

Not a sob story , just honesty.

I’m going to finish this burden off , get back to collectibles scam busting. Talking football ( w the girls (Nut, yahoo.,etc).

Another Chi novel  here, but best I could do atm
..
Words to live by if you’re going through anything in life that’s got you down , stay up never stop fighting - https://youtu.be/wz-VJl7UkB8?si=SeRCefAxzYWjd190

Sorry for the novel here

Hey guys, let me start of apologizing...again.  I've been dealing with a lot personal/family issues the last couple months and things have not been easy for me, on top of had been traveling, this was just a terrible year for me to try and do this and I shouldn't have.

That said, I've yet to read any replies lately.  First off,  I hope everyone knows I'd never ever lave anything unfinished, break a deal, etc, whatever you want to call it. That's not who I am or my nature and would NEVER happen.  

On top of everything else, this has stressed me out and when people started to complain, felt I was being unfair, it got to me (because that's never been my intent, and again, who I am).  I will review everything over the next couple days.  I know/knew at least at the time we may have had to run this again.  I felt bad about this, bothering the mods and theymos unnecessarily..I needed some time to step away to deal w/life.

I will be back soon and sort this all out.

You think I give a fuck about merit? I've been around here for a decade, I can't rank up any higher and I'm not in a sig campaign ( a close friend runs the most and could be any time I wanted to be).  You are talking out of your ass and a fool.  I am doing this 100% from my own pocket, as a fun thing for the community.  I don't owe anyone shit tbh, and every year I run these, I always get some fool like you making things unnecessarily dramatized.  Theymos, the mods, many long stand held in a high light members would all assure you, you're wrong.  

Read the rules too, perhaps. the vote at the end of 7 days is not official.  Theymos approached me I think the first year I ran this to add a rules component to make voting as fair as possible.  

I recognize very few names in this contest, there's no Loyce or PowerGlove, or Nutildah in this competition, so, I dunno what you're on about.  It is really sad what a few satoshis and a few collectibles, of my own pockets will due to people trying to win it ( I purposely decided not to have any casino or whomever sponsor the event this year because I want this to be for fun, a true community builder, etc..not a shill for advertisement).  

"How the Poll is to be Run
Poll will run for 7 days.  1 vote per user. You are NOT allowed to use your alt account to vote twice. You can change your vote, of course only up until the contest ends.  


Once the 7 days is up, the voting will end, but the final results will possibly not be the actual tallies/winners until Theymos comes in and implements a few things to make the voting more fair.  Those things are, as stated by Theymos..“ 1) only Member+ votes will count, where copper membership does not on its own count as Member; and 2) users who haven't made a post in the year between the time of this post and 1 year ago will not be counted".

I'll fix whatever needs to be fixed, run it again if need be.  I am going to leave it at that, though I've got other choice words I'd like to share with you


I appreciate this  I will consider your proposal but leaning toward the poll staying the way Theymos and myself set it up year 1.  It's done to be in the most fair light.  

 
This would have been nice to know ahead of time. If you mentioned this, apologies, I missed it.  As stated several times, and before starting the contest I was overseas for several weeks, unexpected personal issues and a car accident while working a full time job have made it difficult for me to spend hours cross referencing things.  Anyone who's helped build photos and list before, did it in order of submission, and should be.  Don't take me wrong I appreciate your help, just clarifying here


@everyone losing their minds over a free contest meant with nothing but the best of intentions, I will discuss this with Theymos, and get his advice/blessing to perhaps clog up Meta a little more with re-running the pole.  I said if I made any mistakes, I'd fix them, did you all miss that too.  SMH. 

Some of ya'll might remember I posted about these coins months ago.  If memory serves me (too lazy to look) I advised everyone to hop on these as I knew they'd all be sellouts.

June 13- Army westpoint -sold out in a day- the best of all being a Westpoint mint coin
Oct 10- Navy Eagle
Nov 10- Marines eagle- https://www.usmint.gov/250th-anniversary-united-states-marine-corps-american-eagle-one-ounce-silver-proof-coin-25MPM.html/








Set my reminder as I do for these, was on work cell and in a deep convo w/ a client, forgot all about it until about 12:45 pm central.  Sold out within the hour.  First two did not.  Kinda wild. I am not happy as I love one off eagles, about the only thing worth a fuck the US mint makes, ever.  So I need one of the Marine Corps versions, I'm sure they are at over $200 (cost $105) on ebay right now if not more as this was the quickest sellout with a potential mintage of 100k I've ever seen and the other two started on ebay at 2 x cost.

If anyone snagged one, and willing to trade for a physical btc of some sort, lemme know

VOTING NOW LIVE: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5565152.0

edit: okay, good enough for the moment, will work to make a bit better.  I have always sucked a closing quotes and what not.  

Will add photos of prizes in a bit, I need to work (my job) and eat breakfast and will be back to add and clean up etc

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Voting begins now.  There will be one full week of voting, as I want to give everyone a chance to get their votes in.

How the Poll is to be Run
Poll will run for 7 days.  1 vote per user. You are NOT allowed to use your alt account to vote twice. You can change your vote, of course only up until the contest ends.  


Once the 7 days is up, the voting will end, but the final results will possibly not be the actual tallies/winners until Theymos comes in and implements a few things to make the voting more fair.  Those things are, as stated by Theymos..“ 1) only Member+ votes will count, where copper membership does not on its own count as Member; and 2) users who haven't made a post in the year between the time of this post and 1 year ago will not be counted".

In the unlikely case of a tie, we'll run another poll which will be set to run for 3 days.

No manipulation of any kind allowed. If I see you trying to manipulate the votes in any way, I reserve the right to disqualify you. Please no alt-accounts, no begging for votes etc.



EXTRA as promised- Winner 1 will get their choice between 3 very cool physical btc collectibles ( a redeemed 2012 Casascius coin (1st ever physically funded coin, 2 item to be..a bitcoin relic to be certain), a self funded "Bit-Card".  A very rare and very early btc wallet.  These are harder to find than BitBills (the first ever physical btc to be funded, that means paper wallets, hardware wallets etc), and item 3 a 2018 PSA grade 9 Topps (the most famous sports card brand ever) Cryptocurrency card.  After the overall winner picks, number 2 goes and 3 gets what's left.

For those who didn't win but participated- will do a random number generator for those of you and have 3 winners in total.  Prizes 1) Lealana physical btc 2)Genesis physical btc ) 2017 short roll of Bitcoin Penny copper btc pennies

I will be reaching out to those who put the lists together or assisted, you're getting more than merit from me.  A million and 1 thank you's!

Man, this means a lot.  I have been working on this poll for a couple hours now, and almost had it then somehow got logged out when I hit submit, so came here just to post an edit update to let everyone know I'm close.  I'm stressed af rite now as life is kickn me but your kind words, and everyones patience has meant a lot.  Thx brother <3

edit: I think everyone will be happy with some additioins I've made as an extra thank you.  Okay give me another 30mns or so (maybe there is any easier way  to do what I am, but I am not Greg Maxwell or Power Glove , to say the least lol

Full transparency (I don’t like being so these days after being hacked mercilessly for weeks about a year ago and am a paranoid mf now) but was in a car accident last week, totaled it. And have been dealing w that and life stuff that’s not good.  So I apologize for the delay

Going to work on the poll within the hour. (Will then have one week to vote).

Again guys I dropped the ball this year and next year will make sure that won’t happen , even if I’m 6ft under

Edit ; smh  didn’t even realize I shared this already. That’s kinda how fd up things have been for me lately. That said , this will be done very shortly.

He’s a scamming piece of shit. Period. If he wasn’t he’d be here trying to help out. Obviously as the OP who started this all years ago and someone who’s well versed in finance scams/ physical crypto scams I have 100% zero doubt. 

Did Gox not make payouts and settle all that shit ? If so, then he should be able to provide full refunds to everyone, right?

His website maintenance shit is just that bs. He’s been using it at an excuse for YEARS. I believe the first reported issue was back in lime 2014 or 16 , something like that. One person would show up and complain, he’d handle it quickly to suppress suspicion etc. this went on for years. He has also mentioned he stored the keys in a bank vault, as I uncovered through countless fn hours of reading threads (all over, Reddit   Btalk etc).

He pushed for 2FA over PKs in a manner that was beyond obvious that he planned this all along. He stated once tha “many Colin holders don’t understand PK coin redemption and would often peel the holo and toss it all (who the fuck had ever done. No one).

Do I need to continue ?

What a treat that is @rgram!!!  Definitely worth more merit than you’ve received.

Update : short update - I was involved in a car accident yesterday (I’m fine) so it threw off all my plans for the day.  SO later today I will establish the poll (we run for 7 day, then in which Theymos is going to come in a weed out a certain few type of members , which helps out with people trying to cheat in some way.

I will be posting the poll later today, so stay tuned!

Edit : apogio generously offered to donate to the prize pots. Thanks for your generous donation!!


100,000 sats to the 1st place,
75,000 sats to the 2nd place,
50,000 sats to the 3rd place

I will work on updating my reserved thread later today. When I say I had 500 emails in my inbox when I got back to work from being over seas, I am not kidding lol.  Anyways thank you everyone for your patience and understanding!!

Everyone - great job ! The contest of course now has officially ended. I will be working on gathering everything together, making sure everyone who posted qualifies and then in a few days Theymos and I will put out a poll for voting.

Thanks to those who participated, helped etc! This event is near and dear to me and I love how much everyone else appreciates it! Hopefully next year life won’t be so crazy for me and I’ll have more time to focus on it (I can’t imagine this not being the case).

Stayed tuned for updates shortly !


Edit - one last thing! Try and not waste your pumpkins if possible! Eat your seeds, make soup ( I had pumpkin soup while over seas and it was fantastic!!). I would love to see photos of anyone doing as such!

Cheers

-Update on Voting-

Have spoken with Theymos, he's kindly offered to help with the voting system as we've done in the past.  Copying and pasting most of our convo below describing how voting will work..


I will make the poll per usual as anyone does here on btalk, then when it's over Theymos will post adjusted results with the ineligible votes removed.

For example, this is what was done in the past:

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on November 03, 2022, 03:18:51 AM
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Once the 7 days is up, the voting will end, but the final results will possibly not be the actual tallies/winners until Theymos comes in and implements a few things to make the voting more fair.  Those things are, as stated by Theymos..“ 1) only Member+ votes will count, where copper membership does not on its own count as Member; and 2) users who haven't made a post in the year between the time of this post and 1 year ago will not be counted".

Remember/FYI- contest has been extended through the weekend    

 
Still have a lot to look at but from what I've seen so far has been great.
Stay tuned for updates