That's fantastic news! It seems that publicity really brings issues to light and often after issues are made public, the problems are fixed and such.

It's awesome that they're interested in running a story, as it's pretty much the main paper in Saskatoon. The other option would be to contact CBC Saskatchewan, but I'm not sure if they'd be interested in running a story like this.

Ah that makes sense. I totally didn't think that he might not have the private key to this address. Duh!

Wow! How long did it take to generate an address that long? I'm surprised you were able to generate one with that many custom characters.

I'm in Saskatoon and I'd be more than happy to take a lead on submitting a report. However, I'd have to be in ownership of a PB account I suspect. I'll have to figure out how I can purchase an account (probably here in the market would work) and then I'd be able to submit a report.

Agreed. I'm not sure how people are happy that PB is still paying. Sure they're paying, they're paying 1/20th of what they should be paying.

I'm not sure why it'll take until January to begin the "recovery program". Recovery should begin now, and it seems like a cover up for PB Mining to run off and disappear somewhere foreign with customer's money.

EDIT: Not sure if anyone saw this post but it appears that PB Mining has absolutely no reason to skim payouts.

In their second term of the "contract", the following statement was made: "Our insurance covers you so that you will always receive the proper payments." So their insurance should be covering the "lost funds".

However you view it, this is all very sketchy right now. I'm sure in the next few weeks things will slowly clear up.

Were R values re-used again today? I see that johoe has ~250 BTC more in his wallet today with messages saying "Contact Blockchain support".

I believe MrTeal already figured out that Roxy is the name of his dog. Although it's a name of a theater in Saskatoon chances are he's referring to the dog.

Another thing Reddit offers are communities for everything - gaming, coding, online deals, encryption, bitcoin, music, etc.

If you have an interest and want to learn more about it, there's a good chance there's a Reddit community for that interest.

Anyone can access the number. Create a gmail account and use Google Voice, international phone calls are free from there. All you'd need then is a microphone, which can cost as little as $5.

However, if you don't want to report it via phone I'm sure you can submit a report online.

Just sent a message to you as well.

They dropped their payouts by 10% one week. They logged in daily, but didn't respond to customers for four days after the payment were sent with their excuse. When they finally gave out their excuse, they said their new mining formula was "A - B = C". This pissed people off (which makes sense) so they found out Jason Boyko's personal details. When he realized his details were out in the open, Jason decided to take PBMining in another direction, and spin down the company. I'm thinking had someone not found his details, chances are he would have run off with the bitcoins he had from PB in the near future. Now he's blaming blackmailing and death threats for the death of the company, which is interesting because before he came out and said the company was shutting down, PBMining said "As far as law enforcement is concerned, there will be a statement made and the threats & blackmail messages will be shown to them." So I guess they paid off the threats and blackmail instead of going to authorities like they said?

It seems that there's lots going on, and probably lots more we don't yet know about Jason. At least now we have solid facts on him, and I'm sure if customers want to file a lawsuit again him, they will.

Mine is working fine without my Trezor plugged in.

Try clearing cookies and cache from your browser and see if that makes a difference.

According to this thread, it sounds like PB Mining is rolling things down, and will begin to compensate customers in January for contracts that they've purchased.

Read through that thread as well as some of the other PBMining threads here and you can see everything that's currently going on. But I think the biggest news right now is the thread I linked to above.

I don't think Jason has much of a reputation left at this point. It's really hard to believe that the company suffered "horrible losses thanks to some very shady people with unreasonable demands." A day or two before this was posted, PB was talking about giving blackmail and threat details to law enforcement to deal with. So I guess PBMining paid off the blackmailers and people threatening them instead of truly taking it to law enforcement? There are so many questions left to be answered by Jason, and I suspect that many of the posts he has made in the past few days aren't really the truth with what's going on.

I just hope that customers get their full investments back from PBMining and learn from it. If not, I hope they begin a lawsuit suing Jason for all losses incurred, and not holding up his part of the 5 year PBMining "contract".

Don't buy any PB Mining accounts anymore, sounds like they're planning to close up shop and give customers back what they can.

See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=887871.0

This is all really interesting. I didn't think PBMining "contracts" were true contracts, so I asked customer support a few months ago for a copy of the "contract" and here's what they said:


In the simple terms of their "contract" it says that the contract will end "5 years after it has been activated." So if PBMining stops paying out and rather just paying a lump sum out to "contract" holders, I believe that would be breaching their "contract" terms.

However since it isn't a true contract, I'm not sure how much of a legal case could be made against PBMining / Jason with this point.

Yeah I believe that Poloniex is the main exchange for CLAM.

CLAM is an altcoin. You can see if wallets are eligible by going to the Just Dice chat box, and then type "/dig 1ADDRESS" and then you can see if there's any money associated with those wallets. If so I believe you can then type "/dig 1ADDRESS 5PRIVKEY" and then the CLAM should show up in your Just Dice account. I'm not 100% sure on all of that though, if someone can confirm that would be awesome.

It also works with LTC and DOGE wallets too if you by chance have any old wallets of those currencies.

If the wallet had coins in it during May 2014 then each wallet is worth 4.5 CLAM or so which currently translates to about 0.008 BTC IIRC. But to get the CLAM reward you need to give up the private key to the wallet.

It's Jason.

There's no Jermey Biggs, that was just a name he gave out when talking to reporters IIRC.