[PPC] NothinG's Pool (Beta Testing)

[crazy_rabbit]

So if we just never hear from NothinG again, can we still label him a scammer?

[FuzzyBear]

Well last message was his comp broke and he was setting up a new one... but that some time ago now and can even discount the inability to remember passwords for this forum etc as he logged in and updated this thread since then... so yeah either something else has happened in RL that means NothingG isn't here... but yeah I probably waiting on 3-5000 coins from his pool so if he never returns then scammer tag it may seem... but i hope ity doesn't come to that.... WHERE ARE YOU NothingG??.......

I know... i'll start looking in the back alleyways between websites, see if he just got drunk one evening and woke up and can't find his way home

[crazy_rabbit]

Still no word from him huh? I'm temped to label as a scammer, but if he never comes back- whats the point? If he comes back and doesn't return the coins, THEN he's a scammer.

[crazy_rabbit]

NothinG should be labeled a Scammer. He/She is active on the forum but does not reply to messages regarding the return of our PPC. I have reason to believe, although not 100% substantiated, that he is possibly associated with a bitcoin server hosting firm. I would ask if we can label him a scammer and ask the admins to release the access IPs of NothinG to compare them with known IPs from this firm.

I am willing to take a cut on the PPC owed considering the amount it has appreciated, but NothinG should be labeled a scammer.

[FuzzyBear]

Ok just to clear the air on NothinG and his original PPC pool.

I have been working on a project here: http://charts.peercointalk.org/

This allows me to scan the blockchain for POW blocks and which address they came from.  I turned it on the start of the blockchain and saw some interesting results.

This combined with my withdraw transactions from the pool I have been able to isolate the address at which the pool was mining the PPC coins to.

Have a look at these transactions:

https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/tx/877419934857b5265fceb69a72570c589a04182d6da64fe986eaefb809e05439
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/tx/370706b9447944da4ab27d73351dd323a3ee9527e8d379c022fc7b746266002c
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/tx/6803fb380c2a687fcb099589a39934ff812b8244867aac5717058d14837c4f38

These I can confirm are transactions to my wallet https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PBYdLfZa9d6bsgq8NQfBLzQ7HJgsYpj4ve

and they show the source of the coins as coming from PAA3yN86ofXMHvFwqKNeEx4YXRPb7gUfK2

Have a look at the current state of the address and last transactions and you can see https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PAA3yN86ofXMHvFwqKNeEx4YXRPb7gUfK2

Balance: 11,535.45 PPC  last transaction - 2012-10-02 17:39:59

So the coins mined at the pool have not moved since October 2nd 2012 and this coincides with the last post date from NothinG on this pool -  Posted on: October 08, 2012, 12:54:52 AM

The PM I got from NothinG when I asked him about the pool was

The server company I was with lost the vps during a migration and I wasn't running any backups. I was so busy installing and un-installing the OS, that I didn't have any snapshots. I was working on it for a few days when it went down.

Was NothinG running mining from different addresses from the start of the pool? maybe is my answer as older transactions to my wallet show the source of the blocks from PD3mSEpYBkqJaxgY9VNgbMfn85DxVra4fM https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PD3mSEpYBkqJaxgY9VNgbMfn85DxVra4fM

Though again this address Balance: 6,488.05 PPC last transaction - 2012-10-02 13:07:58

Also https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PRnPA454UUw7xX55LT152CwJydXx6rxYzF Balance: 3,846.13 PPC last transaction - 2012-09-13 01:51:32

Other addresses possibly linked to the pool but empty:
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PVwwYxFvGa7mkRRopnYvfRTdEudHARbHkb
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PEbZFgW4xUdFoeQAvJuwiCdFuN8X9RLKa3


So it is in my opinion at this point in time that NothinG is telling the truth in that he lost the pool wallet and had no backup.  Or he is still sitting on these coins waiting to offload.  I would suggest removing the scammer tag until these coins move from the addresses:
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PAA3yN86ofXMHvFwqKNeEx4YXRPb7gUfK2 11,535.45 PPC
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PD3mSEpYBkqJaxgY9VNgbMfn85DxVra4fM 6,488.05 PPC
https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/address/PRnPA454UUw7xX55LT152CwJydXx6rxYzF 3,846.13 PPC

Fuzzybear

[crazy_rabbit]

Fuzzybear's analysis seems pretty fair to me. If he didn't dump them back when they were worth something, and long after we mostly forgot about it, I assume he probably did just lose them. I support removing the scammer tag as well.