Master-P SCAMMER. I lost complete faith in this forum now.

[peonminer]

Seb just put it plainly. Either b00t with n0piX and get t3h fundZ secured with pr00f, or you were just here to p1ll4ge and r0b.

[SebastianJu]

All you self-righteous assholes can suck a bag of dicks. Its real easy to sit on the sidelines and criticize others, but what have you done to help this community? I have been here since 2011, and I sure as fuck have paid for my attempts to point out corruption around here (even when staff are involved), but none of you self-righteous slits were there then backing me up were you? I don't owe you or this community anything, so you can just get in line with the rest to go fuck yourself with your judgements and condemnations. Maybe next time I will just keep it to myself and you idiots can scour the net for his details yourself.

(P.S. Hey geniuses, releasing some ones DOX means you end any leverage you have over a scammer. I am giving him an opportunity to make this right and return the coins before doxing him, but keep judging people morally, it will take you places.)

point taken, but i only said i didnt condone it, nothing more, nothing less. thats just my opinion.

I don't normally condone it either, but I am a firm believer in common law justice. Once you break the laws of society you have no more rights by the community than an animal does. IMO this is the only way to remind those that would harm others how near they are to being harmed themselves, and that they are protected only by that paper thin concept of civil society, and thus need to learn to protect it rather than exploit it lest it be revoked and they live as outcasts, open game for anyone to freely abuse.

A true American! Trump would be proud of you!
It gives such a positive image of the community. I really feel at home!
And yet people wonder why btc is not on the late adoption part? Well maybe the community is a bit responsible no?
No law, no trust... And when something goes wrong you all go on a rampage, digging up personal data for... For what? Finding him IRL and beat him up? Yeah sure! i feel so safe with all of you guys <3

Not everyone is a thug who would beat him to a pulp. In fact i doubt that anyone would do, it's probably only anger and a big mouth. But there are people who would sue him just for serving justice. And you really don't think that selling information that allows to impersonate you and sell money that was given you as a trustee is legally pretty fine don't you? He can be made liable most probably.

[hedgy73]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

He wrote something about his wallet needs a verification from his smartphone. Does Armory support 2FA maybe? It might be an explaination for why the coins didn't move. Of course only when you want to take his story.

So the million $ question is who logged in using the master-p official account yesterday?

master-p profile shows last logged in December 28, 2015, 02:39:46 PM: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=89329

[subSTRATA]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

He wrote something about his wallet needs a verification from his smartphone. Does Armory support 2FA maybe? It might be an explaination for why the coins didn't move. Of course only when you want to take his story.

if the private keys were compromised, which, if this story is true, they should be considering the signed message linked in my quoted post, the hacker wouldnt need any sort of 2FA to move the coins. the private keys would give a hypothetical hacker full control of the coins regardless of whatever security measures armory provides.

[TECSHARE]

This might help matters a bit.

*The real master P*, if you are the real masterp can you please PM me the email account that is connected to your bank account that I sent money to for the transaction that took place here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1180592)?

Edit; An email from that address might actually be better sent to dogedigital@gmail.com as I don't believe masterp's email address has been compromised.

If his computer was in fact compromised, this wont tell us anything.

have you noticed how conveniently "real master p" changed their travel plans to match your doxing ultimatum?

i think he/she is hoping for you to extend the deadline perhaps will even send some funds out before the 1st...

I am not currently at home, and I won't be for another week or so.

I will be home in less than 2 days to try what I can.

Of course I am taking this into consideration. An extension wont help him if he doesn't eventually return the funds. On the other hand on the slim chance this is the truth, he should have a chance to restore the harmed parties first shouldn't he? Who is served by his doxing and no one getting paid back?

What about showing the transaction from the online banking for this transaction?  I don't imagine his banking account would be compromised and the real masterp should only have access to it.

This probably shouldn't be shared publicly, but if and when it comes time to dox him this might be useful in verifying his identity.

[SebastianJu]

Next thing is, many pools will not even have the ability to follow that request. Excluding a transaction or input address needs code in place to be able to do so. I doubt many will have such possibility built in already.

I think it is fully futile to await that a transaction can be kept from confirming that way.

Not sure how far this is feasible. But I got an idea.

How about us all contacting all the mining pools and ask them not to confirm the transactions that spend coins from the escrow addresses unless the coins are sent to the real owners.

For example, we ask them to confirm the transaction which spends the coins from 18PJHZTTPvcWrpBMnFStgyuphpvuwTgT3k to 1QF1Eo1mXv7M93FuntAHuiSGx2wkpxqJem. This is so because that address was given to me via master-P to me for escrow for a trade. Only such transaction will be confirmed.

This will at least temporarily force him to refund the money.

I need some opinions from people before this happens.

Imo thats impractical. Youre forgetting about the solo miners here 

They are like 0.1-1%, if that happens, then its inevitable. But most big pools can do this.

Still, not every pool will care about this. Many will be slow to respond, and the scammer may send his coins any time before they announce the changes.

[achow101]

Of course I am taking this into consideration. An extension wont help him if he doesn't eventually return the funds. On the other hand on the slim chance this is the truth, he should have a chance to restore the harmed parties first shouldn't he? Who is served by his doxing and no one getting paid back?

Actually, Master-P is most likely using an old version of Armory (0.93.2) which now produces nonstandard transactions with a High S value. This could lead to him being unable to send coins anywhere. So if he does come up with an excuse about Armory not letting him send, give him the benefit of the doubt and tell him to upgrade to Armory 0.93.3 so that it will actually send. And ask for a signed message from him that is a "Clearsign Signature" (it is a format that armory uses) since in that type of signature from Armory, the Armory version is included in the signed message so we would know whether there are actually technical issues or if he is lying.

[peonminer]

"Couldn't find wifi on my trip."

Where the fux did you go? The Congo? The Nile? Denial?? Cellphone reception is rampant unless you vacationed to your long lost cousin's home in BFE.

'Got keylogged.'

How TF did you sign a message, then?



The amount of endless stories smells of a trail deterrent. Toss 100 hams on various trails. They all smell like honey, yet they are all rotting flesh.

[GSpgh]

What can Gleb do?? Is he a hacker or something?

he's an NSFW googler

he can find all kinds of dirt and/or annoy someone to the point of a public meltdown...

[peonminer]

What can Gleb do?? Is he a hacker or something?

he's an NSFW googler

he can find all kinds of dirt and/or annoy someone pwns lying n00bz daily to the point of a public meltdown...

ftfy

[SebastianJu]

The real master-P would re-pay his customers out of his own pocket, would he've been hacked. As far as that does not happened, this is a scam.

I'm so damn sorry to see this, not only as customers of mine got scammed, but for the whole bitcoin community.

I would have thought so too but the real master-P would have come with a convincing explaination long ago. He didn't. the explainations that came in make no sense on every edge of story.

[bitspill]

"Couldn't find wifi on my trip."

Where the fux did you go? The Congo? The Nile? Denial?? Cellphone reception is rampant unless you vacationed to your long lost cousin's home in BFE.

Cell reception != wifi

Before you say "we'll he could tether his computer through his phone" many people don't have that because it's an additional $30/mo for minimal benefit

[TECSHARE]

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

I was also on his steam friends list. He also removed me. Clearly he is trying to cut off ties from the forum.

[SebastianJu]

At this point I don't think it matters who believes me or not.

If I can't restore access to my wallets to return everyone's funds, or the hacker succeeds in transferring the coins out of the escrow wallets then I will compensate everyone out of my own pocket at the best of my abilities.

My reputation has been tarnished. Scammer or not, my poor security practices to allow such an event to take place has forever ruined my reputation in this community. Therefore after I have (hopefully) resolved and repaid everyone, I will be leaving this community permanently. Regardless if I get "dox'd" or not. I am not a scammer, this whole thing is just a huge misfortune for everyone including myself.

I would want to believe you but there is no way i can imagine you sitting around 14 days without the need of logging into bitcointalk. If you would have tried to do so then you would have warned everyone 2 weeks ago. You have a convincing explaination for that?

[tommorisonwebdesign]

Well if this story is true then the money is gone, and master-p owes all of his customers his escrow funds. I used him as an escrow for a tranasction once. It makes me think twice about finding work here on this forum.

[peonminer]

i was the one who originally messaged him about the issue, and he has removed me since this blew up. i also recall EAL (the mod) was on his friends list too under the steam ign EAL F. Skillz (profile home page, saw it by chance), but i dont see him on there anymore either. pretty likely he (master-p) has already purged his steam to completely cut off ties from the forum.

I was also on his steam friends list. He also removed me. Clearly he is trying to cut off ties from the forum.

[TECSHARE]

Of course I am taking this into consideration. An extension wont help him if he doesn't eventually return the funds. On the other hand on the slim chance this is the truth, he should have a chance to restore the harmed parties first shouldn't he? Who is served by his doxing and no one getting paid back?

Actually, Master-P is most likely using an old version of Armory (0.93.2) which now produces nonstandard transactions with a High S value. This could lead to him being unable to send coins anywhere. So if he does come up with an excuse about Armory not letting him send, give him the benefit of the doubt and tell him to upgrade to Armory 0.93.3 so that it will actually send. And ask for a signed message from him that is a "Clearsign Signature" (it is a format that armory uses) since in that type of signature from Armory, the Armory version is included in the signed message so we would know whether there are actually technical issues or if he is lying.

I have already requested he sign a message for me. This was my plan all along. If he can provide any evidence he was hacked I will give him the benefit of the doubt for the sake of all parties involved. I don't take this lightly, but some times it is necessary to remind people that its not always so easy to get away with robbing people of their Bitcoin.

[GSpgh]

Of course I am taking this into consideration. An extension wont help him if he doesn't eventually return the funds. On the other hand on the slim chance this is the truth, he should have a chance to restore the harmed parties first shouldn't he? Who is served by his doxing and no one getting paid back?

as long as there is serious intent, like 20% returned immediately and the rest via 4-5 weekly payments

not sure what the total is but assuming $10k or so this shouldn't be a problem if he can afford a 3 week vacation who knows where

can put it on a credit card LOL

Cell reception != wifi

Before you say "we'll he could tether his computer through his phone" many people don't have that because it's an additional $30/mo for minimal benefit

whatever the excuse it's not ok for an escrow to go on an extended trip with no way to access accounts and wallets

besides there are many other tools like trezor etc

it also appears (if we believe the "hack" story) that master-p may have been delinquent with backups and/or not have a good disaster recover plan... makes you think how other escrows on this forum would deal with a situation like this, or a "hit by a bus" scenario etc.

[SebastianJu]

if it was a hack as the third account claims, then the hypothetical hacker would likely have taken the money already, assuming this hack even exists, the private keys are already compromised given the signed message: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13378692#msg13378692

really find it hard to believe this claim is true.

He wrote something about his wallet needs a verification from his smartphone. Does Armory support 2FA maybe? It might be an explaination for why the coins didn't move. Of course only when you want to take his story.

if the private keys were compromised, which, if this story is true, they should be considering the signed message linked in my quoted post, the hacker wouldnt need any sort of 2FA to move the coins. the private keys would give a hypothetical hacker full control of the coins regardless of whatever security measures armory provides.

Though only one thing can be possible. Either the private keys are compromised and the "hacker" can sign message AND withdraw the funds or the funds are out of reach for the hacker and the private keys are NOT compromised.

I think the only storyline without inconsistencies is that master-P made an exit scam and wrote all of this himself or he lost the private keys and can't reclaim the bitcoins and he had the stupid idea to try getting out of this.

He might have thought he might be able to avoid paying back of the escrowed funds. Maybe now, when he slowly realizes his stories have too many holes, he gives in and claims he will pay back slowly.

All speculation at this point unfortunately.

[XinXan]

Of course I am taking this into consideration. An extension wont help him if he doesn't eventually return the funds. On the other hand on the slim chance this is the truth, he should have a chance to restore the harmed parties first shouldn't he? Who is served by his doxing and no one getting paid back?

as long as there is serious intent, like 20% returned immediately and the rest via 4-5 weekly payments

not sure what the total is but assuming $10k or so this shouldn't be a problem if he can afford a 3 week vacation who knows where

can put it on a credit card LOL

Cell reception != wifi

Before you say "we'll he could tether his computer through his phone" many people don't have that because it's an additional $30/mo for minimal benefit

whatever the excuse it's not ok for an escrow to go on an extended trip with no way to access accounts and wallets

besides there are many other tools like trezor etc

it also appears (if we believe the "hack" story) that master-p may have been delinquent with backups and/or not have a good disaster recover plan... makes you think how other escrows on this forum would deal with a situation like this, or a "hit by a bus" scenario etc.

If he really did that trip, why didn't he tell people?