I was asked by netoo the issuer, to provide an Escrow address that is used to collect the funds for the ICO of Alt Block Chain Coins.
Who am i?Iam SebastianJu, iam escrow on Bitcointalk since years. Iam not connected to the issuer or the coin. Iam an independent third party who acts as an escrow in an attempt to make the ICO more secure. See my Servicethread for reviews:
[ANN] SebastianJu - Free Legendary Escrow Service - Escrowed over 8150 BTC.
Safety from EscrowOnce the Wallet and the Alt Block Chain Coins are released to the investors we will wait three days to see if problems arise with the wallet or Coin, then i will release the Bitcoins to the issuer. This way of handling things is usefull, the three days waiting time already stopped 2 scammy ICO's from happening, at least one other was stopped already before that time.
Please note that the safety i can provide only reaches up to the point where i released the bitcoins to the issuer.
Don't send to a quoted escrow address. ALWAYS only check out my post directly and send to that address! And please check regularly if the escrow link or address was changed in the first post of thread. Inform me fast by pm then so that i can act by giving red trust to the issuer to prevent damage. Post in the thread yourself and give red trust if possible to warn others fast then.Only send Bitcoins from an address you can sign a private message from or at least where you are able to get the private key for that address! This is important since in case of REFUND you can't proof otherwise that you sent bitcoins when you, for example, sent the bitcoins directly from an Exchange. In that case better send them first to your wallet and then from there to the escrow address.
For information about what you need to sign a message you can check out this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345Another alternative to proof your ownership of a payment would be to send me the last 4 numbers of your user id. Move your mouse over my username, see my profile id is 18640. You can see yours when you are in your profile and hover the mouse of the links on the left menu. Something like u=18640 in the links show your User-ID. The last 4 digits are 8640. When you add these 4 numbers as satoshies to your payment then it is pretty sure it's your payment too. For example you want to send 2 bitcoins and your profile id would be 18640 then you send 2.00008640 Bitcoin.
Escrow AddressThe escrow address is:
16muBwBqH4LgNnkHfRhVeJufDAv5tXNgyT
Before payment i would suggest you take a look at
http://www.cointape.com/ to check out if the network gets spammed again. Below the graph there is shown what amount of fee is needed to get instant confirmation. Checking that page could prevent that transactions are stuck for hours or days because they dont get a confirmation.
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
20160206 This is the escrow address for the ICO of Alt Block Chain Coins and the escrow address is 16muBwBqH4LgNnkHfRhVeJufDAv5tXNgyT
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1K2UFGCKyNQNx4h2m5ZRCaw9BWHTBcCZAA
G8EKxw/bDPAW/rlL/O1NGLPkTDRVGUE3Jqpb8pNzR4DTL9oy0rg0XUZVmYYt8mNo2HFV+vJl2b9Ljeh7e/CB4Ds=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Message signed with an old address of mine, that i posted may 2013 on bitcointalk. See my Servicethread:
[ANN] SebastianJu - Free Legendary Escrow Service - Escrowed over 8150 BTC.
You can check a signed message very easy. The fastest way is to visit
http://wallet-2sx53n.sakurity.com/#verify.
Refunds possible?Refunds can only be done in case the issuer agrees or there are reasons to stop the ICO by the escrow, because there came up doubts that make the ICO too insecure to proceed.
As long as you did not verify your investment transaction in some way i will see your investment as unverified. Otherwise it could mean a random person could claim an investment as his investment and steal it from a shareholder.
Refunds can only be done instantly when you can proof ownership of the investment. Either by signing a message from the sending bitcoin address or by your investment amount matching your forum user id. See description above.
If you can't proof the ownership of an investment and a refund needs to be done then you need to wait some weeks so that the risk of being scammed is lower for me and the (potential real) owner of that investment. You would want i protect your investment too when someone claims it was his investment and only can show the transaction id, right?
Good luck everyone with this ICO!
