Can you identify me? 2.5BTC reward.

[BlindMixerDR]

Hello. Like in this thread I want to see if it is possible for me to be completely anonymous.

Like the original challenge, the reward will be given to the person that provides:

• forum account id of 'real me'
• any IP-address that could be traced to my real identity by authorities
• my 'real' email address

I will use the same rules:

• Rules are to be interpreted by me, in case of dispute, I am right, you are wrong
• you must post here one of the above infos and a bitcoin address to which the bounty should be sent
• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing
• I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
• the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

If you can find out my real name and/or address and/or telephone number, then PM me for some/all the reward.

Also like the original, I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity. These rewards will come from the total 2.5BTC reward, so the sooner someone identifies me the more bitcoins they get.

Eventually I will allow theymos to release all info held about me, blindmixerdr (connection logs & times etc). But not yet. Also, I will soon publish the address of a bitcoin mixing service (onion address). Maybe that will give more clues.

Please note that I am trying very hard to be anonymous. But I will say that I am a long time user of this forum.

New extra rules:

• Anything without "hard evidence" will be ignored, even if the "guess" is correct (note double quotes, even if I am only quoting "hard evidence" by Wardrick!). It needs to be something that would be strong enough to make the authorities knock on my door.
• If you are sure you are correct but you don't have "hard evidence", then make a 0.005BTC donation to the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/donate/other/ (bitcoin address 1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN) or to torservers.net  https://www.torservers.net/donate.html (bitcoin address 14fadryvAkoXye2XtH4qSwSerhi7BX4rtG) and paste the transaction ID of the donation in your message. That will attract my attention, but you must still give a credible explanation. (these sites use a single bitcoin address for all donations)
• To avoid people making lots of extra user accounts and making lots of guesses, only accounts registered before the UTC time of this post (see post number 22 of this thread) are allowed to participate.

I have created a file with my username in it:

Code:

user@host$ (echo "My username is XXX"; dd if=/dev/random bs=512 count=1|base64) > whoami.txt
user@host$ sha256sum whoami.txt
d384d430d9b421fbe8f14014fd2784105af218352fb4168ab086c28cdf427fcd  whoami.txt
user@host$

I will show the file whoami.txt if

• You show hard evidence and you are correct or
• You show some evidence and make the donation and you are correct

I will decide what is "strong" evidence. "Some" evidence is needed just to demonstrate you are not doing stupid random guesses.

[Teka]

Hello. Like in this thread I want to see if it is possible for me to be completely anonymous.

Like the original challenge, the reward will be given to the person that provides:

• forum account id of 'real me'
• any IP-address that could be traced to my real identity by authorities
• my 'real' email address

I will use the same rules:

• Rules are to be interpreted by me, in case of dispute, I am right, you are wrong
• you must post here one of the above infos and a bitcoin address to which the bounty should be sent
• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing
• I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
• the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

If you can find out my real name and/or address and/or telephone number, then PM me for some/all the reward.

Also like the original, I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity. These rewards will come from the total 2.5BTC reward, so the sooner someone identifies me the more bitcoins they get.

Eventually I will allow theymos to release all info held about me, blindmixerdr (connection logs & times etc). But not yet. Also, I will soon publish the address of a bitcoin mixing service (onion address). Maybe that will give more clues.

Please note that I am trying very hard to be anonymous. But I will say that I am a long time user of this forum.

For starters I bet you're not using a proxy or a vpn to acess this forum so the mods can probably see you real ip.

[GambitBTC]

My guess is you are TradeFortress.

[BlindMixerDR]

My guess is you are TradeFortress.

Rules:

• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing

For starters I bet you're not using a proxy or a vpn to acess this forum so the mods can probably see you real ip.

The mods can also claim the reward. Or you can try to bribe a mod to get the informations that you need.

[GambitBTC]

My guess is you are TradeFortress.

Rules:

• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing

For starters I bet you're not using a proxy or a vpn to acess this forum so the mods can probably see you real ip.

The mods can also claim the reward. Or you can try to bribe a mod to get the informations that you need.

Okay well my educated decision based on your posts is that you are TradeFortress.

[Teka]

My guess is you are TradeFortress.

Rules:

• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing

For starters I bet you're not using a proxy or a vpn to acess this forum so the mods can probably see you real ip.

The mods can also claim the reward. Or you can try to bribe a mod to get the informations that you need.

In that case you need to change the description because you clearly stated that:

 I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity

Saying that you're not using a vpn or a proxy is clearly pointing out a flaw.

[Aztec]

You are Satoshi

Email Satoshi@BFL-orders.com

[greyhawk]

Disclosure: You are Atlas

Reason:

I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

It doesn't get any more Atlas than this.

[jasinlee]

PMing you.

[Wardrick]

If someone can find all my forum accounts from other forums and any other information I'll give them $20.00 in BTC or $20.00 Liberty Reserve on the original 2.5 BTC

[jasinlee]

Scott J.
Dastanx
wachtwoord
fsb4000
bowjob

[salsacz]

JMZ93
csmart93
BlindMixer

[MelMan2002]

Hello. Like in this thread I want to see if it is possible for me to be completely anonymous.

Like the original challenge, the reward will be given to the person that provides:

• forum account id of 'real me'
• any IP-address that could be traced to my real identity by authorities
• my 'real' email address

I will use the same rules:

• Rules are to be interpreted by me, in case of dispute, I am right, you are wrong
• you must post here one of the above infos and a bitcoin address to which the bounty should be sent
• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing
• I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
• the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

If you can find out my real name and/or address and/or telephone number, then PM me for some/all the reward.

Also like the original, I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity. These rewards will come from the total 2.5BTC reward, so the sooner someone identifies me the more bitcoins they get.

Eventually I will allow theymos to release all info held about me, blindmixerdr (connection logs & times etc). But not yet. Also, I will soon publish the address of a bitcoin mixing service (onion address). Maybe that will give more clues.

Please note that I am trying very hard to be anonymous. But I will say that I am a long time user of this forum.

You are OpenYourEyes.  Here are the pieces, ordered roughly from strongest to weakest:

• Both profiles have the same local time (seems to be the UK)
• OpenYourEyes was very active on the forums until March 20th, which is almost exactly the same date that BlindMixerDR seems to have gotten out of the newbie section
• OpenYourEyes has not responded on this thread yet but was very active in the findmeifyoucan thread and is often active on other puzzle with bounty type of threads
• Both accounts use CamelCase style names
• Grammar is very similar in use of commas, emoticons, slashes, and general writing level
• Both write currency values with the number butted-up against the currency code in all caps, e.g. 100BTC or 25CAD
• Both accounts discuss similar topics - software related and rather knowledgeable technically
• Another similar topic was specifically escrow and OpenYourEyes even mentioned a new project that they were working on that had to do with escrow
• Both have talked about litecoin, which although is fairly common knowledge in the bitcoin community, not many usually bother mentioning it

my address:
1MQioU7fMKdhPodwMUhsJKdUhNg5ybjdNc

[ABitBack]

Ok I think I have you but I'm not going to just post it Mr Paul S...? Of #24?
Need I go on?

[deepceleron]

Hello. Like in this thread I want to see if it is possible for me to be completely anonymous.

Like the original challenge, the reward will be given to the person that provides:

• forum account id of 'real me'
• any IP-address that could be traced to my real identity by authorities
• my 'real' email address

I will use the same rules:

• Rules are to be interpreted by me, in case of dispute, I am right, you are wrong
• you must post here one of the above infos and a bitcoin address to which the bounty should be sent
• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing
• I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
• the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

If you can find out my real name and/or address and/or telephone number, then PM me for some/all the reward.

Also like the original, I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity. These rewards will come from the total 2.5BTC reward, so the sooner someone identifies me the more bitcoins they get.

Eventually I will allow theymos to release all info held about me, blindmixerdr (connection logs & times etc). But not yet. Also, I will soon publish the address of a bitcoin mixing service (onion address). Maybe that will give more clues.

Please note that I am trying very hard to be anonymous. But I will say that I am a long time user of this forum.

You are Octavian - a difficult match since the other account has few posts:

1 - uncommon hyphenation in the word IP-address, over-hyphenation elsewhere,
2 - frequent use of slash/stroke to separate two options,
3 - 'single quotes' where they aren't needed, or when other posters would use "double quotes",
4 - And beginning sentence fragments with conjunction
5 - account was logged into yesterday (not abandoned...)


Just one example:

Subject: Are there security issues with Bitcoin for Free / Faucet-Services?

Hi WikileaksDude,
 I just asked a question - why getting personal?
There might be some 'Free Bitcoins'-sites which track BTC addresses when they are reused for the transactions history.
And the sites have the corresponding user's IP-address also...
Have a good day.

IRL?
https://twitter.com/OctavianMihai



There are very thin threads connecting this IRL Octavian - exposure to Bitcoin through producing TWiST, but there are the single quotes all over the twitter. I'm choosing Mihai over Octavian Cara who is in the UK; the OP is leaking multilingual grammar.

[swissmate]

casascius

[juggalodarkclow]

Hello. Like in this thread I want to see if it is possible for me to be completely anonymous.

Like the original challenge, the reward will be given to the person that provides:

• forum account id of 'real me'
• any IP-address that could be traced to my real identity by authorities
• my 'real' email address

I will use the same rules:

• Rules are to be interpreted by me, in case of dispute, I am right, you are wrong
• you must post here one of the above infos and a bitcoin address to which the bounty should be sent
• you must provide a credible story of how you obtained the info
• a 'hunch' is not enough, no guessing
• I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
• the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

If you can find out my real name and/or address and/or telephone number, then PM me for some/all the reward.

Also like the original, I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity. These rewards will come from the total 2.5BTC reward, so the sooner someone identifies me the more bitcoins they get.

Eventually I will allow theymos to release all info held about me, blindmixerdr (connection logs & times etc). But not yet. Also, I will soon publish the address of a bitcoin mixing service (onion address). Maybe that will give more clues.

Please note that I am trying very hard to be anonymous. But I will say that I am a long time user of this forum.

MXRider
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=52194

[Wardrick]

He's actually looking for hard evidence that traces his account back to his original one, not similarities.

Basically it's the same situation as if someone scammed and made a new account, and now you have to find out who it is.

[jasinlee]

37.123.170.220 IP

[deepceleron]

37.123.170.220 IP

Congrats, he hit my PM webbug also, it's a TOR exit node.

Code:

2013-04-06 12:42:22: 37.123.170.220

[jasinlee]

37.123.170.220 IP

Congrats, he hit my PM webbug also, it's a TOR exit node.

Code:

2013-04-06 12:42:22: 37.123.170.220

Yeah, it was worth a shot

Got another one 171.25.193.20 and 204.11.50.131

[BlindMixerDR]

He's actually looking for hard evidence that traces his account back to his original one, not similarities.

Correct. In fact, there are many replies here, so I'm going to change the rules.

New extra rules:

• Anything without "hard evidence" will be ignored, even if the "guess" is correct (note double quotes, even if I am only quoting "hard evidence" by Wardrick!). It needs to be something that would be strong enough to make the authorities knock on my door.
• If you are sure you are correct, then make a 0.005BTC donation to the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/donate/other/ (bitcoin address 1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN) or to torservers.net  https://www.torservers.net/donate.html (bitcoin address 14fadryvAkoXye2XtH4qSwSerhi7BX4rtG) and paste the transaction ID of the donation in your message. That will attract my attention. (these sites use a single bitcoin address for all donations)
• To avoid people making lots of extra user accounts and making lots of guesses, only accounts registered before the UTC time of this post are allowed to participate.

[BlindMixerDR]

For reference, these are the kinds of posts I will be ignoring.

You are Satoshi

What is your evidence?

Disclosure: You are Atlas

Reason:

I can change these rules at any time and will do so in OP (Original Post, the one you're reading)
the state of the OP at the time of claim is decisive for the rules, so please quote OP when claiming bounty

It doesn't get any more Atlas than this.

This is not evidence. Can you give more?

Scott J.
Dastanx
wachtwoord
fsb4000
bowjob

There are only 90000 members in this forum. You could try them all.

JMZ93
csmart93
BlindMixer

Only 89997 users left.

Ok I think I have you but I'm not going to just post it Mr Paul S...? Of #24?
Need I go on?

Yes you need to go on. What is the evidence?

casascius

Evidence?

MXRider
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=52194

Evidence?

In that case you need to change the description because you clearly stated that:

 I'll give away small amounts of bitcoin (0.05-0.1 BTC) to people pointing out flaws/mistakes/possible improvements regarding my anonymity

Saying that you're not using a vpn or a proxy is clearly pointing out a flaw.

It would be a flaw if you were correct. deepceleron and jasinlee have shown that I am using a proxy.

[deepceleron]

(removed my 2nd guess of galaxyabstractor w/ info & leaked password etc per his request...). My first conclusion is probably right, but it could be another sock puppet of the "primary user"; language use was enough to win the other "ID Me" thread. - DC

I added galaxyabstractor because of Sweden IP and membership in pirate party, previous Bitcoin development, language use of "IP-address".

[jasinlee]

Those are the ones that all had the same signature, which is not a common site.

[BlindMixerDR]

Well if the rules can arbitrarily change...

The reason I ask to PM me with real names and addresses, is to protect my privacy, but also to protect privacy of others if you are wrong. Please remove this, and show more evidence.

I am not changing the rules aribtrarily, just making it clear that guesses will be ignored. The donation applies only to posts which do not show "hard evidence". If you show "hard evidence" and you are correct, I will admit it. I have created a file with my username in it:

Code:

user@host$ (echo "My username is XXX"; dd if=/dev/random bs=512 count=1|base64) > whoami.txt
user@host$ sha256sum whoami.txt
d384d430d9b421fbe8f14014fd2784105af218352fb4168ab086c28cdf427fcd  whoami.txt
user@host$

I will show the file whoami.txt if

• You show hard evidence and you are correct or
• You show some evidence and make the donation and you are correct

I will decide what is "strong" evidence. "Some" evidence is needed just to demonstrate you are not doing stupid random guesses.

[MelMan2002]

He's actually looking for hard evidence that traces his account back to his original one, not similarities.

Correct. In fact, there are many replies here, so I'm going to change the rules.

New extra rules:

• Anything without "hard evidence" will be ignored, even if the "guess" is correct (note double quotes, even if I am only quoting "hard evidence" by Wardrick!). It needs to be something that would be strong enough to make the authorities knock on my door.
• If you are sure you are correct, then make a 0.005BTC donation to the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/donate/other/ (bitcoin address 1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN) or to torservers.net  https://www.torservers.net/donate.html (bitcoin address 14fadryvAkoXye2XtH4qSwSerhi7BX4rtG) and paste the transaction ID of the donation in your message. That will attract my attention. (these sites use a single bitcoin address for all donations)
• To avoid people making lots of extra user accounts and making lots of guesses, only accounts registered before the UTC time of this post are allowed to participate.

Very well - I feel pretty confident.
Tx ID: d8b9e9a98ad40cf7853d86b2eae5ccf898cb99040714d58cd7e1d8e5d55b22fe
http://blockchain.info/tx/d8b9e9a98ad40cf7853d86b2eae5ccf898cb99040714d58cd7e1d8e5d55b22fe

See my post above.

[jasinlee]

199.48.147.40 Someone keeps on releasing their tor address to me, if you are not on tor at some point that would be bad.

[BlindMixerDR]

Very well - I feel pretty confident.
Tx ID: d8b9e9a98ad40cf7853d86b2eae5ccf898cb99040714d58cd7e1d8e5d55b22fe
http://blockchain.info/tx/d8b9e9a98ad40cf7853d86b2eae5ccf898cb99040714d58cd7e1d8e5d55b22fe

See my post above.

I was going to reply to your post. I am not OpenYourEyes.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

If your not BitcoinPorn or RandyFolds, then you're this guy:

[BlindMixerDR]

You are Octavian - a difficult match since the other account has few posts:

1 - uncommon hyphenation in the word IP-address, over-hyphenation elsewhere,
2 - frequent use of slash/stroke to separate two options,
3 - 'single quotes' where they aren't needed, or when other posters would use "double quotes",
4 - And beginning sentence fragments with conjunction
5 - account was logged into yesterday (not abandoned...)


Just one example:

Subject: Are there security issues with Bitcoin for Free / Faucet-Services?

Hi WikileaksDude,
 I just asked a question - why getting personal?
There might be some 'Free Bitcoins'-sites which track BTC addresses when they are reused for the transactions history.
And the sites have the corresponding user's IP-address also...
Have a good day.

IRL?
https://twitter.com/OctavianMihai

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/62179944/tav.jpg

There are very thin threads connecting this IRL Octavian - exposure to Bitcoin through producing TWiST, but there are the single quotes all over the twitter. I'm choosing Mihai over Octavian Cara who is in the UK; the OP is leaking multilingual grammar.

This is not "hard evidence" but it might be enough to make the authorities to come to my door. Except I am not octavion. I am certainly not as good looking as him

[BlindMixerDR]

If your not BitcoinPorn or RandyFolds, then you're this guy:

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/files/2013/04/thumbwhatsyourname.jpg

Hahaha. But I am better looking than him.

[gdbutler]

Sent you a PM, OP.

[BlindMixerDR]

(removed my 2nd guess of galaxyabstractor w/ info & leaked password etc per his request...). My first conclusion is probably right, but it could be another sock puppet of the "primary user"; language use was enough to win the other "ID Me" thread. - DC

I added galaxyabstractor because of Sweden IP and membership in pirate party, previous Bitcoin development, language use of "IP-address".

The text "IP-address" is cut and pasted from the original findmeifyoucan thread, linked in OP. It is not my grammar.

[molecular]

nice, I love this. Thanks for doing this BlindMixerDR, I was hoping someone would replicate the effort.

I think you already lasted longer than I did. However by your rules I wouldn't have had to admit discovery (no hard evidence).

I can give people here one hint: it's not molecular this time

Good luck!

[theymos]

I think he's consistently using the Tor browser bundle, so no easy attacks on my end. Maybe someone could run a few Tor nodes and we could try a Tor timing attack.

[BlindMixerDR]

nice, I love this. Thanks for doing this BlindMixerDR, I was hoping someone would replicate the effort.

I think you already lasted longer than I did. However by your rules I wouldn't have had to admit discovery (no hard evidence).

I can give people here one hint: it's not molecular this time

Good luck!

I read all your thread and I am following almost all the advice you received, but I think the evidence against you was very specific - if someone discovers a unique thing like that about me and links directly to my real user, then I will admit it. But you can see that people think "IP-address" or ' ' single quotes identify me, and they are not right yet. Also, you released some information about yourself, I will release only the URL of the onion website (it is not fully ready yet). But your bounty was 14BTC at $7 per bitcoin. Mine is 2.5BTC at $140 per bitcoin.

If everyone agrees, I will let molecular be the judge of what is "hard evidence". molecular must imagine he is the police chief trying to find out who I am, and must decide if he should spend lots of money to enter my home and to confiscate all my computers and then to pay the IT specialists much more money to investigate my computer hardware and to crack the encryption and so on. Obviously he cannot do it for just stupid random guesses. So if molecular says so, then I must respond to a post. Do you agree molecular?

edit: if everyone wants, I will also place 2.5BTC in escrow with a reputable hero member of the forum. But if someone does gets the right answer, then everyone needs to trust me to say the truth anyway.

edit: or to rubberhose the encryption 

[rme]

The proxy that you use:
http://catalogsytes.avk.lt/

Address in my signature

[molecular]

nice, I love this. Thanks for doing this BlindMixerDR, I was hoping someone would replicate the effort.

I think you already lasted longer than I did. However by your rules I wouldn't have had to admit discovery (no hard evidence).

I can give people here one hint: it's not molecular this time

Good luck!

I read all your thread and I am following almost all the advice you received, but I think the evidence against you was very specific - if someone discovers a unique thing like that about me and links directly to my real user, then I will admit it. But you can see that people think "IP-address" or ' ' single quotes identify me, and they are not right yet. Also, you released some information about yourself, I will release only the URL of the onion website (it is not fully ready yet). But your bounty was 14BTC at $7 per bitcoin. Mine is 2.5BTC at $140 per bitcoin.

If everyone agrees, I will let molecular be the judge of what is "hard evidence". molecular must imagine he is the police chief trying to find out who I am, and must decide if he should spend lots of money to enter my home and to confiscate all my computers and then to pay the IT specialists much more money to investigate my computer hardware and to crack the encryption and so on. Obviously he cannot do it for just stupid random guesses. So if molecular says so, then I must respond to a post. Do you agree molecular?

edit: if everyone wants, I will also place 2.5BTC in escrow with a reputable hero member of the forum. But if someone does gets the right answer, then everyone needs to trust me to say the truth anyway.

edit: or to rubberhose the encryption 

Hmm. How about this: everyone can be police, but an investigation incurs cost, so to simulate an investigation they'd have to put up some money (that goes to charity or to BlindMixerDR). Something like 0.2 BTC. They would receive a share of the bounty, of course. BlindMixerDR would have to answer yes/no to any (payed) police inquiry asking "are you xzy?". Of course someone having hard evindence could play the police role themselves, also.

That way wild guessing is disincentivised while still allowing for "hunches of a detective" not supported by hard evidence to play out (viable investigative method if I can believe TV shows . In other words: If someone is sure to have found you but has no hard evidence, he can still "corrupt" the police to pay a visit to you and see if it's you.

Am I just babbling nonsense?

[BlindMixerDR]

Hmm. How about this: everyone can be police, but an investigation incurs cost, so to simulate an investigation they'd have to put up some money (that goes to charity or to BlindMixerDR). Something like 0.2 BTC. They would receive a share of the bounty, of course. BlindMixerDR would have to answer yes/no to any (payed) police inquiry asking "are you xzy?". Of course someone having hard evindence could play the police role themselves, also.

That way wild guessing is disincentivised while still allowing for "hunches of a detective" not supported by hard evidence to play out (viable investigative method if I can believe TV shows . In other words: If someone is sure to have found you but has no hard evidence, he can still "corrupt" the police to pay a visit to you and see if it's you.

Am I just babbling nonsense?

Yes, I have already made rules to say that someone who has a hunch, and explains where the hunch comes from (so it is not just a guess), then they can make a donation to FSF or torservers.net. And if you make the donation, then I will answer. I only said 0.005BTC for the donation.  0.2BTC is $30 now, so that would be too much.

We could make the donation higher, and then I will also make another equal donation to the same charity (FSF or torservers). Is that fair? Is 0.02BTC ok?

But I want to make sure everyone understands: even if you pay the donation, if you just guess with no explanation of your guess, or with an explanation that is just invented, then I still won't answer. There needs to be a convincing reason.

[BlindMixerDR]

Very well - I feel pretty confident.
Tx ID: d8b9e9a98ad40cf7853d86b2eae5ccf898cb99040714d58cd7e1d8e5d55b22fe
http://blockchain.info/tx/d8b9e9a98ad40cf7853d86b2eae5ccf898cb99040714d58cd7e1d8e5d55b22fe

See my post above.

I was going to reply to your post. I am not OpenYourEyes.

I have made the same donation to FSF as I promised to.

http://blockchain.info/tx/063531718d60bc33a596353ef87ac853a1b807d8f40d48a96df5ec914a8c1bee

[MysteryMiner]

Web bug worked as intended. It revealed Tor exit node. Good for OP

Many will be looking for compromising OP identities by social weaknesses. As it turned out in Molecular's thread/game the technical means was holding against forum users.

I made my best approach possible at this moment and I have candidate. Will watch this developing.

[Zaih]

Is it even possible? Like have you left cryptic clues around or something I'm confused haha

[fergalish]

I have only an idea how webbugs work, but it seems everybody says OP is using tor, including theymos.  However, I thought registration on this forum through tor was not permitted, so theymos should have OP's real IP address from that - though IIRC, molecular used a VPN-through-tor to register for his "findmeifyoucan" thread - can you confirm molecular?  Theymos, does your post refer also to OP's registration IP?  If not, then: OP, are you willing to let theymos reveal your registration IP?

I can't help with the technical aspects of this hunt, even though I'd love to be more capable of that.  Would it be possible to trawl through every post made on this forum and gather timing statistics for each member?  Assuming OP is still posting under his real username, then there might be a strong correlation with this anonymous id though it would probably take a while longer, and plenty more posts, to weed out the false positives. For the prize of 2.5BTC you could afford to make over 100 trials though (though it's not clear if the donation should be 0.02BTC or 0.005BTC).

Here's some linguistic analysis, which is all I can really offer:

Your question is not clear. Do you mean, what is the best number of outputs in order to minimize the transaction fee per output?
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This might suggest American English, though -ize is common in the "Queen's English" lands now. OP also has another post with "synchronize".

Are there any reputable providers of penetration testing there? Need a new site to be tested before being announced.

This suggests colloquial English. Most foreigners would say "I need..." because they are taught that English requires that the subject be explicitly specified (unlike, e.g., Spanish, Italian where the verb specifies the subject, or Japanese where I understand the subject is usually implied). So either OP didn't know that (which seems unlikely given the quality of his English) or he is familiar enough with English to know that, casually speaking, it's not always necessary, eg: "Went swimming yesterday, bumped into a fish so I ate it up" - it's clear I am the subject.

Nobody at all? No hackers in bitcoin community  

Whereas this suggests non-English language origin. OP should say "... in the bitcoin community"

Wait, the ban seems to be gone. The notification is no more there, and I can click on "new topic" o...<snip>
When I find something good to write in a thread I will try to see if the ban is gone for sure.

More stuff suggests non-English mother tongue.  OP should say "definitely gone" or "definitively gone" or "gone for certain" instead of "for sure".  This is not a hard and fast rule, though.  Just in my personal experience, lots of non-native English speakers say "for sure" more than you might otherwise expect.

Bitcoin wallets normally start with 100 addresses. I suggest you try importing the addresses you need into blockchain.info again. The easiest thing is to start bitcoin-qt, go to the console window (help -> debug -> console) and type "listunspent 0" to show all the unspent outputs your bitcoin-qt wallet is storing. Then either dump only the private keys corresponding to those unspent outputs (in console window, type "dumpprivkey <address>"), or look through the file from Pywallet until you find the private keys you need.

This is not a trivial linguistic construction, but for all I can see there are no errors.

So, all I can offer, is the following. OP's first post was asking to be whitelisted to get out of the newbie jail https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15911.msg1621951#msg1621951.  Then he replies to a bunch of newbie questions with what seems to be very good English. Then he starts asking about escrow and penetration testers and we see a couple of mistakes creeping in, though a couple of posts still come through perfectly well. Then there are a couple more replies to newbie questions only now there are some errors:

If you are expert good enough to store blockchain wallet backup safely, then you are expert good enough to store _{(OP should put "the" here)} bitcoin-qt/multibit/electrum wallet safely.
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So, all-in-all, OP seems to be a non-native English speaker but with very good English. Or he is deliberately introducing errors. Or... maybe... there might be more than one person writing. Last possibility, OP says he is following most of the advice from molecular's findmeifyoucan thread - my advice in that thread was to use an automatic translator (e.g. google) to translate everything he is writing.  Anyone here work at google and willing to search the translate history for a match, assuming the history is kept?    (that's just a joke, doing that would probably get you fired!)

Sorry if this post seems a bit confused.  I'm pulling info in from a bunch of different tabs at once.

edit: hmm, rereading this again after I posted yesterday - a substantial part of OP's posts are better than any automatic translation. Scratch that theory.

[MelMan2002]

I was going to reply to your post.

Hmm, does that mean I get a free guess?

[BlindMixerDR]

I was going to reply to your post.

Hmm, does that mean I get a free guess?

It is fair I suppose. But you must still provide some evidence or a good reason why you suspect that person. Just random guesses are not allowed.

[BlindMixerDR]

I have made the announcement of the blind mixing service. Maybe you will find more informations there to identify me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1caf2s/announce_a_tor_based_blind_bitcoin_mixing_service/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175959.msg1832604#msg1832604

[lerelerele]

ec2-50-16-70-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com

[fergalish]

<snip>
OP, are you willing to let theymos reveal your registration IP?

OP, you didn't answer my question. Tor registrations are not permitted on bitcointalk, so your registration IP might reveal something about you. Or did you use an anonymous VPN like molecular did at the time?

[molecular]

I have only an idea how webbugs work, but it seems everybody says OP is using tor, including theymos.  However, I thought registration on this forum through tor was not permitted, so theymos should have OP's real IP address from that - though IIRC, molecular used a VPN-through-tor to register for his "findmeifyoucan" thread - can you confirm molecular?  

confirmed. I used a vps I had bought with bitcoins and tunneled my traffic through it:

my real IP -> tor -> vps -> bitcointalk

[deepceleron]

I have made the announcement of the blind mixing service. Maybe you will find more informations there to identify me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1caf2s/announce_a_tor_based_blind_bitcoin_mixing_service/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175959.msg1832604#msg1832604

Now that you've proved nobody can identify you, you want to start a service where people send you Bitcoins. Seems reasonable.

[BlindMixerDR]

<snip>
OP, are you willing to let theymos reveal your registration IP?

OP, you didn't answer my question. Tor registrations are not permitted on bitcointalk, so your registration IP might reveal something about you. Or did you use an anonymous VPN like molecular did at the time?

Yes. Theymos may reveal all informations he has about me. I registered using a tor bridge.

ec2-50-16-70-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com

This is not a hostname I know. But it might be one of the servers. Can you explain how you found this hostname?

Now that you've proved nobody can identify you, you want to start a service where people send you Bitcoins. Seems reasonable.

I am not asking for anyone's bitcoins yet, only testnet coins. Do you think the operators of a bitcoin mixing service should announce their identities? Did you ever buy anything from SR?
I will add your question to the FAQ - it will be the first one.

[lerelerele]

I think about your donation of bitcoins, when you transfer bitcoins your Bitcoin adress is stored.

Maybe i am in an error but the data of this transaction is

http://blockchain.info/es/tx/063531718d60bc33a596353ef87ac853a1b807d8f40d48a96df5ec914a8c1bee

And the whois of this IP give me this

http://bgp.he.net/ip/50.16.70.150#_dns

Then you can go to http://ec2-50-16-70-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com/logs

and see the move of data but i cant give it a sense.

[BlindMixerDR]

I think about your donation of bitcoins, when you transfer bitcoins your Bitcoin adress is stored.

Maybe i am in an error but the data of this transaction is

http://blockchain.info/es/tx/063531718d60bc33a596353ef87ac853a1b807d8f40d48a96df5ec914a8c1bee

And the whois of this IP give me this

http://bgp.he.net/ip/50.16.70.150#_dns

Then you can go to http://ec2-50-16-70-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com/logs

and see the move of data but i cant give it a sense.

I access to the bitcoin network with tor.

[simulacrum]

I have made the announcement of the blind mixing service. Maybe you will find more informations there to identify me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1caf2s/announce_a_tor_based_blind_bitcoin_mixing_service/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175959.msg1832604#msg1832604

Wait a second....was this whole a game a marketing exercise?  Nicely played.