bitfloor issues?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

[laserwolf]

dafuq does he mean stop messaging him on his personal account? there is no response from the bitfloor twitter or emails.

[zedicus]

Man!! I escaped from this fiasco with nothing but a hunch!! Call it spidy sense or whatever but .. there was this guy that kept ranting about Roman and how he was a thief and he was adamant about the previous bitfloor fiasco and the losses that occurred and even after listening to this dude rant and even finding him annoying at one point i went ahead and gave bitfloor and Roman a chance! (bad move)

Shortly after i was doing ok on bitfloor and started up trading on bitstamp too..  nonetheless it was because of this forum member who was adamant about Roman that finally my spidy sense kicked in and i moved my $4k to my bank and also moved my other 15-20btc off the exchange to a wallet.


The next day bitfloor was done.. i got no email by the way!!! I found out on the forum ...


Entropy-uc (I think thats his name, maybe just Entropy)

  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING VOCAL ABOUT BITFLOOR!!

You are responsible for making my spider sense kick in!!!

I dont even know if this guy is a regular forum member or if he will ever see this post!!!



THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! I cant believe it took me that long to get wind of ROMAN and bitfloor!

I got caught up in bitcoin trying to raise funds for a surgery i needed and a total loss would have been devastating!



Thanks again, and good luck to everyone!!



Best Regard,
Zedicus

[MPOE-PR]

Hey everybody! Roman has actually responded to a twitter inquiry about Bitfloor funds! Here it is:

M ‏@DaPlaneBoss 3hours ago
@defunctzombie @binarybits yo, I could really use that $ I had in My @bitfloor account. Any progress on getting refunds processed?

Roman Shtylman Roman Shtylman ‏@defunctzombie 31minutes ago
@DaPlaneBoss @binarybits progress is being made. Hopefully have solid updates soon.

M M ‏@DaPlaneBoss 27m
@defunctzombie @binarybits thx. Good luck. I know its not easy.

Roman Shtylman Roman Shtylman ‏@defunctzombie 26minutes ago
@DaPlaneBoss @binarybits no, it is not and takes time. But I assure you it is being worked on.

So much like Jared Kenna (the scammer of TradeHill fame) that it bleeds. Why should we even get excited some lowlife fuckwit has "made a twitter update"?

[SpottedMarley]

So much like Jared Kenna (the scammer of TradeHill fame) that it bleeds. Why should we even get excited some lowlife fuckwit has "made a twitter update"?

I wouldn't suggest anyone get excited. It's simply that I know that there is a pretty strong interest among followers of this thread to hear of even the smallest bit of acknowledgment on Bitfloor's behalf of the current situation. Roman Shtylman IS Bitfloor. So his tweets are their tweets as far as I am concerned.

[audenx]

Bitfloor update email for 10-June-2013

Good news at last!

I spoke today with Jordan Modell from Internet Credit Union. He was able to confirm that Roman has been in touch with ICU for a few weeks and has been working with them to set up a way to return USD funds to customers. Here are the key points:

• After conferring with their counsel, ICU confirmed that they can legally open an account for Bitfloor. They have done so. Bitfloor's account with ICU is now open.
• ICU and Bitfloor are setting up ACH transfer capabilities for the account. Jordan should be able to confirm by Friday this week whether ACH into and ACH out of the account is set up and working.
• The main delay at this point is that ICU has to wait to hear back from their counsel whether they need to follow "Know Your Customer" guidelines for each of Bitfloor's depositors. Jordan said it might take as long as until the end of next week (6/21) to hear back from their counsel on this issue.

To elaborate on point #3: Even though Roman knows who most of us are (because anyone who requested ACH verification from Bitfloor already submitted photo ID), ICU is trying to find out if they need to separately request and review identity verification information for all of us, too. Ideally, ICU would like to avoid collecting this information about Bitfloor's customers, if that's legal. However, if their counsel advises them to collect this information, it shouldn't amount to much more than some additional paperwork or a brief phone call for each of us — not too much of a hassle, in my opinion, given how long we have waited already for refunds.

Overall, Jordan sounds very motivated to help with this situation. He asked me to follow up with him later this week so he could give me an update.

[JWU42]

Thanks for the update!!

[BCB]

Bitfloor update email for 10-June-2013

Good news at last!

I spoke today with Jordan Modell from Internet Credit Union. He was able to confirm that Roman has been in touch with ICU for a few weeks and has been working with them to set up a way to return USD funds to customers. Here are the key points:

• After conferring with their counsel, ICU confirmed that they can legally open an account for Bitfloor. They have done so. Bitfloor's account with ICU is now open.
• ICU and Bitfloor are setting up ACH transfer capabilities for the account. Jordan should be able to confirm by Friday this week whether ACH into and ACH out of the account is set up and working.
• The main delay at this point is that ICU has to wait to hear back from their counsel whether they need to follow "Know Your Customer" guidelines for each of Bitfloor's depositors. Jordan said it might take as long as until the end of next week (6/21) to hear back from their counsel on this issue.

To elaborate on point #3: Even though Roman knows who most of us are (because anyone who requested ACH verification from Bitfloor already submitted photo ID), ICU is trying to find out if they need to separately request and review identity verification information for all of us, too. Ideally, ICU would like to avoid collecting this information about Bitfloor's customers, if that's legal. However, if their counsel advises them to collect this information, it shouldn't amount to much more than some additional paperwork or a brief phone call for each of us — not too much of a hassle, in my opinion, given how long we have waited already for refunds.

Overall, Jordan sounds very motivated to help with this situation. He asked me to follow up with him later this week so he could give me an update.

Wait, so ICU is releasing confidential client information to you?

[DannyHamilton]

Wait, so ICU is releasing confidential client information to you?

Which of the listed information is the "confidential" information, and which is considered public information?

[ProfMac]

Wait, so ICU is releasing confidential client information to you?

I am astonished at the ability of the bit-coin community to read negative interpretations outside of the actual words that were written.

[DannyHamilton]

I am astonished at the ability of the bit-coin community to read negative interpretations outside of the actual words that were written.

You must be new here.

[ProfMac]

I am astonished at the ability of the bit-coin community to read negative interpretations outside of the actual words that were written.

You must be new here.

It's so mean to type like that when I'm drinking coffee.

[spanishfry]

Awesome update, audenx!   

[MPOE-PR]

I am astonished at the ability of the bit-coin community to read negative interpretations outside of the actual words that were written.

You must be new here.

What gave it away?

[dwolfman]

Bitfloor update email for 10-June-2013

Good news at last!

I spoke today with Jordan Modell from Internet Credit Union. He was able to confirm that Roman has been in touch with ICU for a few weeks and has been working with them to set up a way to return USD funds to customers. Here are the key points:

• After conferring with their counsel, ICU confirmed that they can legally open an account for Bitfloor. They have done so. Bitfloor's account with ICU is now open.
• ICU and Bitfloor are setting up ACH transfer capabilities for the account. Jordan should be able to confirm by Friday this week whether ACH into and ACH out of the account is set up and working.
• The main delay at this point is that ICU has to wait to hear back from their counsel whether they need to follow "Know Your Customer" guidelines for each of Bitfloor's depositors. Jordan said it might take as long as until the end of next week (6/21) to hear back from their counsel on this issue.

To elaborate on point #3: Even though Roman knows who most of us are (because anyone who requested ACH verification from Bitfloor already submitted photo ID), ICU is trying to find out if they need to separately request and review identity verification information for all of us, too. Ideally, ICU would like to avoid collecting this information about Bitfloor's customers, if that's legal. However, if their counsel advises them to collect this information, it shouldn't amount to much more than some additional paperwork or a brief phone call for each of us — not too much of a hassle, in my opinion, given how long we have waited already for refunds.

Overall, Jordan sounds very motivated to help with this situation. He asked me to follow up with him later this week so he could give me an update.

THIS is the best news I've heard yet related to Bitfloor!   

Granted I'm only out $105, but when you are broke and unemployed, every penny counts!

I hope this doesn't take too long.  My wife will be really upset if we can't do something for our anniversary on the 22nd.  Getting that money back will take care of that for us. 

[yeti_alchemist]

Good news at last! ...

This is very welcome news.
I miss my money. I hope it remembers me.

[schmokel]

About damn time.  Thanks AudenX.

[BitChick]

That is good news.  Better news would be if Bitfloor would reopen, or get bought by someone that would reopen the site.  It was so much better than Mtgox. 

I am glad that Roman was being honest all along.  It must be pretty stressful dealing with all of this.

[dwolfman]

Couldn't have been too stressful if he was taking a vacation and crashing on people's couches at the time.   

[infested999]

Just to be clear, this is not new news. Obviously he found a bank, he just had to make a phone call and open an account. Nothing important. What I would like to know now is if he still has the full amount of money that he started off with.

It seems to me like maybe he just grew up a rich kid and doesn't understand how much trust we put into him to walk around with a million$ check.

Let this be a lesson to all of us to not trust a US-based business where this fraud is left unaccounted for. Only leave fiat money in a European account where people are held accountable for their actions (read bitcoin-24).