[Open Scam - 0.3 BTC] Barryst1e Failure to repay

[CryptoDatabase]

The following scam report is against user Barryst1e for the amount of 0.3 BTC.

What happened::
Barry was hired to do some work for HYPER at my request. He failed to complete this job and failed to repay what was owed.

Scammers Profile Link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=526220

Reference Link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1887530

Amount Scammed:
0.3 BTC

Payment Method:
Bitcoin

Proof of Payment:
https://blockchain.info/tx/9a9bc0d6863971d2304747f3a60dcf3d2711d6e30e5ee0e647f73657899472f3
https://blockchain.info/tx/1b8353f7897fe968f630700ace1247f7449c91b1fc645e3f7b4418308f3bd41c

Additional Notes:
On March 8, 2017 I hired barrysty1e to do some work for me. This job was to upgrade an old coins source to something newer. After several failed attempts and constant disappearances over the course of a month I fired him and hired someone who could do it.

During the course of this job he would go long periods without contact, taking frequent multi-day 'breaks' on a project with a limited time period. After more than a month I told him that since he didn't complete the job he was hired for I want my money back. After about another week he finally got in contact with me after I contacted the other people he works for and let them know I would open a scam report on him if he didn't repay it.

After the discussion we agreed on a partial payback of 0.2 BTC of the 0.3 BTC I initially sent him to do the job. He agreed to pay back 0.1 BTC within a week and the rest after. It has now been 2 weeks since that agreement and he has ignored my messages even though he is active on these forums.

Do not use barrysty1e for any developer or project work. He has failed to deliver what he was paid to do, ignoring messages, and has made no attempt at all to pay back even a portion of what he owes me.

PM/Chat Logs:

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[magneto]

He is a mooncoin developer, right?

I wondered about whether the mooncoin founder had any additional info on this person, but he hasn't been online since 2014.

Obviously, you should always use escrow but a senior member and a dev of a moderately successful coin, you would think that he is trustworthy.

And also it is very hard to confirm what you say is accurate, as there are no logs provided. I'm sure you could dig up some old chat history to add to yoru case.

[CryptoDatabase]

He is a mooncoin developer, right?

I wondered about whether the mooncoin founder had any additional info on this person, but he hasn't been online since 2014.

Obviously, you should always use escrow but a senior member and a dev of a moderately successful coin, you would think that he is trustworthy.

And also it is very hard to confirm what you say is accurate, as there are no logs provided. I'm sure you could dig up some old chat history to add to yoru case.

The logs of our discussion are on http://thecryptochat.net. Unfortunately their chatrooms only show so many messages so I am unable to provide them but if it is of dire necessity I can see if they can pull it up for me.

There are others who are aware of what has been happening including the HYPER Board who were present in the conversation as well as Mooncoin_Foundation who has been fully aware of my issues with their developer for a couple weeks now. They will be able to verify that what I say is true.

He was paid 0.1 BTC up front and 0.1 BTC when it was finished with another 0.1 BTC tip. When he received the final payment we had what we believed to be a functioning wallet but a bug was found after that point that made it useless.

[barrysty1e]

hello all,

quick recap of events.
was asked to help with the blockchain bloat of the existing hyper client, as cryptodatabase had pointed out it was a drain on system resources and ran slowly at times. i suggested moving to another client or restarting the chain with different parameters.

had ended up reusing the existing hyper codebase with different parameters (back/forth correspondence below):

last successful chain after coinbase generation (sent to cryptodatabase) @ 22032017

email addresses removed for privacy.

confirmation of blockchain status @ 03042017

email addresses removed for privacy.

cryptodatabase had forgot to enable staking in the client.
the chain had sat stagnant for some time (staking not enabled on node coind); and i did not keep my copy of the wallet open for long after sending coinbase to cryptodatabase.

confirmation the client had been working correctly, fired it up @ 12042017 and immediately started staking (my wallet):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=624651.msg18557094#msg18557094

i was slightly irked that a scam accusation was in the works.
i found out that cryptodatabase had started work with another dev (his perogative, no offense taken) and had received his new codebase; to find he wasnt provided with a windows compile:

no compiled copy from new dev:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=624651.msg18580043#msg18580043

to my knowledge neither the new hyper wallet has launched, nor has the coinswap taken place (as of today; 27th april 2017). i'd provided a node for it to stay on (since removed), clean source code and a compiled qt wallet (along with coinbase sent to him). additionally it was pointed out that a user had issues using the wallet on windows 7; which is odd, as my development VM runs windows 7.

cryptodatabase had mentioned his financial motivations for the wallet refresh was due to owning a lot of HYPER; and it had recently been delisted by one exchange. as of now (27th of april, 2017); thecryptochat.net, where this offhand comment was made is currently down so i am unable to grab a screencapture to show this here. this is a big 'tell', so i won't place too much importance on it until i have the chat logs.


i've been a regular of this forum for some years; i'd welcome anyone who ive become friends with to comment here to provide me with some backing, as to being an honest character (being eccentric is not a personality flaw).

james

[CryptoDatabase]

hello all,

Why haven't you made any attempt at all in repaying me the 0.2 BTC we agreed upon 2 weeks ago? You haven't even messaged me to let me know you couldn't pay it.

We had an agreement where you would only repay a portion of what I paid for the job, you broke that agreement. That is not honesty, that is thievery.

[barrysty1e]

i stand by my original comments; nothing to add.

you were provided with a working client and sourcecode, as well as plenty of testing.
the last binary sent was to ensure that you were indeed running the last compiled wallet; not the intermediary ones sent in the meantime.

the fact you've been quick to jump to accusations; then raise a 'scam accusation' thread, after being provided with source code and working binary, simply shows me and others that you aren't patient at all; the delay at the end would have caused little to no issues for either of us.

the work was paid for and completed; you have sourcecode and wallet, transaction complete - our last encounter i had sent the coins to you; and you were told that you will need to wait for the coins to stake for 12 hours, had you simply left the wallet open - they wouldve kept staking.

i'm leaving this where it sits, i havent had any negative dealings with this forum until the accusation you've raised now.

james

[CryptoDatabase]

i stand by my original comments; nothing to add.

you were provided with a working client and sourcecode, as well as plenty of testing.
the last binary sent was to ensure that you were indeed running the last compiled wallet; not the intermediary ones sent in the meantime.

the fact you've been quick to jump to accusations; then raise a 'scam accusation' thread, after being provided with source code and working binary, simply shows me and others that you aren't patient at all; the delay at the end would have caused little to no issues for either of us.

the work was paid for and completed; you have sourcecode and wallet, transaction complete - our last encounter i had sent the coins to you; and you were told that you will need to wait for the coins to stake for 12 hours, had you simply left the wallet open - they wouldve kept staking.

i'm leaving this where it sits, i havent had any negative dealings with this forum until the accusation you've raised now.

james

Why did you agree to repay what was owed then? We were not alone in this chatroom, crazyjack and Psybits who are both respected members of this community were present at this time.

The HYPER wallet you provided was NOT finished. The GUI was messed up on it from being compiled incorrectly and the version number was never changed.

The bottom line is, you were hired to do a job and after over month later a refund was requested. You can either pay what you owe or you can face the consequences of your actions.

[ibminer]

I'd be curious why barrysty1e agreed to repay/refund BTC?  If he had a working client, why offer to refund the majority back?

Is there any proof of him agreeing to pay back .2BTC?

[CryptoDatabase]

I'd be curious why barrysty1e agreed to repay/refund BTC?  If he had a working client, why offer to refund the majority back?

Is there any proof of him agreeing to pay back .2BTC?

I contacted TheCryptoChat and they are working on sending me a copy of the previous chat history for the Hyper Dev room, this may take some time.

[CryptoDatabase]

Here are the chat logs they pulled up from April 12th

[centurionMiner]

i stand by my original comments; nothing to add.

you were provided with a working client and sourcecode, as well as plenty of testing.
the last binary sent was to ensure that you were indeed running the last compiled wallet; not the intermediary ones sent in the meantime.

the fact you've been quick to jump to accusations; then raise a 'scam accusation' thread, after being provided with source code and working binary, simply shows me and others that you aren't patient at all; the delay at the end would have caused little to no issues for either of us.

the work was paid for and completed; you have sourcecode and wallet, transaction complete - our last encounter i had sent the coins to you; and you were told that you will need to wait for the coins to stake for 12 hours, had you simply left the wallet open - they wouldve kept staking.

i'm leaving this where it sits, i havent had any negative dealings with this forum until the accusation you've raised now.

james

Nothing to add.

Man be careful whit this accusation. Mr Barry is a very respectful member of the community. He help a lot of people for free just for free of knowledge.
Is very sad look you talking like a Little boy who dropped the ice cream on the ground and start crying.

[CryptoDatabase]

i stand by my original comments; nothing to add.

you were provided with a working client and sourcecode, as well as plenty of testing.
the last binary sent was to ensure that you were indeed running the last compiled wallet; not the intermediary ones sent in the meantime.

the fact you've been quick to jump to accusations; then raise a 'scam accusation' thread, after being provided with source code and working binary, simply shows me and others that you aren't patient at all; the delay at the end would have caused little to no issues for either of us.

the work was paid for and completed; you have sourcecode and wallet, transaction complete - our last encounter i had sent the coins to you; and you were told that you will need to wait for the coins to stake for 12 hours, had you simply left the wallet open - they wouldve kept staking.

i'm leaving this where it sits, i havent had any negative dealings with this forum until the accusation you've raised now.

james

Nothing to add.

Man be careful whit this accusation. Mr Barry is a very respectful member of the community. He help a lot of people for free just for free of knowledge.
Is very sad look you talking like a Little boy who dropped the ice cream on the ground and start crying.

If you don't have anything constructive to add to this threads discussion then please do us all a favor and don't waste our time.

[CryptoDatabase]

I see there has been no response from Barry regarding the screenshots of the agreement we had.

[CryptoDatabase]

Still no response from Barry about our agreement, proof has been shown that he agreed to repay $310 of the $460.

He asks others to back up his honesty but can't even man up to repay his debts, his actions are not that of an honest man.

[4x13]

don't feel bad guys.. this guy James (BarrySty1e) has yet to refund .5 BTC and 30k PIVX he initially accepted on the pretense of helping out on some side projects.. which he then went MIA and has since made no attempt to repay what he took.

s3v3n

[CryptoDatabase]

An update, Barry offered 'terms' on repaying the amount owed on the 15th that would require this thread to be deleted, the service warning thread to be deleted, all of the posts in the coin thread for MoonCoin, and all negative feedback removed.

I did not agree to those terms and he hasn't bothered contacting me since then. I'm not going to cover up what he did in order to get my money back, not happening.

[CryptoDatabase]

This is still unresolved. Barry has made no effort to contact me or repay the amount owed since the 15th.

[Joel_Jantsen]

After reading both sides of the story,I came to the following conclusion :
Barrystyle needs to pay 0.20 back to the OP for not completing the work and constantly missing deadlines.deadlines. Barrystle,according to the chat logs you yourself agreed to pay him back 0.20 and not obeying to your own words makes you look less credible.You literally posted here opposite of what you had agreed initially.
Negative Feedback Left.

[CryptoDatabase]

The months roll by and yet Mr. James Taylor still has yet to return my funds. I will be increasing my actions against him fairly soon if he continues to try and run from his debt.

[CryptoDatabase]

Interesting stuff can be found when digging commences. Here is a 2 BTC loan that James defaulted on and didn't finish paying from a year ago.

https://www.bitbond.com/21ZJPQ42R7/loans

[crazyjack]

I have bookmarked this thread since the very beginning and here and then I come by to see if anything has changed since the last time but everything remains the same. It's sad but this is a reality we have to face with. I think next time when ordering something we should only choose those who accept to be paid upon delivery. There is no other way around, i guess. Trust can be easily broken and violated. Lesson learnt, right?

I recommend you to stop digging, otherwise you will uncover more dirty secrets from Barry!   (Well that was a joke, a sarcastic one!)

[CryptoDatabase]

I have bookmarked this thread since the very beginning and here and then I come by to see if anything has changed since the last time but everything remains the same. It's sad but this is a reality we have to face with. I think next time when ordering something we should only choose those who accept to be paid upon delivery. There is no other way around, i guess. Trust can be easily broken and violated. Lesson learnt, right?

I recommend you to stop digging, otherwise you will uncover more dirty secrets from Barry!   (Well that was a joke, a sarcastic one!)

Finding information is the easy part, have a folder bookmark that contains 4-5 more links to stuff. He is active here but thinks he can avoid this.

He should just repay me so he can have this behind him, until he does I'll make sure he is reminded. The longer he takes the worse it will be for him.

[btcney]

I have bookmarked this thread since the very beginning and here and then I come by to see if anything has changed since the last time but everything remains the same. It's sad but this is a reality we have to face with. I think next time when ordering something we should only choose those who accept to be paid upon delivery. There is no other way around, i guess. Trust can be easily broken and violated. Lesson learnt, right?

I recommend you to stop digging, otherwise you will uncover more dirty secrets from Barry!   (Well that was a joke, a sarcastic one!)

Finding information is the easy part, have a folder bookmark that contains 4-5 more links to stuff. He is active here but thinks he can avoid this.

He should just repay me so he can have this behind him, until he does I'll make sure he is reminded. The longer he takes the worse it will be for him.

Doesn't seem like he has any sort of motivation to pay you at the moment. He's not even trying to deny that he doesn't owe you anything and it's been quite a while since he last commented on this thread.

You might just want to post as much info as you have on him on the investigations board unless he demonstrates a willingness to repay and works out a new schedule with him.

And good find on his bitbonds profile, there is indeed one defaulted loan of 2 btc. He's from Australia so I wonder if bitkilo could help on this case?

[The Sceptical Chymist]

An update, Barry offered 'terms' on repaying the amount owed on the 15th that would require this thread to be deleted, the service warning thread to be deleted, all of the posts in the coin thread for MoonCoin, and all negative feedback removed.

I did not agree to those terms and he hasn't bothered contacting me since then. I'm not going to cover up what he did in order to get my money back, not happening.

Sorry, those are fucked up terms--but if that's what it would take to get my money back, I'd probably agree with them.  And then start another thread once the bitcoin came in.  lol

Good luck with this.  It always sucks when a respectful respected member here scams, and we've seen it all too often.  There's no decency with people here.  They're all a bunch of knaves.

[CryptoDatabase]

Still nothing from ole Barry, seems he is content with being a thief.

[pinkman12345]

Still nothing from ole Barry, seems he is content with being a thief.

Why don't you legalize the matter? 0.3BTC (1290$)is my 5 weeks pay.

[CryptoDatabase]

Still nothing from ole Barry, seems he is content with being a thief.

Why don't you legalize the matter? 0.3BTC (1290$)is my 5 weeks pay.

It would cost me more than it's worth to pursue it through the court system and I highly doubt he has the funds to repay me regardless of a court order. It's far easier to let the court of public opinion lay judgement in the aim of preventing this from happening to others.

I want my BTC back yes, but above that I just don't want others to have the same unfortunate experience as I have had with him.

[CryptoDatabase]

I have sent James a new mail here, hopefully he responds and shows good intent on returning what's mine.

[barrysty1e]

An update, Barry offered 'terms' on repaying the amount owed on the 15th that would require this thread to be deleted, the service warning thread to be deleted, all of the posts in the coin thread for MoonCoin, and all negative feedback removed.

I did not agree to those terms and he hasn't bothered contacting me since then. I'm not going to cover up what he did in order to get my money back, not happening.

Sorry, those are fucked up terms--but if that's what it would take to get my money back, I'd probably agree with them.  And then start another thread once the bitcoin came in.  lol

Good luck with this.  It always sucks when a respectful respected member here scams, and we've seen it all too often.  There's no decency with people here.  They're all a bunch of knaves.

CryptoDatabase received working source, an active node and a compiled wallet.
The issue was that it was a week late.

Hard pressed to call it 'fucked up' terms when I literally created none of those posted items (Service warning, Scam accusation, posts in Mooncoin thread); and simply wished them to be removed. Talk about having your cake and eating it too - he got what was requested, albeit late, I still was ok with paying him back after admitting I did drop the ball in terms of timing.

CryptoDatabase would have been paid back a long time ago had he simply agreed to remove the threads (after, not before receiving payment).

[CryptoDatabase]

This is still an open scam report, his last mail to me was just more excuses from him on why he refuses to repay me.

[CryptoDatabase]

Unsurprisingly this is still open and no funds received.

[CryptoDatabase]

Heading into almost a year later, still hasn't repaid me but is active here in the forums.

[barrysty1e]

Heading into almost a year later, still hasn't repaid me but is active here in the forums.

Hello all and good evening CryptoDatabase,

To those not following; I modified the old HYPER codebase to start from a fresh chain, with longer block times.
He had been sent all relevant code and binaries; and the node was running. Our final talk 4-5 days later revealed he was unhappy for whatever reason; even though the product was up and running - and he'd been sent all of coinbase.

https://github.com/barrystyle/hyper2-evidence complete with intact timestamps (I thought i'd lost this, but was found a few days ago).

Hope you are keeping well,
barrystyle

[CryptoDatabase]

Heading into almost a year later, still hasn't repaid me but is active here in the forums.

Hello all and good evening CryptoDatabase,

To those not following; I modified the old HYPER codebase to start from a fresh chain, with longer block times.
He had been sent all relevant code and binaries; and the node was running. Our final talk 4-5 days later revealed he was unhappy for whatever reason; even though the product was up and running - and he'd been sent all of coinbase.

https://github.com/barrystyle/hyper2-evidence complete with intact timestamps (I thought i'd lost this, but was found a few days ago).

Hope you are keeping well,
barrystyle

There were no nodes, you refused to send the entire swap balance over only doing it in parts and never sent the full amount, and then you disappeared forcing me to contact others for the job. 4-5 days late? Try 2 months late after you claimed I'd have it within a week. Funny enough the other folks I hired after you kept fucking around did exactly as I wanted in the 1 weeks time they quoted me.

You are only hurting yourself by refusing to repay me, as evidenced by your negative trust here. You should just man up and pay your debts instead of trying to come up with excuses hoping it will go away.

0.3 BTC is owed to me by you, the longer it takes you to repay then the worse it becomes for you. Guess you do have more to worry about legally though, with even more debt owed to people you borrowed money from and never repaid.