Quote from: znort987 on July 30, 2012, 04:54:56 PM

Quote from: notme on July 30, 2012, 04:51:46 PM

I meant the other way... how much is the pirate closure tainting say the receiving addresses of the last 10 transactions (or 10 random transactions since we are getting close to his weekly payout time)?

Feel free to use the block parser to gather you own stats and reach your own conclusions

Since you already have it up and working, what does your block parser say about these addresses that I traced coins to manually?

Quote from: Shadow383 on July 30, 2012, 12:33:35 PM

Quote from: Spekulatius on July 30, 2012, 11:32:06 AM

Quote from: Shadow383 on July 30, 2012, 10:10:19 AM

Has anyone on here tried tracking large payments made to/from BTCST? Ponzi or not I'd be interested to see where they go...

+1

Okay, a touch of digging:

Quote from: Vandroiy on July 30, 2012, 11:11:20 AM

Quote from: payb.tc on July 30, 2012, 07:09:04 AM

Quote from: dooglus on July 30, 2012, 06:37:15 AM

Last week, BS&T paid out 26,000 BTC in interest.

i really wonder how anyone can know this.

the reason is, because when i ask for a withdrawal, it comes in exactly the same transaction as the interest payment.

so if someone is due to be paid 100 in interest, but they request a 400 btc withdrawal at the same time, everyone seems to assume they have (500 / 0.07) invested when in reality their balance is much lower.

I was just hinted at this post. This is not at all what is seen on the block chain and what users say.

Bitcoinmax withdrawal from BS&T matches very well with http://blockchain.info/address/19kEo3qmuUdAQb1Q7VZhRwahw5v3NSZCeW?filter=0

The 800 payment last Wednesday can be timed with withdrawal requests shown on the forum. I also was told by BS&T users that they could withdraw at any time, and Bitcoinmax offers withdrawals within 24h, explicitly allowing "withdrawals at any time"! How could the withdrawals be delayed until the next Monday with such promises?

Furthermore, look at the immediate large re-investment on Monday last week. Withdrawal?

One of the inputs to that address (presumably controlled by BTCST) is: http://blockchain.info/address/1PSf86KnLuzM7Ris5kDhTEZwooR3p2iyfV

Which is an output of some mining done by GPUMAX on their private pool:

Quote from: pirateat40 on June 21, 2012, 04:50:11 PM

The following address is managed by GPUMAX.

1PSf86KnLuzM7Ris5kDhTEZwooR3p2iyfV

Sorry it wasn't more interesting. Sad

-pirate