If it can be deciphered as to who has been defrauded and by how much then IMO the money belongs to his victims.
I am not sure how I feel about the seizing of his assets though. Maybe Australian law enforcement should be contacted and give them an opportunity to serve you with a seizure notice of Volpe's assets.
Out of curiosity, did you hack the account you are using? I don't think you are the original owner of the account.
No, I bought this account years ago, and I can provide proof of this.
I am more than happy to provide blockchain evidence of my
"schemes" that I ran and the amounts that were taken. I want to be very clear that I had all intentions of repaying, as obviously my information being posted publicly is not something I want permanently, or at least without being rectified that I have straightened out the situation, despite that I did in fact state the risks in every one of the schemes that were made.
Quickseller or alex, if you are interested in discussing privately, I'm more than happy to come to an agreement.
First of all, you were running outright scams, not schemes. You were outright lying about what you were doing with "investors'" money and as a result were defrauding them. For example, you were
claiming that btc sent to bitcoin-stocks was being "moved to all of our revenue sources and in the meantime, produce your interest and increased revenue for the site" which was not accurate, IIRC you had told me that you used this money to gamble on (ironically) bitdice, and IIRC you lost the last of the money from this site with 5
BTC bets on 3x rolls.
If you truly had intentions of repaying what you stole, then I would think you would have done it by now, prior to your information being posted for over a year. If you seriously want to use a portion of this money to repay what you stole, and can provide me with a list of addresses that received BTC as part of your
schemes scams, then I can review the blockchain and either repay what was stolen on your behalf or confirm the addresses and amounts to be repaid for you -- this would be very time consuming and would not be willing to do this for free though, and if I was the one signing the tx to repay the stolen money, then I would need you to agree to certain procedures. I don't think the 38
BTC would be sufficient to to repay everything though, although it might be fair to repay only 1/2 or 1/3 of what was stolen considering the rise in price of BTC since the money was stolen.
In regards to what I believe that alex should do, it is my understanding that he incurred some costs when his account was hacked (I would consider the amount he was extorted to be a cost, even if he did not actually make the payment), and this should be deducted from Volpe's account balance. It is also my understanding that other people received similar phishing links from Volpe on bitdice -- I would suggest that Alex determine if it can be reasonably concluded that other people had money stolen as a result of this, and if so, to deduct Volpe's balance for this amount to reimburse those who lost money because of this. After doing the above, Alex should either return the balance to Volpe, hold the BTC until he receives a court order to remit the BTC to a court that can determine ownership of the btc (presumably to Volpe's victims) or repay his victims yourself. I don't think it would be appropriate to give his winnings to your investors, unless you can find evidence of cheating and/or prior knowledge of the seed.
I would however say that Alex tell Volpe that after the withdrawal is processed that he is no longer welcome at any of Alex's sites, and that if Volpe deposits any money to any of Alex's sites, then such money will be confiscated. This way James will know in advance what will happen if he tries to play at bitdice, and this question will not need to be asked next time.
I don't think there is any harm in minor delays in processing withdrawals, nor asking the community these kinds of questions.
James -- you very clearly have a serious gambling problem, and you really should seek treatment for this. Your problem has caused you to resort to staling large amounts of money from others. If you continue down this path, you are only going to cause more damage to yourself, and your relationships.