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Guilty as charged, I can't believe The "Shorena" indirectly addressed me in his post now I'm walking on pink clouds.

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Now the one person with the ability to kick every body from trust list or add any body at will, having access to IP logs and everything is telling you that the user is connecting roughly from same location yet you tell him it's not enough?

Am I going to get banned and tagged now after I posted after "Shorena" indirectly told me not to? lol I think you guys are a little bit full of yourselves, if a hacker were that good to duplicate the IP address then don't you think they could come up with a private key?

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I would say that based on the fact that MZ changed his PW after the forum's member's table was leaked, that MZ not only posted, but also traded/lent BTC a decent number of times after the forum was hacked would make it reasonable to say that his account was secured after the forum hack. In addition to this, MZ repaid a loan several months late, many months after the hack, communicated with shorena regarding repayment, and shorena did not mention anything about MZ's account getting hacked at the time.

I would also argue that the way MZ is behaving is consistent with how I believe the "real" MZ behaves. Although this can reasonably be faked.

Lastly, per theymos, the IP address of MZ is ~the same as what it was previously. If shorena can confirm some kind of proof of knowledge, then I would say that the person behind the MZ account is likely to be the "real" MZ.

With the above being said, I would still be hesitant to trust someone who has been away from the community for as long as MZ was away, at least at first.....