Quote from: oda.krell on May 13, 2013, 05:03:11 PM

Google Translate (pretty shitty translation for this language pair, by the way, but better than nothing) gives me the impression that
a) they were defrauded or had their private keys stolen by hotel staff, and
b) rptiela estimates the damage to be in the range of 100k btc (or, as he helpfully points out, about 9M Euro).

Sounds like quite the successful conference, I must say. /snark

I get the impression that:

a) Someone had an interesting weekend...
b) rpietila had free room service, sponsored by Dread Pirate Roberts. Tongue

Quote from: rpietila on May 13, 2013, 05:27:15 PM

I think the probability of staying alive until tomorrow has dramatically increased, as the first 24 hours after the evacuation did not see any violence or threats thereof. Everything else is still uncertain however, but I don't believe that the operative capability of my supernode or the Bitcoin Supernode Network in general have been, will be, or can be endangered. The general comment would be along the lines: "Bitcoin user not affected."

Quote from: rpietila on May 13, 2013, 07:15:25 PM

Quote from: crumbcake on May 13, 2013, 06:15:13 PM

Quote from: rpietila on May 13, 2013, 05:37:53 PM

Quote from: Rampion on May 13, 2013, 05:31:45 PM

I really hope you real life is not in danger, but honestly i don't get WTF is going on here.

It is safer to fear for your life when there is no danger, than it is to not fear when there is.

Which category does keeping us all in suspense fall under?! If i don't find out something soon I'll pee my pants!!!!

I spent 8 days before the summit in Haikko preparing for it. Then during the 24 hours after it started (opening ceremony was Thursday 14:00, Finland time is used if no otherwise mention), something went seriously wrong so many times that I felt the probability of it having been a coincidence had increased to well above zero.

When I ordered an investigation on the events, I did not have the opportunity of taking adequate care of my summit, my family, my sleeping, my water or my food. After about 40 hours of rather intense events, after which I was fully content to die, since there is nothing in this life that I can think of I would seriously miss (and believe me I can think of things that most of you can not), I had also exhausted my available energy. I did not feel I would have been able to keep my posture for any more time.

So I ordered a general evacuation of the summit and went fully offline for the time between Sunday 13:00 and roughly now. Since I don't have too much stress now, I think I can work approximately 16-18 hours per day indefinitely, provided that I take about 1 day off every 5 days.

Now I try hard to minimize the risk to the well-being of anyone, and to raise the stakes in the game described as follows: if someone actually copied the private keys there (I had access to over 6000 bitcoins unencrypted, open in my computer browser windows during the time it was compromised), he will have to suffer the fact becoming public in its entirety + all the details, if he spends the bitcoins before I have the time to spend them myself. Due to extensive precautions involved, it will take me approximately a week of calendar time + several thousand dollars, to fully ensure that the bitcoins are safe, by sending them to uncompromised addresses. I plan to concentrate on that during this week.

tl;dr: Fear and Loathing in Finland... The Bitcoin Supernode summit is decadent and depraved.