Upon re-reading the thread, bitbook does seem quite sketchy.
Should I paint them red, or...?
I don't think anyone needs to be painted red... they just handled the situation poorly.
They gave him his deposit back and they had the right to freeze his accounts.
They just don't seem to understand that what he did was try to help them, not scam them.
You do it with 0.015 BTC not 15 BTC, and you PM Bitbook after you do it explaining what you did and what you think is wrong, if they dont fix it you leave it alone and dont tell anyone, and dont do it yourself.
He got caught, got here first and made his case, he is wrong.
Disagree. You do it with a large amount, and force them to fix the situation.
And he contacted someone with the info that he could trust to not exploit it, for this very reason.
Bitbook fucked up, and they want to throw him under the bus. They don't like that they had a huge risk on their site. Instead of thanking the guy for showing them the hole, the want to take his BTC? They should be PAYING that man for not just transferring to another account and inst withdrawing. Their withdrawls are automated, they NEVER would have seen those coins again had OP done that.