Quote from: rickyjames on January 22, 2014, 04:40:00 PM

Quote from: IveBeenBit on January 22, 2014, 03:05:54 PM

Quote from: rickyjames on January 22, 2014, 12:54:14 PM

Before you go and blow a major hole in somebody's reputation, you've got to make damn sure you're right. I didn't release EpicThomas' real world name in the beginning because I wasn't 100% sure I had the right guy until later on. Hopefully Graviton is doing the same thing. I recommend patience for a few days.

This. I'm surprised that it even needs to be spelled out like this.

But...Graviton was asking for trouble when he said the account belongs to a "well known and respected member of the Nxt community." That's like waving a bloody steak in front of rabid gossip hounds.

I've been thinking about this some more. I take back complimenting myself that I've isolated the truth down to "scenario 3 - unknown new hacker". Anything is possible and we should not start locking ourselves in to thinking the simple answer is the right one. Whoever withdrew that NXT has had weeks to think about how they were going to do it. There are lots of ways set up a false flag operation in that time. It could be anybody, including EpicThomas. We may never know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

Well its pretty simple actually, and we can easily know if the reputable member comes forward. The thief took my NXT from 8439060069775407509 (account1=me) and placed them in 15182566201738727933 (account2=thief). They moved from account2 to 2647797480528736696 (account3=reputable member). Account 3 sent them to 6635869272840226493 (account4=dgex). So dgex knows who account3 is, and account3 is either account2, i.e. the thief, or knows who account2 belongs to, and thus knows the thief (or some information about them).

Whether or not dgex will divulge the information is kind of beside the point. Dgex shouldn't divulge it, but he should strongly recommend to the reputable member to disclose his transfer history so the community can have some closure on this issue. There is nothing that says the thief is done stealing accounts, nor that he is not still sitting on more accounts waiting to transfer them as well.