Quote from: judie.f on July 31, 2014, 12:21:11 PM

arg-sidekick
you were asked why you used the same term as the coin artists - DM - instead of what everyone else is using - PM?
why?

Because I'm a product of the Twitter generation (not really). DM = direct message. It's just a different way of saying the same thing.

I'd like to clear up some points that judie.f really wants answered.

Yes, Gatekeeper did hit the pot first. He (technically) wasn't bruteforcing it, his working was shown to me, during the large bitch-fest after the pot was hit, and you know what, I believe him.
He was just as surprised as everyone in this thread to have gotten the private key. He even believed it was a double negative and thinking ARG/myself/others were surely seconds away from the key, he dumped into his main pot. Rookie mistake, even for someone working with < 1BTC. You always dump into a clean pot. Even if you're trading with a friend. Gatekeeper even reached out to a couple of people in the thread to offer some coins. He didn't need to do that. In regards to his massive massive pot, he earnt that building/running someone else's site. I checked out that side of things and it's beyond reasonable doubt to be legit.

Now, coinartist. I have spoken to her also. I would trust what she says in regards to the puzzle. It is, after all, a low gain puzzle. 3.5BTC is a nice amount but are we really thinking that it's a conspiracy to get the bitcointalk forum playing a game with no end/just going to give it back to herself/3rd party? I understand the frustration with not hitting the pot myself, but it was just a game. I had fun, did you?

S4VV4S. I had always thought (reading between the lines) that he was getting hints from coinartist. I must be mistaken. Now, I don't disbelieve that he may have had some rogue "attack" on his network, but I find it quite hard to believe that someone with admin access to the BTCtalk forum (in order to obtain his ip address) attacked his network. If that were the case, I'd like to see the network logs, perhaps I can help? I've a fair amount of experience in that area and could help prevent such attacks from happening again. Back to the point of the attack. What would be the end game? A change of IP address (like he's already done) would solve that completely. And someone who's apparently able to diagnose a network breach, hasn't already blocked most of the vectors into his machines? I know I have.

Lastly, may I ask your "angle" in all of this? You say you work directly/indirectly with S4VV4S but all you seem to be doing is double/triple posting here with no end game yourself. What do you wish to accomplish? I'm sure I can help, if you state clearly and concisely why you wish to pursue this. You may feel like I'm being combative or sarcastic in these many paragraphs, but I assure you if you view my previous posts, I'm being sincere and just want to close this thread because, in my opinion, there's nothing more to discuss.

One last point, the edit button to the side of your posts is for dropping "also"s into. Please stop double posting. I will have to report the posts if you continue double/triple posting.

Love Sidekick

EDIT: Just noticed I didn't really answer the question. I use DM because I feel PM is too close to PMS. Just a personal preference.