Quote from: Franktank on August 28, 2014, 03:24:45 AM

Quote from: dhenson on August 28, 2014, 03:12:20 AM

He just dropped a 16k bitcoin address on the speculation thread, insinuating that it is the dividend payout address (which would be about .04btc / share) without any explanation.

Either it's someone playing a sick joke, or someone with insider information.

A franchisee could possibly have this information by following the flow of their payment to AM and would have the incentive to hide their identity by creating a new account.

I'm hoping this is legit... a .04 btc/share dividend would be amazing.

I do not believe it is a sick joke (not insider info either imo), due to the following reasons:

1) If you look carefully at a few of the transactions from that address, it has received BTC from (directly or indirectly) from F2Pool. F2Pool is also known as Discus Fish, which is located in China (citation needed) and is rumored to be one of the few pools where AM is mining. Check the wallet link and click "Related Tags"

2) Looking at F2Pool/Discus Fish's mining user list, the largest miner in their pool (via 20 min avg) appears to only have started to receive payments from only several days ago. This is similar to age of the mentioned wallet address as it too is also a very new address of being a few days old.

3) The mentioned address is has also sent & received BTC from a wallet address rumored to have received BTC from AM sales. Again, there have been no references other than the quote below (and I've spent quite a bit of time looking too) -

Quote from: stompysteve on August 18, 2014, 04:06:17 AM

coins are on the move from the sales thread BTW Grin

https://blockchain.info/address/12ucMegjPDx7n8UHryWRRmRJYDCpZGtjUb
https://blockchain.info/address/1FKFSu3f3jNwjwSkmpLSGrsd1FPXr3Wdbb
https://blockchain.info/address/1FqFJHvR91t8DTjAVD75CJ4cKTxuPPu6Cq <----

im not very good at making any sense of it though, lots of coins started going to some of those around may june

Now these three examples can only be considered speculation at best (perhaps even grasping at straws) but it does make one wonder...

I combed through it myself and found nothing compelling. Some things I pieced together that are likely, but not guaranteed to be true:

The address uses multisig transactions. The person who owns it is either very security conscious, or there are multiple parties involved with overseeing it.

After this wallet was setup, the first transaction to it was to test that it was working as expected. The test transaction came from someone's personal "play money" account, which has always had a balance of less than 2BTC or thereabouts, and has several transactions with bitcoin gambling sites, and not much else.

After those transactions were confirmed, the account immediately received a large balance of coins (2000) from an address which is pretty ambiguous in origin.

That large balance was then sent in "chunks" over the next couple days (mostly 500 coins at a time, some 300 and 200) to a Chinese bitcoin exchange address belonging to https://cny2btc.com/. Most of the transactions are too and from this Chinese exchange.

All the transactions sent to the exchange are even numbers like 500. All the coins sent FROM the exchange are odd numbers, usually around 300 coins.

The address Franktank has highlighted above also belongs to this exchange.

This suggests to me that this address was for the purpose of converting some coin to cash, 500 BTC at a time, in most cases. Coins coming from the exchange could potentially be from buyers of equipment who used the exchange as an intermediary to convert their cash to BTC to buy goods. This has a better chance of being true if there is a compelling reason for these purchases to frequently be in the 300 BTC range. The random variance in the BTC received from the exchange would suggest they were paying for something priced in currency.