Thanks for the phone number.  I'm not 100% sure he is the one who called and threatened me, but I'll pass the info along to the detective who took the report first thing tomorrow.  I don't take threats on my or my family's life lightly.

no, I think you're an idiot

Dude, shut the fuck up.  Nobody cares what you have to say.

My twitter was one of the first accounts they followed.  So what?

If I was the mastermind behind these sites do you really think that I would:

- Play on them actively
- Promote them actively
- Freely withdraw large sums of bitcoins to other gambling sites to play
- Shut the site down like 3 days after having all of my personal information posted to bitcointalk

How stupid do you think I am?

Yeah I'm guilty of promoting / shilling for these sites to some extent.  Like many others here, I was suckered in by their cool websites, helpful demeanor, and seeming reliability.

But, by your logic anyone who promoted or retweeted anything from these sites is guilty of running them. (look out omahapoker, they're coming for you next)

There is absolutely nothing demonstrating that the guy calling himself "dmf" on Just-Dice was actually the guy who ran dice.ninja etc.  It's more likely to have been one of my friends screwing around.  Don't forget, we were all (yourself included) pumping jackpot coin really hard back then.

Yes, I deleted the bitcoin group I had been following on linkedin because I was getting daily spam from them that didn't interest me, so?

Lol, that was taken slightly out of context.

I guess you'll be waiting for a very long time then.  None of the (few) logs I can find show anything unusual.  This is the last time I'm going to point this out:  I was asked directly if I ever run a tor node and I said yes.  I occasionally run a tor node.  Was I for sure running a tor node several months ago on the day I supposedly was chatting in just dice with the same IP as someone calling themselves "dmf"?  I don't know, it's possible, I do occasionally run a tor node.

How are you so certain that that was even the real DMF? Because he used that chat handle?

Why is this relevant?  Yes I know this person personally.  What does that have to do with anything?

Nope, I've never once said anything of the sort.

FTFY

FTFY


Never said that either.  How many coins I have is none of your business.


Sure, I'll give you that one.  I'd even go so far as to admit that I've been instrumental in the movement of coins from every dice site on the internet to every other one.

Ironically: https://bitcoin.org/en/protect-your-privacy

You're putting words in my mouth.  You claim I had the same IP address for months.  I don't keep track of shit like that.  I only said that I sometimes run a tor exit node, in response to a direct question.  I don't knowingly run malware infected machines, I run mining rigs, and they accumulate a lot of clutter such as coin daemons and remote access programs.  I don't usually keep a lot of coins on them.  I've already provided you with three transactions I made to dice.ninja, from primedice, that total around 800 BTC.  I also already stated that I would usually make a new account for each transaction.

Does that answer your questions? 

Okay, I'm going to address some of your conspiracy theories:

1) the IP addresses

I don't know why DMF appears to have posted messages to several other dice sites with the same IP address as me.  I can think of a number of ways this might have taken place, but they are all speculation on my part.  Yes I do occasionally run a TOR exit node, yes I have in the past ran other types of proxy servers off of my computers.  I've installed hundreds of coin clients and daemons, some of which may have been infected with who knows what, on my machines, as well as remote desktop software and remote access software mostly for monitoring and pool switching for my mining rigs.  I don't even know how hard it would be to spoof an IP address (if that's even possible). 

You all are demanding that I explain how and why this happened when the fact of the matter is that I didn't even know it had happened until it was brought up here.  Your guess is as good as mine.

2) Deposits and withdrawals from dice ninja

In retrospect this was probably very foolish behavior on my part, but yes I used ninja like a web wallet.  I did this because, unlike other sites, I hardly ever had to wait for a withdrawal and when I did it was only for a few minutes.  I had many accounts on ninja, the same as on other sites that I've played on.  I wouldn't be surprised if half of the coins on that site at one point or another belonged to me.

Whenever I wanted to withdraw from somewhere I had been playing, I would open a browser to ninja (which would make a new account, because I usually logged out when I was done there,) deposit some coins and then use the chat commands to send them to my main account.

3) Primedice

In total, I lost around 425 coins on primedice.  Looking at it right now, I see 5 of my accounts in the leaderboards there, the biggest being: blarghblah, DeanNolan, and AKCoinMiner.  I am 100-200 coins positive on a number of these. 

Here are a few withdrawals I made from primedice that ended up in ninja's cold wallet:

https://blockchain.info/tx/61b01e2b734d299cf44fc52e305575212d10f855298ec19d0b164062c8fab46f
https://blockchain.info/tx/5a3034fb716693ae6e846e89fb64f31ce4afc85ed70b28c365475d9c6b0fc5d4
https://blockchain.info/tx/21972d6d37426945dea783a004098dcdbd1260013731a3380a2cf26983e437ac

4) Bit-loot and huntercoin project

Yes, I studied computer science when I was younger and I know how to program.  I wrote bit-loot a few years ago in PHP and it was a complete disaster, I lost a shitload of LTC because I didn't really know what I was doing.

Yes, I worked on a huntercoin client similar to mithrilman's that I never got working 100%.

5) My dice career

I will be the first to admit that when it comes to gambling I have a problem, which waxes and wanes in severity over time.  This is something very personal to me, and something of which I am not proud.  It all started, as I'm sure it did for many of you as well, on satoshidice.

The last time I battled this demon was on doge-dice when, after winning around 80M dogecoins one day, I began a downward spiral that resulted in my losing a lot of money under other nicknames on both doge-dice and just-dice.  More recently, it was fueled by winning big on JPCDice, and got completely out of control after winning a large number of coins on first dicebitco.in and then dice.ninja.  The end result is that I gambled away all of my winnings and a lot of my own coins that I had intended for other purposes.

6) What happened at dice.ninja:

I DON'T KNOW

I gambled on that site, won in total around 120 coins, and was in their sig campaign, that's it.  I kept a reckless number of coins there over the last few weeks, most of which I withdrew to primedice (and lost) the day before the site disappeared.

I don't know what else you want me to say.  You've got the wrong guy.

I've always been nice to my fellow degens in the gambling community.  I've shared my winnings and kept my losses to myself.  I've spent hours consoling anguished players who lost big.  I've loaned coins and forgiven debts.  I've personally hunted and publicly unmasked scam site operators from my personal account, which is attached to my real name, when everyone who helped in the detective work was too afraid to do it themselves.

And all it took was some circumstantial evidence in a few chat logs, most of which is on a site that I've never even fucking played on to get you to all point your pitchforks at me?  Fuck you guys.

I've just had a long chat with espringe on skype.  For his benefit, it does look like he confronted me directly with these accusations before making them public.  Unfortunately, I never got those messages, and to top it off my skype account was apparently hacked some time in the last few days, and I've just regained control of it.

I don't think Eric has anything to do with this, the evidence he found does appear pretty damning.

I'll let you all draw your own conclusions.  I have my suspicions as to who might have been targeting me for so long, and why.

I guess it's a good thing I wasn't able to register the username mateo over on primedice the other day, lol.

from prcdice chat just now:

12:36: ricky you're all scammy fucks one way or another
12:36: ricky the truth is basically irrelevant. just follow the blockchain
12:36: AKCoinDigger espringe, do you have someone against me personally?
12:36: espringe @AK, no -- sorry
12:36: AKCoinDigger this is a pretty strong accusation
12:36: ricky oh shut the fuck up internet hard man
12:36: espringe yeah, sorry -- it was very strong
12:36: espringe and i don't really have any hard evidence
12:37: espringe tbh i was bluffing -- i was hoping you'd come out
12:37: Dean Nolan wow
12:37: ricky all the chickens coming home to roost

How would I know that?  Whatever my current IP is would be the one of my exit node.

Sounds about right, IP addresses up here change periodically.

Yeah it sounds pretty crazy doesn't it?  We've been discussing this on the prcdice chat for DAYS now though.  When you connect directly though a tor exit node, you lost a lot of the anonymity that tor usually provides (because it's now only a single hop, instead of a number of random ones). 

I've been digging through logs on my main two computers for days now, and haven't found anything yet. 

It would have been helpful if you guys had come to me with those logs/timestamps so I could have directed my search a little better before going all cloak-and-dagger and throwing around wild accusations, though.

Of course I can, I'll post some photos a little later on.

They gave me special treatment, on a number of occasions.  I would PM them in chat, saying I couldn't withdraw, and about a minute later one of them would tell me to refresh because my balance had changed.

I discovered (and played on) JPCDice right after they launched.  This is where I first grew acquainted with DMF and T04D.  They could have very easily port scanned me, as I connected to their site frequently.