0.06 paid to 16SCxS7gsLa1LM3Zgmzpz3Jr525j24bxX1
https://blockchain.info/tx/faa3a5698d852d7ece91093f7ea74daea2edacb79f07a887c88874c5f913c449

Thank you for working with me on this.

Here's my most recent dialog with Sarahiko:


--Encrypted--, thank you, by the way.  At least somebody in this thread is sane.

It wasn't repaid because my account was stolen.  The evidence I've provided to Sarahiko makes it obvious, but he'd rather try to make a little extra cash by selling the account.

Edit: Sarahiko rejected my 0.1 BTC offer and gave me back my stolen account for the price of the loan taken by the hacker.  He's a good guy.  Thanks.

You're the rightful owner of my account about as much as a person who buys a car from a car thief is the rightful owner of the car (it gets confiscated by the police, btw).  The only difference here is I was offering to make you whole because I'm willing to take responsibility for not having changed my password last year when Bitcointalk had a big data breach.

So where does an auction like this take place?

I opened the PM message and saw a loan being discussed.  Of course I'm going to look into it if I think somebody is impersonating me to rip somebody off.  Also, I do recall the E-Mail about the forum being hacked, and I thought I had changed my password, but when I looked at the one I had saved in my browser (yes, I need to stop managing passwords that way), it was still the old one, to my dismay.

If I am the same person as the guy who requested the loan, then why wouldn't I just pay it back to get the account?  I am willing to calmly wait until the guy who hacked my account fails to pay back the loan and then I'll pay it back to recover my account.  I suggested that to Sarahiko as soon as I realized he had, in fact, already sent the loan to the hacker.  I have far better things to do with my time than create drama by getting a loan and then making a new account to cause trouble.  Work, wife, toddler, video games, etc.

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Lastly, here is some additional evidence I provided to Sarahiko yesterday in a PM to show that the account is mine.


I have since added a new image to that Imgur album that states, "WhitePhantom1980 is the rightful owner of the WhitePhantom BitcoinTalk account."

All I want is for Sarahiko to wait until the hacker doesn't pay and then sell my account back to me for what the hacker owes him rather than auctioning it off.


Edit: Something that just occurred to me was that the hacker may not have changed my password before handing the account over to Sarahiko.  I just PM'd that password to Sarahiko with the hope that it helps establish that there is no reason not to let me buy it back from him after the loan has not been paid.

If the account was not hacked, and I'm actually the borrower trying to scam the collateral, then why am I offering to repay the loan and interest to get the account back?

Not once did I suggest that the lender should give me the account without me covering the loan.  Even if he had offered to do that, I would insist on paying him back the loan.

Right, and I offered to settle the loan, including the interest, after the hacker fails to pay, but Sarahiko says he'll auction my account.  I fail to see how that is reasonable.

1) I assume I would have received an E-Mail notification if the hacker had changed the E-Mail address or password on the account, and he didn't want me to know that he had access to my account.
2) Because he had access to my account and could post as me.
3) I hadn't logged into my account since last July and E-Mail notifications are not sent when a hacker posts a message using my account.  I found out somebody was using my account when I received E-Mail notifications that my account had new private messages from you to the hacker.



The address Sarahiko found in one of my posts from 2013, and wants me to send him a signed message from, is a deposit address for my BTC-e account.

I have provided him with screenshots of my BTC-e transaction history that show my BTC-e account receiving 18 payments, over many months, from an address that I currently control.  All 18 deposit times and amounts match the blockchain transaction record perfectly.

Obviously, I am unable to send a signed message from an address controlled by BTC-e, but I've provided a reasonable explanation of why I have never controlled the address he found in my post from 2013, provided substantial evidence that I do have access to all funds sent to that address (via BTC-e), and I've offered to send him a signed message from the address I used to make 18 deposits to the address BTC-e controls.

Along with this evidence, I offered to pay back his loan amount, including the interest, when the hacker fails to pay, but he says my account will be auctioned unless I send him a signed message from the address that I've demonstrated is controlled by BTC-e.

I don't understand why he has a problem with letting me buy my account back AFTER the hacker fails to pay, especially with the evidence I've provided.

A reasonable person would think that, right?  He told me he won't do that, and that I'll have to bid on it in an auction if I want it back.

Here are my most recent communications with Sarahiko on the matter of my account being hacked.  Anybody who's interested, please let me know if I'm missing something.


He asked me:

To which I responded:

I think I've made a pretty convincing case, but people in the BTC world often surprise me with theories I never thought of.  So let me know if you all think I'm missing something and am somehow still likely to be trying to defraud Sarahiko.

Edit: I don't see what's so difficult about letting me have the account back after the hacker fails to pay since I've offered to reimburse him the .05 BTC.  He'd rather make some profit from selling it than do the right thing.  How about .06 BTC?  I'll do that.  I just don't like losing something that belonged to me, but there's no way I'm going to bid against other people in an auction for my account.

Edit:
Wow, there's a Bitcointalk Account Price Estimator
http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/?token=4apef7a3
No way I'd pay the expected 0.16 BTC in an auction.  I'm annoyed at 0.06, but I'll do it just to get back something that belongs to me.

If you're accusing me of taking a loan and then saying my account was hacked, you're wrong.  I haven't used BitcoinTalk at all in at least 7 months and not actively for well over a year, and I certainly don't care about a measly .05 BTC, but I received a couple of PM message notifications in my E-Mail about a conversation I had nothing to do with and figured I should try to stop it.

If this guy already got his "loan", sorry to hear that.

Edit: Ewww, I didn't see the transaction confirmation that was posted before I even got here.  So I assume my account is actually now in the hands of Sarahiko and not the guy who hacked it?

I'm WhitePhantom.  Somebody has hacked my account and is trying to scam you.  Do NOT give him anything, please.