Okay, do you want to talk about the "regular internet"? Fine, lets do that, lets talk a bit about history:
David Irvine is the equivalent to J.C.R. Licklider.
Do you know how long it took from his concept of the "Intergalactic Computer Network" to even start making the first baby steps as the ArpaNet?
It took 9 years to develop the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). It took another 6 years to implement the Internet Protocol (IP).
Do you know how many years it took from the Arpanet to become the actual Internet? Another 7 years, until the ARPANet was decomissioned, became commercial and Tim Berners-Lee created the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
From "Intergalactic Computer Network" to the WorldWideWeb it took 22 years in total, to then begin their first baby steps to gather public adoption.

Everything up to that point was essentially basic research, and testing out new untested revolutionary ideas to implementing them is a very sinuous route, which NONE of you bunch of cry babies can even fathom.

If your concept of "regular internet" is developing webapps on existing frameworks, using rapid prototyping scripting languages, using existing libraries and building on existing paradigms, then you have no idea of what actually MaidSafe is attempting to achieve.
MaidSafe attempted to rewrite the internet almost from zero, no blueprints exist, there are no models to base it on, and no other crypto project is even dreaming what MaidSafe is about to achieve with their Safe Network.

It isn't even based on blockchains (as this project was born before the release of Satoshi's whitepaper), and it was the first and still the only one that will bring a whole new original consensus mechanism that is truly robust, distributed and decentralized. Without compromising hacks like supernodes and other patchworks. Tell me one project that can guarantee being fully equitative and democratic, without inheriting cumbersome governance drama. A fully trustless autonomous private network without bottlenecks, it doesn't even use tcp/ip for routing packages within the network.
If that's the promise, building something like that properly will take its sweet time.

Btw, Tim Berners-Lee has been developing the next version of linked-data internet called Solid, guess how long it took to develop it? About 9 years.
And guess who is in close talks with Tim Berners-Lee and which project has been experimenting with it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTNVv0WV4os
If you understand the design of the Safe Network and what Solid is capable of, you will understand that this is the most naturally perfect match, which if successful it will become a major tour de force. It may change the face of the Internet forever.

I am not here to defend the commercial viability of the project, but to point out that it is ridiculous to compare a project this ambitious to any other internet webapp type of business.

There is something going on, there is a recent market research report on asic manufacturers, and they list AsicMiner as one of the leaders today.
This got me confused, either the researcher sucks or something fishier  going on here:
https://apexmarketreports.com/Technology-Media/Global-ASIC-Chip-Market-Status-By-Manufacturers,-Types-And-Application,-History-And-Forecast-2025

So I googled AsicMiner for the sake of it and there is a website called http://asicminer.co selling really good looking miners.

Is anyone in Shenzhen who could verify if the company is back?

Friedcat broke all contact after his "disappearance".
I had direct reach to him via QQ and we were negotiating the wholesale purchase of the last gen miners for mining farms.

He simply stopped replying, so it is not like they were still in business secretly after disappearing from the cryptosphere.

Something must have happened.

Thank you Spoetnik, and the rest of the imbeciles who can't even understand what is relevant and what is not.
Your lack of technical understanding and your flaws in critical reasoning are making this invaluable asset stay undervalued. Keep instilling FUD, so I can buy even cheaper MAIDs... I guess this will work until they release alpha 2, it would be baffling to see people falling for the FUD once people can see with their own eyes that the proof of concept is more than validated and that it actually works as intended.

By then the price will be already actualized, and while you guys will become latecomers trying to jump in FOMO, I will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Thank you again for keeping the cognitive dissonance alive!

Nice job! But these attempts were too unsophisticated, so be careful.
Having the userbase of a site is a goldmine for a sophisticated phisher, if he knows what to do.

The recommended course of action is to do exactly what I did: compartmentalize your email addresses.
Regards

Yes, but it is not just about being "more" active.
The things that grabs my attention is that they are being active at all. They could have exploited these leaks any time before.
I had zero phishing emails before, they kept them dormant for 4/5 years and they suddenly exploiting both userbases at the same time.

Sounds like some kids just graduated from grammar school... it it is typical of teenagers to be hypercorrecting shit.

@HabBear Phishing is a established terminology in computer security, it describes a specific social engineering modality.
Go check the dictionary, the neologism has been added to every reputable dictionary available.

Ok these are the emails I've been getting:
First Email:

Second Email:

Third Email:

Fourth email, in this attempt they were incredibly stupid and also incredibly sneaky at the same time. Even though they didn't even bother spoofing the email address, the phishing link uses unicode (the k is not ascii, it is the russian unicode) if they were clever enough, they could have registered that domain, pay for an ssl certificate and they could have had an indistinguishable blockchain.info spoof with a "green" ssl lock in the browser. But fortunately these guys are a bunch of careless amateurs.

Fifth email:

And lastly, the very first one actually targetted btc-e users, by spoofing btc-e itself.

This phishing campaign started on Apr 22nd.
I had zero attempts for 4 years since the hack, and that was baffling considering that it was public knowledge that their DB was dumped from these two sites. I guess that the attackers were either saving it for the right moment, or were finally able to sold the DB or they just got tired of keeping it and made it public.

You clearly don't understand what phishing is, if you think you will be getting email looking like actually coming from a random person.
Read again my OP and try to deduce it again.

I compartmentalize all my email addresses to keep track of companies that sell personal information or potential leaks like the ones I am detecting right now.

I register each website with an unique email address, and if if such email receives any spam unrelated to the company it was used for, it has been sold or hacked.

After Bitcointalk got hacked in 2015 I changed my email address for this forum. The Phishing attempt didnt come to my new address, but to the leaked one. Therefore it is confirmed that these guys are using the leaked DB from the 2015 hack and it is not from a more recent hack.

Regards

Some asshole initiated a phishing campaign against the users of BTC-e and BitcoinTalk.
They are exploiting the leaked DBs from the major hacks in 2014 and 2015 respectively.

The ones I detected are:
1) Targeting BTC-E users: spoofed emails from LocalBitcoins
2) Targeting BTC-E users: spoofed emails from Blockchain.info
3) Targeting BitcoinTalk users: fake emails from Btc-e with some attached payload.
4) +Several failed login attempts.

The last thing I heard was that the BitcoinTalk DB was being offered for sale in 2016.
Considering this "explosive" sudden campaign my speculation is that either some asshole bought it or it was finally released to the public.

Users of BTC-e and BitcoinTalk who used the same emails to register to all these sites should take extra precaution.
I highly suggest to change not only the passwords of every service (if you haven't already... come on, it's been more than 3 years) AND ALSO change your email addresses.

Price is frozen at 672.42 in the website, and the api is stuck at 671.78.
It's been like this for a couple of hours.
Current USD average should be 684.6

gotta keep the tradition... (sigh)

Dividends incominnnggg....

You clearly need some economy 101

it won't be enough for this guy, he will ask you to post screenshots and a tl;dr version of it.

It is frustrating when people fail at reading comprehension and asks for "proofs" when the source material is literally spelling it out.
Click on the links and read it by yourself, if you still don't get it, well, good luck in your life. I won't be babyfeeding you by summarizing it with quotes and highlights for your lazy ass.

Read again the articles, dummy

Project NEM (currency XEM) seems to be doing great!


I honestly never thought they had the clout to reach out and make deals with institutions.
From being a mere altcoin curiosity in the playground, it seems that they jumped to become one of the major players.
Congrats to Makoto and the team!

Dividends incoming!