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there is NO PROOF that this guy is the same as the one on seals!! BE CAREFUL
see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217447.msg2321829#msg2321829
may be a scammer who made the account recently using names he found on Seals to make himself look legit
edit: This is just my guess, I have not traded with him and may be totally wrong. I am just some random guy on the internet, use your own judgement.
my main reason for suspicion explained in this post where his bitcoin address shows up on a shady russian site selling fake BFL ASCII miners, but who knows, maybe it means nothing at all, I am just pointing it out & hopefully am WRONG.
see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217447.msg2321829#msg2321829
may be a scammer who made the account recently using names he found on Seals to make himself look legit
edit: This is just my guess, I have not traded with him and may be totally wrong. I am just some random guy on the internet, use your own judgement.
my main reason for suspicion explained in this post where his bitcoin address shows up on a shady russian site selling fake BFL ASCII miners, but who knows, maybe it means nothing at all, I am just pointing it out & hopefully am WRONG.
This dude has been here a month and is accusing me of being a scammer. How about you go and post on every person's rep thread saying they could be a scammer since you've never done business with them? All I have EVER tried to do on this site is buy BTC to bet on sports with, it has been a profitable hobby for me. Find someone who says I have scammed them with proof, I'll pay them double back. To be honest I'm quite pissed off. Here is my response to your "claim": I preordered a jalapeno awhile back (still yet to receive it) and listed it on ebay awhile back. I ended the auction early when there were no bids as I realized it would be pointless to sell it there because if it never came I would have to pay the buyer out of pocket. I don't know how it ended up on a russian site, no idea there.
Also I have ALWAYS SAID I am OPEN TO USING ESCROW. If I EVER say I will not use escrow please post it here and I will leave the site permanently.
OK, I deleted my above post, this sounds like a fair explanation (for the jalapeno auction).
Re: [WARNING: Has Multiple Accounts For Scamming] Scammed by SoftballSuperstar
Having escrowed over 20 BTC, including escrows of over 2 BTC at a time on seals, my reputation definitely is worth more then .1 btc to me. I am completely against scamming and work hard for my OWN money, no need to take others. To me stealing is probably the worst thing you can do.
anyone can copy a username from seals and pretend to be them. your profile HERE is all that matters and it's sketchy as hell
found this post,
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15AW1kURbiwLK9wvCvReCfG5ZBAM9etTow
15AW1kURbiwLK9wvCvReCfG5ZBAM9etTow
goolged and found
"Butterfly Labs "Jalapeno" 4.5 GH/S Bitcoin Miner ... winning buyer please send the amount in bitcoins according to MTGOX prices (at the time of auction ending) to:15AW1kURbiwLK9wvCvReCfG5ZBAM9etTow"
on some scammy looking russian site , sketchy! (be careful clicking that link)
OK this is 100% a scam
LOL, the guy wasn't even smart enough to make a new bitcoin address, he used the same one as his last scam attempt under a DIFFERENT ACCOUNT.
please everyone, before doing any trades:
1. insist on escrow
2. google "scam [seller name]"
3. google sellers bitcoin address
4. look at seller's profile to see his Date registered. if it's weeks old, move on
5. if they are selling ascii miner shares, ripples, etc , you should be able to find them acquiring it in their post history
etc
final proof,
both accounts claim to own the same bitcoin address,
bush says, "not everything us americans bring along..."
the other says, "I'm from Belgium." and writes like he lives there
HMMM
i don't know what that means but I'm sure I'll laugh when I see Bush's explanation to all this
both accounts claim to own the same bitcoin address,
bush says, "not everything us americans bring along..."
the other says, "I'm from Belgium." and writes like he lives there
HMMM
i don't know what that means but I'm sure I'll laugh when I see Bush's explanation to all this
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i'm a newbie to auctions and I just became quite cautious after reading about many scams on the forum.
one can buy shares in other ways than just on this forum...let's wait until we have feedback from the buyers, more info from seller or friedcat.
this is how the scammers succeed, is they get just 1 person to send them money, that is all it takes
if we don't ask questions, someone will send him their money, and be scammed. and then hate bitcoin.
your logic would be right for anything else EXCEPT asciminer shares, because these can be so easily be verified, the seller SHOULD ask for friedcat to verify, there is no excuse not to, it is totally fair to ask him to do so. This is what caught my eye and why I posted here
Wallet 14ajMLiVuvh9xNcMXF1i9kYAPdvoLCSM1s
google this wallet, I see
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=221014.0
who are you bush?
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no ranting please, i wanted to take the whole case low because i just saw a strange coincidence.
i don't want to discredit an honest seller in any way so that he has disadvantages from that.
there is no evidence right now that somethings wrong
seller pmed me some minutes ago and i will close my thread with an excuse when auction is succesful.
until then nobody should start a hassle
you had the right idea ,
anyway it's not a "rant", where is it in his posting history where he got the asciiminer shares in the first place? they were originally distributed by auction, there would be a post by him buying it... but there's not... because his account is only a few weeks old, and all these other ones too, they are his "sock puupets", fake to make him look legitimate.
If friedcat comes into this thread and verfies that he owns these shares, I will get a pair of dirty underwear, cut it up and eat it and make a video of it and post it here.
his first post is him asking what an offline wallet is and a few weeks later hes seelling moneypaks and asciiminer shares, yeah sure! 90% of these guys with accounts under 1 month old are scammers
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Hold on Im waiting for john
lol @ sig "BTW this hasn't been the real DPony13 since he "came back", I just hacked this account"
yeah right why would someone waste their time hacking an account that had unpaid debt and already looked fishy
Payment is required within 24 hours from end of auction and provision of payment address.
After receiving payment friedcat will be asked to transfer shares.
I'm calling that this is a big scam
In all other auctions, you'd get friedcat to post here, confirming that you actually own these shares
I google your name and see
DPony13 (Successful Loan! 2.5 BTC, Ended up defaulting on another loan)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=136132.0
"Now you have a 5BTC loan to pay back right?"
looks like you never paid loans back, sound fishy:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140856.0
DPony13 (Successful Loan! 2.5 BTC, Ended up defaulting on another loan)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=136132.0
"Now you have a 5BTC loan to pay back right?"
looks like you never paid loans back, sound fishy:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140856.0
Re: safety question: Importing a private key into bitcoin-qt
After digging in the source, I will tentatively say it looks like imported keys never go into the keypool, which is where change addresses are drawn from. Just keep this in mind: nobody designed it to securely handle the situation of a known private key. IMO that seems reason enough to not chance it. cp1 has a good point about different versions behaving differently, too.
I assumed that with things like cassius coins, people now expect an imported key to be "safe to import", and future versions would try to keep it this way... I admit though it's probably better to start fresh and not take any chances... I just wanted to see if this was URGENT , or safe to do "in the next few weeks"
Re: safety question: Importing a private key into bitcoin-qt
If I have my own bitcoins, lets say 10, and I spent 1, the remaining 9 get sent to a "change address". not a lot of people know about this. these change addresses arent listed in your address book but they ARE in your wallet.dat. I think they are generated on the fly but I'm not sure
my concern is, would it ever get sent to this address I've imported (that people clearly are monitoring as it's been posted publicly)
my concern is, would it ever get sent to this address I've imported (that people clearly are monitoring as it's been posted publicly)
I was reading about brain wallets, and saw an example of a private key for a phrase like "password". Just for fun I imported it into my bitcoin-qt wallet, and saw a bunch of new entries (deposits and withdrawls) that took place over the last year. I think my total balance even went up by 1 satoshi.
I forgot about it, but recently have seen a few deposits (and instant withdraws) happen, and it got me thinking: is it dangerous to have this in my wallet? Would bitcoin-qt ever send change to this address, or does bitcoin-qt ALWAYS use a new address for change?
should I be paranoid and make a new wallet, or is it harmless to have this in there?
I forgot about it, but recently have seen a few deposits (and instant withdraws) happen, and it got me thinking: is it dangerous to have this in my wallet? Would bitcoin-qt ever send change to this address, or does bitcoin-qt ALWAYS use a new address for change?
should I be paranoid and make a new wallet, or is it harmless to have this in there?
what would happen if you had a memory error when writing your private key to disk...
how can you confirm that your wallet's private key is actually valid?
/paranoid
how can you confirm that your wallet's private key is actually valid?
/paranoid
If you are really paranoid, you could export he private key, and then import it into another offline wallet and confirm that it generates the same bitcoin address.
ah interesting, I did not think of that!
I found this post regarding needing to update my program: http://bitcoin.org/may15.html I am unsure if I have the latest version or not, and whether or not this applies to me. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 server and am running bitcoind as a daemon process
I have not done anything to upgrade bitcoind specifically, but I have run apt-get upgrade
if I use dpkg --list and find bitcoin, i see: ii bitcoind 0.3.24~dfsg-1
Is my version actually 0.3.24? this seems so far out of date it can't be right, but i also see "version" : 32400 with bitcoind getinfo
If I am not running the latest version, how should I upgrade to it on ubuntu server?
Thanks in advance
I have not done anything to upgrade bitcoind specifically, but I have run apt-get upgrade
if I use dpkg --list and find bitcoin, i see: ii bitcoind 0.3.24~dfsg-1
Is my version actually 0.3.24? this seems so far out of date it can't be right, but i also see "version" : 32400 with bitcoind getinfo
If I am not running the latest version, how should I upgrade to it on ubuntu server?
Thanks in advance
why not get the version on the bitcoin website??