ywwen - stop posting this over and over again please!!

Any action from Kiur since April Fool's Day? Does he think we're all fools??

Police issue arrest warrant for bitcoin scammer in Cyprus:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/04/11/cyprus-police-issue-arrest-warrant-for-bitcoin-entrepreneur/

Cyprus is a member of the EU, as is Estonia, where Kiur Koster is based.

Importantly, it only took 3 formal complaints for the arrest warrant to be issued.

Kiur - are you paying attention? This is your fate should bitcoin not be returned, pronto.

I'm still not convinced this is a scam. Just poor customer service and PR, because it's effectively a 1-man show with lots of issues to deal with (and likely another full-time job).

I think Kiur got caught out when the BTC got stolen. Reddcoin miners were also flooding his exchange with dust transactions, causing transactions to fail.
He's evidently now working through all the failed alt-coin transactions, and I suspect in the meantime hopes transaction fees will cover some of the BTC lost.

Question is, how much BTC got stolen, and how much was saved in offline wallets?

Kiur - we're a forgiving bunch, please just communicate your situation with us!

Here's an suggestion:
Re-credit all 'lost' BTC withdrawals back to their respective accounts. This would allow these people to trade and generate fees.
Until you have enough BTC to cover all withdrawals, any withdrawal from the exchange would be subject to a percentage haircut. Up to you how to calculate, based on timing and % lost.
Eventually you will become fully solvent once again, and we'll all be happy. Your exchange is one of the best, without these lost coin and bad PR issues of course.  

But has anyone got any bitcoin back lately?

How much bitcoin was stored in their offline wallet and saved?

Is coinmarket.io opening on another host, or shutting down for good?

So few answers...

Agree, they don't want the penny alts.

The list that Kiur published of stuck transactions totalled over 700 bitcoins, and that was a set time period and only attempted withdrawals.
I predict thousands of bitcoin has been 'taken'... how is this not mainstream news?!?!?

BTC was long gone.

Just follow deposit addresses, it was all swept away over a month ago to endpoints like:

• 45,400 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/14e7XAZbepQp9MXXzjNG3fNLoAUpaBAXHW
• 45,200 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/1PnMfRF2enSZnR6JSexxBHuQnxG8Vo5FVK

Odd thing is the above addresses have added about 4000 BTC in the past week.

Maybe they are gambling sites or some other exchanges offline store?
Can we confirm?

Some more detail....

Kiur accepted to attend this event on 12 April 2014, at Madara 22a 10613 Tallinn, Estonia:
http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Factory-BROKEN-TEMPO-TIME-MACHINE-CONCORD-DAWN

This was his used car for sale, including additional phone number 5631 3344 : http://eng.auto24.ee/kasutatud/auto.php?id=491966

This is the sourcecode for Kiur's opensource crypto exchance: https://github.com/thekiur/cryptoexchange

He is likely not in Australia.

Kiur's Instagram was just deleted (http://instagram.com/kiur420), which was updated 4 days ago with a photo showing drinks he had bought, covered in a European language I presume was Estonian.

This is likely a photo of Kiur:
http://i.imgur.com/xFEptMR.jpg

Name: Kiur Köster
Predicted Age: 35
Aliases: thekiur, kiur420, error420, K1ur, Inception
Emails: kiur@lavii.ee & kiur@node.ee (also kiur@jpg.ee kiur.koster@etelaranta.com)
Phone: +372 5598 1119
Skype: error.420
IRC name on Freenet: Inception

Bitcointalk Profile "error420": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=199571
Instagram: http://instagram.com/kiur420
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kiur420
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/k1ur/videos
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kiur420
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/kiur420
Google+: https://plus.google.com/106183476692033123680
LinkedIn: http://ee.linkedin.com/pub/kiur-k%C3%B6ster/62/5b5/64b

Current Residential Area: Jarvamë-area in Tallinn city, Estonia
Possible Prior Address: Rüütli 31, Paide, Paide linn, Estonia
School: Paide Gümnaasium, 1996
Employment: The Crime Factory (Ajaxian, 2011 - present)

Work website: http://www.playcrime.net/index.php?a=11&m=world2&k=kiur420
Kiur is involved with a marketing company, Lavii: http://lavii.ee
    Address: Tartu mnt 51-17, Tallinn Harjumaa, Eesti
    Phone: + 372 59 031 467

Kiur is big into Litecoin and sells SCRYPT mining rigs, leases mining power and operates a pool.
He created a Litecoin wallet here on his site node.ee: http://node.ee/___wallet/create.php

Other links:
http://www.etelaranta.com/our-team/ <-- work, would need to check if he is currently employed there still.
http://about.me/kiur
http://vk.com/id185659137
http://www.chess.com/members/view/thekiur
https://github.com/thekiur
http://trollboxarchive.com/search.php?search_type=username&search=thekiur
http://dcaz.net/user/thekiur/4
http://dogewatch.com/userhistory.asp?username=thekiur
http://www.search-im-info.com/chat-with-kiur-k-ster-11264051.htm

Ironic tweet by Kiur on December 29th:

Screenshot of Kiur's PC:
http://i.imgur.com/mV3qGbZ.jpg

Just letting you know that Kiur is deleting any posts that expose his details.

As coinmarket.io started this self-moderated thread, he is able to manipulate what data is exposed.
Interestingly, Kiur had no issues when Kenneth's details were exposed, only his own.

Whether or not coinmarket was established as a scam, it's now evolved into one.

I suggest it's time for this to go mass-media.

It's huge. By my calculations thousands of bitcoins have been stolen.

There's also a post by Kiur on github about a security breach, aligning with when withdrawals stopped 2 months ago: https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql/issues/731

Thanks for sharing, a classic scam. Besides all the vapid lip service, Coinmarket is now looking even more like fraud.

The list of 2500 withdrawal attempts provided (which does not include all withdrawals) totals over 700 BTC.
We can assume coinmarket.io managed BTC into the thousands, if not tens of thousands.

Think about it... the opportunity to walk away with millions in equivalent fiat with complete anonymity.
Totally life changing money.

This could be the first! We're trailblazers 

Twitter update just now:
"Attempting to run the withdrawal script in a few hours."

But, according to Skype convo, this is just for the altcoins:
[12:16:52] xxxx xxxxxx: i got thr automatic withdraw fixer ready
[12:17:33] xxxx xxxxxx: (for altcoins)
http://www.dinkypage.com/1251626

*sigh*  WTF is going on with our fucking BITCOIN???

Then you better get onto the cops quick smart and report LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Gulesider, 180.no, skatt.adressa.no, etc!

http://www.gulesider.no/p/kenneth+bj%C3%B8rke/78264091

http://www.180.no/telefonkatalogen/kenneth+bj%C3%B8rke/64c3da650500z0f39z113eza107zf24a0ec4.htm

http://www.telefonkatalogen.biz/personinfo/kenneth-bj%C3%B8rke/7eg3c75hxp34cxg644xn6h3x338389cf6e79.html

And check out this one, includes his salary FFS!:
http://skatt.adressa.no/2009/person?id=235800
(they pay a lot of tax in Norway, evidently)

I'm starting to think Kenneth couldn't possibly be a scammer. There is WAY too much private information all over the Internet.
He may be being used by the real, anonymous owner, in which case he's the biggest sucker of all time. Release the owner details quick smart!!!

There is nothing posted here that isn't available by a simple Google search. It's all public.

BTY this is not about being 'nice'. This is now a major crime. Bitcoin sent to Coinmarket has been tumbled into addresses totalling almost US$100m.

We require common data in order to coordinate information submission via Interpol to Norway.

Granted there's a small chance Kenneth isn't the owner, however he is confirmed to be:
a) More involved in crytocurrency than he is making out.
b) Withholding vital information that would assist recovery of stolen bitcoin.
c) Intimately involved with the running of the site, either providing a 'packaged solution' or running day-to-day operations.
d) Complicit in keeping the site running whilst more victims submit bitcoin.

http://i.imgur.com/AmpoVOD.jpg

Some thoughts on prime suspect, Kenneth Bjorke / Bjoerke / Bjørke:

• There is no evidence of any hosting company Kenneth runs, including on LinkedIn, websites, advertisements, etc. Nothing.
• How would the owner (if it isn't Kenneth) have made contact and purchased a hosting service? This is implausible.
• Kenneth claims he is just a web host, and only just signed up to [Suspicious link removed] (just google "yacoin kbjoerke").
  Surely anyone mining Yacoin in mid-2013 was also into bitcoin and would have an account on bitcointalk before yacointalk.
• Kenneth claims he isn't working at Fred Olsen as his LinkedIn suggests, but the email address kenneth.bjorke@fredolsen.no is valid and works.
• The other name associated with the domain name, 'Anette Enger' has a PO Box address that is used by Fred Olsen, Kenneth's company.
• If Kenneth is just web host, why was the coinmarket.io domain name changed to be in his name, albeit briefly? Why would any other domain owner do this?
• If Kenneth is innocent but is feeling threatened, why is he still protecting the owner after cancelling their service? Why face all the heat?
• How is it that Cryptoex.cc is identical to Coinmarket.io? Is this the next bitcoin-scamming site?
• Kenneth lists some telling skills on Linkedin, including public-key infrastructure (pki) as well as ethical and black hat hacker groups.

Follow your coinmarket bitcoin deposit address and any deposits were sent through a web of multiple splits and combines (tumbling?), into ultimately very large addresses:

• 43,222 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/14e7XAZbepQp9MXXzjNG3fNLoAUpaBAXHW
• 43,250 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/1PnMfRF2enSZnR6JSexxBHuQnxG8Vo5FVK
• 1,000 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/1BpajS7LDdLdABsyGPyqGXjHuh2wfwXyg5

Unless Coinmarket.io got hacked, it was established with one purpose only: to steal bitcoin. They do not care about penny alts.
If Kenneth was legitimate, he has an immediate duty to shutdown Coinmarket.io before anyone else deposits bitcoin.
Kenneth is thus highly likely the culprit, or culpable by withholding information and continuing to operate the site being a party to fraud.

Anyone with bitcoin stolen should immediately submit a criminal report to Norway, through Interpol using your local police department.
The following information can be used along with your own evidence to support your legal action / crime reports :

Name: Kenneth Bjorke
Birthdate: 1st July 1979
Age: 34
Address: Knapstadveien 6F, 1823 KNAPSTAD, Ostfold, Norway
Occupation: Senior IT Operations and Infrastructure, at Fred Olsen (April 2011 - Present)
Work Email: kenneth.bjorke@fredolsen.no
Mobile: +47 93 97 23 52
Phone1: +47 41 53 37 65
Phone2: +47 41 26 19 46


All of this information is publicly available:
http://www.gulesider.no/p/kenneth+bj%C3%B8rke/78264091
http://www.180.no/telefonkatalogen/kenneth+bj%C3%B8rke/64c3da650500z0f39z113eza107zf24a0ec4.htm
http://www.telefonkatalogen.biz/personinfo/kenneth-bj%C3%B8rke/7eg3c75hxp34cxg644xn6h3x338389cf6e79.html
http://skatt.adressa.no/2009/person?id=235800
https://twitter.com/kbjoerke
http://no.linkedin.com/in/kbjoerke
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001666663558

Laws are tough in Norway. Kenneth is culpable and going to prison unless 'stuck' Bitcoin withdrawals are immediately processed.

Mid last year, Kenneth was active on forum.yacoin.org as a miner, but deleted his profile and posts.

Fortunately Google cache provides:


So assuming it's the same guy (I mean, come on), he's not just a web hoster.

Starting to look that way. Been following coinmarket BTC deposits through  multiple transactions, eventually coming across these two final unspent destinations:

43,222 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/14e7XAZbepQp9MXXzjNG3fNLoAUpaBAXHW

43,250 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/1PnMfRF2enSZnR6JSexxBHuQnxG8Vo5FVK

I don't think coinmarket could have possibly have controlled around 100k BTC.

Could these addresses be on another exchange now?
Did someone gamble deposits away?
Did coinmarket get hacked, with the bitcoin ending up in some giant piles of stolen coin?

OK, this is not looking good....

Been following coinmarket BTC deposits through  multiple transactions, eventually coming across these two final unspent destinations:

43,222 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/14e7XAZbepQp9MXXzjNG3fNLoAUpaBAXHW

43,250 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/1PnMfRF2enSZnR6JSexxBHuQnxG8Vo5FVK

I don't think coinmarket could have possibly have controlled around 100k BTC.

Could these addresses be on another exchange now?
Did someone gamble deposits away?
Did coinmarket get hacked, with the bitcoin ending up in some giant piles of stolen coin?

Anyone with BTC 'stuck', simply lookup your coinmarket wallet BTC deposit address on blockchain.

You will find your coins have moved around a LOT, much more than an offline wallet manoeuvre could justify.