Topic: Can you identify me? 2.5BTC reward. (Read 4106 times)

Wait a second....was this whole a game a marketing exercise?  Nicely played.

I access to the bitcoin network with tor.

I think about your donation of bitcoins, when you transfer bitcoins your Bitcoin adress is stored.

Maybe i am in an error but the data of this transaction is

http://blockchain.info/es/tx/063531718d60bc33a596353ef87ac853a1b807d8f40d48a96df5ec914a8c1bee

And the whois of this IP give me this

http://bgp.he.net/ip/50.16.70.150#_dns

Then you can go to http://ec2-50-16-70-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com/logs

and see the move of data but i cant give it a sense.

Yes. Theymos may reveal all informations he has about me. I registered using a tor bridge.

This is not a hostname I know. But it might be one of the servers. Can you explain how you found this hostname?

I am not asking for anyone's bitcoins yet, only testnet coins. Do you think the operators of a bitcoin mixing service should announce their identities? Did you ever buy anything from SR?
I will add your question to the FAQ - it will be the first one.

Now that you've proved nobody can identify you, you want to start a service where people send you Bitcoins. Seems reasonable.

confirmed. I used a vps I had bought with bitcoins and tunneled my traffic through it:

my real IP -> tor -> vps -> bitcointalk

OP, you didn't answer my question. Tor registrations are not permitted on bitcointalk, so your registration IP might reveal something about you. Or did you use an anonymous VPN like molecular did at the time?

ec2-50-16-70-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com

I have made the announcement of the blind mixing service. Maybe you will find more informations there to identify me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1caf2s/announce_a_tor_based_blind_bitcoin_mixing_service/

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1832604

It is fair I suppose. But you must still provide some evidence or a good reason why you suspect that person. Just random guesses are not allowed.

Hmm, does that mean I get a free guess?

I have only an idea how webbugs work, but it seems everybody says OP is using tor, including theymos.  However, I thought registration on this forum through tor was not permitted, so theymos should have OP's real IP address from that - though IIRC, molecular used a VPN-through-tor to register for his "findmeifyoucan" thread - can you confirm molecular?  Theymos, does your post refer also to OP's registration IP?  If not, then: OP, are you willing to let theymos reveal your registration IP?

I can't help with the technical aspects of this hunt, even though I'd love to be more capable of that.  Would it be possible to trawl through every post made on this forum and gather timing statistics for each member?  Assuming OP is still posting under his real username, then there might be a strong correlation with this anonymous id though it would probably take a while longer, and plenty more posts, to weed out the false positives. For the prize of 2.5BTC you could afford to make over 100 trials though (though it's not clear if the donation should be 0.02BTC or 0.005BTC).

Here's some linguistic analysis, which is all I can really offer:

This might suggest American English, though -ize is common in the "Queen's English" lands now. OP also has another post with "synchronize".

This suggests colloquial English. Most foreigners would say "I need..." because they are taught that English requires that the subject be explicitly specified (unlike, e.g., Spanish, Italian where the verb specifies the subject, or Japanese where I understand the subject is usually implied). So either OP didn't know that (which seems unlikely given the quality of his English) or he is familiar enough with English to know that, casually speaking, it's not always necessary, eg: "Went swimming yesterday, bumped into a fish so I ate it up" - it's clear I am the subject.

Whereas this suggests non-English language origin. OP should say "... in the bitcoin community"

More stuff suggests non-English mother tongue.  OP should say "definitely gone" or "definitively gone" or "gone for certain" instead of "for sure".  This is not a hard and fast rule, though.  Just in my personal experience, lots of non-native English speakers say "for sure" more than you might otherwise expect.

This is not a trivial linguistic construction, but for all I can see there are no errors.

So, all I can offer, is the following. OP's first post was asking to be whitelisted to get out of the newbie jail https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1621951.  Then he replies to a bunch of newbie questions with what seems to be very good English. Then he starts asking about escrow and penetration testers and we see a couple of mistakes creeping in, though a couple of posts still come through perfectly well. Then there are a couple more replies to newbie questions only now there are some errors:


So, all-in-all, OP seems to be a non-native English speaker but with very good English. Or he is deliberately introducing errors. Or... maybe... there might be more than one person writing. Last possibility, OP says he is following most of the advice from molecular's findmeifyoucan thread - my advice in that thread was to use an automatic translator (e.g. google) to translate everything he is writing.  Anyone here work at google and willing to search the translate history for a match, assuming the history is kept?    (that's just a joke, doing that would probably get you fired!)

Sorry if this post seems a bit confused.  I'm pulling info in from a bunch of different tabs at once.

edit: hmm, rereading this again after I posted yesterday - a substantial part of OP's posts are better than any automatic translation. Scratch that theory.

Is it even possible? Like have you left cryptic clues around or something I'm confused haha

Web bug worked as intended. It revealed Tor exit node. Good for OP

Many will be looking for compromising OP identities by social weaknesses. As it turned out in Molecular's thread/game the technical means was holding against forum users.

I made my best approach possible at this moment and I have candidate. Will watch this developing.

I have made the same donation to FSF as I promised to.

http://blockchain.info/tx/063531718d60bc33a596353ef87ac853a1b807d8f40d48a96df5ec914a8c1bee

Yes, I have already made rules to say that someone who has a hunch, and explains where the hunch comes from (so it is not just a guess), then they can make a donation to FSF or torservers.net. And if you make the donation, then I will answer. I only said 0.005BTC for the donation.  0.2BTC is $30 now, so that would be too much.

We could make the donation higher, and then I will also make another equal donation to the same charity (FSF or torservers). Is that fair? Is 0.02BTC ok?

But I want to make sure everyone understands: even if you pay the donation, if you just guess with no explanation of your guess, or with an explanation that is just invented, then I still won't answer. There needs to be a convincing reason.

Hmm. How about this: everyone can be police, but an investigation incurs cost, so to simulate an investigation they'd have to put up some money (that goes to charity or to BlindMixerDR). Something like 0.2 BTC. They would receive a share of the bounty, of course. BlindMixerDR would have to answer yes/no to any (payed) police inquiry asking "are you xzy?". Of course someone having hard evindence could play the police role themselves, also.

That way wild guessing is disincentivised while still allowing for "hunches of a detective" not supported by hard evidence to play out (viable investigative method if I can believe TV shows . In other words: If someone is sure to have found you but has no hard evidence, he can still "corrupt" the police to pay a visit to you and see if it's you.

Am I just babbling nonsense?

The proxy that you use:
http://catalogsytes.avk.lt/

Address in my signature

I read all your thread and I am following almost all the advice you received, but I think the evidence against you was very specific - if someone discovers a unique thing like that about me and links directly to my real user, then I will admit it. But you can see that people think "IP-address" or ' ' single quotes identify me, and they are not right yet. Also, you released some information about yourself, I will release only the URL of the onion website (it is not fully ready yet). But your bounty was 14BTC at $7 per bitcoin. Mine is 2.5BTC at $140 per bitcoin.

If everyone agrees, I will let molecular be the judge of what is "hard evidence". molecular must imagine he is the police chief trying to find out who I am, and must decide if he should spend lots of money to enter my home and to confiscate all my computers and then to pay the IT specialists much more money to investigate my computer hardware and to crack the encryption and so on. Obviously he cannot do it for just stupid random guesses. So if molecular says so, then I must respond to a post. Do you agree molecular?

edit: if everyone wants, I will also place 2.5BTC in escrow with a reputable hero member of the forum. But if someone does gets the right answer, then everyone needs to trust me to say the truth anyway.

edit: or to rubberhose the encryption 

I think he's consistently using the Tor browser bundle, so no easy attacks on my end. Maybe someone could run a few Tor nodes and we could try a Tor timing attack.