Topic: Legendary profiles of bitcointalk. (Read 22844 times)

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Most likely Vitalik's stash lies on these wallets:

0xAb5801a7D398351b8bE11C439e05C5B3259aeC9B
0x1Db3439a222C519ab44bb1144fC28167b4Fa6EE6

I heard that Vitalik acknowledged in one of the quarrels that these were his wallets, but I haven’t yet found any confirmation about that.

Also I have herd rumors that he sold his Ethereum at the peak of the price, as did Charlie Lee (Litecoin founder), who sold and donated all his LTC in December 2017, just when the price was at its peak (more than $ 300). According to him, he did this so that he would no longer receive accusations of price manipulation.


But, as we see, Vitalik keeps his ETH and does not sell them (if this is his wallets ofcourse).

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The code for signature:

The signature company started on June 12, 2011. In this company could participate only 50 people, although in the final analysis only 12 people participated. The campaign was 11 weeks and the payment was 0.1 BTC per participant (the exchange rate at that time was 10-25 dollars per 1 BTC).

There were also restrictions on admission of participants to this signature campaign. For example, if a user had fewer than 50 posts or he created an account after June 12, 2011, the user was not allowed to participate in the campaign.

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User AlexMay, told in this post, about a magical faucet, with the help of which anyone could earn a lambo in 5 minutes. The post is in Russian, so I decided to make a translation, because consider it is interesting.

User Phinnaeus Gage

Real name of the user Bruno Kuchinskas probably one of the most ambiguous users of the forum. Phinnaeus Gage was one of the most active users of the forum, it can be seen looking at the number of posts. Previously, he was found various fraud projects and identified fraudsters. But at the forum he gained "popularity" as one of the most professional trolls

User David Schwartz

I think that this name may seem familiar to you. He is one of the leaders of Ripple, to date, Ripple's crypto currency is in the TOP3 market capitalization. David Schwartz joined the company in 2011, in that year that he began developing his own crypto currency, now he holds the position of chief cryptologist in Ripple.

User Brandon Chez

And this young man in 2013 decided to create a website for tracking prices for crypto-currencies. This site we all know under the name coinmarketcap. Probably now this is the main resource for tracking the prices of crypto-currencies, now information about 1818 Crypto-currency is available there. The site occupies 316th place in attendance.

User Mark Karpeles

This man is the founder of the largely sad exchange Mt.Gox, also was one of the founders of the Bitcoin Foundation. June 19, 2011 occurred one of the first major hacking attac and was stolen quite a large amount of bitcoins. In 2014, the stock exchange was liquidated. In 2015 he was arrested.

User Roger Ver

As he wrote to himself in the profile "I'm Roger Ver, the first person to ever start investing in Bitcoin startups." and it really is. Roger Ver has a certain flair that allows him to invest money in successful projects on time. He invested about 1 million dollars in bitcoin there are rumors that then he acquired about 300-400 thousand bitcoins. Now he is more a supporter of Bitcoin Cash.

User Charlie Shrem

Charlie learned about bitcoin in 2011, when he was 22 years old. In 2011 he co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, formerly serving as vice chairman. In December 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison around June 2016.

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User Hal Finney

Finney is known as the second-ever bitcoin user after the "real" Satoshi Nakamoto. He was also one of the first to support the idea of crypto currency, having received a letter-description of the concept from the creator of the project. Hi received the very first Bitcoin transaction sent by Satoshi Nakamoto, at least, about this, Finney himself wrote here on the forum. There are even versions that it is he who is Satoshi. He died at the age of 58 after five years of battle
of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 2014

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The event that gave rise to the bitcoin. The first transaction for the transfer of bitcoins occurred on January 12, 2009 -Satoshi Nakamoto sent Hal Finney

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Пoльзoвaтeль doublec

In December 2010, the user doublec compiled the first mobile client bitcoind for the Nokia N900 , and the next day the user ribuck osent him 0.42 BTC in the first mobile bitcoin transaction.

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User Bruce Wagner

He was a supporter of Bitcoin from the very beginning. The former host of The Bitcoin Show has progressively earned vast wealth courtesy of cryptocurrency investment during its inception stages. As an expert in the field, the 30-year-old Bruce Wagner is regularly contacted to provide crucial advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.

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User Gavin Andresen

Developer Gavin Andresen was one of the first contributors to bitcoin core. In 2010, he succeeded Satoshi Nakamoto as chief maintainer of bitcoin’s open access code and the project's main developer.  Andresen was founder of  Bitcoin Foundation for the promotion of crypto-currencies and in recent years he has paid much attention to the work in this organization. He is considered one of the most important investors in bitcoin.

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User Mike Hearn

Mike Hearn is a well-known figure within the bitcoin community. Mike Hearn is a former Google engineer, the original author of Bitcoinj and a former contributor to Bitcoin Core. He quit Bitcoin in January 2016. One reason given was rising fees. In early January of 2016, around the time Mike Hearn allegedly sold all of his Bitcoins, Bitcoin price was in the mid-200s, around $250.

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Ross William Ulbricht is known under the pseudonym — Dread Pirate Roberts and currently he is serving life imprisonment in the United States, without the right for parole.



Ulbricht was one of the first who realized the potential of combining Bitcoin and the Tor network, he created Silk Road (the anonymous trading platform), where it was possible to trade everything, except for those things that in his opinion could harm people, but at the same time, the main purpose with which it was created is the drug trade.

  How this can be combined?
 
According to the creator, site was supposed to relieve the drug trade from violence. People could make an order and receive the goods by mail. There was no need for buyers to visit dangerous places, also in street vendors and gang’s showdown. And actually — it worked, the police noted that with the appearance of Silk Road, the number of violent crimes related to drug trafficking has decreased. Also, Ulbricht was fond of libertarianism, whose ideas also embodied his site, he believed that all power is based on violence, in cryptography violence is useless, it is not capable of solving a mathematical problem, so with its help people get freedom from the authorities in which they are free to do what they want. Dread Pirate Roberts constantly wrote on the forum different manifestos, libertarian and philosophical computations.

In total there was $ 1.2 billion turnovers through the site. He had access to the bitcoins of the users and could escape with them at any time, but he did not do it, so he was trusted. There are many people who consider him as a hero, as well as those who consider him a criminal.

Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character from the novel "The Princess Bride", the choice fell on this pseudonym because in the novel it was constantly transferred from one person to another.

In addition to accusations of drug trafficking, hacking attacks and money laundering, Ulrich was also accused of attempting to order murders of people who could disclose information threatening Silk Road, one of these murders was directed against the administrator of this site, which was caught by the FBI and he was forced to cooperate (FBI agent wormed into the trust to this administrator, according to legend, he wanted to sell a consignment of drugs in 10 kg. as a result, this agent managed to get the address of the administrator). The murder was ordered from the profile of Dread Pirate Roberts, but the executor was also an FBI agent. As evidence of the execution of the order, fabricated photographs were provided, after which payment was obtained in bitcoins, in the equivalent of $ 80,000. As a result, no one of the orders was executed, and no one was killed. Ulbricht said that some admins also had access to Dread Pirate Roberts account and allegedly these orders were made by them, as a result his guilt was not proven.

In the history of Ulbricht's correspondence with the site's administrators, it was possible to read that he sometimes joked over users of his site who became addicted.

Ulbricht was hunted down and caught by the FBI, he was detained in the public library, from which he went online, he was logged in by the name of Dread Pirate Roberts. Also in his laptop was found bitcoins for 3 million dollars.

After the closure of the Silk Road site, many similar ones began to appear, and instead of one trading platform, dozens appeared, the authorities are still fighting with them.