What the everliving fuck when will you people learn? How long is the list of escrow services that vanished?
Multisig two party escrow WORKS and avoids this problem!!
2crow.org
That site itself lists the problems with 2-party escrow. Once the buyer sends the coins, the seller can still refuse to ship the goods, and demand a cut of the escrowed coins before refunding them.
Doesn't change the fact that this forum's ad hoc escrow service is not fit for purpose.
If you rely solely on 'big names' to be good actors, it's still a form of centralization. What's wrong with 2 of 3 multisig again?
When you're one of the three people and the scammer is the other two, you're fucked. That's what's wrong with 2 of 3.
okay so i hope this will be resolve. where are the people who gave master p negative trusts?
I left negative trust. I think it's important to leave it in place, at least until the account is in safe hands.
The hacker likely didn't move the funds because he already knows he has full control over them and can move them anytime they want.
This makes no sense. How did the hacker know that you didn't have the wallet seeds written down on paper? Encrypting one copy of a wallet doesn't encrypt other copies of it.
Also master-P claimed to have restored his wallet from a backup:
I have the wallet files backed up and restored
I think he is saying that he has backed up and restored the wallet he recovered from the hacked machine, and that that is the only copy he has access to.
The wallet files I used to import into Armory to my secondary (uninfected) PC was retrieved from my primary (infected) PC. Importing the wallet files did not prompt me for any password. I did not have any other backups unfortunately. Yes, it's poor security practices but this is not something I would've expected to happen to me. Prior to this, I did have other copies of the wallet saved but I recently had to wipe the other storage devices that contained those backups for other reasons. I thought that having the wallets on just my primary would be fine for a month or so until I get proper back ups running again. I've been having problems with Armory for at least the past 3-4 months now which prompted me to do all of this.
So you had multiple copies of your wallet, but then one of the copies started giving you problems so you figured the best thing to do was to delete all the backups? That's just crazy.
I have the wallet files that Armory prompts me to create upon the creation of each wallet. Is there a way for me to regain control or change the passphrase with these back ups? Because Armory requires me to enter this password each time I want to send funds out or to sign a message with an address. If there's another way for me to send the funds out without my previous known passwords then let me know.
So you do have backups after all? Why not use those to recover the coins?
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You are a full scammer to my eyes! Refund everything and get out of forums now. 