Topic: Mooncoin taken over by the feds? - page 5. (Read 14994 times)

I doubt he will be back as Mr Moon, maybe Mr Sun or Mr Stars.  If he is willing to resolve the mess, he would be out already rather remain hidden

LOL an edit to a page on money laundering that is ironic

I have used the site like many others here but I have no involvement in it. Please stop harassing me and making threats of physical violence. The "evidence" provided so far does not prove my involvement and if it did you should take this information to the police not threaten me.

Every internet connection I use is shared internet. In my apartment/dorm (It's included in the rent, like our water), on campus and at coffee shops. I'm not a skilled programmer (not unless you count html/css) and I spend all my time studying plant science and working on art and selling it. To me it is a rather odd accusation that I have been operating a gambling site exchange, since I have spent the summer doing field research to cover my internship credit.

In fact, the above post shows that I was logged in at the same time as the accused scammer at the same time with a different IP address. Having the same IP address at one point in time is not as good of evidence as having different IP addresses at the same time that we are not the same person.

If you are still convinced it is me, I encourage you to use legal channels because I'm not guilty and have nothing to hide from the police.

Full disclosure regarding my connection: I did use mooncoin to bet on games and play poker. I was initially interested after it was posted on reddit because it was open source (I generally support open source software, which is what originally interested me in Bitcoin, its a common theme in my art). I lost some Bitcoin I made selling prints. I did have online conversations with MrMoon when the site was just a poker site, he was at the tables often and seemed nice.

I have sold art work for Bitcoins, a fair amount, and I believe everyone of my customers has only positive feedback.


 

I checked through #solidcoin logs, this guy certainly did talk to me about his art pages. Strangely? Him and mrmoon are on at the same time here.


And our private chat


Hope it helps.

I just checked this in the db. The (dynamic [DHCP assigned, though it hasn't changed in a bit]) address registered to that host at that time is not a shared area or enforced NAT. It's a residential home addr   ess.


moon.dreamhost.com is a coincidentally named dreamhost shared hosting server, there are a few thousand accounts on it. Ignore this trail. Misleading.

I have followed some coins...

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.471531

sV6xrL4YCV75jaRfbdnaH6WLhhn1FBY3Px

http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/address/sV6xrL4YCV75jaRfbdnaH6WLhhn1FBY3Px
http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/tx/2e8386160e28ae7f06fee9a0a629a6328477fa15aff9dde1d18f3816318a1f1d#i1

0.5 SC to mooncoin donation address... Could be just a donation, or not...

EDIT:
The second part of that transaction above goes to another address, and then additionally 100 in 1 transaction to the moincoin address.
http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/tx/57eee5a9309638ef3ef4f7c1a1e44b444befe4a3f3d5196983a18ced5bbf3618#i0

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kuP7BpRj_H8J:https://moonco.in/bet/389/view+sckHNgUp87mpi1SRZNQWmRK6rjqbbGb2EK&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de

Donate
Bitcoins: 1GVLbQsiwsTQicXMX2QKh7GJ67u3GzRAxo
Namecoins: NJsKXhAn9MaCaoRBDpf75vwhEWFu3uNvBD
Solidcoins: sckHNgUp87mpi1SRZNQWmRK6rjqbbGb2EK

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If that guy is Moon, and if he still goes to school at the .edu address, I imagine he'd have a harder time graduating if the school administration was informed of his potentially 'fraudulent' activities (probably something against the CoC). Infact, if it is the same guy, that same guy might be willing to trade all the BTC he stole for his college degree. It might be a way for him to get out of this without any (if any?) criminal charges.

I don't know if that'd be considered blackmail. But hell, i'm not a lawyer, just thinking out loud.

I found Christian Verdun's email address here: https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=56425896494&topic=20350&post=100266

(gotta love facebook!)

Yes, he's paradoxart on reddit too selling his art. There's a couple of moonco.in related posts too.

http://solidcoin.info/market.php

Someone is selling Christian Verdun art...

Traceroute paradox.rambisyouth.com goes to  apache2-moon.beijing.dreamhost.com [69.163.194.64]
Edit: seems a lot of dreamhost domains have that apache2-moon path ;-)

Maybe useful:
http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x45D09545F1218E9F
https://checkout.google.com/reviews/merchant/endUserReviews?sellerId=277296763527281

No photos tagged “abstract” - christian's Blog on Vox
trimpton.vox.com/library/photos/tags/abstract/
AIM: trimpton; Google Talk: [email protected]; Skype: trimpton

If I go to moonco.in I am greeted with a certificate digitally signed by the ICE. If that's not impersonation I don't know what is.

Following up to my last post. Christian Verdun lurked in irc as 'upisdown' in #bitcoin-otc. His OTC rating is here. Doing a '/msg nickserv info upisdown' on Freenode I get:
That IP address is the same as the IP address that was Mr Moon's moonco.in server, and the IP address Moon lurked in #namecoin, and posted to forums and email. Could it be a university shared IP and they were both behind the same NAT or something?

An IP Address that Mr Moon used was 24.7.158.162. This list of wikipedia pages edited by this IP address are here. This list includes namecoin related edits. It also includes edits to Christian Verdun and a disambiguation page for 'Paradox', an art piece by Christian Verdun. There are a lot of edits associated with that. Christian Verdun sells artwork for bitcoins and solid coins here. Maybe Mr Moon knows him? Or he knows Mr Moon? Christian goes to UC Davis, not far from Sacramento where Mr Moon's IP address is geolocated.

Christian Verdun appears to be upisdown on the bitcointalk forums here. He has posted as being a user of moonco.in.

Mr Moon's Wikipedia page edits include plant related pages, a topic that Christian indicates as being interested in studying at UC Davis in this interview.

Christian/Uptown, if you read this, have you had any contact with Mr Moon since the closing of his site?

Hmm, I guess one could draw a line between putting up a fake ICE seizure, and impersonating a federal officer/agency.


It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Did anyone contact the immigration and customs enforcement? Stealing bitcoins etc is a pretty arbitrary crime because the value is arbitrary and I doubt any agency would commit resources to tracking down BTC thiefs but people scamming other people by impersonating a federal officer is known territory to them.

Truly sad and amazing these things happens. Sucks that it happened the same day our site https://btfuture.com went live because now everyone is skeptical; however, if anyone wants to continue to participate in a prediction market run on bitcoins to join our site.

If you question whether you can trust us, we will gladly verify our identities with a trusted member/s of the bitcointalk community. Thanks for those of you who have joined now, just need more so we can get our market up and running!

Hey guys....

I had deposited 34BTC on moonco for trading. The address that was given to me for the deposit was:

1B6egk2RjiHRnZKjj7aoT89ZtqiQCEQrhL

as you can track on block explorer all the way, he moved them multiple times. Look like he had a total of 896 Bitcoins. maybe more.

Is there any way to get this back? or are am I screwed?

any info will be helpful

Fairly amazing...  people do such crap...  if he got hacked then scream I got hacked...  if he's just a con artist then we'll add it to the long list that came before him and most likely will come after.

Tards like that do nothing to help us.

Thank goodness I withdraw every little coins I had the moment it was up.

And then they change their username and do the whole thing over again.


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