I dunno. SolidCoin was shady from the start. Lots of promises backed by one guy? Bragging his chain was flawless, exposing it to attack and harming the users of his chain to fluff his ego? Doesn't sound stable at all. Infact, this sounds par-for-course in terms of SC's history.
SolidCoin and Mr Moon are not the same person nor thing. Mr Moon was being harassed by SolidCoin haters just because he was dealing with SolidCoin at all it seems. People did not like the fact that you could have a nice place to exchange BTC and SolidCoin, along with side perks. 
Topic: Mooncoin taken over by the feds? - page 7. (Read 14994 times)
A lot of speculation elsewhere that this was a 'faked' ICE seizure and the moonco admin just took the bitcoins and ran and setup a fake ICE seizure as his excuse/alibi
Wow, I was going to post that as my going theory.
Damn you BitcoinExpress btw, karma will not be kind to you in life.
But yeah, Mr Moon seemed fed up with having to deal with everyone's bullshit, this is one of the few times that I almost would side with that party based on the amount or real stress that must have been caused by just the SolidCoin hater harassment alone, people are such assholes.
I dunno. SolidCoin was shady from the start. Lots of promises backed by one guy? Bragging his chain was flawless, exposing it to attack and harming the users of his chain to fluff his ego? Doesn't sound stable at all. Infact, this sounds par-for-course in terms of SC's history.
A lot of speculation elsewhere that this was a 'faked' ICE seizure and the moonco admin just took the bitcoins and ran and setup a fake ICE seizure as his excuse/alibi
Wow, I was going to post that as my going theory.
Damn you BitcoinExpress btw, karma will not be kind to you in life.
But yeah, Mr Moon seemed fed up with having to deal with everyone's bullshit, this is one of the few times that I almost would side with that party based on the amount or real stress that must have been caused by just the SolidCoin hater harassment alone, people are such assholes.
A lot of speculation elsewhere that this was a 'faked' ICE seizure and the moonco admin just took the bitcoins and ran and setup a fake ICE seizure as his excuse/alibi
As I said in the other thread, it is precisely for this reason that Namecoin exists. Note that sites do not need to be based in the U.S. for the US Government to seize their domains, since ICANN is based in the US. I wonder if this is an isolated incident or the start of something larger.
i dont know what moon coin is, why its important or what it did/does, or why they would get shut down
please inform me
please inform me
It had been operating with a variety of services -- including something interesting to me, a prediction market similar to what http://www.betsofbitco.in offers. Google cache shows a recent version of the site:
- http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:moonco.in&hl=en&strip=1
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mooncoin-betting-bitcoin-namecoin-exchange-23002
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mooncoin-watchplay-starcraft-for-btc-e-sportssports-betting-with-escrow-29375
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mooncoin-an-online-bitcoin-and-namecoin-poker-site-soon-w-esports-betting-25182
i dont know what moon coin is, why its important or what it did/does, or why they would get shut down
please inform me
please inform me
If you whois he IP of his site, it says it is owned by ice.gov
Shows Akamai for me.
http://dnstools.com/?count=1&arin=on&portNum=80&target=moonco.in&submit=Go%21
What I would wonder is why the guy would lie on his whois in the first place.
really? People like to think of bitcoins as anonymous, it is one of the big draws.
plus you have to admit there are a few trolls here.
and he is running a gambling site in the US.
He probably didnt have to outright lie though, he could have told the truth but not been very forth coming. Set up a business name. He could have obscured his identity without lying
What I would wonder is why the guy would lie on his whois in the first place.
Someone suggested I post this here.
If you got to https://moonco.in right now you get an invalid cert error, if you look at the cert it says it is owned by ICE.gov
If you whois he IP of his site, it says it is owned by ice.gov
immigration and customs enforcement, is responsible for closing down a bunch of gambling domains and domains that sell counterfeit goods.
Right now mr_moon is MIA, and his reddit account is deleted(not sure why but figure it is info that belongs here)
his Gmail addy no longer works.
but most of the time when they seize a site you get an federal warning on the site, explaining it was seized.
Last and probably of little note, bitcoinexpress said he was going to report moonco.in to icann for lying on the whois.
which you can imagine how i would feel about that.
If you got to https://moonco.in right now you get an invalid cert error, if you look at the cert it says it is owned by ICE.gov
If you whois he IP of his site, it says it is owned by ice.gov
immigration and customs enforcement, is responsible for closing down a bunch of gambling domains and domains that sell counterfeit goods.
Right now mr_moon is MIA, and his reddit account is deleted(not sure why but figure it is info that belongs here)
his Gmail addy no longer works.
but most of the time when they seize a site you get an federal warning on the site, explaining it was seized.
Last and probably of little note, bitcoinexpress said he was going to report moonco.in to icann for lying on the whois.
which you can imagine how i would feel about that.
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