Well, the timing of the shutdown was surely because of my IPO. The timing was perfect for it.
I tried to get my company listed in August, and Nef kept pushing us back further and further. LOTTOMINING's IPO was slated for October 1, finally.
October 1 comes along, it doesn't show up on GLBSE. I had 125 BTC in my account. I start to worry, and on October 3rd I realize I need to empty my account until our ticker becomes active. So I start withdrawing my coins. . 10.. 20.. 10.. just slowly until the whole account was at zero. When I withdrew the very last coin, not even 10 seconds later, I get an email from
Nefario saying that our ticker was now active. My laptop was dead so I couldn't redeposit coins until I got home, and once I did arrive at home I noticed that there were many people investing in our
IPO. I quickly deposited my coins again, this time also slowly over a few hours, I don't like doing huge transfers.
Here is what my wallet looks like. The times look strange but I think that's the time the block was fully confirmed, or something, but that is the order in which the transfers took place.
Here is my GLBSE deposit address.
So the site going down only 12 hours after our IPO had started was all too coincidental to be anything but trying to squeeze a few BTC outta me, to which he did. I would have withdrawn my coins ASAP but he shut down the site too quickly for me to set up a separate wallet.
I don't think we're getting our money back, folks. But LOTTOMINING will be reborn (even though it wasn't born the first time) on
lottomining.ca and we are working on a way to deposit coins directly into the site. It's a scary thought losing this much all at once, basically stealing our entire company, but I had just gotten a $1000
deposit confirmed by CAVIRTEX that same morning, in fact I heard about my deposit clearing before learning GLBSE was done, my instinct was to deposit the $1000 in GLBSE to get more shares, I'm lucky he shut it down before I could.
copying this from a message I sent, further illustrating how bad of a day Oct 4th was for me. Also, that morning there was a MASSIVE storm, it was a total blizzard outside and it hadn't snowed once this year, that morning it was like a whole world of hell to get to work from out of town, then on the way home that day I almost got killed. the highway speed is 100kph, and I could only do like 90kph tops since it was just haggard outside, and someone blindly went onto the highway right in front of me at an intersection from a complete dead stop and I immediately swerved to get out of the way and didn't even get all the way outside my lane when passing him. fuck the bitcoins i'm seriously lucky to be alive, if it wern't for cat-like reflexes I would have been toast. the first thing I thought of afterwards was "oh great, had I died everyone would have thought I was either distracted from the horrors of losing $1600 or committed suicide." my life literally flashed before my eyes, I was positive I was going to hit him, and surprised I didn't.