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Quote from: jeremy on May 31, 2013, 06:39:59 AM

A good friend of mine told me that bitcointalk is full of scammers and fraudsters. I did not believe him at first and he pointed out this thread. This is just epic. Some things are not quite clear but it is still an eye openiner. Lots of ponzy runners are still active on the forum, some changed their nicks like pay.btc -> chowyunfat, some simply trying to bury history under disguise of being helpful to noobs like Goat. All that after clearly criminal activity right here on this forum. Unbelievable!

Beware people, this is a den of thieves. Do not get fleeced.

Another epic thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/look-at-a-pirate-eye-to-eye-if-you-dare-91252 started shortly before pirate collapse. It gets really heated in the middle. Nicely shows who is who.

You're pretty much exactly correct.

Refreshing to see new people as oriented as this.

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Quote from: jeremy on May 31, 2013, 06:39:59 AM

A good friend of mine told me that bitcointalk is full of scammers and fraudsters. I did not believe him at first and he pointed out this thread. This is just epic. Some things are not quite clear but it is still an eye openiner. Lots of ponzy runners are still active on the forum, some changed their nicks like pay.btc -> chowyunfat, some simply trying to bury history under disguise of being helpful to noobs like Goat. All that after clearly criminal activity right here on this forum. Unbelievable!

Beware people, this is a den of thieves. Do not get fleeced.

Another epic thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/look-at-a-pirate-eye-to-eye-if-you-dare-91252 started shortly before pirate collapse. It gets really heated in the middle. Nicely shows who is who.

Certainly there has been plenty of scamming and fraud on here, but also lots of helpful people and good information too. As with everything you just need to be careful who you trust.

Theymos has fixed that for you. With the new trust system you trust who he trusts by default.

And by the way my helping noobs is in some eyes just as bad as my helping theymos and glbse.

And the trust system is working perfectly. Take a look at pirate's.

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Trust: 0: -0 / +0(0)

It wouldn't surprise me to see Trendon currently involved in some other Bitcoin endeavor.

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Quote from: jeremy on May 31, 2013, 06:39:59 AM

A good friend of mine told me that bitcointalk is full of scammers and fraudsters. I did not believe him at first and he pointed out this thread. This is just epic. Some things are not quite clear but it is still an eye openiner. Lots of ponzy runners are still active on the forum, some changed their nicks like pay.btc -> chowyunfat, some simply trying to bury history under disguise of being helpful to noobs like Goat. All that after clearly criminal activity right here on this forum. Unbelievable!

Beware people, this is a den of thieves. Do not get fleeced.

Another epic thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/look-at-a-pirate-eye-to-eye-if-you-dare-91252 started shortly before pirate collapse. It gets really heated in the middle. Nicely shows who is who.

Certainly there has been plenty of scamming and fraud on here, but also lots of helpful people and good information too. As with everything you just need to be careful who you trust.

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A good friend of mine told me that bitcointalk is full of scammers and fraudsters. I did not believe him at first and he pointed out this thread. This is just epic. Some things are not quite clear but it is still an eye openiner. Lots of ponzy runners are still active on the forum, some changed their nicks like pay.btc -> chowyunfat, some simply trying to bury history under disguise of being helpful to noobs like Goat. All that after clearly criminal activity right here on this forum. Unbelievable!

Beware people, this is a den of thieves. Do not get fleeced.

Another epic thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/look-at-a-pirate-eye-to-eye-if-you-dare-91252 started shortly before pirate collapse. It gets really heated in the middle. Nicely shows who is who.

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Quote from: bitlane on September 02, 2012, 05:41:13 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 05:39:05 AM

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 05:28:51 AM

Speaking of balls, Zach seems to get a hard-on .........

So what you saying is, Balls cause hard-ons ?

For some people, yes. At any rate, look at what I just added to that post above, for we cross-post.

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Andrew Chen related to Zouh Tong ?

Only if he's the relic guy.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 05:39:05 AM

Quote from: bitlane on September 02, 2012, 05:37:36 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 05:28:51 AM

Speaking of balls, Zach seems to get a hard-on .........

So what you saying is, Balls cause hard-ons ?

For some people, yes. At any rate, look at what I just added to that post above, for we cross-post.

~Bruno~

Andrew Chen related to Zouh Tong ?

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Quote from: bitlane on September 02, 2012, 05:37:36 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 05:28:51 AM

Speaking of balls, Zach seems to get a hard-on .........

So what you saying is, Balls cause hard-ons ?

For some people, yes. At any rate, look at what I just added to that post above, for we cross-post.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 05:28:51 AM

Speaking of balls, Zach seems to get a hard-on .........

So what you saying is, Balls cause hard-ons ?

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Quote from: Shadow383 on September 02, 2012, 04:56:57 AM

You realise that all this info is worth jack-shit if none of the people affected by this scam have the balls to go confront them, right?

Speaking of balls, Zach seems to get a hard-on every time he mentions Andrew Chen on Twitter.

http://andrewchen.co/about/

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Andrew Chen is a blogger and entrepreneur focused on consumer internet, metrics and user growth. He is an advisor/angel for early-stage startups including AppSumo, Cardpool (acquired by Safeway), Catchfree, Gravity, Kiva, Mocospace, Qik (acquired by Skype), Wanelo, WeeWorld, Votizen, and is also a 500 Startups mentor. Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management. Prior to MDV, Andrew was director of product marketing at Audience Science, where he started up the ad network business that today reaches over 380 million uniques. He also co-authored a patent on personalized advertising, USPTO #7,882,175 and holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington.

500 Startups keeps coming up in my research, but this is the first time I've taken the time to dig into them.

I found an Eric Ries: https://twitter.com/ericries (May 15, 2011)

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You realise that all this info is worth jack-shit if none of the people affected by this scam have the balls to go confront them, right?

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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on September 02, 2012, 03:26:49 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 03:25:10 AM

Now how the hell did I leave off an S when I was copy&pasting? At any rate, I would have had the same thing if I did the search correctly.

Anybody in for a road trip to Plano, TX?

~Bruno~

Setup a bitcoin meetup in plano Cheesy

Or contact his ex-schoolmates: http://www.midlandisd.net/Page/11090

That makes him about 30-years-old.

From his Twitter account:

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Zach Nakaska ‏@nakaska
You'd think #tumblr would use some of that $5M investment and invest in a scalable infrastructure.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 03:25:10 AM

Now how the hell did I leave off an S when I was copy&pasting? At any rate, I would have had the same thing if I did the search correctly.

Anybody in for a road trip to Plano, TX?

~Bruno~

Setup a bitcoin meetup in plano Cheesy

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Now how the hell did I leave off an S when I was copy&pasting? At any rate, I would have had the same thing if I did the search correctly.

Anybody in for a road trip to Plano, TX?

~Bruno~

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 03:11:18 AM

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You've lost me Phin. We already know that Zach Nakasa is one of the active officers of GPUMax, we didn't need the Twitter posts to establish that - it's part of the public record.

Exactly, for I was the one who first bought light to him. Since he's the closest to Pirate that we can get at the moment, I felt it important to see if we can nail down this guys location.

From http://edge.dev.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=275 we learn that he does have control of nakasa.com

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insert records into ccode table). (thx [email protected] for ccode data and gfx)

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Domain Name.......... nakasa.com
Creation Date........ 2000-03-07
Registration Date.... 2007-05-05
Expiry Date.......... 2013-03-07
Organisation Name.... Nakasa co.,lid
Organisation Address. Haiduka
Organisation Address. 3-8-22
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Daito-city
Organisation Address. 574-0043
Organisation Address. Osaka
Organisation Address. JAPAN

Admin Name........... Dep. VDNS
Admin Address........ Yaesu
Admin Address........ 2-8-1
Admin Address........ Nittobo Bldg. 13F
Admin Address. Chuo-ku
Admin Address........ 104-0028
Admin Address........ Tokyo
Admin Address........ JAPAN
Admin Email.......... [email protected]
Admin Phone.......... +81.332717014
Admin Fax............ +81.332717029

Tech Name............ ALPHA-MAIL Service
Tech Address......... Iidabashi
Tech Address......... 2-18-4
Tech Address......... 7F OTSUKA Bldg.
Tech Address......... Chiyoda-ku
Tech Address......... 102-8573
Tech Address......... Tokyo
Tech Address......... JAPAN
Tech Email........... [email protected]
Tech Phone........... +81.335147708
Tech Fax............. +81.335147712
Name Server.......... TSUKUBA.AICS.NE.JP
Name Server.......... KOTETSU.ALPHA-LT.NET

Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com
Creation Date: 07-MAR-2000
Updated Date: 01-MAR-2012
Expiration Date: 07-MAR-2013

Nameserver: KOTETSU.ALPHA-LT.NET
Nameserver: TSUKUBA.AICS.NE.JP

~Bruno~

Its nakaska.com

Registrant:
Zach Nakaska
6601 W Plano Pkwy
Plano, TX 75093
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: NAKASKA.COM
Created on: 28-Dec-08
Expires on: 28-Dec-13
Last Updated on: 08-Mar-10

Administrative Contact:
Nakaska, Zach [email protected]
6601 W Plano Pkwy
Plano, TX 75093
United States
+1.4323494476

Technical Contact:
Nakaska, Zach [email protected]
6601 W Plano Pkwy
Plano, TX 75093
United States
+1.4323494476

Domain servers in listed order:
NS61.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS62.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

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Yes, in the end, if any theft takes place, or all funds are not paid as agreed to in Pirate's original agreement with Lenders, Zach Nakasa is implicated simply due to Trendon's admission of 'wallet-sharing' between GPUMAX and BTCST, which although he cites for 'security reasons'....we can clearly show that BTCST Deposits were used to pay GPUMAX miners, of which Zach Nakasa is a partner in.

Great stuff.

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You've lost me Phin. We already know that Zach Nakasa is one of the active officers of GPUMax, we didn't need the Twitter posts to establish that - it's part of the public record.

Exactly, for I was the one who first bought light to him. Since he's the closest to Pirate that we can get at the moment, I felt it important to see if we can nail down this guys location.

From http://edge.dev.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=275 we learn that he does have control of nakasa.com

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insert records into ccode table). (thx [email protected] for ccode data and gfx)

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Domain Name.......... nakasa.com
Creation Date........ 2000-03-07
Registration Date.... 2007-05-05
Expiry Date.......... 2013-03-07
Organisation Name.... Nakasa co.,lid
Organisation Address. Haiduka
Organisation Address. 3-8-22
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Daito-city
Organisation Address. 574-0043
Organisation Address. Osaka
Organisation Address. JAPAN

Admin Name........... Dep. VDNS
Admin Address........ Yaesu
Admin Address........ 2-8-1
Admin Address........ Nittobo Bldg. 13F
Admin Address. Chuo-ku
Admin Address........ 104-0028
Admin Address........ Tokyo
Admin Address........ JAPAN
Admin Email.......... [email protected]
Admin Phone.......... +81.332717014
Admin Fax............ +81.332717029

Tech Name............ ALPHA-MAIL Service
Tech Address......... Iidabashi
Tech Address......... 2-18-4
Tech Address......... 7F OTSUKA Bldg.
Tech Address......... Chiyoda-ku
Tech Address......... 102-8573
Tech Address......... Tokyo
Tech Address......... JAPAN
Tech Email........... [email protected]
Tech Phone........... +81.335147708
Tech Fax............. +81.335147712
Name Server.......... TSUKUBA.AICS.NE.JP
Name Server.......... KOTETSU.ALPHA-LT.NET

Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com
Creation Date: 07-MAR-2000
Updated Date: 01-MAR-2012
Expiration Date: 07-MAR-2013

Nameserver: KOTETSU.ALPHA-LT.NET
Nameserver: TSUKUBA.AICS.NE.JP

~Bruno~

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Quote from: repentance on September 02, 2012, 02:58:21 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 02:29:04 AM

Quote from: sadpandatech on August 30, 2012, 05:54:45 PM

Quote from: RaggedMonk on August 30, 2012, 03:35:19 PM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pirateat40s-money-laundering-operations-gpumax-and-bst-82560
Relevant? Has anyone heard from OP since?

hmm

"we know that even people who don't have a relationship with us are using it to launder."

"Pirate is a nice guy at heart, but he does business with some ugly people who I don't want coming back to me."

My bet is that it is Nakaska

Sounds like some dangerous territory...

https://twitter.com/nakaska

His last post was: You Can Quit But You Can't Give Up http://bit.ly/tT9RkZ

The bit.ly address is http://bryce.vc/post/13198157725/you-can-quit-but-you-cant-give-up

The author of post:

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I co-founded O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) with my partners Tim O'Reilly and Mark Jacobsen. I invest in things most VCs won't. I don't wear blue shirts and khakis. I work in the city and live in the sticks. I own more bikes than cars and more skis than bikes. I have a wife and 5 kids that my world revolves around.

http://oatv.com/

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Seed stage investing sits between angels (who tend to commit $10k to $100k per company) and traditional venture capital ($3-$5M Series A investing along with the occasional Series B-D round).

Head on over to the above to read more, but back to Nakaska's Twitter account. I touched on this before, but possibly effed-up with that AMD stuff. Once again, I bring to your attention Intellinerds, but this time I followed the links (plural).

http://blog.intellinerds.com/post/3437693856/tripdiv-launch

When you click on TripDiv you arrive at (I want a BlowBob for this) https://mining.demo.nakaska.com/

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You've lost me Phin. We already know that Zach Nakasa is one of the active officers of GPUMax, we didn't need the Twitter posts to establish that - it's part of the public record.

I'm not sure whether the true identity of ninjaat40 matters (although my best guess would be his brother Rylan - the family seems to be well established and would have more reason than anyone else to not want Trendon's activities coming back on them and would know about any change in his spending habits). Either the people who are really pissed off about pirate's scheme collapsing will report it to the US Attorney's Office (they seem to be the people who investigate and prosecute ponzis) and IRS and they'll ferret out any shady connections, or people will just gnash their teeth over this for a while before eventually moving on.

To be honest, I doubt that many people who lost money to pirate want his activities properly investigated - which means that what he was really doing and with whom will likely remain a mystery.

I expect nothing to come of it as has happened with all previous scams of this magnitude.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 02:29:04 AM

Quote from: sadpandatech on August 30, 2012, 05:54:45 PM

Quote from: RaggedMonk on August 30, 2012, 03:35:19 PM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pirateat40s-money-laundering-operations-gpumax-and-bst-82560
Relevant? Has anyone heard from OP since?

hmm

"we know that even people who don't have a relationship with us are using it to launder."

"Pirate is a nice guy at heart, but he does business with some ugly people who I don't want coming back to me."

My bet is that it is Nakaska

Sounds like some dangerous territory...

https://twitter.com/nakaska

His last post was: You Can Quit But You Can't Give Up http://bit.ly/tT9RkZ

The bit.ly address is http://bryce.vc/post/13198157725/you-can-quit-but-you-cant-give-up

The author of post:

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I co-founded O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) with my partners Tim O'Reilly and Mark Jacobsen. I invest in things most VCs won't. I don't wear blue shirts and khakis. I work in the city and live in the sticks. I own more bikes than cars and more skis than bikes. I have a wife and 5 kids that my world revolves around.

http://oatv.com/

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Seed stage investing sits between angels (who tend to commit $10k to $100k per company) and traditional venture capital ($3-$5M Series A investing along with the occasional Series B-D round).

Head on over to the above to read more, but back to Nakaska's Twitter account. I touched on this before, but possibly effed-up with that AMD stuff. Once again, I bring to your attention Intellinerds, but this time I followed the links (plural).

http://blog.intellinerds.com/post/3437693856/tripdiv-launch

When you click on TripDiv you arrive at (I want a BlowBob for this) https://mining.demo.nakaska.com/

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GMUMAX

Be one of the first to experience the easiest way to buy and sell shares. Enter your email below to get notified when there are beta invites available.

~Bruno~

You've lost me Phin. We already know that Zach Nakasa is one of the active officers of GPUMax, we didn't need the Twitter posts to establish that - it's part of the public record.

I'm not sure whether the true identity of ninjaat40 matters (although my best guess would be his brother Rylan - the family seems to be well established and would have more reason than anyone else to not want Trendon's activities coming back on them and would know about any change in his spending habits). Either the people who are really pissed off about pirate's scheme collapsing will report it to the US Attorney's Office (they seem to be the people who investigate and prosecute ponzis) and IRS and they'll ferret out any shady connections, or people will just gnash their teeth over this for a while before eventually moving on.

To be honest, I doubt that many people who lost money to pirate want his activities properly investigated - which means that what he was really doing and with whom will likely remain a mystery.

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I just added the following to my post. (paraphrased)

SOB! Right back to BusCog: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=69812266&authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&authToken=zAt9&trk=hb_upphoto

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 02:29:04 AM

Quote from: sadpandatech on August 30, 2012, 05:54:45 PM

Quote from: RaggedMonk on August 30, 2012, 03:35:19 PM

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pirateat40s-money-laundering-operations-gpumax-and-bst-82560
Relevant? Has anyone heard from OP since?

hmm

"we know that even people who don't have a relationship with us are using it to launder."

"Pirate is a nice guy at heart, but he does business with some ugly people who I don't want coming back to me."

My bet is that it is Nakaska

Sounds like some dangerous territory...

https://twitter.com/nakaska

His last post was: You Can Quit But You Can't Give Up http://bit.ly/tT9RkZ

The bit.ly address is http://bryce.vc/post/13198157725/you-can-quit-but-you-cant-give-up

The author of post:

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I co-founded O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) with my partners Tim O'Reilly and Mark Jacobsen. I invest in things most VCs won't. I don't wear blue shirts and khakis. I work in the city and live in the sticks. I own more bikes than cars and more skis than bikes. I have a wife and 5 kids that my world revolves around.

http://oatv.com/

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Seed stage investing sits between angels (who tend to commit $10k to $100k per company) and traditional venture capital ($3-$5M Series A investing along with the occasional Series B-D round).

Head on over to the above to read more, but back to Nakaska's Twitter account. I touched on this before, but possibly effed-up with that AMD stuff. Once again, I bring to your attention Intellinerds, but this time I followed the links (plural).

http://blog.intellinerds.com/post/3437693856/tripdiv-launch

When you click on TripDiv you arrive at (I want a BlowBob for this) https://mining.demo.nakaska.com/

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GMUMAX

Be one of the first to experience the easiest way to buy and sell shares. Enter your email below to get notified when there are beta invites available.

http://www.webboar.com/www/intellinerds.com

~Bruno~

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