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Topic: The SilkRoad was all a scam - Time to let the cat out of the hat. (Read 9200 times)

legendary
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Monero Evangelist
Wtf is this!!!??!?! SR can't be "all scam". I did 30 BTC cashins und cashout all showed up in < 4 h.

I did 20 orders from domestic vendors in 14 months. I received 100%.

12 of 20 next day.
17 of 20 <= 2 days or 3 days.
19 of 20 <= 1 week.
20 of 20 <= 10 days.

Most packages contained 10 till 40% more of the ordered and payed substance.
5 of 20 contained extra freebies like samples of the new products the vendor introduced lately.


Based on this SR is 100% not "all scam".
hero member
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Who's there?
Maybe a bit late, an opinion from a Russian forum (translated to English).
http://kiwiserg.livejournal.com/3643.html?thread=74043#t74043
legendary
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Rational Exuberance
Hmmm. Patrick O'Niel (reporter, "chobopeon") claims he knows somebody who was at DPR's trial:

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Hi, Patrick oneill from the daily dot here. I've been covering SR for a while.

I'm not entirely sure what you're driving at, but if it's that the Sr takedown was a scam and never happened, I have a coworker who was at the actual court dates in SF. I wasn't as I'm not in SF but I will be attending the dates elsewhere. maybe were all part of the conspiracy but probably not.

Your theory seems to suggest that Ross ulbricht isnt even in jail. I'm thinking he is and it's not just Adrian Chen and Greenberg from Forbes who say so. Again, I'm having a hard time figuring out what you're actually driving at here but I think that probably deals a blow to the theory.

Then OP asks for proof:

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Mind if I see some proof? Your account history I just screen shot shows someone who does nothing but plays starcraft and faps to gonewild. While I don't think you are doing anything wrong, you should protect yourself against carpel tunnel syndrome in your lifetime.

Edit: Oh, you're the people who claimed visited DPR Smiley.

Then Patrick TRIES to post proof:

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I never claimed to visit DPR, where do you see that? I'm only claiming that a co-worker attended the court dates in SF and that Ross Ulbricht was there.

And if you actually wanted proof youd note that I've been posting patrick o'neill's stories to the relevant subs for a long time. In any event, here's a proof tweet (https://twitter.com/chobopeon/status/393135483854655488). Not sure what that accomplishes though.

Congrats on screenshotting my account history though, make sure you cherish it always!

I haven't played StarCraft in many months, it's sad, but no time ;[

But this post is missing from the reddit thread! Did the OP/moderator, whose motto is "Censorship? Not on my watch." censor the post? It's in Patrick's post history (http://www.reddit.com/user/chobopeon) but not in the reddit comment thread!

Edit: I tried posting this in reply to the request for proof:
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So, I'm just going to try posting proof here on Patrick's behalf, to see if it gets deleted like his did: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3397952

Sure enough, it was deleted, even though you can see it in my posting history (http://www.reddit.com/user/dacoinminster) This doesn't seem like someone who is seeking the truth Smiley



legendary
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My money; Our Bitcoin.
If you will forgive the correction;
[ Dr. Seuss aside ] cats are let out of bags;
rabbits out of hats;
and pigs into pokes.
hero member
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(I honestly have no idea what I am talking about here!)



Drugs. I'm pretty sure he's doing drugs.
hero member
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In the very last days leading up to the “server seizures” very blatant and obvious cash grab starts to occur by staff. People were suddenly finding their BTC were completely drained, and not just a couple of people, many people reported accounts with funds zeroed out, pins not working, and accounts just plain not working. After doing the math, the “customer support” section of the forums received a 85% increase in pins, coins, and account problems. It would seem someone wanted to stop any amount of BTC from leaving the site.

wait ... nothing convinced me, but this file made me think about it
hero member
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WTF???

Doesn't surprise me.  Absolutely craptacular bullshit only thrives in the absence of skepticism.

And this is nothing if not absolutely craptacular bullshit.

Nothing tops a conspiracy theory, where the theorist tries to control conspiracy theories on their theory.
hero member
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(I honestly have no idea what I am talking about here!)

legendary
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Doesn't surprise me.  Absolutely craptacular bullshit only thrives in the absence of skepticism.

And this is nothing if not absolutely craptacular bullshit.
legendary
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FYI, sheepsmarket and BMR are owned by the same group of scammers that owned silkroad. More on that when I open my new web page dedicate to exposing silkroad.

Arent they busy setting up SR 2.0?
legendary
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I saw criminal court filings posted on ice.gov stating charges against Ross Ulbricht. How does that affect this analysis? Very interesting -- some real conspiracy porn here (great read) -- but I don't know about this.

Yeah, I suppose the conspiracy managed to put this on ICE's website without their knowledge.

Superseding Indictment
hero member
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I saw criminal court filings posted on ice.gov stating charges against Ross Ulbricht. How does that affect this analysis? Very interesting -- some real conspiracy porn here (great read) -- but I don't know about this.
legendary
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Monero Evangelist
OP, stop doing meth and posting.
hero member
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R.I.P Silk Road 1.0
Well I certainly have the high quality Silk Road logo and I found it on google.
I had an obsession with the idea of a totally free market and their choice of logo I thought was amazing.
So I set out to hunt down the logo to use for my BitcoinTalk account default pic. I googled Silk Road Logo
but wasn't able to find a high quality image. So what I did instead was type in man on camel stencil, or man on camel,
man riding camel, and sure enough after about 10 minutes of searching I was able to find a stenciled image of a man riding a camel.
 It happened to be the same image that the Silk Road uses just not colored in green. I went ahead and colored it in on Photoshop at school and am
now using it as my default as you all know. The image I grabbed from google was a very high quality .png file and it wouldn't pixelate whether it was
enlarged or minimized.


That's the real truth behind my Silk Road image.

and on page 1 results of "man on camel stencil" she was found Link

 Grin
sr. member
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Well I certainly have the high quality Silk Road logo and I found it on google.
I had an obsession with the idea of a totally free market and their choice of logo I thought was amazing.
So I set out to hunt down the logo to use for my BitcoinTalk account default pic. I googled Silk Road Logo
but wasn't able to find a high quality image. So what I did instead was type in man on camel stencil, or man on camel,
man riding camel, and sure enough after about 10 minutes of searching I was able to find a stenciled image of a man riding a camel.
 It happened to be the same image that the Silk Road uses just not colored in green. I went ahead and colored it in on Photoshop at school and am
now using it as my default as you all know. The image I grabbed from google was a very high quality .png file and it wouldn't pixelate whether it was
enlarged or minimized.


That's the real truth behind my Silk Road image.

and on page 1 results of "man on camel stencil" she was found Link
sr. member
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 Cheesy Agreed!

I thought it made an interesting read though and some others might enjoy it; hopefully I dropped it in the right sub-forum though.
hero member
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R.I.P Silk Road 1.0
Well I certainly have the high quality Silk Road logo and I found it on google.
I had an obsession with the idea of a totally free market and their choice of logo I thought was amazing.
So I set out to hunt down the logo to use for my BitcoinTalk account default pic. I googled Silk Road Logo
but wasn't able to find a high quality image. So what I did instead was type in man on camel stencil, or man on camel,
man riding camel, and sure enough after about 10 minutes of searching I was able to find a stenciled image of a man riding a camel.
 It happened to be the same image that the Silk Road uses just not colored in green. I went ahead and colored it in on Photoshop at school and am
now using it as my default as you all know. The image I grabbed from google was a very high quality .png file and it wouldn't pixelate whether it was
enlarged or minimized.


That's the real truth behind my Silk Road image.
hero member
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Merit: 500
WTF???
I think I've seen a complaint - is that the same as an arrest warrant? (I honestly have no idea what I am talking about here!)

Even if they aren't the same, an official complaint alleging all of the stuff, sure is a huge step to their story being much more than a conspiracy theory.

The other thing, is the story has been picked up across huge publisher's across the globe. You don't imagine that a single one of them didn't do any due diligence? And if one of them happened to and it was complete bs, that they wouldn't publish that all other articles are bs?

Again, fun conspiracy theory. But for me, I need a little more umph behind it before I start getting a hard on. You can't just say so.
sr. member
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I think I've seen a complaint - is that the same as an arrest warrant? (I honestly have no idea what I am talking about here!)
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