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Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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The question is, is he really buying? Or just saying he is, as an experiment to see the effect on the incredibly unstable bitcoin market?

yes, that is exactly what he is doing.

Aren't all transactions public? Would anyone like to look up and check to see if the transactions he's mentioned have actually happened?

http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ has a nice visualization of this data.

Quoth @maraksquires:

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Taking over bitcoin economy today. I'm buying coins at $10.00 flat USD - send coins to 1CNuFPYtXfCWtey2fCGHnS7sZVwURzahQH , PM me your info

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Whoever 17qopWGwjEqbAcafVYKSeJrSeQwZsNFcTU is, you owe me your info, I've got $2,000 sitting here waiting for you. :-\

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...but according to blockexplorer.com, [1] only received 165.03 BTC and [2] has never been seen on the network.

[1] http://blockexplorer.com/address/1CNuFPYtXfCWtey2fCGHnS7sZVw...

[2] http://blockexplorer.com/address/17qopWGwjEqbAcafVYKSeJrSeQw...

♬ Straight up trollin', MF-er ♬

Was wondering when someone would actually take the time to look up the facts. :-)

Rich-kid sociopath slimeball is trying purposely to disrupt a burgeoning digital currency.

Nothing to see here, move along, etc.

I want to get mad at you for talking trash, but it's obvious you've had issues with me for a while. Why don't you just let it go? We've never met before and you really don't know anything about me.

You threatened me with the handgun that you said you had in your manhattan apartment, stalked me, publicized my profiles on various websites in an IRC channel ostensibly about programming, violated (plagiarized) the intellectual property of some nice people I'm rather fond of, lied about the former and continue to do so and to top it all off...

...keep trying to play the nice guy act because now you have some skin in the reputation game because of your nodejitsu thing.

No, I'm not going anywhere. People deserve to know what a scumbag you are, especially if they're going to be doing business with you. They can make their own decisions after they have the facts.

N.B. His behavior against me was triggered by my calling him out for not apologizing for plagiarizing code.

AHAHAHA! Hilarious troll. Now I remember why we had to ask you to leave the #node.js irc room.

No one asked me to leave, and there was certainly no "we" involved.

At the time you were dox'ing me, I was busy (getting ready to take a trip to SE Asia IIRC), and mostly absent. When I saw what was going on in my logs, I left of my own choice, no one said anything to me except for a couple members of the community that told me what you were doing.

Anybody (what few I did) that I spoke to about the incident were quite perturbed by your behavior.

I don't think you're actually capable of understanding how inappropriate and erratic you were acting.

Lol....

          [15:09] <JimBastard_> ive got like 200+ gigs of VSTs
          [15:10] <JimBastard_> and then like 30gb of just drum samples
          [15:10] <callen> listentorick: here's how this works
          [15:10] <JimBastard_> pretty much every VST i could find over a 5 year period
          [15:10] <callen> listentorick: you mention something JimBastard_ thinks he knows about, then he one ups you
          [15:10] <nefD> you can use it as a musical scratchpad if you want to mess around, you can use it in live settings (pun intended) very well (at least, in my experience), and its extremely competent for full fledged composition
          [15:10] <callen> listentorick: best thing to do: don't bother.
          [15:10] <listentorick> :)
          [15:10] <caolanm> haha
          [15:10] <JimBastard_> always with the personal attacks, everytime
          [15:10] <JimBastard_> i've never produced or released any music
          [15:10] <JimBastard_> http://myspace.com/yeoldewreckingshoppe
          [15:11] <listentorick> when I create the killer app which I'm failing to think of, I'll get a shiny mac
          [15:11] <JimBastard_> (links a shitty myspace that hasnt been updated in years)
          [15:11] mitkok has joined the channel
          [15:12] <callen> JimBastard_: at least I don't sit on IRC one-upping people when they're discussing their passions.
          [15:12] <JimBastard_> no, you are just a hater who doesnt produce anything and attacks people he is jealous of
          [15:12] <callen>  :)

Let's go find your last days on the IRC. I'm trying to have conversations about servers and you are interrupting us with...I don't even know.

          [09:20] JimBastard: yeah, with rackspace i get to control the guy going to the rack with a REST api
          [09:20] JimBastard: hrmmm, i need more traffic on our sites right now so i can stress test the new fucking proxy version
          [09:21] V1: The 3 minute install is only possible if you actually have rackspace account
          [09:21] JimBastard: V1: aye
          [09:21] JimBastard: <3 rackspace
          [09:23] lachlanhardy has joined the channel
          [09:24] callen: JimBastard: boo
          [09:24] JimBastard: ?
          [09:25] callen: JimBastard: ?_?
          [09:26] callen: JimBastard: you know Hans Zimmer?
          [09:26] JimBastard: from the die hard movies? yeah
          [09:26] callen: lots more than that, but sure.
          [09:26] callen: JimBastard: pure dramatic orchestra kitsch. It's like cotton candy with string and brass instruments.
          [09:26] callen: JimBastard: I am addicted ;_;

This is the last thing I saw from you on IRC:

          [01:21] callen: JimBastard: boo.
          [01:22] HAITI: cheers
          [01:22] ehaas has joined the channel
          [01:22] JimBastard: ?

(nt for a while)

          [03:09] callen: JimBastard: wake up.

( i stopped responding at this point , no point getting trolled on IRC )

If only there was some way we could verify any of this. Ohh yeah, http://nodejs.debuggable.com <= Full logs of the node.js room.

So what is this troll accusing me of doing? I've threatened you with a gun? Let's jump to 09/02/2010. I am "JimBastard", and you are "callen".

     [21:31] JimBastard: would any judges who wants to promote testing in nodejs vote for our project? with an hour or two to go we are trailing by a very slim margin for the utility category. the leading team had more judges vote on their stuff, so they have a higher weighted score. 
     [21:32] tjholowaychuk: JimBastard: which one is above?
     [21:32] sschuermann: JimBastard: What are oyu pointing out to? 
     [21:32] MikhX_ has joined the channel
     [21:33] JimBastard: tjholowaychuk: we are being edged out by, http://nodeknockout.com/teams/prague-js . seems like a good project, but i feel ours has more long lasting utility 
     [21:33] JimBastard: i wouldnt want someone to vote for us without looking at both projects objectively
     [21:33] JimBastard: we are, http://nodeknockout.com/teams/the-nyc-nodejitsu-ninjas
     [21:34] callen: JimBastard: if I give you a gun, will you start shooting people who complain about javascript's type system?
     [21:34] siculars has joined the channel
     [21:34] JimBastard: callen: for 5 star votes right now, ill do just about anything
     [21:34] JimBastard: also, i have my own gun so just tell me who
     [21:35] JimBastard: :p
     [21:35] jesusabdullah: While I wish my own project was doing better, I really liked the idea of prenup
     [21:35] callen: JimBastard: grumpy java bastard trying to learn js. driving me nuts.

What's up troll?

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