I agree. The email in the screenshot smells like a hoax (assuming your level stuff is legitimate; I haven't played with the source image in GIMP myself).

63101 is the downtown area (right by the Arch) – not really a place most people live, but the kind of place you might get if you Googled "St Louis zip code".

Also amusingly, "198 Bruce Ave" (not Street as in the email) is right in the center of the area Google labels Ferguson, MO.

Or somebody created the order and used that email address as a joke. Most online stores don't make you confirm an email address when you place an order.

Now, after this much time since that order, that person will be the star of the next Newsweek article because they didn't want to use their real address when buying a miner.

The hacker probably thought it was real. That website lets you pay cash (locally in China). You can enter any name/address/email/phone number you want, there is zero validation, and you can submit as 'cash', so no payment required at that time. You will get a confirmation e-mail like Satoshi did. So someone was probably just messing around and submitted a fake order in 2013, for whatever reason.

> With a bit of levels adjustment

Care to explain?

> FPGA in mid 2013

That's further evidence that someone placed an order on his email with a fake address for giggles.