Is Bitcoin Mining Figure Joshua Zipkin Responsible for the Bitcointalk Hack?
What follows is what you might call educated speculation. What we do know is that there are a lot of people, especially in the mining business, who'd have an interest in seeing the premiere Bitcoin forum, Bitcointalk, bite the dust. Bitcointalk is a haven for free speech regarding Bitcoin and issues surrounding it. Support for figures like Ross Ulbricht and criticism of scam artists like Josh Garza are not uncommon within its pages. It is decidedly an arbiter of taste for the Bitcoin community, and to this day the number one place to make complaints. Recently it was issued a subpoena for....
Related News
AMT Mining - Joshua Zipkin. An unconfirmed chat transcript supposedly detailing conversations between AMT CEO Joshua Zipkin and several customers has "Joshua" admitting to several breaches of AMT's stated Terms of Service. The leaked transcripts of these chats indicate that Zipkin is knowingly ignoring the Miner Protection Plan (MPP), attempting to ship "rude" customers shipments missing PSUs, and offering $5,000 to a customer to hack BitcoinTalk. For months now, AMT customers have been seeking refunds for half-year late hardware that originally cost $6,000 and is now being sold for....
Joshua Zipkin's leaked Skype chat with customers from his business, AMT, has gone viral, but its legitimacy has been in question until today. Dan Gul, you might remember him as "customer1" from the chat transcript, has come forth to discuss how the chat originated and his views on the chat in this exclusive interview. He is an outspoken member of the AMT community and claims he was once invited by Joshua to go into business together. Interview With Dan Gul: AMT Skype Chat Customer1. You stated that the leaked Skype chat is real and that you were customer1 in the chat, correct? Are you....
Bitcointalk.org, the Bitcoin Forum, is currently offline with the official explanation being a DOS attack. In the past, Bitcointalk.org has faced hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and DDOS. According to isitdownrightnow, a service that tells you the status of websites worldwide, bitcointalk.org has been down since at least 17:00 PT. This is corroborated by the first reports on twitter of the bitcointalk.org outage: is @bitcointalk forum down? - digit (@_digit_) November 14, 2014. @bitcointalk is down! - Tetcoin (@Tetcoin) November 14, 2014. In the meantime, users can use Bitcointa.lk,....
Today marks the start of the first weekend session of the biggest AMA event in Bitcoin history. Since BitcoinTalk was inaccessible for several hours yesterday, it is a blessing to have an alternative forum at our disposal. On the agenda for today are OgNasty, treasurer of BitcoinTalk, and Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn. Anyone who has ever used the....
Some users of the popular Bitcointalk.org may have had their passwords captured thanks to a recent hack (or man-in-the-middle attack, as it's put), according to an announcement banner on the forum's page. The message as it appears: News: If you used your password to login between 06:00 Dec 1 UTC and 20:00 Dec 2 UTC, then your password may have been captured in a man-in-the-middle attack, and you should change your password here and wherever else you used it. If you were only logged in via the "remember me" feature, then you're OK. It would appear as if the complexity of the user password....