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Re:Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently a... by dominictarr on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:49PM (#2565494)
yes, that is exactly what he is doing.
Re:Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently a... by rlpb on Thursday May 19, 2011 @06:24PM (#2565590)
Aren't all transactions public? Would anyone like to look up and check to see if the transactions he's mentioned have actually happened?
Re:Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently a... by endian on Thursday May 19, 2011 @10:28PM (#2566170)
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 ♬

Re:Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently a... by reddittor on Thursday May 19, 2011 @11:08PM (#2566244)
Was wondering when someone would actually take the time to look up the facts. :-)
Re:Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently a... by tshtf on Thursday May 19, 2011 @06:31PM (#2565608)
http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ has a nice visualization of this data.