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This looks sketchy as hell. No personal information attached at all and the domain has who-is protection. How do we know this is legit? (Edit: nvm, misinterp

This looks sketchy as hell. No personal information attached at all and the domain has who-is protection. How do we know this is legit? (Edit: nvm, misinterpreted the website)

ryanlol 9y ago
It does irrefutably link a very large amount of bitcoins with the site. https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c7652311f0a23aafa8e54d7db0911a2c7b5bc20ff988/ https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...
- harryh 9y ago
  He also links to a couple of completed donations. The first is a transfer of of 64.77BTC (approx $1M) to address 1AttfyuVVVpsJ6FzBcJMqkFrPRzFiQoRb6 which is definitely Watsi's BTC address: https://twitter.com/watsi/status/938241988121583616 https://twitter.com/watsi/status/938241988121583616 I'm having a bit of trouble connecting this transfer back to address 3P3QsMVK89JBNqZQv5zMAKG8FK3kJM4rjt which currently holds the coins that he says will be donated. If true this should be possible though... EDIT: Oh wait, here is the connection: https://blockchain.info/tx/d290acbfa7c619ad4215537ae83bfe165902b1c232fda1a360edaf1428acd80a https://blockchain.info/tx/d290acbfa7c619ad4215537ae83bfe165... I have to say, I'm generally pretty skeptical of stuff like this but there is evidence here that this is legit. EDIT2: They also encoded "pineapplefund.org" in a NULL transaction. Even more reason to believe. https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c7652311f0a23aafa8e54d7db0911a2c7b5bc20ff988/ https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...
tylersmith 9y ago
AFAICT he's only giving money away, not asking any. What's sketchy about anonymous donations?
- chrishacken 9y ago
  I was confused by the "4,894 BTC ~$84 million USD remaining" on the site. It initially appeared as if he/she was asking for donations. I guess that's actually the amount of money yet to be distributed.

This looks sketchy as hell. No personal information attached at all and the domain has who-is protection. How do we know this is legit? (Edit: nvm, misinterpreted the website)

ryanlol 9y ago

It does irrefutably link a very large amount of bitcoins with the site. https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c7652311f0a23aafa8e54d7db0911a2c7b5bc20ff988/ https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...

harryh 9y ago
He also links to a couple of completed donations. The first is a transfer of of 64.77BTC (approx $1M) to address 1AttfyuVVVpsJ6FzBcJMqkFrPRzFiQoRb6 which is definitely Watsi's BTC address: https://twitter.com/watsi/status/938241988121583616 https://twitter.com/watsi/status/938241988121583616 I'm having a bit of trouble connecting this transfer back to address 3P3QsMVK89JBNqZQv5zMAKG8FK3kJM4rjt which currently holds the coins that he says will be donated. If true this should be possible though... EDIT: Oh wait, here is the connection: https://blockchain.info/tx/d290acbfa7c619ad4215537ae83bfe165902b1c232fda1a360edaf1428acd80a https://blockchain.info/tx/d290acbfa7c619ad4215537ae83bfe165... I have to say, I'm generally pretty skeptical of stuff like this but there is evidence here that this is legit. EDIT2: They also encoded "pineapplefund.org" in a NULL transaction. Even more reason to believe. https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c7652311f0a23aafa8e54d7db0911a2c7b5bc20ff988/ https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...

tylersmith 9y ago

AFAICT he's only giving money away, not asking any. What's sketchy about anonymous donations?

chrishacken 9y ago
I was confused by the "4,894 BTC ~$84 million USD remaining" on the site. It initially appeared as if he/she was asking for donations. I guess that's actually the amount of money yet to be distributed.