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Everything points to fake news: 1) The copy is not great, and is not of the standard you would expect from a supposedly American company: "In accordance with i

Everything points to fake news: 1) The copy is not great, and is not of the standard you would expect from a supposedly American company: "In accordance with its disclosure policy, Treadwell Stanton DuPont won't be saying exactly how they did it — because once the proof-of-concept is out, anyone with enough computing power will be able to produce a SHA-256 collision, rendering the algorithm both insecure and obsolete." 2) The phone number listed is 917, which usually (not always) is for mobile phones in NYC. (Which finance firm can't afford a nice 212/800 central number from Verizon?) 3) Their About Us page doesn't actually list any real names of executives and directors: https://www.treadwell-stanton.com/about-us https://www.treadwell-stanton.com/about-us 4) Their email is hosted by Godaddy: host -t mx treadwell-stanton.com treadwell-stanton.com mail is handled by 10 mailstore1.europe.secureserver.net. treadwell-stanton.com mail is handled by 0 smtp.europe.secureserver.net. FINRA, SEC, etc would probably not be pleased with Godaddy email.

endorphone 7y ago
The entire site looks like a scam. They deserve "credit" for spending more effort on the basic template and bullshit spiel than most scammers. The name of the "firm" reminds me of Stratton Oakmont. Probability that they broke SHA-256 - 0%. 0.00000%.
milliams 7y ago
And if you Google for "Treadwell Stanton" the results are almost all about this announcement and fizzle out after three or four pages with nothing dating back further than a few months. Their Twitter page is mostly noise too.
teilo 7y ago
This is not a quick fake site. Too much went into it. Also, their social media profiles go back to Oct. 2017. If it's a fake company (and that seems likely), they are playing the long con. Their "address," 30 Wall Street, is for a virtual office business center, Capstone Executive Offices. https://liquidspace.com/US/NY/new-york/your-wall-street-office https://liquidspace.com/US/NY/new-york/your-wall-street-offi... In any case, this announcement seems to be a vaporware pump-and-dump scheme for a bitcoin accelerator: https://www.facebook.com/TreadwellStanton https://www.facebook.com/TreadwellStanton The timing of their first Facebook post is within 6 months of when they supposedly broke SHA256, so that definitely says long con.
- teilo 7y ago
  AND they are associated with a lotto computer scam: https://neural-lotto.net/index.php/en/kga6 https://neural-lotto.net/index.php/en/kga6
masklinn 7y ago
0) they provide no evidence whatsoever (e.g. they could just provide a SHA256 collision and be credible) and have not contacted or involved anyone in the security and/or cryptography fields, just went straight for the marketing copy.

endorphone 7y ago

The entire site looks like a scam. They deserve "credit" for spending more effort on the basic template and bullshit spiel than most scammers. The name of the "firm" reminds me of Stratton Oakmont. Probability that they broke SHA-256 - 0%. 0.00000%.

milliams 7y ago

And if you Google for "Treadwell Stanton" the results are almost all about this announcement and fizzle out after three or four pages with nothing dating back further than a few months. Their Twitter page is mostly noise too.

teilo 7y ago

This is not a quick fake site. Too much went into it. Also, their social media profiles go back to Oct. 2017. If it's a fake company (and that seems likely), they are playing the long con. Their "address," 30 Wall Street, is for a virtual office business center, Capstone Executive Offices. https://liquidspace.com/US/NY/new-york/your-wall-street-office https://liquidspace.com/US/NY/new-york/your-wall-street-offi... In any case, this announcement seems to be a vaporware pump-and-dump scheme for a bitcoin accelerator: https://www.facebook.com/TreadwellStanton https://www.facebook.com/TreadwellStanton The timing of their first Facebook post is within 6 months of when they supposedly broke SHA256, so that definitely says long con.

teilo 7y ago
AND they are associated with a lotto computer scam: https://neural-lotto.net/index.php/en/kga6 https://neural-lotto.net/index.php/en/kga6

masklinn 7y ago

0) they provide no evidence whatsoever (e.g. they could just provide a SHA256 collision and be credible) and have not contacted or involved anyone in the security and/or cryptography fields, just went straight for the marketing copy.