Vendors - If You are Worried that Agora has Borrowed from the Till and is About to Rob You, Please Help the BTVA by doing this:-

Here we go again.

Any vendors who were on Sheep Marketplace will remember that in the last few weeks. the wallets always worked fine on Tuesday, but they would do ANYTHING to stop withdrawals at the weekend when customers had finalized.

Agora has suffered problems for 3 weekends in a row now, and the British Tor Vendor's Association have put me on a retainer, so concerned are they about Agora's weekend reliability issues.

Maybe its nothing to worry about, just a coincidence. Here is a graph showing the balance of Agora's "hot" wallet. You can see it suddenly flood with business shortly after the SR2 Valentines day escrow massacre, then the good times, then the nickel and diming "rob Peter to pay Paul" of the last month.

http://blockchain.info/charts/balance?address=15gpA7b3sBncTiVmAnWJKygL3qHYxaY8A4

I've seen this pattern a lot. The British Tor Vendors Association have good relations with Agora, and obtained written assurances from admin that none of its members will be robbed by Agora.

I've heard that they were aggrieved by the very suggestion, but that was before 4 months without a day off, DDOS attacks, pressure from law enforcement, solving escrow complaints in whichever country it happens to be daylight, trying to recruit admins who speak Flemmish etc.

Anyway, I won't go into the technical details why too much, but can any agora users (and particularly vendors) take the following steps for me, and retain the information. JUST IN CASE.

  1. Make a note of your Agora DEPOSIT address by copying and pasting it into a text file on a USB stick. put it somewhere safe.

  2. Make a small deposit to the address if your balance is low or zero.

  3. Make a withdrawal FROM your Agora wallet to this address. (the withdrawal will appear from a different wallet each time.

  4. repeat the withdrawal FROM Agora TO Agora as many times as you can. It will cost you a few cents in transaction fees each time, but essentially the same food will pass through Agora's internal tumbler digestive system several times.

IF Agora rob you, and I'm only saying IF - a taint analysis of your deposit address on blockchain.info will show Agora's main wallets glow like a barium meal on an x-ray.

Before the BTVA are accused of scaremongering, they've always been right in the past, and they HOPE they are wrong now.

If there's a reasonable explanation, I'm sure Agora will break its silence and tell us why their weekends are getting worse and worse.

I'm going now, and I won't be answering questions. I don't like Reddit.


Comments


[16 Points] queryox1:

Agora suffers problems every week, its the most active DNM currently, do you remeber SR1? When it was a god send when you eventually got on to the website.

No offence, but the british tor vendors is a bunch of meth heads, mostly hiniguel at the top no doubt who are cluless. "We have an agreement with agora", sorry guys this is totally false, you made the same claims against SR2 and then what.. you got robbed. "Hiniguel" ran his super computer to track the robbers and what? Nothing, meth is a strange drug.

Hiniguel is UK-Prozone on Agora, his same team is also TheShadowMan and JuliusCaesar on Agora/.. I used to shout "crazy idiots" at the peple suggesting this, but honestly its true, they are a team.. and they mad ea fuck load of money, also responsible for the "MegaMandy" account on Agora that scammed many people.

How do they run the scam? Active forum accounts, overweight packages, trust, promises of reships, exit scam. The End. PM me for photographic proof.

Also, have fun and TLDR obv for my long post, but it needs to be put out there.

This was NOT an attack on your +1 obviously for the pre-warning, just saying the BBTV etc meth heads are idiots. And thanks for the heads up.


[7 Points] LawEnforcment:

sheeproadreloaded2, How many time to i have to remind you about the restraining order you have? Now please step away from the computer until you have finished your current Meth binge.


[7 Points] ciphersexual:

Can anyone explain why seeing btc go through the internal agora wallets, likely as part of their internal tumbler, is considered proof of stealing?


[6 Points] None:

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[6 Points] UndefinedExperience:

Damn, this guy again.


[2 Points] aft3rm4th:

http://imgur.com/pCb6bFd


[3 Points] lopeor:

Will you give me a badge of the british tor vendors association if I help you? LOL


[3 Points] gwern:

Before the BTVA are accused of scaremongering, they've always been right in the past, and they HOPE they are wrong now.

When have they been right?


[3 Points] Febbraio2468:

Can I join this "British Tor Vendor's Association" if I live in the USA? I'm smelling BS and it's not on my shoe.


[2 Points] None:

Quality post.


[2 Points] None:

BOOOOOO THIIIIIS MAAAAAN!